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______ 3 News ASG takes annual trip to Washington DC TL ie CI ac U mas P rint Wednesday, April 7, 1999 ROBERT SCHOENBERG News Editor ASG President David LeDoux and nine other ASG officials re turned Tuesday, March 30 from a long weekend attending the 1999 American Student Association of Community Colleges’ National Conference on Student Advocacy in Washington D.C. where they attended seminars and a meeting on Monday with Oregon’s Sena tor Ron Wyden. LeDoux, president of ASACC, chaired the board meeting Friday morning and helped organize the conference attended by commu nity college representatives from 23 states. Among the speakers instructing attendees on student activism and lobbying efforts on behalf of col lege students with state and fed eral government officials, were Amy Lundy-Crook, another former Clackamas student and who now works for the Oregon Community College Association in Salem, Frank Mensel, a policy director for ASACC; and activist Ralph Nader who spoke at a lunch on Monday about civic responsibility, student involment and how to become ac tive with the government. On Friday before the conference, LeDoux met withAmy Burgess, leg islative aid to Oregon Rep. David Wu. With the rest of the group, he then met with former Clackamas stu dent and last years PSU Student Body President, Chris Groener, who is now Oregon Rep. Darlene Hooley’s legislative aid. They were unable to meet with the representatives themselves be cause, “they had all gone back to Oregon because of Easter break,” said Norm Bemey, ASG Advisor. “We were very pleased to meet with Senator Ron Wyden; he was only there for 24 hours and took quite a bit of his time to meet with us.” Also attending from Clackamas were ASG Vice President Bryan Fuentez, Chief of Staff Lynn Brown, Childcare Officer Danielle Nati, Promotions Senator Mariah Kreinheder, Legeslative Officer Paul Creighton, Student Access Officer Laurie Robinson, Campus Activities Senator James Gould, ASG Secretery Michelle Waggoner and Bemey. CONTRIBUTED BY ASG First row: Danielle Nati, Lynn Brown, Laurie Robinson. Second row: Paul Creighton, David LeDoux, Jennifer Rankin, Mariah Kreinheder. Third row: James Gould, Ron Wyden, Bryan Fuentez. Funding for the trip came from all those BBQ lunches held in the commons outside the Community Center during Fall and Winter terms and donations from Clackamas staff and students. The money paid for $5,270 worth of plane tickets and hotel rooms. To save on expenses, the ASG repre sentatives boarded up to five in a room and walked to the Capitol for their meetings instead of hiring a taxi, said Bemey. The group did get in some sightseeing and visited the Jefferson Memorial late Friday night before the conference. Fuentez said, “I really enjoyed the Memorial. I liked reading what the words were written on the wall, it had a lot of meaning for me.” Instructor arrested for high school demonstration KARLKATZKE Associate Editor Paul Farrar, a part-time Clackamas math instructor, was taken into cus tody by the Canby Police Depart ment at the request of Canby High School for trespassing on school property on April 1 and again on April 2,1999, according to Public Information Officer Brian Howarth of the Canby Police Department. According to witnesses, Farar a retired Canby School teacher, was protesting the implementation of the Certificate of Initial Mastery tests, which are currently being ad ministered to high school students. Farrar, who was not available to speak to The Print, told The Or egonian that, “We don’t need new data to tell us that we’re not serv ing minorities. We just don’t need another test.” Farrar was released early in the afternoon on April 2 with a cita tion, and was charged with crimi nal trespass. The charge is a mis demeanor with a possible $1000 fine and a 30-day jail sentence, said Howarth. Canby School District Commu nity Relations Administrator John Falkenstein stated that Mr. Farrar was asked to leave the high school in numerous prior incidents. “He [Mr. Farrar] had been com ing onto campus, walking into classrooms and causing disrup tion. We asked him to follow dis trict procedure and sign into the office, but he did not. Because of the disruption and the fact that he disobeyed district policy he was asked to leave, and that’s when the police got involved.” According to Falkenstein, Farrar was accosting students as they got on their buses after Cer tificate of Initial Mastery testing, the standardized testing that Farrar claims is being forced on students and teachers. Farrar was asking them to throw off the tests by answering ‘A’ on all multiple choice questions. “This is something that the dis trict is concerned about,” said Falkenstein. Farrar retired last June from teaching math at Ackerman Middle School in the Canby School District. Farrar currently teaches an evening mathematics class for Clackamas at the Har- mony/OIT center. According to Howarth, and as reported in The Oregonian on Tuesday, April 6, Farrar was taken back into custody later in the af ternoon on April 2, and was transported to Portland Adventist Medical Center for a psychiatric evaluation on a Police Hold, accordance with ORS. 426228. “It is the duty of a police officer to take a person into custody when we feel that he could be a danger to someone else or him self,” said Howarth. Math Department Co-Chairper son Kurt Lewandowski received a voicemail from Farrar at 9:30 a.m. on Monday. “I do know that he’s in Portland Adventist... We, as a college, have not made any decisions or taken any actions yet, partly because we have not talked to him or our Hu Waffles SARAH WELCH I Clackamas Print Ronda McDowall, Anne Pardington, Cathy LeDoux, Jackie Hubka, Betsey Rixford, Lynne Maloney, Rene Zingarelli and Beth Millican, all staff of the family Resource Center, celebrated the Grand Re-Opening of the FRC March 31. $1.49 Expires April 14, 1999 man Resources department to find out what our legal position is,” said Lewandowski. “We’re not sure how long he’s going to be there. We’ 11 wait to sit down with him and Human Re sources... We have an excellent substitute to take over his classes,” Lewandowski added in a later interview. Communications Specialist Dan McCue, who is a part of the Clackamas Community Relations department, added, “The college has no position on what hap pened. What Mr. Farrar does in Canby he does on his own...We do hope he’s all right.” Hotdog, small'fries, and 20 oz Coke $2.25 Expires April 14,1999
