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4 News WEdNEsdAy, FEbRUARy 2, 2000 TI he CI ac I camas P rínt Debate team receives 22 awards at tournament Nash Carey practices for an upcoming tournament MANDY GOOD Sports Editor The Clackamas Speech and De bate team, coached by Kelly Brennan, took home a third place sweepstakes award and 22 indi vidual awards, Jan. 28-29 at the Ben Padrow Portland State Univer sity Tournament. “I think we did well individually; collectively they won third place and it was a tough tournament. I thought they did awesome," re marked Brennan. In individual events, Matthew Steketee placed second in After Dinner Speaking, first in Dramatic Interpretation, was a finalist in Ex temporaneous, and a finalist in Im promptu Speaking. Kerrie Baker- Hughes placed second in Dramatic Interpretation and placed first in Prose. Melissa Jones Was a finalist in Informative Speaking. Roxanne Johnson placed third in Im promptu. Amorita Patterson placed second in Informative Speaking. Melissa Stivers re in Impromptu, and placed as a fi ceived first in Communication nalist in Prose. Analysis, second in Persuasive “I think that we did great in indi speaking and was a finalist in vidual events,” explained Steketee. Prose. “We had a lot Nash Carey was more people break in their a finalist in Edito rial Commentary, events and win think we second in Dra awards.” matic Interpreta In De need to on tion, a finalist in bate, Kerrie waking Extemporaneous, Baker-Hughes and he placed sec and Melissa ond in Maelstrom. Jones placed Samantha Griffin third as a team. Kelly Brennan placed as a finalist Matthew Debate Coach in Editorial Com Steketee placed mentary. eighth in Overall Speaking when Kindra Hazen placed as a finalist in Prose. evaluated on his speaking ability. Sherrie Martin placed third place “The competition was really in Extemporaneous, was a finalist strong; we had to step it up and I that work the superior giants within us. do the best that we knew how to do,” explained Steketee in re sponse to the tournament. “I think that we really pulled together as a team in this tournament.” The forensic team is gearing up for their National Tournament. There are three remaining tourna ments that the team can compete in and gain experience through. The team will compete at Oregon State University Feb. 10-12. Ac cording to Coach Brennan, be tween now and the next tourna ment he is really working to bring the team up to its potential. “I think that we need to work on waking the superior giants within us,” said Brennan. “This team has a lot of great potential, but I think that some of us need to come out of our shells.” Vigil: Candles lit for diversity Continued from page 1 TIM BELL/ Clackamas Print The Haggart Observatory located at the Environmental Learning Center is being renovated for reopening this spring. Reconstruction to begin on Haggart Observatory DIANA SCRIVNER Associate News Editor potential of the observatory. The observatory holds a 26 inch telescope that is eight feet long, which allows the viewer to see a variety of sky objects that can’t be seen through a tele scope on the ground. The tele scope that is currently in the ob servatory, which is one of the largest in the region, was built by Steven Swayze of Portland. The size of the telescope that is located in the observatory en hances astronomy studies. The ELC plans on developing cur riculum for studies bf astronomy. One of the things they plan to do is communicate with other obser vatories in the Northwest, and share educational findings in the Clackamas’ studies of as tronomy will be enhanced with the reconstruction of the Haggart Observatory located at the Environmental Learning Center (ELC). Last spring ELC staff discov ered that the wooden sub structures had been damaged by dry rot, and they were forced to close the observa tory. With donations of labor and 80 percent of the funds needed, the reconstruction is ready to begin on March 1. Work will replace the rotting sub structures with steel, and is proposed to be finished by May 15, according to John As a result of fund-raising ef LeCavalier, ELC director. forts at Clackamas Town Center The Haggart Observatory is during October, the ELC was able a major tourist attraction, with to raise more than $6,000 for the over two thousand visitors Haggart Observatory, toward the each year, explained LeCavalier. . $72,000 goal.. This makes the to It is the only public observa tal of cash donations over the last tory in the metro area. The year and a half $10,000. observatory was built in the Along with the cash donations, 1950’s by Howard Haggart at his all of the labor for the project has home in Redland. After his death been donated, explained LeCalvalier. Donations of labor in 1988, the observatory was do and supplies are from: Andersen nated to the ELC arid the dome was moved to its current loca Construction, Nupercon Demo lition, Ace Electric, Phoenix Elec tion. “We’ve got a great facility, it’s tric, Harder Mechanical, Portland a unique facility, and we just General Electric, Coast Crane have to get the word out and it Company, and Gordon Wireless will grow,” said LeCavalier, of the Systems. read one of her own poems, “In An- swertoNew Arrangements,” which she said was inspired by a talented composer/graduate of Clackamas. Candles were lighted with wishes and prayers. Don Hutchison, mathematics in structor, said, “I would like to pray that the light and warmth of these candles be brought to those that are in the cold and the dark.” Nursing Instructor Nancy Wilson offered “a prayer and a hope and a wish that all of our eyes might be opened even more to the beauty and wonder of every person.” Ellen Wolfson, counselor, has known Joshua Alexander [who filed the complaint against Epstein] since he came to Clackamas; she spoke about the elementary education stu dent. “He is a thinker, not a person who would want to hurt or harm anyone,” she said. “So the first candle I’m going to light is for Joshua, with the hope that he has gained tons of lead ership and respect for himself. Iam so thrilled today to see that people are here to support him. “And the second candle I want to light is for the students who left classes...” Wolfson continued, “who had issues and their voices were never heard. Maybe they can come back on campus and be part of this community.” Bill Zuelke, chair of the counsel ing department, addressed the privi lege of teaching and “the struggle to learn and to grapple with new ideas.” He said, “I would like to call for the wisdom and grace of God...” The final speaker of the evening was Jeremy VanKeuran, a former Clackamas student. “I attended four classes that were taught by Dr. Epstein,” he said, “and although I wasn’t altogether with his view points -because to fund my col lege education I worked as a cross dresser and up until six months ago I still was - despite that, I felt that Dr. Epstein was a man who genuinely cared about his students. “I would like to light a candle for Dr. Epstein, because I believe what has happened here has been severely misguided. Of all the college profes sors I have had, Dr. Epstein has been one of the best.. .and if the misinter pretation of some of his statements is going to cost this institution one of its best professors, then I believe education has failed.” Kate Gray ended the vigil with a Wallace Stevens poem entitled “Fi nal Soliloquy of the Interior Par amour.” As the gathering dispersed, Joshua Alexander spoke to the Print, saying he thought the vigil had been a “wonderful celebration of diver sity.” Alexander said he had not ex pected so much interest in his com plaint, “but the support has been wonderful,” includirig that of his “very supportive family.” As to VanKeuran’s comments, Alexander added, “with any incident there are two sides, with supporters on each side; I respect the opinions of both sides. I respect Jeremy for coming up in front of people who were not expecting to hear someone from the other side...it was needed...it’s good to have both sides, to create some balance.”
