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Clackamas Community College, Oregón City, Ore.
Volume 45. ssue 22
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An independent, student-run newspaper since 1966
www.TheClackamasPrint.com
Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Literature live at Clackamas
By Joshua D illen
News Editor
Poetry, prose and songwriting
along with Oregon’s own Poet
Laureate, Paulann Petersen were
the highlights o f thè third annual
CO M PO SE Writers Conference
at
Clackamas
C om m unity
College last Saturday. A lunch
with vegan, vegetarian and glu­
ten free options was provided
for attendees in Gregory Forum
to fuel the minds, o f published
authors and knowledge hungry
writers. The workshops were held
in several classrooms o n th e sec­
ond floor o f McLoughlin.
Paulann Petersen, Oregon’s
Poet Laureate and CO M PO SE
special guest, ' provided a great
description o f the word “com-
pose” that epitomized die event
in a speech at the lunch which
sounded like she was reading a
poem.-
“Compose, compose, that’s a
good word, isn’t it? Com pose— it
means to create, and then I think
o f the admonition, you know,
to somebody compose yourself.’
Right? As in get a grip’, get some
composure,”’ said Petersen, “But
then, I also think to myself: ‘com­
pose yourself, yes',< absolutely!*
Because, we do indeed write to
create ourselves. We write to dis­
cover m oment to moment; , to
explore m oment to moment who
we are, who we are becoming.
T hat is part o f the magic of this
wonderful process of writing.”
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lar standing agreements with
Providence and the American Red
Cross according to Wilton.
T he
M ilitary
E ntrance
Processing Station (MEPS) is 'a
joint-service organization o f the
Department o f Defense and -it’s
through this organization th a t
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The Clackamas softball team rejoices after Katie Aden slid into home base to break a 4-4 tie in
the bottom o f the seventh inning. Clackamas w ill play Lower Columbia College today fo r the
N W A A C C championship.
Campus to be used in case of emergency
Uncle Sam takes a step onto the
campus with a back-up agreement
with I Clackamas Com m unity
College. The arrangement between
the two makes it possible for the
Department of Defense’s Military
Entrance Processing Station toi
establish an off-sit|rf Emergency
Operations Center I n the case
that a catastrophe hits and takes
out their original office located in
Portland. For students this means
that no military officials from,this
agreement will be located on cam­
pus unless an earthquake or other
calamity happens.
“Theyre not going to have an
office here on . an on-going basis,”
said Courtney Wilton, vice presi­
dent of college services. “But if
there is a catastrophe they may
come and use the campus.”
The college already has simi­
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Please see COMPOSE, Page 3
M usician A m anda Spring plays the baritone ukelele during a
conference on songwriting. Attendees write couplets a n d sing along
w ith her strumming.
By Felicia Skriver
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they determine whether a person
has the- physical and psychological
qualifications to join tne military,
however while theyre ton campus
they will not be conducting any
kind of recruitment actions.
Please see DOD, Page 2
A n aerial photograph taken o f the Clackamas C om m unity College
campus a n d its surrounding areas, as displayed in Lewelling.