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