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EVENTS CALENDAR Wednesday, April 13 Lecture: Understanding Cults Thursday, April 14 I ; Workshop: Time I Management for Women I 7-9 p.m. Theater 7*9 p.m. Small Dining Room 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 -L. 1 1 1 Friday, April 15 1 Movie: “Robin Hood” 1 : 1 • 1 6-10 p.m.- CC Mall 1 1 I - I ACT Testing April 18-April 20 | Monday: 12 a.m.-7 p.m. ! Tuesday: 8 a.m.*8 p.m. ! Wednesday: 8 a.m.-12 p.m. 8 a.m.-l p.m. ASG Elections C 151 CC Mail Saturday, April 16 Vol. XVI, No. 20 Sagoe, Porter battle forl983-84 presidency Sagoe seeks to carry on ASG goals Porter sees no guidance from Nastari John Sagoe has thrown his hat into Clackamas Community College’s political ring. Sagoe is running for the office of ASG president, on a “ticket” with Linda Cox, who is seeking the office of vice president (Please see related story, this page). There are only two elected positions in the student government. Other executive cabinet positions are appointed. These include Ad ministrative Assistant, Assistant to the President, and Activities Director. Sagoe is a foreign exchange student from Ghana, a country in northwestern Africa. If elected, he would be the second minority stu dent to hold the office of president at the Col Don Porter Rle photos lege. Bob Loo, a Sino-American, was president of the student government in 1972-73. “I don’t have any promises for the job, because I don’t know what the students want yet,” Sagoe said. Although he does not have specific plans for the office, he would like to see some Of the current ASG projects carried on. “We’ve seen some very good issues attack Linda Cox and Tim vice president. ed by the ASG this year, and we (Sagoe and Tim Sytsma, 19, is also Cox) would like to see them carried through,” he Sytsma will vie against each said. Sagoe cited the thrice-yearly blood drive other for the office of working for that job. Sytsma and book exchange programs as projects that he Associated Student Govern was a senator for part of this ment vice president later this year, but resigned because of feels are worthwhile. “This year’s government has done a month. Cox and Sytsma are scheduling conflicts. Ironically, tremendous job and we’d like to do as well or the only two people running for it was Cox who filled the posi the job. tion vacated by Sytsma. better,” Sagoe said. Cox is running on a Like his opponent, Sagoe’s political background includes work both here and in Africa. While at Adisdel College “ticket” with John Sagoe (who Sytsma also has a running in Cape Coast, Ghana, he served as a house is running for president), while mate, Don Porter. Sytsma ex representative on the Board of Education, a Sytsma is working in conjunc plained the team-up formed position similar to an ASG senator. He was also tion with presidential-hopeful around their common interests (Don Porter. and goals. Both candidates see the chairperson of the Press Committee. Cox, 39, is a .business ad vast room for improvement in While attending Oregon City High School, Sagoe was active in the International Relations ministration major. She is cur the ASG. Club, which is a model United Nations spon rently an ASG senator, but has “I feel I can serve the sored by the University of Oregon. Sagoe also had very little political ex students well,” Sytsma said. wrote for the OCHS newspaper and the literary perience prior to this year. She is running with Sagoe One goal Sytsma will magazine, “5th and Jackson.” shoot for is redefining the job This, with his former work dealing with the because they share political description for the vice presi-; press at Adisdel College, led Sagoe to major in convictions, Cox explained. dent. “The job has not been International Relations and Journalism at the “We think very much alike. I sharply defined in the past,” College, and to write on a freelance basis for The think we can work very well together.” Sytsma said. “I think the vice Print. Cox sees the job of vice president’s duty should be to From here, Sagoe would like to transfer to president as one which evolves support the president, and to the University of Oregon or Portland State. help people get the most out of The end goal of his education is interna around two main departments, the student government.” • tional politics, Sagoe said. “It all depends on the ASG budget and the Sytsma was politically ac what I do here in Oregon. There are two various clubs on campus. “I possibilities; I would like to work for the Depart would like to see the clubs tive while attending Sandy ment of State in Ghana as a diplomat, or apply more involved,” she said. “It High School. He served as the junior class vice president and to an international organization through the would help the ASG and get more students involved.” later as the student body presi United Nations.” Cox is currently the presi dent. Although he is not originally from the Sytsma is running for the United States, Sagoe does not feel his grasp of dent of the College’s Spanish the English language will hinder his activities. “It club. She feels that this, along vice presidential job for shouldn’t be a problem,” he said. “I have been with her business-oriented ma 1983-84 because “Helping jor, would help her in the job of people is the key,” he said. working with the language since I was six.” - J Cox vs. Sytsma for ASG vice president Don Porter has entered the race for the 1983-84 Associated Student Government presidency. This is familiar territory for Porter: He was the ASG president at Clackamas Com munity College in 1979-80. Porter, 23, was a senator earlier this year. However, he resigned before the year was out, citing dissatisfaction with the current ASG. Porter is running for office because he sees a need for changes in the structure of the student government, and because he sees “No guidance on some sore issues” from this year’s president, Paul Nastari. Porter sees many problems with ASG and is running on a platform with three key issues: To improve on-campus communication, to upgrade the College’s image with the community, and to streamline the functions of the student govern ment. The business management major has several theories for improving communications, including better utilization of the College’s closed-circuit television system, dubbed the Student Information Network, or SIN. However, his largest complaint, and top priority, is with the school’s image and public relations. His suggestions for improvement in clude looking at the Lip Sync contests and the game room. To make the College more respectable for visitors, Porter would like to see such activities as concerts and Lip Sync contests relocated to the McLoughlin Hall theater or, in warm weather, outdoors. He would also like to see the game room eliminated or moved out of the Community Center. Earlier this year, Porter conducted a private survey, he explained. He alleges that “a lot of people there (in the game room) aren’t students,” but are simply members of the com munity. Another area Porter would look into is the College’s bookstore, to see if it is “fulfilling the needs of the students,” he said. “I can safely say there is not one student who is completely satisifed with the bookstore,” Porter said. He pointed to th'e prices of the store’s merchandise and its buy-back policies as areas which deserve investigating. “Who’s making money? Who’s benefiting from that money?” Porter asked. “I’m not ad vocating closing or boycotting it, just inr vestigating the situation.” Porter would also investigate the ASG’s book exchange program, which he called “something of a joke.” Porter’s background includes work with the Kiwanis, Senior Citizen Centers, a volunteer Crisis Line, and the presidency of the College’s ASG. He was a state Phi Beta Lambda officer, and ran unsuccessfully for a seat on the College’s board of education.