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CAMPUS NEWS ASG officials review past year The ASG guide states the presi dent’s responsibilities as “manag ing and directing all functions of ASG.” Frothingham defined these responsibilities in his own terms. “I see myself as being a consumer advocate,” he said. “The consumer in this case is the student. My job is to see that the student gets the cost of the dollars spent.” Vice-President Dumolt said ASG has “been great, a lot of hard work.” Describing his job, he said “you don’t always have the time to do what you need to do. It’s not a push-over. You’re having to deal with lots of other people and you’re having to work with other colleges. You’re the reason why things do or don’t get Photo« by Both Coffoy' . done.” ASG President Frothingham A quality that Dumolt said he Staff Writer found necessary for ASG was an Lisa Graham______ ________________ ability to “get along with other The ASG candidate applica people regardless of what you tion deadline is April 15. The might think of them.” He also elected positions open are Presi stressed the skill of time manage dent and Vice-President. Council ment. “You have to be able to appointed positions are the Assis juggle study and ASG along with tant to the President, Ad work and other activities outside ministrative Assistant and Enter the college.” tainment Coordinator along with As Assistant to President, two openings in the student Anne Holler said that she has Neale Frothingham. “As a learned just how much influence Current elected officials were students can have on the college. She mentioned that politicians asked what their experiences have been as ASG officials and what seek out opinions of student goverments. “Students can have responsibilities they had to carry. an effect on their schools and stu All were candid and open. “It’s been an absolutely fan dent government can have an ef tastic experience,” said President fect on the commmunity,” she' Neil Frothingham. “As a finance said. “I think it’s really impor major, I’ve learned more about tant that students become more management, budgeting and aware of what’s going on outside .about how to be a competetive (the campus). Whatever is going employee in the job market than I on out there is going to effect would have learned in six years of them here in some way.” Qualified for the job of Assis college.” Frothingham said that he sees tant to the President, she said, is “anybody interested in having ASG as playing an increased role in college decisions. “The some fun, meeting some new people and working. Sometimes, Presidents Council and the Board of Education are looking more you have five different projects strongly at student opinion,” he due and you’re tearing your hair said. As ah example he mention out and not sure which way to ed the recently approved plans jump.” She concluded, “It’s for a $4050 upgrade in lighting in good place to make some new friends and to learn a lot. And I the Barlow parking lot. This came about, he said, from stu don’t mean necessarily, of just how a student government dent concern voiced through the runs, but also how the college ASG. government runs. You also learn to work with people you never thought you could.” As Entertainment Coor dinator, B.J. Blumenkron said that it is a job that comes with many responsibilities. The ASG guidebook states the job as being responsible for coordinating all “student planned activities that contain social, educational, and/or entertainment qualities.” The job demands a great deal of time, she said and specified that in order to make the job work, the yearly calendar planning should be done during the sum mer. This year, Blumenkron said that she saw her responsiblities as providing entertainment for a wider range of audiences. “When I came into office the cry from the students, young and old, was ‘there’s too much young!’ To remedy the problem, Blumenkron decided to “enter tain the majority. To do that I ASG Vice-President Dumolt had to offer as many programs as possible.” Because of limited funds, Blumenkron decided to put a premium on artists from within the state and “put the money from our community col lege and put it back into our own arts community.” Blumenkron said that her plan was well receiv ed by artist and was successful in incresing the number of artists brought to the campus. Stance set on semester conversion by Mietete K. Taylor Assistant Opinions Editor The CCC college board is cur rently working on reaching a decision on whether the college should convert from the quarter system to the semester system The board is trying to decide whether they should stay with the current quarter schedule and suf fer the the consequences of being off schedule from other state col leges in Oregon. Their other deci sion is to convert, in 1990 as plan ned, to the semester system and risk losing students who might be inconvenienced by the schedule of the semester system. “The semester system (might hot) fit the schedules of com munity college students,” Presi dent Keyser said when commen ting on the possible negative efb fects of the proposed conversion. “Learning is better designed in a short time frame,” Keyser also said. Many community college students are older and are work ing and raising families as well as going to school. Keyser feels that ‘Tm opposed to the semester conversion” these students may encounter problems if the college was to go to the semester system. “I am opposed to the semester conversion,” Keyser said. He also said that he felt that the semester system was not a good idea for any college - two year or four year. Keyser and Bonnie Robertson, a member of the CCC college board have sent a Clackamas Community College Page 4 Computer breakdown Improvisation saves day First, the technician upgraded the two good disk drives. “This At 8:30 Wednesday evening, should make your whole system the back lobby of Barlow Hall run 15 to 20 percent faster when was quiet, except for three per it’s under heavy use,” the tech sons carefully shifting a crate into commented before he and “T” the building. When the three by prepared to shut down the entire four by three foot cardboard box system. From a box about the size of a was finally settled onto the floor of the computer room the techni dishwasher the tech pulled out a cian checked the tilt and crush drawer of integrated circuit gauges on the side of the con boards. These circuits formed a cover for a hard disk drive unit tainer. “These babies don’t like to be about the size of a couple of .shoe jiggled around too much,” he boxes. “What happened to the old said, “Or those little plastic tilt and crunch windows release a red one?” I asked. “Bad spindle,” the tech dye - and then we take the whole unit back without even unpack replied. “The hard disk is like a phonograph player. It has a ing it.” The “unit,” surrounded by a head, that reads and writes data metal shipping case coated with on the disk. And the disk is anti-static and shock absorbing driven by a small electric asyn- plastic was pillowed on all sides chronic motor. The disk turns on by almost twelve inches of foam a spindle. The spindle went bad,” he concluded. “At least, that’s rubber. “It” was not a bomb. “It” was a 590 megabyte hard what I hope,” “T” added. “How do you know it was the disk drive. The hard disk is the computer’s permanent memory spindle?” I asked. “It’s a smart drive,” the tech and address book. When the campus’ mainframe said. “It has about 18K of inter computer went down during nal memory that can run self registration, everyone - staff, diagnostics. That was what the faculty and students - noticed error code indicated.” “And what would one of these how important our data process ing department is to college cost me for my computer at operations. Student records, class home?” . _I asked. “About scheduling and billing are just a $30,000,” “T” said. But he add few of the activities tied together ed, “It’s under warranty. Except by the computer to keep in the contract we only get labor costs between nine and five and everything running smoothly. What began as a day and a half that would mean shutting down shut-down of the mainframe the computer during registration could have continued much again.” It was about 10:00 p.m. The longer except for the hard work and ingenuity of “T.” “T” is In- technician went back to the ter ouye Tsuyoshi, Data Processing minal after bolting in the new Officer at Clackamas Communi unit. He typed in a few com mands. He went back to the ty College. “When the disk went down, I drawer and placed the circuit backed it up (copied the informa boards over the hard disk drive. tion stored on the disk) and He jammed his hand between a began using just two of our three board and the drawer, pinching disks in a limited capacity,” “T” one of his fingers. I read silent curses across his smiling face. said. ■ Using the computer equivalent The printer ticked a line across of chewing gum and baling wire the page. I walked over and read it quiet to run a three cylinder engine on two cylinders, “T” got the ly, laughing aloud. “It says, ‘Do you want help?’ system back up and running on; Tuesday. Wednesday night he doesn’t it?” the technician asked. and a Data General Technician “I thought you’d like that,” he teased. rebuilt the engine. by Steven Ziolkowski Staff Writer letter to the state board of higher education expressing their op position to the proposed semester conversion. < Ticket increase In the letter Keyser and Fines for traffic tickets have Robertson stated that the conver been increased from the current sion would be very costly to the rate of $3 for all violations to $10 college financially and may not for handicapped parking viola save any money for the college at tions and $5 for all other viola any point. They said that the col tions. All violators have an op lege would not be able to serve portunity to go to the traffic ap the community as well if the col peals board if they are ticketed. lege was on a semester system. If the college did not' eonvert and Give Blood the state colleges did, then many Blood Drive—April 13, 10 students would have problems a.m. - 3 p.m. Community transferring. The letter also said that this educational issue was - Renter. not one of great importance to Concert for CCC many Oregonians or students. The conversion may make the Music concerts for CCC staff path towards college success un and students return this Spring necessarily more challenging. starting Wed., Apr. 6, Noon to 1 p.m. with nationally known The college board will make their final decision about the con pianist and composer John version next fall. ^Nielson. Free in the CC Mall. News Briefs Romanticism a hit Last Wednesday the Friends of CCC Library hosted a slide-tape show, poetry reading and music relating to the age of English Romanticism. This show was presented along with a display in the library which was given to them for a week by the Oregon committee for the Humanities. About 130 people were present Wednesday night for the presen tation. Which was put on for the Humanities experience classes and the English and Art Depart ments. Because of the success that came with this display and per formance, the Friends of the library are thinking about doing other shows of this kind. •