Ebbtide Archives: Schoolyear's End

Ads for other exciting summer flicks took up large portions of the Ebbtide pages. Filmgoers could find their funny bone with the Dan Aykroyd-Eddie Murphy vehicle, “Trading Places.” Others seeking out a little chill during the hot weather could spend a couple of hours shivering in their seats during “Psycho II.”

1993

The liberal-conservative clash raged on the letters page. An anonymous student vented after receiving a startling gift on his windshield. The writer, a conservative with a “Don’t blame me, I voted for Bush” license plate frame, returned to his vehicle to find a note calling his message “rubbish” and accusing him of listening to “fascist money-hungry Rush Limbaugh figures.” The note also threatened suit. The letter writer noted that this was just another example of the “twisted, hypocritical mind of a true liberal.

And speaking of Rush, a faculty member wrote in to protest a possible on-campus appearance by the radio personality. Apparently, Student Government was willing to offer $20,000 to have the conservative shock jock appear at part of the SCC Lecture Series. The writer called the request an anti-intellectual affront to SCC students and faculty.

More controversy centered on the Science Division. Contributing writer Linda McFadden questioned the school’s policy regarding animal dissection. McFadden noted that several other local community colleges had moved away from this practice, which she said is not only an inhumane, conscience violation but also a potential health risk (Formaldehyde is a carcinogen, after all) and of questionable utility. (“The idea that the experience of dissecting a cat or frog somehow makes someone more qualified to perform the work of a dental hygienist or nurse is absurd.”)

David Rosenquist, chairman of the Science Division, responded to McFadden’s claims, stating that dissection was both necessary and valuable for the biological sciences.

Teresa Peters
Copy Editor

The Ebbtide staff is putting down its pens, turning off its recorders, stowing its cameras and shutting down the scanners, printers and mighty Macs after another notable school year. For the curious out there who wondered how other staffs ended their annual run, here are a few highlights from Ebbtides gone by:

1973

Noting that interest in commencement ceremonies had been waning nationwide, the Ebbtide announced a slimmer ceremony planned at SCC. Speakers included a staff English instructor and ASB president Mike Parrott. The school’s Epicurean club hosted the reception. The school was scheduled to present 620 completion certificates that year.

New classes were announced for fall. These included two women’s literature classes: a survey of women’s writing and a class analyzing images of women in literature; three social-science classes: labor economics, labor studies, and childhood education; and three physical-education classes: women’s field hockey, men’s flag football and men’s soccer. Also new for the fall would be a student-writing lab to assist with composition skills.

The gender-bending Ebbtidettes, billed as the Ebbtide’s “sassy and flamboyant football squad,” defeated the Student Body Association squad 12-6 in a no-holds-barred flag football game, an event marking the launch of that year’s “Spindrift” literary magazine.

Opinion Editor Don Bockelman ended the year with this thought-provoking tidbit: “Man will survive technology because his drive to achieve commune is greater than the confusion his mind can create.”

1983

Topless men in acid-washed jeans and Bruce Jenner shorts? SCC’s buffest strutted their stuff during the Sunfest Muscle Man competition, forever captured in black and white on the front page of the Ebbtide.

Swept up in the “Star Wars” phenomenon, the Ebbtide staff offered pointers on waiting through the excruciatingly long lines for the latest installment of the franchise, “Return of the Jedi.” For fans determined to see the “two-hours plus of non-stop special effects, old-fashioned adventure, humor, tenderness and evilness,” suggestions included purchasing tickets ahead of time, getting in line an hour to an hour and a half before showtime, and bringing many friends to hold places in line when wanderlust inevitably kicked in.