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www.ClackamasPrint.com
Wednesday, October 11, 2000
Clackamas Community College
Oregon City, Oregon
Volume XXXIV, Issue
1
ion, education Memorial
planned for
Rippey
Many ballot measures
threaten community
college funds in Oregon
Ruth Rippey, Clackamas finan
cial aid accountant, died Satur
day night at her home in
Beavercreek. She was 53.
Rippey has been employed at
Clackamas
since 1986.
She was ac
tive on the
STEVE NIELSEN
News Editor
With 11 measures on the Novem
ber ballot that will have some effect
on state funding for community col
leges, the Associated Student Gov
ernment (ASG) is in the middle of a
major drive to get Clackamas stu
dents out to vote.
Last week’s festivities, including
live performances by Paul deLay and
his band, were part of “Rock the
Vote,” a nation-wide effort to bring
young people together, educate
them about local issues and encour-
I age them to vote. In the last elec-
I tion, only eight percent of people
118-34 voted.
I “Everyone 35 and older is making
I decisions for 92% of people 18-34,”
I said ASG President Bryan Fuentez.
I That amounts to one group of
I Americans deciding how another
I group will live their lives.
I Anyone who hasn’t registered yet
I has until Oct. 17 to drop by the ASG
I office (in die Community Center), to
I fill out a voter registration card. There
I will be a locked box at ASG in which
to put completed ballots on or before
I Nov. 7.
ASG is also organizing “class
raps” in an attempt to educate stu
dents about seven measures ASG
feels will impact students most Some
of these measures could strip com
munity colleges and Oregon services
I of literally billions in state funding.
Measure 91
Measure 91 would remove any
limit on the amount of federal income
tax Oregon residents may deduct
from their state income tax liability.
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ating team,
and served
for the past
MIKE POLLOCK I Clackamas Print
The Paul deLay Band plays in the courtyard for the "rock the vote" barbecue hosted by the Associated
Student Government (ASG). Voter registration forms were available for students to register to vote.
At present, personal income taxpay
ers are allowed to deduct up to $3,000.
Most families now do not even reach
die $3,000 limit
If 91 passes, it would allow indi
viduals and corporations to deduct
the full amount of their federal in
come tax from their Oregon income
tax. This would mostly benefit fami
lies with a yearly income of $50,000
and higher.
Most families under that level
would end up paying more than
they do now because Measure 91
would do away with the “kicker”
refund check that they receive now.
If Measure 91 passes, the result
would be a loss of almost a billion
dollars a year from state revenue.
Since community colleges get 53%
of their binding from the state gen
eral fund, they would be devastated
by this measure, according to Fuentez
Measure 91 would also cut rev
enues to the general fund for other
programs like K.-12 education, trans
portation, public safety, healthcare,
foster care, adoptive services, and
services for the disabled and elderly.
Oregon businesses would see the
biggest tax cuts, with no limit on how
much federal income tax they could
deduct. But many Oregon businesses
for tuition to rise,” Fuentez stated.
Measure 9
Measure 9 looks least likely to
financially impact the college. It
states that “Notwithstanding any
other law or rule, the instruction
of behaviors relating to homosexu
ality and bisexuality shall not be
are against Measure 91.
“We believe the elimination of $ 1.5
billion from the state’s general fund
will destabilize the state and
damage the quality of life
we enjoy,” said Associated
Oregon Industries, repre-
senting 19,000 Oregon
TlH E
encourages, promotes or
sanctions [gives one’s
consent to] such behav
iors.”
In other words, instruc
tors could not say anything
t<
good about such behavior. It also
provides that any community col
lege in noncompliance “shall be sub
ject to appropriate sanctions [eco
nomic measures], like withholding
all or part of state funding...”
“It could tear our funding out
from under us,” Fuentez declared.
Many people feel this measure
also raises the question of academic
freedom and censorship, and its im
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VOTE
businesses, in a written ar-f
gument in opposition to
presented in a public
school in a manner which
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the measure.
Measure 8
Measure 8 would also cut the gen
eral fund. It would limit state spend
ing to 15% of Oregonians' personal
income, as averaged over the previ
ous two years. This measure would
cut about the same amount from the
general fund as would 91. Together
they would take away almost three
billion dollars from public services,
including community colieges.
“If 91 and 8 pass, it will open the door
pact on college campuses.
Former CCC wrestler, silver medalist, comes to campus
STEVE NIELSEN
News Editor
Matt Lindland, 2000 Olympic sil
ver medalist, and former wrestler
at Clackamas, will speak and sign
posters and autographs on cam-
pus Oct. 26, from noon to 1 p.m.,
in the Skylight Dining Room.
Lindland beat Manukyan of the
Ukraine 7-4 to enter the Olympic semi
finals and wrestle for the gold with
Mourat Kardanov of Russia.
Kardanov walked away with the gold
Former
CCC
wrestler
Matt
Lindland,
right,
wrestles
for the
USA at
the
2000
Sydney
Olympics.
but Lindland brought die silver home
to Oregon.
Lindland was recruited to Clackamas
12 years ago out of Gladstone High
School, where he won the High School
Greco-Roman championship, placed
second in the Oregon State Athletic
Association championships and won
third in Freestyle at State.
"I recruited him because of his hip
motion, mobility, and athletic abil
ity,” said Clackamas Coach Norm
Bemey.
Where other people saw just a
skinny kid, Bemey saw lots of po
tential even then.
“I feel really good I had any small
part of helping him along in his ca
reer,” he added.
Lindland red-shirted his first year
PHOTO COURTESY OF / Oregonian Photo Department
on campus behind a returning all-
American in his weight class. Later
Lindland beat that wrestler 10-1.
In 1989, Jim Jackson, who had
coached Lindland when he was 16
at the USA Oregon wrestling club
in Northeast Portland, took over as
wrestling coach at Clackamas.
“He (Lindland) was vety unorthodox.
He didn’t wrestle like other people, but it
worked forhim,” remarked Jackson.
Both years that Lindland wrestled
atClackamas(89-90and 90-91)he went
to the National Junior College Athletic
Association Championships. The first
year, he missed placing by one match.
One of Lindland’s weak points was
lifting weights. He hated lifting, but
after that tournament he decided he
would have to start lifting, and lifted
religiously until the next year, when he
several years
as a classified representative to
the foundation board.
“She was very active as an ad
vocate for students,” said Mary
Jo Jackson, director of student
financial services. “She was very
dedicated, and a great person;
she’ll be missed.”
A memorial will be held this
Saturday at noon at The Lower
Highland Bible Church, 24353
Ridge Road in Beavercreek.
According to the Clackamas
County Sheriffs office, a domes
tic disturbance call came in just
after midnight Saturday, and of
ficers were dispatched to the
Rippey home.
“Our detectives and the
deputy medical examiner con
ducted an investigation,” said
Deputy Angela Blanchard, pub
lic information officer for the
Sheriffs office. “They spent
quite a bit of time investigating
the scene. The female subject
was deceased upon our arrival;
she had apparently shot her
self.”
When contacted by The Print
on Monday, Deputy Medical Ex
aminer Jeff Mayer confirmed the
cause of death as suicide.
Blanchard said that detectives
from her office “were comfortable
with that ruling.”
News of her death shocked and
upset co-workers and colleagues
Monday morning, and a college coun
selor was brought in to help them cope
with the loss. ‘
Chippi Bello, scholarship coordina
tor at Clackamas, has worked with
Rippey for several years. “Ruth has
been here a long time,” said Bello. “She
was like a rock and she is going to be
missed by a lot of students.”
Bello is deeply affected by Rippey’s
passing.
“It’s a big shock for me,” she
said. “ She is the last person you
returned to win the NJCAA cham
pionship.
would think to do something like
that. I don’t know what to say.
It’s hard to talk about it.”
See Lindland, page 6
See Rippey, page 3