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
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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.
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Losing our
momentum on
light-rail is the
equivalent of a
transportation
train wreck.
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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
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News Editor: Anjanette Booth (Ext. 2576)
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Copy Editor: Cori Kargel (Ext. 2578)
Opinion Editor: Christi Snavely (Ext. 2576)
Business Manager: Donny Kemp (Ext. 2578)
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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!