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About The Clackamas print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1989-2019 | View Entire Issue (May 2, 1990)
OPINION Comments From The Top | By Roseann M. Wentworth Mail,mail, and more mail As News/Managirig Editor, a lot of memos cross my desk. Some I read, some I laugh aloud about, and some, unfortu nately, get tossed. There always seems to be a politician somewhere holding a fun draiser or a press conference; and you thought money made the world go *round. This is my first column on the edito rial page. I finally decided to seize this opportunity as it may be my last in a great while as I go on to the “big league and become a smaller fish.” I figured that most of the people on this campus could use a laugh or two, or, on the serious side, a voice to vent our common frustra tions that go with living the campus life style. Thank you for your support. It’s bad enough being late getting out the door in the morning trying to get to class, now you have to leave at least 15 minutes early (and still be late) just to find a decent parking spot at least a mile from your dass, even on Tuesdays. Pretty soon the college is going to have to rent space from the Berry Hill Mall and have a shuttle to and from the Campus: The Blue Light Special Express. Hey Stan, don’t retire yet! Have you thoughtabout getting your chauffeur’s licence? And don’t even think about parking in a des ignated yellow zone for more than a nanos econd around here~our campus parking patrols are ruthless. I learned that after approximately 2,000 tickets. I have so many tickets that my left wiperblade is permanently stained pink. At the rate the college is expanding, they’re going to have to have a lottery-type drawing just to park. When’s the next shuttle, Stan? The Community Center turns into a White House-equal every May. Associ ated Student Government elections are once again upon us. Signs and flyers are everywhere. (If one shows up in a bath room stall, I’ll throw up.) Open-mike debates are only a few days away, and the stress level is growing higher between the candidates. It’s so great. So what if nobody turns out at the polls? We’re only voting for the people who will be re sponsible for most of the activities on campus next year. So what if no one uses their given right as a responsible college student to actually have a hand in choos ing whos “seconding a motion” which you may not like. I really hope I don’t have to write a headline like “Ace wins by a landslide: five votes to three; An other record-breaking year in the polls for ASG.” Have a little respect folks. Ex ercise your right to vote May 9,10 and U-night students too. THE CLACKAMAS PRINT May2,1990 Tuition hikes to benefit students So how do you feel about the proposed tuition hikes. Does it get your dandruff up and make your blood boil? Or, do you casually shrug it off for more immediate concerns, like are they serving lasagna for lunch today? On the bright side there is a cafeteria to serve lunch in today: whereas, when the college opened in 1966 there wasn’t a cafe teria let alone a campus. People actually paid $60 a term to take classes in the base ment of a church, to attend evening classes held at local high schools, and to work in shop classes held at the old Oregon City Vocation School next to the National Guard armory. Since 1966, the campus has been built, programs have been expanded to include more classes, and many new programs have been offered. All this and the campus is still expanding. Yet, the tuition increases since the college opened have always been kept well in line with the cost of living increases as reflected by the Consumer Price Index. Oh sure, some will argue that the col lege administration didn’t have enough confidence in the voters to ask for even more money on the last budget levy so that tuition wouldn’t have to be increased, or that the squeeze is being put on the stu dents to make up for the administration’s lack of voter faith. Get real; right now the average prop erty taxpayer is paying through the nose to support public schools and one should never look a gift horse, or a generous voter, in the mouth. Even if one rents, there is a portion of rent that goes to pay property lax and if property taxes go up so does the rent. Let’s give the administration some credit for putting a reasonable levy proposal be fore the voters and thank the voters for passing it the first time; the voters haven’t always done that. The voters passed a build ing bond issue last year and this years budget levy, so what more do you want. So what if the tuition is going to in crease. The increase is staying within the cost of living increases, the students are the ones who are going to benefit from the tuition hikes, and CCC still has one of the lowest fulltime tuition rates around. Slow doors at CCC become useless You are late to your mid-term in McLoughlin. You run up to the building, breathless and impatient. Arms full of last minute papers, you spy the blue and white sign on the door and the black rubber pad before it. You step... and wait. .* However much you want to curse, the door will still open at a snail’s pace. It is state law! Thanks to a democratic government, the law can be changed. But why instate the law in the first place? With all the com plaints from disabled students using the slower-than-slow automatic doors, the reasoning behind the law seems foolish, at least, on this campus. The rumors about the reason for chang ing the speed on the doors are really true. Clackamas $rint The Clackamas Print aims to be a fair and im partial newspaper covering the college com munity. Opinions expressed in The Clackamas Print do not necessarily reflect those of the col lege administration, faculty or Associated Stu dent Government. Articles and information printed in this newspaper can be re-printed only with written permission from the Clacka mas Community College Student Publications Office. The Clackamas Print invites readers to express their opinions. Letters to the Editor should by legible, should not be libelous, and must be signed. Letters should be dropped off in Trailer B, or The Student Activities office by Monday, for publication Wednesday. The Clackamas Print is a weekly publication dis tributed every Wednesday except for finals week. Clackamas Community College, 19600 S. Molalla Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon 97045. Office: Trailer B. Telephone: 657-6958, ext 309 (office), 577 (production) and 578 (advertising); The state of Oregon was sued by a young man who accidentally trapped his head in the fast-moving doors of the past, seriously injuring himself. This prompted the state wide law on slower automatic doors. Since the state has required these doors to open and closeslower, CCC has nothing else to do but comply. Unfortunately, this is not an issue open to debate on this cam pus. Getting back to this wonderful demo cratic government that we live in, the sys tem can work for us. The petition that is rumored to be floating around campus to speed the doors up should not be turned into this administration, but to the state capitol where the written voices might really cause a stir. Although exclusively for disabled stu dents, the slower moving automatic doors present a problem to all who pass through them. The sharp metal edge of the door can become a hatchet to some students cruis ing to class, or, at least, an embarrassment. For some disabled students, the door can become a time-trap, when self-mobility already has them under restraints. For now, these other hazards have to be dealt with by the ihdividual. As inconvenient as the slower doors are, this campus is stuck with them. You might be late to class, but the state of Oregon has a healthy bank roll, clean of all law suits that might pop up because of the speedy automatic doors. Which one seems fair to you? EDITORIAL POLICY The views espressed in The Clackamas Print are those of The Clackamas Print staff, and do not neccesarily reflect those of Clackamas Community College. The Clackamas Print welcomes Letters to the Editor. Such letters must be signed or 'will not be printed. Letters must not exceed 300 words and should be typwritten or neatly printed. Letters can be turned into The Clackamas Print offices in trailer B north of Randall Hall. The Clackamas Print reserves the right to edit Letters to the Editor for grammar, obscenities and libelous material. Letters to the Editor must be turned in Monday in order to be printed in the following Wednesday’s edition. Opinions Editor:Mark A. Borrelli Managing Editor: Roseann Wentworth Copyeditors: Roseann Wentworth R.W. Jagodnlk, Jr News Editors: Margy Lynch Roseann Wentworth Feature Editor: Angela Wilson Photo Editor: Jillian Porter Sports Editor: Staci Beard Rhaposody Editor: Me-Lissa Cartales Production Manager: Jennifer Soper Business Manager:Gregg Mayes Reporters: Amber L. Cordry Dan A. Fulton Dawn Kuehl Jim Splckelmier Richard Marx Photographers: Dawn Kuehl Lane Scheideman . Tim Zlvney Eva Worley Staff Artist:Sue Ann Walker Advisor: Linda Vogt -Speaking of record breaking: A whopping one team signed up for intra mural softball this year (down from an overwhelming four teams last year). Pretty embarrassed? Western Oregon State College reports that over 64 teams signed up for their intramural softball program this year. Embarrassed now? While you’re recovering, how about getting a few people together and challenging The Print staff at a bout around the bases. Even Charlie Brown and Snoopy had a team to play against. 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