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Vol. XXIX No. 9 Wednesday, January 17,1996 AT A GLANCE Clackamas Community College Pulitzer Prize winner visits Clackamas Compiled by Cori Kargel Business Manager Attend the next College Conver sation and find out what’s going on at CCC. The event, sponsored by ASG and Instructional Services, offers stu dents, staff and faculty the opportu nity to attend an informal conversation with President John Keyser and other administrators. Free pizza and drinks will be provided. Join in the conversa tion, tomorrow, at 12:30 p.m., in CC127. Attention all Native American students! Come to the next Native American Students Club meeting Jan. 18, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., in the Sky light Dining Room in the Community Center. For more information, call Ad visor Sylvia Ollgaard at 632-4619 or Vice-Pres. Cori Kargel at ext. 2578. Interested in helping your com munity? Sign up today in CC140 for the Winter Term Community Energy Project. The project will be Feb. 17. For more information, see Brinda Fearn in CC140 or call her at ext. 2247. The CCC Community Recreation Department is now sponsoring its an nual Polar Bear 5000-meter Fun Walk/Run around the CCC campus. The course will be on pavement. Run ners will compete in men’s and women’s divisions for the following age groups: Elementary, Junior High, High School, 19-29,30-39.40-49, and 50 & over. The run will be Jan. 21, starting at 11:30 a.m.. Pre-register no later than tomorrow. Cost is $5, or $15 with a race t-shirt. For more informa tion, call ext. 2211. The Portland Women’s Crisis Line needs women to commit to be ing volunteer crisis intervention coun selors. Be a part of an organization that actively works to end violence against women and children. Practicum credit is available for stu dent volunteers. For more information or an application, call 232-9545. Pamela Sirianni News Editor Edward Albee, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winning play wright, is coming to CCC to give a lecture titled “The Playwright vs. The Theater” and to conduct two workshops. Albee is considered by crit ics to be “America’s most impor tant dramatist still writing,” ac cording to biographical informa tion received by the college. His award-winning plays are continu ally produced in theaters through out the world. He is also gaining praise for his performances as a lecturer. Plays such as Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and The Zoo Story have gained Albee much praise and recognition. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is per haps Albee’s most recognized work. It is also one of the most frequently performed plays cre ated by an American playwright in recent years. In 1966, Albee won his first Pulitzer Prize for A Delicate Bal ance. Seascape won him a sec ond Pulitzer in 1975 and in 1994 he won a third for Three Tall Women. “It is practically unheard of for someone to win three Pulitzer Prizes,” said Diane Averill, an English instructor at CCC. Averill also added that this will be a great opportunity for stu dents to hear someone of Albee’s stature. “It will be interesting for our students who are theater majors, or actors and ac tresses, to be ex posed to what he has to say and for him to shed some light on the the ater,” said Averill. “The stu dents can get a chance to see a very significant live playwright.” A critique of two student-sub mitted works will be given by Albee in the “Creative Writing” work shop from 11 to 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 9. If you are in photo provided by Dan McCue terested in attend Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Edward Albee will visit ing, 50 tickets Clackamas on February 9. will be available at the end of January from Diane CCC Bookstore. The cost of tick tunity that we get to see somebody Averill in Streeter 125. The work ets is $4 for CCC students, $8 for with Albee’s expertise and knowl shop is suggested for students who CCC staff, seniors and other stu edge of the theater,” said Knorr. have a serious interest in creative dents (with student body card)and “He will have some wonderfully $16 for the general public. profound and provocative insights writing and in the theater. Albee’s visit to Clackamas is about the theater and how life The “Acting and Directing” workshop will be held at 1:30 sponsored by Clackamas Commu transforms itself onto the stage.” Albee has won many awards p.m. on Feb. 9. This workshop is nity College’s Cultural Arts Com by invitation only, and it is di mittee. This committee held a for his talent as a playwright, but rected towards Clackamas theater fund-raiser this summer titled he is also an ordinary person just students who will be presenting “the pARTy.” The total cost for like anyone else. “The nice thing about seeing Albee’s Lady from Dubuque, The bringing Albee to Clackamas was any writer is to realize that they Sandbox and The Zoo Story later paid for by this group. Jeff Knorr, English instruc are average people; that they have this term. Albee will be giving the “The tor at CCC, agrees with Averill a life just like us. They go to the Playwright vs. The Theater” lec in saying that Albee’s lecture will grocery store to buy oranges and ture at 7:30 p.m. Jan. 9. in the be a beneficial opportunity for things for dinner,” added Knorr. Clackamas students. “They have a life and that’s where Gregory Forum. “It’s not an everyday oppor their work comes from.” Tickets are available at the Promised Net access arrives at Clackamas Annie Callan, author of “The Back Door,” will read from her works at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 24 in the Gregory Forum. Her visit is sponsored by the English Department.Callan cov ers many themes, including relation ships and being Irish. Brad Zimmerman Assistant Feature Editor Internet access has finally arrived for students at Clackamas. Students now have access to the World Wide Web and have full e- mail (Electronic Mail) capabili ties. Chief Information Officer Paul Rothi said that several pro fessors would like to integrate the Internet into lectures. At this time, however, CCC does not have the proper amount of resources to support such heavy use of the Internet. Besides, Internet access (at this time) is limited to the Computer Lab in Streeter Hall, Student Publica- Petitions for graduation are now being accepted. The graduation ceremony will be June 7. For more information, see the Registrar’s office or the Help Center. Come join Country Line Danc ing this Monday night at 6:30 p.m. in the Gregory Forum. The event is spon sored by Focus on Women and is open to the public.Cost is $3 at the door. The John Inskeep Environmen tal Learning Center has dropped its $3 per car surcharge for recycling services. The ELC invites the public to drop off recyclable materials free. For more information, call ext. 2358. Chrysalis, the CCC women’s writing group, is now meeting. Join in the meetings every Weds., from noon to 1 p.m., in B112. For more informa tion, call Kate Gray at ext. 2371. Several scholarships are still available for 1995-96. Stop by the Fi nancial Aid office and check them out. College students across the U.S. are now eligible for the Delta Air Lines “Extra Credit” fares, which are as low as $138 round trip. Fares are valid between Jan. 4 and March 4 of this year. Tickets are non-refund- able and must be purchased at least seven days before departure! For more information, call (404) 715-2533 or your travel agent. Photo by Lora Wahrgren Ask the President Students, staff and faculty are invited to attend an informal conversation with President John Keyser. Free pizza and drinks will be provided. The conversation will be held in Community Center 127 between 12:30 and 1:30 tomorrow. tions in Barlow Hall and indi vidual faculty and staff. The World Wide Web, or “web” as it is commonly called, can be used by students to re search nearly any topic imagin able. Everything from information on every world in the country (courtesy of the CIA’s public-ac cess database), to information on Key Lime Pie. Students also have full access to e-mail. This means students not only can communicate be tween others on campus, but they now have the ability to send mes sages worldwide. However, stu- See INTERNET on page 3 Page 5 New Year’s Resolutions
