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CLACKAMAS
COMMUNITY
COLLEGE
Oregon City, Oregon
Vol. XXV No. 20
April 22,1992
Wilson withdraws from race
ASG election candidates to speak at forum
by Nolan Kidwell
News Editor
Knight is still planning on running elected as President needs “the
for President, and Brian Wilson ability to get along with many
Elections for the 1992-93 has withdrawn from the race.
different types of people and people
ASG President and Vice President
According to the job with many different backgrounds.
are approaching and will be voted criteria laid down for the ASG You have to be able to deal with the
on May 6,7 and 8 by the student President, “The President is administration.”
body.
responsible for managing and
The President leads all of
“I want to encourage directing all functions of the ASG the student government meetings,
people to be educated when they and shall be the representative voice attends all of the monthly Board of
vote and check out the candidates
and what they really are all about
"/ want to encourage people to be educated
instead of a personality contest,”
when they
vote and check out the
said Renae Parr, ASG Vice President
and former assistant to the President
candidates..."
Three of the original five
-Renae Parr, ASG Vice President
applicants for President, Alisa Dean,
Amy Gaskell and Harold Isackson, for the students in all student and Education meetings and represents
Clackamas at the CCOS AC
have turned in their completed ASG affairs.”
petitions to run for the office. Of
ASG President Lauri conferences.
The candidate elected
the other two applicants, Donna Mayfield feels that whoever is
President is also expected to follow
a behavior code, keep at least five
office hours a week and work a
minimum of 15 hours a week for
ASG.
“I think that the president
needs to be someone who is well-
spoken,
written
and
can
communicate well,” explained Parr.
“They need to be accepting and
they will need to be able to stay
neutral in conflicts.”
Shauna Barnett is the only
candidate out of the three applicants
running for Vice President who has
turned in her completed petition
for office. The other two possible
candidates who have applied for
the position are Jeff Simmons and
JeffDuBeU.
The
Vice
President is responsible for
“performing the Business Manager’s
duties for the ASG.
The Vice President
assumes the responsibilities in the
absence of the ASG President and
would take over the President’s
position should the office of
President be vacated before the end
of the term.
Whoever is elected Vice
President will also be required to
maintain office hours and work for
ASG a minimum of 15 hours a
week.
There will be a forum Of
all of the candidates running on
April 27 from noon to 1 pjn. Students
will also have a chance to question
the candidates.
Economic, environmental hardships discussed at salmon struggle lecture
by Scott Morris
Staff Writer
Courtland Smith, an
anthropology and oceanography
professor at Oregon State University,
gave a very timely lecture at CCC
on Apr. 14 as part of the second
Tuesday lecture series. The lecture,
which focused on salmon and their
struggle for survival, came just three
days before the federal government
declared the Snake River Chinook
Salmon a threatened species on
Friday.
“The Columbia River is
an interesting metaphor for our
society as a whole,” said Smith,
talking about balancing economic
and environmental concerns. “On
the
Columbia,
economic
considerations coexist with salmon
runs,” said Smith, citing the impact
on the river by power companies,
irrigation, logging, mining,
commercial
fishing
and
recreationists.
Chinook Salmon, also
called King Salmon, are the largest
of the salmon species with adult
fish reaching a length of over four
feet and weighing over 50 pounds.
The Chinook travel over
900 miles from the Pacific Ocean
to Northern Idaho, climbing over
6,500 feet in elevation to return to
their hatching grounds to spawn.
When the young fish, or
smolts, hatch, they spend anywhere
from a few months to a year in fresh
water before returning to the Pacific.
They stay for one to four years
before returning to their hatching
grounds to start the cycle again.
At the Lower Granite Dam,
near Lewiston, ID, last year, only
8,400 wild spring and summer
Chinook were counted. Historically,
the population of this run had been
in excess of 1.5 million fish. The
fall run of Chinook in this area
averaged72,000between 1920and
1949, but in 1991 only 318 were
counted.
The Chinook is not the
only Columbia basin salmon
population, called stocks, that is in
serious trouble. Lastyear, only four
Sockeye Salmon were able to be
documented as returning to their
breedi ng ground at Redfish Lake at
Women spend weekend
'Making Dreams Happen'
by Heidi Branstator .
Staff Writer
'
Slots are still open for
the Focus on Women’s fourth
annualwomen’sweekend, w&ch
will be held at Camp Collins,
located cm the Sandy River, May
weekend is' Making Dreams
Happen, It’s a time forwomen
toattemdworic^c^wiac^riljes,
hrkes or just spend hmewith
other women,taikmg and sharing
stones.Raft tri^downasireich
ohhcSandywtJli&affered, and
weekend. Motherlode is a group
of women who have recorded
three albums and performed in
Portland. They wifi be at the
women’s weekend fo perform
some of their music, and also
hc^ sbhg circles. -
"The workshops thatw3I
be avmjable for thc women
indude an mt^uctfon to self*
defense^' learning to' set
boundaries, acting and many
different ari classes; The two
panel discussions ¿re\, fitted
“Surviving Change’ and *Xpu£
Sister, Youisdfx” : \
.¿Women who , are
massage therapists will be on hand
fora small fee;'„
' ¿s'
interested In being apart of the
^tKt^lOdO WlfiJ^W Women’s weekend may register
special musical guests for the under coursenumbet WKS V
the headwaters of the Columbia.
A report last year by
Biologists Willa Nehlson, Jack E.
Williams and James A. Lichatowich
found that 76 Columbia River
Salmon stocks were in serious
trouble, with about half of those
facing “a high risk of extinction.”
The biologists also reported that 67
salmon stocks have already become
extinct
year by commercial fishing nets on
the Columbia.
Another fishing issue that
promises to be highly contested on
both sides is the rights of Native
Americans to fish the Columbia
and its tributaries. “To Native
Americans the salmon represent a
spiritual resource as well as a form
of sustenance,” said Smith.
Another area that will be
'To Native Americans the salmon represent a
spiritual resource as well as a form of
sustenance."
-Courtland Smith
Although all of these
activities have an adverse effect on
the salmon, the biggest threats to
the salmon runs are dams. The
Columbia and its tributaries contain
the world’s largest hydroelectric
system with 51 dams.
Of the Columbia’s 581
miles between the Bonneville Dam
and the Pacific, only 50 miles still
flow freely. These dams provide
almost 70 percent of our power at a
rate that is about 60 percent of the
national average.
Most researchers estimate
that 5 to 10 percent of the salmon
heading up river die at each dam
they have to pass. The toll is even
greater on the young smolts heading
back to the Pacific. Snake River
stocks lose over 75 percent of their
young to the whirling blades of the
turbines that produce the electricity.
Elaborate screen systems
can stop much of the killing but
because of the cost, almost $75
The Snake River Sockeye looked at by the agency is logging,
Salmon was added to the endangered which has already been drastically
species list in December of 1991, cut back by the placing of the spotted
but efforts to protect the Chinook owl on the endangered species list,
promise to be far greater in scope. and could be cut again because of
By adding the Snake River the effect it has on the Chinooks’
Chinook to the endangered species breeding grounds.
Continued on Pg. 2
list the government has put the
National Marine Fisheries Service
in charge of protecting the fish.
The agency will now be in a position
to review every federal action that
will endanger the fish in any way.
Fishing, logging, mining and
hydroelectric power are just a few
of the activities on the Columbia
that will be affected by the effort to
restore the disappearing runs.
On Apr. 10 the Pacific
Fisheries Management Council in
Millbrae, CA, enacted the strictest
Pacific Ocean salmon fishing season
ever imposed, causing predictions
of economic ruin for seaports ranging
from Canada down to San Francisco.
The council, created in
1976, Cut the Coho harvest by over
56 percent and the Chinook harvest
by more that 39 percent. When the
council was created by Congress, it
was given no power to protect the
photo by Vivian Johnson
fresh water habitat of these fish. A Courtland Smith, an OSU anthropology and oceanography
power the National Marine Fisheries professor, spoke at CCC on Apr. 14. The lecture, part of the
Service now has.
second Tuesday lecture series, focused on salmon and their
Some estimates say that struggle for survival.
as many as 65 percent of the Snake’s
wild fall Chinook are caught each