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£____________ ■ mim. December 4, 2002 The Clackamas Print Student's rights enforced Campus^ The Print fights for access to public safety logs unlocked, which was how Jeanne’s pers don’t have to.cover murders on murderer had gained access to her their campuses, but crime does hap pen. Information about small crimes, room. One year later, Clery’s family start such as how many car break-ins hap ed a non-profit organization called pen on campus, to larger crimes such Security on Campus Inc. It was as the recent bomb threat here at formed to assist other victims and to Clackamas, should be available to any end cover-up of crime on college cam person on campus, so they can use the Daisy Bain puses all over the nation. information to make more informed Editor in Chief In 1998, President Bill Clinton signed decisions about how to safeguard a bill enforcing The Federal Campus themselves. In attempt to cover crime at Police Logs-Law, also known as the The Print’s responsibility... Clackamas, I went to the school’s pub Cléry Act, named after Jeanne Clery. The Clackamas Print believes it is lic safety office to look at the crime .This law, combined with the existing our responsibility to provide this infor logs. I was refused, and instead the state laws, provided-student journalists mation to our readers. Unfortunately, officer read the log to me. While he the right to obtain campus security this was a task that hasn’t been carried was doing so, I knew in the back of my logs. out to its fullest potential in 77ie Print’s head about a crime that occurred on When The Print made a formal previous years, but not for lack of try campus not more than a week prior. request for access to the logs, we ing. Funny thing is, that one crime was left thought it would be a quick process. I receiver strong support for The out Suddenly I knew The Clackamas The law was on our side. However, Print from Janet Paulsen, market- Print needed access to these logs. college officials were unsure of their ing/media specialist for Clackamas After about six long weeks of responsibilities under the Clery Act Community College, who spent a meetings, phone calls and letters with Frustrations form... great deal of her time both listening to college officials, all the way up to the At times, we were frustrated and me vent my frustration, and for her dean of college services and the presi didn’t know what to do next. All 77ie doing intensive research to make sure dent of the college, our request for full Print wanted to do was report the truth the college was doing the right thing access to the daily logs has finally been and provide information to our read according to the law. granted. ers. It is not my belief that college offi What I thought was a wide-known Chief of Public Safety Larry cials were trying to interfere with the fact is that police records- are public Dexheimer was unaware of this new rights and responsibilities of our paper. records. Both journalists and the aver act and requested more time to do They were just uneducated about the age Joe should be able to drop by dur research. The college had never been Clery Act and students access to pub ing normal business hours and take a formally asked this question before. lic information. In this situation, look at their logs. Should the logs be available for stu we believe that we have taught the However, this right to just drop by dent journalists tô look at? The Print educators at this public institution a lit and look at the logs has not always sent a letter to Dean of College tle more about their responsibilities to been. In 1986, Jeanne Clery, a 19- Services Al Erdman requesting access students. year-old college freshman at Lehigh to the logs under the Clery Act. In Students, you should know that if University, was sexually assaulted and response to that letter, Erdman contact you have a cause you believe in, and brutally murdered by a fellow student ed the college’s lawyer to go over the the law is on your side, don’t lose she didn’t know. Previous to her Clery Act and advise him of the law. hope. Continue to fight for what you attack, there- were several reports of The Print contacted the Student Press believe in and get as many people violent crime on the Lehigh campus Law Center, which handles cases like involved as you can. It’s surprising that students were generally unaware these every day. As .it turned out, the sometimes who will support your of. college’s lawyer had one interpretation efforts, and don’t forget to let The Print Students who had not known about of the law, and The Student -Press Law know about your struggles. We are this history of campus violence had Center had a very different one. your newspaper, and we may be able left security doors propped open and Most community college newspa- to help. In fesponsejb. The Print's efforts, the Dean of College Services wrote this letter to the advisor, Linda' • Vogt, granting' access to the Public Safety lag's,- with tts'fo better undetstand ths many issues involved with public records access: We have greatly appreciated your patience as we’ve reviewed Col lege. policies and procedures regard ing these issues. Please aptiept this response to yoiif - recent reporters from The Clackamas Print timely access to Clackamas Community College’s Public Safety iogsi The Public Safety Department iydl- provide- reporters daily :access to shift Service fogs between the normal business hours "of 8:00 AM ^5:00 <PM, Monday through .Friday, The Public Safety- Department.’^ duty is;id protect students; facility and staff, it t? our belief that tun UPMI atton With the student newspaper staff only, enhances our efforts', Strident and staff awareness is one of the most effective deterrents to cf iininal acfi'vi- : | • Tttias: histbri'cally been,: and- .will continue to be, the administration's goal to perform our jobs, in a way-that fosters personal growth and academic excellence This project has .been a learning experience for all of usl If you have any questions regard ing this policy, w would like to tfes- cuss any related issues, please don’t hesitate to;epntactme;: ' .'A--- ' ' ' e :'Sincerely;: Al.Erdmah " - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR During Operation Desert Storm in 1990-1991, the U.S. was continually dropping bombs made of depleted ura nium shells, napalm, fuel-air (nuclear- scale) explosives and conventional bombs on Iraq. This tremendous attack caused more than 400,000 Iraqi casualties (U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency) and 158,000 of the casualties were civilians (U.S. Census Bureau). Article 52 of the 1977 addition to the Geneva Convention, written in 1949 states that 1. Civilians shall not be the objects of attack... and 2. Attacks shall be limited strictly to military objectives... The U.S. is manipulating the U.N.’s resolutions on Iraq and causing devastating effects. For example, the U.N. says no bombs or chemical agents are to be brought into Iraq, so we are banning essentials like baby food, tooth paste, water purifiers, mak ing (t impossible for 70 percent of the population to be healthy (The Scourge of Iraq, by Geoff Simmons). This is in heavy violation of the Geneva Convention’s Article 54, because it clearly states that “starvation of civil ians as a method of warfare is prohib ited.” 5,000 children die every year and 250 people a** day die in Iraq because of the sanctions that we imposed (UNICEF and W.H.O.). In 1996 567,000 children had died from malnourishment and this was addressed in a CBS “60 Minutes” interview between Leslie Stahl and Madeline Albright (then U.S. Secretary of State) on May 12,. 19^6. Stahl asked Albright if all of the death, disease and trauma we were causing on Iraq was worth it and Albright stat ed; “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price, we think the price is worth it” As reported by former U.S. Attorney General, Ramsey Clark, in his book The 'Children Are Dying; “The people of Iraq are angry. Everywhere we went people made it clear that they held the United States government responsible for the sanc tions and the misery they cause.” Which renders all the more absurd Bush Sr’s statement; “Our beef is with Saddam, not the Iraqi people.” Most recently, Resolution 1441 was proposed on Nov. 8,2002 and was accepted on Nov. 13,2002. The reso lution states that Saddam Hussein must allow weapons inspectors into the country in a plan to disarm him. This proposal is meant to promote peace, but even against the U.N.’s wishes and warnings, Bush II wants to invade and attack. Iraq is believed to have weapons of mass destruction, so then what do we have? Weapons of mass distraction? Iraq is being forced to give up their weapons, shouldn’t we have to make the same sacrifice? Doesn’t this make you wonder why we are really in Iraq? “War on Terrorism?” We think riot Bush is promoting terrorism with his recent actions. Here’s the truth- we are hunt ing the Taliban for two reasons: oil and money. There is much evidence that points to some U.S. involvement with the 9/11 attacks, but certainly the facts show at best, systemic incompetence. After 9/11, Condoleezza Rice (National Security Advisor) acciden tally let it slip that there was a war plan on Bush’s desk on 9/9, that’s two days prior to 9/11. The Taliban put an embargo on the heroin trade which crashed the stock market and they weren’t allowing us to continue build ing the oil pipes in Pipelineastan (Pakistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan), so you can understand why they were of national interest. The Halliburton Corp., which Vice President Dick Cheney was the CEO for, owns the rights to the pipe lines in Pipelineastan. Henry Kissinger, for mer U.S. secretary of state, owns the exit rights in Pakistan and the entrance rights in Burma, and lastly Standard Oil, owns the tankers that deliver the oil, whom they have cleverly named the Condelizza Rice. So, again, what’s the national inter est? Hmm... You decide from this point on what the war is really about, who is really suffering and what’s it worth to you? Verena Morrill Breanna McLean CCC Students Thank staff you • Hispanic male waved at a female student during the evening. Unsure if she knew him, she waved back. She drove her friend from the McLaughlin parking lot to the Barlow lot. He followed her in a Blue 4-door Chrysler. She left cam pus and he still followed her to a Chevron station. When she got home, her suspicions grew heavier when she noticed the news advising that the Sheriff’s department was looking for a Hispanic rapist. Campus Public Safety advised the student to call for a walkout after her evening classes. Reported 11-14-02. • A student’s vehicle was stolen from the lot between Harmony and OIT during the day. The vehicle was used in a crime. Reported 11-14-02. • There was a burglary at the Wilsonville Campus. Unknown per- sonfs] pried open room 100. Scuffmarks were on the door. Once inside the burglar pried open two metal storage cabinets, from one, a drill was stolen. Drill was the prop erty of PacifiCorp. Reported 11-12- 02. • A female was reported sleeping in upper Barlow. It was reported that she “has set up quite a nest.”. Reported 11-08-02. • A Coffman Construction worker reported a male and a female “doing stuff,” in the Barlow parking lot. Reported.11-08-02. To submit your letter to the editor, e-mail cccprint@dackamas.cc.or.us., or drop by B-104. All letters must be saved in Word 6.0/95 on a 3.5* disk. The Print reserves the right to edit for content, space and style. Is war on Iraq worth the price? • A female student at the OIT cam pus informed Public Safety that her neighbor was stalking her and he was following her to school. Public safety was unable to locate the male she described. Reported 11-21-02. ~ -.DemCraBegeS^vteeS'- : ' All reports are taken from CCC’s public safety inci dent logs. They will contiri ue to run on a weekly basis on page 2. cafeteria Just a word of thanks to the cooks and cafeteria staff. I really like all of the yummy dishes and appreciate all of your help and patience! Thanks, The crazy lady on the scooter • A white male in his 20’s, wearing a black jacket, was seen in the FRC area. She seemed to be looking at the children and acted funny when the observer saw her. Reported 11- 08-02. • A female student reported that she had befriended a male on cam pus. She knows him as Steve, and provided his phone number and she did the same. Since then hecalls her residence constantly and follows her around the campus demanding to know why she has not returned his calls and wanting to know where she has been. No crime has been com mitted at this point. Reported 11-04- 02i • A custodian found a threatening note on a vehicle. It read, “Quit while you still can.” It remains unknown who placed the note or what it means. Reported 11-04-02. • An orange cone was found attached to a red Honda Civic’s exhaust pipe. It had apparently been there for a while because the small opening of the cone was burned and melted. Reported 11-04-02.
