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WEdNEsdAy, J anuary 26, 2000
News
TI h E ClACkAMAS P rìnt
McLoughlin elevator reopens after 9 months
After six weeks of drilling and repairs students and staff can return to their regulary scheduled classrooms
DIANA SCRIVNER
Associate News Editor
Tired of carrying your heavy
bags up the stairs
in
McLoughlin Hall? The eleva
tor is now up and running, af
ter closing for repairs nearly
nine months ago.
Many problems were caused
by the loss of the elevator: dis
abled students and staff were
unable to get to the classrooms
and offices on the second floor
of the building; the theater de
partment and bookstore were
unable to retrieve big items
from the storage rooms in the
basement; and office supplies
had to be taken up the stairs to
the offices. But these problems
should be over now that the el
evator is repaired.
While attempting to repair
the elevator last summer, an un
derground stream was discov
ered, according to Kirk
Pearson, director of plant ser
vices. This water was corrod
ing the hydraulic jack, the
mechanism that controls the
movement of the elevator.
Nearly six weeks ago drilling
began to place a protective
sleeve into the elevator shaft
to protect the hydraulic jack
from corrosion. The drilling
was quite a process as the
company had to erect a drill rig
into the elevator shaft, then
drill in the confined space.
This took approximately four
weeks according to Pearson.
After the drilling was com
plete the Millar Elevator Ser
vice Company was able to place
the cylinder into the elevator.
This process took about two
weeks; however it is. now se
cure and ready for use. The
Millar Elevator Service Com
pany termed this type of work
a 100 year repair.
“There’s a steel casing that
has a plate welded at the bot
tom. Inside that you’ve got a
plastic liner, and inside of that
you’ve got your elevator jack,"
SALENA DE LA CRUZ I Clackamas Print
The McLoughlin elevator, which has been closed since April 1999, reopened last week. Drilling was
needed to place a protective cylinder around the hydraulic jack in order to prevent corrosion.
explained Pearson, of the new
cylinder.
"So the water that is down
there is going to have to work
hard to get in there.”
With the elevator up and run
ning, classes can meet in their
regularly-scheduled rooms and
students can feel free to take a
break from carrying books up
and down the stairs by riding
in the elevator for a change.
Budget cuts reduce Public Safety officers;
not expected to impact their performance
KARLKATZKE
Dexheimer.
Public Safety’s role on campus
is primarily addressing crimes that
Clackamas Public Safety forces happen on campus.
have been reduced in recent years
“We enforce parking regula
due to campus
tions, we handle
budget restric
lost and found
tions, but the re
property...
ductions are not
thefts... and car
If you have ah
expected to im
break-ins,” said
emergency, call
pact performance.
Dexheimer.
Still, students
Public Safety’s
911, then call
and staff are en
staffing policies
Public Safety.
couraged to call
are
being
emergency ser
changed to re
Larry Dexheimer
vices before they
flect this role.
Chief of Public Safetly
inform Public
"I think in the
Safety of the cri
future what we’ll
sis.
be hiring rather
“If you have an emergency, call than armed officers will be secu
9-1 -1, then call Public Safety,” said rity-type officers, that is, one with
Chief of Public Safety Larry out a weapon, but they have the
Business Manager
state mandated training for secu
rity training, that kind of thing,”
said Dexheimer.
Graveyard shift Public Safety
patrols have been eliminated, also
due to budgetary constraints.
“We’re in discussions now with
Oregon City Police Department...
they keep an eye on the place at
night,” said Dean of Student Ser
vices Peter Angstadt.
So far, no change has been no
ticed by students or staff members
who use Public Safety’s services
on a regular basis. Roni Wilhelm
works the late shift in the Help
Center, and says that she hasn’t
noticed any difference in safety.
“I always call [Public Safety] and
have them walk me out... but I
don’t have any problem feeling
safe,” said Wilhelm.
Fire and rescue responds again
JOHN THORBURN I Clackamas Print
In a second incident within a week, Oregon City Emergency personnel responded last Friday
when a Clackamas student who had a medical history of heart problems complained of
shortness of breath. The student, whose identity was withheld, was taken to Good Samaritan
Hospital as a precaution, and later released. Only a week before, 911 was called and
emergency vehicles responded when student Brian Trapp collapsed and later died in the
Barlow parking lot. Formore about Brian Trapp, see page 8.
College to be on the air
Nash Carey and others from Clackamas' new radio
broadcasting class discuss their new radio station which will
be broadcast over television on TCI cable channel S3.
Dedicated to equipping students for careers in radio
broadcasting, the station will be organized, designed and run
by students of the new radio broadcasting class now offered at
Clackamas.
Students will learn the fundamentals of radio, radio
news style, media relations and other valuable information.