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Summer time brings job opportunities for you
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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