VOLUME 46, ISSUE 31 JUNE 3, 2011

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By Jordan TichenorThe Advocate

While students celebrate the end of the year and faculty celebrate the resolution of the year-long contract negotiations, the three full-time faculty librarians are not so chipper.

As of July 1, they will no longer have a job, as layoff notices issued at the beginning of April are honored.

The three faculty librarians are Anna Johnson (who has been at MHCC for six years), Julia Longbrake (nine years) and Teresa Hazen (11 years). The library also has four part-time librarians.

“A lot of people think that when the contract negotiations were settled, the notices went away,” said Johnson.

Layoff notices were given to seven faculty members, including all three faculty librarians, on April 1. The notices were one in a series of actions by the administration in order to close what is projected to be over a $5 million budget shortfall.

Of the seven faculty members who received notices, four are be-ing laid off, one is retiring at the end of spring term, and two are being reassigned.

Sue Boulden, medical assisting program director, is the fourth fac-ulty member being laid off.

“It’s so personally diffi cult,” said Hazen.Asked if they (the librarians) were taking any action in response to

the layoff notices, Hazen said, “We’re limited to a narrow grievance procedure.”

The librarians began a grievance procedure April 4. They are waiting for MHCC President John Sygielski to review it, which should take place next week, Johnson said. If action is not taken at that step, the librarians and the administration will make their case to an outside arbitrator, who will ultimately make a decision.

MHCC Faculty Association President Sara Williams has said that the librarians being laid off is of great concern to the faculty. Some in the faculty view it as the next big point of contention, following the resolution of the full-time contract.

There has been concern with whether the layoffs are actually due to budget cuts.

“I have concerns about how accurate that is,” said Longbrake, pointing out that the Learning Commons Division, which includes the library, has had its budget increased by $187,000.

Jeff Ring, the director of library services, said in a Wednesday email that this was due to increased funding for tutoring.

Asked whether the librarians would be replaced, Ring said, “The plan is to hire two professional librarians for 12-month contracts at about half the cost. In all cases, we are confi dent that the library will be adequately staffed to support the college community.”

While the librarians could not answer whether the loss of three full-time librarians would affect college accreditation, all three said it is likely the accreditation agency would make some note of the change.

On the other hand, Ring said, “Accrediting agencies take no stance on the faculty/staff status of librarians. Accrediting agencies look for evidence of having professionally trained staff employed to support student success.”

While it is hard to fi nd a defi nitive answer on the importance of staffi ng in accreditation, it was suggested during a 1997 accreditation visit that the library should “increase its staff.”

The last accreditation visit was in 2007, during which there were no suggestions of change given to the library, according to the report from the accreditors.

“The three of us are not giving up,” said Johnson. “We are con-cerned about the future of the library, but also we built this place.”

Uncertainty looms as librarians appeal layoff decision

A year in review

Top le� : � e so� ball team celebrates a� er winning its third NWAACC championship in a row. (Contributed photo by Je� Hinds)Top right: Full-time faculty, classi� ed employees and students march on the MHCC District board meeting in November in response to contract negotiations.Bottom le� : � e band Neural Sturgeon plays in the Main Mall courtyard in September.Bottom right: James Sharinghousen sings as Dr. Frank Furter during the MHCC production of “� e Rocky Horror Show.” (All other photos by Devin Courtright/� e Advocate)

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2 OPINION THE ADVOCATEJUNE 3, 2011

Editors-in-ChiefJen ashenberner &

jordan Tichenor

Sports EditorJon fuccillo

Living Arts Editordavid gambill

Assistant Living Arts Editoranevay torrez

Photo EditorDevin Courtright

Assistant News Editorjohn tkebuchava

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Editorials: It's been a wild year

With the 2010-2011 MHCC school year coming to a close, let’s take a look at some of the Living Arts events worth remembering.

In the fall we saw what cosmetology can do with a man-nequin head when they delivered Halloween-designed heads on platter to faculty and students around campus as part of an Image Makers Club fundraiser.

With fi shnets and singing Transylvanians, the “Rocky Horror Show” was the highlight of the theater depart-ment over winter term.

While “Rocky Horror” was happening on campus, the music department took their shows out of town. Genesis performed as part of the Jazz Education Network confer-ence in New Orleans in January and the Jazz Band made a trip to Kaoshiung, Taiwan, as part of a Chinese New Year’s Festival.

The Student Activities Board chose spring term to throw their biggest parties, with Diversity Week, Spring Fest and the upcoming Beach Bash.

Many other exciting things happened this year, from KMHD2 moving to FM radio, the planetarium running shows every fi rst Monday of each month and both the Fire-place Gallery and the Visual Arts Gallery providing students with something beautiful to look at every day of the year.

And we can’t forget the latest highlight of the journal-ism department: Venture magazine is available for free right now at newsstands around campus.

Living Arts:

Sports:With this year’s sports ending for the summer, MHCC

student-athletes and coaches can leave knowing they went out with a bang.

Spring – The softball team pulled off the impossible. With only 11 players, head coach Meadow McWhort-er and her troops won the school’s third consecutive NWAACC championship at Delta Park. Head baseball coach Bryan Donohue and his baseball tried to match the success of the softball team, but came up two games short. Instead, the team fi nished in third place. Not bad considering they missed the postseason a year ago for the fi rst time in 16 years. Track and fi eld joined in on the festivities and had their share of the cake. Both the men’s and the women’s team fi nished in fourth place at the NWAACC Championships in Spokane, Wash. The team saw 15 NWAACC All-American honors. The top three fi nishers in each event receive the honors.

Winter – The men’s basketball team didn’t bring home hardware in their showing at the NWAACC Champion-ships at the Toyota Center in the Tri-Cities. However, they only lose two sophomores and are considered one of the top teams in the NWAACCs. The Lady Saints bas-ketball team had their fair share of troubles. Not only did they fi nish in fi fth place in the South, but they also lost their head coach Larry Davis. The team is still look-ing for a new head coach.

Fall – Volleyball head coach Chelsie Speer and her volleyball team came up short in the NWAACC cham-pionship match. For the second year in a row, the team fi nished in second place. The cross country team, led by head coach Matt Hart, had their ups and downs. Their top fi nisher at NWAACCs was freshman Tahir Chakiso, who fi nished the 8K NWAACC Championship in tenth place with a time of 26:36.94.

The Advocate would like to dedicate this fi nal issue of the academic school year to our beloved adviser Bob Watkins. It is with heavy hearts and many tears that we say goodbye to a man who has been there, for 28 years, looking over the shoulder of many cub journalists to ensure The Advocate maintained its credibility in the eyes of readers.

He will no longer be here to tell us a photo needs a 0.5 stroke, help us generate hard news leads, answer those diffi cult questions whose answers lie in the gray instead of the black or white. We are unable to imagine what it will be like without Bob.

Bob isn't just an adviser or just an instructor. He is the defi nition of a mentor. He does not hesi-tate to offer assistance when he sees a student struggling academically or personally. He has this way of getting people to realize what mistake they made without actually pointing it out to them. When they do realize what they did, Bob's face will light up and he will smile in a congratu-latory manner as if he was saying he knew they could do it.

He shows pride in the work his students have done no matter what the outcome. Some journal-ists are self critics who are harder on themselves than on anyone else. Bob can see this in someone and knows just how much and when to give them encouragement.

News:Looking back at a year of MHCC news, one

word comes to mind: Contract. The year-long negotiations and potential of a strike dominated the year, the conversations of almost every stu-dent, and often the front page of The Advocate.

Often cloaked by the contract drama were several other big things that happened on cam-pus this year.

To top the list, Larry Collins-Morgan showed us that a president can fulfi ll campaign prom-ises, as he helped to coordinate a work-study program through Public Safety for criminal jus-tice majors that would benefi t the community. Collins-Morgan and his ASG posse not only gave MHCC students a voice but they strived to have those voices listened to by the hierarchy of ad-ministration.

We also saw MHCC sweep the nation as the fo-rensics team did a phenomenal job winning a mul-titude of tournaments, as well as bringing the na-tional forensics tournament here, the fi rst time the competition has been held at a community college.

The academic year was sprinkled with several campus evacuations and closures due to electri-cal outages, weird weather patterns featuring snow at the end of February, toy bombs and false fi re alarms.

It’s been a chaotic and very newsworthy year and, as with every year, The Advocate staff did its best to bring it all front and center to keep readers informed — and we had a blast doing it.

From The Advocate staff

JUNE 3, 2011 NEWS 3

By Jill-Marie GavinThe Advocate

Students will be signifi -cantly involved next week as Mt. Hood Community College holds its annual commence-ment ceremony June 11 for the graduating class of 2011.

Onjalai Flake, vice presi-dent of scholarships of Rho Theta, has been asked to sing “America The Beautiful” at the opening of the commence-ment ceremony and Associat-ed Student Government Pres-ident Larry Collins-Morgan will deliver the traditional commencement address.

Commencement for MHCC graduates begins at 10 a.m. June 11 in the college sta-dium. The GED/Adult High School Diploma ceremony will be Friday, June 10, at 7 p.m., also in the stadium.

Flake said that after a College Center staff member heard her perform at a Mt. Hood talent show, she was asked to sing at last year’s commencement ceremony.

Flake has been a student at Mt. Hood since 2008 and has been studying hospital-ity and tourism. She will re-ceive her associate of science degree after the completion of this term.

Flake said she has main-tained a GPA above 3.65 since her start at MHCC. Next year she plans to transfer to George Fox University, in Newberg to major in communications with a career pursuit in radio broadcast. She said she hopes one day to have her own radio

show and to be a motivational speaker.

Collins-Morgan, ASG president, will give a speech during the ceremony, as ASG presidents have done for de-cades. He said the main focus of his message to graduating students is to thank them for allowing him to achieve his dream and to wish everyone good luck on their adventures.

He also said he will want to mention that the American dream is all about making the community better and going

to college to pursue a better life, and doing that shows strength and courage to do better than “our parents and grandparents were able to do.”

Commencement will be held rain or shine. Gradu-ates should assemble for the procession in the gymnasium no later than 9 a.m.

A commencement re-hearsal will be held in the college stadium at 2 p.m. Fri-day, June 10.

It should last no longer than 30 minutes. Rehearsal instructions were expected to be mailed in the fi rst part of June.

Graduates of the GED and Adult High School Diploma programs will be recognized June 10. Graduates should report to the gymnasium by 6:15 p.m. The student speaker will be William Lambert, who earned his GED and will con-tinue his studies at MHCC.

MHCC President, John Sygielski, wrote on the Mt.

Hood website to these gradu-ates, “As a fi rst-generation college graduate, I can assure you that education will make a positive difference in your life and the lives of your loved ones. Please accept my con-gratulations and best wishes for your future successes. We at Mt. Hood look forward to your participation in this year’s graduation ceremony.”

According to the MHCC website, seating for both the commencement and the GED ceremonies will be general ad-mission, and accommodations will be made for mobility im-paired and elderly guests. Each specially seated guest may have only one additional guest join them in the sepa-rate seating area provided.

Caps and gowns are avail-able for purchase at $31 each. Students with a GPA of 3.65 or higher as of 2011 winter term may purchase an honors tassel and cord with their cap and gown.

“Please accept my congratulations and best wishes for your future successes.”

John SygielskiMHCC college president

Students play key roles in commencement ceremonies

JUNE 3, 20114 NEWS

By Riley HindsThe Advocate

Imagine coming out of class to fi nd your driver’s side window broken and an empty space where your laptop used to be.

According to a Gresham Police Department report, in 2010 there were 75 prowls and 31 thefts at the MHCC central campus; in 2009, it was 47 and 25; in 2008, it was 71 and 16 and in 2007 the numbers showed 73 and 23. Items most commonly sto-len from vehicles were GPS units, stereos and purses.

Caryn Shetterly, crime analyst for the G.P.D., com-menting on the downward spike in 2009, said, “There is usually no one specifi c rea-son we can associate with why certain months or years might have sudden drops in criminal activity. There are a lot of factors that are chang-ing all the time.”

“Places like Mt. Hood are targets because they have large amounts of cars parked there. Thefts are lower at high schools, like Gresham High and Barlow, because they have less cars on their property,” said Shetterly.

An average 33,000 stu-dents attend Mt. Hood each year, according to the college website. The closest campus to MHCC, PCC Southeast, home to more than 9,000 students, had only a single theft between 2007 and 2009. PCC Sylvania, with more than 26,000 students, had eight between 2007 and 2009. Clackamas Commu-nity College, serving an an-nual average of 34,000 stu-dents, had three from 2007 to 2009. Clark Community College in Vancouver, Wash., had 18 from 2007 to 2009, 10 of which were in 2009, with a student population of 16,000.

According to the continu-ing 2011 MHCC Public Safe-ty crime log, May has had the most vehicle thefts, with three and no specifi c center for activity. The 2011 year shows less than fi ve break-ins per month. One Febru-ary statistic stands out: in one day, three cars windows were broken. In one instance, a jacket was stolen; in anoth-er, $2 was taken.

According to Public Safety reports, Lot A is the area of the college that, year after year, bears the most crimi-nal activity, with 32 incidents last year involving break-ins

or vehicle thefts. Wayne Fea-gle, lead public safety offi cer at MHCC, suggested one reason for this might be that Lot A is one of the largest on campus.

Under the condition that he remain anonymous, an East County resident who said he was at one point in-volved in more than 20 ve-hicle thefts per week in the Gresham area agreed to an interview.

According to the source, no place on the MHCC cam-pus is safe. “Yeah, they’ve got cameras in a few spots, but that only helps if you’re dumb enough to do it without some kind of hat or something. They have campus patrols, but there are only a couple of them on duty at a time, and they have no idea what’s go-ing on. You can try and park your car in a heavily popu-lated area, but it could just as easily be taken from there because no one expects it.

Feagle said, “Hearing stuff like that is a huge concern to us, but there were several times that campus security cameras have helped us ap-prehend criminals, so not all of our efforts are failing.”

“We have had several in-stances where someone will come back to their car after class and two people will be sitting in it having a natural conversation. The thieves will see someone coming and just act like it’s their car and it would have worked if that person wasn’t the owner,” Feagle said. “Those individu-als are often caught, but sometimes they run off before we can get them. We do not advise stu-dents to get into physical alterca-tions with someone in their vehicle.”

MHCC Director of Safety and Secu-rity Gale Blessing said, “We report all of our break-ins to Gresham police. Students who ex-perience a break-in or theft should contact public safety.”

Shetterly said, although there is not a department within Gresham police which han-dles vehicular crime, “We have a division that is de-voted to property

crime. If there is a pattern of crimes that are committed with the same M.O. (method of operation), we will put a detective on it.”

“If we start seeing more activity around the college, we do call and let them know about it, but we (GPD) will also pay more attention to that area,” said Shetterly. “There is defi nitely commu-nication between the agen-cies.”

Starting in early 2011, the college bookstore began sell-ing The Club, a car and truck anti-theft device, at a dis-counted price. “We’re actual-ly working directly with the manufacturer to get them for the lowest price we can. Stu-dents can buy them for $13,” said Blessing.

“We encourage students to do all the usual things to keep their vehicles and posses-sions safe while on the cam-pus,” Blessing said. “We have several papers and a small brochure available in the Public Safety offi ce, contain-ing tips for where to park your car and what thieves look for. It breaks our hearts when some-one comes in and says, ‘I left my doors unlocked and now my laptop is gone’.”

“ W e h a v e t h e

Students on Patrol, which is a new program that started a couple terms ago. There haven’t been any incidents where a volunteer has di-rectly contacted a suspect, but there have been several where they have used their radio to contact the offi ce to report suspicious individuals. So they are already having a positive effect,” said Blessing. “But there are always several things people can easily do when leaving their vehicle parked in on the campus: roll up their windows, lock their doors and only bring to school things they intend to carry into class with them.”

“We are concerned about the property crime problem, of course. But one thing we are very proud of is the fact that we have very little per-son-on-person crime here” said Blessing. “Our goal is to make this a safe campus for everyone. By and large, we are succeeding.”

MHCC parking lots victimized by car-jackersMHCC parking lots victimized by car-jackersCampus Crime

Vehicle

Prowls and thefts on the

MHCC main campus:

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2009Prowls-47Thefts-25

2008Prowls-71Thefts-16

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C o m m o n l y stolen Items:

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Incidents on other PDX

campuses from 2007-2009:PCC-Southeast—1 theft ( out of 9,000

students)PCC-Sylvania—8

thefts (out of 26,000 students)

Clackamas CC—3 thefts (out of 34,000

students)Clark CC—18 thefts

(out of 16,000 students)

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CalendarSaturday, June 4Starlight Parade, 8:30 p.m., in downtown Portland.

Monday, June 6"Preview of the Summer Sky," 7 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. in the planetari-

um. Free for students and $2 for the public.

Tuesday, June 14MHCC participates in the world's largest swim lesson, 8 a.m. to 8:45

a.m. The lesson is free in the Aquatic Center.

July 1-4Portland's Blues Festival on the waterfront. $10 donation and two cans

of food suggested for entry.

July 29-31Glendi Greek Festival. Free admission with food and entertainment

available. At the St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church in Beaver-ton.

Thursday, August 25The Decemberists perform at McMenamins Edgefi eld. Tickets cost $37

in advance and $38 the day of show. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the show starts at 6 p.m.

August 26-27Hood to Coast relay and dance.

By Mike MataThe Advocate

The Associated Student Government will close its year of events with Thurs-day‘s “Beach Bash,” a beach-themed dance in MHCC gym from 8 p.m. to midnight.

The dance will not have a dress code but students are encouraged to wear beach attire such as bikinis, board shorts and fl ip-fl ops, said Director of Diversity Brandi Freeman. Prizes will be given out, including an iPad, iPod and a digital camera. Tickets for the drawing will be hand-ed out at the door and snacks and drinks will be available.

“We encourage students to dress up. We are looking for 500 students to come. We want there to be the biggest turnout,” said Freeman.

Students will be required to show their student ID cards and are allowed one non-MHCC guest, though only students will be eligible for prizes. Besides MHCC students, high school seniors are also encouraged to attend and will only need their stu-dent ID cards to get in the dance.

“We’ve taken fl iers to lo-cal businesses in Gresham, talked with administrators

at local high schools, hung up posters at Reynolds High School, handed them at Gresham High School,” said Freeman.

“We tried getting there (the high schools) when class-es ended to hand out fl iers,” she said.

There will be two DJs at the dance: one DJ for the fi rst two hours and then DJ Kick-Mix will take over from 10 p.m. to midnight. DJ Kick-Mix is known for his work with artists like The Black Eyed Peas, Eminem, Lady Gaga, The Killers, Lil Wayne and Travis Barker.

“We saw him at the NACA (National Association for Campus Activities) confer-ence in California in Novem-ber,” said Student Activities Marketing Coordinator BJ Perkins.

The dance is on Thursday this year because the GED graduation is on Friday and commencement is on Satur-day, so space for the dance was limited, according to Freeman.

“Most students don’t have fi nals on Friday,” she added.

In addition to the raffl e prizes, there will also be dance and limbo contests with VISA gift cards as prizes.

Photo by Devin Courtright/The Advocate

MHCC will bring beach party to campus

Dance preview:

Stephen Garvey plays the solo in “Concerto for Violin and Orchestra in D, First Movement,” by Johannes Brahms during the Spring Term Concert Wednesday, while Tatyana Puzur plays violin.

End of term concerts

6 LIVING ARTSTHE ADVOCATE

JUNE 3, 20116 LIVING ARTS

2010-2011 A year of life in the arts:

“A Little Bit of Everything” by Dara Allison Harvey was displayed in the Visual Arts Gallery in No-vember. The gallery rotated sev-eral showcases including a stu-dent show in May.

Frank (James Sharinghousen) sings "I Can Make You a Man" to Rocky (Kory Keeny) during a February rehearsal of the "Rocky Horror Show." The theater department also ran a pair of student directed plays in the spring.

Children dance during the Nov. 13 pow-wow sponsored by the Chako-Kum-Tux Native American Club.This was just one of the many student club events held on campus this year.

Photos By Devin Courtright

The Chamber Choir sings during the "Spring Term Concert" Wednesday in the College Theater. Music was a year-round highlight with concerts by the MHCC vocal jazz group Genesis, the MHCC Jazz Band and the MHCC Orchestra.

"Break Through" was one of 17 pieces hung by MHCC alumnus Miles Browne in the Fireplace Gallery in May. The gallery featured diferent artists each month.

JUNE 3, 2011 SPORTS 7 7 A year of life in the arts Saints sports:

A year in review

Baseball assistant coach Justin Speer and volley-ball head coach and softball assistant coach Chelsie Freeman married during the summer of 2010.

Saints men's basketball team returned to the Tri-Cities tournament at the Toyota Center, only to lose two straight in the double elimination NWAACC Championships.

The Saints baseball team placed third in the NWAACCs post-season after missing the post-season the year prior for the fi rst time in 16 years. Freshman Christian Ban-nister put up impressive numbers breaking the school's record for the most consecutive saves from the mound. Bannister fi nished with 0.00 ERA.

The Saints softball team made history after a rocky start. The Saints won their third-consecutive NWAACC Championship title and the Southern Region title. Sophomore Kayla Anderson threw a no-hitter against the Chemeketa Storm, signed with EOU and was named co-MVP of the NWAACC tournament. Coach Meadow McWhorter was awarded the KPTV North-west Hero award for her work within the community. - Sophomore Amanda Bunch was also awarded the co-MVP NWAACC tournament award.- Sophomore Jessica Guy signed with Jacksonville State University.

The women's basketball team ended their season 6-8 in the Southern Region, (10-16 overall). The women's basketball team ended their season 6-8 in the Southern Region, (10-16 overall).

The Saints baseball team placed third in the NWAACCs

Saints sports:

The Saints softball team made history after a rocky

The Saints baseball team placed third in the NWAACCs post-season after missing the post-season the year prior for the fi rst time in 16 years. Freshman Christian Ban-

The Saints baseball team placed third in the NWAACCs

The Saints softball team made history after a rocky start. The Saints won their third-consecutive NWAACC Championship title and the Southern Region title.

SOFTBALL

BASEBALL

CROSS-COUNTRY

TRACK AND FIELD

MEN'S BASKETBALL

WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

The MHCC track and fi eld team has had its share of success this season.-Freshman Tyler Callahan broke the MHCC school record in the javelin at the season opener at Linfi eld College with a throw of 212 ft. 8 in., a record he would break another two times.-Freshman Terra Zodrow’s second-place fi nish in the heptathlon earned her All-American status.-Last, but defi nitely not least, the women’s 4x100-meter relay team won the NWAACC title at the championshipsmeet.

VOLLEYBALL

Baseball assistant coach Justin Speer and volley-

Saints volleyball team fi nished second in the NWAACC Championship for the second year in a row. Head coach Chelsie Speer was named the Southern Region Coach of the Year, while her sister-in-law Kyra Speer won the Southern Region Player of the Year.

Freshman Tahir Chakiso fi nished tenth place at the cross country NWAACC Championships. He was the top fi nisher for the Saints.

Coaches

THE ADVOCATEJUNE 3, 20118 SPORTS

"We were two wins away from dog piling."

see NWAACCs on page 9

Contributed photo by Jeff hinds

No shame in their

game

Freshman Brian Capps pitched the � nal 4 1/3 innings against Lower Columbia as the Saints were eliminated in a 7-3 loss in the NWAACC Championships Monday at Story Field in Longview, Wash.

Baseball team returns home with a third-place NWAACC trophy after coming up two games short of championship

By Jon FuccilloThe Advocate

Head coach Bryan Donohue had assembled his troops to re-turn home with the school’s fourth NWAACC championship trophy. But the baseball team had to settle for third place as

they returned home Monday on I-5 from Longview.The Saints captured a third-place trophy for the third time since

Donohue took over the program four years ago. Just a year ago, the team missed the playoffs for the fi rst time in 16 years. Donohue said this tournament had a different feel to it.

“It felt like we got more than third,” he said. “The last two times I was there we lost on Sunday. Breaking over that Sunday hump is tough to do.”

For the fi rst time since 2005, when Donohue was playing for the

JUNE 3, 2011 SPORTS 9

“Nobody should ever count us out. We just caught some unlucky breaks and fell short.”

Continued from page 8

NWAACCs: Team falls two games short of championship trophy

Contributed photo by Jeff hinds

The Saints: NWAACCs recaps

Sunday, May 29MHCC 2, Lane 1

Round four - With two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning, Foulan scored the winning run on a wild throw to fi rst by the Titans catcher.

Sophomore Matt Pechman struck out 11 in the victory.

Friday, May 27MHCC 7, Yakima Valley 4

Round two - The team cranked out 18 hits. Seven Saints had at least two hits. Freshman shortstop Alex Foulan went 3-for-5, and drove in three runs and scored two of his own.

Freshman Isaac Henslee tossed eight innings and struck out four.

Friday, May 26Bellevue 10, MHCC 2

Round one - The Bulldogs bats got hot early and they poured on 20 hits in the winning effort.

Sophomore Jeremy Burright, the Saints leader in wins (6) gave up eight runs on 12 hits in four innings.

Saints, the team made it as far as Champion-ship Monday. He said after missing Monday in his fi rst two playoffs as a coach, it was nice to be in a contender position.

This was just four days after getting smacked by the number one-ranked Bellevue Bulldogs 10-2 in round one action last Thurs-day (May 26). The Bulldogs knocked the seams off the ball, piling up 20 hits. The Saints then made it a priority to battle their way back for a championship run.

They sure came close.Thankfully for the double elimination for-

mat, the Saints were able to catch a second wind. They rallied to win three games in a row, which put them in a position to make a real run for the money. They sent three teams packing for home.

On Friday, the Saints bounced back with a 7-4 victory over the Yakima Valley Yaks (22-6, 32-12). Then on Saturday, the Saints defeated the Columbia Basin Hawks (22-6, 33-16). In Sunday’s game, the Saints were led on the mound by Matt Pechmann, who threw a com-plete game and fanned 11 batters in a 2-1 nail-biter over Southern Region rival Lane (19-11, 26-20).

Donohue said the opening game loss was tough. “That was the fi rst time I’ve lost my fi rst game (in the playoffs) as a coach,” Dono-hue said. “First loss really hurts. But once you get that fi rst win, you’re right back in it. It’s not like this giant hill to climb.”

Sophomore left-fi elder Matt Nylen said, “We battled back from a tough fi rst loss, that’s for sure,” he said. “We tried our best to come back in the losers bracket. It’s nice knowing our team wouldn’t give up.”

That run came to an end Monday at Story Field in a thriller against the hometown Low-er Columbia Red Devils, where the Saints fell 7-3.

“It was a good run,” Donohue said.Sophomore Jeff Ames, a 6-foot-4, 210-pound

fl ame-thrower, took to the hill for the Red Dev-ils for the third day in a row. His velocity was way down — he is usually in the low-to-mid 90mph range — but he still found a way to be effective and tossed a lethal changeup into his arsenal to keep the Saints second-guessing.

“His velocity was down against us,” Dono-hue said. “We were out in front of him, to be honest. He was throwing 95 (mph) the night before out of the bullpen.”

Just last summer, Ames was drafted by the Colorado Rockies in the 30th round (950th overall). He was considered one of the best pitchers in the Northwest.

Ames proved dominant at times. He tossed six strong innings, scattering fi ve hits, giving up two runs and struck out fi ve. Freshman Aaron Huson took over in the seventh and pitched the fi nal three innings for the Red Devils.

Freshman Isaac Henslee was on the hill for the Saints, and he was on cruise control until he hit a bump in the road in the bottom half of the fourth. The Red Devils bats came to life.

With the game tied 1-1, the Red Devils calmed down, they got into a rhythm and lit up Henslee for six runs before he handed the ball over to freshman Brian Capps with one out, trailing 7-1. Capps fi nished the contest with a near-perfect performance, only giving up one hit. But the damage had been done.

“Ran into one bad inning,” Donohue said

of the bottom of the fourth troubles. “They (the Red Devils) literally found every hole. It wasn’t like they were hitting the ball out of the house or hitting hard liners into the gap.

“Up until that point,” Donohue added, “(the Red Devils) were playing with nerves. They had made two errors earlier in the game.” Those two errors came in the top of the third inning, which is when the Saints scored their fi rst run on an RBI single off the bat of fresh-man second baseman Trevor Cass.

Asked how he maintained a strong sense of focus when he received the ball in the fourth, Capps said he felt he had no other choice and looked at the situation as any other opportu-nity.

“I felt very comfortable out there,” he said. “We’ve been through some tough situations where you just have to bear down and leave everything you have on the fi eld.” Capps did just that. But it was a little too late at the point in the game.

Donohue said Capps made a “statement” and deserved a lot of credit for another strong outing in bullpen duty. “I told him, ‘You have to give us a chance.’ He kept us in the game. All of a sudden our defense was putting up ze-ros.”

The Saints inched their way closer by add-ing runs in the sixth and seventh.

Sophomore fi rst baseman Jeremy Burri-ght launched his second homerun of the sea-son deep over the left fi eld fence in the top of the sixth. He thought that might be a turning point in the game since they still had four in-nings to pour on some runs.

“I felt like it gave as a quick shot of hope,” Burright said of his homerun. “I know we truly believed we had a chance, and that got us go-ing a little bit. Nobody should ever count us out. We just caught some unlucky breaks and fell short.”

The Saints (22-8, 29-13-1) fi nished the tour-nament in third place after ending the regular season as Southern Region champions. Dono-hue was named the Southern Region Coach of the Year, while freshman shortstop Alex Fou-lan was named the Southern Region Player of the Year.

Sophomore Matt Nylen is caught stealing second base during the top of the seventh inning as the Saints lost 7-3 against the Lower Columbia Red Devils Monday at Story Field in Longview, Wash., during the NWAACC Championships. � e Saints � nished the tournament with a third-place trophy.

Jeremy BurrightSaints � rst baseman

Saturday, May 28MHCC 6, Columbia Basin 4

Round three - Three Saints had at least two hits and drove in a run.

Sophomore Jon Yearout struck out fi ve in seven innings for the victory. Freshman closer Christian Bannister recorded his 16th save of the season.

Contributed photo by Jeff hinds

JUNE 3, 201110 SPORTS"This has been one heck of a year."

Kim Hyatt, MHCC athletic director

By Jon FuccilloThe Advocate

Sophomore Jessica Guy, one of the most decorated softball players to wear a Saints uniform, took home the MHCC Female Athlete of the Year award during Tuesday night’s annual sports banquet in the gymnasium.

Guy, the Jacksonville State-bound and All-American outfi elder from Van-couver, Wash., took home every piece of hardware imaginable this season, and played a pivotal role in back-to-back NWAACC championships. She was also a member of the First Team All-NWAACC Tournament and First Team All-Southern Region, while also being named to the Louisville Slugger NFCA NWAACC All-American team. She also maintained a 3.67 GPA.

“Such a student of the game,” soft-ball head coach Meadow McWhorter said of Guy earlier this year. “Very vo-cal when she’s on the fi eld, but very much a leader by example.

“No doubt in my mind that she will go down (to Jacksonville State) and make an impact. Jessica will always be a special one.”

Freshman Alex Foulan, a shortstop on the baseball team also from Vancou-ver, Wash., was honored as the MHCC Male Athlete of the Year. He was a member of the All-NWAACC First Team, First Team All-NWAACC Tour-nament and First Team All-Southern Region. He was also named the South-ern Region Player of the Year, as well as a gold glove shortstop, for both the Southern Region and NWAACC. He maintained a 3.86 GPA this year.

Student-athletes and coaches from all seven sports were in attendance, along with family, friends and other Saints supporters.

With fi nals looming just around the corner and the kickoff of sum-mer within arm’s length, it was only appropriate that the event’s food was BBQ style.

Athletic Director Kim Hyatt kicked

off the festivities, saying, “This has been one heck of a year.” Hyatt wasn’t kidding. It was a year where three coaches won Southern Region Coach of the Year honors and three teams placed in the top three in NWAACCs, including the three-peat NWAACC championship softball team, and three student-athletes won Southern Region Player of the Year.

McWhorter, the ninth-year head coach, was named the Southern Re-gion Coach of the Year in softball, while Chelsie Speer, in her second year as head coach of the volleyball team, and fourth-year head baseball coach Bryan Donohue also received the Southern Region Coach of the Year award.

Sophomore Kyra Speer won Player of the Year in the South for volleyball for the second year in a row, while freshman softball player Mai Galu-sha and Foulan in baseball were their league MVPs.

Each of the head coaches intro-duced their teams and reviewed their accomplishments, both as a team and as individuals. It was a lengthy cer-emony due to all the feats this year’s sports program had achieved.

McWhorter was also given the fi rst MHCC Coach of the Year award.

“I have my team to thank,” Mc-Whorter said.

Corey Nielson, assistant coach in both volleyball and men’s basketball, received the MHCC Assistant Coach of the Year award.

The softball team thanked former athletic director Fred Schnell for his devoted support and honored him with a championship game ball signed by the team. Schnell still serves as an active member with the NWAACC board and also as a physical education instructor at MHCC.

— Volleyball: First place in the Southern Region, second place at

NWAACCs (10-0, 38-9).— Cross Country: Top fi nishers at

NWAACCs: Freshman Tahir Chakiso placed 10th with a time of 26:36.94 in the 8K and Gabriela Diaz placed 12th with a time of 19:11.87 in the 5K.

— Men’s basketball: Second place in Southern Region, eighth place at NWAACCs (8-6, 15-12).

— Women’s basketball: Missed NWAACCs; fi nished fi fth in the South-ern Region (6-8, 10-16).

— Baseball: First place in South-ern Region, third place at NWAACCs (22-8, 29-13).

— Softball: First place in Southern Region, fi rst place at NWAACCs (16-4, 26-9)

— Track and Field: Men’s team placed second in the Southern Region and fourth place in NWAACCs, while the women’s team placed third in the Southern Region and fourth place at NWAACCs. Fifteen athletes earned NWAACC All-American status.

Guy, Foulan among winners at MHCC sports banquetStudent-athletes from all seven MHCC sports � lled the gymnasium Tuesday night during the annual MHCC sports banquet.

Photos by Devin Courtright/The Advocate

Above: Freshman Alex Foulan (le� ) received the MHCC Male Athlete of the Year award from volleyball and men’s basketball assistant coach Corey Nielson. Le� : Sophomore Jessica Guy (middle) was honored as the MHCC Female Athlete of the Year (shown with Chelsie Speer, le� and Meadow McWhorter).

JUNE 3, 2011 NEWS 11

Produced by the MHCC Journalism program, this year’s

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By Laura KnudsonThe Advocate

Parking permits will be required on the MHCC campus beginning the fi rst day of fall term 2011 for students, employees and visitors.

MHCC students and qualifi ed carpool commut-ers will have to pay $25 per term. Visitors to the campus may purchase day tickets for $3 from ki-osks when arriving on campus. The kiosks will be installed during the summer throughout the cam-pus parking lots. Debit/credit cards and cash will be accepted in the machines. College employees will not have to pay a parking fee, in accordance with contract provisions, but will be required to display a permit in their vehicle.

Beginning Sept. 19, students can purchase term and annual permits in the Bookstore, Public Safety offi ce, online at the MHCC website and the Admis-sions, Registration and Records offi ce.

“To avoid waiting in lines, we strongly suggest that students buy their term and annual parking permits online at mhcc.edu,” said Gale Blessing, di-rector of public safety.

Financial aid may be used to purchase parking permits. The cost will be deducted from the fi nan-cial aid package when funds are distributed to the students, said Christi Hart, manager of fi nancial aid, in a press release Wednesday.

Blessing said drivers of vehicles (cars, trucks and motorcycles) without permits will be cited for viola-tions. Unpaid fi nes may results in additional fi nes, a “hold” placed on students accounts and/or the ve-hicle “booted” (immobilized).

“We are asking students and visitors to the Gresham campus to be good neighbors to our near-by residences and shopping centers and not park in those areas,” said Blessing.

There are no plans to add parking areas. Bless-ing said the college will add more carpool and hand-icapped spaces in anticipation of students needs. These spots will replace regular parking spaces. Details will be decided over the next few weeks with input from the Associated Student Government.

The parking fee is one way the district board is addressing what it estimates as a $5.8 million bud-get shortfall. The board approved the parking fee

May 11. The fee is expected to generate $626,000 in gross revenue during the fi rst year of implementa-tion. A press release Wednesday said a portion of the gross revenue generated by the parking permits — about $417,000 — will go into the general fund and that an estimated $209,000 will be used to in-crease security and provide surveillance cameras in parking lots as well as support the technology used for the parking permit sales and enforcements.

“We recognize that this will be a signifi cant change for many people who are accustomed to parking on the Gresham Campus for free,” Bless-ing said. “That’s why we are making sure to get the word out about this now, well in advance of fall term. Our fi scal challenges make this necessary to join Portland Community College, which has long required paid parking permits.”

Further information concerning the parking program will be available throughout the summer through the college portal as well as letters to new students and handouts to be distributed at orienta-tion before the fee is implemented Sept. 26 (the fi rst day of fall classes).

Public safety gives parameters for upcoming parking fee

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New metering devices will be installed through-out the campus beginning on Friday, June 17.

The whole campus will not have electricity from 10 p.m. on June 17 through 6:30 a.m. on June 18, according to an e-mail from Paul Dunlap, manager of capital construction projects.

The installation is part of Campus Electrical Re-placement Project design.

If there are any questions or confl icts with the shut down, contact Dunlap at (503) 491-7214 or paul.dunlap@mhcc.edu

News briefs

College plans for scheduled power outage

Repairs to the college roof will relocate several departments on campus on or about July 5.

According to a press release May 27 from Bill Farver, vice president of administrative servic-es, the repairs require the air circulation fans be turned off to avoid asbestos exposure.

The president’s offi ce, board room and board conference room, vice president’s offi ce, college ad-vancement, humanities, and mathematics will all be temporarily relocated prior to July 5.

The work areas will be sealed and there will be no access to the affected areas until completion of the construction.

College offices, departments to be temporarily relocated

The Mt. Hood Community College District board will vote on a proposed 2011-2012 budget its June 8 meeting, which includes a proposal to implement a $25 parking fee and increase tuition $8 per credit.

An executive session will be held in the president’s of-fi ce at 6 p.m., followed by a 6:30 p.m. budget hearing conducted by the Multnomah County Tax Supervising and

Conservation Commission. A budget vote will follow,

pending commission approv-al.

The public session will be-gin at 7:30 p.m. Among items to be discussed will be pro-posed changes in the catalog, including the removal of the music pages, consideration of refund policy changes, gen-eral fund appropriations and consideration of a roofi ng con-tractor.

If the board adopts the proposed budget, the total for the 2011-2012 year would be $211,880,035, including $66.78 million in the general fund.

Of the various appropria-tions, it includes: $538,000 for talent grants for stu-dents; $1.2 million to com-plete the unfi nished re-roof-ing of the academic center; $29,061,861 for instruction; and $31,448,628 for college support services.

Along with the potential changes in the budget, seven lay-off notices have been is-sued to faculty members.

Parking fee and tuition increase to be voted on next week

Administration announces new photocopier policy

Effective summer term, students will need to use a debit, credit or ExpressPay card to print, scan or copy documents on campus.

Reloadable ExpressPay cards will be available for purchase for $1 at fi ve kiosks throughout cam-pus. Students will also need to save the document they desire to print on a USB fl ashdrive. Both the card and fl ashdrive are required.

Currently JAMEX cards are being purchased and used to pay for copies and, as of June 11, those cards will no longer work according to a press re-lease Wednesday. The release states no refunds for money remaining on the cards will be given.

The press release said reasons for the new pro-cess include reducing waste on campus, indicating this will save the college about $200,000 per year.

Printing done in class will be managed by fac-ulty. Other areas will be charged according to the chart below:

Paper size Cost per sheet

B/W $0.07 Color $0.15B/W $0.10 Color $0.30B/W $0.10 Color $0.20B/W $0.13 Color $0.40B/W $0.15 Color $0.30B/W $0.20 Color $0.60

8.5 x 11 Two sided 8.5 x 14 Two sided 11 x 17 Two sided