Smoking
Policy
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Marianne
Keyser
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THE
"pRINT
Clackamas Community College
Oregon City, OR 97045
Vol. XXI, No. 3
October 14, 1987
Gebbie speaks on AIDS
Insurance
offered to
students
by Heleen Veenstra
Editor
“I see our system as a fabric. I
see AIDS as one of those things
that threatens to pull it apart.”
Kristine Gebbie, State Health
Administrator, was on campus
yesterday to address the 60
women gathered for the Fall
Term issues breakfast, sponsored
by the Focus on Women Pro
gram.
Gebbie’s emphasis in the hour-
long talk was on the crucial need
for education to combat the
spread of AIDS and other
sexually-transmitted diseases.
“Every Oregonian needs to
make wise choices about sexual
practices and heedle practices. A
key to that is making sexual
choices something appropriate to
talk about.”
When AIDS was first
discovered there were many
misconceptions about how it is
transmitted, Gebbie said. People
were told to avoid body fluids,
i “even tears, sweat and saliva,
i People thought ‘If I touch a
damp human being, I am in
I danger of getting AIDS.’”
Fears like that are the reason
that AIDS education materials
by Jodie Martini
' Staff Writer________________________ _
Focus on Women committee members Gayle O’Toole (I.) and Donna Ford meet with State Health
Administrator Kristine Gebbie (r.) Tuesday morning.
are being distributed by the
Health Division. Gebbie showed
some brochures published by the
Health Division, and talked
about the new posters which will
be available at colleges. The
posters are “fairly erotic” and
have the theme that “condoms
can be sexy, and condoms can be
shared.”
“People are very understan
ding of the fact that we have to be
very blunt to get ahead of this
epidemic.”
Gebbie pointed out that one of
the main problems is that people
don’t want to see that AIDS is
happening in every community,
including theirs. When a study
was done on how counties
responded to the problem of
AIDS, the researchers came
across one county that responded
by saying, “We only have one
gay in our community and he is
not active these days!”
Gebbie has a positive attitude
towards the effect that education
about AIDS has on the people.
“I think we are coming to grips
with it. The ad campaign is an ex
cellent example of the way this
State is progressive in dealing
with the problems.”
Gebbie was referring to the
newly-created anti-AIDS cam
paign, which includes TV spots,
billboards and print ads.
“You can protect yourself
from this disease,” Gebbie add
ed, “by the choices you make
for yourself.”
New entrance signs greet college visitors
by E.A. Berg
Staff Writer____________
Three months and $40,000
later, the new college entrance
signs are nearly complete.
According to Bill Ryan, Ad
ministrative Dean of College
Services and Planning, minor
excavating and the relocation of
a power pole near the Beaver
creek Road sign needs to be
completed to gain maximum
visibility. He added that the col
lege is considering changing the
current aqua-colored letters on
the signs to larger white ones in
the next four to five months.
The money to construct the
signs came from the college’s
Capital Improvement Fund and
state highway funds from the
reimbursment of college land
for the Oregon City by-pass.
Neale
Frothingham,
Associated Student Govern
ment President, said the cost of
the signs is equivalent to a full-
year, four-dollar per term tui
tion increase. Frothingham said
that he is opposed to more
money for the signs.
Clackamas Community Col
lege has a acquired a new form
of insurance available to
students and their dependents
for the 1987-88 school year.
The Student Accident and Il
lness Expense Insurance is open
to students carrying a minimum
of six credits per term. Students
who are not fully covered by
their existing plan, might con
sider adding this as a supple
ment or using this as their
primary insurance plan.
Students may purchase
coverage on a term by term
basis or with a one time pay
ment for the entire year.
Coverage can only be purchased
during registration each
quarter. The cost is as follows:
For students aged 40 and under
insurance for one quarter is $49
or coverage for a full year is
$149. For students with one or
more dependents the cost of the
coverage is currently at
$107-$144 per quarter or
$365-$493 per year. Students
aged 41-65, coverage is
available at $75 per quarter or
$254 per year.
The plan covers up to $25,000
per covered accident or illness
and some exclusions apply. A
full schedule of benefits and ex
clusions are listed in a brochure
available in the Community
Center at the activities window.
O//Wex
Photo by Both Coffey
It took three months to complete the entrance signs for the college’s facelift. This sign can be seen
from Beavercreek Road. Changes may be made to the signs, which have been described as “too
small. ”
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