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The 4 Commentary Wednesday,-Nov. 8, 2006 Clackamas Pri Energy drinks: the silent kille making the product resemble other popular soft drinks - thank God for marketing. Recently, there has been Energy drinks could possi a large debate regarding the bly be the best creation ever, dangers of these drinks. The and they are thè life-blood of only real risks are overuse, almost all college students. mixing energy drinks with Contrary to popular belief, alcohol, or this craze isn’t a recent phe drinking nomenon. The Japanese start them ed putting energy drinks on while the market back in the 1960s. e X e r - They were originally market cising. A s ed to on-the-go businessmen needing to stay awake to com much as plete their work. Jolt was the someone first energy drink released in needs stay North America, according to to www.brown.edu. awake, The energy drinks of yore he or she are vastly different than the needs to ambrosia-like versions of keep in today. Among the most com mind just mon ingredients are caffeine how much (obviously), guarana (a more caffeine is in this stuff. natural kind of caffeine), Most energy drinks contain ginkgo biloba (a memory aid) somewhere in the ballpark of and ginseng. The coloring 80 milligrams of caffeine, an exists for the sole purpose of immense amount compared to Liz Travers The Clackamas Print Mountain Dew’s paltry sum of 37 milligrams. “When you drink a bunch [of energy drinks], it replaces your natural energy, so when it wears off, all you want to do is throw up and sleep,” said Clackamas student Mitch Pennell. Because of the punch of caffeine, students, including Pennell, are now realiz ing the reper cussions of con suming energy drinks. “If you drink enough energy drinks, soon enough it starts messing with your mind,” said student Danil Trofimchenko. Student Amanda Clancy said, “It is just as bad as soda. It has been proven that $ has an acid that, if you di enough, it will deplete calcium in your bones.” More and more athletes replacing water with differ! sorts of energy drinks. | risk factor here is the lack hydration, which is why I many athletes drink Gatora to replenish electrolytes 11 during activity. The sugar tl energy drinks provide is,I the long run, causing m| problems. According to www.indl tryplayer.com, alcohol miJ with Red Bull is fairly pd ular, but worse for a pl son than alcohol alone. Sind energy drinks are “uppel and alcohol is a “downer,” th caffeine will mask the effef of the latter, causing the vl tim to crash. There are pros and consl all things in life, but there! one simple lesson to this;f with all things, energy drin are beneficial in moderatiq Dear cafeteria, turn down Charlie, turn up Morri sse Rev. Sam Krause Co-Editor-in-Chief My number one complaint about the cafeteria: the bad music. I can’t seem to escape Charlie FM. From convenience stores to th barber shop I hear that dread fu 1 Charlie Even at hallowed Harvard on the Hill do I suffer the hodge-podge of Top 40 hits and obscure Dolly Parton and Depeche Mode b-sides. But this isn’t about Charlie ground, much less college FM; it’s about bad music. Can ■ students, without an all-out any large group of people find cage-match? Sure. common musical Some Chartwell’s employees change the station when they get sick of the music. Later L. in the evening, one can hear \ the tired old playlist of KGON. . Generally, employees of Chartwell’s get sick of Charlie FM, too. They don’t, however, make strides to change the station - except for one person. One spunky employee truly rebels and will play AFI or Led Zepplin. However, she doesn’t play any of her music until the evening, when it is less likely for little children I Photo Illustration by Katie Wilson Clackamas Print to be around. According to this sa employee, there aren’t a rules surrounding what c and can’t be played. Wouldn’t it be nice! walk into the cafeteria o day and hear some old Gri Day, maybe something fr Zepplin’s Houses of the Ha Or even better, an all-0 Osbome/Black Sabbath d “Crazy Train” in the moral and “Mr. Crowley” in I evening. So here’s my suggest! for the student body: use t Chartwell’s suggestion b| to. request music listen. Until then, we can all j j suffer Charlie FM’s incea cent noise they like to ci music. Request Morrissey, becal that would be awesome. I World of Warcraft players: stop hoggins students' bandwidt time, and it needs to stop. The common argument is that the students playing the games in class are also paying I never thought I’d see tuitioj, but even if the entire the day when the college cost of their tuition were would have to ban “World dumped into the Information of Warcraft.” Unfortunately,, Technology Department on campus, it would only pay for kids, that day has come. The college provides a small fraction of the money wireless network access free this school pays out for its of charge to anyone who students to have a .convenient wants to use the Internet as study resource. As a public the incredible study resource college, much of the cost of it is, but the problem is some operation is subsidized by students are using the Wi-Fi local tax dollars, and as much to play Massive Multiplayer as I love my video games, Online games (MMO’s) in ■that’s definitely not what what tax dollars are for. class. If smokers steal money Whether it’s funded by tax dollars or by tuition dollars to buy a pack of cigarettes, could not be immediately thqy’re called criminals and verified, but the fact is this thrown in prison. Why, then, new wireless networking that should we allow these spoiled the college is offering “free” brats with laptops to continue to students is funded by one taking advantage of a resource or the other, and is not being that everyone else is paying paid for by the selfish few for? It’s childish and selfish who are playing video games to use a study resource just to feed a gaming addiction, in class. Clackamas students — and if students are going to through tuition or tax dollars continue playing games in - are paying for these kids to class, it might be time for the play video games during class teachers on campus tc take a Jeff Sorensen The Clackamas Print more “high school” approach to discipline and remove them from class. It has long been my opinion that MMO’s are - more often than not' - a useless waste of hard drive space. However, I’ve always been a strong video game advocate, and I believe gamers certainly have the right to choose the games they play. Around campus, there aren’t any problems with MMO’s making anybody violent, or impairing anyone’s ability to do homework (not that I can prove, anyway). The problem is that “students” - for lack of a more appropriate term - are using the “free” college Wi-Fi networking to play MMO’s in class, and nobody is doing anything about it.. There’s a joke that floats around campus every year about Clackamas Community College feeling like “high school t with ash trays.” The reason why it feels that way to some students is because some of us studi are having a little troub growing up. Photo Illustration by Genyva Laubach Clackamas Print
