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Vol. XXI No. 24
Wednesday, May 18, 1988
Page 3: Two Spanish Club officers will be spending summer of 1988 in
Spain.
Page 3: “Picnic” will open May 19 and will continue May 20, 21 and
June 3 and 4.
Page 4: The Clackamas Community College men’s track team claimed
an undefeated season when they captured the state championships last
Saturday.
Clackamas Community College
Cougars Gone Country
19600 S. Molalla Ave.
Students to rally
against semesters
by Christopher Curran
Design/Sports Editor
pnoto by Beth Coffey
Rob Quist, lead singer and acoustical guitar of “The Great Northern Band,”
performs with his group in yesterday’s campus picnic. The event was organized by
the Associated Student Government of the college.
Oregon City, Oregon 97045
Tomorrow morning, several
members of Clackamas Com-
nunity College will be joining
nembers of many Oregon com­
munity colleges in a rally on ¿he
steps of the Oregon state capital
in Salem.
The rally is in opposition to
the semester conversion which
the Oregon State Board of
Higher Education is recommen­
ding. The Legislative Emergency
Board of the state is calling a
special meeting with the Board
of Higher Education.
“We want to show some sup­
port in our favor,” said
Clackamas Associated Student
Government President Neale
Frothingham, “we want to take
the offensive, and we want to
put the Board of Higher Educa­
tion on the defensive side.”
The Clackamas ASG is at­
tempting to recruit people to
travel with them to Salem
tomorrow. There will be a van
for transportation and carpools
are being arranged. “We can ac­
commodate as many people as
possible,” said Frothingham.
“They will be signing people up
all day Wednesday at the Stu­
dent Activities window in the
Community Center.”
Frothingham anticipates there
will be much press coverage at
the event for therally. “We have
seen extending invitations to the
ïve Portland T.V. stations and
die three T.V. stations in
Eugene,” Frothingham said,
;‘we’ve also tried to contact all
jf the newspapers in the
Willamette Valley.
“ ’eople coming and going
will see how serious the com­
munity college students are
about the semester conversion,”
said Frothingham.
Although Oregon’s four year
colleges will be skipping the ral­
ly, there is a proposal that there
be two summit meetings a year
between the four year schools
and community colleges.
“CCOSAC (Community Col­
leges of Oregon Student
Association and Commissions)
opposes
the
semester
conversion,”*
stated
Frothingham, “We want to raise
this issue to the forefront of
everybody’s thinking.”
ELC provides exclusive NW recycling dump
by Lisa Graham
Co-News Editor
Since 1983 the Environmental
Learning Center (ELC) has been
working on fulfilling the goals of
the recycling depot. Jerry Herr­
mann , director at ELC, defined
these goals as “demonstrating
how a community can host a
comprehensive drop off with the
most variety of recyclable
materials.”
The recycling depot takes 27
different materials including tin
cans, motor oil, and plastics.
Currently this is the only recycl­
ing depot in the Northwest to
take plastics.
Plastics, according to Herr­
mann, are a major issue in
recycling. The increase in
plastics in the use of disposable,
“one-way” containers, has
boomed, said Herrmann. “In
just
this
area
of
Portland...there’s enough milk
jugs, looking at one product, to
fill a football field 20 feet deep.”
Five years ago, said Herrmann,
the same football field would
have only been filled five feet
deep. .., ,
Paying the cost for the conve­
nience of throw-away plastics is
ultimately, said Herrmann, the
consumer and the environment.
“If the manufacturer can save
on one end by producing a
package that’s lightweight, ships
well, cheap to make and then
can be thrown away, it ends up
saying them money but it ends
up costing the consumers not on­
ly for the container, but also the
cost of disposal.”
Plastics in the environment is
a major litter problem both in
Oregon and Washington, said
Herrmann. As an example of the
extent of the problem, Herr­
mann said that 28 tons of plastic
was picked off the Oregon coast
in one weekend. “If that’s just
what washes in typically after a
tide...you can see that this stuff
is in the environment
everywhere. Now what it
amounts to is that not only are
plastics becoming a disposal pro­
blem because of the cost of land­
fills and that they take up room,
but it’s also probably the
premier wildlife/enviromental
issue of the world at this time,”
he said.
To combat this Herrmann
recommends that people make
themselves aware of the type of
packaging they are buying and
to try and buy goods packaged
in recyclable materials. “We as
consumers can drive the
mechanism that makes the
choices about these products.
We can tell our retailer that we
prefer to have products that are
packaged in recyclable materials
and they will listen.”
Eighty percent of plastics can
be recycled, said Herrmann. The
ELC depot takes three kinds of
“Thermo-Plastics.” These are
plastics that soften under heat
but harden when cooled. The
recycling depot brochure divides
this into Semi-Rigid types: clean
milk jugs, margarine and other
pliable tubs. Soft types: clean
bread wrappers, margarine, cof­
fee lids and softcaps. Rigid-
Brittle: clean yogurt, cottage
cheese tubs and brittle lids.
The depot does take
volunteers, said Herrmann. In­
terested individuals should con­
tact ELC at the headquarters in
the John Inskeep Center or by
calling extension 351.
photo by l isa Graham
Mike Hunter mans the Environmental Learing Center’s
recycling area.