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1 Wed nesdaÿ, December 1» 1993
The Clackamas Print
VoI.XXVnNo.7
Wait li
expected to relieve frustration
by Nicole Turley
Staff Writer
To relievesomeof the frus­
trations and anxieties put on stu­
dents during registration, teachers
and faculty at Clackamas will be
implementing a wait-list procedure
beginning Winter Term, 1994 and
are working on planning an early fall
registration process forretuming stu­
dents.
One method for doing this,
which will go into effect Winter
Term, 1994 is the wait-list proce­
dure, developed by a committee led
by Coordinating Department Chair
of Arts Humanities and Social Sci­
ences Jack Shields.
The procedure works like
this: if students request a seat in a
closed class, those students can go
the Help Center to be put on a wait
list Then the department secretaries
will print the wait list for those class
sections, and distribute them to in­
structors before the first day of class.
All students registered for class, or
on the wait list should be present the
first day class meets.
“If you are not in class the
first day the class meets, your chair
may be assigned to another student,”
Shields said. Students on the wait
list should also be present the first
day of class just in case a seat be­
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Clackamas Community College
photo by Anjanette Booth
The new wait-list procedure will help relieve some of the
fustration of registration.
comes available.
According to Shields, if
for some reason a registered student
cannot attend the first class session,
they are to notify the instructor and
give them the reason. “Being on
vacation ain’t a good one,” Shields
added.
He stressed that students
are not to use the wait list to better
their time. For example, a student is
not allowed to register for the 8 a.m.
History 101 class and then get on a
wait list for the noon class in History
161.
“We’re trying to make it
easier for students to gain entrance
to classes,” said Shields, “and to
make sure that when there’s a vacant
seat a qualified student can have it.”
In the planning stage is
another process that faculty hope
will make registration and schedul­
ing easier for students, as well as
instructors. This process is Early
Fall Registration, and it will allow
students to register Spring Term for
the classes they wish to take in the
fall.
If this goes into effect, all
returning students will receive early
registration information in Febru­
ary, 1994. They will then be able to
attend advising sessions during
Spring Term and begin registering
for fall classes on May 23.
Payment arrangements
would not need to be made until
August 25, 1994 and students can
opt to take advantage of the early
registration or register in September
with the new students. “You don’t
have to register for all your classes,”
said Director of Counseling and Ca­
reer Planning Jan Godfrey, who
stated a student could register for
classes in the spring, Which they
knew they wanted to take Fäll Term
and then, in the fall, register for any
other classes they decided to add
over the summer.
The objectives of this, ac­
cording to Godfrey, are to schedule
registration at a time when faculty
are available, let faculty know which
classes will be in high demand, dis­
tribute the registration workload
across a longer time frame and to
“give them (the students) a secure
feeling of what they will be taking,”
Godfrey said. “We hear registration
is pretty frustrating.”
Right now, the early regis­
tration procesé is still in the planning
stages. Today atnoon in CC-127, the
proposal will be discussed at the
collegeconversation and all students
are welcome to attend and voice
their opinions on the idea of early
registration.
“We need student input
before we go any further,” said
Godfrey, who added that the faculty
at Clackamas need to know if the
process benefits a large majority of
students, hów many students will
take advantage of the early registra­
tion process and if there are any
problems that need to be addressed.
After it goes before the
students today, the early registration
will go before the President’s Coun­
cil Dec. 14, where the final decision
will be made.
Student files formal grievance against Rau
by Heidi Branstator
Co-Editor-in-Chief
Clackamas'
student
Michael Lee recently filed a formal
grievance against political science
instructor John Rau, objecting to
Rau’s continuing practiceof “volun­
teering his opinion as fact.”'
Lee, a 39-year-old politi­
cal science major, has been a student
at Clackamas for a year-and-a-half.
He took Rau’s class the first two
weeks of Fall Term; 1992.
Lee said he was “anxious”
to learn from Rau. “I wanted to go to
his classes,” he said. Once school
began though, Lee changed his mind.
“I was just shocked. I found his
classes bizarre,” he said. Lee ex­
plained that he feltthat Rau’s method
of teaching included stereotyping and
continued emphasis on a conserva­
tive viewpoint
After two weeks, Lee
dropped Rau’s class and went to
John Hooley, recently retired Assis­
tant Dean of Humanities. Hooley
told Lee that a part-time instructor,
Dean Darris, had been hired and
suggested that Lee take political sci­
ence from him. In regard to his
concerns about Rau, Lee was told to
“let the matter go” because nothing
would be done.
Lee did let the matter go,
but after reading a recent opinion
article in The Clackamas Print, he
said he had to come forward. “I’m
concerned that(the problem) is grow­
ing; it may be getting worse,” he
said. “The article brought it all back.
My actions are a direct result of your
paper.”
Lee believes that Rau is
teaching his opinions as facts and he
wants to see that stopped.
“Wespentmostofour time
discussing not what their (liberals)
beliefs are, but who these people are
... he is extreme on the stereotyp­
ing,” Lee said. “I learned what a
liberal drove. I learned what a lib­
eral ate. He offers opinion as fact”
Lee described a specific example
from Rau’s political science course.
“He said to the class: ‘If
you saw a man riding a 10-speed
bike, at night, without a light, and he
had long hair and B irkenstocks, what
do you think he would be?’ -
“John is an extremely edu­
cated man; he’s very smart," Lee
added. "He’s dancing on the edge of
a razor, and he knows how to do that
dance.
“I don’t want to silence
John Rau; that is not my intention/’
Lee said. “I have no desire to punish
John Rau. John has some unique
views which have their place, but
let’s present them as opinion, not
fact”
Lee stresses that his real
goal is to get students to come for­
ward and inform the grievance com­
mittee of what they have experi­
enced. “I would like students to
come forward to voice their opinions
about what takes place/’ he said.
Lee has met with Depart­
ment Chair Loren Ford and Assis­
tant Dean, Marcia Keith, and he said
some progress has been made on his
complaints. He is, however, frus­
trated with the college grievance pro­
cedure. “It’s way too complicated;
there’s too much responsibility on
the student,” he Said.
“I feel the administration’s
spirit is there; I feel they don’t have
the tools,” Lee said.
“What bothers me is that
there is a common undercurrent that
this problem exists. How many stu­
dents like me are out there?” Lee
asked.
“I have talked to other stu­
dents; they are very much afraid of
coming forward,” Lee said.
“What I would like to see
is the administration investigate these
charges... get out there and ask the
students. Talk to the students who
feel they didn’t have the opportunity
to learn,” Lee said. “I don’t think
I’m the appropriate person to be
contacting students.”
Lee stresses that he would
like the school to look into Rau’s
classes, talk to his students and do
some investigating. He wants the
administration to be much more in­
volved in the process than they are.
He also wants to get what he sees as
the whole issue of presenting opin­
ion as fact, out in the open.
“If The Print is not the
forum to be discussing these issues,
what is?” Lee asked.
“My intention is full dis­
closure; I have nothing to hide/’ Lee
said. “I want him to have full oppor­
tunity to respond.”
Since Lee discussed his
grievance with The Print, he has
met with Lyle Reese, Dean of In­
struction and Keith.
Because the grievance is
in process Rau, Keith end Reese
would not comment
NO SCHOOL MONDAY
In honor of
Photo by Khanh Pham
Community vendors, including churches, banks, the Navy and the Army Reserve,
provided information to students about their services at the Community Fair held
on campus Jan. 5.
MARTIN
LUTHER KING