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From pompoms to ^lags: former cheer leader joins flag football team Follow the com maze and roll on the hay ride to our pumpkin patch reviews Page 6 Page 9 ieClackamasPrmt.com for more info & photos First copy FREE; additional copies 1 Icome to your bm at Scream at Beach Circuit City building, Scream at the Beach has five haunts this ■nd our corre- year all connected in one seem Idents to Scream ingly never-ending tour and is the biggest haunt around. I Beach for This was my first year attend Is galore ing the event, and I must say, it held up to my expectations. Walking through the haunt, I think I screamed and jumped at [Kayla Calloway more things than I have in my entire life. It wasn’t the flashing ■Copy Editor lights or the animatronics that scared me most of all. It was Irk. One hand is grasp the lack of light, the endless companion’s, the other tunnels, and the cast that fright |g blindly in front of ened me to the point of terror. (floor is uneven and it Lough it could abruptly liny moment. There is I and the only sounds I laggard breathing com- II you and your group. I y, there’s a loud bang it to your ear. poments like this that ■ur blood run cold and It’s dark. One n erupt from within. It’s hand is grasping ■ like this that make Vs Scream at the Beach your companion’s, ■ to go to be scared. ■n at the Beach is in the other is ■ season, and so far it groping blindly in ■o be the biggest one ii ■ in the top 3 percent ■haunts in the nation, ■Beach's seasonal scare- ■ell known to natives ■sts. ■ed at the Jantzen Beach ■nter inside the old [m version of Michael ■greets Scream at the ■yistors with a bottle Bauce on Friday, Oct. front of you. Around every comer, and sometimes above your head, there was something that was not expected. You start out in the Gothenberg Estate where ghouls and madmen come at you from nowhere. Then you wander through the Clown’s Playground where any victim is a coulrophobe. Next you emerge outside in a graveyard and ushered into the darkest tunnel you’ll ever be in. In the following moments, you find yourself the human sacrifice in an ancient ritual. Finally, you’re running from a military experi ment gone wrong. All the while, you’re being asked if you want to play a game. If you’re not the type to get scared by things like that, an amusing way to pass the time in the haunt is to throw off the actors something that is very hard to do. Every member of the cast is dedicated to their character and are not easily diverted. Please see SCREAM, Page 8 how students feel about the possibility of the smoking cabanas being taken away. . “I have heard extremes of, ‘Yes, it’s great, * and, ‘No, it’s terrible,’” Fava said, revealing As many community colleges are doing, that there are some students already aware Clackamas is in the beginning stages of of the possibility. “I think it’s a choice, honestly, not a good becoming a smoke-free campus. According to “Smoking on campus, choice but a choice,” said Jannette Newton, review and recommendation, June 10, a CCC student and smoker, when asked 2009,” a smoking ban at Clackamas is con- about how she would feel if the school . sistent with community college trends, not banned smoking. Newton also believes it will just be more hassle for the college. only in the metro area but statewide. “If people want to smoke, let them,” Although, Alyssa Fava, Associated Student Government President, does not Newton stated. “It’s unenforceable. It’s a shame,” Sandra personally believe CCC is attempting to ban Vincent, a student who smokes, said about smoking because everyone else is doing it. Fava believes banning smoking is a good the possibility. ASG has been meeting with representa step and has many benefits, not only health tives for community colleges that have but also environmental. The Campus Use and Development recently gone smoke-free in order to find Committee were the first ones to draft the out the best process to go through for CCC. Portland Community College has had proposal. If the proposal were approved, the smok issues with students smoking on public ing cabanas would be torn down, and dis sidewalks that are right next to the school cussion is still taking place on whether or and throwing the cigarette butts on school not students and faculty could smoke in grounds. Fava also explained that other students their cars in the parking lots. Fava stated that the process is very much who are not littering their cigarette butts in the preliminary rounds and could take a will carry them with them to class and that presents a smelly situation, as anyone who couple of months to a year. A possible date that has been discussed has been around someone who saves ciga rette butts would know. is Aug. 9, 2010. ASG’s main goal is to keep students informed and involved in the process, Fava Please see CIGARETTES, Page 5 said. ASG plans on releasing surveys to see By Abigail Neet News Editor