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inion R -JilE CI ac I cam as P rínt J Cracking down on crime at Clackamas Ilt’s funny how I never really you’re doing?” However, upon into just the same. There are emer- i Bought about crime at Clackamas |til I started compiling informa- lion from »’public 's Ifety. further pondering, an unarmed girl catching a possibly seasoned gency phones located in the build ings and near the Community Cen ter, but not anywhere close to the parking lots. So what can we do? We need to ask more questions about our safety here. Yes, we have Public Safety and the Oregon City Police as well as the Clackamas County Sheriff’s Department just moments away. We can learn self-defense techniques, scream loud (that will hopefully get someone to come running) and use the buddy sys tem. When you leave this campus and are going out to your car, bring a friend, someone you can trust. Chances are a possible criminal may take on one, but two may be a little less likely. Granted, all we’ve heard thus far are car break-ins, but I think it’s time we as students, staff and fac ulty think about the safety of Clackamas as a whole, not only within the walls, but beyond them, where we may not be able to get help when it’s needed, which is as soon as possible. ■It bewil- i< ■rs me and t( ■ghtens me M at the same & Proud! time. So far, .c all I’ve re fs I ly reported |jpi Ti is cars il:L ling broken into. This is pretty kheartening because the major- l of them are occurring in Barlow Irking lot, which is where I park. Id be seriously pissed if someone il] loke into my car, but I wonder is I ore about the safety and well-be- hij g of the people on this campus. ill [Let's get hypothetical here, e< [hat if I was here on one of my 01 any late nights and parked way 1’; the back where the light just Sil irely touches my car and I came 11 ion someone breaking into my el [r. Now, my first reaction would iti i “Hey, what the hell do you think Salena De La Cruz Opinion Editor criminal off-guard is not going to have pleasant results. I could take off running, but what if he or she catches me first. Maybe I’ll be lucky and they’ll run the other way. The perpetrator may just be an other student who needed a little extra cash, not that you’d find any thing of value in my car. But let’s keep this hypothetical situation going. My question is, if I’ve been attacked and am lying in the parking lot, what are my chances of getting help? Now, this is probably a worst-case scenario, but one that needs to be looked ra etll Harry Potter: fantasy versus reality 111 All over the world different per- îr ectives clash over an unlikely ea—the reading of Harry Potter loks. ¡twari In England, an el- -| nentary school acher near London Ims reading the I loks. The decision to ay down books deal- Ig with magic and ¡ghosts was made by th school. Carol R< okwood, the school’s director "in Chatham, says that ghosts ■ren’t harmless and nice. The Bible is very clear in saying that pcerers, devils and demons ex- | and are very real, powerful, and Ingerous and that God’s children lould have nothing to do with lem.” In March at another En- » Ish school there was another “ ic Itter-banning.” [As for New Zealand, in class fechers have forbidden the read- |g aloud of Potter books and sent letter home to parents warning fere might be discussions of such loks in class. In Germany, “Harry Potter and e Sorcerer’s Stone” has been re med as “Harry Potter and the lilosopher’s Stone.” The word Roger Coleman, a Wiccan minister of a church in a town called Iron Oak, said that “it [the video] goes to great lengths to misinterpret and smear Wicca totally without justi fication.” This would not be the first time in the United I States that a book has been . : banned. Self-appointed mO- Liesl Muggli I rality watch dogs have been Managing Editor | doing it for centuries. Mark Twain’s "The Adventures pared to the United States and of Huckleberry Finn" was banned other ... countries.- because it portrayed a friendship The United States continues the between a black slave and white debate. In a Merritt Island church, boy. If banning books that deal a pastor made a one hour movie, with magic versus “reality” is what called “Harry Potter: Witchcraft we are about to do, then why not Repackaged- Making Evil Look In ban all fairy tale stories such as nocent.” The film has been shown “Snow White and the Seven to hundreds of people. Associate Dwarves,” “Sleeping Beauty,” Pastor Robert McGee wants par “Cinderella” and “Rapunzel"? ents “to see the truth about these Why not ban all J.R.R. Tolkein books.” The video says “children books or C.S Lewis books? No are being introduced to human matter what you do, children will sacrifice, the sucking of blood from continue to use their imaginations. dead animals and possession by Parents and mentors need to let spirit beings.” children talk about fantasy versus Elements in the books such as reality. When confronted with the broomsticks and pointed hats are question of Potter-bannings, I said to be references to the pagan have to ask myself, do adults have r e 1 i gio n , a firm grip on reality versus fan Wicca, which worships nature. tasy? for sorcerer is left off the book cover. They seem to be receiving it uncritically com- What do you think? etter To The Print: liter reading last week’s article “Terrorism Class on Hold, Instructors Needed,” I thought I might help Meet any misconceptions that the piece may have unintentionally created. That is, terrorism has two spects. One is the criminal justice, law enforcement and emergency response aspect which is addressed in our article. However, you make no reference to the other aspect of terrorism which is the political, ideologi- il and diplomatic side of this issue. The latter addresses the very reasons we have terrorist activity in the rst place. So, I checked with political scientist Dean Darris and discovered that he teaches a class in Spring erm - PS 205 International Relations - that deals with the issues of terrorism as a substantial part of the irriculum. Also, given the current set of events and political situation, Dr. Darris intends to focus more lention on this subject. So, this aspect of terrorism is available at CCC for interested students. 'ugo L. Grimaldi, MBA, CPA rofessor in Business and Accounting WEdNEsdAy, N ovemòer 28, 2001 T error T racking 11/26/01 ASUNCION, Paraguay-A Leba MAZAR-E-SHARIF, Afghanistan- Five Americans were wounded by a stray United States bomb when fighting with the Northern Alliance against Osama bin Laden’s sup porters. TALOQAN, Afghanistan- A Swedish television journalist was killed early Tuesday in a robbery in northern Afghanistan. HARLINGEN, Texas-Mexican and United States borders had a decline in people trying to go across the borders after the Sept. 11 attacks. LOS ANGELES-The United States Coast Guard has a new security program and training was started in ports in California. WASHINGTON-Marines enter Afghanistan to cut off escape routes for the Taliban. WASHINGTON- Attorney General John Ashcroft won’t release the names of suspects in the Sept. 11 attacks currently being detained because it would violate their right to privacy. nese businessman suspected of having financial links to the Islamic militant group Hezbollah was de tained. WASHINGTON-A small group of journalists who went into south ern Afghanistan with Marines on Monday were the first reporters the Pentagon has allowed to accom pany United States troops into the country. KOENIGSWINTER, Germany- Afghan factions can expect no aid for rebuilding their war-ravaged country unless they agree on a broad-based government, a senior United States official said Monday on the eve of U.N.-sponsored talks. Official count of victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks: NEW YORK: 3,553 World Trade Center: City officials SOUTHERN AFGHANISTAN- say 1,284 are missing. The medical examiner’s office has issued 453 death certificates. An additional 1,816 death certificates have been issued without a body, at the re quest of victims’ families. The following includes passengers and crew on hijacked planes : United States Marines gained con trol of an. outpost in Kandahar as Navy fighter jets attacked a con voy of armored enemy vehicles moving near the base in southern Afghanistan. American Airlines Flight 11: 92 United Airlines Flight 175: 65 WASHINGTON: 189 Pentagon: 125 American Flight Airlines 77: 64 OXFORD, Conn. -No new evi passengers and crew PENNSYLVANIA: 44 dence found in relation to the woman in Connecticut who died of anthrax. United Flight Airlines 93: 44 pas sengers and crew TOTAL: 3,786 Information compiled from KATU sources as well as The Oregonian. Do you want to go head to head with one of our writers? Bring it on! 'endyour opinions to cccprint@> }clackamas. cc. or. us 300-500 words or stop by B 104 with it saved o a disk.
