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OPINION/FEATURE The Clackamas Print Page 2 Wednesday, March 1,1995 Ballot Measure 5 paints Art Department black and blue by Lora Wahrgren Staff Writer In 1990 - 91 Ballot Measure 5 hurt a lot of schools in Oregon. CCC’s Art Department is still suf fering from the cuts today. Measure 5 took away 30 per cent of the Art Department’s bud get and they’re still cutting classes and supplies. Back in 89 - 90, Clackamas was well known in art magazines through out the Northwest, but we aren’t even men tioned now. They had a total of nine teach ers, six part-timers and three full-time positions. Today there are only five instructors. By cutting the teachers, many courses were cut as well, includ ing watercolor, photography, commercial design and calligra phy, and some night classes haven’t been able to be brought back. Basic designand art history have been restored. Basically, there isn’t any money to drop or gain classes or teachers now. I feel the budget should be 4 4 divided up evenly between depart ments on campus. Since the cuts began, the Art Department has been decreasing, while other de partments such as English, have grown. Both the Katz bill and the Art 2000 bill agree that cultural arts are important in schools. The budget cuts starve stu take away and. cut, but to give. Maybe people choose to cut the arts because it’s easier than cutting other department funds. The well-known stereotype of an artist is as being lazy, isolated, a little bizarre and far left of the mainstream, but someone creative and intellectual can benefit in art as well as they can another subject Art isn’t recognized as a core subject like a math or science but it should be. “When classes -Les Tipton fill each term,, with Art Department diversity and [with] any help, we’ll be dents of the opportunities to learn able to become a stronger depart in the most comfortable natural ment. We realize our needs need to be balanced along with the rest environment. I know you can gain as much of the school,” said Les Tipton, of a sense of accomplishment art department director. from learning to sculpt the human I don’t think there is any easy body as you can by sitting at a answer for the cutting problems. computer all day writing. Both I just think it’s important to be learning styles are different, but more aware of the arts at CCC, both are equally important for the and we can’t forget the impor student wanting to earn a degree. tance behind art in our society. I feel that one of the most impor tant things in education is to not We realize our needs need to be anced... jCeítefc te IkeEditm Ifwe all stilf have the Con stitutional rightto religious freedom, why is it that people. are still persecuted for their re* ligious beliefs? In the two years that I have attended Clackamas Community College, i’ve been offended regularly by insulting; remarks or actions against my beliefs or the beliefs of others: . l^year.wedealtwithat tacks against Baptist Student Ministries, We are now facing attacks against the Latter Day Saint Student Association. Van dalizing posters and crude state ments are not what I consider a mature way of dealing with your; feelings about others. Express ing your opinion is one thing, but to say that the LDS is a cult or that they open the gates of hell is offensive even to some one who does not hold the Mor mon faith, Although I am a Christian and don’t agree with some Mormon beliefs, I can respect. that they’ve chosen what they believe and the firm stand they take in their faith, I thought• most people were capable of the same respect. Even if someone told me that they believed God was a fish, I would let them know what I believe and why I choose to believe it, but I’d also ■ give them the respect that I ex» pcctfrom them, I would never in a million years chastise them or humiliate them, ' . •; •' M guess it all bails down to respect. The people responsible for the vandalism obviously have no self-respect or dignity because you can’t respect oth ers until you first respect your self. Whoever you afe:, f am. praying for you, ’ ;• Paula Boren, CCC Student Ute Claduumm Pwt Stott Editor-in-Chief: Tina Guinn (Ext. 2576) News Editor: Anjanette Booth (Ext. 2576) Feature Editor: Jocelyn Gauthier (Ext. 2577) Sports Editor: Jason Hunter (Ext. 2577) Photography Editor: Chad Patteson (Ext. 2578) Copy Editor: Cori Karget (Ext. 2578) Business Manager: Donny Kemp (Ext. 2578) Editing and Design Editor: Jeff Kemp (Ext. 2578) Opinion Editor: Christi Snavely (Ext. 2576) ♦ ♦♦♦ Staff Writers/Photographers: Eric Eatherton, Jesse Sowa, Delores Ward, Lora Wahrgren, Josh Kehler ♦ ♦♦♦ Secretary: Cheryl Willemse (Ext. 2309) Advisor : John Knowlton (Ext. 2310) The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased, professional manner. The opinions expressed in The Clackamas Print do not necessarily reflect those of the student body, college administration, its faculty or The Clackamas Print's advertisers. Products and services ad vertised in The Clackamas Print are not necessarily endorsed by anyone associated with The Clackamas Print. The Clackamas Print is a weekly publication distributed every Wednesday except for finals week. The adver tising rate is $4.50 per column inch. All letters to the editor will be considered for publication and must be submitted by 1 p.m. the Friday prior to the next issue. Clackamas Community College, 19600 S. Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon, 97045; Barlow 104; (503) 657-6958, ext. 2309. Email address: CCCPRINT@CLACKAMAS.CC.OR.US Please don’t ‘jump the bump’ By Daniel Rogers Contributing Writer It was an exciting Sunday night filled with high adrenaline and adventure. If I could have an ticipated what was going to hap pen, I might have stayed home and slept in. The evening began mellow enough. My martial arts class was an exercise and a half! My friends Sarah and Suzanna had come along to check out the unusual private group I trained with. Sa rah is a beautiful, blond-haired, blue-eyed lady whois mostly mel low, but quite adventurous. Suzanna is a beau tiful, analytical, black-haired, brown-eyed lady who contemplates the entire meaning of life and its indi viduals at every chance she gets. They were cracking up as they attempted to complete the rigid outline of exercises to do. There were some interesting “v” situps that had us all wondering if we would survive at all. Afterward, we went to Gresham to pick up my friend Wilson. He is of Asian descent with medium-length black hair. Wilson is laid back, with a sense of humor that could cause car wrecks. Perhaps it is partly his fault the following events oc curred. I have no idea, but I can only assume that our trip to watch a movie was a heinous mistake. We cruised to theDollar Fifty Hollywood Theatre to watch an intense array of action-packed sword-fighting in '‘Highlander 3.” When we left, we were pumped for an adventure our selves. So I suggested that we “jump the bump.” The bump is an oddly-placed hill of pavement in Southeast Gresham. It happens to be within the quiet confines of a suburban residential street. The speed limit is probably 15 miles per hour, but to “catch air,” 55 is more like it. We sat in my ’84 Isuzu Im pulse, revving its tiny, little, four- cylinder engine. We prepared to drag-race to our adrenaline- pumped destination. We pro ceeded to jump the bump for a total of three exhilarating runs. We probably “aired” that last jump at five feet of elevation. All ment. Finally, we got back in, and began to proceed at a slower pace down Southeast Fourth. At the intersection of Southeast Fourth and Southeast Seventh, we ran into a big problem. Two muscle bound white men were blocking the way with possible weapons in their hands. Frightened, I swerved a 180, taking us up the hill on Southeast Seventh, a dead-end! “Now what are we going to do?” I asked my three friends, in bewilderment. “You could try driving past them,” Suzanna said. “What if they try to block us?” Sarah asked. “Well, you could pretend to go one way, then swerve the other. Most likely if you try at least, they will -Daniel Rogers end up getting out of the way to avoid being run over.” Suzanna was at it again with that gosh-dam I had to measure this guess was a analytical mind of hers. “Well, but what if they try to car parked off the side of the road, which we pretty much cleared the use their weapons?” I asked. Wilson responded, “Hey roof off as we flew over in free dude! If you want to, I’ll drive and flight. My front shocks were already try to get us by.” I was almost tempted to let shot completely. My rear brakes were paper thin. Let’s just say that him try it, but I said, “Let’s wait my weak, foreign, four-banger is 15 minutes to see if they leave, lucky to get away from the scene and then you can try it.” with only some muffler damage So we parked in that dead from bottoming out when we end at 11:30 p.m., on that Sun day night, February 19,1995. landed. All of a sudden, we began to We had successfully com pleted the third flight through the hear a car approaching. Pretty air when some problems visited soon, we could see it was a police us. There was an intense smell of car, and its lights were flashing rubber in the air. We all got out to as it approached us. see how we had survived this “Oh crap,” was all I could miracle. say. “God, please help us!” I ex The smiles on our faces re claimed nervously. vealed our inner sense of adven Pretty soon, we were sur- ture and adrenalinized excite Continued on page 3 66 Oh crap...God, please help us!
