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International week spices up student life Wednesday, May 4 11 - 11:40

Art Exhibit 11:45 - 12:05

CCC Chamber Choir 12:15 - 12:45

Lassana Kanneh Songs from Liberia and all African countries

Thursday, May 5 11 - 11:25

Rafaela de Yasmin PSU Instructor Flamenco Dance 11:30 - 11:55

Aztec Dancers Noon - 12:20

Dr. Andrés Berger-Kiss Bilingual Poetry Reading 12:25 - 12:50

ESL and International Students Presentation

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Jane Rickenbaugh teaches dances of universal peace to Clackamas Community College students in the Bill Brod Community Center on Tuesday as a part of International Week.

Instructor triggers state investigation of the college

By Brian Baldwin News Editor The state is investigating possible election law violations by Clackamas Community College after a college instructor filed a complaint.

On April 11, the Secretary of State Elections Division received a letter from Dean Darris, a full-time political science instructor here at college. In the letter, Darris requested that the state investigate whether Clackamas violated election laws regarding the college’s bond measure on the May 17 ballot.

Oregon law does not allow public employees to promote or protest election material, subjects or committees during their work.

Darris submitted his complaint letter on April 11, according to Carla Corbin of the Secretary of State’s office. Corbin is the compliance specialist in charge of the inquiry requested against Clackamas from the state’s election division.

“I submitted a complaint as an expert of public law,” said Darris.

“It is my considered opinion that the college has made a mockery of the difference between factual information and information that is of an advocacy nature. The law requires that whenever you present under public dollars and public facilities that the overall content of the information must be neutral and not appear in any way as advocacy or in any way influential.”

When presented with the comment that the college made a mock-

ery of the difference, CCC President Joanne Truesdell said, “People are entitled to their opinions.”

The college has attempted to prevent advocacy during the months leading up to the election, even having Truesdell explain the “dos and don’ts” of wearing the college’s bond measure buttons at a College Council meeting.

Darris highlighted several sections of the CCC bond website that he believed were in violation of this statute.

“I believe that the entire web page (of the) Frequently Asked Questions violates that neutrality clause,” said Darris. “(They) have a ‘yes’ letter on the website that they have since taken down. If you go into other news you’ll see a series of advocacy pieces. The law is very

strict but this is why you turn it in to the proper authorities.”

Truesdell commented that the “yes” letter in question was a letter to the editor that was automatically posted to the bond website from a news feed the college has set up for articles about the college. The letter to the editor was posted and was brought to Truesdell’s attention a few days later. The college took down the letter days before the college received the request for information from the Secretary of State’s office.

According to Corbin, the Secretary of State investigates each complaint that it receives from citizens. As they investigate the documents provided, Corbin will write a letter of determination and the college will either be found not in

violation of the election or will be fined.

“There is a … penalty of $75 for the first (offense) with a maximum of $250,” said Corbin.

Truesdell commented that she felt that the inquiry into the college’s informational packets is a good process. “I think that is why the Secretary of State’s office exists, to respond to people’s concerns. We haven’t been aware of them prior to the Secretary of State’s office providing us with that information.

That’s why these things exist, in case someone has a question about it,” said Truesdell.

According to Corbin, the inquiry will take about a week and after she writes her letter of determination she will consult Oregon’s attorney general.

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Mini grants spark new class innovations

By James Duncan Associate News Editor

Brilliant innovation, a new way of teaching, something that can change the way students interact with their school.

These are a few of the things that the Mini Grant for Innovation can help Clackamas Community College achieve.

The Clackamas Foundation is working to help change our school for the better by letting creativity take the lead and giving up to $3,000 to those who have the idea.

“This is a program that was started in the late 80s by the CCC Foundation Board, and their goal was to help departments jumpstart cool program ideas,” said Karen Martini, director of the Clackamas Foundation. “A lot of times, there isn’t money in the college budget to sort of explore something interesting. Faculty members have ideas about something that might be an innovative teaching technique or some kind of cool event to launch on campus or some new way to out reach to the community … and there just isn’t any money available to try that.”

The mini grants are one-time micro loans of no more than $3,000 each. The CCC Foundation started the project in 1988-1989 school year awarding only five grants coming to a total of $4,007. Now it has grown to serving out as much as $30,000 a year in mini grants.

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Without the mini grants there wouldn’t have been a project, period.”

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Casey Sims, a counselor at Clackamas Community College, speaks on the importance of sustainability education and the contribution of the mini grant.

Casey Sims CCC Counselor

“It’s basically seed money for new projects, new ideas,” said Janet Meister, the foundation’s department secretary.

“We look for things that are innovative; we don’t like to fund requests that would normally be funded through college budget … like desks, furniture and things like that.”

One of the more recent success stories of the Mini Grant for Innovation is the Clackamas Repertory Theatre.

“I think the first one was to pay for someone to do some grant writing to get the thing going and then we supported them I believe in the next season. Now they’re completely self-supporting and they do three big productions every year,” said Martini. “Their ticket sales are going great; they’re getting a lot of sponsorship.”

The seed money that the grant provided gave the theater the kick start to become self-sufficient. The list of successful pro-

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grams started by the foundation is staggering. Another one of the programs that the foundation is supporting is a project

by David Arter in the Science Department: an online homework tutorial for chemistry students that gives immediate feedback as you’re studying for tests. Arter has developed an entire module to help students stay up to date with the class.

“Without the mini grant there wouldn’t have been a project, period,” said Casey Sims, a counselor at CCC. Sims and supporters from various departments on campus have started a project for students and the college. His project is to convert a golf cart to hydrogen and electric power.

“I’m really interested in emerging technologies and how it applies towards transportation,” said Sims. “My dad had mentioned when he was visiting in town that he had seen the idea of a compressed air car where you compress air and it powers a vehicle. We looked online and saw some examples of that, which I thought was pretty neat. But then every engineer I spoke with said that it wasn’t really viable so I changed the idea to say ‘Well, what other technologies are emerging?’”

“Electric cars certainly have come around, hydrogen as well. I talked with some of the different faculty members and some of them got back to me about being interested in doing a project and … four of us, Bob Delgatto, Rick Lockwood and Abe Fouhy and myself, we decided using hydrogen to recharge the electric batteries in an electric golf cart would be a good project to tackle that would combine a couple different technologies and give students a good experience working with both.”

The golf cart is expected to be finished spring term of next year. A class is working on converting the engine to run on hydrogen and a machining student is building the mounting for the engine.

Sims had some advice to give to any person who would like to apply for a mini grant. “When you write a project like this a student’s focus has to be tied to the economy in such a way that it will help students when they’re in a job interview.

Give them an opportunity to talk about what they’ve accomplished and maybe get a leg up for the job,” he said.

The power of the Mini Grant for Innovation lets anyone on campus apply to get help in exploring an innovative way of doing something. Whether it is a new event on campus or the start-up to teach a new class, your innovation can find funding with the foundation.

“It’s one of the programs we really feel good about,” said Martini. “It’s something our foundation board really loves and the process of awarding these grants for them helps them understand better what the college does and what our departments are up to. It’s like an added bonus in the whole process, just the education that people get about what’s going on here. So it’s a fun one; we love it.”

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Harmony to double as care facility

By Brittany Anderson The Clackamas Print After the tsunami that devastated Thailand in 2004, the staff at Clackamas Community College Harmony campus started thinking about what natural disasters could do to the local community, or even worse, what would happen if the hospitals were destroyed, overrun with a pandemic or faced with any other crisis.

Searching for a place in case of an emergency, Providence Milwaukie Hospital arrived at the Harmony campus and decided that its facilities were perfect for a secondary crisis site.

“Harmony opened its doors in 2008. Everything was built to prepare stu-

dents for the working world,” said Janet Paulson, CCC Marketing Project Coordinator for Public Affairs.

“Harmony is a comprehensive care facility,” said Scott Giltz, dean of technology health occupations and workforce division. “It has a doctor’s office, dentist office, centers to draw blood, etc. It was not built with the thought of an emergency hospital; just education was in mind. There was heavy input from the medical community. Doctors, practitioners and many other medical professionals told the college what they wanted to see in the new facilities when Harmony was in construction.”

In the event of a natural disaster, Clackamas Harmony would not be staff-

ing the facilities. Providence Milwaukie Hospital would be providing staff and any major supplies. The college staff and students would only be assisting in the effort.

“This is a very exciting opportunity for students to see how the health care industry works,” Nursing Department Chair Barbara Cannon said.

Earlier this year, about 25 Providence representatives analyzed Harmony campus in order to determine where services will go, how many and which staff members will report in the case of a disaster as well as how many patients the campus and its surrounding area can hold. The numbers will be unique to the disaster.

“Twenty five people with hangnails can fit comfort-

ably in a room, but 25 people on respiratory machines are a different story,” Giltz said.

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We are definitely interested, but there are a lot of liability issues ...”

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Harmony is well placed due to the immense amount of flat land surrounding it, making it ideal for medical tents and, if needed, a good location for helicopters to land. It is the hope that in

time the Harmony campus will be able to function as a basic care clinic, providing a service to the community as well as educating its medical students. However, despite the interest and good intent, this idea is far from being implemented.

“We are definitely interested, but there are a lot of liability issues and when something like this happens it can take away from learning,” said Giltz. “We want to do this sort of thing right, and that takes time.”

Sometime within this calendar year, Harmony and Providence Milwaukie are expected to co-host an emergency drill. Clackamas students have been invited to critique and learn from the experience with the idea of better preparing them for entering the work force.

Letter to the editor: Poli Sci instructor weighs in on debate To the college community and editors: I have a duty to respond to last week’s article “Groups clash over student elections.” I hope neither side of this debate sees “everything” as either right or wrong. Political science students certainly don’t see “everything as wrong,” and I would hope, with the veterans returning from combat zones that are too brutal for non-veterans to imagine and with the economic stress we’re all dealing with, that ASG would not see “everything as right.”

No matter; the only issue that is at stake is what we are teaching our students about citizenship and democracy. I find it deeply disturbing that at a college in America, students … have to defend the

“rightness” of a democratic ASG. There are no good reasons for anything other than free and fair elections, period. This debate should have died on the battlefields of WWII and at the end of the Cold War. But alas, on a campus with so many combat veterans who fought for democracy abroad, we still have an ASG political structure that is at best archaic and at worst a slap in the face of those of us who have dedicated our lives to promoting democracy as the only legitimate and morally defensible form of government.

Also, it is time to thank these political science students for acting on their knowledge and dedication as they try to form a more perfect ASG. Like musicians who take music classes, artists who take

art classes and athletes who compete at the collegiate level, these politically minded individuals also want to improve their talents and knowledge in their area of interest – politics.

So from this professor, thanks to all the political science students for taking their citizenship seriously and showing the fortitude to dedicate themselves to a very rigorous education in the science of governing; special thanks to Marlo Smith for going above and beyond this high threshold.

Sincerely, Dean Darris Professor of Political Science Letter has been edited for brevity and clarity.

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Marlo Smith’s Board of Education campaign was plastered on Mcloughlin last week.

Her platform of free tuition resonates with some students. Others, however, are concerned with the amount of waste her campaign created.

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By Mandie Gavitt Associate Arts & Culture Editor For the past 25 years, Clackamas Community College has put on an annual event to honor diverse cultures during what is called International Week. This year it can be expected that International Week will be bigger and better than ever.

This is due in part to the $1,500 grant that Irma Bjerre received to run the event. “It helped me a lot,” Bjerre said of the grant. “It helped me pay for the musical groups.”

The grant will be used to help the event offer more for students as far as entertainment, such as bands and speakers.

Bjerre said she is excited for this year’s event because it will offer a chance for community involvement as well as the involvement of students. “One thing that I really like to do with International Week is not only to have this program available for students but to open the event to the community,” Bjerre said.

The program for this year involves a bilingual poetry reading as well as an art exhibit where local artists can show their work. Students can also expect to hear a fellow student play violin as well as see professional flamenco dancers.

Student Eboni Frederick-Pettway said she was looking forward to hearing the bilingual poetry reading because “as a Spanish student it is sometimes hard to get the literal translation out of your head and feel the mood.”

Each day of the week from May 2 until May 5 from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. a different country will be represented and celebrated through food, music, skits and other forms of entertainment.

Molly Williams, department chair of English as a Second Language, has been involved in International Week since its beginning. She will be the emcee on Monday and will be in charge of entertainment for the day. She also arranged for her student’s band to play on Thursday.

Williams said that students can expect something different every year from International Week. “Every year is different because we have such a wide variety of entertainment,” said Williams. She said in the past, events have included a number of things such as karaoke, origami and plays.

One big draw to the event is that it provides an opportunity for students to experience ethnic foods.

This year food will be provided by Clackamas’ Associated Student Government throughout the week until May 5. On May 5 a restaurant called Cinco De Mayo will be serving tacos for students.

The event provides students with the opportunity to learn about other countries without leaving campus to do so, they will have a lot to look forward to this International Week.

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The Clackamas Print 5 & ‘Fast Five’ brings action this spring Arts Culture

By Joshua Baird Arts & Culture Editor I have always hated sequels.

They all suck with the exception of maybe “The Godfather” sequels and “Empire Strikes Back.” Of course most people consider them to be part of one single movie, or trilogy, so they almost don’t count.

In the case of the new Vin Diesel/Paul Walker action film “Fast 5,” I find myself at a loss for words. It was awesome. Another thing that I have always despised is when critics use phrases like “adrenaline-pumping, blockbuster hit of the summer.” Those words were always a bunch of trash in my previous experiences.

However, much to my dismay, I have to say “Fast 5” is an adrenaline-pumping, blockbuster hit of the season.

There, I said it. I never thought I would before, but sometimes a movie will come along that just tosses you in the backseat on a joyride and doesn’t let you go till the end.

After breaking Dominic “Dom” Toretto out of a bus headed for federal prison, Brian O’Conner (Walker) and Mia Toretto (Jordana Brewster) head for South America to escape the heat of the U.S. government, which is trying to capture the three stars of the original “The Fast and the Furious” film.

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Janeiro, they meet up with Dom and a group of all-stars from the first four films in the series, including rappers Tyrese Gibson and Chris “Ludacris” Bridges and Reggaeton superstars Tego Calderon and Don Omar. The group decides to pull off one last heist, but little do they know that Special Agent Hobbs (Dwayne Johnson) is on their trail and he always gets his man.

Without giving away too much of the plot, I have to say that watching the action sequences and racing scenes will literally leave you begging for more, and just like the original film, you just have to know that there will be a sequel.

A word to the wise: stick around into the credits after all of the weirdos who clap for the movie (as if the actors can actually hear them) have left.

You will be glad you did.

All in all, I would have to say that this is the movie to see this spring if fast cars, gun fire and explosions are your thing.

If you’re into romance and family drama, you may want to sit this one out, but I for one will be going back to the theaters to see this movie again.

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Drinkers dance the mezcal mambo

By Joshua Baird Arts & Culture Editor

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ola, amigos! Are you ready to swallow the worm?

I remember a T-shirt I used to own that had one of the greatest lines ever about my stomach’s arch nemesis: tequila. It said “One tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor!” This accurately described where I was after four rounds with what I once thought was the heavyweight champion of the world: Jose Cuervo.

Tequila, brewed and distilled primarily in Mexico, is made by fermenting agave nectar and then aging it either in oak barrels to impart the caramel color, or metal kegs to give no color at all.

What most people don’t understand is that tequila doesn’t actually have a worm in the bottle; this is a common mistake since another common type of Mexican alcohol known as mezcal (which translates to “oven cooked agave”) is also made by fermenting agave nectar. The difference between the two comes with the cooking method. For tequila, the agave is slowly baked in steam ovens or autoclaves until all of the

starch has converted to sugars. For mezcal, the agave is baked in underground ovens heated with wood charcoal.

The flavor of mezcal is aromatic and smoky, and because of this, it is hard to palate for a lot of people. However new and exciting, cocktails using mezcal are being created every day, primarily on the West Coast, using everything from strawberries to balsamic vinegar (which incidentally are two of the ingredients in one of my favorite desserts; just add a little whipped cream and enjoy).

Mezcal con gusano (which translates to “with worm”) does have the worm in the bottom of the bottle that is rumored to give you hallucinations. The only real reason why you might have a hallucination from swallowing the worm is because you have drank a whole bottle of mezcal to get to the worm. It’s akin to saying that playing with a toy in the bottom of the box of fruit loops is going to give you a stomach ache after eating all that pure sugar to get to the toy.

Of course the worm in the bottle is not so much a tradition, or even so much a worm.

It is said to be a marketing ploy caused by an infestation of moth larvae in the lower quality mezcal being produced primarily in the Oaxaca region of Mexico.

Mezcal is surrounded by a lot of rumor and tradition.

One such tradition is found in northern Mexico saying to drink it before breakfast to avoid a number of different illnesses, diabetes among them.

As easy as it may be to

confuse tequila with mezcal, try and keep in mind that these two spirits, though made with the same basic ingredients, are two very unique beverages. So if you are a tequila fan of legal drinking age, I highly suggest trying out the mezcal.

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TRACK Carlos Vazquez Sophomore Decathlete from Monroe, Ore.

Tiara Fuller Freshman Hurdler

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Javelin Throw – 57.49 meters Decathlon – 5297 points

100 meters – 12.67 seconds 200 meters – 26.28 seconds

James Ratliff

800 meters – 2:19.93 1,500 meters – 4:56.98

Long Jump – 6.62m Triple Jump – 13.4m

Keisa Montorola

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CCC softball pitcher signs with Concordia University

By Patty Salazar The Clackamas Print “I was signed to go to Idaho State,” said Ashley Suter. Though, ultimately she couldn’t go because of a credit situation. Luckily for Clackamas Community College she met Jessica Buel, CCC’s head softball coach, through her summer coach and signed and started practicing a few weeks later.

Suter, who was an All-American pitcher during the 2010 season, is now in her second year at Clackamas.

“My dad,” Suter said with a smile, explaining who got her started with softball in the first place.

“I actually started with t-ball when I was 6 and I really didn’t like it, and he was like ‘stick with it; stick with it.’”

Suter said that it was through meeting people and going to pitching clinics with her dad that she found she really liked to pitch and was good at it.

“My dad definitely kick started this whole thing for me,” she said.

“She’s really dedicated to the sport but also on the field she is funny and makes us all relax so much,” said Katie Aden, a freshman centerfielder for the softball team and Suter’s best friend. “She’s really confident, too. We all believe in her.”

Aden and Suter have known each other since they were little. They played on little league teams against one another and eventually played on an all-star team together. They both went to Tigard High School and that’s when Aden said they got really close.

She explained that, although the softball team doesn’t have a captain, the freshman look up to the sophomores and they all get along well. “On a lot

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of other teams, there’s drama, but we’ve all been really close and that’s cool,” she said.

“She’s a butthead” were the first words that Gary Edwards said when describing Suter. Edwards and Suter first met when she was 8 years old. He was working for a pitching clinic where he eventually met Suter. Edwards was also her junior and senior year at Tigard High.

“She’s the life of the party for her team, that’s for sure,” Edwards said. “She’s a kid who is going to be successful in whatever she decides to do. She gets along great with people.”

Now 20 years old, Suter signed with Concordia University over winter break. “I’m so excited, very excited!” Suter exclaimed when she described how she feels about going to Concordia in the fall.

Although she is an art major and Concordia is mostly a marketing and business school, she said, “It’s all going to kind of fit and work.” She will be getting a minor in art and majoring in marketing.

While attending Tigard she was the editor for the yearbook and that was when she realized that she loved graphic design and that she could make a career out of something she loves and enjoys.

“I’d love to do anything with web design (and) graphic design,” Suter said. “I’m a computer nerd.”

But until that day comes, Suter is enjoying her time spent at CCC with her fellow softball players.

“This whole group of girls has worked really, really, really hard,” Suter said. “That’s something — especially being a sophomore and a pitcher — that I love to see, when everybody is working so hard at practice and everybody wants to win. There are no ‘cliques,’ it’s just everybody here is here for everybody. That’s the best.”

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Cougars declawed by Saints This year’s Clackamas baseball team has had a textbook up and down season. The team holds an overall record of 14-16 and a division record of 8-10. This year’s team is also called home by 22 freshmen players. Usually a team that holds a record below .500 isn’t considered a good team, but many of the Cougars baseball players disagree.

“I think we are a lot better than our record shows. We just kind of have to pull it together as a team and show everyone what we have,” said Zach Miller.

Miller is the team’s starting sophomore second basemen from North Marion High School. Miller came from a backup role last year to become the starter for this season.

He leads the team in many offensive categories including runs batted in, or RBIs. The team has stayed around .500 all season but currently holds the third spot in the Northwest Athletic Association of Community College’s South Division. The team did hold second at one point but now trails both Lane and Mt. Hood, both of which finished ahead of Clackamas last season.

“Our biggest win was our sweep against Linn-Benton,” said right fielder Sergio Cruz. “It put us in a tie for second place. We had planned on taking second place but it didn’t go our way. Our biggest losses were the two games right after LinnBenton against Lane when we got swepped; we gave up nine runs in the first inning.”

The team beat Linn-Benton 9-7 and 15-5 in a series of great offensive games but then lost to Lane 1-4 and 6-16. One of the biggest struggles for the team this year has been in pitching and consistency.

“Pitching is the key,” said Head Coach Robin Robinson. “We are hitting well, we’re playing real good defense, and have tremendous catching. We just have to pitch down in the zone and mix our pitches a little better. With a young group of pitchers it takes half a season sometimes for it to hit home that what they did in high school (was) effective then but not effective now.”

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Robinson has coached and taught at Clackamas going on 22 years now and tries to improve the team every year he coaches. He said that he enjoys this year’s group of kids.

Injuries can play a role in a team’s season at every level and the cougars might not be any different than any other injured team.

“We have five or six guys that have been out from all kinds of injuries,” said Robinson.

“We have three key pitchers out, from Cody Ching, who would have been one of our top three guys, to Atchley, who we thought would be our fourth starter but he is out for the season. Tony Jones was one of our better defensive hitting guys but he is out for the season.

“Several of our guys out here (that) have been down for a while … are back. Cruz was hurt for a while, Riggins was hurt so we got him out of the lineup, and Douglas got hurt and got out of the lineup.

Other guys have just taken their job. Olney has been playing the last four games on a sprained ankle that most guys wouldn’t even play on.”

Robinson went on the talk about the team playing through adversity and how that’s what the game is about, much like life.

The team has a lot to improve on to become a contender in a close race for second place in the South Division. Only the first two teams make the NWAACC Tournament in late May. The team will face the first and second place division teams before the end of the season, twice each. They will also have to face LinnBenton in two more games and face the defending South Division Champion Chemekata Community College before the season is out. Their next game is May 7 against Chemekata in Salem.

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Right fielder Sergio Cruz sprints for the ball on April 30. Clackamas fell to the Mt. Hood Saints by a combined score of 18-1 over the double-header.

True sports fans show love for their team come hell or high water

By Robert Morrison Sports Editor

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ride in sports is one of the best things that one can feel. Team pride is sticking with your team no matter how well they do, through thick and thin, no matter what. I think it is a feeling that is not truly

embraced anymore.

Rootinga for a teammuch and calling yourself fan are two different things.

A common word used among the sports world is bandwagon.

When a person tells another they are riding or on the bandwagon they are saying that person is a fan for the short term. They are saying that person doesn’t care about the team as a fan but are just there because the team is doing well.

For example, if you have rooted for the Detroit Pistons then when the LA Lakers made it to the NBA Finals you became a Lakers fan, I’d call you a bandwagon hopper.

Going to the team that is doing the best doesn’t make you a fan, rooting for them for years does.

I was at the Portland Trailblazers game against the Dallas Mavericks on April 28, mainly because I work there. Mind you I root for the Blazers but I don’t call myself a fan. They fought hard but lost

the series in game six. Many of the “fans” that were at the game turned their backs on the team because they lost. People were saying they suck and there were much harsher comments such as “Pop their tires!” I feel that not all but a lot of Blazers fans gave up on their team because they lost.

Losing isn’t the end of the world.

After the game there was disrespect to a team that bettered the Blazers. Sportsmanship is just as big a part of team pride as anything else. Have your team’s back but when one team is good enough to beat yours, give them a hand not a middle finger.

Pride means supporting your team but admitting when they did something wrong. Yelling at bad calls is great but if you see the replay and see that they did what they weren’t supposed to do, admit it. We are all human and every team will do something

wrong.

I’m a Sacramento Kings fan and they lose like it’s in fashion, but after all of the drama they have as a team I’m still a fan. Bad or good, I will remain with my team. My college football team, University of Southern California, is the same. I’ve always been a Trojans fan even after they were

put on probation for breaking recruitment rules. They also did horrible last year but I still call myself a Trojans fan.

Support your team whenever you can. Don’t jump on the bandwagon to another team because that just shows you can’t handle losing. Being a die-hard fan will pay off someday, even if just for

& Zest up your life with oranges

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By Michael Bonn Photo Editor If a bunch of drunk, seafaring marauders say something will keep you from dying a horrible diseaseridden death, you might consider listening. I am, of course, talking about oranges.

In ye olden days, they were carried by the bucket load on ships to prevent scurvy; today we know that they are rich in the coolest vitamin to ever be discovered: vitamin C. Beyond their ability to boost your immune system, there are many other benefits to eating oranges on a regular basis.

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For example, did you know that oranges boost your body’s levels of folate, or folic acid? Don’t know what that is? Well, you should; it breaks down compounds in your body that attribute to heart disease and heart attacks. This easily puts oranges pretty high on the awesome scale; no one wants a heart attack.

Now when I say orange, you likely think of the sweet, soft meat. But if that’s the case, you are overlooking the unsung hero of the orange world: the peel. The orange peel contains oils that are beneficial to skin health. The peel is also home to another big portion of vitamin C; the white bit (pith) actually contains a large amount of

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the stuff.

Eating the peel might sound like a fool’s errand to you now, but have you ever heard of orange zest? It’s essentially finely grated orange peel.

It’s extremely fragrant and can be used to add flavor to all sorts of things. I myself have had a particularly good coffee cake that had orange zest in it, and it was quite tasty.

To top it all off, oranges are incredibly flexible. You could just eat ‘em raw and be happy, but they also can be put into all sorts of dishes from desserts to dinners and can even be preserved.

Now here are a few pro tips about snacking on oranges. As it is said,

Fitness Nutrition

“with great power comes great responsibility,” and with oranges you’ve got to watch out for the acid content.

Oranges are saturated with citric acid, which is particularly hard on your teeth and can cause indigestion, especially if paired with milk. To help with that, I’ll let you know that the recommended number of oranges per day is less than three. Another thing to consider is that once you’ve cut into an orange and it’s been exposed to air, the vitamin C content decreases, so eat them up fast.

Next time you’re in your local produce aisle, think like a pirate: eat an orange.

Recipe: Orange Simple Syrup Ingredients: • Two cups of fresh orange juice • A half cup of sugar • Eight sprigs of fresh thyme

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In a small saucepan, combine orange juice, sugar and thyme.

Bring to a boil over medium-high heat and simmer until mixture is reduced to one cup.

Strain mixture, discarding any solids.

Use this syrup to add intense orange flavor to everyday foods like pancakes or waffles, or brush it on cake layers or yeast rolls before baking. You can also use it to baste chicken or pork chops during the last few minutes of grilling.

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