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* JJll Commentary The Wednesday, May 10, 2006 Clackamas Pri Face Off: Should campus ban smoking! Freedom of choice includes the freedom to smoke In all honesty, smoking tobacco at college is perfectly fine if done out side at least 25 feet from entrances. I will admit that we smokers do need to Banning smoking on college cam clean up after ourselves / puses is something Adolph Hitler and actually use the ashtrays on / would do. campus. ■;/ No, seriously. According to Bristol the University, Hitler financed studies on We also need smoking and anti-t'obacco campaigns to obey the during the Second World War. The signs post Nazis often pointed out that Hitler, ed by every Benito Mussolini and Francisco entrance to Franco didn’t smoke and that the keep 25 feet Allied leaders, Franklin Roosevelt, away in order Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin to not annoy did. Guess who won? That’s right, the the people com chain smokers. ing out of the Perhaps the reason the Allies were building. victorious is because of their personal However, that freedoms. Well, besides Russia. Two is still not grounds out of three ain’t bad though. for colleges to ban America and Britain are both smoking. A more democracies that allow freedom of civil way to deal choice, which includes the freedom to with this problem is smoke tobacco. Smoking tobacco has to fine anyone caught been shown to increase concentration throwing a butt on and to be relaxing. This could explain the ground or stand the Allies’ excellent military strategy ing too close to the and why Hitler was dumb enough to entrance, preferably for a large sum. attack Russia. If colleges ban smoking on campus Our country relied es, they are taking away our personal on tobacco to aid in freedom of choice. This is something growing our econo our founding fathers died for and they my. It helped build should be honored for it. You don’t this nation up from want to be un-American do you? I 13 colonies to the would tell the non-smokers to go back superpower that it is to France but they smoke more than today. America is the we do. land of the free and Public colleges shouldn’t be able to smokers should be ban smoking because our tax dollars allowed to express pay for their existence. Can anyone their freedom. tell me where our country receives a God bless lot of tax money for education? That’s America and God right, from people buying tobacco bless Sir Walter products. Raleigh. . Tayo Stalnaker 11 The Clackamas Print Drag show offensive, exploitive u o «kJ *kj O «kJ e Qj «kJ «kJ CD —■JI I am a second year student here at CCC, and was witness to an outrageous event happening in the Community Center here at CCC. On Tuesday, May 8, the college saw fit to allow a grievous event: a drag show. Being a moral citizen I found this event to be offensive on two dif ferent levels. Just to be clear, I have no oppo sition to people expressing them selves in a manner that allows them to live a better life. But, for the col lege to allow something like this in a center for the community, where a very small portion of the community is of like mind, is egregious. First off, the Oregon City com munity is one of traditional moral values and to have this event in the center for said community is even more offensive. Finally, tolerance is a good thing when tolerance is about accepting people, but this event wasn’t about embracing gender confused indi viduals, it was about exploiting and mocking them. I found this to be Clackamas Print 19600 S. Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045 (503) 657-6958 ex. 2309 The C lackamas Print is a weekly student publication and is distributed every Wednesday except finals week. even more ironic when a club that is supposed to be supporting people who have alternative lifestyles put on the event. In conclusion, the college has made the type of mistake that is both hurtful to itself, the student body and the community that it has became such a good part of. I truly wish the school hadn’t dropped the ball this time. Ron J McGauvran Clackamas student Drag show double standard According to posted flyers, cam pus emails and an article in The Clackamas Print, the Rainbow Club is sponsoring a “drag pageant” on campus. Regardless of how I feel about it, I support the right for them to have this event. According to their club advisor, it’s important because “it’s a diver sity issue.” According to one club member, “it’s just for fun and com munity involvement.” I recall this past winter where Smoking causes disease, costs schools money all institutions that advocate Id ing due to the its horrendous ha 171« Clackamas Print hazards. There are a number of ways The' United States which smoking can increase the ci Center for of tuition. Insurance increases] Disease Control to the risks of fire, as well the < ■Jand Prevention of replacement for damaged furnil ■^describes tobacco and buildings. The risks posed by smoking tol use as “the single most important co are both the direct danger cau preventable risk by the inhalation of the chemical ci to human health in pounds as well as the fire danger developed countries, a cigarette that has been chemiq and an important treated to smolder indefinitely. I The interactions between the bi cause of premature and the tar that is inhaled are death worldwide.” Of the estimated hazardous as they are numerous] 15 million college stu most publicized of which would dents today, approxi cancer. Other unfortunate reactions c( mately 1.7 million will die prematurely of com in the forms of myocardial inf plications that arise from tions (heart attack), strokes, thr boangiitis obliterans (Buerger’s! smoking. Colleges may find it ease), Chronic Obstructive PulmoJ difficult to focus on the Disease (COPD), emphysema, ha] hazards of smoking when sis, and in men, erectile dysfunctl A study done by an internal there are a whole host of behaviors that are taking al team of researches has produ place, such as alcohol results showing that the risk for hi ism, which have a direct attack in people under the age of 4 effect on the campus quintupled if they smoke. In 2001, the University of Wiscol and the students living Oshkosh launched a comprehenj there. While there are many tobacco prevention initiative compelling issues on included a social norms marke campus, administrators campaign. Smoking rates decreasa should make smoking a over one-third following UW Oshi priority and take a com plan, which is currently used by ol prehensive approach to campuses as the design for their d anti-tobacco campaigns. And as si prevention. The fact is that they should be commended. The evidence is clear: tobaccl tobacco is one of the nastiest compounds without a doubt one of the n used by man and deadly creations humans admini should be kept as far to themselves, and all colleges shl away from any and make an immediate ban on smokil David Stark The Clackamas Print ran an article about the serious need to not use the title “Christmas” when referring to the annual Giving Tree, because it was found to be offensive to The Clackamas Print encourages some, while exclusionary to others. reader response. Submissions mus Anything perceived to be associ be received by 1 p.m. Friday in ] ated with “Christian” influences is order to be printed in the following entirely unacceptable, regardless of week's issue. All submissions must whether some found it fun, or that it be accompanied by the writer's garnered community involvement. full name and contact information I am not sure if this double stan requests to remain anonymous will dard is ironic or just sad. I see it as be considered. Please limit letters* a diversity issue. to approximately 200 words, «sw and guest columns to approximate Kurt Lewandowski 550 words. Submissions may be Instructor of Mathematics edited for length and clarity, not content. Please send submissions to chiefed@clackamas.edu ordroa Editor's note: The article refer them off on a disk in RR 135. enced ran in issue seven of The Print in the news section and was reporting on the controversy sur rounding the Giving Tree. This was. not an endorsement of either side of the issue. E ditor - in -C hief : Ben Maras Copy E ditors : Katie Weinberg, E. E. A i ^A ssistant : Helen Conley S taff W riters : Derek Erickson, West Justin Goe, Elizabeth Hitz, Frank Jordan, Mike Kimberling, Megan Koler, Adam J. Manley Matthew Olson, Kyle- Steele, David Stark, N. P. Delzell, Helen Conley N ews E ditor : Katie Wilson C ommentary E ditor : Laura Cameron F eature E ditor : C.J. Ciäramella S ports E ditor : Mike Guidice A&E E ditor : Tayo Stalnaker P hoto E ditor : Jeff Sorensen A d M anager : Sam Krause P roduction A ssistants : Adam J. Manley Kim Maier, Elizabeth Hitz, Chris Anderson, Scott Risvold P hotographers : Adam J. Manley Lara Hedbor, Elizabeth Hitz, Matt Olson, N. P. Delzell D epartment A dvisor : Linda Vogt D epartment A ssistant : Chris Hennel G oais The CiACKAMAsPrwf ail to report the news in an hones« unbiased, professional manner. I The opinions expressed do not I necessarily reflect those of the si dent body college administrate its faculty or The Print. E-mail I comments to chiefed@clackamB edu.
