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May 28, 2024 By Laura Southers Staff Writer It was early morning.  I was en route to Neskowin for an employee meeting at work, 42 miles from my home in Tillamook. The last thing I remember is cursing myself for taking too long picking out doughnuts for the staff. The next thing I remember is having my favorite cousin, from Kansas City, wheel me into a hospital room. I had veered into the wrong lane of traffic, I slammed into a Ford Bronco on a blind curve. My 1986 Toyota Camr

October 24, 2024 By Laura Southers Columnist The Disability Resource Center is vital to the ability of disabled students to navigate taking classes at Clackamas Community College. The DRC provides information to instructors about how to ensure student success. Felicia Arce, the coordinator of the DRC, said at the end of fall term, “we had 600 accommodation requests. Fall 2024, it’s not over, but we already have 800-plus.” That’s a growth of more than 25% in five years. The DR

November 13, 2024 By Laura Southers Columnist Simply entering a library is not enough to make you whisper, but it will make you consider your approach. Maybe you do not need total silence to compose your essay. Maybe you just need to talk out the line of approach to your argument. Maybe you need to choose which side of the argument to adopt. Whatever your chosen decibel level to study, you will have everything you need by simply entering the space for solitude and studying ca

May 14, 2025 By Laura Southers Staff Writer April was Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and the last Wednesday in April has become known as Denim Day. Bethany Day, the president of the Student Government, speaks to students at the Denim Day stand. This refers to an Italian court case in the 1990s when a woman’s rapist was not prosecuted because the judge ruled the victim’s jeans were too tight, so the sex must have been “consensual.” The next day Italian women wore jeans to wor

December 3, 2025 By Laura Southers Staff Writer   Orion Moss learned how to portray an air-guitar competitor while acting in the college’s spring 2025 play “Airness.” Moss decided to perform in the state’s air-guitar competition in June, which was held just a week after the theater production closed. He performed “Crowd Chant” by Joe Satriani, which was the song he performed in “Airness.” Moss placed second in Oregon and was invited to perform in San Francisco’s Dark Horse co

November 19, 2025 By Laura Southers Staff Writer The college broke ground on new athletic facilities at Clackamas Community College’s Oregon City campus during a ceremonial event on Oct. 27. The project is being funded by the $120 million bond measure approved by Clackamas County voters in November 2024. The $17 million in athletics construction will include a new track, a synthetic infield, resurfacing the baseball and softball fields to synthetic turf, building new bleacher

May 16, 2025 Laura Southers staff writer “The Clackamas Print” won 13 awards in the 2025 Collegiate Newspaper Contest. CCC’s student journalists won five first place awards for best headline writing, best website, best sports photo. The Print’s “best website” has won a first place award the past several years. The awards were presented by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association at Linn-Benton Community College on May 2. Dozens of students from Oregon colleges and universi

April 25, 2025 By Laura Southers Staff Writer A luncheon celebrating the Laos New Year was held by the Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander student club on April 16. Typical Laoatian dishes, like fried rice larb (minced chicken with lime, herbs, and onions), stir-fried noodles, papaya salad, garlic green beans, and lemongrass, curried chicken skewers were served. Christina Francisco-Evans is the adviser for the AAHNPI club. A few dozen people attended, includi