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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.
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Melissa Freels, Robert A. Hibberd
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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.