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Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Changes fly in the wind
By Patty Salazar
The Clackamas Print
Now that the weather is starting to get better and students
are taking in the beauty here at Clackamas Community
College, they might have seen the wind turbine on top of
Barlow Hall. Along with the wind turbine, there’s a solar
panel that helps run Barlow and there are community gar
dens out by the horticulture department.
There are solar water heating collectors on the rooftop of
Randall Hall, McLoughlin Hall and the Pauling Center that
basically heat up the water by way of tubes and then it’s sent
into the actual buildings to be used,-an alternative to heating
the water electrically.
It’s these things and more that the CCC Sustainability
Tour will be showcasing, shedding some light on how
“green” the campus really is.
Mike Noel, CCC’s sustainability outreach specialist,
is one of the people responsible for creating and organiz
ing the sustainability tour that will be available within the
year. Noel said he has been working on this project since he
started in September 2010.
“When the grant was written, it helped fund some equip
ment and building some of the structures outside, then get
ting me hired along with some other guys,” said Abe Fouhy,
CCC’s own sustainability instructor. “One of the things that
we wanted to do is a sustainable tour on campus. When
(Noel) got hired, he started campaigns that tried to hook
up different ways that we can show off what we are already
doing here on campus.”
Fouhy has been building micro-houses that are being
used as test for weatherization, gauging how the buildings
perform with different insulation. A second micro-house is
being built like any other house would be, and it is going to
contain cutaways to show the public how the floor and walls
were built and what kind of materials that are used to build
them.
Since Noel has been here in the Pacific Northwest,
he has learned that “you are easily 10 years
ahead from the East Coast, in that every
one knows how to recycle.”
“... That is such a simple
concept but people back
East might buy
a bottle of
water
without thinking about it twice,” Noel said.
On campus it is easy to recycle, as you can go in any
building and find recycling bins. It’s what people don’t see
that is going to be highlighted on the sustainability tour.
Hilmo Ljucevic, energy coordinator team leader for
CCC, has helped save the school $1.7 million by monitor
ing energy costs and coming up with new ideas to make the
school sustainable. He oversees how the campus uses energy
and makes sure that energy is being used correctly by keep
ing track of when classrooms are being used and how much
energy has to go to a certain building at a certain time.
One thing that Ljucevic, Noel and Fouhy are looking into
is having a monitor set up in the community center so that
anybody can see how much energy is being produced by the
wind turbine and solar panels.
“Sustainability is not a temporary way of being,” Ljucevic
said. “You can’t say ‘I am going to be sustainable from this
time to this time and I am done.’ It has to be a way of life.”
He is glad to see that there is going to be a sustainability
tour on campus but went on to say it takes more than a good
presentation to have people go out and live a sustainable
life. Ljucevic did mention that as time goes on it is harder to
come up with new ways to save the school money, if any stu
dents have ideas about energy conservation contact Ljucevic
at hilmol@clackamas.edu.
If you would like to learn abQut how you can help be a
tour-guide for the sustainability tours, contact Mike Noel
at mnoel@clackamas.edu. You can also “like” the tours
on Facebook or visit the sustainability website for _
more information at depts.clackamas.edu/
sustainability.
Letter: Student Government responds to recent criticise
To the Students of Clackamas
Community College,
The Clackamas Community
College »Associated
Student
Government exists purely to serve
the more than 39,000 students of
this college. We are a group of
dedicated and committed student
leaders that work each day to pro
vide better services, resources and
events to students. Our goal as
servant leaders is to bring an edu
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cation beyond the classroom to our
student body.
ASG is comprised of five
departments: Public Affairs, Clubs,
Grants, Promotions and Campus
Activities. Each department is run
by students, for students, working
daily to reach out to the students on
campus by providing opportunities
like civic engagement, assistance
with textbooks and childcare costs,
calculator and locker rentals, book
exchanges, blood drives, commu
nity fairs, club involvement, aware
ness events, student representation
on college committees and admin
istrative boards, and of course the
cheapest snacks on campus.
As our title of Student Leaders
suggests, we are just that.
Associated Student Government is
an open learning lab for all stu
dents to volunteer and apply for.
We are now accepting applications
for fall term of 2011, so apply now!
Applications can be found online at
depts.clackamas.edu/asg/ or in the
ASG office across from the cafete
ria, CC152.
The mission statement of the
Associated Student Government
is “Dedication to Maximizing
Opportunities for Students” and we
work diligently each day to provide
just that Though every statement
can be interpreted in many different
ways, the actions of ASG reflect this
statement strongly. The Associated
Student Government encourages
any and all students who ari in
ested in ASG to come by fl
questions, participate in evefll
come to our open business ma
ings every Wednesday irogfl
p.m. in the Fireside Lounge.«
Sincerely,
The
Associated
Government Team
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