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EVENTS CALENDAR Wednesday, Feb. 16 I Thursday, Feb. 17 Marketins Task Force . I Seminar: “Auto Maintenance for ' Women” 7*10 p.m. 3-4 p.m. W- CC 116 I Autoshop i i IHHHH i Friday, Feb. 18 i Intervarsity Sing-a-long I 7-10 p.m. CC Mall j i i Monday, Feb. 21 Saturday, Feb. 19 Wrestling Tourney I i i i i i 8*10 p.m. | . * President’s Day I The College will be open ■ IIE Gym i - ------- — Nastari suggests sanctions (--------------- The Print unveils two new features against CCOSAC debtors The Community College’s of Oregon Student Associa tions and Commissions met last weekend to discuss policy changes, including one pro posal to enforce membership fees. The resolution was pro posed by Paul Nastari, presi dent of the Clackamas Com munity College Associated Stu dent Government. The proposal is aimed at solving the problem of non payment by CCOSAC members. There are 13 com munity colleges in Oregon, and all are currently members of the organization. “This year, we had no deadlines for dues payments,” Nastari said. “Right now, only about half of the colleges have paid their dues, and the year is more than half over.” The membership dues, also known as housekeeping fees, are approximately $275 per college. This year, for the first time, the housekeeping fees also contain the cost of maintaining a Political Involve ment Committee (PIC), boosting the dues to $411 per college. The PIÇ is a lobbying committee, based at the state capitol in Salem. The funding resolution was not voted upon at the meeting, which was held at Blue Mountain Community College in Pendleton, Or. Ac cording to the CCOSAC con stitution, any resolution or bill submitted at one meeting can not be voted upon until the following meeting, to give each college a chance to study and evaluate the proposal. The next CCOSAC meeting will be held on April 8-9, at Southwestern Oregon Community College in Coos Bay. Nastari’s bill will be voted upon then. “I anticipate it will pass,” Nastari said. The resolution states that member colleges must pay their yearly dues by or before the Fall term meeting. One meeting in held per term. The proposal goes on to suggest that any school which does not pay its share of the housekeeping fees by the due date will lose their right to vote on CCOSAC business. If accepted, the resolution will go into effect for next year. To help the problem of non payment for this year, Nastari suggested last weekend that any college which has not paid its dues by the April meeting will lose its right to vote, effec tive immediately. The sugges tion was unanimously approv ed. Beginning this week, The The second new feature Print will present two new will be a multi-part analysis of features. the College’s extensive foreign student body (Please see story, The first is Restaurant Page 6). We will look at the Review, by staff writer Troy problems inherent in being at a Maben (Please see story, Page foreign school, and compare 3). In this column, we will take and contrast life here, in their a look at the eateries in the native countries. The Print hopes these two vicinity of the College and report on the food, the service new features will give our and the ambience, and rate readership a better picture of each establishment on a scale the College and Clackamas County. of one-to-ten. . inside . . . Editorials.......... ........Page 2 Arts.................... ...... /.Page 3 News................. .......... Page 5 Sports............... ......... Page 8 $7,800 debt feared College cafeteria raises prices 20 percent By Doug Vaughan Of The Print A 20 percent raise in cafeteria prices has brought a great deal of concern from Clackamas Community Col lege students, but Ad ministrative Dean of College Services * and Planning Bill Ryan, feels the prices still com ply with other local community colleges. “When we compared with Portland Community College we found their prices were 20 percent higher and they are subsidized,” Ryan said at last week’s Associated Student Government meeting. “That is when the stuff hit the fan.” The College’s cafeteria program is not subsidized by the College and Ryan feels ask ing the Board of Education for money would be like, “waving a red flag in front of a bull.” The Board has been sup portive of the cafeteria’s finan cial burden and has not said anything about the cunent debt, Ryan said. As of the there was no waste. We were sure of that, so we had to take price raises.” The only bottom line to look at is that we are in the hole,” Ryan said. “Norm (Grambush) argued with me about the price raise, but you see we had to raise them.” Ryan said the problem has been kept low-key and not much has been said about it. He feels the 20 percent in crease will enable the cafe to continue to narrow the debt gradually. One problem that the food service organization faces is that their employees wages are Food Service Supervisor approximately 40 percent higher than other community Norm Grambusch college kitchens. It is projected beginning of Fall term the cafe that in 1984 the average kit was in debt $59,000, and it ad chen help will make $3.80 per ded on another $19,000 dur hour. At the College now the ing the term. wages vary from $5.32-$5.57 “It was just a matter of per hour, Ryan said. When ex dollars and cents,” Norm tra benefits are added in the Grambush, supervisor of food salary coms out to be between service, said. “We took a look $7.50 and $8 an hour, Ryan at the portions and made sure estimated. The reason for the high wages is that once an employee works more than half-time (20 hours a week) then they become part of the bargaining committee. If they were to cut all employees down to half time they would be in violation of the union contract. The only possible way for the College to cut wages is if they totally discontinued the union contract, and then con tract out to a catering com pany. The problem with that, Ryan said, is that the food quality will go down and the prices will go up. Another solution that Ryan brought up was to renegotiate with the union to reduce wages. Ryan is against looking at that option. At the Feb. 10 ASG meeting Ryan and Grambush replied to concerns from students and explained the situation. One suggestion by a student was to start a food ser vice program run by students like a similar one at Chemeketa Community College. Ryan agreed that the pro gram would reduce the wages considerably, but that the kit chen at the College was not big enough. The College also has an agreement with other com munity colleges to do with specialized course offerings. Ryan said that the month of January was the most pro ductive month so far for the cafeteria even though they still ended up losing money. He feels with the increase they will be in the black. “We are not interested in making a profit,” Ryan said. “I will feel comfortable in the black—we do not want to go any further.” Ryan does not want to do anything more with the cafeteria situation for a month. After evaluating the next month Ryan feels if they still are losing money they might have to drop an employee. Grambush remarked that they already let two employees go last year.