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Wednesday, April 26, 2000
Clackamas Community College
Oregon City, Oregon
Volume XXXIII, Issue
21
Environmental club cleans local road
HEEL members spent Saturday
cleaning up Loder Road for Earth Day
DIANA SCRIVNER
Associate News Editor
The environment was cleaned as
garbage bags were filled by
Clackamas students and members
of the Helping Everyone’s Environ­
ment Live (H.E.E.L.) Club, who
cleaned up Loder Road Saturday in
honor of Earth Day.
Loder Road is a residential street
located off Beavercreek Rd., south
of the college. It was adopted by
the club last year so that they could
do something to help the environ­
ment locally.
“Even though we may think glo­
bally about environmental issues,
we definitely believe in being ac­
tive locally,” said Ken Eshelman,
H.E.E.L student coordinator.
Eleven students braved the early
morning and helped out for many
different reasons; some were con­
cerned with the environment while
others simply thought it was a good
activity to engage in.
“It seemed like a good thing to do
on Earth Day and 1 thought it would
be a good experience for my son,”
said student Kirstin Blair.
“I like being involved however I
can, to help out,” said Leya Graham,
ASG administrative assistant. “I like
working with people and this is a
great thing.”
“It’s important whenever possible
for people to engage in activities
that don’t directly benefit them,”
said Paul Crieghton, ASG vice presi­
dent, of why he helped out.
The road was littered by pop
cans, cigarette butts, paper cups
and other debris. By the time the
clean up was complete, the litter was
off the road and into garbage bags
that Clackamas County then picked
up.
“I think it looked a lot better,” said
Raechel Van Den Bosch, ASG sena­
tor for student access. “It was good
to get all the plastic and styrofoam
out of there, the things that take
a long time to decompose.’
The mission of the
H.E.E.L club is to pro­
mote student and
faculty awareness
of environmental is­
sues through hands
on activities and commu­
nity outreach. They partici­
pate in three volunteer projects
a term.
If you are interested in being in
volved, meetings are held every
Monday from 11:30 a.m.-12:30
p.m. in Dye 126. Theirnextser-
vice project, a river clean up,
will take place on May 20. It
is sponsored by the
H.E.E.L club, the Environ­
mental Learning Center
(E.L.C.) and Phi Theta
Kappa (Clackamas’
honor society). For more information
about the H.E.E.L. club, contact Ken
Eshelman at ext. 2247.
PHOTOS BY DIANA SCRIVNER
James Gould and Kris Barrow
work together to pick up the
litter on Loder Rd. Many
students woke up early to pick
up the debris on the road which
is adopted by the college. The
road is a residential street that
is very scenic.
Ken Eshelman, Kris Barrow
and Kirsten Blair carry their
trash bags up Loder Rd- After
cleaning up the street, the bags
were left on the side of the road
and Clackamas County picked
them up.
Science students remember Chernobyl on anniversary
The political climate
Today, April 26, 2000, marks
the 14lh anniversary of the
Chernobyl nuclear power plant
explosion. Therefore, theASC-202
(Integrated Science Concepts)
students decided it would be im­
portant to investigate the issues
surrounding this disaster, why it
happened and what has been
learned since then.
The Chernobyl nuclear power
facility is located in the town of
Pripyat, Ukraine, which is about 75
miles north of the city of Kiev. In
April 1986, while performing a
safety test, the nuclear engineers
were unable to control the heat
produced, resulting in a fire and
explosion. Thousands of people
were immediately exposed to harm­
ful radiation, including workers,
their families, and surrounding
towns. The effects were felt glo­
bally and are not yet resolved.
In the five years prior to the
Chernobyl accident, the USSR had
experienced a rapid succession of
political leaders, contributing to
the Chernobyl tragedy through in­
efficient bureaucracy and secrecy.
The government that had de­
signed and built Chemoble in the
late 70’s was spending billions of
dollars annually on war efforts in
Afghanistan, Cuba, Nicaragua,
and Vietnam. According to Lyubov
Kovalevskaya, a Ukraine journal­
ist, the nuclear power station was
completed with 70-90% defective
materials. Kovalevskaya, who as a
nurse had the ability to understand
the safety inefficiencies involved
with the Chernobyl plant, was not
allowed to publish articles that were
critical of the plant.
Environmental impact
The environment was extremely
affected by the nuclear explosion
at Chernobyl. The main cause of
contamination and European con­
cern was the plume, the cloud of
See Chernobyl, page 3