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Date set for Haggart Observatory reconstruction Men’s hoops play Portland tonight Check out the story on page 7 Wednesday, February 2, 2000 Check out the update on Page 4 Clackamas Community College Oregon City, Oregon Jeff Knorr recites his new poetry Check out the event on Page 5 Volume XXXIII, Issue 12 Student-athlete takes own life Chris Chatfield, student-ath lete and 1997 graduate of Or egon City High School, died from self-inflicted gun shot wounds Monday afternoon. The 20-year old resident of Oregon City, who lived with his parents, ran cross countfy in 1997 and 1998 and ran distance for the track team in the spring of 1998. He had rejoined the track squad in recent weeks to finish up his second year of eligibility. “Chris was the type of per son you would love to have on your team,” said Head Track Coach Jack Kegg. “He would do anything for anybody. He was an excellent athlete and an excellent student.” Chatfield received his degree in Building Construction in only a year and a half, accord ing to Kegg, but had plans to obtain a second degree in En gineering to increase his choices of attending four-year colleges next fall. A funeral has been planned for Thursday at 3 p.m. at Holman, Hankins, Bowker and Waud Fu neral Home in Oregon City. Please see next week's issue for further coverage and a look back at the young life of Chris Chatfield. FILE PHOTO Chris Chatfield (left) and Andy Monhead run together during a track practice two years ago. Chatfield died from self-inflicted gun shot wounds late Monday afternoon. Monhead and Chatfield were friends since their days at Oregon City High School. Candlelight vigil inspires peace, healing SANDY LUPO News Editor ast Wednesday’s Candle light Vigil for Tolerance, sponsored by Clackamas’ Rainbow Coalition for gay and les bian students, attracted a group of 60 or more students, faculty, alumni and guests. They gathered near Gregory Fo rum in the cold dusk. Kate Gray, Coa- lition advisor, opened the ceremony and spoke of the incident leading to the vigil—a complaint filed against instructor Dr. Donald Epstein for al leged anti-homosexual remaries in his Judaic Studies/Holocaust class. “A vigil is wakefulness, or watch fulness,” Gray said. “The idea is to heal and progress.” College President John Keyser spoke for the college. “Thank you for being here and lective human action and our own sharing our mutual interest of con commitment to making th ings better.” The President ended his remarks, firming thé college’s commitment to diversity and the values that we pro saying, “And 1 hope that what we’ve mote so strongly that lead toward had here, this experience, leads us in human understanding and compas that direction.” Reverend Dominic Taranowski, sion...” he began. “However short we have fallen,” minister of the United Church of he continued, “the gap that remains Christ in Beavercreek, also addressed can be closed, I think, with true col- the gathering. His church recently L PHOTOS BY TIMOTHY A. BELL [above] Jeremy VanKeuran, former Clackamas student, lights a candle for Epstein. VanKeuran was the only person to express supportfor Epstein's teaching style. [left] Pat Lichen brings her5-yr- old daughter Hallie to the candlelight vigil that was held last Wednesday evening. declared itself an “open and affirm ing” church in which gays and lesbi ans are welcome. “God created the world and all that is in it and pronounced it good,” Taranowski said. “For humans tode- clare homosexuality is to be con demned because ‘it was not created by God’ is very tenuous theological ground,” he added. “Who are we to say heterosexual ity was created by God,” he asked, “but homosexuality was not?” The minister continued, “It is love that needs to be the deciding factor of what is created and not created by God. If there is a gay or lesbian rela tionship where there is love and com mitment, and people are growing, I say God is there. “So,” concluded Taranowski, “it’s important to look for God where love is found, and I think love is present here and that’s a very powerful thing... to know that this gathering is here to say that love is greater than hate.” English instructor Diane Averill See Vigil, page 4 Local author brings stories of courageous women to campus ANGIE DASCHEL A&E Editor TIMOTHY A. BELL I Clackamas Print Katherine Martin Portland local Katherine Martin, author of Women of Courage: Inspir ing Stories from the Women who Lived Them, is the guest of honor tonight at 7 p.m. in Gregory Forum at Authors' Night. Martin will be reading from her book and will be joined by three Port land actresses as well as three of the actual women who contributed sto ries. Martin’s book is a compilation of 41 stories featuring women “who are out there doing things, making things happen.” “This is a version of a theatrical reading,” said Martin. “Three ac tresses will read from the stories, and then the women themselves sort of meld into the stories at a certain point. It’s quite powerful.” Martin was the senior editor at New Realities magazine in San Francisco and has contributed numerous sto ries to Ms., Parenting, and Mothers Today as well as other publications. She also worked as a screenwriter for Showtime, which she said was not as fulfilling as one might think. “I was working in Los Angeles as a screen writer,” said Martin, “and I was beginning to feel very stuck.” Martin said she was being sucked into the “Hollywood undertow,” as one columnist put it. “I was accustomed to seeing what I wrote in print within six months at least, and in Los Angeles things hap pened in terms of years,” said Mar tin. “I was beginning to feel very impotent.” After moving to Portland from Los Angeles, Martin began to look for women to profile in her book. She wanted to meet people who had done extraordinary tilings, and to write sto ries that gave inspiration to the reader. “Writers often write about things they want to learn about,” said Mar tin. “I wanted that bigger than life, courage stuff to rub off on me.” The original manuscript took two and a half years to research, write and edit. She met with a wide variety of people to complete the book, includ ing senators, actresses and ordinary women who took the extra step to change their lives. Of all 41 true sto ries in the book, half were written by Martin and half by the women them selves. Tonight, Martin will talk about the great surprises she encountered while compiling the book, and will relay a few of the emotional stories of the 41 women. “It is written in a very emotionally- available way,” explained Martin. “They (the women in the book) got very vulnerable in their storytelling, so when you read it you really feel like you are inside somebody’s skin.” Included in the book is a story of a 19-year-old college student who wentto help at refugee camps by the Thai-Cambodian border and was See Authors' Night, page 5
