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November 3, 2004 ♦♦♦ Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR Volume 38, Issue 4 A free student publication - ■----- Theft creates wary campus about the locations and technical Some possible disguises used aspects of various pieces of office by someone attempting to commit a similar crime may include: a tool hardware. Between the hours of 7:30 and belt, generic looking uniform or a 10 p.m. on Oct. 26, a Hewlett lamenated name badge without Packard Laser Jet printer was any reference to CCC. ITS employees are required to stolen from Roger Rook 230. Staff are encouraged to transfer wear name badges identifying suspicious callers to campus secu their positions. However, as of the Isaiah Creel rity should they receive phone time of this publication, they had I Editor-in-Cbief calls regarding' their office equip not been issued these badges. ment. Starting next week, new Burglars posing as Information Campus security has no leads cadets enrolled in the criminal jus Technology Services (ITS) have as to the identity of the person(s) tice program will begin patrolling been calling various campus responsible for the thefts but have the campus in order to prevent offices and asking for information taken actions in conjunction with crime and assist the student body. other colleges and the Despite this printer theft, the over criminal justice depart all crime rate on campus is rela ment to apprehend the tively low, says Kandratieff. responsible parties. “There have been a number of Public Safety purses and wallets reported miss Officer Peter Kandratieff ing,” says Kandratieff, “but most advises students who have been turned into Lost and notice anyone snooping Found with the credit cards and around empty offices or cash still in them. People are just examining pieces of hard more aware of students leaving ware (e.g. printers, com personal items around campus.” puters or monitors) to call If you have any information extension 6650 using the regarding theft of campus comput A laser printer similar to the one courtesy telephones er equipment or the personal shown here went missing from Roger located throughout the belongings of a student, please Rook 230 last Tuesday night. campus. contact Campus Security. The disappearance of personal items and a missing printer from Rook Hall has staff, students on their toes Stephen Bostwick Clackamas Print If you have any information on the group impersonating ITS or the missing items, please contact Officer Peter Kandratieff at ext. 6650. Election fever inspires voting, poetry Trevor Dodge, English instructor, reads a work by Goerthe at a poetry read ing titled “Get Out the Vote, Get Out the Literature” outside the Community Center yester day. All pieces read at the event were meant to be in the spirit of the election. Michaele Cooper Clackamas Print Instructors read classic verse on a rainy Election Tuesday I Ben Maras II News Editor A downpour of rain could not silence the outpour of emotion from the English department yes terday in front of the Community Center, as staff read carefully selected works and people all over the country cast their ballots for the next president. “Get Out the Vote, Get Out the Literature,” ■ a poetry reading devoted to election day, was the brainchild of English Instructor Kate Gray, and was designed to allow students and faculty the chance to read selected poems that they felt were important to the political climate. Although the majority of the poems read had a social under tone, the goal of the event was not to make a political statement, but to create a “beautiful” event to contrast the tense tone of the day. “The idea was to overwhelm propaganda with poetry ... to take back the words and to begin the healing process,” Gray said, citing the turbulent political season. “We didn’t check with each other on what we were reading,” she con tinued. “It just sort of evolved that way; some of the pieces were more overtly political than oth ers.” The college was supportive of the idea, even allowing the read ing to- be broadcasted over a small portable PA system set up in front of the Community Center, to make the message more accessable to the student body. It became almost too accessable however, when one instructor reported that it was intefering with a mid-term in a nearby building. “My appologies to those who are tak ing a class in that room rigt now,” Gray addressed before turning the volume down slightly and continuing with the reading. Among those who read were English Instructors Trevor Dodge, who read a work by Johann Wolfgang von Goerthe; and Jim Grabill, who read a selection by Walt Whitman. Gray her self read two pieces. One was by Yusef Komunyakaa, a Vietnam veteran known for writing usually (but not always) very quiet poems about his experience, Gray explained. Her other selection was a poem by Adrienne Rich about “having a dream, and working col lectively to accomplish it?’ “[The poem] just seemed very appropriate for our day and age,” Gray said about her decision. Although no concrete plans have been made for future read ings, those involved in “Get Out the Vote, Get Out the Literature” urge students to contact the English department if there is interest in similar events in the future taking place. m lit kiiiw It. . . »¡■ICH WHITE BIVI
