The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989, March 30, 1978, Page 3, Image 3

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nd g et levy focuses on innovation, stability
lent vote
llitor:
ly conviction that the
Late-based serial levy
|e vehicle to a greater
I Community College. -
jo I believe this? I be­
muse the rate-based
I, if passed, will pro-
K for a badly needed
Le complex, will elim-
lyearly shuffle for fund-
Ithe college currently
■will allow for greater
■in college curriculum
Better long-range plan-
|o, the serial levy will
Icommunitv three full
I better evaluate the
Hits curriculum.
■sons are too many to
Is short letter in their
nut I, for one, will vote
Lust that you who care
[¡college will, too.
■ton
■tor
vehicle
■tor:
pay, April 4 Clacka-
Lunity College stu-
Lj with all voters in
■district, will be asked
lie a three year, rate-
Hl to help finance
■perations
for three
■ also help pay for a
instruction program.
lear more than 20,000
look courses through
is, many of them full
■time students here on
Ilf you, the students,.
Le a special effort to
It Tuesday the college
■ voter approval by a
■in. In the past the
■is lost some elections
■ as 35 votes out of
Itasand cast. Obvious-
II a few more students
1,those elections would
■ won. We don't want
■happen again.
■students say to them-
■ one vote won't make
■fence," and don't vote,
■absolutely correct. We
■ lost by just one vote.
Bam is that when thou-
■ students say that it
■ big difference.
Ifcse of you who have
I ' Orchard Complex I
■totell you how much
■mew science facility,
disapproved on April
■getthat much needed
Bing. If it isn't, stu­
ff nave to continue to
■deteriorating structure
■■Money from the levy
allow us to begin
ff'("ts in the building
■ atonal curriculums.
■ Proposed levy is ap-
■ 'oayers in the college
■'-Id be taxed at a
■
per $1,000 of
assessed value. $1.30 of that
would be for operating and 30jt
would be for construction. Pass­
age of the levy would give CCC
a degree of financial stability it
has never had before. In the past
the college has held as many as
three or four elections before
gaining voter approval. When
this happens
students don't
know until just before school
starts in the fall whether or not
there will be any school.
If a levy is not approved by
the time school starts there is
always the very real possibility
that the college would have to
close its door, or at least severely
curtail its programs.
The concept of the rate-based
serial levy is a taxing option
approved just last year by the
Oregon legislature. It has never
been tried in Oregon before.
Taxing' bodies all over the state
will be closely watching Clacka­
mas on April 4 to see how it
fares. Acceptance of this method
of funding school districts could
have important implications for
school finance problems in Ore­
gon.
On behalf of the Clackamas
Community College Board of
Directors I ruge all studentsand
staff to vote for the'college on
April 4. Not only will you be
helping yourselves, you will be
part of an initial effort to help
all school districts in Oregon.
Gary P. Cornelius,
Vice-Chairman
Clackamas Community
College Board
Scientist speaks
To the Editor:
Scientists are not usually con­
sidered dreamers but last night
I had a dream.
I dreamt there was a fine
science building at Clackamas
Community College, a building
where the termites were all in a
study case instead of in the
floor, a building where the frogs
lived in the terrariums instead of
in the water collected between
the cinder block understructure
and the floor.
In my dream I saw a lab where
the students could walk between
the work stations with no danger
of upsetting the boiling water
bath on the adjacent table, where
all the hot plates could be used
at once
without the circuit
breakers cutting the electricity..
The students had room to set up
their plant hormone experiments
and space for them to grow over
the 8-week period needed for
results.
I saw groups of students,
young people just out of high
school, older men and women
training for new careers, work­
ing at individual study and con­
ference areas between the new
labs. I saw these same students
graduating and going on to jobs
as nurses, as water treatment
■Community College
operators or off to Oregon State
to finish a degree in forestry or
pharmacy.
But dreams end. The biology,
botany, zoology, microbiology,
chemistry, physical science and
geology are still in the sagging
leaky structure called Orchard
Center. The faculty and students
work together to do the best
they can in the facilities available.
The maintenance people do their
best to keep the roof patched,
the walls propped up and the gas
leaks stopped.
You can help, not just to
create a dream but to provide
a financially efficient building.
Class size could be enlarged if
adequate rooms were "available
thereby increasing faculty prod­
uctivity. Continual maintenance
money would be saved with a
permanent facility. I urge your
support for the serial levy April
4th so that the dreams of the
people of Clackamas County can
be achieved.
Virginia Weber
Chairman,
Life Science Department
Citizenship class
To the Editor:
It ..shouldn't take any great
effort to convince a student at
CCC that he or she can learn
a great deal from the variety of
classes in a broad
range of
disciplines which are offered at
the school.
But CCC students on the
whole are falling down in one
class CCC can't teach them—
citizenship.
People in the age groups
comprising the CCC student
body have the worst record of
participating at the polls in all
elections, and they were espec­
ially apathetic
during CCC's
three attempts to pass an operat­
ing levy last year.
It was up to the senior citi­
zens in the district to pass the
levy. This is the group which
has the hardest time getting to
the polls and the group least
able to pay the taxes to support
CCC.
Yet they get an "A" for
turning out, to see that this
vital institutions s ays in business.
On April 4, the CCC student
body has a chance to turn an
incomplete into a better grade
by turning out to help pass a
rate-based serial levy to give CCC
a stable source of operating
funds for the coming year and
to put up the local share of
GLADSTONE
funds for a pay-as-you-go build­
ing program
to provide the
campus with a badly needed new
science building and an addition
to Barlow Hall to make sorely-
needed
additional room for
classes in auto body repair and
painting, welding, and hydraul
ics and machine shop.
A successful levy election is
also important to students be­
cause it will provide the local
share of a pay-as-you-go build­
ing program to construct a new
and badly needed science facil­
ity, plus improvements in the
machine shop, automotive repair,
hydraulics
and
industrial-
technical areas.
The election campaign this
year is being strongly supported
by citizens in the college district,
both those involved in some way
with the college, and those who
have no direct connection. We
are very appreciative of this
citizen support, and hope that
the entire college family—staff
and student body—is willing to
match the enthusiasm and energy
being expended on our behalf.
It is obvious from the turn­
out of senior citizens in past
elections and the hard work put
in by the people who serve with
me on the Citizens Election
Committee that many who have
little or nothing to gain directly
from passage of the levy believe
deeply in continuation of CCC
as a valuable educational, cultur­
al and economic resource for
Clackamas County.
Let's hope that this April 4
we will hear strongly from the
faculty, staff and students who
stand to profit much more direct­
ly from the benefits a rate­
based serial levy could provide
for them.
Ben Hansen, Chairman
The CCC Citizens Election
Committee
Vote April 4
To the Editor:
years, that guarantee has been
in doubt because of the multi­
ple elections required to get
approval of an operating budget.
Approval of the three year levy
will give the college the oppor­
tunity to plan more efficiently,
which will result in better service
to you as students.
Help is still needed in the fol­
lowing pre-election activities. If
you can help, please call my
office, ext. 288.
Door-to-door flyer distribu­
tion—12 noon to 5 p.m., Satur­
day, April 1.
Telephoning-5 p.m. to 9
p.m., Monday, April 3.
Telephoning—5 p.m. to 8
p.m., Tuesday, April 4.
If you can't distribute a single
flyer—if you can't make one
telephone call,’, the one, all-
important contribution you can
make to the April 4 election
effort is VOTE! Please . . . .
DON'T FORGET!
Howard Fryett
Assistant to the President
Letter policy
The Print welcomes all letters
to the editor. In fact, we en­
courage them. Consider the feed­
back column a place not only
for comment on the newspaper,
but also a place to air views on
school policy, instructors,classes,
the administration or any other
topic pertaining to the College
community.
We ask only that letters be
typewritten, double-spaced or
carefully printed in ink, and
signed by the person submit­
ting them. The editorial board
requires that at the bottom of
the letter the person or persons
writing the letter attach his or
ber full name, address and phone
number where that person can
be reached for verification. Al­
though we do not encourage it,
names will be withheld on re­
quest.
By this time, every student at
Clackamas should be aware that
the college will be asking for
voter approval of a three year,
rate-based serial levy on Tues­
day, April 4.
This vote is of extreme
importance to college students,
as it will guarantee the college
will open its doors each fall for
at least three' years. (Crucial
to those students enrolled in
two-year programs!)
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