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Greg Stoltz
The Clackamas Print
Oregon Secretary of State
Kate Brown was at Clackamas
Community College April 15, deliv
ering the message that Oregon poli
tics needs more women.
Brown spoke as part of the
Women in Public Leadership
Forum. The event,, designed to
encourage women to become pub
lic leaders, was organized by the
Clackamas Community College
New Leadership Oregon Club.
During her keynote speech,
Brown listed a number of pioneer
ing women from Oregon politics.
To a group of about 60 people gath
ered in the McLoughlin Hall audito
rium, she said, “Many extraordinary
women have shown what we can
accomplish when we’re not just
spectators.”
Included in Brown’s speech
_What is New Leadership Oregon?
The CCC New Leadership Oregon Club was created to
allow women interested in politics easier access to an annual
training program called National Education for Women’s
Leadership Oregon (NEW Leadership Oregon), sàid club
founder and former President Catherine Pike.
Based at Portland State University, NEW Leadership
Oregon is a six-day residential program designed to introduce
Oregon’s college women to opportunities for public leadership.
The PSU program, held each June, is part of the 17-college
NEW Leadership Development Network started at Rutgers
University in 1999.
For more information on the CCC New Leadership Oregon
Club, call 971-227-3734, or e-mail meegan.youngblood@
gmail.com.
were a number of Oregon’s politi
cal female firsts and their election
dates, including: first state repre
sentative, Marian Towne, 1914;
first U.S. representative, Nan Wood
Honeyman, 1936; first Secretary of
State, Norma Paulus, 1976; and first
Governor, Barbara Roberts, 1990.
Pointing out that former U.S.
Senator Maurine Neuberger, elect
ed in 1960, is still Oregon’s only
woman to hold that post, Brown
said, “I’m hoping one or two of you
will change that.”
After noting the considerable
accomplishments of these politi
cal leaders, Brown said it is clear
Oregon can do better.
“I think this is where each and
every one of you fit in,” said Brown.
“I think it’s extremely important to
have women and people of color
at the table. I think we look at the
world through different lenses than,
frankly, straight white men.”
After her prepared comments,
Brown took questions from the
audience.
Asked about her position on
preferential treatment for appoint
ing women and people of color to
judicial and other state positions,
Brown said, “As I look around at
our Oregon State Legislature, we
DRAFTING: Drafting not the only cut?
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Aside from completing course
materials at other schools, CCC
was able to negotiate with the
state to give students a one-year
degree if they have finished the
coursework pece^ary for the
degree. . Usually, this process
would take months of approval,
but in light of desperate times,
the state was able to speed up the
approval process.
“They essentially fast-tracked
processes that are usually set in
stone,” Lundy explained.
This fast track would only
help students who would choose
the inferior one-year degree, as
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opposed to the two-year degree
many students signed up for to
get an edge over the competition.
“The two-year degree is
what the industry wants,” Cook
emphasized.
Even Lundy recognizes that
none of the alternatives students
are being offered are as good as
the two-year program.
“Students will be impacted,”
Lundy admitted, adding, “I don’t
know anything we can do to pre
vent that.”
Clackamas’ drafting depart
ment was quite accredited in the
drafting world. The main cor
ridor in the drafting department
has a section of wall decorated
with the covers of textbooks CCC
instructors have written.
Drafting has almost been
deemed an “authorized training
center” by the software company
Autodesk, which according to
Cook, is not an easy thing to
accomplish.
“The software company,
Autodesk, has blessed us,” Cook
said with reverence.
With such accreditations and
success it leaves one to beg the
question of all things, why are
we getting rid of this department?
And like many tough decisions
faced in a budget slump a lot of it
boils down to numbers.
One of the reasons behind the
drafting department’s execution
was its slumping enrollment.
Low student interest is the rea
son many drafting departments in
the region have downsized from
two-year degree programs into
one-year;
However a low student count
can’t be tire only .reason to shut
down. Cook points out that there
are many classes and departments
that have either lower Full Time
Equivalence (FTE) or at least the
same as drafting.
Lundy confirmed that the
deciding factor that sealed the
fate of drafting was the rippling
effect that happens when classes
are cancelled. If math classes,
science classes or humanities
classes are cancelled, it affects
more students’ ability to get a
degree. Drafting, however, is a
fairly self-contained degree pro
gram. By sacrificing drafting,
fewer students will be affected
than if other departments with
low FTE were eliminated.
Even though it made sense,
Lundy said’it wasn’t an easy deci
sion to make.
“It wasn’t a decision that
was made lightly at all,” Lundy
expressed.
She also alluded to the fact,
that not all of the schools prob
lems are solved.
“Something had to be cut,”
Lundy explained, warning, “It’s
not incomprehensible to say
something else might get cut as
well.”
Although necessity may have
forced the school’s hand, it isn’t
an easy drop to swallow, and
Cook wishes it could happen
another way because even though
instructors and staff will be left
jobless, it’s the students who will
suffer the most.
“There’s not another vocation
al rehab program out there that
will give them the training we
can,” Cook said.
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have 90 members. We barely have
30 percent women.”
Brown, who served in the
Oregon House from 1991-1997 and
the Oregon Senate from 1997- 2009,
noted that the number of women has
actually decreased since she has
been in the Legislature.
Commenting on minority rep
resentation in die state Legislature,
Brown said there are just two
African Americans and no other
people of color. “I don’t think that’s
very reflective of the state. And so
I think, it’s really important for the
legislative leadership to work hard
to recruit diverse candidates.”
In an interview before the event,
Brown offered two bits of advice
to ^omen aspiring to leadership
positions.
The Secretary said she has really
struggled with her public speaking,
and that she’d tell people this is a
critical skill for political and busi
ness leaders.
Brown also said political savvy
- knowing when to fight and when
to let go — is very important Of her
time in the state Legislature, Brown
said, “I was very particular about
the fights I would select. I wanted
to make sure that they would make
a difference.”
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The lack of concern for
Chartwells well-being seemed to
be a common thread.
“I really just don’t care,” said
student John Kelly. “The food
tastes like plastic and you have to
pay like $5 for a biscuit.”
Eldrich’s comment was on par,
“It doesn’t really matter whether
they’re here or not”
Not everyone has the same
exact feelings, however. Jonathan
King, both a two year student and
employee at Chartwells, wasn’t
pleased with the company’s
move.
“It’s my job, so it kind of
sucks,” he said on the topic.
Both Ramos and King
explained that there is a possible
silver lining, as the school’s new
provider might rehire the current
employees.
King was enthusiastic, “There
are some things I agree with
Chartwells on and some things
I don’t I would hope whoever
replaces them would do as good,
hopefully better.”
The prospect of a new sheriff
in the cafeteria isn’t necessarily a
win-win in all students’ minds.
“It’s a good idea, bad idea
thing,” said student Andre
Nicholson. “It’s only good for stu
dents if they replace it with some
thing quick and health conscious.”
The goals of the students are
not necessarily congruent with the
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plan of the college itself. ■
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have almost the sanfe nfen
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lege instructors might not.
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sarily agree on food sluffs.'
Courtney Wilton, vice presS
college services.
Wilton said the college™
tainly look at fast food comp
like Taco Bell and McDtn
but that it would come
to what food service pra
would be interested in biddi
be here.
“Will it be someone
Chartwells?” Wilton asked
torically, “1 don’t think so."
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option open and allow 4^1
to potentially'make money’
cafeteria.
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any money off Chart«
said Wilton. “We didn’t w
keep writing them a ched
$24,000.”
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