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Wednesday, May 20, 1998 Campus Views Ltflvcio When presented with a copy of The Clackamas Print’s top ten list featured in the A&E section of the Print’s May 6 issue and a copy of the humor column, Dear Grizzo, featured in the Opinion section of the May 13 issue, we asked students and faculty to reply with their opinions about the articles’ offensiveness. Some people have found these pieces offensive, do you? Would you like to see more or less of this kind of humor in the Clackamas Print? Why? “I personally wasn’t offended by either of the pieces you mentioned. I think the Print’s done a really good job this year. I think it’s been an excellent pub lication. Every newspaper generates some controversy by its nature of cov ering news stories and offering edito rial opinions. I would always expect some controversy with regard to a stu dent newspaper.” John Keyser, president of Clackamas Community College “I can’t see why it’s in here. It was offensive to me, and I didn’t know it was the A&E page, so I would find it offensive unless it was labeled why it’s in there. I would like to see more facts...I mean, if you’re going to talk about ‘books only cost forty thousand per term’, well that’s an exaggeration, but I think that it’s right, they do cost a lot. I think that facts should be put there, not exaggerations.” .. Bryan Hostetler ASG environmental senator “No. I don’t find it offensive at all. Just because it’s stating facts, school costs a lot of money...it’s not offen sive to me, not in any way. I’d like to see more of this sort of thing because it brightens up my day.” Luke Heuberger student “It’s funny, but after a while it’d get really old. I mean, I wouldn’t want to hear that kind of thing every week, or everyday. Just about the same. I don’t see it very often.” Brooke O’Brien student colche. To the Editor: It was with great interest I awaited the ar rival of the latest edition of the Clackamas Print. Well, okay, I wasn’t exactly waiting with great interest for the arrival of the Print, but I did want to read the new edition when it came out. Okay, that’s not true either, I didn’t ex actly want to read the new edition when it ar rived. In fact, in all honesty, I can only relate the feelings I experience when seeing a new edition of the Clackamas Print in terms of re ceiving a root canal, without any anesthetic, in the back of a van that is parked in a dimly lit ally [sic.] at midnight, by a person who swears that veterinariany medicine and den tistry are closely related fields. Nevertheless, by happenstance as I was head ing toward my next class I spotted a copy of the Print laying on the ground—trampled upon by students as they hurried from one class to the next. The sight of this, I can honestly say with out hesitation, struck me as appropriate. As I gazed upon this humorous sight, I noticed that the front page had results of the ASG elections. I scurried about looking for an unsoiled copy of the paper for which to read. Immediately, I found the object for which I was searching. I read the article, and discovered that I had received seven votes in the election. Seven votes, period! How did I receive only seven votes?! What would account for the low turnout on the part of my supporters? Then it came to me: I didn’t officially run for office, and more importantly, I’m pretty sure I didn’t have any supporters. So, I rationalized that seven votes wasn’t that bad for a guy who’s [sic.] only political experience consists of periodically watching the McLaughlin Group. Now granted, a monkey could get seven votes, but then again, that monkey didn’t get his name in the paper. This brings me to my next point: my name. I was shocked to notice that not only did I receive seven votes, but the article in question spelled my last name incorrectly. I spell it Eby; the article spelled it Elby. Since I have had the name all my life and had always spelled it the same way, as did countless gen erations of my family before me, I was pretty sure my spelling was correct. In any event, it was salt in an open wound. But how could that leper colony, known as the Print staff, miss such a blatant mistake? My only guess is that the copy editors are raging alcoholics, and that the night they were to edit this particular ar ticle they were in no certain certain [sic.] terms “off the wagon.” It had always-been my un derstanding that in the interest of profession alism the Print had a policy of not letting al coholics edit the paper during drinking binges. But I digress. It would be easy to criticize the Print staff for this mistake, and use this mishap as a spring board to eloquently equate the writing of the paper with the water from a public lavatory after a Mexican fiesta feed. But I shall not; I am above petty insults and quips. I only request one thing: an apology. I am a simple man, and desire a simple solution to this problem. A full page apology for mis spelling my name, and my name spelled cor rectly a hundred times on that full page will be sufficient enough to place this unfortunate mistake behind us. In closing, I request that the copy editors in question enroll in some type of twelve-step program, because it’s not just themselves they are effecting [sic.]. Lee Eby « The Print is not perfect CHRISTINA MUELLER Co-Editor-in-Chief In response to the letters that we received about recent issues of the Clackamas Print I would like to make some clarifications. Believe it or not, the Print is not perfect. We occasionally spell names wrong, make a design error, or run content that some people may not like. But we do try our best to provide our readers with the most current and accurate stories possible. Everybody makes mistakes; that’s how we learn. I feel that the letter above submitted by Mr. Lee Eby made a relevant point: that we should make a better effort to reduce the misspellings of names. I do, however, feel that the way Eby addressed his dissatisfaction was attacking and nearly libelous. The Print does not have a list of students’ names to ensure that they are spelled correctly. The re sponsibility for for verifying spellings rests solely on the writer of the article. Of course, that is no excuse for the misspelling of Eby’s name but it does help explain why we may have overlooked it. I apologize to Mr. Eby if this small mistake left him feeling as if someone had poured salt in his open wound. It seems that many people took offense to our A&E’s Top Ten List. We had no intention of of fending anyone and apologize to those who felt they were “targeted” by the list. Nothing on the list was true or put there to make people believe it was true. We are proud to be a part of Clackamas Community College and in no way intended to defame it. We appreciate those who took the time to write letters addressing things that concerned you. Your feedback is helpful to us in knowing how we can make the paper more enjoyable for you to read. So for those of you who get “steamed” about an issue and don’t take the time to let us know, next time consider writing us a letter. It’s more likely that you’ll be happy if you tell us what’s bother ing you. And by the way, we also accept letters from the other end of the spectrum—tell us what you do like so we can keep doing it. rllflT 19600 S. Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045 (503) 657-6958 ext. 2309 cccprint @ clackamas.cc.or.us “No. A little bit of humor always makes school fun, but too much could be annoying. A little bit equal. It’s not too much.” Brandy Jett student Co-Editors-in-Chief: Christina Mueller News Editor: Jeremy Stallwood (ext. 2576) Brad Zimmerman Copy Editor: Mike Garcia Linda Vogt Feature Editor: Joel P. Shempert Photo Editor: — ’ Timothy Bell Secretary: Sports Editor: John Thorbum Co-A&E-Editors: Jared Bezzant JoAnne Gale Business Manager: Kristina Brooks (ext. 2578) Advisor: Alex Mahan Cartoonist: Marie Hoffmann Staff Writers and Production: Laura Armstrong, Adam Crum, Lynn Elsey, Kim Harney, Toni McMichael, Mairin Moore and Robert Schoenberg. Compiled by Laura Armstrong and photos by Timothy Bell. Wednesday, May 20, 1998 The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in anhonest, unbiased, professional manner. The opinions expressed in The Clackamas Print do not necessarily reflect those of the student body, college administration, its faculty or The Clackamas Print advertisers. Products and services advertised in The Clackamas Print are not necessarily endorsed by anyone associated with The Clackamas Print. The advertising rate is $4.75 per column inch. All signed letters to the editor should be 300 words or less and will be considered for publication if submitted by 1 p.m. the Friday prior to publication. The Clackamas Print is a weekly publication and is distributed every Wednesday except during finals week.
