opinion
Shuttle
diplomacy
FRANKLY SPEAKING
....by phi frank
ln light of recent activity against student gov
ernments at several community college campuses
in Oregon we would like to take this opportunity
to inject a spirit of isolationism into the problem.
Could the following mock news story become a
reality?
In a surprise press conference Tuesday, Associ
ated Student Government President Mike McCarty
announced that ASG Business Manager Maureen
Kearney has been appointed to the newly created
position "secretary of state".
In this new position, Kearney will be engaged in
shuttle diplomacy at high level COSSAC conferen
ces at community colleges throughout the state
where there is great concern over anti-student gov
ernment forces threatening to abolish those gov
ernments.
Kearney was chosen because of her well-known
diplomacy and tact in handling disturbances in
regular ASG meetings.
"Besides," said McCarty, "I think women make
the best secretaries."
Kearney's diplomatic plans have not been an
nounced but high level sources in the Student
Activities Office have revealed that her main pur
pose is to deal with conspirator Pat Rice.
Rice is a former high-level COSSAC official who
has been using knowledge gained in that position
to help anti-government student forces in their
guerilla warfare against their governments.
This new appointment is the second in a series of
attempts by McCarty to quell these uprisings be
fore community colleges throughout Oregon fall
like dominoes.
"If these rebels succeed on one campus," said
McCarty, "the freedom of community colleges
throughout Oregon will be in serious jeopardy."
Last Tuesday, McCarty sent a bus-load of techni
cal advisors to Linn-Benton Community College to
help the government there oversee elections that
would decide its fate.
"We effectively controlled anti-government for
ces there and they failed to get the two-thirds
majority needed to abolish student government
on that campus,"said McCarty.
These technical advisors have been undergoing
intensive training in order to be prepared to deal
with these uprisings whenever and wherever they
occur, according to McCarty.
When asked if trained troops, equipment or
monetary aid would be sent in the wake of the
technical advisors if the situation warrents it,
McCarty declined to comment.
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Other viewpoints
Willpower vs. gravity
in LBCC government batí
Editor's note: The following
guest editorial was an editorial
written in the Feb. 1 issue of
the Commuter, the student news
paper at Linn-Benton Communi
ty College in Albany.
By Cliff Neale
LBCC Commuter
With all the talk about Dis
banding the Student Association
and all of the talk about re
structuring the same, students are
beginning to wander about in
dazed condition.
They have
been bit by the onslaught of
campaign information from both
factions, some of it correct and
some of it not so correct.
For instance, the Student As
sociation (that's their real name),
although not openly claiming to
have done so, has led the voting
student to believe that the abol
ishment of the Association would
lead to the cancellation of activ
ities on campus. This is not so.
The Association has not di
rectly stated that disbandment
would do away with activities,
but it has stated that it would do
away with the position of ac
tivities director, a Student As
sociation office.
Activities would continue, as
they are budgeted for by a sep-
erate fund than that of the Stu
dent Association. What kind of
activities and how they are deter
mined may take some reorganiza-
on the part of the administration,
but activities would certainly
continue.
Now all of this is pretty
serious business, what with deal-
ling with student and tax-gener-
ated dollars, a point that Judie
have been up-dated, hando
Engel and Mike Hardy have gone
bout what the Association
to great length to show. There
about and what it has ac
remains one small problem, how
plished have been seen abou
ever, to their rationale; what will
campus, and an active caim
to gain new members hi
be done with the near $9,000
that is presently allocated for the'
obvious.
function of a Student Associ
In fact, it is possibly the
ation? When asked this question,
activity the student body
the proponents for the dissolu
witnessed from the Associi
tion of the ASLBCC only come
in recent years.
up with vague replies about con
Engel and Hardy have
been
campaigning in]
struction of new facilities and
programs. Nothing concrete.
traditional manner-posteii
use of posters to stress A l
Is it any wonder that the stu
dent is in a quandary about
has been so overused on this a
where to place his loyalties?
pus that most people don't!
It doesn't end there by any
her to read them. Posters of
means.
Both the Association
take on the juvenile attitude!
and the Engel-Hardy team ap
surrounds student body e
tions—bright colors, provod
pear to have gotten too emo
tional about the entire situation.
slogans and lack of saying a
Engel and Hardy have been
thing pertinent.
1
attending Student Association
In fact, the entire issue!
meetings under the guise of be
pears to be falling one-ink
ing interested in what "their
point below dirty name call!
Student Association is doing."
ASLBCC President Phil Sa
However, this interest appears to
has insisted that Engel and Hal
to be taking the form of seek
meet in a formal debate of
ing campaign information. Their
issue. This event took place
concern surfaces only when the
Jan. 30.
matter of spending money is
Although the Association
pledged to aid students ini
brought up, especially when the
expenditure may be utilized in a
cilitating their needs, Sarrol
manner that can call attention
refused to offer any informal
to an alleged misuse of student
to Engel and Hardy, such
funds.
. minutes of senate meetings,bu
In what should be a serious
get
expenditures or even
political issue, the Student As
"howdy-do". HMMM, bun
sociation has taken two different
makes sense.
stands—that of laughing about it
Perhaps when this is all ova
when the subject is brought up,
an award should be offered!
and that of campaigning against
both the Student Associatia
dissolution.
and the Engel-Hardy team. |
Campaigning against disband
could be a granite pillar erect
in the courtyard, a monumi
ment is what one would expect
to will power defying good sen
from an organization in this situ
ation. Time lines for restructure
and gravity.
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