CCC auction is successful Gideons crusade
on CCC campus
by Dean Gray
Editor
Over $4,200 was raised at the
May 1 auction held by the
Friends of CCC for the purpose
of supplementing the budget
election effort. “The money
will be used for different things
to promote a ‘yes’ vote. For ex
ample, depending on election
strategy, it may be used to
finance a flyer,’’ said Jim
Roberts, dean of student ser
vices.
Approximately $3000 was
raised in the oral part of auction
and $1200 in the silent. The
main article was a 1977 Ford
LTD and was obtained by Carol
Peterson.
The event started off with a
Bar-B-Que that consisted of
beer sausage, hot dogs, and an
assortment of picnic fare. This
was followed by a talent show
which featured such guests as
Dianne Shepard, accompanied
on the piano by Gloria Tomlin,
David Dickson, the Pauling
Four, among others. The oral
auction started at 8 a.m. and
ran until about 9:45 a.m. The
silent auction went from 10
a.m. until 7 p.m.
by Heleen Veenstra
News Editor
Auctionee makes a bid in last Fridays silent auction in the CC Mall.
“Our aim is to admit people to
Jesus Christ. Wherever we can we
try to spread the word of God,”
said Lloyd Johnson, who is a gi-
deon for the Gideon organiza
tion, explaining why the
organization was at Clackamas
Community College, Wednes
day, April 29.
The Gideon organization con
sists of “businessmen and profes
sional people, primarily for
men.” Johnson stated that
women can join with their hus
band but more as an observer.
The organization has around
200 members in 136 countries
throughout the world. The inter
national headquarters are in
Nashville, Tennessee. From there
members are divided up in
camps.
The members distribute Bibles
in motels, schools, colleges,
airplanes, ships, etc. That is one
million bibles every 15 days
throughout the world.
“We don’t force our way
anywhere. They allow us to come
one day a year,” Johnson said to
explain why Gideon was at CCC.
All the work the Gideons do is
voluntary work. They pay their
own expenses and use their own
time. Johnson pointed out it
takes him four or five hours a
week, with a monthly meeting
and a prayer meeting every Satur
day morning. He said he has been
a member for 12 years now.
The organization is very
disciplined. It’s so successful
“because it’s so disciplined. We
go by the rules that have been
doctrinated through the 85
years.”
Gideon has been in existence
for about 85 years now. It was
started by three traveling
salesmen who tried to win people
over to the Christian religion.
To become a member, people
need a “recommendation from a
church concerning spirituality.
We qualify them as far as their
business position is concerned
too.”
The purpose of the Gideons’
work is to “try to win people to
the Lord, that is the Christian
religion by personal witness and
by the witness of God,” Johnson
concluded.
President: present and past
Neale Frothingham
by Bret Hodgert
Design Editor
What made you want to be
president of the Associated Stu
dent Government (ASG)?
“I didn’t feel that there was
anyone running for office that
could give the student govern
ment the direction it needed.
Students needed to be
represented on issues that were
important to them.”
What made you feel that you
had the qualities needed?
“I’ve got extensive past ex
perience in student government.
I was involved with it my first
year here. Last year, I stayed
outside of student government
and worked on financial aid,
which gave me a completely dif
ferent perspective.”
What will be your main ob
jective with student government
next year?
“Reprioritizing what student
government does. Rather than
looking and seeing what we’ve
done, we will decide how much
emphasis we are going to put on
each area.”
“We’ll be doing some polling
later on to see what the students
really want, then providing the
services that they ask for.”
One of the main drives for
your campaign was the financial
aid issue. What do you have
planned for this?
“Whoever I appoint to be my
administrative assistant will be
given a lot of responsibility for
following financial aid
legislature in Washington D.C.
I will also be working to get
COSACC more involved
because they are representing all
the community colleges in
Oregon.
“When this session of con
gress is over and our con
gressmen are home, I will be go
ing around and talking to them.
I will be, in particularly, be talk
ing to Denny Smith because he’s
the only congressman in
Oregon’s congressional delega
tion that is opposed to financial
aid.”
You’re going to talk to a lot
of people, but what is actually
going to be done?
“By talking with a lot of peo
ple, you make it a grass roots
issue. By having a lot of
students talk to the con
gressmen you give them the im
pression that this might be a
good campaign issue.
“There will be a survey going,
out in May to find out what
students are actually spending
on housing, schooling, etc. We
will use this information to
document our case for financial
aid.”
Also in your campaign, you
mentioned lowering bookstore
prices. How are you going to do
this?
“I’ve had a lot of students and
faculty come up to me and say
‘Yes, I agree, bookstore prices
are too high.’ The next thing to
do will be to further document
the case and then go to the presi
dent’s counsel and say we would
like to see the bookstore’s books
and find out where the money is
going.”
“One thing other colleges have
done is to make their bookstores
continued p.3
for the same purpose and goals.”
What are the things that you
by Heleen Veenstra
want your administration to be
News Editor
remembered for?
What was your main objec
“Just for representing the
tive?
students in small areas. I think
“The main objective probably our student government didn’t
is being student body president. really come across large and
Also to represent the students’ humongous problems. But when
needs and to be a liaison between the students did come to us to
faculty and administration and voice their complaints I think we
for that, if a student had a com represented them.”
Are there some things you wish
plaint that they could come to
student government and would had never happened?
be well represented.”
“I wish for sure that the tur
What was the most important nover rate wasn’t so high.”
With the high turnover rate do
thing you got out of being stu
dent body president?
you feel that it is a reflection of a
“I learned a lot about how lack of leadership?
“The only reasons why the tur
people interact and the process it
takes to get things done and that nover rate was high, was because
you really can make a difference of grades.”
as a student body president.”
Why do you think students
Were the connections always might be apathetic on what ASG
good?
is?
“There is always going to be
“Each group of students that
people that are more difficult to comes here is different from year
work with because they come to year. Just like a group of peo
from different backgrounds. ple, I think a student government
They don’t value the same things does represent the needs of the
you do and the biggest challenge
is to get all those people working continued p.3
Pattie Groombridge