Computer relays
job opportunities
By Kristi Blackman
Of The Print
“There’s certainly a lot of
ignorance about careers,” Marv
Thornley Career Development
and Placement Officer said
about the attitudes of public in
general on career planning. “A
career is not something that is
decided in two minutes,”
Thornley said.
A Career Information
System (CIS) computer located
in the Career Placementcenter
is ready and able to. help
students find current labor
market and educations infor­
mation and help in career plan­
ning.
This program includes
working conditions, hiring re­
quirements, job outlook in the
area where you want to live,
ways to prepare for employ­
ment, and where to get more
information. The CIS also
stores information about pro­
grams, teaching methods and
degrees. The computer finishes
with a print-out of schools in
the state and also if requested,
schools nationally, their costs,
admission requirements, hous­
ing and services.
The CIS is programmed
for assistance in writing
resumes, completing job ap­
plications and preparing for job
interviews.
“The Computer is housed
in Milwaukie and we receive
access through a phone line,”
Thornley said. “(CIS) is a good
tool of delivering information.
It ties the whole center
together, if one of us are busy
they can go to the computer,”
he said.
Placement Specialist Kate
Ellis said of the CIS, “What is
nice is that they (students) can
come in here and do some
career exploration. It has pretty
good selection too.”
Student Russ McMillen
18, went to the machine for in­
formation of colleges in
Oregon. “They predict by 1988
jobs will be open. Right now
they are closed and teachers
are having trouble finding
jobs,” McMillen said.
McMillen claimed the CIS
aided him in making a decision
on what type of career he
would go into.
According to the Place­
ment Center, 2,000-3,000
persons have used the CIS.
“Non-students as well as peo­
ple of the community have us­
ed this. A student one time
brought in his mother to use
the CIS,” Thornley said.
The Career Placement
Center is open Mondays 8
a.m.-8 p.m. and 8 a.m.-5 p.m.
Tuesday through Friday; infor­
mation can also be obtained at
ext. 213.
WHAT IS NICE is that they (students) can
come in here and so some career explore-
tion, said Placement Specialist Kate Ellis,
Staff photo by Duane Hiersche
Nine-year enigma
Obscene phone calls stir county residents
A series of obscene phone
calls have been reported in the
metropolitan area. The caller
idientifies himself as a student
at Clackamas Community Col­
lege, doing research for a class.
This is not the first time
this caller has operated,
however. The College has
received reports about the pro­
blem for nearly 10 years.
“We were first made
aware of it about nine years
ago,” John Hooley, assistant
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dean of social sciences, said.
“Originally, the caller said he
was in one of my classes, and
was doing reasearch for a
paper.”
The callers current
method of operating is to say
he is in a psychology class at
the College. He also says the
psychology department is up­
dating the Kinsey Report on
sexual behavior. The caller
then requests permission to ask
a few questions on the subject.
The police have been
unable to stop the perpetrator
over the years because, unlike
some obscene phone-callers,
he does not call any one home
more than once. Were he to do
that, a wire-tap and trace
would be possible.
“We tried to get the police
to do something about him
years ago,” Hooley said. “But
there’s really nothing they can
do.”
The caller apparently
makes his phone calls during a
short period of time every year.
The “season” for the calls
varies.
Ironically, this year’s batch
of calls was first brought to the
attention of the College when
Hooley’s wife, State Represen­
tative Darlene Hooley,
D-district 27, received one last
month.
Since then, other calls
have been reported. Jenny
McMurdo, the College’s super­
visor of admissions and records
apparently received one-
“The guy is not dangerous,
other than the fact that he
scares a lot of people,” Hooley
said.
By T. Jeffries
scholarship awards.
Svatos and Perkins, both
second year students on the
College speech team, received
the awards on the basis of
academic achievement and
financial need. The criteria us­
ed for judging included full-
time study in a field relating to
broadcasting or communica­
tions, academic achievement in
that field, extracurricular ac­
complishments, grade point
average, financial need, and
references.
The scholarship fund was
established to assist economic­
ally disadvantaged students in
the communications field.
Awards are given to students in
each area where King Broad­
casting operates. The award
money is sent to the financial
aid office of the College and
the scholarship committee
takes the applications and
makes the final decision.
Svatos and Perkins were two of
five Clackamas Community
College applicants.
is looking for
writers,
King Broadcasting awards $500
photographers and scholarships to Perkins, Svatos
cartoonists. Are
you interested?
Please contact us
in Trailer B, ext.
309, 310
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Clackamas Community
College communications
students Teresa Svatos and
Linda Perkins were recently
awarded scholarships con­
sisting of $500 to be used in the
1982/83 school year.
Dean Woodring, general
manager of KGW-TV an­
nounced the winners of the
eight Portland area King
Broadcasting
Company
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