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2 PRINT: News Wednesday,May1,2013 RALLY: Mascots bring some fun Continued from Page 1 Clackamas student Dean Wright in the Cougie mascot costume and Diana Muresan, the ASG President, connect with a WOU student on the stairs o f the Capitol building after the rally. According to the Oregon Student Association, students are asking for $510 million for com munity colleges, $850 for uni versities and $15 million for the Oregon Opportunity Grant. The OOG is the state’s only source of need-based financial aid. Many students also have loan debt add ing up, such as Travis Van Hom, a political student at Western Oregon University. “The main purpose for today was to get more funding for the Oregon Opportunity Grant for stu dents. Also spread awareness that the fact that every single person that is here has over $10,000 in debt,” said Van Hom. He predicts he will be $25,000 in debt by the time is he done. Another WOU student, sopho more Diego Navarro, suspects he will be in debt $40 thousand by the time he is done with college. “We are just letting our repre sentatives know that we see our tuitions going up and that is some W riters of the Future: Clackam as author w ins aw ard Brittany Horne News Editor Student and newly appointed author Marilyli Guttridge recent ly won the Writers of the Future annual contest. Her short story, “The Ghost Wife of Arlington,” was illustrated by an artist from and then published with other works. Three writers and three illustrators are chosen each quar ter of the year, with cash prizes from $500 to $1,000. The annu al grand prize award is $5,000 per group. Guttridge currently lives in Estacada and attends Clackamas for her associate’s degree. She agreed to answer some questions about her writing contest winning experience: The Clackamas Print: Marilyn, can you explain how the contest works? Marilyn Guttridge: So, in the writing portion of the contest, we submit a short story. There’s four quarters and they pick three stories each quarter so there’s twelve overall. And there’s an illustrative portion of the contest as well and they submit some of their artwork I think, I don’t know exactly how it works because I haven’t done it but the winning illustrators get paired with one of the writers and they’ll do illustra tions for the winning story that the writer submitted. TCP: Did you hear about the contest on campus? MG: I had heard about it at my high school that I went to. There was a flyer for it in this drawer o f scholarship applications that ii So my first draft is usually page vomit and then my second draft is much better. ” Marilyn Guttridge Author, award winner we had. And I didn’t really know what I was getting into when I sent my short story to them. TCP: How was the awards pre sentation? MG: Generally there’s some music, that’s how they’ll open, with like a song. And then they’ll have some guest speakers who are like, they had a guy from NASA this year. It was a science fiction and a fantasy contest but ■■■■t h ey lemda " l e a n e d-- tow ard the sci-fi. And then after that they start going in to the awards for the writers and the illustrators. And I was up first, which was a little terrifying. And we go up and we get our trophy, give a little speech, you know, try to keep it short and sweet. And then you leave the stage, so it wasn’t too bad. Other than the fact that, you know, public speaking is ter rifying. TCP: Is it something that you want to keep doing? Pursue writing in this genre or another genre? MG: I would, yeah. I’ve always kind of known that I wanted to do writing but this kind of gave me that push that I can actually do it. TCP: Do you get a publisher now or have people been calling you because they want you to write for them? MG: Not really, I mean because this is my first publication, but this will be kind of like a good thing to mention in like a pitch letter if I go to sell future short stories. But it’s kind of a start ing point, I don’t really have a publisher because I don’t have a reputation yet because I’m a new name as a writer. TCP: How do you write? Do you have a specific routine that you do? Turn on music, on the week ends, do you set time every day? MG: I kind of write whenever I have free time. I don’t really have a schedule. Yeah, generally I’m listening to music as back ground noise. I don’t really do a lot of plotting beforehand. Like I’ll have a starting point and end point but I won’t plan a whole lot in between that. So my first draft is usually page-vomit and then my second draft is much better. TCP: Did you get some experi ence with an editor and someone wanting changes? Did they go through that process or do they publish as is? thing that we are against. It is showing them that we are pushing them to make changes and they see us advocating for what we need, so that’s good,” Navarro said. “Not that long ago, the state paid for two thirds of our tuition now that’s flipped and we pay the two thirds, that’s on our backs. I think the main accomplishment was to show students that infor mation and also show legislators that was their doing and it is their responsibility to reverse that once again,” said Van Hom. After the main rally, Muresan lobbied for a public service reform; Schools Not Prisons, a reform that is trying to change how non violent crimes are sentenced to lower the cost of The Oregon Department of Corrections and be invested into higher education. “We were talking about how it’s a self fulfilling prophecy: about how you put more money into the jails they will fill the beds. So they should be giving us more money,” Muresan said. RMRfSICfcP’P The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased and professional manner. Content published in The Print is not screened or subject to censorship. Email comments, concerns or tips to chiefed@clackamas.edu or call us at 503-594-6266. ‘ 19600 Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045 J o u r n a lis m A d v is e r ; M elissa Jon es me//ssa/@c/acfcamas.edu EDITOR* Co-Editor-in-Chiefs: Joshua Dillen & Anna Axelson GUTTRIDGE i f chiefed@clackamas.edu 'kpt' MG: They did a little bit. When my story took second place they sent me back a PDF with some suggested things to change and they were all improvements. TCP: Were you happy with the feedback? MG: Mhmm. Yeah, it was defi nitely good feedback. TCP: Do you feel like maybe your writing skills and your skills in publishing have been built on since all this? MG: Yeah definitely, especial ly with the workshop that we went through in talking about technique and various things in establishing setting. I remember that because setting’s kind o f my weak point sometimes. TCP: What is your story about? MG: Okay well my story is set in a city that is ruled by death, essentially. My protagonist is a woman who serves as sort of an ambassador between the world of the living and the world of the dead. And she has an intense relationship with death himself, but it sort of this - neither of them can forget that someday she’ll die too, because she’s mortal. TCP: Do you do other genres of writing or do you kind of stick to sci-fi writing? MG: Well its sci-fi fantasy. I tend to be more in the fantasy realm and various sub genres of that. But I have done a few other things. But mostly fantasy. TCP: What are you majoring in here at CCC? M G: I’m kind of just mov ing towards a transfer degree, an Associative o f Arts trans fer degree, but I ’m thinking of moving on to OSU and studying forestry after that. TCP: So have you taken classes that have contributed towards your writing interest? MG: A little bit, not as much because I’m in Writing 121 right now. TCP: You’ve had a piece of your writing published already, and you’re in Writing 121 right now, so thats kind of impressive. MG: Yeah, placement testing had me in Writing 95 and that was not a good match up at all because three weeks in I realized I really didn’t want to be there. TCP: Do you have anything else you’d like to say about this? MG: It was a really great expe rience. I got to meet lots of great authors who were all very encouraging and gave great insights. TCP: Do you have friends and family who have been excited through this with you, who are supportive? MG: Oh yeah, my family is rather large and they’ve been all very excited for me. Marilyn Guttridge’s accom plishment is a reminder that CCC students can make a dif ference and find success. There are opportunities like this out there for anyone. All you have to do is put in a little effort and take a chance. 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