CCC expanding paper recycling prog
The John Inskeep Environmental Learning
Center is expanding its recycling project at
Clackamas Community College to include
students as well as faculty and office staff.
Green barrels with the Environmental
Learning Center's logo and "recycling" on
them will soon be placed in the Community
Center mall and other areas where students
will have access to them.
These barrels will only be for clean re
cycling paper products. Paper products that
contain food residues; kleenex; carbon paper;
cellophane; paper towels; and any paper with
wax, plastic, or foil coatings cannot be re
cycled.
There are many reasons why paper must
be sorted.
Kleenex and paper with food
residues on it can present a health hazard to
people handling it, and things like paper
clips, cellophane, carbon and coated papers
foul up the de-inking machines that clean the
paper.
"A single piece of thread can ruin a
whole roll of newsprint if it gets through the
machines," said Gail Parker, recycling coordin
ator at CCC.
"It (garbage) is going to be a problem,"
she said, "and we need student cooperation
for not putting garbage in the recycling
barrels."
Parker hopes to eventually expand the re
cycling program to cover items like cans,
bottles and corrugated cardboard.
"Until people start to recycle, they don't
take responsibility for waste they generate,"
said Parker. "There is no way that this dis
appears—it just goes into the air, water, or
or land."
Parker would like to make paper recycling
a standard operating procedure on campus
in order to help people become more con
scious of their waste and give them a chance
to take responsibility for it.
"Paper accounts for about 55 per cent of
the solid waste thrown away," she said, "and
it takes about three times more energy to
make virgin paperas it does to recycle paper."
Recycled paper is used in firelogs, egg
cartons, wall board, furniture and to make
felt for roof shingles.
"Not only is recycling a revenue source
because it creates jobs and money, but it is
also an energy source," said Parker.
According to Parker there are three ways
people can conserve waste and energy. The
first is to reduce consumption, the second is
to, reuse
items one already has, and the
third is to recycle what can't be reused.
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Math anxiety cured
The Math Department at Clackamas Com
munity College has been aware for some time
that many students suffer, unnecessarily,
from a dread disease known as "Math
Anxiety."
This quarter, math instructors and coun
selors have determined to make a concerted
effort to stamp out this dread disease by
offering a new, fully-transferable course,
entitled Math for Liberal Art Students, on
Mon., Wed., and Fri. at 11 a.m. in Mc
Loughlin 221.
According to Gerry Alexander, the in
structor. the course is designed to help stu
dents overcome mental math blocks which
may have been created by parents, teachers
or peers.
The course will also allow the student to
become very slightly acquainted with the
nature of Statistics and Probability, and
Geometry and Number Theory, according
to Alexander.
Conference set
Anyone wanting more info
what can be recycled in Clackai
should call the Recycling Swit
229-5555, or the EnvironmS
Center at 656-2631, ext. 351.1
One thousand dollars wothiql
and seasonal trees, including of
specimens of Colorado spruce |
flowering dogwood, were recently!
Clackamas Community College!
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land to make room for expansj
lumber yards.
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ing Center will use these treeson_
and one-half acre reclamation site Io’
the northeast side of CCC, which!
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Jerry Herrman, head of the center]
if not for the generosity of theff
ty, the center would not be what it
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a ton. The 20-year-old white®
wood is 12 feet tall.
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13, with a banquet at the West Linn Inn, ac
cording to Russell Harris, CCC machine tech
nology instructor and local coordinator for
the conference.
Forensics expanding
The new Forensic Club at Clackamas
Community College is going full speed ahead,
according to CCC speech instructor Frank
Harlow.
The speech club is being formed by the
combined efforts of students Barbara St.
Marys, Mitch Newton, and Mark Hubbard.
"Anyone can join the speech club if they
possess a desire to speak and learn, "Harlow
said.
"There are no other special athletic
skills involved."
"Although the program is competitive, a
student does not hat/e to compete on a col
lege level. There are other outlets of public
speaking; such as speaking for the Rotary or
Kiwanis Clubs," he said.
Anyone interested in public speaking
should contact Frank Harlow in the speech
department.
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transplanting other than a slowness!
for the next two years
The size of these trees will note
transplanting other than a slowness!
for the next two to three years in J
will then return to their natural grg
said Herrman.
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appearance to add to the wilderness!
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Single experience]
"Single Parent Experience" is fl
offered at Clackamas CommunityCol
The emphasis of this course is«
on the individual and the changes]
working towards by learning to rearra
priorities with others who have had
experiences.
Whether one is suddenly alone be
separation, death or divorce, th®
to make it easier for the individual t(J
within a group.
The class is being taught ever®
from 2 to 5 p.m. in Bai
Tyson is the instructor.
An expected total of over 500 persons will
attend the annual State Vocational and In
dustrial Education Conference held this year
at Clackamas Community College, Oct. 13
and 14.
Members of the Oregon Industrial Arts As
sociation, Oregon Vocational Trade Technical
Association and the Oregon State Department
of Education will host the state-wide con
ference which is expected to attract repre
sentatives from all levels of education, ac
cording to Dave Madsen, CCC department
chairperson of drafting technology.
"We're very fortunate to have the confer
ence at CCC this year," said Madsen. The an
nual conference was held at the Memorial
Coliseum in Portland last year.
Displays and speakers will be included
throughout the two-day gathering, said Mad
sen.
The conference will begin Thursday, Oct.
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