Everybody who is anybody at Clackamas was at the bus-tling early morning event. The crowd was out the door and

even up the stairs.Tuesday Nov. 18 was the

grand opening of Clackamas Community College’s VET (Veterans Education and Training) Center.

The ceremony began with a prayer from Chaplain Terry

Schrick, where he thanked veterans for their service as well as set the touching tone for the ceremony.

CCC President, Joanne Truesdell, then started off introductions with someone who has been a “tireless advo-cate for the cause,” Darlene Hooley, a former member of the House of Representatives from Oregon’s fifth district.

Hooley began the process of CCC being awarded a grant of $381,000. The award is for increasing outreach for veter-ans in the area.

“This is tremendously important,” Hooley said.

Hooley then explained how the VET Center is an oppor-tunity for the college to be an example and set a standard for others to follow.

“I want to thank all those who have served. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it. Thank you from the bottom of my heart,” Hooley stated.

Many people were involved in the process, including the Board of Education and the Oregon National Guard Reintegration Program.

Col. Scot McCrae, director of the reintegration program said it began with the team asking themselves what need-ed to be done and how they could do it.

McCrae described being busy mobilizing soldiers and having very little time but finding help in Hooley.

McCrae explained how the VET Center would be a great way for CCC to support the veterans in the community, not only through directing veterans to their resources but also by helping them deter-

mine a career path and help-ing them apply their military experience to a career.

Truesdel l in t roduced the new Veteran’s Affair Coordinator.

“He is one of those indi-viduals I like to have at Clackamas,” Truesdell said about Greg Myers, the new

coordinator.When asked about what

the full-time job of Veteran’s Affair Coordinator means, Myers said “Helping vets, reaching out and supporting them.”

“These corporations stay in Oregon for one reason, our low taxes,” Chris Porterfield said.

At the Associated Student Government sponsored event Tuesday Nov. 24, students debated the effects of Measures 66 and 67, which will be voted on in January.

Porterfield and James Koch were debating on the side against passing the measures. On the opposing side were Wray Price and Andrew Payton.

Porterfield also said that by voting for this measure we risk losing major corporations such as Walmart.

Porterfield also asked the audience how they would feel know-ing that these measures would affect all corporations in three years. He also claimed passing these measures is tax discrimination.

In the pro side response, Price, the most visibly passionate of those debating, argued that the tax system is already discriminat-ing.

“They say by increasing we are favoring, but really by not doing so, we are favoring the wealthy,” Price said.

Price also informed the audience that the state is not currently required to fund community colleges and that nothing keeps the state from cutting community colleges.

Price reaffirmed that by voting “yes” means voting for the future.

James Koch argued that measures 66 and 67 are not the best solution.

“Taxing the wealthy is unfair and inequal,” Koch said. Koch also argued these measures would cost jobs as business would leave Oregon, claiming that in the long run, passing this measure will only hurt Oregon.

Political Science instructor Dean Darris also spoke and agreed

with the pro side. Darris believes that the tax system is unconsti-tutional and it is most important to be educated citizen and even quoted Hitler saying, “It is a leader’s good fortune when their people do not think.”

Student Sean Huggins, who was at the debate, is going to vote “yes” on the measures.

“The ‘yes’ side owned the ‘no’ side,” Huggins said, claiming the “no” side had no facts.

Colin Mcarthy is going to vote ‘yes’ as well. He said he wanted more interaction in the debate between the debaters and believes that the measures will address the deficit and will impact more large businesses than small.

“They made a good point; it makes more sense to vote yes from what I understand,” Clackamas student Dillin Homsley said.

Kerrie Hughes, speech and debate instructor, believes that students will vote “depending on where their values and morals fall.”

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It’s something you’ve probably noticed; ASG is constantly hosting events that involve free

food for the students at Clackamas. In the past students experienced barbecues, lunches and breakfasts simply provid-ed for us at no cost.

“Student government specifically sponsors events that coincide with

our mission of ‘Students Serving Students,’” said ASG President Alyssa Fava.

So far this term there has been the cookies and cider given out during midterms, a free break-fast two weeks ago and most recently the Great American Smokeout; all in the last eight weeks of fall term and all sponsored by Student Government.

So just how much does ASG spend on food?

Advisor Mindy Brown said a lot of the food is actually donated by orga-nizations and what is not donated is then taken out of ASG’s budget.

The cider and cookies cost around $40, Fava estimated, and the free breakfast was sponsored by Student Activities, which is a separate bud-get from ASG. The money for the turkey sandwich-es at the Great American Smokeout event were donated by the American Lung Association of Oregon.

Although ASG seems to have a large budget strictly for food provided

to students at events, in reality they have spent under $50 on food.

“Donations are something that ASG often pursues, as many local businesses appre-ciate the opportunity to help out and get their name out on campus,” said Fava.

S h e a d d e d , “Donations are request-ed for multiple events and are often the first avenue pursued by our team before we consid-er spending anything within our budget.”

Fava also explained that the money that funds some of their activities is taken out of ASG’s fundraised dol-lars for education. The campus barbeques are more of a turn around fund and money made from them goes back into the restocking of the food sold.

Basically, all the funds that are used to put on the barbeques are made right back. “Donations, donations, donations,” said Fava. Possibly the mantra of ASG.

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VETERAN: official grand opening of VET Center Nov. 18

Lydia Bashaw Clackamas PrintABOVE:David Calhoun grills hot dogs at an ASG sponsored event last spring. UPPER LEFT: Greg Robertson sings while cooking during alcohol awareness week last spring.

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Although, Myers was unsure what the job meant on a daily basis as he had only been on the clock for a mere 30 minutes at the time of the grand opening.

Myers is himself a veteran, hav-ing served in the Marines for 14 years, and is aware of the commu-nity college atmosphere as he went to Linn-Benton Community College. He described this job as being a great fit for him.

Clackamas’ students’ Vet club vice president Shauna Drexel also spoke at the ceremony.

“I’m very excited for what this means. We can get resources out to the people who need them,” Drexel said.

Janet Paulson described the VET Center as a place “designed to support veterans and active mil-itary in the Portland metro area, as well, as spouses and family members through providing infor-mation about education and train-ing opportunities and critical com-munity resources. College staff specializing in veterans affairs will be available to assist veterans in the center.”

Drexel also described an effort the Vet club is making to support veterans. The club is raffling a Build-a-Bear with the proceeds going to a $200 book voucher for veterans.

Towards the end of the cer-emony, Truesdell asked all the veterans in the room to introduce themselves.

“You’re the most important,” Truesdell said.

The introductions continued out the door and room was cleared for vets to walk up and introduce themselves, due to the room being packed.

Nikki Constantin described her experience being in the Vet club, saying, “It brings us all together. We can discuss issues that might be exclusive to vets.”

However, the Vet club is not exclusive and is opening to any-one with the desire to join.

“I’m very excited for what this means. We can get resources out

to the people who need them.

Shauna DrexelVice President of

Veterans Club

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With the economy being as low as it is, we all find ourselves pay-ing closer attention to our budget. Clackamas Community College is no exception.

Clackamas has made many cuts across the board, some more noticeable than others. An exam-ple of one such cut can be found in the library.

During the summer term of 2008, the library came up with the idea to reduce their hours from 7:30 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. during the week to 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 7:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Friday but didn’t go into affect till the following spring term.

“Last year, due to the budget cuts, we had to lay off two people, one full-time employee and one part-time employee,” said Terry Mackey, head of the library. “I thought of the idea, then after a discussion with the library staff, the entire library staff came to the decision. I don’t think it’s going to have a huge impact on the stu-dents at all.”

When looking at the budget of all the departments in our school, it’s noticeable that there are some

areas that get substantially more funds than others. Such areas include the business, science and math department which receive the most funding out of all the departments. This is due to the number of employees they have working in that area coming to a total of 59.71, not including part-time employees, and the demand in the department.

Other high demand depart-ments with higher number of employees include the arts, social sciences and humanities depart-ments, Student Services, the tech-nical career education department and Campus Services.

Vice President of College Services Courtney Wilton explained that all the departments have had to make some sacrifices and may have to make more in the future.

“We made a lot of cuts last year,” said Wilton. “Are there

more areas we can make cuts? I think so, if we have to.”

“We have cut the staffing in our support area and that’s fine. We should be doing that in tough times. In the academic level, we’ve reduced a lot of sections. Can we do it some more? We can and we will have to if we get less money,” Wilton added.

So when asked how the school looks financially for the future, Wilton said, “I’d say it’s tenu-ous. It largely depends on how revenue comes in the future and that depends on the recovery of the economy, and it’s also depen-dent upon what happens with the initiatives that are on the ballot in January. So there’s a lot of uncer-tainty right now.”

The initiatives Wilton spoke of are Measures 66 and 67. If passed, the measures would reduce our budget by 5 or 10 percent with 5 percent taking out close to $2 mil-lion and 10 percent close to $3.3 million from our already reduced budget due to the poor economy.

The way the state determines how much funding each college gets is based on their percent-age increase in student population. The only flaw with this method is that they don’t take into account the differences between rural and urban colleges. Where there are fewer colleges with a smaller student population in the rural districts, when they achieve say a 10 percent increase, the urban colleges that have a larger student population and more competition have to bring in a significant stu-dent increase to match that 10 percent of the rural colleges.

Out of all the funds that the school receives, the general fund would be most important to be look at in order to find out where the money comes from as well

as where it goes, explains Chris Robuck, the dean of business ser-vices. Robuck broke down a graph of our general funds and explained that 35 percent of our revenue is obtained from the state appropria-tions, 35 percent from property taxes and 26 percent from tuition, with only 4 percent from “other”

funds. Robuck also pointed out in the 2009-2010 adopted bud-get plan that 85 percent of the college’s general fund expendi-tures goes to personnel services which includes all of the students, full and part-time employees with only 15 percent going to materials and services.

With Clackamas’ financial future uncertain, the col-lege considers the possibility of mak-ing further cuts

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Departments make due with cuts

By Erik AndersenThe Clackamas Print

“We made a lot of cuts last year. Are there more areas

we can make cuts? I think so, if we

have to.

Courtney WiltonVice President of College

Services

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Head Librarian Terry Mackey reviews the numbers of people coming into the library between 7 and 9 p.m.

Thanksgiving Day is coming, and no one should be confused as to what to eat. With so many commercials showing off what a great dinner should look like, or with the future or present in-laws coming, anxiety of making a good dinner is expected.

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Traveling: Traveling can be quite a hassle around the holidays. Whether it is by car, bus, train or airplane, it almost always involves a ridiculous amount of waiting. Drake Tolan said, “As far as holiday travel, the trip back is always longer than the trip there because you can’t wait to get back home. Holiday travel is legendarily bad.”

The best piece of advice I can give you is, give yourself a lot of time to get to your chosen destination. Things are going to be even more unpredictable than usual, and it is a good idea to make sure you can handle delays and still manage to be on time.

Travel by flight is going to be espe-cially bad around the holidays. Show up to the airport earlier than you usually do, and be prepared for delays every-where. As Tolan said, “Delays are ram-pant in airports during the holidays.”

Buy tickets as soon as you can. There are two reasons for this. One, you can get your preferred flight time and get tickets before they possibly sell out. Two, ticket prices will probably increase as it gets closer and closer to the flight time.

Travelling by car has its own hazards and inconveniences. Besides what has been said before, it is also important to be a relaxed and careful driver. Depending on what time you are driv-ing, the roads are probably packed. Just take your time and don’t be rash.

Tolan also added for travelling by car, “Bring board games to play on the ride there because someone is not talking to someone on the way back.” I think he was half joking. But he has a point, if you aren’t the one driving it is a good idea to find something to occupy your time.

Check the bus schedules beforehand. The busses usually run less frequently on holidays, and they often stop run-ning a little earlier, but otherwise they are not any more inconvenient than usual.

Shopping: Whether it is for food or gifts, holiday shopping is busy and often unpleasant.

On the subject, student Steven Wonser exclaimed, “For the love of God go early.” I agree wholeheartedly. Starting your shopping early is a good way to avoid the crowd and get the items you need.

Alicia Stalcup said, “The mall is a bitch. When it’s getting close to the holidays, fuck that shit.” The mall cer-tainly is a busy place as it gets closer to the holidays. It can even be danger-ous with so many people in a limited space like that. Stampedes aren’t just for gazelles and buffalos. Sometimes people form a stampede too.

Tristan Harris gave a piece of advice from a slightly different angle. He rec-ommended shopping with the person you are buying something for. “Go with the person you’re shopping for and tell them it is for someone else.” It makes sense, even if it is a bit silly. I would think it is hard to screw up when the person shows you what they want.

It’s supposedly the most wonderful time of the year, but you already know that isn’t always true. Often times, the holidays can be stressful and unpleasant to say the least. But worry not, because I have collected the wisdom of a number of students as well as my own advice into this handy guide. I can’t promise everything will be perfect, but hopefully with a little bit of mental and physical preparation the holidays really can be as wonderful as they promise to be. Let’s break things down into a few sections.

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Top ten things to be thankful

Holiday survival tips for the beleaugered student: from

1. Your family. Yep, it’s number one. Although subjective, most of us love and care for our fam-ily deeply and would be up shit creek without a paddle if it weren’t for their guidance and support. Whether you’re thankful for your close bond with your parents, or a sister who always bails you out, I think that family is number one on almost everyone’s list (or at least we act like it for the sake of Thanksgiving).

2. Clackamas Community College. Thanks to your fami-lies and mine, we are able to go to college for a much lower amount than at a four-year university, and are able to be taught by real professors and not just grad students. I’m thankful for Clackamas mainly because of all the opportunities and chances we have to succeed, when elsewhere we normally would not.

3. The iPhone. If you’ve got an iPhone, it’s safe to say you have the world at your fingertips. And if we look past the cliché, we can realize how much iPhones have truly helped us during crunch time: for me, it’s all the times spent getting lost and using the Maps App to find my way again. There’s also the times it saves us from a boring lecture with YouTube, visual voicemail to keep us from wasting our time and Shazam so we can download that random song we really like playing in Starbucks.

4. The world has not ended. Unlike in the movie 2012 we can rejoice in the fact that the world has not ended and we still have a planet to call home.

5. The new John Mayer album, “Battle Studies.” One word: golden. If you haven’t had a listen yet, do so. I would be so bold to say that it’s his best album so far in his career. (Be sure to listen to “Heartbreak Warfare.”)

Jessica Foster Clackamas PrintSteven Wonser, left, and Tristan Harris, right, spend time in between classes at the community center.

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All illustrations by Brian Steele Clackamas Print

Getting along with rela-tives: Some people are very fortunate and get along with their extended families just fine. For the rest of us, our extended families are a source of much frustration and stress, especially during the holi-days.

H a r r i s recommended a few ideas for keeping the peace, some ideas being more serious than others. “Make sure there is extra tryptophan in the turkey, so they will pass out. Then you don’t have to listen to them yammer on about crap you don’t care about.” Exactly, sleeping relatives are relatives you aren’t getting into a heated argument with over your deci-sion to get your belly button pierced. You also don’t have to listen to their gossip about how terrible a person your dad used to be.

Beth Gross, Harris’s fian-cée, commented, “Drink a lot.” Maybe that is a good idea. If you get drunk enough,

you probably won’t remember what happened, and you prob-ably won’t care much when things are happening either. Then again it may be a bad idea, as your family might not approve of your drink-

ing. If that is the case, you may have to put up with

complaints from Aunt Mable for years.

“Always stay away from the

crazy cat lady that happens to be your r e l a t i v e , ” c o m m e n t e d Harris. She tells that story about her cat

finding an old muffin under the

fridge every year, and you are most

definitely getting tired of it.

Religion and politics are often an area of disagree-ment between families. On this issue Harris said, “Tell your family you believe in Jesus so you can avoid conflict.” Now I am not sure if dishonesty is the right way to go, but perhaps it is the right idea to tell your family you believe in their chosen deity or deities.

On the same subject Tolan said, “Don’t bring up religion unless you want to eat turkey off the front lawn.” Personally, I recommend this option over lying to your family.

Food: This is the bonus sec-tion of this article. While there still may be some stress over

food, food still is one of the highlights of many holidays. It may still have some stress involved with the preparation, but everyone loves eating.

As a sort of punishment I assume, Gross said, “Make everyone eat green bean casse-role and candied yams. That’s all I eat on Thanksgiving.” Even if the flavor is good, the texture of these things turns my stomach. Then again, it

could just be me.Kimberly Miller is a stu-

dent that finds desert to be the best part of feasting on holidays. “My Aunt Pat makes the best homemade apple pie.” I think everyone has at least a few relatives who can cook or bake something really amaz-ing. Holidays can offer an opportunity to taste something amazing. And, as a tie in to getting along with relatives,

showing your appreciation for the delightful food your vari-ous relatives have prepared can make your time with them a whole lot easier.

Don’t hesitate to ask your family members for recipes on holidays. If you truly love what they make, this is a great time to learn how to make it for yourself, or even make it yourself for the next holiday family get-together.

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traveling to shopping to getting along with relatives

for this year on Turkey Day6. Facebook. You knew it would make the list.

Facebook helps us to re-connect with distant rela-tives, elementary school friends and to embarrass us when we forget to make a photo “customized” privacy and only available to be viewed by a few select people. Status updates are always fun to think of and notes are always fun to write. All around, I could say I’m thankful for Facebook, for many reasons, just not very good ones.

7. Your significant other. If this Thanksgving finds you in love then this is one you can defi-nitely be thankful for. Whether you’re married, engaged, in a LTR (long-term relationship) or simply dating around, let’s be thankful for the opposite gender (or same if that’s the case). What would life be without them?

8. Your JOB. If you still have your job in this economy, many people have most like-ly already told you how lucky you are. Truly be thankful if you’re still employed; keeping your job intact is perhaps the thing you should be most thankful for THIS Thanksgiving.

9. You haven’t caught swine flu!

10. TiVo. Americans love our TiVo; it makes life so much easier. We can go out and still watch our favorite TV show. Whether it’s the Ducks vs. USC game or “So You Think You Can Dance,” TiVo proves to always let us have our cake and eat it too.

Jessica Foster Clackamas PrintKimberly Miller relaxes in the commons of the Bill Brod Community Center considering the pie and all the other foods she will eat this Thanksgiving.

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I went in with the understanding that I was going to be disappointed. When I came out, I found that I was actually wrong.

Friday night, I drove down to the Regal Cinemas in Wilsonville to see the latest installment in the Twilight Saga, “New Moon.” After the fiasco that was “Twilight,” I had every right to be worried about the quality of this movie.

I’m a fan of the books, well, most of them, and “New Moon” is by far my favorite of the series. I feared that Summit

Entertainment and director Chris Weitz would take my love of the book and smash it into a million tiny, sparkling pieces.

I was pleasantly surprised, however, by how well the movie was made.

In its opening weekend, “New Moon” raked in over $140 million, making it the third highest blockbuster in Hollywood history, under “The Dark Knight” and “Spiderman 3.”

At first, admittedly, I was being overly critical, but I realized that I was probably ruining the experience for my mother, who came with me as a birthday gift, and those unfortunate enough to sit close enough to

hear my complaints such as “No, that’s wrong. Jake isn’t supposed to see her on her birthday.” So, I zipped my lips, relaxed and let the story take me along for the ride.

For all those out there that are not familiar with the series, here’s a quick summary of the movie: Bella Swan and Edward Cullen are a young and in-love couple, with a kicker; Edward is in fact a vampire. This fact does not matter to Bella. It does to Edward. He doesn’t want to put Bella in danger, so he leaves, sending her spiraling into depression that is accompa-nied by uncontrollable pain and horrific nightmares.

Four months pass like this, and Bella discovers that the pain is relieved when she does something reckless, like hopping on the back of some stranger’s motorcycle. In addition to the relief of pain, she also sees and hears Edward. She tries to keep that hallucination around by putting her life in danger. She teams up with her best friend, Jacob Black, a Native American boy from the nearby Quileute reservation, and together they rebuild a pair of crappy dirt bikes. During this process, their rela-tionship grows and deepens, and Bella finds herself needing Jake.

Meanwhile, something odd is happen-ing to the boys on the rez. Suddenly, Jake falls ill and stops talking to Bella. When she goes to investigate, she discovers that he has changed into a werewolf. Looks like Bella just can’t get away from monsters.

While Jake and his wolf pack are off trying to protect Bella from Victoria, a vampire from the first movie, Bella lapses back into that pain that Edward had left her with. So, in order to relieve the hurt and possibly, to hear and see that halluci-nation once more, she does the only thing that makes sense to her: she jumps of a cliff into the freezing Pacific Ocean. When she comes home, she finds Alice Cullen, Edward’s sister, who is very surprised to find Bella alive.

The story climaxes with Alice and Bella hopping a flight to Italy to save Edward from killing himself over the loss of Bella.

Although not every tiny detail of the book was present in the movie, what they did keep and what they added fit nicely. They added some great comedic lines for the lesser characters which helped to really give them personality and make them seem a little less flat. Even the fight scene that was added, the one from the trailer that I

was so very much dreading, was in good taste. It wasn’t just thrown in to create tension.

The details that were left out were per-fectly acceptable. I know that you can’t keep every word of a 400 page novel when you’re trying to translate that story to film. I understand that the quest to find the meadow wasn’t nearly as important as showing Bella and Jacob’s budding relationship, and was therefore cut. I understand that it is hard to tell a story on film that was primarily told in first person narrative.

Weitz compensated for this last fact with an addition to the story that I’m still unsure about. In the movie, Bella is telling Alice about what is happening in her life via e-mail. Of course, every time Bella hits the “send” icon, the automated response is a message failure notice. This doesn’t stop her from continuing to write the e-mails.

Enough about the story itself. This movie had some of the best computer generated werewolves I think I’ve ever seen. It’s clear that it is CG, but what isn’t nowadays? The quality was leaps and bounds better than in movies such as “Underworld” and “Blood and Chocolate.”

Also, little improvements were made to things that were present in “Twilight.” For example, the vampires didn’t look like they were sick. The circles under their eyes weren’t as obviously fake, although it still looks like Edward dipped into Rosalie’s lipstick stash with his overly red lips.

Even the infamous sparkle was better done compared to the first movie. It didn’t look quite like body glitter was thrown on Edward’s skin.

Rob Pattinson, who plays as Edward, and Kristen Stewart, Bella, both improved their on-screen chemistry for this movie. The love scenes weren’t nearly as forced, and that may or may not be a direct corre-lation to their supposed off-screen relation-ship. Either way, it made the connection much more believable, and yet still the relationship between Bella and Jacob was more realistic.

All in all, it’s a pretty decent movie. Summit definitely improved on the first and definitely made the right decision with signing on Weitz to direct. Although, I imagine that only people who are fans of the books or the series in general will enjoy shelling out $10 to see “New Moon” in the-aters. If you liked the book, or “Twilight,” you’ll probably like this adaptation.

‘New Moon’ fails to disappointBy Kayla Calloway

Copy Editor

Photo illustration by Kayla Berge and Brian Steele Clackamas Print

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Chehales Tapscott chooses PSU

He was a McDonald’s All-American nominee and an Oregon 5A first team All-State selection coming out of Century High School. Now he has become one of the best players to ever come out of Clackamas Community College. Next stop for Chehales Tapscott: Portland State University.

For someone who did not start playing competitive organized basketball until his freshman year in high school, Tapscott has accomplished a lot and made quite a name for him-self.

He caught the attention of a lot of people during high school, but really shined and improved his game at Clackamas. In his very first outing as a Cougar, he went off for 34 points and 22 rebounds.

No, that was not a typo.Head coach Clif Wegner was

astonished at the show his high-ly touted freshman recruit put on. Wegner said, “It was like ‘wow,’ you didn’t even notice it. He was just so steady on everything.”

This was just the first of many performances of this cali-ber for Tapscott.

In Tapscott’s first season as a Cougar, Wegner doesn’t think he ever saw his star forward score less than 10 points and 10 rebounds in a game. He went so far as to say, “I believe he had a triple-double every game.”

This year, Wegner doesn’t expect to see anything less. He expects to see a lot more. He feels that Tapscott still has room to grow and hasn’t reached his full potential yet.

Tapscott feels that, com-ing to Clackamas and playing under Wegner, he has been able to make huge advances in his game.

“It really helped me out because before I used to be a guy who could attack the bas-ket, but now I’ve added more ball handling and shooting so I think I’m ready to go now,” Tapscott said.

He’s been able to showcase his talents on the court and prove he deserves to make the jump to play D-1 basketball.

He’s also very happy that he is going to be a Viking next year. The proximity to home and his father made the choice that much easier, although PSU was his first choice.

About Portland State being his first choice, Tapscott said, “Yeah, it was because it’s close to home, close to my father, and I actually like the coaching staff there too.”

Not a bad choice seeing as the Vikings have made the NCAA tournament the past two years.

Head coach Tyler Geving is ready for Tapscott to arrive on campus and believes he can

become a contributor.Geving said, “We expect him

to come in and have an immedi-ate impact for our team. He’s extremely skilled; he is ready to compete right when he walks in the door. So, we’re expecting big things out of him when he gets here.”

Wegner also sees him as being an instant impact player for the Vikings, saying, “He is going to make them better. He could be in their starting lineup, I’m convinced.”

Geving also agreed, saying, “He has a great chance to come in and start if he continues to work hard and continues to work hard when he gets here.”

Neither Tapscott nor Wegner see Portland State as his last stop, though. Both think he has the ability to take his career to the next level and play over-seas.

Wegner said, “He’s got a chance to be bigger than that. He’s got a legitimate chance to play overseas and make some money playing basketball for a long time.”

His physique also helps his case. Coming in at 6’5” 205 pounds, Tapscott’s size makes him a force to be reckoned with on the court.

Wegner added, “He’s got the kind of body that I think is going to handle the pressures of basketball for a lot of years. Some guys’ bodies start to break down after a few years but he’s got a different kind of body.”

Five years of organized com-petitive basketball, that’s all Chehales Tapscott has under his belt. That’s all he needed. For one of Oregon’s most sought after high school recruits and one of Clackamas’ best play-ers to wear the red and blue, it has been a long journey of hard work and perseverance, a jour-ney that has paid off.

John Shufelt Clackamas Print

Chehales Tapscott, who was a McDonald’s All-American nominee in 2008, earned NWAACC All-Tournament MVP honors last season leading the Cougars to a conference title.

NWAACC All-Star Chehales Tapscott hones skills at Clackamas and signs with Portland State University

By Mark FosterSports Editor

When a season comes to an end sooner than expected, one word comes to mind: disappointment. The Lady Cougars soccer team’s season was cut short in the first game of the postseason by an opponent they felt they were better than.

In just the seventh minute, Tabitha Grow of Spokane put in what would be the only goal of the game. One crucial moment of the game that cost the Lady Cougars their season.

Sophomore Allison Riggs

acknowledged that they got lucky, referring to the goal scored by Grow. She said, “... they got lucky. They got past one of our defenders; they got that break away. I don’t think Chelsea [Gray] had any way of stopping it. It was a one-on-one with the keeper.”

From that point on, they needed to hold Spokane, and that is exact-ly what they did. Unfortunately, Clackamas could not get as lucky as their opponent. The Spokane keeper held them at bay, blocking every-thing that came her way.

Riggs said, “We had shots all day long and they were great shots, our

offense was in their face.”Coach Tracy Nelson also agreed

that not being able to end what they started contributed to their downfall. “We couldn’t finish our opportuni-ties. We dominated the game, but struggled to finish off the game,” said Nelson.

They knew going into the game it was going to be tough and that it was either win or go home. Prior to the postseason, Nelson pointed out that the weakest part of their game is scoring and finishing.

Leading up to the game against Spokane, she said, “We have strug-gled to score this season. We have

been working a lot on finishing in the final third for the past two weeks.”

Riggs attested to the rigorous practices Nelson has put them through, saying, “It was frustrating because we worked our asses off and were definitely the better team and it just didn’t show at the end.”

After an early exit, there isn’t much for a team to do but learn from their mistakes and look to the future.

Despite the negatives, Nelson did take some positives from the game. She hopes that this game is something that will stick with her

freshman and they will remember during the off season and going in to next year.

Nelson didn’t seem satisfied with the season as a whole and thought she shared the same feelings as her players, saying, “We had a lot of expectations going in to this season and our goal was to win another NWAACC championship. I think everyone was disappointed with the way the season ended.”

For a team with an abundance of talent, a push for another NWAACC title run is not an unlikely feat, but for now the Lady Cougars must wait another year for their shot.

Women’s soccer doesn’t reach goal, lose in first roundBy Mark Foster

Sports Editor

Cougars basketball Pre-Season:

Nov. 27-29: Red Devil Classic at Lower Colum-

bia CollegeDec. 4: vs. Clark College

at CCCDec. 13: vs. Columbia

Basin College at CCCDec. 18-20: Clark NWAACC Crossover at

Clark CollegeDec. 28-30: Clackamas Holiday Tourney at CCC

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Gemini (May 21-June 21): Your mom loves you.

Cancer (June 22-July 22): If you work hard this week, you will lose your job and fail all your classes, but if you slack off, your bosses and teachers will reward you.

Leo (July 23-August 22): Ronald Reagan and Michael Jackson are going to pop out of their graves as zombies this week and try to hunt you down. Carry a baseball bat with you everywhere and act all flinchy like you could be attacked at any moment. It will save your life.

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