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he FREE Tournament preview Page 7 Clackamas Prin independent, student- run newspaper since 1966 Wednesday. March 8, 2006 amas Community College, Oregon City, OR J ■> __ Volume 39, Issue 14 jH s art-time pay, full-time work tie Wilson Is Editor hey sometimes seem invisible. Lt-time instructors come to teach Class and then leave. Sometimes [have office hours, sometimes don’t. Sometimes they teach at k campuses, commuting most Ivy looking back at it now,” said full- hglish Instructor Trevor Dodge, leno idea how I did it” |e taught part-time all over Ln until he was hired for a full- Iposition at Clackamas. Dodge ■taught part-time at Clackamas, lows what it’s like elsewhere. it's a grind, that’s what it is,” he ■barely saw my friends, I barely fiy family and I barely got by.” [lie [schools] count on that des Son,” added Dodge. “They count lose people who will willfully bend themselves into a pretzel.” Jeff McAlpine, another English instructor, teaches part-time at Clackamas and at Chemeketa’s Salem and McMinnville campuses. “I commute from Northeast Portland,” said McAlpine. “I make sure that I schedule my courses so that I can get to all my classes on time. It’s a lot of driving, and I’m not really a fen of commuting ... Most of the full-timers I’ve talked to had to do this for several years.” Clackamas itself employs approxi mately 400 part time instructors per term. There are 162 full-time instruc tors. The amount paid to instructors varies according to class and situation. For a three-credit lecture class, a part- time instructor is paid $1,560 for that term. The starting rate for foil-time instructors is $41,484 annually. Both part-time and foil-time instructors face their own set of dif ficulties. Part-timers are often not con nected with what’s going on in their department, according to Rosemary Teetor, president of the part-time fac ulty association. “Some didn’t know they had a campus e-mail,” said Teetor. “And also, what if your class starts at 6 p.m., but the department closes at 5 pm.? Who do you call if you can’t get into a building? It’s about being plugged into what’s going on.” TEETOR Also, part-time instructors are not always guaranteed work from term to term. Dodge found this to be the case at some of the colleges at which hetaught inbow Club target of intolerance “You might be able to get into a situation where the department is willing to keep on bringing you back,” he said, “but sometimes they can’t Your class gets cancelled and that’s it It literally happens overnight From one term to the next you have no guarantee about what’s going to happen.” Another issue for part-timers is having a place to meet with students. At Chemeketa McAlpine meets with students at hall tables or any other available space. “It can be difficult to arrange times to meet,” he said. “The director at the [Chemeketa] McMinnville campus recently criticized me for not making myself more available to students. It’s tough to hear that kind of criticism when tiie college doesn’t offer us a place or any kind of reimbursement to meet students.” “It’s about access,” said Teetor. “When you know where your instruc tor is and at what time they’ll be there, it’s easier to sit and talk.” Many part-timers end up meet ing with students on their own time, though this isn’t always the case. “It’s much easier at Clackamas because we have shared office space and paid office hours,” said McAlpine. They often have to work double Or triple-time just to make ends meet. Heidi Cropsey, part-time French instructor, teaches both here and at PCC. She has 15 class hours per week. Please see PART-TIME, Page 2 College cracks down on plagiarism or ideas borrowed from another source.” Plagiarism comes in two forms, intentional plagiarism and unintentional plagiarism. Intentional plagiarism is when the student purposefully copies from another source to complete their work. Unintentional pla giarism occurs when a student Tayo Stalnaker forgets to cite his or her sources I The Clackamas Print in their work. English instructors have said Plagiarism is an ongoing prob that their classes have the most lem at Clackamas Community problems with-plagiarism. “I would not say either type, College. intentional or unintentional, has “I’ve had two cases of egre gious, intentional plagiarism increased or decreased in the last few years, though the advent of recently. One in a WR 122 class, and the other in an online WR the Internet has in fact increased 121,” said English Instructor plagiarism, of both types, expo- nentially,” Trevor Dodge. said English According to Instructor James Dodge, it’s easi Bryant-Trerise. er for students to Bryant- plagiarize in an online class then Trerise, and other instruc an offline class. tors, are always Dodge said that in a classroom . on the look out there’s a lot of for cases of pla interaction with giarism. the instructor “There’s one thing I and students, making it easier think all we English instruc for instructors to spot cases of tors would like plagiarism when people to know: James Bryant- the class is read we know when Trerise ing stories and you’re plagia English instructor giving feedback. rizing,” Bryant- In an online Trerise said. class the social ”We can recog interaction isn’t nize when you there, making the temptation of haven’t written something. It’s plagiarism greater. in the tone of the writing, in Dodge said that most stu suddenly differing degrees of dents who plagiarize aren’t bad sentence complexity or diction, people; they are just taking too or things like that. Sure, you many credits and work full- got away with it in high school; time, so they sometimes feel that those poor English instructors plagiarism is their only option. have 150 students apiece. We Dodge recommended that stu here read more closely. We dents should not put themselves know.” into this position. Clackamas Community According to Clackamas College’s Vice President of Community College’s academic Instructional Services Dian dishonesty policy, “Deliberate Connet said that if students sus plagiarism occurs when a stu pect one of their peers of pla dent knowingly submits the work giary they should talk with the of another as her/his own, or student and the instructor to try deliberately fails to credit words to get the matter resolved. With plagiarism always an issue, instructors are on the lookout for suspicious work Katie Wilson Clackamas Print k for the Rainbow Club have been torn off the wall in large numbers recently. While this Lured in the past, the vandals are getting bolder, club members say. Itie Wilson ■ Editor I Johnson and his friend Dart over two hours hanging up I for the Rainbow Club, only [nearly all of them tom down Bayslater. tod it a bit frustrating,” said r kl Burnell, faculty adviser I Rainbow Chib, said this sort K has always happened, and, | has been bh all year. [is term, L it seems st immedi- Bid Burnell, bt as soon [signs were I they were ■n.” |re are no ■ as yet ■ doubts Bey’ll ever ■anyone in ■bough it’s Be she ran fce of the perpetrators last Tuesday. She left her office to go to the restroom and saw a man walking the upstairs hallway in Rook, look ing at the posters taped to walls and office doors. When she came back to her office, there remained only bits of paper and some strips of blue tape where a Rainbow Club poster had been. “I’ve never had a sign tom off my door [before],” she said. She looked around and saw the man she had seen before with anoth er young man. She asked them if they needed help with any thing. According to Burnell, they backed away from her. “They were clearly very ner vous,” she said. lire second “Tearing down the posters was counterpro ductive, People got upset, and they wanted to do something about it. ” Carol Burnell Rainbow Club adviser man told her he was here in Rook for his “own ori entation” and that “wasn’t OK?” Confused, Burnell said it was OK. “He was aggressive and hostile,” she said. The two men left quickly, and Burnell called Campus Safety. If anything, the recent vandal isms haven’t dampened the Rainbow Club’s spirit More members have joined, and the current members are ready to do their part to keep their club going. “Tearing down the posters was counterproductive,” said Burnell. “I don’t think it was very effective. People [in the club], got upset and they wanted to do something about it” Members have since dipped into their own pockets to come up with money to make even more copies of posters and signs. As a further precaution the club has taken to hanging the posters higher up on the walls. And it’s not only club members that have risen to the challenge. According to Brumell, the club has received sipport from the college and faculty staff as well. “Other instructors want signs to hang on their doors,” said Burnell. “There’s one thing I think all we English instructors would like peo ple to know: we know when you’re plagiarizing, ”
