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Moy Ô, 2002 Clackamas Community College Check us out online at http://depcs.clackamas.cc.or.us/princ Issue 22 Volume XXXV Clackamas celebrates diversity Vale prevails in auto skills contest J. J. PEARSON Staff Writer Elisabeth Meyer/The Clackamas Print Swinging to Ritmo Tropical’s beats, two dancers salsa at the International Day Celebration Wednesday, May 8, in the cafeteria. The French, German and Spanish clubs each arranged part of Wednesday’s program, lining up musical entertainment, teaching dances and selling ethnic foods. The Print bags nine awards, second in state MAGGIE JIRASEK Editor-in-Chief The Clackamas Print received eight individual awards and sec ond place in General Excellence for community college newspa pers at the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association awards ceremony held at Oregon State University in Corvallis Friday, May 3. Schools from all over Oregon attended the event. Clackamas competed with seven other com munity colleges: Chemeketa, Lane, Linfield, Linn-Benton, Mt. Hood, Southwestern Oregon and Portland Community College. Awards were given out in 22 categories, with General Excellence the highest presented to Oregon’s college newspapers. The award is based on general and departmental news, mechanical excellence, advertis ing enterprise, editorial content, general appearance, make-up, style, photographs, graphics and thoroughness of campus cover age. This year, Linn-Benton Community College took home the General Excellence award. This is the third year that The Print placed in the top two. In 2000, The Print received first place in General Excellence for the first time and came in sec ond last year. Previously, the paper had never placed in that category. “The Print staff works incredi bly hard week after week. They deserved every single one of these awards and more,” said Patty Mamula, newspaper adviser. “We were especially pleased to take second. We are establishing a standard for excellence.” The eight other awards include: first place Best Sports Story, Elena Boryska; first place Best Feature Photo, Liesl Muggli; second place Best Section, second place Best Special Section, second place Best Columnist, Nick Barron; second place Best Photography, Salena De La Cruz; second place Best Cartooning, Chris Lungren; and Honorable Mention Best Writing to Nick Barron. All entries were judged by journalism professionals. “It feels great knowing you’ve been recognized for being the second best photographer among community colleges,” said Salena De La Cruz, design editor. To reach Maggie jirasek email bunny_97222@yahoo.com or drop by B-104. Once again, two Vale High School students triumphed at the Ford/AAA Auto Skills Contest held at the college on May 3, entitling them to travel to Washington D.C., to participate in the national competition on June 17. Vale has been the national champion three times. As soon as Ray Conklin, the competition manager and chair of the automotive program said, “Gentlemen, start your engines,” it seemed as if Vale had nearly completed all of the necessary tasks needed to win. About 10 minutes after the start of the con test, Coleman Whitley and Kenny Roner had 9 of 10 bugs located and repaired on their Ford Escape, donated by Hertz Rent A Car. The nearest oppo nent, Siuslaw High, had five bugs fixed. The competition is divided into two areas: a written examination, which is completed early in the school year, and the hands-on competition. Each high school in Oregon with an automotive program can send up to eight stu dents to take the written exami nation. The two students from each school who score the high est on the written examination may compete in the hands-on contest. A maximum of 10 schools is allowed to compete in Oregon. In the hands-on competition, the two-person teams compete against each other in diagnosing and correcting malfunctions deliberately placed in the electri cal, starting, ignition, charging, fuel, emission control systems, or body hardware of new vehi cles. Workmanship, speed, accuracy, and written test results are factors in the judging. Of all these, accuracy is the most important. Winners of the state competition go on to compete against winners from the other 49 states in the national finals. “Most high schools focus on sports. This conjpetition is a good thing because it focuses on other departments,” said Mark Lambrecht, a finals judge and Ford ASSET instructor at Mt. Hood Community College. The primary goal of the competition is to prepare and recruit students for rewarding careers in automo tive service. Vale slowed down after their initial drive with an unforeseen problem allowing Siuslaw a glimpse of hope at upsetting the reigning state champion. Matt Bottensek and Michael Bouchet of Siuslaw looked as if they knew they were getting close because they seemed to begin to rush things a little bit and stum bled on a problem themselves. This gave Roner and Whitley time to complete the rest of their tasks and drop the hood first. During the final check, a team of trained technicians carefully looks See Auto Page 2 J.J. Pearson/The Clackamas Print Two St. Helens students look up a parts description during the Auto Skills competition held at Clackamas last Friday. Vale High School won for the 15th time in the last 18 years.
