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Volume 41, Issue 13
Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008
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dent brought into custody after malicious MySpace blogs
mentioned in Caldwell’s writ­
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Over the weekend, students
discovered a threat targeting
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student The Print, written in December,
lin Caldwell, 23, was on another MySpace page.
tato custody Friday, Feb. On Monday, Zuelke formally
lingly and unarmed for alerted The Print's full staff
ning comments on his that they had been threatened.
The post stated: “i think i
ce.cpm page, accord-
(the Clackamas County will go on a shooting spree and
j’s Office. He was held start with the print.”
Caldwell’s other comments
olice officer hold and
rtedjto a local hospital that led to police involvement
mental health evalua- include:
“It’s getting harder to not
ier this month, a student just start breaking things. It’s
ed Clackamas staff with getting harder to not just start
as about remarks on shooting.”
“ave maria ... this is
ill’s MySpace profile,
allege officials. After the song that would be my
lioolj found additional soundtrack for a killing spree
ation, school officials it just inspiers creativity.”
“i don’t want to think that
1 that the circumstances
alved to the point where the world is worth saving, i
:ing the sheriff’s office want to destroy it i want to
take my hate for this for this
cessary.
iwell was banned from world out of everybody.”
Caldwell is an admitted gun
s pending disciplin-
acedures, said Dean of rights advocate. In November,
t Services Bill Zuelke. he wrote a front-page news
liege is unsure when he story about gun rights for The
released from the men- Print. In 2006, he was issued
a concealed weapons permit,
luation.
n of Campus Services which was revoked upon the
ach feels that the cam­ onset of his police officer
handling the risk. Since hold.
On Feb. 15, views were
Oregon City police
created patrols on cam- posted on Caldwell’s blog page
about the Northern Illinois
have a really good University shootings, stating,
y team here,” Leach “An armed society is a polite
it’s like a city here, and society. The only reason that
,appens. We get issues people go around killing oth­
ime up about students ers is that they think they can
iff, and we look into all get away with it.”
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Student Sean Huggins
iwell [was a member sees the actions taken against
Clackamas Print from Caldwell as a flagrant example
2007Through fall of the of overreaction due to the fact
/ear. Among his ques- that the only evidence pre­
e remarks on MySpace sented is a few phrases written
lreatf targeting the staff on Caldwell’s profile.
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Print. Zuelke warned
int member Friday that in this nation, which means
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CALDWELL
Huggins said.
should have been informed of
Tom
Caldwell,
Ben Caldwell’s identity by the col­
Caldwell’s father, did not lege. Others said that when the
return The Print's calls for police released the information
comment.
to the puhlic, the press could
Many members of the col-, have permanently scarred his
lege staff criticized how the reputation on campus.
school handled the lack of
English Instructor Kate
information released about Gray has extended an open
Caldwell. At 4 p.m. Friday, invitation for faculty to par­
Leach notified the staff that ticipate in a Faculty Senate
there was a “student of con­ meeting, which will address
cern” and that the sheriff’s the current situation’s impact
department was involved. The on the college and its staff.
college said that because of
The meeting will be held
the Family Educational Rights Thursday at noon in the
and Privacy Act, or FERPA, McLoughlin Auditorium.
regulations, it could say little.
College President Joanne
In a series of e-mails Truesdell will talk to the cam­
exchanged among staff con­ pus community today at 2 p.m.
cerning Leach’s notification, in the Fireside Lounge.
some individuals on staff
voiced the opinion that they
On Wednesday, Feb. 13, President
Joanne Truesdell asked the board of
education to increase tuition $5 per
credit hour by summer 2008.
The recommendation was made
after a survey of the college sug­
gested that students lack resources
and services. The increase will help
to cover the projected budget deficit
for the next school year.
“We are not asking students to
fund the gap,” Truesdell said. “We
are all frying to figure out where the
frame is.”
Questions regarding the effect
on enrollment and how to remain
at a reasonable cost were at the
forefront of conversation. A rise in
tuition could impact distance learn­
ing enrollment and community edu­
cation, a large group of the student
body.
“... Our tuition increases
have not affected enrollment ...
” Truesdell said. “It’s about our
services, it’s about course offerings
and it’s about what’s happening in
terms of employment.”
The college has always been
a leader when it comes to cheap
education, but a tuition boost does
not mean that Clackamas would
skyrocket above other colleges.
“When you look at taking 13
credits at Clackamas in the fall, it
would cost one of our students $857,
and (for) students at Chemeketa, it
would have cost $939,” Truesdell
said. “If they would have gone
to Mt. Hood, it would have cost
$ 1,031, and at Portland Community
College, it would have cost $986.”
Please see TLHTIOH, Page 2
Fire lit up the
night Feb. 18 as Art
Instructor Rick True
set a Giant Handbuilt
book to flame. The
book was built by the
theatre department as
part of “The Big Read”
events held on cam­
pus. Names of banned
books
were writ­
ten on the giant dis­
play. Before the book
burning, a portion of
Ray Bradbury’s book
“Fahrenheit 451” was
performed by actor
Tobias Andersen. As
flames lit up the sky,
the crowd witnessed
the transformation:
The book changed
from a ball of fire to a
work of art. The frame
of the book held a
quote from Bradbury’s
•book: “Remember
Montag; the public
itself stopped reading
of its own accord.”
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