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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
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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.
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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.
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