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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.”
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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