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About The print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1977-1989 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 1, 1978)
Ground Hog Day — Feb. 2 Wednesday, February 1,1978 Crisis center needed By Joy Williams Of The Print Ltts the drop on Bogie in one of Allen Ems. Nancy played by Susan McCarty Photo by Sam Baer and Bogart, Mark Stanic, starred in last Saturday's performance of "Play It Again, Sam." A recent Associated Student Government survey revealed that indeed students at the College are interested in forming a crisis cen ter. "It could be the best thing that ever happened to the College," and "I sure could have used help two weeks ago," were just some of the comments made by students answering the survey. Although most of the people who filled out the survey were for the center, and several counselors and senators in ASG seem to want to see a crisis center become a reality, the project is having a hard time getting past the stage of discussion, This will be the third time an ASG senator has tried to form a crisis center. Dick Weiss and John Harlen, ASG senators, are now working on the project and feel confident that they can make the center a success. "We feel that there have been enough serious crisis situations to warrent a crisis center," Weiss said. "People are sleeping in their cars because they are unaware of the resources that are available to them; others are dropping out of school because of not enough child care; and students are not able to cope under the pressures of school and/ or family." "The next step is to put the idea before the ASG board," Harlan said, "then set up the basic mech anics." Some of the services that the center would provide, according to Weiss and Harlen, would be car pools, emergency housing, referral to other organizations and/or trans portation to that organization if the need arises. Peer support on per sonal or financial matters and an information center for student use would also be offered. Bonnie Hartley, College nurse, gets a lot of the personal as well as medical problems of the students. "With every physical problem there is usually an emotional prob lem," Hartley said. "Trained people are here at the school, a lot of them trained in psychology, such as the counselors, but they are not visual enough to students," Hartley said. "Also I like the idea of peer support. Often students Would prefer to talk with those of their own age group." Total enrollment shows increase, but some departments suffer Illy Happie Thacker The Print | Enrollment trends at the College are fol- hiing those throughout the rest of the coun ty with business classes far outranking any ¡others in enrollment rise. I In the fall of 1976, enrollment in business technology, which then included the graphic pts department, was 659. In the fall of 1977 lenrollment was 694, without graphic arts/ I Dollie Ammons, business instructor at the iCollege, attributes this increase to the fact Rut many publications have been saying that Itasiness administration is where the jobs are, gticularly in accounting. Also, according to Ammons, "The trend ire seeing is for women to go into manage- M areas rather than secretarial and many rats are actively looking for women either hem within their own companies or from out re to fill management positions." I Business classes also are fairly » unique in hi, although it is considered an occupational hriculum, most of the classes are trans- jwble to four year institutions, said Ammons. I Other transfer classes are not doing as well pi»as enrollment figures. liven though fall term enrollment is up r® fall term last year (8,374 in 1976 to Ife in 1977),according to Chuck Adams, mar, certain transfer programs show a parked decrease in number of students. I The science department, for example, is |ton almost 50 percent fall 1977 from fall pn 1976. Enrollment in transfer physical Pace courses has gone from 362 in 1976 to Pin 1977. . BIS - 7 "Our total enrollment is the same because of nursing students taking life science cour ses," said Shirley Cressler, science instructor. "But it's not just here, it's at all the colleges," Cressler said. "It may be that (our courses are more difficult) and we get a lot of people who have never taken science and are scared of it,but we have to teach college transfer science and must have the same re quirements as all the other colleges-two and four year schools alike."__ Enrollment in literature classes is also down, according to Tom Richards, department chair person, language arts. Richards attributes this drop to the variety of other electives, such as speech and anthro pology, being offered in place of the standard literature classes. "Eight out of 10 humanities electives, such as speech, art and anthropology are easier than lit," he said. "Lit also has the reputation within the school for demanding more than other areas." Transfer classes in general are down and vocational education is up, according to John Hooley, division chairperson, humanities and social science. "This may have something to do with the changing economy and spirit of the times. Everyone's out to make a buck and getting away from things like psychology and soci ology that were trendy in the sixties," Hooley said. The one exception to this general trend is in the law enforcement department. There, enrollment is down almost 50 per cent, from 210 in the fall of 1976, hot counting ... graphic arts, which was then counted with business administration, to 174 in the fall of 1977 counting graphic arts. This drop in law enforcement enrollment, which reflects enrollment trends throughout the state, has resulted in tire dismissal of one instructor, Durwood Thomas, who has been with the department for four years. This drop in enrollment has been caused by many factors according to Lyle Reese, division chairperson, business administration and pub lic service. "A lot of vets went into law enforcement and there are fewer vets now," he said. "Also federal funds that were set up by the govern ment to train, employed officers are drying up. There is also the fact that collective bargaining'. ' practices are making it more and more un-;<- nêcessary for officers to try to impress their bosses with extra schooling." However, if these figures point to any trend • it's that there isn't any trend at all according to Ron Kaiser, dean of instruction. Enrollment figures go up and down, Kaiser said, and trends fluctuate with the seasons. "Other programs we've implemented, such as the guided studies plan for remedial instruc tion, could account for the decline in Auto Mechanics and liberal arts," he said. "The Alaska pipeline may have had an effect on the Welding enrollment by increasing enrollment (to unnatural highs) during previous years." "One- thing I have noticed," Kaiser said, "is that when the economy is up enrollment is down and when the economy is down, en rollment is up." ■ (See related story Paga 2.)
