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ASG, family and friends work together to clean Clackamas County road Volleyball awaits championships Honoring our Veterans Check out the special on Page 5 Check it out on Page 3 Bumping it on Page T k e IM"!“ s 32!) pnesday, November 8, 2000 Clackamas Community College Oregon City, Oregon Wpy Volume XXXIV, Issue 5 ““fiddle East colloquium turns into emotional debate A discussion on the current strife in Israel turned hotly politi cal last Thursday, Nov. 2. The social science department held a colloquium to explore the causes of the violence erupting in the Middle East. McLoughlin 229 was filled with students, faculty and members of the community who had come to hear Dr. Masoud Kheirabadi, geography instructor at Clackamas in the social science department, and Dr. Donald Epstein, retired Clackamas instruc tor, discuss the historical basis of the conflict. Epstein began the lecture by tell ing the audience about the bomb ing that had taken place that morn ing in a vegetable market in Jerusa lem, killing two Israelis. He spoke tllC tfSnOll* of tVlA ('mnt rtF fka from his chair at the front of the room, occasionally punctuating his comments with his hands. His main argument was that Israel had offered Palestine “everything they wanted,” with the exception of Jerusalem, at the summer Camp David talks, and Yassar Arafat had refused the offer. “Maybe he wanted a war,” replied Epstein when asked why. “He (Arafat) wants the one thing that Israel will not give him—Jerusalem.” Epstein was pessimistic about a settlement between Israel and Pal estine any time soon, and specu lated that the “war” could continue on for two or more years. “The peace process is at an end; there is no reconciling,” he stated. Epstein also voiced his concern about the conflict becoming a re gional war involving Lebanon and Egypt. He speculated that if that “I don’t remember getting any com such violation of individual or group plaints last year,” remarked Dian rights as removing or defacing their Connett, dean of instructional and property could easily lead to ten student services, “ but from time to sion among students and cause feel time in the past six years we have ings of hurt. “I put out yellow had those concerns that posters saying that people have either writ CGC Value the rights of our stu ten graffiti on posters, We believe in respecting the taken them down or tom inherent right o£ all persons to live dent groups to post with dignity and freedom. their signs and flyers them.” Please respect the rights (jf'our should be re It is not known who is student groups to post their signs and flyers. spected,” Connett guilty of the vandalism, confirmed. “I think nor their motivations. £« CiATKAMAt that we should keep “I have no idea who could have done this, and I don’t on talking about these issues so that understand why people would want people feel comfortable participat to do it,” said Gray. “ I just think that ing. If I’m walking down the hallway there is not a whole lot of room for and I see someone doing that, I feel tolerance for people that are just try a lot more comfortable to go up to ing to do their own thing. It’s hard them and say ‘hey look, you know not to feel hurt, especially if some we don’t appreciate this kind of be one writes really awful things on havior at Clackamas, that’s not ap propriate here’, and that’s what we your signs.” Connett has taken action by in have to do so that everybody feels forming people of the values ex comfortable to say that.” Besides the Rainbow Club, sev pected to be upheld at Clackamas. She wants all students to realize that eral other clubs and Associated Stu- dent Government (ASG) members have reported missing signs. “I know that students involved in the Campus Crusade for Christ Club came in and complained about their signs disap pearing,” confirmed Gloriarme Muggli, ASG vice president. The college Diversity Committee will discuss the issue. In addition, the administration has sent a memo to all staff members asking for ideas and suggestions about the problem. On behalf of the Rain bow Club, Gray has de veloped her own strat egy to handle such intolerance. “We are just going to put out more and more flyers, keep them coming, and try not to be discour aged.” CORINNE RUPP Staff Writer CORINNE RUPP/ Clackamas Print Masoud Kheirabadi, geography instructor in Clackamas' social >nce department, speaks about Palestine as Dr. Donald Epstein, red history instructor, readies his counter argument. The oquium, held last Thursday, was to discuss the conflicts between Israelis and Palestinians. happened, atomic weapons could become involved. Kheirabadi stood to give his pre sentation on the Palestinian side of the discussion. He used the overhead projector to show dia grams of the area to the audience and explained in detail the history of the land and the people who had occupied it from as far back as the Byzantine Empire, around 1265 AD. He explained the history of the state of Israel, and the history of the Palestinian Infantata, or youth rebellion. The debate became heated. Epstein compared the Palestinian children fighting the Israeli sol diers to the Third Reich’s army of eight-year-olds with grenades fighting the allied troops at the end of WWIL He questioned the See Colloquium, page 4 J ntolerance is charged in removal, defacing of campus posters PWAGGIEJIRASEK I Feature Co-Editor he defacing and removal of is and flyers posted by student ups at Clackamas has caused ? icem for staff and students and - pired discussion on issues such = values, tolerance and respect. Complaints about posters and ns torn down or defaced have ;n surfacing since beginning of fall school term. ‘All our signs were taken down,” rlained Kate Gray, Clackamas En- sh instructor and advisor of the npus Rainbow Club for homo- <uals, lesbians, bi-sexuals and nssexuals. “We put up two dif- ent sets of signs, (and) the small es we made were down within the —st six hours. Most of the other es were either ripped down as ill, or had awful things written on :m.” This is not the first time that _ ackamas has faced this problem. MIKE POLLOCK/ Clackamas Print Bryan Fuentez, ASG president, posts signs reminding students to vote. Signs about campus clubs have been vandalized. C English instructor's book nominated for Pulitzer Prize STEVE NIELSEN News Editor *MIKE POLLOCK/ Clackamas Print ig Lesley, English Instructor, om mated for a Pulitzer Prize orm Riders. I Storm Riders, a novel written by Clackamas Instructor Craig Lesley, is one of about 25 fiction books nominated for the Pulitzer Prize this year. Diane Higgins and the editorial staff of Picador Press, Lesley’s publisher, nominated the book for the prize last July. In April the Pulitzer Committee will convene and decide which work of fiction will receive the prize for 2000. If Storm Riders wins, it will rank with such books as Toni Morrison’s Be loved, Alice Walker’s The Color Purple and Larry McMurtry’s Lonesome Dove, former Pulitzer fiction winners. Lesley has written several other books including Winterkill, River Song and a few compendiums of Native American literature. One of Lesley’s previous books, The Sky Fisherman, was also nominated for the Pulitzer. Lesley is one of three finalists for the 2000 Oregon Book Awards, for Storm Riders. The winner of the H.L. Davis Award for Fiction will be announced tonight at 7:30 p.m. at the Oregon Book Awards Ceremony in Portland. Storm Riders is a fictional ac count of college instructor Clark Woods and his troubled Tlinget Indian stepson, Wade. Wade has fetal alcohol syndrome and a talent for finding the best way to cause the most trouble in any given situa tion. The book illustrates the plight of many parents in their efforts to raise children with challenging cir cumstances like fetal alcohol syn drome or autism. “I think they nominated Storm Riders because it’s a really well writ ten book, but it also deals with the struggles that people have trying to raise damaged children,” said Lesley. “An amazing number of people have talked to me about the struggles that they have, not only with children affected by alcohol or drugs, but with autistic children. A lot of the people have said that Wade really reminds them of their stepson or stepdaughter.” For much of the book, Lesley is writing from personal experience. Many of the circumstances docu mented in the book are based on actual situations he experienced with his own stepson. “I think a lot of people have an uncomfortable time reading the book,” said Lesley. “I think that’s a testimony, hopefully, to the fact that it’s real accurate.” Another reason Lesley thinks the book was nominated for the Pulitzer is that it recounts the story of Angoon, Alaska, an Indian vil lage that was destroyed by the See Pulitzer, page 3 .
