• Play based on hate and crime gets set to premier

    By Cassidy Scott | February 17, 2015 | Comments Off on Play based on hate and crime gets set to premier

    Director James Eikrem, in his eighth production at Clackamas Community College, is bringing the story of Matthew Shepard to the Osterman theater stage in the winter term production, ‘The Laramie Project.’ The Laramie Project, based on the 1998 murder of homosexual college student Matthew Shepard, brings a darker and more mature theme to the CCC…

  • New horticulture mural sprouts on walls of Clairmont Hall

    By Cassidy Scott | January 27, 2015 | Comments Off on New horticulture mural sprouts on walls of Clairmont Hall

    Clackamas Community College’s horticulture and art departments came together over the summer to produce an agricultural history mural on the walls of Clairmont Hall. The idea was first conceptualized by horticulture instructor Bruce Nelson in fall of 2013, when students in his Urban Agriculture class created a timeline of Willamette Valley agriculture on paper. “It…

  • Physical education classes can’t compete

    By Cassidy Scott | January 20, 2015 | Comments Off on Physical education classes can’t compete

    With winter registration wrapped up, it is becoming obvious that one-credit PE classes are not filling up the way they used to. “This year has been tough for everybody, not just my classes but a lot of PE classes,” Karon Allen, aerobics teacher, said. “I used to have 50 in a class and then it…