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Vol. XVin, No. 24
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Wednesday, May 22, 1985
Committee looks at option
involving gym floor repairs
By Amy LaBare
Of The Print
A committee has been form
ed to look into the cost of
repairing or replacing
Clackamas Community Col
lege’s Randall Hall Gym’s 14- •
year-old tartan floor, Chuck
Hudson, health and PE
department chairperson and
athletic director said. “The
heavily used areas, like the
keys, are worn out. They are
much less (in thickness) than
the original 3/8 inch floor,”
Hudson said.
He explained this wearing
down of the floor causes it to
become sticky, which has
resulted in numerous injuries
to athletes in recent years.
“It’s time that we do •
■ something about it (the gym t
floor). It is around 14 years ;
old and is just worn out,”
Hudson added.
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Phil Garver, women’s
basketball coach, said the tar
tan floor is not good for play
ing basketball on. He explain
ed there are many small in
juries that happen while play-
ing on the floor as it is now
and that team members have
voiced complaints. He added,
“Recruiting-wise it hinders
more that helps. People just
don’t like to play on tartan,
they would rather play on
wood.”
Three options are being
eyed by the committee, which
is made up of College staff
members, Jim Roberts, dean
of student services, said.
One option would be to
pour a new layer of tartan over
the existing one. This had been
the original plan and was
budgeted for before other
alternatives were brought up.
The estimate for a new tartan
ASG cabinet to set goals at retreat
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covering is $54,000. Garver
and Hudson said this choice
would not be practical due to
the cost of maintenance and
the lifetime of the floor. They
agreed a wood floor would last
longer and be a better playing
surface. Garver said the choice
between a tartan or wood
floor is like “renting a junker
or renting a Cadillac. Which is
better?”
Another option would be to
resurface the entire floor with
wood. The estimates the com-
mitte has seen at this time are
for the allotted $54,000 plus
up to $14,000 for a wood RAND A
floor, Roberts said.
been adversely affected, by wear and tear of constant use. Bot
The third alternative would tom photo gives close-up view of floor.
Photos by Dan Wheeler
be to cover the main floor in
wood and resurface the ex the floor not be finished at to assess maintenance costs
isting tartan. Cost for this is that time, however, ar but the committee is reviewing
not known as yet. The com rangements would have to be that aspect anyway. Roberts
mittee is researching this alter- made for the volUeyball team also said the gym floor “has
nativeto see if the floor would to play elsewhere and schedule not been up to snuff lately.”
have a level surface or if the changes made for PE classes.
After the committee makes
wood floor would have to be
a final draft of their plan the
higher than the tartan floor.
The gym is used for athletic President’s Council will review
Roberts said the committee as well as community-related it. If it is within the budget and
hopes to stay within the activities, and other events is approved by the council, the
budgeted amount of $54,000 such as the career fair and new matter will then be turned over
in order to avoid any added students orientation sponsored to the College’s Board of
extension on approval. He ad by the College. Roberts said a Directors. The Board will
ded that there is the possibility wood floor “provides a better make the final decision con
the floor could be finished playing surface for athletics cerning the gym, and must ap
before Sept. 15, in time for but a tartan floor is better for prove bids put out for con
volleyball season and the muti-purpose activities.”
struction before any further
beginning of fall term. Should
He added it would be hard action can be taken.
Following the official
swearing in of Clackamas
Community
College’s
Associated Student Govern
ment (ASG) executive cabinet
members May 16, the group’s
next major activity will involve
taking a three-day retreat on
the Oregon coast.
The retreat will be at
Rockaway and will take place
May 31, June 1 and 2. The pur
pose of the retreat is for the
group to discuss and organize
their goals for the coming
year.
Accompanying ASG Presi
dent Dan Hilts and Vice Presi
dent Shawn Watterberg on the
retreat will be students Roy
Thorp, Connie J. Poff and
Henry Palacios, who were
recently selected to round out
the five-member executive
cabinet of the ASG.
Thorp holds the assistant to
the president position, Poff is
administrative assistant and
Palacios is activities director.
Student Activities Director
Debbie Baker and Student
Programs Specialist Dave
Buckley will also be taking the
trip.
“I’m really glad that I’m
getting this chance to know
what student government is
about,” Poff, 25, said in
regards to becoming ad
ministrative assistant.
A second-year student at the
College, Poff said being ad
ministrative assistant will be a
good job experience for her, as
she is majoring in secretarial
science. She added she is look
ing forward to being able to
“put my skills to work.”
Thorp, 20, said he is pleased
with getting the “opportunity
to help people and deal with
the public on a general basis.”
Also a second-year student
at the College, Thorp, a
physics major, said his interest
in politics led him to get in
volved in ASG.
Palacios, who previously
served on the ASG as a senator
and campaigned for the office
of vice president during the
ASG elections, said it was im
portant for him to continue to
be involved in student govern
ment.
“I feel pretty good about
being selected activities direc
tor,” he said. A freshman at
the College, Palacios, 19, is
majoring in mathematics. One
of his goals as activities diretor
will be to plan more activities
for the community.