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2 * a * Wednesday, May22,2013 P R IN T : News ASG election results: Breton, Escobedo prevail Brittany Horne News Editor The Associated Student Government election results were released on Friday! May 10, 2013. Options for voting were through myClackamas or a write in, although the write ins’ choice(s) cannot be revealed due to regula tions. They are as follows: For ASG President: • Erick Breton - 80 votes • Dean Wright - 70 votes • Six write in votes For ASG Vice President: • Susi Escobedo - 84 votes • Jamie Gibson - 39 votes • Jessica Valdivia - 37 votes • Two write in votes We were able to talk to the newly elected ASG President, Erick Breton. The Clackamas Print: Why do you think you won the election? Breton: I think definitely cam paigning had a lot to do with it, you get to advertise who you are. Helping around the school also, there’s a lot of people who remem ber me from events. TCP: How do you feel about it? Breton: Very excited, there’s a lot of new prospects for next year. TCP: Do you have any ideas or changes? Breton: I have a lot of ideas, but student involvement is definitely one that I want to focus orr. TCP: How do you feel about working with Susi? Breton: It’s definitely going to be fun, I know that for certain. There will be hard times, but she’s fun and energetic. Next, we were also able to ask Breton’s Vice President, Susi Escobedo, a few questions. TCP: Why do you think you won the election? Escobedo: It was definitely the people, my friends spreading the word for me. They’re very sup portive. TCP: How do you feel about it? Escobedo: I’m just so thank ful to all of them, they’re just so sweet. Cody Britt from the track team was helping me a lot, email ing people and on Facebook. TCP: Do you have any ideas or changes? Escobedo: I guess the biggest change that I’m going to be doing, I think the way that I encourage the team is going to be differ ent than it was this year, also the relationships between students and ASG. TCP: How do you feel about working with Erick? Escobedo: I’m so excited to ESCOBEDO work with him. I think we’re a per fect balance. I’m more outspo ken, more energetic and he’s more measured and very intellectual. As soon as the current ASG president and vice president graduate, Breton and Escobedo will take over their new positions. This is when they will start recruiting, interviewing, hiring and training for the coming year. Religion: Sold for nothing; no redemption without money The Clackamas P rin t aims to report the news in an honest, unbiased and professional <manner. Content published in The P rin t is not screened or subject to censorship. Continued from Page 1 Email comments, concerns or tips to chiefed@clackamas.edu or call us at 503-594-6266. The grievance procedure can be found on page 43 of the cur rent Full time Faculty Agreement. Reduction in force or lay off pro cedures can be found on page 54. The agreement can be found at 19600 Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045 w w w .c la c k a m a s .e d u . the consequences of a congres sional sequester that may shake up public budgets for years, higher education is still adjusting to dwindling state support. As a result, many colleges across the country and Oregon have turned to raising tuition and slashing curriculum in an attempt to make up for shrinking federal and state funds. Students at Clackamas get to feel this budget crunch this year in the form of higher tuition and less course offerings. The disci pline of religion is on the chop ping block and has resulted in the filing of a grievance regarding procedure when faculty is laid off. The classes have given many students an opportunity to explore religion while fulfill ing the general requirements for a transfer degree. They will no longer be available for serious Religious Studies students who are preparing for transfer to a theology school. Two prestigious spiritual higher education insti tutions in the area are George Fox University and University of Portland. Toebben said he currently has students from all over the Portland area who enroll in these sections. Potential theologians who need these classes will have to look elsewhere to fulfill the requirements of their educational path. Bill Briare, Dean of Arts and Sciences, is no stranger to th is. year’s round of budget issues. “Every budget cut we’ve had to make is difficult. I think it is sad that we’ve had to cut back on religious offerings,” Briare said. “To me it’s unfortunate the decline in state budget and the funding of education that have this effect on any of our pro grams.” According to data from www. oregon.gov, all community col- . journalism Adviser: g. 49* Melissa Jones melissaj@clackamas.edu E D IT O R S Co-Editor-in-Chiefs : Joshua Dillen & Anna Axelson chiefed@clackamas.edu hdh I % J! Editor: Brittany Home 2 newsed@c/ac/ramas.edu : " Editor: Breanna Craine aced@c/ac/tamas.edu Above, Brad Toebben, right, teaches History o f the New Testament. A ll six sections in the religious studies discipline have been cancelled at the college and Brad Toebben is losing his teaching position at CCC due to budget reductions. u ...ifs unfortunate that the decline in state budget and the funding o f education have this , effect on any o f our programs. ” Toebben said the eliminated classes were almost always close to full capacity, which is 30 or more— especially his two disS tance learning sections of R-210, which is World Religions. If each of the four credit courses had an average of 25 students, at the new tuition rate of $84 that translates to a potential loss of over $50,000 in tuition revenue. Angela Thorsell, 19, took Toebben’s World Religion class a year ago to fulfill her humanities Brad Toebben Religious Studies Instructor «»»«WfKW'iBaSiSWJK» leges in the 2007-09 biennium received $500 million collec tively. That number has fallen to $395 million for the 2011-13 biennium. During the same time periods, the amount of money received from the state for each fulltime enrolled student went from a high of $2,778 to $1,559., The same web page also states “Unfortunately, the impact of budget reductions facing colleges today will likely be addressed in two w ays:' program reductions and tuition increases.” It also points out that average statewide community college tuition has almost doubled in the last decade. -M b c o c <1 n > o I requirements. She is a Protestant and is not pursuing religious stud ies. Thorsell enjoyed the class and is sad to see it get eliminated. “I got so much information about the diversity of religions. 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