NEWS BRIEFS
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By Amy LaBare
Of The Print
OFFICER BRUCE MCKENZIE at the end of his shift at 8 a.m.
McKenzie’s last day was Jan. 24. He is headed south to join U.
S. Immigration at the Mexican border.
Photo by Joel Miller
Heading south
McKenzie joins
border patrol
By Heather C. Wright
Of The Print
Public Safety Officer Bruce
McKenzie has left the College
to move on to bigger and bet
ter things. McKenzie was ac
cepted as an officer for the
Mexican Border Patrol after
waiting a year. His last day
was Thursday, Jan. 24.
McKenzie, 28, has had a
wide range of law enforcement
experience. His law enforce
ment career started in 1976
when he joined the Oregon
State Police Cadets. As a
Cadet he patrolled the state
parks during the summer mon
ths through 1978.
In the winter of 1978
McKenzie worked as a winter
cadet for the state police,
patrolling the winter recrea
tional parks. McKenzie then
joined the Army for three
years from 1978 - 1981.
McKenzie received his
associates degree in criminal
justice at Linn-Benton Com
munity College in 1982. In
March of 1983 he was hired as
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a Public Safety Officer at the
College.
“I became interested in law
enforcement because it seemed
like it would have a lot of ex
citement, kind of like being a
reporter, always something
different,” McKenzie said.
He said he is looking for
ward to working for the
border' patrol because of the
job security, overtime and
professional atmosphere.
McKenzie applied for the
position of a border patrol of
ficer approximately a year
ago. He had to take a written
test on general studies. After
passing the test, he qualified to
have an oral board in front of
regular patrol agents, after
which he was asked to join the
border patrol.
“By working here I have
grown to be a better-trained
and better-qualified officer. I
value the experience I have
gained from the College. Stan
Johnson (Chief of Public
Safety) has been helpful, real
supportive of my law enforce
ment career,” McKenzie said.
There are 4,166 students registered at
Clackamas Community College for the
1985 winter term, Charles Adams, Col
lege registrar said.
Of these students, 1,625 are full-time
(carrying 10 or more credit hours) and
2,541 are part-time )carrying less than 10
credit hours).
Though the number of students is
down, Adams is not worried about the
declining enrollment. He said, “General
ly, we’ll be down some (in enrollment)
during the winter term.”
Adams said there are a number of
reasons for lesser enrollment, noting cuts
in financial aid from social service agen
cies as one of the probable reasons.
“Agencies don’t have the funds available
tor scholarships right now,” he said.
Adams also said he felt peopleare fin
ding jobs and, rather than quitting them
to come to school, are staying employed.
He added, “Now that they have the job
and the money, they are spending it on
something other than school,”
. Related statistics show 433 students are
enrolled in classes for job improvement
and 1,089 students are in programs
preparing to enter the job market directly
out of school. Adams added that 50 per
cent of the students are enrolled in
transfer programs.
Women needed
Evergreen House, Clackamas County’s
shelter for battered women and their
children, has scheduled a training pro
gram for new volunteers that begins Tues
day, Feb.’5.
Weekly training sessions will be held at
7 p.m. in the Oak Grove United
Methodist Church. The program is con
ducted free of charge.
Center open
The Health and Wellness Center
located in Trailer Á at the north end of
campus is sprucing up for it’s upcoming
open house on Friday, Feb. 1 from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m.
Students will have the opportunity to
meet the staff physician, Dr. Ronald
Powell, and the two part-time nurses Erna
Lewis and Pat Krumm. The open house
will allow the students to become
aquainted with the facility, which includes
a wellness resoúrce room and a self-help
care center, where ailing students can get
an aspirin or a cold tablet amoung many
other over-the-counter drugs.
The normal operating hours for the
center are from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday
through Friday. Either Dr. Powell or one
of the nurses are available from noon to 2
p.m. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Answers given
The rate of teen suicides in this country
has increased four-fold in the past 20
years, Portland psychologist Dr. Richard
Lazere said.
A specialist in dealing with teen crises,
Dr. Lazere will discuss preventive techni
ques for potential teen suicide victims at a
one-day seminar Monday, Feb. 4, at
Clackamas Community College. “Teen-
suicide: Prevention for Parents, Teens,
and Educators” begins at 7 p.m. in the
Community Center Small Dining Room.
There is a $5 fee.
“Oregon ranks amoung the top 10
states in teen suicide rates,” Dr. Lazere
pointed out. “It’s one of our biggest
public health problems, but there are
things that can be done to prevent and
resolve suicidal tendencies.”
Class to begin
The art of negotiating in everyday life is
something that, once understood ana
developed, could make one’s life easier
and more productive, according to an
advertisement for an upcoming series of
workshops on the subject.
Arbitration expert Randall Lowry will
teach “Negotiation: Substance and Ap
plication,” a series of intensive
workshops at Clackamas Community
College beginning Feb. 2. The class will
meet every other Saturday from 9:30 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m. and there is a $54 fee.
Consider the following example:
There’s one orange left in the house, and
your three-year-old and five-year-old
both want it. The argument escalates,
obliterating your favorite TV show.
Enraged, you march into the kitchen,
cleave the contested fruit in two, and
deliver half to each child. You watch as
the younger peels his half, eats the orange
and throws the peel away, while the older
child tosses the fruit and saves the peel for
a Bluebird project.
What we have here, Lowry, staff direc
tor of the Center for Dispute Resolution
at Willamette University College of Law
said, is a failure to negotiate. In dozens of
daily, confrontations, people miss the
chance to find solutions that would leave
all parties winners, simply because they
haven’t learned some basic principles of
negotiation, mediation, and arbitration.
Teachers retire
Dr. J. Robert Misely, and Harriet Holl-
ing, Educational Services Support Unit
instructors, have both retired recently
from their work at Clackamas Communi
ty College.
They were involved in the G.E.D. pro
gram, the English as a Second Language
program and • the alternative schooling
program. General tutoring is also an ac
tivity handled in that department.
Clackamas Community College