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Financial Aid Q & A Q: I am over 21 years of age, does my parents’ income affect my eligibility for finacial aid? A: If any of the following questions can be answered YES your parent’s income must be considered. WHEN BEING CONSIDERED FOR FINANCIAL AID ELIGIBILITY a. Did you live with your parents for at least 6 weeks (42 days)? b. Did you receive more than $750 in support from your parents? c. Were you declared as a tax exemption? Q: I understand that President Reagan has cut student aid budgets—are there funds left? A: Yes, there are still funds left! Even though some funding has been reduced, the Pell Grant funds and bank loans are Still available. Applications can be picked up at the Financial Aid Office, in the Community Center. Q: I am receiving Veteran’s benefits; am I eligible for any grant funds? A: Possibly. Recent Congressional action has changed thè way a students’ GI Bill is treated as a resource. If you were turned down earlier, you may receive a revised offer of financial aid. If you have not applied for a Pell'Grant, you should do so. im mediately. Applications are available in the Financial Aid/Veterans’ Office. Q: My wife lost her job last month; can my application for financial aid be reconsidered? A: Yes. You should speak to a Financial Aid counselor. We can update your file and help you resubmit your Pell Grant us ing a Special Conditions Form. Q: Is there a limit to how long I can receive Financial Aid at Clackamas Community College? A: Yes. Full-time students may recente aid for only eight terms. While a student may appeal for extensions, these are only approved in rare cases. Thus, it is important to select classes that apply toward ypur degree objectives. A counselor can assist you ih class selection. Q: I was found ineligible for financial aid because my parents’ income is too high; do I have any other alternatives? A: Yes. The College does advertise many private' scholarships. Some of these do not require financial need to be considered. Keep your eye on the scholarship bulletin board in the Finacial Aid Office. You may be eligible to borrow funds for educational purposes through the GSL (Guaranteed Student Loan) or PLUS (Parents Loans to Undergraduate Students) programs. Addi tional information and forms are available in the Financial Aid Office. Dr. Hakanson plans future (Continued from page 1) went to the University' of California with the expressed desire of becoming a communi ty college president. After receiving his doctorate in educational administration he returned to Oregon in 1967 to become dean of instruction at the newly opened Clackamas Community College. Then, in 1969 he became President of the College. Another of his goals is more buildings. . “We need more classrooms, more office space, a new library, an auditorium, an adequate autd body shop and decent music facilities. Buildings must be prioritized, and then the funds for them found,” he feels. “We’re required to upgrade our facilities every two years by the state, anyway. For that reason we’ve got the long range plann ing committee here at the Col lege (composed of between 25 and 30 members'of the com-, munity, college staff, student government and board members). We try to find out what the needs of certain groups are and address those needs. Groups like the hew Southeast Asian immigrants have very special needs. Some don’t have a written language of their own, sb it’s more dif ficult for them to learn . English.” Hakanson has also notic ed that the quality of education of students entering the Col lege from public high schools has gone down. “We have a large remedial program. Students can’t learn if they can’t read and write well. Many colleges expect students to automatically have the study skills necessary. We now make our full time students take a placement exam. If they don’t do well they are encouraged to- take remedial courses. We don’t want our open door to Dr. John Hakanson Staff Photo by Rick Obritschkewitsch become a revolving door. It wouldn’t do the College or our society any good.” he said. “It wets a new experience for me,” Hakanson said. “I had some pretty definite ideas about what I thought a com munity college should be like . I had quite a few goals, too. Some have been realized, some haven’t. One of my main goals was to get more into the community and still maintain-a program of high quality on- campus instruction. I think we’ve seen this happening. At first no one knew what to make of a community college. They didn’t know what to expect, but in the last few years we’ve seen an increase, in the number of younger students coming to the College fresh out of high school with the intention of getting in to the college transfer program. People have found out that community colleges do good quality educating,” he said. “Community education, too, has been greatly improv ed. More community colleges aré doing more community education and development, but other colleges run the same programs in different ways,” he explained. “We take education to where the people are. Our community education is deter mined by each individual com munity. We pay some of the funds, but the community decides oh the program. Other colleges use the extension idea where the community school is an extention of the college. No other college in the county goes as extensively into the community as we_do.” “No one has to come to school here,” Hakanson con cluded. “Yet, enrollment con tinues to increase. I think that says alot.” < Campus drug, alcohol policy passes By Shelley Ball Of The Print Despite mixed emotions concerning Clackamas Community College’s revised alcohol and drug policy, it was approved unanimously at the College’s Board of Education meeting Wednesday night at Holly Farm Mall in Milwaukie. Although the majority of citizens and students at tending the meeting expressed agreement towards the policy, citizen Jim Hauser was one who disagreed. Hauser, a student here, felt the College to be “a higher level of learning, not a continuation of high school,” and that students should be allowed to have a lounge on campus. Confusion between the alcohol policy and the ppssiblé National Guard Armory on campus led to the discussion of the policy, which was written to cover the College grounds only. The newly written policy will also allow the Col lege to prosecute, Dean of Students Jim Roberts said at the meeting. The approved policy is as follows: “No person or organization may bring onto the campus for ingestion any intoxicating beverage, dangerous drug, narcotic, marijuana, glue or thinner. No person may appear on càmpus under the influence of any of the above-mentioned items.” Exceptions to the use of the above-mentioned: 1. Alcoholic Beverages Only to be used for cooking and/or instruc page 4 tional purposes in science and food prepara tion labs or courses related to the science and/or service of alcoholic beverages or agricultural related programs. 2. Dangerous Drugs and Narcotics Only to be used as legally prescribed by a licensed physician. 3. Glue or Thinner Only to be a used in course-related lab en vironments and in plant construction and maintenance. Other items discussed at the meeting included the armory itself. Associated Student Government Presi dent Paul Nastari revealed the results of a survey of 56 College students (40 of them attending the College next year) and their feelings toward the armory. The survey asked students whether or not they wanted an armory, which drew 29 yes, 23 no and four undecided votes. The survey' also asked students if an armory would make a difference on campus, to which they voted 20 yes, 32 no and four undecided. The decision of whether or not to put an armory on campus is still undecided at this point. A telephone survey of 180 random names from the county concer ning the armory is still in progress, College President John Hakanson said during the meeting. Clackamas Community College
