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n independent, student-run newspaper since 1966
Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2006
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Volume 39, Issue 10
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Ben Naras
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[Today ASG is holding
fair first ever Valentines Day
ite raffle in the Community
pter. About 20 students
the college will be plac-
g themselves up for grabs,
[the mere cost of a $1
pet.
As the brainchild of Tiffany
immel and Margo Wyatt, the
file has already raiised more
Jan $100 for book grants, and
'ey are hoping for $300 by
lend.
[“We thought this would be
good way to raise money,”
hmel said, “and if you have
[sell people, you know there
n desperate need.”
[Originally getting the idea
Im an episode of “Gilmore
iris,” Kimmel and Wyatt
ayed off the small-town
[me and thought it would be
rood way to bring the stu
nts together. This is not to
[though that there haven’t
en some bumps along the
k
“A lot of people on this
mpus are taken and resent
[idea of us asking,”
mmel said. “Others didn’t
I that it was for book grants,
d took offense. In a group
10, there’s about three who
ould participate.]
This however, is not stop-
g students from signipg up,
hough some are a bit hesi-
t at first.
“I got talked into it,” Caleb
Iler said. “My girlfriend is
it, and I figured, why not?”
“I just thought it would, be
I” student Heather Ovalle
led.
Even Ovalle had some res-
ktions though'.
fl wanted to know the
pations, so not just anyone
lid buy them,” she said.
[Unlike an auction, students
p are interested buy raffle
lets for different people,
[for $1, or six for $5.
Ise are then drawn, and the
|e is held on campus. ASG<
[up flyers, but most inter-
was generated via word of
rath.
“People needed to go out
d sell themselves,” Kimmel
d. “I mean, if I’m doing
I need to go out and say
is is me, buy me! ’ If people
n’t sell themselves, they
n’t get bought. Even the
ittiest people don’t get
fight by a picture.”
Knother problem they fan
[was that this week is
p Awareness Week, and a
Indom Carnival’ was sched-
d for the same day as the
. date raffle.
his has since been rem-
[d.
■
-
Vhile the sex split is even,
.es seem to make up the
ority of bidders, some
[ding as much as $20 on
Sets.
tickets can still be pur
led in the ASG office, but
[y, the raffle is today.
Destination: Death Valley
Elizabeth Hitz
The Clackamas Print
Bullfrogs, Gilbert skinks, and chuck-
wallas: these scaly creatures are just a hint
of the sights to be seen on the college’s
Death Valley trip taking place during
Spring Break, March 23 through April 1.
The outing is organized and guided
by two Clackamas instructors, Jennifer
Bown, a biology instructor, and Sarah
Hoover, the geology instructor. The trip
itself has been held annually for nearly
30 years.
Death Valley, located in California,
boasts variety in every comer of its envi
ronment ... from sand covered deserts,
wooded hills and snow packed mountains
to its diverse assortment of flora and
fauna.
rocks,” according to Tischler.
“[It’s a] desert version of Antarctica,”
Business majors mix With science
said Bown.
majors on the trip. Science majors mix
Even the trip, which lasts about 10 with music majors and all of them end
days, is flooded with variety and chance. up learning something new from the sur
Guest lectures, museums, nature walks roundings, the lectures and each other.
and impromptu talks are all loosely struc
“Students have told me that this trip
tured around what the group wants do and has totally changed the way they view the
world,” said Hoover, “ ... in a positive
whatever else happens to present itself.
The grqup stays in tents at Furnace way.”
Students are expected to keep a journal
Creek Campground which has running
water and flushing toilets for those less of things they see and give a fireside pre
sentation. The trip counts as a four-credit
inclined to rough it.
Mary Ann Tischler, a student here at lab science class. Expenses include $235
Clackamas and a math tutor, went on the plus tuition. This covers travel, lodging
and most food costs.
Death Valley trip last year.
Students interested in participating can
The best thing about last year’s expedi
tion Ayas “The geology part and looking contact Bown at 503-657-6958 ext. 2926,
at the mountains, seeing the history of or Hoover at ext. 2812 as soon as pos
the land and learning about it through the sible.
Student artist pours her ‘Hart’ out
Täyo Stalnaker
The Clackamas Print
Liz Hart has been going to
Clackamfes Community College
for three years now. She is an
artist but she isn’t an art major.
In fact, she is not sure what’s
she’s majoring in.
“I have no desire to fulfill
the science requirements for my
transfer degree. Not that I don’t
like science, but yeah’, I. just
don’t like science,” Hart said.
“So I guess I’d have to admit
my major is creative writing,
though what kind of writing
“No one is
here to make
friends, and
they’re lying if
they say they
are. It proba
bly just means
they want to
get in your
pants.”
Liz Hart
CCC Student
I’m npt sure, and
how creative ...
well, I’m not very
sure about that
either.”
Hart will be
going to Clackamas
Community
College for a fourth
a year and finds it
to be just like high
school.
‘T like to think
of CCC as my
very own four-year
institution,
and
I can’t stress the
word ‘institution’
enough,” she said,
“I thought high
school in Oregon
City was bad, and
then I came here,
and wouldn’t you
know the same HART
people I went to
high school with are in my
classes. It’s not all bad though,
the soup is good.”
When it comes to classes
Hart has a couple of sugges-
tions for the students.
“I encourage people to take
the ‘Science and Religion’
class, and also the ‘Mushroom
Identification’ class,” Hart Said,
adding that she has “... taken
every creative writing course
CCC offers and now [she’s] just
Adam J. Manley Clackamas Print
repeating them.
Hart has quite a few interests
.that keep her busy when she’s
not in class:
“Mostly [I smoke] menthol
cigarettes because no one wants
to bum a menthol, and I also
frequent coffee shops and queer
clubs,” she said. “I drink cara
mel macchiatos at the down
town hipster coffee shops and I
don’t dance at the queer clubs,
but I’ll buy a girl a drink and
watch the gay boys dance.”
Writing poetry and making
collages keep Hart’s artistic
side awake.
“I love imagery and symbol
ism. That’s what I try to evoke
in my art no matter what form
it comes in. I believe that sym
bolism is biologically inherent
in all of us. It hits somewhere
deep and primal,” she said.
Please see HART, Page 5