EDITORIAL
Clackamas Community College
Editorials
What started out as a simple concern from the Associated Student
Government (ASG) at Clackamas, was blown way out of proportion
with last Thursday’s hearing regarding whether Faith Taylor cam
paigned in the polling place during the ASG elections for president and
vice president Friday, April 22.
Taylor, who won the presidential election by 14 votes over Kareen
Perkins, was being accused of violating section 14 of the Clackamas
constitution’s elections code which states, “no candidate may cam
paign in the polling place.” Taylor was being accused of buying votes
with brownies that her mother brought her in the Community Center.
At the hearing several items were left unclear. The two major things
were exactly what area is the polling place and just what does “cam
paigning” mean?
According to ASG President Neale Frothingham, the polling place
was the entire Community Center and all of the candidates should
have been aware of that fact. Taylor says she was not informed of that
and if she would’ve known, then she would never have been in the
Community Center in the first place.
Taylor handed in her application for the ASG President’s job on
April 15, the last day possible to do so. Therefore, she missed the April
7 candidates meeting in which all of the information such as the boun
daries of the polling place was declared. In addition to that, Mark
Walker, student-at-large, stated at the hearing that he was with Taylor
when she received her handbook from Paul Kyllo and there was no
mention of the boundaries of the polling place.
Throughout the hearing no ASG board member could give a defini
tion of the word “campaigning.” Taylor, however read the definition
of “campaigning” from the dictionary.
What went on in the Community Center on April 22 was not cam
paigning. It was a mother Surprising her daughter. Frothingham called
the event a “party.” It was not. According to Taylor’s mother, Marty
Taylor, she “came through the Community Center to see Norm
Berney (who had a jacket belonging to Faith Taylor’s brother Junior,
a wrestler last year on Berney’s Cougar wrestling team) and ran into
my daughter.” She further stated at the hearing that she had intended
to take the brownies down to the track area, where Faith Taylor had
track practice that day.
What is really being questioned here is whether college students can
vote on their own, for whom they want, without having their votes
bought by brownies or any other dessert. These are college students.
They are more mature than that.
It’s understandable that ASG has a concern for a clean and fair
election at the college. But, in this case, they took it too far - the hear
ing and the time spent on this whole issue was unnecessary.
-CLC-
Disabled students
struggle with doors
This week national handicapped awareness day, May 5, will be
celebrated. A day to create a better understanding about what being
handicapped is and to appreciate what efforts handicapped people go
through to get by in every day life. It is also a time to look at the
achievements of handicapped people and of society in providing ser
vices for the handicapped. This is also a day to look at what im
provements still need to be made to make life easier for handicapped
people.
Here at CCC we have made the college pretty accessible for han
dicapped people with bathrooms and doors that open automatically
and ramps and elevators to make almost any place on campus easy to
get to for all people.
There is one building which is not easy for handicapped people on
this campus to get to and that is the Pauling Center. The Pauling
.renter has no handicapped door in it. When the board was approach
ed about this issue last fall they said that it was something that should
have been done when the building was built, and that it is now too ex
pensive to change the doors.
Where does this leave handicapped students on this campus? It
leaves them with a struggle every time they need to go to a class in
Pauling Center. This is not fair. Tfie college board needs to re-evaulate
the issue of handicapped doors being absent in the Pauling Center and
see if they can put one in and make one more aspect of life easier for
handicapped people.
-MKT-
CCOSAC
Fed up
smokers
fight back
Textbook
policy robs
students
Election
Results
Respectable
ATTENTION:
NON-SMOKERS
We have had enough of
your opinions on the evils of
smoking. We apologize for
taking your precious Skylight
Room, yet you had the
stupidity of giving us the use
of it in the first place! I don’t
recall ever smoking in your
clean air sections.
If you want clean air, why
don’t you stick your body
outside and suck in the car
bon monoxide your cars
release? See how your Jungs
enjoy that!
Need'I remind you that
you are discriminating
against those of us who
smoke? If I told you that
your sex habits were bad for
your health, you would tell
me to go to hell. So I expect
your narrow-mindedness to
expand on our detrimental
habits.
Frankly, I feel that your
tactics are immature, selfish,
and totally unreasonable.
You are not God’s gift to
perfect health just because
you do not smoke. So stop
your preaching! You people
called the shots, and we have
unselfishly complied with
them. NOW SHUT UP!
Sincerely,
Julie McLeod
Ruby Spring
Bryan C. Wilson
Frances Dolsman
Richard Porter
Bonnie McLeod
Teresa Branderhoist
Charles L. Kroner
Terray D. Tole
Leslie K. Wisnewski
Jerry Lynch
Rant M. Betcham
Dave A. Lehto
Ruth Pippey
Vicki Collman
Becky Isely
Kelly M. Renard
Jacqueline Yoder
Carolyn Hendrickson
(non-smoker)
Sandra Strom
Becky Dankwater
(non-smoker)
Jared Beckman
Victoria Johnson
Sherri Dexter
The typist apologizes for
any misspellings in the above
names and for the deletion of
nine other names because the
signatures were difficult to
read..
To the editor
In rebuttal to the issue of
the textbook policy in the
April 27, edition of “The
Print.”
If you’re going to do
something why not do it
right? We strive for the best
education our money can
buy. We want to learn as
much as possible to achieve
our goals. Why jeopardize
the depth of our education
by generalizing text in our
social sciences?
In departments like math
and English the “basics” are
basically the same, but in the
social sciences department
each study is very intricate.
The College hires pro
fessors with doctorates in the
social sciences and spends
good money to give our Col
lege the best and then wants
to limit their teaching by
generalizing into one text
book. This injustice doesn’t
allow these instructors to
teach their best and it robs us
of things we could learn
from a diversification of
books selected by each in
structor of their individuality
and freedom of choice as
well as” our freedom of
choice.
If, for instance, you have
one sociology book for all
sociology classes why not
have one teacher? We want
variety in our social sciences.
Why sacrifice everything for
a few less dollars on text
books and rob ourselves
from our own pockets?
Would the College be saving
money by generalizing text,
or would it be robbing us of
the depth’s of our education?
You decide.
Steve Fleming
To the editor:
Congratulations, Student
Government, for a process
well handled!
I’m referring to the recent
hearing on the complaint
regarding presidential can
didate, Faith Taylor.
The rules for the conduct
of the hearing were well
prepared. Every effort was
made to give the complai
nant and the candidate the
right to be fully heard and
understood.
Serious
deliberation was accorded a
sensitive issue.
This is the type and quality
of activity that inevitably
gains respect for the
Associated Student Govern
ment, its officers and ad
visors. Good work and con
tinued success!
Vincent Fitzgerald
Counselor
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Oregon is looking for a few dedicated, energetic, creative
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