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ASG President Metzker resigns
Search for vice president begins
By Fritz Wenzel
Of The Print
Associated Student Govern­
ment (ASG) President Jenny
Metzker resigned from office
Wednesday, Jan. 9, just a day
before the ASG senate voted
to remove her from office,
although her fate was ap­
parent much earlier.
Metzker’s ouster came as a
result of her failing to meet the
spring 1984 ASG academic re­
quirements of completing 6
credit hours with a minimum
GPA of 2.0. She served as
president the entire fall term
even though she was constitu­
tionally unqualified to do so as
early as Oct. 13.
Metzker did not inform Stu­
dent Programs Specialist and
ASG advisor David Buckley
that she was having trouble
with spring 1984 grades.
Because Director of Student
Activities Debbie Baker did
not check the spring
transcripts of the newly-
elected ASG officials, the pro­
blem went undetected until
grades were posted for fall
term 1984, Baker said.
“That was probably my
screw-up,” Baker said.
‘‘Checking academic re­
quirements at the end of spr­
ing term is something I have
never had to do before. There
are so few people involved that
everyone just kind of takes it
for granted that the grades are
there. But not anymore,” she
added.
The ASG Constitution pro­
vides that “ASG members
shall complete all academic re­
quirements within the term for
which they are registered. In
the case of extreme cir­
cumstances, an ASG member
may appeal for a three-week
period of leniency to be deter­
mined by the ASG Senate .”
Metzker did not appeal for
leniency, and so was voted out
of office by the senate last
Thursday at their regularly
scheduled meeting. The vote
was 12 in favor, none opposed
and two abstentions.
Metzker
has
been
unavailable for comment for
The Print. The ASG office
reported that Metzker has no
phone and is not currently at­
tending classes. She is also in
the process of moving,
Buckley added.
Baker noted that Metzker
was familiar with the academic
appeals process, since she was
granted an appeal to finish
some classwork for the winter
1984 term. She met the con­
stitutional requirements for
that term and continued to
serve in ASG last spring.
Shawnee Christensen, the new
ASG president and Metzker’s
close friend, said she did not
know why Metzker kept quiet
about her academic problems.
Baker had no comment.
Baker did say that because
the constitution requires an
ASG member to be “currently
enrolled” or “taking” a
minimum of 6 credit hours in­
stead of “having completed”
them, there is a chance that so­
meone could serve in ASG
without actually receiving any
credit hours.
She added a constitution
revision committee is being ap­
pointed to make changes,
Jenny Metzker
File Photo
assuring that ASG members
are required to finish their
courses.
The ASG is now in the pro­
cess of filling the vacancy of
vice president, which was
opened up due to the
constitutionally-mandated
promotion of Shawnee
Christensen to the office of
president.
Anyone is able to apply for
that position, Christensen
said, including senators. If a
senator is chosen to move into
the vice president’s chair, then
the new applicant would be of­
fered a senatorship to fill that
vacancy.
Applications for those in­
terested in the position can be
picked up at the Student Ac­
tivities Office. The closing
date for applicationsis Jan. 24.
Board determines committee composition
By Shelley Ball
Of The Print
Clackamas Community College’s
Board of Directors took a step closer to
selecting a new president when it
recently approved the composition of
the screening committee. The proposal
is similar to one made earlier by search
-consultant Pat Fitzwater.
A total of 13 members will serve on
the committee: one representative each
from the administrative, supervisory
and student groups, two from the
faculty and classified, five from the
community and one official Board
member. The committee will aid the
Board in selecting candidates for the
next college president.
The College’s Board decided the
committee’s makeup at its Dec. 12
meeting (it had erroneously been
reported as Dec. 5 in The Print). Last
Wednesday, Jan. 9, the Board
recognized the names of the committee
members chosen by each individual
group.
The five community members are Ned
Ginter from Tektronix, former Board
member Anne Nickel, George Ormsby
from the College’s Occupational and
Career Advisory Council, Auto Dealer
Steve Gattuccio and former Board
member Charyl Fuller, who had to
resign recently because she was serving
in the wrong zone. Fuller expressed an
interest in serving on the screening
committee, so the Board agreed to let
her serve as one of the community
representatives.
Harold Washam will serve on the
committee as the official Board
member, followed by Jim Lee and
Glenn Ferris, faculty representatives;
Sue Jacobs and Kevin Forney,
classified representatives; and Neil
Williams will serve from the super­
visory group.
As of press time the Associated Stu­
dent Government (ASG) chose Ac­
tivities Director Kay Brant to represent
the students on the committee. A
representative from the administrative
group is expected to be chosen in the
next week.
Fitzwater’s original draft for the
screening committee was composed of
11 members, one each from the facul­
ty, administration, classified, student
and supervisory and six professionals
from business and education.
However, disagreements over this
composition were expressed by the
faculty, administration, classified and
student groups, and as a result each
group drafted proposals for revising
the committee and submitted them to
the Board.
The faculty, along with administra­
tion, student and classified groups, had
suggested to the Board the screening
committee be involved in interviewing
candidates for the presidency. Fitz­
water explained to the Board at the
Dec. 12 meeting, however, that the
responsibility of interviewing and
recommending finalists to the Board
should not be delegated to the commit­
tee because the committee itself could
not be held responsible for making a
mistake, but the Board’s members
could be.
She added the Board would be in a
“no-win” situation should they not ap­
prove of any of the candidates recom­
mended by the committee, because by
that time the rest of the candidates
would most likely be lost and the pro­
cess of selection would have to start
over.
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