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\ Origins: Wolverine page 5 CCC braced for swine flu page 3 X-Men A CkKkamasP'nta^ at /I e In First copy FREE, additional copies ltf Clackamas Print independent, student -run newspaper ■ackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR since 1966 Wednesday, May 6, 2009 Horticulture club plant sale Friday May 8 Noon - 5 p.m. Greenhouses near Clairmont Hall Volume 42, Issue 20 egislature gives stimulus checkup John Hurlburt W ots Editor One key detail that the state officials were excited about was the money the college was able to save when it went through the bidding process with contractors. “The school’s bids came back as half of what was is a boss and on Wednesday, April 29, expected,” said Joe Austin, dean of information technol inistrators reported to theirs. ogy services. :aker of the House Dave Hunt, state Senator “They’re bidding these projects to keep people work r and state Representative Brent Barton ing,” Austin added, referring to why contractors bid so j they could view the progress the college low. ’ with the $1.35 million in stimulus money After the presentation, the group wOTt on a tour show e state. ing the work that had been done and the it would be important for people that were being affected by it. lat we were doing so we Michael Antonietti, a manager for * ble for the funds,” College “This was Cochran technologies, one of the con ie Truesdell said, shortly tractors doing work for the college, - a challeng i officials arrived, adding, explained how the work provided by ing decision nted to see this.” the college has helped him and his Schrader and Barton arrived employees. for me. In ily greeted by many of the “More than 50 percent of the people retrospect I nt administrators, who had haven’t been getting their 40 hours,” ith the Go Oregon stimulus feel very good Antonietti commented to the state reps, “but count our blessings. Nobody’s been about it. ” elcomes and introductions laid-off thanks to you guys.” by Truesdell, Bill Leach, State Rep. Brent Schrader was pleasantly surprised by services, began a presenta- Barton said on his what Antonietti had to say. (what was being done, what decision to vote on “I’m planning to share this on the npleted, what savings the Oregon’s stimulus floor tomorrow,” Schrader said emphati i able to manage and what package cally. “It’s creating and it’s sustaining any jobs were produced, jobs.” iced that out of the 29 proj- All in all, the project was purported :ing funded by the stimulus to create or retain a total of 100 jobs in already been completed, the other 23 were the local economy. vay, an important factor because all projects After the tour was concluded, all three of the visiting Sen. Martha^hrador (bottom lett), Speaker of the start before May 1. officials seemed very pleased with how the college had House Dave Hunt (bottom right) and Rep. Brent ole the projects played was in reducing the managed the stimulus money. Barton (middle back) are being led on a tour by osts substantially. “This was a challenging decision for me,” Barton said, Ily reduced our utility budget by $140,000 referring to when he voted for the stimulus package. “In College President Joanne Truesdell (back left) and Board of Education member Ron Adams (back right). Leach reported. retrospect, I feel very good about it.” ' Interviews with the next team of student representatives ASG Presidential candidate Alyssa Fava V Forasecondyearinarow, both the Associated Student Government (ASG) Presidential and Vice Presidential candidates are running unopposed in what is becoming Clackamas’ annual corronation. We decided to sit down with the candidates and learn what they are planning to do over the next year. What do you plan to do as ASG President? I really want to make sure students feel that they are being heard. One of my biggest plains is having bi-monthly open meetings with students. I’m going to sit down and talk to stu dents about the questions they have, what changes they would like to see in ASG. All of their ideas I will bring to meetings like presi dents council and the board of education. Especially, with the economy and the changes happening on campus, I want to make sure that I’m not the only one talking, that I know what students are saying as well. What exact policy are you planning to enact to better improve Clackamas? My meetings, that’s going to improve my knowledge FAVA of the student body I want to create a larger sense of com munity on campus, so I will be working with our campus ¡activities department to really reach out to clubs on campus as well as athletic depart ments. Every month campus activities is going to have a club in mind or an athletic team, and they’re going to work on an activity to host on campus. There are also internal things I would like to work on as well. I What do you mean by that? I Just within our departments. Our promotions department-this was its first year. I think I it’s a great department to have and I would like to utilize that. It’s really a great way to pro- I mote the student government on campus. I want make sure that any event ASG is having I is really well promoted. I think that is really something that we can do a better job on. I What do you want the administration to work on? I Cost is big. Students are already facing a tuition raise. There are new fees being rein stated and I completely understand the pressure the college is under to fill that gap, but ■students have to be kept in mind. We really want to push them to keep students in mind land realize students can’t keep forking out a lot of money. Plèase see FAVA, Page 2 ASG VP candidate Bailee Sanders What are the vice-presidents responsibili ties in ASG? We’re the internal management of the team, and we just kind of keep everyone on ASG responsible for their require ments. We’re in charge of setting the office, mak ing sure people are turning in their hour logs and we also take care of all of the conflict resolution, setting up the meetings. We work a lot with the appeals committee, and we make sure that we are fal lowing our bylaws. Another thing that I’m really excited about, being vice president is the clubs. Currently, the vice-president is the offi cer of the clubs department. I think that there is so much potential and so much of a need for more involvement in the clubs. I’m really looking forward to being able to oversee that SANDERS and facilitate all the clubs on campus. What kind of experience do you have in leadership? I’ve been on student council all through elementary school and middle school. I was involved in DECA during high school. It’s kind of a quirky little thing. [DECA] is a club that you join and you put together business plans. It’s teaching you business operations and marketing strategies depend ing on what event you’re a part of. My role in DECA was the vice president of promotions. Junior year, I was co-captain, for soccer. I was team captain my senior year. I was varsity all four years. I was a soccer referee. That’s another thing I’ve done and that kind of puts me in a leadership. DECA is really what has brought me here to being a part of ASG on campus. Actually, Emily Smith is the one who got me hooked on ASG. Interviews conducted and edited by John Hurlburt Please see SANDERS, Page 2
