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ä rü d WEDNESDAY, MAY 21, 2014 X Summer time brings job opportunities for you IfyZAKlASTER a d m anager It’s alm ost tim e for su n u n er vacation. Students at Clackamas C o m m u n ity C ollege use th e sum m er break as an opportunity to leave for a while, an d som e use it as an op p o rtu n ity to make m oney working. O thers do both. A few students were asked w hat th eir sum m er job plans were. “I’m going to Los Angeles, Calif., for a college trip, th en com ing back and w orking for N ordstrom Café,” said Antoinette M auro. M any students were asked about tn eir sum m er plans and m ost resp o n d ed th a t w hile th ey do plan to w ork, it’ll m ostly be part tim e so they can enjoy some tim e off. “I’m a w aiter rig h t now, b u t Oregon City Employer Recruitment I ’m .going to take tim e o ff th is i sum m er,” said A lb erto H ernandez, “I’m going to go to O range C ounty, Calif., I’m also going to go to Los Angeles for a m onth. I’m also going to New York to spend som e tim e there, [and] I m ight also go to Mexico depending on how much m oney I have left.” For som e students, this su m m er will be th eir first sum m er w orking. “I’ll be working at Forever 21 at th e W oodburn O utlet Mall.” said M ackenzie M artinz. “I’ll be w orking there as soon as I am done w ith school.” S tudents spend th eir tim e at CCC working long hours during th e school week, w hether it’s in the classroom or at hom e doing hom ew ork. “I usually w ork d uring the sum m ers, b ut I’ve been working Date: Time: a lot lately so I k in d o f w ant to treat myself,” H ernandez said. T h at’s how m o st stu d e n ts view ed th eir sum m er vacation. T hey ju st need to finally get a break and som e rest. T he school year can be a difficult tim e for som e students, and they could really use th e tim e to unw ind w ith fam ily and friends. “T his sum m er m y fam ily is celebrating an 80th w ed ain g anniversary,” Katie A rcher said. “It’s th e com bination o f m y p a r ent’s 25th, m y m om ’s younger sister’s 25th, and m y aunt’s 30th. We’re going to be having a big party.” M ost students said that w ork ing isn’t a big p rio rity for them this sum m er, b ut th at getting away for a while is som ething th a t s very im p o rtan t to them . T hey p u t them selves th ro u g h a stressful th ree term s, an d three Where: m onths of w ork isn’t w orth it for w hat three m onths o f relaxation could do for th em instead. “I’m hoping to go cam ping at the beach w ith som e o f m y friends possibly,” A rcher said. “Ih o p e to also have a job, b u t I don’t know w here yet.” A lthough it’s n o t a sum m er Job, one great o p p o rtu n ity for students is the D isney W orld College Program . O ne o f CCG’s form er students, Kassey Ingle, participated in the program and h ad noth in g b u t great things to say about it, “I got to m eet people from all over the world and there’s always som ething to do.” Ingle said “My job was really fun.” T he D isney W orld College P rogram is n o t offered during th e sum m er, b u t instead d u r ing the fall, w inter, an d spring. For those w anting to apply to Employer is th e program , it’s recom m ended you research it. It’s a com petitive o p p o rtu n ity w ith m an y appli cants. “1 w ent th ro u g h a long in ter view process th at I spent quite a b it o f tim e p rep arin g for,” Ingle said. “T here was a, web interview , th en a phone in ter view, and th en th ere Is a l o t of w aiting aro u n d w aiting to see if you got in.” It can be a g reat o p p o r tu n ity for stu d e n ts to b o o st th eir resum e, b u t if you’re ju st applying so you can have the perks th a t com e w ith w orking at Disney, th is m any n o t be th e job for you., You’ll have, to w ork all h o li days, long ho u rs d uring th e day, and all w ith low pay. Also, “your face will always h u rt from sm il ing so m uch,” Ingle said. For more information: Call 971.673.6400 10:00 am Worksource Clackamas recruiting 5/2 1 /2 0 1 4 to 2:00 506 High Street for: Warehouse option 2 for referral Oregon City, OR 97045 Workers pm instructions Opinion: Acceptance starts with education by CHRIS MORROW copy editor I remember being 11 years old when I first heard the words “gay” and “fag.” I parroted them while not really knowing what they meant, only that they were new words that my friends were using to describe anything or anyone they thought was stupid, irritating or boring. As I gained more insight into their meanings, I seethed with anger in response to having them aimed at me. Being a shy, quiet kid who spent more time focusing on get ting good grades than on socializing and caring more about playing Nintendo games than participating in sports, I had such words hurled in my direction more times than I can even begin to count - \ As a result, I learned to do what most other kids in that situation learn to do - use anti-gay rhetoric and behavior as a shield to deflect accusations of being gay. As I grew closer to admitting and coming to terms with my own sexuality, behaving in a way so contrary to how I feu inside made me feel more and more fake. I would continue to maintain the facade purely out of fear of what might happen to me if I didn’t Having been in that kind of position and thus able to analyze it from the inside, I understand how easy it is to feel compelled to put on the mask of homophobia as a tactic of misdirection. Children, teenagers and adults often seek approval from their peers and it’s pretty obvious one of the messages we’re bombarded with most is that anyone who doesn’t conform to the societal expectations attached to gender is wormy of con tempt and aggressive “correction.” According to data from the National School Climate Survey published by GLSEN (Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network) in 2011, teens regularly experi ence incidents of anti-gay behav ior. More than 80 percent of the students polled reported being verbally harassed in the past year due to their sexual orientation; 18.3 percent reported being physically assaulted; 552 percent reported electronic harassment via text mes sages or social media; 60.4 percent of students who reported being harassed or assaulted in school said they did not report the incident to school staff, believing little or no action would be taken; 36.7 of those who did report incidents of harassment or assault claimed school staff did nothing in response; 56.9 reported hearing anti-gay slurs from their teachers or other faculty members. In the same year as this sur vey was conducted, Zach King, a student of Urnoto High School in Chillicothe, Ohio, (90 minutes from my hometown of fronton), was mercilessly beaten in a classroom while the assailant’s cousin filmed the attack on his cell phone to be uploaded to social media. Zach suf fered a concussion and a chipped tooth, while his attacker received a three-day suspension and 90 days in juvenile detention, according to news reports. . The various uploads of the cell phone footage on YouTube are lit tered with comments that appear to be praising the actions of the bully. Zach and his mother Becky Collins both went on to speak as part of a panel called “Its Getting Better,” to talk about how schools, can improve their methods of dealing with the issue of anti-LGBT bullying. Also in 2011, Chris Sigler, a 17-year-old heterosexual stu dent at Sequoyah High School in Madisonville, Tenn., resisted attempts to hinder his freedom of speech, concerning his desire to start a GSA (Gay / Straight Alliance) at his school as a support group for his sister, Jessica, and other friends who were LGBT. Despite being straight, he was called “queer” and “fag” by schoolmates when he wore a self-made shirt advertising the proposed GSA dub, according to his accounts. Sigler went to his prin cipal for support, but received none. Previously, another student, Nathan Carroll, who was gay and who also had tried to form a GSA at the same school, allegedly faced threat of suspension if he did not discontinue his efforts. Just last year, Luke ‘Sascha Fleischman, a senior at Maybeck High School in Berkeley, Calif, who does not identify as a single gender and prefers the gender-neutral pronoun “they” rather than “he” or “she,” was sleeping on a public transit bus-when a 16-year oldboy decided to light the skirt Fleischman was wearing on fire. Fleischman suffered second and third degree bums to the legs which required skin grafts. Richard Thomas, the teen accused of the act, allegedly told police interviewing him that he did it because he was homophobic. A lawyer for the teen later disputed that Even just looking the wrong way, in the wrong place, at the wrong time can result in an attack based seemingly on conjecture. In 2008, Jose Sucuzhanay, 31, and his brother Rornel, 36, were walking home arm- in-arm after a night of drinking. Nearby, Keith Phoenix, Hakim Scott and Demetrius Nathaniel sat in an SUV parked at a red light. Phoenix noticed the men and began yelling anti-gay and anti-Latino slurs at them. According to testimony given by Nathaniel - who did not participate in the attack, but was a witness to it - when Jose retaliated to the barrage of insults by kicking the vehicle, Scott got out and smashed a glass beer bottle over his head. As Scott chased Romel with the rest of the bottle, Phoenix grabbed an aluminum bat from the back of the vehicle and hit Jose with it three times, and a fourth when Jose tried to get up. Jose was rendered brain- • dead by the attack and was eventu ally taken off life support, according to news reports. Neither Jose nor Romel were gay. Cultural attitudes towards homosexuality and gender expres sion are slowly starting to evolve, but there is still a lot more that needs to be done to repair the dam ages done by ignorance, prejudice, stereotypes, dehumanization and resentment through association. Teaching children, teens and adults about these issues isn’t about trying to “indoctrinate them into being gay’’ it’s about trying to create a future with fewer bigots and bul lies. Education is the soil in which the flowers of understanding take root, without it, nothing gets better. Just Southof the college. : A comfort aide piace to meet, study, relax pood, Coffee, "Wine, 'Beer. ^20068 S Jfwy 213 in Oregon City Tree^'ITl WASHINGTON S tate UNIVERSITY VA NC OU VER S h o r t o n ejy&dtäs o t Apply to WSU Vancouver for summer classes.. Choose from a variety of courses and three session start dates— M ay 12, June 9 and 23. 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