In search of a decent parking space...
Parking by trailers a hassle
Support CCC’s levy
As you probably Wow, the
college is requesting a two year,
rate base levy of $1.32 per $1,000
assessed value. You might not be
too excited about paying more
taxes, but it is important.
We all want quality education,
we would like to have the best in­
structors, we want the best class
materials, don’t we?
Therefore, I think that we
should be supportive of our col­
lege, and help them out.
Wooden
shoe like to
know?
The Board of Education triea
to make it easier for us by cutting
the tax rate by five cents since
their first request. In order to do
that, they had to cut $300,000. In
other words, the Board -did do
something for the tax paying!
public, they reduced the rate. '
The $1.32 rate is still a seven
cent increase over the current
rate, but the college is not able to
meet the demands for quality
education in our community with
the current (1981) tax rate.
The reason for that is, student
enrollment has grown 13 percent
the last two years and continues
to increase. Also, the cost-of-
living index in the Portland area
went up by almost 17 percent.
That is a lot in only two years.
It . means that we have to spend
more money to get whatever we
need, but it also means the same
thing for CCC.
“Now why,’’ you might
wonder, “should I pay more
taxes?” Well, the reasons are not
that difficult. The college is an in­
stitution that provides many op­
portunities to the whole com­
munity.
CCC educates over 20,000
community residents each year,
CCC plays a big role in the
economic recovery of Clackamas
County, CCC has been very suc­
cessful in providing good educa­
tion to the community. For ex­
ample, figures show that 92 per­
cent of the 1986 graduates were
very satisfied with their ex­
periences at CCC, 83 percent
thought the quality of the educa­
tion was very good, and 95 per­
cent of the graduates that entered
the job market are productively
employed,. These are just a few
examples of the opportunities the
college provides.
These are many hard core
figures, and they are kind of im-
pressive.
If you are still hesitant about
voting YES, I’ll tell you that the
tax rate is not very high com­
pared to other colleges. CCC
has the second lowest rate of all
the six Willamette Valley com­
munity colleges, and that will
remain that way even with the
seven cent increase.
I understand that you are,
most likely, not too thrilled
about paying more taxes, but it
is not too much and we really
need it. So, to conclude this,
pease be supportive of your col­
lege, and vote YES!
Do you ever get to school,
you’re running a little late, and
you have to park in the outermost
lot? Nothing frustrates me more.
Because I work on “The
Print,” I spend most of my time
in Trailer B, sometimes until late
at night, and I don’t like walking
across empty parking lots in the
dark to get to my car. As a result,
I must either get to school at
about 7:45 in the morning or
fight with about 20 other people
for a parking by the trailers.
It is my feeling that this area
should be reserved for trailer per­
sonnel only. That means not only
the Student Publications trailer,
but also the Safety trailer and the
Student Health Services trailer. I
have learned though that there is
no such thing as reserved parking
on this campus. How ridiculous!
At other schools, businesses, and
offices you can be almost assured
that at least a few of the parking
spaces are reserved for the per­
sonnel that work there.
In my opinion, if the handicap­
ped can have spaces reserved for
them on campus, why can’t the
trailer parking lot be designated
as “off limits” to those who just
park there so they won’t have so
far to walk to there classes? I’d be
more than willing to put a sticker
of some sort on my car indicating
that I am trailer personnel in
order to park there.
I’m by no means the only one
who feels this way about the
parking situation. Other “Print”
staff members and members of
the Student Health Trailer staff
share my feelings about the
hassles we must go through in
On the
lighter
side
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by Stephani Veff
Opinion/Copy Editor
order to park near where we
spend the majority of our time.
Many of us take things in and out
of our cars all day long, as well as
leave during the day to get inter­
views or whatever and come back
to no parking space. Many of us
have received warnings and/or
parking tickets on our cars for
parking illegally, and we’re just
about to the end or our rope.
Many of us dedicate more
hours than we have to at the
trailer in order to produce a de­
cent paper each week for the
students, faculty, and staff of this
college and sometimes we feel like
asking ourselves, “why?” It’s
bad enough that we’re housed in
trailers that are old and falling
apart, then we can’t even get a
decent parking space!
How difficult would it really
be to restrict the parking lot
around the trailers to trailer per­
sonnel? Not very, I would
think. I know that bigger issues,
like the new levy, are the con­
cern of the college right now,
but I think that the newspaper
and its staff are important also.
Do we not strive to inform the
students, faculty, and staff of
the college about those very
issues of importance?
If you are one of those people
who park in the trailer parking
lot, I’d like to ask you if you
could find an alternate area to
park and if you don’t want to
do that could you please write
and let me know why? Those of
us on “The Print” staff would
really appreciate it until we can
find a way to make the area
restricted to trailer personnel.
Thank you.
Skater scars a result of 'fun’
Who was the idiot that decided
to attach four little wheels to a
small board and use it as a means
of transportation? Correction.
Who was the rich idiot (if he or
she is still around) that invented
these accident prone “toys?”
Skateboards are big business
now. To officially be a “skater”
kids must wear neon shirts with
skulls and other oddities printed
on them and wear knee length
shorts. They must also have
bleached or dyed portions of hair
that either hangs in their eyes or
stands straight up in the air. And,
of course, the right equipment is
essential.
A “good” skateboard costs
well over $150. At least “skaters”
don’t have to worry about ex­
traneous little items such as elbow
pads, knee pads or helmets; these
are “uncool” to wear.
Kids and skateboards can be a
deadly combination. At any
given time in any given place, you
can see a group of “skaters”
Column
as we
see’ em
by Caree Hussey
Feature Editor
they never travel alone) wheeling
along on busy streets, in parking
lots, across playgrounds and oc­
casionally speeding through
shopping malls. They are usually
covered with bruises and band­
aids. Some even have casts. Yet
they continue to ride their
skateboards completely unaware
that further injury will surely oc­
cur. They don’t have a firm grasp
in the concepts of safety and
laws. It’s as though the second
they step on the skateboard, all
common sense is shut off.
Drivers
have
become
jnderstandably paranoid of these
hellions on four wheels. At any
moment a “skater” might sud­
denly appear in front of their car.
' This results in one of two things,
either the “skater” gets hit or the
driver slams on the brakes which
invariably causes a fender-bender
at best. What is truly mystifying
is the fact that if a skater gets hit
(and lives to tell about it) he is
amazed and dumbfounded by the
incident (“Honest Mom, that car
jumped right out in front of
me!”)
It is quite honestly frightening
to think that some of these kids
will not live to participate in high
school graduation excercises.
Those that do will have perma­
nent scars to show from theii
“fun.” There should at least be
some place where these kids can
go and ride safely. City streets are
no place for kids on skateboards.