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Vol. XXIII No. 15
Clackamas Community College
Februrary21,1990
Oregon City, Oregon
ATM
arrested
in
shooting
Suspects
Tape shown
machine
to be
installed
Clackamas Community
College President John Key
ser will be presenting a two
minute video tape
discussing facts about the March
27, budget levy and voter reg
istration.
.
The tape is to be shown on
campus TVchannel 3 at the fol
lowing times;
February 26 at 9:02 a.m ,
10:02 am, 1202 p.m, 1:02 p.m..,
2:02 p.m., and 3:02 p.m.
February 27; 8:02 a an., 932
a.m, 11:02 a.m, 1:32 p.m,
3:02p.m.
February 26 and 29 at'
7 02p.m. ’ - .
Complete voter registra
tion forms are available in the
Student Activities Office by
March 3.
Comedians
to perform
Today at noon two come
dians are performing in the com
munity Center.
The two are Troy Thirdg-
ill, of Portland and Gardiner
Smith who will open the pro
gram.
.
This presentation is spon
sored by ASG as part of Afri
can Awareness Week.
Cougars
plan to
gamble
The Cougar baseball club
will hold a night of "casino
gambling" March 10 from 7-11
p.m. in the community center.
Tickets for the event cost
$8 and can be purchased from
any member of the Cougar
baseball team. Tickets can also
be purchased at the door for
S10. All proceeds go to benefit
the Cougar baseball team.
Ticket purchasers qualify
to win one of three grand prizes,
includinga2-day Settle Mari
ner trip package.
Attendeesoftheevent will
receive$50in "gamblingscript"
to use at the various games.
Winnings can be used to pur
chase raffle tickets that qualify
for at least 50 donated prizes.
Two men were arrested last
Thursday in connection with the
shooting death of Clackamas
Community College basketball
player Ray Bell and the shooting
of his friend David Hall of West
Linn which happened last Octo
ber in Old Town in Portland.
Chew Kim Lee, 36, and Paul
Cho Yee Tsang, 38, both of 1612
N.E. 213 Ave, Troutdale, are
accused of one count of murder
and one count of attempted mur
der each.
Lee and
Tsang were ar
rested by Port
land
Police
Bureau’s Tacti
cal Investiga
tions Division as
the two men were driving out of
the parking lot of the Mariott
Hotel, 1401 S.W. Front Ave.
The arrest of Lee and Tsang
ended a four month investigation
into the shooting death of Bell.
The shooting took place after
an argument over a parking place
at Fourth Avenue and Everett
Street. It is alleged by police that
Lee fired at least two shots from a
handgun at Bell and Hall. One of
the shots hit Bell in the shoulder
and passed through his chest, fa
tally wounding him. Hall was shot
in the right leg in the confronta
tion. No weapon has been recov
ered.
The investigation in this case
will continue.
Where has Joe Lee gone ?
by James W. Spickelmier
Contributing writer
Born on March 13,1911, and
a CCC student since 1975, proba
bly entitles Joe Lee, author of “The
Laugh Clinic,” to the billing as
CCCs oldest resident. Unfortu
nately, just after the commence
ment of winter term, Lee had a
major setback.
“It was a stroke,” said Lee, “a
crazy stroke. It wasn’t a thing that
was going to kill me or anything
like that, but it sure put me out of
whack, out of business really.”
Lee suffered some paralysis
on the right sideof his body. As he
describes it, the right side of his
body doesn’t cooperate with the
left side. “I’ve got to get over that
and they claim that I can with time
and a positive attitude.”
And a positive attitude is one
thing that Lee definitely has. “I’ve
discovered that I’ve got a pretty
good spirit about things like this.
I don’t let them get me down and
I keep thinking positively all the
way through them. That’s the main
idea. This whole business of re
covery will depend upon thinking
positively, acting positively, and
doing positive things until I’m up
and around again.”
Granted, Lee occasionally has
“a little bit of a real bad moment,”
but he doesn’t let it last.
Lee was released from the
hospital on February 9. With
numerous friends visiting through
out the day, Lee feels he’s not
being neglected by any means and
in a good position to get well.
Lee plans on returning to CCC
for a least one class as soon as he’s
able to get out on his own. He
enjoys Craig Lesley’s creative
writing classes and everyone over
at the computer lab. He says hello
to everyone at CCC, especially the
staff members he has dealt with
and taken classes from.
“I like all the staff out at the
college,” commented Lee. “Of
course, the ones I’ve taken courses
from are my buddies, really.”
He also wants to write more
articles for his newspaper column
“The Laugh Clinic,” which runs
in the Clackamas Print, as he feels
it will help him keep his head
operating.
When asked if there was any
thing else he would like to add,
Lee stated, “That’s a great school
out there; good staff, good pro
grams, and they’re all very nice. I
really appreciate the college. The
best thing I ever did was go out
there and enroll.”
Lee also mentioned that he
hopes the younger students just
out of high school appreciate what
a wonderful learning opportunity
CCC offers. “It can be one of the
best times in their lives. It has
been in mine.”
35,000 fish released to wild
by Amber Cordry
Staff Writer
On January 31, approximately
25,000 fish were released into the
urban stream system.
Newell Creek, a stream that
runs off Moss Junior High School
through the Environmental Learn
ing Center, was the sight for a
large release of Coho salmon which
were about six weeks old. These
young fish were becoming endan
gered by the commencement of
construction on the new mall which
had increasing negative environ
mental effects on the growth and
life expectancy of the fish.
“At this point it isn’t bad, but
it’s getting bad,” remarked Jerry
Herrmann, director of the ELC,
on the damaging turbidity of the
construction sight.
According to Herrmann, due
to the excessive precipitation land
has begun to slide into the stream
system making the growth of these
fish in the incubators at the ELC
at risk of being in bad habitat.
Herrmann and his staff de
cided to release the fish with the
thought that before the damage
became too severe, they would
learn how to survive as wild fish
and migrate into the Willamette
River.
“Hopes are that the fish will
return to spawn at the ELC but we
are only expecting that one per
cent return," explained Herrmann.
The impatt of the mud in the
stream is particularly significant,
because the Fish And Wildlife
Commission has named Newell
Creek a “Class 1” stream due to
its extremely high capability for
fish rearing.
Preparing the salmon for the
future, the students have created
a fish ladder to aide the fish in
their return. The ELC created the
ladder which is unlike any other.
It is specifically designed and di
rectly related to our stream sys
tem.
The ELC is currently waiting
for the approval of the city com
mission to allow an alteration to
the natural stream system now
intact.
by Margy Lynch
Staff Writer
First Interstate Bank has
agreed to install an Automatic
Teller Machine on campus some
time in March of 1990.
Gary Dirrim, dean of col
lege services, and Heidi Stardig,
ASG student senator, have been
working on the project since early
last term.
Tim Jones, now ASG presi
dent, instigated the project this
year. Last year’s student gov
ernment also worked on it, but
never actually got a machine
installed according to Stardig.
“We also asked U.S. Na
tional Bank if they could put a
machine in,” said Stardig, “but
they weren’t real excited about
it. They said that they already
had too many machines installed
in the hilltop area.”
First Interstate Bank was
“more enthused” about doing
it, according to Stardig. “There
has been much better response
from them in correspondence,”
she said.
According to Stardig, U.S.
National Bank required that
ASG pay a fee in order to have
the machine installed. First Inter
state, however, requires no
charge and will pay the expenses
of having it here.
The machine is a Cirrus sys
tem machine. This means that
people who bank with First In
terstate, or are members erf other
banks that use the Cirrus ATM
system will have access to the
machine. According to Dirrim,
there is a possibility of convert
ing the ATM machine so it will
also accept Exchange bank cards
some time this fiscal year.
The machine is planned to
be located outside the Commu
nity Center, according to Stardig
Dirrim will be meeting with a
representative from the bank to
discuss further details.
“We get a lot of verbal com
ments about the ATM ma
chines,” said Stardig “but what
we really need is something in
writing. If people could write
their comments down and drop
them in the suggestion box, it
would help a lot.”