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Car break-ins cause concern at Clackamas
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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-
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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-
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DE
LA
CRUZ
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Clackamas
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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