Nationally-acc aimed poet visits campus
News Clips
The Math Department is having a raffle to raise money for the
CCC fountain. The winner receives two tickets to the Valentine’s
Day (Feb. 14) Blazers vs. L. A. Clippers game. Contact Kurt at ext.
2431 or Barry at ext. 2674 for more information. The drawing is
Feb. 10.
Women... want to learn to line dance? The Focus on Women
program is offering a line dance night for women - in the Gregory
Forum next Thursday evening, Feb. 10, at 6:30 p.m. If you've
been to thewomen's weekend, you know how much fun line dance
can be; if you haven't, come and find out! Cost is $2 at the door.
Glacier Park Inc. is looking for students to fill more than 900
summer jobs in all aspects of hotel and hospitality areas at Glacier
National Park in Montana. For details on jobs and salaries, call
(602)207-2612 or write Glacier Park, Inc., Dial Tower, Phoenix,
Ariz., 85077-0924
The Oregon State Poetry Association is having a contest. For
contest rules and categories, send an self-addressed, stamped
envelope to M.P. Curran, Contest Editor, 5600 SW Lakeview
Blvd. Lake Grove, OR 97035 or call (503)635-5694. Deadline is
March 27.
For those who missed the book buyback at the end of Fall Term,
a “special” buyback is being offered through Friday. Bring your
textbooks from previous terms to the bookstore during this time
to see if they qualify for buyback.
Twenty Oregon colleges will be on campus Friday from 10 a.m.
to 1 p.m. in the Gregory Forum. Find outwhat you need to do to
make the transfer process work. Deadline, requirements and
equivalency questions will be answered by the experts.
Learn the Texas Two Step, various swing dances and the most
popular line dances every Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m. in the
Gregory Forum. $2 per person, per lesson. For more information,
contact Robin Robinson at ext. 2589 or Janis Rosenlof at ext. 2211.
Adult and Family Services has a representative on campus every
Thursday from 9:45 to 11:45 a.m. in the Family Resource Center,
Rm. 112, to answer questions about public assistance, food
stamps, medical and day care. All students are welcome.
The Writers' Club Contest deadline has been extended to Feb.
16. For more information, contact Allen Widerburg in S-124 or
call ext. 2359.
There will be a Kick-Off’93 Dance on Saturday, from7to 11 p.m.
in the Gregory Forum. “ DJ Sound Express” will provide music
entertainment and refreshments will be served.
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Staff Writer
Nationally-acclaimed poet Toi
Derricotte will read poems from
her third and most recent book,
“Captivity,” today at noon in the
Gregory Forum.
Derricotte was asked to come
here by Clackamas English in
structor Diane Averill. The read
ing is “part of an ongoing series to
bring good readers to the col
lege,” Averill said. She describes
Derricotte as a “dynamic” reader.
“She has a powerful writing
style,” Averill continued. “Cap
tivity” is a largely autobiographi
cal collection of poems about her
family and childhood in a black,
middle-class neighborhood in
Detroit. Her first two books,
“Natural Birth” and “Queen of
the Death House” dealt with dif
ferent aspects of her life.
Derricotte, who now teaches
at a high school in Washington
D.C., writes as and about being a
black woman, but fears that other
people will disregard her for that
reason.
“I want to be read by white
'
'
people, and not just white people
who are interested in political
writing,” she said. Derricotte said
she believes many kinds of people
will be able to relate to her work.
The reading at the Gregory
Forum is free and students and
staff are encouraged to attend.
SEED planted to promote cultural insight
by Paul Valencia
Staff Writer
The Success through Equity
Education and Diversity work
shop kicked off its six-week
schedule with an introduction
session Monday afternoon at
Clackamas Community College’s
Gregory Forum.
“The workshop is designed
to promote cultural insights and
to develop strategies for support
ing managing diversity in the edu
cational setting,” a pamphlet for
SEED explained.
“It’s apparent that what’s
been done in the past has never
worked,” said Gayle O’Toole, a
project coordinator for the Em
ployee and Management Devel
opment at CCC. “If we’re not
doing something, we’re part of
the problem.”
In all, 29 people from the
college staff, local high schools
and one industry are participat
ing in the workshop. O’Toole has
high hopes for the six sessions.
Each session includes mini
lectures, films and learning ac
tivities focused on: enhancing
awareness of the needs of and
barriers faced by people of differ
ent genders, ethnic origins, sexual
orientation, age andphysical abili
ties; assisting people in recogniz
ing their own experience with
personal bias and stereotyping
behaviors; and helping people in
building and testing their own
behaviors and strategies useful in
overcoming social, gender and
cultural barriers.
Monday’s session introduced
participants to the whole concept
of the workshop. In weeks to
come, the workshop will focus on
cultural/ethnic diversity, gender
stereotypes, sexual orientation,
differently abled and aging.
“A big piece of the class
focuses on taking action,”
O’Toolesaid. That’sexactly what
she hopes participants will do by
the end of the six-week program.
“Look at your own ... environ
ments and decide what to do dif
ferently. Take the new informa
tion and do something different,”
she said.
The name of the program,
SEED, is no accident, by the way.
“This is a way of planting seeds
that will generate other seeds and
flowers,” O’Toole explained.
Instructors for the SEED pro
gram, in addition to O'Toole, are
Don Gerel, Dave Miller, Pat
Reinert and Connie McFarland.
Drama students present positive message
by Jeff Kemp
Staff Writer
A group of local area high
school drama students presented
“Teens and Company,” a pro
gram that promotes a positive
message about everyday prob
lems that teens face, at the Gre
gory Forum Jan. 20.
“We try to cover issues that
not a lot of people want to deal
with,” said Raina Beavers, coor
dinator and drama instructor..
The teens write all of their
own scripts for the play. They try
to incorporate some good humor
into their serious messages, Bea
vers said.
“It’s like our own cherry fla
voring to help the medicine go
down,” joked Torre Sathrum, a
sophomore from Barlow High.
The drama group is made up
of about 20 students. They were
picked out of approximately 80
who participated in local area
high school tryouts. Some stu
dents, depending upon their high
schools’ policies, receive credit
for the timeless hours they put
into the program.
“Sometimes it’s kind of hard
to catch up in the class, but it’s
worth it. This helps me because
I’m planning on pursuing a career
in this field,” Sathrum said.
One of the main reasons for
“Teen and Company” is to an
swer some of the questions people
have about the problems that face
society today. They include: re
lationships, teen pregnancy, birth
control, drugs and alcohol, sexu
ally-transmitted diseases and
dealing with homosexuality.
Often times birth control is
too serious an issue for people to
joke about, but the group ap
proached the topic in a unique
manner.
The group performed their
own rendition of “The Wizard of
Oz,” using such colorful ideas as:
Trojan City (City of Oz), the la
tex (yellow brick) road, lubrica
tion instead of oil for the tin man
and the “studly lion” who needs
the courage to withhold from pre
marital sex.
The play answers a lot of ques
tions about HIV and AIDS. It
also deals with the important is
sue of racism.
“I really liked covering the
racism issue because of the fact
that it is so controversial,” com
mented Paige Berry a Franklin
High School senior.
The group also performed a
skit dealing with sex discrimina
tion. The performers did some
role reversals in which the tradi
tionally-oppressed women acted
out the stereotypical male roles.
They showed, through this unique
viewpoint, how women are often
looked at as sex objects by men.
The teens also used some old
parental cliches that are often
shunned upon by people their own
ages, such as: “if your friends
jumped off a bridge would you?”
and “just because everyone else
is doing it, doesn’t mean you
have to.”
The group has developed some
more appropriate material for
their trips to middle schools and
grade schools.
“It’s a little more low key,”
Sathrum explained.
They also visit high schools
and small colleges around the
local area, although they have
traveled as far as the coast and to
southwest Washington.
They plan to continue their
“moral theater” in the weeks and
months to come.