The Current 1985-02-08

              The
Green
River
Green River Community College Volume 20, No. 13 February 8, 1985
GR beauty wins pageant
by Mike Paprltz
Outside the Performing Arts Center in
Auburn, the temperature dropped into the
20's, but inside the audience of about 1,000
delivered a warm welcome to their new
Miss Auburn, Green River student Kelsey
Kara.
Kara is a former winner in the Federal
Way Scholarship Pagent. "I've been work­ing
hard with this for four years," said Kara,
who placed in the top 10 in her bid for Miss
Washington as the representative for
Federal Way.
"It was a tough competition," Kara said at
the reception held at The Turtle Too
restaurant in Auburn. "I was up in the air
with the results."
Kara's Spanish jazz dance received a
crowd-pleasing applaud, which was also ac­companied
with her crowning.
21-year old Kara will be pursuing studies
in theater arts and business administration,
in hopes to someday have her own stage
show.
The new Miss Auburn will receive $1,500
in scholarships and other prizes. She will
represent Auburn in the Miss Washington
Pagent this June.
Sherry Dolleman, 25, who sang Stubborn
love in the talent competition, was named
First runner-up and will receive a $600
scholarship.
Kelly Dunn, 20, was named Second
runner-up and will receive a $400 scholar­ship.
Trish Kowalski, 20, a Green River
sophomore, was named Third runner-up.
Kowalski, who sings in the music company
at the college, impressed the audience with
her vocal performance of City lights.
A 1982 Decatur graduate, Kowalski
toured Europe with the All-U.S. Choir.
Kowalski will receive a $300 scholarship.
Fourth runner-up was Kara Christianson,
17, a senior at Auburn High School. Chris­tianson
will receive a $250 scholarship.
Michelle Turner, an Auburn High
graduate and Green River freshman, was
voted Miss Congeniality by the other 12
candidates.
"There was so much pressure, but at the
same time it was so much fun," said Turner,
who will be pursuing a degree in education.
Former Miss Auburn, Ellen Hudson,
delivered the traditional farewall speech,
with a tear flowing after she had told the au­dience
she wouldn't cry.
"So long for now, I love you all," conclud-ed
Hudson. see page 5
MIKE PAPRITZ/THE CURRENT
District 44 firemen cool off in the February snow
MIKE PAPRITZ/THE CURRENT
GR student Kelsey Kara is the new Miss Auburn.
Still no concrete settleme
concerning teacher~ ha
by Margery Keppel
The Supreme Court has been asked
to reconsider its recent decision to pay
back the 7 percent raise faculty
members at Green River Community
College were promised over two years
ago. According to Gil Carbone, assistant
director of the State Board of Communi­ty
College Education, tl:!e attorney
general, acting as the Board's lawyer,
has taken this step because the court
may not have had all the facts at the
time of its decision.
"There may have been a
misunderstanding on the part of the
court on the basis of the facts presented
to them at the time," stated Carbone.
GRCC's Bob Aubert, leader of the
United Faculty Coalition, called the step
a legal maneuver.
The 7 percent raise was part of an 18
percent increase negotiated between
the United Faculty Coalition and the
Board of Trustees in Sept. 1981. Faculty
members were paid 11 percent in in­stallments
during 1981 and 1982, but as
a fiscal crisis loomed in Dec. 1981, the
legislature rescinded the final 7 percent.
It was eventually put into effect Fall
Quarter, 1983.
Green River Community College
12401 SE 320th St.
Auburn, Washington 98002
The Supreme Court's decision stated
that the legislaturP did '1ot have the
power to deny a pay raise that had
already been contracted. The basis for
the attorney gene ral's counter­argument
is that the pay raise was
never denied, simply delayed.
According to Larry Larson, member
of the original faculty negotiating team,
faculty members did not have the same
freedom to delay payment of their bills.
Speaking for the coalition, Aubert
commented, "This is a legitimate
maneuver. We assume we'll get paid.
We've waited two years; we'll just sit
and wait. We're working with Spokane
and Yakima [community colleges] and
are in contact with them."
The Green River faculty was one of
three college faculties that would have
benefited from the court's decision. The
suit was originally brought to court by
Yakima Community College.
There have been changes in the com­position
of the court since the decision,
a vote of eight to zero in favor of the
faculties, was made. Three new justices
have been appointed to court to fill
vacancies because of death and resigna­tions.
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