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Wednesday, Dec.7,1994
Play review: Ravenscroft Ref u rbished teddÿ bears lgiven
opens with success to cheerHoe^nbecher children
by Tina Guinn .
Editor-in-Chief
Photo by Chad Patteson
“Ravenscroft" will be performed for three more nights.
by Jocelyn Gauthier
Feature Editor
Mystery and a wicked sense
of humor describe the feeling of
“Ravenscroft,” CCC’s Fall Term
production.
The play opened at 8 p.m.,
Dec. 1, with performances on
Dec. 2 and 3. It will also be per­
formed at 8 p.m., Dec. 9 and 10,
and at 2:30 p.m., Dec. 11, in the
McLoughlin Hall Theatre.
The play is set at dusk in
December, 1905, in a manor
house in the English countryside.
The story is about Inspector
Ruffing, who is trying to figure
out the how a man, Patrick, died
in a remote house where five
women live.
The women: the mistress of
the house, her daughter, a govern­
ess, a maid and a housekeeper.
Each tries to explain the reason
for Patrick’s death to the inspec­
tor, who refuses to believe any of
them.
Don Nigro, playwright, said,
“the sense of mystery is always
connected with the mystery of
woman,” and I’m sure Inspector
Ruffing would agree. The play
has the same sort of crazy feeling
that “Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf?” has.
According to the director,
Merril Lynn Taylor, the “play is
an amusing contemplation on sur­
vival in the age of the
aspidistra...which was a very
popular Victorian house plant be­
cause it could survive in the nox­
ious atmosphere created by gas
lighting in those homes.
“Every time, place... atmo­
sphere... has its peculiarities, its
little difficulties, but those of the
Victorian women are certainly
intriguing, perhaps because they
exist just barely within the bound­
aries of our own frame of refer­
ence.”
Since it is a mystery, I don’t
want to give anymore about it
away. It’s well worth seeing.
Hurry though, you only have three
chances left!
Ute ClcciautuM Pumt Stott
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these kids,” Christensen said,
purpose of the project is
Amy Rosanbalm, Clacka­ to “give back to the community,
mas student, has invested much to bridge the gap between the
of her time in teddy bears. She community because this is a com­
doesn’t collect them, she refur­ munity college and the commu­
nity gives us our funding,” Crooks
bishes them,..
Rosanbalm is a volunteer, in said.
the Volunteer Program, which is
Rosanbalm came forward as
coordinated through Associated: a .volunteer to donate her teddy
Student Government. With the bears and the time she was will­
help of ASG Senator Mitch ing to put. into them. She buys
Christensen and Officer Guy used teddy bears that look like
Crooks, Rosanbalm is putting they can be refurbished;-! V’ i •
her teddy bears to good use« •:
Rosanbalm hand-washes the
: “Finding homes for teddy bears, makes new clothes for them
bears” is the name of this term’s and patches them up.
volunteer project. The bears
“She brought the idea up to
have been collected, Rosanbalm its and we thought it was a great
has refurbished them and they one,” Christensen said.
are being prepared for delivery,
“We think it will be really
to Doembecher Children’s Hbs- successful because it comes from
pital Dec. 17J.
the students,” Crooks said.
The children’s hospital was
ASG puts together projects
chosen to receive the teddy bears like ibis one based on ideas
by “assessing the places ;where brought, to them through the Vol­
they would be the most needed unteer Program. People bring in
and appreciated,” Crooks said.: applications and ideas they would
“We don’t want to just hand be interested in volunteering for,
them a teddy bear and say -bye:;!. and ASG tries to coordinate a
We want to spend sume time with. : project that will accommodate the
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor,,
Without carrying this discus­
sion much further and entering in
to a cyclone effect of letters, I
would like to comment briefly on
Dan Sauder’s letter of November
twenty-third. Mr. Sauder makes
a clear, and I suppose rather ac­
curate, literal reading of The
Bible. In doing so, however, he
fails to realize that the narrow
scope of literal reading prohibits
us from feeling the compassion
and humility because we don’t
confront the complexity of human
experience. It also disturbs me
that Mr. Sauder condemns Leigh
Martin without knowing the true
goodness a person like Martin
might have. But this is another
issue.
The most frightening thing to
me about Dan Sauder’s letter was
his statement that opposition to
homosexuality is not hateful but
simply following God’s word. We
must be careful, all of us, to not
blur the lines between what hate
is and justifying the actions of
following One’s word. Through­
out the world, many people have
committed heinous acts, yet state
they followed someone’s word.
Take for instance Bosnian sol­
diers, children in Somalia, Tutsi
and Hutu children, Manson fol­
lowers, and, of course the all too
often used, Nazi followers. These
people at one time or another have
blamed their blind rage and hate
on the word of their Great One.
Hating in the name, and for the
love, of God seems a backward
way of achieving grace in God’s
gaze.
And, moreover, we must not
hold ego and ethnocentric views
and remember that people around
the globe perceive the world in
drastically different manners.
This does not make anyone
wrong, just plain different. Ask
ourselves for a moment, “world­
wide, how many cultures have
missionaries ravaged?” It is the
tolerance and humility of accept­
ing differences that leads to a
world of understanding, of wis­
dom, of richness in the human
spirit.
Jeff Knorr
English Instructor
volunteer’s ideas, as well as oth­
ers who would like to help.
Rather than individual
projects, ASG is trying to re­
work the Volunteer Program to
make group trips so more people
will be able to be involved.
“When it comes from the
students, they are more willing
to respond and help out,”
Christensen said.
“We’re benefiting because
the school is benefiting. We are
showing we are actively in­
volved. By showing we are in­
terested and involved, it im­
proves the reputation of our
school and it strengthens our
relationship with the comm u-
nity,” Crooks said1.
“There is self-gratification
in knowing that you’re giving
something, rather than just tak­
ing,” Christensen added.
If you have any teddy bears
you want to donate, bring them
to the Student Activities office.
They may not be used for this
first group trip. However, they
may be used for another trip
which may be planned again..
Writer’s contest set
Cash awards will be made to
the top winners in the annual writing
contest sponsored by CCC’s Writers’
Club.
Diane Averill, English instruc­
tor at the college, said there will be
three categories — fiction, poetry and
essay —in the contest.
First place in each category will
win $50, followed by $30 for sec­
ond place and $20 for third place,
she said.
Manuscripts must be turned in
by Jan. 20 to Averill, whose office is
S125. There is no limit on the length
of the works to be submitted. For
more information, call Averill at ext.
2370.
Corrections
Doris O’Hara is a Clacka­
mas High School teacher. An
article in the Nov. 23 issue of
The Clackamas Print gave an
incorrect job title.
Gwynne Warner, a CCC
student, has acted in 60 differ­
ent productions. An article in
the Nov. 23 issue of The
Clackamas Print said she had
acted in 60 separate perfor­
mances.
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