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Volume 40, Issue 23
. TO LINDA;
JOURNALISM ADVISER
RETIRES AFTER 21 YEARS
We face the end of an era.
Let’s set the stage: it’s the end
of Spring Term, it’s The Print’s last
’ssue UI^ next Fall Term, and -
most importantly — it is Journalism
Adviser Linda Vogt’s time to say
good-bye to the newspaper and
die college where she has spent die
past 21 years.
For 21 years, she has repre­
sented the journalism program to
the mahogany desks up in admin­
istration. For 21 years, she has
pushed her students to ever-greater
heights.
For 21 years, she has guided
her students through the different
journalistic tangles in which they
have found themselves, whether it
be making the switch from Quark
to InDesign or covering sensitive
stories on campus.
She is the instructor who, frus-
ÀU photos by Adam J. Manley -—(rated with the lackluster replies of
Clackamas Print
a group of student editors during a
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staff meeting, said:
“If you have to
rob a bank to pay
for college, do it!’
You’ve got to go
to college.”
The students
immediately wrote
her words up on a
white board.
She has seen
newspaper staffs
ABOVE: Not only does Linda teach journalism; she is also an accomplished musi­
come and go: so
cian. LEFT: Linda and her constant companion, Scout, enjoy a day at the beach.
many different
editors, photogra­
phers, writers and
age and critique. She taught us how begins working with the new advis­
production, assis­
to interview and how to write, how er, Melissa Jones, we will always
tants.
to think things through and to take remember what Linda Vogt has done
She has touched all their lives in responsibility for what we published.
for us.
one way or another.
Her students have gone on to
There’s not much else we can say
We came with our ignorance, our work for News Channel 8, in Army except: thank you, Linda. Thank you
insecurities, our green hair (in some intelligence and at various newspa­ very much.
casés), our words and our pens.
pers around the country.
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Love,
newsroom, always ready to encour- nalism cranks away and The Print
The 2006-07 Print staff
Linda Vogt’s personal good-bye to Clackamas Community College
rhis
has been
ordinary
job ...
For the past 21 years, I have had the privi-
ge of working at a college where people care
)out each other and working with students
ho want to make a difference in their world.
Now, what could be better than that?!
The Clackamas Print is no ordinary news­
ier. It is an award-winning, student-run
¡wspaper, a weekly peek into what students
s doing, thinking, pondering, celebrating. I
in proud to be their adviser.
the newspaper is the product... but it’s the
Dcess that has mattered most to me. It’s what
ippens here in the “Student Pub Lab,” as we
ill it: the debates, the struggles, the writing,
e editing. That’s the heart of it all.
What’s important is making a place and
HO
an experience here where students can learn
to work together, play together, thrive. Step
inside Rook 135 and you’ll know that it’s a
student space. Listen to the conversations and
the laughter and you’ll know that significant
and ordinary things are discussed here. To
members of The Print staff, it’s home - and
that’s how it should be.
But sometimes we get to leave home. Each
year, we all head to the beach for a weekend
retreat... we leam about each other, plan, set
goals, make meals together, play Scattegories;
we build a huge ol’ fire on the beach and pon­
tificate. It’s rejuvenating. We connect
. And then there are the national confer­
ences: Seattle. San Francisco. Los Angeles.
Las Vegas. And New York, New York! It’s
good to get out of Oregon City once in awhile.
It expands one’s horizons.
But it’s good to come back, too. Part of
the reason for the success of the journalism
program here has been the consistent and
full support of my colleagues in the English
Department. I so appreciate that. You’re the
best! And as I said at our Pirate Retirement
Party, I am so grateful to have been part of
a faculty that has given me lifelong friends
- and not just the meet-in-the-lunchroom kind.
I mean the what-would-my-life-be-without-
you-kind. These are precious gifts
Speaking of gifts... there were all those glo­
rious years, in the ‘90s, of the “Connections”
program for women. I had thè privilege of
helping lead three European tours, nine wom­
en’s weekends, cross-country ski trips, rafting
on the Clackamas River. You know what they
say ... “Girls just wanna have fun!” And we
did.
The other gift I appreciate: I was able to
make my canine companions part of The Print
staff. Mattie was an excellent and devoted
mascot and had so many friends; I still miss
her, and I know many of you do, too. Scout is
the exuberant and enthusiastic, little guy who
now brings his energy to the newsroom. Thank
you to everyone who welcomed them both to
the college!
When I started here in 1986 out in “Trailer
B,” I was thrilled to be working here and I
had no idea I would be writing this farewell
nearly 500 newspapers later. I still love this
job, this place, these colleagues, these stu­
dents. How fortunate I am! It’s time now for
something new ... writing, travel, adventure.
But of course I’ll always be connected to
Clackamas.
To the members of this year’s Clackamas
Print staff, I say thank you for making this
last year memorable - from that “Crisis in
Leadership” special edition the first week of
Fall Term to The Print being recognized last
month with a state-wide “General Excellence”
award for exemplary journalism. What a way
to wind it all up!
To my former students, I say thank you for
making life here rewarding, challenging and
invigorating! To my friends and colleagues, I
say thank you for the respect you’ve shown
for the newspaper and for the students who
create it.
This has been no ordinary job! How fortu­
nate I am to have had it.
I INSIDE
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* The Print interviews Congressman David Wu
* Were the beatings at Wagon Wheel racially motivated?
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* Wondering what to do this summer?
* Cougar athletic teams tore it up this year