Turn to pages 6 & 7 for a special look at the
i war in Iraq. Note to readers: some may find
| certain pictures disturbing.
♦ Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR
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Volume 37, Issue 14
P U B L 11 C A T 11 ° N
pursues female intruder
“When she ran across the hallway
she looked right at me,” he said. “I
followed her [on foot] to get a bet
ter look, see where she was going
and report back to the | Campus
Safety] Officer on duty.”
Pedersen, unarmed, kept a safe
distance of about 15 yards while
Cyndee Mady
following the female across cam
pus, : but stopped near the
Jett Sorensen
Community Center.
“1 saw a six to-eight inch silver
T he C lackamas P rint
object in her left hand as she was
| Campus Safety Cadet Adam running. At that point I stopped
Bcderscn, a criminal justice student pursuit because 1 felt endangered,”
Bn special assignment, pursued a he said. “I thought it could possi
woman who fled from the Dye bly be a screwdriver or a knife.”
1 Learning Center at around 10:10
Campus Safety Officer Richard
p.m. one Saturday night during Sample alerted the Oregon (City
spring break.
Police Department who, Pedersen
F Pedersen was assigned the said, responded to the scene in
night patrol March 20 after five “three to four police vehicles,”
new Toshiba laptops were discov including a K-9 unit.
ered missing from the Dye
The dog picked up on the
1 learning Center’s 1 1SJ. department scent, but the woman’s trail quick
al week prior. Dick
ly fell cold in a
Ashbaugh, interim
nearby parking lot.
supervisor of the
“We called it a
“
I
saw
a
six-to-
cadet
program
‘(Code 4,’ which on
eight inch sil
pulled
Pedersen
campus is the all
Kom one of his
clear,”
Pedersen
ver object in
Bgular Monday-
said.
her
left
hand
as
Friday shifts for
According to
she was run
the special assign
Ashbaugh,
the
ment.
police checked all
ning.
At
that
I While patrolling
exterior doors
point I stopped the
the Dye Learning
surrounding
the
([enter, Pedersen
1 ^earning
persuit because Dye
heard the sound of
•Center and they
I felt
a door rattling in
were secure. There
endangered. ”
the hallway behind
was also no indica
Jim.
tion of forced
I “1
walked
entry, though the
Adam Pedersen
towards the west
woman fled from
Campus Safety Cadet
Bde of the build
within the locked
ing by the teachers’
building.
offices,”
said
Ashbaugh was
■pdersen. “1 opened the door to confident in the ability of his
sice what the noise was and |a cadet.
blonde ' woman] ran across the
“If I thought |the assignment]
hallway.”
was a danger to the cadet, 1 never
■ Pedersen said he’got a good would have put him in there,”
look at the individual.
Ashbaugh said. “His job was to
fPedersen gives posi
tive ID on after-hours
trespasser of the Dye
Learning Center
PEDERSEN
ABOVE: Cadet Adam Pedersen, a
criminal justice student, tracked the
person of interest for criminal tres
pass in the Dye Learning Center.
RIGHT: Another criminal justice stu
dent and certified sketch artist, Sacha
Snyder, drew this composite sketch
based on Pedersen’s description of
the person of interest for criminal
trespass.
‘watch and report’ and that is
exactly what he did.”
Pedersen was able to give a
detailed description to artist and
fellow criminal justice student
Sacha Snyder.
Student scholars earn education dollars
Karlin Johnson
N ews E ditor
I Each year the
Oregon
(lommunity College Association
rewards two outstanding students
from every Oregon community
college for their academic excel
lence with the Student Scholar
Award and a $1,000 scholarship.
I This year’s recipients at
(jlackamas arc Marlies Bcrney and
Ifindsay Schiely, each nominated
for the award by Clackamas staff.
■ Students selected for the award
are not only academically success
ful, but are involved in sports,
clubs and other extracurricular
activities.
| Bcrney, 20, is known to most as
ASG president. She is also
involved with student government
activities between other communi
ty colleges, is a member of the
bellowship of Christian Athletes
(FCA), as well as holding positions
as French (dub president, a camp
Counselor, Sunday school teacher
and more.
I Schiely, 19, is captain of
Clackmas’ volleyball team, and has
leaped many awards and titles in
the sport. These include the All
Academic Sports Team Award, All
American First Team for 2003 and
MVP for Southern Region in
2003. Schiely is also involved in
the FCA and was a 2003 recipient
of the Hargadine Scholarship.
“I’m very honored that the
school would nominate me for
|the award],” said Schiely. “It really
makes me feel good because ... it
shows that what I do, they notice.”
Please see SCHOLARS, Page 2
According to Pedersen, it took
about two hours, but Snyder was
able to create a likeness of the
white female, who Pedersen
described as: 5’6”-5’8”, slender
Please see INTRUDER, Page 2
Candidacy opens for ASG
president, vice president
Frank Jordan
T he C lackamas P rint
The 2004
Associated
Student Government (ASG)
election campaign is about to
begin and interested students
are being recruited by the
ASG members to run for
president
and
vice
president positions.
Other positions on ASG
are appointed after an inter
viewing process.
Any student interested in
these positions must be cur
rently enrolled or plan to
enroll fall term at Clackamas.
The president and vice
president must enroll in 10 or
more credit hours and main
tain a term GPA of 2.5 or a
cumulative GPA of 3.0 or
better.
All students who want to
run for ASG’s top two posi
tions should pick up an appli
cation in the ASG office in
CC 140 and submit the appli
cation to ASG by 3 p.m.
today/
BERNEY and SCHIELY
face, long, narrow nose, and dirty
blonde hair 2-3 inches past her
shoulders. The woman wore a gray
A briefing to describe the
positions to those candidates
will be held in Randall 101 at
3:30 p.m. today.
According to the ASG
constitution, candidates arc
required to submit 100 nomi
nation signatures on a peti
tion and those petitions are
due in the ASG office by 4:30
p.m. on April 21.
The kickoff to the presi
dential campaign will take
place on Monday, April 26.
Candidate debates will
take place on April 26-27 and
voting will be May 12-13.
Voting will again be con
ducted online. Students can
vote by going to the ASG web
page at www.clackamas.edu.
For those students who
would rather vote by absentee
ballot, those ballots will be
accepted in the ASG office in
CC 140 on May 7, 10 and 11.
For more* information,
about ASG elections contact
ASG Vice President Liz Pike
at ext. 2598 or lpike@clacka-
mas.edu.