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Vol. XIV, No. 9
Faculty assume role of student advisers
By request of the counseling
department, students will now
have to turn to their teachers
for special advising. This advis-
[ ing includes which courses to
: take for specific .majors, and
. which of these courses are
¡transferable.
. It’s official title is faculty ad-
I vising, and every college in the
[ state has this except Clackamas
land Lane Community College.
I This is according to Arthur
[Hames, , the Director of
|Counseling. “Students are
[assigned to their department
[major (Theatre, business,
[agriculture, etc.) and that
[specific department’s faculty
[will work with the students,”
Hames said.
| According to Hames, the
faculty will cover the specifics
of advising. This covers specific
course information. “There is a
[dimension in advising that the
[counselor just can’t handle,”
[Hames said, “Teachers know
what your quality of work is
land the difficulty of courses
that you might have to take at,
say the University of Oregon.
This allows the student to get
(more opportunity to find out
| the contents of a class,” he
laid.
[ What will the counselors do
with the extra time they now
pave? “We will spend more
lime dealing with students,”
Hames said.,Right now, only
seven counselors are taking
care of over 4,000 students.
rWe have less than four
¡minutes a year per full-time stu-
Ident,” Hames said. “The
counselors can answer ques­
tions more, fully. Many
students, after • they have
transferred to a different col-
lege, complain of us not telling
them enough.. ‘Why didn't you
tell me- this and that!’ they
would say.”
The concept of faculty advis­
ing is not a new one. A memo
on the subject was first passed
around the ranks in 1971. “We
couldn’t get enough support
from the faculty back then,”
Hames said, “When we had
only a few hundred students to
advise, it was no problem.
However, seven counselors
can’t advise 4,000 students,”
he said.
Students who have specific
majors are going to thier
department teachers for advis­
ing. Students who don’t have a
specific major (General
Studies) will go to the
counselors for advising until
they decide on a major. One
teacher suggested that it is the
student’s responsibility to get
specific information from the
school they wish to attend.
A conflict has risen,
however. Not all the teachers
are happy with the new fact in
their jobs; Tom Richards, the
chairman for the English
department, said, “Not that I
disagree with faculty advising,
it’s just that it’s like getting a
new job without any added
compensation for the added
work.” >.
“Current teaching loads are
hard enough. It’s going to be a
real burden to give the students
the
best
advise
possible. Richards
said,
“Nothing has been sent over
from the counseling to help
me.”
Art Hames said, “We can
advise what they need. We
have catalogs to any college.”
Not all the teachers are
angered over this incident.
“We have been advising
students since, the beginning,”
said Carol Evans, the depart­
ment chairperson Tor ABE,
GED, ASE, “We handle our
own students here,” she said.
Jennie Mahali, of the drama
department, said of herself and
Kermit Shaffer, “We¥e both
very happy about it.
I love advising the students.’
she contends
Police add surprise
To birthday party
By R.W. Greene
A well-organized, and
heavily attended party at
the Oregon City Armory
last Saturday turned out
to be an enjoyable affair,
according to several
students who attended,
in spite of an early shut*
down by Oregon City
Police.
Chief
of
Police
Richard Martin, who was
on duty that night and at
the scene, said the
department dispatched
officers to the scene
after receiving com­
plaints from residents of
loud
noise
and
rowdiness. At one point
15 officers were at the
scene, said Martin, “but
fortunately we didn’t
have to do anything.”
The organizers of the
party were requested to
shut down at midnight
and dlcj so, said Martin.
Leaflets for the event
had been floating around
the College for two
weeks,
advertising
“Michele’s Birthday Par­
ty,” beer, and a rock
band, The Edge of Max,
all for the price of $2 in
advance or $2.50 at the
door. According to Tom
Simmons, the organizer
of the party, who is also
an ASG senator and
keyboardist for the Edge
of Max, the crowd ex­
ceeded his estimates. He
had anticipated about
400 to 500 and instead
wound
up
with
1200-1400, he said. He
also said he was expec­
ting to break even finan­
cially on the event, but
instead came out with
$200 profit, after taking
in $2400 and paying ex­
penses of $2200 for such
things as rental of the Ar­
mory and beer. He ex­
plained the reasons for
the party were his
girlfriend’s birthday and
a showcase for the band.
According to Chief
Martin, no citations were
issued, but he mention­
ed fights in the parking
lot, urination on the
street and the over-filling
of the Armory, which is
supposed to be at
capacity at 400, but ac­
cording to his estimates,
the number was closer to
600. His main concern
was the alcohol con­
sumption by minors, and
this is why he stopped
the party, he said.
“You get all those kids
together, and there’s not
going to be a whole lot of
order.”
He said Simmons was
cooperative when he
asked that the party be
stopped.
Simmons denies any
knowledge of fights.
When he was in the park­
ing lot, he saw none, he
said.
“We were just there to
have a good time,” he
says.
According to a couple
of students who were at
the party, it was a suc­
cess. The band was
great, they said. One
said he counted 14 kegs
of beer at one point.
“Sure was a lotta
drunk kids, though,” he
observed.
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