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Speech team hosts tournament, takes second Do Jump! entertains guests Check it out onpage 5 Check it out on page 3 An award-winning student newspaper Checkout the profile on page 7 www.ClackamasPrint.com Clackamas Community College Wednesday, May 9, 2001 Becky Holliday vaults her way to top three in nation Oregon City, Oregon Volume XXXIV, Issue 22 Candidates add 1drama' to ASG elections DIANA SCRIVNER Editor-in-Chief A dramatic twist is going to oc- :ur during this year’s Associated Student Government (ASG) elec ions when candidates kick off /oting with a performance next Tuesday. Presidential candidate Stefan vleyers and vice presidential andidate Yvonne Ingram, both nembers of an improvisational ;roup, will open a forum Tues- lay at noon in the Skylight Din- ng Hall with a performance. Elections will be held online May 17-18. Along with a short skit, there vill be a question and answer >eriod and discussion of what LSG is and how others can be nvolved: “We think a lot of people don’t :now how to get involved with he ASG so we want to make them ware of how,” said Meyers. Both Candidates are legislative enators this year and are run- ling for office unopposed. One of Meyers’ goals is to put tut a monthly student newslet- er to make students more aware tf the events hosted by ASG round campus and to promote tudent involvement. “It is important to me to set pals as a group and to see them ccomplished by the end of the ear,” said Meyers. He recently started an indoor occer team composed of college earn members who will begin • .j MIKE POLLOCK I Clackamas Print .. , Yvonne Ingram, vice presidential candidate, and Stefan Meyers, presidential candidate, have both served this year as ASG Legislative Senators and performed together in a drama group. ASG elections will be held online May 17-18. playing May 15. One of his goals is to make soccer more available to students on campus in the coming year. Ingram, 31, a mother of two teenage sons, has an unusually diverse background. She was raised by a deaf mother and blind father and dropped out of school when she was in fifth grade. “I have a lot of inner diver sity,” she said. “I believe that my unique story allows me enough diversity and experience to successfully represent all stu dents here at Clackamas.” Because of her background, Ingram is very active in public speaking doing motivational speeches for all ages. A computer will be set up in the Community Center on May 17 and 18 for people to participate in the second year of online voting. ASG members ask that people still vote even though both candidates are running unopposed. As soon as the candidates have been voted in, interviews for next year's officers and senators will begin. Applications are now avail able in the ASG office (CC140) for officer and senator positions. Of ficers receive full tuition waivers and senators receive half tuition waivers. Each job has a specified number of office hours and out side school hours required each week as well as attending a weekly meeting. The Print judged second in state The Clackamas Print competes against other Oregon immunity colleges, placing second in General Excellence and arning seven individual awards DIANA SCRIVNER Editor-in-Chief CASEY WHITE/ Clackamas Print 'even staff members and their advisor traveled to Springfield for ie ONPA collegiate day last friday. Front row; Diana Scrivner, iesl Muggli, Linda Vogt. Backrow; Mike Pollock, Daisy Bain, laggie Jirasek, Elena Boryska and Chris Lundgren. The Clackamas Print received second place in General Excel lence for community college news papers in Oregon and seven indi vidual awards at the Oregon News paper Publishers Association (ONPA) awards ceremony held in Springfield Friday, May 4. The General Excellence award is based on general and depart mental news, mechanical excel lence, advertising enterprise, edi torial content, general appearance, make-up, style, photographs, graphics and thoroughness of campus coverage. Clackamas tied with Mt. Hood CC for second. Linn-Benton Community College took first, a spot The Print held last year. “This is the first time in the his tory of the college that The Clackamas Print has been in the top two for two years in a row,” said Advisor Linda Vogt. “We didn’t have the big stories this year and the controversy swirling around us,” said Vogt. “So in a way, it makes this award more significant because it is based on excellence in journalism and not on controversy.” The seven other awards in clude: first place Best Editorial by Sandy Lupo for a Measure 9 edi torial; .second place Best Cartooning by Chris Lundgren, for his Ranting and Raving series; second place Best House Ad by Mike Pollock; honorable mention for Best Writing by Ryan Brinkly; honorable mentions for Best Re view by Tam Oliver, for Crouch ing Tiger Hidden Dragon, and Corrine Rupp for Shadow Boxers; and honorable mention for Best House Ad by John Thorburn. “I was excited,” said Pollock, photo editor. “I forgot that I had entered my ad; I was surprised I had won.” Most entries included submit ting three pieces of one's work. All entries were judged by journalism professionals. “I was excited to get an award,” said Lundgren, cartoonist. “The judge said I had impressive art work and if I was more focused I would be deadly -1 like that.” For the overall General Excel lence award, the judge said, “the newspaper does a strong job of reflecting major news on the cam pus. The presentation is clean, the writing is clear and it serves the readership well.” See individual awards on page 3
