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
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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...
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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
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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
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Oh crap...God, please
help us!