WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4, 2014
Clackamas graduate Dana Haynes wears many hats:
journalist, mayoral spokesman, published author
b y ERIN CAREY
news & culture editor
From w riting th e m ayor o f
Portland’s speeches tohvriting his
own fiction novels, Dana Haynes
is a busy guy. Having gone to
Clackamas C om m unity College
and traveled on fo Lewis & Clark
College, Haynes sat dow n with
The Clackamas-Print, his old turf,
to tell us some stories about the
shenanigans so m any years ago.
T he C lackam as P rin t: W hat
years did you go to CCC?
D ana Haynes: I graduated from
Lewis & Clark College in ‘87, which
m eant I was at CCC from ‘81 to ‘85.
TCP: W hat is it that you do
now?
Haynes: W ith the mayor, I’m-
com m unications director, which
m eans I w ork with the m edia, I
do m y own interviews, prepare
the m ayor for interviews, write
speeches, I do social m edia and I
do talking points on policies. I also
write mysteries and thriller novels,
and I’m currently being published
by St. M artin’s Press, so I get to
write fiction novels tod.
TCP: You were a part o f The
Clackamas Print. W hat did you do
and w hat was it like then?
Haynes: I was editor in chief.
I was the editor for m ost o f four
years that I was there. I was work
ing m y way rather slowly through
college because I was spending
tim e in theater, so it took m e quite
awhile to get enough credits so I
could go to Lewis & Clark.
I spent m ost o f m y tim e as the
that had a really strong journalism
program , and I graduated from
high school with stronger Associate
Press skills than anyone else in col
lege had. So I was the editor almost
immediately.
TCP: W hat was the biggest
story you covered?
Haynes: At the tim e there was
a big controversy going on with a
religious group called the Rajneesh
here in Oregon. There was a debate
about w hether or not to allow this
group o f people to testify or come
speak on Campus. A nd it was a
pretty big issue for lots o f campuses
who had invited or not invited
Rajneesh to come speak.
They ended up being labeled
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m ore as a crim inal organization
th a n a religious organization,
including som e attem pted hom i
cides. As fate would have it, they
ended up looking like someone
th at shouldn’t be speaking on
campuses, but at the tim e it was
pretty controversial.
I also got to interview Linus
Pauling, for whom the Pauling
Science Center was nam ed. He is
a tw o-tim e Nobel Prize w inner in
chem istry a n d peace, and came
dam n close to winning a third time.
He was weeks away from unrav
eling the double-helix. So being
involved in a newspaper for a
com m unity college and getting to
interview a guy who was a regu
lar recipient o f Nobel prizes was
pretty cool.
floor gave out from under him. It
was a pretty bad place to work,
and we went over to C lairm ont
Hall to build our papers, over by
the observatory. -
There were no flash drives in
1980-whatever it was, so y o u had
to pick up your entire newspaper
and walk from the trailer over to
C lairm ont and p u t out the pages
and do your own layout using
waxers and razors and that was
your paper.
O ne o f Us would drive it to the
press in Salem to get them printed
up and drive them b a c k It was a
workhorse operation.
It was true too that you’d start
the year off with 15 or 20 people
and you always ended up with
three or four left through every
thing, it was the iron law o f oligar
chy, always ended up that way. It
was a good boot camp. You learned
to be fast, you learned to be good
and you listened. You learned to do
a little bit of everything - except
sports writing, I never did sports
writings but I did everything else.
TCP: W hat is your favorite
m em ory from CCC n r The Print?
Haynes: One o f m y m em ories
that is kind of funny is o f the guy
who was president at the time, John
Hakanson. He was kind of a cranky
older fellow, who really treated us
like we were actual media.
TCP: W hat advice do you have
So if I called saying, ‘I need to for future journalists about the big,
come talk to the president’ he’d say scary w o rld ?; '
‘of course, get up here’ and he’d give
Haynes: Newsprint and ink are
us interviews. A nd I didn’t think going away. There’s just no ques-
anything of it at the time until years , tion about it. You can see that when
as a professional I realized lots of The Boston Globe is in trouble,
school journalists aren’t treated as or The Oregonian’s no longer a
real m edia by school adm inistra daily, and the Chicago Sun Times
is barely hanging on. ’
tion, and just as a class.
If you’re taking journalism at
But the world will always need
some college, you could no m ore storytellers, and the world will
get an interview with the president always need watchdogs. So while
than you could fly to the m oon. the m edium that I’ve spent m y
But H akanson got that ‘you’re a life learning o f - new sprint and
journalist, just come on by and in k - looks like it’s changing
someone generating stones that are
both watchdog and entertaining,
in some m edium . I don’t know
what it is, but don’t w orry about it, -
Journalism is not going to go away.
There are going to be different
jobs, there m ight be fewer jobs,
there m ight be m ore jobs. They
m ight have a vastly different skill
set, but we’re always going to peed
storytellers, and were always going
to need watchdogs.
The two different skill sets that
journalists have, which is the input
o f data and the output o f stories, _
you’ll find som ebody who will pay
you a crappy little living which is
what I m ade to do those things.
You’ll find someone.
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Above: A photo o f Dana Haynes
hangs in C C C ’s Barlow Hall. It was
taken during his time as editor-in-
chief fo r The Clackamas Print.
Journalism Advisor:
Beth Slovic
elizabeth.slovic@
clackamas.edu
Below: Dana Haynes during a
press conference fo r the mayor o f
Portland.
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favorite m em ories. If he disagreed
with what I wrbte he’d call and say,
‘hey, you got that wrong’, but that
m eant he’d read what.I wrote, and
thought o f m e as m edia, and not
just some kid he could pat o n top
o f the head.
Patty Salazar
Editor-in-Chief
chiefed@ dackamas.edu
Erin Carey
News & Culture
aced@ dackamas.edu
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TCP: I remember when I talked
to you previously you explained
what The Print room was back in
the day. W hat was it again?
Haynes: We were in a trailer. It
was trailer that had been set up just
for us; it had two offices and then
a conim ons area. It was a crimpy
old trailer, at one point one o fm y
sports editors stepped through file
floor; there was enough rot that the
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Associate News
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Associate Arts & Culture
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Sports Editor
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Photo Editor
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Get to know your future chief editors
b y DENEE SHELTON
photo editor
Extend a warm welcome to
the new co-chief editors o f The
Clackamas Print, Erin Carey and
Z ak Laster.
New things can be scary and
people can be resistant to change,
but do not fear! Carey and Laster
are no frightening matter. They’re
quite the entertaining duo. Carey
knows m ore facts than you can
th in k o f about m usicians M att
Healy and O ne Direction. Laster
has a strange affinity for the
Oregon Ducks; he’s never w ithout
a sign o f U o f O school sp irit...
traitor.
Don’t let that fool you though;
he makes up for that failure by
being well versed in the art o f sar
casm. W ithout further ado, here’s
a peek into the am using m inds of
Carey and Laster, The Clackamas
P rin ts new co-chief editors.
What did you want to be when
you were 5 years old?
Laster: I w anted to be a sports
broadcaster for ESPN. College
football specifically Go Ducks!
Carey: I w anted to be Ariel
because o f h er hair and Prince
Eric’s dog. I w anted to be a m er
m aid and a princess, so why not
Ariel?
W ho is your m ovie alter-per-
sonality?
Laster: I’ve been told at least
20 tim es I look like Leo. I ran m y
free through those face recognition
things and it came back 80% Leo.
W ho is your m usic alter-per-
sonality?
Carey: Beyonce. She has tons
o f confidence in herself and what
she does. She’s a total babe and I’ve
got a m ajor w om an-crush on her.
Favorite adult drink?
!
Laster: Jack a n d coke. Extra
Jack.
right-handed can opener Correctly.
Favorite dessert to make?
Carey: Tiramisu. I had to make
it once w hen I interned for a bak
ery, and I ate over h a lf o f it. It’s
coffee and dessert, what could be
better than that?
Favorite sarcastic comeback?
Laster: ‘Your m om ’. No, really
though I don’t have a comeback. I
say things and people laugh. People
just assum e that r m funny.
Carey: W hen anyone says ‘that’s
what she said’, respond with, ‘not
to you she didn’t.’
M ost im portant th in g you
learned this year? Best advice
to* give.
Laster: Communication. Saying
w hat you actually m ean.
Carey: Keep calm. Getting upset
and yelling and flipping out won’t
help anyone o r anything.
Proudest accom plishm ent o f
y o u r life so far?
Laster: A ctually sticking
through college and m aking it to
w here I am now.
Carey: Learning to type without
looking at the keys and using a
H ow do you deal with Print
struggles?
Laster: Please refer back to m y
“favorite adult drink” answer.
Carey: Exercise classes!
What do you want students to
associate w ith The Print?
Laster: We’re n o t socially awk
ward. Everyone assum es we’re
socially uncomfortable, but we’re
not.
Carey: We are a hardw orking
group o f friends.
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