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Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR Volume 45, Issue 16 O e Clackamasfäitneö An independent, student-run newspaper since 1966 www.TheClackamasPrint.com W ednesday, M arch 14, 2012 COMING SOON! MUSIC TELEVISION9 Students have a chance to get “M ade” nplei sible through modern is' possible television. Thanks to M TV ’s .hit show, MADE, Clackamas Community College students have a chance to become the person they have always wanted to be .or wished they were, but can’t. MADE makes this all possible for those selected from among high school and. college' Students across the country. The show is coming to the college on Thursday, March 15 on a quest to find the right person to experience, a make over and potentially be on TV. M TV staff will be here to con duct interviews to find a poten tial candidate to be featured on the show; They will be in the. Com m unity Center in- CC 126 from 10 a.m? - 3 p.m. and questionnaires are ayaiL- able at the Associated Student Government office in C C I 52, Applicants must be 18 to 26 years. Contact ASG at 503- 594-3040, Tor more informa tion. Highway closure; CAR-POCOLYPSE fully closed, this project would take over a year to complete. Associate News Editor Although the road closure will be a hassle for motorists who It’s hard not to notice the use the road daily, in the long chunk of Cascade highway run the project seems very that has been under construc- beneficial. . tion for more than six months. (Nancy Kraushaar, Oregon Highway 213 is going to have City’s dty engineer and pub a full closure between March lic works director said, “The dates were selected based on 22 and 27. Thankfully the majority the contractors schedule and of Clackamas Community they just happen to fall on the College students won’t have spring break for CCC.” Kraushaar suggested that to worry about ¿hanging their commute, as the road sched drivers try to see the positive ule falls o n our spring break. • impacts o f the closure, but to An Oregon City contrac prepare an alternate route for tor will use the 10.4-hour clo when the time comes. sure to safely install a new six- lane bridge. If the road wasn’t Please see CLOSURE, Page 3 By Joshua Dillen College considers new $20 fee Associate News Editor later dec^ haunts Randall Hall By Chris Taylor Clackamas Print In 1572, Randall Hall was officially opened on campus, giving Clackamas our gym and basketball court, as well as more classrooms and a weight room. It was new and primed for use. Now 40 vears have passed and Randall Hall is looking a little worn and torn, with mainte nance ’ and upkeep striving to keep the building in the best condition it possibly can. T hat said Randall Hall has its prob lems. Randall Hall is a relatively John Carter - he’s no Nemo Page 4 old building that was built after Clairmont (1969) and Barlow (1970). McLoughlin was btlilt in the same year, making it and Randall the third and fourth oldest buildings on campus. “It is. one of the older Build ings, but it has aged well,” said Jim Martineau, athletic direc tor at Clackamas Community College. “It really has, with many improvements through out its history. “ Randall has-a rich history of athletics, and some o f which are sentimental, such as the fact that sbfne o f the benches by the base ball fields used to be the bleach ers in Randall. There’s also an announcers box that is no lon ger in use and was deemed haz ardous due to its height from the ground and itk age. The past’ArmproVementS to Randall include a fixed water heatei for the locker room, an upgraded1 concessions stand in 2009 and the new lights in the gym: Its biggest set of improve ments occurred during 2005, when Niemeyer Center was built. The new music and arts building meant moving al l o f the irtusic classiest 6iit of Rjahdall Hall. This week, the Clackamas Comm unity College Board o f Educatioryvill consider a few items that may affect the wallets o f students attending the college in the near future. A $2 hike per credit, a $20 service fee and: elimination of the “tuition corridor” are going to be considered. The college, is increasingly relying on these types of revenue to make up for dwindling state support in today’s -stagnant economy. These items will be presented again during April’s board m eeting for rec ommended approval. These are staff recommendations, . according to the agenda for tonight s meeting. The background informa tion from the agenda states these requests will ensure ipstruction and student ser- vices have the resources they need. . Even with these increases to. students’ education here, C C C will still be among the least expensive commu- nity colleges to attend in Oregon; If approved, the tuition here will be $79 per credit hour while Portland Community College is $82 and Mt. Hood Community College is $84-. PCC ’ also has a $19 general service fee that is the model for CGC’s proposed fee of $20. M H C C has a similar fee of $30. The fee would elimi nate current service based fees that include transcript requests and graduation related costs.Currently, each copy o f an; official transcript is $10 plus an additional fee o f $ 15 each for Taxed copies of transcripts. The tuition corridor is the money saving fee struc ture that charges students a flat rate o f $1,155 for 16-1S credits. The. staff has recom mended the elimination o f thecorridor. No matter how the meet ing goes, students will prob ably end up forking over m oit money next school year to further their educa tions. Please see RANDALL, Page 6 G raduation; m oney for n o th in g and robes* for free Page 3 Schedule o f Spring Sports Page 8
