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March 12, 2003
The Clackamas Print
Budget cuts more administrators
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CHERYL HOLLATZ-WISELY
Daisy Bain
The Clackamas Print
College President Joe Johnson
announced on March 4 that on top
of the four administrative positions
currently being cut, three more
positions would be cut in response
to the $244 million budget shortfall
announced Feb. 28.
Cheryl Hollatz-Wisely, director
of Student Leadership and
Welding
building
construc
tion to be
finished
this month
The
face of
budget
cuts
Outreach, is amongst the three new
administrative positions being cut.
Hollatz-Wisely has been working
at Clackamas for five years. She
has been working in high school
relations, student activities, student
government and student clubs.
Part of her job was to work with all
the college publications.
“I am supposed to give a look
and feel for all the college docu
ments,” Hollatz-Wisely said. “We
weren’t where we needed to be.
We gave all the college materials a
face lift.” Hollatz-Wisely loves her
job. “I love building something out
of nothing. I get to do that all of the
time,” she said.
A good illustration of Hollatz-
Wisely’s work on the college mate-
/rials is to the schedule of classes
book. Compare a schedule now to
one from from five years ago; the
difference is obvious.
Hollatz-Wisely has also worked
hard to help departments make
classes available in rural communi
ties such as Canby, Estacada and
Molall?. She also created the posi
tion for an academic advisor
specifically for student leadership.
She believes that this position
helps guide students. ‘People get
to really dream,” said Hollatz-
Wisely.
One of her favorite projects has
been creating training programs to
help staff members be more sensi
tive to gay and lesbian issues.
“That was a really powerful thing,”
said Hollatz-Wisely.
Hollatz-Wisely has known for
weeks that any position not direct
ly tied to instruction could be cut
She said she has “been realistic.”
“Some really tough decisions
are going to have to be made. Iam
very sad, but not surprised. I am
hopeful that there will be places for
me to stay at the college,” said
Hollatz-Wisely.
Hollatz-Wisely
has
a
Bachelor’s degree in psychology
from the University of Missouri
Wheaton College and a Master’s in
counseling.
“I am a really flexible individ
ual. I am sort of a jack-of-all-
trades,” said Hollatz-Wisely. Her
position is the one position cut so
far that has the largest staff and
directly works with the recruitment
of students. “I have a fabulous
staff. They are very competent to
roll with whatever the organization
looks like.”
Mike Caudle, Student Outreach
advisor, is part of Hollatz-Wisely’s
staff. He said that “the interaction
(with students) will be different,
but those students will still have to
taken care of.”
“All of our number one jobs are
to make a seamless transition. We
are all going to have to do stuff a
little differently,” said Caudle.
“The work that (Hollatz-Wisely)
has done has been really beneficial.
It’s really important to separate the
person from the position.”
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Summaries are edited
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3-04-03
Talked with owner of towed
vehicle. She is unable to pay
tow charge. Advised her to call
towing company to negotiate.
3-04-03
Librarian found handbag.
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ASG with note.
3-05-03
Man twisted his ankle while
playing community volleyball.
Offered medical assistance but
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Speech team takes second in
junior division at invitational
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CORY PRICE Clackamas Print
Construction workers put wiring In the future welding
building, currently being built near Clairmont.
space.
“The new building was very
flexible in design. We have about
Managing News Editor
twice as much space in the new
facility as we have in Barlow,”
The new welding building on said Giltz. “This flexibility will
campus is scheduled to be com allow us to better serve our stu
pleted sometime toward the end of dents as they go through different
March.
phases of their course work. It will
The new facility hit a little snag also allow us to be more flexible in
in the construction process that has the ways we acquire our welding
since been corrected, and this gases and materials, thus saving
pushed back the completion date the college money in the long run.”
by about a week.
Many people have been
“We hope to begin moving impressed with the design and
equipment and classes into the quick construction of the new
new facility beginning near the building, not the least of which is
end of March,” said Welding Giltz.
Department Chair Scott Giltz.
“We had a vice president of a
“The move-in will be done in major industrial welding supply
phases according to the breaks in company, who was in Portland onz
our class schedule. As classes fin business, make a trip out of his
ish certain welding processes, then way to Clackamas to see the build
those processes can be moved to ing that he had heard about. He
the new structure. We don’t want told us that this was the nicest,
to compromise the integrity of our most modem, most thought-out
classes, first and foremost. It also design of a training facility that he
helps that we are getting quite a bit had ever seen,”' said Giltz. ” I
of new equipment, so those can mean, this man has been in more
just be moved in.”
weld shops than I could ever think
According to Giltz, each weld about It was a great compliment,
ing booth in the new building has and it tells us a lot about the build
the ability to change over from one ing and the program that we have.”
welding process to another, as
A new Welding Technology
opposed to the current welding degree has just been approved by
space in Barlow Hall, where class the Board of Education and the
es and students are fighting for students are really excited about
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being able to complete their degree
work in a new facility.
The new building will not only
benefit Clackamas students, it will
affect local high school students.
“We help out a lot of high
school programs in the area, and
this will allow us to be of greater
service to our high school part
ners,” Giltz said.
Remodeling plans for the old
welding space are well under way,
as manufacturing technology plans
to move into that space in Barlow.
The remodel will convert the
welding space into three spaces: A
computer numerical control
(CNC) lab, a multi-purpose com
puter lab and a flexible manufac
turing lab, which will help students
with different projects in metal sci
ences.
“The new space in Barlow Hall
will be started as soon as the weld
ing equipment is moved, hopeful
ly by the end of spring term,” said
Giltz. “Manufacturing technology
should have the space really for
move-in for fall term 2003.”
An Open House/Dedication
ceremony is planned for May 6 for
the new welding building. There
will be many welding industry
people on hand, discussing
schools and careers in the field,
and several student-led demon
strations.
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Clackamas’ Forensics Team
competed this past weekend at the
Betsy Karl Invitational, which was
hosted by Pacific Lutheran
University in Tacoma, Wash.
Six CCC teams participated in
the debate only competition. A total
of 30 Junior and Senior Division
teams from around the region
embarked on a quest in hopes of
reaching the competition’s final
stage.
“I’ve been here eight years and
I’ve had some really great teams. I
think this one is unique in the sense
that there is team unification and a
spirit that my other teams may not
have had,” said Brennan. “They are
very helpful to one another, very
supportive of one another, so it’s
more of a family atmosphere than a
team where everyone is just com
peting for themselves.”
There were six preliminary
rounds of competition leading to
the following four rounds: Octa,
Quarter-finals, Semi-finals, and
Finals.
“We had three of our open teams
break into the Octa final rounds,”
said Brennan. “Those who make
the Octas but don’t break or win
still get an Octa finalist award. And
by the way, 80 percent of the
schools were four year schools and
I knew it would be an extremely
tough competition because they are
trying to prepare for their four year
national debate tournament”
Junior debate team Lizzie and
Joanna Pearson, who are 14 and 15-
year-old home school students, beat
out college seniors to win second
place in the competition.
“They are very mature, dedicat
ed and devoted to learning,” said
Brennan. “Bottom line, if (they)
can get to finals in this round,
they’re going to do really well at
nationals.”
Clackamas will host this year’s
national speech and debate compe
tition, known as the Phi Rho Pi
Two-Year Nationals, at the down
town Marriott hotel between April
14-19.
“Phi Rho Pi first emerged in
1922 and is the oldest and largest
speech organization in the United
States. They have had famous indi
viduals, and we always look to see
who came out of that. Oprah
Winfrey, Brad Pitt, Kelsey
Grammar, the Belushi brothers...all
people who went to community
college and went on to compete in
Phi Rho Pi,” said Brennan.
Areas of the competition will
include the speech competition,
which consists of events such as
persuasive,
informative
and
impromptu speaking, and the
debate competition, in which teams
have 15 minutes to prepare their
case on a stance that has been pre
assigned to them. As a criterion for
the competition, students must
engage in three individual events
and one debate. They may then
qualify for the bronze round, which
will enable them to compete for the
gold.
“When we’re trying to prepare
for nationals we want to go to the
toughest region, and we are the
toughest region,” said Brennan. “I
knew that if I threw them into the
four year schools they may do real
ly well or they may just get beat, but
when they go to nationals it is going
to seem like a cake-walk com
pared to this last tournament,
because they will have gone up
against the best.”