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Find out about the Nov. 30 school dance on Page 4. Car break-ins cause concern at Clackamas PHOTO MAGGIE JIRASEK Editor-in-Chief Seven car break-ins have been reported at Clackamas in the month of November, five of them in Barlow parking lot. The increasing number of break-ins calls for tighter se curity measures. Most of the break-ins that occur on campus involve broken windows, stolen CD players and CDs. One of Clackamas’ students was able to catch a thief in the act ear- ILLUSTRATION lier this month. Apparently, the student, who was headed towards his station wagon parked in Barlow parking lot, saw someone jumping out of the driver’s door of his car. “The student asked him what he was doing in his car and that’s when the guy took off running. He was knocked down by another student who just happened to walk across the parking lot,” said Larry Dexheimer, chief of public safety. “We arrested him and took him to jail.” Other incidents in volved College President Joe Johnson’s car being damaged on Nov. 19, and a student claiming that someone had cut out a corner of her license plate and taken off the tag. “President Johnson wasn’t sure though whether his car was damaged here on cam pus or somewhere else,” ex plained Dexheimer. A few break-ins have been reported at the Harmony Center, mostly involving bro ken windows and theft. When a crime occurs, there are several steps that are taken after the incident. “We inspect the ve hicle and look at what kind of damage there is,” said Dexheimer. “Our reports go to the Sheriffs office and we get a case number, which we give to the victim.” To date, there are three commissioned police officers on campus and, in order to in crease public safety activity, the college is looking into hir ing one or two more officers. “We are trying to get two more people on day shift, to be more visible,” stated Dexheimer. By watching the cam pus during their day shift and making sure that everything is all right, Public Safety of ficers have been able to pre River,” said Dexheimer. vent or at least stop car break- “While I was standing there, do ins many times in the past. ing the paper work, this guy “One time, we had two walked up to me and asked me guys who had broken into a what was going on with his car. pick-up truck. We just hap We arrested him. He was a guy pened to drive by and we saw from Seattle and he had no ties them, way to the col back in the lege at all. corner, throw He was just ing a whole "We are trying to here to use bunch of stuff our facili under the ve get two more people ties.” hicle they had on day shift, to be Al- just broken though more visible." into/’ said Barlow park Dexheimer. ing lot seems Larry Dexheimer “They had to be the Chief of Public Safety taken out the scene of stereo and many car CDs and tried break-ins, to hide them under the car. Dexheimer still believes it to be We arrested both of them and a safe place for students to park took them to jail.” their car. It is not known “I think it’s a safe whether certain groups of place to park because it’s a traf people are committing the fic lot. You know that there’s a crimes or whether it is indi lot of traffic and people out viduals who are responsible there,” said Dexheimer. “We for the incidents. It is a fact are trying to be there and to be though, that some of the present.” thieves are not affiliated with There are several the college at all. things you can do to decrease “We had one incident the risk of getting your car bro where I saw this car in the ken into, such as not leaving parking lot, out there where anything visible in your vehicle the trailers park, and it had including CDs. In case you own piles of stuff in there. So, I ran a stereo with a removable face a check on the plate and it plate, make sure to remove it came back stolen out of Hood before leaving your car. Speech team speaks out, brings home the bronze SALENA DE LA CRUZ Opinion Editor Clackamas’ Speech and Debate team said it loud and proud on Nov. 16-17 at Butte Community College in Cali fornia and took home 14 in dividual awards and third place in the Sweepstakes Over all Competition. Clackamas competes within the Northwestern re gion and on several occasions has been invited to compete in other regions. “We have been invited to go out of region several times due to our national rankings," said Kelly Brennan, director of forensics. There are 16 people on the team, and unfortunately the budget is enough to send only a certain number of com- petitors, Which is why they are constantly doing fundraisers. The Speech and Debate team is currently selling tickets for the Nov. 30 showing of, "Com municating Doors." All pro ceeds for that night’s showing will go to the Speech and De bate team. “We have 16 individu als and we have a budget for only so many,” said Brennan. Auditions were held for all the members of the team for the chance to go to the Butte competition, but in the end only six prevailed. Rep resenting Clackamas at Butte College was Samantha Griffin, Kerrie Baker-Hughes, Dan Graves, Jenifer Gile, Amy Perin and Shawna Ford. “These students have re ally worked hard,” said Brennan. There were 24 schools competing at the tournament at Butte College. Clackamas took home 15 awards. Samantha Griffin placed third in Open Communication Analysis and was a Semi-Finalist for Open Debate. Kerrie Baker marked her words placing first in Open Program Oral Interpretation, first in Op<en Prose and second in Open Poetry. She continued to delight the crowd by plac ing first in the Overall Speaker category as well as sixth in Speaker Open Debate, and was a Semi-Finalist for Open De bate. Jenifer Gile was a Final ist in Open Program Oral Inter pretation, Open Communica tion Analysis and Open Extem poraneous. Amy Perin took home second in the Novice Per suasion category while Shawna Ford placed third in Novice In- SALENA DE LA CRUZ / Clackamas Print Clackamas was able to earn 15 awards while at Butte College on Nov. 16-17. Back Row: left to right: An unidentified student, Dan Graves, Kelly Brennan and Brian Everest show their pride in hitting number one in several categories.Front: Paul Southwick and Samantha Griffin show their skills at debating. formative. “For six people to take home 15 awards is phenom enal,” said Brennan. “We had three teams there and they all had winning records,” said Brain Everest, as sistant director of forensics. Clackamas was stacked against many larger teams and was still able to place in sev- See speech team.page 4
