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Why bother?
MIGHT
Student Government elections will be held Monday
and Tuesday, Oct. 17 and 18, or will they? Itisveryhard
to call them elections when each person running only
needs one vote to be elected.
Students at Clackamas Community College seem
terribly unconcerned about one of the major things the
Revolutionary War was fought over, taxation without
representation.
This year student government has control of $25,750
to be spent on student and community activities alone.
This includes things like last week's dance, to which
only about 60 people came, coffee houses, art exhibits,
concerts, plays, movies, and clubs and their activities.
They have also been budgeted $9,655 for student
government activities alone.
Approximately 30 per cent of that money comes from
student tuition and will apparently be spent with very
little input from students. Not because ASG wants it
that way but because students refuse to come out of
their insulated little holes and take part in what is going
on.
If, out of 9,000 persons enrolled at CCC, there are
only 14 willing to take part in how their money is spent,
then there can be no complaints about what is done
with it.
Last week we were concerned about the lack of
interest for students on the part of the faculty. Maybe
we should be more worried about the lack of interest
for students on the part of the students.
Maimed trees
For a campus with as extensive a horticulture depart
ment and as large a maintenance staff as Clackamas Com
munity College the landscaping is atrocious. Especially
the trees between the Community Center and McLough
lin.
The trees were planted in the mall as part of the
scenery around the "Poet's Chair."
However, the
trees look awful as a result of the improper pruning job.
Many of the trees are covered with deadwood, some are
half-dead, many have been doctored improperly, but
most irritating is the fact that some are 1 to 2 feet
taller on one side than on the other side of the tree.
Why doesn't Clackamas Community College pay a
professional to do the job or at least train someone else
on campus how to do it properly?
Too expensive may be the answer, but what about the
expense of having to replace the trees every couple of
years, thanks to some butchers.
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To the Editor:
Clackamas -- a little dab will do ya.
When i came back the levy hadn't passed.
What the hell .. . i took that chance.
And now a wage dispute.
my opinion in the matter doesn't count,
right or wrong, they're gonna
cut off my
v.a. funds.
maybe mount hood ain't so bad.
(too late to switch this term though),
what the hell . . . it's only education,
what the hell .. . who cares anyway?
Joe McFeron
4616 SE Roethe Rd.
Milwaukie, OR 97222
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