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AT A GLANCE Compiled by Cori Kargel Business Manager Spring Term classes begin Mon., March 25. Look for the next issue of The Print on April 10. The 23rd Annual Interna tional Women’s Day in Portland is a multi-cultural arts event and re source fair that will -include music, poetry readings, arts, crafts, food, and tables staffed by women-owned businesses and groups that support women’s issues. Free breast exams and mammograms will be offered. To volunteer, call 287-7322. For more information, call 228-3565. March is Women’s History Month. In recognition of this, Lucinda Parker will present a slide show on Northwest women artists today, at noon, in Gregory Forum roomC. For more information, call Susanna Lundgren at ext. 2386. Attention all Native Ameri can students: Meetings for the Native American Students Club are now scheduled for every Thurs., at 5 p.m., usually in the Community Center. For more information, call Sylvia Ollgaard at 632-4619, Laney Fouse at 266-6957, or Cori Kargel at ext. 2578. Several volunteer opportuni ties are now, available for people wishing to explore careers, transi tion employment, or sharpening work skills for eventual paid em ployment. For more information, call Vicki or Ann at 657-2123. Student art works from fall and winter terms are currently on display in a free exhibit. Art enthu siasts 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. CCC Environmental Com mittee meetings are every Weds., from 11 to 11:30 a.m., in Pl02. Ev eryone is invited to participate in fo cus 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. The Portland Women’s Cri sis Line needs women to commit to being volunteer crisis intervention counselors. Be a part of an organi zation that actively works to end violence against women and chil dren. Practicum credit is available for student volunteers. For more in formation or an application, call 232-9545. Several scholarships are still available for 1995-96. Stop by the Financial Aid office and check them out. Instructor revealed, claims his controversial comment a ‘non-issue’ Damon Fouts Staff Writer CCC drafting instructor Terence Shumaker calls the con troversial statement he made at last November’s CCC faculty meeting a non-issue, and says the real is sue is who leaked a misquote of the statement to CCC student John Garvison in the first place. The statement Shumaker made at the meeting was, “Yeah, maybe a student’s grade should be based on the number of factual er rors in e-mail.” That was the statement Garvison “paraphrased” and erro neously attributed to Journalism Instructor Linda Vogt before the CCC Board of Directors in Janu ary, which sparked a series of meetings among the top hierarchy of the students, faculty and admin istration. Shumaker acknowledged that the comment, which was greeted with laughter at the November meeting of the Clackamas Com munity College Educational Asso- ciation (CCCEA), concerned e- mail from John Garvison to fac ulty members. “There was banter going back and forth. It was a typical meet ing where comments were fly ing...It wasn’t a formal motion,” Shumaker said. Shumaker says he would not base a student’s grade on anything but academic performance. “I’ve been teaching here for 19 years and my grades are based on classroom performance,” Shumaker said. Jeff Ori, one of Shumaker’s recent students, agreed, saying that the instructor was, “...the best drafting instructor we have.” Ori called Shumaker’s grading poli cies “fair. He’s fair to everyone.” Shumaker believes focusing on his comment misses what he considers the larger issue of who betrayed the secrecy of a closed faculty meeting by telling Garvison about the comment. “The issue is that either a stu dent or a staff member has violated the trust of the faculty,” he said. Shumaker said the violation stems from the act of revealing a discussion to Garvison that took place in a closed meeting of the CCCEA, which is the collective bargaining voice for the CCC fac ulty. Shumaker also considers it an issue that the identity of the person that revealed the discussion hasn’t itself been revealed. The drafting instructor said he learned three or four weeks ago that the comment attributed to Vogt was actually his. He said he learned this when he was told by colleagues that the voice of the tape-recorded comment played at the February CCCEA meeting (which he did not attend) sounded like his voice. The recording was of the November CCCEA when the comment was made. Shumaker said repeatedly that the reason he then didn’t come forward, upon learning he made the comment, was that he felt the comment was a non-issue. “(Outgoing CCCEA Presi- dent) Joe Uris and (CCC Presi dent) John Keyser both came for ward and indicated it was a misin terpreted comment and was a non issue,” Shumaker said. He said he wasn’t aware of and couldn’t comment on Keyser’s “yes” answer when Keyser was asked by The Print whether he thought Shumaker made a mistake by not coming forward. When asked whether he thought it was an issue that Vogt was still linked to Shumaker’s comment days after he learned he had actually said it, he said, “That’s probably an issue for the person who misconstrued the statement and who blew it out of proportion... It’s not an issue for me.” Shumaker wasn’t aware that the CCCEA meetings were being taped and that the meeting tran scripts were on the college’s F- drive. “I’m against it,” he said of both forms of record-keeping. College may take ELC under wing Pamela Sirianni News Editor The last couple years have been tough, financially, for the En vironmental Learning Center; a task force has been created to dis cuss the possibility of the college taking over ELC. “Over the last two or three years the ELC has been through some rough times. The (ELC) board has been working real hard. They just haven’t been able to quite get it going again,” said Chuck Scott, assistant dean for science, math and allied health. “They came real close last year to breaking even, but didn’t quite and they have about used up their re serves.” The director of the ELC was forced to step down from his job only six months after he started. Vaughn L. Brown’s last day at ELC was Jan. 31. He was forced to quit because the center could no longer afford to pay his $36,000- a-year salary. Brown attempted to revitalize ELC’s budget, which suffered in 1994 when the founder pleaded guilty to stealing money and equipment to pay for drugs ac cording to the story in The Orego nian. In November there was talk about Clackamas Community Col lege taking over ELC which has operated separately since it was es tablished 23 years ago as a pio neering recycling center. Over the last several months the college has had a series of See ELC on page 6 Tuition to increase $1 Brad Zimmerman Asistant Feature Editor Due to changes in CCC’s “Strategic Financial Plan,” (SFP) tuition increase will only be $ 1, as opposed to the initial proposal of a $2 increase. The decrease in the proposal occurred because of various sav ings in utilities and a change in the “State Funding Formula,” (SFF) which resulted in a projected $350,000 surplus in the 1998-99 school year. The SFF changes, however, must be approved by the Presi dents and State Board of Educa tion. Even though the changes haven’t been approved yet, Dean of College Services Gary Dirrim felt that “it’s not clear just yet, but we think it’s sold.” Dirrim also said that the changes are going to benefit the students and the college. “It’s great, because it helps meet the student needs, and now we (CCC) have a better market ing position,” said Dirrim. More changes could occur in the SFP, because the college has not yet figured the $140,000 sav ings that the PGE/MicroGrid would provide. The SFP was initiated in or der to keep technology current, along with figuring the cost impact of early retirements, Environmen tal Learning Center status changes (which will result in a potential cost increase if ELC becomes a part of the college) and federal changes, which could represent a potential loss of grant and finan cial aid dollars due to federal bud get cuts. After 23 years, the Environment Learning Center faces the possibility of becoming part of the college or closing. According to Associate Dean Chuck Scott, if the college makes ELC a department of the college, the Haggart Observatory could be used to offer Astronomy classes. Energy retro-fitting plan to reduce costs Paul Ulmen Staff Writer In order to reduce college operating costs, an energy retro fitting plan is being studied and if approved by the Board of Di rectors, may start in May. Dean of College Services Gary Dirrim has met with Port land General Electric (PGE) and Micro Grid, who will contract for the work, to discuss what needs to be done. The college’s con sultant has also taken part in the meetings to check the analysis of the plan to see if it is accurate and will do what PGE and Mi cro Grid predict it will. “Their report will go to the board and they will make recom mendations for the contract later in April. If the plan is approved, wofk can begin as early as May. It will take seven months to implement the recommendations and should be completed by De cember of 1996. We can start saving by January 1997,” said Dirrim. “Our goal was to reduce op erating costs by 25 percent. We’ve interviewed other univer sities and colleges to see what they had done. That translates to about $141,000 a year,” said Dirrim. However a preliminary report by Micro Grid predicted an additional 2 percent a year savings which is better than they See ENERGY on page 6
