EVENTS CALENDAR
Wednesday, Feb. 16
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Thursday, Feb. 17
Marketins Task Force
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Seminar: “Auto
Maintenance for '
Women”
7*10 p.m.
3-4 p.m.
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CC 116
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Autoshop
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Friday, Feb. 18
i Intervarsity Sing-a-long
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7-10 p.m.
CC Mall
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Monday, Feb. 21
Saturday, Feb. 19
Wrestling Tourney
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President’s Day
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Gym
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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.