November 3, 2004 ♦♦♦ Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR
Volume 38, Issue 4
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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.
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