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^Clackamas Print student toll: flhat classes fiouldyou like lo see offered t Clackamas? ......... Face Off: Kulopgoski or Saxton? Kulongoski will do a lot for Oregon Justin Gon The Clackamas Print “Fly-fishing!” Southworth fMor e ¡vocational classes” Justin Harlon I 0 I I “Maybe a forensics s t u d y class.” hny Drinkwater pome ping to do with firearm aware- Bss.” Commentary 3 Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006 Okay, simple question: Who do you want for your governor for the next four years? Do you want a man who is going to defiver results, or somebody who is going to prom ise you the moon to get your vote and then decide, once in office, what he or she really wants your tax dollars going towards? The first man is Governor Ted Kulongoski, and the second is Ron Saxton, the Republican Party’s candidate. We’ve seen the same things out of Washington D.C. for the last few years, with the president saying that he’s going to have tax cuts for the wealthy, and then that debt and the poor economy are going to work themselves out in the long run. The only problem is that the U.S. National Debt keeps growing. With a war on two fronts, and maybe one coming up in North Korea, can we as a state and a country handle more tax cuts for the top one percent? We have already seen the current policy fail on the national scale; do we really think it is going to work in Oregon? Ron Saxton has also tried to rally support for Measure 41, which “would cut income taxes by about $140 a person, [but] would leave the state $400 million less to spend each year,” according to The Oregonian. Kulongoski, the article states, is “seeking sev eral new sources of money - a surcharge on car insur ance to pay for more state troopers, a big increase in the $10 corporate minimum tax to provide Head Start to every poor child who wants, in, and keeping the corporate kicker — so that he can use the surge in state revenues to beef up education, from preschool through college, while maintaining other state services.” The article goes on to quote the governor as saying that structural tax reform is unnecessary, “because the economy will keep pumping enough income taxes into state [reserves] to offer more services, plus build a big rainy-day fund.” It seems to me that Ron Saxton is promising things that he won’t be able to back up, and Kulongoski is ready to make a change in our economy by using things that will work Saxton will bring fresh ideas illegal immigrants if he becomes gov ernor. I couldn’t believe that a politi The Clackamas Print cian was mentioning illegal immigra tion. He had my attention. I normally have a problem with Oregon has given the Democratic agenda a nice long turn; it is now time what politicians don I say about ille gal immigration (both Democrats and for the Republicans to have a go. Most of the gubernatorial ads look Republicans are guilty), and I applaud very similar. They usually make the Saxton for having the courage to not same general promises, add that the only touch on that subject, but for other guy sucks and mention that, if promising to enforce laws that have you elect him, the sun will implode been ignored for far too long. There is a tremendous amount of and apes will mle for 3,000 years. I thought that until I saw Ron pressure for all politicians to avoid enforcing immigration laws because Saxton’s ad for governor. In one of Ron Saxton’s ads, he they risk angering a certain commu mentioned that he will stop the Oregon nity of voters, which would have DMV from issuing drivers licenses to Oregon continue to avoid the subject Saxton is showing us that he cares about Oregon’s real problems and is looking at the big picture, rather than focus ing on a million small things that could be better. I don’t want to spend my time bashing Ted Kulongonski, so I will end this by say ing that he has been a very proactive governor and man aged not to do anything sleazy or backhanded in his term. The prob lem is, nothing has real ly changed for Oregon. Most of the initiatives he took to help Oregon were superficial solutions to deeper problems. We all know that if we’re not moving for ward, we’re moving back ward. Everyone should move out of their comfort zone and take a chance Photo Illustration by Adam J. Manley Clackamas Print on Saxton. Megan Koler The pointless majors: pointless no more Jon Bergeron David Stark The Clackamas Print “Lots of mechanics classes.” feel Lavender This week's poll com piled by Liz Travers (Clackamas Print 19600 S. Molalla Ave. [Oregon City, OR 97045 (503) 657-6958 ex. 2309 foe Clackamas Print is a weekly |± student publication and is •stributed every Wednesday except finals week. In a world where knowl edge is power, there is no such thing as a pointless major. There are abounding opportunities for even the most seemingly obscure field of study. For example, major ing in dead and forgotten languages, such as Sanskrit, would on the surface appear to be a fool’s errand, but demand for reliable transla tors for ancient texts is higher than one might expect. Or look at Cultural C o -E dttors - in -C hief : Sam Krause, Anthropology. Depending on the culture, a person could be hired as an adviser for com panies expanding beyond national borders, as a researcher, or even be called to go on a lecture circuit espousing the greatness of a culture and what society as a whole can learn from it. Often times, when told that someone is going to be an English major, the only profession that Those who can: do; those who can’t: teach. A d M anager : Elizabeth Hitz Katie Wilson C opy E ditor : Colleen Watkins N ews E ditor : Megan Koler C ommentary E ditor : Tayo Stalnaker F eature E ditor : Laura Cameron S ports E ditor : Mike Guidice A&E E ditor : Matt Olson P hoto E ditor : Adam J. Manley springs to mind is that of a teacher, but, when studied enough, any language yields sur prising results. While true that English maj ors can become teachers, there are a number of other possible voca tions, such as P hotographers : Juno Dean, Jeff Sorensen S taff W riters : Justin Goe, Frank Jordan, Andrea Simpson, Jeff E) epartment A dviser : Linda Vogt Sorensen, David Stark, Liz Travers, Alexandria Vallelunga, Nicholas Delzell, Sean Van Walchen P roduction A ssistants : Rachel Gillette, Genyva Laubach, David Stark becoming an author, journal ist, technical writer, speech writer, journalist, or even Nobel Peace Prize Winner. The field of Linguistics is a rarity for majors these days; however, the need for Linguistic majors in the field of Speech Pathology is so rare that they are highly sought after. So the old axiom goes, “Those who can: do; those who can’t: teach.” If a major has no reasonable applica tion, at the very least, the education of others is pos sible. G oals : The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased, professional manner. 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