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Volume 38, Issue 8
re state budget cuts
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BBQ, to aid
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victims
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announcing his
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building a sus-
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ted they didn’t mean to cut dent programs and increased
The
good
news
for funding for community col tuition, but in the face of this,
Clackamas students is the leges. I don’t know what the he remains optimistic.
“I am still smiling,” said
governor’s promise to double outcome will be, but I think
the number of Opportunity it will be better than what the Johnson in a message to cam
pus faculty. “Remember that
Grants available to students governor proposed.”
from the current 63,000 to
According to Johnson, if the we still have control over our
130, 000. The governor hopes new budget passes unchanged, institutional destiny, and we
this will “[open] the doors for students will see adverse are well positioned to respond
more students to attend an changes to all community col to any state crises in a rea
Oregon public university or leges, such as cuts to stu soned, orderly zmanner.”
community col
lege.” .
The
other
good news is
that the fate of
students is not
set in stone; the
governor’s pro
posal will face
much revision
Economic Development
Health and Basic Needs
by state legis
11%
lators before it
31%
gets ratified.
$4.7
billion
$12.5 billion
Livability
“I don’t think
and the
the initial pro
Environment
posal will stand
as is, because
6%
now it has to
✓ $2.6
go through the
Education and
legislative pro
/ billion
Workforce
cess. In the
Development
entire
state
28%
budget, only a
few state agen
$11.6
cies will be
billion
Public Safety
cut, and the
community col
s 7%
leges were one
$2.9
of them,” CCC
billion
President Joe
Government Efficiency and Accountablity
Johnson said.
17%
“The
gover
nor’s office has
$6.9 billion
already admit
Proposed Budget
Breakdown
imas rolls up on NWAACC competition
L’Trece Prewitt
(32) takes it to
the house dur
ing the Cougars’
68-36 routing
of Southwestern
Oregon CC on
Jan. 8. Prewitt
knows how to
do it; she scored
20 points while
going 7-11 from
field goal range.
She also snatched
five steals while
pulling down six
rebounds, and
went 1-1 from
beyond the arc.
The Cougars
will play tonight
in the Randall
Gymnasium at
5:30 p.m. against
cross-river rival
Portland CC. The
men’s game will
be directly after
wards at 7:30 p.m.
Please see
the full story
on Page 8
Jeff Sorensen Clackamas
Print
N.P. Delzell
The Clackamas Print
Associated
Student
Government is at it again, this
time throwing a tsunami fund
raiser in the form of an all-cam
pus barbecue.
The event is slated for Jan.
26 at 11 a.m. in the Community
Center courtyard. Nicholas
Verducci, officer of campus
activities, and Grant Bloomhahl,
senator of campus activities, are
in charge of the event.
“We first thought of a barbe
cue because of the impending
blood drive,” Verducci said. “We
wanted to offer a lunch to those
who gave blood; we ended up
changing the day of the barbecue
to after the blood drive, giving
students a chance to donate to the
tsunami relief effort.”
ASG will be teaming with the
local chapter of Mercy Corps to
distribute the donated funds.
Mindy Brown, ASG advisor,
knows that Mercy Corps will do
an excellent job in distributing
the donated funds.
“We wanted to team with
Mercy Corps to give the money,”
Brown said. “They will distribute
the money ... we presented the
idea to the students and it was
loud and clear that the students
wanted to pick Mercy Corps. We
feel real confident that they will
distribute the donated money in a
real good way.”
ASG understands that college
students usually do not have large
amounts of money to donate, so
they will be expecting any kind of
monetary support one can give.
“College students are broke,”
said Verducci. “Students can
donate what they can; if you
don’t have a lot of extra money
don’t worry about it. What stu
dents don’t realize is that they do
a lot more than donate money,
they can donate their service or
time to any kind of community
service.”
The barbecue will be run by the
ASG ambassadors who will serve
hamburgers, hotdogs,' chicken
burgers, and Veggie burgers. The
ASG students have a few other
ideas in the works for tsunami
fundraising, Verducci said.
Speech
takes first
In a debate tourney at Columbia
Hisni College in In-t Hies. Wash
last Friday and Saturday (Jan. 14
and 15) CCC debate team took
fii st place ovci all. Dei i ick Ragan
brought home five awards lnclud-
ing second m debate with paitner
B endon C amphell
■ Being snowed in didn't stop
gfc Pearson fainih from cam-
ing over 10 awards to help the
Clackamas team to their tirsl
place victors and contribute io
then 35 awards