Caudle reflects on year of successes
BRAD ZIMMERMAN
Managing Editor
Mike
Caudle’s
Presi-
dency
• No unnec
essary tuition
increases.
• Opposed
Measure 47.
• Support
increased
child care
benefits
• Continue
ASG Book
mark.
• Lobby for
increase in
financial aid.
When Mike Caudle decided to run for
President of the Associated Student Gov
ernment for the second time, he ran on a
variety of issues and promises. Did he de
liver?
Caudle’s platform included increased
student access to Clackamas, no unneces
sary tuition increases, opposition to mea
sure 47, increased child care benefits and
continuation of bookmart.
Caudle started off the 1996-97 school
year early by flying to Washington D.C.
with several other members of ASG. They
lobbied Congress for $2.5 billion increase
in financial aid toward community colleges.
Later in the year, Caudle and other ASG
members went back to Washington D.C.
again and helped, with other students from
around the nation, to increase Federal fi
nancial aid by $ 1.2 billion to a total of $3.7
billion.
“We lobbied for a $2.5 billion increase
in financial aid, which included a $300 in
crease in the Pell grant. It went from $2700
a year to $3000. We were a part of a very
small group of people, about 45 to 75 stu
dents lobbying for two and a half days. The
next day, a headline in the Washington Post
proclaimed, $2.5 billion increase in finan
cial aid,”’ said Caudle.
Early in the school year, Caudle and other
ASG members started actively opposing
Measure 47. Caudle attended KATU’s
‘Town Hall” as part of the opposition side.
He also spoke to “just about everyone un
der the sun, state senators and state repre
sentatives.”
“I wasn’t an anti-measure 47 person. I
just wanted to get the message out that
Measure 47 was a bad thing for the stu
dents of this college,” stated Caudle. “I
know property tax burdens are high... but
it [Measure 47] had a negative impact to
the students of this college. I was doing
my job by saying that, ‘look this is bad, it
will cost the college over two million dol
lars.’”
Toward the end of February of this year,
the college decided to propose a $ 1 tuition
increase to cover cost-of-living increases
and to guard against Measure 47 financial
losses. Caudle and ASG again opposed
the increase, as they had done the previous
year against a $2 increase.
“I went to the Board of Education and
said that we [ASG] would tolerate a cost-
of-living increase. Meaning that we would
Mike Caudle
was the first
Clackamas ASG
President to win
back-to-back
elections.
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g
re
not incredibly, actively oppose a cost-of-
living increase. I can understand that argu
ment. However, I personally oppose any
tuition increase. For example, the national
average for the past 10 years , tuition at
community colleges has gone up 73 per
cent. And I know wages haven’t increased
that much,” said Caudle.
Besides fighting against problems that
cropped up during the year, Caudle also
helped to continue the growth of the child
care grant program.
Previously, the college Foundation had
set aside $ 10,000 to go toward child care
grants. Caudle and ASG were able to in
crease that number by 50 percent, to
$ 15,000 for the 1997-98 school year.
“I’ve been passionate about child care
since I got here. We spent this year work
ing on some off-campus alternatives, pro
I’ve truly
enjoyed
serving as
student
government
president
over the
past two
years. Z Z
viding grants
for off-campus
child care pro
viders. Over
the past two
years, we’ve
made child care
an issue on
campus. My
greater ambi
tion was to be
really impact
ing the things
that affect stu
dents on a daily
basis.
We
[ASG] tried to
Mike Caudle
transition from
ASG president
being entertain
ment-oriented
to more of the
things that affect your everyday life,” said
Caudle.
One of the other ideas Caudle cam
paigned on was expanding the ASG-spon
sored Bookmart. The Bookmart is de
signed to give students another outlet for
buying and selling books in an inexpen
sive manner.
“We ended up running Bookmart all
three terms this year and took in about 200
books in a term,” said Caudle. “There
was about $2000 or $3000 saved by stu
dents. They could have spent $2000 or
$3000 more than they did.”
In addition to what Caudle campaigned
on, he also successfully helped in fighting
to get students back on the Oregon Health
Plan, helped lobby for a $6.1 million in
crease in the Oregon Need Grant, worked
with college administration on the
Microgrid-Hartman/PGE energy-saving
project, helped to promote the Public
Safety Training Center, worked with the
Help Everyone’s Environment Live club
to increase recycling, worked with the food
service selection committee and was able.
to get a clause inserted in the food ser
vices contract that stated the food service
company was, “committed toenvironmen-
tally-friendly purchasing.”
“I know that not everyone on campus
voted for me in the election. And I know
not evetyone cares about student govern
ment, but I’ve truly enjoyed serving as stu
dent government president over the last
two years. And I don’t think anyone will
ever, not even myself, understand how
much it has contributed to my growth as a
person and what an impact we’ve been
able to have on this institution," Caudle
stated.
“Everyone may not like it; there
may be things that people disagree
with, but we’ve tried to stay on
middle-of-the-road issues. I hope and
I think do see the benefits from stu
dent government whether they ever
know it or not. I’ve just been pleased
that people chose me to be the first
ever two-term incumbent president,”
added Caudle.
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CINDY HINES KURFMAN / Clackamas Print
About 40 people attended the Writers' Club award ceremony last Tuesday. The
winners of the Writers' Club Contest read from their works of poetry, creative
nonfiction and fiction. The winners are (from left): Regina M. Godfrey, Anna L.
Phillips, Shelley De Leo, Karen LeBlanc, Nichola M. Vest, Elizabeth Holloway,
Rachael Lewis, Laura Robertson and Ron Rasch. (Not pictured: Anna Walker.)
Their work will be published in the campus literary magazine, Synesthesia, which
will be available by the end of spring term.
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