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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.”
H M H H i «tie
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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The Clackamas Print
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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.