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
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