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Volume 44, Issue 12.
Wednesday, Feb. 9,2011
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hat goes next, our
College loses even more funding for the
coming years due to government cuts
By Brian Baldwin
News Editor
I On Feb. 1 Governor John Kitzhaber released his recommended state budget
I plan and Clackamas Community College will likely lose $8 million over the
I next two years. According to Courtney Wilton, vice president of college ser-
I vices, this is due to the state decreasing the amount of state support per enrolled
I student for Oregon community colleges and increasing college expenses,
Including the Public Employees Retirement System. Now the college is looking
Ifor ways to recover from this deficit
I There are currently three options that the school is looking at for filling this
I gap. The first is to explore ways to reduce funding, whether it is cutting classes
I or material. Several deans have asked their departments to suggest ways that
they can reduce their budget.
"We’re going to look for efficiencies and look out for ways to reduce our^JKfej^
buds. as painlessly as possible and that’s part of what you’re seeing with these^B
requc is,” said Wilton. “That’s what we’re in the middle of now, gathering those wl
ideas from staff.”
Wilton works directly with the Business Office, Facilities and Operations,
Human Resources and the Information Technology departments and has
tceived suggestions from those areas but would not go into specifics of what
bill or is being considered to be cut in these proposals.
“I' Itimately, it’s the Board (of Education) that approves our budget. But until
hey are there, it doesn’t serve any purpose to talk about potential cuts. It makes
people nervous and you don’t want to do that until you’re certain that you’re
going to have to do certain things,” said Wilton.
[ One class that is being looked at to be cut is the theater appreciation class,
which currently has a low enrollment rate, according to Dean of Arts and
Sciences Bill Briare.
“The main (suggestion) is looking at reducing the number of classes
offered,” said Briare. “We kind of do this all the time, looking at classes and
enrollments. Sometimes we have to stop a class before it runs and sometimes
we’ll run it and cancel it the first day.”
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ack History Month; a time for all Americans to look back
By Joshua Baird
Arts & Culture Editor
lave a dream that one day this nation will rise up and 1 ive
Hue meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-
tthat all men are created equal.’”
se uni I rgettable words were spoken by Dr. Martin Luther
t on Aug. 28,1963, and since then the United States and
rid as a whole have moved forward by leaps and bounds to
to great prophecy that King spoke of.
roary is Black History Mcmth, a time to look back at where
Miy has been, not just as a black, white, Asian or Latino,
»whole. It’s a time to see what strides we have made as a
«nation, a community, a a family.
as been more than 200 years since the foundation for the
s laid down by our forefathers, and since then we have seen
ace oi the planet move to our shores to seek what so many
te for granted.
a is ii then that at this point in our history we see people
rite violent statements on bathroom walls or hide behind
Xiputer monitors “flaming” other people in an age that is
td to be enlightened?
•link people have low self-confidence, so they turn to
.peqile,” said Georgia Garza, a returning CCC student “I
tism will always be around because certain people won’t
®ge. That is why Black History Month is so important;
tose people who are racist will open their eyes.”
tol issues have to deal with deficiencies in intelligence
overage of ignorance,” said Alan Wone, a Clackamas
toty College student “As sure as those conditions are
timeless ailments that prevail without cure, racism and the crimes
stemming from it will go on. The mind has to change in order for
the world to change and right now, you can reference Haiti and
New Orleans to measure thus truth.”
Black History Month is not a time to focus on the negative
aspects of history, but to focus on the positives. Wone takes the
time to remember his heritage often, creating art from his emo
tions surrounding the history of his culture. He created a video
called “Blaque Sistory” about the trials and advancements that
black women have made throughout history, set to poetry he
wrote himself
The video demands and deserves your attention through the
many subtle transitions that change the flow of the poem itself.
“(Black History Month) is important because it not only edu
cates African American people of their past, but also informs us,
meaning all people. Too long have we ignored parts of history,”
said Paul Fernandez, a visitor at CCC.
For many, the reason for pride in their heritage is obvious,
though most people fail to understand each other’s reasoning.
Black History Month also helps others to learn about the cultural
relevance of other groups outside of their own.
“Preserving the African oral tradition by combining sound,
movement, imagery and staytelling, I have written poetry for
half of my life and now realize that the other half I was poetry
unexpressed,” said Wone. “Soul is a companion of the heart and
the quality of heart and soul derives from the impact of pleasure
and pain one incurs over a lifetime, no matter how long or short
the life.”
Black History Month is important for many reasons; the most
important reason is definitely that black history is everyone’s his
tory, whether you are black, white or anything else.
WONE