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Cougar cross country stays ahead despite minor hiccups

By John William Howard Sports Editor Rarely do big athletic events go completely smooth and without a hiccup, but that being said, the Mike Hodges Cross Country Invitational meet last Friday had some rather unusual bumps along the way, in an oddly literal sense.

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It’s pretty painful you think ‘don’t die’, don’t die’ and then when it’s all over you feel good.”

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The day was going as usual, with teams from all over the northwest coming to compete in Clackamas Community College’s annual invite. Community college teams like Mt. Hood, Everett and Southwestern Oregon; and four year programs such as University of Washington and Oregon State University mixed and mingled, preparing for the day’s races. The women started off without a hitch, the pack of runners

jumping from the start line and jostling one another in an effort to stay at the front. A few miles into the race, things went wrong.

In order to make sure that the runners know where they’re going, they follow a bicycle around the course, in addition to flags and painted lines marking the path. This makes sure that nobody can cheat and that nobody goes the wrong way, except when the biker gets lost.

“We had a little bit of a mix up in the women’s race where he went in the wrong direction for 100 meters or so,” said Associate Head Cross Country Coach Jerret Mantalas. “Who knows how much that affects the results? Probably at least a little bit.”

The women got back on track and finished without any further deviations, but things only got worse once the men started out. The course for the men is different. It’s longer and has a loop that goes up towards the Oregon City High School campus.

“I guess somewhere over in the Oregon City piece where he’s not all that familiar he wiped out and went down,” said Mantalas with a grin.

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Family, friends commemorate Cody Myers

By Patty Salazar News Editor Music filled the air in the Osterman Theatre in Niemeyer Center on Saturday afternoon at Clackamas Community College.

Fellow students, faculty, family members and friends filled the theater for the Cody Myers Memorial. As everybody found their seats they got to listen to “Besame” sang by Ignacio Gonzales, a part time faculty member at CCC. Followed by Erin Parra, fellow student and band member of Myers, who sang “Meditation” by Frank Sinatra.

Dean of Arts and Science, Bill Briare, started off the day with a little background of Myers. He had three things in his life that he lived for: God, his family and his music. He came

to CCC for the music department. He took the journey of an hour and a half on bus from Lafayette, Ore. to CCC daily. Sometimes he would miss the bus back home and would have to sleep in the parking lot to be here for his morning classes.

“That just showed his passion on how much he wanted to be in the music program,” Briare said.

One of the guest speakers was the great grandfather of Chris Klein, Myers’ brother-in-law, Ed Klein.

“I noticed that you all look a little somber today. This is a celebration of life.

You get it? Why don’t we just give him a great clap offering first,” said Ed Klein.

The room filled with long and loud claps for Myers. Ed Klein kept it light when speaking. He even mentioned that he tried to talk to God to let him talk to Myers. God replied, “He’s too busy playing another gig.”

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Kent Myers and Chris Klein embrace during the heartfelt memorial for Clackamas Community College student Cody Myers held Oct. 15.

Janine Szpara coaches for success Pg. 4

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Graphic novel review:

Habibi Pg. 6

Classified staff changes Pg. 2

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Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2011

Staff plays musical chairs with jobs

By Patty Salazar News Editor

While new students are still adjusting to life on campus, returning students may have noticed some fresh faces not only among the students but also among the administrative assistants.

For those who are returning to the computer science program, you might be wondering where Tamera Davis might be.

Over the summer Davis was transferred from her position as the computer science secretary, to her new position as a system support specialist. Davis moved from the Streeter building to Roger Rook. Her new job was created when there was a need to reorganize how departments were set up.

Now Davis is a “bridge” between faculty and the Information Technology (IT) department. She’s had training to understand all of the software that faculty on campus use on a daily basis. With new software coming out all of the time, Davis stays on her toes to make sure that she understands the basics. When a faculty member is in need of help with a computer problem, Davis is called to try to help before IT is called. Since IT is so busy all of the time, she is there for faculty to use when they run into problems.

“It has been a change, it’s frustrating and it’s going to be frustrating these first couple of weeks for faculty as they are coming back and for students a little bit. I’m hoping that that is a minimum. We are here to serve the students,” said Davis.

“Trying to remind management and

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classified [employees] that you are not going to be at this level in the first three months just is not going to happen. So in that we all have that frustration,“ she said.

She explained that although they are still on campus as employees, it’s hard to fill the shoes of somebody that has been at a certain position for years.

Elizabeth Lundy, vice president of instructional services, Joanne Truesdell, Clackamas Community College president and Courtney Wilton, vice president of college services are some of the people that had to decide who to put where. According to Lundy it was estimated that their decisions resulted in nearly 100 employees having to relocate to other buildings over the summer. Lundy explained that the moves were a “result of budget reduction.”

Some of the big moves on campus were in the business department. Employees had to move from the McLoughlin building to Streeter, where the computer lab is now also the business computer lab. The foreign language department also moved from the Barlow building to McLoughlin to be closer to their administrative assistance.

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It has been a change, it’s frustrating...”

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One of the classified employees that was moved is Jennifer Schwartzman.

Schwartzman was transferred from her administrative assistance position in the theater and journalism department located in the Niemeyer Center to a facilities reservation position in Gregory Forum.

Although Schwartzman admits that she misses her theater students, she sees her new job on campus as a new opportunity to get out there with the community. She is very glad that everybody has been very supportive and everybody making her comfortable at her new job.

“I love that they care. The deans are very busy and for the dean of campus services to stop by at least once of week and Bill Briare and Steffen Moller all those guys checking in and just making sure that I’m okay is greatly appreciated,” Schwartzman said.

By Brian Baldwin Editor-in-Chief The first Clackamas Community College Board of Education meeting of the fall term on Oct. 12 has brought about many decisions that the college hopes will benefit their programs in the long run. This includes the hiring of three new instructors, one part-time and two others as full-time. Also the board gave permission for the welding department to purchase their materials from a local Oregon City supplier.

The board officially approved the hire of Thomas Landeen as an annually contracted part-time instructor for the automotive department’s regional high school program. Landeen taught at CCC last spring and has been Automotive Service Excellence certified for more than 25 years, with a Certificate in Automotive Technology from Phoenix Institute of Technology in 1978.

“It’s an honor and a privilege to be here. It’s something that I’ve wanted to do for a long time,” said Landeen.

Board member Judith Ervin questioned Scott Giltz, dean of technology, health occupation and workforce, who presented the hire proposal, what it meant by “annually contracted parttime faculty” on the proposal page for Landeen. Giltz explained what it meant and that the college has done this kind of hiring in the past.

“It’s a position that actually exists within the part-time bargaining unit. It’s a position whereby a part-time faculty member is on an annually contracted status. They are paid from the full-time salary schedule, they’re evaluated as full-time faculty members, they also have the same benefits as full-time faculty members but they don’t accrue seniority,” said Giltz.

Giltz also went on to say that after three years the college has to decide whether to convert the person to a full-time faculty member. Landeen’s predecessor, who retired, was hired in the same fashion.

James Nurmi, who has a doctorate in environmental engineering from the Oregon Graduate of Institute of Science and Technology (OGI), was hired as a full-time faculty member for the Water and Environmental Technology program. Nurmi is also a senior researcher at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) for their environmental and bimolecular systems division. He had worked at OGI, as a research assistant before it was merged into OHSU.

Nurmi discovered his passion for teaching when he would receive interns for the summer at OHSU. He enjoyed it so much and when his wife helped him realize it he finally leapt at the opportunity.

Like Ladeen, Nurmi worked as a parttime instructor for CCC last spring.

Merrill Watts was also hired by the board as a full-time faculty member in the Small Business Development Center.

All three new staff members will have a starting annual salary of roughly $53,986 based on the full-time salary schedule.

Wesley Locke, department chair of manufacturing, approached the board to request permission for the welding program to have an exclusive contract with Maverick Welding Supplies, Inc. for purchasing their materials such as bottled gases, consumables like wire and hard goods such as helmets. Welding previously had a contract with the company Airgas, who is cheaper than Maverick but they put their emphasis on the quality of customer service. As a result they decided to switch because of billing issues in the past.

“We found that we were spending a lot of extra money on correcting billing situations. Because of their software or their system they ended up charging us a lot of extra money. It’s kind of a nightmare to keep up with,” said Locke.

“Airgas was actually less money on paper but the service was nothing like we really would like to have seen.”

The board approved the contract but it was clarified that this was just permission to buy from Maverick. No amount was mentioned in the proposal, as the welding department doesn’t know how much it will spend. Locke estimated that it would approximately cost $110,000 for them to purchase the supplies they would use for the year.

“It depends on how many classes and how the year goes. It’s hard to tell how many of a certain welding tip you’ll go through and we don’t know exactly how much of each item we’re going to buy,” said Locke.

Welding also has a course fee attached to it and the college hopes that some of the costs will be absorbed by that fee.

“The amount that we spend is directly related to how many students we have and so a small portion of that estimate is coming out of the general fund, mostly fees,” said Locke.

The rest of the board meeting went on as scheduled with no comments from citizens.

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Due to an oversight we mispelled Pete Kandratieff ’s name in the Oct. 12, 2011 Issue 1 article “Staff spouse stifled.”

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Editor-in-Chief: Brian Baldwin Copy Editor: Katherine Suydam News Editor: Patty Salazar Arts&Culture Editor: Mandie Gavitt Sports Editor: John William Howard Associate Sports Editor: Katelyn Aamatti Photo Editor: Hillary Cole Web Editor: Anna Axelson Design Editor: James Duncan Ad Manager: Brad Heineke

Writers & Photographers Dachabre Dixon Matt Senn Isaac Soper Chris Taylor

Production Assistants Dan Bailey Mollie Berry Joshua Dillen Tyler Eheler Jaronte Goldsby Telicia Juliano

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MYERS: Tribute to Myers’ passion of music Continued from Page 1

Chris Garcia, who was Myers’ band member and fellow student, kneeled in front of Myers guitar and kissed it before speaking about how Myers stood out to him as a musician and a promising young man. Garcia explained that Myers would practice in the dark in the practice rooms in Niemeyer and that is how he got his attention.

“His work ethic was phenomenal,” said Garcia.

Garcia continued talking about Myers and their band together, “The Chris Garcia Project.”

Myers tried to leave the band because his means of transportation were not always certain but Garcia wouldn’t let him. Their bond was close enough for Myers to spend the night at Garcia’s small, one bedroom apartment. “[It is] very tiny and he was 6’5” and would lay in my front room [sideways]. Sure enough at 3 a.m. I would be kicking his feet out of the door way trying to get into the restroom,” said Garcia.

Garcia went on about how Myers made an impact in his life, and although Myers was just 19, he taught Garcia, who is 40, so much.

Garcia then presented a signed picture of “The Chris Garcia Project” to Susan Myers, Cody Myers’ mother. Garcia also presented a CD of band pictures to Kent Myers, Cody Myers’ father who lives in Montana.

Briare introduced Cody Myers’ brother-inlaw to speak in front of everybody. Chris Klein worked with Myers for the past two summers and talked about how Myers was not only his brother and co-worker but that they are best friends. Chris Klein, although he was choked up, shared many of his fondest moments with Myers, such as when he shot his first duck and Myers

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said, “I got it!”

Chris Klein thanked everybody that showed up and sat down next to Brittany Klein, Myers’ older sister and their son Peyton. Brittany Klein read a short speech from her son Peyton. “’I only hope I can be as cool as him someday.

I would like to be like him and I look up to him, literally,’” said Brittany Klein.

Music was played between speakers to show everybody what music Myers was most passionate about, jazz. Many of his instructors played in honor of him.

Many of Myers’ friends from church spoke about what a godly young man he was and how he helped everybody and anybody who needed it. They talked about how he was such a caring young man and how he touched their life in a profound way.

The memorial closed with a slideshow and a recorded song played by Myers on his guitar.

The reception was held outside in the lounge area of Niemeyer. Students and faculty walked out of the theater playing drums.

The reception was buzzing with people remembering all of the good and fun times with Myers. Chris Friesen knew Myers and jammed with him.

“I really enjoyed it and it was true to what he was and what he was about,” said Friesen.

He also said although Myers is gone he still feels as though he is in Niemeyer.

Myers is survived by his father Kent Myers; mother Susan Myers; sister, Brittany Klein and brothers; Dillon Myers, Tanner Myers, Blake Myers and Michael Craft.

Donations can be made to The Cody Myers Memorial Fund at any US Bank branch. The money from the fund will be assisting students who are in need of instruments.

Chris Garia opens up to the audience during the memorial about Myers. Garcia and Meyers were band mates.

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Above: Flowers were set up along with candles and memorial programs.

Below: Chris Friesen plays the bass in honor of Myers

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4 The Clackamas Print All-American heads CCC soccer team

By John William Howard Sports Editor The interesting thing about soccer is that it’s nearly impossible to coach. You can’t direct each player’s every move like you can when playing chess. You don’t call plays and you can’t rehearse for every situation.

Soccer is about learning to improvise based off your set of skills that you develop in practice. If you watch the way the women’s soccer team at Clackamas Community College plays, you can see that they’re beginning to get it.

That progress is at the hands of the new soccer coach this fall, Janine Szpara and sure hands, at that. Szpara steps into the position with years of experience as a goalkeeper and coach in the professional and college ranks, giving her a confident, controlled air and a steely look that clearly says “go ahead, try to pull a fast one on me.” Her beginnings, however, were much more humble.

“About fourth grade, all my friends were playing and gone, and so I decided to check it out because I had no one to play with,” said Szpara with a reminiscent chuckle. “I just started playing, and I’ve been playing ever since … I broke my ankle in ninth grade and my coach at the time said, ‘Well, we’ll put you in goal so we can rest you and still play’ and [I] basically never got out [of the goal again].”

Szpara’s goalkeeping abilities soon lifted her to the collegiate level and she found herself the starting goalie at Colorado College in Colorado Springs, Colo. for the 1985 season.

“It’s just a simple little field. [With] Pikes peak in the background it’s absolutely beautiful,” Szpara remembered. “I was a little bit nervous starting to play but as a freshman you’re too dumb to realize what you’re doing, so you’re pretty cocky and confident and you think you’re really good. A little nervous is okay.”

Even though her nerves got the best of her in her first game and she let in an easy goal, Szpara’s performance as a freshman earned her NCAA Division I first team All-American honors, her first of four during the next four years at Colorado. She became one of only two athletes in school history to achieve that status over four consecutive seasons and led her team to the 1986 NCAA final, falling to soccer powerhouse North Carolina 2-0.

In the summers of ’86 and ’87, Szpara received the call from the then recently formed US women’s national team and played both seasons, earning six starts. Since its start in 1985, the team had improved performance and began to gain traction, but struggled to garner national attention.

“It was a great experience, but in the infancy of the program we were training on elementary school fields,” said Szpara. “It was not as organized and as well cared for as it is now. So like any program when it’s young, the facilities aren’t really great and you’re traveling to random places … I think it was a rented city bus or something that took us to practice. It was a pretty funny scene.”

Run down facilities and rented busses aside, Szpara still felt the weight of the position that she was in, traveling to Italy and China to represent her country.

“It’s your national team, so you take it seriously and you understand the difference in level,” said Szpara, who remained in the National Team pool from 1988-1991. “There’s either more pressure or more desire to rise to that level and be good

enough to play there and stay there.

It’s a whole different set of expectations that you have to face.”

After finishing a hall of fame career at Colorado, Szpara found continued success as a coach at Stanford and California before turning pro and leaving for Japan in 1995, eventually returning to the United States to continue coaching all over the West Coast. Szpara spent time at Cornell, Santa Clara and San Jose universities before coming to Portland State as the defensive coordinator in 2008.

“I think that [the players] drew off of her experience immensely,” said Laura Schott, head women’s soccer coach at Portland State. “If you have somebody on your staff with that kind of experience and can share it with your athletes, it’s a good situation. I think she taught them a lot and did a very good job with our athletes,” she continued. “I think that she has probably about as much knowledge of the game as anybody.”

Szpara attributes part of her success in coaching to the position she played, but also the good coaching that she experienced as a player.

“I felt like I watched a lot of soccer games,” said Szpara. “When I tried to explain it to others [I had] a little bit easier [time] than some people have.

My coaches were so good I felt like my knowledge base was pretty solid, so I was able to then relate that and share it with the people I was trying to coach.”

This spring, Szpara was named the head coach of7 the Portland Rain, a Women’s Premiere Soccer League team with ties to the Olympic Development Program. It was when Szpara called then Clackamas head coach Tracy Neilson about players for the Rain that she learned the position would be opened once Neilson left on sabbatical. While at Clackamas, Szpara will continue coaching duties with the Rain as well as becoming the Director of Coaching for the Oregon City Soccer Club.

She’s a season ticket holder with the Portland Timbers, follows the US Women’s National Team and says that over the last 20 years she’s become more and more a fan of soccer in general.

“It became my favorite sport,” she said.

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Volleyball terms explained

By Matt Senn The Clackamas Print You’re sitting in the gymnasium taking in a volleyball game when you hear the coach shout “Come on, girls! Dig it out!” At this point, you may have to ask yourself what the heck they’re digging for and where they plan on putting the dirt. Volleyball, much like other sports, is full of obscure terms and phrases that, unless you have been around the sport a lot, you will have no idea what they mean. With the volleyball season up and running, it may be time for you to brush up on your lingo. Here are a few terms to help get you started: Dig — the act of passing a rapidly hit or spiked ball to another player on your team.

Often this results in the player falling to the ground as they throw themselves at the ball.

Libero — often the best passer on the team.

They are responsible for a great deal of the passing and digging. They also are the only players

that are immune to the player rotation so they get to stay on the floor for the duration of the match.

Spike — a hit or an attack made by a player on the offensive team. The ball is hit rapidly with the intent to terminate the ball on the defensive teams floor or off their blocker.

Jousting — the act of two players from opposing teams trying to push the ball to the opponent’s side from above the net.

Jungle-Ball — any volleyball game being played by people who have no idea of what they are doing. See: goof-ball.

Dink — a lightly pushed or tapped ball that goes around or over the blockers.

Facial — when an attack hits a player in the face. Example: “Total facial LaFleur.”

Dump — Not to be confused with other activities, this is when the setter pushes the ball over the net on the second hit instead of playing it to a hitter.

Pancake — a dig in which a player lays their hand flat on the floor and lets the ball bounce off. In this case, the five second rule DOES apply.

Campfire (below) — when a ball falls to the floor in an area surrounded by two, three, four or more players. For a moment it seems as if the players are encircling the point where the ball hit and watching a campfire. This is often followed by a group version of “Kumbaya.”

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Stuff (below) — a ball that is deflected back to the attacking teams’ floor by one of the opposing teams’ blockers. Example: “They just got stuffed like a Thanksgiving turkey!”

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Head Coach Janine Szpara stands with Clackamas’ goalie Tori Wilkinson before the game against Yakima on Sept. 15 at Pioneer Stadium in Oregon City.

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Ace (below) — when a serve from the offensive team hits the ground on the defensive side of the net without any opposing players able to make an effective pass resulting in immediate points for the serving team; also known as an epic failure by the defense.

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Hopefully this will help you understand a little of what is going on in the fast paced game of volleyball. If nothing else, you can at least use these terms to pretend that you really know what you’re talking about.

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Gender equality no easy task

By John William Howard Sports Editor I’ve always wondered why Clackamas Community College doesn’t have a men’s soccer team. It would seem, what with the immediate and recent success of the women’s program and the overall dominance of the athletic department, that such a team wouldn’t even be in question.

However, during the fall sports season, options for men are cross country … and that’s it. Unless I’ve been doing my math wrong, that means there are six sports for women and only five for the men. Isn’t there something off about that?

As it so happens, there isn’t. Title IX was legislation passed in the early ‘70s intended to force equal opportunities for both men and women. And not just in collegiate athletics, but in all institutions that receive public funds. That includes access to things like higher education and employment.

The basic idea is that the number of athletes should mirror the ratio of students at the school. If 59 percent of the students are women, then 59 percent of the ath-

letic program should be made up of female athletes.

Here’s where things get a little messy: that’s about as clear as Title IX gets. It’s interpreted in a myriad of ways and because of that, there are several different solutions to complying with Title IX legislation, according to self-proclaimed Title IX advocate Paul Fiskum, the assistant coach of the men’s basketball team.

One path is to provide an equal number of sports for each gender. For instance, volleyball will be offered to offset football and baseball will be offered to offset softball. The numbers are clear, simple and easy to keep that way.

Another path, one that CCC takes, is to offer the same or close to the same amount of scholarships for both male and female athletes. This too is messy because the sizes of teams vary greatly from sport to sport. The basketball teams are always going to be the same size, sure, but you don’t ever see the softball team with 15 players on their pitching staff like you do on a baseball team.

That creates another problem. If you try to have an equal number of men’s and women’s sports, you won’t end up with the same amount of scholarship athletes for both genders. The way around that is to offer an imbalanced amount of sports. For instance, the wrestling team is currently carrying 34 wrestlers, making it larger than the soccer (15 players) and

volleyball (12 players) teams combined. That makes offering men’s soccer impossible, unless another men’s sport were cut.

But think about it. Which stellar program of ours would you cut to make way for a fledgling men’s soccer team? You can’t cut any.

That means that we have to keep things the way they are in order to be sure that men and women are on an equal playing field.

The thing is, just having equal scholarships doesn’t cut it. The point is that both men and women would have an equal and fighting chance to play sports and that includes uniforms, travel, facilities and any other amenities.

Fiskum coached softball for 20 years at CCC and said that there were plenty of times where he saw a huge disparity between the nice, new baseball stadium and the softball ‘stadium’, which would be nothing more than a backstop with a few benches.

“The softball team will get thrown out in the north pasture on a hunk of weeds,” said Fiskum. “That’s not right.”

And it’s not. That’s why we’ve seen such a rise in female participation in athletics. People have begun to understand that you have to treat everyone equally, no matter who or what they are, or where they come from.

If that means that we don’t have a men’s soccer team, then that’s alright. I’m fine with that.

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CROSS COUNTRY: Men take first, women second among NWAACC competition Continued from Page 1

The men meandered around once they finished, but the talk wasn’t about the gopher hole just past mile three, or even about how each runner did.

Everybody was talking about when they passed the confused biker face down on the ground and finished the race without him.

Despite the slight detour and the face plant, both the men and the women felt good about their races, with the CCC men’s team finishing second behind Willamette University and the women’s team finishing fifth, but only trailing the NWAACC defending champion Clark College by

four points.

Highlighting the women’s race was the tenth place finish of freshman Teresa Lawson. Before Clackamas, Lawson had never been a cross country runner, but has quickly vaulted to the near top of the league, already winning the NWAACC Cross Country Female Athlete of the Week the week of Sept.

24, prompting Mantalas to say that she was “setting herself up to be a contender for the conference title.”

Lawson was just two seconds off her personal record in Friday’s race, which was only her fourth cross country meet of her life.

Jorge Gil-Jaurez’ effort yields an eighth place finish, one of three in the top ten for Clackamas men. The meet was the second at home for the Cougars.

“I started out kinda [in the] front of the pack, which was my goal: to stick with the Oregon State girls, which I did for most of the race and I beat a couple of them,” said Lawson.

“It’s really intimidating at first because you see [the universities] roll up and they just look awesome,” said Lawson, who finished second out of all NWAACC affiliated athletes.

“Because they’re four-year schools, a lot of them are older than us. We come in at 19, so it’s intimidating, but we just show ‘em up out on the course.”

On the men’s side, Clackamas had three runners finish in the top ten, with Brad Prettyman taking second, Mark Medgin taking sixth and Jorge Gil-Juarez taking eigth, leading the pack for the Cougars. The biggest story, though, was the last 300 meters for freshman Austin Collins.

“I was thinking about it the last three miles. I seen the people in front of me and I finally caught the one guy that I was trying to stick with and I knew there was a huge pack in front of me with a mile to go,” said Collins, who was running in just his second race on the home course. On the last stretch, Collins kicked it in to high gear, passing runner after runner en route to finishing fourteenth.

“It’s pretty painful. You just think ‘don’t die, don’t die’ and then when it’s over you feel good.”

Over all, Mantalas was pleased with the performance of both teams, but said that their main goal was to do better than the year before.

“We’re ready to achieve a little bit more and the dedication is there a little bit more,” said Mantalas, who

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Theresa Lawson covers the last few hundred meters in just her fourth cross country meet of her life. Lawson finished tenth, and first for Clackamas. is in his second year as associate head coach. “If we just continue to get a little bit better, then that’s all we can ask for. We show up and have a good race on NWAACCs, and where the chips fall, they fall.”

Cross Country Next Up: HomeSouthern Region Championships 3 p.m.

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Nightmares accompany pretty pictures in local author’s new graphic novel

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“Habibi,” set in a Middle Eastern kingdom of no certain time, with its glorious palace and sky scrapers, its slave market and modern technology, is a dark tale fraught with draught, beatings and little hope for humanity.

Craig Thompson, a local author, who was raised in a crushingly Evangelical family in rural Wisconsin, has been living in Portland now for 15 years.

However, the fact that he has made our nearest culturally rich city his home is not the only reason you can find Thompson’s other books at an easy reach, in the Clackamas Community College bookstore or on the shelves of the CCC library.

Also by the author, “Blankets,” is an epic story of first love that is included on the required book list of some of CCC’s classes and is by far seen as the reason readers have come to adore Thompson’s rich artistic style and shockingly honest stories.

I’m sure that I was not the first person to walk into a book store and buy “Habibi” with the same anticipation of greatness.

Truly, his new book has lived up to “Blankets” paisley motif that is repeated page after page in this autobiographical graphic novel.

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The Bucket List: Goody-two-shoes gone wild

By Mandie Gavitt Arts & Culture Editor

I’m 20 and I’ve never snuck into a movie. I’m one of those horrible goody-two-shoes that just does not do that kind of thing. So, that’s why I’ve just recently crossed off number two on my bucket list: sneak into a movie.

Blind dates are often some of the most awkward experiences you can ever partake of in your life. Whether you are set up by mutual friends, the Internet or some other random force of nature, there is always the anticipation of whether or not there will be an attraction between the two of you — and let’s face it there is nothing more awkward than sitting through a date when you know there is no way you can be attracted to the other person — or if you’ll have enough to talk about — nothing worse than just awkwardly staring at your food for an hour.

However, every now and then you find a date to be well worth all the extra time and effort that you put into your hair and makeup. This is the story of one of those dates.

After a lovely dinner with Guy X, as my date will hereafter be referred to as, he asked if I would like to see a movie, so we walked to a nearby cinema.

It turned out the movie we had planned on seeing wasn’t playing there so Guy X decided to buy us movie tickets to a random movie we hadn’t even heard of. Then he took me on a crazy adventure in which we watched five minutes of every movie playing in the theater.

He explained, “It’s how I get through all the crappy movies of the summer.” So we slipped into one movie then ducked out into another while attempting to dodge the movie theater employees.

I was incredibly paranoid, I do not have any idea what they do when you get kicked out of a movie theater: Do you get arrested? Do they give you a ticket? Does your picture get posted on the wall of shame saying you’re banned from the theater for the rest of your life? We didn’t need to worry.

The one employee that did notice us thought it was funny and didn’t seem to care about the guilty look on my face.

After every movie we asked each other what we thought of the movie we had watched so much of.

“How did they get everyone to have the exact same mustaches?”

At one point we watched maybe five minutes of some “inspirational” chick-flick that just about killed us and we were oh-so-moved by the roll-

ing credits of “The Help.”

Even with all our previewing we still made it to the movie he had paid for on time, “The Future,” and ended up watching and enjoying the whole thing. While I do not condone making a habit of sneaking into movies on a regular basis, I do recommend putting this item on your bucket list. It ended up being a marvelous first date and a great opportunity for me to let my goodytwo-shoes self, relax a little bit and to try something a little bit more on the rebellious side, while getting through all of summer’s movies in one night.

And in case you’re wondering: there was a second date.

and sometimes horrific scenes, I have come to love Thompson’s eye for detail. Though the story may not have captivated me beyond the halfway point I was forced to read all the way through simply for the art. Thompson, once again, has created a graphic novel that even the strictest of pallets may enjoy. He has weaved beautiful calligraphy and Eastern illustrations throughout the entire story, something my art starved eyes forced my story weary brain to turn pages and continue enjoying.

It’s easy to say that “Habibi” is a dark story; it’s harder to get anyone who has not picked up the book to understand that this is more than just the darker, older sister to “Blankets.”

The two main characters are forced into such terrible situations that you begin to think that Thompson is truly a sadist.

Dodola, an Arab girl, is sold by her parents to become the wife of a scribe. Her husband tells her stories and teaches her to write. I’ve never read a more desperate main character, forced from one sticky situation to the next, including adopting a dark skinned slave boy as her son, brother and life partner.

Zam, as he is called amongst other names, feels dirty when he reaches puberty, reminiscent of Thompson himself in “Blankets.” It seems that

Thompson is repeating all of his youthful feelings on this ill-fated character, who is forced to bare a terrible self-loathing and a search to be one with God. “Habibi” is an exquisite story if you are only looking at the pictures. The time it has taken Thompson to produce this book is obvious in the gorgeous drawings in the book. The fight scenes are by far the most interesting and super human I’ve seen in a graphic novel that doesn’t have anything to do with super heroes.

Along with mesmerizing calligraphy, Thompson has woven stories from the Qur’an into his novel. It is clear that Thompson is trying to force the reader to understand the similarities between Christianity and Islam.

It’s as if Thompson has taken all of his opinions on religion and humanity and spit it onto the page yelling, “Look at what I think!” However, though I do tend to agree with his opinions, I am faintly offended that he seems to not think his readers can come to those opinions on their own.

Thompson’s “Habibi” is at times disgusting, depressing and beautiful. The art is wonderful.

I would say that anyone who enjoyed “Blankets” should definitely pick up a copy, just expect some nightmares to come along with the pretty pictures.

Tweaks of the Week

Things to do if college life is tweaking you out: Holocaust Survivor Speaks on Campus:

Holocaust survivor Alter Wiener will speak at CCC on Thursday, Oct. 27, from noon to 2 p.m. in the McLoughlin Auditorium. He is the author of “64735 - From A Name to A Number, a Holocaust Survivor’s Autobiography.” No cost to attend. Open to public.

Flag Football Fridays

NASA Employee To Speak on Campus: Former Clackamas student will be on campus to discuss his NASA career on Tuesday Oct. 25 at 3:30 p.m in Pauling 102.

Breast Cancer Awareness Barbeque A barbeque will be held on Thursday, Oct. 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. outside of the ASG office.

Flag football Fridays, a beloved tradition at Clackamas Community College, is available now for all to enjoy. This intramural Fall Term Blood sport meets every Friday from Drive: noon to 1:30 p.m. at the Hwy A blood drive will be held on Oct. 24 and 25. Students may 213 soccer field. sign up now in the ASG office CC152.

Halloween Fantasy Trail:

Take a haunting walk through a lighted, wooded, fantasy trail decorated with spooky sights and sounds at Wenzel Farm until Oct. 30. 19754 S Ridge Rd Oregon City; noon to 5 p.m. and 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Halloween Costume Contest:

A Halloween costume contest will be held the Oct. 23 through 25. Students can come into the ASG office in their costume to have their pictures taken for other students to judge.

Does your band have a gig or are you involved in an event you would like CCC students to be in the know about? Send your event info to “Tweaks of the week” at aced@clackamas.edu.

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Horticulture workshop brings comaraderie

By Chris Taylor The Clackamas Print Welcome to the jungle, the concrete jungle that is. On Oct. 15, the horticulture department hosted two events, a concrete leaf casting, followed by a mini hoop house building workshop.

The leaf casting lasted from 9 a.m. to noon and cost $25 per person. Each person was provided with all materials needed to create the project. The event was open to students, staff and community members.

“This event is an opportunity for people to spend time with friends while creating art that they would enjoy for years to come,” said Horticulture Dept. Secretary Loretta Mills. “It’s also a chance to learn a skill you can use over and over again at your own home. And it’s really a lot of fun.”

“It’s really nice to be able to do this. It’s a fun break from all my studies,” said horticulture student Tina White. Most shared her sentiments.

Lisa Brending, who lead the workshop, said, “It was an amazing event. I had a great time. I love sharing this technique with others.”

These concrete leaves could be used as bird feeders, bird baths, placed on a mantle or used as a water fountain or feature.

“It gave me the confidence to do it again. I really enjoyed it!” said Josie Evans, a fellow leaf casting enthusiast.

After the leaf casting event, the horticulture department ran a workshop to teach anyone interested how to build mini hoop houses and get a head start on growing apples, pears and pumpkins. Oh my! Fifteen people attended the event which cost $20. Participants were also asked to

bring a dozen packages of about 10 feet of galvanized electrical conduit at $2 a piece. This means that total cost of the event ran up to about $44.

Hoop houses are a cheaper, easier alternative to a green house. These farming devices are used in planting fruits and vegetables as well as extending your planting abilities; and your planting and harvesting season.

Elizabeth Howley, the head of the horticulture department said, “It’s an awesome event. It’s a very fun afternoon where you can get low-tech, high satisfaction. People here can enjoy provided refreshments and talk with others who love to grow their own food.”

Shirley Park, mother of Clackamas Community College horticulture student Natasha Park, said, “It’s nice to have something you built yourself so you can grow your own vegetables.”

I really like being able to have it to grow more produce and extend the season,” said Natasha Park. This event helped many attendees, whether old hands or new to the planting game, to grow more of their own food.

Participants left with the good starts to their hoop houses as well as further instructions and some contacts for organic seeds so they could start planting.

They also benefited from a sense of camaraderie with each other. Fellow workshop attendees giving them someone to call should they need advice, some help with a project or just to enjoy the talk of planting and harvesting.

Though the weather may be changing it is still possible to start a garden.

Just remember, the leaves may be falling, but that doesn’t mean it’s too late start planting and growing.

ASG here for Clackamas Communtiy College students’ benefit

By Isaac Soper The Clackamas Print What does the Associated Student Government do other than barbecues?

Many students know where the ASG office is located, still sometimes it is difficult to know when events are, where they are located and what the point of it all is.

“They help plan events probably, I really don’t know.” said student KC Marker.

Another student, Colton Baker, mentioned,“I know they help out with books a lot, with the book exchanges, [selling] books that the bookstore won’t

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Ceili Smythe, ASG Vice President, answers questions during an interview.

take back. That’s about it.”

So what do they do, you ask? Besides their barbecues, which this term seems to be almost daily, the student government has many events that are meant to help the students, the campus and the community. According to ASG Vice President Ceili Smythe, “ASG is directly for the students. Everything we do is for them.”

ASG regularly holds blood drives and the book exchange, but depending on the time of year and the flow of ideas, new events do spring up. Of these events, the ASG promoted a “Tailgate Party for the Needy” on Oct. 5, which was held to bring supplies in for the Cougar Cave, which helps students in need of food and/or personal care. The Cougar Cave is set up in the Community Center Fireside Lounge. “[The event] went really well, actually. People brought supplies and money that they wanted to donate to needy students,” said Smythe.

“None of the money that we bring in is for anything besides the students.

The candy counter: I don’t even think we make a profit and anything we do make it goes directly into the grants that we give out every year, or it goes towards funding school events. I think it’s important for people to understand that we’re a great resource,” Smythe continued.

When asked about the frequency of the campus barbecues, Smythe said, “A lot of people love barbecues, which is awesome for us.”

To find out about events on campus, look for flyers and posters, but the best resource, according to Smythe, is through the MyClackamas page, in which there is a log of events with dates, entitled “ASG - FYI.”

Pick up your copy of The Clackamas Print free every Wednesday in one of the many conviniently located newspaper bins around campus!

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Horticulture students, Joan Dundy (left) and Ericka Tryk (right) admire the finished product of a leaf casting project outside of Clackamas Community College’s horticulture center. This project was put on by CCC’s horticulture department.

The Print asks: How do you know when you’ve had too much to drink?

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“Drop their keys on the floor and have them pick it up. See how they do with that; if they fall over, they’re too drunk. If they have trouble actually getting the keys, that’s another good sign. Selecting the correct key is an easy sign too.” — Tim Pantages

“If you can’t walk in a straight line, you can’t drive in a straight line.” — Kyle Diaz

“[If I were to drink] I would have to be with somebody who is going to take care of me, like my brother, or my family. I don’t drink at all.” — Gilberto Florez

“[You shouldn’t drive if you’re] judgment is altered, really can’t walk, or if you’re speech is slurred.” — Brittney Bevens

“If they can’t decide for themselves, and they can’t really know what they’re doing, then you know they’ve had too much. The only way to tell is by observation.” — Troy Williams Collected by Isaac Soper

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Memorial celebrates Cody Myers with stories, music

All photos by Katie Aamatti The Clackamas Print

Above: Friends and faculty of the Clackamas Community College Music Department play tribute to Cody Myers.

Left: Pastor Ed Klein and Chris Klein, Cody’s extended family, share an emotional moment in rememberance of Cody.

Right: Chris Garcia, friend of Cody, presents Cody’s mother, Susan Myers, with an autographed photo of The Chris Garcia Project.

Bottom: Friends and family members fill Osterman Theatre in rememberance of Cody Myers.

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