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Wednesday, May 10,1995
FEATURES
Kirkpatrick places first
in marketing contest
by Jocelyn Gauthier
Feature Editor
Corky Kirkpatrick, director
of grants and community rela
tions, placed first in the Oregon
Press Women Communications
Contest in the direct mail mar
keting competition with CCC’s
Annual Fund mailing.
Winners were announced
April 22 at the OPW’s spring
conference in Pendleton.
Kirkpatrick and Bev
Fulmore, assistant director, en
tered six mailings in the com
petition “to see how we placed
with others and to get the criti
cism from judges,” Kirkpatrick
said. Both are grateful to Lenda
Black, graphic artist on the win
ning project, for the help she
gave them.
Kirkpatrick’s other entries
received three second-place and
two honorable mentions.
Kirkpatrick, who has been
directing the Annual Fund mail
ing since 1988, said it is “an av
enue to reach people that we
don’t normally reach,” to help
fund the mini-grant and student
emergency fund.
“We did some different
things this year,” Kirkpatrick
said. “Bev did some demo
graphic studies on people who
might want to give.” They also
included new names on the mail
ing list and a message from Pe
ter Jacobsen, pro-golfer and Or
egon resident.
“The last two years, the
Foundation has had a corporate
challenge golf tournament,”
Kirkpatrick said, so they wrote
on the envelopes that were used
in the mail-out: “A Message
from Peter Jacobsen.”
‘We were looking for mate
rials that they would first of all
open, second read and third
give!” Kirkpatrick said with a
laugh. The slogan used through
out the mailing was “Real
People, Real Results,” which
went along with several success
stories of CCC students, all of
whom have scholarships.
OPW is a group of 100 pro
fessional writers affiliated with
the National Federation of Press
Women, which includes 3,000
across the nation.
Kirkpatrick and other first-
place winners will go on to com
pete in the National Federation
of Press Women contest this July
in Jackson, Miss.
Although she is excited, she
swoons at the prospect of the
heat. “I don’t know why I’ll be
there in July!” she said.
UKEVUn
EMMGERED
WILPtiJE
Spring play faces
environmental issues
by Amy Ku’uipo Bierman
Staff Writer
The Theatre Department’s
spring production, “Betty the
Yeti,” is fast approaching. Writ
ten by playwright Jon Klein, this
satirical comedy deals with eco
logical versus logging interests.
Klein calls “Betty the Yeti”
an “eco-fable, a fairytale for
adults.”
The play “reveals all sides of
the environmental crisis to be
equally valid and equally absurd.”
Instructor David Smith-En
glish will direct the play with the
assistance of student Craig
McCarty.
Performances will begin at
8 p.m. on May 18,19,20, as well
as June 2 and 3, in the
McLoughlin Hall Theatre.
A performance will also be
held in the theatre at 2:30 p.m.,
June 4.
On May 19, the performance
will be signed for the hearing-
impaired, and a panel discussion
regarding issues brought up in
“Betty the Yeti,” led by Political
Science Instructor Dean Darris,
will immediately follow.
Former instructor and artist
Nancy Travers will lead a tour and
discuss her art exhibit, “A Re
quiem for Paul Bunyan,” one half
hour prior to all performances.
Tickets will be sold about half
an hour before each performance.
General admission is $6, and $3
for students. Seniors age 62 and
over are free with reservations.
For more information, or to
make reservations, call ext. 2356.
Photo contributed by the IMAX Corporation/Undersea Imaging Int’l. Ltd. & TMP (1991 j
‘Titanica’takes viewers down under
by Lora Wahrgren and
Jon Roberts, Staff Writers
Imagine being submerged in
icy black waters 12,500 feet deep,
with pressures reaching 6,000 lbs.
per square inch (psi) for an aver
age of 18 hours in a six and a half
foot high, five foot wide cabin.
With pressures so intense
that if a millimeter-long-hole ap
pears in the cabin, it would shoot
water so hard that it could cut a
human in half.
The water is so incredibly
cold that if the divers were to be
trapped in the wreckage, they
would freeze to death in three
days time.
I had the opportunii
to see all of this rare
scene footage of the
Titanic dive at the
OMNI-M AX the
ater at OMSI.-
The showing
lasted what
seemed
only
a
minute, but was
actually 40 minutes.
It was horrifying
and exciting, and at the same
time depressing, knowing that
1,502 lives were taken during the
worst shipwreck ever known.
The Titanic was supposed to
be “unsinkable.”
Nearly 80 years later, a
group of scientists and photogra
phers made the dive possible and
a success in filming it.
The expedition’s chief scien
tists were Steve Blasco, a Cana
dian marine geologist, and Lev
Moskalev, a Russian biologist.
These two, among many oth
ers, made it possible for IMAX to
go with them on the dive, and
film the never-before-seen footage
of the remains of the Titanic and
allow it to be shown at all five
story tall IMAX theaters.
The
two
mechanical
submersibles the divers lived on
were called Mirs.
They were able to reach up
to at least 20,000 feet deep.
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They are made to be able to
withstand pressures of 9,000 lbs.
psi., which is more than enough
for the two-and-a-half mile decent
to the Titanic.
According to the data that
was collected, they observed 28
species of animals and four spe
cies of fish that inhabit the wreck
site.
Coral, crabs, shrimp, anemo
nes, starfish and large rattail fish
live deep in the cold waters of the
Atlantic.
Worms and other animals in
habit bottom sediments, as
well. We were surprised
to find that fish
lived that deep
in
the
ocean.
Dur
ing
the
film, we saw
fish that looked like
they were albino.
Other items we noticed were
people’s old shoes, dishes, a doll
and suitcases that were left from
the wreckage.
The IMAX cameras that
made it possible to film the dive
were extremely wide-angle lenses
which required broad lighting.
The bulbs covered a large
range of the Titanic and had
about 150,000 watts of incandes
cent light (about 1,500 domestic
100W lightbulbs.)
These were the brightest
lights ever used in the deep sea.
They penetrated 50 to 75 feet
through the blackness, whereas
incandescent light used previ
ously lit an area of only eight to
ten feet.
National Geographic photog
rapher Emory Kristof once stated:
“Lighting up the Titanic with
these HMIs will allow people to
see that it is a great haunted Vic
torian mansion of a shipwreck.
“It’s unlike anything that I
have seen on any Hollywood set.
It goes beyond imagination
and is indeed a fitting
monument to its
own legend.”
Split amidship,
the Titanic now lies
in two sections, 2,000
feet apart, embedded in
a trough on the edge of a
100,000-year-old underwa
ter landslide 375 miles south
east of Newfoundland.
If you want to experience this
spectacular undersea adventure,
you can call OMSI at (503) 797-
4640 to find out the times that
“Titanica” and others are shown.
Admission prices will vary.
Adults are $7, seniors (62+) are
$6 and children ages 3-17 are
$4.50.
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