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Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Volume 42, Issue 18
udents take to the sun
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overcomes
resistance
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John Petty Clackamas Print
■breaking highs in April inspire Instructor Jessica Walters to hold her Psychology 101 class outside to help students
■ne their lust for the sun. Good weather and the end of the school year approaching make students yearn to be outside.
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department drop
face of a $13.2 million shortfall,
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■ of June 30, Clackamas
■longer be one of the few
■ng schools in Oregon to
■two-year drafting degree;
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ing degree completely.
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laiminislrators in the recent
■f cuts issued to cover a
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■for the next biennium of
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■10 and 2010-2011.
■ loss of the department
^Ban that the six-full time
I ■members and eight part-
■^¡11 no longer have jobs
■ckamas. Around 60-70
■> will also be effected
■dispersion of the depart-
■¡ther leas ing them to fin-
■r degrees elsewhere, or in
■ases. has ing to switch to
■ent degree altogether.
■'eel like 1 am getting
■>" drafting student Joe
■< commented. “I almost
■^two-\ea i degree and now
^Bng to have to go some-
^Blse.”
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to
Drafting
Chartwells meets
the reaper this June
Department Chair LeRoy Cook,
the only other school that still
offers a two-year degree in the
area is Chemeketa and for many
students, including Niemeyer,
Salem is too far to travel.
Cook said that one of the real
unfortunate parts of the drafting
department getting closed down
is that it takes away options
from students who are limited in
where they can go for a career.
l‘We’re dealing with the 40-
year-old who has a mortgage
to pay and family to support,
who’s trying to get an educa
tion, get out and find a job,”
Cook explained. “For some of
them, we are the last resort they
have other than going on perma
nent unemployment.”
Although the situation is
bleak, a point no one argues,
students have not been left
to completely fend for them
selves.
Elizabeth Lundy, vice presi
dent of instructional services,
was one of the administrators
who had to make the decision
to cut the department. She said
that they have been able to work
with other schools and the state
to be able to give students at
least a handful of options when
it comes to deciding, what’s
Chartwells is on death’s door, but most students won’t
attend the funeral.
The school’s primary food provider for the past five years,
Chartwells, will be moving off campus June 30. This news
comes after budgetary issues and the lack of a contract with
Clackamas, which has sent them into the red.
“We’re losing money, a lot of money,” said Liz Ramos, the
Director of Dining Services.
This shouldn’t be shocking considering most students
admit they prefer going off campus for their hunger needs.
“I don’t want to waste my money there,” said two-year
student Lewis Eldrich. “The food sucks; it’s not cheap, so why
wouldn’t I just go to Taco Bell?”
Please see DRAFTING, Page 3.
Please see CHARTWELLS, Page 3
John Shufelt Clackamas Print
Chartwells employee Brittany Kolb gives student Dmitri
Golkouski his change as student Destiny Benvenuti waits.
Jaycob Izso
The Clackamas Print
Kayla Berge
The Clackamas Print
Rape, it’s the kind of word that
could humble even the proudest of
people.
In the fall term of 2008, a
Clackamas student Elizabeth “Libby”
Link was shocked to find out that
there was no support group for rape
victims on campus.
“When I got to the counseling
center I hit a wall,” Link recalled. “I
was just basically told there wasn’t
enough of an outciy. And I thought,
‘How could that possibly be? If one
in six girls have been abused that’s
known about, there's more than
enough girls here that would need
it too.’”
When asked about Link’s
approach, Ellen Wolfson, a counselor
at CCC, admitted, “I had told her
there wasn’t any groups on campus
and that there were options in the
community. She wasn’t really inter
ested in the options in the community
and felt like they were too far from
where she lived.”
“There’s not a [rape] support
group anywhere near Oregon City,”
Link stated. “The nearest one is
downtown [Portland] and after that
St. Paul. That’s too far. that’s much
too far.”
Wolfson affirmed there are no
support groups being run by the
counseling department in general.
“We have offered groups in the
past. People haven’t come to them,”
said Wolfson. “So we teach classes
in human development like dealing
with depression or how to manage
conflict or grief in loss.”
Link felt that if something was
going to change then she’d have to
get it started. She encountered many
road blocks in the fall. She began to
feel defeated.
In the spring term of 2009, a
member of The Print asked around
about the community center noise
complaints. Link began to feel the
sparks of determination return, urg
ing her to set up the rape support
group.
“People who need the support
group are getting touched at random
and screaming,” Link said. “It’s get
ting not uncommon that people are
having these PTSD [Post Traumatic
Stress Disorder] like moments
because they don’t have anywhere
to get help.”
Mitchell Pennell, another student
at Clackamas who wishes to help
Link form the group, has felt ill-treat
ed by the counseling department.
“I feel like the people in my group
have been kind of harassed by the
counseling department in the past,
that the counselors don’t really care
about us,” Pennell reflected. “Now
whether that’s true or not, I don’t
know.”
“But, it also could be that they’re
not equipped to deal with rape,”
Please see SURVIVORS, Page 6