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OPINION IW Clackamas Print Page 2 Wednesday, May 31,1995 (Editor’s Note: In last week’s edition of The Print, we ran a letter from Dean Darris, political science instructor here at CCC. He was responding to our coverage of the Diversity Plan, particularly a story in which one of his quotes was taken out of context. Unfortunately, due to an editing error a part of the last para graph of Darris’ letter was omitted. It is reproduced in full here.) “In short, my comments were not an indictment of the plan, but rather, a plea that we make it meaningful. We could do this by hav ing the intellectual courage to examine prejudices that all of us may actually share, instead of ones we already know we should not per petuate. That is, education is about exposing ignorance in the present and not simply celebrating our past successes against it. It is in this context that my comments were made, and I guess this does prove that with all complex ideas, be it justice, diversity, or whatever, con text is everything.” Clackamas Print staff ‘95-‘96 Editor-in-Chief: Sports Editor: Copy Editor: Chad Patteson Jesse Sowa Vicki Welch News Editor: Opinion Editor: Business Manager: Amy Bierman Brendon Neal Cori Kargel Feature Editor: Photo Editor: » Secretary: /Advisor: Josh Kehler Joanne Gale ' Linda Vogt Jon Roberts _______________ Support for mass transit in question children and grandchildren, will Ignoring the strong message pay if we fail to protect air qual of our local voters — promote ity, reduce traffic congestion, con long-term quality of life — the trol sprawl, and promote livable Clackamas County legislative del communities. Clackamas County faces a egation seems to be “lukewarm” on the importance of extending huge influx of new residents in light-rail into Clackamas County. the next twenty years. Are we pre Surely the recent local vote pared for this onslaught on our of the people favoring light rail, quality of life? I think not. If you and the open spaces bond mea don’t like light rail, consider the sure landslide just this month impact and cost of more freeway speaks volumes for stronger lead construction, and clogged neigh ership on all quality of life issues, borhood arterials. It must be maddening to re especially transportation alterna sponsible local tives. legislatures like Strong Senator Ken legislative Baker to be ac support is tively opposed needed. If the by county legis state doesn’t lators like Rep- make the nec resentatives essary com Jerry Grisham mitment to and Cedric serving Hayden. How Clackamas embarrassing County, why for our county! should the fed -Dave McTeague This delegation eral govern should have ment appro worked out a priate 50 per united front on cent of the legislative issues important to the share of the cost? Losing our mo mentum on light-rail is the diverse needs of our county early equivalent of a transportation in the session. Sincerely, train wreck. Dave McTeague I have no problem with mak To the Editor, dollars Dear Editor, Thank you for your recent articles delineating the financial difficulties faced by CCC and its students. It surprises me that Mr. Eatherton celebrates cutting taxes in one Print article yet laments the results of such cuts in his “Last Word.” Why fight the positive results of tax cuts? Down sizing is a good thing. More down siz ing means more tax cutting a recipe for consumer utopia ac cording to Mr. Eatherton. Thus rather than drumming up more money students need to attend fewer campuses. Then rather than eating up land for campus industrial sites offered along BeaverCreek Road CCC can simply become one. In fact, we can really cut tax dollars by eliminating college campuses altogether. “Just Net It!” with Internet. There’s a vir tual community college with vir tually no tax dollars involved. 44 Losing our momentum on light-rail is the equivalent of a transportation train wreck. ---------------- 99 ing Tri-Met justify the price tag of this project. But consider the environmental and quality of life price that all of us, especially our P.S. Congratulations to Mike Caudle on election as Student Body President! Tke- Ctocfatnuia Bwtt Steji Editor-in-Chief: Tina Guinn (Ext. 2576) News Editor: Anjanette Booth (Ext. 2576) Feature Editor: Jocelyn Gauthier (Ext. 2577) Sports Editor: Jesse Sowa (Ext. 2577) Photography Editor: Chad Patteson (Ext. 2578) Copy Editor: Cori Kargel (Ext. 2578) Opinion Editor: Christi Snavely (Ext. 2576) Business Manager: Donny Kemp (Ext. 2578) ♦ ♦♦♦ Staff Writers/Photographers: Eric Eatherton, Hoyun Choi, Patrick Lun'dstrom, Brendon Neal, Jon Roberts, Lora Wahrgren, Linda Barr Batdorf, Amy Bierman, Josh Kehler ♦ ♦♦♦ Secretary: Joanne Gale (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 signedletters 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, 19600S. Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon, 97045; Barlow 104; (503) 657-6958, ext. 2309. Karen Upton Editor-in-Chief says goodbye to Clackamas students and staff by Tina Guinn Editor-in-Chief As we were putting together this last issue of The Clackamas Print for the ‘94-’95 school year, I remembered that I had written a little piece in the first issue of the paper in which I talked about the excitement of the new year and my goals for the paper for this year. And I thought it would be appropriate to look back at the year’s progress. As I reflect on those goals, and on the year in general, I have to smile. We’ve come a long way! I’m proud to say that we’ve ac complished nearly all of the goals I’d set for the newspaper at the beginning of the school year. That’s quite a feat! Many of the goals dealt with turning around the image of this newspaper, making it more reader friendly. And I believe that we’ve done that. Those are not entirely my own thoughts, but rather, they are the thoughts of many people who have commended us for do ing an excellent job on the paper this year. To see the progress we’ve made, in all areas, from meeting deadlines, to covering tough sub jects, to producing only one four page paper this term (an accom plishment that had not happened in the two prior terms), shows how dedicated we were to mak ing this a successful year for us, as well as for the groups, clubs, individuals and everyone else we profiled in our newspaper cover age. While we’ve had a very strong year, we have made our mistakes, some bigger than oth ers. However, each one of those mistakes has been a tremendous learning tool for us as we learn the fine points of our trade. Were it not for those mistakes, we would have nothing to judge our successes by. Now that our jobs are fin ished here on The Print, and it is time to pass on the baton to the next generation of Print journal ists, I want to take a minute and thank everyone for everything they’ve contributed to my educa tion. Every experience I’ve had at Clackamas has been enriching and rewarding. That is not to say that they’ve all been entirely pleasant (this newspaper has given me more headaches than I wondered if it was worth), but I’ve learned something from every one of them. And that wisdom that you gather from the experiences, rather than relying entirely on the book learning, is invaluable to me. I would encourage everyone who will be returning to CCC next fall to become involved. Supplement your book learning (which was also very enhancing to my over - all education) by join ing a club. You won’t be sorry. My classes and the instruc tors who taught them were re warding as well. For the first time in my education, I was challenged here. And for the first time, I feel like I’m walking away with real knowledge. Thank you. So I leave you with these words: Dream big, aim high, don’t be afraid to take chances. Find your place at CCC and make the most of it. I did, and I’ll al ways remember my truimphs here. Good bye and good luck!
