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^T h e Clackamas Print newsed@clackamas.edu Wednesday, March 14, 2012 News Losing control — the power of being offended By James Duncan Design Editor This article may not be suited fo r all audiences If you havé no sense o f self worth and can easily be insulted o t offended please enjoy the less color ful parts o f thé newspaper. Once not that long ago one o f the greatest saterical and obser vational minds of our generation, George Carlin said “Sh*t, p*ss, f*ck, c*nt, cocks*cker, motherf*cker and t*ts.” Carlin was always one of the loudest voices about not letting people be censored. So iil.the spirit power to control you be my guest, o f Carlin; Ta da! "You are letting me feel offended and distressed, but just use magic words to make you upset so you know you are letting some one you have never met control you. or at least get your attention. & Last week my column became Think how sad that sounds., . Hint: You can stop reading if you slightly controversial w hen we decided to use an offensive word don’t like it. Ultimately it comes down to that, in all fairness, was not needed to' bring the point across. T hat censorship, dp you want to be the said, I still support the u s e o f that censor? Do you have the right? Are language despite the things people you so proud to feel like you are the said; “The,profanity in this column final authority on what should and was absolutely unnecessary and was shouldn’t be seen by others? It is one only included for the sake of having firing to not want to see something profanity in print,” stated user John for you. There are plenty o f things on The Clackamas P rint forums. that people do not want to 'see. That might very well be true, but Although to say that because you in this day and age, the fact that an don’t approve, it shouldn’t-be seen exclamation can still cause people to is very childish. ^JThere is file line in the sand going to be drawn next? get up in arms-is actually really sad. People let themselves be offend Will new words be invented or old ed. It isn’t like a gag reflex-that can’t ones just added to the list? I was very confused when I found be avoided. The act o f being offend ed is a. choice. W hen you choose to out that calling someone a shower- be offended and let something ruin sack was now offensive. We are the your day, or make your heckles rise, ; shapers o f our world and need to ,do you are giving-it power over you. If ‘ our best to make it the one we want you want to willingly give over the to live in. W ho are we as a people? Do we want tö be the generation that decided to bring back a more extreme form o f censorship? Maybe one day in a flat gray world with flat gray people .someone will look into a blank gray sky and say “Thank the gray that we will never be offended.” W ithout diversity o f ideas and an endless barrage of color that chai-! lenge the spirit of'hum an kind, we will never change or grow. Just lay back into our little gray box in the cold gray ground. It has often been the place o f col-* lege newspapers to print stories that push the boundaries o f what is okay and what isn’t. In feet you could call' it a : long and rich tradition. College newspapers are encouraged to talk about drugs, sex and. touchy political points. Where better, right? We publish t o a diverse group of adults, who we should be able to treat like adults, campuses are often the breeding ground o f new ideas. In America most-publications are 'writtep to be enjoyed' by someone who has a sixth grade education. Q h a, college campus the newspaper, shouldn’t have to tiptoe around the leftovers o f sixth grade attitudes about language and rts lise. Remember this, every time you stand- up and say “This is offensive, I don’t waht to see things like this anymore,^ You might as well be bahning à T ook or .saying, “We only get sick" because that’s what god wants. Antibiotics .are work o f the devil.” ’j There is a place for every voice to be heard. If you don’t like what people say or are saying or want to change what isbeing said, you have to be part o f the system to change it! Do you want to say something? Join Clackamas Print. Through the power of being in the media you will suddenly get to have your own ideas heard. You will-not be cen sored ... mùch. I “He who rejects change is the architect o f decay. Thé only human institution which -rejects progress' is the cemetery.” - Edmund Wilson J Letter to the Editor r Dear Editor, • I can certainly understand Mr. Duncans frustration (having learned to drive in L.A.) but found the title and the use of pro fanity completely unnecessary in order to get his point across. If indeed his rules were rules his point was missed by the angry tone o f his article. Better time would have been spent trying to coordinate with the county on getting the road closed d u rin g sp rin g break after finals week and the target audience of his article (CCC) wont he on die road during this time. Perhaps Mr. Duncan didn’t follow his own advice and’ Read your drivers manuals”! The proper distance between any moving vehicles is 2-4 seconds and 4 seconds for vehicles going over 30 mph, diat pretty much covers almost every road in Oregon with the exception o f school zotfos» and other areas where indicated. In feet it seems his whole article is based on assumptions and fills is purely how Mn Duncan’s perceptions, doud his own judgment behind the wheel and the keyboard. Certainly this could lead to a first amendment debate but really — is this how we want .CCC represented in the community? It is my hope that in the future a mote nhoa^nfifiytesfrmsM*andytr(rfessiona4'itto- ner as your mission statement says will be adheredto. Best regards, Michael Modica 7A/> letter may have been edited for brevity and clarity. Branden McFarland, Kenny H artil a n d Stephen Cassista appear in the one act “4 a.m. Open all night” in the student performance showcase on March 7. KONYMANIA takes over social networking By Patty Salazar News Editor ; Social m edia blew u p last T hursday w ith K O N Y 2012; even the Clackamas C om m unity College Facebook page posted the video and asked for o u r thoughts on the situation in Africa. H ow w ould any o f us at the college, 10,000 miles away from Uganda, The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, Unbiased and professional ■ manner. Content published in The Print is not screened o r f subject to censorship. S 19600 Molalla Ave. ' Oregon City, OR 97045 know what’s really going on after a 30 m inute video? T h e short doc um entary racked up 71,242,675 views on Y ouT ubein less than a w e e k 'L e t’s fece it; do you even know where U ganda is? T h e Invisible Children Inc. m ade the K O N Y 2012 video, w hich is trying : to bring Joseph Kony’s war crimes, to light. Now, I am not saying w hat Kony, leader o f Lords Resistance in Army, has done in Uganda the last 2 6 years isn’t horrible. T h e vidéo states that he has taken 30,000 children from their parents and turned the boys into soldiers and the girls into sex slaves. T h at alone is despicable, b u t the oversimplified video is just as bad. It leads whoever is watching to believe that simply m aking Kony “famous” is going to save Africa a n d all will be fine and dandy. In October, America sent 100 “advisers” to U ganda to assist the m ilitary there, find Kony and arrest him . W h en was the last tim e America sent “advisers” anywhere? It seems as if America always needs an enemy. Last year it was Gaddafi, now that he is., dead Kony comes into play; w hen the Invisible Children crew read the letter from Barack O bam a saying that “advisers” were being sent out the crew cheered, as if the problem is solved. As if American military is Kony’s antidote. W hy is it that after 26 years o f stealing children and foiling an unknow n am ount o f people now every body is going to start buying the bracelets so that all o f their peers can know that they w ant Kony arrested? As o f now it is said that K ony is no longer in Uganda. H is arm y was whittled dow n to 100 people. T h e video itself states that the international criminal court has a list o f “die worlds m ost dangerous criminals” and Kony is num ber 1. If he is caught this year, then there is still, 26 other criminals w ho ate going to be hunted down by the next social activist group. T h e group is going to “cover the night” w ith their “redefined propaganda” o n April 20. Putting up posters arid passing out fly ers, is n o t going to m ake Kony surrender and that is n o t w h at is going to happen. It’s as if m y generation is so lazy that by buying a bracelet, we consider ourselves social activists. It takes m ore than a bracelet, it takes m ore then one person to get arrested t o fix w hat Has hap pened over 26 years. Even after Kony is caught there is going to be another evil somewhere else in the world. 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