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4__________ WedNEsdAy, FebRUARy 20, 2002 Feature The CI ac I íamas P rint Careful, you never know who you're talking to I’ve had a really strange week so Mister Funny is taking a break. Next week I promise to return with another 550 words carefully crafted to get everyone’s undies in a twist. Seriously, aside from a few flip pant remarks, there are no punch lines in today’s column. Still with me? Great, then read on. I watched a guy - most defi nitely not a student - picking bottles from one of the recy cling containers on campus last week. During the five to ten minutes he went about his business, probably 20 people walked by. Not a single person issued any form of challenge or made any move to interfere or report him. He carefully cleaned it out, replaced the lid and moved on to another building. Frankly, at the time, I was impressed with the staff and my fellow students. What ruined it for me later was hear ing a complaint that somebody should have stopped him from stealing from the school. Personally, I don’t feel he was stealing anything. If you don’t agree, try getting your deposit back the next time you rassment in the future. The polish off a Pepsi purchased guy who writes this column from the cafeteria. Better yet, was homeless just six short pick up a pen or jump on your months ago. Not only that, he keyboard and write me about used to dig through trashcans it. With one exception: you looking for bottles. Had you will never convince me that the A s s o c i - Marvin Baker ated Stu Guest Columnist dent Gov ernment or staff Xmas party plan ners would have made better use of the met me last August, it’s pos two to three bucks that guy sible this column you claim to walked off with. You don’t love reading every week would know he was going to spend it never have seen the light of on booze or drugs any more day. You might have had me than I know it was for his locked up for offending you mother’s blood transfusion. with my lack of housing. Let’s find out who the future I don’t have the cure for prosecuting attorneys are in homelessness; I wouldn’t our midst. know where to begin or even The tone of those last sen how to explain how I made it tences would be called ironic off the street myself. But I do in English Lit. To the world at know when a student with a large it’s simply known as sar sociology textbook in her arms casm. In this vein I would like advocates arresting somebody to offer two young ladies in for collecting bottles, we need particular a bit of advice that to step back and define which may save them some embar problem needs addressing first. I’m telling you guys this be cause I know from experience he will be back. He’s found a source of income, and if pos sible he will visit every couple of weeks to cash in. I’m not just speaking to the students. I haven’t heard any derogatory remarks from staff regarding Boxcar Willie, but I know for a fact your students are picking up the double stan dard “In public we say this, in private we say that.” This to tally invalidates any real world application of the virtue edu cation is supposed to instill. Once again, I will speak from personal experience to make my point. I know some of you (staff) don’t necessarily care for my ra pier wit. Since I’m as old as most of you and wear the big boy pants and can go to the bathroom by myself and every thing, that’s not much of a con sideration when I sit down in front of the keyboard. I have a friend who keeps telling me if everybody likes it not enough people are reading it. Most of you would probably agree. But think about this: who are you hurting when you espouse tolerance and progres sive thought in class, then ad vocate censorship during a Gen eral Foods coffee moment with one of your prodigies? I’m bet ting that poor bastard digging through the garbage feels the backlash more often than any one else. I may seem like the last person in the world you would expect to speak out on the side of compas sion, but I only poke fun at people’s choices, not their misfor tunes (the only exception to this would be the enigma of estrogen - sorry, can’t help myself). I remem ber what it was like to be hope less, desperate and invisible. For tunately someone gave me a leg up and I landed here. For those of you who pride yourselves on pro gressive thought, think about that the next time you begin leaning to wards, “out of sight, out of mind.” This is a great school, and the stafi/student mix is too complimen tary for the perpetuation of the sta tus quo - we can get hypocrisy everywhere else. To reach Marvin Baker e-mail mbaker296@hotmail.com or drop by B-104. Online registration arrives at Clackamas ELISABETH MEYER .fiujynruer Although spring registration is still weeks away, there’s another reason to get excited about February 26: Clackamas’ long- awaited online registration sys tem is now available. Returning students can ac cess the web site to select, add and drop classes. Other fea tures include access to course grades, transcripts, and finan cial aid information. All previ ous registration requirements will still apply; after the first week, students will have to make in-person schedule changes to full term classes. Telephone and in-person registration will still be avail able, said Web Advisor Roni Wilhelm. Online registration has the convenience of telephone registration and the comfort of seeing what you’re doing, said Wilhelm. “The phone system can be kind of disembodied; a lot of people like to see (their schedules) in front of them. This way, they can just print them out when they’re done.” Besides, Wilhelm added, the quirks of the phone system are eliminated. “It’s kind of like: (in a phone voice) ‘press one now,’ you know what I mean?” she said. “And anytime you have an automated system, people can get frustrated. If you are on too long, it kicks you off. The students who use telephone registration and love it always will, and that’s fine.” Previously, online registration was used when signing up for workshop-type classes that only last a weekend such as stress management or the fruit - grow ing seminar. But the conve nience of the new sys tem will gradually transform how stu dents access classes, said Ariane Amstutz, a registrar. “It’s going to take a while for ev eryone to know about it, and for people to get comfortable us ing it,” she said. “But by (sum mer) term, we should see shorter lines (in the Commu- nity Center).” The admistrative folks expect things to go well. “We’ve done a lot of test ing,” Wilhelm said. During winter term, two groups of stu dents successful accessed the system, as well as Registrar office employees and faculty. “If you’re familiar with the web, it’s a relatively simple process.” “I think it’ll be a smooth tran sition,” Amstutz agreed. “People our age are pretty fa miliar with the web.” To reach Elisabeth Meyer e-mail hereswhatimthinkin@hotmaiLcom or drop by B-104. 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