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2 TI h E ClACkAMAS P rìnt Wednesday, June 2, 1999 Into that good night: a parting ponderance This week; allow jne to belabor th'e^obyioqs: the school ^ear is corijjpglcMn end. poignantly, “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” As summer draws nigh, we all The “God question” is so vital see with increasing clarity the ap- both in and after life that I cannot help but urge you to consider, before it is tar an too late, your eternal destiny. n In my five years (and counting) at JOEL P. SHEMPERT Clackamas my heart Copy Editor has ached for you, my classmates, my proaching end to a mentors, my compan chapter of our lives. ions, and my dear Many of us will not re friends, as I have turn. Therefore, as we watched lives spiral rush headlong into this into unhappiness, and changing season, I friends lash out to hurt pause to ponder my own signifi those whom they love. My writ cance. ings these past years have been I often wonder if my words have largely my struggle to find a made any impact on the mind and voice which could call my breth soul of Clackamas Community ren to peace. College, or if I have simply spo I have watched countless close- ken them into a void. I wonder if knit groups disintegrate, and any minds have been challenged, friends and lovers turn on one an any hearts convicted, any souls other, and seen my own failings reborn. in loving my brothers and sisters, I have endeavored to challenge and it has broken my heart. I wish social ills and illuminate philo that I could wave my hand and sophical conundrums, but at the mend all these hearts, but the heart of it all, my aim has ever been malady is deeper than my mortal the conviction of one soul. reach. The human predicament is an In Switzerland near where awesome spectre overshadowing Nietzche died, there is a poem of our lives, yet few’of us are fully his engraved on a plaque set in a conscious of it. Dr. R. Douglas mammoth rock. It reads, O man! Geivett puts it this way: “We are Take heed of what the dark mid moral creatures with moral duties night says: Islept, I slept—from to one another, but we seem con- deep dreams I awoke: The world fused about the source of is deep—and more profound morality’s claims upon our lives - than day would have thought... and curiously impotent to prac Woe speaks; pass on. But all tice our morality. Though we are pleasure seeks eternity-a deep familiar with the brevity of life.. .we and profound eternity. have an irresistible and uncanny Nietzche, that prophet of doom hankering for permanence...we for the modem rational man, died ponder inconclusively the per in lunacy and despair, having sonal and cosmic significance of failed to fill the hole in his spirit. I the many evils of human experi pray that those I have lived, laughed, and loved with would ence.” I have attempted, in my imper not do the same. fect, human way, to point to a cure Jesus Christ urged, “Come for this unyielding ache in the hu unto me, all you that are weary man soul. This is, to put it crassly, and heavy laden, and I will give Jesus Christ and the God of the you rest.” In these, perhaps my Bible. Gone now are the syllo last words to you, I ask that you gisms and arguments, the proofs follow after this peace, this love, and the apologetics. I simply ask this rest eternal. Do not go the reader to sincerely ponder the gentle into that good night. I show you a more excellent way. Christian claims upon eternity. As Dylan Thomas said so The AI U I< nown of Cod Scheduling for classes at Clackamas is a headache Has anyone noticed that college classes just don’t seem to fit nicely together? I sure have. My goal for this fall was to not have to get up early in the morning to go to school, and To B e in a P er F ect WoRld KARLKATZKE Associate Editor to be able to work on Monday afternoons. Fat chance. First of all, I’m a jour- nalism major. That means that I have two required classes, that I have to leave my Tuesdays open for newspaper production, and I can’t take any classes between 1 p.m. and 2 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. With those limitations in mind, I had one goal for next year: I am NOT getting up in the morning when I don’t have to. Unfortunately, the fall preview schedule didn’t see things my way. My physics class has labs and seminars all over the place...and each of them is only offered once. The English class that I needed to take is only of fered during the one seminar for physics. Karate is only offered in the middle of the morning on a Tuesday/Thursday, conflicting with two out of the three physics labs and making my Tuesday newspaper production day would be a hectic one. The English class 1 need is only of fered in the middle of the day on Monday - when I was planning to work. The other English class that I need is offered at the same exact time. This is a headache. There are times when I have three classes scheduled, and times when I have two hours of spare time to sit around and twiddle my thumbs. Doesn’t anyone look at the schedule of the typical student, and figure out that people who are taking classes just slightly off of the beaten path have no way to take all of the classes in all of the sequences they need—because they ’re all offered at the same time? I understand that a whole bunch of factors affect scheduling a class. News Editor: Happy Retirement! ♦ ♦ Margi Arighi ♦ ♦ Barbara Barrow ♦ ♦ Jim Burrows Jan Stennick Dept. Chair; Small Business Develop. Division Secretary; Industrial Les Tipton Dept. Chair; Art Project Coordinator ♦ ♦ Stan Cox ♦ ♦ Marie Feddern Joe Uris Instructor; Social Science Assistant Administrator/Janitorial Ginny Weber Dept. Chair; Life Science Advising Specialist Associate Editors: Robert Schoenberg (x2576) Karl Katzke Shelbi Wescott Mandi Linstrom Feature Editor: Jeremy Stallwood Cartoonists: A & E Editor: Angie Daschel Judith Hylton Department Chair; Music Instructor; Physical Sciences The time of the class has to do with when the instructor is available. The day of the class depends on whether or not the coin comes up heads or tails. The place of the class has to do with what room is available when. Could not someone take time out from this collection of organiza tional headaches to figure out that students are the customers of this college, and if they can’t schedule the classes when students can take thè classes, then the classes won’t be filled up? Surveys might tell the depart ments when students would take which classes. Another idea is a standard educational plan for people who are on different degree programs—my degree program is journalism, so the people who plan the schedules could figure how many people would be in what classes, and when, by the degree program that the different stu dents are involved in. Whichever solution is enacted, I just hope that I don’t have to spend another Friday night trying to hammer out a schedule that I can live with. It’s your choice; use your voice. Israel Gunderson DJCole Sports Editor: John Thorbum Advertising Manager: Kristina Brooks (x2578) Copy Editor: Joel P. Shempert Photo Editor: Timothy A. Bell Design Editor: Megan Oldenstadt Secretary: JoAnne Gale Advisor: Linda Vogt (x2310) Staff Photographers: Sarah Welch Toni McMichael Staff: Salena De La Cruz James Khosravi Chamaine Larson Maria Raymond Susan Abe Stef Smith Sandy Frazier The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased, professional manner. The opinions ex pressed in The Clackaipas 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 ♦ ♦ Donna Ford Counselor Dorene Witherite TA/Secretary; Skill Develop. In honor of these retirees,dessert and beverages will be served in Gregory Forum Wed., June 9, at 2 p.m. neccesarily endorsed by anyone associated with The Clackamas Print The advertising rate is $4.75 per column inch. 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