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Unifying departments important for Keyser
By Shelley Ball
Editor In Chief
It’s been a long, drawn-out
process, but Clackamas Com
munity College’s presidential
search finally ended earlier
this month when Dr. John S.
Keyser was chosen to be presi
dent.
Now that the College has a
new leader ready to take com
mand in July, a question bear
ing heavily on his success is
whether Keyser will be able to
work well with College person
nel.
This question was one Col
lege Board members had to
ask themselves in picking a
new president.
Board
Chariperson Bonnie Robert
son expressed it best when she
said the Board’s number-one
qualification for the president-
to-be was that he be able to
“work well with the communi
ty and the College.”
Indeed, this is important to
someone who must lead.
Keyser is inheriting a College
composed of administrators
(including the Board), faculty
members, students and
classified personnel, and some
of the relationships between
these groups have been strain
ed in the recent past.
It’s important, therefore,
that Keyser be capable of
working with each of these
groups in a unifying manner.
This College needs to become
stronger internally. How else
is it going to be able to work
with the community if, inter
nally, individual departments
can’t get along better with
each other?
As a writer/editor for this
newspaper, I have had the op
portunity to cover faculty con
tract negotiations and the
presidential search stories.
Both are good examples of
how College departments have
clashed with each other.
Although negotiations for a
1985-86 faculty contract have
just
begun,
previous
agreements concerning a two-
year contract were long in
coming. In fact, it took more
than a year for the faculty and
the Board to come to terms,
which happened just last May.
So tense were the negotia
tions then that a factfinder’s
hearing was scheduled, but
later called off. Had the fact
finder’s hearing taken place,
however, by law the faculty
would have been just one short
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Community Corner
Elsewhere in this issue is a story about the
march for peace, jobs and justice that is be
ing put together by a manager of a union
local. I noticed the publicity for the march
and had some other thoughts on the subject:
The bulletin board in the Community
Center is packed with all kinds of posters
and advertisements proding the inhabitants
of this information mecca to do, be and sup
port activities like hang gliding, dances,
plays, and child care centers. Without know
ing what really drove me over to the proximi
ty of the board (probably some underworld
use of subliminal thought control), I found
myself face to face with a particularly asser
tive poster urging me to join a coalition to
march for peace, jobs and justice.
Right away I had a problem with the
poster. I’m not really excited about a march.
I have a hard enough time lugging my body
over to the refrigerator to rejuvenate my
tired little cells after an average day. I don’t
think I could handle marching too much,
unless the poster means march as in the
March of Dimes. Now that is something I
could consider. I would feel guilty about my
apathy, except that I don’t think I’m alone.
It’s my bet there are quite a few people like
me. The last decade has seen us evolve into
that kind of America, I think. We are all for
protesting as long as we can pay someone
else to do it for us.
Anyway, this poster lists some 57
organizations, ranging from the Gray Pan
thers to the National Gay Task force to the
Southern Christian Leadership Council (I
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step of going on strike had
they so desired.
When an agreement was
reached in May 1984, the Col
lege’s faculty had been
operating for nearly a year
without a contract and con
stituted the latest time in a
school year for an agreement
to be made. Just six months
later, the faculty began gear
ing up for the current contract
negotiations.
As for the presidential
search, all seemed to be going
well until Pat Fitzwater,
search consultant, organized
the make-up for the presiden
tial screening committee. It
was at this point that represen
tatives from the College’s
faculty, administration,
classified and student groups
each drafted and submitted to
the Board suggestions that in
cluded their ideas on commit
tee representation.
While
suggestions
were
By Fritz Wenzel I always welcomed during the
presume the folks from the National Gay
Task Force will not be marching right next to
the folks from the Southern Christian
Leadership Council-there could be a bit of a
problem with that. As for the Gray Pan
thers, I don’t know if they will be marching
at all).
QUOTE FOR THE DAY:
To Vacillate Or Not To Vacillate, That Is
The Question, I Think.
I KNEW IT ALL ALONG:
A trucking company back East is involved
in a project that will see them replace the
diesel used as their regular fuel for their huge
trucks with, you guessed it, cod liver oil. I
guess that goes to show you that sometimes
adults can learn by listening to what their
children tell them about some things in life.
Now if someone would just find an alter
native use for Brussels sprouts, the world
would be a better place.
SOME ‘BITS AND PIECES’ about life
on our planet: A survey of 2,000 people aged
18-24 listed their most influential public per
son as Clint Eastwood. The survey said Ed
die Murphy rated a distant second, and
President Ronald Reagan was third. The
thing that worries me is that two of the three
people above seem to enjoy using the phrase
“go ahead, make my day.” If that doesn’t
make you think twice about what the
chances of the planet’s survival are, I don’t
know what will. Look out, Mikhail!
presidential search, the Board
did not anticipate there would
be disagreements over the
screening
committee’s
membership. Some extra time
had to be taken for the Board
to re-evaluate the original
committee proposal and
decide on a final one. (This
final proposal, incidentally,
turned out to be only slightly
different from Fitzwater’s.)
The fact College depart
ments went so far as to submit
ideas about the screening com
mittee shows they cared about
the selection of a new presi
dent and wanted to have as
much input as possible. No
doubt each group hoped for a
president whom they thought
they could work with.
This is not to say the Col
lege’s former president, Dr.
John W. Hakanson, was com
pletely inept at working with
personnel. Yet it can’t be
denied he was responsible, as
president, when the events I
mentioned above took place.
In regards to the future of
Clackamas Community Col
lege, I hope Keyser proves to
be the strong leader the Board
thinks he is. After some of the
disagreements that happened
between College departments,
especially between the faculty
and administration, some
fence-mending will have to be
done. Keyser will have the
power to initiate it when he
takes over July 1. Let’s hope
he uses tat power to benefit the
College as well as the com
munity.
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