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Clackamas Prin
independent, student- run newspaper since 1966
Wednesday. March 8, 2006
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Volume 39, Issue 14 jH
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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
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forgets to cite his or her sources
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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, ”