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Clackamas Community College
Oregon City, Oregon
Volume XXXV, Issue 18
Thieves take advantage of trust
MAGGIE JIRASEK
Editor-in-Chief
PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY SALENA DE LA CRUZ / Clackamas Print
Illustrated above is the robbery of March 19. The Foreign Language Department was robbed
between 8:30 and 10 p.m. and a VCR, four paintings, pop, candy as well as money were
reported stolen.
The Foreign Language
Department in Barlow Hall was
robbed Tuesday, March 19, be
tween 8:30 and 10 p.m. A VCR,
four German expressionistic
prints, fundraiser money, pop
and candy were reported stolen.
“I walked in Wednesday
morning, and I noticed that all
the pop, the money and the
candy were gone,” said Dick
Stones, German instructor. “As
I walked out I saw that all the
paintings up on the wall and the
VCR had disappeared as well.”
It is the first time that an
incident such as this occurred.
Stones assumes that more than
one individual was involved in
the theft.
“I have no idea who might
have done it, but I think it had to
be more than just one person. No
one could carry the VCR, the
paintings, and all the pop by
himself,” said Stones. “It might
have been someone from outside
who is not even a student. I can’t
imagine a mad student whom I
gave a lower grade last term do
ing this.”
Staff members are respon
sible for locking up the room for
the night. However, that night it
was left open. The stolen art
work was not worth a lot of
money since the paintings were
only prints. The total loss for
the German Club was around
$130.
“The paintings were really
nice. I hope that the person who
wanted these paintings that badly
now sits at home, drinks the pop,
eats the cookies and enjoys the
artwork,” said Stones.
The German Club and the
Spanish Club have been selling
candy and pop as part of a
fundraiser for several terms.
Stones says that the pop sale
does not make a lot of money but
it gives students something to do.
The money goes into the club
fund and helps students go to
Germany.
The Foreign Language
Department is open during the
day, and students are welcome
to go there and do homework.
Students can buy soda or candy
for 50 cents each.
“We won’t change any
thing. We will continue to leave
the Language Department open
during the day,” said David
Miller, Foreign Language De
partment chair. “We want stu
dents to come in there.”
Ground due to break in fall for new buildings
FRANK JORDAN
News Editor
Clackamas Community
College hopes to begin con
structing the first three of five
new buildings planned for the
Oregon City campus in Au
gust or September 2002, ac
cording to Dean of College
Services Al Erdman.
“If we get all of the per
mits from the city, and every
one approves the plans we
have drawn up, then we hope
* Check out page 3 for
the ongoing investiga
tion of the two missing
Oregon City girls.
*Meet the new Soccer
Coach on page 11.
to break ground in late sum
mer or early fall,” said
Erdman. “After breaking
ground, we should have all of
the concrete work needed
done before the rainy season
sets in.”
The three buildings in
the first phase of the project
are a building beside the au
tomotive wing of Barlow Hall
to house the welding, con
struction and apprenticeship
programs; the Studio Arts
Building, between Randall
Hall and the softball field, for
the Art Department; and the
Streeter Annex, to be built in
the grassy area adjacent to
Streeter Hall.
If all goes according to
preliminary plans, ground
would then be broken on the
other two buildings in late
fall or early winter of 2002.
Those two buildings are the
Gateway Building, which will
house all the student services
now located in the Commu
nity Center, and the English
Department and Student Pub
lications; and the Pauling
Annex, on the west side of
Pauling Center for the Nurs
ing, EMT and Life Sciences
programs.
“We have had numerous
meetings with all of the asso
ciate deans and instructors on
where to place programs and
if the designed structures
have met with everyone’s ap
proval,” said Erdman.
“There have been modifica-
”After breaking ground,
we should have all of the
concrete work done
before the rainy season
sets in."
Al Erdman
Dean of College
Services
tions to original designs when
necessary, and we now be
lieve that we have a plan that
will work.”
Erdman and his staff
have also had numerous plan
ning sessions with the city of
Oregon City, hoping to
smooth out the process
needed to carry out this enor
mous project.
“The city has to ap
prove all of the plans before
construction begins, and we
have been very pro-active on
this point. The city has to
approve conditional use per
mits for construction, as well
as all of our plans for infra
structure. The city has to
perform site reviews and pub
lic hearings must be held to
see if anyone in the commu
nity has any objections to
what we want to do. All must
be okay with the city before
we can start bidding out the
construction to contractors.”
If everything goes well,
the first three buildings
should be ready for occu
pancy by Winter Term 2003-
04. The other two buildings
should be ready by Fall Term
2004.
“We have been very
pleased with the process so
far,” said Erdman. “We had
a rocky beginning, but the
planning is now going rather.,
smoothly.”