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Opinion:
Celebrate Olympics,
boycott bigotry
Chris Morrow
Copy Editor
The
2014
W in ter!
Olympics in Sochi, Russia 3
have been equal parts com- I
edy and tragedy. Firsthand j
accounts from journalists 1
and athletes documenting J
the ineptitude o f the Russian 1
government have made the 1
rounds thanks to Twitter feeds 1
such as #SochiProblems and
#SochiFails.
Beer-colored water, tan-1
dem toilettes, barely finished ;
hotel rooms, locks that either 1
don’t function, or function!
so well that the room’s occu-|
pant has to break out by force, j
all this coming from what’s j
been called the most expen-i
sive Olympics in history. Then |
of course there is the comi-J
cal irony of having Russian !
pop duo t.A.T.u. perform at the |
Opening Ceremony.
1
For those too young to
remember them, allow me to |
refresh your memory - t.A.T.u. |
was one of the few, if not
only Russian acts to break into l l
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Featuring designs from Steelcase Furniture, rather than traditional rows o f tables and chairs, classrooms like this one aim to make students more engaged.
Patty Salazar
Editor-in-Chief
The
educational
needs
o f students are changing, but
classrooms are set up for the
classic “stand and deliver, sit
and listen” format. In many
cases that does not help stu
dents retain w hat is being
taught.
W ith ' the new innovation
fund controlled by President
Joanne Truesdell, Clackamas
Community College started to
explore options to improve the
learning environments to bet
ter fit the needs o f students.
U nder new capital plan
ning, w hich w ould bring
future expansion to the col
lege, they decided to look into
what would be cutting edge for
teaching and learning in the
classroom. The college started
to investigate the “classroom
o f the future.”
M ickey Yeager, project
coordinator, decided to look
into com panies that create
improved classrooms. That is
the Western market, due in no
deliver, sit and listen” class
room can have. Rogers also
explains that the furniture is
helping to get rid o f the “back
row” that tim id students tend
to sit in.
“ The: concept is that it is
all-around engagement,” said
Rogers. “It is student engage
ment and faculty engagement
and bringing those together.”
Please see FUTURE, Page 6
each department chose an out
small part to the lesbian charade |
concocted for them by their1
former manager. Considering j
t.A.T.u.’s continued support ;
for the LGBT community and ;
Russia’s continued vilification
of said minority group, having
them perform at the Olympics j
in Sochi made as much sense j
as having Public Enemy per
form at a Kian rally.
June of last year, Russia’s!
parliament passed a law ban- ■
ning “propaganda of non-tra-
ditional sexual relations among :
minors.” Phrasing meant,
to coat the legislation ip the i
veneer of “protecting the chil-|
dren,” but it’s more along the
lines of “protecting the chii-|
dren from the inherently cor- j
rupting knowledge that gayf
people even exist.”
In
pre-Civil
Rights a
Movement America, “non-1
traditional” would have been i
“interracial.” Imagine for a ;
moment that voters back then (
had pushed their lawmakers to 3
pass a bill making it a criminal
act for anyone to discuss the
topic of mixed race couples
within earshot of children.
Angry old bigots and their off
spring, with minds generously j
soaked in the brain bleach of fl
the Ku Klux Kian, would be j
further emboldened by th e 1
belief that their actions were on |
behalf of the government. This I
is the case already in Russia, j
One need only take the time to j
search the Internet to view the 1
barbarism and propagation of I
prejudice the anti-gay legisla- j
tion inspires.
Please see SOCHI, Page 6
when she started talks with
Steelcase, a furniture compa
ny that has created products
specifically to improve class
rooms.
“We got aligned with a rep
resentative o f Steelcase,” said
Yeager. “T hat’s who we ended
up going with. They have a
strong educational com po
nent.”
Steelcase’s furniture was
created to enhance an active
learning ecosystem w ithin
the classroom. With this new
ecosystem, teachers can break
down barriers that a “stand and
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m m m m n m m h m m n u m h n h im m m s m m m
There’s a really cool am
phitheater outisde the Dye
Learning Center, but no
body seems to use it. Who’s
idea was it to build it?
Donny Beach
News Editor
O u ts id e the Dye Learning
Center is a little used courtyard
with a mini-amphitheater sur
rounded by a brick fountain with
bronze sculptures called “Faces
of the Fountain.”
The fountain courtyard was
built in 1992 — at the same time
as the three surrounding build
ings, Streeter Hall, Dye Learning
Center and Gregory Forum — as
a central gathering area for stu
dents and faculty.
Most of the key players in
creating the courtyard, and many
who have seen it used in its
prime, have since left the halls of
Clackamas Community College.
One who remains, Bill Briare,
dean of arts and sciences, remem
bers how the students used to
gather at the amphitheater for
‘soapbox speeches.
“It would be nice to see stu
dents using it again,” Briare said.
“Get an acoustic guitar player or
singer up there or have a ‘free
speech’ day or something.” ~
Nancy Travers, retired, was
head of the arts department at
the time the fountain courtyard
was built. Because the fountain
was an art project it went through
the art department, she said. The
CCC Foundation raised half of
the funds needed for construc
tion, the school board put up the
other half with the requirement
that the project had to be made
with bronze faces.
“We didn’t want just the faces
because [at the time] they were
usually mounted too high to be
seen or read,” Travers said.
The fountain design was cho
sen to prevent that scenario.
Mimi Chitti, retired liaison
between the board of trustees and
the foundation in 1992, said that
standing person that contributed
to our culture.
The theme for the college back
then was “New Pioneers,” she
said. Various departments chose
faces.
“We wanted to honor people
significant in their field,” Chitti
said.
According to the plaque hang
ing in the window of Gregory
Forum nominated people had to
“relate in some way to the college
curriculum.”
Carol Yates, retired division
secretary of the arts department,
was facilitator for the project and
involved in the courtyard’s dedi
cation ceremony. The amphithe
ater made sense as part of the
fountain design because it was
built before the Niemeyer Center
was, she said.
“[The college] used to have
things at noon at the courtyard,”
Yates said.
John Keyser, retired president
of the college, used the area to
dedicate and give awards, she
said.
In 2003, one student used his
freedom of speech to hang anti
war masks along the fountain
walls in opposition to the war in
Iraq.
The courtyard was meant as a
gathering place and the fountain
to be an artful representation of
prominent people in history.
“It was landscaped to make it
more accessible,” Travers said.
“There’s nothing like it on cam
pus.”
Cougars
trounce
Riverhawks 1
Chris Browarski
The Clackamas Print
T h e Cougars played
three players down in
Saturday night’s m en’s
basketball game against
Umpqua. The shortage in
players did little to affect
the outcome, however, as
the Cougars • decim ated
the Riverhawks 90-68.
The Cougars rested some
o f their injured play-
ers and worked a slow-
er game throughout the
night. .
“We rested some o f
our key players to avoid
injuries,” said coach C lif
Wegner follow ing the
game. “We could have
probably had another
15 [points] if we played
everyone.”
The • last
place
Riverhawks proved to
be a good opponent to
rest players against going
in to the final stretch of
games. The Cougars are
one game out of first place
in the tightly contested
NWAAC South region.
Four teams with 8-4
regional records chase the
9-3 Portland Community
College Panthers going
into the final week o f the
season.
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