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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Clackamas Print
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T he END OF
A ll T hings
HOLY:
The Life & Times of
I - Jsaiah Creel
ra Cameron
said. “I pick people’s brains.”
He says that his time on The
Print has helped him in his job.
L “It’s like interviewing,” he
laimer: This story con- , said- “I, try to get them to tell
nguage that some people me what I want to know, and
I offensive.
then I write it up. I just do it for
a smaller audience.”
re’s something in the
Creel says he joined the
of Man that compels US Army because he was “tired of
nee.”
thinking.”
Isaiah Creel would know
“I wanted someone else to
nt back to AfghamstM do my thinking for me,” he
15.
said. “It’s funny - I’ve actually
hanistan is a lot like had to do more thinking in the
Creel said. “Thepeo- military than I ever had to do as
very friendly. They’re a civilian.”
ly honest, but bribery ^
He enjoys the Army. In fact,
I. Their whole govem- the military introduced him to
stem is based on bribes, his wife, Kimberly.
as crooked as the day js;
“I went to Basic. Training
nt they’re honest about with a guy from Portland,” he
said. “We went on to advanced
is a former editor-in framing together, and got sta
i’ The Clackamas Print. tioned together afterwards. The
ber a crazy comic strip first time we went home on
The End of All Things
leave, his sister met him at the
That was him.
airport, and I remember looking
1 he left the college at at her and thinking, ‘I’m going
of the 2004-05 school to marry her. ’”
! enlisted in the Army,
When Creel next came home
w an interrogator!
on leave, he took Kimberly out
bnically, I’m a ‘Human on several datés. They married
nee Collector,”’ Creel on-Nov. 17 of last year.
Editor
Creel is signed up for a five-
year tour of duty.
“I might re-up; I don’t know,”
he said. “The military gives
you a chance to live out in the
world. You don’t have to worry
about rent or food, and you can
tour around in your free time.
It’s not such a bad gig.”
He believes that the Army
has given him more and better
experiences than he would have
gotten otherwise.
“I remember when I was fly
ing home on my first leave, and
they’d bumped me up to First
Class. There were these two
businessmen, probably 50 years
old - good suits, well-groomed
- reading The New York Times
or some-such - and they just
didn’t look happy.
“And I realized that I’ve
probably had more exjperience
ih my two years in the military
than they’ve had in their 50 oh
God’s green Earth, Allah’s green
Earth, Gaia, whatever the fuck
you wanna call it. Money’s been
their focus, and what’ve they
got? Money, sure, but they’re
hot happy.”
Creel thinks everyone should
spend some time in the mili
tary.
Why?
“Because the world is getting
smaller,” he said. “It’s more of
a community now and less of
a world. Joining the military
makes you part of that global
community.
gaPThe scene *s seL whether
you’re a pawn or bishop doesn’t
matter. The board is
out there, and if
you don’t step up,
you’re doing your-
self and everyone
else a disservice.”
He
says
he
understands where
anti-war protesters
are coming from, but
TOP:
Pfc.
Isaiah Creel in
uniform. Creel
used to lead
the CCC stu
dent news
paper and draw a
comic, “The End
of All Things Holy.”
One of the charac
ters, the fish Malkorto
(above), lived an odd
and twisted life that
perhaps only its cre
ator could understand.
LEFT: Creel shows off
his be-stickered M-4
rifle.
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he thinks they’re “silly.”
“Peace is a great idea, and
it can be damned useful. Is it a
reachable goal? Yeah, as long
as you realize that peace is not
absolute, just like violence is
not absolute.
“Theje’s something in the
nature of Man that compels us
to violence. This is the only
sanctioned way to do violence.
It’s pur nature; it’s in our blood,
whether we like it or not. You
can fight it - but that’s a con
flict in and of itself.
“Violence is always with us.
The way you choose to incorpo
rate it in your life
is up to you.”
ENG-105: for the stage-frightened
Emily Walters
The Clackamas Print
Is drama your passion, but stage
fright has kept you from ever stepping
out on the stage?
If so, take English 105 this sum
mer.
Introduction to Drama is a four-
credit English class where students
read and discuss the literary works
of great playwrights, including
Sophocles, Claspell, Miller, Wilson,
Shakespeare, Euripides and Ibsen. It
will meet Mondays and Wednesdays,
from 10 a.m. to 12:20 pm
“[The class is] essentially talk
ing about the literature, rather than
performing,” said Instructor Jan
Anderson.
Not only are these inspired writ
ings read in class, but students also
critique the dramatists. Rewriting the
plays is also encouraged.
“Almost every year, one of the stu
dents in this class comes to me, want
ing to rewrite the ending of Othello
because it has such a tragic ending,”
said Anderson.
Anderson tries to introduce the
plays in a fairly chronological older,
going “from the Greeks through the
Dark Ages, into the Renaissance.”
This way, the students are able to
observe how dramatic works have
progressed.
As part of the course, Anderson
also takes students on a tour of the
finest theaters in Clackamas County,
in order for them to better understand
what goes on the behind the scenes.
They also visit the college’s cos
tume room and select appropriate cos
tumes for the play they are studying
at the time.
In addition, one of the class assign
ments is to write an original play.
Signup to taketheclassthisSummer
Term because, sadly, Anderson is retir
ing from Clackamas at the end of the
summer, after many years of teaching
for the English Department.
Anderson promises that students
who take the course from her will
“laugh, cry, mope and howl”
For more information on the
course, contact Jan Anderson at ext
2429, or the English Department at
ext 2284.