A good
place to
shed a
few tears
by AMBER FAIRBANKS
associate arts & culture
editor
College life is stress
ful. From rude students to
grouchy instructors and
the work load they give us.
Sometimes you need to be
alone and find a place to
de- stress and maybe even
cry, but where do you go to
let it all out? Well, we have
found places on Clackamas
Community Colleges campus
for you to take a deep breath
when you need it.
1. Not everyone has a car,
but if you have that luxury
and need your own personal
space to destress, jtxst roll up
the windows and crank the
music. Your car is the perfect
familiar place to take a minute
between classes.
2. For those of who don’t
have cars, there are other
places on campus to chill out,
like over at Clairmont Hall.
They have beautiful plants
and greenhouses, and it’s a
nice and quiet place to sit and
relax and be Surrounded by
pretty things.
C enter has these w onderful
little study holes along the
back wall that are perfect for
hiding from your life. With
the built in mini walls no
one can see you-perfect for a
quick crying session or to put
in your headphones and get
lost in your music. Just don’t
sob too loudly and disrupt
people from studying.
4. Gregory Forum is like
the campus ghost town.
Hardly anyone is ever in there,
which makes it a great place
for the student who needs to
be alone and take a breather.
5. We have the pleasure
of going to school in rural
Oregon City? where on cam
pus we have random “foresty”
areas, which are all great
places to go and sit under a
tree and hide from the rain,
shielded by the thick pine
needles. But if you do decide
to cry, you can pretend ifs just
the rain.
We ran into Candice
Stauffer, ASG vice presiden
tial candidate, and asked her
where she likes to go and
de-stress. “The pretty little
pond by the Environmental
Learning Center? she said. “I
like it there, ifs super peace
ful and quiet, [and] calms
me down*
But why not ask the profes
sionals? We dropped by the
counseling department and
asked Margie Gibler where
she recommends going to
calm down.
“Do you know we have
a walking a trail? It goes
the perimeter of the cam
pus and is about two miles
long,” Gibler said. “It brings
you through the horticiS-
ture gardens, through the
Environm ental Learning
Center, and the woods there,
and that’s redly pretty. That’s
where I would go to de-stress.”
International Week in full swing
International Week has
started at Clackamas
Community College. The
college is featuring an ar
ray of music and art to tell
many different stories in
many different ways. On
Tuesday, the second day
o f International Week you
could hear the music from
Roger Rook Hall.
The Anansi beat coming
from Niemeyer had even
faculty dancing. Spon
sored by the Peace Corps
volunteers,
the local
drumming group brought
together many people.
Dressed in many different
colors, they also featured
a class on drum making
after.
Just South o f the coüége.
A. comfortable yiace to meet, study, relax
International Week events
Wednesday, April 30
- 10:30-10:55 a,m.:
An Daire Academy Dancers
Irish Dancing
-ll:- ll:3 0 a.m.- International
songs
-11:35- 12:10 p.m. Peace Corps
Asia (CC127)
- 12:15-12:45 p.m.- American
Tribal Belly Dance: A Tribute to
EBZEF
- 1:00- 1:50 p.m.- Clackamas
Around the World
Thursday, May 1
-10:15-11:00 a.m.- Peace Corps
Guatemala (CC127)
- 11:15- 11:30 a.m.- La Batalla
de Puebla (CC127)
- 11:35- 11:55 a.m.- ASL can be
fun to learn (CCÍ27)
- 12:00 p.m .- 1:00 p.m .-
C uentam e C oyote Bilingual
Performance
1:30- 2:30 p.m,- Milagro
Reality Theatre Workshop