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Vol. XXIX No. 14 Clackamas Community College Wednesday, F ebruary 21,1996-y AT A GLANCE Scholarship program offers help for students Compiled by Cori Kargel Business Manager Remember: no day classes will be held tomorrow. Night classes will still be held. Attention Native American students: There will be a Native American Students Club meet ing, tomorrow, at 5 p.m., in the Sky light Dining Room in the Commu nity Center. The last several meet ings were cancelled due to weather. Though classes will not be held to morrow, the meeting will. For more information, call Sylvia Ollgaard at 632-4619, Laney Fouse at 266-6957, or Cori Kargel at ext. 2578. Student art works from fall and winter terms are currently on dis play in a free exhibit. Art enthusiasts and non-enthusiasts alike are invited to experience this showing, every Mon. through Thurs. from 8 a.m. to to 10 p.m., and every Fri. from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m, in the Pauling Gallery. For more information, call Susanna Lundgren at ext. 2386. In celebration of Black History Month, the Cathedral Choir of Bethel A.M.E. Church will be presenting: “Once Upon a Time... When We Were Colored,” an evening of spiri tuals, Feb. 25, at 5 p.m., at Bethel A.M.E. Church. For more informa tion, call 288-5429 or 288-3118. CCC Environmental Com mittee-meetings are every Weds., from 11 to 11:30 a.m., in PI02. Everyone is invited to participate in focus groups: Helping the ELC, Bottle Bill Expansion, Recycling on Cam pus, AmeriCorp Projects and Envi ronmental Week. For more infor mation, call Ken Eschelman at ext. 2245. Petitions for graduation are now being accepted. Only petitions submitted by March 29 are guaran teed inclusion in the graduation pro gram. Petitions will be accepted af ter that date with no guarantee for inclusion. The graduation ceremony will be June 7. For more informa tion, see the Registrar’s office or the Help Center. Do you need resume assis tance? There is now a Resume Work Station in the Career Center. For more information, inquire at the Career Center. Volunteers are needed to help adults learn to read. For more in formation, please call Joe Van Zutphen at ext. 2724. Sample will be available in the Community Center Mall this week. Because of an increase in the She will be at a table in the mall number of internal scholarships which has her hours posted on it. being offered, Clackamas has hired Today and Friday she will be avail Sharon Sample as Scholarship able from 2-3 p.m. Coordinator. “We will try and if it is suc Sample explained that Finan cessful we may just try it for a cial Aid and Scholarship offices couple of weeks,” said Sample have been reorganizing with the about being in the mall for set help of Consultant Jane Sharp. hours. Sample started in November She also intends to offer work of 1995 as coordinator. She gradu shops on scholarships. Topics ated from San Diego State Univer will include eligibility, what is avail sity. She first worked at CCC from able and resources. The open en 1984 to 1987 in the Registrar’s of rollment period for 96/97 Founda fice. tion scholarships began Monday “I am definitely here for the and the deadline is April 5. If students to provide a one stop students miss that deadline, there shop for scholarships,” said is enrollment during the first month Sample of how she perceives her of each term, Sample explained. job. There are currently at least 25 Up to now students have had Foundation scholarships avail to submit separate applications for able. “That number (scholarships) each internal scholarship. Now, will grow dramatically,” added an applicant can Sample. b fill out one form “I want stu for all of them. dents to know I think people A new com that you don’t don't apply for puter system, necessarily have scholarships called SIPS, will to be a four point, because they think or completely and be going on-line ‘I can’t compete. ’ to provide stu totally destitute,” dents with schol said Sample. “I -Sharon Sample, Scholarship Coordinator^ arship informa think people don’4 apply for tion. SIPS will al low students to access all internal scholarships because they think ‘I can’t compete.’ I don’t want scholarships and all other exter nal scholarships. It will allow stu them to feel that way. I think, es dents to get more detailed infor pecially as this program grows, mation, as well as print out the there’s going to be all kinds of cri applications for the scholarships teria to meet all kinds of needs.” Sample adds that the applica once they have decided to apply. , “I am a liaison between Foun tion will stay in a “pool” of appli dation, faculty, donors and high cations for the entirety of the aca schools in our district,” Sample demic year, alleviating multiple forms. explained. “The Help Center has my “The Foundation (office of college advancement) has a com schedule. And, unfortunately I am mitment. Their next goal is to raise hard to reach right now because it a great deal of money to privatize is such a learning curve and I am more scholarships,” explained so busy and involved in so many different things^” Sample said Sample. “It’s all about student suc about students reaching her. She cess. The goal is to be able to also added that students are wel offer to any student who wants come to call her, or leave voice mail an education help'in acquiring that at ext. 2373. dream,” said Sample. Brendon Neal Opinion Editor Skills Contest Feb. 22 The 19th Annual Regional Skills Contest will be held tomorrow. College day classes will be canceled. Students should check with their instructor for verification of afternoon and evening classes. Photo by Joel Coreson, last year’s Photojournalism Contest winner Recovery continues Paul Ulman Staff Writer In response to the flood and its victims, Chief of Public Safety Jim Wiseman wants to let every one know there is still a need for volunteers. “There is a push on to get help. We want about 100 people spread around the area, between the county and Oregon City. Ev eryone is helping in different ways. Some are giving cash, some are giving blood and some are helping with cleanup,” said Wiseman. “ASG m_| have some phone numbers of elderly and infirmed that need help in their homes,” he said. Those who wish to help can find out where they may be needed most by calling the numbers in the Feb. 14 issue of The Clackamas Print and listed below. When asked how the college fared in the flood of 1964, Wiseman mentioned the college had not yet been built. “Where the football field and Barlow Hall are now, was once marshlands. Ducks would come in from Canada and hunters had duck blinds there. When it rains now, the football field still stays wet and muddy,” he said. “In 1964 voters elected to do a college dis trict. Clairmont was the first building built in 1965. As other buildings were constructed, Clairmont was used as a warehouse,” said Wiseman. Later, trailers were used while other classroom buildings were built, he added. Other concerns the stu dents have are about the safety of the water on campus. News casts have mentioned the water in some areas may not be safe to drink. “There’s nothing wrong See FLOOD HELP on page 6 Controversial comment causes student concern Karin Redston Staff Writer The faculty decided last Thursday against releasing the minutes from a past November CCC Faculty Association meeting where a controversial comment about students _was allegedly made. The Associated Student Government sent a letter to Joe Uris, president of the Faculty As sociation, asking that the tape of that meeting be made available. The letter also had asked that an apology be made concerning any remarks about lowering grades of students. “The primary concerns of the faculty were multi-fold,” said Uris. “We definitely do not intend nor do we think it appropriate for us, the faculty, to be attacking stu dents for their free thought, what ever their ideas. Okay, so we ab solutely support the free speech of the students and we do not in tend that faculty would be grad ing students on what they do out side of class at all. It’s just irrel evant.” Uris said that the faculty has concerns about releasing any min utes or the tape of that meeting. His main concern was that the CCC Faculty Association is also a collective bargaining unit and their meetings have always been closed. Linda Vogt, CCC Print ad visor and faculty member, did en tertain a motion to release the con troversial tape. However, most of the faculty felt releasing the tape would be setting a precedent, Uris said, so they voted against it. “We will not discuss what happens at faculty meetings be cause faculty meetings are asso ciation meetings,” said Uris. “They are closed meetings. That is what the faculty has instructed me to say.” Uris wanted to make it clear Linda Vogt did not make the com ments John Garvison charged in his testimony to the CCC Board on Jan. 10. “Linda Vogt is not the person who made any comment that should be taken as a threat by any one, or could even conceivably be taken as a threat,” said Uris. “She’s not the person. She was misidentified, and I’m sorry. I feel very bad for her and I think it’s very unfair that she was charac terized as that person. That’s re ally important because her repu tation- she’s a journalist- is on the line here. It’s just not the case. She didn’t do that.” Uris then stated another main concern. This involved Garvison’s misquoting and also mis-identify- ing people. “The thing that’s been quoted...” said Uris. “The exact wording that’s been quoted of what the faculty member suppos edly said is not correct. The im portant point is that this was said in the faculty meeting. That it has been decontextualized and mis quoted and it’s nothing. Nobody is trying to threaten students for their e-mail or for anything else that they do outside of class.” Although Vogt could not comment specifically on the No vember faculty meeting, she shared her own concerns about the situation. “Having listened to that tape with the rest of the faculty,” said Vogt, “it’s clear to me as it is to everybody else that the comment that students are so concerned about and worried about. . . not only was it not said by me ... it was not said by anyone. I’m frus trated because Garvison chose to name me and connect my name to it.” Uris is not sure how any com ment came to Garvison’s attention and he was not sure who made the comment. Uris suggested the pos sibility that the meeting might have been overheard. Although the meetings are closed, they hold them in an area that is easily ac cessible. Vogt is taking steps to try and resolve the situation and clarify any misinformation. She hopes everything will be resolved rela tively soon. “Students need to know that nobody on the faculty has taken this view that their thoughts or ideas need to be censored, except in the case of when a student is inclined to send something libel ous or obscene,” said Vogt. “So in that context, it’s just important for students to know that their freedom was not threatened by anybody. That’s what the discus sion was about.”
