Wednesday,
November! 9,1997
El Niño encourages not-so-honest excuses
BRAD ZIMMERMAN
Co-Editor-in-Chief
The great
news is that
the El Niño
excuse can
be used by
anyone -
and it’s
hard to
refute.
Brad
Zimmerman
Co-Edltor-
in-Chlef
Not many people know this but in
an ancient Aztec dialect, “El Niño”
means “Small and unobtrusive” ,- as
opposed to what it currently seems to
mean: “The Excuse.”
Many of our readers have asked
themselves, “What is El Niño? What
does it mean for me?”
El Niño means that for many more
months to come you don’t have to take
responsibility for any of your actions.
That’s right! El Niño does not just
affect the weather, it affects your en
tire life.
The great news is that the El Niño
excuse can be used by anyone - and
it’s hard to refute, too. Compare “my
dog ate my homework” with “El Niño
caused a temporary disturbance which
sent my homework back in time.”
Clearly, the El Niño excuse is better.
Readers have also asked, “What is
El Niño, really?” No one is sure. At
first, El Niño was a warming of an area
of the Pacific ocean. Maybe that’s all
it still is, but apparently when water
gets warm weird things happen. New
fish appear, old ones disappear. Cer
tain plants die off, others begin to flour
ish. These things cause all sorts of
weather phenomena w-nich include:
rain, snow, clear and gloudless days,
lightning, hurricane-force winds, earth
quakes and other weather related items.
In the future, however, readers
should be advised that they should
not limit themselves to simply using
El Niño as an excuse as to why com
mon, everyday problems occur. El
Niño has been officially declared a
valid excuse to use on the following
activities (which used to have no
good excuse): driving erratically,
misdemeanor-class crimes, forgetting
important dates or activities and why
the computer trashed your important
documents.
The Clackamas Print will continue
to update readers when new ways to
abuse a weather phenomenon occur.
Apply now: Student Child Care
grants available for winter term
The Foun
dation
Board has
included
childcare
grants in
plans for a
“student
success”
program.
Jacob Boenisch
ASG President
Clackamas student parents who
need financial help to cover day care
costs while they attend classes may
be eligible to receive an Associated
Student Government child care grant.
The child care grant program
started in 1994 Associated Student
Government purchased two full-time
slots at the Clackamas Community
College Family Resource Center and
divided those slots into seven part-
time child care grant awards. Grant
recipients were selected through an
application and interview process
and grants were awarded to students
who exhibited a financial need for
child care support.
Following that initial start, Asso
ciated Student Government re
quested help from the College Foun
dation Board to fund child care
grants. Since that time, the Founda-
tion Board has included child care grants in plans for a
“student success” program. Associated Student Gov-
ernment continues its efforts to raise the board’s aware-
ness of the need for affordable student child care. Money
to establish a child care grant endowment at Clackamas
Community College has come from Eric and Kay
Allenbaugh, the Clackamas Rotary, the late Dr. Charles
Seagrave and his wife, Louisa, and the College Founda-
tion.
During Fall term 1997, eighteen students were selected
to receive a child care grant award. Five of those grants
were used to pay for day care at the Family Resource
Center at Clackamas. The remaining 13 grants paid for
care at several licensed day care facilities in the commu-
nity.
Associated Student Government members who are re-
sponsible for managing the child care grant program are
Leia Stanley, child care officer, and Ann Tuttle, child
care senator. To apply for a child care grant for Winter
term, come to the student government office in the CC140,
across from the cafeteria, between now and December
5th to pick up an application.
n case of inclement weather
Il’s that time of year again to be on the look out for bad
weather In the event of inJemcnl weather the college
may close or some events may be cancelled In order to
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The same procedures will be followed in the eventof a
late opening (10 a.m. for day classes; 6 p.m. for evening
classes), evening class closure, day closure/evening
open, and weekend or holiday closure due to inclement
Although the decision to close the college is up to
Dean of Instructional Services^ Liz Goulard, The college
asks students to use your own discretion when travel
ing in inclement weather.
The Clackamas Print Staff
19600 S. Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045
(503) 657-6958 ext. 2309 cccprint@clackamas.cc.or.us
Co-Editors-in-Chief:Christina Mueller
Brad Zimmerman
(ext. 2576)
Feature Editor:
Sports Editor:
Business Manger:
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Copy Editor:
Photo Editor:
Cartoonists:
Co-A&E Editors
Advisor:
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Secretary:
Staff Writers
and Production:
Joel P. Shempert
Laura Armstrong,
Kelly Bell, Justin
John Thorburn
Blackledge,
Mairin-Anne Moore
Michael Cheslar,
Adam Crum, Eric
Maggie Bragg
Eatherton, Mike
Garcia, Kim
Timothy Bell
Harney, Cindy
Mark Hoffman
Kraxberger, Karin
Jared Bezzant
Redston, Jeremy
Alex Mahan
Stallwood, Robert
Schoenberg and
Linda Vogt
Jordan Winthrop.
JoAnne Gale
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¡Wednesday, November 19,1997