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Volume 43, Issue 6
sgistration bogs down CougarTrax
Abigail Neet & Annemarie Schulte
5WS Editor &Associate News Editor
y’s Law: What can gp wrong, will.
ion began Monday night and was brought to a screech-
the online system crashed at roughly 12:02 are.
Kelsey King started looking online around 11:30 p.m.
her classes. At exactly midnight she said the server
y shut down and she had been trying all day Tuesday and
getting the same messages.
■site went down right at 12 last night and wouldn’t
e to access anything in myClackamas. Everything else
site worked still,” student Garret Grimm said.
Dean Walch, Web site coordinator, Information Technology
Services, was too busy to comment on Tuesday because he was
working on the portal.
“They are very close to fixing it,” Janet Paulson, marketing/
media specialist, said Tuesday afternoon.
According to Chippi Bello, enrollment service operation man­
ager, the system has been working on and off and ITS was inves­
tigating the problems.
“Last night at midnight, the home page wouldn’t load for the
longest time,” Timothy Chu said Tuesday afternoon in an e-mail.
“From about 12:30 a.m. to 6:30 are. when I tried, I couldn’t get
on (none of the links worked). I kept getting the message, ‘Could
not log in to Web Advisor Send Failure.’ Now I’m getting this
message, ‘Could not log in to Web Advisor EnvDMIConnection:
connect: IO Exception-java.net’ My friend Garrett managed to
register within like a five minute window earlier. It’s pissing me
off; I want to register for winter ton.”
Students wanted to register early this ton due to classes filling
up quickly during fall term.
Bello said students have been patient waiting in the long reg­
istration lines. However, walking in to Roger Rook, it was easy
to see that students were on edge and frustrated with the system
being down.
Tracy Helling tried registering right at midnight and had been
trying ever since. She says she has tried somewhere around 20
times.
Please see REGISTRATION, Page 3
Ing out the doors, lines for winter term registration formed at Roger Rook all Tuesday Nov. 17 after CougarTrax servers failed. Anxiety and frustration
Iminent amoung students as the wait lasted throughout the day.
Schrader speaks to students at CCC
By Annemarie Schulte
Associate News Editor
JohnShufelt ClackamasPrint
Fuan Kurt Schrader answers students questions in a
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Kurt Schrader arrived at Clackamas wearing jeans, a
sport coat, dress shirt and cowboy boots. Leaning on a
table, he looked around and said, ‘This is just ‘ask ques­
tions, right? I have no big spiel to sell ‘ya.” Immediately
Schrader made toe whole room at ease and kept it that
way even when he came under fire from a student waned
about congressional spending, demanding that Schrader
tell him what he was doing to fix it
Schrader is one of five Oregon congressional represen­
tatives in toe House of Representatives and represents toe
fifth district of Oregon, which includes Clackamas. He is
a new member of Congress and has been on toe job for
about a year now. Schrader was originally a veterinarian
and hails from Canby. He became a representative alter
being involved with toe Oregon legislature for 10 years,
and his wife is sti 11 involved with toe Oregon Legislature.
Schrader visited CCC and spoke in the community
cotter on Nov. lOfrom 11 to 11:30 are. where he opened
up toe floor to questions from students and faculty of
Clackamas.
When talking about toe most important issue, toe cur­
rent American economy, Schrader focused on toe develop­
ment of small business and said that on a positive note
other nations still have confidence in toe U.S. dollar.
“The Chinese still think we’re toe best bet in town,”
Schrader remarked.
Schrader said he is a “conservative democrat” and
gravitates towards budget issues. Schrader serves on three
committees in toe House: The small business committee,
toe agriculture committee (he has a 60 acre farm in Canby)
and toe budget committee. Schrader also chairs the tax and
finance subcommittee.
As far as his position on toe current issue with healto-
care, Schrader said he supports toe bill (that just passed
toe House two weeks ago), toe Affordable Healthcare for
America Act He encouraged students to go online and
read toe bill in sections, rather than attempting to read toe
2,000 page document in its entirety. Schrader admitted that
even he has staff to help him sort through toe bill and added
that he was once advised, “if you agree with 60 percent of
a bill, you vote yes.”
When asked about his most recent bill H.R. 3854, toe
Small Business Financing and Investment Act of 2009,
which is estimated to create $44 billion in new lending
for small businesses, Schrader said that toe bill came out
of committee two weeks ago. He went on to say, ‘It’s a
bipartisan bill, and there were no descending votes on toe
House floor, which is a rarity these days.”
“I think most people recognize good basic support fa
small businesses,” said Schrader. The bill makes it easier
for small business to survive toe economy and get money
to survive toe economy, he said.
Furthermore, on his Small Business Financing Act, it
states on Schrader’s Web site, “We’re starting to see some
real signs of economic recovery but so far small businesses
have been left behind because of toe lade of available
credit”
“As a small business owner I understand how critical
credit is for companies to get toe loans they need to make
payroll and expand their businesses. This bill incentives
lending, reduces bureaucratic red tape and increases the
size of SB A loans to loosen toe credit markets and get
capital back into toe hands of Oregon’s job creators; small
businesses.”
Before leaving toe Community Center and making his
way to toe new Veterans’ Center, Schrader shook hands
with and was genuine in thanking students and staff for
their questions.