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Vol. XVI, No. 25 Summer financial aid available for vets By Shelley Ball Of The Print In order to avoid an in terruption in their pay, all veterans taking summer courses are advised to begin filling out and completing registration forms by May 20, Kathy Scheer, financial aid-veterans specialist said. This year, in order to receive full pay for summer classes veterans must take eight credits for an eight-week session, and co-op courses, veterans must veterans taking variable credit must also attend class 12 hours a take six credits of co-op plus a courses should complete their full week, Scheer said. This listing of two-credit class, which they must number of credit hours because the number of hours spent in attend at least three hours a they may have an overpaytment class is a new Congressional week. For 10-week long courses, with the Veterans Admin requirement this year in filling veterans must take 12 credits. istration. out the registration forms, she Scheer also suggested There are currently around said. veterans should “bring trial 350 veterans attending the The earlier veteran’s class registration forms to the regular year at Clackamas schedules can be entered into the veterans office before Community College. Although computer at the veterans registration,” in order to insure usually not many veterans attend regional office in Portland, they have the appropriate summer term, Scheer said about Scheer said, the better the number of credits and contact 175 are expected to attend this chances are of keeping their hours. She said lab, PE and summer, mainly because the job payments from temporarily secretarial science science market has been so poor. stopping. classes will not be handled in the “When they can’t go out and Scheer suggested that same manner as other courses. find a job, they will tend to stay in veterans try to avoid program In addition to certifying for school, because at least they have degree changes between summer summer term, veterans can be their GI Bill,” she said. and fall term, as they can lose certified through next spring, if Despite economic hard their summer term break pay. they turn in a completed fall trial times, Scheer said all veterans “If they lose their pay, they will registration form by August 31, who apply for certification will lose a lot; it’s worse than two 1983, Scheer said, otherwise they receive benefits, which is weeks,” she said, as the break will be decertified. Fall term currently $342 a month for a full- between summer and fall term is appointment cards and schedules time, single veteran. “This is a the biggest of all three terms. benefit-either you’re eligible or will be available August 16. To be considered full-time for It is also advised that not,” she said. Malheur Wildlife Refuge : Oregon’s natural heritage preserved Petition calls for arms halt Clackamas Community College’s Women’s Resource Center will be circulating a petition May 24 calling for an end to war and the stockpiling of weaponry. “We thought it would be good to do something that would do the most towards making a stand on world peace,” said Cindy Petersen, “banning nuclear (weapons) activity would be appropriate now. The more it goes on unbanned the more chance there is something will go wrong.” The center will have a table, co-sponsored by the World Citizens for World Peace in the Community Center Mall from 11:30 to 2 p.m. The petition drive is designed to coincide with the final “Con vocation on Nuclear War” talk with Bill Kutz, scheduled for May 24, noon to 1 p.m. in McLoughlin Theatre. The discussion will be free. For more information, call Pam Williams or Cindy Petersen at 657-8400, ext. 306. It’s a place where there is something for just about everyone. There are birds galore, plants, hiking trails, and geological finds. This place is Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, the site of a field trip for the College’s science department last Thur sday, May 12, through Sunday, May 15, with Deryl Hampton, Florence Lee, Shirley Cressler and Gail Jacobsen, science in structors at the College. Fortunately the beginning of the trip was not an omen as to how the rest of it would turn out. It was planned that the bus would begin being loaded at 11:30 on Thursday so that the trek down to the refuge near Bums could begin at noon. The plan was to arrive at Malheur by 9 p.m. With only about 30 of the 350 miles left on the journey, “Bob the Bus Driver,” as everyone called him, decided he had better get some fuel in the bus. Leaving the 38 students and four instructors off near a Dairy Photo by Rick Obritschkewitsch Queen in Bums, we rested while he drove off to fill the bus. Most people, not realizing we would have to wait as long as we did, didn’t wear coats or jackets. As it turned out, it was about a 20- minute wait in the cool evening air. Arriving at the refuge about a half hour later, we found that the road was partly washed out. But that was a little problem compared to some of the other ones that lay ahead. (continued on page .4.)*