OPINIONS
THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
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Papers should run
aids ads unaltered
The Oregon Health Division is respon
sible for the television and print ads re-
gardingaids prevention. That organization
has recently sent Oregon newspapers, in
cluding the Clackamas Print, a series of
these ads.
Something has been brought to our
attention though. Oregon’s major
newspaper, The Oregonian, has chosen to
alter the ads. They have decided that their
readers are not able to stomach seeing a
condom on their pages.
Instead of a condom, they have placed
the symbols of male-female (circles with a
either a plus sign or a diagonal arrow,
depending on the sex, below) on the ad.
That’s fine and certainly their deci
sion. However, the targeted group for these
ads ate high risk groups, primarily gay males.
The male-female signs don’t mean any
thing to gay males; if they needed to change
the ads, then they should have replaced the
condom with two male symbols. The in
tended message is being lost by this altera
tion.
The ideal situation would be to leave
the condom, which measures justonequar-
ter of one square inch, in the ad or not run
the ad at all.
The latter of the two is what The Ore
gonian chose to do with the first series of
aids prevention ads, about a year-and-a-
half ago. That is irresponsible.
“Education is the key.” We’ve heard
that over and over. How are responsible
organizations and people going to do that
educating when they won’t even do some
thing as simple as put an ad on a layout
sheet
The publisher and editor of The
Oregonian are foolish for making the deci
sion not to run the ads unaltered. They are
living back in thedays when abstinence was
an answer. It is impossible and deadly to
think that way. We’re talking about human
lives here.
The Clackamas Print will continue to
display the ads unaltered with the follow
ing in mind. If they will prompt one person
to think twice and use a condom, then one
life may be saved. „
Television, radio and newspapers are
the most identifiable sources of informa
tion and education which everyone has access
to. It’s up to these mediums to show aids
prevention ads in their entirety, This is not
an option. It is a responsibility.
There are several lessons that can be
learned from the accident involving the
Exxon Valdez: the need for more safety
measures to protect the environment from
such occurrences, for example. But on a
more subtle level, the tragedy has taught us
all who really controls the power in this
country.
It is obvious that big business is the
true power in the United States. Why else
would gas prices on the West coast jump
almost 30 cents? Surely the 10 million gal
lons of crude oil the Exxon Valdez spilled
didn’t belong to ALL of the oil companies.
If it didn’t, then why did all of the gas
stations raise theirprices? And why didn’t
the government step in to curb such blatant
opportunism? It’s simple: our government
is controlled by the major corporations
that operate in this country.
In high school American history classes
we are taught that trusts (clandestine agree
ments between businesses to control prices
and reap huge profits) are illegal. The fact
that every gas station raised their prices (in
response to a corresponding raise by the oil
companies that wholesale the gas, to be fair
to local retailers) after the oil spill in Alaska
points to an illegal trust. But our govem-
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Don’t have sex, or
Have one sexual
partner. Practice
safer sex.
ASG building for next
year begins this year
There is a major problem at Clacka
mas Community College. Nobody gets
involved with the school. The problem has
escalated far beyond the point of simple
apathy. The fact that the Associated Stu
dent Government couldn’t attract 15 people
and have gone through the entireyear with
a partially empty cabinet is proof of that.
The elections for next year’s president
and vice president will be upon us in just
over two weeks. At this time, there is only
one candidate for president and two candi
dates for vice president.
Is this what our apathy level has gotten
to? One candidate for the president of the
associated students of Clackamas Commu
nity College? That’s like one team playing
for the championship in the Super Bowl.
The Clackamas Print doesn’t believe
that out of the nearly 6,000 students at the
college, there isn’t more than one who
could be a qualified leader. Furthermore,
we don’t believe that there aren’t more
than two people qualified for the office of
vice president, which includes overseeing
the Associated Student Government budget
ment sits idle while we empty our wallets to
put fuel in our cars.
There is a precedent for government
apathy in this matter. Insurance companies
join together to regulate insurance rates,
yet have been exempted by the government
for prosecution under anti-trust laws. Money
is power in a capitalist society (or any soci
ety for that matter) and these huge corpo
rations have so much money that theÿ can
control the government, either above-board
with lobbying or illegally through bribes
and dubious political contributions. Presi
dent Bush probably even has a hefty amount
of oil stock from his Texas oil days. The
more money the oil companies make, the
more his stock is worth. Why ruin a good
thing by sticking up for the consumers?.
What this all boils down to is that the
average citizen in our “democratic” society
is impotent. Perhaps after the United States
is financially devastated by its shortsighted
business leaders and hands the mantle-of
world leadership to Japan we will realize
that it is time for à major change in the
power structure of this country. But don’t
go knocking down the door of the White
House in the quest for justice; the people
with the real power are on Wall Street.
Editorial Policy
«..how it was changed by The
Oregonian
Don’t have sex, or
Have one sexual
partner. Use condoms
for safer sex.
This year there have been a number of
things that m ight turn people off to partici
pating in ASG. However, next year begins
with a clean slate and it is up to next year’s
ASG officers to make a success of next year
and rebound from mistakes made during
this school year.
There is a need for strong leadership in
ASG. Events such as concerts and college
issues like the bond levy are all things that
an effective ASG must take an active part
in on the behalf of the students of this
college.
The ASG president is responsible,
among other things, for representing stu
dents’ opinions to President John Keyser
and the Clackamas Board of Education
and try to deal with issues like smoking on
campus.
Applications for the offices of presi
dent and vice president are due Friday at
the ASG office. Students need to initiate
an effort to make Clackamas a school where
other students can get involved. Clackamas
is in dire nee<l for qualified students to do
this.
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