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2 The Clackamas Print newsed@clackamas.edu Wednesday, May 11, 2011 Budget cuts out classified employees By Patty Salazar The Clackamas Print • April 18 was an eerie day for 11 classified employees here at Clackamas Community College. They each got letters that said their jobs are being eliminated because of budgetary reasons. Along with being informed that their jobs were gone, each letter gave the employee the option to take a different job on campus. A classified employee is anyone from custodians to IT personnel, working more than 20 hours a week. There are currently 168 classified employees on campus. Starting July 1 however, there will be 166 classified employees with 11 of them being moved to different departments and if needed, being retrained. Two of those employees have been laid off. When everything is solidified, CCC President Joanne Truesdell and Vice President of Instructional Services Elizabeth Lundy will then begin saying who is doing what and going where due to the shake-up. Tamera Davis, who along with Lizz Rich is the co-president of the Classified Employee Association, said that she was working on trying to keep as many employees as she could and that her position was on the list to be cut. Unfortunately, Davis’s own job was eliminated in this process. Jennifer Schwartzman, the department secretary and event coordinator of Theater and Communications, is one of the 11 employees that is going to be moved on July 1. “There is a lot that I have taken on over the years that is not really secretarial,” Schwartzman said when describing what she has done since she started working for the department in 2006. “I designed and created the website for the theater department and continually update that That piece is hopefully going to stay.” Jennifer Schwartzman, who works at the front desk of the Niemeyer building, will be reassigned duel budget cuts. Her current tasks include scheduling classes, ordering books and selling snacks to studei such as Timothy Ross. However, Christopher Whitten, who is a theater instruc tor on campus, said “(The theater website) requires time, and there’s not time available for that now. So to cut the position means to cut the time.” Whitten described that losing Schwartzman is like digging a hole in the sand at the ocean and when tide comes in the hole is “magically” filled with more sand. Now there is a hole that everybody is hoping for a tide to fill it, but it is not going to happen. “It’s not as though she’s leaving and we are going to fill the hole with someone else,” Whitten said. Although Whitten and Schwartzman said that the particular aspects of the secretarial position, such as scheduling and emails, are going to be taken care of, it’s the little things that are going to be missed. The theater department works on a “bare bone budget’ ’ The Clackamas Print wins 10 awards By Brian Baldwin News Editor Nothing is a more satisfying than hearing your name praised at a competition during an awards ceremony. Traveling to Linn- Benton Community College on May 6, The Clackamas Print won 10 awards at the Oregon Newspaper Publisher Association’s Collegiate Day, including five first place awards, two second place awards (including general excellence) and three honorable men tions. At ONPA, The Print went up against other papers from two year colleges. A number of staff members won personal awards, including Co-Editor-in-Chief Kayla Calloway. This is Calloway’s first award in her three years on staff. “I won my first award for honorable mention for my review of the ‘Harry Potter’ movie that came out in November,” said Calloway. “We (also won) second place for general excellence; that was our first year in many winning that.” Web editor John Shufelt won best spot news photo for his cap ture of a U.S. soldier at last year’s presentation on post traumatic stress disorder, ad manager Brad Heineke won best photography, Jaime Dunkle won first place for best writing and The Print swept the best headline category. The staff of The Clackamas Print would like to thank our read ers for their continued support of this publication. Hearing feedback and discussion about the paper and the topics that we cover rein forces the value of the awards that we received. To view the complete list of awards and submissions, visit www. orenews.com/Contests/2011/cnc/. n Staff The Clackamas Print 19600 Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045 503-594-6266 according to Schwartzman. She has helped put on prop! and has also gotten students involved in OPB phone di Whitten said that theater students don’t need volunteer W but it’s good that students see that giving back is somethin needs to be done. 1 “(There is) very little that we do here that she isn’t soml involved in. Now to think that everything that we do w without her involvement is tough to wrap the future an We’re going to get there because we have to, but it’s not i to be file same and I’m not going to pretend that it is,1 Whitten, voice cracking with emotion. I Although Schwartzman is saddened by the fact that h ri tionship with the students that she has gotten to know ova years is going to change dramatically, she is. also looking n ward to learning new things and staying as positive as she c Veterans’ stories needed for projel My name is Cassandra “Casey” Curry; I am a combat veteran with the Oregon ^1 National Guard. I am currently working with Kate Gray, writing instructor here at CCC, Betsy Pacheco, Director of Disability Resource Center here at CCC. The project is c “Veteran Stories” we are currently looking for veterans that would be willing to tell their std For more information please contact Kate Gray at kateg@clackamas.edu or 503-594-3260. Letter: Change student governme To the college community: As the President of the Political Science Club, I have decided to write to you directly in order to I erly give you the message I’ve been trying to voice for some time and to correct some errors and u| some information that was not given to you. First, I would appreciate that everyone gets a chance to vote for the upcoming amendment I had st] As quoted on my posters, this amendment would change Article IV, Section IV of the ASG consti] specifically, adding this sentence: “No prior experience as a member of ASG will be required to run the elected office of president and vice president.” This change will affect that aspect only and nullify the bylaw Section V. As described in the sen] prior, all other aspects described in the bylaws such as Section VI, which allows for a presidential ap« ment committee (PAC) would remain the same. The presidential appointment committee as described in the section VI has the power to “... del an application, screening and interview process.” This ambiguous sentence is the primary reason I now believe that this ASG does not properly represent any of us at Clackamas Community College.] known of this section earlier I would have agreed with Mario Smith’s sentiments on the current hail of ASG. Please make sure to vote on the amendment from May 25 to May 26. - Christopher Thomson President of the Political Science Club . Co-Editors-in-Chief: Arts & Culture Editor: Co-Web Editors: StaffWriters/Photographers: Goals: Kayla Calloway Erik Andersen Josh Baird Associate A&C Editor: John Shufelt Corey Romick News Editor: Mandie Gavitt Photo Editor: Katie Aamatti, Brittany Anderson, Hillary Cole, Patty Salazar The Clackamas f] aims to report the ne] in an honest, unbias] Brian Baldwin Ad Manager: Michael Bonn Associate News Editor: Brad Heineke Design Editor: JamSs Duncan Copy Editor: Nathan Sturgess Sports Editor: John Simmons Robert Morrisoil Associate Copy Editor: Associate Sports Editor: Anna Axelson John Howard Production Assistants: David Bard, Mollie Berry, Jaime Dunkle, Shay Kornegay, Gary Lund, Darla Nguyen, John Petty, Mireille Soper Journalism Adviser: Melissa Jones professional man® Content published in The Print is not screened or subject to censorship. Email comments to chiefed@clackamas.edul
