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rty attends national conference
Legal aid service nears reality
Id service for students at Clack -
linity College is coming closer to
|y after Associated Student Gov-
identMike McCarty's recent trip
¡oral Legal Aid Conference in
vate attorney to handle student legal prob­
lems. Others bring in an attorney only to ad­
vise but not to litigate matters, and some use
a voluntary attorney who also is in an advis­
ory capacity only, according to McCarty.
attended the conference with
|y400 representatives from col-
iversities throughout the United
y discussed topics ranging from
, services and student consumer
Io freedom of the student presses
{tenant rights.
"At the University of Pennsylvania they
use para-legal students to do the research and
advise students," he said. "They have their
own law library and write their own briefs."
"The only one of these ideas that seems
feasible to me is to find a private attorney or
firm of, say, four attorneys, and get one of
them to work part time," McCarty said.
an outstanding convention and |
information about civil and con-
rights," McCarty said. "The legal
op was very good, I ran into sèv-.
tsfrom other schools and heard of
ways that schools are handling
these schools hire and pay a pri-
"According to Dorothy C. Bernholz, the
legal-aid attorney for the University of North
Carolina who conducted the seminar, only
about one per cent of cases are litigated and
most of them are referred out to other at-
torneys which generates much more busi-
ness for private attorneys than people real-
ize," he said.
McCarty attended all but three of the
workshops which were held hourly from
Friday noon through Saturday night.
"I definitely think that I got my money's
worth out of the conference and I don't
think that $840 was too much money for
ASG to spend on something like this,”
McCarty said.
McCarty was the only-student represen­
tative from Oregon but he did meet an ad­
viser from the University of Oregon.
"We talked about starting a Western Re­
gional Conference to cover some of the things
we heard at the Kansas City conference. May­
be we couldn't cover everything but we
would try to concentrate on the things that
got the most response there," McCarty said.
"CCC compared over all very good (to
the other schools," he said. "We are a littla
more liberal on student rights and freedom
of the press than those back East. All in all,
we are fartherahead as far as student rights."
C faculty helps students adjust to metrics
hited States, the only major nation
standard units of measurement, has
opt the metrics system of measure-
larious areas of education as well as
sin order to comply academically
tally with the rest of the world,
ous vocational and engineering in-
iatClackamas Community College.
Madsen, department chairperson of
«engineering at CCC, said that the
department has had to make various
»layout work because of the recent
metricmeasurement incorporated
n said that drafting students have
adapted to the conversion to metrics
made no complaints because of the
in of systems.
[the present time," said Madsen,
filing department is not ready for a
i change toward metrics, but he said
felistic approach to the use of metrics
profession of drafting must be kept in
, as well as at CCC in order to meet
»ofother nations on an equal basis."
psStreeter, department chairperson of
mathematics and engineering at CCC, said
that a few introductory metric courses are
being offered but the enrollment in these
courses is minimal.
Streeter said that a metric course was
planned to be offered, but due to the lack of
interest by the public it was not carried out.
Ernest Whisenant, department chairperson
of Metal Fabrication at CCC, said that the
introduction of metrics in that department
has not had a drastic affect on the students,
although two years from now, the student
who is able to apply the metric system to his
or her own work will be better off than the
student without any familiarity of the metric
system.
Whisenant said that five years from now,
the U'.S. will not be able to export any
standard "nuts and bolts" overseas due to the
complete change toward metrics.
"Currently," said Whisenant, "both stan­
dard and metric tools are needed by the
student in the metals department. This is not
a great expense to the student, but is necessary
in complying with drawings and designs of
various nations using the metric rule of
measurement."
Larry Noonan, department chairperson of
the automotive department at CCC, said the
application of the metric system in his
department has caused a couple of problems
regarding students and equipment.
"In order for the students to accustom
themselves with foreign as well as American
automobiles, the students must acquire both
metric and standard measurement tools," said
Noonan. He said that the students have had
to pay $250 for a set of standard mechanic's
tools, and an additional $100 plus is also
needed for metric sockets, wrenches, etc.,
used for foreign as well as American automo­
biles.
In addition with the problem just men­
tioned, said Noonan, the adults familiarized
with the usage of standard measurement are
having a difficult time adopting to the
metric system.
"Other than these problems, the students
have been able to easily adapt to the applica­
tion of metrics in the automobile," Noonan
said.
uition, general fund breakdown revealed
$110 tuition fee a resident full-time
■ Community College student pays
rm becomes part of the CCC general
ig budget. "Tuition provides ap-
telylOto 20 percent of the budget,"
n Monroe, dean of student services.
Party taxes and state monies are the
prosources that make up the general
I budget for the college, Monroe
[general operating budget is the mon­
college uses to pay for all school
|® and expenses. All money used
pecollege originally came from this
I fund.
8 per cent of the general fund, or
w is paid out for personal ser-
liuch as salaries and benefits," said
pan, dean of college services. "Sup-
Fthe college takes 14.9 per cent, or
M6 of the budget. Two per cent,
'goes for equipment, while 2.1
per cent $171,300, are reserved for trans­
fers which include ASG funds, athletics and
financial aid. $500,000,6.3 per cent,will be
used as revenue for next year."
Ryan said new programs take $49,500
or .6 per cent of the funds. A continquency,
or emergency fund uses 4.2 per cent or
$350,000. The total operating budget is
$8,151,686, he said.
"Tuition is part of the total education
program," Monroe said. "Clackamas has
one of the lowest tuition fees in the state for
community colleges.
"This year, approximately 18 per cent of
the operating budget is tuition, 48 per cent
is from property tax, and the rest of the
money is provided by the state," he said.
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