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
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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
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«[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
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using early registration. T h e
resulting loads each term have
been a big factor in problems
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associated with the m idnight
scramble o f registering students.
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Kim Garey/ chief informa
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■MOOSSI
tion officer on campus, has
been working with Sprehe and
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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