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Vd. XXIV No. 24
May 15,1991
Oregon City, Oregon
Officer
positions
open
Dances With Angels performed the French Minuet In the CC Mall
The group was one of many who performed during the Focus On Europe^
Festival highlights cultural diversity
by Jennifer Soper
News Editor
The second annual Celebra­
tion International, a three day
ethnic festival celebrating Inter­
national Education Week, is
underway through this Friday.
“It is a way to focus in on
culture and to expose our stu­
dents and staff members to cul­
ture,” explained co-chair of the
International Committee Ellen
Burbridge.
Burbridge explained that the
Portland-Metro area has numer­
ous cultural events taking place
all the time, but Clackamas
County is not often a part of
those.
“In Clackamas County we
don’tseeafotof different cultures
represented,” Burbridge said.
Student musicians and danc­
ers are participating in the planned
events. Staff members are also
performing.
On Monday the Portland
Highland Dance Company per­
formed Highland Fling/Chan-
treuse and Scottish dances.
Clackamas musician Aaron
Nelson sang German and Italian
songs. Keith Penner, also a Clacka­
mas musician, sang French and
Greek tunes. Andrea Ridette,
another Clackamas vocalist, per-
formed songs of Europe with
Nelson and Pender.
Dance of the Angels per-
formed Austrian and German
folkdances, English Country
dances and the French Minuet.
Events for the rest of the
week include a focus on Asia and
the Far East this afternoon
complete with a slide show and a
Cambodian patriot lecture. The
Friends of the Library are spon­
soring the theme “America the
Beautiful” this evening from 7 to
9 p.m. Friday the focus will beon
Spain and Latin America.
Thai food will be on sale to­
day outside the CC Mall. On Fri-
day Spanish food will befeatured.
International Week at the
college was funded by a founda-
tion mini-grant, the Language
Department, the Associated
Student Government
,
_,,.. . ... and the In­
ternational Education Commit­
tee. The total cost of the pro­
gram is $2,000.
Grade schools and high
schools in the area are invited to
attend the events, said^Burbr-
idge.
“Every year the interest is
growing,” she said. “Someday if
it is sunny, we’d like to have it
outside.”
by Jennifer Lessard
Staff Writer
Tfae ASG is now accepting
applications for next year’s officer
positions. The positions opening
are the entertainment coordina­
tor, administrative assistant, as­
sistant to the president, and the
new position of publicity coordi­
nator.
Each position is equipped with
a full tuition wavier. The require­
ment for the positions consists of
a current term GPA of 3.0 or ac­
cumulative GPA if 2.5. The offi­
cers will be responsible for sena­
tors who will serve under them.
Each officer must be able to at­
tend ASG meetings and cany out
their assigned duties.
The entertainment coordina­
tor is responsible for planning and
overseeing all scholastic and so­
cial activities sponsored by the
ASG.
Theassistant to the president
is responsible for organizing spe­
cial projects and running the sug­
gestion box committee and the
constitution revisions committee.
The administrative assistant
is responsible for secretarial du­
ties within the ASG.
The new position of publicity
coordinator is responsible for the
promotion of ASG events.
Materials are due by this Fri­
day, May 17 at 5 p.m.
The applicants will be reviewed
and selected by a committee made
up of the president, vice presi­
dent, an ASG advisor, and an
associated student at large.
The four appointed officers
will be sworn in on May 23 at the
ASG meeting.
Equity committee drafts College explores capital campaigns
procedures for grievances
by Jennifer Soper
News Editor
Another draft of the proce­
dure and rationale for dealing with
student victims of sexual harass­
ment by college employees was
discussed at the Gender Equity
Committee meeting last Monday.
Committee members reviewed
the draft that was rewritten to
eliminate any language that re­
ferred to the inclusion of informal
report summaries in the faculty or
staff personnel files.
The latest draft explains that
students will be encouraged by an
advocate to follow the student
complaint process if there is a valid
complaint about an instructor or
other college employee. A stu­
dent can file a complaint against
any staff member at any time.
Although the committee has
not defined the role of the advo­
cates yet, one function they will
serve is to make every effort pos­
sible to protect the student during
the disclosure process.
Under the rewritten proce­
dure, the advocate will inform the
staff member of the complaint and
discuss the complaint with the staff
person. The staff member will also
receive a copy of the summary the
advocate prepared of the incident.
If a student chooses to deal
with the incident informally, the
identity of the student can remain
anonymous to the staff member.
The name of the student may be
kept with the advocate’s records.
If the complaint is dealt with
on a formal basis, students will
have to reveal their identities to
the accused staff member through,
the disclosure process. Students
may also be asked to testify in any
hearings that may ensue.
The committee will present
the final draft of the proposed
procedure to the affirmative ac­
tion officer for review before send­
ing it on to the different college
groups that previously provided
input
by Jennifer Soper
News Editor
Information about the start
of a capital campaign to raise money
for several targeted areas through­
out the college was presented to
the college board last Wednesday
at the regularly scheduled board
meeting.
David K. Dickson, the execu­
tive director of the College Foun­
dation, explained that capital
campaigns involve obtaining
“private funding through major
gifts.”
“Even though we are a tax
supported institution, we’re trying
to convince private individuals that
our projects are worthy of addi­
tional support,” said Dickson.
Bev Fulmore of the Founda­
tion said the capital campaign funds
will benefit programs that are not
supported by the college general
fund. The preliminary projected
goal is $6.1 million.
Currently, the targeted areas
for funding include building an
endowment for the foundation
scholarship fund, funding for the
Family Resource Center, funding
for the Access to Literacy cam­
paign, equipping the Oregon
Advanced Technology Center at
the Wilsonville campus of Clacka­
mas, and providing art work for
the new buildings at Clackamas.
Funding from the capital
campaign will also benefit the
college in the form of mini-grants
that will help the college get new
teaching techniques and resources
into the mainstream, according to
Fulmore.
Although four year colleges
often have major capital campaigns
to raise money for programs,
community colleges are just be­
ginning to examine and utilize this
form of fund raising, said Fulmore.
Community colleges gener­
ally have no alumni base to draw
from for capital campaigning
because students transfer to four
year institutions, explained Ful­
more.
Jim Hanches, a local private
consultant who has worked suc­
cessfully on capital campaigns for
Reed College in Portland and
Pacific University in Forest Grove,
has been hired by the college to
assist and advise the capital cam­
paign at Clackamas.
Dickson explained Hanches
is well known locally for his proj­
ects and is from the area, so he has
a greater knowledge of the re­
sources here.
Capital campaigns cover sev­
eral different areas before actual
fund raising begins,said Fulmore.
First, there is a research phase,
which Clackamas is still in. Next,
there is a quiet campaign, in which
donations from corporal ions and
other large funders is. sought
Finally, there is a public phase of
the campaign when one-third to
one-half of the goal has all ready
been met and the college will ac­
tively try to raise funds.
According to Dickson, the
Foundation will be seeking funds
from.grants the state and federal
government make available, from
sources that have previously do­
nated money or goods to the col-
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