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CL A Ç KA MA S COMMUNITY COLLEGE "Pnótí October 17,1990 Oregon City, Oregon Vol. XXIV No. 3 Associated Student Government senators selected Photo by Jim Spickelmior Associated Student Government President Tony Franklin swears in this year's ASG senators. [Senators will serve untill the end of this school year. Drug/alcohol awareness program receives $142,749 federal grant by Jim Spickelmier News Editor The College recently re ceived a $142,749 grant from the U.S. Department of Educa tion’s Fund for the Improve ment of Post Secondary Educa tion (FIPSE). The FIPSE grant is a two year grant that will provide the college with $76,732 for the 1990-91 school year and $66,017 for 1991-92, The funds will be used to improve the college’s drug and alcohol awareness programs. “We spent many hours writ ing the grant and submitted it on March 12,” said Director of Stu dent Activities Debbie Baker. Official approval for the grant was received at the end of Au gust. The basic purpose of the FIPSE grant is to help change the campus environment. “We want to create an at- | mosphere in which people be come aware that they can social ize and have fun without having to use drugs and alcohol,” com mented Baker. “Any grant had to keep that purpose in mind.” Part of the funds have been used to hire Tim Pantages as a part time drug and alcohol coor dinator. One of his functions will be to train the staff to recog nize the signs of drug and alco hol abuse. Pantages will also hold workshops to train coun selors and students who want to get involved in peer counseling. According to Baker some of the grant money will be used to conduct a survey to deter mine the scope of drug use in community colleges and to find out the effectiveness of drug and alcohol programs. Monies from the grant will also be used to finance a “Cen tral Helpers Program” in which students and instructors will be trained to help other students who need to talk about their problems with a “good lis tener.” According to Baker, af ter completing the training pro gram, these people will be given some form of identification so that when people see one they will know that they can go to that person for help. President Keyser told The Oregonian that the President’s Council unanimously sup ported the application for the grant. “We welcome the oppor tunity to work with students and enhance their abilities to be successful,” Keyser also stated. “The elimination of drug prob lems is a significant factor in this mission.” Conserving on waste by Jim Spickelmier News Editor This year’s Associated Stu dent Government Senators have been selected, approved and sworn into office at last Thurs day’s ASG Meeting. Angela Oman was chosen as senator to the vice president; Amy Gaskell was chosen as sena tor to the president’s assistant; Gayle Kirkpatrick and Shauna Barnett were chosen as senators to the administrative assistant; and Julie Tomlin, Anne Schue- bel, Lee Halford, and Peter Brun swick were chosen as senators to the entertainment coordinator. According to the student handbook, senators are chosen to represent the students, must be selected in accordance with the election code, and are respon sible to the officers in their assign ment section. To be an ASG senator, one must be enrolled at CCC and must take at least eight credit hours. A senator must maintain a term GPA of 2.5 or cumulative GPA of 2.0 or better. Potential senators must fill out an applica tion and must be interviewed and must be chosen by a selection committee. “I think the selections ended up going pretty good,” com mented Administrative Assistant Becca Schroeder, “even though it was a little hectic deciding which officer got what senator.” This year’s senate selection process was revised from last year’s proc ess. The revised process calls for a selection committee of three members: one student at large, one advisor, and the officer whom the senator will report to. The former process required^ com mittee of five. “The new selection process gives each officer a little more say in what senator they get,” said ASG President Tony Franklin. “All in all, the selection process went fairly smooth,” commented Franklin. “The big gest overall conflict was schedul ing an interview time when every one could get there.” According to Presidential Assistant Renae Austin, “The interviews worked very smoothly; it’s a lot easier to coordinate times with three people rather than five. It’s not necessarily bet ter because it’s potentially easier to sway votes.” Recycling Committee develops recommendations by Angela Wilson increase for 1990-91 is 15 percent cent more for products made Editor-in-Chief “There is an economic con from recycled materials. In an effort to conserve on cern,” Scott said. “We can save “Now, if something costs a the amount of waste leaving the money if we reduce the amount of little bit more but is made from college and save money, the cam waste going into the dumpsters.” recycled material, we can buy it,” pus Recycling Committee has Campus recycling is done Scott said. “The state of Oregon developed a set of recommenda cooperatively with the Environ and the city of Portland both have tions for recycling. mental Learning Center (ELC). the same sort of policy. According to Chuck Scott, All staff members have blue trays “There are obvious reasons Assistant Dean of Mathematics on there desks that hold white and for concern about recycling mate and Science, there was an existing colored paper, and when the trays rials,” Scott said. “If a person program for recycling at Clacka get full they can be emptied into would conserve and reuse materi mas, but the Committee for Recy the bigger blue bins. On each als, there would be less of an cling felt that it should be floor of each building, there are impact on the environment” strengthened. blue bins for recyclable material Since the committee recom A consultant from Metro marked for white paper, colored mended the increase in recycling Waste Management assisted the paper, computer paper or news and started the new program, group in making recommenda paper. The bins are picked up there has been an increase in the tions on areas were recycling each week and taken to the ELC amount of recycled and sorted could be improved. where they are recycled. material. “The consultant visited the The Board of Education has “The only way recycling college and we plowed through adopted an amendment that al works is if every individual takes the dumpsters to see what kinds lows the college to pay five per the initiative to do it,” Scott said. of things were being thrown away,” Scott said. “What we found was a lot of paper and card board.” The committee then decided that “a 33 percent reduction in the amount of total waste that Clackamas generates” would be a reasonable goal to achieve. “The 33 percent reduction will be measured by either getting rid of one third of the dumpsters We have at the college or having them emptied one third less of ten,” Scott said. The dumpsters around cam pus are emptied daily by Oregon City Garbage Service and the cost Photo by Darby Paraira for garbage service last year was Blue recycling barrels now decorate many offices around “roughly” $50,000. The proposed campus In an effort to reduce the amount of total waste.
