Two fires, two days
sparks concern
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Clackamas County Fire Department puts out
a fire started in a trash can last night.
Katie Funk
Nic Delzell
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Photo Illustration by CORY PRICE C lackamas P rint
Hate crime on campus
Legal marriage, defaced posters affect campus club
Ten ways to fight
hate on campus
if they don’t? Prepare yourself
Rise up: Inaction in the face
* of hate will be viewed as wpa- ■ to understand and work with the
thy or, worse yet, as support for
media.
bigotry itself. Do something.
Know your
campus;
Don’t let hate go unchallenged.
Before, during and after a
bias crisis, examine institutional
Pull together: Bias inch
racism .and bigotry on your cam
dents and hate crimes can
pus. Be prepared to negotiate
divide communities. Don’t let
your way through these-problem
hase tear people apart on your
areas for effective changes.
campus; pull together instead.
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T Speak out:
When hate
strikes, don’t remain silent.
Join with others; use your voices
to denounce bigotry. Also, help
guide the administration in its
role.
Q Teach tolerance:
Bias
crises often bring pain, anger
arid distrust to campus. They
also present an opportunity for
learning. Don’t miss the chance
to eradicate ignorance;
¿J. Support the victims: Make
sure that arty planned
response to a hate crime or bias
incident takes into account the
victim’s needs and wishes. Tbo
often, decisions are made on
behalf of victims, but without
their actual input
Maintain
momentum:
The immediate crisis has
passed. You’ve got two papers
due and a midterm coming up.
No one seems interested in
follow-up meetings. ' What
happens now?
E Name it, know it: Are you
dealing with a bate crime or a
bias incident? Hate crimes are a
matter for the criminal justice
system; bias incidents áre gov
erned by campus policy.
A Understand the media:
What happens if thé media
descends on your campus during
a bias crisis? And what happens
10. Pass
the torch: What
happens when you. leave
campus? Will you leave behind a
record of activism that will
inspire incoming students to pick
up the fight? Make sure you do.
i —Information taken from a
pamphlet handed out at a
training session on how to: pre
vent hate at school, distributed
by tolerance.org
Vandalism of Rainbow Club
posters stirs up awareness
ly right now,” said Tara
Sprehe, of Student Outreach
and Service Learning, faculty
With recent defacing of coordinator and also a co
Rainbow Club posters on advisor of the Rainbow Club.
campus, and statements such
Despite hurtful words, the
as “eat shit and die,” “shut up club was inspired to hear
and move to San Francisco,” everyone’s thoughts after
and “God hates fags” written receiving comments on their
on
comment
sheets, posters.
Clackamas students and facul
“We thought, if people are
ty are witnessing and experi going to write on our posters,
encing hate crime firsthand.
let's create posters that they
However, dealing with can write on,” said Sprehe,
hate crime is not something who also commented on the
new to clubs on campus, 1,600 plus gay marriages that
including the Rainbow Club, have
taken
place
in
Clackamas’
gay-straight Multnomah County in the last
alliance.
four days. “I think that the .
Club posters are allowed marriage licenses are helping
to hang on campus walls'for shape that conversation,” she
up to 30 days, however said.
The- Rainbow Club hung
Rainbow Club posters typical
ly do not last for more than a two blank posters on
couple of days.
McLoughlin Hall and on the
“We have people writing -Community Center leaving,
on them, we have people spit anyone a place to express
ting on them. It’s (people] rip their opinion.
Along with uplifting and
ping posters down or ripping
posters in half,” said Cheryl ■supportive comments, the
Hollatz-Wisely, director of aforementioned hateful com
Student Leadership and ments were also quickly
Outreach and co-advisor for noticed on the sheets.
Hate crimes like this are
the Rainbow Club.
“I don’t think we're the usually the first stage of a
only club that goes through string that can lead to even
this, but we're part of an worse things, such as ‘When
organization that is a divisive you write something
issue in this country, especial
Please see HATE, Page 3
Karlin Johnson
N ews E ditor
Two small fires outside .the Community Center caused
minimal damage on Monday and Tuesday night; campus
officials say they don’t know if the fires are related.
A small Fire outside the Community Center Monday
night didn’t cause much damage thanks to custodian Mel
Ho$te'tler, who used a fire extinguisher to douse the
flames before the Clackamas County Fire District
(CCFD) arrived.'
“It was a.close call,” said Ken Kellogg, stationary
engineer for campus services. Kellogg had spotted the
blaze just after Hostetler and radioed Campus Safety
before rushing over with a mop bucket.
“By the time 1 got here, Mel [had] grabbed the fire
extinguisher and gotten there before me,” Kellogg said.
“1 doused [the fire] with water just to be safe, [then] the
fire department took over.”
According to Dick Ashbaugh, department chair of
criminal justice and emergency management, there was no
damage and no one was in danger. The fire department
briefly investigated the scene and concluded the fire was
likely ignited by a cigarette thrown into the bushes.
On Tuesday night, another small fire was set ablaze in
a trash can on the lower level, courtyard between the
Community Center and Barlow Hall.
At about 6:30.p.m. the CCFD arrived at the bus turn
around and promptly put out the blaze.
According to Clackamas County Fire District Lt.
Mike Corless the fire posed no immediate threat to stu
dents or any campus buildings.
The causes of both fires are unknown and, according
to Campus Safety, a CCFD investigator will be sent to
campus to look into the blazes. Campus Safety was
unsure when the investigation would take place.
“It was still blazing when the fire department showed
up,” Campus Safety Officer Patrick Duley said. “The
cause is kind of unknown right now; this could be an
accident. But since it was around the same time as last
night’s, fire, we are going to run some extra patrol in that
area the next few days around the same time. The whole
problem is, we don’t know the cause.”
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This slightly burned pack of cigarettes was
found in the ashes of the burnt trash can.