M o re th a n a gam e: Life lessons t o be learn ed fro m sp o rts
Volume 45, Issue 5
Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR
The Clackamas
An independent, student-run newspaper since 1966
Sustainability tour
shows steps o f efficiency
By Isaac Soper
The Clackamas Print
You’re entering a world w ith black skies and putrid
mdwater. T he forests have been clear-cut and are now
en wastelands. T h e very air you breathe is becoming
poison. You are n o t entering “T he Twilight Zone,” wel
come to Earth.
This is n o t the same planet Earth that we lived o h in
the industrial revolution, in which more coal and gasoline
burning was considered to be a good thing. Clackamas
Com m unity College has been making m any strides in
the past few years to help dissolve our environmental
footprint.
“I think anyone th at reads the newspaper now an d kind
o f connects the dots between some o f the dire headlines
that always come out that the ‘business as usual’ stance is
n ot going to work m uch longer. I think « only wise to
read the writing on the wall and start changi ng how we
consume, how we go about our day-to-day lire,” said Mike
Noel, head o f the sustainability department at Clackamas
Com m unity College and co-designer o f the self-guided
Campus Sustainability Tour.
Sustainability is n o longer going to he an option for us.
“There’s some stat out there [mat says] we would need five
Earths if everyone were to live like an American. I’ve heard
that stat a num ber [a couple] o f times but then when you
really stop and think about that, whoa, that’s going to
requite some drastic change if we re going to all live on this
Earth in harm ony” said Noel,
T he new Cam pus Sustainability Tour, which is a culmi-
irion o f renewable energy and sustainability projects on
nation
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campus, opened to the public in September • o of f this year.
“[At] Clackamas, we have great sustainability champions
in each departm ent and they were all doing their own
thing,” said Noel, “and then I arrived and said ‘lets group
it together and turn it into this united front.’” -
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Please see SUSTAINABILITY, Page 2
A student passes one o f the pathw ay markers fo r the self-
guided sustainability tour, new to campus this fall. The tour
begins a t Barlow hall a n d visits locations around campus.
F reshm an J u lia Toscano leaps f o f a k i l l d u r in g th e gOme a t M t. H o o d C o m m u n ity College o n N o v 4. Toscano
w as second on th e te a m w ith s e v e n fills , b u t th e Cougars lost three gam es to n o n e in th e ir last ro a d g a m e o f
th e season. T h e y fin is h th e ir season today a t h o m e vs, 4 th ra n k e d L in n -B e n to n C o m m u n ity College a t 7 p .m .
Volleyball drops rivalry game to
Mt. Hood Community College
m a tte r in d iv id u a lly , w e ju s t n e e d to b r in g it as
a te am .”
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T h e f irs t Set b e g a n w ith p ro m is e . M t. H o o d
ju m p e d o u t to a n early le a d b u t C lac k am as
q u ic k ly r e tu r n e d th e favo r, c lim b in g a h e a d 6 -5 .
T h a t w as a b o u t as g o o d as th in g s w o u ld g et.
B efo re lo n g , t h e S a in ts h a d p u s h e d th e C o u g a rs
to th e b r in k a n d th e n ov er it, c o m m a n d in g th e
firs t se t ¿ 5 - 1 3 a n d q u ie tin g b o th th e C lac k am as
By John William Howard
b e n c h a n d th e ir h o s t o f fo llo w ers in a tte n d a n c e .
T h e se c o n d se t b e g a n w h e re th e firs t set
Sports Editor
s to p p e d . C la c k a m a s lo o k e d c o n fu se d as th e y
H e a d V o lley b all C o a c h K a th ie W o o d s has m is h a n d le d a b o u t ev ery easy d ig a n d s e n t sev
b asically seen it all. S h e ’s b e e n c o a c h in g a t eral W ou ld -b e kills s tr a it in to th e n e t. H a r d ly
C la c k a m a s sin c e 1 9 8 3 a n d h as c o m p ile d m o te a n y th in g w e n t r ig h t and. ag a in th e ro ad ' , team ,
th a n 7 0 0 w in s, g iv in g h e r th e m o st w in s as a f o u n d th em se lv e s in a h o le , tr a ilin g 2 2 -1 2 .
co a c h in N W A A C C v o lley b all h isto ry . T h a t T h a t w as w h e n C la c k a m a s d e c id e d to m ak e a
sa id , ev en W o o d s w as s u rp ris e d b y -th e o u tc o m e r u n .
A ll o f th e su d d e n , th in g s c lic k e d : S ets t h a t
o f la s t F rid a y ’s g am e a g a in s t to p ra n k e d M t.
n o rm a lly w e n t h ig h , g iv in g M t. H o o d tim e to
H ood.
C la c k a m a s w as b e a te n d o w n by th e S a in ts in- se t u p b lo c k s w ere s u d d e n ly lo w o v er th e n e t.
G re sh a m 2 5 - 1 3 , 2 5 - 1 9 , 2 5 - 1 6 in a m a tc h th a t D ig s a n d passes w ere tig h t o n ta r g e t a n d h o les
b eg a n to o p e n o n th e M t. H o o d sid e . S everal
w asn ’t e v e n close.
“W e d id a l o r w o rse than- w h a t w e h a d k ills la te r, C la c k a m a s f o u n d th e m se lv e s d o w n
ta lk e d a b o u t a n d -w h a t w e w e n r o u t to do,” sa id o n ly 4 a t 2 3 -1 9 b e fo re th e S a in ts s q u e lc h e d
W o o d s. “I t ’s v ery f ru s tra tin g b ecau se w e’re h a v th e ir r u n a n d w e n t into* th e b re a k le a d in g tw o
in g a h a r d t i m e m e n ta lly fo c u sin g o n w h a t o u r se ts to n o n e .
A t th is p o in t, th e tra v e lin g C la c k a m a s fans
ro les are ... w e’re fo rg e ttin g h o w to ju s t p la y
m u s t hav e b e g u n to w o n d e r i f d riv in g o u t to
th e g am e.”
T h e C o u g a rs s ta rte d th in g s o u t as th e y alw ays G re sh a m w as w o r th th e ir tim e . O th e r th a n a
d o in a b ig riv a lry g am e. T h e y m a d e p le n ty o f J u s tin B ieb e r lo o k -a lik e b e in g p u lle d o u t o f
n o ise , s h o u tin g a n d ju m p in g in a ra u c o u s circle th e c ro w d to d a n c e w ith th e m a sc o t, th e re
ju s t b e h in d th e b e n c h a n d gave ev ery n o tio n w asn ’t m u c h to w a tc h . B o th sets w ere slo p p y ,
p lay ers w ere p la y in g o u t o f p o s itio n , easy pass
t h a t th e y w ere h y p e d u p a n d re a d y to play.
“W e w ere p u m p e d fo r th e g a m e ,” sa id s o p h o es g o in g aw ry a n d k ill a fte r k ill w as g o in g M t.
m o re K ris tin B est, “b u t as so o n as w e g o t o u t H o o d ’s way.
o n th e c o u r t, th e re w asn ’t a n y fig h t as a w h o le
te a m . T h e re w ere in d iv id u a ls h u t i t d o e s n ’t
Please see RIVALRY, Page 3
Clackamas volleyball tries to recouper-
ate from a straight-sets loss to M HCC
in time fo r their final regular season
game this Wednesday vs. Linn-Benton
Community College at Home,