May completion sought for Barlow Hall
By Shelley Ball
Of The Print
The completion date for Clackamas Com
munity College’s Barlow Hall addition has been
rescheduled from its original date in April to
near the end of May.
Delays due to shipment of building materials
and a union strike of the ventilation system sup
plier have contributed to the extended comple
tion date, Don Fisher,_ College physical plant
director and inspector of the addition, said.
Fisher explained the late arrival of some
structural steel beams was nothing unusual, and
a strike at Brod & McClung, a Milwaukie com
pany that manufactures heating and cooling
systems, will not seriously affect the completion
process because he said it would only take a few
days to install such a system on the roof of the
addition.
“There have really been no major delays,”
Fisher said, adding that the delay in installing a
heating and cooling system will be a “slight in
convenience.”
Most of the work that needs to be finished is
inside the addition, such as sheetrocking and
painting the walls, putting in doors and win
dows and hanging a few light fixtures. Some
landscaping and sidewalk pouring need to be
completed on the outside. Fisher said the walls
of the addition should be ready for painting
sometime this week.
Building an addition to Barlow Hall was the
College’s Board of Directors’ solution to the
storage problem caused by the Smuckers
Building fire of Aug. 30, 1984. In order to have
the addition constructed as quickly as possible,
the Board approved a resolution that allowed
for “fast-tracking”, which enabled the College
to hire a contractor for a certain amount right
away instead of putting out competitive bids
for the work.
Fisher
said.
this
“fast-tracking” has helped to speed up the
building process by as much as six months.
Once the construction is completed, the pro
cess of moving departments into the addition
and remodeling Clairmont Hall into a
warehouse will begin. Fisher explained the nur
sing department and other summer classes held
in Clairmont Hall will be moved to the addition
at the end of spring term, and these will be the
only classes held in the addition until the fall.
Other departments, such as thermal energy and
hydraulics, will be moved into the addition in
time for fall term classes.
After the nursing department has been mov
ed out of Clairmont, Fisher said the area it used
to occupy will be turned into a warehouse. The
Public Information Office (PIO) will be staying
in the journalism trailer over the summer while
the remodeling at Clairmont is underway. The
south end of the hall will also be turned into a
cabinet shop and maintenance area.
As for the weather, Fisher said it was “what
you would expect” and overall didn’t slow
Richard Cates of D and H Construction measures Barlow Hall
down the building process.
addition for sheetrock.
Down 43 percent
College aid applications down severly
summer months arrive,”
Scheer said. “They usually
The processing of financial don’t want to get involved
aid forms for the 1985-86 with the forms right in the
school year at Clackamas middle of spring term. For
Community College is down some of them, I am sure that
43 percent from last year at just finishing their tax forms
this time, due primarily to has something to do with it.
people waiting until their cur Because the FAFs require
rent school year is over to app detailed financial information
ly, Financial Aid Supervisor about the last year, a lot of
people prefer to wait until they
Kathy Scheer said.
As of April 15, there were file their 1040 tax form, but
352 applications completed that is not something we
and ready for awards com recommend,” she added.
“When people wait so long
pared to 584 applications a
year ago. “People tend to pick to fill out their FAF, they risk
up the pace of filling out the losing out on the best financial
forms and filing them once the aid package that is possible for
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them. The later the forms get
to us and reach the completed
status, the less grant money
the student usually gets, which
means they will have to accept
more self-help money, like
work-study,” Scheer said.
While the rate of forms
flowing into the Financial Aid
Office is way below last year’s
level, Scheer said she was not
necessarily worried about the
low numbers. She explained
the summer months are usual
ly the months students will
make up their minds about
coming to the College, and so
she expects the difference will
get smaller all the time.
A new computer system in
stalled this year is set up to
process the forms and com
pute the aid packages that
students will get automatical
ly, which will take a lot of
work off the financial aid
workers. Scheer put together
all of the packages without the
aid of a computer this current
year, and it took most of her
time.
In a move designed to help
people make a decision to at
tend the College instead of
other competing institutions,
Scheer said her office will be
sending out aid award letters
to those students who have
Bibles given away
The Gideons, a bible distributing organiza
tion that is active in 134 countries around the
world, spent the day Friday passing out
small copies of the New Testamtnt in the
Community Center at Clackamas Communi
ty College.
The purpose of passing out the bibles at
the College was to meet a two-day goal of
getting 40,000 copies of the New Testament
into the hands of the people of the area. The
group also gave the bibles away at local
hospitals, doctors offices, hotels and rest
homes.
The Gideons consists of “men who have a
desire to get the word of God out to the peo
ple,” Mostul said.
completed their forms earlier
than other area colleges. She
said the letters will be out by
mid-May. The strategy is that
when people see what the Col
lege is able to offer them, they
will be able to decide what
they will do in the fall, then
not wrestle with the issue over
the summer.
Scheer said if any student
knows or thinks he knows that
he needs aid, but doesn’t know
how to fill out the forms, he
should come to the Financial
Aid Office where either Scheer
or Financial Aid Specialist
Dave Allen will gladly help
him.
Law Day features
free legal help
Members of the Clackamas County Bar
Association will give 20-minute consulta
tions at Clackamas Community College May
1 in the Community Center as a public ser
vice in conjunction with Law Day U.S.A,
which is May 1.
No appointments will be necessary to ob-
— tain free consultations, which will be held in
CC101 from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Micheál D. Walsh, Law Day chairman,
said “no legal documents will be drawn up
during the 20-minute consultations, nor will
time permit the solving of specific legal pro
blems.”
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