EDITORIAL
2 • The Southwest Portland Post
The Southwest Portland Post
7825 SW 36th Ave Suite #203
Portland, OR 97219
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PCC Sylvania drives smokers
into neighborhoods and
parks while enforcing
campus smoking ban
I am not a smoker, and I do not par-
ticularly like smelling smoke on my
students’ clothes but here’s the scoop.
I live on Southwest 60 th next to Lesser
Park and Portland Community Col-
lege’s Sylvania Campus and I work at
PCC Sylvania.
I walk between my home and the
college and have started to see my tiny
well-loved park getting trashed by my
employer’s decision to put a punitive
rule in place that drives smokers into
the parks and neighborhoods.
I plan to go to my neighborhood
meeting and bring this topic up for dis-
cussion, but I feel bullied by the college
as its neighbor. I feel they are getting rid
of their “problem” in my front yard.
I also expect to see crime increase as
more people are sent down in to the
neighborhoods to smoke. I work with
high school dropouts on campus and
many now see this is as an opportunity
to get “high” after class in the parks
below.
Many of these students of mine
have been on parole or [are under the
supervision of] probation officers and
have committed property crimes. We
are now sending them into small quiet
neighborhoods.
It seems unfair to the smokers, unfair
to the neighbors and wrong that the
college paints this “everything is fine
angle” with The Oregonian when it
is not.
There are at least 50-100 people each
day going out behind the campus to
smoke and the neighborhoods need to
know why this is happening. Did PCC
talk this over with the neighborhood
association?
I have a call in to the manager of the
West Region of Portland Parks and
Recreation to see how they plan to ad-
dress this.
December 2009
Southwest has a wide variety
of healthcare practitioners
Numerous of our students and staff,
and some friends in the neighborhood,
have commented on Ms. Olsen’s No-
vember Post article [“Multnomah-area
school has trained massage therapists
for 25 years,” by Polina Olsen, No-
vember 2009] about Oregon School of
Massage.
We thought she did a good job in us-
ing a variety of sources in presenting a
balanced picture of our program. We
like being a part of the community…
the article will introduce us to more of
our neighbors.
It seems like this part of Southwest
Portland has many, and a wide variety
of, healthcare practitioners. I’d love to
see more information about that pub-
lished, and could probably enlist some
students who would be willing to do
some footwork (listing practitioners,
and surveying them as to their special-
ties and concerns) to develop it.
Thanks for keeping the community
informed.
Ray Siderius
Director
Oregon School of Massage
Marlo Urbina
Southwest Portland
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