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Pg. 2 The Clackamas Print News Wednesday, May 5, 1993 Speech team victorious in final match News Clips Those interested in country western dances can attend classes Thursdays through May 13 in the Randall Hall gym. Line dances are taught from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.; partner dances from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Cost is $2 per person, per night. Women writers are welcome to join “Chrysallis,” a group to support and encourage the writings of women, every Wednesday from noon to lp.m.inB-114. Forfurtherinformation, contact Kate Gray at ext. 2371. Those interested in cheerleading during the 1993-94 school year can pick up applications in the Student Activities Office. The deadline for applications is May 19. Women planning to transfer to Portland State University during the 1993-94 school year may want to attend a PSU orientation session, May 15 at 10 a.m. For a registration form, stop by the Counseling Department or call Roberta at ext. 2556 for more infoimation. The Muslim Youth Association invites you to attend an informa tive presentation about Islam, tonight in the Skylight Dining Room at 6:30. The ASG Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates will speak and answer questions in the Elected Officers’ Forum, Friday at 1 p.m. in the CC Mall. This week’s Family Night Movie is The Land Before Time, an animated film that follows the adventures of five young dinosaurs. It will be shown in the Gregory Forum, Friday at 4 and 7 p.m. Admission is $1 per seat at 4 p.m.^nd $1.50 per seat at 7 p.m. Children under the age of 3 are admitted free. Maximum family charge is $5. Mark Westcott, internationally-known pianist, will give a re cital Sunday at 3 p.m. in the Gregory Forum. The admission price Of the event, sponsored by the Music Department, is $5 and all proceeds will go toward the new Courtyard Fountain. Registration is now open for Focus on Women’s hike through Horsetail Falls May 15 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more informa tion, contact Kate Gray at ext. 2371. The Writers' Club Contest Award Ceremony will take place Thursday from 12:30 to 2:30 p.m. in the Gregory Forum, Rm. 104. The winners of the contest will be presented with prizes and will read from their winning works. Refreshments will be available after the ceremony, which is free and open to all. Celebration International, an ethnic festival to celebrate diver sity, will take place May 10,12 and 14 in the Community Center. There will be music, food, art, dancing and cultural exhibits focusing on Europe, Spain, Latin America and Asia. For more information, contact Ellen Burbridge at ext. 2550. All students are invited to enter the Christophers Video Contest for College Students. Entries must be five minutes or under in length and express the theme: “One Person Can Make A Differ ence.” Thousands of dollars in prize money will be awarded. The deadline is June 11. Entrants must be currently-enrolled college students in good standing. For more information, write to the Christophers, 12 East 48th Street, New York, N.Y. 10017; or call (212) 759-4050. More than $ 12,000 in prizes will be awarded this year to more than 250poets in the North American Open Poetry Contest. To enter, send one poem, any subject and style, to the National Library of Poetry, 11419 Cronridge Dr., P.O. Box704-XN, Owings Mills, Md 21117. The poem should be no more than 20 lines and the poet’s name andaddress should appear on the top of the page. Entries must be postmarked by June 30. There is no entry fee. Clackamas takes third against six community colleges by Tracey Roozenboom Staff Writer The 11th Annual Tom McCall Memorial Speech Tour nament took place last weekend here, seeing Clackamas place third overall against six other community colleges. Students competed in vari ous divisions including: Informa tive Speaking, Prose Interpreta tion , Fortune Cookie Impromptu, Extemporaneous Advocacy, Edi torial Commentary and the Lin coln-Douglas Debates. The speech categories were broken down into either novice or open status (pro). In Informative Speaking, the student has 10 minutes to inform the audience about a realistic sub ject. Richard Grooms placed sec ond in open informative with a speech on “Spy Planes.” Prose Interpretation is an other division where thé partici pants talk for 10 minutes, only this time they are supposed to interpret a manuscript. Nicole Turley received second place with her interpretation of “Family Ties that Bind.” Fortune Cookie Impromptu is a unique event where students draw their topics from a fortune cookie. Then they have seven minutes to prepare and discuss the topic. Patrick Lairson and Turley reached the finals in this event. Like Fortune Cookie Im promptu, the Ex temporaneous Advocacy also is seven minutes in length but that is where the simi larities end. Be fore students start they are handed information for a court case and they have an hour to write a summa tion and present it to the judges. Sharon McGuffey received second final match for the year. They competed place in Open against six other colleges. Extemporaneous Advocacy and Richard Grooms Lairson became a finalist. Open made finals in novice ext. advo status had two winners from the college, Avril Johnson who took cacy. Another division Clackamas first and McGuffey who placed students competed in was the fourth with a speech on the “Spur Editorial Commentary. The pur Posse.” pose of the commentary is to Shannon Reynolds placed write a speech to influence the second in the Lincoln-Douglas audience toward a particular point Debate, a one person impromptu of view. In novice editorial, speech. Cultural celebration honors diversity Food and festivities hit Community Center by Nicole Turley Staff Writer Sights, sounds and smells from Europe, Latin America and Asia will fill the Community Center at Clackamas Community College during the 3rd Annual Celebration International on May 10,12 and 14. “The whole purpose is to honor diversity,” said International Stu dent Counselor Ellen Burbridge, who is overseeing this year’s event. “Each day has a cultural theme to it,” she continued. Eu ropean Day is Monday; Latin American Day, May 12; and Asia Day, May 14. The festivities ofEurope Day will begin at 11 a.m. on Monday, with the German tunes of the group Alpine Echoes. They will be followed by the Bavarian Dancers, Amicia d’ Italia from Italy and the Merry Minstrel from Russia. These acts will perform a couple of times Monday while vendors sell European food and wares. “We are trying to provide a good cross-cultural example,” said German Instructor Dick Stone, who was in charge of plan ning European Day. “I encourage students to come and see the dif ferent cultures and have a good time,” he continued. The Clackamas Print Editors-in-Chief: Melissa Freels, Robert A. Hibberd News Editor: Nolan C. Kidwell Feature Editor: Heidi Branstator Copy Editors: Jason Eck, Paul Valencia Sports Editor: Daphne Hartt Photo Editor: Anjanette Booth Business Manager: Scott Morris Staff Writers: Hafidha Acuay, Melissa Baughman, Justin Fields, Linda Gibson, Frank Jordan, Jeff Kemp, Brent King, Zach Kreinheder, Daniel J. Mala, Tina McFarland, Tyson Morrow, Michele Myers, Tracey Roozenboom, Staci Smith, Claudia Smulders, Eric St. Anthony's, Nicole Turley Adviser: Linda Vogt The Clackamas Print aims to be a fair and impartial newspaper cov ering the college community. Opinions expressed in The Clackamas Print do not necessarily reflect those of the college administration, faculty or advertisers. The Clackamas Print is a weekly publication distributed every Wednesday except for finals week. The open adver tising rate is $4.13 per column inch. Clackamas Community College, 19600 S. Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon; 97045, Barlow 104. Telephone: 657-6958, ext 2309 (office), ext 2577 (advertising, news), ext. 2578 (features, photos, copy, sports), ext. 2576 (Editors-in-chief). Students can catch a glimpse of the cultures of Spain and Latin America.May 12,CarlotaHolley, a Spanish instructor at the col lege, has planned a number of exciting events. The day begins at 11 a.m. with Spanish and Latin American food being prepared and sold by the Spanish students. Later, the group Condor will per form music from the Andean Mountains and students from vari ous high schools will join Clackamas students in singing the Spanish version of “It’s a Small World After All.” Along with the musical guests, there will be ballroom dancing and a Rumba. Also, high school students, as well as stu dents from the college, will read poems. The day will end with a piñata breaking. “There will also be folklore dances from the south of Spain,” Holley said. Corky Kirkpatrick will coor dinate Asia Day on Friday. “It’s fun for me to work with students in planning this day.. They’ll be sharing some of their culture with all of us,” Kirkpa trick said. The festivities of Asia Day include an ikebana demonstra tion, Asian music and costume dances. Also, the Asian students of Clackamas will prepare foods from China and Japan. They plan to make yakitori (grilled chicken), dumplings and pot stickers. Stu dents will arrange displays of their native dress and crafts, and they plan to demonstrate origami (Japanese paper folding). “I’m excited,” Holley said. “It’s a wonderful festival that is not just for the students in foreign language classes, but for all the students in the college,” she said.
