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AM newscast featured at TV Learning Center By M. Ekholm Of The Print Many students may realize Clackamas Community College offers telecourses via TV, but how many are aware of the College’s Channel 9 News Show at the Television Learning Center? The television station, complete with control rooms and cameras is all located on campus. “We reach all the people who are on cable in the Oregon City, Gladstone, West Linn, Lake Oswego plus Clackamas County areas,” Bob Wynia, director of the Television Learning Center, said. “Channel 9 started three years ago. The original purpose from the very beginning was to play telecourses so that homebound people such as mothers, the handicapped, whoever could not come in easily and who wanted to take some credit courses could get them by just watching TV,” Wynia explained. He added that the Television Learning Center involves Cable TV plus the television studio and all the control rooms, and has nothing to do with the telecourses. “We (center) are just responsible to make sure that they (telecourses) get played on the air; and making sure that the system is running smoothly all the time, which is part of our video control room,” Wynia said. “What the center does is to make television shows for a variety of people such as the (College) faculty. One video tape has been put together for the counseling department about graphic arts. It runs about six minutes long and is for students who may be in terested in taking graphic arts classes, but want to learn more about it first. The counseling department will use this tape for new students, but in the future it may be available to view from the TV phone monitors, located in McLoughlin Hall, the Pauling Center, Barlow Hall and Clairmont Hall. Steve Johnson, video technician, said the monitors are available Monday through Friday from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Johnson added the Television Learn ing Center provides a service not only to students and the community, but to fire and police departments as well. “We tape for speech classes, guest lec tures, seminars, live music shows, theater plays and out on location with the TV taping equipment,” he said. As for the future of the Television Learning Center, Wynia said, “Even tually it will become a teaching center again, where students will come in and take courses on how to produce televi sion shows, how to write for them, edit them, and run the cameras.” Such a teaching center may be available by next year, he added. The news show is on every morning at 8:45 a.m. for approximately 15 minutes. It is also on again at 5:30 p.m. for this term only. The news show covers all of the things that are happen ing here on campus in addition to specials and local community news. It is taped once a week, and the show is repeated each morning at 8:45 a.m. “We do a lot of interviews with students,” Wynia said. College students interviewed last year included a Miss Oregon contender, a national champion runner, and a woman weight lifter. Wynia also said if anyone knows Steve Johnson and Bob Wynia anything interesting that could be film ed, they should contact him at ext. 241 or 270. “I would like to get more student participation plus more students in terested in viewing the news show by Photo by M. Ekholm turning it on in the Community Center building and getting used to watching it to find out what is going on. I would like to see more clubs come in who would be willing to be interviewed to talk about their thing,” he added. Students held responsible for own happiness (Continued from page one) By comparing the two logs, Petersen said participants will more healthier, happier life. be able to learn how to balance Just last Sunday, Petersen was the amount of laughter with a guest on the Channel 2 the amount of stress, which she discussion program “Town said makes for a healthier and Hall,” during which she talk more positive lifestyle. ed a little about the clinic. “Our sense of humor is an One of the ideas Petersen investment, and the laughs are tried to convey on thé show is the dividends. By learning how that the clinic does not teach to see the humorous things in people how to be comedians. day-to-day life, life takes on a “We (clinic) think it’s more different perspective—it’s important to have fun than to easier to deal with,” Petersen be funny; we also teach humor said. with kindness,” she said. Other activities for the ses sions include an exercise where The clinic sessions participants will be given a themselves will consist of a combination of teaching, series of cartoons that they demonstrating and class par must write the captions for. ticipation. Petersen said par Petersen also said the clinic ticipants will be asked to keep should teach “people to accept a laugh log in order to record the responsibility for their own how often they have laughed happiness.” during the day, and a stress log The clinic sessions are being to see how much stress they held in the Clairmont Building have encountered as well. in room C 144. The remaining Page 6 five sessions will be held every Tuesday starting Oct. 23, from 7:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. The last session will be held Nov. 20. There is a registration fee, but Petersen said this is sub ject to change. The fee will cost between $60 and $72. Petersen also said she guarantees participants will have fun, and because the clinic is so confident it will be a success it is offering a money-back guarantee. In summing up the objec tives of the Laugh Clinic, Petersen said she thinks everyone possesses a sense of humor, and everyone has the potential to develop it to their benefit. She also said most people recognize the value of humor, but they have not learned to internalize it, to see it from their own perspective instead of from another come dian’s. Carol Petersen Clackamas Community College