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It was a gray, drizzly morning Saturday, Feb. 25. The ground was wet and the sky dark, but spirits were bright for the 24 skiers and snowboarders that loaded onto the bus bound for Mt. Hood Meadows. The Associated Student Government (ASG) of Clackamas Community College sponsored the ski trip which left the college campus at noon.

Students were offered the ride and lift tickets for $30.

As the bus arrived, lift passes were handed out, waivers were signed, and gear was loaded into under carriage lockers. There was ample room for everyone on the Raz transport bus, which offered plush adjustable seats, overhead storage and video monitors, lighting and sound system. After roll call was taken, a DVD movie was immediately started. The group was entertained by the animated movie “Rango,” then later the remake of “True Grit.”

For many this was the first ski trip of the year.

“I injured my ankle over five years ago and put skiing aside, this is my first time since then,” said Susan Nisbet. “This ski bus trip is really what motivated me to get back into it. It’s a great deal. Also, I have a two wheel drive. I don’t like driving in the snow.”

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Cougar wrestling goes to nationals, pins fourth place

By John William Howard Sports Editor The Clackamas Community College wrestling team fell short of their second consecutive national championship last Saturday, coming in fourth at the National Junior College Athletic Association championships in Rochester, Minn.

Clackamas advanced six wrestlers to the final round of competition where wrestlers compete for placings. Of the six wrestlers to advance, only Austin Morehead was undefeated in the double elimination tournament.

Entering the last day of the tournament, Clackamas sat in fourth place with 69.5 points, only four points behind Lincoln College for third.

They had already lost Sage Ornelas (125), Clinton McAlister (149), Nikko Veltri (157), and Nick Sierra (165). The four had scored a combined 10.5 points before being eliminated.

Saturday didn’t fare well for the Cougars, who lost match after match by tantalizingly close margins. To start things off, Martin Gonzalez (133) lost his match on an injury default to take fourth place and 10 team points. Moments later, second ranked Cody Randall (141) was pinned in fight for third

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place and dropped back to take fourth after scoring 14.5 points for the Cougars.

Next up was freshman Trent Noon wrestling for third place in the 174 lb. division. Noon lost a close one, giving up the decision 4-3 after scoring a total of 17.5 team points. Clackamas followed up the loss with yet another injury, this time to Rudi Burtschi (197), who took sixth place.

The last matchup of the early afternoon was freshman Jake Laden (285), who lost 4-2 to take fourth place in his weight class for a total of 12.5 team points.

Saturday night saw the only championship match for Clackamas, who had six top five placings a year ago including the 285 division title.

Morehead lost a close match, falling 9-8 to John McArdle of Middlesex Community College to take second place overall.

In the end, it was only Clackamas’ past success that made their trip to nationals even begin to look like a letdown. Clackamas finished with five top five wrestlers and 97 points, ahead of fifth place Nassau Community College by 10 and leading Region 18 rivals North Idaho College by 12.

The trip was Clackamas’ sixth in a row to the national competition, and this season marks the third time since 2009 that the Cougars have finished in the top five nationally.

College considers raising tuition to $79 per credit

By Joshua Dillen Associate News Editor Students’ wallets may feel the effect of current budget decisions being considered these days at the college. Students could be asked to fork over more money to attend school here through even more tuition and fees as the college takes in input from February’s budget forum meeting.

Tuition and fees are the largest source of dollars at our college in a changing world of educational funding. State support is at record lows and the huge influx of students in our current economy has resulted in that being a more substantial share of the college’s budget than in past years. During the 2002-2003 school year students paid $41 for each credit-hour. Now they pay $77. The administration may be hiking that by another $2 for next school year. If that happens, it would be almost a doubling of the tuition rates in ten years to $79 per credit hour and that doesn’t even include other fee hikes that may be considered. CCC’s tuition is still lower than the state average for community colleges, according to administration.

With a current rainy day fund of nearly $10 million that will partially disappear into the black hole of Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) and monies committed to the Harmony Debt Service Payments, education at Clackamas Community College still faces some challenging budget issues.

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Students organize for candidate

With the Republican candidates touring the country for support, a few Clackamas Community College students are acting locally to support their favorite candidate, Ron Paul. On a chilly afternoon the trio — Quinn Walker, Jon Jensen and Jennifer Raad — got together in Clackamas to spread the word of Paul, sign waving on an overpass near Clackamas Town Center.

As Walker was the one to start the CCC chapter he is the leader of CCC for Ron Paul.

The group started in December and signs were put up around campus recently.

Walker attended Paul’s speech in Vancouver, Wash. on Feb. 17.

“It was really cool; there was a lot of people there. Some people didn’t even get to go in. A lot of people did get to see him, I

barely saw him. His speeches are all the same and it’s the same message all the time, but it’s really cool to see an honest candidate that wants America to improve,” Walker said. “He has been saying the same message for 30 years and now it’s being finally listened to.”

“I like how I’m going to be able to trust when he is in office when he gets elected because he has 30 years of the track record.

All of the other politicians we’ve had flip flop a lot and they don’t come out and do what they are supposed to or what they say they are going to do. At least he has my vote because he is an honest candidate,” Walker said.

Although Oregon might seem a predominantly Democratic state, Walker believes Paul has a good shot in Oregon. “The thing about Ron Paul is that he attracts all of them; he attracts independents, a lot of Democrats, and now a lot of Republicans.

Jon Jensen waves at passing cars while holding a Ron Paul banner on the I-205 overpass in Clackamas.

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Quinn Walker and Jennifer Raad wave Ron Paul signs on the I-205 overpass in Clackamas.

Combined he has greater success then other Republicans to compete against Obama since he has a greater influence on all of the groups other than just one,” Walker said.

Jensen, who is a first year music student at Clackamas, said what he likes most about Paul is everything economically. “I like how he talks about returning to a gold standerd which I think is important.

That is something I have been advocating for for years, to hear a presidential candidate talk about something that important I think is exciting,” Jensen said.

While being out on the overpass for 10 minutes you can hear at least 10 plus cars honk their horns, Jensen said, “It makes it so worth it. I smile every time. I just get excited. I got a few people to honk from the freeway too. If they don’t honk

they wave, give a peace sign, whatever you know, it makes me feel like it’s all worth it.”

As of right now the group has 20 members but only five that meet regularly. “We could use some more members. I think a lot of what Paul talks about benefits the youth and that’s why so many of us like him. The future is kind of a big deal to all of us,” Jensen said.

Although Paul might attract the youth vote he also attracts an older generation such as Raad. “A politician who is honest is kind of unbelievable. He is the only politician who I have contributed to.” Raad also wants to encourage students that have any interest that they are welcomed to check it out.

She encourages people to check out all the candidates and their voting track records. “[Don’t] blindly follow what the media

tells you.”

The group was provided with stickers, pamphlets and recruiting paper from the Paul campaign. Walker said that by wearing a sticker and bringing up Paul in classes, other students have joined the group.

He is hoping to bump up that number to a 100 students before he leaves to a four-year college. Although the group has only met four times, they plan to keep meeting and making more plans to get the word out. They hope to start tabling soon so that they can spread the word on campus. The group has a Facebook page “CCC for Ron Paul” and meets every Thursday at 3 p.m. at Izzy’s Pizza Restaurant in Oregon City. You can contact Walker at qcwalker@gmail.com.

BUDGET: College asks for staff input Continued from Page 1

Input and ideas from the staff may be considered by the Budget Committee but the CCC board of education will have the final vote when it decides next year’s budget this spring. The tuition hike is pretty imminent along with these huge payments that need to be made. The college will likely look to future hikes in these fees to supplement a bleak outlook in revenue sources. The failure of last year’s bond measure and the questionable possibility of voters passing any future bonds make for difficult budget decisions in the future.

However that financial vote goes, Courtney Wilton, vice president of college services and Elizabeth Lundy, vice president of instructional services, seemed to project largely optimistic feelings that the college would be able to make the budget work, while satisfying the overall goals the college has to meet the needs of students and staff. “We are a people business,” they both said at one point during the forum.

Adam Hall, full time Faculty Association President and CCC math instructor for 14 years, was at the budget forums and feels that the forums are a way to get productive discussion and input developed from staff, but with a caveat. “We need to get enough people there,” he said.

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Past forums have had more participants that resulted in a more dynamic discussion, according to Hall. “During past forums, we had substantially more participants. Let’s face it, if we’re only getting ten to 30 to come, that means that it’s not going to be a way to communicate to all staff effectively,” he said.

Elizabeth Howley, chair of the horticulture department, asked Wilton how the college would go about planning and passing a successful bond measure.

“We went out last May and we basically got killed,” Wilton said. “It’s likely we are not going out for a new bond measure in the near future. We could probably go out in a few years. Hopefully the environment will be better then.”

In spite of the hard budget decisions the college is facing, Wilton and Lundy led a productive discussion that was light hearted and casual. There were many audience chuckles that were shared by the speakers even as serious issues and concerns were aired.

Wilton concluded the forum by reassuring the participants that the staff at the college was doing a good job in spite of some tough circumstances.

“We’d like to reaffirm the good job that 99 percent of our employees are doing. We’ve got some issues we are going to have deal with,” he said. “I don’t want people to feel like the world’s going to end.”

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CCC pays thousands for virus protection

By Nora Goodman The Clackamas Print I can access porn on the Clackamas Community College campus.

Despite the fact that CCC shells out hundreds of dollars every month to keep our computers ‘secure’ with a web filter contracted out to Barracuda Networks, you can still weedle your way through their filter and get a little XXX action.

According to Kim Carey, head of ITS, viruses are the main reason that the college installed the web filter.

“Viruses from the web have become just as big an issue as viruses from email. We become vulnerable to spyware and malware which can make our users computers nonfunctional; log our key strokes to obtain passwords and other sensitive information that compromise our security not just on the local PC, but also on our network,” said Carey.

The college has set up a three-year contract with Barracuda Networks, paying $834 a month plus hardware cost. By the end of the third year CCC, will have spent at least $30,000 on the web filter, which seems to have some pretty wide gaps.

The college, however, has a very positive opinion of the filter. Although the cost might seem like a lot, Carey believes that the cost is balanced by reducing the frequency ITS will need to repair and restore networks and computers.

“There is also the impact to the user who is unable to use their computer once it has been infected, resulting in lost productivity and interruption to work,” said Carey.

If the main purpose of the filter is to prevent viruses from sinking their teeth into the computers on campus, rather than stopping onlookers from enjoying a little afternoon,

and very public, delight, maybe it’s doing its job.

“It’s preventing viruses to enter and since students search YouTube and other free streaming media sites all the time. Those sites are full of malware and viruses, so spending $834 a month to save hundreds of computers from failure seems viable and a smart thing to do,” said Paul Rios, a computer science student and Excel tutor.

CCC doesn’t recommend using the computers on campus for social media, which could lead to viruses.

“CCC values the use and sees the effect of social media in the world and as a part of our learning community,” said Rick Sparks, director of technical services.

Most of the time we don’t realize that our computer has been compromised until our bankcard is reporting irregular activity, our email account is spewing spam or our web browser is hijacked. Setting things straight after such an intrusion can takes days, months or years to recover. The college’s hope is that this layer of protection is transparent in such a way that our users would say, “Nope, that didn’t happen to me, just lucky, I guess.”

CCC filters for known malicious sites whose purpose is phishing and fraud, illegal distribution of copy written materials, spyware, malware and pornography at levels that cross legal, statutory or regulatory boundaries.

“If for any reason our service provider returns a ‘false positive’ on a website requested on our campus, please ask your instructor to call the IT Helpdesk at [extension] 3500 and we can add the website to the priority list and override the protection layer,” said Sparks.

For about $10,000 per year, computer uses on campus may be assured that personal information is safe, but porn can still occupy the computers here.

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You are a racist; believe it or not!

By James Duncan Design Editor Everyone is a little bit racist. That includes you. No matter how hard you have tried to be the epitome of political correctness, you are a racist and that is exactly why.

As February ends we find ourselves drifting farther away from what seems to be the greatest affront to the equalization in our society: Black History Month.

While history is important, it seems to me that BHM does a great deal more to discourage the acceptance of others than it does to inform people about the tribulations that African Americans went through from the founding of America to today.

Slavery is still, relatively, fresh in our culture. 150 years ago slaves were ‘freed,’ but well into the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s the black community suffered through segregation and a society that was unwilling to give them a chance due to the stereotypes and generational hatred that had permeated American culture, but that isn’t the topic at hand.

The problem that people here are facing is over-compensation. As a whole people feel so bad about the way ‘minorities’ have been treated over the years that now they need to be treated special. We need to have BHM or Latino History Month or any other variation of ‘Insert Racial Identity’ History Month. It feels like we are creating a gap between people. By labeling it black history or Arab history or anything other than history! People are just begging to keep everyone separate, but equal. There aren’t black people and tan people and white people there are just people. Everyone is the same and we all share a common history.

History is the record of

past events and times, especially in connection with the human race. (Webster’s Dictionary) That’s right. The human race: all history pertains to everyone equally. By saying that there is such a thing as black history, people are making it seem special and separate from the whole of human history.

Maybe next year we can all recognize ‘History Month,’ acknowledging all the people who have championed the cause of acceptance in our country and overcome adversity in the face of overwhelming odds.

There has been a hard fight in America for the rights of people other than white-men and that needs to be part of our collective history because the most important thing about rights is that everyone has them. Because the simple truth is no one is special.

No one group is special. We are the human race, nothing more and certainly not less.

To treat human history with more reverence than a certain group just because it is the history of a specific race is racism. Be it BHM or the Ku Klux Klan it’s all the same.

The harder people try the more racist they are.

One of many things that has made race relations in this country difficult was the introduction of affirmative action. At one point in history it helped to allow the persecuted minorities of our country to be treated with some degree of equality, but it is a system gone mad.

It makes the hiring process more difficult for businesses by forcing them to have a quota of ‘minorities.’ By doing this employers over look better or equally qualified people in favor of somebody because of their race.

The thing that bothers me is that it doesn’t seem like people understand that over compensating by treating ‘minorities’ special is still racism and persecution. So long as there are people who are being treated special because of the color of their skin, ethnic identity or anything else there will be racism and persecution. A lack of persecution is not preferential treatment; it is the continuation of discrimination through over-compensation.

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Post Season Awards

Most Valuable Player

Paul Walter 17.08 points per game in region Leads team in 3pt made and attempted Leads team in blocked shots

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Taylor Dunn 21.5 points per game 19.41 points per game in region Leads team in FT made and attempted

Most Improved Player

Brett Ball One of just five NWAACC players averaging a double double Leads team in rebounding

Honorable Mention

Jake Dewitt Made starting point guard midway through region play, and has been steady the last half of the season. The team went 10-2 under his leadership.

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• Won 10 of final 12 games • 21 point road victory over Mt. Hood • 87-84 home victory over SW Oregon to move back into playoff position • Taylor Dunn emerges as one of the league’s best scorers • Brett Ball’s 11 double doubles • No prolonged injuries

• One point loss to Chemeketa on a scorekeeping error • Back to back 50 point games vs. Clark and Walla Walla • 1-5 stretch in late November through early December • 0-2 start to region play

Cougars firing on all cylinders as they enter post season play The Cougars’ late season run has earned them a spot in the first round of the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges tournament, which begins on March 3 in Tri-Cities, Wash.

By John William Howard Sports Editor Walking out of the gym at Mt. Hood Community College , men’s basketball head coach Clif Wegner made a bold proclamation.

“We really think that we’re the best team in the south,” said Wegner, “and we really wanted to show that.”

Coming into the game, making good on such a statement looked like a tall order. Mt. Hood was leading the southern region, was undefeated on their home floor and had already beaten Clackamas at home on Jan. 18.

Clackamas answered that challenge with a 67-46 victory, dominating Mt. Hood in nearly every facet of the game including rebounding, assists, field goal percentage and three-point field goal percentage. Anybody who hadn’t already woken up to the Cougars at that point was jolted awake.

In truth, the tear on which Clackamas finished the season (won 10 of final 12 games) started back in the middle of January when they went on the road to visit Lane Community College. In that

game, freshman Jake Dewitt got the start over Josh Lokeno, who had incurred the wrath of Wegner due to an “undisclosed violation of team rules.”

Dewitt has had the starting position and a lion’s share of the minutes ever since, and the play of the team has dramatically improved.

“Jake hasn’t been as flashy [as Lokeno], but he’s been more steady,” said Wegner. “He’s been doing a good job of running the offense. He’s been hitting shots, playing good defense, not turning it over.”

Following Dewitt’s appointment, Clackamas made huge strides, coming home with a 13 point victory over Lane to embarrass Portland Community College by 39 points. The Cougars went on the road to best Umpqua Community College by 16, and then returned home for what may have been the true tipping point of their season.

The day of the game, both Clackamas and SW Oregon Community College were tied in the southern region standing at fourth place. SW Oregon jumped on Clackamas early and lead 37-30 at the break. The second half would belong to the Cougars, who outscored SW Oregon 57-47 to come out on top with a narrow 87-84 victory behind 34 points from Taylor Dunn, who leads the team in scoring. The win moved Clackamas back into the playoff hunt, putting them in sole possession of the fourth and final playoff spot in the southern region.

Following their emotional victory, Clackamas had an equally emotional defeat. After having played Chemeketa Community College down to the wire, the Cougars were tied with only a few sec-

onds left. They gave up a free throw and lost by one point, only to discover that there was a scorekeeping error that gave Chemeketa an extra two points.

“It’s a hard thing to swallow,” said Wegner, who mentioned that the incident was under investigation at the NWAACC level. “But, you know, the game is over and we’ve done a good job saying,‘Hey, it’s over’ and putting it behind us.”

The best tonic for such a disheartening loss, it seems, is to bury it with wins. Clackamas returned from their doosie of a road trip to string together a five game win streak, including the win over Mt. Hood, a close victory to move past Linn-Benton Community College for third place in the standings and a dominant 37 point victory over lowly Portland.

When Clackamas takes the floor on March 3, they won’t be seeing their opponent for the first time. They faced Peninsula College in the finals of the Clackamas Holiday Invitational on Dec. 28, a game in which they lost 85-65. Peninsula (23-4, 13-3 North) features one of the league’s top scorers in USC commit J.T Terrell and is coming off of an NWAACC championship in 2011. Clackamas and Peninsula will face off at 10 a.m. Saturday morning.

As the players filed into the lobby of Randall Hall after their post game debrief last Saturday, the confidence was thick, mostly due to the fact that Clackamas knows through and through that they are playing as good as any other team in the league.

“If there was ever a time to play your best, it’s right now,” said Dunn.

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Post Season Awards Most Valuable Player

Sam McCloud Southern Region Defensive Player of the Year Sophmomore All-Star Leads NWAACC in steals and assists

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Jenny Johnson Leads team in scoring, free throws made and attempted, free throw percentage, second on team in assists and steals.

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Paige Ward “I guess that’s what happens when you come from a small town.”

Comeback Player of the Year

Ashleigh Anderson Second leading scorer after sitting out the entire preseason recovering from knee surgery.

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First in NWAACC in scoring and steals 22-4 record, 7-1 at home, 11-0 start Return of freshman Jenny Anderson from surgery Two leading scorers, Johnson and Anderson are both freshman Sophomore Sam McCloud leads league in assists and steals

Loss of freshman Alex Howe for the season (torn ACL) Loss of sophomore Lindsay Kanalz for 10 games (broken hand) 19 point home loss to Yakima Valley 28 point road loss to Chemeketa Regular season swept by Lane

Clackamas women to take on Bellevue in first round Clackamas overcomes a rash of injuries to go 11-3 in the regular season, earning their twelfth consecutive tournament appearance

By John William Howard Sports Editor People say that sport is an escape from the real life trials of the world. It offers entertaining action for the fans, and something that they can watch and enjoy from the fringe. There are countless storylines to follow and players to watch.

Drama was certainly offered by this year’s women’s team. Clackamas Community College (22-4, 11-3 South) finished third in the neck-andneck southern region race behind Lane Community College and Chemeketa Community College, overcoming mountain after mountain of adversity.

Looking unstoppable throughout most of the preseason, the Cougars blew past their first 11 preseason opponents, outscoring them by an average of 19 points per contest. In those games, Clackamas defeated three of the eventual four region champions in three consecutive games, besting Skagit Valley Community College (north) by five, then Lane (south) by three and Centralia College (west) by seven.

The Cougars finally lost on Dec. 18, when they met Yakima Valley Community College in the championship of the Clackamas Crossover tournament. Things were close for much of the game with Clackamas trailing Yakima Valley by

five or six, but a string of fouls, including co-head coach Jim Martineau’s first ejection in 15 seasons, pushed the deficit to double digits, and Clackamas fell 72-53.

The beginning of the regular season saw the team welcoming freshman Ashleigh Anderson to their ranks. Anderson saw 17 minutes of action in the season opener at SW Oregon Community College, her first in over a year since having surgery on her knee. Over the next several games, Anderson improved quickly, becoming much more comfortable on the court and in the offense.

Clackamas jumped out of the starting gates in the southern region regular season, winning their first three, including an embarrassment of SW Oregon by 33 points and a narrow, gutsy victory over Chemeketa at home. It was then that things started to go a little wrong.

Mt. Hood Community College was in town, and the stands were packed as usual. Anderson’s personal fan club of former teammates from Oregon City High School filled up several rows in the front, and the home team was easily blowing out their cross town opponents. Starting forward Lindsay Kanalz was leading all scores with 19 points, already a season high. Then, after just over 20 minutes on the court, Kanalz took a fall, breaking her right hand. Clackamas would finish the game with a victory, but they had been dealt a major blow.

Kanalz would miss nine games, returning finally in the road win over Portland Community College on Feb. 22 and playing again in the final home game against Umpqua Community College . The return was a surprise as Kanalz expected to sit out until the NWAACC tournament, but the

coaching staff thought it best for her to get some game time in before the tournament started.

“Defensively she’s our captain, she’s our leader, she’s our vocal person,” said Martineau. “It allows us to have one more, big person so if we get in foul trouble we don’t have to be quite as careful with the [Feldman] twins.”

The injury bug didn’t stop with Kanalz. Three games later on Feb. 28, Clackamas made the trip to Roseburg to take on Umpqua and returned having won the game but lost their sixth man Alex Howe to a season ending knee injury. At this point, even with the return of freshman Jasmine Gibbs-Brown, Clackamas was down to just nine healthy players.

After another blowout of SW Oregon, Clackamas traveled down to Salem to face Chemeketa, but simply didn’t show up to play.

The road team was badly out shot, hitting 1-12 three pointers in the first half to fall behind 38-22 at halftime before falling 79-51 for their worst loss since the 2008 season.

Clackamas woke up, following their loss with a pair of victories over lowly Linn-Benton Commuity College and Mt. Hood before returning home to face Lane for a chance at the southern region championship. There they hit another roadblock, falling in a closely contested game to Lane Community College, and dropping into a tie with Chemeketa for second place.

Clackamas finished the season with a pair of wins over a dreadful 4-21 Portland team and Umpqua, and will take on Bellevue College at 8 a.m. on March 3 to open up the NWAACC tournament in Tri-Cities, Wash.

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What the filmmakers had captured was the first time meeting of music writer Chris Estes and Calvin Johnson (not the wide receiver for the Detroit Lions). Johnson is a guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and disk jockey from Seattle.

Estes and Johnson share stories and chat awkwardly, interspersed with songs from Johnson and readings from Estes’ life. There wasn’t really any acting to speak of (other than Johnson being, apparently, himself ) and the editing was basic and choppy. The audio was poor and the video was just that. Video, not shot on film and played from a DVD player.

After the movie was finished, directors Kathy Wolf and Pat Thomas answered a smattering of questions from the audience before introducing Johnson to sing a few of the pieces he “made up himself,” much to the delight of his four diehard fans that arrived to sit in the front row, one wearing bright red pants and a tweed pea coat, and another sporting hair an odd mixture of blonde and light blue.

The experience doesn’t speak to the quality of the artistry; it spoke to the fact that Calvin Johnson helps “Keep Portland Weird” with his unusual Portland, as weird as it is, is a special place in performances which was seen in the movie, “Have You Ever Had this country. Portland is a place that allows a Beard?” playing at the Hollywood Theatre. those who have ideas, those who have obsessions, those who hold ideals, to get them out for people to see and appreciate. It seems that this city in particular is constantly looking for something new to follow. It’s the hipster culture that doesn’t like anything ‘mainstream’ and therefore goes out of its way to find its own little nook that it can call its own, but only until it becomes popular.

The people that showed up weren’t there to ooh and ahh over the quality of the movie, nor were they there to see Johnson, who was entertaining, though not quite the way I expected. The movie and concert goers were there because they wanted to see something different, which is exactly what a non-profit like the Hollywood offers. With its “Hecklevision” films (heckles and comments texted to a certain number appear on screen) and its menagerie of indie productions, the beloved Hollywood Theatre helps Portland to live up to that famous slogan, “Keep Portland Weird.”

“Have You Ever Had a Beard?” played at the Hollywood Theatre last Friday.

All photos by John William Howard The Clackamas Print

Walking down the dark alleyway next to the aging theater, I didn’t quite know what I’d find. I had just walked two blocks in the rain, doing my best to stay dry while waiting to cross streets and dodging the growing puddles that collected in the ruts. After weaving past a pair of trash cans and around a badly leaking rain gutter, I found myself facing that iconic sign.

“Hollywood,” it proclaimed loudly to the bustling street at its front, its lights shining on the barren sidewalk below. Still an hour before the show, the doors to the box office were locked tightly, which gave some extra time to get a closer look at what I’d come to see.

On the wall to the left of the lit up marquee was a small bronze plaque detailing how the historic theater had been built in 1926. The Hollywood Theatre opened in July of that year, boasting 1,500 seats and was hailed as a “palace of luxury, comfort and entertainment unsurpassed by any theatre on the Coast.”

Now more than 90 years later, it isn’t quite the place that it used to be. Once the doors finally opened and the 15 or so patrons that had been waiting under the cover filed in, it became even clearer the grandeur that at one time graced theater goers in the building’s heyday.

Pictures of the building’s remarkable history line the walls of the foyer leading up to the main auditorium, which was the lower deck of the venue before it was split into three theaters in 1975. An elderly Ford Model-A sits squarely in front of the entrance; carefully detailed artistry decorates the ceiling, which has now been painted over. The titles of the films for the evening are written in colored chalk on blackboards. Mine was in the largest of the three auditoriums entitled, “Have You Ever Had a Beard?”

I’ll admit I really knew nothing about the film before walking in, and that I don’t really know much about the film after walking out.

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Study abroad program expensive, worthwhile

By Isaac Soper Arts & Culture Editor You arrive in a foreign land. The buildings are hundreds of years old; the history is everywhere; you are Indiana Jones, and cultural diversity and education is the Holy Grail to which you seek.

Clackamas Community College is part of a consortium of colleges, which includes Central Oregon Community College, Chemeketa CC, Mt. Hood CC, Portland CC, Rouge CC and Southwestern CC. This consortium, known as the Oregon International Education Consortium (OIEC), offers programs in multiple countries that span from three weeks to a full term.

“We’ve got good coverage for the languages we teach,” said David Miller, department chair of foreign language.

CCC also sets up some trips apart from the consortium, including the upcoming spring break trip to France, led by French instructor Heidi Cropsey.

There are many opportunities on campus for foreign language study in other countries, with multiple summer programs, including a threeweek trip to Guanajuato, Mexico and Barcelona, Spain.

There are two term-length programs that the OIEC offers, one being last year’s trip to London, England, and next fall’s trip to Florence, Italy.

“This program is great because it is going to Florence, taking classes as if you were taking the classes here, but you are really immersed in anything that you are studying,” said Spanish instructor Irma Bjerre.

One of the big perks to the Florence trip is the free museum pass, which allows students to visit the various world-renowned art museums, such as the Uffizi Gallery, the oldest museum in modern Europe, dating back to 1581.

“Can you imagine studying art in Florence, what would be a greater experience than that?” said Bjerre.

The full-term programs are sponsored by the American Institute for Foreign Studies (AIFS), which is based in London. They operate a number of different programs in various parts of the world; currently CCC is just a part of the two in London and Florence.

The college also offers a program in Costa Rica, which focuses both on the Spanish language study and field biology.

“Part of the time is spent at a language school in

Costa Rica and the other part of the time is spent at a biological field station in the rain forest. A chunk of time is spent at the beach studying beach ecology, as well as being at the beach,” said anthropology instructor Robert Keeler.

The Costa Rica excursion is in the summertime; the program is approximately four weeks long.

Keeler also mentioned that occasionally students participate in abroad studies that aren’t directly sponsored by the college. Other schools will often take in students from other colleges to work with their program.

“I’ve taken groups to Belize and the Yucatan looking at Mayan ruins and such. Irma Bjerre and I took a group to Peru a few years ago on spring break,” said Keeler.

CCC also features a student transfer program to Germany, which will be held from June 19 to July 3. Unlike the other programs, the trip to Germany doesn’t feature a typical school portion on the agenda.

“The Spanish programs all have a study component to them; the German doesn’t have any formal classes,” said Miller.

In the past, before the current financial recession, in some years the college would have quite a few students participating in the programs, according to Keeler. That amount has dropped off in the past few years, especially in the term long programs; the trip to Florence has a base price of $7,895, excluding airline taxes and fuel charges.

“The most common reason given for not going is not having the money. The second most common reason is ‘I have to work,’ which is because they don’t have enough money,” said Miller.

Though the study abroad programs are expensive, they are a one of a kind program that gives students culturally diverse experiences that they won’t find in the United States.

“We recognize that it is expensive for students—for anybody to travel, so we look for opportunities where costs can be kept down. There are also scholarships available; there are several that are targeted specific for study abroad,” said Keeler.

The majority of the study abroad scholarships are about $500, which helps cover some costs. The general financial aid package, especially for the fullterm full credit programs, can be used just as if the student was taking classes on campus.

Bjerre or Keeler are the main contacts on campus for the consortium and various study abroad trips, while Miller is the head of the program in Germany. Bjerre recommended that students get their registration in for the trip to Florence as soon

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Pirates put down swords, pick up laptops

By Isaac Soper Arts & Culture Editor They used to call the Internet the “Information Superhighway,” for the pirates who sail the seven digital seas; it was a free trade system of almost all forms of media. That time is coming to a close.

We may not fly the jolly roger, carry cutlasses and wear eye patches. We don’t have peg-legs that click on the ground while we walk; we may not look the type, but we are the digital pirates.

MegaUpload has been raided by the FBI, BTJunkie has closed down “voluntarily” out of fear. According their blog, The Pirate Bay will be deleting all torrent files with seeds (uploaders) over 10 on Feb. 29 and replacing them with magnet links.

Where did it begin?

File-sharing has been popular throughout the ‘90s until today, according to a Stanford University study, an estimated 70 million people engage in online file sharing.

This started, as many people know, with programs and networks similar to Napster. These evolved into what was LimeWire (until its demise on Oct. 26, 2010, by court order nonetheless) and BitTorrent clients.

File sharing never was an issue until the uprise of digital media and the Internet. We had to throw away our VCRs and cassette decks to bring in DVDs and CDs. Most of the common forms media can be easily ripped (copied) onto a computer and bent to our will.

CDs are being phased out by iTunes and similar music purchasing software; DVDs are being phased out for Blu-ray. Looking into the future, most Blu-rays even include digital copies of the film for your computer.

All of these media types make it impossibly easy for non-violent pirates to share with their friends.

Someone told me that they had spoken with a film technician who worked on the set of “Thor” last year. They said that their wages were directly affected by pirating, that on the opening night of the film, more people saw the film at home than they saw it in theaters. If you believe that, answer me this: Would those people have seen that film in theaters if there wasn’t a pirated copy on the web? Did they download the movie because they preferred to see the film taken on someone’s camcorder with crap sound? Or did they download the movie because they wanted to watch it but couldn’t afford it?

I would say that the man’s lowered wages are due to today’s economy, not because of “pirates.” Blaming pirating for wage loss is just pointing fingers at someone, opposed to dealing with the real issue.

Anyone can say in this day and age that their wages are directly affected by people not coming in to their business, but how can you say that it is directly due to people downloading the media that you are producing? My restaurant is losing money due to pirates making their food at home! Blast you, Jack Sparrow!

Is a movie or music anything more than information? We have a Freedom of Information Act. How does that come into play? Most would argue that it doesn’t.

If we download and watch a movie on our computer, how is it different than watching the movie on television? How is listening to “pirated” music on our mp3 players any different than listening to the radio? Don’t get me started on DVR. I don’t like commercials, so I don’t like listening to the radio and I hate watching TV. No matter how convincing you are, I’m not interested in your advertisements. I’m never going to buy your new car, Ron Tonkin; I’m not interested in buying Cialis or Viagra. I’m not going to go to McDonalds and spend my money on a [expletive deleted] Happy Meal for lunch. We’re poor.

We’re not Robin Hood, but we’re not pirates either. No one is being harmed by us downloading the unreleased music by Mumford & Sons, no one is being harmed by us downloading old Humphrey Bogart films.

The transition to digital media has made the uploading and downloading of media possible. Prior to the Internet, if you wanted to copy a movie, you had to have two VCRs! The transition to digital has made everything easier, which is what we’re all about, but we worship money as if it were God, so pirates send us into blind fury.

All that work we’ve done, for what? Entertainment? I made that [expletive deleted] song to make money, not to make people’s lives less miserable!

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Wednesday, Feb. 29, 2012

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All photos by Brad Heineke The Clackamas Print

Above: Casey House and Blaine Gobler, of ASG, help Susan Nisbet and other students prepare for the trip to Mt. Hood, loading up their gear for the fun that’s in store.

Left: Richard Amy stops to put snow chains on the tires on the way up to the mountain.

Right: Ben Beyers waits by the lodge for his fellow skiers and snowboarders. Beyers had over 20 runs down the mountain during the trip.

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By the time the bus and its passengers passed through Sandy, they encountered the first snowfall of the day. The driver caught the attention of trip organizer Casey House. He had been notified by radio that the bus may have to stop slightly short of the resort and the group shuttled up due to road conditions. As the bus continued, the snow deepened, forcing the bus driver to pull onto the roadside near Government Camp to put on tire chains. A few helpful men offered to help, but the driver gratefully declined and proficiently got the job done in about 20 minutes.

The bus continued to within four miles of the ski resort where traffic was halted, sitting for nearly 45 minutes without

any movement of the vehicles. As levels of boredom grew, text messages were received by students who announced them out load.

“Less than desirable conditions; one lift open at reduced speed,” said someone from the rear of the bus.

“My mom text[s] me and says ‘There are gusts up to 28 mph and it is 12 degrees. With wind chill, it’s below zero.’” said Kassandra Watson-Steel.

Back underway some time later, the bus pulled into the Mt. Hood Meadows parking lot. The group got into their snow gear and made ready to hit the mountain. House announced that everyone needed to be back on-board by 8:30 p.m. for the return trip.

Excitement quickly turned to apprehension for many as they stepped out into what

seemed like blizzard conditions. The wind was whipping the snowfall and blowing it from the trees, rooftops and the ground. Still, many headed straight for the lifts. Once they reached the top of the ski hill the wind got faster and snow became harder as it pelted exposed faces.

The visibility was low and at times seemed like a white out. The conditions held this way throughout the day and night.

David “Yoshi” Mirrot said he hadn’t snowboarded in four years.

“This is a tough way to get back in the groove,” he said.

“In 12 years of skiing, this is the first time I have felt cold,” said Ben Beyers as he lowered his face to the wind while riding up the Mt. Hood Express chair. This didn’t seem to slow Beyers though, as he got in the most runs of the group, shredding down over 20 runs.

Many people took extended breaks in the lodge and some quit early. However everyone seemed to agree that it was still a great time. As the bus left the mountain, several asked about the

possibility of another trip in March or early April.

“It was the best snow and slope conditions I have ever skied, but the worst weather conditions,” said Kyle Vuksich with a smile as he unloaded his snowboard back at CCC, “but I would definitely do it again! I’m going to recommend these college trips to anyone interested in getting on the slopes. It is like getting there for free, plus it’s funner and a relaxing ride.”

There is a lot of skiing left this season. There is currently 123 inches of snow at mid level Meadows.

It is a La Nina year and we will get much more snow fall on the mountains. The resort just made spring passes available: $149 for unlimited skiing from March 12 through the remainder of the season. This spring break don’t be bored, grab your boards and head for the mountain!

Ski trip participants wait to take a ride on the Mt. Hood Express back up to the top of the ski trail. The lift gave skiers and snowboarders a faster trip up the mountain, rather than walking back up.