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The Clackamas Print
Wednesday, February 21,199
Writer clarifies position
we won’t know unless you tell us.
This is your paper.
Another one of their jibes
About a year ago, because of
health problems, I found myself was that the student reporters
in a situation where I could no were simply lap dogs for the ad
longer do my regular job. As the ministration. Never has College
doctor told me, “You’re not 16 President John Keyser or Dean
anymore.” That meant I had to of College Services Gary Dirrim,
learn a new skill and that is why ever stormed in and demanded
we only run certain articles or
I am here.
Personally, I like CCC and write things their way.
enjoy being here. This is a fine
We are given freedom of the
campus with fantastic natural sur press and the freedom to choose
roundings, in the country. Away what we write about. But with
from big crowded cities. Most that freedom comes the respon
of the students and staff seem sibility to write our articles ac
curately and fairly.
friendly and easy
Apparently some
to get along with.
We are given feel we are to be
The instructors
Sherlock Holmes
are doing a good
freedom of
late at night snoop
job, though I may
the press
ing through staff
not always re
garbage cans at their
ceive the grade I
and the
homes, hoping to
feel I deserve. It
freedom to
find some incrimi
is a privilege to be
here, not an inher
choose what nating evidence. Or,
disguised as jani
ited right.
we write
tors; rummaging
Most stu
through wastebas
dents seem happy about.
kets in their offices
here. Some how
on campus..
ever appear to
If there are improprieties
have nothing better to do than
complain and stir up dissension. among the staff, then prove it,
Some of their complaints seem to don’t just gossip about it.-Have
be aimed at campus administra you bothered talking to the indi
tive staff and the student news vidual in person or are you not
brave enough?
paper.
Most of the newspaper staff
For people who have a great
deal of criticism against The spend long hours trying to get
Clackamas Print, not once have their articles in on time and the
any of these individuals bothered newspaper ready to print. This
to come into our office and say can mean taking time away from
anything to us in person. We are our families, other studies or éven
always looking for ways to im work when we could really use
prove or gear the paper to sub the extra money. We are not pro
jects that are relative to the stu fessionals but some day hope to
dents’ interests and to make it be. You may not like what we
do, or the way we do it but so far
livelier and more interesting.
The paper is here for the stu no one has volunteered to take
dents and not just to give us at our place. Like the Marines, “We
The Print something to do with are always looking for a few
our spare time. We welcome good writers.”
We are not here just for'the
your ideas and comments plus
any contributing articles you may staff nor are we here only for the
wish to submit. If you, the stu students. We are here to be fair
dent, want to see some changes,
See FREEDOM page 3
Paul Ulmén
Staff Writer
The Clackamas Print Staff
Editor-in-Chief: Chad Patteson (Ext. 2576)
Managing Editor:’? Amy K. Hanson (Ext. 2576)
Feature Editor: Jon Roberts (Ext. 2578)
Sports Editor: Jesse Sowa (Ext. 2578)
Photography Editor: Josh Kehler (Ext. 2578)
Copy Editor: Vicki Welch (Ext. 2578)
Opinion Editor: Brendon Neal (Ext. 2309)
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pinion
Holiday ignored by college
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Karin Redston
Staff Writer
The decision-making process of when
to keep the college open has again gone
beneath this student.
We can close the college for Martin
Luther King but not to celebrate Washing
ton and Lincoln’s birthdays. Never mind
that we combined the two presidents for
one holiday instead of two. No, we don’t
even warrant the one day off.
I have nothing against Martin Luther
King. He was a very great man who did
much for civil rights, but he was not a presi
dent.
We should also ignore, I guess, the fact
most of the elementary, junior high and
high schools were off Monday. That means
that those students with families are forced
to find babysitters or bring their children
with them to classes.
Let’s also not forget those student’s
whose families took a three day holiday
and will most likely be penalized for pot
attending class Monday.
Yes, that decision-making process up
stairs definitely stumps this writer. I guess
that’s why I’m not an administrator.
Right to Free Speech in jeopardy
Ryan Humphris
Assistant Opinion Editor
Knock Knock- Who’s there?
No More- No More Who? No
more free speech.
Thanks to the Telecommu
nications Act of 1996 it is now a
felony crime to send a private e-
mail message with ah indecent or
filthy word, even if you were re
sponding in kind to an e-mail mes
sage you received.
Online discussions of safe sex
practices, birth control methods,
abortion, and of AIDS prevention
will also be subject to prosecution.
This is just purely another act
to deprive us of our rights as citi
zens of the United States of
America.
This bill will punish with two-
year jail terms any Internet user
who uses one of the “seven dirty
words” in a message to a minor.
It will impose felony penalties for
using an indecent four-letter word
or discussing material deemed to
be indecent, on electronic bulle
tin boards or Internet chat areas
accessible to children.
Basically, once this bill be
comes law, no longer will Internet
users be able to engage in free
wheeling discussions in news
groups and other areas of the
Internet accessible to minors.
They will have to limit all lan
guage used and topics discussed
to that appropriate for kindergart
ners.
No literary quotes from racy
parts of Catcher in the Rye or
Ulysses will be allowed. Any user
who crosses the vague and unde
fined line of “indecency” will be
subject to two years in jail and
fines.
' “This law restructures the en
tire telecommunications industry
and places the free speech and pri
vacy rights of all internet users in
permanent jeopardy,” said Ira
Glasser, Executive Director of the
ACLU. “It will criminalize oth
erwise protected speech in
cyberspace, impose new censor
ship controls on television and
destroy the diversity of media
ownership. For a congress that
says it wants to get big government
out of people’s lives this law rep
resents the most extreme hypoc
risy.”
Over 100,000 Internet users
signed a petition against the Act;
20,000 of them, in one day,
flooded congress with phone calls,
faxes and e-mail. Because of this
the Internet community has be
come a very powerful force.
Our very own Senator Ron
Wyden showed Internet'users sup
port by working to support enlight
ened alternatives to government
content restrictions.
Don’t think this is the last time
congress will consider issues con
cerning Internet users across the
U.S. Take a stand; let the Presi
dent know what you think.
This is a horrible abuse of leg
islative power against the Ameri
can people, and we can do some
thing about it. Please, write the
president
at
President@whitehouse.gov ,and
let him know that you are outraged
about this bill passing.
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