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Check It Out Students and staff share Valentine’s Day plans See pages 4 & 5 Oregon City, Oregon Vol. XXVIII No. 12 Clackamas Community] College Wednesday, Feb. 8,1995 AT A GLANCE Clackamas Commu nity College hosted three authors In the Gregory Forum on Wednesday, Feb. 1. Linda Crew, Mike Thaler and Virginia Euwer Wolff, who shared their experiences as authors of children’s books. Author’s Night was hosted by English Instructor Allen Wider- burg. This event was co sponsored by Friends of the Library and the English Department as a benefit event. Compiled by Cori Kargel Copy Editor y The College Fair will include representatives from 22 colleges. Ask questions, get answers, and make your transfer a success. The fair will be Thursday, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the Gregory Forum. For more information, call ext 2556 or 2266. "V Recruiters from Hawaii Pacific University will be on campus to day, from noon to 2 p.m., in the Community Center. "V Come to the Resume Work shop and learn the basics of re sume writing. The workshop will also include preparing cover let ters and providing references. Cost is $5. For more information, call ext 2409, or register for WKS 6-02. "V The Small Business Develop ment Center is offering a “Going into Business” workshop, intro ducing the essentials of opening your own business. The course will include discussions about li censing, permits, tax require ments, hiring, developing a busi ness plan and identifying mar kets. Cost is $30. For more in formation, or to register, call 656- 4447. "V Guitarist Judd Grossman, a new folk artist is the next feature in the ASG-sponsored “Coffee house Live.” Grossman will per form Feb. 15, from 11:30 a.m. to 7 p.m., in the Skylight Dining Room. For more information, call ext. 2247. >/ The next Aging Issues discus sion will focus on Family Dy namics. Dr. Joanne Gribble, a family therapist, will discuss caregiver interaction with the families of clients. For more in formation, call ext. 2456. y Umpire training clinics will be held to teach adults, boys and girls 14 and older what it takes to be an umpire. For more informa tion, call Jeni Cross at (503) 555- 7974. INDEX NEWS Pages 1- 3 CAMPUS VIEWS Pages 4 & 5 FEATURES Pages 6 & 7 SPORTS Page 8 Photo by Chad Patteson CCC, local government rally for Lobby Day V ASG and local representatives hope to drum up support to reverse the Oregon Need Grant decision that was implemented in 1993 by John Rumler Contributing Writer The Oregon State Legislature has seen more than its share of fast and slippery moves over the years. Eighteen months ago, as the session was ending, State Rep resentative Ted Calouri, R- Beaverton, introduced a motion to increase financial aid to private institutions while cutting aid to poverty level students attending public colleges. His colleagues may have snoozed through the back door maneuver, but a grass roots stu dents’ protest began months later and gradually began to snowball across the state. Now, the extended forecast looks like an avalanche is head ing towards Salem and Calouri’s motion may be on thin ice. The CCC student government is im ploring fellow students to rally with other public colleges across Oregon against changes made in the allocation of the Oregon Need Grants. The ASG efforts will cul minate later this month with a stu dent delegation confronting state legislators in the capitol building. Viet Nguyen, the student leg islative director for CCC, also was slated to attend the Legislature’s Ways and Means Committee hearing Monday. Nguyen said Dia Leavenworth, from the Com munity Colleges of Oregon Stu dents and Associations Commis sion, was to testify about the ad verse impacts resulting in the de crease in Oregon Need Grant awards to public colleges. “The need grants only go to low income and poverty level stu dents who are taking full time blasted the financial reapportion wait until the end of March are classes. Community colleges are ment and urged constituents to often left out because the money their last chance. These people support, an alternative “flat” is gone,” she said. don’t have options of going to grant. Campbell thinks more stu Reed or Marylhurst College,” he “The time has come for stu dents borrow money in place of dents in Oregon’s community col the grants, and leave school said. ASG Senator Mike Caudle is leges and public universities to deeper in debt. In 1992-93, 335 speaking with students across rectify a great wrong done in the CCC students received $195,306 campus to increase awareness of 1993 legislature,” the memo in need grants, while a year later, the financial aid cuts and to en stated in part. 305 students were awarded list students who will take then- “The Oregon Student Lobby 5182,556. In the same time pe case to Salem later this month. believes that the Oregon Need riod, guaranteed and federally Caudle is angry about the Grant should be distributed insured loans totalling $744,465 way the state funding decreases equally to its applicants regard for 367 students in 1992-93 shot were accomplished - the motion less of institutional choice.” up to over $1 million for 500 stu sailed through at the tail end of Dennis supports the creation dents in 1993-94. the 1993 Oregon legis “The average CCC lative session, he said. student leaves here £ 6 The need grants only go to low nearly $6,000 in “Representative Calouri pulled a fast income and poverty-level students debt,” said Cambell. one. He waited ‘til the who are taking full time classes. “Tuition increased 11th hour when every last biennium and at Community colleges are their last the same time, need body was anxious to go chance. grants, the only state home before initiating one of the most radicd -Viet Nguyen, CCC student legislative director * y financial aid pro changes in the gram, did not. This doubled the impact legislature’s history. Lots of people didn’t even know of a flat grant that would not vary of tuition hikes on financially bur what they were voting for,” he depending on which kind of in dened students,” said Jon Isaacs, stitution a student decides to at the State Task Force director for said. Student Lobby Field Director tend. Supporters for such grants the Associated Students of Or Ed Dennis agreed with Candle’s are coming from large and small egon State University. assessment. “It was rammed colleges throughout Oregon. Keith McCreight, OSU’s Fi Kathleen Campbell, the fi nancial Aid Director, said the through at the last minute. There was no broad-based support, no nancial aid administrator for state grant was designed as an public debate whatsoever,” he CCC, said 305 students received access grant and should be por said. The end result, he explained, Oregon Need Grants last year table and based on eligibility. “It is that students at Oregon’s finest with the maximum award being shouldn’t be used to replace in private colleges and universities $756. Campbell, who also sup stitutional costs. A single grant received 64 percent increases in ports flat grants, has testified at award amount would achieve that Oregon State Scholarship Com objective,” McCreight said. their Need Grant Awards. Nguyen, Caudel and ASG At the same time,community mission hearings in their favor. college students’ awardswere de She said Need Grants are in a lim President Amy Lundy are spear heading the fight at CCC to re creased by 9 percent In a Jan. 9 ited supply. memo sent to the Oregon Student “People who apply at the first turn the need grant to its previ- Lobby board of directors, Dennis of the year are okay, but those who Continued on page 3
