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Wednesday, May 4
Thursday, May 5
Seminar: Medicare and
You
Republican Party
Meeting
Friday, May 6
Saturday, May 7
Sunday, May 8
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Speech Tournament
Job Search Class
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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
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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
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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
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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.