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.”