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EVENTS CALENDAR R Wednesday, May 4 Thursday, May 5 Seminar: Medicare and You Republican Party Meeting Friday, May 6 Saturday, May 7 Sunday, May 8 I Speech Tournament Job Search Class j I V Old Time Fiddlers Jam Session Noon-10 p.m. 9 a.m.-Noon 10 a.m.*5 p.m. CC, Barlow, Pauling CC 117 CC Mall 6:30*10 p,m. Small Dining Room Theater I I 1 Vol. XVI, No. 23 Wednesday May 4, 1983 o m • A series °f wee^ seminars Amorir^n • focuses on the evolving nation By J. Dana Haynes Of The Print People often talk about the American Dream. To some, it is a Norman Rockwell vision of simple truths and fun damental morality. To others, it is the great American success story, where anyone can make it to the top of his/her chosen profession. Dr. Bill Kutz, community development coordinator for Clackamas Community Col lege has organized a series of seminars entitled “The Amer ican Dream Lost and Found.” The series was designed to “present a well-articulated look at some pretty important topics,” Kutz said. Those topics will be discussed in seminars, held every Tuesday from 7-9 p.m. in Clairmont 134, through the remainder of spring term. The speakers at each session will be members of the faculty or com munity, and topics will range /j throughout the broad spectrum of life today. The series is already underway. Future workshops will include: —American Dream: The Future, May 10. Bernie Nolan, a counselor for the College and a member of the World Future Society will be the speaker. -American Dream: De mocracy at Work, May 17. Fisher sees end to unconstitutional financial aid rider By Doug Vaughan Of The Print A financial aid rider that would have gone into effect Ju ly 1, 1983, and required males 18-23 applying for financial aid to show proof of registration with Selective Service has been postponed at least until the 1985-86 school year, the Department of Education an nounced in early April. Scott Fischer, financial aid officer at Clackamas Com munity College, disagreed with the rider from the start because of discriminating factors and the excess work it would have caused his office. “I feel they just tried to ramrod it through and hoped that there wouldn’t be any in quiry,” Fischer explained. “But as soon as the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union), several student lobbyist groups, and district court judges started really looking in to the bill, they backed out.” The initial downfall of the bill was a district court ruling in Minnesota on March 9, where a judge issued an injunction stating that the rider was un constitutional. The Department of Education then sent out a memo to colleges stating that the rider, known as the Soloman rule, had been delayed until a better designed plan was adopted. “The Department of Education and Selective Ser vice decided to delay the rider to try and figure out an alter native with less trauma and that would still implement this,” Fischer said. “It was said that it would certainly not go into ef fect in the 1983-84 or 1984-85 school years. Personally, I can’t see it in 1985-86 either. It will be the same reaction.” Fischer is not the only per This discussion will feature ductivity and Management, Mayo Roy, chairperson of the May 31. Dr. Kutz will speak at College’s philosophy/ this seminar. psychology department. --American Dream: The --American Dream: Significance of Religion, June Oregon Politics, May 24, 7. This last session will be run featuring Social Sciences In- - by Wally Johnson, religious structor John Rau and focusing studies instructor for the Col on the “legislative aspects of lege. our tax structure,” among Two seminars have other things, Kutz explained. already been held. They focus —American Dream: Pro ed on Renewing the Dream son who is not afraid to speak out against the bill when it was first proposed. It received ridicule from every side. One organization that spoke out against the rider was the ACLU. “The Executive Director of the ACLU of Oregon (Stevie Remington) sent out a 32-page letter stating that the rider was discriminatory and unconstitu tional,” Fischer said. “This isn’t only happening in Oregon, but all over the nation.” The bill still leaves some concerns for Fischer because he is afraid the information about the injunction has not been widely distributed. He has read that some colleges’ finan cial aid offices still have not received the official letter, and it may still affect students at the College if they are planning to transfer to one of those col leges. “If they are required to show proof of registration they will have to inform the financial aid office that they do not need to,” Fischer said. At the College the finan cial aid office was requiring people to provide draft registra tion status information. They are no longer doing so since the bill was delayed. “We received a lot of students’ certificates (proof of registration) and filed them,” Fischer said. “We notified the students that we had to have proof by fall term, but as it and Men’s and Women’s Dreams. The idea for the sessions first came to Kutz while work ing on the College’s recent Take Charge Day. Kutz was working with Betsy Crist, com munity education specialist. They were discussing various topics of mutual concern, when Crist suggested creating a class to look at some of these same issues. Kutz admits that the for mat for the American Dream series is very similar to that of the Nuclear War Convoca tions, which have been held on campus throughout this term. “What we’re doing is definitely similar to the nuclear work shops,” Kutz said. “We’re try ing to bring people from on- campus to a setting where there is a lot of time for discus sion and interaction.” To date, the audiences for the sessions have averaged (Continued on page 4) stands now we are not requir ing that.” In the letter from the Department of Education they encouraged students to pro vide information as to their registration status now in case the bill is put back to action.