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Movie class offers Sci-fi, horror films Humanities Visit By J. Dana Haynes Of The Print / Staff photo by Joel Miller Humanities Instructor Gordon Wood and retired educator Alice Teeter preside over a tea sponsored by the Senior Oaks program. Humanities students from the College at tended the luncheon at the Oregon City Senior Center. Lost educational money found Of the approximately 360 veterans attending classes at Clackamas Community Col lege this term, a substantial number are unaware that they are now eligible for federal grants that were denied them at the beginning of the year. The change in eligibility re quirements stems from legisla tion passed by Congress in late October and signed by Presi dent Reagan in early November. Until the beginning of this school year many veterans were elibigible for educational Pell Grants, which are the basis for all federal financial aid. This year eligibility requirements were changed and thousands of veterans lost grants. Then, in September, the Supplemental Appropriations Act was passed and an additional $140,000,000 was provided for Pell Grants. After successful lobbying by veterans groups Congress passed legislation modifying the way veterans were being calculated into the process. “We’re almost back where we started. Not quite, but almost. We’re trying to get the through a word out newsletter,” Scott Fischer, financial aid veterans officer Many of the veterans here (attending the College) are probably elligible again, but the forms must be filled out,” Fischer said. “Included with the forms is an addressed envelope. All the student has to do is put a stamp on it and drop it in a mail box, but nothing can be done until the student mails those forms.” The forms are sent to a processing firm in California, which has been contracted to review the applicants be the federal Department of Educa tion. Pell grants are available as well for non-veteran students. Students wishing to pick up the forms or receive more information can do so at the financial aid office or veterans’ office in the counseling center of the Community Center. Space ships, monsters and ‘some things man was never meant to know’ will dominate the films study class for Winter term. Films of Science Fiction, Horror and Fantasy is the title of the class, which is held on Wednesdays from 2:30-5:30 p.m., and again from 6:30- 9:30 p.m. Each film will be prefaced by a discussion, con ducted by the instructors, Social Sciences Chairperson Fred DeWolfe and An thropology Instructor Richard Ramsperger. The discussions will look at the history of each motion picture, the directors, actors, screenwriters and back- stage personnel. The cinematic offerings in clude: Jan. 12, "The Incredible Shrinking Man,” 1957: Directed by Jack Arnold, this is the film of a man who is expos ed to radioactive gasses and, as the title suggests, begins to shrink. This was the first movie to examine the nuclear threat on one individual person. 81 minutes. Jan. 19, “20,000 Leagues Under the Sea,” 1954: From the pen of Jules Veme and the genius of Walt Disney Studios, this is the story of the redoutable Captain Nemo and the world’s first nuclear sub marine, the Nautilus. Many people consider this to be Verne’s finest novel, and is as prophetic as it is exciting. 127 minutes. Jan. 26, “War of the Worlds,” 1953: Based on the novel by H.G. Wells and the Murcury Theater radio produc tion by Orson Welles. This was one of the first movies to con centrate on realistic special ef fects. Earth is invaded by marauding Martians who seem unbeatable, and upon whom Steven Speilberg’s E.T. may have been patterned. 85 minutes. Feb. 2, “Forbidden Planet,” 1956: The story of a U.S. Patrol ship investigating the survivors of a landing party on the planet Altair-4. This movie is usually considered GET AN EDUCATION MONET CAN'T BUY PLUS $15,200 FOR COLLEGE. 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This was one of the first post-holocaust story-lines, and has often been copied. Considered by most to be one of the true S.F. classics. 92 minutes. Feb. 16, “THX 1138,” 1971: This was George Lucas’ first feature length film. Starring Robert Duval, this is the story of a near future civilization in which emotion is outlawed, ft is an interesting and exciting variation on the “1984” theme. 88 minutes. Feb. 23, “Clockwork Orange,” 1972: Director Stanley Kubrick (“2001, A Space Odyssey” and "The Stand”) created yet another look into the not-too-distant future. This time, as opposed to the society in “THX 1138,” the world is run by man’s most violent and animalistic instincts. This cult classic on mindless violence and mind-numbing drugs is considered by many to be Kubrick’s best film. 137 minutes. March 2, "The Birds,” 1963: This is the only example of Alfred Hitchcock’s work to be presented this term, ft is a variation on the “man versus nature” theme, with a small, California town beseiged by killer birds. 119 minutes. March 9, “Hie Shining,” 1980: Another Stanley Kubrick picture, based on the novel by horror author Stephen King, this is the story of an ex-teacher (Jack Nicholson) who takes his family to run an out-of-season Colorado resort. Unfortunate ly, his son is telepathic, the resort is haunted, and Nicholson’s character is teater- ing on the edge of a nervous break-down. The result is a claustrophobic and exciting flick, of which Steven King once said, “Could it Have been made any better? ... I don’t think so.” 146 minutes. Classes held Clackamas Community College will present two workshops this next week to help community members communicate better with the opposite sex, and leam first aid. “Communication for In- timacy” will help people over come difficulties in male/ female communication, ft will be offered Thursday, Jan. 13 from 7-10 p.m. in CC 101. First Aid techniques will be taught from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Clackamas Town Center Fri day, Jan. 14.
