Vol. XXIII No. 20
Clackamas Community College
Oregon City, Oregon
April 11,1990
Ingram new ASG president
by Jim Spickelmier
StaffWriter
Former ASG Vice President
Ken Ingram has stepped up to
fill the role vacated by ASG Presi
dent Tim Jones due to his resig
nation last week.
“I think both of the presi
dents who were here before have
done outstanding jobs,” stated
Ingram. “I think everybody in
volved in ASG is feeling the pres
sure of getting good grades.” In
gram referred to the problem of
declining GPAs and the former
presidents’ resignations as “a
matter if priorities.”
Despite the turnovers in
ASG, Ingram feels positive about
ASG and the state of the cam
pus, “I think the campus is in
pretty good shape so fer,” said
Ingram. “One area we would like
to be involved ip is the selection
of the new Dean of Students.
We fell that students should be
Ken Igram is the new ASG president. He will take the place of
Jones who stepped down from the position last week.
represented in that selection
process and they haven’t been
so far. Hopefully, we will be able
to remedy that soon.”
Ingram thinks highly of the
other members of ASG and plans
on taking a role as facilitator 1
more than a leader. Ingram summe
up the whole situation when he said
“it’s been a good year for ASG; it
hasn’t been a good year for ASG
presidents.”
Photo by Amber Cordry
This sculpture, which appears to be a relative of Gumby, is on
display at Clackamas campus sites thru June 1. *
Red coats flood CCC
Pioneer festival canceled College hosts VICA Skills Olympics
activities that are so crucial to from around the state, 75 instruc-
by James W. Spickelmier
due to planning setbacks StaffWriter
employers. It teaches them how tors from local high schools and
by Jennifer Soper
pressed an interest in working at
StaffWriter
the festival this year.”
With an air of regret the
The board has set an April
Clackamas Community College 30 deadline for determining what
Foundation Board decided to projects they will work on next
cancel the 1990 New Pioneer year.
Country Music Festival, originally
“Until that is finalized, we
scheduled for July 21.
won’t know what we are going to
“We couldn’t reach the level do,” Fulmore continued. “The
of corporate underwriting we board will come back with some
needed within the established time thing; we just don’t know what
frame that ensured both festival yet”
and entertainment quality,” said
Although last year’s festival
festival coordinator
Beverly was only a moderate financial
Fulmore.
success, Fulmore said it was a
At the urging of a major cor learning experience.
porate sponsor the board wanted
“We had just never done
to break out of the usual festival anything like that before. It was a
and fair time frame according to learning process to recruit vol
Fulmore.
unteers. We had to build some
“Moving the date up to July creditability and that was hard,”
also presented performer rout said Fulmore.
ing problems,” said Fulmore.
' Through last year’s festival,
“Many country performers we the board and many volunteers
looked at were booked at fairs did gain the knowledge that they
across the country on or about can complete a project of this
our date, making it expensive and level successfully according to Ful
difficult to fly them in to Port more.
land. I
“We know we can do some
“It was just a heart breaking thing like it again,” Fulmore said.
kind of thing,” Fulmore said of
The next major project the
j canceling the event “Commu- board is already in the stages of
l nity support for the festival has planning is a year long celebra-
been tremendous, and many of tionof the college’s 25 year anni
last year’s volunteers have ex versary.
The Vocational Industrial to speak well, how to get involved community colleges, and 150 judges
Clubs of America held their an and work with other students, and and monitors from private indus
nual statewide Skill Olympics on gives them an opportunity* to tries participated in the event.
The majority of the events
campus last Friday and Saturday, practice some of those things.
“It gives them experience at were held at CCC. However, due
attracting numerous red coat clad
the kinds of things they’re going to lack of certain facilities, for
students, advisors, and judges.
The VICA Skill Olympics to find in the job market once they example a foundry, some of the
consist of 35 contests covering get out of school and go to work events were held at Oregon City
building trades, automotive tech full time that they don’t really get High School, Owen Sabin Skills
Center, and Benson Polytechni-
nology, electrical and electronics, exposed to in the classroom.”
Approximatelv 400 students cal High,
and personal services. They are
held each year in April at one of
the Oregon Community Colleges.
Industry, educators, and stu
dents benefit from the Skill Olym
pics. By judging and monitoring
the events industry representatives
are able to show students what
skills are required for entry level
positions. Educators are able to
determine how well their occupa
tional skills programs prepare their
students for industrial jobs. Stu
dents, however, benefit most as
the contests allow them to dem
onstrate their skills and to receive
recognition for their achievements.
“I think VICA is an excellent
opportunity for students,” said
Assistant Dean of the Industrial
Division Kit Youngren. “ It takes
young people while they’re still
forming their opinions about what
they want to do and it gives them Peter Lang (left)of Eagle Point High School, Earl Belzer and
an opportunity to not only increase John Zimmermann, both of Marshall High, are all student
their skills but learn the kinds of advisors for VICA.
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