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HE Prints October 20, 2004 ♦♦♦ Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR Volume 38, Issue 1 A free student publication Please sir, I’d like some ‘Moore’ Michael Moore speaks on PSU campus yesterday to an enthusiastic crowd IIS ISSUE NS ew ipus Idings GE 2 WIRE udent lpts ire GE 3 INIM ice off: isure 36 GE 6 >eed ips of GE 5 E ithor ts Lpus GE 8 DRTS »ccer reigns reme GE 10 According to Moore, 50% of the also spoke at the rally, with a population does not vote. He point much more personal mes ed out that it’s easy to guess who sage as why he wants to vote that 50% includes: the poor young Bush out of office. people. Yet young adults do the Blickenstaff’s brother, Joe, majority of complaining about the was killed in Iraq last December. state of things. Moore’s main Blickenstaff talked about Hllliary Ferguson objective is to show the students Please see MOORE, Page 2 I The Clackamas Print and middle class that, if they vote, they will easily overweigh the Chants of “Two more weeks! votes of the minority, or upper class Two more weeks!” rose from the Republicans. crowd and echoed off buildings as When Moore asked where the infamous filmmaker and political Republicans were at, the crowd rebel Michael Moore took to the booed and pointed at a group wav podium in Portland State ing signs supporting Bush. He had University’s Urban Plaza yester a kind word for the few conserva day. tives who had braved the liberal Moore’s appearance marked the masses at the rally. Portland leg of his “Slacker “We will not treat you the way Uprising Tour,” an unabashed anti you’ve treated minorities Bush rally to reach the younger [when Kerry is elected], generation of America and oveyide even though you’re a the Republican vote. Republican,” “We’re the majority, they’re the Moore said. minority,” Moore repeated, In an cementing the idea that the youth of earlier press America does indeed .have the conference, upper hand—if they vote. Pope One main aspect of the rally was touched on getting voters to realize that their many of the vote do indeed matter. Moore said issues that, as was exemplified in the addressed 2000 presidential race, there are a in Moore’s great many people who will do speech. He whatever is necessary to silence the also noted voices of those who oppose them. that he Moore shared this thought: if believes the some people will do whatever is presidential possible to make sure you don’t election vote, obviously each and every vote will be is important. In other words, voting determined is critical to those who don’t want by people Jeff Sorensen Clackamas Print the young to vote, so it should be who have essential to young voters. never voted Michael Moore, filmmaker, writer and political activist, spoke yesterday at “Each person’s vote is very, very before (i.e., Portland State University. Moore gave out copies of his two new books: “The powerful,” said Carl Pope, the college stu Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader” and “’’Will they ever Trust us Again: Letters from Executive Director of the Sierra dents). Club, the sponsor of Moore’s the War Zone” at a press conference prior to the rally. The event was spon Eric “Slacker” tour. Blickenstaff sored in part by the Sierra Club. Partisan ‘influence’ absolute, illegal wouldn’t register as a Democrat, after [the student would leave] they would change their voter reg istration card, which is extremely illegal.” ASG itself was working with a I Michaele Cooper legitimate group to get students I The Clackamas Print voting. “[The] Clackamas Student The Associated Student Government was working with the Government found more on its Voters’ Coalition,” said Murphy. plate than the simple act of regis “I believe we registered a little tering students to over 300 people.” vote before the Brie Dakrin, a state deadline, student here at Oct. 13. Some stu Clackamas, was “People were dents on campus harassed by one of coming on cam were not so lucky the voter registra to get a fair chance pus. They tion groups that to register as the were coming on weren 7 allowing party they support campus. because of certain Republicans or “We were sitting non-campus in that quad area non-partisans to groups. right outside the register, and “People were cafeteria,” said coming on cam that’s illegal.” Dakrin. pus,” said Rian When asked if Murphy, ASG Vice she was registered President. to vote, she said Rian Murphy “Secifically, we yes, she already had a group of was. The woman Associated Student Democrats come questioning her Government Vice President on campus, and pressed her further registering just to re-register so Democrats to vote. she could get paid They weren’t allowing an alleged five dollars for the reg Republicans or non-partisans ... to istration. register, and that’s illegal. What’s “I didn’t want this lady calling even more illegal is that ... if they me, so I left my phone number Groups on campus tamper with students' voter registration cards blank. She saw that I left it blank, and she was like ‘No, no, no, you need to put [your phone number] in or I don’t get paid.’ ... Then, I go to mark ‘other’ or, like, ‘not affiliated with a party,’ and she’s like ‘No, no, no, you need to mark Republican or I don’t get paid.’ ... And then when she was walking away, I saw her mark Republican [on my form].” “We ended up having [these groups] kicked off campus,” said Murphy. He also addressed the free speech areas on campus. “There is a specific free speech area that is located right over by the fountains in front of the Dye Learning Center,” said Murphy. “We’ve had people stepping out side of that area, going around on campus, and we’re trying to minimize the harassment of students by keeping the [lobby ists] in the free speech area, but not every one’s been following that.” Despite the unfortunate acts of partisan groups on campus, Murphy still strongly supports increased voter registration among students and young people. “We’re extremely unrepresent ed for the fact that we don’t vote,” continued Murphy. “We don’t reg ister to vote ... we don’t express our issues, we don’t get our voice out there. So that’s what we were working on this year, you know, letting people know [that] we do have a voice in this election ...we have a voice too.”
