Feature
Campus security not “Rent-a-Cop”
by James Brown
Business Manager
When most people think of
campus security, they think of
“Rent-a-Cop” which is far from
the truth. On Clackamas Com
munity Campus they are known
as Public Safety Officers. Oregon
Revised Statutes, Criminal Code
refers to them as Peace Officers
which is defined as a “sheriff,
constable, marshal, municipal
policeman, member of the
Oregon State Police or in
vestigator of the Criminal Justice
Division of the Department of
Justice and such other persons as
may be designated by law” (ORS
161.015 General Definitions).
The reasons they are Public Safe
ty Officers rather than Security
Officers is because they are com
missioned through Oregon City
as reserve police officers and are
employed by Clackamas Com
munity College to do security. As
reserves they go through the same
training as regular officers do, in
cluding many, many lectures on
existing, new, and upcoming
criminal and traffic laws,
firearms training, defensive driv
ing, just to name a few.
The Public Safety Program
deals with the protection of the
physical plant and equipment, the
safeguarding of staff and
students, the controlling of a
Photo by Both Coffey
vehicle parking on college proper
ty, and the continued implemen
tation of a program of good rela
tions with students, staff and the
community.
The Public Safety Officers
have the philosophy of preven
tion, rather than apprehension,
some of the goals that Public
Safety Office tries to achieve are:
A. Control and oversee all
vehicle parking and traffic on col-
lege parking lots and roadways.
B. Provide protection and
security for the College Physical
Plant, equipment and property.
C. Establish and maintain con
tinuing rapport with local law en
forcement agencies.
D. Establish and maintain a
college loss prevention and crime
prevention program among all
college staff, faculty and
students.
These are just a few of the
goals that the office tries to
achieve. Public relations is stress
ed and is vital to the success of
the Public Safety Officer perfor
ming his or her job.
After going over crime
reports, Public Safety came up
with some problem meas which
reveals that the leading or direct
cause of the thefts of college or
private property is negligence
on the part of the individuals
having control of the property.
Staff and students leaving col
lege and personal items unat
tended in locker rooms and of
fices. They leave property in
plain sight in their vehicles and
leave their vehicles unlocked.
This year staff and students
haven’t been getting as many
parking citations as in previous
years. In fact parking citations
in general are down approx
imately 8 percent.
There is adequate parking at
the college although we may not
always consider it conveniently
located. Handicapped parking
spots should be kept available
for those who need them, not
those who are just too lazy to
walk. Access for emergency
vehicles must be kept available.
If staff and students observe the
clearly marked (in most places)
NO PARKING and restricted
parking signs, there would be
no reason to issue citations.
Public Safety Officers are
here to protect and assist. We
need to accept responsibility for
our own actions and not blame
the officer who cites us. Next
time you see a Public Safety of
ficer, smile and say “Hi”
because they are here for the
benefit of us all.
River Place displays John’ s art in lobby
by Steven Ziolkowski
Staff Writer
The Portland River Place,
sandwiched between the
Hawthorne and Marquam
Bridges, is not the French
Riviera. But sidewalk cafe
tables, pleasure boats docked in
the marina, people out to see
and be seen, and glitzy window
displays give the promenade a
first class resort feel.
lit both by a lamp held aloft and
by invisible back lighting that
made “Louise” seem to glow.
More formal and traditional
was the portrait of Susan
O’Neel, in a pink dress, seated
on a bench covered by a white
shawl and holding a spray of
white flowers. Kathy McRae is
portrayed one ballet shoe on
and the other off - in her hand.
The most prominent painting as
you enter the main lobby doors
is a portrait of Jennie
Washbum, a Scottish looking
lass.
The only male portrait here is
of Jack Fellman - complete with
a blackboard backdrop filled
with formulas of OH radicals, a
desk decorated with an
anatomical skull and one book
upon which Fellman rests his
hand.
Of the three landscapes
presented, each seems to repre
sent a different interpretive
school of painting, but all con
vey John’s strong landscape
style. “Richmond Bridge - Lon
don” (a 4’ by 5’ canvas) com
bines the architectural impres
sion of Pisarro with the palette
of Monet. John made use of
large negative or empty space in
the sky, filling it with blended
colors, from light china blues to
mauves.
Two of the best pieces, also
large landscapes, depicted water
scenes. “Columbia River after
Summer Shower,” takes almost
surrealistic cliffs in light
yellows, rose, lavender and
muted greens and offsets them
with diffused sunlight shining
from behind a small treed
island. The sailboat drifting on
the Columbia and the farm,
barely visible on the bank, is
like a seascape by Turner with a
shoreline by Constable.
John’s skills as a landscape and
portrait painter merge with his
special use of light, to portray a
woman canoeist in, “Homage to
W.W.” The colors are still soft
and muted and the interpretation
is in the Romantic Movement
style. The composition creates
suspense by showing a gate and
steps of a landing, an open river,
and through the foliage,
buildings in the distance. This
painting poses questions of a
story. Why is'the boater alone?
And where is she going?
Like the questions of the lone
boater, the question presented by
the eight Leland John paintings
is, where will his talent take him
next?
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We were taking an evening
stroll by the river and stopped in
for a cool drink on the balcony
of the Alexis Hotel. We were
very pleased to discover in the
lobby eight large paintings by
Clackamas Community College
teacher and artist Leland John.
Of the eight canvasses, five
were portrait studies. The por
trait titled, “Louise with
Lamp,” combined John’s skills
as a landscape painter with an
unusual use of light to give the
impression that the figure was
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