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OPINION/ FEATURE
Students, staff:
what bugs you?
The Clackamas Print
Wednesday, October 18,1995
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Crichton comes back with a bite
Brendon Neal
Opinion Editor
Michael Crichton’s new
book “The Lost World” is the
long awaited sequel to “Jurassic
Park”.
For those who haven’t read
“Jurassic Park” don’t worry. It
is a good book but doesn’t have
to be read in order to understand
“The Lost World.” In fact the
sequel, while being very good,
is enough of a remake of the first
book that I wouldn’t recommend
reading them back to back.
For those who haven't read
or even seen Jurassic Park I will
give a short overview. A genetic
engineering company called
Ingen discovered a way to re
cover dinosaur DNA and used
it to create new dinosaurs. As a
way to finance their experi
ments, the owner of the com
pany created a super theme park
named “Jurassic Park.” It was
to have real dinosaurs and be
much like a prehistoric zoo with
the people and dinosaurs sepa
rated by highly electric fences.
Some scientists, including Ian
Malcolm, who is one of the main
characters of “The Lost World”
are invited to the island to verify
for safety, insurance, and credi
tor reasons, not necessarily in
that order, that the island loca
tion and park were safe for visi
tors. A spy turns off the power
and the dinosaurs get loose and
eventually the scientists and two
children escape leaving a large
number of dead humans on the
island including the owner.
“The Lost World” is set
seven and a half years after the
first book. The events of the pre
vious book were covered up by
the Costa Rican government
along with the creditors of the
bankrupt Ingen corporation. Ian
Malcolm is just recovering from
a number of major
surgeries. Richard
Levene, a colleague of
his at the Santa Fe in
stitute of chaotic
theory has found evi
dence that there are
dinosaurs wandering
around Costa Rica.
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Levene and two pre-
teen stow-aways go to
an island off the coast
of Costa Rica where
they believe that the
dinosaurs are coming
from. They find a se
cret Ingen base where
dinosaurs were being
created in mass pro
duction that had not
previously been dis
covered by investiga
tors.
Meanwhile, an
other genetic com
pany, Biosyn, has
heard of the defunct
park and wishes to get
its hands on the tech
nology. A party lead
by their head of in
dustrial espionage,
Lewis Dodgson, goes
to the island in hopes
of taking some eggs to
be used to grow smaller dinosaurs
for use as lab animals. The theory
being that since they are extinct
already the government and en-'
vironmentalists won’t be able to
push for animal rights for the di
nosaurs.
As the book goes on, the first
party sets up headquarters and
attempts to watch the dinosaurs
in their “natural” habitat without
human interference. Their goal
is to discover what causes extinc
tion.
“The Lost World” is an ex
cellent book. It is action packed
and I believe that Crichton fans
and newcomers alike will enjoy
his newest work. However, as I
mentioned before this does have
a lot of similar characteristics to
the “Jurassic Park." It has the
same plot which is to be ex
pected, but also the characters
are very similar, just with differ
ent names.
If you read books looking
for character studies, don’t read
this book and “Jurassic Park."
But, for the adventure readers
out there like myself I give this
book an A-.
Getting students involved
Megan Friedow
Staff Writer
A major goal for the ASG
Department is to encourage active
involvement in the upcoming leg
islative activities. Many issues
will directly involve students
whether they are local or national,
therefore it is of major importance
to enhance voter awareness.
The ASG Department is
working closely with the Phi
Theta Kappa Organization to pro
vide legislative activities such as
debates and promotional speakers
each semester in hopes of spark
ing the interests of fellow stu
dents.
Already important issues
have surfaced, such as “Death of
American Education,” which
makes it ever more critical to be
prepared for upcoming elections.
Voter Registration took place Oct.
9-13.
“We hope to make this a year-
round drive to promote voting
awareness,” said Ken Eshleman,
ASG legislative coordinator. The
ASG office is welcoming all ques
tions or concerns pertaining to
voting or elections.
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Linda Barr Batdorf
Staff Writer
Students, have you ever
cringed as an instructor picked
her teeth or rearranged his shorts
during a lecture? And teachers,
has a student ever come into your
classroom late or unprepared?
To help staff and students begin
on a good note this year, I
roamed the halls and lunch room
asking if either had any pet
peeves that he or she would like
to share about the other.
I asked them to give specific
comments about things that
bother or annoy them and here
are a few replies:
STUDENT: “One teacher I
had was angry ALL of the time.
If she dislikes her job so much,
why doesn’t she go work in a
cannery?”
STAFF MEMBER: “If
you’re sick, don’t cough and
breathe on us... if-you’re sick,
stay home!”
STUDENT: “No more bad
jokes, please.”
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INSTRUCTOR: “Just come
to class with a pen and pencil,
that’s all Task.”
STUDENT: “Facing the
blackboard and mumbling,.”
INSTRUCTOR: “Spitting
into containers — or not using
containers to spit in!”
STUDENT: “No kidding,
we kept count — one guy Wore
a blue shirt every single day.”
STAFF MEMBER: “Stu
dents come into my office unpre
pared. We give them informa
tion to read ahead of time and
they don’t. They just sit there
and say ‘...Man, like what am I
supposed to do?”
STUDENT: “Basically, the
teachers that dance around an is
sue and don’t take a stand on
anything annoy me. They won’t
takea side.”
INSTRUCTOR: “When
assignments aren’t turned in and
the excuses are, ‘The dog ate it,
the baby chewed it, I lost it in
a car wreck.’ Really.”
STUDENT: “One of my
teachers had PMS all of the
time.”
INSTRUCTOR: “One stu
dent inferred that his presence
in the classroom should be all
that was required of him — he
wondered why he had to do
homework, too.”
STUDENT: “I have a
teacher who reads straight from
the text book. Do they think
we can’t read? It’s so boring.”
INSTRUCTOR: “When
students fall asleep...but some
times I understand that...”
STUDENT: “When they
don’t use a three-hole punch on
the hand-outs in class.”
STAFF MEMBER: “It
doesn’t help the image of the
campus to see trash as far as the
eye can see. (Some of) the stu
dents are slobs.”
INSTRUCTOR: “Popping
gum, cutting anyone’s finger
nails, finger tapping, clicking
pens (are) irritating repetitive
noises during class.”
STUDENT: “I hate it
when they hold you over the
time to leave... and when they
think that their class is the only
one you have!”
STAFF: “It’s a problem
when some students sit in the
hallway with their legs out
stretched and force you to step
over them. Couldn’t they sit
cross-legged or something?’.’
STUDENT: “It’s awful
when a teacher tells you that
this is the first time she’s taught
this class and that she’s
learning right along with
you...”
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INSTRUCTOR: “I don’t
have any pet peeves. These stu
dents are wonderful.”
STUDENT: “Can’t they
move the podium when they
write on the board?”
STAFF: “This is the best
student body and staff I’ve
seen.”
STUDENT: “Our draft
ing teachers are great...the
math teacher is always there for
us...actually our teachers are
pretty good. I have no qualms
— oh, except for that report I
have to do over again...”
TEACHER: “We’re in
love with these students.
They’re great.”
It was refreshing to find
that most of-the problems be
tween staff and students aren’t
monumental.
So, why don’t we all just
make a silent pact with each
other this year? Let’s overlook
a little of the mumbling, spit
ting, nail-clipping, grumbling,
picking, forgetting, and griping
— and just maybe, the next
time we’re annoying someone,
they might overlook it, too.
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