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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
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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.
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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 .