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Letters 2__________ Opinion WcdNEsdAy, NovEMbeR 8, 2000 All signed letters to the editor should be 500 words or less an; considered for publication if submitted by 1 pm the Friday publication. Letters to the Editor are subject to editing. We rci right to not publish any letter. ASG hosts information luncheon Don rt be a couch pota Clackamas President John Keyser and Associated Stu dent Government (ASG) ambas sadors met with campus lead ers at a luncheon last Wednes- smokers to designated areas or banning smoking on campus al together. There was also talk about the defacing of posters/ a n - nounce- ments. The larger concern Sandy Lupo is toler- Opinion Editor a n c e and di versity on campus. Diversity is a reality. The challenge on cam pus is to embrace it, to make it a win-win proposition. W/ty not regular reports on ASG ac/ion? Wouldn’t it be nice if we had a luncheon like this once a month? Or if we, the student body, received at least a monthly report by ASG in forming us what they are work ing on and talking about on our behalf? Perhaps smokers would like to have their two cents consid ered before a new policy affect ing them is enacted. That is another matter of tolerance, al though smokers on campus probably deserve what they get, since they refuse to obey the liberal rules in place now, React Listen.Thiiik. sandralupo@aol.com day, and in my opinion it was so informative (and the gath ering over pizza so enjoyable) that it should be repeated ev ery month or so. // gave some of the student body an opportunity to know some things our student gov ernment is working on and talk ing about, in addition to the ex traordinary efforts by ASG to get the Clackamas bond passed, and their ongoing work to provide childcare grants to Clackamas students who have children. Will we be restricted from smoking on campus?Who knew that ASG is in serious discussion about smoking on campus?Apparently there is discussion about restricting and throw their butts every where but the many ashtrays, which is just inconsiderate and lazy. I am a smoker, and I don’t (generally) throw my butts on the ground, and I shall be pe nalized with all you smokers who are less considerate. Nevertheless, we deserve to be heard, and_to be allowed warning, and perhaps a chance to mend our ways, before a broad, punitive policy is put in place by the majority on cam pus, the very intolerant non- smokers. W/iy doesn’t ASG share their goings on? The Print should not have to dig out all the news or discover it acci dentally like we did at the lun cheon. ASG should print a monthly newsletter to the stu dent body disclosing what they are doing and discussing and inviting student body input on every subject that will affect us. Or at least ASG should make a monthly report through the Print. What else is going on? What else is going on that stu dents don’t know and might not like? Silence breeds ignorance and unaccountability, and the few mak ing the rules for the many. Read, listen, think; write us! The Print is a student, not administration, paper Last week a group of freethink- ing Clackamas students created and distributed unofficially a publication called The Clacka- mas Counter. It was made up of five opinions on subjects rang ing from voting to the pointlessness of work. This same group distributed a similar publication last year calling themselves “Stu dents for Democ racy." That a group of writers would bring together a collection of thoughts like this is laudable. Po litical comment like this is a breath of fresh air in this coun try where political rot is rampant. Individual voices need to be heard. Publications like The Clacka mas Counter may appear to be crude and hastily done, but ama teur pamphlets written by Tho mas Paine and other revolution ary writers spread ideas that kicked off the American Revolu tion. The Clackamas Counter, however, is nothing like the work of Thomas Paine. It is made up of completely raw opinions, most of them unsupported and a few based on false assumptions. All right, let’s face it, we all do it, and oftentimes so much that it’s not good for us. We know that it’s basically a waste of time, but still it’s hard to re sist » sitting on the couch and watchi and also make a huge mess by ing their chips and popcorn alls This might sound negative, M just tnl show iB wholes ceptof ing TV You ha little ‘st Maggie Jirasek thing’ Feature Co-Editor glare a hours makes you forget everything el the end, you have really acl nothing. Now, I have to adm it can also be very c nient. There are good aspects watching TV I in some cases, cate you; am course, it prob helps you to relaj forget about your ¡ ~~~j lems- It gives yoi chance to ‘dive ii dreamworld.’ Justmaki you wake up on time. The whole point is, don’t 01 it. Everything can be good to degree if you don’t lose coi Watching TV is fine as long] doesn’t take over and you d turn into axouch potato. [< Follow the white rabbit If you don’t know what I’m talking about then let me give you one more clue, it’s an activity that doesn’t require any physical orbrain work, not really. Everybody has Z probably figured t 1 out by now that <V I’m talking about watching television. Most of us spend hours A and hours each week star -— ing into this ‘little box’ dis playing thousands and thousands of ‘magic images’ every second. If you just take the time to think about it for a minute, you might come to the same conclusion I did: it’s a ri diculous and never-ending process of just sitting and staring. I know of people who spend hours each day just .< Israeli-Palestinian conflict ignites on campus Print of being a “not so cleverly disguised piece of administration propaganda.” He also claims The Print “omitted facts relevant to Last Thursday’s “debate” on the published stories oftentimes to conflict in Israel was extremely dis slant the stories...falsified appointing, with the hour-long mud facts...failed to uphold slinging only helping to illustrate the journalistic standards and problems between Israel and Pales ethics...and [was] a volun tine. tary participant in the administration’s agenda.” These claims are abso Steve Nielsen lutely false. News Editor To the contrary, the newspaper staff I have For example, Caleb Gandy, in worked with eagerly seeks the his piece “Clackamas Commu facts and has no time or desire nity Trade School,” says that to plot elaborate schemes to carry there is a “diminishing number of out the administration’s, or any The room was full of people hop faculty.” According to the CCC one else’s, agenda. The Print ing to hear some of the history of college profile, the number of fac also has an advisor to make sure this ongoing battle between the Is ulty has been increasing since that there is no libel in what the raelis and Palestinians. What we 1995 and has fluctuated by only newspaper prints, and that the actually saw was an hour of blame four faculty members since 1997. opinions remain on the opinion and name calling by two people who Former Clackamas student page. should know better. Glenn McCarthy, in his piece "A Thurete closes his article with Retired Clackamas instructor Dr. Vote for Nader, Is a Vote for this statement: “Let [The Print] Donald Epstein seemed ill pre Nader," cautions us to “not look reflect genuinely student opin pared to give a lecture. He never for a quick fix to our current cor ion, and not the administration’s. moved from his seat and had no porate fascist regime or all [we] After all, that is what a student notes to refer to. Not once did he will get is more thorough police newspaper is meant to do.” back up his inflammatory state state.” A corporate fascist re At least we agree on some ments about the Palestinians with gime? A police state? Isn’t that thing. That’s a great idea, but it's any evidence. a little extreme? not an original one. Reflecting The same cannot be said about Clackamas student Seth K. student opinion is not just what Dr. Masoud Kheirabadi. A stack Thurete, in his pieqe “Prints we're meant to do, it's what were of notes six inches thick sat on the Promise’s (sic) ” accuses The already doing. table next to him. He had overhead Most of the opinions didn’t even offer new ideas, but were merely critical - against last year’s Print staff,, the Associated Student Government (ASG)and the col- lege administration. with detal slides of the area, " maps of Jerusalem. And in tai the position that the current ul ing is Israel’s fault, he constanti» ferred to his sources. It was uni On the contrary 4 As I see it Editor-in-Chief: Web Master: Diana Scrivncr (x2447) Feature Co-Editor: C?1 ac I< ama 5 I Jim Spickclmicr Staff: Maggie Jirasek R’fiM Amanda Gosscr Chris Lundgren Corinne Rupp Dana Palmer Elena Boryska Jenny Chavez Licsl Muggli Malt Shcmpcrt Michael Choc Shannon Recabarcn Wes Fawcett Feature Co-Editor: Tam Oliver A & E Editor: Mandy Good Copy/Opinion Editor: V Sandy Lupo Sports Editor: Jason Lingcl News Editor Steve Nielsen Photo Editor: Ci I V. V RÏ <¡O i 2J09 .. qib . Secretary: ' Mike Pollock Business Manager: JoAnne Gale Advisor: Scott Crcson (x2578) Linda Vogt (x2310) Corinne Rupp tonate H f °l Kheirai and I audiel that I was fol to respl toEpsti infialili3 tory remarks. But the colloquium lacked strl tore. The “You tell your side, 1’lli my side” format is conflict indues if not closely moderated. Epstein,I several occasions, interrupt nterrupl Kheirabadi to argue. Epstein sho| >stein shol not have been allowed to intern as he did, yet only once was hel in check by Moderator Bill Briarel his outbursts. Epstein yelled insil at Kheirabadi during the debate, a afterwards, in the hall, at Briare. I It’s unfortunate for everyone t| the first colloquium of the year« integrated into insults and blamil Students deserve better and J hopefully recieve it in future lectu of this nature. The Clackamas Print aims to report the neu in an honest, unbiased, professional manne The opinions expressed in The Clackama Print do not necessarily reflect those of th student body, college administration, its far ulty, or The Clackamas Print advertisers Products and services advertised in Th Clackamas Print are not neccesarily endorse! by anyone associated with The Clackama Print. The advertising rate is $4.75 per col umn inch. The Clackamas Print is a week! publication and is distributed every Wednes day except during Finals week. The Clackam- Print Copyright 2000.
