Financial aid/draft rider overturned once more
By Renee Rickard
Of The Print
“The Solomon Amend
ment,” a controversial new
law banning all male
students between the ages
of 18 and 23 who have not
registered for the Selective
Service from receiving any
financial aid, will be of
ficially enforced at all
universities and colleges,
nationwide, beginning Oct-.
1.
This piece of legisla
tion is the brainchild of
Republican New York Rep.
Gerald Solomon, who, in a
U.S. News interview, June 6,
1983, insists that even though
96 percent of all requested
men, have complied with the
law, “it is important for the
government to go after every
last violator of the law and to
Telecourse credit available
through Vietnam series
By Shelley Ball
Of The Print
An in-depth look at the
Vietnam War can earn stu
dents telecourse credit at
Clackamas Community Col
lege, through a 13-part series
entitled “Vietnam: A Televi
sion History.”
The series began Oct. 4
and will continue through
Dec. 20 on channel 10. The se
cond segment of the series airs
tonight from 9-10 p.m., and
the following episodes will air
every Tuesday at the same
time.
Chairperson of Social
Sciences Fred DeWolfe will in
struct the Vietnam telecourse,
a subject he considers
necessary for students to be
aware of.
“Vietnam is a subject of
mixed interests, and if we
(United States) want to avoid
the mistakes of another Viet
nam, we need to find out what
those mistakes were,” he said.
The telecourse will pro
vide comprehensive coverage
of the Vietnam War, from as
early as 1945 to 1975, with em
phasis placed on the period
from 1965 to 1973, a time of
heavy U.S. involvement. It is
set against the background of
the French colonial period in
Indochina.
Although parts of the
series are not new to the Col
lege, DeWolfe said this time
the entire program will be
shown for the telecourse.
DeWolfe also said the parts of
the series he has seen were
“fairly objective and com
plete.
“All the participants (in
the war) are involved, all the
good and bad guys,” he said.
The program was produc
ed by PBS’s Boston affiliate
WGBH, and Britain’s Central
Independent Television and
France’s Antenne 2 were also
involved in series production.
As for the telecourse,
DeWolfe suggests students
“should ask themselves verv
serious questions: why we
were involved, and to what ex
tent we failed or succeeded. If
they (students) ask questions
about this one (Vietnam),
maybe they’ll ask questions
before going into another
situation,” he said.
use all available means to do
so.”
For college students, the
“means” Solomon refers to
are the heavily relied on,
federally-funded student aid
programs.
In order for any male stu
dent to receive financial aid,
he must at some point indicate
that he has registered for the
Selective Service. If the stu
dent has not yet registered or
refuses to register for the
draft, he must automatically
be refused government aid un
til he does comply.
Though colleges and
universities must administer
the law to students, it is the
last place where support for-
the Solomon Amendment is to
be found. Financial aid
counselors, such as Scott
Fischer in the Clackamas
Community College Financial
Aid office, find the respon-
sibility imposed on them a job
terribly misplaced.
They believe that it is a
job for law enforcers--not col
lege financial aid counselors.
Fischer also questions why
Congress decided to make
financial aid applicants the on
ly group subject to immediate
punishment by lack of com
pliance with the law.
Students from lower in
come families who rely solely
on government aid for their
education have less freedom of
choice when it comes to either
complying with the Selective
Service law or simply avoiding
it. Students from higher in
come families may find alter
native ways to get the financial
assistance they need without
having to comply with the law.
But this and other accusa
tions made against the amend
ment, such as violation of due
process and equal protection
under the law, self-incrim-
ination, and discrimination on
the basis of age, sex, income
and race seem to some con
stitutional law experts to be
too fragile an argument to
stand the legal test if the issue
reaches the Supreme Court.
Court.
At the moment Congress
is waiting for the Supreme
Court to reconvene in Oc
tober, hoping to get the law
reviewed by the Justices and
proved constitutional beyond
any doubt.
Meanwhile, colleges, in
cluding Clackamas Communi
ty College, have already
started requiring Selective Ser
vice registration as a necessary
part of applying for student
aid, but only because at this
point the requirement apears
to be a legal inevitability.
No smoking law affects College
By Heather Wright
Of The Print
Effective this summer,
smoking is prohibited at
Clackamas Community Col
lege, except in designated
areas.
The Legislature passed
the Oregon Clean Air Act in
1981. The law was designed to
protect public health and the
environment by prohibiting
smoking in public places.
Here at the College there
are certain places where people
can smoke. These areas are the
student lunchroom, and in
some buildings where ashtrays
are provided.
There was a meeting,
Tuesday, Oct. 4, which was
decided where the no smoking
signs will be posted on cam
pus. Those signs will then be
purchased and posted accor
dingly.
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OREGON INDOOR CLEAN Air Act was enacted this
summer. Smoking will only be permitted in designated
areas throughout the College.
Out of approximately 12 should be able to smoke
student smokers interviewed anywhere they wanted.
by The Print, 10 agreed that
Although some public
the Oregon Clean Air Act is
beneficial, because smoking places do not have no smoking
offends non-smokers. The signs posted yet, eventually
other two students who they all will include designated
disagreed thought that they areas for smokers.
College Take Charge Day commences Oct. 22
By Charlene Jensen
Of The Print
Take Charge, a day-long
event, will be held Oct. 22 at
Clackamas Community Col
lege. Take Charge Day is a
program for students and the
public, , those interested in
planning for their futures, the
underemployed, people chang
ing careers, and those wanting
to learn about careers in small
businesses.
The program was started
last spring and began with the
concept of getting people in
volved in creating oppor
tunities for themselves. “One
of the realities of the Oregon
situation is that there is no
quick fix for our economic
problems.” Marv Thornley of
the Career Development and
Placement Center said. “The
idea of this program isn’t to
Wednesday October 5, 1983
hand out jobs, but to make
people aware of their
resources, to make them plan
for the future.”
A variety of 40-50 careers
will be offered at the career
market, which will be held at
the beginning of the Take
Charge Day. Individuals will
be able to talk one-on-one
with career professionals, such
as those in the health care and
banking field.
There also will be several
workshops offered, some of
which are: Handling Stress,
Personal Budget, Computer
Career, and Self Assessment.
Also, practical help for the
present is offered with
seminars on intensive garden
ing, and eating well on less.
There will be facts on resume
writing and employers respond
ing on the issue of interviews.
All of the individuals in?
volved in the career market
and the workshops are people
volunteering their time.
“The idea . . .
isn 7 to hand out
jobs, but to make
people aware of their
resources . . . ”
Take Charge is offered to
anyone interested and is
valuable even to the already
employed who want to
sharpen their knowledge.
There is no fee for the one-day
program, and a lunch will be
included for free.
Those interested should call
the college at 657-8400 ext. 501
and reserve a place at the
meeting. A packet on the
seminars will be provided for
everyone who. attends.
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