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2 Opinion Editor-in-Chief sets Print WEdNEsdAy, OcTobER 6, 1999 Komme editor’s desk..* Print’s history. This year, we hope to add to that number, but our focus isn’t to put out the best newspaper for the judges, but to put out the best newspa per for this cam pus- for you. JohnThorbum i For our Editor-in-Chief new stu- dents, again, welcome. Whether you are returning to college after a long absence, or just out of high school, we hope to provide you the best news, information and entertainment this college offers. A lot of pride comes with the Clackamas Community College name. Here at the Print, we feel that same pride and hold our selves to a high standard of qual ityjournalism. What can you get from this newspaper every week? Our #1 job is to get the news to all of you. We find that news by digging deep into all the dark corners of the campus. However, we can’t know everything going on at Clackamas, so if you think of something we should write about, drop by Barlow 104, and I come back. I hope the year ahead is as productive and rewarding as our year looks to be here at the Print. Over the summer, we made some adjustments to the design of the paper so that it would be Y2K compliant and, we hope, more pleasing to you. If you like our “new look,” let us know! We’re confident you’ll let us know if you don’t like it, as well. This year we are lucky to have a strong group of editors, writ ers and photographers returning from last year. The 1998-99 year proved to be our most success ful year of production, as we brought home ten awards from the Oregon Newspaper Publish ers Association [ONPA] last spring—-the most ever in the let us know. Our #2 job is to entertain. Whether we do that in our opin ion, feature, arts & entertainment or sports section, you will be en tertained this year. We have an awesome team of writers, so don’t be scared, shocked or sur prised if some of the things we write or display get in your face a bit. I promise you, we will work as hard as possible to produce the best possible newspaper. If, how ever, we stumble, or you don’t like what we’re doing, tell us with a let- ter-to-the-editor. But I ask you to remember one fact: every writer, editor and photographer on this newspaper is a student just like you, with the same deadlines you have, as well. So the next time you decide to yell across the campus at one of us, “Hey, you suck,” why not give us a helpful note instead? This hasn’t happened yet, but then again, there are some students from Molalla at this school. This is the student newspaper, your newspaper, for your school. If we don’t print something you want to see, tell us. If you see something you don't like, tell us. OK? I wish you all the best of luck this year. Think wisely before you drink ummer break is the time at fault as peer pressure for turn for parties and alcohol. I ing these underage kids into would like to offer a word drinkers. this would have been to the wise when the drinking be Granted, hellu cool when gins and partying is at its best— I was in high school, but now I see it happening more often, and more easily—the clerks sell ing liquor without proper identi think before you drink. I’m 22 and have no cause to fication. Five years ago I would complain, because I’m legal and not have complained, to be able can buy alcohol whenever I want to purchase a fifth of my favorite it. What scares me is how easy it vodka, but now I understand is for people under the age of 21 why there is a 21 -year age limit. People under 21 are still so im to obtain alcohol. I have younger brothers and sisters pressionable, and see alcohol as who could probably get it as eas a social drug. At a party, every one is expected to get drunk. It’s ily as I do. Today, a liquor store clerk no easier to become addicted at the impressionable longer requires _________ age. picture identifi Older people cation, but become hooked merely asks, I was on the fast too-1 have lived “Are you 21 or road to becoming that myself. I older?” and an alcoholic, and once thought al then takes your cohol would word for it. The I didn 't even take away all my transaction will know it. worries and continue, and cares, and help the underage me forget. It did, person will walk for a time. I had out with a'sni i le. Either these people look older to hit rock bottom to realize my: than their age, or the clerks don’t problem. 1 hit bottom hard! A year ago, really care. This concerns me greatly, because these stores on my way to a party, I drank a and employees are just as much whole fifth of 100-proof vodka. S Make a P statement, be heard.*. I didn’t feel it until I stood up, but then my world came crash ing down. For more than ten hours, 1 was stuck in a world of darkness and numbness. I re member nothing of that night, but when I woke, I hurt all over and my head was still spinning. I don’t drink like that anymore. I have a couple drinks with friends occasionally, but I don’t go over board because I never want to feel like that again. I started out as a real light weight, but the more I partied, the more liquor I needed to get my buzz. I was on the fast road to becoming an alcoholic, and 1 didn’t know it. Some people drink to relax, while some drink to be part of the “in” crowd. Oth ers drink to get away from real life- and then there are those who drink for the first time— and do not live to tell about it. I want to sound a note of cau tion as school progresses and holidays and parties are under way: think before you drink, and please learn your own, safe lim its. If you don’t, it won’t be long before alcohol sets the limits, and just might destroy you. TI he ClACkAMAS P rìnt Stuck on being single 'Touring summer break, I 1 toyed with an amazing .JL-number oftopics for opinion pieces forthe “Clackamas Print” I kept coming backtothesameone: I’msingle, and I know it. (If you’re single and you I’m too young to be this cynical P rìnt . IT VOEtfT GET ANY BETTER THAN TH/$! Karl Katzke Buisiness Manger know it, clap your hands, oh yeah.) It might be good to talk about this. You see, I have an idea that could make our campus an easier place for singles: ifyou’resingle, sticka label to yourfore- head, or shirt or somewhere, which SAYS you are single. You might use a post-it note for easy removal and re attachment. Why would wedo this? Well, I feel the need to protect other unsuspecting singles from the same fate I have suf fered the past year. It seems that every happened,: just I keep an eye out I for twin skid j | marks appar ently left by Doc Martens. Now, Docs are expensive, and I don’t want to have to buy another pair soon because I’ve left patches ofthe sole all over campus. We have a symbol for married couples, the wedding ring, but today’s unmarried relationships are al most as heavy - you merely avoid the formality of adivorce when you break up. So, let’s save my Docs, and my san ity, and wear those labels. Oh, by the way, did Imention I just bought stock in Avery Labels, Inci? Staff: Editor-in-Chief: Toni McMichael Jason Lin gel Chamaine Larson Whitney Bond Maggie Jirasek Joel P. Shempert Matt Shempert Diana Scrivner Shannon McMahon Mand Good Chris Lundgren John Thorbum (x2447) Managing Editor: Megan Oldenstadt Design Editor: Timothy A. Bell Feature Editor: Shelbi Wescott A & E Editor: Angie Daschel Sports Co-Editors: Salena De La Cruz James Khosravi Secretary: JoAnne Gale Business Manager: Karl Katzke (x2578) Advisor: Linda Vogt (x2310) Copy Editor: Sandy Lupo TI he CI ac I< amas conversa- time I strike up an interesting conversa tion with an appealing member of the opposite sex, 1 get to the age-old ques tion, “What did you do last weekend?” Invariably, the answer has started with Well, my boy friend and I...” Ifyou’dliketo i find where on I campus this Photo Editor: Sarah Welch Cartoonists: Chris Lundgren Stephanie Imholt The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased, professional manner. The opinions ex pressed 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 neccesarily endorsed by anyone associated with The Clackamas Print. 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