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Vol. XXIX No. 15 Clackamas Community College Wednesday, February 28,1996 AT A GLANCE Compiled by Cori Kargel Business Manager Attention all Native American students: There will be a Native American Students Club meeting, tomorrow, at 5 p.m., in the Skylight Dining Room in the Community Cen ter. Meetings for the Native Ameri can Students Club are now scheduled for every Thurs., at 5 p.m., usually in the Community Center. For more in formation, call Sylvia Ollgaard at 632- 4619, Laney Fouse at 266-6957, or Cori Kargel at ext. 2578. All ages are invited to participate in the Old-Fashioned Music Jam and Dance. The Oregon Old Time Fiddlers will be presenting this family event March 2, from 5 to 9 p.m., at the Canby Senior Center at 13th and Ivy. Acoustic music only; children must be supervised. Singers are wel come to join in with their renditions of country and gospel. A $2 admission is asked, but not required. For more information, call Dorothy Wehus at 266-4144. The Lakewood Theatre Com pany will be holding auditions for the musical comedy, “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Fo rum.” Actors should bring a head shot, resume and musical selection in the appropriate key for their voice. Auditions will be scheduled, and will be this Sat. and Sun. For more infor mation, call Andrew Edwards at 635- 3901. Student art works from fall and winter terms are currently on display in a free exhibit. Art enthusiasts and non-enthusiasts alike are invited to ex perience 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. Formore information, call Susanna Lundgren at ext. 2386. CCC Environmental Commit tee meetings are every Weds., from 11 to 11:30 a.m., in Pl02. Everyone is invited to participate in focus groups: Helping the ELC, Bottle Bill Expansion, Recycling on Campus, AmeriCorp Projects and Environmen tal Week. For more information, call Ken Eschelman at ext. 2245. Petitions for graduation are now being accepted. Only petitions 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. Volunteers are needed to help adults learn to read. For more in formation, please call Joe Van Zutphen at ext. 2724.’ Chrysalis, the CCC women’s writing group is now meeting. Join in the meetings every Weds,, from noon to 1 p.m., in Bl 12. For more infor mation, call Kate Gray at ext. 2371. Poet Li-You ng Lee reads in forum tonight lol ■ ■ ■ *■ Oiji Pamela Sirianni News Editor Clackamas Community College will host a poetry read ing by Chinese Poet Li-Young Lee in the Gregory Forum to night at 7:30 p.m. The reading is free and open to the public. He will be reading from “Rose” and “The Winged Seed.” These books will be available for purchase at the reading. Lee was born in 1957 in Jakarta, Indonesia, of Chinese parents. In 1969 his father, af ter spending a year as a political prisoner in President Sukarno’s jails, fled Indonesia with his family. Between 1959 and 1964 See POET page 6 I Ask My Mother To Sing by Li-Young Lee She begins, and my grandmother joins her. Mother and daughter sing like young girls. If my father were alive, he would play his accordion and sway like a boat. I’ve never been in Peking, or the Summer palace, nor stood on the great Stone Boat to watch the rain begin on Kuen Ming Lake, the picnickers running away in the grass. But I love to hear it sung: how the waterlilies fill with rain until they overturn, spilling water into water, then rock back, and fill with more. Poetry Reading with Li-Young Lee Free and open to public When: Tonight Where: Gregory Forum Time: 7:30 p.m. Registration for spring term classes at Clackamas Community College begins March 4 for re turning students with appoint ments. New students can begin reg istering by appointment March 11 and open registration, no appoint ment necessary, begins March 13. Drivers education registra tion begins March 13 at 5:30 p.m. Telephone registration runs March 4 through March 31, be tween 8 a.m. and 8 p.m. seven days a week for returning stu dents, and from March 11 through Brad Zimmerman Assistant Feature Editor John Garvison, a student at CCC, will be publicly apologiz ing to the Board of Education and Linda Vogt for comments he made during the Jan. 14 Board of Edu cation meeting. In that meeting, Garvison went before the Board and claimed that Vogt, the advisor for the Print, said in a November fac ulty meeting that students ought to be graded down for comments made outside of class. After hear ing a tape of the meeting, it was later confirmed by Faculty Presi dent Joe Uris that Vogt did not make that comment, and that the comment that was made was dif ferent than what Garvison claimed it was. The Print has obtained the faculty minutes for the Feb. 15 meeting, where the tape of the November meeting was played. Those minutes contain the follow ing comment: “Yeah, maybe a student’s grade should be based on the number of factual errors in e-mail.” Garvison said he is sorry for incorrectly identifying Vogt as the origin of the comment. “I am sorry that that happened. Like I told John Keyser (President of CCC)...I’ll go in front of the board meeting and apologize...1’11 go in front of the faculty meeting and apologize,” said Garvison. Vogt feels that Garvison is doing the right thing. “I appreciate that Garvison is taking responsibility for his ac tions. To me, the whole lesson in this is that every person has that kind of responsibility in terms of being careful about not publish ing damaging statements that aren’t true. The irony of this whole thing is that’s what the original discussion was about: students taking responsibility for slanderous comments. That’s what Garvison did; Garvison’s statement before the board was slander,” said Vogt. Garvison said that he tried to verify that Vogt made the com ment. In talking to the Print, Garvison said he felt that he needed to protect his sources’ identity, so he declined to say who told him that Vogt made the al leged comment. Garvison also added that he thought it was nec essary to present his information before the Board of Education. “It wasn’t just one person that told me about the comment. I was told that it was a woman in a fac ulty or administrative position See APOLOGY page 3 Faculty meeting minutes reveal statement Damon Fouts Staff Writer “Yeah, maybe a student’s grade should be based on the number of factual errors in e- mail.” That is the tape-recorded comment of an “unidentified male voice,” which was greeted with laughter at the Clackamas Community College Educational Association (CCCEA) general faculty meeting last November. Since then, the comment has sparked a series of meetings among faculty, student-body lead ership and the highest levels of the college administration. Citing their policy of non disclosure of meeting transcripts and maintaining it was innocu ous and not to be taken seriously, CCCEA has refused to release the controversial comment, which is available on the F-drive of cam pus computers. Associated Student Govern ment President Mike Caudle had requested a copy of the transcripts of the November CCCEA meet ing when the comment was made, as well as a public apology re garding the comment. Faculty members discussed at the Febru ary meeting various recommen dations, but in the end, no rec ommendations regarding Caudle’s requests were agreed upon. “The consensus of the faculty Spring term registration begins Pamela Sirianni News Editor Garvison admits to inaccuracy March 31 for new students. In structions for touch-tone tele phone registration is in the CCC Spring Schedule of Classes. For your convenience, there is a brand new CCC booth located at Clackamas Town Center in Cedar Court at the bottom of the escalator. Students can get advice and register for spring term classes. Registration will be from March 14 through March 17 dur ing mall hours. Sue Manzella, assistant ad- ministrator/admissions, sug gested some tips students can use to make the registration process easier. Students should pay attention to their registration time and get an education plan organized. If there are questions, talk to a coun selor before your registration ap pointment and check to make sure the classes are still available. “Look ahead, plan ahead,” said Manzella. “Then it (regis tration process) should go real smoothly.” All students, returning and new, should have already received a registration appointment. If you do not have a registra tion appointment or if you need other registration information, call ext. 2263. (at the Feb. 15 meeting) was to let (the issue) die of its own weight, because it was inconse quential,” said CCCEA Presi dent-Elect Jack Scrivener, who doesn’t anticipate any further CCCEA action on the matter. Scrivener defended the CCCEA’s decision not to release the comment earlier in order to defuse the growing controversy, stating that it would set a prece dence that could undermine the collective-bargaining effective ness of the association. “It’s not that we’re hiding the comment, it’s that we’re pro tecting the integrity and status of a closed meeting,” Scrivener said. CCC President John Keyser agreed, stating, “I don’t think it was an issue of what was said, but of a private, versus a public meeting.” According to faculty member Dave DeMarkey who attended the February CCCEA meeting, compromising the closed-meet ing policy of the association would have a chilling effect on open debate within the future meetings. “Members have to have the right to say anything (and) know what they say is in confidence, so there’s a free and open discussion of issues,” DeMarkey said. Regarding whether faculty members take the concept of See MINUTES page 6 IN THIS ISSUE 'The Lady from Dubuque' opens this Thursday night in McLoughlin Theatre - page 3 Hungry beaver invades sanctity of the Environmental Learning Center - page 4 Women's basketball team takes region's #1 seed into NWAACC Tournament - page 7
