OPINION
From the
editor...
THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
January 24,1990
Page 2
Homeless problem won't disappear easily
This is a potential time bomb
The problem with loud
By this time everyone has
that could mushroom into a larger
probably heard enough of the
entertainment in the Commu­
problem, yet it seems that the mass
homeless in this nation, but ap­
nity Center is riot about noise at
parently not enough according to
majority do not seem to care.
all. The fact is that Clackamas
some. In an Oregonian article, Rev.
Maybe it is that fact that our pri­
Community College is simply
orities are way out of proportion.
Jack Shields, a board member ofa
too small.
Maybe the government needs to
shelter program declared, “I wish
The Community Center
take heed to an old saying, “Don’t
itself is poorly- designed. The • I -could tell you something
worry about the speck in someone
npw..¿but] it’s just getting worse
mall area, a popular- gathering
else’s eye when you have a log in
and worse.” There are a projected
spot, is not separated froiri the
11,000 homeless children a year, your own.” The government needs
counseling and registration area
to spend less money on foreign
just the children. Imagine how
by any physical barrier. Conse­
aid (some $50 billion), and maybe
many adults are out there as well.
quently, eyen the poise of nor­
mal social conversation in; the
. It is known that there are those give a little attention to the prob­
lem we have here. (Well, one of
mail makes its way into areas, who wish to be out on the street,
the many, but this is another edi­
but this is not addressing them,
designated for business.
but the homeless who are unwill­ torial topic.)
Students should be allowed
Everything seems to point to
ing victims. It is not the fault of
to hold activities on campus;
Student activities are. an inte­
the advertising game where mil­
those, like Steve Johnson and his
family. He is unemployed and lions are spent on a 60 second
gral part of college life, no mat­
cannot find a job that pays enough spot. Oregon’s own Nike Corp,
ter what volume level those
for a $300-400 apartment in Port­ plopped down $1 million alone
activities produce. The only area
land. This is real life that is hap­ on the advertising spot during the
currently available for activities
pening all over America.
is the Community Center. Other
colleges have isolated areas in
which-to hold events (Portland:.
State, for example, has live bands
performing at the lunch hour in
their “basement” cafeteria).
The Clackamas Print, a friend of
by Ron Jagodnik
Construction plans for new
mine, Sam, bundled in a winter
Staff Writer
buildings on campus don’t seem
Can you feel it? I can feel it. coat and moping slightly, lit a
io include any area for student
cigarette and pulled up a seat next
Spring is in the air!
activities. What Clackamas needs
I came back to Clackamas for to me.
is one area isolated from the
“Aren’t these picnic tables
Winter term expecting the same
normal business offices of the
old campus, only a little colder great? What a great idea for im­
college in which to hold activi­
and a little drearier. Boy, I was proving morale on campus during
ties.
surprised when I walked pass the Winter term,” I beamed, with
The concern over noise in
Community Center and spied the Springtime enthusiasm, daydream­
■ the Community Center is only
ing about a peanut butter and jelly
picnic tables!
one sign of the growing pains
Just the sight of such a spring­ sandwich and a pickle for my pic­
that the college is currently
time structure filled me with a nic lunch.
experiencing.
“Ya, some great compro­
rush of excitement. I wanted to
The concern over noise docs
strip off my sweater and bathe in mise!” Sam snapped.
seem vaguely familiar, however.
“Compromise? Compromise?
the rain. I wanted to rip my blue
Let’s look at the problem: noise
jeans into cut-offs. I wanted to What compromise?” I asked,
is something difficult to isolate
pack a hearty picnic lunch and stunned by Sam’s reaction. Dur­
and only a certain number of
bask with my loved one in the ing Fall term, I knew Sam as a
people seem to enjoy it. Kind of
wonderful (yet unexpected) Spring positive and jovial fellow, even
sounds like cigarette smoke,
when dealing with the indoor
atmosphere.
hkih?
Well, I controlled my urges, smoking ban, with which he whole­
Perhaps the answer to noise
maintained my composure and heartedly disagreed. “Looks like
is simple: hold activities outside
simply sat on the table’s bench a breath of fresh air to me, though
in the campus’ designated smok­
with a content smile and lit a ciga­ a bit strange for Winter term.”
ing areas. Those wonderful
“Ya, the fresh air is a bunch of
rette.
“improvements” to outdoor
Before I had a chance to put hot air - $2500 worth of upgraded
sriioking facilities (picnic tables)
my feet up, to relax, and to read outside smoking area. It’s all in
could be utilized as stages. Why
the Winter term’s first issue of
not? What’s a little more debris
outside the Community Center?
by Paul Henry
Missing Links
I understand that those staff
members concerned about noise
in the Community Center have
jobs to do, and that the noise
level is interfering with those
jobs. But the whole thing seems
kind of selfish.
The faculty and staff of this
college are important, but they
need to remember that they
wouldn’t even have these jobs if
it wasn’t for the student body.
The reason all of these people
are so busy in their offices is
because this is a school; they
work here to support the stu­
dents. I doubt that there would
be much work to do if there
were no students here.
If we are all going to coexist
peacefully at Clackamas Com­
munity College we are going to
have to learn some tolerance
and quit complaining when
Tm very sorry, Mr. Orkin, but I'm afraid your son is going to need
somebody does something we
contact lenses."
don’t like.
Super Bowl, not including the fees
for personalties like Wayne
Gretzky and Bo Jackson. Nike is a
great outfit, but they are a prime
example of how ridiculous amounts
are spent on the smallest amount
of time for millions. It seems funny
that Johnson’s family can’t find a
place or make ends meet while
corporate bigwigs throw away
dollars like yesterday’s trash.
So what are we to do about
this? Maybe we should declare
“war on homelessness,” have the
CIA retrieve a homeless person
around the corner from the White
House, have the President then
interrupt “thirtysomething” and
show us what a homeless person
looks like. Then we could spend
millions on an empty TV cam­
paign produced by Michael Mann
with a phone number so a home­
less person can call in for help.
Sure, as if a every one of the
homeless carry around a 28-inch
TV in their back pocket along
with a cellular phone.
What we should really do is
something, anything to help the
problem. Even you can help out
by giving time and skills to a shel­
ter, or you can give food, clothes,
or money to any organization.
Maybe you could pelt your local
state representative with letters
and phone calls. Even Clackamas’
ASG could give a call to an or­
ganization who feed the homeless
called LIFE (213-936-8095), to set
up a branch here at Clackamas to
feed the homeless. And remem­
ber, just because Christmas is over
and done with doesn’t mean that
the homeless disappear until riext
year. Do something. Now.
Picnic tables not much help in cold, rain
the paper.” '
I picked up the paper which
had a rain-dot design running the
ink. I read Editor-in-Chief, Jim
Titus’ article about the edition of
picnic tables to the campus’ out­
door smoking area as a “reason­
able compromise.”
I felt silly and cold and wet
and I put my coat back on. I could
not believe that I bought into the
idea that the picnic tables are here
to bring a springtime atmosphere
to the dreariness of Winter term.
I packed my drenched paper into
my bag and sighed.
I am kind of glad that the
picnic tables are for the smokers,
because now I don’t have to worry
about whom to talk to about res­
ervations for two, preferably in a
quiet corner, in the smoking sec­
tion of the Community Center’s
outdoor cafeteria.
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