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ne wsed@clackamas.edu Wednesday, May 9, 2012 The Clackamas P r in tj Suident candidates run unopposed By Breanna Craine g stated Smythe in an email. T h e candidates for this year are D iana M uresan, w ho is ru n ning for president and Elizabeth T his tim e d f year is very Breton who is running foryice busy for the Associated Student president,, “I am excited to-build a new G overnm ent at Clackamas] C om m unity College. It’s almost team and getting people to run,” said ASG adviser, M indy election time. Every year the current ASG Brown. I T he k in d - o f people they officers elect officers fo r the next year., T hey find people willing look for to run ASG are people 1H w ork iong hours, trying to who are passionate about -lead make the C C C com m unity a ership and corrimitted to being fun place for people to be. ASG a part o f the ASG family. A provides childcare and textbook lot o f students who run have rants, snacks for a low price,- had previous student leadership ositions during high school or food drives, book exchanges efore. Student leadership* is' a and com m unity service p r b ^ great way to give' back to your ects. T he current vice president, com m unity and have fun while Ceili Smythe, is in charge o f the doing it. Being a president o r vice elections. resident takes a lot o f responsi- “M y favorite part o f working ility and time. Being president w ith ASG had to be our giving tree event which is basically a involves holding meetings dur seasonal gift-giving drive we put ing the week, keeping connec on each year. We’re able to give tions w ith other organizations a Christmas [gift] to children around the school. T he vice w ho w ouldn’t norm ally have president is in charge o f m aking one, and that is a great feeling,” sure all events run sm oothly and T h e C lac k am a s P rin t » queries during a Q & A session in the B ill Brod C om m unity Center. Elections are this week. m ost im portantly is in charge o f hiring all o f the m embers o f ASG and running the elections. Breton was thé stu d en t ambassador last year and isc ü r- rently the public affairs officer. She wants m ore responsibility w ith ASG. She has beep in lead ership since m iddle school and plans to be in leadership w hen she transfers schools after next year. Breton wants to attend W estern O regon University to study to be an elementary school teacher. T he voting is M ay 9 and 10. You can vote online at www.Clackamas.edu between 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. the next day. T he results" will be announced oil M ay 11. REGISTRATION: College implements new staggered time slots ..ContinuedfromPage 1 . ‘ Students use computers in the., lobby, o f Roger Rook H all tp access their information,on myClackamas.edu. has been that there is such a would sit at m y computer at surge o f students, trying so des o’clock midnight,” said Griffith, Sprehe said some students perately to get on at that point “ahd hit subm it and every single have h a d to wait an extra year and tim e [to register],” said’ time, the system would crash. ’ T he new way o f registering to complete their certificate or -’Carey. “Some students.even pre degree because the class needed load their classes, getting ready will not include any m idnight was filled by someone else. T he fo push the button right at m id time slots to register. Instead current o nline system may let night. T hat’s a lot-of load for any students with 80 or more com pleted credits will get to start students with few. credits get system.” ’ Jeremiah Griffith, 28, has registering Tuesday, May 22 at the same opportunity as, thpse w ith nearly all o f the credits been attending C G C for two 8 a.m. Those with 60-79 will needed to complete their degree years. H e is com pleting his have to w ait until noon the same program. To make things worse, certificate in automotive tech day. Each consecutive day that Sprehe explains that die m id nology and has had difficul- week will allow students their night beginning o f registration ties enrolling in the .necessary opportunity, to register depend does not . allow staffing -for ,the classes needed to, complete his- ing on how many credits they support that may be .needed studies. H e explained that he have completed. By Friday at when a student is not confident is attending C C C for another noon, open registration starts he,has completed the process. year because he -has not been for new students. Current stu- This may lead to a confused stu able to get .into classes that new , dents will receive personalized email notifications o f their regis dent showing up early the next students did. “I would fight to get into tration dates and times through ¿lay to sort out that confusion. “Because o f the way we do it, clashes. It’s a dog eat dog world. I their myClackamas account. now, lots o*f students get on at m idnight and watch it spin and spin and spin; it spins fpr so long ■ J E W S / «[actually times diem out,” said Sprehe. “Students don’t actually <B«U B D E H - B know that the system is register- ing^them ,, it’s T o’clock in the morning, and there’s no support P n te T im e Fdr them; it’s not a good system:”] Sprehe also added that these problems ' d id , n o t, arise until the recession contributed to an increase in ~ en rolled students 5 /2 2 using early registration. T h e resulting loads each term have been a big factor in problems 5 /2 3 3 0 - 3 ® associated with the m idnight scramble o f registering students. 5 /2 ^ Kim Garey/ chief informa 5 /2 4 ■MOOSSI tion officer on campus, has been working with Sprehe and W -S others at the college to imple m ent the new process at-CCC. O p e n r e io s t r a tio n te g in s She explains some , o f the issues involved with the m idnight reg- F r id a y J 5 n t M oon istration. “M y experience in the past
