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Wednesday, March 1, 2006
ight rail should include campus
tanned Green Line to
'lackamas would serve best
'extended to college
Rev. Sam Krause
The Clackamas Print
[The South Corridor 1-205 Project
jl be one of the greatest improve-
jnts to Clackamas County’s pub-
I transportation system. Light Rail
tvice will be extended from the
tteway Transit Center to Clackamas
wn Center.
To accommodate the expansion, a
nsit center has been proposed which
fold be located at the old Southgate
hater, and may provide as many as
9 parking spots. Construction of the
¡nsit center would be in preparation
[the new Light Rail, dubbed the
ben Line, and used as a park-and-
le until the Green Line is finished
|009.
. Right now the theater is used for
[rage, a dance studio and event
llity. In 2003 TriMet bought the
later for $2 million.
[Many Milwaukie business owners
[agree with the proposed Light Rail
(nsit center.
[‘TriMet has not done a good job
studying traffic control,” Ailistair Cox,
general manager of Corinthian Rugs
and Carpets Co., told The Oregonian.
Cox’ business is in the same industrial
area as the theater.
An official for the Milwaukie Police
Department supported Cox’s worries,
pointing at the 17 car accidents at
the extended McLoughlin Boulevard-
Main Street-Millport Road intersec
tion in 2004.
Another
set
back is the City of
Milwaukie’s incom
petence in attracting
any Light Rail sys
tem, usually letting
land perfect for tran
sit development slip
into the abyss of other
forms of growth. In
one instance city
planners failed to take
into account that land
proposed for a transit
center was deeded to
the city to be used as
ä park.
I’m a proponent of
growth, not only in
size and commerce
but also in intelli
gence. That is why I
ask why not make the
extension larger than
8.3 miles? There' should be an extra
effort made to extend the Green Line
to the college.
TriMet officials say that a MAX
ride from Stumptown to Clackamas
Town Center would be 30 minutes
with no transfers on the Green Line.
Our school is home to 26,293 students
from all over the region. Some stu
dents come from Mollala, while oth
\PA moves against tabs, music fans
alone, and continuously use it to
hone their skills. Without these,
beginners are faced with the ardu
ous task of learning to read sheet
music, which has been enough to
discourage some from even picking
up an instrument.
Furthmore, finding officially
published sheet music or tabs can
prove difficult, with only “popular”
songs being available, and even
these releases are often flawed.
Without the self-published tabla
ture, the musical pond from which
one can learn shrinks, and everyone
suffers.
But with this I can already hear
the music snobs shrieking like ban
ers come from downtown Portland. Is
it crazy to think that a portion of our
campus would use a Light Rail that
extends to our Harvard on the Hill?
I think that if confronted with the
option of riding a bus for an hour and
a half, or MAX for a half-hour, col
lege students would make the logical
choice. That is, if the option were
made available to them.
Comedians inspired
by Cheney incident
musicians. Many
pthemselves how
lay. based on tabs
shees. “If someone doesn’t know
how to read music, they aren’t
worth the time.”
This sort of snobbery is caused
by the “haves” peering down their
noses at the “have nots” and while
it makes a sort of logical sense,
there are many examples that prove
it to be nonsense.
Many of the greatest music inno
vators in music (rock music espe
cially) have not been able to read
music. Jimi Hendrix, for example,
died not being able to read a note.
While the ability to read music
helps greatly with the scientific
aspect to music, the artistic, intui
tive side can work independently.
But the argument is
really not over tablature’s
inherent-contribution to
music, but the legal affect
it has on copyrights.
In the battle over MP3
downloading, despite
how much one was
opposed to the crack
down, they could still see
the other side of the argu
ment. In this case, it’s
hard to see how learning
to play an artist’s mate
rial harms them in any
way, shape or form.
Face it; someone isn’t
going to learn a song, play
it, and record it instead of
buying the album. Plus,
imitation is supposedly
the sincerest form of flat
tery, right?
If the MPA has noth
ing better to do than tar
get sites used for learning
music online, we should
take a serious look at
who they’re serving. It’s
obvious it isn’t the artists
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or the fans.
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lust when I thought it couldn’tget
stupider, the Music Publishers’
ociation proves me wrong. Last
it was music piracy, then movie
nloading - now it’s tablature.
latest development on the petty
ley” front attacks musicians
jtly, and shows exactly how
ierate the music industry is for
w fight.
Tablature, often abbreviated to
L” is to the layman a meth-
pf musical transcribing. Most
imonly used for stringed instru-
lts, it can be read
written by almost
one due to its direct
Asus
lication to playing,
el
ti if someone looter
eet music and sees
vs sitting on a tele-
ne wire, they can
■tabs.
)r could read tabs,
ie MPA has any-
g to say about it.
[have now decided
tab sites constitute
rm of musical pira-
and have already
an shutting down
biggest online tab
felt a great dis-
ance in the Force,
if thousands of
icians cried out in
lish and then were
iced.
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David Stark
making comments on the
event. White House Press
Secretary Scott McClellan
was referring to President
Editor’s Note:' This arti George W. Bush’s meeting
cle contains language which with the University of Texas.
some readers may find offen championship football team*
sive.
when he said, “The orange
that they’re wearing is not
Vice-President
Dick because they’re concerned
Cheney shot his hunting that the Vice President may
partner, and no one seems to be there.” He then pointed
be able to keep quiet about to his own orange-striped tie
and added “Although that’s
it.
But what may have had why I’m wearing it.”
United States Senator
more impact than, the event
itself was what everyone Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.),
said about it. “The Late who in 2004 was told to “go
Show” host David Letterman fuck [himself],” and subse
opened his Feb. 13 show quently given the middle fin
with the words, “Good news, ger by Cheney on the floor
ladies and gentlemen, we of the Senate, said: “In ret
have finally located weap rospect, it looks like I got
ons of mass destruction. ... off easy.”
It’s Dick Cheney,” later add
The clothing industry
ing that “We can’t get bin is taking advantage of the
Laden, but we nailed a 78- event by releasing shirts with
year-old attorney.”
slogans such as “Deadeye
These sentiments were Dick’s Gun Club,” “Duck,
echoed by “The Daily it’s Dick!” “I’d rather hunt
Show” host Jon Stewart with Dick Cheney than ride
when he urged his audience with Ted Kennedy,” and
not to let their children go on “Cheney shot first.”
hunting trips with the Vice
This s eemingly all-encom
President: “I can’t empha passing comedic response to
size this enough: I don’t care what can only be described,
what kind of lucrative con due to a lack of concrete
tracts they’re trying to land, evidence, as both a quite
or energy regulation they’re humorous and tragic acci
trying to get lifted. He’ll dent, is frankly quite dis
shoot them in the face.”
tasteful. I think we need to
Even some members of show a little more compas
the government are not above sion to the man who took a
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