DR. CORN'S
BLUEGRASS
REMEDY
MARCH 11
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BAR 88 ARENA
Students protest instructor's termination
¡lent group is
being
¡protest the dismissal
iiforcement instructor
Thomas and what they
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ling of the law enforce-
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law enforcement stu-
ieorganized a meeting
the Fireside lounge at
idiscuss the dismissal
ulum expansion.
oup has tentative plans
tonight's College Board
of Education meeting to present
their findings.
Thomas was given notice of
his termination last January. The
reasons for the dismissal was a .
drop in enrollment in the law
enforcement department from
302 students in the fall term
1976 to 146 students in the fall
term 1977, according to Lyle
Reese, division chairperson of
business education and public
service.
"We feel
that enrollment
dropped because the program
was not comprehensive enough
to offer things to officers already
in the field," Calhoon said.
The student group is also
working to
expand the cur­
riculum by adding more practi­
cal classes.
"We need more that we can
use on the streets," Calhoon
said, "The era of the dumb, fat
cop is past and if the community
wants good law enforcement
personnel
we need a better
curriculum."
"If they keep Thomas it will
definitely improve the program,"
said Bob McIntyre, student rep­
resentative to the Law Enforce­
ment Advisory Board.
"Thomas has done a lot for
the taw enforcement school since
he took over and we want him
to stay. Our main goal is to ex­
pand the curriculum and offer
more selective courses to the
students and we feel that Thom­
as is necessary for that," he said.
"I think the curriculum being
offered is good and to get rid of
the man responsible for upgrad-
ing it would be a mistake," Mc­
Intyre said.
The Law Enforcement Ad­
visory Board is made up of most
of the major people within the
law enforcement community in
Clackamas-County, as well as the
assistant district attorney and a
member of the FBI.
According to McIntyre, this
board is doing as much as pos­
sible to solve the problems of
curriculum and losing Thomas.
According to McIntyre, the
law enforcement community is
well , ahead of the students in
working to get technical classes
included in the curriculum of
the College's law enforcement
school.
One problem with technical
courses, according to Calhoon,
is that they can't be so selective
that they couldn't be offered to
anybody who wanted to take
them.
Classes like riflery,
which
could only be offered to a limi­
ted class of students, couldn't
be offered, she said.
The student group is unsure
of how much they can accom­
plish as far as retaining Thomas
and upgrading their curriculum,
but they're willing to go as far
as necessary to make sure that
their demands are listened to and
dealt with.
"We've bounced
the idea
around about a boycott," Cal­
hoon said. "A lot of students
are considering finding another
school if they don't get Dur-
wood."
"We're not downing Zinck
(the other law enforcement in-
structor) it's just that they're
trying to take one of our in-
structors away and we need
them both."
Pendergrass, who is a jailer
for Clackamas County and an
ex-union negotiator-, feels that
the administration shouldn't be
allowed to get rid of one of the
teachers.
He feels that both
instructors are needed in order
to expand the program and give
the students what they need.
Another complaint the stu­
dents have is with the board's
unwillingness to listen to their
problems.
"The board doesn't want to
get involved in telling us who to
go to or who to talk to about
settling this,"
McIntyre said.
"They just say 'do what you can'
and won't give us concrete in­
formation about v\h at to do."
McIntyre is upset about the
proposal to replace Thomas with
two part-time instructors. He
feels that this will not help the
program as much as retaining
Thomas would.
"The only time administra­
tors get involved is when there's
money involved," he said. "I
feel that the school is taking a
back
seat to the whole af-.
fair.
They just don't show a
great deal of concern about the
students."
"What good is it going to do
to say we've got an associates
degree from CCCand have some-
- one interviewing us for a job
laugh in our faces," Calhoon
said.
The student group will be
scheduling other meetings in the
future and hope to meet with
Thomas and Reese. Interested
students should call Calhoon at
655-3341.
School of Nursing to receive
Five-year accreditation award
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Photo by Sam Baer
kit Karate instructor David Riley expels
reVah as he chops through a cement brick
ptting the shuto or knife-hand strike.
Riley and his students displayed their talents in
Randall Gym Tuesday, Feb. 28. (See related
photos on page 11).
A five-year accreditation was
recently granted to the College's
Associate Degree Nursing pro­
gram by the State Board of Nur­
sing.
"This is very unusual," Caro­
line Taylor, nursing department
chairperson, said. "We've never
gotten a five year accreditation
before, and at this point I don't
know of any other community
college that has."
"You have to have an accredi­
tation to even be recognized by
the State Board of Nursing," she
said.
"They obviously must
have liked our program or we
wouldn't have gotten that long
of one."
According to Taylor,
the
long accreditation could have
been granted for a number of
reasons including having excel­
lent results from students taking
state board examinations.
How the program functions,
how the curriculum is written,
how theory and practice are
applied, qualifications of faculty
and generally how a program is
fit together are also factors that'
the state board considers, Taylor
said.
"The State Board of Nursing
was also pleased with the docu­
ment we prepared. She said "it
was very clear
and easy to
follow."
"We're always in the process
of upgrading the curriculum, but
at present time we're not in the
process of doing major changes,"
Taylor said. "We're doing minor
revisions, but we like the cur­
riculum as it is."
The five-year accreditation
will affect approximately 150
nursing students this year.
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