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
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