OPINION
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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
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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
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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. Maybe the Blue Light Special
Express can bring some of those bargain
hunters over to field #2; they’re proba
bly more challenging anyway.
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