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2 News Clackamas Wednesday, April 30, 2008 Election breakdown: ASG candidates pledge serv Latisha Burley: ASG vice president I wilt -Listentoyou -Represent you -Be fair, honest and open Jayc /zso: ASG presidential candidate Michael Vu: ASG presidential candidate Whois Jayclzso? BURLEY My experience: * CCC ASG Administrative Assistant, 2007-2008 - 4.0 high school GPA, two-year ASB president, valedic torian -2005 Hugh O’ Brian Youth Leadership Alumni -Clackamas County Young Leaders Program, 2005-2006 - Foundation for Rural Services trip to Washington, DC, learning about telecommunications - National Honor Society Vice President, 2006-2007 - Key Ctob Treasurer, 2005-2006, and TreasurehVfce Resident, 2006-2007 Clackamas Students, If I had to pick one important issue that this col lege feces, I’d say it is student involvement. Coming from Associated Student GovemmenL it can be challenging to capture the participation of students on campus. There has to be a way to conquer this task, and I have a few suggestions. ASG’s job is to provide opportunities, but I would like to see more input from students of what they want to see happen. While talking to students, I found fee reason people don’t get involved is because the activities that they’d enjoy are not offered. Student input is crucial! I would also like to see ASG’s president and vice president make quarterly visits to the clubs’ meetings to see what their advice is. They should focus on offering students more options and rais ing the awareness of each opportunity. Suggestion boxes could be revamped to encourage students’ proposals. College is all about making the most of this sea son of life. It’s during this time that students decide who they’re going to be for the rest of their lives. Whether you are a still in high school and enrolled here or you are taking a few classes to finish up your degree, this is your chance to take advantage of all this school offers. Like all the fliers say, CCC is the “smart” choice, so why not make the “smart” choice and make the most of your time here? It may be more convenient to come to school, attend to class and go home, but ASG is here to make your experience the best it can be. On the way to your next class, stop by the Community Center and drop off a suggestion. Give us your thoughts, give us your ideas and we’ll give you a great college experience! Experience: - 2007-2008 ASG senator and officer (campus activities) - 4.0 Clackamas Community College GPA, 89 Credits - Four-year class officer, Canby High School vu Qualities: —A “listen first, then act” leader - Reliable, open, honest hard-working and passionate - Care deeply about helping students Goals: - Get more students involved Clackamas Students, Let’s work together, you and me. As president, I want to collaborate and make change happen. First off, I would like to increase the communication between you all, my fellow classmates, and the student government Our job is to provide services and, more importantly, a voice for you to our college administration. As president I will serve as an active “mjddle-man” between the students and the college administration. I will always be gauging what you all want/need and commu nicate that to the administra tion. The student government also needs to hear feedback from you, so that we can make changes, hear more feedback and make more changes. We. are representing you, so we need to hear what you have to say. This invitation is for any and all ofyou who would like to be heard. An action step to move towaid this goal is to have a way for the students to communicate to the student government In this day and age, we will likely move toward a more technological stance to reach you all. What do you think about an online blog/forum, where you could voice your opin ions about what can be done differently? Would you use it? What if the student gov ernment could remind you of upcoming activities, or ways to have fun and get involved? What do you think? Let me know; you can find me in the ASG office. Related to that, I would also like to increase your involvement here. There are many students who go to class for a couple hours and then just head home until they have class the next day. There’s really more to be experienced in college. If you are looking for some thing more to do, you should be given that opportunity. In order to accomplish this, stu dent government should have a student recruitment depart ment to get in touch with any and all students who want to get involved. All in all, Clackamas Community College is a great place, and it has vast opportu nities, but we need to all pitch in and make it the best place for us, in whatever way, shape or form. Let’s make CCC the place to be. I have been a student at CCC for four terms and have thor oughly enjoyed every one of them. The grim reality of the sit uation is that I have realized that the system by which students are “governed” is flawed. Now I’m running for ASG pi rectify the issues frat are cunently dictating how stud sentation is being conducted Why vote for Jayc? - To prevent the misrepresentation of students and 1 quent funds they supply ASG with. -To make this a student-run govemmenL not oneb foundation of pseudo-nobility. - Let’s be honest; over 75 percent of students eil know we have a student government or simply don’t c is the time to have someone who wants to actual!}’ majority their due. - He’s just an average guy, works a full-time jol school full-time and understands the stressors of a student. - It’s time for the system to evolve. The truth of the matter is at least 80 percent of the stu dents on this campus have no knowledge frat die Associated Student Government even exists. Sure, we in the ASG pretend like they do; in feet, we call ourselves “student rep resentatives.” But how can we possibly represent the average student when only 200 out of 30,000 actually vote? To put it simply, we can’t It is because of this very issue frat we arrive at the reality at which we are now faced. Tuition is increasing; book paces are as high as ever, and instead of spending the ASG funds - student-supplied money - on scholarships and better food options, we decide to throw the money away on cotton and barbeques. The truth is, the college is struggling. Enrol lment is down and, thus, one of the primary sources of the college’s income is being forced tops A tot of people! me why I’m runnii simplest answer It is that I don’t like tilings are done at ft I’m sure, with a I information, the av dent would find that either. Many of us instructors on this ca frankly, they’re beii affected by the pot the administration I as well. I encourage aid involved with the I this issue; after all, A teachers, mentors ai What, with anodi increase of $5 per I the horizon, and the i serisus that the cafet (go figure), it’s tim had a voice. I’m Jayclzso, an you want things to st they are, don’t vote I s SMOKERS: educâtionaîdënfôrrëmënt the key J ASG Elections: Vote online at clackamas.edu on Wednesday, May 7, or Thursday, May 8. CLINTON: wife’s campaign issues discussed on platform last Saturday Continued from CLINTON, Page 1 “We have to create more jobs in this econo my if we expect incomes to go up, and we have to address the cost problems of America, which are energy, healthcare and higher education,” he said in regards to how America should rebuild the economy. “She (Hillary) has the best plan to produce jobs in the only way that all these countries that are succeeding are producing them today,” he added. Edwards asserts that Hillary Clinton is “the most experienced” of the candidates. “Hillary has years of public service, relation ships with leaders around the world and a proven record of fighting for working families,” she said.- “She is the only candidate who has proposed a universal healthcare plan, and she is the only candidate to put forward a detailed plan specifi cally addressing Oregon policy priorities.” Clinton has created an Oregon Compact that involves goals for the state of Oregon. She has requested two debates with rival Democratic ■ candidate Barack Obama sometime before Oregon’s May 20 primary election. One of the debates will discuss challenges facing rural Oregonians. The public can go to Clinton’s Web site, www.hillaryclinton.com, to sign a petition to make a debate between Clinton and Obama in Oregon possible. The site details issues Clinton supports, her personal history and how to become a volunteer for her campaign or donate money to the cause. “Our country needs a strong, experienced leader to put us back on the track of peace and prosperity after seven years of failed Bush administration policies,” Edwards said. “Hillary Clinton is the candidate who can do that.” Attendees of the event included voters who are similarly confident in Clinton’s abilities as a leader. “She is, by far, the best candidate,” Dan Domenigoni said. “She is the most presidential out of the Candidates.” Another audiencemember, Terri Domenigoni, said, “She is bright and politically aware.” Bill Clinton also addressed his wife’s charac ter, assuring the crowd of her dependability. ‘You will never worry that she will not be there for you,” he said. Continued from SMOKING, Rage 1 All of this, however, doesn’t seem to deter stu dents from smoking, Fender pointed out. “Scare tactics don’t work,” she said. “The bot tom line is that they’re addicted.” Students on campus who smoke do so for a variety of reasons. Giovanni, a 16-year-old student who did not want his last name used, says that he has been smoking for two years. He started due to troubles within his family, as well as because all of his friends smoked. With nfe plans to quit anytime in the near future, Giovanni sees it this way: “You only get one life. Might as well live it up.” Another student, Nate Young, now of legal age, has been smoking since he was 14 years old and attri butes his starting the habit to “just being stressed out.” “My friends told me to try it,” he said. “Improbably kept me out of jail a couple of times.” For Young, smoking relieves aggression Clackamas’ security officials were unwilling to comment about under age smoking at the col lege, but a search through the Department of Public Safety shift togs on campus showed no citations issued to minors for tobacco use within the months of March and April Even though, recently, students have not had severe disciplinary steps taken against them for smoking, this does not mean that security is not on the look out for violators. Student Zack Brooks has been carded on campus. “We had security guards, yesterday, check our IDs,” Brooks said. Brooks sees no prob lem with people smoking on campus as tong as they stay out of traffic areas. He thinks it’s rather trivial when individuals who are on the verge 'of adulthood' get into legal trouble for lighting up. He does, on the other hand, see something wrong with youth of a certain age doing so. “It’s ridiculous how early people are starting,” he said. Brooks recalled an instance whi approached b lad for a pack When asked his said he was 12 Stories sud are proof ofab harbors herself whatever inter ety is going tc to happen be! reach the age it 17 years old. Kayla Berge Cl Stephanie Bryt moment to en rette. She star ing regularly v was 13. Her 11 will occur this
