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.
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