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