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