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Barlow Hall construction gives new look Page 3 Men eagers get outrun, 107-94 Page 7 Vol. XVII, No. 11 Administrators approve levy date College seeks passing March 27 By Shelley Ball Of The Print Clackamas Community College’s next levy election is still several weeks away, yet the College’s Concerned Students Committee and the Elections Committee are already gearing up for the event. The Associated Student Govern ment’s newly formed Concerned Students Committee will be holding a meeting today at 2 p.m. in CC101 to try to generate more levy promotion ideas, and they encourage any in terested students to attend. Last week the College’s Board voted unanimously to recommend the three-year serial levy that was presented to-the voters in the Nov. 8 election, which involved a raise from $1.24 per $1,000 of assessed property value to $1.39. Bill Ryan, dean of College services and planning said at the meeting, “The $1.39 will be sufficient for 1984-85. It will be extremely tight for the next two years, but that’s not saying we (Col lege) can’t do it.” Of the 65,000 votes the College’s Elections Committee expects in March, ASG Vice President Linda Cox said at least 30,000 votes are needed to pass the levy. The Nov. 8 levy was defeated 8,449 to 6,088. Cox, who represents the ASG on the Elections Committee, said the Con cerned Students Committee is working with the Elections Committee in generating ideas to help promote the levy. She said the Elections Committee is currently working on raising funds and forming a lay committee compos ed of citizens, while the Concerned Students Committee’s goal is “to reach each and every student.” The Concerned Students Commit tee is new this year and is ASG’s ver sion of the College’s Elections Com mittee. Formed at the start of winter term, the committee is composed of ASG members and is being co-chaired by Kristi Scott and Nancy Perman. “It’s a way of inviting students to please participate and generate ideas,” Cox said in regards to the committee, which has managed so far to gain the help of two or three students. In com paring last term’s levy-promoting ef forts to this term’s, she said the Con cerned Students Committee would have to be “stronger in publicity and getting the word across to people of how important their vote is.” The committee has already pro posed a number of ideas for the levy, some of which are being carried out. These ideas include a Collège Bowl and the displaying of voting signs in sup portive businesses. The College Bowl is scheduled to take place during the first week of March and will be made up of four teams, each team having four members. Cox said students, staff members, administrators and classified staff will participate in the bowl, which will feature questions concerning elec tions and the importance of voting. A committee headed by Student Activities Director Debbie Baker is cur rently writing the questions for the College Bowl and Cox said that the bowl may even be opened up for. out side students to participate. As for the voting signs, Cox said their purpose would be similar to the College’s no-smoking signs. These signs will be placed in positive business establishments and on their marquees. Another proposed idea for the levy includes campus tours, which would take place one night a week in the evenings and would have an ad ministrator present to answer ques tions. Cox explained this idea would show citizens what they are paying for in taxes to the College. WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT—The last remains of the frost that glazed the campus last Thursday is saved by the shadow of a motorcycle near Barlow Hall. Photo by Joel Miller “The students do have a very powerful voice...We could swing an election if they got out and voted.”—Linda Cox, ASG Vice President son who would agree to shave their hair should the levy pass, as well as making buttons that would ask people if they voted and getting campus clubs more involved in promoting the levy. Since the March levy will be preceded by finals week and spring break,Cox said this will make the Con cerned Students Committee “very han dicapped as far as reaching out to students.” In order to fight this setback, Cox said the committee plans to ask faculty members to make a levy announcement on the Monday students return to school and the committee plans to have a registration area set up at up coming events, such as the next Take Charge Day. Other ideas include having an ice “The students do have a very cream feed or dance after the election in which those people who voted would powerful voice still, and we (College) be allowed to participate as a way of could swing an election if they got out thanks for voting, finding a visible per- and voted,” she said.