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Wednesday, Jan. 19, 2011
Volume 44, Issue 9
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[nudity (however brief it
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[pect of this play is that
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[premiere of “The Shadow
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[campus, with directors,
| and playwright Susan
[present to answer any
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[1 University and is also
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[spired to write the script
I ts ago after reading an
|nt of Joshua Creffield’s
lilt in Stewart Holbrook’s
[men, Wobblies & Whistle
By Brian Baldwin
News Editor
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lit to shape the play like
[edy. I decided to take a
[tthe play from the point
liv of this woman, Ester
[ell, called Jane in the
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[because there were two
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pit, ends up in an insane
[. So she’s trying to fig-
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[whether she has been
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■med three scenes, all
■ were very powerful.
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■roles and beautifully
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■impressed me was that
■lationships between the
■ters seemed so real; dur-
BMperformance an actor
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■'•in a short scene.
»see SHADOW, Page 4
Nathan Sturgess Associate Photo Editor
Jeff Schwab delivers a rousing sermon to his congregation during a preview of “The Shadow
Testament” at Clackamas Community College on Jan. 10 as director Angie Davis looks on. The
play will be performed Jan. 20-22 and 27-29 at Performance Works Northwest in Portland.
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Cougars wrestling plays host
to the Montana State-Northern
team. See page 6
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In a unanimous vote, the
Clackamas County Board of
Education voted to place a
$130 million bond measure on
the May 2011 ballot If passed,
Clackamas
Community
College will receive $130 mil
lion to spend on expanding
classrooms, upgrading rapidly
aging and deteriorating equip
ment, paying off $20 million in
building debts, renovating older
buildings and acquiring new
property for CCC to expand
upon.
During the summer of 2010
the college hired Davis, Hibbitts
& Midghall, Inc. to survey and
gauge the community’s position
for a possible bond measure.
“We got very favorable
responses in August that helped
the, planning process,” said
Marketing Project Coordinator
Janet Paulson. “It indicated that
there was a lot of support for
the college from the commu
nity and for our key missions.”
On Jan. 12 the Board of
Education gave the go-ahead
of CCC’s bond request with
the caption: “Clackamas
Community College bonds to
update local educational facili
ties, equipanent” Now the tax
payers of Clackamas County
will vote on May 17 to grant
if CCC will receive the bond
issue that will add another $40
a year in property tax accord
ing to Courtney Wilton, Vice
President of College Services.
“We are looking to allow
(the students) that we serve to
train on equipment that they
will face when .they enter the
workforce (and) that they will
be doing so in a safe envi
ronment,” said board member
Chuck Clemans.
Clemans also commented
that after foe both the executive
board and Board of Education
evaluated foe needs of CCC
there was an estimated total of
$250 million worth of legiti
mate needs that existed.
“Yet out of consideration
of foe economy and foe state
of our taxpayers, we dwindled
that down to a ... (reasonable
$130 million.)”
The plans for foe bond
money are still in foe pre
liminary phase but part of
foe focus is to upgrade aging
technologies in foe classroom.
According to college president
Joanne Truesdell, some of foe
main areas that were found to
be in dire need were in foe
automotive, manufacturing and
science labs.
Please see BOND, Page 3
Out with the old, in with the new;
ASG gets a new vice president. See
page 2