Instructor loses job;
enrollment drop cited
By Happie Thacker
Of The Print
One of the casualties of the
recent drop in the enrollment in
the police science department is
Durwood Thomas.
Thomas, who has been teach
ing full-time at the College for
four years, was made department
chairperson after only six months
of full-time employment.
"I'm being fired because of a
reduction in force (302 students
were enrolled in the fall of 1976
compared to 146 students in the
fall of 1977) and because I'm the
low man on the totem pole,"
Thomas said.
Earl Zinck, the other instruc
tor and department chairperson
until Thomas took over that po
sition, has been here for eight
years.
"I'm really sorry to go, Thom
as said. "I have felt that I have
the backing of the fire and po
lice community and I felt we had
a good working relationship and
I hate to leave because of this re
lationship."
Some of the reasons cited by
Thomas for a reduction of stu
dents in law enforcement are that
some veterans' benefits are run
ning out, the job field is satur
ated and there has been a reduc
tion of crime dramas on televi
sion.
"This trend is
statewide,"
Thomas said. "I've checked Che-
meketa, PCC and Linn-Benton
Community College and their
law enforcement enrollment is
way down, too."
Thomas is well qualified to
hold a teaching position in law
enforcement and may go on to
teach elsewhere.
He spent 10 years
as a
sheriff's deputy, five years in the
Clackamas County district at
torney's office as an investigator,
seven years working with juven
iles within 52 schools and he has
an associates degree in police
science from Clark Community
College in Washington, a bachelor
of science degree in general stud
ies—corrections, from Oregon Col
lege of Education (OCE) in Mon
mouth and a master's degree in
education, also from OCE. He is
also a graduate of the Federal
Narcotics School.
"I've enjoyed teaching and the
contacts with students," Thomas
said. "I think I've got a rapport
and a feeling for students. I like
students and I like to help them
and steer them in the right dir
ection."
Thomas doesn't feel that de
cisions about the hiring and firing
of instructors should be made by
something as impersonal as a con
tract.
"I think the people ranking
above an instructor should sit in
on his classes once in a while and
ask for things like a syllabus," he
said. "If you've been here one
year and are doing the job right
and have the respect of your peers
and the community then that
should be taken into considera
tion. I don't care how long some
one else has been here, if they're
not doing the job. . . that's how
the decision should be made."
Since being department chair
man, Thomas has made several
changes in the course require
ments and offerings in the pol
ice science curriculum.
He now requires that students
take two terms of English comp
osition to improve their writing
communications skills as well as
a new course in technical report
writing in law enforcement.
Thomas has also added courses
in family crisis
intervention,
which is taught by a psychologist,
a course on violence and agress
ion and has modified and ex
panded the courses on the Ore
gon criminal code, interviewing,
statements and interrogation.
"Before I came,"
Thomas
said, "they tried to teach the
whole Oregon criminal code in
33 hours. I've made that a two- .>
term class.
"I've done these things to up
grade the program and I person
ally feel that the sin of growing
old is not being able to change
with the times. I hope I'm able
to change with the times and
able to adapt. I have to if I'm go
ing to stay in this field," he said.
"I'll be working and chang
ing things here until the last day
I work, which will be June 12,"
he said.
After capping ceremony held
here last Saturday,
graduate
nurse Elden Eichler
clowns
around with his own version of
a cap for graduation.
Photo by Lorraine Stratton
Therapeutic talks planne
Therapeutic touch, emphasizing the
"laying-on of hands", will be the subject
of a presentation and two-day workshop
given by Dr. Delores Krieger, a professor
of nursing at New York University School
of Education, Health, Nursing and Arts
Professions.
"Therapeutic Touch as a Professional
Health Prcr+ice" will be presented by
Krieger at the College on Friday, Feb
ruary I7, 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. and the
two-day workshop will be Saturday and
Sunday, Feb. I8 andI9.
"Therapeutic touch by the "laying-
on of hands," looks absurdly simple but
is profoundly complex," Krieger said.
"The act consists of the simple placing
of the hands for about IO to I5 minutes
on or close to the body of an ill person
by someone who intends to help or to
heal that person.
"It is an ancient practice, recorded
in the hieroglyphics, cuneiform writings,
and pictographs of the earliest literate
cultures, and it persists to this day,"
she said. "However, it continues as it
has been throughout the centuries: a
little-understood enigma of a signally
human interaction."
Krieger's therapy seeks to create a
feeling of curing that physical closeness
or touching, like stroking a fevered brow
or holding someone's hand, can convey.
She rarely touches a patient and keeps
her hands about an inch away from a
patient's body, she said, "because we're
dealing with energy fields that surround
the body, and touching isn't necessary,
"It is perhaps because touch is sfl
primitive that it is so powerful a thera®
peutic tool," Krieger said.
"For in®
stance, one can hardly imagine the most®
basic of nursing skills being performed'!
without the act of touch."
The 54-year-old Krieger, a longtime I
student of Eastern philosophy and trans-®
cendental thought, said she became in®
terested in the "laying-on of hands®
about IO years ago when she was intro- I
duced to the work of Oskar Estebany |
and Dora Kuntz, two prominent healers®
They convinced her that what they die®
could be done in hospitals, she said.
The Friday presentation will be in the I
Community Center Mall at the College®
Seating is available for 250 and tickets!
may be purchased at the door as early!
as 6:30 p.m.z Pre-registration is available 1
by calling 656-2631, extension 209. Per- |
sons pre-registering must pick their tick-1
ets up by 7:10 p.m. or risk losing those!
seats. Admission is $2 general and $1 for
CCC students.
Krieger will also present a two-dayl
workshop on therapeutic touch Satur-'l
day and Sunday, Feb. 18 and 19. Regis-1
tration for the workshop is $75 and will I
include lunch both days. For registration I
information contact Pat Krumm, 656-1
2631, extension 209.
The presentation and workshop are 1
sponsored by the College nursing depart- 1
ment and the Oregon Nursing Associa
tion, district number 26.
Fish story
College security officer leaves
accepts job with O.C. police
The -College's speech sqt
will be travelling to Kel
Longview, Wash., Feb. Wand
for the Lower Columbia Col
Fifth Annual Smelt Classic.]
TRI-CITY I BO]
By Scott Starnes
Of The Print
Gordon Huiras, once a member
of the College's campus security
force, has been selected by the
Oregon City Police Department as
a probationary officer.
"I was one of the seven potential
officers to be selected by the Ore
gon City police department," Huiras
Government
president and vice-
president, during the 1974 to 1976
years, Huiras was involved with
agility test."
"The remaining 50 percent of campus security for a couple of
our scoring was based upon an oral years.
interview in front of a board con
"Two years ago," Huiras said,
sisting of persons appointed by the "I became a reserve in the Oregon
civil service," Huiras said.
City police department. I was then
After the oral interview, nine promoted to reserve sergeant last
applicants
remained,
including
year and put in some 500 hours of
Huiras, and were then interviewed
volunteer work, such as patrolling.
by the Oregon City chief of police,
The practical experience I received
two lieutenants, and the city re
has benefited me a great deal," he
corder, he said. "Later, we received
said.
notification from the Oregon City
Now that Huirás is a probation-
police department if we had been
accepted," he said. Huiras placed ary officer on the force, he said that
first over the other six officers he would be spending his first year
with an experienced officer who
appointed to the police force.
would act as his trainer..
"I will complete my associate
"Sometimes during this year, I
degree in criminal justice at the
am required to complete a Board
end of winter term," Huiras said.
of Police Standards and Training
According to Huiras, he also,
• course (BPST) before I am to be
has a general studies degree at the
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"Although, in order to remain in
the testing, we all had to pass the
said.
One hundred forty seven parti
cipants took the written examina
tion which constituted 50 percent
of the test, and was held at Oregon
City high school. Out of the 147
reserves being examined,
Huiras
said, the city civil service, which
sponsored the test, eliminated all
but 20.
"The remaining 20 then pro
ceeded to take a physical agility
test, which was either pass/fail, but
the testing had no bearing on total Col lege.
am a certified police officer," Huiras
cumulative points,"
Huiras said.
Besides being Associated Student said.
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