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I Megan Koler
I The Clackamas Print
Wednesday, April 26, 2006
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Niemeyer chosen as
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Katie Wilson
News Editor
The
Foreign
Language
Department invites the world onto
the Clackamas campus beginning
May 1 with a week of international
guests and cultural performances.
The festivities will begin with
a Salvadoran themed afternoon in
the Bill Brod Community Center
on Monday. There will be a
speech on the Foundation for Self
Sufficiency in Central America by
two Salvadoran Leaders, Clencho
Alas and Ike Trevino.
“The Foundation for Self
Sufficiency is part of an effort
to help Salvadoran communities
become independent after the
country’s civil war,” said Bjerre.
Students will have the oppor
tunity to see slides and art of El
Salvador, and listen to traditional
music.
‘It is great because one of our
students, Sher Davidson, helped
bring Alas and Trevino here to
campus,” said Bjerre.
On Tuesday, May 2, there
will be a large variety of per
formances, including the French
club’s showcase of their “Apache”
and “Can Can” dance routines.
A Clackamas student will be
performing ‘Toreador” from the
opera “Carmen.” French students
will be performing an original
puppet play accompanied by a
musical group called the Zephyr
Cabaret Trio.
“The theme is French Cabaret,”
said French Language Instructor
Heidi Cropsey. “We are going to
have a variety of performances
using the context of the many
aspects of love as it is expressed
through music, dance, poetry, the
atre and even nursery rhymes in
the French culture.”
On Wednesday, May 3,
American Sign Language (ASL),
students will be performing vari
ous songs and stories from 11 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m.
“The student performances
were very popular last year,”
said ASL Instructor Deborah
Jaussi. “Last year was the first
time the ASL classes took part in
International Week, and we are
looking forward to sharing ASL
once again this year.”
On Thursday, May 4, students
will be entertained by German
songs by accordionist Greg Meier.
On tite final day of the fes
tivities, Friday, May 5, all of the
Spanish language performances
will be held. Davidson will be
talking about her visit to Venezuela
and the World Social Forum. A
recognized Peruvian guitarist,
Alfred Muro, performs on Friday
as well, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The cafeteria will be contribut
ing to the exotic atmosphere by
serving French and Spanish cui
sine on Wednesday and Friday.
Bjerre hopes to possibly change
the face of International Week next7
year.
T was hoping, instead of a
whole week, we could have an
entire evening filled with food and
entertainment from different coun
tries,” explained Bjerre. T think
it would be great if the evening
could include not only faculty and
students, but be open to the com
munity as well.”
For further information, contact
Bjerre at 503-657-6958, ext 2381,
or by email at irmab@clackamas.
edu.
Perhaps what stood out most
to students last Friday was
that the Respond 2 company’s
trailers took up the entire front
row of parking spots outside
Niemeyer.
Next they may have noticed
lights, wires and equipment
everywhere.
A film crew and actors were
busy inside and outside the
Niemeyer lobby filming a com
mercial.
According to Gale DeFontes,
manager of facilities and infor
mation, a Scout visited the cam
pus over Spring Break, scout
ing locations for commercials
and movies. DeFontes took her
around to all the new buildings
on campus and the scout took
pictures.
Respond 2 contacted the
scout when they were looking
for a location to shoot a Nature
Made Vitamins commercial.
They looked through her pic
tures and liked what they saw in
the Niemeyer Center.
Through DeFontes the com
pany worked out a deal with the
college: the filming wouldn’t
interfere with the teaching and
class routine, and they would
pay for use of the building.
“It was kind of exciting,”
said DeFontes.
Michelle Meyer, theater
and communications depart
ment secretary, hung up signs
Thursday night to alert stu
dents. The lobby needed to
be relatively quiet during the
filming.
“Usually doors are being
flung open, like the band room
door,” said Meyer. “Music
comes bursting out. Or the
choir room door ... students
generally come out singing.”
Students were asked to talk
quietly while passing through
the lobby area. Meyer her
self had to wait for breaks
in the filming if she wanted
to leave her office, which is
located directly in the side of
the lobby.
Filming began at 7 a.m. and
didn’t end until around 6:30
that evening.
“Some actors were supposed
to be outside, walking back
and forth in front of the win
dows,” said DeFontes. “These
three people walked back and
forth in front of the windows
for five hours in their jackets
in the sun. It didn’t look that
glamorous to me.”
WATERSHED: Speaker
shares experiences
Continued from WATERSHED, Page 1
T hoped for success and I
was surprised with its use in high
school,” Cody said.
The author spoke of his various
experiences on the Columbia and
Clackamas rivers. He told stories
of his hometown of Estacada and
provided Clackamas river fishing
and boating stories that contributed
to shaping his book
“Ricochet Rivef’ was written
during a 17-yearperiodwhileCody
worked as dean of Admissions
at Reed College. The book was
rejected by publishers a number
of times.
“Once you get a round of
rejection from New York it’s dis
couraging,” Cody said during his
address.
Cody’s “Ricochet Riveri’ was
originally published in 1992 then
picked up by Ooligan Press, a
publisher through Portland State
University. Cody said Ooligan has
a wonderful editing staff and are
“very sharp people.”
“The Sustainability Project is
super fabulous for young people
and writers trying to make a con
nection to the Watershed Project,”
Cody said. “Lots of material with
kids having fun. It’s a great thing.”
English Instructor Trevor
Dodge, who helped organize the
Sustainability events, has enjoyed
the success of the project
“Overall, the Sustainability
events have been well-received. I
haven’t been able to attend every
event, but those I have attended
turned out at least 20 people per
event, the simple majority of which
were students,” he said. “We cer
tainly like to see each event as
standing-room-only, but consider
ing this is the first year of the
project, I think we’re off to a very
solid start”
“The faculty and administra
tive response has been nothing but
positive, and I’m delighted to see
so many interested people from all
over the campus community turn
ing out for these events,” Dodge
said.
Sustainability
Events
April 28,7:30 p.m., Mcloughlin Theatre: Paleontologist,
author and professor Dr. Peter Ward of the University of
Washington.
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