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WcdNEsdAy, NovEMbeR 8, 2000
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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.
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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
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sitting on the couch and watchi
and also make a huge mess by
ing their chips and popcorn alls
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ing TV
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little ‘st
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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 ¡
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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.
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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.
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probably figured t
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out by now that
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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
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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
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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
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Kheirabadi to argue. Epstein
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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.
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