Letter from the editors e
Dear readers,
We received both passionate praise and
decided disapproval concerning the cover
headline from our last issue, which read:
“ Trump grabs US by pussy.” Did he not?
We heard students laugh when they
read it, some staff members told us it
made th eir day and m any students
proudly shared it on social media. But we
saw others wince. A full-tim e instructor
grabbed stacks of copies o ff the stands,
emptying the bins in Niemeyer so people
couldn’t see the cover. Then in Randall,
someone ripped the covers o ff of all the
newspapers there, leaving the rest of the
stories intact. In the Community Center,
we found piles of papers in the garbage
and recycle bins.
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If you are offended by the chosen tefm,
then yes, yes you ought to be. It’s not our
word. We did not plate this word into
the conversation of this election, but it
is there.
N o, we would never introduce that
word. This play on Donald Trum p’ s
original comment was born inside of a
room full of intelligent and politically
minded males and fem ales who Voted
for different candidates or w rite-in s,
while some left the presidential space
blank due to inner conflict. Let me be
clear, these are people who care about the
marginalized^ the abused, the minority,
the outcast, the everybody. People who
did not intend to offend and who did not
seek to exacerbate the already present
division in our country.
With bold, recycled words we articulated
the truth of the results: Trump seized
the presidency even as his spoken words
linger.
We made a choice, based on our
constitutional right to freedom of speech,
a right that our founding fathers felt was
so important that they placed it at the
top o f the list.
To suppress this conversation o f the
facts is ta ignore it; it is to sweep it under
the metaphorical rug because we can’t
bear to have it repeated. That gets us
nowhere. Progress is sometimes painful.
We ought to face what lies openly atop the
rug because The Print refuses to sweep,
and use it to propel us.
Our headline may have come out too
soon, too strong for some. But it is time
to accept what is. Follow pantsuit and
take the high road like Hillary Clinton
did in her concession speech. Trump has
been elected as our nation’ s president,
bringing with him hair and flaws a plenty.
Regardless of who sits in the White House,
we still have the ability and the power
to effect change. But we m ust refuse
to ignore conversations about sexism,
racism , prejudice, violence and every
other thing that seeks to divide us, and
become what we once claimed to be: a
united nation.
To yiew the previous cover and the
acco m p an yin g story H air defeats
p a n t s u it ,” visit; our w eb site at
theclackam asprint.net. The cover can
be found under “ cover archive.”
Sincerely,
Kristen Wohlers, copy editor _
and The Clackamas Print staff ■>
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Vandals ripped the covers off of the Nov. 9 issue of The Clackamas Print and threw them in the trash in Randall Hall.
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ON THE COVER: Community member Nancy Nye and student Billy McLendon star in “The Glass Menarigerie.” Photo and design b y
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