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Arts Culture aced@clackam as.edu Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012 The Clackamas Print / Study abroad program expensive, worthwhile By Isaac Soper Costa Rica and the other part of the time is spent at Arts & Culture Editor a biological field station in the rain forest. A chunk o f time is spent at the beach studying beach ecol You arrive in a foreign land. T he buildings ape. o g y as well as being at the beach,” said anthropol- hundreds o f years old; the history is everywheA ogy instructor Robert Keeler. you are Indiana Jones, and cultural diversity and The Costa Rica excursion is in the summertime; education is the Holy Grail to which you seek. - S Jhe program is approximately iour weeks long. Clackamas Com m unity College is part o f a , Keeler __ ____________________ also mentioned that occasionally stu- consortium 'of co llies, which includes Central dents participate in abroad studies that aren’t Oregon Com m unity College, Chemeketa CC , directly sponsored by the college. O ther schools M t. Hood CC , Portland CC, Rouge C C and will often take i n students from other colleges to Southwestern CC. This consortium, known a s , work with their program. the Oregon International Education Consortium . “I’ve taken groups to Belize and the Yucatan (OIEC), offers programs in multiple countries that looking at Mayan ruins and such. Irma Bjene and span from three weeks to a full term. »L -I took a group to Peru a few years agp on spring “We’ve got( good coverage for the l a n g t ^ f e |i ^ e a k ,” said .Keeler. we teach, said David Miller, department chair o f - C C C also features a student transfer program foreign language. to Germany, which will be held from June 19 C C G also sets up some trips apart fro m th e July 3. Unlike the other programs, the trip to consortium, including the upcoming spring bfeak-iG erm any doesn’t feature a typical school portion trip to France, led by French instructor Heidi * on the agenda, Cropsey. , . “T he Spanish programs all have a study compo- There are many opportunities on campukdor nent to them; the German doesn't have any formal foreign language study in other countries, with Je sse s,” said Miller. multiple summer programs, including a three- In the past, before the current financial reces- week trip to Guanajuato, Mexico and Barcelona, sion, in some years the college would have quite Spain- X * > a few students participating in the programs, There are two term-length programs that die according to Keeler. T hat am ount has dropped off O IE C offers, one being last year’s trip to London, in the past few years, especially in the term long England, and next fall’s trip to Florence, Italy. programs; the trip to Florence has a base price of ‘This program is great because it is going t o , $7,895, excluding airline raxes and fuel charges. Florence, raking classes -as if you were taking d & " * »The most com m on reason gfven for not going classes here, but you are really immersed in any- is not having the m oney T he second most com- thing that you are studying said Spanish instruc- m on reason is ‘I have to work,’ which is because tor Irma Bjerre. they don’t have enough money,” said Miller. ' O ne o f the big perks to the Florence trip is the gT ho u g h the study abroad programs are expen- free museum pass, which allows students tô are a one o f a kind ind program that gives the various world-renowned art museums,st culturally diverse experiences that they the Uffizi Gallery the* oldest museum in rm r^ t ’f ifd in the United States. *•........ , , ( Europe, dating back to 1581. “We recognize that it is expensive for stu “Can you imagine studying a A ln O kfence. dents—for anybody to travel, so we look for what would be a greater experience th in that?” opportunities where costs cari be kept down. There said Bjerre. y are also scholarships available; there are several that T he full-term programs are sponsored by the are targeted specific for study abroad,” said Keeler. American Institute for Foreign Studies (AIFS), T he majority of the study abroad scholarships which is based in London. T ^ V ^ e r a ^ a num ber ate aaaiig^Bro, which helps cover some costs. T he o f different programs in various parts o f the world; . . x u, especially for the full- currently C Ç Ç is just a part< term frill credit programs, can be used just as if the and Florence. student was taking classes on campus. T he college also offers a* or Keeler are the main contacts on cam- which focuses both on the fe consortium and various study abroad and field biology. e Miller is the head o f the program in ; rool in " UM^gf e ^ B je n ^ W ^ n m e n d e d that students get “Part o f the time is spent at a their registration in for the trip to Florence as soon J-C15 S? o A new possibility changes everything. W A R N E R P A C IF IC .E D U ■ PORTLAND, OR Pirates put down swords, pick up laptops By Isadc Soper Arts & Culture Editor T hey used to call the Internet the “Inform ation Superhighway,” for the pirates w ho sail the seven digital seas; it was a free trade system o f alm ost all forms o f media. T h a t tim e is com ing to a close. W e m ay n o t fly the jolly roger, .carry cudasses and wear eye patch es. W e don’t have peg-legs th at click oil the ground while we walk; we m ay n ot look the type, b ut we are the digital pirates. M egaUpload has been raided by the FBI, BTJunkie has closed dow n voluntarily” o ut o f fear. According their blog, T h e Pirate Bay will be deleting all torrent files w ith seeds (uploaders) over 10 on Feb. 29 and replacing them w ith m agnet links. W here did it begin? Ag File-sharing has been popular throughout, the ‘90s until today, according to a Stanford University study, an estimated 70 million people engage in online file sharing. T his started, as m any people know, w ith programs and networks similar to Napster. These evolved into w hat was LimeW ire (until its demise on O ct. 26, 2010, by court order nonetheless) and BitTorrent clients. File sharing never was an issue ufttil the uprise o f digital m edia and -theT nternet.'W e h^tf trp-throw away-our VCRs-a«d'cassette decks to bring in DM Ds an d T^3^. M ost jok^ ^^ m m Q n > ^ Q B g m edia can be easily ripped (copied) onto a com puter and bent to our will. | C D s are being phased out b y iTunes and similar music purchasing software; D V D s are being phased o ut for Blu-ray. Looking into the future, m ost Blu-rays even include digital copies o f the film for your computer. All o f these m edia types make it impossibly easy for non-violent pirates to share w ith their friends. Someone told m e that they had spoken w ith a film technician w ho worked on the set o f “T h o r” last year. T h ey said th at their wages were directly affectedby pirating, that o n th e opening night o f the film, m ore people saw the film at hom e than they saw it in theaters. I f you believe that, answer m e this: W ould those people have seen th at film in theaters if there wasn’t a pirated copy on the web? D id they dow nload the movie because they preferred to see the film taken oft someone’s camcorder w ith crap sound? O r did they download the movie because they w anted to w atch it b u t couldn’t afford it? I w ould say that the m an’s lowered wages are due to today’s econ- ,omy, n ot because o f “pirates.” Blaming pirating for Wage loss is just pointing fingers a t someone, opposed to dealing w ith the real issue. Anyone can say in this day and age th at their, wages are direedy Effected by people n o t com ing in to their business, b u t how can y o u say th at it is direedy due to people dow nloading the m edia th at you are producing? M y restaurant is losing m oney due to pirates m aking their food at hom e! Blast you, Jack Sparrow! Is a movie or m usic anything m ore than informatiori? W e have a Freedom o f Inform ation Act. H ow does that com e into play? M ost w ould argue that it doesn’t. I f we download and w atch a movie o n our com puter, how is it different than w atching the movie on television? H ow is listening to “pirated” m usic on ou r m p3 players any different than listening to the radio? D on’t get m e started on DVR. I don’t like commercials, so I don’t like listening to the radio and I hate w atching TV. N o m atter how convincing you- are, T in n o t interested in your advertisements.. I’m never going to buy your new car, R on Tonkin; I’m n ot interested in buying Cialis or Viagra. I ’m n o t going to go to M cD onalds and spend m y m oney on a [expletive deleted] H appy Meal for lunch. W ere poor. W ere n o t Robin H ood, b u t w ere n o t pirates either. N o one is being harm ed by us dow nloading the unreleased music by M um ford & Sons, no one is being h arm ed by us downloading old H um phrey Bogart films. T h e transition to digital m edia has m ade die uploading and dow nloading o f m edia possible. Prior to the Internet, if you w anted to copy a movie, you had to have two VCRs! T h e transition to digi tal has m ade everything easier, which is w hat w ere all about, b u t we worship m oney as i f it were G od, so pirates send us into blind fury. All that w ork we’ve done, for what? Entertainm ent? I m ade that [expletive deleted] song to m ake money, n o t to m ake people’s lives less miserable!
