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FEATURE The Clackamas Print Wednesday, October 18,1995 Jerry Caplan shows off his 'Smokeless Raku* Lora Wahrgren and Megan Friedow Staff Writers Pittsburgh’s “Reduction Stenciling and Smokeless Raku” artist Jerry Caplan visited Clackamas Community College. During his three day visit he held a hands on demonstration, and a slide show about this new conven tional process which he created. This one time event was held this last weekend here at the col lege. Friday night the display of art work was proceeded by a slide lecture and demonstration of Jerry’s work. A workshop was held the following two days where Jerry taught how to create some art work using his specialized technique. The focus included the use of color applied under glazes on green ware. But the main em phasis was on the black and white imagery. If you would like to view Jerry Caplan’s unique display of ceramic pottery it can be seen in Pauling. What made this event pos sible was the sponsoring of the Oregon Potters' Association, and the hospitality of the Art Depart ment. Photo by Lora Wahrgren Pittsburgh artist Jerry Caplan and Katie Mcfadden-Benecki, a CCC Ceramics Instructor, admire Caplan's 'Reduction Stencling Smokeless Raku' at the opening last Friday 'White Shark* is a page-turning hit Jon Roberts Feature Editor Peter Benchley, the author of Jaws, is back to introduce the anything but a treat Jon Roberts Feature Editor With the coming of Oct. 31, there is the inevitable occurrence of a new Halloween movie being released. The newest movie bar ing the name Halloween is Hal loween 6. The movie’s main man is once again the killer who wears the creepy mask Michael Myers. Michael is the bad guy who from a very young age has been chop ping people up just because they are there. This movie is officially called Halloween 6: The Curse of Michael Myers, just a neat name for a movie that has redone the plots from the first five movies. The previews said that this movie would shed some light on Michael, but really made me more confused than I was before. Ba sically the plot is Michael going around killing anyone and every- one in his quest to kill off all of his relatives. From the first gory death un til the not very climactic end this movie is packed full of carnage. There is enough blood in this movie to start a blood bank. This movie was a little suspenseful at times, but the suspense was when was Michael going to jump out from behind something and slash a person into pieces. There were two good parts to this movie: one, I will not have to ever see it again; and two, it was a short movie, so I wasn’t in agony for too long. This movie gets a D- because it did scare me once or twice, but that didn’t make up for the lack of plot and the poor acting. Halloween 6:the Curse of Michael Myers was directed by Jon Chapelle. It is rated R for gore, violence and language. CtaMijied Add © For Sale: TI-81 Scientific Calculator. Used for 1 term. $55, OBO. Contact Ruth at 699-1721. © Buy me!! Office desk, metal with woodgrain top. $45. Bunk bed set, solid oak, heavy duty springs, some bedding. $99.95 special bargain. Kid’s bicycle, stunt bike, 16-20”. $69:95, OBO. Contact George at 657-9031. ©Room for Rent; share bath and kitchen. $300 a month, call 655-1761. -Leave message. Available Dec. 1. world to his newest creation of white-knuckled terror. His new est book is entitled White Shark is a page-turner, like his other popular books The Deep and The Island. The book is suspenseful all the way through and doesn’t let up until the intense climax. The book deals with a terror from the deep that was awakened by some men doing some deep sea exploration. This creature is by far more terrifying than Benchley’s great white shark from the book Jaws. The creature’s goal is to destroy and eat every living thing it comes upon. It does this with terrifying efficiency. The USA Today says that “Benchley’s new monster makes the shark from Jaws look like a pet goldfish.” The main character in the book is Simon Chase, a marine biologist, from a small marine institute off the coast of Connecti cut. He discovers a sixteen-foot Great White Shark that is feed ing near his institute, but what he doesn’t realize is that there is a far more deadly creature on the loose in the area that is killing off the marine life. A creature whose hunger is insatiable and whose pursuit for prey is unstoppable. This book is at times fright ening enough to make me want to stop reading but it is so addict ing that I was awake late into the evening reading to see what will happen next. The terror was so realistic that I at times wondered if I would ever go to the beach again. If your taste in books is for suspense on the level of such writers as Dean Koontz and John Saul then this book is for you. White Shark starts off a little slow then builds towards the awesome and suspenseful ending. This book is not for the timid or easily grossed out. It is at times a little gory, but not overly dis gusting. It is enough to make it a little weird at times. This book gets four stars out of a possible four. Schell returns to CCC Vicki Welch Copy Editor New full-time instructor Tim Schell has worked here in the past as a part-time English instructor. Schell lived in the area while he worked here from 1988 until 1992 before leaving to work in Arizona for three years, where he taught Creative Writing and Fic tion at a state university. Having returned to CCC he teaches Introduction to Drama and Creative Writing classes for the English Department. In his travels, Schell has “al ways returned to Oregon” with his wife, who works in international business, and his daughter. Being a native of the North west, he was “real pleased” when he found out that he would be working here again. Schell has also written many short stories for several publica tions including Discovery, Tokyo Journal, Signature and Sports Il lustrated. He was also the Fic tion Editor of Hayden's Fairy Revue. Photo by Josh Kehler
