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[he ii First copy FREE, additional copies If Clackamas Printf ILE CO?i independent, student-run newspaper since 1966 Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR --------------------------------------------- /--------------------- Wednesday, May 30, 2007 Volume 40, Issue 22 6I don’t say I’m no better than anybody else. But rn be damned if I ain’t jist as good!’ - Lyrics from Rodgers and Hammerstein s ‘Oklahoma!! The play will continue through this weekend Katie Wilson Co-Editor-in-Chief Who will be the first man to nd up for his rights and get )t? It’s hard to be a man in lahoma! Every farmer’s daugh- has a father with a gun. Twenty minutes ago, life wasn’t bad. One was as free as a gypsy, to kiss the fanners’ daughters as one pleased - but then in came their fathers - and now it’s get married or get a bullet through die skull. It’s a scandal. It’s an outrage. Perhaps it’s my own violent ten dencies, but moments like these held my interest the most during the Theatre Department’s Spring Term production of Oklahoma! ... that nagging question: Who, for whatever jeason, will be the first man to get shot? tage, having never seen any other version of the play with which to compare the college’s offering. But, then, maybe that’s not such a bad thing; I entered the theater with my mind free of bias. So, this is what I found ... Warning: It is a musical, which means there will be singing and dancing - lovely dancing, I might add. Don’t worry. It won’t hurt. Please see OKLAHOMA, Page 6 OVE LEFT: Laury - in the middle — played by Emily Jackson, gets a little more attention from peddler Ali Hakim (played by James Sharinghousen) than e’d like. Ado Annie (Brianna Shewbert) looks on gleefully. ABOVE RIGHT: From bottom to top, Shewbert, Jackson, Alayna Lawson and Emily Jones dance on e stage. Lawson plays Armina, and Jones takes on the role of Kate. David Wu to meet CCC, students Megan Koler News Editor Congressman David Wu will visit the campus today to discuss the financial con cerns of community college students. He and his staff will meet Clackamas’ president, Joanne Truesdell, at the main entrance of the Bill Brod Community Center at 1:30 p.m Truesdell will give Wu a tour of the campus, includ ing an excursion to the Environmental Learning Center, highlighting various iustainability projects. At 2:30 p.m., they will recon vene in the Fireside Lounge, where everyone is welcome to ask the congressman questions. "We’re very pleased that lie is taking an interest and s willing to talk to students ibout what their concerns are,” said Truesdell. “The goal of the visit is to make sure that community colleges have [a voice] any time we talk about funding,” said Jillian Schoene, spokes woman for Wu. Wu, who represents Oregon’s First Congressional District, serves on the Education and Labor Committee (the only com mittee that has jurisdiction over education policy) and in the past has testified in support of greater funding for student financial aid at the state level. Wu has even introduced a resolution calling for full funding of Pell Grants at the maximum authorized amount: $5,800. Today’s maximum amount of $4,050 is worth almost $800 less than the maximum scholar ship nearly 30 years ago. “He's been a real advo cate for community colleg es,” Truesdell said. Secretary of state pays campus a visit Fufkin Vollmayer The Clackamas Print To really grasp the probable effects of global warming is to revisit the Old Testament It’s the 10 plagues and then some. The smog is so dense in coastal China that drivers use headlights to drive dur ing the day, while a drought scorches the inland. A continent away, the drought has wiped Lake Chad (bordering Darfur) off the map, killing off the fish - and food supply - for thousands of Africans. The torrential downpour in Mumbai (Bombay) on July 26, 2005, when 37 inches of rain fell in just 24 hours, killed one thousand people. During his visit on May 23 to Clackamas, Secretary of State Bill Bradbury spoke of these disasters as all related to global wanning. Speaking in conjunction with Al Gore’s Climate Project for CCC’s Sustainability Series, he presented a slideshow illustrating the catastrophes, as well as examples closer to home. The thousands of crabs that died last year off the coast of Lincoln City weren’t poisoned; the lack of oxygen on the ocean floor killed them. Bradbury’s photos depicted a mile-long swath of a flotilla of dead crabs, undulating in the currents, an oceanic dead zone. How could global wanning, which affects the surface temperature of the ocean and the Earth, cause crabs on the ocean floor to die? Bradbury said it’s not as far-fetched as it seems. “Scientists, such as Oregon State University’s Dr. Jane Lubchenco, believe there’s a connection between this hypoxic evept and a change in wind pat terns,” he said. The change from occasional to constant wind near Newport caused the ocean water to chum. This constant upwelling took all the oxygen out of the very bottom of the ocean. Fish escaped; crabs were trapped. Bradbury also showed slide after slide BRADBURY of retreating ice packs: Mt. Kilimanjaro, Greenland, the artic circle and the phenomena of “drunken trees,” which are trees tilting and falling over, owing to melting permafrost in Alaska. In Oregon, he had equally dramatic time-lapse photos of the vanishing snow pack on the Cascades and Mt. Hood’s evaporating glaciers. He depicted several grim scenarios for the Northwest “The projected rise in sea level would put Tillamook, parts of Portland and the Portland airport underwater,” he said. More intense heat waves and sum mers would potentially limit agriculture in the Willamette Valley. Expect less snow and skiing. But Bradbury reminded the audi ence of the current effects of climate change on the region. “From the Southwest uptothePacificNorthwest, there were 85 forest fires last summer, the largest number on record ... and then there’s the fact of huge amounts of airborne mercury from China that blows across to Oregon and Idaho,” he said. Bradbury. gives this slideshow based on An Inconvenient Truth to Oregon congregations, corporations and organizations. He says it was the stu dents at a Hillsboro middle school who were the most engaged. “These guys really got it. They kept asking me, ‘If we do reduce our carbon footprint by the targeted goals, will this stop all these horrible things from hap pening?’ and I could only answer that we, the scientists, don’t know, but that we have to try.”
