OPINION
From the
editor...
Being a student journalist
at Clackamas Community Col
lege is not easy. Youhavetoput
up with long hours, often at the
expense of other classes. You
work hard to balance studying
and class attendance with inter
views and deadlines. Then when
the paper finally comes out
people only comment to you
about it when something is
wrong, if they say anything at
all.
Sometimes the faculty, staff,
and administrators of this col
lege seem to forget that we are
just learning about journalism
and are not perfect. If we were
perfect journalists we would be
getting paid to work for some
metropolitan daily and not be
slaving away at a student news
paper.
Why all the griping? Well,
writing about this in a column is
easier than sending out a memo,
and I feel some response is
necessary in the wake of com
ments I have heard from faculty
about The Clackamas Print.
There are several points I would
like to make about the function
of this newspaper and how we
interact with this campus.
First, we are NOT the pub
lic information office of the
college, and are in no way con
nected to that office. Nancy Baker
is the public informajion spe?.
cialist. It is her job to see that
the college is covered in the
media. It is the media’s preroga
tive, not obligation, to cover the
college in any way it sees fit (in
other words, to show an unbi
ased view of college events). The
Clackamas Print is part of the
media.
Secondly, the student staff
of the paper, with small excep
tion, has final say about what is
contained in the paper and how
that content is presented. Some
of the last-minute editorial
decisions that arc made don’t
please everyone. Those who are
displeased can apply for an edi
torial position and make their
own decisions next year. News
worthiness is,an editorial deci
sion best made by those who
write the news. If everyone knew
what constituted news we
wouldn’t have a specialized class
of journalists in this society.
To those who have com
plaints about myself, my staff,
or the paper in general, my ex
tension is 576. I would much
rather have critics of the paper
call me than yell at my reporters
or skulk around behind our backs
and bitch (in the President’s
Council, for example). But be
forewarned: I have been bitched
at by government-trained pro
fessionals, and I can yell as loud
as the next person.
Enough complaining. I’m
not trying to make any enemies,
or anger the ones The Print al
ready has. But it is hard to put
out a paper every week, go to
school full-time, and then bear
the brunt of criticism. Construc
tive criticism is a rare commod
ity on this campus...
THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
November 8,1989
Page 2
Gabor not deserving of previous criticism
Last week I wrote about Zsa
Zsa Gabor and her run-in with
the law for slapping a traffic offi
cer, who was citing her. In my
worst male-chauvinistic hubris, I
said some things I now wish I hadn’t
Please forgive me, Zsa Zsa. It
was wrong of me to be judgmental.
My change of heart came about
while watching Zsa Zsa on the
October31stDonahueShow. She
and Phil sat at a table on the stage
before a large audience. Phil, in
his best interrogatory manner,
bravely tried to get a word or two
in edgewise. Zsa Zsa, in her bright,
garrulous manner, told her side of
the story.
My hat is off to Zsa Zsa. She
comported herself very well inter
facing with the audience, which
displayed a hate/love attitude
toward her. Surprisingly, most of
the hateful remarks were from
women.
Ms. Gabor fielded the Zsa was unflappable and remained
questions adroitly, sometimes cool throughout.
Her attorney stood up in the
using “stupid” in her answers. I
agreed with her. The questions audience to tell of her many chari
WERE stupid. When anyone table acts, mentioning the time,
praised her, she glowed with pleas money and clothing she had do
ure, thanking that person gra nated to various causes. Hé was
very convincing.
ciously and warmly.
A hilarious
About her
incident occurred
marriages, Zsa
during the show
Zsa said she was
The Laugh Clinic
when Victoria
on good terms
Jackson, a mem
with all her hus
Joseph Patrick Lee
ber of the “Sat
bands and denied
urday
Night
getting alimony
Live” group,
from any of them,
saying she was perfectly capable appeared on stage looking like
of taking care of herself. She listed Zsa Zsa’s twin, talking in a broad
several enterprises to which she Hungarian accent “ala Gabor,”
had lent her name. All of them with plenty of “dahlinks” sprinkled
around. Zsa cracked up. It was a
were lucrative.
As the program progressed, masterful plant. The audience
the audience grew more vocal, loved it. Donahue beamed.
heaping diatribes and compliments
When the show was over, my
on her with equal intensity. Zsa feelings for Zsa Zsa were positive.
It was clear the officer, the court
and the press had blown the inci
dent way out of proportion. I
thought, anyone of us could have
the same experience, any day.
Now I have a great deal of
admiration for the little lady. I
shall look forward to reading about
her time spent with homeless
women, that part of her sentence
for which she showed consider
able enthusiasm. She’ll brighten
their days, I know.
Coincidental to all this, I saw
her in an old movie on Channel 9
later that same day. She performed
rather well. There she was, that
same gorgeous young lady I saw
on a warm July 1946 afternoon on
Madison Avenue, New York,
walking arm in arm with her
mother, Jolie, and her two sisters,
Magda and Eva.
Keep on talking, Zsa Zsa. I,
for one, will be listening.
Bell's death has affected basketball team
Two weeks ago Raymond Bell,
a member of the basketball team,
was shot in downtown Portland.
How has his death affected the
team?
This was Bell’s first year on
the team. He was projected to have
a large impact on the success of
the team.
While all the team was stunned
and most attended his funeral, the
team members Cii not know him
very well as they would have if he
was a returning teammate—al
though some had formed new
friendships with him.
Of course the people who are
hurting the most emotionally right
now are Bell’s family. His missing
from the line-up will effect the
team longer than the emotional
side. This doesn’t mean the team
Missing Links
is a bunch of cold-hearted people.
But as life must go on so must the
basketball season.
The team doesn’t have to
mourn his death during the whole
season should refnember how they
felt upon learning the news. He
was young and just starting to put
his life in focus. He is not missing
from the lineup because he moved.
He is dead and won’t be able to
play ever again.
A scene similar to this but on
a larger scale has been played out
in the San Fransisco/Oakland area.
People started questioning how
important was the hyped-up world
series baseball game compared to
the death and destruction in the
area.
The importance of the game
was thought about. The Series was
by Paul Henry
played out to its conclusion and
most thought that it was the right
thing to do as people began get
ting back into the normal swing of
things. Baseball for the players
was their job and thdir life.
While no one expects the
Clackamas basketball team not to
play, everyone should remember
where sports fits into the scheme
of life. It is in no way a life or death
situation (although at times people
treat it that way). It has a place. It
just depends at that particular time
whether it is first, fifth or one
hundredth on thelist of priorities.
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