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A piece of China in | Portland Cougar basketball rocks the house },• »' Check out the special on page 4 Check it out on page 7 Golden Globe winner Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon a must see Review on page 5 ClAckAMÂs P rint f ,LEC0|, y Wednesday, February 14, 2001 Clackamas Community College Oregon City, Oregon Black History Month Remembering Black American contributions JENNYCHAVEZ Copy Editor the effects of slavery. “I often found myself regretting my February is Black History Month, which has ignited sudden bursts of African film festivals, soul food lun own existence and wishing myself dead,” he said. “And but for the hope cheons and African American dance and music celebrations; but there’s more meaning intended in Black His have killed myself.” February became amonth for many tory Month than just the song, food and dance. Although no activities are sched uled at Clackamas, Black History Month is celebrated throughout the Portland area, and has an interest ofbeing free, I have no doubt I should black historical events, including the passing ofthe 15th Amendment grant History Week to bring national at tention to contri butions that black fire extinguisher, F. Flemings Jr., guitar (variation); and George Washington wood stain, Worcestershire sauce, dyes, shampoo, instant coffee, and much more. This is Black History Month, a time created by Woodson to remember Black American’s contribu Carver, inventor ofbleach, buttermilk, tions towards a better America. lawn mower, GF Grant, golf tee; J.L. Love, pencil sharpener; Garrett A. Morgan, traffic signal; T.J. Marshall, Red warms hearts ing blacks voting rights in 1870 and the founding ofthe NAACP in 1960. Black history is ingrained in major US cities. A few of them are: Atlanta, home ofthe original KKK headquar ters, established in ing history of its own. In 1926, Dr. Carter G. Woodson launched Negro contributions made by them. In honor of Black History Month, contemplate this small sampling of the many inven tions made by Black Americans: Sa rah Boone, the ironing board; A.B Blackbum, Railway signal; J.A Burr, Black History Month commemo rates the birthdays of two people: Fredrick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln. people made in American history. He was born to parents who were former slaves and worked as a child in Kentucky coalmines. He was fi nally able to go back to school at age 20 and graduated when he was 22. Woodson went on to earn his Ph.D. at Harvard, and being dis turbed by the lack of references to Black American accomplishments in the history books, went on to write about their contributions in Ameri can history and soon turned Negro History Week into Black History Month. February was the month chosen because of the birthdays of two people, Fredrick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, who impacted black history. Douglass, a former slave, writer and freedom activist made the mid 1800 society aware of 1915, also housed the 1960’s civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Detroit became the foun- dation of Motown Record Corporation and Montgomery, Alabama was where the histori cal Rosa Parks’ arrest sparked the civil rights movement. America’s history of abuse to wards blacks continues to emerge, even today. Former President Bill Clinton issued an apology in 1997 to Black Americans. “The United States Government did something that was wrong - deeply, profoundly, morally wrong,” he said concerning the Tuskegee syphilis experiment from 1932-1972, when 399 black men were deliber ately left to die from syphilis so data could be collected from the autop sies. “It was an outrage to our com mitment to integrity and equality for all our citizens.. .clearly racist.” Though America’s past is stained with slaveiy, segregation and violence towards blacks, it is also enriched with GILBERT BARRETT / Clackamas Print “Red, ” the heart shaped sculpture at the Barlow Hall parking lot entrance, was created by Dennis Petersen, co-owner of a heavy construction company who made the shapes by rolling over heavy pipes with a tractor. CCC Instructor Rick True organized an outdoor sculpture show at PCC where Petersen’s piece was first displayed. PCC declined the offer to keep “Red” so Petersen gave it to Bob Dozono, a friend of True. Bob loaned it to CCC and helped True move and assemble the sculpture on our campus in 1995. The sculpture had to be dismantled into four sections, and according to True, was very difficult to assemble. Although no one knows for sure if “Red” symbolizes a deeper meaning, True offers his own idea: “I can’t address the meaning except to perhaps the industrial coldness ofthe size and materials to its resemblance to the warmth and life of a heart shape. ” — ---- y;—------- -------- r-;-------------X See Valentine Special, page 2 Misley discusses Galapagos at social science colloquium CORINNE RUPP Opinion Editor The second social science colloquium this year was held Thurs day afternoon in Pauling Center, 101. Biology Instructor Bob Misley the ship wrecked off the coast of spoke to a large group on the bioge ography of the Galapagos and how do to the crude oil floating on the San Cristobal, Misley was con cerned with what the currents would “It did not move where we origi nally feared it would. It did not go off and impact other islands like we feared it would. It went up and away from the islands into open ence to the tanker that broke apart off the coast of San Cristobal, one of the southeastern islands in the archipelago. The Galapagos Islands sit on the equator, 600 miles off the coast of or the spin cycle?” he said. These islands are home for many species found nowhere else on earth, like giant sea tortoises and kelp-eating sea iguanas. The fear was that the oil would flow back into the archipelago and onto the other islands. Instead, the bulk of the oil moved north and east, away from ocean.” The bulk of the lecture con sisted of slides of the islands, in cluding the flora and fauna as well as maps of the area. One slide showed the process of the voy age of the H.M.S . Beagle, the trip the young Charles Darwin took on his way across the globe. It is as sumed that the five weeks he spent in the Galapagos was a founding block of his theories on evolution. The colloquium lasted about an hour. A question and answer pe South America. Three major cur land. riod wrapped up the lecture. the recent oil spill could impact the unusual species found in the region. “When something like this does happen, we do not totally know what its impact is,” said Misley, in refer Biology Instructor Bob Misley points to the Galapagos Islands on the map Thursday at the second Social Science Colloquium this year. Misley discussed the oil spill that has just occurred there. rents collide in the area around the islands. Misley compared the cur rents to a washing machine. When surface. “My first reaction when I heard this was, are we on the rinse cycle
