Carson beware
News show format changed
After six weeks of on-the-air
news, “SINEWS,” the campus
television news show, will
change format. What was once
a serious news show with a few
features will now become a
humorous news show with a
few serious spots, according to
“SINEWS” News Director Tom
Jeffries.
“We did some research, and
discovered that the people near
the T.V. when we aired were
either not watching or didn’t
Staff photo by Duffy Coffman
remember what they saw,” Jef
■SINEWS” News Director Tom Jeffries becomes drunk fries said.
Programmed like thè net
■nd disorderly after discovering that no one has been wat*
thing the campus news station. This has led to the work news shows, “SINEWS”
■hange in format for “SINEWS.” Now called “Totally Out- contained only two. “non-
serious” portions: the . “Mr.
■ide Production,” it is an all-humor station.
Science Show” and the adver
tisements, which “SINEWS”
writers made up themselves.
“They (the ads) were stupid
and had no bearing or use to
the campus at all,” Jeffries
said.
Much to Jeffries’ dismay,
“Mr. Science” and the joke,-ads
were the only portions of the
program that caught the viewer
attention. Additions were
made to try to gain viewer in
terest, but the efforts were
reportedly futile.
What’s next for the news
show? Humor. “The show will
start in the same style as
before, but the stories won’t be
straight,” Jeffries said. The on
ly serious portion left in the
program will be the sport seg
ment.
“We put in sports and
frivolous things, but they just
didn’t get any attention. The
only thing we didn’t try was
Calvin Klein jean ads,” Jeffries
said.
When “SINEWS” hits the
campus television screens this
Friday at 10 a.m., noon and 3
p.m., there will be more in
fluence coming from “Saturday
Night Live” than from Walter
Cronkite. The name of
“SINEWS” has also been
changed to “Totally Outside”
with the production crew nam
ed “Totally Outside Produc
tions.”
College Board seeks levies
beginning July 1. It was
estimated that this tax rate
■ Faced with a 50 percent would raise $2,051,458 during
■eficit of funds after July 1, the its first year, $2,359,177 dur
Bollege
Board
voted ing its second and $2,71^,053
■nanimously during a special during its final year; totalling
meeting Monday to bring $7,123,688. If passed, the
Before the voters On Feb. 17 a construction levy would be
■te-based serial levy to fund totally raised by district tax
Berating expenses and a rate- payers.
■sed serial levy to fund future
The College currently has 60
instruction.
percent of the space it will need
■The board cited the defeat of in eight years. “The rational
its Nov. 4 election and the ex method of growth is to build in
Bation of the current serial steps,” commented John
levy in bringing the operating Hakanson, college president.
levy before the voters. If pass- “We can’t just wait until 1990
ed, the operating levy would to build the space we will
levy $1.14 per $1,000 true need.”,^^
Bsh value for the next three
Bars beginning July 1. The
Currently, preliminary plans
Berating levy would raise have been made for a new
$6,676,382 during its . first Auto Body Lab, a new Learn
Bar, $7,684,175 during its se- ing Resources Center, contain
Bnd year and $8,836,801 its ing the Library and Study Skills
final year. During its three.-year Center, and for the remodeling
Kspan, the operating levy of the second floor of
Bauld raise $23,197,358.
McLoughlin Hall after the LRC
BThe serial levy to raise con has been, built, The cost of
duction funds would levy 35
Bnts per $1,000 true cash these projects was estimated at
value for the next three years, $7,161,300 in March 1980.
By David Hayden
Bf The Print
Recently, an off-campus
center near Clackamas Town
Center has been discussed. Its
cost has been estimated at $1.5
to $2 million.
Although the outlook for
state aid for construction is cur
rently poor and the construc
tion levy would be approx
imately $2 million short of the
preliminary construction
budget, it is expected that in
the future the state will con
tribute to construction financ
ing.
Also discussed at the special
board meeting was a planned
13 percent increase in student
tuition for 1981-82. The in
crease would raise tuition from
the current $150 per term to
$170 per term. State funding
cuts were cited as the major
reason, with inflation and in
creasing enrollments also con
tributing to the problem. The
planned increase would keep
tuition below what Portland
Community College is plann
ing, and approximately the
same as Mt. Hood is planning.
Flags to be taken down Thursday
M3y a unanimous vote, the
ASG has decided to take down
the remaining 40 American
flags in front of the Community
Genter and ceremoniously put
up 50 new ones at the special
■beting Thursday at noon,
■ut up over a year ago in
honor of the American
hostages
in ' Iran,
the weatherbeaten flags were
the subject of five minutes of
■cussion at the Dec. 11
^Beting, before ASG quickly
decided to take action.
H'We have discussed them
(the flags) at the Senate Retreat
and at Senate meetings
before,” said ASG Senator
Tom Simmons, at the meeting.
“I’ve talked to students about
the flags and they were really
bummed out about it, so I feel,
in order to save face, we
should fake down the flags and
raise 50 new ones.”
The flags currently raised on
the poles will be burned accor
ding to the Joint' Resolution
passed by the 77th Congress.
ASG President Eric Etzel said
Monday, “We’re putting up
new ones to refresh the
memories of the old students,
and make the new, ones aware
of the hostage situation. We
also want to show our support
for the hostages in Iran,” he
said.
The ASG has purchased 50
new flags and will put them up
Thursday at noon, in front of
the Community Center. The
flags will remain on the poles
until the hostages return from
their captivity in Iran.
“We want to replace the flags
that have been taken care of by
the weather,” Etzel said.
Staff photo by Duffy Coffman
The CCC campus was visited last week by a man with a
message. “Vem” (Last name withheld by request) is
traveling around the country with 20 other born-again
Christians to make a point, “...my message is to let peo
ple know that they have to turn to God now. We have to
read the Bible and believe in His teachings, because time
is running out.” '
Two Board positions open
Three seats on the CCC
Board of Education will be up
for reelection in the Feb. 17
election.
Running for a three-year
term in Zone 2 (Milwaukie-
Happy Valley) are Phillip
Korten, the incumbent, Diane
E. Quick and Bonnie Robert
son. Roger Rook, the incum
bent, is running against Julie
Clark for a four-year term in
Zone 3 (Milwaukie-Oak
Grove). Harold Washam is
running against Mel Loftus in
Zone 6 (Estacada-Redlands-
Colton), lor a four-year term.