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THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
NEWS/OPINION
May 13,1992
Students maintain 3.25 GPA
Honors program motivates students
See the stars at Clackamas
The observatory at the John Inskeep Environmental Learn­
ing Center is open to the public every clear Wednesday, Friday
and Saturday night from 7:30 to 11:30. Admission is $1.50 per
person.
Run off volunteers needed
On Sunday, June 28,7,500 runners will pour through the
streets of downtown Portland for the 15th annual Cascade Run
Off. Assistance is needed race weekend to register athletes,
serve water, hang banners, monitor the course, assist at the finish
line and help with the Kids’ Cascade. Those interested can call
the volunteer hotline at 226-1441.
by Heidi Branstator
Staff Writer
“The Clackamas Community
College Honors Program offers the
opportunity to experience an en­
riched academic environment and
promote academic excellence
among highly motivated students,’’
said a current press release here at
the college.
Students who choose to take
part in the Honors Program work
closely with faculty. Independent
learning and the exchange of ideas
are stressed to help students
strengthen their abilities and inter­
ests.
There are two ways in which
students may participate in Honors
at CCC.
Honor Scholars Program
requires students to apply to be-
come Honor Scholars. The com­
pletion of nine honors courses (27
credits) and a 3.25 GPA is required.
Three of those must be Honors
Curricula. The special honors des­
ignation will be included on the
Honor Scholars diploma.
Individual Honors Courses
are available to full or part-time
students who maintain at least a
3.25 GPA. Students may enroll in
individual Honors courses, but to
receive credit, a minimum of a B
grade must be earned.
There are three options for
Honors credit in the Honors Program.
Core courses require honors stu­
dents to enroll in designated Hon­
ors courses that are part of core
honors sequences in writing, hu­
manities or social science. Honors
Contract allows the student to enroll
in regular classes and separately
arrange with the instructor to com­
plete Honors criteria for Honor
credit. Special Topics are special
courses, outside the core, that meet
Honors criteria and are designated
Honors.
To be part of the Honor Schol­
ars Program, students must com­
plete the application for Honors
Scholar and submit it to the Direc­
tor of Honors, Don Hartsock. One
piece of evidence of an above aver­
age ability is also required.
Along with the academic re­
wards of being part of the Honors
Program, it also helps to increase
scholarship opportunities and
memberships into honor organiza­
tions.
New President elected
Letter to the Editor
The new ASG Presidential position for the 1992-93 school
year has been filled by Amy Gaskell.
Can we tolerate the OCA? A reader thinks not
Garden plots available
Individual garden plots will be available at CCC starting
May 9. Gardens will be open through November, weather
permitting. The plots are located west of the John Inskeep Envi­
ronmental Learning Center. The college will prepare the land,
assign the gardens and water them twice a week. Registering for
a garden implies a commitment to care for it Anyone interested
can call the Community Recreation Office at ext 2211.
Win prizes in coloring contest
The Theatre Arts Department is sponsoring a coloring
contest. Color Shakespeare and win prizes. Pictures can be
picked up in the bookstore. The deadline is May 18.
Last in poetry series
Marvin Bell, a professor at the University of Iowa, will be
at CCC tomorrow evening to share poetry from his seven books.
Those interested can find him in the McLoughlin Hall Theatre
from 7-8:30 p.m.
This is a sensitive issue, so I
will need to exercise some tact But
at the same time, I will need to get
to the point.
But first, I will need to say that
if I offend anyone with this, I will
apologize right now before I say
anything.
I do not support homosexual­
ity because, simply stated, it is
against God’s Word. I will cite
Romans 1:24-27 out of the Living
Bible version:
(24) So God let them go ahead
into every sort of sex sin, and do
whatever they wanted to—yes, vile
and sinful things with each other’s
bodies.
(26) That is why God let go of
them and let them do all these evil
things, so that even their women
turned against God’s natural plan
for them and indulged in sex sin
with each other. (27) And the men,
instead of having a normal sex re­
lationship with women, burned with
pniet
Family night movie
The Jungle Book, one of Disney ’s most popular films, will
be shown on Friday, May 15 at 7p.m. in the CC Mall. Children
under 6 will be admitted free; children 6 to 12, $1 and adults,
$1.50.
Editors: Mdlesa Freds, Rob Hibberd
News Editor. Nolan Kidwell
Sports Editor Lane Scheideman
Photo Editor. David Van Keuren
Copy Editor. Frank Jordan
Attention Graduates
Caps and gowns will be available in the Small Dining Room
in the Community Center beginning June 1. Hours for issue are
Monday and Tuesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Wednesday
and Thursday from 12 to 6 pan.
Business Manager Brenda Hodgen
Staff Writers: Heidi Branstator, Maurice
Glenn, Daphne Hartt, Tracy Hobbs, Gin­
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Revin Shields, Greg fully.
Photographers:
Vivian Johnson,
Kyle
Moe, Allan Zlemke
Graduation Petitions needed
Students who are graduating this term have until Friday,
May 15 to submit their petitions.
Cartoonist: Lorin Arendt
Production Assistants: Tobbi Ireland
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lust for each other, men doing
shameful things with other men
and, as a result, getting paid within
their own souls with the penalty
they so richly deserved.
(If I had taken adjoining verses,
our current lack of moral standards
can be explained.)
The message of these verses
explained one reason for the de­
struction of Sodom and Gomorrah,
but in the sense of the here and
now, is translatory to why homo­
sexuality runs rampant (more or
less) in today’s society. That was
not what God wanted, but do you
think he was one to stand in their
way?
For the purpose of clarity, I
only disapprove of homosexuals'
actions. I will not say anything
with a negative connotation to
people that do acts like that, as that
is not my nature. I will not stand in
their way. I will only say that that
is not what I believe in.
Take a look at the last few
words of the group of verses I cited
earlier, “getting paid within their
souls with the penalty they... de­
served.” That is why AIDS is here.
God has allowed AIDS to flourish
because of these sex sins. God did
not create it, however. And unfor­
tunately, AIDS has claimed inno­
cent victims, such as Ryan White
(who got the disease from a con­
taminated blood transfusion).
To reiterate, I do not support
homosexuality. But if people are
going to do it, then I will not stand
in their way. In fact, that is a very
small problem in comparison with
many others. For example, the
Oregon Citizens’ Alliance.
I thoroughly and whole-heart­
edly despise and loathe the Oregon
Citizens* Alliance because they use
unethical tactics. Case in point: the
1988 elections. Do you remember
then-Govemor Neil Goldschmidt’s
executive order prohibiting dis­
crimination on the grounds of sex­
foster child being placed with gay
men as foster parents, asking “But
where’s my mother?” I really wonder
whose code of ethics they used?
Certainly not mine.
I also just outright hate the
OCA’s guts for its hypocrisy. For
example, Joe Lutz. He was the
OCA’s first chair. He was happily
married (or so we thought) with 3
kids. And he was chair of the most
powerful PAC in Oregon. He left it
all behind just to have an ex-tram-
arital affair with a married woman
in California. Tell me if I’m wrong,
but doesn’t one of the Ten Com­
mandments say, “Thou shalt not
commit adultery?” So what the heck
did Joe just do?
The OCA’s stands on some
issues tells me that it seems they
want to manipulate 2.8 million
people by not giving them the whole
picture. This is the “Human Whirl­
wind” method of manipulation. They
opposed parental leave, saying it
was not in the best interests of
business. Say what? I was sure
business supported it because the
workers didn’t have to leave their
kids with sitters. And on state-sup­
ported pre-kindergarten program­
ming, the OCA’s excuse? "Not in
the best interests of families." About
the only people that would not
support it was the OCA. I do not
think there is much Christian in the
Christian Right In fact they are
the proverbial “wolves in sheep’s
clothing.”
I was raised by a family with
strong moral standards that go all
the way back to when the family
was in England, so I especially
believe that the OCA is going to
create political chaos. The OCA is
the master of hypocrisy, so far as
Oregon is concerned.
We are living in a time of true
social change, and all the OCA
wants to do is ruin the true progress
of mankind. In the last 40 years or
so, we have seen, experienced, and
ual orientation? The OCA didn’t
witnessed a change in how we see
like that. So they put together a
our fellow citizens. We will not
petition drive that exceeded itsex-
change the course now. I can even
pectations, put it on the ballot, and
tolerate homosex uality, as opposed
it passed by 55,400 votes. That,
to tolerating the OCA.
Ballot Measure 8, rescinded the
If I have offended anyone, I
order. But how did they do that?
wish to apologize (except for the
Plain-as-day scare tactics. The tele-' OCA).
vision advertisements they used
Thank you for understanding
included (as Rob had mentioned in
with an open mind.
an earlier edition of the Print) a
Sincerely, your colleague, Eric
St. Anthony’s.