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Left: Cyndee Mady,
Clackamas student,
had the top of her
convertible slashed
in a recent rash of
car vandalism.
Right: Car vandals
also broke Regina
Joo’s window. The
cars of several of
Joo’s teammates on
the women’s bas
ketball team were
also vandalized.
LUKE MAHAN Clackamas Print
PETE FORD Clackamas Print
Vandals hit hard in McLoughlin parking
lot, student cars fall victim to break-ins
News Editor/
Staff Writer
Several vehicles owned by stu
dents were vandalized over the week
end when they were left overnight in
the McLoughlin lot.
Public safety received reports for
12 cars, including some owned by
non-athletes. However according to
Jim Jackson, athletic director, 13 stu
dent-athletes’ cars were broken into.
In addition to the vandalism, A
Honda was stolen from campus at
12:30 p.m. Monday in the
McLoughlin parking lot. There was a
witness, and the case is currently under
investigation by Campus Security
Offices.
Although the car theft and the van
dalism both took place in the
McLoughlin parking lot, Public Safety
does not believe that they are related.
“There is no particular reason that
McLoughlin was a target,” said Carol
Patterson, Associate Dean, Campus
Services.
Student-athletes generally leave
their cars in the Barlow parking lot
when they have to travel with their
team to an event. However, due to con
struction in Barlow, they were asked to
park in the McLoughlin lot.
“We asked them not to park (in
front of Barlow) because of what was
out there. They had fenced off this
whole area down here where athletes
would normally leave their cars,” said
Jackson. “However, I don’t think the
matter was where they were parked.
The matter is that the lights go out at
midnight on this campus, and if
you’ve ever been here when the lights
go out it is pitch black. Secondly, we
have no Public Safety coverage.”
Public Safety runs on an 8 a.m.-4
p.m. shift, a 4 p.m.-12 a.m. shift, and
sometimes a graveyard shift, accord
ing to George W. Sims, Environmental
Health & Safety Department. Sims
said that the graveyard shifts are cov
ered randomly, so that the public does
not know when officers are present.
According to Lodonna Cox, the
officer handling the car break-in case,
the graveyard shift was not covered on
Friday night.
According to Public Safety, a large
group of the cars vandalized were
parked next to each other. All the cars
were parked on campus overnight.
One victim, Cyndee Mady, parked
her car overnight after attending
Friday night’s date auction. Both
sides of Mady’s BMW convertible top
were slashed. A friend of Mady’s had
her windows broken out of her car.
Basketball player Stephanie Farrell
was one of eight on her team whose
cars were vandalized. Farrell, who left
her car overnight for the first time that
Friday, said, “They took the driver’s
side window out of [my team mates’
cars], but they took the whole back
window out of mine.” t’arrell esti
mates her window damage to be about
$1200, plus approximately ' $2000
worth of damage to interior contents.
Basketball player Jessica Heslop
incurred approximately $4500 worth
of damage to her car, according to
teammate Ashley Storms. This was
the greatest amount of damage done to
a women’s basketball player’s car.
Jackson is concerned about find
ing a solution to keep this type of inci
dent from happening in the future.
“It hasn’t happened in the past
until now, but somebody’s caught on
and they nailed us big time...We’ve got
to come up with an answer [to this
problem] and I don’t have it right
now,” Jackson said. “We’ve got to
make it so that it can’t happen. I mean,
we can’t put ourselves out there to be
vandalized like that.”
Public safety officers have contact
ed all of the victims who reported
damage and are currently working
with the car owners to find out what
was taken or destroyed.
Phi Theta Kappa
Measure 28 fails; college faces
deep budget cuts, tuition increase auction provides
fun, not funds
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Managing News Editor
“We will have a significant
increase in tuition, that is for sure,”
said CCC President Joe Johnson,
reacting to the failure of Ballot
Measure 28 on Jan. 28.
Measure 28 would have increased
personal and corporate income taxes
for the next three years.
The
Measure was defeated by a 56-44
percent margin on Jan. 28, and only
passed in four of Oregon’s 36 coun
ties.
“Measure 28’s passage would
have given us some additional
monies to help balance our books,
but its failure had already been bud
geted in,” said College President Joe
Johnson. “Without it, we are still
facing a $1.6 to 2.6 million budget
shortfall for the 2003-04 budget year.
The amount of money that we will
have to pay to the Public Employees
Retirement System (PERS) is still up
in the air, but we anticipate a deter
mination on that real soon.”
Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski
proposed a budget that would cut
approximately $33 million from state
community college funding for the
2003-05 bifennium, a larger percent
age cut than either K-12 education or
the state’s seven major universities
would be facing.
“When the governor’s budget
proposal came to light, we were, very
frankly, shocked and surprised,” said
Johnson. “We just did not anticipate
that the governor would go that far
[with the cuts].”
President Johnson said that the
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this budget is J
like trying to
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Al Erdman
Dean of CoBege Services
college is taking a multi-pronged
approach to the budget. With the
combination of hiring freezes, retire
ment and tuition increases, the col
lege hopes to stave off the latest cut
backs and keep the ship afloat.
“We are looking at a $300,000 to
400,000 reduction in personnel costs,
through employee attrition and other
cutbacks,” Johnson said. “We may
also look at our labor contracts and
see if we can convince the unions to
accept some sort of dialogue on
reducing our costs at that end.”
Dean of College Services Al
Erdman said, “The college is work
ing hard with its staff and faculty to
facilitate discussions on how we can
save money in every area of our
operations. We have taken a lot of
input from the staff and these people
have been very creative in how to
deal with the current situation.”
President Johnson is hopeful that
the current session of the Oregon
Legislature will produce some favor
able results for community colleges
in the state.
“State Senator Kurt Schrader [D-
Canby] is one of the key members of
the Senate’s Ways and Means com
mittee, and has some pull with the
members of that group,” said
Johnson. “Schrader has always been a
strong advocate of community col
leges and we hope that he can influ
ence the legislature into looking at the
budget from our perspective, where
the cuts don’t have to be this deep.”
The college administration has
worked hard on the issue at hand, but
all is not rosy.
“There will be some impact on
everyone,” said Erdman.
“My
favorite analogy on this whole issue is
that dealing with this budget is like
trying to change a tire on a moving
car. Meaning that everything changes
all the time. We come up with some
thing that might work, then the whole
plan changes. We are learning how to
be very flexible in this whole
process.”
A&E.Editor
The small crowd at the Gregory
Forum was all smiles last Friday
evening; the PTK Date Auction
Concoction was underway.
The event was planned to benefit
the American Cancer Society.
Unfortunately, due to weather condi
tions and the large expense of the
Date Auction, PTK was unable to
raise enough money to benefit the
American Cancer Society.
The 6 p.m. social hour was a
scene of sporadic clusters of people,
and the visibly worried bachelorettes
were wondering whether or not there
would be enough people there for
dates. By the time the auction started
at 7:45, however, there were enough
people in attendance to ensure that no
one would leave alone.
The auction was a quick paced
game of “who can outbid Dick,” one
of the bachelor’s (Bradley’s) dad. He
was bidding on all of the girls, putting
up a sum of $60 for Annie, the first
bachelorette. He had many of the
young men there frantically scram
bling to find ways to afford the date
of their choice.
“It’s a dirty old man’s dream,”
Dick jokingly said. At the end of the
auction, he allowed each girl to pick
the date of their choice from the
crowd.
The highest bid of the evening
went to Megan, who sold for $130,
and Stephanie came in a close second
with $120. Jesse had a sponsor;
James Dean Construction agreed to
match his selling bid dollar for dollar.
He walked away having earned $180
for the American Cancer Society.
Everybody brought in a fair amount
of money, as the lowest bid was $30.
The limos arrived, and each cou
ple was off to Pasta’s, a quaint
restaurant in West Linn. Pasta’s
made a generous donation of 26 din
ners. Menu seclections included New
York steak and grilled salmon.
Dinner was filled with sing-a-longs
and many laughs.
A quiet “dance party” com
menced after dinner at the
Rivershore Hotel in Oregon City.
The girls kicked off their shoes, and
the guys were able to finally take off
the bow ties and boutonnieres. A
quiet ride back to the college ended
with hugs and kisses and smiles and
laughs.
“I’m so glad I did it because I met
so many cool people,” said
Stephanie, one of the bachelorettes.