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Roy suggests coordination of life, philosophy By T. Jeffries Of The Print Contrary to popular belief, philosophy did not die out with the ancient Greeks. It is alive and well in the classes of Mayo Roy, philosophy department chairperson and psychology in structor. In addition, Roy was recently named in the Who’s Who of the World’s Women. Roy, who came to Clackamas Community Col lege in 1968, studied at Linfield College and the University of Chicago. She taught at Benson High School before becoming a counselor and then director of financial aid at the College. In 1973 she attended the 15th World Conference of Philosophy and was shortly thereafter named in Who’s Who. “There aren’t too many women with Masters degrees in philosophy,” Roy said. “That and my position as director of financial aid gave me sort of an administrative look.” However, Roy has found that philosophy has lagged behind psychology in populari ty recently. “Philosophy used to be required for a business degree. Business is very in terested in new and different ideas, and asking ‘why’ is the philosophical question. So, I urge some of my psychology students to take philosophy. We all have basic ideas on the nature of the universe, but we don’t always realize that others have totally different views. This can affect the way people act,” she said. “Many of philosophy’s questions have been taken over by other professions,” Roy said. “The first great philosophical question was on the nature of the universe. Now physicists are asking about the nature of the black hole. They can count everything, but they need a theory to explain it by. In the 1600’s Leibniz published an essay on logic called The Arts of Combination. Today, that same technique is used in com puters.” Psychology, too, has its foundation in philosophy, Roy added. Each therapy has a basis in a different philosophy. Art criticism is also philosophy based, being derived from the original theory of beauty, she explained. “Of course we don’t have philosophers today with the depth of Plato or Aristotle, who looked at how the dif ferent peoples of the world could live together in peace. But we still have the same pro blem,” Roy said. “There are some philosophers still publishing today, but they tend to be pretty technical, not for the general public.” The West Linn City Coun cil has reversed an earlier stand and voted 4-2 to oppose con struction of the proposed Oregon City garbage burning project. The vote marked the first time a government body has taken a position against the $250 million proposal. The council had voted last year to endorse the burner, but contin uing citizen opposition and concern over air quality prompted the council to reopen hearings last month. West Linn would be the prime impact area for pollution front the plant. The Sunset Grade School Parent-Teacher-Student Organization has also come out against the garbage burner. The parents were apparently unhappy to find out that the “Coping with change is the biggest problem facing peo ple today. It’s coming too fast,” Roy said. “With such tremen dous change going on there are people who feel they can’t cope. In response they turn back to the past, wanting to go back to ‘the good old days.’ Unfortunately, this is a reversal of the growing process. The ‘good old days’ weren’t so good. People like that could really benefit from philosophy. It tries to make sense out of the world. change change because Philosophy affects almost as much as affects philosophy, of value changes.” Staff Photo by Roberta Ellsworth Placement Center sponsors day Students learn about career opportunities By Doug Vaughan Of The Print Students will have a chance to gain additional infor mation about their career choice at the Clackamas Com munity College Career Market Wednesday, Nov. 3 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Com munity Center. Career Development Specialist Marv Thornlèy said that the market is a career News Flash New burner faces doubt Roy also feels that popular philosophy has become psychology and the cult phenomenon, “People go to cults because they’re looking for a ‘Truth.’ They expect to find it engraved in stone somewhere. Traditional religious philosophies are always getting holes poked in them, so they look elsewhere. There is no ‘Truth’ per se in philosophy. It’s a questioning process, it has no answers. Our age is no different from any other. We’re all looking for that truth, but truth is relative and must be found by each in dividual,” she said. grade school would be in a high impact area for new air pollu tion, especially lead and sulfur dioxide, from the burner. ASG selects new senate The Associated Student Body has started rolling with the selection of its new senators, who will serve for the remainder of the 1982-83 school year. The bulk of the group will serve on the Activities Council led by Steve Vohs, activities director. They are; Sharon Bli- ques, Ben Campbell, Martina Kolince, Etta Leonard, and Jeff Smith. Aids are Emma Espinal, assistant to the president, and Brett Bigham and Christian Espinal. Vice President Jay Schaller will be aided by Mark Wednesday, October 27, 1982 based project and not a job on their career choices. All of the work in the search. The market is developed for the students with market has been volunteered; the main target being college therefore, there is no charge. freshmen. It is .also open to the Thornley said that speakers not community. only volunteered their time but The project contains most of them called him to par representatives from 60 dif ticipate. He feels this is mainly ferent career areas, and because it is a career project speakers from more than 50 rather than a job search. different companies. They will “Most people going to col talk about the specific careers in lege are looking at plans for the which they are involved so next five years and not the rest students can gain information of their life,” Thornley said. He feels that the market will give the students more information on their chosen career so they are sure of their decision. The event is the third of its kind at the College, and DiRito, as well as Don Porter. Thornley feels it is getting better Tim Sytsma will be work every year. Most of the input ing with Shirene Hayes, the has come from past speakers newly selected administrative and it has been positive. Con assistant to the president. sidering that many speakers for The group gathered Fri this year’s event have spoken day, Oct. 15, for an initial lear at the previous two, he thinks ning retreat helped at Menucha they feel it’s worth their time. near Corbett, Oregon. There have been few The group also was alloted changes for this year’s market. time to get acquainted with one Five additional careers will be another, and generally get a covered (computer repairs, court reporting, aerobics, op feel for what ASG is about. tometry and publication careers), in addition to a few minor adjustments have been made as a result of suggestions ASG spurs copier idea For the past week and a half and for the remainder of this week, Student Activities of fice is offering free copy machine usage. Students are asked to fill out a questionnaire about the performance of the machine. made by past speakers. The 60 job areas are separated into 10 categories. They are business administra tion, marketing business opera tions, engineering and design, electronics and computer careers, education and social services, health careers, mechanics/ manufactur- ing/crafts, services and transportation and com munications and the arts. Sue Jacobs, Career Specialist for the College, is the organizer of the market this year, which was originally designed by the Job Placement Center. Thornley expects a larger turnout this year due to the im pact of the economy. He sees more job seekers than in years past. He feels that people who did not expect to get laid off, but did, will take advantage of the market in order to research other areas. He also feels the effects of the economy will urge students to explore career op portunities before they make their final decision. Thornley compares the market to a grocery store. “We will have a list at the door. They can pick up a list and start shopping,” he