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NEWS/OPINIONS
January 16, 1991
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King's birthday should be
celebration, not just free day
Attention transfer students
Nin teen colleges will be participat ingin this year’s "transfer day"
scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 30,9a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Community
Center mall. Come and ask your transfer questions and get the
answers that will help make your college transfer asuccess. For more
information, or a list of participating colleges, stop by the counseling
department or call 657-6958 extension 556 or 266.
C/v/7 rights celebrated
Events honoring Martin Luther King Jr. and the civil rights
movement will be taking place now through Monday, Jan. 21 in
the Community Center Fireside Lounge. For events and times
check in the Today Bulletin.
Death Valley presentation
John Snively of the Science Department will be giving a slide
presentation of Death Valley on Thursday, Jan. 17, at 12:30 p.m.
in Pauling 101. Everyone is invited to witness the lowest, hottest,
driest and one of the most beautiful places in America.
Nursing Association meeting
The National Student Nurses* Association will be holding a
meeting this Thursday, Jan. 17 at 7:30 a.m. in the Barlow Nursing
office. For further information check the Today Bulletin or call
Veraie at extension 275.
Going Into business?
A workshop covering the steps necessary in opening your
own business will be held Jan. 17 and 24. Topics to be covered
include: licensing, permits, tax requirements, hiring, developing a
business plan and identifying your market. For further informa
tion contact the Small Business Development Center at 656-4447.
Book refund deadline
Friday, Jan. 18 is the deadline for full refunds on books pur
chased from the Bookstore for winter term. A valid receipt for the
purchased book must be presented in order to obtain a refund.
Basketball anyone?
It’s time for intramural basketball and the deadline for
signing your team up is this Friday, Jan. 18. Sign up rosters are
available on the intramural bulletin board located on the lower
level of Randall Hall.
Pre-Nursing testing
SCAT testing for pre-Nursing students will be scheduled as
follows: Tuesday, Feb. 19 from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., Wednesday, Feb.
20 from 2 to 3 p.m., and Thursday, Feb. 21 from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
To make an appointment to take the test call the testing office at
extension 269. .
Girls' hitting clinic set
A softball hitting clinic for girls ages 13-18 is scheduled for
Saturday, Jan. 26 from Noon to 6 p.m. in Randall Gym. For regis
tration information call the Community Recreation office at 657-
6958, extension 211.
Children/Teen Book Drive
Phi Theta Kappa is having a Children/Teen Book Drive
through Feb. 28. Books may be donated in drop boxes located at
the library or by the Student Activities office located in the Com
munity Center. Tax deductible receipts for books donated are
available by contacting Dave Arter at extension 210.
The United States of Amer
ica, on Jan. 21, will be celebrating
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birth
day. No two states, communities,
or people will be celebrating in
the same way.
Some will have celebrations
within their churches, most will
celebrate by taking the day off
work or school, while others spend
the day informing the population
of King’s accomplishments and
wishes for all people everywhere.
Here at Clackamas Commu
nity College we will be observing
it while going to school. To some
students, this is not-fair because it
is an observed holiday and many
other people have the day off.
Other students feel that King was
so influential that he deserves a
day for people to observe his ac
complishments and think about
the civil rights issue, which King
devoted his life towards.
If you are one of the people-
out there who wants to have the
day off from school to further your
understanding about King and the
equal rights issue, more power to
you and there is nothing wrong
with that.
If you are one of the people'
who wants to be able to sleep in all
day, watch “Classic Concentration”
with Alex Trebek, go to McDonalds
for lunch and get home in time to
watch the Disney Afternoon on
Channel 12, all I can say is don’t be
late to your first class on January
21.
True, it would be nice to take
a day off from school or work, but
unless we actually did something
to commemorate King, it would
be a wasted day.
Another argument against
having a Martin Luther King, Jr.
day is that there would be a mone
tary situation. All government
employees would receive wages
for another day of no work This is
one of. the reasons the state of
Arizona did not pass the bill which
would have given the state a Martin
Luther King, Jr. day.
In many people’s minds there are
already too many paid days off
work, and that this would way too
much.
A tragic possibility that could
occur is that this holiday will soon
be viewed as just another day off
and that it will be party day. Just
like Memorial Day, the end-of-
school-party-till-you-drop holiday
or Labor Day, the end-of-sum-
mer-party-till-you-drop holiday.
There is no reason that you
can’t celebrate King’s birthday at
school or work This is a holiday
you can celebrate in your own mind.
Please attend the program
ASG has planned to celebrate
King’s birthday, and think about
what King had to say before he left
us.
Editorial sparks controversy
Motivations of Gulf redefined
To the Editor:
It occurs to me that the prime
motivations in the Gulf crisis are
being overlooked.
For example the editorials in
your 1-9-91 issue. The “CON”
stand portrays Saddam Hussein
as “a badger cornered... with a
sizable enemy force at his front
door.” He is not cornered; he is
only being “asked” to return to
his own borders, and it is Ku
wait’s front door. The “PRO”
states that withdrawing turns our
troop movements into a very costly
exercise.
Saddam Hussein was attempt
ing to control the majority of the
world’s oil reserves and is attempt
ing to develope a deliverable
nuclear bomb.
Yet the real reasons for fight-
ing their man and his forces are
both sickening and disgusting (The
following shames our species.) He
marched into a neighboring na
tion and stripped it. His soliders
are reported to have killed any
one, even youths, who criticized
their actions or were reluctant to
surrender their Kuwaiti citizen
ship. They are reported to have
shot children before their parents,
blinded boys with cigarettes, sod
omized people with broken bottles,
dumped infants into mass graves
(perhaps hunderds), impaled a
woman in labor with a bayonet,
tortured and killed Kwaitis who
assisted Americans in hiding killed
doctors who failed to save wounded
Iraqi soldiers and raped wives.
I believe this crisis allows a
post-cold war world to deal with
Suggested location for
game room: Baghdad
To the Editor:
The purpose of this letter is
to voice support for moving the
game room from its present loca
tion. Over the past 15 years I have
seen a small but persistent num
ber of my students become so at
tracted to the game room that
they’ve had difficulty tearing them
selves away from the pool tables
at the end of a break or lunch
period. Going back to work be
fore a game is ended can be ever so
annoying.
I think that a suitable hew
location for the game room would
be in Baghdad, Iraq.
Ray Conklin, Instructor
Automotive Programs
such evil unitedly. It allows us to
establish a limit to what this civi
lization will tolerate.
We may be able to avoid war
by demonstrating resolve, but by
wavering we give heart to the cruel
and evil.
Will Greenleaf
Edit or-in-Chief:
Angela Wilson
News Editor:
Jennifer Soper
Feature Editor:
Heidi Hoffman
S porto Editor:
Brenda Hodgen
Photo Editor:
Lane Scheideman
Copy editor
Ron Jagodnik. Jr.
BuairwM Manager:
Gregg Mayes
Staff Writers:
Dave Hassler
Heatherte Himes
Frank Jordan
Nolan Kidwell
Jennifer Lessard
Richard Marx
Jim Spickelmier
Photographers:
Kyle Moe
Eric Sanders
David Van Keuren
Allan Zemke
Production Assis
tant
Tricia Schneider
Child care has openings
A few openings are now available for on campus child care at
the Camp Fire Child Care Center. For further information call
®dy at 657-6683.
Health Insurance offered
Low cost student health insurance is available. For details
pickup a brochure at the Student Activities window.
Library open Saturdays
For your studying convenience the Library will be open Sat
urdays this term from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. However no reference
^ff will be available at that time '
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Ad Salesman:
Dan Champie
Computer Tech:
Scott Johnson
Darkroom Tech:
Debbie Felix
Cartoonist-
Lorin Arendt
Advisor
Linda Vogt
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