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rollment decline cited as cause
uition increase proposed by administration
[proposal to increase tuition
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lely $300,000 to $350,000.
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jege services. "Then we tight-
fed up the utility budget and
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Ind other areas. I doubt if
Ine got cut more than three
[our percent."
»cording to Hakanson, even
||i the tuition increase, the
[ege's tuition will still be
among the lowest in the state.
"We may not be the lowest
but with the increase our tuition
will be average for this year and
some of the schools will be in­
creasing for next year," he said.
With the increase, tuition will
make up about 13.5 percent of
the budget,
said Hakanson,
which is about the same as it's
always been.
"Other schools have the poli­
cy that tuition will make up 20
percent of their budgets and are
always raising their tuition ac­
cordingly," he said.
Hakanson said that the Presi­
dent's Council decided to make
the recommendation to increase
tuition rather than to cut pro­
grams.
"It's very difficult to add
things people want and cut thè
budget," Hakanson said.
"A
large part of the increase is go­
ing to go to pay more part-time
instructors for evening classes.
When you have more part-time
students you need more part-
time teachers."
One of the areas hardest hit
by the recent decision to in­
crease tuition is the Financial
Aid Office which must now re­
calculate everyone's aid applica­
tion and reassign awards and
grants and send out new award
letters to students.
"It's going to take us a long
time to go through everything,"
said Dick Thompson, financial
aid officer. "It's like starting all
over again and we've been work­
ing on it (getting out award let­
ters and assessing grant amounts)
for three weeks. We really hoped
they'd have made the decision
before now so we didn't have to
do our work over again."
According to Thompson, this
will also increase the amount of
money available for the Basic
Education Opportunity Grants
(BEOG)from $912 to $928.
Tuition talent grants will also
be increased to meet the pro­
posed new tuition.
"Board
approved
talent
grants
will automatically in­
crease," Thompson said. "How­
ever, those departments, such as
Student Activities which give
cash awards as tuition waivers
will have to make up the excess
out of their budgets."
Student Activities has already
made provisions for this oc­
casion according to Jim Roberts,
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student activities advisor.
"We made sure that we had
the money in contingency to
take care of those without cut­
ting anywhere else," he said.
"We just had to be more accurate
in projecting our income."
Student Activities has already
been more directly affected by
the drop in enrollment since
their income is directly based on
full-time
equivalency
FTE
monies.
The student activities budget,
which includes student publica­
tions, student government and
health services has already been
cut $3,573, according to Rob­
erts.
"We had budgeted on an
annual FTE of 3,590 and now
we have to adjust to a proposed
figures of 3,300," he said.
"We made a whole series of
minor cuts since we didn't want
to eliminate any programs. We
cut about $500 because we don't
have a football rally anymore
and then we cut the publica­
tions budget by $1,000," Ro­
berts said.
Although this was a signifi­
cant amount to cut from that
budget, publications advisor
Randy Clark feels that she took
the money from areas that will
not harm the program.
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With finals quickly approaching and this academic
year coming to a close, many students thoughts turn
towards sunny vacations on balmy beaches. Three Clack­
amas students were among a group who spent Memorial
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Photo by Brian Snook
day, picnicking at Cannon Beach. Above from left,
Julie Ronning, Paul Byers, and Ann Breyne prepare
glowing driftwood coals for a weiner roast. For other
vacation ideas on the Oregon Coast, see Page 7.
Feature, the Clackamas
Quarterly Review, is hot off
the presses and on the maga­
zine racks at the College
bookstore.
Edited by Joe McFeron
with graphic design by Mary
Cuddy, two College students,
the magazine is filled with
prose, poetry, articles, art and
photography by students of
the College.
The magazine is the re­
juvenation of Dawn, the for­
mer literary magazine which
has been missing from the
campus the past two years.
The magazine costs $1.
Highlight of the magazine
is a full-color cover photo­
graph by Lorraine Stratton,
science student at the College.
The inside of the 44-page
publication contains contri­
butions from students in crea­
tive writing, English, graphic
arts and art.
"It is hoped that this mag­
azine will be well-received by
the College community be­
cause next year student pub­
lications hopes to put out a
magazine each term on a reg­
ular basis," said Randy Clark,
student publications adviser.
Besides student and staff
contributions,
next year's
magazine will include news
feature articles of interest to
the campus community.
"We hope to develop the
publication into a true news
magazine style," Clark said.
Editor of the magazine
next year is Happie Thacker.
Thacker is looking for staff
writers, photographers and a
graphic designer for next
year's staff. Those interested
may contact Thacker or Clark
at Student Publications in
Trailer B, or by calling ext.
259.