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2 the clackamas print new? Wednesday, June 2. 2010 Protesters fight church’s view! By Jaime Dunkle * Associate News Editor Contributed by Ryan Blanchard Chris Morrow protests the Westboro Baptists outside the New Hope Community Church on Sunday, May 30. Morrow’s counter protest satires the often theatrical demonstrations of WBC. The Westboro Baptist Church takes advantage of free speech, claim ing that God hates Jews, America, homosexuals and female preach ers. WBC picketed synagogues and churches in the Portland Metro area this weekend. The WBC protested against New Hope Community Church in Happy Valley on Sunday, May 30. WBC was opposing New Hope’s utiliza tion of female preachers. Protesters left after only 30 minutes of hold ing signs and marching around the church parking lot and down Stevens Road. WBC will return to Portland Thursday, June 3 to protest Grant High School for having a gay sup port group. The WBC will be present from 7:35 a.m. until 8:05 aan. Tammy Owen is an administra tor at the New Hope Community Church. WBC sent a fax to New Hope, notifying the church of the protest. The Sunday protest was non violent. People peacefully rotated around the turnabout outside of the church for exactly 30 minutes. “They held up their signs and walked around, protesting what they were for and against,” Owen said. “There were about seven to 10 of them.” New Hope Community Church CHEMICALS: breathe easy? Continued from CHEMICALS, Page 1 “If you go online and look at any of the chemicals that they are using on the lawns, how to spray them and what to wear, I mean you should be wearing a hazmat suit to spray that shit,” said Andersen. Andersen is currently an art professor but has had his fair share of work experience with some of the chemicals CCC uses on its lawns. Working as an entomologist for a company called Environmental Labs side- by-side with toxicologists in the early ‘80s, Andersen is well educated in the field of chemicals and the side effects they carry with them, both short and long term. Andersen has, over the years of work ing with such chemicals, become what is called “chemically sensitive,” which makes him more susceptible to illness when such herbicides are sprayed or used around him. Andersen’s sensitivity, on the other hand, does not make his concern less important. Andersen explained that even though he may get sick more often, the damages caused by spraying these chemicals around public areas are felt everywhere, both environmentally and personally. “Weasfaculty,students andstaffarewalking around campus in this haze of invisible, odor less chemicals, and then we get sick or become allergic and the doctor said ‘Oh, it’s just aller gies,”’Andersen said. Andersen also voiced his concern with the long term effects of the chemicals used to kill off the weeds and bugs on campus. “What it’s going to do to us in the long run is pretty scary and because in most of those chemicals the vehicle for them is i— staff the clackamas print a chemical that is an endocrine disrupter, which totally screws with a whole bunch of issues. One of the symptoms of chemical exposure is learning disabilities in young kids,” Andersen explained. Department Chair of Horticulture, Elizabeth Howley, showed concern that some people might get sick from use of chemical sprays for weeds around campus. Howley, on the other hand, was unaware of the school doing much spraying. “I don’t think much of anything is being sprayed at all,” said Howley. This past Memorial Day weekend, cam pus services sprayed the grounds around the school with a weed killer called Trimec Classic Broadleaf Herbicide, according to Dean of Campus Services, Bob Cochran. According to the specimen label for Trimec Classic, it’s a chemical that is extremely corrosive, causes irreversible eye damage and must be sprayed wearing spe cial chemical resistant clothing covering all areas of skin. The specimen label also men tions that the chemical is very dangerous to aquatic invertebrates and poses a threat to other people and animals if sprayed in or near waterways where runoff may occur. Earl Tracy, a representative of pbi/Gordan Corporati on, the company that makes Trim ec Classic, said that if the chemical is used prop erly, it has no harmfill affects. “There is really no concerns with run off because the plant absorbs the chemical within six to eight hours,” said Tracy. For more information on Trimec Classic, you can look at the Label information at www.pbigordon.com/pdfs/TrimecClassic- SL.pdf. I said. Shirely Phelps Roper is oneO1 eight daughters of WBC I'oufl er Fred Phelps, who also hasM grandchildren. Roper is also WBfl attorney. When asked what the WM is about, Roper empha^B Armageddon. The WBC’s lx>¿fl line is that the world is in disarr^B “We’re just simply servai^B I God in these last hours of the lastM of all,” Roper said. “This nal destruction is imminent; we’re people running to and fro to help] connect the dots from your rebfl against God.” WBC travels all over the cel to share their beliefs. Whenk about the WBC’s source of luna Roper said, “It’s a secret but I’ll t you—we work!” “We pay our own way. Wa ask anything from anyone, a don’t take anything from an Roper said. The WBC especially disa of the Pacific Northwest. T í the region for being the worst In I nation. “I’ll tell you that Oregon a Washington are the most filthy a vile states,” Roper said, “fl been on the mean streets of Ana everyday for 20 years, and youg never fail to give. It’s ainazina’M never disappoint; we assume fl into that state that it’s going to 11J and filthy, and it always is.” Finals Schedul Class Start Day/ Time M/WorM/W/F 7:45 or 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 or 10:15 a.m. 11 or 11:30 a.m. Noonor 12:45 p.m. 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 3 or 3:15 p.m. 4 or 5 p.m. T/TH 7:30 or 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 or 10:30 a.m. . 1 p.m. 2:30 or 3 p.m. 4 or 5 p.m. Conflicts Exam Day/Time Mon. 6/7 8 -10 a.m. Wed. 6/9 1 Tues. 6/8 8 -10 a.m. I 10 a.m.-Noon 10 a.m.-Nd Noon - 2 p.m. Noon - 2 p.n 2-4p.m. 2-4p.m. 4 - 6 p.m. 8 -10 a.m. 10 a.m.-Noon Noon - 2 p.m. 2 - 4 p.m. 4 - 6 p.m. See Instructor 4-6p.m. I X Co-Editors in Chief: Ad Manager: Staff Writers/ Photographers: Production Assistants: Jackson, Kayla Berge, John Hurlburt Meredith James Bethany News Editor: fany Myers, Redick, Steven Corey Romick Erik Andersen Associate News Editor: Jaime Dunkle 19600 S. Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045 503-594-6266 has four female preachers. The women at New Hope have a unique talent when it comes to preaching, according to Owen. Chris Morrow is a gay rights activist from Clackamas County. He opposes WBC’s viewpoints. “I think the Westboro Baptist Church is a bunch of retarded douche bags,” Morrow said. “On par with David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan.” M orro w was a part of the counter protest at New Hope. He was there to express his views on the similarities between racism and homophobia. “The violence perpetrated against homosexuals is no less violent than, or [no less] spawned by personal hatred, than the violence perpetrated against black people in the 50s,” Morrow said. People interpret the Bible in many different ways. Morrow dissected dif ferent Bible verses condoning abuse against woman and slavery. “There are several verses in the Bible that touch on the topic of slav ery, and there are some Bible verses which state that if a man rapes a woman, he can pay the father off 50 sheckles, and then he has to marry that woman and they can never divorce,” Morrow said. Morrow recommends some lit erary sources that analyze biblical verses. “I’m an avid reader of EvilBible. com, ‘The Brick Testament’ and ‘The Skeptics Annotated Bible,”’ Morrow Sports Editor: Mark Foster Associate Sports Editor: Steven Weldon Arts & Culture Editor: Annemarie Schulte Joshua Baird, Brian Baldwin, Michael Bonn, Hillary Cole, Copy Editor: Alexandria Coover, George Kayla Calloway Associate Copy Editor: Craig, James Duncan, Cody Ferdinand, Travis Har- John Simmons din, Brad Heineke, Ty- Design Editor: Kelsey Schneider ler Kern, Neil Lundin, Javierh Montero, Robby Mor Photo Editor: John Shufelt rison, Mark Sunderland, Kitty Web Editor: Suydam Brian Steele Goals: Tif- The Clackamas P| Tom aims to report the nJ ;WS| Riley, in an honest, unbial professional mal ier. Content published ini fl Print is not screen®! Journalism Adviser: Melissa Jones subject to censorshipfl E-mail comments ■ chiefed@clackamas.ediO
