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OPINION
THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
October 10,1990
Board's approval of game room move
sparks controversy among students
Ah yes, welcome to a newschoolyear, and all the fun
that goes with it. Well, we already have a controversy,
but does it have the same power as the smoking contro
versy, that we flogged to death last year? It just may...
Many of you may have passed by a certain area over
the last week, occupied by video games, pool tables, and
of course a ping pong table. Yes, this area is known as
the Recreation Center.
Now the college wants to move it. You see, with the
construction of the new building underway, the Presi
dent’s Council approved a plan designed by Lee Fawcett
that would move the game room out past Randall Hall
into a tiny area affectionately called Trailer A (new
students, refer to your handbook).
Let’s face it, the idea is uninspired and desperate.
Not only is that
Trailer extremely
small (it would be
comparable to put
by
ting the library in
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one
of
the
restrooms), but also
CON
potentially dangerous, due to electrical and fire hazards.
To get around this problem, a plan has been pro
posed to have Trailer A “refitted.” I’m still trying to
discover its “doublespeak” political meaning.
The idea itself is not even valid. The person who
would be running the game room would be extremely
isolated. Where is the attendant going to go when he/she
runs out of quarters? It would probably be quicker to go
to Taco Bell than the Community Center to get change.
The Community Center is a central location that is
easily accessible. It would not be accessible in the trailer.
Logically speaking, who the hell would travel out to the
trailer to play a game of "Heavy Barrel" anyway? Let’s
face it, ASG (who runs the game room) would not make
any money.,
Mysecret source informs me that most of this move
ispoliticalandchargedwithfacultyselfimportance. The
faculty believes that students may be better served with
more space. This is definitely true with Financial Aid,
who needs privacy, but is it necessary for other areas?
Don’t the rest have enough space?
Let’s be realistic,’the game room is perfectly suited
to the area it occupies. -In fact if those who want to move
it actually went in there once in a while to relax, or enjoy
a good game of ping pong (which won’t be possible in the
new game room) maybe we wouldn’t have any problems.
But then again, if it is moved here, we hewspaper people
could set up a concession stand and make a tidy profit....
Tired of overcrowding in the Community Center
building? Fed up with the hassles involved runningback
and forth when you have to deal with the Education and
the Career Development and Planning Departments?
Fear not, a solution is at hand in the form of an
administrative decision to move the Recreation Center
to the recently vacated Public Safety trailer.
This brilliant plan, purposed by formei Acting
Dean of Students Lee Fawcett, will benefit both stu
dents and administration alike.
At this time, there is a shortage of office space in the
Community Center for the newly combined Education
and Career Development and Planning Departments.
Relocating the Recreation Center will open up ample
under
space to house the ne1
the same roof. In
turn, this will allow
the rest of the depart
ments in the Commu
nity Center to expand
Jim Spickelmier
beyond their bounda
ries. All of the de
nity Center will then operate
partments in the Con
more efficiently and provide better service to an ever
expanding student population.
Granted, the students are going to have .to give up
a little space in the new location. There will only be
enough room for two pool tables and some video games.
The new location is also removed from the central area
of the campus.
To compensate for the reduced space of the gaming
area, there are some positive features to be found at the
new location. There will be room for a TV viewing
lounge and a meeting room for campus clubs. Campus
clubs will also have access to storage areas at the new
location.
Another advantage with the new location is that it
will be away from the Community Center and will
present visitors to the college with a much better image
of our school. Instead of seeing students having a few
minutes of fun between classes in a bar room type setting
with pool tables and video games, they will be presented
with a nice, quiet, well organized office setting with
students in the mall area quietly chatting between
classes and doing constructive things, like studying.
When one considers the other alternative, which is
to lose the Recreation Center altogether, it’s not such a
bad plan.’ The administration gets their extra space, the
clubs get meeting and storage space, and the undesir
able element that frequents the Recreation Center is
being removed from the public eye and the mainstream
PRO
by
How many must die
before we wake up
to the violence?
Since the murder of an Ethiopian man by Skinheads
nearly two years ago, Portland area residents have been
forced to take note of the racial problems that infest our
hailed Rose City.
Throughout* this
week, there is an even
greater emphasis on
breaking down the
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prejudices that exist as
the Portland City
Council created a
week long celebration of Dignity in Diversity.
The goal of the week is to create an awareness of the
prejudices that circulate and do something to change
discriminatory behavior.
It comes as no surprise that a march signaling the
beginning of the event happened just the day before the
lawsuit against Tom Metzger, the leader of the White
Aryan Resistance (WAR), was set to begin in Portland.
Metzger and his 22 year old son, John, have been
accused of sending WAR recruiters to Portland to enlist
the support of the same Skinheads who later killed Mu-
lugeta Seraw.
It is a real shock to me that in our day and age people
can possibly believe one race is superior to another, let
alone kill another human being simply because of his
color. I’ll be watching the case with much interest
More than the Metzger case, I’ll be watching to see
how people react to it. If people talk about it, it means
they are more awareofwhat is happening. Maybe that will
be a beginning to change.
Somewhere along the line, someone convinced me
that we are all created equal. I still believe that. I know
that I won’t just sit by and listen to someone express their
thoughts on why whites or blacks or anyone else is better
than some other race. I refuse to think some racial jokes
are funny. That is the way some of the very ideas that
whites are superior to other races are passed on.
It is a pretty sad commentary on our society when it
takes something like the Seraw murder in Portland to
wake people up to the problem that has existed for years.
Just as the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr in the
60s triggered nation-wide riots for civil rights, the Seraw
murder is again setting the stage for action.
This time the fight is not against a generation that
grew up with the idea that minorities are inferior. Instead,
a younger, more apathetic group, many of whom were not
even conceived in the earlier time of unrest, are the perpe
trators of these ideas. They are the East Side White Pride,
Youth of Hitler and the White Aryan Resistance. They
are part of our generations.
It is scary that in a time when color should know no
boundries, we are still fighting for racial equality. With
out people who are willing to work toward tearing down
the walls, we may be stagnant in the years to come.
How many more murders must there be?
by
Humor on Tap
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