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SPRINT
Wednesday October 19, 1983
Clackamas Community College
Vol. XVII, No. 3
‘Take Charge’ tackles county unemployment
By Shelley Ball
Of The Print
You are unemployed. Your family has gone
from two incomes to one. Or you may be trying to
go into business yourself to supplement your in
come, maybe even to support yourself completely.
Or you might be changing careers.
Sound familiar? To those who fit into one of
the above categories, or who are experiencing
some other kind of economic difficulty,
Clackamas Community College may be able to
hlep with its Take Charge Day, which begins this
Saturday, Oct. 22.
Co-sponsored by the College and the
Clackamas County Private Industry Council, this
is the second Take Charge Day to be held on cam
pus. The first Take Charge Day took place last
spring, and had a turnout of 533 people.
This year the number of participants is ex
pected to be between 400-500, Lee Fawcett, assis
tant dean of student aid and support services said.
Also, Fawcett said that holding Take Charge
Day so early in the year will give the people who
signed up in April, but weren’t able to get in an
opportunity to attend now.
Take Charge Day is a day-long event that will
run from 8 a.m.-2:45 p.m. It is however, a
modified version of the first Take Charge Day,
which was made possible through the approximate
200 evaluations handed in last spring.
“Our biggest reply was ‘I couldn’t get to
everything,’” Fawcett said. Because of this
response, Fawcett explained that the more popular
workshops will be repeated during the day, and he
said only the workshops and agencies receiving the
most response last April will be returning this
time.
“We will focus on the workshops that were
the most successful, and we will cut down on the
number of agencies,” Fawcett said.
Another change for this month’s Take
Charge Day is the addition of a Career Market.
Subtitled Growth Careers In the ’80s, the
Career Market will consist of representatives from
private industry careers, and College members
who have started small businesses, Career
Development Specialist Sue Jacobs said.
The fields of business administration and
marketing, engineering and design, electronic and
computer careers and communication and the arts
are a few of the careers that will be present at the
Career Market.
Two interesting attractions at the Career
Market will be an air-operated robot from Preci
sion Cast Parts, and graphic design represen
tatives Dennis and Nancy Biasi. The Biasis are
members of the Saturday Market, and they are the
creators of the popular “Oregon” t-shirts.
Former College students representing their
careers will also be at the Career Market, as well as
Alan Zell and Jerry Leadham, who will represent
the College’s Small Business Administration and
the Small Business Assistance Center.
The Career Market will run from 8-9:30
a.m. and will be in the Community Center. Unlike
the business-type center held at the first Take
Charge Day, Fawcett said the Career Market is
much larger.
In addition the the Career Market, Take
Charge Day will also feature workshops, which
are divided into three parts: Career Hunt, Self-
Employment and Living on Less.
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Students encouraged by ASG,
Red Cross to donate blood
By J. Dana Haynes
Of The Print
Photo by Joel Miller
The Associated Student
Government, in conjunction with
Oregon Red Cross, will hold a
blood drive in the Community
Center Mall on Wednesday, Oct.
24.
The drive will be held from
11 a.m.-4 p.m., Red Cross
Spokesperson Denis Donin said.
The ASG is shooting for a goal of
80 units, or pints, donated.
To give blood, the donor
must be between the ages of 17
and 65, and must weigh at least
110 pounds. “After donating
blood, a person must wait 56
days to donate again,” Donin
said. A person may donate as
often as five times per ye<u.
The blood collected at the
College will go to hospitals and
clinics throughout Oregon, as
well as a few in Washington and
Idaho, Donin said. The blood
will be fractionated into three
primary units: Red blood cells,
platelets and plasma.
The red blood cells are used
for surgery recipients. Platelets
aid in the clotting process of
blood and are of vital importance
to leukemia and carcinoma pa
tients (many of whom die from
bleeding, rather than from the
cancer itself). Plasma is used for
burn or shock patients.
Blood drives are held once
per term at the College. The last
one, Spring term of 1982-83, net-
ted 60 units of blood from 84
donors. More than 20 would-be
donors were deferred for medical
reasons. Donors may not use cer
tain types of medication or have
suffered from certain illnesses.
Last year, blood drives
across the nation, and here on
campus, were lower than usual.
Donin said the drop in
volunteerism stemmed partially
from the misconception that one
can become infected with AIDS
(Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome) from giving blood.
Donin pointed out that no one
can contract AIDS by giving
blood, although evidence sug
gests some people have acquired
the illness from receiving blood.