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OR • May
14, 2003 • Issue 17 • Volume 36 • http://www2.clackamas.edu/theprint
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Election racé crosses finish line
Berney, Pike take reins of
'03-04 student government
back. I was actually shocked by that.”
Though Pike won’t officially serve as
the ASG vice president until next year, one
The votes are in and it’s official: Marlies of her primary responsibilities will begin
Berney will represent Clackamas as the now. She will assist Erika Egger, current
2003-2004 ASG president, while Liz Pike vice president, in selecting next year’s
ASG team. Pike said that anyone interested
will serve as vice president.
During the May 8-9 elections, 200 peo in one of the approximately 20 positions,
ple voted for the ASG president position including officer, senator to an officer or
and nearly as many people voted for the senator-at-large positions, needs to submit
vice president position. When the votes an application to her. Applications can be
were counted, Berney had secured 136 found in the ASG office (CC 140) or online
at www.clackamas.cc.or.us.
votes to win with a 68 per
Applications are accepted
cent majority. Her competi
year-round, but interviews
tor,
Christopher
Cox,
for the 2003-2004 will
secured 49 votes (24.5 per
begin soon and will contin
cent). Fifteen votes went to
ue until all positions are
write-ins, including one for
filled.
Luke Sky walker.
Berney plans to attend a
“Some people seemed
Crossover meeting for the
really surprised to me,” said
Oregon Community College
Berney. “I wasn’t saying I
Student Association later
was going to win.. .but I just
this month. She will meet
knew that I knew a lot of
Marlies Berney
with other student presi
people who were going to
ASG president-elect
dents from Oregon commu
vote and I was hoping they’d
nity colleges to discuss
vote for me....But the big
issues affecting the state,
margin, no way, I had no
particularly the current economic struggles.
idea.”
Mindy Brown, coordinator of student
Pike received 102 votes (51.8 percent)
to become the vice president-elect. Brandi leadership, said that the primary role for
Bean received 50 votes' (25.4 percent) Berney anil Pike light now is to work with
while Christina Miller received 33 votes the current president and vice president to
(16.8 percent). There were 12 write-in learn the positions in preparation for taking
votes,: including one for Sponge Bob over next year.
“I thought the process went really well
Square Pants.
“I felt confident about running,” said this year,” said Brown. “I was pleased to see
Pike “But I thought it was a closer race than that we had competition. I thought that all of
it ended up being. I was thinking it was going the candidates conducted themselves very
to be really close, and then we got the results well and I thought that was great.”
Tina Tate
News Editor
“I was hoping
they’d,vote for
me....Butthe
big margin,
no way, I had
no idea.”
May election ends in victory for Marlies Berney, (left) 2003-2004 ASG
president, and Liz Pike, vice president. Interviews for remaining ASG
positions will begin soon and will continue until all positions are filled.
Garden enthusiasts swarm spring plant sale
said. “It was a feeding frenzy, and I just go at it.”
The night before the
joined in.”
Horticulture students grow all the sale, horticulture students
Students, faculty and community plants for the annual sale during win and faculty gathered for
members inundated the horticulture ter and spring terms. The horticul pizza and a final chance to
department’s Spring Plant Sale on ture students in the three-term series pick out the hottest plants.
Friday, snatching up thousands of of practicum classes select a crop The department raffled
and
presented
dollars worth of plants in just a few winter term, said second-year horti prizes
culture student Alexia Newman. The awards.
hours.
Although the big event
At this popular event, the good students form small groups and
of the year is over, the pres
stuff goes fast—and it’s all good choose varieties they want to grow.
Newman estimates- she spent sure isn’t totally off of stu
stuff.
The usual crowd of box-carrying about 15 hours outside of school dents in the practicum
plant enthusiasts plugged the side transplanting the seedlings her group class, said Newman. She’s
walk outside Clairmont Hall well started in the winter term practicum part of the annual garden
class. Her group, which lost a mem ing group, which designs
before the sale opened at noon.
Lee Ko walked away from the ber from winter term, grew 15 differ and creates a garden. It’s
sale with $28 worth of assorted ent varieties of perennials for the slated for planting today,
including
delphiniums, “so I’m still busy,” she
plants some perennials, a few annu sale,
said. Other practicum stu
als and eight tomato starts in seven columbines and Echinacea.
Preparation for the department’s dents have different proj
different cultivars. After visiting the
sale, she went to a few fanners’ mar biggest sale entails more than hard ects, such as tending to
work, though. Prior to setting out the plants in the greenhouses
kets that were less impressive.
“(The) sale just spoiled me,” said plants for the sale, students collect 20 and hoophouses.
Profits from the sale
Ko. “There’s great variety and prices percent of their own crops, which
they are allowed to keep for them reached $8,800, which will
are so reasonable.”
Although she has attended the selves, and set up for a four-hour fund scholarships for horti
culture students, according
sale once before, this was Ko’s first trading session.
department
chair
“We spent a whole class period to
year to arrive shortly after noon.
“It was a buying rampage,” she trading plants,” Newman said. “We Elizabeth Howley.
Elisabeth Meyer
The Clackamas Print
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Lee Ko walked away from the annual sale with $28 worth of
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