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Opinion Pg. 3 The Clackamas Print o© Invasion through Dy nix revolution: automation vs. manual Voyeurism ■ Video mongers exploit private sex lives "On The Street" By ¿0. Wiseman ■ byXn.wiseman Public Safety Supervisor Gang Members: who are they and what arc they about? Tbesearetbcwstiohs that I am asked all the túne. member,” quickly targets most people’s deepest source of fear and instinctive feelings of self pmmdfiBu But remember, these may be .our own laved ones.famiiy members or friends. When. we hear about gangs, it is usually through a dramatic media story which tends to focuson the killing and street violence of black or híspante gang members. The fact is, that in the ‘90’s all so cial, economical and ethnic seg ments of our society have gang membershipsconducting crimi nal activities such as drug deal ing»murder,extortion, robbery, theft, assaults a»d prostitution. Joining a gang prd- vides some people with needed personal acknowledgement, a shallow exciting feel of social connection, physical and eco nomic security, and a sense of “family.” This is based on a rigid set of gang values and a personal behavior code which is often enforced by threats, in timidations,and fear of death or injury/ • Forthescpeopie.be- ing a gang member may offset their own tragic personal fam ily situation, w hich may include a poor education, low self-es teem, physical and emotional violence or sexual abuse, pa rental neglect and drug and al cohol ¿juse. A“typical”gangmem- ber profile is sometimes diffi cult to identify, but here are some typical behaviórs to which foe :. Bcaware óf aperson’s lackofpositive social, school or recreational áptreifies»./Also watch for poor progress or achievemeníM school or on the job. Other things to watch for are frequent negative contact with law enforcement, friends wearing the same hair styles and clothing and the use gang jargon, drawingsi or symbols, usually: displayed: In public places. Remember, one of the aforementioned observations does: not make a gang member but may be an indication of personal change to come. / ••• • . Sou nds kind of over whelming doesn’t it? Well, there issomethmgyoucan do as afriehdof familymcmbcr. First of all, show a personal interest in them. Keep tell ing them that you love and care about them. basic results of belonging to a gang are prison and death. En courage them to seek personal help and group support and get straight with the world. ’ ____ ________________Wednesday, January 26,1994 by Christopher Haberman The Print Staff Two people have sex in their own bathroom with the shades barely drawn, and a man in flow ered shorts stands at pool side with his video camera buzzing. The home video world has expanded. Simple bystanders in Disneyland are now unofficial deputies to any crime or scene able to be recorded on video cassette. Anyone with a video camera can make their living by filming news worthy events and selling it to news stations. Decency and freedom aside, where is the line drawn? Why does violence fuel the news everyday? Death is the battle we all fight, so we like to know about otherpeople’s pain, without expe riencing death ourselves. A woman falls from a ferns wheel at an amusementpark and is suspended 80 feet above the would say they wouldn’t want to see it, but they would probably watch it in anticipation. How many people wanted to see Dodd hung on television, or Bundy elec trocuted? If someone could have taped the executions I’m sure they would have. Censorship is still the worst evil, but some things are only common sense to not show on TV, especially poorly-made video tapings. The man sits silentin the comer of the courtroom accepting book offers and movie deals of the footage he has shot. The real hero in the case is always the nothing creep that filmed the incident sell ing himself like anyone on the street, trading in his morals for cold, hard cash. The man that caught someone else’s personal life on video, and gallantly sold it to the highest bidder. A true text- bode voyeur claiming himself to IVe are a paranoid civilization chained to couches across America in search of the next big scandal. ground by her broken leg which is wrappedaroundapieceofsteel. A video camera was present while the woman waited for rescuers. Fires blaze, and the Earth quakes, and skaters clash, but the video camera is always there, filling the news with emotion, death counts and personal life. Invasion' of personal life. Take someone on film andreplay their humiliation. Take them as a subject and tear them apart before an audience of mil lions. A man jumps from a sky scraper over New York and bounces several times as he smashes into the sidewalk. Does it make the news? Yes, but the video footage does not. It is sold to make a compiled video cassette of strange deaths. But when will it make the news? I’m sure people be God’s answer to public de cency. “Paranoia will destroy you,” the song lyrics repeat them selves chanting in my ear. We are a paranoid civilization chained to couches across America in search of the next big scandal. It is the paranoia that makes us lock our doors and pull back the shades on windows, closing ourselves in to watch CNN for the next 12 hours. Our pain is great, but others must be worse. Video clubs that run across the country ask for film footage on important events that may be newsworthy. Peopleacross the nation, marching toward a worse tomorrow, armed only with open eyes, closed minds and video cameras with little red lights, the signals of organized invasion. College Too Expensive? Scholarships, Grants, Fellowships, & Work Cooperative Programs Are Available. For Free information call: 1-800-286-8021 i^^The U.S. Scholarship Treasur^^ by Christopher Haberman The Print Staff Since the beginning of technology things have become popular and then replaced. Com pact Discs annihilated the vinyl record industry almost entirely, thrusting records into second-hand shops and county libraries. Now the precious manual card-catalog system has been upgraded. The Clackamas Commu nity CollegeLibrary has doneaway with the old and has installed Dynix.anautomated on-line com puter card catalog system. Dynix replaces the old card catalog. The instructions are clearly presented before the computers andon-line instruction is only abuttonaway, but personal assistance isavailable forthecom- puter illiterate. “It’snotthatldon’tknciw how to use computers, but this system is just not user-friendly,” SaidstudentTony Batchelor. ‘Plus the fact that there is a lot of in structions, and the lights are kind of dim, and I look behind my shoulder and there is nothing to go to, nothing to turn to if I can’t figure the computer out. I feel trapped.” All the sessions in el ementary school spent in the li brary learning to use the index system arecompletelyuseless now. The crisp folds of cards rippled in eager fingertips, searching for the perfect title, not knowing the au thor or the subject, just .searching for the perfect read. The times have changed and once again the computer has taken over. Dynix will help you find the books. Quick and easy, fast and no hassle, clothes will drip dry in spin cycle. Thebooksareall there on computer, waiting for someone who can use a simple program to stagger through the maze and check them out. Well, it isn’t that easy, the knowledge of the book is needed and the re peated library tours will most likely include instruction on the Dynix system. Subject, author and series are also present in the filing sys tem. “I like it,” said student Scott Ransom. “Anything beats the card catalog. It makes using the library easier, and cuts down the time spent in the library.” Dynix will help you find what your looking for. Everyone looks for different things in differ ent ways. Some people like com puters, and some do not. Not everyone likes to ask for help after they have spent 15 minutes trying to figure out how to work a com puter. The card catalog is the old stand-by, the spare tire, the old buddy that will always get you out of a jam. But not now. That “old buddy” has been traded in for a new model, easier, smaller, more complicated. As Big Brother looks on, just cupping his hands over pup pet strings, computers slide easily into libraries, slowly killing the card catalog system. Computers are the wave of the future, but not everyone surfs. Ski Ball 94 -Tickets are $7 ($9 that night) -Ski Rental Packages $8 -Snowboard Rental Package $16 -Contact ASG Activities Office
