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2 • ^^LACKAMA^p^lfif November 3, 2004 Féal Exchange gives campus a taste of Costa R Katie Wilson The Clackamas Print Second-year Spanish students at Clackamas Community College had an opportunity to test their wings last Wednesday. Room 108B in the Gregory Forum was crowded with people Wednesday morning: students, fac ulty and about 15 retired teachers from Costa Rica all laughing and speaking Spanish. The Costa Rican teachers each introduced themselves in Spanish and explained about the provinces they had grown up in. Many told the students that they were wel come to their homes if ever seized by the urge to visit. “Everybody understand?” Foreign Language Department Head and Spanish Instructor Irma Bjerre asked her students in English. “Yes? Good, guys!” The teachers sang the Costa Rican national anthem and then broke up to work with the stu dents present. They had brought with them maps of their country, coins and flags. The students got a chance to try out their Spanish on native Spanish speakers who encouraged ques tions and conversation. After introductions and the con versation time, one Costa Rican teacher stood up and talked about the importance of hugs. “You need Katie Wilson Clackamas Print Language students practiced their Spanish-speaking skills with retired Costa Rican teachers visiting Clackamas as part of an annual exchange program that was established during the Kennedy administration in 1963. four hugs a day to survive,” she told her audience. Next was dancing. Bjerre turned on some fast paced music and near ly everyone took to the floor, some more reluctantly than others. Bjerre loves sharing this experi ence with her Spanish students. “It’s so great for them to be able to talk with native speakers,” she said. The students, in general, seem to agree. “It was awesome,” said student Bryan Goff “It was great to hear about the culture.” This event in Gregory Forum occurs annually as part of an exchange program between Costa Rica and Oregon that began back in 1963. According to www.part- ners.net (the official site of the pro gram) President John F. Kennedy announced a call for a “people-to- people alliance off cooperation among] the Americas.” | -The result was I many American st] nered with sectil America and the fl exchange program! which each gl exchange various tl lure, information money for charitl projects, and so foil Oregon is paii island of Costa Ric during October aj 22 senior citizens Rica come to Oreg various participl where the Parti Americas chapters] They stay in peopll are treated to a toil The same is done s Americans that traveI in January. | Retired Spanish a. Holley introduced I program to Clack® College quite a few arranged for the g Ricans to stop at tl interact with her Spi Now every year guage, students can different culture f hours. They can tall tors and learn more Spanish-speaking i even get to dance. Students find compromise to controversy with 'Measure Students promote ‘One Man, Two Women’ by selling t-shirts for made-up measure, “36.5” I Yasmine Najmabadi II The Clackamas Print Matt Hanrahan Clackamas Print (From left) Students Chris Williams and Brandon Zornado model the t-shirts they designed for measure “36.5.” Change peopled lifestyles with a unique health-oriented career. Get a degree in Exercise Science and Wellness. For the best natural health education in the world, please visit çe>llege28»bastyr.edti. As controversy turns about measure 36, two 18-year-old Clackamas students, Brandon Zornado and Colin Campbell, have brought humor to the measure through their “36.5” t-shirts. The shirts say “Vote Yes on 36.5” on the front, and the back dis plays “One Man, Two Women.” It also has a picture of a male body- builder with two women in bikinis Zomado’s compu standing next to him. They’ve sold about “It was my idea; make sure that at $10 each. gets in the paper,” said Campbell, “We really need whose wit and ...... _ n j sense of humor inspired the shirts. “ We get a lot of, “We’re entrepre el ‘ I ’ d buy one but neurs.” C “We got a lot my wife would of, ‘I’d buy one but kill me. my wife would kill me,”’ said Brandon Zornado Zornado. Most Student, measure "36.5" reactions to the t-shirt entrepreneur shirts were posi tive. “People think it’s the funniest thing ever,” said email at pimpil Zornado, “but there was one girl mail.com. After die success! who got pissed.” The two made the shirts with shirts, Campbell as] Campbell’s father’s ink press and “There’s more to co I I? BASTYR STRAIGHT 8 POOL TOURNAMENT WICHITA BAR & GRILL $3 Entry Blind Draw 2 Person Teams 8:00pm every Wednesday House Matches Pot 19140 S. Molalla Ave. Oregon City 5O.C55~-H277 *
