dback 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. 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