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ommentary May 4, 2005 lazer fans: show some love rank Jordan I Clackamas Print Mention all of you so-called and Trail Blazer wannabe [out there: As my grand er used to say, if you don’t ¡anything constructive to say, don’t say it at all. have to say that because as id the Blazer blogs and chat along with The Oregonian’s | pages, I am getting sick fired of people who claim to Ins of our only major profes- d sports franchise ripping a one on this team every single I If it isn’t the fact that the ers have missed the playoffs two years in a row, it’s the I run-in with the law, or the that the Blazers correctly I a coach who was a good but unfortunately not a good 1. it what is a team to do? s fans in this area don’t another team as a distrac- like other major metropoli tan areas. Look at our neighbors to the north. Until this season, the Seattle Supersonics had a hit- and-miss existence as an NBA - franchise. But just as the NBA season was ending, Seattle sports fans had another dis traction just begin ning their season, the Mariners. Then when the baseball season winded to a close, the Seahawks would begin another NFL season. One of those teams was bound to have a decent season, so the Emerald City sports | junkie could get a satisfactory fix. Not so in River City. The Blazers are really all we have. And if you are like me, you seem to live and die with the boys in red and black. So another season has ended, and all of the naysay ers have come out from under their rocks to utter all that is bad, while offer- ing no solutions as to what good should happen. The Blazers will be good again, but it may not happen for a while. It should begin with a coach who knows the pro game and who can be a disci plinarian. Flip Saunders had a good run as the Minnesota Timberwolves’ coach and the Blazers should offer some of. Paul Alien’s bankroll to this guy. He would he a great choice and the true fans of the team would embrace him. The false fans would wait for the next indiscretion. Keep Shareef Abdur- Rahim and trade Zach Randolph. Tell Darius Miles to earn some of the $48 million that this team foolishly signed him for last summer, and if he wants to tell the new coach to f*** I off during a film session, then waive him. Say good bye to Damon Stoudamire and Derek Anderson, who Photo coartesyoymba/biazers.com have been solid players and good- qitizens, but :tions speak louder than ‘free love’ versation with one of these hippies about global politics, and ask their opinion of President Bush, I would be willing to bet that there would be passion in that hippy’s eyes, and not of a sexual nature. Hippies don’t accept the viewpoints of their opposition or love everyone on the planet, nor should they. would have turned out bad ... very bad. r-in-chief And love! Ha! Free love is such a farce. All fore I get into this too far, these hippy girls run around saying e at least attempt to' cover things like “Oh, everybody deserves is by saying that vegans and love! Love somebody, anybody ! who are interested in envi- today!” Ridiculous! if some slovenly omnivore or, ■ on drugs, heaven forbid, a rights and carnivore were to lade clothes approach one of these t necessarily raw food-munching s.” ninnies on the street h that out of and ask her to bed, f, I would like or maybe just on a :e it perfectly date, it may come as hat I cannot a shock, but free love is definitely NOT for he purposes everyone. article I will Free love is for abundantly the beautiful, anorex that I con- ic, (deadlocked sim iippies to be pletons whose brain nd of people functions are limited ¡reach accep- to smoking pot and love, peace, protesting the illegal m and all of ity of the pot they are high ideals, smoking. ¡r some rea- Blah, blah, blah. on’t actually Rant, rant, rant. to their cho- The point of this jinivovpiiivo, uselessness is that ho in some if you cannot like lave a blatant the government, îabashed dis don’t just sit around for any type complaining about it. Take action, you waste of flesh! Don’t t of all, love just walk around ceptance are with a_. petition to I love my clean up the parks; \ I accept the go to the lousy park it I will never and pick up the beer bottles your friends Idonothow- left while you were > around tell- having a portabello eiyone how Photp illustration by Isaiah Creel and Jeff Sorensen Clackamas Print mushroom barbe eed to love cue. other and accept anybody’s Sometimes, acceptance is not Mainly, you smelly baboon, quit the best policy at all. If, for instance, bitching about things, and get them people during WWII had accept taken care of. And for heaven’s sake were to, say, have a con- ed Hitler’s view on the Jews, that quit smoking so much damn pot! iah Creel LAC KA MA 0 S. Molalla Ave. on City, OR 97045 657-6958 ex. 2309 Print is a weekly nt publication and is every Wednesday except finals week. ikamas E ditor -I n -C hief : Isaiah Creel C opy E ditor : James Tombe N ews E ditor : Ben Maras C ommentary E ditor : Shannon Armstead F eature E ditor : Karlin Johnson S ports E ditor : Mike McCormack A&E E ditor : Hilliary Ferguson P hoto E ditor ; Jeff Sorensen Ab M anager : Ben Holm D esign E ditor : Michaele Cooper S taff W riters : Frank Jordan, Joe Piazzisi, Jadon Triplett* Katie Wilson, Laura Cameron, Christa ■ Danielson, Mike Guidice, Kyle Slate, Elizabeth Tobey Norma Martinez, CJ Ciamarella, Sam Krause, Jimi McDonell, Jenfia Johnk P roduction A ssistants : Jesse" Arguello, Joanne Bergstrom, who have worn out their wel come in the Rose City. Sign Joel Przybilla to an extension, and giye Theo Ratliff the time he needs to heal his injuries. Hand the ball and the reins of the team to Sebastian Telfair and give the young man all the support in the world. Hold on to Travis Outlaw, this kid is going to be the next Jermaine O’Neal and we all know what happened to O’Neal with a little playing time. This team is going in the right direction. The play of the team was very encouraging in the lat ter stages of the season. The wins were not there, but they will come in time. So to all of the bandwagon fans out there: Give the team your support during the good times and the bad. Every NBA team has had good and bad stretches during their existences, and the good times will come around again for our beloved Blazers. Everyone is entitled to their opin ion, but some people, including myself, would love to hear solu tions, not the bitchiness that we read every day. letters to the Editor March article on part-time focalty incomplete coverage Believe it or not, I haven’t had a chance to e- mail you since the Part Time Faculty Recognition Ceremony in March but I was really disappointed with the article that was written. First of all, the article explaining the event was missing. I thought there would be a write-up of some sort stating the who, what, where, why, when and how. Secondly, the picture didn’t have any Part Time Faculty in it and the captions were not accu rate. The people in the picture were all Full-time Faculty, which defeats the purpose. Part Timers are not recognized regularly on this campus. To top it off, the article above our picture was of your newspaper staff s retreat. It was a huge article and picture of you guys. Our annual Part Time Faculty recognition seemed like more of a priority than your training/conference. It was just really disappointing because lots of people e-mailed me, asking what the event was. Michele VandeMerghel, M.A. CCC Staff We want to know what you II ■ Have; an opinion about a recent article in The Print? Write us letters to the editor. Please keep them under 200 words and sign them. They may be e-mailed to cccprint@ciackamas. edu or can be dropped off at RR135. We reserve the right to edit letters for content and clarity. Norma Martinez, Jadon Triplett, Randy Thrall P hotographers : Brie Daykin D epartment A dvisor : Linda Vogt D epartment A ssistant : Pat Lichen G oals : The C lackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased, professional manner. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect those of the stu dent body college administration, its faculty or The Print. E-mail comments to chiefed@dackamas. edu.
