OPINION
Comments From The Top
by
Roseann M. Wentworth
Scapegoats on the loose
For the past month, under new top
management, ASG has been incredibly
busy bringing the campus the blood drive,
Spring Fling, and Clubs Awards Ban*
quet. This term’s ASG administration
has been impressive in their productiv*
ity toward the betterment of this cam
pus.
This week’s over-devoted award goes
to ASG senator Barbara Wendling, who,
with splints on both hands, hand-wrote
every single award presented to all the
clubs’ member on this campus. Incred
ible.
However, all is not rosy. There is a
campaign in progress for next year’s ASG
executive positions. Last Wednesday, a
public debate was held between all four
candidates: Tony Franklin, candidate for
president; Ken Ingram, incumbent can
didate for president; and Andreas
Luehring and Jim Olsen, both opposing
candidates for vice president.
One candidate was asked by an au
dience member during a question and
answer period why the majority of the
students don’t learn about ASG events.
Given, it seems like a simple-enough
question, but the question had teeth and
it bit hard enough to promote a squeal.
It was answered, in short, that it was The
Print’s undenying fault for not inform
ing the public about ASG events.
This response is not as surprising to
CCC journalists as one might expect. If
the ASG is that dependant upon stu
dent journalists, I ask them why don’t
they put together their own ASG weekly
newsletter, this way, they can be their
own PR people and we won’t have to
educate them about journalism.
Possibly next year, the student gov
ernment can work out a business deal to
put The Print on retainer as their own
PR people.
This is a problem not so specialized;
the press has always been the nemesis of
the government, whether at Clackamas
or in D.C., and we’d like to keep it that
way. It’s kind of an unwritten law prac
ticed willingly for generations.
By refusing to become the doting
student-PR firm that most young-gov
ernmental members think they deserve,
but still keeping in touch, we are able to
cover ASG in a way that’s fair and hon
est to thestudent body-who,by the way,
in case anybody around here forgot, is
who both student organizations really
work for.
Another item mentioned in the
forum, by the same candidate is that he
has “currently been talking with next
year’s Editor-in-Chief of The Print, and
that ASG and the paper will be working
“much more closely next year.” It’s so
interesting because die newspaper hasn’t
even received any applications for next
year’s editor, let alone appoint one.
Politicians sometimes do embarrass
ing things and it’s our jobs as journalists
to let the public know that it’s hap
pened. We don’t put their foot in their
mouths, we just tell the public about it.
Our staff realizes that this is an edu
cational function and we’re confident of
our abilities as student journalists.
Therefore we don’t need scapegoats to
lay our responsibilities on.
THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
May 9,1990
Page
2
Reoganization at CCC a step into the future
Yes, major decisions are facing Presi
dent Keyser with the upcoming retirement
of Dean of Students Jim Roberts like should
a new dean of students be hired or should
the position be eliminated?
Hiring a new dean of students would
delay confronting some perceived internal
problems in the counseling, advising, and
career/placement area that some suggest
need addressing. This issue is discussed in
the Les Adkins Report which was com
piled at the request of the Dean of Student
Services during the winter term of 1988.
The report makes numerous recommen
dations regarding the counseling, advising,
and career/placement departments and
recommends combining the previously
mentioned areas.
Not hiring a new dean of students would
free up money for other programs. For
example, the nursing program currently
has twice as many applicants as it has space
for. The solution would be to hire addi-
tional staff members but there aren’t enough
funds available for that at this time.
Reorganization and integration would
be in line with modern trends toward stream
lined, more efficient administration.For
example, Tektronix is one of many compa-
PRO
Jim Spickelmier
nies that recently restructured their ad
ministrations and eliminated numerous
administrators. A more streamlined ad
ministration is also dictated by fiscal re
straints and ever-increasing public agency
demands for limited resources (tax dol
lars).
Since the college opened, it has grown
in many areas and the administration has
also grown. Upon entering the 1990s, the
role of the college is still changing to meet
the ever-changing needs of students, busi
nesses, industries, technology, and the
community as a whole. Along with these
changes are dual pressures for restraining
expenditures and increasing public accounta
bility. These needs can be met in two ways;
either cut programs or indoctrinate a stream
lined more efficient administration.
There are those who say that not hiring
a new dean of students would limit the
checks and balances at the executive man
agement level, that to much decision-making
power would be granted to too few people.
However, executive decisions still have to
be approved by the President’s Council and
then by the Board of Directors.
Administrative reoranization and inter-
gation is the trend of the 1990’s. Do we at
CCC want to go with the future, or stay in
the past?
Dean necessary to address student problems
Assistant deans, hired for specific tasks,
When students have a problem with
this institution, who do they ask to help maybe not student related, may find their
job descriptions including an added lunch
them? The Dean of Students, maybe?
With the position of dean of students appointment with a sniveling student re-
vacated due to Jim Roberts’ retirement,
the post is subject to deletion, like a com
puterprogram. Ofcourse, with a computer
program deletion, the remaining programs
are not sent into a wild and anarchical
frenzy.
R.W. Jagodnik Jr.
Lee Fawcett “working with the Presi
dent’s Council to manage the change”
through the switch or reorganization will questing money for a student retreat. How
still cause unwarranted confusion. The does a person unfamiliar with student
delegating of the dean of students’ respon government and activities respond to a
sibilities among the remaining administra request like that? This is not to say that our
tive departments will spread the waning Assistant deans are incompetent, just that
power of the students thin, so thin that the their job description does not involve deal
bureaucracy will smother the central voices ing with individual students.
As archaic as the present system seems,
of any transparent individual making that
the new integration of progressive admin-
student invisible.
CON
by
(Clackamas
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mas Print do not necessarily reflect those of
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Editor-ln-Chief:Mark A. Borrelli
Managing Editor: Roseann Wentworth
Copyeditors: Roseann Wentworth
R.W. Jagodnik, Jr
News Editors: Margy Lynch
Roseann Wentworth
Feature Editor: Angela Wilson
Photo Editor: Jillian Porter
Sports Editor.Staci Beard
Business ManagerrGregg Mayes
Rhaposody Editor: Me-Lissa Cartales
Production Manager: Jennifer Soper
Reporters: Amber I— Cordry
Dan A. Fulton
Richard Marx
Jim Spickelmier
Photographers: Scott Johnson
Eva Worley
Lane Scheideman
Tim Zivney
Staff Artist:Sue Ann Walker
Adviser: Linda Vogt
istrative ideas are still ideas that will cost
the students while the experiments are in
opening stages. Although the dean of stu
dents* position will be eliminated along
with the salary, the students will have to
wade through bureaucracy to achieve their
goals. This may take years, costing the stu
dents time.
With the central figure and liaison with
the president eradicated, the push, no longer
by that one individual, will fall short of
accomplishments and require more of the
President’s Council time. Again, this is
nothing but time spent with unsatisfactory
results.
This institution needs a central posi
tion occupied by a person that a student
can feel comfortable addressing problems
or praise to. Without the dean of students,
who does a student turn to for help?