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r» CiAckAMASTRÌNT T NEW...... http ://depts.clackamas.cc.or.us/print Wednesday February 6, 2002 ______ Clackamas Community College__________ Oregon City, Oregon _^__^_yolume_)QO<\/IIL_lssue__l^ Break-ins shatter glass, security MAGGIE JIRASEK Editor-in-Chief Shattered glass covered Clackamas’ parking lots last Saturday morning, Feb. 2, af ter three car break-in incidents occurred in less than an hour. A wallet and a camera were reported stolen. While patrolling Pauling parking lot, Security Officer David Phelps noticed that the driver’s window of a black Honda Accord was broken. “The window was smashed but I didn’t notice anything missing just by looking into the car,” said Phelps. After the owner of the car, a Clackamas student who was attending an 8 a.m. class in one of the Pauling buildings, inspected the Honda and then returned to her class, another damaged vehicle was found. “The student noticed that a camera was missing and then she went back to class. I waited and checked the parking lot but didn’t notice anything else,” said Phelps. “Then the whole class came out and the students checked their cars. We found a minivan with a shattered window.” Fortunately, the owner did not notice anything missing. “I don’t know how it is that someone got into the car with out breaking the window com pletely,” said Phelps. “But they did unlock the car door.”. According to Phelps, the break-ins must have occurred some time between 8 and 8:39 a.m. “I noticed the broken glass at 8:39. So I thought that this couldn’t have happened too long ago so I was looking if anybody had run off, but didn’t see anyone,” said Phelps. At 9 a.m., Phelps received a phone call from an automo tive student telling him that someone had broken into his pickup truck parked in Barlow parking lot and stolen his wal let. “The owner had left his wal let in the car and it was vis ible from the outside,” said Phelps. “Whoever had done it must have gone through the parking lots looking into the windshields, searching for a target,” said Phelps. To avoid incidents like this, students should not leave any objects visible from the out side in their vehicles. “Locking your car is not a protection,” said Phelps. “It takes only a few seconds to break a window and steal something. I’m sure the victims will never leave anything vis ible in their car again.” *13 1É ’Ml I ü 1 • •**>.» 1 MAGGIE fl 7^* 1 I JIRASEK I Clackamas Print Above: photo shows Barlow parking lot and glass from one of the three cars that was broken Into early Saturday morning. Right: A close-up of the broken glass. Legislative special session convenes this weekend in Salem President hopeful for quick budget solution FRANK JORDAN News Editor As the Oregon Legislature gets ready to convene a spe cial session this Friday, Feb. 8, Clackamas Community College President Earl P. “Joe” Johnson and Dean of College Services Al Erdman are confident that the Legislature can hammer out an agreement on the budget for What's Inside? Opinion...Page 2 News...Pages 3-4 Feature...Pages 5-6 A & E...Pages 7-8 Print Staff...Page 9 Sports ...Pages 10-11 The End...Page 12 the upcoming biennium. “We are hopeful the lawmak ers can come to a quick, per manent solution that will be a win-win for all sides,” said Johnson. “But whatever hap pens in Salem, Clackamas is prepared to make the necessary steps to help us weather this storm.” Governor John Kitzhaber originally came out with a bud get forecast that called for an 8 percent reduction in commu nity college funds, and all com munity colleges in the state started making budget forecasts based on that 8 percent figure. In the governor’s revised budget two weeks ago, Kitzhaber proposed only a 3.3 percent reduction to the com munity colleges in state aid. Al though this is a significant im provement over the original forecast, community colleges around the state started to re vise their figures. “We have not altered our facility at Clackamas is the Or original projections at all. We egon Advanced Technology Cen are really waiting to see what ter in Wilsonville. Clackamas will is going to happen once the have to absorb the cost of the fa special session of the legislature cility in the upcoming budget. The college is over,” said was looking at Johnson. “If perhaps raising the results tuition an addi are more fa tional $1 per vorable, then how important credit hour, in we will take addition to the the appropri the community $1 per hour al ate steps to college is to the ready scheduled ensure that people of Or for the 2002-03 students, school year. programs egon. " According to and services Earl P. ‘Joe’ Johnson Johnson, the ad are not af College President ditional tuition fected.” raise will almost Depart certainly not ments and academic areas on campus are happen at this time. “We are going to try our hard growing rapidly and state aid will have a direct impact on est to make sure that the college some areas. Some programs of will have adequate instruction for fered at Clackamas are funded all the classes that we offer, to by the state and will have state maintain the same level of classes aid discontinued. One such that we currently offer and, per haps most ipportant of all, to maintain our current staffing levels. He added, ”We may have to make some minor ad justments as far as our people are concerned, but we are com mitted to maintaining our full- time staff.” All of the Oregon commu nity college presidents met with Governor Kitzhaber on Jan. 30 in Salem, to enlist his support for the community colleges. “We collectively stood in that room with the governor and told him that we feel that the community college mission is important to everyone in the state, and although we realize that some things will have to be cut, we wanted the gover nor to know how important the community college is the people of Oregon,” said Johnson. Erdman attended a business management meeting See Budget, page 4
