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2t The Clackamas Print newsed@clackamas.edu Wednesday, Feb 29, 2012 News Students organize for candidate By Patty Salazar News Editor W ith th e R e p u b lica n can d id ates to u rin g ih e c o u n try for su p p o rt; a few. C lackam as C o m m u n ity C ollege stu d e n ts are actin g locally to su p p o rt th e ir favorite can d id ate, R on P aul. O n a chilly afte rn o o n th e trió — Q u in n W alker, Jo n Jen sen .an d Jen n ifer R aad g ot to g eth er in C lackam as to. Spread th e w o rd o f Paul, sign Waving o n an overpass n ear C lackam as T ow n C enter. As W alker was th e o n e to start th e C C C ch ap ter he is the leader o f C C C fo r R o n Paul. T h e g ro u p s ta r te d in D ecem ber a n d signs w ere p u t u p aro u n d cam pus recently. W alker atte n d e d P au ls speech in V ancouver, W ash, o n Feb. 17. “It was really cool; th ere w as a J o t o f p eople there. S om e p eople d id n ’t even get to go in. A lo t o f p eo p le d id get to see hihii, I barely saw him ..-H i's speeches are all th e sam e arid it’s th e sam e m essage all-th e tim e, b u t it’s really cool to see an ho n est candidate th a t w ants A m erica to im p ro v e /’ W alker said. “H e has been saying th e sam e message for 3 0 years a n d n o w it’s b ein g finally listened to.” “I like h o w I ’m going to be able to tru st w h en he.is in office w h en h e gets elected because he has 30 years o f th e track record. All o f th e o th e r politicians w e’ve h a d flip flop a lo t a n d th ey d o n ’t com e o u t an d d o w h at th ey are supposed to or w h at th ey say Q uinnW alker a n d Jennifer Raad th ey are going t o do. A t least he has m y vote because he is an C o m b in e d h e has greater suc h o n e s t candidate,” W alker said.- > | A lth o u g h O re g o n m ight- cess th e n o th e r R epublicans to se e m a p r e d o m in a n tly ; co m p e tè against O b a m a sirice 'D e m o c ra tic sta te , W alker1 h e has a greater influence o n believes Paul has a g o o d sh o t all o f th e g ro u p s o th e r th a n ju st in O reg o n . “T h e th in g ab o u t one,” W alker said. Jerisen, w h o is a first year R o n Paul is th a t h e attracts all o f th em ; h e ■ attracts in d ep en m u sic s tu d e n t a t C lackam as,, said w h at h e likes m o st ab o u t d en ts, a lo t o f D e m o c ra ts, P aul is ev ery th in g ecoriom i- a n d n o w a lo t o f R epublicans. cally. “I like h o w he talks a b o u t re tu rn in g to a gold sta n d erd w h ic h I th in k is im p o rta n t. T h a t is so m e th in g I have been advocating for for years, to; hear .a y p resid en tial ca n d id a te talk a b o u t so m e th in g th a t im p o rta n t I th in k is exciting,” Jensen said. W h ile being o u t o n th e over pass for. 10 m in u tes y o u can h ear at, least 10 plus cars, h o n k th eir h o rn s, Jensen said, “It m akes His ’W H S ' BU < WHHN wave Ron Paul signs on the 1-205 overpass in Clackamas. th ey wave, give a peace sign, w hatever y o u , know , it m akes m e feel like it’s all w o rth it.”v j As o f rig h t n o w th e g ro u p has 2 0 m em bers b u t o n ly five th a t m eet regularly. “W e could use som e m o re m em bers. I th in k a lo t o f w h a t Paul talks a b o u t b en efits th e y o u th a n d th a t’s w h y so m a n y o f us like h im . T h e fu tu re is k in d o f a big deal to all o f us,” Jensen said. A lth o u g h Paul m ig h t attra c t th e y o u th vo te h e also attracts, an o ld er g e n e ra tio n su c h as R aad. “A p olitician w h o is h o n est is kirid o f Unbelievable. H e is th e o n ly p o litician w h o I have c o n trib u te d to.” R aad also w a n ts to en co u rag e stu d e n ts th a t have any: in te re st th a t th ey are w elcom ed to check it o u t. time. I just get excited. I got a She encourages people to check out all the candidates and their few people to h o n k fro m th e freeway too. I f th ey d o n ’t h o n k v o tin g track records. “[D o n ’t] b lin d ly follow w h a t th e m ed ia 4 t-so ■» w orth it. I smile ev ery- Jan Jensen waves a t passing cars while holding a R on P aul banner on the 1-205 overpass in Clackamas. •Ì HI »Sk tells you.” T h e g ro u p w as p ro v id e d w ith stickers, p a m p h le ts a n d recru itin g p ap er fro m th e Paul cam p aig n . W alker said th a t by w earin g a sticker a n d b rin g in g u p Paul in classes, o th e r stu d e n ts have jo in e d th e group. H e is h o p in g to b u m p u p th a t n u m b e r to a 1 1 0 0 stu d e n ts before h e leaves to a four-year college. A lth o u g h th e g ro u p has o n ly m e t fo u r tim es, th ey plan to keep m éetin g a n d m ak in g m ofo plan s to get th e w o rd o u t. T h e y h o p e to sta rt tab lin g so o n so th a t th ey can spread th e w o rd o n cam pus. T h e g ro u p h as a F aceb o o k pag e ‘ C C C for R o n P aul” a n d m eets every T h u rs d a y at 3 p .m . a t Izzy’s P izza R e sta u ra n t . in T J re g o n City. You can contact Walker at qcw alker@ gm ail.com . BUDGET: College asks for staff input Continued from Page 1 Input and ideas from the staff may be considered by the Budget Committee but the C C C board o f education will have the final sore when it decides next ytar’s budget thus spring. T he tuition hike is pretty imminent along with these huge payments that need to be made. T he college will likely look to future hikes in these fees to supplement a bleak outlook in revenue sources The failure ol last years bond measure and the questionable possibility o f voters passing any future bonds make for difficult budget deci sions in the fururc However that financial,vote goes, Courtney Wilton, vice president o f college services and Elizabeth Lundy, vice president o f instructional services, seemed to project ' optimistic feelings that the college would be able to : the budget work, while satisfying the overall goals the college has to meet the needs ol students and sufl *Wu are a people business,” they both said at one point during the forum. Adam Hall, full umc Faculty Association President and C C C m ath instructor for 14 years, was at the budget forums and feels that the forums are a way to produc- rive discussion and input developed from but with a caveat. ‘W e need to get enough people there,” he said. Past forums have had more participants that resulted in a more dynamic discussion, according to Hall. “During past forums we had subst.tnn.dlv more participants Lets it, if were only getting ten to 30 to come, m at means d u t ¡is not going to be a wav to communicare to all staff fy,” he said. t Howley, chair o f the horticulture department, asked W ilton how die college would go about planning and passing a successful bona measure “W e went out last M ay and w e basically got killed,” W ilton said. “Its likely we are not going out for a new bond measure in the near future. W e could probably go out in a few years. Hopefully the environment will be better then.” In spite o f the hard budget decisions the college is 1 a productive discussion that t hearted and casual. There were many audience chuckles that were shared by the speakers even as serious issues and concerns were aired. : W ilton concluded the forum by reassuring the partici pants d u t the staffat die college was doing a gtxxl job in spite o f some tough circumstances. “We’d like to reaffirm the good job that 99 percent o f our employees are doing. We’v e got some issues we are going to have deal with,” he said, t don’t want people to e the worlds going to end.” Editors The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased and professionaI manner. 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