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Bill Leach, the dean of Campus Services, has retired after working hard at Clackamas Community College for more than six years.

A hiring committee has been interviewing applicants who are seeking the highly responsible position. The committee chose three finalists and are now carefully selecting who will be the new dean of Campus Services.

The hiring committee was comprised of several staff members who will be working with or under the new dean. Applicants were required to have familiarity with the entire campus and all of the functions that go on. Although it was critical for the candidates to have an understanding of how the campus operates, previous experience with the campus was not imperative, according to one of the committee members, Kirk Pearson, the Campus Services director.

“There are an awful lot of aspects to the posi-tion that make it challenging, exciting and reward-ing,” Pearson said.

The dean of Campus Services has innumerable responsibilities. The position entails an extensive and broad range of duties. Some of them are supervising and managing construction, build-ing maintenance, plant engineering, shipping and receiving, grounds, environmental health and safety, emergency response and overseeing and delegating budget priorities.

The dean works with between 40 to 50 staff members. The salary offered is between $80,510 and $107,228 per year, according to the Human Resources department.

“It’s a very important job on campus,” said Janet Paulson, media and marketing specialist and hiring committee member. “I think that everybody

works hard to get the right person for the job and for the college.”

Paulson said that there were more than a dozen original applicants. After they were assessed, the hiring committee narrowed it down to seven exceptional candidates.

“When you have seven qualified people, it’s challenging, and you want to make sure you make the best decision for the college,” Paulson stated.

The seven interviewees were reduced to three finalists. Bob Cochrane, Kerry Carpenter and Stephen Poage were chosen by the hiring com-mittee, according to Courtney Wilton, the vice president of College Services.

Leach has left behind a strong leadership legacy. He influenced the department to thrive, according to Pearson. Some efforts Leach brought to the college were cost efficient remodels and energy conservation methods. However, Leach said that he did not implement anything by him-self but with the collective efforts of the Campus Services department.

“Everything that happened there was a team effort,” Leach said. “The innovative ideas came from the team, the actions and changes that were made all came from the team.”

Clackamas was much different before Leach became dean of Campus Services. There were some people that weren’t doing their jobs; Leach said he had to fire 10 people during his first year. It gave opportunities to more capable and com-mitted staff members, according to Leach. The department of Campus Services ended up receiv-ing the Annual Team Award during Leach’s first year.

“I have no question at all about the future of the college,” Leach said. “Even though money gets tight from time to time, we’ve got the kind of lead-ership that will find its way through that and still allow the rest of us to do progressive things.”

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Courtney Wilton, vice president of College Services, runs through information on the final three applicants for the position of dean of campus services.

By Jaime DunkleThe Clackamas Print

Clackamas remembers an esteemed colleague

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Valentine’s Day equals capitalism and heart-break?

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Avalanche of students takes ski bus

Photo illustration by Julie Sanchez CNO and Brian Steele Clackamas Print

Candidates vie for dean’s chair

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Andy Mingo, a broadcast journal-ism professor and movie script writer, has decided to go on sabbatical for the next fall term.

When asked what sabbatical was Mingo said, “Depending on the insti-tution ... generally around every seven years, full time faculty are given a year off for research and/or profes-sional development. So it’s basically paid leave.”

According to Mingo, sabbatical is a “great aspect of academia.”

Mingo goes on by explaining that

it is a great time for professors to do things such as write books and heighten their skills.

Even though Mingo has decided to take just the fall term off, it is pos-sible to take as much as a year off for sabbatical.

During his time off, Mingo has decided to work on a short film that he has written the script for, one in which he wants the plot to be kept secret until he is done, hopefully in the late fall. He said that they will be going into production some time in the late summer and into the fall where he will then finish up such ends as shoot-ing and editing.

Mingo explained that he mainly

works on drama these days and that this film will be no exception.

Aside from making the film, Mingo also anticipates learning more about the new equipment his classes have, such as the new cameras, and to “become more proficient in all aspects in digital film making and produc-tion,” he said.

To take the temporary place of Mingo next fall will be part-time pro-fessor Brian Lindstrom who currently teaches digital video editing here at Clackamas Community College.

“[Mingo] invited me to teach and I thought it would be a great expe-rience,” Lindstrom told Clackamas News Online reporter Brian Baldwin.

“I love teaching and I love being on campus,” said Lindstrom.

Lindstrom explained to Baldwin that when he was around 18 or 19 and fresh into college, he became inter-ested in telling stories and how film was able to do that.

Lindstrom went to film school for directing and screen writing. Since then he has made a couple of docu-mentaries called “To Pay my Way with Stories,” which he said follows three participants in what is called “Write Around Portland,” a series of writing workshops. Lindstrom also made a film called “Finding Normal” where he follows three long term crack and heroin addicts as they try

to regain their lives after detox. The film aired on OPB and some theaters in Portland.

Ritch Espino was a very busy man. While teaching at Clackamas Community College, Espino was also a partner at Lovejoy Chiropractic and retired in 2007 to spend more time teaching and with his family.

Espino died unexpectedly on Thursday, Jan. 28.

Espino had been the lead full-time instructor of anatomy and phys-iology at Clackamas since 1989. Espino got his associate’s degree from Clackamas and earned his doc-torate in Chiropractic Medicine from

Western States Chiropractic College in 1990.

Espino resided in Oregon City since graduating from Clackamas.

He was born in Los Angeles, Calif. on April 11, 1951.

He is survived by his three sons, Ritchie Espino Jr., Joey Espino and Nico Espino, his two sisters Marisela Cruz and Liz Gomez of Anaheim, Calif. and preceded in death by his parents Ricardo and Alicia Espino.

“He was extremely dedicated, probably the most selfless person. He always put everyone before him-self,” said Naomi Sether, department secretary of Engineering, Life and Physical Science. “He was so much

more than a friend,” Sether added tearfully.

“The most important thing to him was people succeeding,” Sether said.

Kelly Steigleder, assistant to the dean of business, math and sciences, said, “He was very much a mentor. He was an incredible worker and an incredible friend. He was the type of person you wanted to know. So good and pure, he drew people in, he had such a big heart.” In his spare time, he enjoyed riding his motorcycle and playing in his band.

Although Steigleder and Sether discussed whether or not his motor-cycle was a Harley or a Kawasaki,

they both agreed he enjoyed his bike. Ritchie Espino, Espino’s son, cleared up the situation and admitted that his father’s bike was a Kawasaki.

“He did everything he could to make it look like a Harley,” Ritchie Espino said.

“He enjoyed so many things,” Ritchie Espino added. “He was a big car guy.”

According to Sether, he loved to party and was the best host ever.

“He loved being with his friends and above all loved being with kids,” Sether said.

Ritchie Espino also said his father put out three records in the 1970s and was a great drummer as well as

singer. “He was an excellent singer,

believe me. I went to karaoke,” Sether said.

Ritchie Espino agreed with her about his father’s musical side. “He was famous in his own right,” he said.

He also added that his job meant a lot to him. “He was pretty good at it,” he said, also saying, “he was an awesome dad.”

A memorial service will be held in Gregory Forum Saturday, Feb. 13 at 2 p.m.

Donations can be made to the Ritch Espino Children’s fund at any OnPoint Credit Union.

Mingo moves behind the camera for fall term sabbatical

Memoriesof RitchEspinoride on

Photo contributed by Ritchie Espino, Jr.

By Abigail NeetNews Editor

By Erik AndersenAssociate News Editor

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3Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 the clackamas printnews

Just over a year ago, following Martin Luther King Jr. Day, we, as an excited and hopeful nation, experienced a powerful historical event, the inauguration of the 44th president, Barack Obama. Obama campaigned under the banner of “hope” and “change.”

Now, more than a year after taking office, Obama’s approval rating sits at 50 percent.

According to St. Petersburg Times’ Web site Politifact, utiliz-ing a tool called “The Obameter,” which is used to measure the suc-cesses, failures and everything in between of Obama’s campaign, of over 500 promises Obama made on the campaign trail, he has ful-filled 91 of them.

Approximately 277 of these promises are currently “in the works.” However, over 100 of these campaign promises have been stalled or broken.

Among them, he promised to withdraw the military from Iraq within 16 months of his inaugura-tion, create a socialized medical program which would allow every man, woman and child to have access to affordable health care, and close Guantanamo Bay.

As it stands everyone has a different opinion on what is going on with the government as well as with the president.

The primary issue that impacts the majority of students is educa-tion, to which Obama dedicated a section of his State of the Union Speech last Wednesday.

In it he said, “Still, in this economy, a high school diploma no longer guarantees a good job. I urge the Senate to follow the House and pass a bill that will revitalize our community colleges,

which are a career pathway to the children of so many working families.

“To make college more afford-able, this bill will finally end the unwarranted taxpayer-subsidies that go to banks for student loans. Instead, let’s take that money and give families a $10,000 tax cred-it for four years of college and increase Pell Grants.

“And let’s tell another 1 million students that when they graduate, they will be required to pay only 10 percent of their income on student loans, and all of their debt will be forgiven after 20 years – and forgiven after 10 years if they choose a career in public service.

“Because in the United States of America, no one should go broke because they chose to go to col-lege. And it’s time for colleges and universities to get serious about cutting their own costs – because they, too, have a responsibility to help solve this problem.”

“I think sometimes he says this stuff to get us excited. I think a lot of the youth voted for him, and he is saying this to keep them with him,” said Amy Liebertz, a student at Clackamas Community College while waiting for her next class.

As for pulling troops out of the war in Iraq, Kellie Young, a student, said, “My boyfriend was in Iraq; I don’t think they can be just pulled out, we need to gradually do it. I really don’t think that there’s [a] way we can go to another culture and expect them to follow the way we do things.”

Other students have different concerns when it comes to with-drawing our troops.

“He’s pulling troops from Iraq to put them in Afghanistan. What’s the point? You’re still in a war, you’re still overseas; you’re

still fighting over oil. It’s ridicu-lous. We should be focusing our money on new types of energy and becoming eco-friendly because no matter how hard we fight it will run out,” said Melissa Smith, also

a student at Clackamas. In one of his campaign speech-

es, Obama stated, “When there’s a bill that ends up on my desk as president, you the public will have five days to look online and find out what’s in it before I sign it.”

So far that has not been the case from the Oval Office.

In the case of health care reform, Obama ensures that he will “have all the negotiations around a big table. We’ll have doctors and nurses and hospital administrators. Insurance compa-nies, drug companies – they’ll get a seat at the table; they just won’t be able to buy every chair. But what we will do is, we’ll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents, and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies.”

So far, according to “The Obameter,” there is a lot of confu-sion as to what health care will have in store.

For many, the biggest concern with health care reform is that nobody knows exactly what is covered in the 2,074 page bill. This leads to a high number of interpretations. Some people have a inaccurate view of the bill. The rest have an incomplete under-standing from having such a large bill issued.

“From what I’ve heard, it’s going to be like car insurance. It’s [going to be] illegal not to have health insurance; however, if you can’t pay for health insurance, it will turn into a socialist method where the government will pay for it. Personally, I think Obama is not looking into the future [to] see how our economy is during a recession. You’re going to have over half the population that can’t afford health insurance,” said Smith.

According to another CCC stu-dent, Justin Pelsey, “I think that national health care is a horrible idea in the sense they are present-ing because basically I wouldn’t

be able to sit outside and do this [smoke]. With national health care, it would come to a point [where] you’re becoming a liability to your country, and to other people who don’t smoke, and you’re costing other people money. Just like if someone vandalized a school, it’s public property. If the government is paying for your health, they own you. You can’t go and vandal-ize a school, it’s federal property so you can’t sit here and have a smoke and vandalize your body when you know it’s going to be costing taxpayer’s money.”

Pelsey believes that things won’t change overnight, instead saying that future generations will be weaned away from those sub-stances.

One of the other promises made was that Guantanamo Bay, also known as Gitmo, would be closed by Jan. 22, 2010, and as of Feb. 1, 2010, that goal has not been fulfilled.

“America is going to do inhu-mane things to get information they have for years in every type of war; it’s just now coming to the forefront that the American people know what’s going on. However, I don’t think that [it’s] our call to take prisoners and torture them for information, because we haven’t gotten any, it hasn’t worked, so why are we continuing to do it?” said Smith.

However as with every other topic there are always two sides, according to Young, “I think clos-ing Guantanamo Bay is absurd, I believe those people are there for a reason, and they should stay there. I don’t think they should be brought over here; I think we should get as much information from those people as possible, not necessarily torture them, but get information.”

Many other students have mixed feelings about these issues. The main feelings that are being expressed are about the promised hope for change. That desire is still what is driving many forward through tough economic times.

Locals shred Obama’s first yearBy Joshua Baird

The Clackamas Print

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Several inches of fresh white powder brought together Clackamas Community College students and families to board

a charter bus on Feb. 6. The final destination was Mt. Hood Meadows for an evening of skiing and snowboarding.

Greg Robertson from the Associated Student Government greeted and checked in all the people who were participating in the “ski bus” trip.

At approximately 12:30 p.m., the Blue Star charter bus pulled up to Clackamas where 32 passengers eagerly boarded.

Once everyone was seated, ASG members provided enter-tainment, snacks, water and

passed out ski lift tickets and other important ski informa-tion for all who attended the event.

One of the riders was Matthew Brown, a Silverton High School student who has been snowboarding for the past four years.

“I’ve never been night ski-ing before. It should be good,” said Matthew Brown.

Brown found out about the trip from his father, Tom Brown, who works at the col-lege. Tom Brown signed his son up for the trip along with two of Matthew Brown’s good friends.

When the Blue Star arrived at Mt. Hood Meadows and opened its doors, the race was on to get to the slopes.

One of the participants, was Buffee Shortridge, a 10 year-old, self-proclaimed daredevil originally from Montana who rode up with her parents.

“They [my parents] got me on skis, and I want to snow-board,” said Shortridge.

Around the twilight hours, Shortridge took a tumble on one of the more advanced runs and required assistance from Ski Patrol. She walked away with little more than a “shiner” under her right eye.

Shortridge’s parents were thankful that ASG made it so affordable to not only students but everyone that wanted to

participate. ASG grant senator, Jason

Williamson, declared, “It is a way to offer students on cam-pus and community members that would otherwise be unable to go an affordable way to get up to Mt. Hood Meadows.”

Robertson stated, “This is a fun way to relax; it’s great for the students on campus, and it’s really popular.”

The bus ride back to

Clackamas was filled with the exchanging of exciting sto-ries that everyone was willing to share, while some proudly showed off their bruises with a feeling of achievement and honor. Phone numbers were swapped and new friendships were formed.

Mitch Wirth, a ski bus attendee, summed up the trip best by saying, “The trip, all in all, was epic.”

ASG busses stu-dents, family, and friends to Meadows for night skiing ex-cursion

4 Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010the clackamas print sports

Cougar fans turned out in full force at Randall Hall on Jan. 29 and Jan. 30 to cheer their men’s and women’s basketball teams on and help support the fight against can-cer at the Coaches versus Cancer event.

With the generosity of fans, players and coaches, Clackamas raised more than $500 over the course of two men’s basketball games and two women’s basketball games.

According to student Abbey Tollefsen, who works at the admis-sions booth, the first donation on Friday night came from a gentle-man in the form of a $50 bill.

As the Lady Cougars hit the court for warm-ups in Friday night’s game against Umpqua, every play-er wore a bright pink t-shirt over her home jersey. Written across the front of the shirts noticeably were the letters CCC. The Lady Cougars also showed their support by wearing pink shoelaces during the game.

Even the three referees got involved by also wearing pink shoelaces and utilizing pink whistle instead of the standard black.

Head coach Jim Martineau wore white basketball shoes which all of the coaches across the country donned to show unity for this great cause.

When asked whose idea it was for the pink T-shirts, sophomore Rylee Peterson replied, “Kayla Steen, our coach, got the pink shirts for everybody.”

Peterson also went on to say, “Well, Bryanna St. Paul brought the pink shoelaces for everybody.”

In Friday night’s game the Lady Cougars went on to win 101-81 against the visiting Umpqua River Hawks.

“I think we did well. Umpqua is really tough to come out and play

against, they’re really quick. We shot great in the second half, we struggled a little bit in the first half, so I think we did well coming off of the loss from Lane,” Peterson added.

Peterson had 32 points, four offensive rebounds, six defensive rebounds, playing 28:56 of the game.

Guard Dayle Powell played 26:14 in the game, scoring 16 points and was 2 of 4 from the three-point line.

The men’s team won as well on Friday night, beating Umpqua

97-77 under the direction of Coach Clif Wegner.

Wegner wore his cream colored Converse basketball shoes in sup-port of the fight against cancer.

Clackamas’ Andre Dickson had a huge second half, scoring eight points and had three offensive rebounds in his 11:26 minutes of play.

When asked what was going through his mind during the second half, Dickson responded, “I thought if I played hard everybody would feed off how I’m playing then it would make my whole play better

in the second half.” Sophomore Jeff Dorman ended

up scoring 19 points, shooting 3 of 4 from the three point line.

Saturday night’s game had the Cougars going up against Southwestern Community College of Coos Bay.

The Lady Cougars won 81-56 against the Southwestern Lakers. Freshman Miranda Martine went 3 of 6 from the three-point line, scoring 11 points. Shayla Ball had 10 points and went 1 of 2 from the three-point line.

The men’s team also won big,

winning 112-79 in the last game of Coaches versus Cancer. Dorman had 22 points, 5 of 8 at the three-point line and had four assists.

Justin Steinke went 8 of 10 ending the game with a total of 22 points.

According to the American Cancer Society’s Web site, Coaches versus Cancer’s original concept was developed by former University of Missouri men’s basketball coach Norm Stewart.

Stewart, a cancer survivor him-self, had a simple idea.

He challenged his fans to pledge a specific dollar amount for every three points his team made during the team’s entire season.

In 1993, the American Cancer Society along with the help and support of the National Basketball Association of Coaches took Stewart’s idea, adopted it and turned the format into a nation-wide effort to help win the fight against cancer. The effort since then has united coaches from across the country ranging from Division I teams down to some selected high school teams.

As of today there are more than 2,000 basketball coaches involved in the program and together have raised more than $50 million since its inception according to the American Cancer’s Society’s Web site.

In 1998, the Coaches versus Cancer council was formed, includ-ing well respected and renowned basketball coaches, volunteers from the American Cancer Society and business leaders from across the country.

Their primary focus is to create new ways of raising funds for the cause, help enhance the program, recruit more prominent coaches and help win the fight against cancer.

When all was said and done, Clackamas basketball raised about $200 more than last year and in the process contributed to a great cause.

Coaches team up against cancerBy Travis Hardin

The Clackamas Print

By Julie SanchezClackamas News Online

ASG ski bus trip attendees shred fresh powder at Meadows

All photos by Julie Sanchez Clackamas News Online

Skiers and snowboarders head home after taking advantage of ASG and the fresh snow.

Mt. Hood Meadows enjoys an increased capacity of snow-nuts when new snow hits the mountain.

Brian Steele Clackamas PrintJustin Steinke makes his move on Umpqua’s Ledarius Stennis. Steinke continued his stellar play, averaging 18 points per game during the Coaches versus Cancer weekend games.

5Wednesday, Feb. 10, 2010 the clackamas print&arts culture

V-Day: Cupid enters capitalism

Valentine’s Day is once again upon us. For the couples out there, it is a day to remember the one you love and express your affec-tions through deeds and gifts. It’s a day to make special, to set aside to celebrate the one you love and the relationship you have.

But for those without a signifi-cant other, Valentine’s Day is noth-ing but a reminder that they don’t have anyone at the time, a Single Person Awareness Day, as it were.

Kimberly Miller, who is sin-gle at the moment, said, “I’m so happy V-Day falls on a Sunday this year, so I don’t have to see that [stuff]. When you’re with some-one, it’s nice but not when you’re single. Couples seem to shove it in your face. Quite frankly, it’s overhyped.”

“It’s over commercialized,” said Reegan Hunt, who is also single. “It’s either a way to make money, or make people feel bad for not have a significant other.”

Even those with a partner are not very enthralled with the holi-day, most either doing nothing special or choosing to spend a quiet night at home.

“I think it’s overrated,” said Erin Stutz, who has been dating her boyfriend for quite some time. “I don’t understand why people have to set aside one day a year to be romantic. If you’re a true romantic, you’d celebrate any day that you want, not just a holiday.”

Out of the couples interviewed, only one had any sort of solid plan.

“We’re going to a concert and of course dinner,” said Beth Gross, who has been with her fiancé, Tristan Harris, for over a year.

They do not like the holiday, saying it’s an easy way to buy love.

“It gives boyfriends an excuse to be douches for the rest of the year and only be nice one day,” said Gross.

Harris added that it’s just a commercial holiday designed to sell products. “It’s ridiculous,” he said. “It’s another way for the man

to make money. If I could, I’d shoot a cherub.”

Despite the commercialism, the idea behind Valentine’s Day is that we should celebrate love and those we love and let them know it. The day does not have to be a negative day for anyone, espe-cially for those who are single.

If you’re single, you can spend the day with a friend or relative you don’t get to see much and reconnect with them, or throw a party for you and your other single friends to make the day a fun one.

For those seeking ways to make Valentine’s Day into some-thing more than a commercial holiday, Hunt suggested avoiding the cliché gifts like flowers and candies.

“Do something simple,” he suggested. “Low-key things are best.”

What you do doesn’t have to be special or showy, but you should try to make the day mean some-thing to you and your partner. Do something you’ve never done, do something you love, just do it with the person you care about.

By John SimmonsThe Clackamas Print

Top 10 horrible Valentine’s ideas

1. Inform your significant other that you have an STD. Nothing says I love you like chlamydia!

2. Break up with your boy-friend or girlfriend … over a text message. Or a phone call. Or simply tell your friend to go tell them. Just find the skeeziest way possible to tell your main squeeze to go kick rocks.

3. Buy your boyfriend or girlfriend flowers they are allergic to. Again, nothing says “will you be my valen-tine?” like hives and uncon-trollable sneezing.

4. Get caught cheating … with the best friend. If you’re going to do it, do it right. Friend, mom, dad … what-ever you’re into. There’s no time like Valentine’s Day to get caught being unfaithful.

5. Completely forget about it. I agree, mandatory affec-tion is not affection. But if your significant other really wants the flowers and choco-late, and you fail to come through, chances are you’ll be in the doghouse for at least the rest of the week.

6. Call your boyfriend or girlfriend the wrong name. I can hear it now: “I love you, Meliss – I mean Lindsey.” Too late buddy; consider yourself single.

7. Accidently mix up the cards for all your different love interests. If you give the card to Brandon, which was

meant for John, it generally will take away the thought-fulness and meaning of the whole card business in the first place.

8. File for divorce. “Happy Valentine’s Day, I want a divorce!” Hey, it’s unique. I doubt they make cards that say this though, so you may actually have to express it verbally. Wait, that’s unheard of on Valentine’s Day. Oh well, just find a card and then pencil it in.

9. Violate your restrain-ing order. Purposely come within 600 feet of your girl-friend’s or boyfriend’s work-place and spend the holiday in the slammer (where you’re sure to find another “sweet-heart”).

10. Have a public break-down at your workplace because you’re single and you hate Valentine’s Day. I’m talking full on sobbing, breaking things and letting the whole place know the flowers on your desk are from yourself.

By Annemarie SchulteArts & Culture Editor

Hillary Cole Clackamas Print

10 creative date ideas:1. Go on a costumed date. Dress up as a classic couple,

such as Fred and Wilma or Ken and Barbie, and try to act like them the whole time.

2. Stay home and build a fort using blankets and fur-niture, just like you did as a kid. Reminisce on childhood memories and make some new ones.

3. Write a romance novel together outside at a café, ask-ing strangers for assistance when you get hit with writer’s block.

4. Dress up as best you can and go to an auto dealership. Pretend to be married and interested in buying a new car so you can test drive the most expensive vehicles they have.

5. Do the lamest tourist thing in your area that you have both secretly wanted to do forever.

6. Go out to dinner in a town you’ve never been to, using fake identities.

7. Walk around the city with sidewalk chalk and draw hearts on any surface that you can. Feel free to write your initials inside or anything else you feel is appropriate.

8. If you’re a theatrical couple, walk around the city and perform short silent plays in front of security cameras.

9. Go to the place that you first met and reminisce about your relationship and how far you’ve come.

10. Rent a movie neither of you have seen before. Mute it and improvise the dialogue, complete with different char-acter voices.

In search of independence, they migrate away from their homes out into the big, open world. For the most part they are unprepared for the trials they will face; many are struck by the hardships of life, migrating from place to place until they either finally settle in or are forced to return home.

I am, of course, referring to col-lege students.

The college years are a time of growth, self-discovery and an oppor-tunity to gain maturity and knowl-edge. For many, this is also a time to try living away from home. By liv-ing away from their parents, students hope to prove that they can run their own lives and be self-sufficient and independent of parental influence.

Beth Gross moved out of her parents’ house soon after graduat-ing high school because she felt she could not stay in her hometown and wanted to be closer to school. She currently lives with her fiancé and a roommate and is entirely indepen-dent of her parents and their home.

“[It was my] best decision ever. It made me grow up. There wasn’t anyone to take care of me; I had to do it all myself,” said Gross.

Her standard of living is different but just as good as when she lived at home in her opinion. “I don’t get home cooked meals as much, mostly because I don’t have time, but it’s happy,” said Gross.

Luke Robinowitz recently moved out of his parents’ house and into an apartment with a friend from high school so that he could be closer to work and school.

“I think when every kid gets to a certain age they start to grow apart from their parents and start clashing with them,” he said. “For me, it was time to take responsibility for my life and show my parents I could do it.”

Although moving out is appeal-ing, there are certain downsides.

“It’s worth it for the freedom, but then you realize how much you have to pay for,” said Robinowitz. “It’s definitely paycheck to paycheck. It’s difficult to be independent and makes you kind of resent doing it.”

Robinowitz makes enough money to have a fully stocked fridge and have other necessities paid for, but if he were to lose his job or if his car broke down, he wouldn’t be able to cover his expenses. “I’d be screwed and probably have to go back to my parents’ house,” he said.

Sarah Miller moved out to gain independence and to grow indepen-dently from her parents but has a few regrets.

“It’s so hard; I never had a home cooked meal unless I go over to my parents’ house,” she said. “If I were to go back and do it again, I would have stayed home a little longer. It’s not just the rent you have to pay for; there are a lot of other expenses.”

Many students are not fully independent of their parents and families after they leave the home. Robinowitz still relies on his parents for laundry and stays at their house once or twice a week. Miller lives with her sister and returns home periodically to have a home-cooked meal, and most college students need a roommate or two to help cover expenses.

Because of the cost and how hard it is to be completely independent, many students choose to stay at home.

Johnny Wade chose to stay at home because of the financial ben-efits.

“It’s free to live at home,” Wade said. “I get free food, and it’s not that far from campus, so it would have been pointless to leave.”

Emily Adams chose to stay at home for similar reasons. She doesn’t have the money to move out, and in the meantime she can save up her money.

“I can save the money and spend it on whatever else I want,” Adams said.

Andrew Fajen still lives at home because he sees no reason to leave.

“It’s a lot cheaper for me. I get free food that’s amazing, and I love the heck out of my family,” he said. “If you’re at community college, I think it’s not important to move out. But if you’re at a university, I think it’s worth it. Experience college, you know?”

Before a student makes the final decision whether to move out or stay home, there are many things to consider.

“I think they need to know how to be sustainable. They need to be responsible, and they need to have a good flow of money,” said Fajen. “They can’t just expect everything to be easy; they need to be ready for the ups and downs of life. And they had better be mature!”

Students also need to consider whom they are moving in with.

“When I first moved out, I didn’t think about whom I was moving out with and where I was moving out to, so I bounced around until I found the right place,” said Gross. “Don’t move in with someone just because they need a place as well. Be picky about whom you move in with.”

“Save up some money, because you don’t know what going to hap-pen,” said Robinowitz.

Jessica Foster Clackamas PrintBeth Gross relaxes in the Community Center. She is one of many who has chosen to live on her own.

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On Feb. 15, Clackamas Community College will again be opening its doors to about 30 schools to help and provide students with the information they need to discover the best institution for their academic goals.

The event this year will be taking place in the Gregory Forum from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Transfer day brings representatives from higher education schools all around Oregon to one place in order to help students dis-cover where they want to go with their higher education needs.

Co-organizer of the event Miguel Cardenas says CCC welcomes transfer day, “with intent of promoting higher education, higher credentials and higher degrees.”

The event has something to offer every student with a diverse range of schools and majors, from online institutions to schools of oriental medicine.

“Whether you’re undecided or decided, the fact is we have all these representatives on campus,” said Cardenas.

Clackamas places a lot of importance on the event, and it is viewed as successful especially considering the low costs to the school it needs to run. Oregon Transfer Day is a tour that moves from community colleges around the state and is an annual event here. The school is doing something a little differ-ent this year as far as informing students of the event and its location.

“To let the students know in the past we’ve been mailing postcards but because of budget cuts … and to align ourselves with the green movement, we’ve sent out electronic notifications,” said Cardenas.

As the school is placing more and more importance on its MyClackamas e-mail sys-tem, this is a great way to reach out to stu-dents quickly and efficiently and alert them of the events location, time, and any further information they might need. It’s also a great way to promote the green movement the school has been placing importance on.

Carla Crowder, a student at CCC, has never been to a transfer day event but plans to attend this year.

“I think it’s very beneficial, and it basi-cally can change lives in a positive manner because it gives them the opportunity to have all that they need from different schools at their fingertips,” said Crowder.

In previous years, students have found

the event to be very helpful and informative. Brandon Shackelford attended last year’s event and plans on attending again this year.

“Last year’s Transfer Day was very infor-mative, and I thought the staffs at the booths were very friendly and knew the answers to my questions. I learned that CCC has trans-fer credits to PSU, which was nice to know in case I want to go there,” he said.

Overall the school expects a good turnout this year and encourages all students no mat-ter where they are in their educational trek to attend the event.

Annual Oregon Transfer Day comes to Clackamas again

By John SimmonsThe Clackamas Print

By Chris KramerThe Clackamas Print

Moving out for school

Organizations attending Oregon Transfer Day

Corban CollegeEastern Oregon UniversityFord Foundation ScholarshipsGeorge Fox UniversityLinfield CollegeLinfield College Divison of Continuing EducationMarylhurst UniversityNorthwest Christian UniversityOregon College of Oriental MedicineOregon State UniversityOregon Institute of TechnologyPacific Northwest College of ArtPacific UniversityPortland State UniversitySouthern Oregon UniversityThe Art Institute of PortlandUniversity of IdahoUniversity of OregonUniversity of PhoenixUniversity of PortlandWarner Pacific CollegeWashington State University VancouverWestern Oregon UniversityWestern States Chiropractic College

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I walk in, I realize it smells damn good in here, and I know I’m in for some good eats. The place is packed and I can barely hear myself think so I decide if every table is crammed and all these faces and fingers are covered in sauce, there must be potential.

Fire on the Mountain Buffalo Wings, located at 1708 E. Burnside Ave. in Portland, opened its doors on Burnside in 2008 after its Interstate location, which opened in 2005.

With a menu consisting of 12 sauces, there’s a flavor for every taste bud.

As I begin tasting the different sauces and looking at the menu, my arteries already begin to clog, and I love every second of it. What can be more barbaric and fulfilling than ripping meat from a bone that was deep fried in oil? I’ll tell you what: absolutely nothing.

It’s my turn to order. I step to the cashier, ask for 12 wings, six sweet barbecue and six mild buffalo (normally I would get the hottest sauce possible but today I feel like actually tasting my food today rather than attempting to eradicate all future tasting capabilities I have).

Right when I think I’m done ordering something catches my eye on the menu board, a deep fried Twinkie. Well, since eating these wings will probably take some amount of time off my life, what’s another three years?

Seeing as the place is packed it takes me a second to find somewhere to sit. There’s a booth that could probably hold about 12 people open in the corner so I head towards it then I realize what an asshole, not to mention loner, I am

going to look like if I take up a spot for 12 all by myself. So, I decide it’s probably wise to just wait 30 seconds until the guy at the table next to it finishes licking his fingers so I can swiftly move in.

All the while during this deliberation of where I am going to sit, I grow more and more eager as I await my meal. Finally I see my food coming and the girl carrying it. She has potential, but I get the feeling she smells like deep fried wings eight days a week.

I dig in.

Immediate satisfaction. The 17 minute 34 second wait was worth it. Once I tore

in to the first wing, the only break in action was reaching for the next one. I alternated between the two flavors so as not to acquire too much taste of either one before I moved on to the next.

Each wing was crunchier, saucier and messier than the previous. With each bite I took I hoped it would never end. It was as if I was Romeo and the wings were Juliet; this love was forbidden but damn it tasted good. The flavor of each made my taste buds perk right up. The sweet tanginess of the barbecue wings soothed my mouth after each mildly spicy buffalo wing turned up the heat.

Once I had finished off Juliet and disposed of her bones, I had a deep fried Twinkie staring at me like an

ex-girlfriend looking for some love. I looked right back at her, my body was telling me no but my

mind was screaming yes. As soon as I took a bite, I knew it was

a terrible idea, but at the same time oh so great. It’s like the times you’re sitting in your friend’s basement and the bong is being passed your way. You see it coming your way and you don’t think you can hit it, but you do. Then you realize that was one too many.

Later that night, I realized I ate one deep fried Twinkie too many but at the time

I loved it. Fire on the Mountain is one of the best wing

places, if not the best, in Portland. Great food and great atmosphere. Their biggest downfall: it’s

spendy. For $13.45, I was full, but afterwards when I looked in my pocket, I was a little disappointed.Considering cost and the somewhat medium-long wait,

overall grade: B+.

Fire on the Mountain wings satisfy

Final Fantasy XIII hits market mid-March; gamers rejoice

Hands have gone sweaty as the vision blurs with the simple thought of one more level. Just a little bit further and then sleep.

We have all had those moments when sitting down in front of the computer screen or televi-sion with a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 controller in hand. Perhaps not all of us, but those of us that find the urge to plop down in front of the TV for a couple hours doing nothing more then killing vir-tual beings with some sort of item or weapon.

Of course, the question tends to arise on how to sate the desire best. This isn’t always such an easy question to answer with the surplus of video games that have flooded the market. There is everything from a first person shooter, like the “Call of Duty” games, to role playing games like the “Final Fantasy” series. So, it breaks down into what to pick up from the store or the local game store.

There is always the classic “Final Fantasy” series as Square Enix is coming out with the next installment in the dynasty: “Final Fantasy XIII.”

The latest edition to the family of “Final Fantasy” seems to hold the same level of epic

story telling one has become used to from this series.

From Square Enix’s Web site, one can find out that the story is about the city of Cocoon and how the city’s peace and prosperity is shattered, the chaining of humans into magic-wielding servants, and thirteen days of lives intertwined, the battle begins.

“Final Fantasy XIII” hits the market March 9, 2010.

This role playing game has all the bits one could want from the “Final Fantasy” series with a decent selection of characters and the all pres-ent Summons or Eidolons. A total of six playable characters and six Eidolons, add that to a new revamp combat system. It differs from the classic ATB (Active Time Battle) and is being replaced with what is being called CTB, or Count Time Battle system. This apparently gives the player more control over the flow of the battle and allows the player to input commands even when the gauge has run out.

All in all, it looks like “Final Fantasy XIII” will deliver what one has come to expect over the years; a promising game that comes out this spring and one to look forward to.

By Mark FosterSports Editor

By Mark SunderlandThe Clackamas Print

Square Enix

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Taurus (April 20 – May 20): Cthulhu desires your alle-giance. By joining with this ancient evil, you can be a part of the effort to control all of humankind.

Gemini (May 21 – June 20): Signs indicate that you are losing your memory. Don’t be surprised when you forget your own name or where you live.

Cancer (June 21 – July 22): You have it.

Leo (July 23 – August 22): One of your friends needs help burying a body, but I can’t tell you which one. If you want to help, you have to figure out which one looks guilty.

Virgo (August 23 – September 22): The Messier 92 star cluster’s alignment with the galactic halo indicates that your piggy bank will be stolen. Go panhandle at the mall by moving cigarettes with your mind.

Libra (September 23 – October 22): All your bases belong to

Scorpio. Prepare to defend yourself with the mighty

bee cannon. Yes, that is a cannon that shoots bees.

Scorpio (October 23 – November 21): You best be carrying some bee anti-venom. On the bright side, you

will capture your Libra nemesis’ base.

Sagittarius (November 22 – December 21):

Neptune wants you to sell yourself as a prostitute. It is

quite the lucrative job field.

Capricorn (December 22 – January 19): Those Frisbees you invested in are actually very useless.

Aquarius (January 20 – February 18): All the agitation of the alligators in the Nile doesn’t compare to the agitation in your dark-ened dark soul.

Pisces (February 19 – March 20): Someone you love is a salt addict. You need to stage an intervention before they die of high blood pressure related diseases.

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