OPINIONS
Student Opinions
Should the driving age be
raised to the age eighteen?
THE PRINT
January 11,1989
Page 2
Board should shoot
down tuition increase
Fall term of this year, Clackamas
Community College students saw the cost
of tuition rise $2 per credit hour, or $20 for
a student taking full time classes (10-19
credit hours).
Now the college is preparing to ask
students to delve even deeper into their
pockets to support another tuition increase.
How much of this does the college think
students can take? Not much.
On the surface $2 more per credit hour
and $5 for a full time class load does not
seem that drastic, but we can’t take that at
face value. If this proposed increase is
approved, then what kind of increase will
be on the ticket for next year, the year after
that, and on and on.
On the original list of strategic ques
tions at the beginning of the year the ques
tion regarding a tuition increase read, “How
much should CCC raise its tuition,” rather
than whether or not there should be a
tuition increase period. It’s unfair and
presumptuous to expect these constant
tuition hikes at Clackamas.
As far as Oregon Community Colleges
are concerned, Clackamas’ tuition costs
are in the middle of the scale, which in
Clackamas Community College terms seems
to mean that a small raise in the cost of
tuition won’t hurt students. That kind of
thinking is wrong.
At tonight’s meeting of the Clackamas
Board of Education visitors are welcome to
voice their opinions regarding the proposed
increase of tuition at Clackamas Commu
nity College. We strongly urge all students
to be there and have your voices heard.
Baths hold advantages
over taking showers
“No, students need to get to work and back.
We need harsher penalties for drivers who
disobey laws.”
Paul Lulone
“I don’t think the age should be higher.
Instead they should require more training
before kids get behind the wheel and maybe
give out more restrictive than permanent
licenses.”
Toni Goncalves
Photo« by Tar« Power«
I believe most people shower, as op
posed to bathe. With the advent of the hot-
tub, the popularity of communal bathing
has been increasing in the United States.
Japanese families have been bathing to
gether for years. Family life is good in
Japan.
Each morning, I go to heaven for about
30 or 40 minutes. My bathtub is an antique,
one of those spacious
30 gallon, porcelain The Laugh
jobs standing on four
Clinic ®
claw-like legs about
three inches above
Joseph Patrick
the floor. I “draw a
Lee
tub,” as the saying
goes, check the temperature with my pinky
and get in. A feeling comes over my entire
body that is difficult to describe. I can only
say it is of primeval origin, a feeling I must
have experienced as I sloshed about in the
amniotic fluid of my mother’s womb. A
great feeling of serenity, peace, security,
comes from my pre-natal memory, and I
wallow in it without shame; an unabashed
hedonistic, sybaritic, voluptuary.
Lying there, naked, with the water
level almost to the gunwales of the tub, my
tummy rises up like a small, tropical atoll,
consisting only of sandy beaches sloping
from the peak down to water’s edge. An
island in the calmest of seas. My belly but
ton appears as a small crater in the center
of the island, evidence of an eruption that
occurred the day I was born, when Dr. John
Sarazen delivered me at home in my mother’s
bed. I am in a beautiful frame of mind.
Wondrous, meditative thoughts move
slowly through my mind, caressing my psy
che with hypnotic, tactile, assuaging strokes.
As I said, it is difficult to find words for the
experience. Sometimes, I think the result
ing ambience could be like that euphoric,
dream-like sensation described by addicts
after shooting up. I think, how sad that they
don’t have a tub like mine.
The powers-that-be should think of
tubs like mine as a solution to the drug
addiction problem. During the Depression
Years, Specht’s Pool Hall, in my home
town offered such facilities to the weary
traveller for half a dollar, or less. So today,
a program promoted by advertising, educa
tion or any other means, could popularize
this beautiful substitute for the toke, the
needle or the snort. In short, warm baths
could offer privacy and comfortable sur
roundings for addictive persons to accom
plish the escape-from-reality feeling they
seek. The baths would produce euphoria
much less expensively than a street-bought
fix.
Lots of laughs Can occur bathing alone.
Occasionally, flatulence is in order to achieve
maximum comfort. It is then the waters
talk to you. “O’Rourke!” they say. Like
calling the role in an Irish regiment.
“Grogan.” “MacPartland.”
So I commend the good old cast-iron,
porcelain-covered bath-tub to all you folks
who want relief from the stress and strain of
Modern Day Living.
In the words of our President-elect,
George Bush, “we will be a kinder, more
gentle nation.” And a cleaner one, I’d say.
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