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Education candidate perceive
lack of coordination betwee
government and community college
By Cyndi Bacon
Of The Print
'Community
colleges are
the real hope
for the
future in
education .
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There is a general lack of coordination between state
government and community college presidents and student
body officers, according to Sen. Fred Heard (D-Klamath Falls).
Heard, candidate for State Superintendent of Public In
struction, visited the College last Thursday in an attempt to
reflect his views on legislation and education.
"Let's open up that governmental door so education can
give and receive input," Heard said. "We're (educators) being
killed because our message isn't getting through."
As manager of one of the state's largest non-partisan
departments, the superintendent of public instruction oversee*
kindergarten through twelfth grade and community colleges.
"There's a general lack of knowledge as to what the
superintendent of public instruction has to do with community
colleges," Heard said.
"Community Colleges are the real hope for the future in
education," he said.
Heard's opponents are incumbent Verne Duncan and
Dr. Ruth McFarland, professor in biological sciences at
Mt. Hood Community College, Gresham.
An assistant professor at Oregon Institute of Technology
(OIT) in Klamath Falls, Heard also taught at Klamath Falls
Union High School. He has been in Oregon legislature for
ten years and senate majority leader in the past two
legislative sessions.
Heard is also concerned with issues other than at the
community college level such as the minimal equivalency pro
gram. This is a three and one-half year old competency
testing program affecting high school graduates, beginning
with this year's graduating class.
"The program has been botched up tremendously,"
Heard said. "We'll be lucky if we’re not in court by the end of
the year."
"When you turn teachers into bookkeepers and see a program
tnat is in shambles all over the state, I think you have to look
at how legitimate that program is," he said.
Establishing a statewide reading improvement program,
which will help those districts doing a good job in reading
instruction maintain their programs and provide financial
assistance to those that have trouble, is another concern of
Heard's.
A concept Heard supports is to make lifelong learning
and community school programs more available to all citizens
throughout their lifetime. He opposes mandatory retirement.
Heard has sponsored and supported such legislation as the
open meetings law, legislative review of administrative rules,
the homeowner and renter property tax relief program, merger
of the Fish Commission and Wildlife Commission, moderniza
tion of Oregon's school finance system, the State's community
corrections program and zero base budgeting.
A tour of the campus, including the Confidence Clinic,
science complex, the John Inskeep Environmental Learning
Center, and speaking to small groups of students and faculty
were Heard's activities for the day.
let’s open up that
governmental door so
education can
receive input
Photo by Lorraine Stratte!
Library offers recording systems for students
In the past, the library was a
place to go and read and study.
Now it is a place to listen and
study.
Books and magazines are a-
mong the items at the library
but the staff also have records
and are getting tape cassettes
to go with new record players.
The recorder systems have
AM/FM radio, cassette player,
recording mike and record
changer as well as two cassette
players and six headsets.
The sonic stereoheadphones
are now available for use on the
record players in the listening
centers. One listening center is
located on a table by the ref
erence books and the other is in
a room by the records.
Students can escape midterm
studies or the winter weather
listening to some of the records
the library has available. There
are records in all areas includ
ing
classical,
opera,
jazz
and rock.
Students in music classes or
band may appreciate the fact
that six headsets can be used on
a record player at the same time,
so students can study with a
group of classmates.
If six students wish to listen
together, all they have to do is
check out a listening station at
the front desk. Each station has
six holes to plug the headsets
into. The sound is only in the
headsets and they may listen to
the radio, records, or tapes.
At the present time,there are
no cassette tapes but there are
"record request" forms at the
desk.
"We would like suggestions.
Requests can be made for music,
spoken series on personal devel
opment or self help-anything
they are interested in," said
Margaret Charters, librarian.
The Milk Creek Little School
in Mulino, which is a private
school, currently has an exhibit
of drawings and weavings on
display in the library.
"We hope to have the Milk
Creek Little School weavings
and other exhibits for the Col
lege open house the first week
of spring term," Charters said.
A photo exhibit will also be
on display beginning this week.
The
photographers
are Pat
Odeno and Bob Moravec and the
photographs are of the Teton
Mountains in Wyoming.
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