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WediNEsdAy, FebRUARy 28, 2001
The CI ac I camas P rint
Smoking forum brings policy change closer
STEVE NIELSEN
and only one other student who wasn’t
have to walk through those areas to
smoking, they took their cigarettes, hi
News Editor
affiliated with ASG or The Print
Though the forum was publicized and
open to all, smokers were surprisingly
absent.
Crai g is heading the committee that
will decide how to address the many
complaints the college has received
concerning second-hand smoke, es
pecially around building entrances.
As reported in the Nov. 29 issue of
The Print, many people on campus
object to smoking around doorways
and high traffic areas because they
get to their classes.
“There has been a fair amount of
dissatisfaction with second-hand
smoke that people have had to toler
ate,” said Keyser. “The statistics that
I’ve read about the potential damage
of secondary smoke are pretty scary.”
Katie Hovanic, circulation coordi
nator at the library raised the issue of
GEQ students smoking in front of the
Dye Learning Center. Hovanic and
response to requests by the instruc
tors of some of the Tri-City Alterna
tive Programs, Public Safety took a less
active approach to enforcement
against underage smoking.
“If we started, we could probably
Changes to Clackamas’ smoking
policy were the subject of an open fo
rum Monday in OC127 where ASG rep
resentatives mc^vith faculty and stu
dents tb discuss whatkl^eci<>n they
wHltakc^
11 ilA'en people attended the forum
including College President John
Keyser, ASG Presiden t Bryan Fuentez,
Jaime Craig, an environmental affairs
officer for ASG, three faculty members
others have noted that, not only do
these students create a considerable
amount of smoke and litter
due to smoking at the entry
way where other students
must travel, but some of
them aren’t even old
enough to smoke.
“I don’t know
why they don’t enforce thè
minimum smoking age re
quirement,” said Hovanic.
“We just don’t
have the manpower,” an
swered Craig. “We don’t
have anybody who is will
ing to go do that as part of
their job.”
According to
Larry Dexheimer, assistant
administrator for Public
Safely, about three years
MIKE POLLOCK / Clackamas Print
Clackamas students and faculty discuss problems with the current
smoking policy and plans for the future.
ago Public Safety hadazero
tolerance policy. If they
found underage youths
similar to the one Mt Hood has been
working on since 1988. After various
policy changes and area changes, Mt.
Hood now has designated areas for
smoking with about 13 covered shel
ters that consist of refurbished Tri-Met
bus shelters. Mt. Hood also imple
mented a $15 fine for smoking in re
stricted areas.
Last November, ASG had a few ar
eas they were looking at as designated
areas though they haven’t specifically
chosen any yet
‘We haven’t decided for sure. If
you have a better idea of what we can
do to solve this problem, we’d like that
input also,” said Craig, speakingtoany-
one this policy would affect “Desig
nated smoking areas just seem like the
best option for us at this point”
be down there [at Dye] writing tickets
all day,” said Dexheimer.
For some time, ASG has been work
ing on- a plan to re-structure the
schools smoking policy with the pos
sibility of making clearly designated
smoking areas and covered shelters
to shield smokers from the weather
without their having to smoke under
covered entrances.
In the few responses from smokers
that The Print received from a poll it
conducted lastNovember, the consen
sus of smokers was that they would
cooperate with these kinds of policy
changes. ASG has heard similar asser
tions from smokers.
‘We did have people that called us
and said they were smokers and
weren’t going to quit, but would be
very willing to work with designated
areas if that was what the campus de
cided,” said Fuentez.
The goal of the re-structuring
isn’t as much to restrict smokers
implementing these measures.
Along with restrictions, ASG has
discussed making programs which
to designated areas as much as it
is to keep them away from build
ings, eaves and doorways, said
Fuentez.
ASG is looking at a course of action
help people quit smoking more avail
able. ASG hopes to have a proposal
for changes to the smoking policy
ready to present to the President’s
Council by May.
As well as designated areas and cov
ered shelters, ASG also plans to even
tually institute a fine for smoking in
restricted areas. The fine would only
go into effect after awareness of the
new policy and restricted areas is well
established.
After Monday’s forum, ASG
plans to take the next steps toward
English Instructor Jeff Knorr says goodbye to Clackamas
MAGGIE JIRASEK
Feature Editor
English Instructor Jeff Knorr,
who has been on sabbatical
since the beginning of the
school year, will be moving to
Sacramento after serving the
college since 1994 and will be
missed by many.
“Jeff is a great teacher. The
students like and respect him,”
said Tim Schell, English in
structor. “He is a great col
league and we became very
good friends. His leaving will
be a huge loss for the college
and English department.”
“Leaving is very difficult. It’s
Knorr’s leaving is due to his a sign of -what a good place
wife’s job relo
Clackamas is.
cation and ac
I will never be
cording to him,
able to say
“Leaving is very
it is a bitter
thank
you
sweet move.
difficult. It’s a sign
enough to all
“I
love
Clackamas and I
absolutely
loved teaching
here. I’m going
to miss
friendly
of what a good
place Clackamas
is."
Jeff Knorr
the
people
who made it
an incredible
place.”
English Instructor
how
the
his
campus
is. I
might never teach at a campus
like this again,” said Knorr.
Clackamas will remember Knorr as Jeff, we are lucky,” said Schell,
and his poetry.
“I know he will go on having a suc-
“When hiring a new person, if cessful career We will be reading
we can get someone half as good ' his poetry here at Clackamas.”
After
move,
Knorr wants to
continue teach-
ing and he is planning on apply-
ing at a community college.
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