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Volume 44. Issue 14
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PBv Joshua Baird
Lrts & Culture Editor
Lyourxar.an ugly hunk of
¡¿at would make Adam Sandler's
He from “Ode to My Car” look like
pure? What can you do with it besides
iit or keep driving that ugly hoopty? You
brays sign up for the auto restoration class
lack, i nas Community College and fix it up
Ihe , estoration class is part of an integral I
program for modem students. In fact, with-
pese future mechanics being trained here on
¡pus. many of our vehicles would be unable to
I moving over the years. If all of these men and
Ben didn’t pursue a career doing what they love
jinsti- id went for a law or medical degree, the
lie notiOTt could stop running. What is the driving I
[for tliese dirty, oil-covered grease monkeys? At ’
L the answer is clear the instructors.
The cachets are really awesome, (they give you)
istn ction to do what you need to do to get ahead
B casco;” said Darren Spain, a Clackamas student
iis currently painting a 1988 Mustang LX.
According to instructor Russ Peterson, the college is
of the most advanced training facilities in the area for
Math' i classes, with students returning every term to
¡part in the action.
lut what is auto restoration? Is it just about painting
»make them look cool? Not by any means; resto-
pals< ■ includes cutting, welding and Bondo, in
Leases lots of Bondo.
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seeACnO, Page 4
ws
Brian Beldin cleans the
surface in preparation to paint a Mini
Cooper in one of the college’s new
state-of-the-art paint booths.
John Shufelt Clackamas Print
et your ‘Flu’ fix with theater this winter season
By Nathan Sturgess
Associate Photo Editor
Mien
Michael
Gerber,
pamas Community College’s
to director, first pitched the play
te term to his latest crop of
is, the reaction was mixed. In
¡ some of the actors, being dra-
types, were quite disturbed
I
'Men we first did our reading,
J|ited to slap Michael. I was like,
‘What is this? This is like Swahili,*”
said Dylan Marchek, one of Gerber’s
assistant directors for the play.
But, along with the other actors,
Marchek soon came to appreciate
the play for its depth and complex
ity. Writtenby William Eno, the play
is titled “The Flu Season” and was
first published in 2005. According to
Gerber, a play written within the last
decade means it’s a fairly new work.
In a nutshell, the play is a tragic
comedy surrounding the romantic
relationship of a man and woman in
an insane asylum.
Gerber came across the play sev
eral years ago, and it quickly went on
his short list of plays he would like to
one day direct When this term came
around it just seemed to fit
“We brought it in and had a
reading. Their initial reaction was,
‘I don’t know what to make of this.’
But they were intrigued by it and by
the end of the two-and-a-half-hour
reading session they were just fired
up about it,” said Gerber.
Eno is an American playwright
that in many of his plays, pushes the
boundaries on what is commonly
understood as theater; or as Gerber
puts it he is “meta-theatrical.” In
“The Flu Season,” Eno explicitly
explores what it means to be an audi
ence observing a production. The
characters Prologue and Epilogue,
played by Branden McFarland and
Heather Ovalle, respectively, actu
ally talk to the audience and com
ment on the action in the scenes,
even making remarks about how the
author could have done a better job.
“The constructs we use in (the
play) kind of stretch what people
think of as theater, but most impor
tantly it speaks about things that peo
ple don’t like to speak about... in a
very gracefill way,” said Donovan
Eilert, who plays a character named
Doctor in the play.
Please see FLU, Page 5