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Hate crimes rise across nation INCIDENTS ON CAMPUS ARE AN INDICATION OF A BIGGER PROBLEM BY LIAM AN DER SO N ' THE CLACKAMAS PRINT Ever since the election o f the 45th President o f reported amount o f 392 Hispanic or Latino victims. the U nited States, D onald Trump, the issue o f 2016 statistics that were released on Nov. 13 show hate crim e has becom e m ore prom inent. W ith that the'num ber o f Hispanic and Latino victims people thinking he is a Nazi-sym pathizer and a has risen to 483. racist, many Americans with racist intentions have Alongside these statistics, there is also the news come out o f hiding to cause what are known as media’s recent reporting o f these hateful incidents. “hate crimes.” Richard Collins III, a college student in Maryland, A ccording to FB I statistics, the frequency o f w as an A frican-A m erican allegedly stabbed to hate crime has increased over the last few years. death by a white m ale known as Sean Urbanski, Back in2014, there were 3,227 victims o f racially who was reportedly a member o f a racist Facebook biased hate crimes in the U.S. In 2015, the year President Trum p announced his candidacy and started campaigning, there was a reported amount group. That trial will take place in January 2018. ' College students now have to be aware that they could be subjected to hate crimes. o f 4,216 victim s w ho experienced racism. One Clackamas Commurrity College and its students m ight assum e T rum p’s announcem ent speech have recen tly fallen victim to these specific spiked such incidents, but how? offenders. P hillip Z erzan, director o f C am pus D uring his speech, President Trum p stated, “W hen M exico sends its people, th e y ’re not sending their best...they’re sending people that have lots o f problems, and they’re bringing those Safety, stated that crimes took place on the campus in 2016 and 2017. “We had two reported hate crimes, both that were on the Oregon City campus,” said Zerzan. problems with us. They’re bringing drugs. They’re The first crime involved a student who owned bringing crim e. T hey’re rapists. A n d som e, I a Quran who was on the Oregon City campus in assume, are good people.” M ay 2016. W hile the student was carrying the T h o u g h P re s id e n t T ru m p re fe r r e d to Quran, an offender walked up to the victim and u ndocum ented im m igrants, h is w o rd s w ere knocked the Quran out o f his hands. The victim reported as his view on the M exican people in declined to file a police report. general, which m ay have empowered those with racist views. Unlike the 2014 statistics, the FBI included an Two of the crimes committed at CCC involved racist written messages in the campus bathrooms. A third, and the latest crime was also graffiti in - “I think we need to keep track on all the bad another bathroom in the Streeter hall building. The things that have happened, and maybe form some The second was discovered in Decem ber 2016 graffiti read “I will finish Hitler’s job,” according to club or committee to put a stop to it,” said Nolasco. and was identified by Zerzan as vandalism. The Zerzan. This last hate crime took place in October “[The offenders] shouldn’t express it outside, hate crime was a message that was graffitied in o f this school year, so offenders are still pretty they should keep i t to them selves,” said A dan active. Meza, another student. ‘Anti-Hispanic or Latino’ section on their statistics the m en’s bathroom at the Oregon City campus table. In 2014, H ispanics w ere counted in the. Community Center and the graffiti that was written ‘Other’ minority, and there was a reported amount said the N-word, and in addition a swastika was Christian Nolasco, who didn’t know hate crimes o f 118 victims o f other races. In 2015, there was a drawn after the message. are an active problem on the campus. The situation is surprising to students such as Ian Van Orden contributed to this story. COLLEGE LOSES TRANSPORTATION ANALYST: LUKE NORMAN A p o s itio n is e m p ty h e re a t C la c k a m a s B a c k in J u ly 2 0 1 5 , N o rm a n w a s a lso as the O regon D epartm ent o f Transportation, Com m unity C ollege, and it is a very im portant a T ra n s p o rta tio n S y ste m C o o rd in a to r fo r TriMet, Clackamas County and M etro in order to “I t ’s g oing th ro u g h th e ty pical p ro c ess o f one for students who are acquainted with CQC’s C lack am as C o m m u n ity C o lleg e a n d w as in im prove accessibility o f transportation services hum an resources to replace him ,” Ginsburg said. charge o f developing and m aking a m arketing to C CC students. This includes things such as strategy for th e college, in order to ensure that carpooling and state transit. shuttles. A few w eeks ago, CC C lost a sta ff m em ber, fill his position. O nce th e p o sitio n is re v ie w e d b y hum an resources and o th er off-campus^ associates, a L u k e N o rm a n , w h o - w a s th e c o ll e g e ’s students, sta ff and other faculty w ere aw are o f N ow that N orm an is gone though, CCC m ust transportation system s analyst. find someone to be analyst for transportation here position requisition w ill be m ade. F o r now the position w ill rem ain empty, but i f there is som e N orm an has been an analyst for CCC since the transportation available to them from the college, ! at the college. John G insburg, interim associate Urgent need for transportation analyst services, M arch 2016 and left around O ctober for a jo b , A s the coordinator, N orm an had collaborated dean w ho w as N orm an’s boss, said the college the responsibilities would g o tow ards Ginsburg, at TriM et. w ith m an y tran sp o rta tio n c o rp o ra tio n s such is going through a process to find som eone to for now. — Liam Anderson OH THE COVER. A][ison Andresen starring as Blanche DuBois in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Photo by Jared Preble. Cover design by Merari Calderon dHE Lit usos Editors-in-Chief Autum n Berend chiefed@clackamas.edu; Managing Editor Merari Calderon Ruiz chiefed@clackamas.edu; Copy Editor Nicholas Allison copyed@clackamas.edu; News Editor Ian Van Orden newsed@clackamas.edu; Arts & Culture Editor Luis Cor rea aced@clackamas.edu; Sports Editor Doug Fry Assistant Jacob Thompson sportsed@clackamas.edu; Photo Editor Sam Weston photoed@clackamas.edu; Multimedia Editor Alexis Wagar webeditor@clackamas.edu; Ad Manager Victoria Tinker adrngr@dacka- mas.edu; Staff Jared Preble, William Farris, Liam Anderson, Ali Miller, Jeanette Wright, McKenna Streed, Kristi Date The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased and professional manner. Con tent published in The Print is not screened or subjed to censorship. 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