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THE PRINT Vol. XXI No. 21 Wednesday, April 27, 1988 ■ ' ■ * Page 4: JinT,Burrows became the Department Chairperson of the Employment Management DMsion of Clackamas Community College. page ft A series of one act plays will be presented in the McLougtdh Hall Theatre. Page 8: The Clackamas Community College baseball team swept yesterday’s double-header against Linn-Benton to keep a six game winning streak in tact. Clackamas Community College Oregon City, Oregon 97045 19600 S. Molalla Ave. Controversy follows ASG.. Issues topic: procrastination Alyce Comyn-Selby spoke to approximately 95 peo ple about procrastination at the Focus on Women issues breakfast, Thursday April 21. Because the jour nalist put off writing the story it will appear in next week’s issue. Election result uncertain by Heleen Veenstra Editor It’s Friday, April 22 around noon. Voting for the new Associated Student Government President would go on for another five hours, before the polls would close. Faith Taylor, one of the three presidential candidates, is sitting at the high tables in the middle of the Community Center talking to her friends. The next thing she knows her mother comes in and brings balloons, flowers, and a cake. Her mother says, “Good luck, we love you and this is family support.” This scene will end in a controversy where Taylor is now being accused of campaigning at the polls, which could result in her disqualification as president. A hundred and ninety people voted. Taylor got 72 votes, Kareen Perkins got 58 votes and 54 people voted for Tom Pagh. Leslie Winston, Senator, filed charges against Taylor for campaigning in the election area. Each of the presidential candidates were given the rules and the ASG bylaws say that no campaigning during the election is allowed. Winston felt Taylor violated section 14 of the ASG election code. Section 14 of the election code says that nobody may campaign at the polls. Who decides where the polls are? Dana Dumolt, Vice-President, stated that what constitutes the area defined as the polls is not specified in the election code. Dumolt said ASG made the decision that the whole Community Center is the polls. Taylor however does not agree with the charges. “It was explained to me by Neale (Frothingham) and Paul (Kyllo) that there was to be no campaigning in there. I did no campaigning. My mother came on her own knowledge and surprised me, and the balloons said ‘Good luck.’ I got flowers that said ‘Good luck,’ and she brought me a cake. How can you Textbook policy to be enforced by Heleen Veenstra Editor Lately concern has been ex pressed by students about the tex tbook adoption policy. Neale Frothingham, ASG President, has met with Lyle Reese, Dean of Instruction, to establish measures to take action when the textbook adoption policy is ignored. “There is a textbook adoption policy that says that the depart ment chairman is the only one who can adopt a book for a course. All instructors teaching that course must use that book. Once that textbook is adopted it must be used for two years,” Frothingham said. The administrative rule on the policy has been in the archives but is, according to Frothingham, in use again. “Most of the college departments were already in com pliance with the rule. Some however were not, and it ap peared as of Spring term that, some (the social science depart ment) still were not. “Dean Reese indicated to me that if more than one textbook is ordered for any particular class they will be expected to ratify that immediately,” Frothingham ex pressed. It is expected that by Fall term each course title will have only one textbook. call that campaigning on my part? That’s why I purely believe that they have something against me. “It really hurts me a lot to find out that they’d actually do this to me. I was really enthused. I wanted to get in and work with the school. There’s just too many people that don’t want to see me in there. I just think that’s unfair. I think it is really something towards me, the person, that it’s on the outside of me that they see FAITH TAYLOR • Tops Kareen Perkins by 14 votes. instead of what’s on the inside of me,” Taylor expressed. Neale Frothingham, current ASG President, stated about the controversy, “Whenever there is an election held you want to see a dean election, so there is no doubt as to who won the race. It’s very unfortunate this will not be a smooth election process.” Taylor can only express bitterness: “It hurts me a lot to see the kind of things that are going in the way that people are dealing with people. It’s just not right and it doesn’t work in our society.” What is Taylor planning to do about these accusations? “There is a petition going around school right now saying that people voted on their own knowledge. I’ve only been here for three weeks. I’m the only black female in this college and I’m probably one of the first black students that has ever ran for ASG office. Therefore I’m the first black president and female president. “I am a pretty outspoken person. I work hard and I was ready to give this my all.” Tomorrow, April 28 at 12:30, Student Government will have a meeting in the Board Room, located in Barlow - Hall. Frothingham said that “both sides will have the opportunity to present their case.” ASG will go into executive session afterwards and will vote by secret ballot. The vote will determine what will happen to Taylor. With a three-fourths vote against her, she can be disqualified. According to Frothingham, “there wouldn’t be another election unless Faith Taylor were disqualified and secondly the runner up did not have a five percent victory over the nearest opponent.” Will there be another election in that case? “Yes, but it would be a run off between the two remaining candidates (Perkins and Pagh) in the race. Students will be assured that the election process is credible and honest,” Frothingham expressed. Both Winston, who filed charges, and Jerry Walker, a student at large who is not aquainted with Winston, will testify what they saw. Taylor will also testify about what happened, “We’re all in college now, we’re all adults, we have to vote for the presidency. If nobody can be their own person and go up and vote I don’t think anybody will make it in life,” Taylor said. Despite the controversy, Taylor has not given up. “If I was to cry and walk away from this, how can I be a strong president or leader for this school?” | Election Results President Faith Taylor..................... 72W9% Kareen Perkins........ 58 30.5% Tom Pagh..^.....^. 54 28.4% * s Vice President Leslie Barton..... .'...125 OT.2% | g