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ickamas Community College, Oregon City, OR
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Wednesday, Nov 14, 2007
Volume 41, Issue 6
1AVINGTHE planetone by one
Sustainability committee takes
on campus issues that affect
Mother Earth
Riley Lundgren
The Clackamas Print
tack of 198 class schedules waits to be recycled in the downstairs
ger Rook staff lounge. Great recycling or waste of paper?
Clackamas’ sustainability committee
began meeting Oct. 26 in an effort to
attack environmental issues on campus,
with the hope of making Clackamas more
earth-friendly.
The committee has been in the works
for a couple of years. It began as a
group of faculty members who encour
aged authors concerned with sustainabil
ity awareness to visit Clackamas.
The college has had a sustainabil
ity fair for the past two years. In July,
Vice President of Instructional Services
Baldwin van der Bijl asked that Dean of
Arts Bill Leach, Dean of Humanities and
Social Sciences Bill Briare and Horticulture
Instructor Elizabeth Howley to launch sus
tainability practices.
Leach, Briare and Howley are now co-
chairs for the sustainability committee.
“I see my responsibility as helping the
school’s staff and students understand
choices to reduce waste, reuse, recycle,
reduce our carbon footprint and, there
fore, become more responsible citizens,”
Howley said in an e-mail. “My love and
respect for the natural environment is
why I have chosen to work in the green
industry and horticulture, and my passion
for sharing information is the reason I am
an instructor.”
The goal of the committee is to explore
and implement sustainability philosophy
at Clackamas.
“The first step is to do an assessment
of where we are on campus,” Briare
said.
With the help of the Association for the
Advancement of Sustainability in Higher
Education (AASHE), the committee will
be able to help raise awareness with
information and resources.
Students and staff members have been
e-mailing ideas and suggestions to Howley
about what can be done at the college.
“I am compiling them and sharing
them with the committee so we may
discuss actions on these suggestions,”
Howley said.
So far, proposals have been made to
place recycle bins for plastic bottles on
campus and reduce paper waste.
“We are a campus with great land
scapes, giving us air and enriching our
experience,” Howley said. “Our com
mittee process of inclusion lets us make
great choices. We have an active grounds
committee and campus-use and develop
ment committee.
“Our method of inclusion allows us to
get things right the first time and change
with new ideas and technology which is
brought forward. At Clackamas our build
ings are designed by architects who are
held responsible for incorporating staff
input, so we end up with great spaces and
fewer design errors.”
The sustainability committee meets
every other Friday in the Bill Brod
Community Center at 12:30 p.m., and
all are welcome to join or attend and
listen.
^acuity poet travels to share her passion
Kate Gray travels
overseas to share her
poetry
Emily Walters
The Clackamas Print
Full-time faculty associate
president, published poet and
community volunteer are just
a few of the many roles that
English Instructor Kate Gray has
taken on during her time at the
college.
Gray’s busy lifestyle should
come as no surprise to those
who know her well; she is a
self-proclaimed risk-taker.
“I think I am really proud
of the risks that I have taken,
and those come in all sorts of
flavors,” she said.
Please see KATE GRAY, Page 4
(ate Gray s first full-
Ingth book of poetn
vas published in fall
of 2007. It is called
‘Another Sunset We
Survive.
New scholarship
for grade-gifted
Dale lalkl
The Clackamas Print
Attention all academic-gifted
students.
Students with unmet finan
cial needs and stellar grades,
who are involved in or have a
strong appreciation of the arts
and humanities, should perhaps
consider applying for Clackamas’
Jack Kent Cooke Scholarship.
This scholarship’s objective
is to help young people of great
promise achieve their full educa
tional potential - in other words,
the scholarship pays for tuition
and living expenses.
However, there are some
guidelines to be eligible.
The student must have a
cumulative college GPA of 3.5
or better, which must include all
college-level courses. Nominees
must also pursue a baccalaure
ate degree full-time at a presti
gious four-year institution start
ing in fall 2008. Only college
sophomores or recent graduates
within five years qualify.
The
Jack . Kent
Cooke
Please see JACK KENT, Page 2
Photos Sean Van Walchren Clackamas Print