Dialogue
Student president welcomes in new year
Fellow Students,
Happy New Year and
welcome back to school! It’s
great to have you all back. For
the new students—you’re
welcome too, and please feel
at home on campus. Your stu
dent Government has exciting
things for you all winter term.
First, I would like to em
phasize a few plans on an issue
that is of importance to all of
us—the serial levy election.
This is what the whole college
depends on, and it should be
on the minds of everyone.
Even if you are leaving school
you should be considering
those who will come in future
years. It has been said over
and over that if all the students
voted we would never have a
problem passing a levy. This
time let’s do it!
Student Government is
putting together an Election
Committee of concerned
students to brainstorm and en
force some ideas we can do as
a group to pass the levy on
March 27. The first meeting of
this committee will be on
January 18 at 2 p.m. in CC
101.1 encourage as many peo
ple as possible to attend.
For the rest of January we
have several of our usual
events coming up. We will
keep you up-to-date in subse
quent newsletters and through
other campus publicity.
On January 24 there will
be a movie in the Fireside
Lounge, “Fat City.” “The
Outsiders” will be shown in
the Fireside Lounge on
January 27. Both shows will
play at 10 a.m. and be repeated
at 1 p.m. Our first “Family
Night” movie of the term,
“Annie,” will be shown at
7:30 p.m. on January 20. We
also have a mini-program
comedy show on January 18 at
noon.
I would like to appeal to
all students for your coopera
tion on two things. First, our
once-a-term blood drive will
take place on February 7. The
second item is about the newly
upholstered furniture in the
mall. Some students are com
Letters to the editor
Park sale represents mismanagement
To the Editor,
The Deep Creek Park sale
represents another example of
the county commissioners’
mismanagement of the assets
and best interests of the people
of Clackamas County. These
elected officials are going to
sell off public land at a price
that would make a prudent in
vestor blush with embarrass
ment.
The land plus valuable
timber are being sold for
$5,300 per acre. Most citizens
woud be very happy to find
just land at that price, let
alone a windfall of valuable
timber.
This isn’t all the problem
though. This money raised
from the sale is to be used to
support the remaining inade
quate parks system in
Clackamas County. The
kicker is that the purchaser has
agreed to pay off the modest
debt from the timber revenues
in five years or less. What hap
pens to our park system when
we no longer receive payments
from the sale of Deep Creek
Park? Sell another park?
I would certainly not
want my investments handled
by Clackamas County’s com
missioners ! Sounds like a sure-
fire way to end up bankrupt.
Obviously, the commis
sioners have turned a deaf ear
to the residents (so what’s
new) in, the area of the park,
not to mention the Estacada
City Council in coming to this
decision to sell off the public’s
resource.
Just when we thought we
had gotten rid of James Watt,
he shows up here in the form
of Clackamas County com
missioners.
Sincerely,
Richard Weiss
Print article draws criticism, concern
To the Editor,
I am writing in response
to Marco Procaccini’s article
“Disarmament
Needed
Now.” I am not complaining
about the story itself. My main
resentment concerns the point
made about the 12,000 Air
Traffic Controllers (ATC’s)
being fired for “disagreeing
with the government.”
First off, their contract
clause specifically stated that
there would be no striking,
and if there was one, then
those striking would be fired.
Second, and certainly not
least, are the circumstances
surrounding the strike. The
controllers chose to go on
strike the instant that around
200 planes were in transit na
tionwide. Most of the planes
were carrying an invaluable
cargo—innocent lives!
This left airport personnel
(what there was left of them)
Wednesday, January 11, 1984
to scramble together replace
ment ATC’s to. get those
planes and their irreplaceable
cargoes safely on the ground.
The ex-ATC’s were probably
hoping for a serious accident
to happen in their absence;
this they would have used as a
bargaining chip in dealing with
the government. The govern
ment, of course, acted quite
rationally in response to this
action. I definitely feel the ex-
ATC’s got what they deserved.
They were lucky that no one
was seriously injured because
of their self-centered stupidity.
Otherwise, their punishment
would have been more severe
than losing their jobs!
I have one question, Mr.
Procaccini, seeing as how you
sympathize with the ex-ATCs’
cause. Do you agree, as they
did, that human life has upon
it a price tag? I certainly hope
not!
I think the ATC strike of
1981 can best be remembered
as one of the most blatant
disregards for human life this
nation, or any other nation,
has ever experienced.
Chester Kleinhans
plaining about not being able
to smoke in CC Mall. Our
reason for this is to prevent
cigarette holes and misuse of
the furniture due to past ex
periences. We need to
cooperate to keep the fur
niture tidy and the mall area
too.
This term student govern
ment is going to try a couple
new things. We hope these
new programs will be here to
stay. The first of these is a
campus tour program. This
would enable visitors and new
students to get familiar with
our campus and with what is
available. However, this is still
in the planning stages and any
ideas from students are ap
preciated. The other new pro
gram is a dinner theatre. For
$6 you can attend a dinner
plus watch a live theatre per
formance by a professional
group. Tickets will be sold in
advance and seats will be
reserved. Make a date on
February 23.
. Finally, you are all invited
to our annual Ski-Bowl with
Mt. Hood, Chemeketa, and
Portland Community Colleges
on February 6.
Once again, welcome
back!
Sincerely,
John Sagoe
ASG President
Lobdell’s rate increase
repudiates voters’ will
To the Editor
Former Public Utility
Commissioner Lobdell’s grant
of a rate increase to PGE and
PP&L to pay for abandoned
power plant projects is a
travesty and a repudiation of
the will of the Oregon voters.
This rate increase, which
will amount to over $100
million, is to pay for the
utilities’ abandoned invest
ment in two unneeded and ex
pensive nuclear power plants
incurred before passage of
Ballot Measure 9 in 1978. As
Executive Director of Orego
nians for Utility Reform, .the
sponsor of Ballot Measure 9,1
know that our exact purpose
was to prevent these cnarges
from being passed on to utility
ratepayers, a position which
was ratified by 69 percent of
the voters.
This unfortunate decision
has confirmed my worst fears
that the process of utility
regulation in Oregon is break
ing down. The public utility
commissioner, appointed and
accountable to the governor,
no longer is representing the
public’s interest as he is re
quired by Oregon law to do.
Further, we do not have an in
dependently funded consumer
advocate in rate case pro
ceedings as Wisconsin does
with it’s highly effective
Citizens Utility Board.
To enforce the will of the
voters’ decision in 1978, I ex
pect to join shortly the lawsuit
filed by the Coalition for Safe
Power to overturn this wrong
and unnecessary rate increase.
While the utility companies
have a pocket as deep as your
utility bill to protect their rate
increases, we as consumer ad
vocates do not. Therefore we
must now appeal publicly for
your support.
The Ballot Measure 9
Defense Fund has been form
ed to support our attorney in
the upcoming court fight
which could go all the way to
the U.S. Supreme Court.
Please send your support to
the Ballot Measure 9 Defense
Fund, Box 863, Clackamas,
Oregon 97015.
Sincerely,
Dave McTeague
Denny Smith’s town meetings a farce
voted my beliefs.” Is it
Smith’s belief that poor
Congressman Denny women must die if unable to
Smith’s town hall meetings are afford an abortion? Such an
a sham and a farce. Recently extremist position surely
Smith voted to cut off all demands a better answer from
Medicaid funding of abortions our congressman, especially at
for poor women whose lives one of his town hall meetings
are clearly endangered if paid for by the taxpayers for
pregnancy is continued.
the express purpose of answer
When asked directly, ing questions from consti
Smith refused to explain his tuents.
vote! His only answer was “I
Whether you are pro-
To the Editor,
choice or anti-abortion it
seems eminently reasonable to
afford poor women (and there
are many) the right to an abor
tion in a situation where a
woman’s life is threatened.
Sincerely,
Naomi Angier, President
Clackamas County
N.O.W., (National
Organization for Women!
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