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4__________ A&E WedNEsdAy, D ecemòer 6, 2000 TI je CI ac I camas P rìnt Electronic journal publishes student writing DAISY BAIN Contributing Writer Where is a good place for Clackamas students to publish their best writing for everyone, including college instructors and universities, to see? The “Banyan Quarterly” is an electronic journal that highlights fac ulty-nominated student essays of exceptional scholarly value or artis tic merit. It may be found on the web, at http://depts.clackamas. cc.us/banyan. “We chose the web-based format because of the universal accessibil ity of the Internet,” explained Brad St i les, one of two editors-in-chief of the “Banyan.” “For instance, if we published on paper, we’d have to decide how many issues we could afford to print; then we’d somehow have to decide who would get an issue, who we could sell issues to, how we could distribute them, etc. “If we publish on the web, the number of issues is literally infinite, determined only by the number of browsers we can get to point our way. In addition, students can put the address in correspondence with admission counselors of schools they wish to transfer to, or in appli cations for employment...so that people can not only see a sample of their work, but also that their work has been judged excellent by the faculty.” The idea for this computerized journal first came about when Stiles was searching for a journal to which his students could submit their works, but found a stunning lack of publications interested in under graduatework. “The ones I did find were all put together by students, judged by stu dents, and read by students. > Be cause faculty members don’t jury those journals, they don’t carry the same weight as juried publications. I did find one faculty-judged jour nal, in South Dakota, but it evidently folded after only one issue. I men tioned this to Shannon Stiles, for merly of the CCC Library and now with Distance Learning, and Jackie Flowers, social science instructor, and within a couple of weeks the “Banyan Quarterly” was bom,” nates a work, then that work is pub lished.” Clackamas President John Keyser first suggested the name “Banyan”. “Like the Banyan Tree, whose branches grow into die ground to become new trunks, the college is continuously growing into a stron ger, healthier organization through the personal commitment and initia tive of each student and staff mem ber,” wrote Keyser. The journal has been advertised in die global market It is included in a couple of scholarly journal indexes and Stiles has sent e-mails to schol ars at such targeted institutions as the University of Oregon and Or egon State University. added Stiles. How die work gets published is fairly simple. The students write their works in their classes. If the teacher feels it has exceptional merit, the teacher fills out a one-page sub mission form and then it is published in the next issue. “We publish everything we are sent, so each issue represents the total of faculty submissions,” said Stiles. “The faculty are experts in their fields, and we are editors; we would not presume to judge a work not produced in our own classes. Therefore, if a faculty member nomi- Shadow Boxers 'edgy, fast-paced, worth the trip' stage confessions with an exhilarat ing rhythm. ture of an unashamedly strong woman dominant in a Quickly we are introduced to our protagonist, a knockout beauty bom in Amsterdam, Lucia Rijker, previ ously die women’s kickboxing cham pion of Europe, now Super Light weight Champion of the World and the first and only female boxer ever to be signed by promoter Bob Arum. The film documents Reijker’s move from Holland to Los Angeles and the beginning of her profes sional career as one of the best box stereotypically male sport. 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