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Vol. XXIX No. 10 Clackamas Community College Wednesday, January 24,1996 Compiled by Cori Kargel Student requests e-mail records Business Manager Petitions for graduation are Damon Fouts Staff Writer AT A GLANCE now being accepted. Only peti tions submitted by March 29 are guaranteed inclusion in the graduation program. Petitions will be accepted after that date with no guarantee for inclusion. The graduation ceremony will be June 7. For more information, see the Registrar’s office or the Help Center. Interested in helping your community? Sign up today in CC140 for the Winter Term Community Energy Project. The project will be Feb. 17. For more information, see Brinda Feam in CC140 or call her at ext. 2247. Due to last week’s windstorm closure of CCC, the last meeting Of the Native American Students Club was cancelled. A new meeting date will be announced ASAP. Formore information, call Advisor Sylvia Ollgaard at 632- 4619, Pres. Laney Fouse at 266- 6957 or Vice-Pres. Cori Kargel at ext. 2578. The Portland Women’s Cri sis Line needs women to commit to being volunteer crisis interven tion counselors. Be a part of an organization that actively works to end violence against women and children. Practicum credit is available for student volunteers. For more information or an ap plication, call 232-9545. Senatorial candidate Harry Lonsdale will be at a special question and answer session Feb. 2, noon to 1 p.m. in CC127. Cof fee and cookies will be available. Hall; the costs and decision pack ages of remodeling the S.I.M.S. A Clackamas student cited (Computer Services) area; and the Oregon public records law at the minutes of the last three faculty Jan. 10 Board of Directors meet staff meetings. ing just before giving each board Keyser said days later he and member a list of requests for staff members are working to pro school records— including the vide Garvison those records that college President’s e-mail. are not exempted from public “I have records laws. A something to give CC-------- ------------- Jan. 12 letter to every member of I don’t have a CCC Associate the board con Dean James Painter cerning records I problem with from attorney John am requesting (Garvison) or any Caldwell of the under Oregon Re- other student firm Hibbard, vised Statute asking for this, Caldwell & Schultz 192.410,” John especially if there’s is one tool being used to determine Garvison said be fore handing out been some what is and is not wrongdoing or the copies. exempt. Caldwell wrote Oregon law abuse he’s trying in the letter that the requires that the to correct. college could im records of public bodies, such as -John Keyser mediately comply community col College President with three of ’s requests leges, be acces —-------------------- 99 Garvison —the Streeter Hall sible when re bond levy request, the S.I.M.S. quested. Garvison’s request came near area remodeling request and the the end of his testimony before the campus job classifications and board — testimony at times frus salary steps request. He wrote however, that the trating for some board members, according to Clackamas President request for faculty staff meeting John Keyser and meeting tran minutes.was exempt from public disclosure. scripts. “You (Painter) have advised Garvison’s list of eight re quests included all campus e-mail that the faculty staff meetings are records of Keyser, CCC Chief In not conducted under the auspices formation Officer Paul Rothi and of the college, but under the union,” wrote Caldwell. “As The Clackamas Print. Other records requested such,” he continued, “the records were: the job classifications and of those meetings are not public salary steps of all campus jobs; the records as defined in ORS original bond levy for Streeter 192.410(4) and need not be provided.” Four of Garvison’s eight re quests were for e-mail records. Caldwell wrote that these records fell under public records law, al though specific messages may be exempted from public disclosure for a variety of reasons. The letter listed a number of reasons for exemptions, including matters affecting litigation, real estate, personnel files, public safety, preliminary communica tions and personal records pro tected by privacy laws. Those e-mail messages not exempted from disclosure could be expensive and time-consuming to recover, and public records law allows the college to seek reim bursement for expenses incurred while retrieving those messages. Keyser estimates the cost of fulfilling Garvison’s e-mail re quests could vary from $1,000 to $10,000— a bill that would un doubtedly be passed to Garvison. “Someone has to listen to all those messages, someone that has enough knowledge about what’s exempt and what isn’t,” Keyser explained. Once a user deletes a mes sage, it is dumped in what some call an electric garbage can where it remains and can be retrieved for six months. After that, the mes sage cannot be retrieved. Keyser is more concerned about the expense of recovering the e-mail than the fact that his e-mail was requested, stating, “I haven’t sent any e-mail that I wouldn’t be pleased to share with others... Most of the things we (public administrators) do and say are open to public scrutiny.” When asked how he felt gen- See REQUESTS page 2 Photo by Chad Patteson Clackamas student John Garvison shares concerns at a board of education meeting last December. Manufacturing program expands Math study groups assist in learning Karin Redston Staff Writer One of the faster growing in dustries in Oregon is in manufac turing and Clackamas is a leader in this field. Manufacturing has entered into two phases at CCC, accord ing to Instructor Tom Laugle: the manual machine tools shop and the computerized machine tools shop. “We’re trying to separate the machine tools from the com puter driven tools,” Laugle said. Students start off learning how to use the manual machine tools. Students learn how to op erate the machines and at what speeds the different machines should be run. They then learn how to program the computer-run machine tools. When students start out in the computer lab, they start out on the introductory machine with just one tool to learn. They then move on to learning 16 machines. The students learn how to pro gram the computers which con trol the machines that build vari ous parts. The computer lab that is training these students has been updated over the last four years. Six years ago there were only three computers and now there are several. “Drafting pretty well helped us get going,” Laugle said. “We can run a generation behind Drafting. They’ve been so kind as to get us started with some of the computers.” Lottery dollars have added to the development of the manufac- turing of the computer lab. Laugle emphasized that between the Drafting Department and the Oregon Lottery, each built half the lab. Laugle also included the ad ministration in the Manufactur ing Department’s ability to ex pand. “We have a very supportive administration who keeps and al lows us to keep our computers updated,” he stated. Other support for the Manu facturing Department has been from various local companies in cluding Oregon Cutting Systems- BLOUNT, and Precision Cast Parts. Also, people not exactly from other departments like Har mony Center and other depart ments have also been big support ers of the department. Two projects being built by students are attracting attention. One is a small backhoe being built by students Brian Newton and Ron Rubrect. When this is fin ished it will be donated to Plant Services and hopefully used by the Horticulture Department. This back hoe is special in that it can be towed behind a truck. This project is also incorporating the use of the Welding Program and the Hydraulics program. The second project is a nozzle for a white water jet boat. This project involves a new pump nozzle design that will hopefully increase the boat from 100 mph to 110 mph Vern Reitenbaugh, who is the designer and builder of the part hopes maybe down the road there is a possibility of a patent. “This quarter I probably have the most talented students that I’ve ever had in the program,” Laugle said. Many of the evening students are employed and taking classes to upgrade their abilities. During the day, half are em ployed while the other half are starting in the field for the first time. See EXPAND page 2 Laney Fouse Staff Writer Are your math test scores not quite adding up? Do you feel the two hours spent figur ing out a problem is subtract ing from your free time? Would you like to multiply your chances of mastering math con cepts? Then divide up your study time so you can take ad vantage of the Math Lab study groups, advises Denise Conklin, CCC’s Math Tutoring Coordi nator. By joining a math study group “a lot of time [spent do ing homework] could be saved by students,” says Conklin. “It’s easier to learn in a group situa tion and students find they re member the material because they possess a better under standing of the concepts.” Conklin points out that valuable time need not be wasted search ing for an answer. Oftentimes, “a student thinks he or she un derstands a problem, then gets thrown by a question on a test.” The reason for placing a strong emphasis on study groups is a concerted effort to help students get the most from their educa tion at CCC. A room has been provided for the study groups in which to meet. Several groups have been already formed. Conklin recommends that students who can’t find a study group to meet their schedule to fill out a survey. This will as sist her in being able to set up other times for study groups, as needed. If the group schedule doesn’t meet your needs, drop in tutoring is still available. Conklin indicated that the tu tors are usually busiest between the hours of 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. During this time, they are lim ited to only 3 or 4 minutes per student. “We want to see more stu dents doing their homework in the Math. Lab,” expressed Conklin. “Sometimes, a student See TUTORS page 2