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Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Budget
cuts out
classified
employees
By Patty Salazar
The Clackamas Print
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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.”
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ture of a U.S. soldier at last year’s presentation on post traumatic
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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.
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“(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.
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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
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