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About The Clackamas print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1989-2019 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 11, 1989)
OPINION From the editor... This year’s Associated Stu dent Government seems to have hit the ground running. After only two and a half weeks of school, ASG has already given us The Rocky Horror Picture Show, a live band (“Monkey Meet”), and Drug and Alcohol Awareness Week. Garett Lytle’s administra tion deserves high praise for showing us that the difference between a bad ASG and a good one is a little motivation and hard work. If the present stu dent government continues to perform in the manner that it has the past few weeks, we can all look forward to an outstand ing year. The National Endowment for the Humanities released a report this week based on a sur vey of college seniors. The re port showed that many college students are seriously lacking in a basic humanities education. A quarter of the students surveyed didn’t know when Columbus discovered America. The survey brings to light a problem that has been around a long time. Many college students (and high school students, for that matter) are so apathetic that they really don’t learn anything. The system is also at fault for allowing such students to gradu ate. If President Bush realty wants to be the education president, he needs to commit to higher standards and higher funding for the American educational sys tem. Rhetoric will not produce a better informed, highly skilled populace. If not, we might as well hand the. mantle of world leadership to Japan right now. THE CLACKAMAS PRINT October11,1989 Page 2 Pianist brings culture to Midwest brothel When I graduated from Ca thedral High School, in my home town, Superior, Wisconsin, I went to work as a teacher of piano for the Vere Brewsaugh Studios. It was strictly long-hair. 3-B’s, (Bach, Beethoven and Brahms). Vere Brewsaugh once bawled me out for playing “Thine Alone”, by Victor Herbert. Of course, other composers like Chopin, Liszt, Haydn, Mozart, were acceptable. But popular music, as such, was verboten. My days were a mixture of teaching kids where middle C was and practicing endlessly to acquire a technique to build a repertoire of those composers I mentioned. Every day each week I spent four to six hours at the keyboard, sometimes into the late hours of night. George Russell, an erudite radio announcer for WEBC, next door to my studio, interrupted a late night practice session with the suggestion that he an I visit the “Sharp End of Town”, a sort of tenderloin district in Superior. Podunk Pete Dixie, Ivy, Billie, Juliana, Justine, Bach’s Prelude and Fugue in F Maggie, Alice, Bobby. Blonds, sharp major; three Preludes by brunettes, redheads, all pretty in Frederic Francois Chopin; Jeu various ways. The parlor was well Deaux by Maurice Ravel; and a furnished with sofas, over-stuffed Franz Liszt Rhapsody, for a tour chairs, and a small grand piano. de force end of the recital. Among the pictures on the wall I George announced each Having slaked our thirsts and noticed a diploma which told me fed our faces, George mentioned Louise Stanley had graduated from number with appropriate com a book he was writing. He needed Columbia University. Magna cum ments about the composers and some first-hand laude in Social their place in history, mentioning information on Sciences and that Bach had written lots of music “life in a Communica and sired 16 children. The girls The Laugh Clinic tittered at this bit of information. brothel” for his tions, I noted. I couldn’t imagine why. novel, working- Joseph Patrick Lee titled “Seamy It was a hot, When I had finished playing, and Steamy’ sultry night in Louise Stanley’s, 314 John Ave July. George bought the girls some the girls applauded and made many nue, just three blocks away, seemed cool drinks and he and I drank complimentary remarks. They were genuinely pleased. I was glad a good place for his literary dig, beer. that I had done so well, if I do say George said. After a bit of chit-chat during so myself. A humongous Aunt Jemima which George took notes for his Later, going home in the cab, type, in a pristine white nurses book, he suggested that I play for uniform, grinning beautifully, the girls. “Let us bring a little we laughed at the incongruity of it boomed, “Come right in gentle culture into their lives, Joe. I am all, and resolved to do it again. sure they will appreciate your men, we’ll make you happy.” Years later in a meeting, I playing some classical music. told this story. Roy Burns, a sid Pretty soon eight young la Would you mind?” I scribbled a list of composi ing salesman friend said, “I have dies in various stages of scanty, comfortable dress were sitting in tions I thought would make a well always wondered what Joe Lee the parlor with George and me. balanced program for their listen was into. Now I know: it was “Aunt Jemima” introduced them: ing pleasure: Johann Sebastian horticulture.” The object was a cool glass of beer and some rye bread, sausage, and cheese from the free lunch at Tony’s, a former speakeasy, and, now that Prohibition was repealed, a typical saloon of the old days. by Bob Swan tbr Clackamas -print Clackamas Community College The Clackamas Print aims to be a fair and impartial newspaper covering the college community. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the college administration, faculty, student government, or other members of the staff. The Clacka mas Print is a weekly paper distributed each Wednesday except during, finals week. Clackamas Community College, 19600 S. Molalla Ave., Oregon City, OR 97045. Office: Trailer B. 657-6958 I ext. 309. Editor-In-Chief: Jim Titus Managing/News Editor: Briane C. Dotson Copy Editor: Roseann Wentworth Feature Editor: Angela Wilson Sports Editors: Mark Borrelli, Staci Beard Photo Editor: Jillian Porter Staff Writers: Jason Allen, Dave Charbonneau, Amber Cordiy, Dan Fulton, Dawn Kuehl, Rick Piller, Margy Lynch, Helen marie Nelsen, Steve Rudometkin Photographers: Lane Scheideman, Dawn Kuehl, Tim Zrvney Business Managers: Gregg Mayes, Rick Piller Advisor: Linda Vogt No reason to shirk blood drive Blood, the life giving fluid that transports oxygen to the cells in our bodies, is in short supply. Reading about a shortage of blood is not new to us. What may be new to us is that we can do something about it. The Blood Mobile is coming to Clackamas Community College October 25 and you can sign up now to help your fellow Ameri cans. Hurricane Hugo has depleted blood banks across the United States causing doctors to conserve supplies even in minor operations. Sure there are several excuses you can give so you won’t have to give blood, but these are all cop outs. Some of these excuses may include, or be off-shoots of the following ones: “I’m afraid to give blood.” You cannot die from giving bloodj The small puncture pro duced by the needle is NOT a serious wound. “I might get AIDS.” Contrary to rumor, you CANNOT contract AIDS by giv ing blood. AIDS can be caught from an intravenous needle, but only if that needle has already been used on someone else that has AIDS. Clean needles are always used when taking donated blood. “It hurts to give blood.” It might hurt slightly, and for a short time, but is this really a good excuse to keep from donat ing apart ofyourself that may save lives? “I can’t stand the sight of blood.” Simple: don’t look. Avert your eyes for the short time it takes to donate. There'is really no reason not to donate blood on Oct. 25. The only thing standing in the way of a large turn-out is the silly fear of weak-minded people. If you have any questions on whether or not your blood is any good you can ask the nurses when they get here or you can take it from me, go try and give your blood if there is a problem they will tell you.
