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January 15, 2014 | www.TheBroadsideOnline.com | Vol. 61, Issue 7

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•COCCcostremainssecondlowestinstate,page6

•NursingprogramatCOCC“wideopen”tobothgenders,page7

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COCCmasterplannearingfinishScott GreenstoneThe Broadside

The current master plan gave the college the Campus Center, Or-

egon State University-Cas-cades, and more. What growth will the next one bring?

Since 1974, Central Or-egon Community College has implemented a new master plan approximately every ten years, according to Matt Mc-Coy, Vice President of Ad-ministration at COCC.

The last master plan, be-ginning in 2002, included

COCC’s campus center, the Cascades Culinary Institute, the Health Careers and Sci-ence buildings, the Manu-facturing and Applied Tech-nology Center in Redmond, the new Residence Hall, and many more buildings, McCoy said.

The current master plan was implemented around the time Dr. Jim Middleton be-came president of COCC, and will be almost complete when he resigns in June 2014.

“[The master plan] coin-cides with [Dr. Middleton’s] time here,” McCoy said. “He

has completed the vision of the college at this time.”

The master plan is a way to guide college administra-tion in making decisions with COCC’s future in mind, ac-cording to Middleton.

“A single decision might make sense on it’s own, but may not be the best choice from a broader perspective,” Middleton said. “It created a concept of what we wanted to do.”

See MASTERPLAN, page 4

CascadeCulinaryInstituteoverflowingwithstudents

Emily Frances KaleiThe Broadside

Cascade Culinary Institute is five years ahead of enrollment predictions.

New plans are being set in motion as an increase in student enrollment has filled Jungers Culinary Center nearly to its capacity, according to Chef Gene Fritz, the director and executive chef of the Cascade Culinary Institute.

See OVERFLOW, page 5

Junnelle HogenThe Broadside

Madras may be small, but this term, it’s see-ing more growth than ever. Central Oregon Community College’s Madras campus re-

cently reported record-breaking enrollment: At the start of winter term, 201 students are already signed up for classes, which is the largest number since the start of the branch, according to Courtney Snead, Madras campus coordinator.

See MADRAS,page 3

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Meetthestudentschoosingthecollege’snextpresident,page4

COCC’sdiscgolfteamviesforfirstplace,page14

Penceartexhibitshowcasesinteractiveart,page11

▲ After over 10 years and many expan-sions and new buildings, the COCC master plan is moving into a new phase, according to Matt McCoy, COCC’s vice president of administration.

Photo by Vera Holiday | The Broadside

EDITOR-IN-CHIEFScott Greenstone

MANAGING EDITORAndrew Greenstone

ASSISTANT EDITORMolly Svendsen

BUSINESS MANAGERPaul Ericson

MULTIMEDIA EDITORJeremy Pierce

NEWS EDITORJunnelle Hogen

FEATURES EDITORRosalinda Corning

A&E EDITOREmily Frances Kalei

PHOTOGRAPHY EDITORVera Holiday

REPORTERSCynthia Pacheco

PHOTOGRAPHERS Perla Jaimes

PAGINATORSNoah Hughes

ADVISORLeon Pantenburg

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Scott GreenstoneThe Broadside

After 20 years, the college may be changing the way student fee money is used--news that comes none too soon for The Broadside. The fact is, the current way

the student activity fee is allocated could potentially jeopardize the newspaper’s free speech.

In this week’s article “Controversial student activity fee under scrutiny” (page 9), we talk about the history of the student activity fee--which you pay $1.50 per credit toward every term, by the way.

For years, this fee money has been the cause of “factions in student government,” according to Alicia Moore, dean of students, because the revenue is given to the Associated Students of Central Oregon Community College and ASCOCC allocates it to The Broadside, sports, and clubs.

As of Jan. 7, the student fee task force is recommending that student fees be allocated separately to sports, The Broadside, and student government. This would change the current funding model, where each program submits a budget to the ASCOCC every year and gets approved--or not.

The double-bind this creates for The Broadside is fairly obvious. For years, the question with student government coverage has always been: “How does The Broadside fairly cover an organization that determines its funding in such a huge way?”

The answer is ‘not easily.’ Even though The Broadside currently maintains a

professional, friendly relationship with ASCOCC this year, there have been times in the past where we’ve disagreed with student government on what a fair representation of the truth is. Sometimes, we’ve felt the repercussions of that in our budget.

If the Board of Directors follows the task force’s recommendations, a huge weight will drop off my shoulders and it will save future Editors-in-Chief days and nights of worry. There’s still a ways to go until that happens, and a lot of feedback to be given. The Broadside is very interested in making sure the numbers used to build the allocation are fair, both to us and the sports program.

For all intents and purposes, though, the college is on the right track.

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Your student fees are on their way to a fairer future

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Students add perspective to presidential screening committee

Molly SvendsenThe Broadside

Two of your classmates are helping choose the col-lege’s next president. Work-

ing with other members of the committee, the students will work on a volunteer basis to help screen applicants for the future president of Central Oregon Community College, Alicia Moore,dean of stu-dents at COCC, told The Broad-side in an article published on Oct. 9, 2013.

“It’s extremely important when hiring a new president to have stu-dent voice involved,” Moore said.

The board looked for students who had previously demonstrated leadership at COCC and who were familiar with the issues facing stu-dents.

Amber RuediAmber Ruedi believes her cur-

rent student involvement will al-low her to bring student concerns and perspectives to the presidential screening committee. Ruedi is cur-rently the director of Student Af-fairs with the Associated Students of Central Oregon Community College and serves on the diversity committee at COCC.

"I'll be able to bring past expe-rience from being on hiring com-mittees and also just bring the

student perspective and student concerns to the committee,” Ruedi said. "This is a wonder-ful opportunity to expand my support for the college and the community.”

Ruedi believes it is im-portant that the future COCC president be there for students while keeping the community informed.

"I feel that the new president should make themselves acces-sible to the student body and be an advocate for students in the community and beyond,” Ruedi said. "I would want to see some-one who is transparent as ap-propriate, sharing enough infor-mation with all concerned that everyone gets information they need on a need to know basis."

Lawrence AllenLawrence Allen has a special

interest in the future of Central Oregon Community College. Allen was one of the students chosen to sit on the presidential search committee for the next COCC president and he has daughters, nieces, and nephews who he hopes will attend COCC in the future.

“This is a way to make a small footprint here at the cam-pus,” Allen said. “It’s a great way to be involved in making this campus everything it can be for future students.”

Allen moved from Tennessee in 1997 and is working on the pre-requisites for the nursing program. He hopes having students on the screening committee will help bring awareness to student per-spectives.

“They have a lot of staff and administration on the board who all want specific things out of a president,” Allen said. “As stu-dents, we can add the perspec-tive of someone who is paying to go to school.”

Allen was involved in stu-dent government during high school and said it is “an honor”

to be a part of the presidential search committee. He believes it is important that the future president be focused on help-ing students on all campuses succeed.

“It would be great to have someone focused on having the

campuses mesh together,” Allen said. “Obviously it is important to have someone concerned about the budget and someone who is community friendly and who truly values education.”

(Contact: [email protected])

This is a way to make a small footprint here at the campus. It’s a great way to be involved in making this campus everything it can be for future students.”

-Lawrence Allen,COCC student

▲Amber Ruedi, director of student affairs with ASCOCC ▲Lawrence Allen, COCC student

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MASTER PLAN, from page 1

The vision of the collegeThe master plan’s vision deals

in generalities, not details, ac-cording to Dr. Middleton, and it has to be able to adapt to the times.

“You want some general guid-ance but you want some flexibil-ity,” Middleton said. “Get close enough so that it identifies your thinking but not so close it’s a straight jacket.”

When the master plan was outlined in 2002, the college was half the size it is today, according to McCoy. This changed the plan drastically.

“The thinking was incremen-tal growth,” McCoy said. “We had massive growth.”

For instance, the master plan identified a need for a science and allied health building, but when the plans were drawn up the building would have been “like an aircraft carrier,” accord-ing to McCoy.

“So we split it into two build-ings--Science and Health Ca-reers,” McCoy said.

Also, when the master plan was decided upon in 2002, it was believed that OSU-Cascades’ campus would be at COCC for longer than 12 years.

“We originally planned to build four buildings for OSU-Cascades,” McCoy said, “but

they decided to move. ...So if we get Cascades Hall, we’ll turn it into a student success center and move the testing and tutoring fa-cilities out of the basement of the library.”

“This feels like a university”What about the next master

plan? At this stage, little is certain, according to McCoy, but he wants part of it to address the first impres-sion at COCC.

It’s a possibility in the future that the City of Bend would gift College Way to COCC, and if so, McCoy has many ideas for it.

Those ideas include put-ting kiosks at both ends of the college so that visitors could stop, get a map and a friendly “Welcome to COCC,” and ask where they need to go.

“Right now, when you drive in to the school, there’s no feel-

ing of ‘now I’m at COCC,’” Mc-Coy said. “This could change that.”

First impressions are very im-portant for visiting students, ac-cording to McCoy.

“We have a lot of people coming here saying this feels like a univer-sity,” McCoy said. “We want that.”

When the new president is elected, he won’t be changing the plan drastically, according to Dr. Middleton. The president doesn’t

author or even have that much in-put into the plan: He or she is there to “support quality process.”

“It’s more important we make the right decision than make my de-cision,” Middleton said. “The presi-dent may start with ‘x or y sounds like a good idea’ but the real goal is to to stimulate creativity and in-volvement.”

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▲ Signs were plentiful at Gun Appreciation Day in Hartford where gun owners and enthusiasts showed their support of the Second Amendment in Hartford, Connecticut, on January 19, 2013. (Rick Hartford/Hartford Courant/MCT)

MADRAS, from page 1

Gina Ricketts, the Native American program coordinator for COCC, believes the high numbers are partly due to an increase of students from the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs.

“[The Madras campus] is a twenty minute drive rather than an hour drive from Warm Springs to Bend,” Ricketts said. “So that means that all those students can just stay in Madras. Which is a huge help in time, in gas money, in scheduling and everything.”

The convenience is attractive to more than the students from Warm Springs. The campus fills a need for people all around Jefferson County, said Snead.

“I think for a lot students, transportation is a challenge,” Snead said. “And many of them are balancing home and work and school. So to be able to take classes close to home is a definite help.”

Looking back at the initiation of the branch, COCC’s Madras presence has seen continued growth. When the campus opened in the fall of 2011, 91 students were enrolled. Last quarter, 184 students signed up for classes. And as of winter quarter, there was a 10.4 percent increase.

Part of the upward trend is also due to academic programs. The campus is continuing to expand the classes available, according to Ricketts, who is also on the Jefferson County Education District Board.

“At the Madras campus right now you can get eighty percent of your AAOT [Associate of Arts Oregon Transfer degree] completed,” Ricketts said. “That means that for eighty percent of their classes, [students] can stay here.”

Starting this quarter, the Madras campus has added more classes necessary for students to earn their degree. Courtney

Snead, the Madras campus coordinator, thinks this has already evoked a positive response.

“This is the first term that we’re offering an arts and letters class,” said Snead. “And so for the art class we have, Art 131, it’s the first time we’ve offered it, and we’ve got five students on the waitlist. That’s the largest waitlist we’ve ever had.”

For the future, Snead is working within the branch to continue the trend of expansion, both with students and classes available. Her hope is to allow those enrolled at the Madras branch to finish their AAOT degrees on campus.

“The only classes that are really missing are science classes,” Snead said. “So once we get some of those scheduled, that will bump us up to 100 percent.”

Meanwhile, Snead thinks the feel on campus will continue to interest new students. The Madras campus can boast a large diversity of ethnic backgrounds, with significant percentages of Hispanic and Native American nationalities participating. Also, Snead hopes the smaller feel of the campus will continue to foster a community perspective.

“I try as much as I can to get to know the students really well, so everyone feels really comfortable,” Snead said. “I think that really helps students want to come back. I think we’ll continue to see Madras retain and then bring on students because of that atmosphere.” (Contact: [email protected])

▲Students enter Madras Education Center on the first week of class. Madras campus has seen a 10.4 percent increase winter term.

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By Bill SchacknerPittsburgh Post-Gazette

(MCT)PITTSBURGH--One side called it naive to think that keeping guns away will make Pennsylvania’s state-owned universities safer.The other side could hardly have disagreed more, asking how effec-tively professors can teach if they suspect someone in class is armed.But Thursday, as the Pennsylva-nia System of Higher Education announced an indefinite delay in setting a new weapons policy, both sides seemed at least to find common ground in their belief the policy as drafted is flawed, either because it is too restrictive or is not restrictive enough.Word of the delay came at a hearing in Harrisburg, streamed live online, to gauge public sentiment about the controversial policy.As recommended by a system task force, the policy would bar offen-sive weapons including firearms from buildings, sporting events and outdoor gatherings, plus all other “sensitive areas” across the 14 uni-versities. They include the Western Pennsylvania campuses of Califor-nia, Clarion, Edinboro, Indiana and Slippery Rock universities.The system’s board of governors was to vote Jan. 23.

However, even before the first speaker was introduced, Chancellor Frank T. Brogan acknowledged that complex sentiments on a topic that has sparked controversy and legal battles nationally necessitated tak-ing more time.He said leaders “have a responsibil-ity to look at the unfolding legalities surrounding this issue.”The vote “will not be in January,” spokesman Kenn Marshall later confirmed. “No date (is) scheduled at this point.”State system officials have said they want a policy ready for the 2014-15 academic year. The schools enroll 112,000 students.State police data show system schools have 70 percent fewer se-rious crimes than the state average, and that weapon use, including fire-arms, “are among the lowest of all incidents reported,” according to the system.Two dozen attended the hearing at the system’s headquarters. Others submitted written comments.Among them was John Lee, presi-dent of the Pennsylvania Rifle and Pistol Association. He said studies do not support the notion that cre-ating additional “gun-free” zones improves safety.“Common sense, if such a thing exists in today’s ‘political correct’ society, would also speak to the fal-

lacy of ‘gun free zones,’” he wrote. “If you were to plan to murder a large number of people, where would you go to do the ‘dirty deed’? Need I answer that question?”Those seeking a total campus ban, among them faculty, students and groups advocating against gun vio-lence, called the policy unenforce-able and so vague it could invite the very court challenges the system hoped to avoid by allowing guns in open spaces, including parking lots.Weapons would further escalate confrontations and are not advis-able where alcohol and youth are in abundance, they said. One asked if metal detectors in campus buildings would be installed.Steve Hicks, a professor and president of the Association of Pennsylvania State Col-lege and University Facul-ties, said the educational dynamic changes when a professor suspects a student in class is armed.He said campuses “are filled with minors who are sup-posed to be protected from the dangers” of weapons, including freshmen under 18, high school students in advanced placement courses and those at campus and other events.“The only acceptable policy is

one that bans the carrying of guns in all areas unless by a security officer or authorized personnel,” he said.“The myth that an armed campus community will be safer must be rejected for what it is: a ploy by the gun lobby to expand the right to carry concealed firearms into sensi-tive areas,” wrote Shira Goodman, executive director of CeaseFire Pa., a coalition of mayors, police chiefs, faith leaders, community organi-zations and individual Pennsylva-nians against gun violence.A number of state system universi-ties previously had outright campus bans, even in open spaces, but mod-ified the rules after attorneys for the state system in 2011 advised those

schools that total bans were not le-gally enforceable.The lawyers offered their advice after individuals, including at least one student, challenged existing campus rules, officials said.About half the state system schools, including Edinboro, California and Slippery Rock universities, modi-fied their policies to ones closer to what is now proposed.

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OVERFLOW, from page 1“Currently, we have 200 stu-

dents enrolled in the program,” Fritz said.

Because CCI is a program offered through Central Oregon Community College, the culi-nary program does not have the “privilege to have a selective process” when admitting student applicants, according to Fritz. If a student meets the minimum

math and writing requirements, they are allowed into the pro-gram. This admissions process and the esteemed reputation of the Cascade Culinary Institute has led to this sudden increase of student enrollment in the pro-gram.

“We want to provide qual-ity education over quantity of students,” Fritz explained, “We want to be a boutique-style, high-quality education facility.”

Because of the growth in the program the current culinary building, Jungers, lacks storage space and sufficient areas for faculty members. Currently, five instructors are sharing one of-fice space, and as enrollment in-creases at CCI and more instruc-tors are estimated to be hired, the number of instructors to office ratio will rise, according to Fritz.

“First we would like fac-ulty to have a safe area where

students can meet with staff privately,” Fritz said. “We also need student space to allow col-laborative learning among stu-dents.”

Faculty members are not the only ones who are expressing their concerns about the effects of the growing enrollment on Jungers Culinary Center. Culi-nary students like Gabriela Can-dia are feeling the restrictions of the overtaxed facilities.

“They only have 80 [lock-ers], and they are all taken up right now. So it’s kind of like, ‘where do I put my stuff?’” Can-dia explained. “I could go to my car, but what if I need something right then for class?”

Candia also expressed her concern about the faculty offices in Jungers Culinary Center.

“I needed to talk to Chef Dar-win earlier in the term about some things and there were four other people in there and I am sit-ting towards the wall, mumbling to Chef Darwin,” Candia said. “It is kind of uncomfortable.”

Though future plans for ex-pansion are being discussed, there are currently no set plans for moving forward, according to Fritz.

“I don’t blame the college,” Fritz said. “We just grew faster than we expected.”


▲The Cascades Culinary Institute has already outgrown Junger’s Culinary Center in storage space and faculty facilities.

▲The average class size at CCI is 16 students to a class. ▲200 students are enrolled at the Cascades Culinary Institute.Photos by Vera Holiday | The Broadside


featuresIn flipped classrooms, students watch lectures at home and come to class to do homework

Rosalinda CorningThe Broadside

What if the current vehicle of learning was flipped upside

down, and student success rates went up because of it? This concept is what Central Oregon Community College chemistry instructor Zelda Ziegler has been putting into practice with her students since 2006 in the form of a flipped classroom.

This style of learning is an educational model in which students listen to the lecture on their own and come to class to do their homework with the professor’s guidance.

“It always starts out the same way,” Ziegler said. “It goes through a little resistance and then [students] start realizing how much they understand--the quality of conversations are better and there’s very little sitting and passively listening.”

In a flipped classroom setting, there is more accountability than in a

standard class because students are expected to watch the lecture and do supplemental reading before they come to class, Ziegler explained. In class, students then receive assistance working out problems and understanding any concepts they have difficulty with.

“I feel like using class time for sitting through boring lectures isn’t a good use of my time as a student,” said Nick Bozilov, a first-time student in one of Ziegler’s winter term chemistry classes. “I really like the independent learning [the flipped classroom offers] and working through the material in groups.”

The most important part of this approach to learning is the guided inquiry, Ziegler said. To make this approach work, the course uses a workbook that asks students questions that prompt them through the learning cycle, similar to what a tutor would do.

“[Students] have to develop their own model for looking at the information that’s there,

and then apply it,” Z i e g l e r s a i d . “ T h i s completes t h e l e a r n i n g cycle, which is to explore, generate a concept and then apply it.”

This is a different approach to learning than most classes at COCC, but statistics show that it is working. The shift in Ziegler’s classroom to what is called Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning caused a seven percent increase in passing grades and a lower dropout rate for the course.

At the end of a year of general chemistry, students take a 70-question standardized national exam from the American Chemical Society. In 2007, Ziegler’s students, who learned using a traditional classroom model,

landed in the 25th percentile of the national average on this exam. The lowest score in 2007 was a 13. After using the POGIL approach, the lowest score was a 20, and the average of student scores in 2011 increased to the 44th percentile.

This approach, in addition to increasing test scores, better prepares students for a workplace they may experience after graduation, Ziegler said.

“I think the word on the street is that

[lectures] aren’t as valuable as people think they are; in fact, Harvard has devalued their lectures to the extent that they put them online for free,” Ziegler said. “I don’t know any work situation where sitting passively and taking notes is going to get you paid.”(Contact: [email protected])

COCC cost remains second lowest in state

Molly SvendsenThe Broadside

Students at Central Oregon Community College pay the second

lowest tuition and fee rates in Oregon.

COCC has remained below the state average for in-district tuition and fees since 2003-04, according to the 2013-14 annual in-district tuition and fees data.

“The college has made many good financial decisions

over the years that have limited costs and help keep tuition and fee rates low,” said Ron Paradis, COCC director of student relations.

For students taking an average of 15 credits a term, the one term cost at COCC

is $4,226 c o m p a r e d to the state a v e r a g e of $4,535. C l a c k a m a s C o m m u n i t y College retains the lowest c o m b i n e d tuition and fees in Oregon with one term costing $4,133.

The COCC Board of Directors is committed to m i n i m i z i n g

costs to students while keeping the same level of quality of instruction, according to Kevin Kimball, COCC’s chief financial officer.

“It is crucial to balance maintaining minimum student tuition and fees and maintaining the quality of education offered here,” Kimball said. “Something the board looks at is if we increase tuition by one dollar, how do we in turn improve student success?”

COCC is supported largely through property taxes. Currently more than one-third of COCC’s funding is from local property taxes, Paradis explained. The average of revenue from property taxes for other Oregon community colleges is 22 percent.

“As a result, COCC has tried to maintain a lower tuition rate for those students

who live within the district,” Paradis said.

To assist in keeping in-district tuition rates low, COCC has higher out-of-district and out-of-state tuition rates. Most other Oregon community colleges have the same tuition rate for both in-district and out-of-district students, Paradis explained.

COCC also has lower fees than are assessed at most of the other community colleges.

“In particular, COCC students have limited the amount of self-imposed fees,” Paradis said. “COCC’s self-imposed student fee is $1.50 per credit for student fee and $.25 per credit for green energy.”



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Emily Frances KaleiThe Broadside

When nursing student Jordan Good walked

into a pre-school with two of his female classmates, the pre-kindergarten kids asked him if he was the doctor and they were the nurses.

“These kids are three to five [years old],” Good said, “which shows the stigma still surrounding the profession.”

Nursing is a profession that doesn’t discriminate against those who wish to pursue a future in this field, whether they are a man or a woman, according to Michelle Decker, director of Central Oregon Community College’s nursing program.

“Culturally, [nursing] is still seen as a woman-dominated field,” Decker

said. “A nurse is a nurse. It doesn’t matter your gender. This is my twenty-fifth year teaching, and I have always had men in my classroom.”

Over 20 percent of students enrolled in the nursing program at COCC are men, according to Decker.

In both the COCC nursing program and the nursing staff at Saint Charles Health Care there are students and nurses of both genders.

“At the hospital there are male nurses on every floor,” Good said.“That is encouraging.”

After experiencing personal medical problems, Good decided to pursue a career in nursing. He left the engineering program at Oregon State University and returned to his hometown of Bend to apply for the nursing

program at COCC.“It was actually a good

experience because it changed my path,” Good said. “The nurses were the ones who affected my care the most…they made me want to go into nursing.”

Three years later, Good is now a full-time student in COCC’s nursing program. He is the president of the nursing club and said he is satisfied with his decision to change his career focus.

“I’ve been really happy with the program,” Good said, “The facilities are great, the class atmosphere is awesome, and the instructors are encouraging.”

Working closely with Saint Charles Medical Center in Bend, COCC’s nursing program is able to provide students the opportunity to apply skills learned in

the classroom to real-life situations. Students have clinicals two days a week at Saint Charles Medical Center in addition to lectures on COCC’s campus.

In the spring, Good and other nursing students will be able to experience the “capstone program,” where students will work full-time alongside a nurse at Saint Charles Medical Center for five weeks. They will work long hours, face difficult situations, and get a taste for what their lives will be like after their education is completed.

“Nursing is such a great profession,” Decker said. “It provides amazing opportunities, great wages, great pay, and it is open to men and women.”


Nursing program at COCC is ‘wide open’ to both genders

Jordan Good, president of the nursing club, is one of the many male students in the COCC nursing program

Photo by Vera Holiday | The Broadside


Controversial student activity fee under scrutinyAfter twenty years, the college takes another look at how student fees are dispersed


The student activity fee, a source of controversy for 20 years, is made up of your money--$1.50 for every credit. The fee currently goes every year to

the Associated Students of Central Oregon Community College, which allocates it to sports, The Broadside student newspaper, and clubs, according to Alicia Moore, dean of students at COCC.

“Historically, the fee was passed in 1994 for student health care and student activities,” Moore said in a meeting with student government on Jan. 7. “Healthcare became too expensive, so the fee reverted to just student activities.”

Every year, The Broadside and sports submit budgets to ASCOCC and receive budget funding. The Broadside gets more than 60 percent of its budget from this money, and sports receives a critical ten percent.

Critical for sports, because it provides the money for the sports program to give students field experience, according to Bill Douglass, director of

sports and recreation at COCC.“[The student activity fee] contributes generally

around $20,000 a year to sports,” Douglass said. “That $20,000 is actually operating money, whereas most of our budget is fixed.”

The money allows the teams to compete in leagues and pays for equipment.

“The students would really be impacted if it wasn’t there,” Douglass said.

The criticality of the money to The Broadside and sports has caused the two programs to have to compete for funds in the past, Moore said.

“It’s actually caused factions in ASCOCC,” Moore said, “because you had huge supporters of club sports who wanted to give more money to club sports, and huge supporters of The Broadside who wanted to give more money to them.”

In spring 2013, a student fee task force was put together to scrutinize the allocation of all student fees, including late tuition fees and technology fees. Moore and Gordon Price, director of student life, are both on this task force, as well as Matt McCoy, vice president for administration,

and Ron Paradis, director of college relations.

“Over the years the concern has been that… personal bias could have influenced the decisions and allocation of funds,”

Price said.The task force is recommending the

college change the system so that each year, sports and The Broadside get separate funds, and the rest go to ASCOCC, according to Moore. This will not only remove the effect of any biases in student government, but also allow the two programs to plan further ahead fiscally.

“Because it was distributed by student government,” Paradis said, “It caused a potential conflict and made it difficult to go from year to year with so much uncertainty.”

The task force also recommends that the college removed the credit cap from the fee. Currently, if a student is enrolled in more than 12 credits, the fee is no different than if they were enrolled in 12. This would generate “approximately $19,000 additional dollars based on 2012-13 enrollment,” according to the task force’s summary of recommendations.

The task force will present their recommendation to the College Affairs committee at a date to be determined, and if it passes there, College Affairs will send it on to the COCC Board of Directors for the final decision.

The main purpose of the changes are to make the fee more equitable and understandable for students, whatever that looks like, according to Price.

“We’re going to be streamlining the process,” Price said. “It’s discussion time.”




Controversial student activity fee under scrutiny

college change the system so that each year, sports and The Broadside get separate funds, and the rest go to ASCOCC, according to Moore. This will not only remove the effect of any biases in student government, but also allow the two programs to plan further ahead fiscally.

“Because it was distributed by student government,” Paradis said, “It caused a potential conflict and made it difficult to go from year to year with so much uncertainty.”

The task force also recommends that the college removed the credit cap from the fee. Currently, if a student is enrolled in more than 12 credits, the fee is no different than if they were enrolled in 12. This would generate “approximately $19,000 additional dollars based on 2012-13 enrollment,” according to the task force’s summary of recommendations.

The task force will present their recommendation to the College Affairs committee at a date to be determined, and if it passes there, College Affairs will send it on to the COCC Board of Directors for the final decision.

The main purpose of the changes are to make the fee more equitable and understandable for students, whatever that looks like, according to Price.

“We’re going to be streamlining the process,” Price said. “It’s discussion time.”


STUDENT ACTIVITY FEE REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES

Graphic by Noah Hughes | The Broadside


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The Broadside’s stories of 2013The Broadside

Textbook theft last year reached $150,000

Over one thousand textbooks were stolen from the COCC bookstore during the 2012-2013 academic year , accord-ing to Ron Paradis, COCC director of College Relations. This amounted to $150,000 worth of textbooks and led the bookstore to reconfigure their checkout process by putting books behind checkout counters at the back. With

this new model, employees will retrieve the books and students bring their class schedules.

Mahatma Gandhi’s grandson speaks

The grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, Arun Gandhi, came to the COCC campus on Feb. 20 to discuss his grandfather’s teachings. This was part of the campus’ fifth annual Season of Nonviolence. By coming to COCC, Gandhi’s hope is that his

message will resonate with the younger generation. “You are the leaders of the world; you are going to inherit this world,” Gandhi said.

“It will be up to you to make a change, and make it a better world.”

James Middleton, president of COCC, to retire

On April 15, Jim Middleton, the president of COCC, announced that he will be retiring June 2014. Middleton is the fourth COCC president in the college’s 63 years of operation. Since that time, the college has organized a presidential screening committee to search for the next president. “We appreciate Dr. Middleton’s many years of service to

community colleges and particularly COCC,” said Bruce Abernethy, chair of the COCC board of directors.

Hit and run at Campus Center

On Jan. 24, a hit and run at COCC resulted in two arrests and damage to the Campus Center entrance. The vehicle was traveling northbound on College Way, veered onto the wrong side of the road, and struck a parked motorhome

before jumping the curb and running into the east side entrance of the Campus Center.Bend Police arrested Todd Marshall and Velma Reyes on the scene, according

to Bend Police Records Division. Marshall was charged with hit and run, criminal mischief, recklessly endangering, reckless driving and a probation violation. Reyes was charged with hindering prosecution and interfering with a police officer.

A visit from Gandhi’s grandson, a tuition hike, and a hit and run were just a few of the big headlines in 2013. Join us as we take a look at some of the biggest headlines from last year.

COCC tuition increases by six percent

Starting summer 2013, COCC tuition increased by $5 for in-district tuition. The increase was due in part to an increase in basic costs to maintain the college as well as the addition of several full-time faculty positions.There is no direct link between the decrease in enrollment and the increase in tuition rates, Ron Paradis told The Broadside in an article

published on May 7.“Enrollment rates and tuition increases are not tied together directly,” Paradis said. “Enrollment is slightly down this year,

but tuition and enrollment don’t really cross.”

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Hit and run accident was literally on campus

COCC Bookstore reported record thefts

COCC president, James Middleton

Arun Gandhi spoke to students about his grandfather’s teachingsBroadside stock photos

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Installation exhibit encourages interaction

Student artists assisted sculpture and 3D design instructor William Cravis in combining

graphic design with the elements of nature. The art exhibit was displayed at Central Oregon Community College in the Pence Art Gallery during the final weeks of fall term. Viewers stepped through a graphic cardboard arch and into an artistic experience that heightened the senses as they enjoyed the exhibit with their eyes and ears.

▲Patterns of woven string created geometric designs around the veiwers of the installation.Photos by Noah Hughes | The Broadside

▲ Using highligher markers, viewers were encouraged to draw on the cardboard walls, illuminated by black-light.

▲COCC art instructor Paula Bullwinkel led several students through the space and sounds of the exhibit.

▲This portal acted as a boundary to another space with sounds generated by footfalls of the viewers.

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clubs & sportsBobcat disc golf team, currently second-ranked in state, raising money for nationals


For a price tag of up to $5,000, the Bobcat disc golf team can buy

a chance at being in the top rankings nationwide. Central Oregon Community College’s disc golf team is currently the second-ranked in Oregon and thirty-second in nationals, ac-cording to Justin Bringhurst, disc golf team president.

“$5,000 will cover the en-tire trip [to Augusta, South Carolina],” Bringhurst said.

“We’re trying to get sponsor-ships from local companies and doing fundraising to reach it.”

This money will cover the cost for four team members and their coach, Zoey Andyke. Andyke, who is also the coach for the fledgling Oregon State University-Cascades disc golf team and a two-time Oregon State disc golf champion, has taught disc golf clinics up and down the Oregon and Califor-nia coast.

“I strongly believe our COCC boys have a chance at a national championship,” An-dyke said. “I can’t believe the

improvements made by all the team members [this year].”

If the team raises enough, it will be the second time they go to the national championships since the team began.

“Last year, we started up and immediately competed well at state,” said team member and fundraising coordinator Preston McKinney. “We qualified for the Northwest Collegiate and competed against teams from Canada all the way to Hum-boldt County [California].”

The team petitioned the As-sociated Students of COCC for money to help them get to the performance.

“ASCOCC filled the gaps and made sure we made it,” McKinney said.

This year, the only new member is Travis Roehl, who has played disc golf for years and finds the community re-freshing.

“I know people from every single state from disc golf,” Roehl said. “People who would sleep on their couch and let me sleep in their bed if I had to crash.”

The sense of community and camaraderie comes from how small and devoted the fanbase is, with around forty to fifty thousand players world-

wide, according to Roehl and the Professional Disc Golf As-sociation.

“It’s such a small communi-ty that everybody knows some-body that knows somebody,” Roehl said.

There are currently eight schools in Oregon with disc golf teams, and of those, only University of Oregon’s has a higher ranking than COCC.

“Disc golf is worldwide one of the fastest growing sports,” Andyke said. “It’s developing into a sophisticated sport like golf.”


▲Disc golf club president Justin Bringhurst throws his disc at the Disc Golf national championships in 2012.

▲COCC’s disc golf club is currently ranked second in Oregon, behind University of Oregon, and 32nd in the nation.

▲Last year, ASCOCC “filled in the gaps” and helped the disc golf club get to nationals. This year, they’re trying to raise $5,000 so they can do it again.

Photos submitted by Preston McKinney


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