Tracksters excel in NJCAA competition
Eleuen go;
Douglass,
Macey
place third
McCormick
nabs
third
with javelin
By Tracy M. Sumner
By Rick Obritschkewitsch
Of The Print
Of The Print
The College men’s track
and field team took eleventh
place at the National Junior
College Athletic Association
meet last Friday and Saturday
in San Angelo, Texas. The
finish was the best ever by a
Cougar team.
Marceli Douglass and
Tony Macey each placed third
in. their respective events while
Steve Gogl and Mike Hortsch
added fifth place finishes to
place the team.
Odessa (Texas) Com
munity College narrowly
outscored Region 18 champion
Ricks Junior College (Idaho)
73V2 to 721/? for the national
championship. Warton Junior
College, South Plains Junior
College, Ranger Junior Col
lege, all of Texas, finished 3rd,
5th and 6th in the meet along
with Odessa’s first place to give
Texas national ¡bragging rights
for the 1982 season.
Southwestern Michigan
placed fourth with 53 points
followed by South Plains with
41, Ranger JC with 35, New
Mexico JC with 30, Garden Ci
ty JC (Kansas) with 28, Glen
dale Community College with
24, Black Hawk (Illinois) with
20, and the Cougars with a
school record (in national com
petition) 16 points. Mount
Hood also of thè Oregon Com-
munity College Athletic
Association, finished 12th with
15 points.
“We didn’t do too bad,”
assistant coach | Kelly Sullivan
said. “We had some good per
formances and we had some
disappointments. The competi
tion was twice as good as last
year. I think oUr region was
Cyd McCormick and
Denise Wheatley returned from
the National Junior College
Athletic Association women’s
track and field competition in
San Angelo, Texas with a third
farthest jevelin throw in the na
tion, and a personal best effort
in the 100 meter hurdles semi
finals, respectively. The nation
place last Thursday through
Saturday.
Although the exact
distance of McCormick’s toss
was not available, it exceeded
139’. Wheatley ran the 100
meter hurdles in a time * of
14.15.
Winds also caused some
problems for the competition.
“With the wind factor, we
changed the direction of the
race, to run with the wind,”
Wheatley said.
McCormick said one thing
that hurt her was that she
“wasn’t able to warm up on the
side of the field that I was going
to throw on,” McCormick said.
One other complaint that
McCormick had was that there
was top much waiting until it
was time for her to compete.
MARCELL DOUGLASS
CYD MCCORMICK
Eight colleges get axed;
one survives budget levy
By J. Dana Haynes
Of The Print
Voters in Oregon voted
nay to financial support for
eight out of nine community
college districts in last week’s
elections, for the worst vote of
no-confidence in the history of
Oregon’s two-years education
system.
The statistics for the voting
were as follows:
Chemeketa; 31,674 for
(47 percent) and 34,648
against (52 percent).
Linn-Benton; 14,648 for
(41 percent), 20,883 against
(58 percent).
Six tax bases and three
“A” ballots were presented to
the voters. The tax bases in
cluded Chemeketa (Salem),
Linn-Benton (Albany), Mt.
Hood (Gresham), Treasure
Valley (Ontario), Umpqua
(Roseburg), and the Treaty
Oak Education District (the
district is in The Dalles, but has
Mt. Hood; 14,402 for (41
percent), 20,200 against (58
percent).
Treasure Valley; 1,658 for
(32 percent), 3,458 against (67
percent).
Umpqua; 8,214 for (44
percent), 10,281 against (55
percent).
The three “A” ballots were
for Southwestern Oregon
Community, in Coos Bay,
Central Oregon Community, in
Bend, and Clatsop County
Community, in Astoria. The
voting was:
SWOC; 8,206 for (48 per
cent), 8,805 against (51 per
cent) .
COCC; 10,062 for (47
percent), 19,939 against (52
percent).
Clatsop; 3,676 for (42
percent), 4,929 against (57
percent).
An “A” ballot is a request
for money for operating ex
penses, as opposed to a “B”
ballot; a request for money for
building or renovation ex
penses.
Community takes
Timber Fest
timeout
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The only community col
lege district that was not hand
ed a defeat was the Treaty Oak
Education District. There,
3,148 voters were for (55 per
cent), and 2,557 against (44
percent).
“There are probably two
explanations for the poor
showing,” Bassett said. “First,
the general economic condition
forced people to vote ‘no,’ to
decrease their own taxes. And
second, the tax bases are up
dates to condition of three or
four years ago, and so the
numbers being presented to the
voters were scary.”
The tax bases are requests
for money that are only on the
ballots every three or four years
and which request a percen
tage increase on the money
allotted during the previous
ballot. Thus, Linn-Benton Col
lege requested an increase in
their budget of 38 percent,
when the cost of living has in
creased almost 80 percent in
the past four years, Bassett ex
plained.
Wheatley’s previous best
in the 100 meter hurdles was,
15.2. She wasn’t able to qualify
for the national competition
until she was faced with her last
opportunity. It was in the
Regional 18 competition, just
two weeks before the Na
tionals, that Wheatley ran the
100 meter hurdles in the quali
fying time of 15.2, which
allowed her to compete in
Texas.
McCormick had been
qualified for most of the
season, and this is the second
year she has gone to nationals.
Unique
auto class
offered
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