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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1986)
Vol. XIX, No. 12 Clackamas Community College February 4, 1986 Oregon City, Oregon Survey gets good response By Amy Doane Staff Writer Flags flew at half-mast this last week at the College in remembrance of the seven astronauts killed in the space shuttle explosion Jan. 28. photo by Dan Wheeler Assistance could be withheld American males over the age of 26 will permanently forfeit all rights to federal financial assistance if they do not register with the Selective Service System. The amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill in sists that men who do not register will lose the right to claim any type of federal monetary assistance. This in cludes student financial aid and all civil service jobs. Part- time summer employment by a federal agency will also be denied those nojt registered. The amendment, which took effect on Jan. 1, stipulates that all sources of student financial aid will be cut off permanently, including Pell grants, federal student loans, and work-study pro grams. Once an individual reached his 26th birthday, Selective Service will no longer accept his registration. Men born in 1960 who have registered will no longer be eligible for a draft once they turn 26, but if they never registered they will lose all potential federal benefits. The amendment was offered in the Senate by Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-SC) and co sponsored by more than a dozen other senators. Neither of Oregon’s senatorial representatives were among that list. Selective Service Director Thomas K. Turnage said that he was pleased and reassured by the congressional support of the amendment. “Not only does this law en courage compliance with the law among young men,” Tur nage said, “it also increases public awareness of the re quirement. As always, our primary intent is to register men, not prosecute them.” The Selective Service System will begin tracking down of fenders through financial aid requests supplied to the Ser vice by the Department of Education, according to KGW-TV news. A news release from Selec tive Service notes that failure to register is a felony and is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000 and/or up to five years imprisonment. Election time is in the air which brings the time consum ing task of informing the public about this year’s budget levy. The 1986-87 budget which imposes two key elements: 1) a tax rate freeze at $1.25 per $1,000 of assessed property value, and 2) a 5 percent in crease in student tuition, will be the election budget commit tee’s first priority this next month. Informing the public on the levy’s issues is the key, accor ding to Lee Fawacett, assis tant dean of student services. He recently conducted a voter’s survey January 13 thru January 22. Staff volunteer’s randomly looked up 1,200 registered voters, of which 853 telephone numbers were located and completed a survey of 400 voters. Surveyors asked voters a total of five questions in cluding 1) Have you or any member of your family taken a class at CCC? 2) How would you rate CCC? 3) Would you vote for or against the levy? Sixty percent responded yes to the first question and 78 percent, which is 312 of the 400 surveyed, responded yes to the last. A common comment by the surveyed respondents was “I will vote for the levy as long as it is not an increase.” According to the voters Survey Analysis, with the result from the last survey question, even if all 400 surveyed all voted no, all were undecided, all had no response, and 1/3 of the yes respondents voted no, the levy would still pass by 52 percent to 48 percent. The analysis also stated that every area in this district had at least a 50 percent yes vote, and Aurora and Clackamas were the only two areas below 70 percent. Another finding by the analysis, found that every age I group had at least a 65 percent yes vote. Only the voters in the 70-79 age group were below 74 percent, and voters under 30 were the most positive. This being the colleges first mail-in election ever, Ken Koopman, community rela tions specialist, said, “The survey results are encouraging, however the mail-in election facts are challenging.” According to state election ballots, since 1981, there have been 80 ballots that have been mail-in araound the state, 19 of those have passed and 61 have failed. Portland Community Col lege and Linn-Benton CC are the only two other community colleges beside Clackamas have had a mail-in election. Although with the mail-in election the turn-out is three to four times higher, the percen tages of pass-fail are basically the same. Since the colleges opening in 1966, there have been 44 elec tions. Of those 44 elections, 17 have passed and 27 have fail ed, four of which were passed the first time. Tuesday, March 25, CCC will seek approval of a two- year, rate-based serial levy, which will be a mail-in ballot. This will be the day when the election budget committee’s ef forts will show the results. ** Responses to Levy Vote Question ** Number Percent Valid Percent Cum Percent 312 70. O 79. 2 79. 2 NO 36 9. O 9. 1 08. 3 UNDECIDED 46 11.5 11.7 1OO. 0 NO ANSWER 6 1. 5 .'•■’.'TOTAL 400 1OO. O YES Missing 100.0