Rise noted in funds available
Financial aid deadlines draw near for 1978-791
By Cyndi Bacon
Of The Print
It's time for students to plan for
the next academic school year, al
though the signs of winter are still
draping the College campus - es
pecially if f inancial aid is to play a
big role.
According to Richard Thomp
son, financial aid officer, it's time
for students to fill out new finan
cial aid forms for the academic year
1978-79,especially if they are trans
ferring to a four-year institution.
"If you postmark your finan
cial aid application by the dead
line date, there will probably be
aid money to meet your needs,"
Thompson said. "If you mail after
that date they will meet your needs
as long as money lasts, and chances
are you'll receive a little less the
longer you wait."
Portland State University (PSU)
has a mail-in deadline of Feb. 1.
Along with the usual financial aid
form, students applying for finan
cial aid at PSU must include a no
torized affidavit if they were claim
ed as a tax exemption, living at
home in 1976, stating that they no
longer have financial ties with their
parents, according to Thompson.
University of Oregon (U of 0)
asks that their forms be back in
their office no later than April 1.
Forms should be filled out and
quite confusing for applicants, ac
cording to Thompson. The Oregon
schools met and devised one single
form to be used for statewide aid
next year called the Financial Aid
Form.
"The big difference between
this year and last year is that this
form is used for all types of financ
ial aid, including basic grants and
many scholarships,"
Thompson
said. "Basically, the form hasn't
changed much from last year and
the questions are very similar."
Clackamas
Community Col
lege's deadlines for returning stu
dents applying for financial aid are
quite flexible, Thompson said. "To
be fully considered for aid next
year, the forms should be mailed
by March 1," he said.
The College requires that if a
student will not be 19-years-old
by June 1978 a parent's signature
must be included on the form.
Students wanting to apply for
scholarships should check with the
financial aid office or individual
department areas they are interest
ed in for availability of scholar
ships at the school they are apply
ing to, Thompson said.
"All transferring students ap
plying for financial aid must fill
out a form called the Financial
sent by mid-February to insure this
deadline, Thompson said. U of O
requires its
applicants to sub
mit their latest income tax form
to them directly.
Oregon State University (OSU)
requires a Jan. 15 deadline for
forms to be sent. Although no dead
line dates are available for other
state institutions, Thompson ex
pects them to be about the same as
the others.
"We think that the State of
Oregon will have about a six to
10 percent increase in financial
aid next year," he said. "The out
look for aid looks good statewide."
In prior years, different schools
used different forms which made it
Student crisis center proposed
By Lynda Roberson
Of The Print
The organizing of a student
crisis center is in the process at
the College. Students Carol Goede
and Valerie Whittemire
are
working on a draft concerning the
proposed crisis center to be pre
sented to the student government.
With the combined efforts and
counseling of
Art Hames and
Vince Fitzgerald, it is hoped that
we can get this draft drawn up and
presented at the next student
government meeting, said Goede.
"I feel there is a real need
for such a center on campus here
at the college. Although we have
qualified counselors that advise
and aid students about matters
other than school, many students
who need help for personal prob
lems are not coming to the coun
selors," she said.
"This problem seems to be due
to a number of things. One exam
ple would be that the younger
students may feel that they can't
relate to the counselors because
of the age barrier," Goede con
tinued.
"Therefore, what we are hoping
to organize would be a student
organization that would consist
of students. These students would
be trained to deal with various
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phies were the rewards the College's
forensics team brought back from
the Seattle Pacific
University
speech tournament last weekend,
said Frank Harlow, coach and
college speech instructor.
The team placed third in over
all points, being defeated by the
University of Puget Sound and
Northwest Nazarene.
The team members are Hallie
Brown, Mike Day, Denise Kline
and Mitch Newton.
"I find speech the keenest
competition I've ever been in,
and I'm a highly competitive per
son," said Newton, after obtain
ing a first place trophy in story
telling and a second place trophy
in interpretation.
"The ability to get up and
speak in front of a group of
people is an ability that anyone
can learn and its an ability that
you can retain during your entire
lifetime," said Mike Day, who
brought home a second place
trophy in persuasion.
"When you're competing, you
have an anti-climatic feeling after
competing because you reflect on
the speech and wonder if there is
a way you could have improved
on it," he said.
"I enjoy speaking and the
chance of meeting new people to
learn about them and their feel
ings. I think that speech competi
tion is excellent because it gives
students a chance to express their
opinion and show their knowledge
in almost any area they should
choose," Kline said.
"It gives me more self-confi
dence by competing with others
at the same level," Kline added.
"I'm coach of the forensics
team because I believe in forensics
and in the educational value of
people becoming better speakers,"
Harlow said.
"I believe in getting people to
learn to think and speak on their
feet," Harlow said. "Speech is
an expression of all the classes
which students take. They must
research, organize, write and say
their speeches."
Other teams involved in the
tournament were Gonzaga Uni
versity, Big Ben College, North
Idaho College, Eastern Washing
ton University, Lewis and Clark
College, Mount Hood Community
College, Gray's Harbour, Everett
Community College, Northwest
College, Western Washington Un
iversity, University of Washington,
Seattle Pacific University and St.
Martin's College.
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crisis or problems and would pos
sibly wear a badge to let other
students know that they were
trained personnel for the crisis
center."
The counselor-volunteers would
have to undergo training, which
would consist of classes in drug
abuse, drugs, suicide, counseling,
family crisis counseling, family
planning and pregnancy counsel
ing, as well as alcoholic problems.
"Psychology students might be
interested in working with the
program.
Although we haven't
worked out all of the possibilities
with the psychology instructors
at this time. Still we are hoping
that the psychology department
will work with us and maybe give
the psychology student an extra
credit or grade point for his work
as a counselor,"
according to
Goede.
Hames said that he was will
ing to help as far as training,
reference books, and providing
CO 101 for the crisis center
meetings. However, he stipulated
that the plans and organization of
such a center were still undeter
mined and unsettled.
"There is lots of work and
organization concerning something
like this and the very earliest
the center could begin operation
would be by the end of Spring
Term," Hames said.
Goede is optimistic and plans
to work hard to make the idea of
a student crisis center become a
reality, however.
"The students at college need
such a center, so I don't feel that
my time and efforts will be in
vain," Goede said.
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Barbara St. Mary, publicity dir
ector for Associated Student Gov
ernment at the College, has been
appointed community college rep
resentative to the advisory com
mittee to the Educational Coor
dinating Commission (ECC).
The 23-member committee is
made up of representatives from
every level of education in Ore
gon, and serves the ECC in its role
as advisor to the State Board of
Higher Education.
"Before this committee was
formed three years ago," St. Mary
said, "The State Board of Educa
tion, which is in charge of colleges
and universities, never spoke to one
another."
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Feb. 1, or mid-February at tn
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ing out the financial aid forms can
attend workshops being taugffl
Thompson and Ron Hoodye®
ancial aids specialist.
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CC-101 on Feb. 6, Feb, 7 afl
Feb. 10.
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for returning students," Th®
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financial aid office beforethesi
dates and get individual help,®
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"This resulted in a lot of dup
lication of programs and a waste
of money and effort," she said.
Our job on this committee is to
make recommendations to the ECC
whose seven members are not al
lowed to be involved in education
and thus have limited knowledge
Workshops provide training
Three workshops are being off
ered by the College this term cov
ering special aspects of publicity,
reading and basic life support.
"Taking the Pain Out of Pub
licity" is a workshop designed for
the individual with little or no
previous experience with publica
tions, said Pam Lewis, Community
Services assistant.
The course will be taught by
Sara Wichman, a free-lance writer
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for the Oregonian and Community
Press, on Thursday, Jan. 19. Two
classes will be held in the Col
lege's Community Center Building,
room 117, at 9 a.m. and at 1 p.m.
"AGP Rapid Reading," is being
offered for the student interested
in increasing his reading rate, Lewis
said. "The student should be able
to double his reading rate in 21
days if he practices one-half hour
each day," Lewis said.
"Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscita
tion (CPR)" will cover basic life
support techniques.
CPR will be taught Jan. 23 and
25 from 7 to 10:30 p.m. in the
Community Center Building, room
117, and Saturday, Feb. 25, from
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Randall Hall,
room 101. Cost is $3 per person.
For more information regard
ing the workshops, contact the
College's Community Service off
ice, 656-2631, ext. 232.
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