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NEWS
THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
January 15,1992
An Editorial View
Whose political agenda is best?
Swing your partner
ASG Square dancing sessions will resume on Thursday nights
from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. in the CC Mall beginning Feb. 6. For more in­
formation, contact Renae Parr in the Student Activities Office.
A run one can't bear to miss
Sunday, Jan. 19 is the Polar Bear 5000 Meter Run and 2 Mile Fun
Run from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The cost is $12 with the commemorate T-
Shirt or $5 without the T-Shirt. For more information please call the
Community Recreation Office at ext 2211.
Refund deadline nears
The last day students can get a full refund for Winter term
textbooks is Friday, Jan. 24. A receipt validating the purchase must be
presented in order to obtain that refund. Buy back of books from pre­
vious terms is over, but will resume again during finals week beginning
March 16.
Money deadlines approach
Ute scholarship list is still growing. Students should not miss out
on this opportunity of a lifetime. Deadlines are approaching and with
the deadlines the opportunity just slips away; so check out the
Financial Aid Office located in the CC Mall.
Fly for the hole-in-one
Attention students: Anew club isbeing formed and all students are
invited to check it out The CCC Frisbee Golf and Country Club meets
on Tues, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. in Trailer A, located on the north side
of Randall Hall.
Campus closes for MLK Jr. Day
Clackamas Community College will be closed cm Jan. 20. There
will be no classes due to the observation of Martin Luther King Jr’s
birthday.
CCC offers business workshop
A “Going into Business Workshop” will take place Jan. 21 and 28.
Learn the steps needed to open a business. For instance, how to and
where to get licensing permits, tax requirement information, how to
hire, developing a business plan, and identifying the business market,
will all be explained at the workshop. The classes will be in session
from 7 to 10 p.m. at West Linn High School For more information
please contact the Small Business Development Center at 656-4447.
College offers job Info via phone
CCC now offers a Job Information Line. The line, operated by the
college’s Human Resources Department, is a recorded message listing
full-time positions open for application. To receive application mate­
rials, callers must leave a message which includes their name, their
address and the position being applied for. The job line number is650-
Poetry reading scheduled
Vem Rutsala, Associate Professor of English at Lewis and Clark
College, will read his poems at CCC on Wednesday, Jan. 22. Rutsala,
whoistheauthorofmany books, will read poems on the past; timeless
settings and characters; and humorous and serious poems on contem­
porary life. He wijl be in the New Pioneers Community Center Mall at
By Robert A. Hibberd
Staff Writer
The battle between conserva­
tives, moderates and liberals over
the issue of political correctness,
diversity and multiculturalism in
education rages on in 1992.
Students, faculty and adminis­
trators of every college and univer­
sity in this Country are all currently
debating with themselves and with
one another about the type of edu­
cation they receive, deliver orregu-
late.
A conflict of interest and a
clash of ideas has resulted as a
direct result of minorities having
more exposure in the texts, and the
idea that what is in the texts now is
substantiated and documented truth
and therefore unchangeable.
What is at stake, in this ongo­
ing argument, is educational free­
dom, as far as a teacher’s right to
teach what s(he) feels is correct
and a student’s right to receive the
type of education that s(he) feels is
most beneficial to his or her par­
ticular ambitions.
At certain institutions across
America students are becoming
more aware and are developi ng opin-
ions of their instructor’s personal
feelings and agendas regarding the
idea of a multiculturally diverse
society. When these students dis­
cern that a specific instructor’s
personal ideas are conflicting di­
rectly with their own perceptions,
the students exercise their educa­
tional right and avoid the specific
instructor’s classroom.
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And Earn
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Give your hometown
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up to $2,000, depending on
your military specialty.
Then, under the New GI
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All of which makes die
Army Guard a smart way to
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your recruiter.
An example of students tak­
ing action against an instructor that
was in disagreement with them, on
issues of multiculturalism, occurred
recently at Stanford University.
Students at Stanford began boy­
cotting Professor Robert Cohn’s
classes when it was found that his
politics didn’t match the majority
of those on campus. Cohn has
subsequently decided to retire next
year because it’s “too painful” and
there is an, “almost totalitarian
consensus on matter of gender and
race” at Stanford.
Recently at Clackamas Com­
munity College, a forum was held
which dealt with the ideas of politi­
cal correctness and cultural diver-
. ..it is absolutely vi­
tal that people... de­
velop the ability to
relate'and communi­
cate with one another.
sity. Four prominent instructors
from this institution conversed about
the diverseness issue and its effects
on education on this campus.
One side of.the coin argued
that, as instructors, their educational
freedom is being attacked by a
marxist mentality, while the other
side of the coin argued that by
labeling their multiculturalism
movement, as a political correct­
ness fad you are standing in the
way of social progress and that
makes you, essentially, a racist.
After reading several docu­
ments on the issue, speaking to
influential people on the matter
and attending the forum on politi­
cal correctness, it seems to me, that
what all this discrepancy boils down
to is this: Whose political agenda
is best?
Now, more than ever, it is
absolutely vital that people, of all
races and social classes, develop
the ability to relate and communi­
cate with one another.
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Editor-in-chief: Heidi Hoffman
News Editor: Jennifer Leeeard
Features Editor: Nolan Kidwell
Sports Editor: Lane Scheldemann
Photo Editor: David VanKeuren
Copy Editor: Frank Jordan
Business Manager: Brenda Hodgen
Staff Writers: Heidi Branetator, Jimmy
Criswell, Melissa Freels, Maurice Glenn,
Daphne Hartt, Rob Hibberd, Tracy Hobbs,
Scott Morris, Jim Rydzewekl, Tammae
Smith, Greg Tully.
Photographers:
John
Fike,
Vivian-
Johnson, Kyle Moe, Allan Zlemke.
Advisor: Linda Vogt ,
National Guard
The Clackamas Print alms to be a fair and
Ski Ball extravaganza scheduled
Clackamas ASG and Ski Club are sponsoring a “Ski Ball.” The
event will take place Jan. 24 from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. at Mt. Hood
Meadows. Tickets are available for$7 in the Student Activities Office.
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"Just in Case” visits CCC
The first concert of winter term will be held today in the Skylight
Room from noon to 1 p.m. The rock band’s name is “Just In Case,”
Army
National
Guard
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Through a highly effective
system of information, which is
provided by an increasing amount
of mediums and an ever techno­
logically advancing communica­
tion network, we, as a planet, are
approachingfif not already there) a
concrete realization of social theo­
rist, Marshall McLuhan’s concept
of a “global village,” a world which
is borderless as a direct result of
communications media (i.e. CNN,
AT&TJBM). The new world or­
der will be one of massive world-
wide trade. There will be a need to
relate and understand several cul­
tures on an almost constant basis.
The single most marketable
skill that a student of today can,
and must, acquire from his or her
educational institution, is the abil­
ity to relate and understand a vast
array of economical, social and
cultural organizations’ differences.
It is hard to think about but while
we become more advanced, there
becomes an increased amount of
possibility to consider and under­
stand.
I must mention that while we
move into the new world order and
become a more multicultural soci­
ety, it is important for all people to
remember three points: 1) Docu­
mented history is an absolutely vital
source of information. There is no
other source from which we learn
so much about ourselves and about
our decision-making process. His­
tory is fact, not theory. 2) The fact
that whites are in the majority is
something that can’t be helped. I’m
sorry for that 3) Western cultures
and values are a major part of
multiculturalism. These points are
something that militant members
of radical, diversity-minded, organi­
zations must learn to accept. I
would hate to see a group formed to
alter history and to take drastic
measures in order to equalize race
proportions.
I must compliment CCC on its
open-mindedness towards multic­
ulturalism. Several classes that I
attend on campus offer an impres­
sive understanding of cultural di­
versity. I am especially satisfied
with the education I receive from
two specific instructors, Diane
Averill and Donald Epstein. Al­
though the two “clashed” during
last month’s forum, I feel that they,
in their classes, support, essentially
the same cause.
Averill’s poetry class exposes
students to a culturally diverse group
of outstanding poetry writers.
Epstein, although somewhat sar­
castic, emphasizes the importance
of history while at the same time
sympathizing with m inori ty groups
about the white male domination
of Western Civilization. Epstein
bases his class on substantiated
documented evidence. The two
instuctors are taking us into the
new age. I must also compliment
CCC’s Associated Student Gov­
ernment on their uncanny ability to
bring to the school a wide assort­
ment of diverse entertainment.
Multiculturalism is essential.
I am appealing to students, faculty
and administration of this fine in­
stitution to work together with one
another on issues of cultural diver­
sity. Let’s begin 1992 with a new
sense of open mindedness and
acceptance towards the differences
society offers us. Peace.