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CAMPUS NEWS June 1,1988 Clackamas Community College Page 8 CCC, OIT team up at Harmony School said Coker. “In both cases it wa a chance for getting our prq grams closer to a higher popula tion area. And it’s mutuallj beneficial, to be housed in I single building because we cal split the cost, it’s much mors financially feasible.” by Lisa Graham Staff Writer An agreement with Oregon In stitute of Technology, CCC, North Clackamas School District and Clackamas County has resulted in a joint housing of OIT and CCC at the former Harmony grade school at 7616 S.E. Harmony Rd. Milwaukie. The extension of CCC will be composed of four business pro grams. Employment Manage ment Division (EMD), the Business Center, the Targeted Learning Center, and the Office Speciality Program will be relocated to the new Harmony facility. Currently the Business Center is located in Oregon City and the Office Speciality is1 located in the Hollyfarm Mall. Marcia Coker, assistant1 “...it made some sense for those departments to be closer to a high 99 popluationarea. dean, explained why these sec tions of the college will be relocated. “These departments “...z7’s mutually beneficial to be housed ii a single building,..” photo by Lisa Graham Harmony elementry school is scheduled as a new site for the business departments of CCC. Oregon Institute of Technology will also be housed at Harmony. do serve the business and in dustry. So it made some sense for those departments to be closer to the highest population area of the county as far as in dustry or business is Program offers survival education by Michael L. Walker Co-News Editor A migrant worker program unique to Oregon starts here at CCC June 6. The program pro vides basic reading and writing skills in English for men and women ages 14-21. The program is free of charge, but the participants must have a Migrant Status, or “Green” card. Classes are five days a week for seven weeks. The program is a “Co-Op” with the Clackamas County Educational Service District. The ESD wrote the grant with Carol Evans and Cindy Andrews who are the principle instructors involved here. The funding comes directly from the Migrant Education Fund in Washington D.C. “The incredible thing about this,” said Andrews, “is that Take your heart to court. In addition, to housin business programs in a mol convenient location, the ne facility will also serve the publj in the Clackamas area better an may eventually lead to a gearinl ' of vocational programs at CC| toward transfer into OIT. At th point in the planning nothing I set. Coker said “All indust J programs, for example machind technology, could at some poin down the line possibly be think) ing of, and let’s put it in these if fy terms, be thinking of a join 2+2 program.” The 2+2 prq gram, Coker explained, is < direct transfer of the freshmal and sophomore years to anothel college. these people have been working 'in the fields since dawn. And yet they show so much enthusiasm for learning that it’s a tremen dously moving experience.” The service provides transpor tation to and from the migrant workers’ camps. The workers then go to a local school where they are treated to a shower and a hot meal. When the students arrive at CCC they receive two hours of instruction in what Andrews calls “survival English.” This type of English allows the workers to be able to call a doc tor in a time of emergency, or just to be able to use the phone, All of the instructors are bil ingual, speaking both Spanish and English. There is a bilingual bus driver and also a bilingual aide to help the students register for classes and to act as a counselor. There’s only one way to come out ahead of the pack. Exercise serves you right. American Heart rS Association VÊf in Oregon 1-800-452-9445 This «pace provided as a public service. concerned.” OIT’s main campus is in Klamath Falls. Through PSU, OIT hes operated in the metro area in loaned or rented buildings. OIT will be relocating to Harmony but they will not be staying. OIT will be moving in three years to what is now Ickes Junior High. The team up between CCC and OIT was for two reasons, Group fights for children’s rights ACES strives for equality by Michelle K. Taylor Assistant Opinions Editor “It’s not a man and woman issue, it’s the children,” Cindy Borders, co-founder of the Oregon chapter of ACES (Association for Children for Enforcement of Support), said when she talked about what happens when child support payments are denied by the father.” One out of four children in America live below the poverty level and this has a lot to do with the fact that when parents get divorced 90 percent of the mothers retain custody of the children. Women’s incomes also drop by 70 percent and 85 to 90 percent of those women have difficulty receiving child support from their ex-husbands. If the father is over 30 days more than 30 days behind on th« behind in payments there are payments. They can go to a supj wage garnishments from his pay x port enforcement agency, Aduli checks to ensure that the Family Services or the district at] children are still receiving tomey if they are non-AFD(J payments. The payments can (Aid to Families with Depended also come out of the father’s Children.) The service is free and federal income tax returns and it is interstate. A§ of last Octobel the state returns if the father it became mandatory for all lives in the same state that the states to comply. After the petil children do. tion is initiated it can takl “I’m on my third time,” anywhere between 60 days td Borders said. She also said that one year before the payment! every time an ex-husband moves start again. to another state the mother has ACES has regular meetings! to re-initiate the petition for pay the next one is on Wednesday, ment if the father does not con May 18 at 7 p.m. on 15012 S3 tinue paynments. Carol in Milwaukie. For morJ Women can file to get child information contact Cindy support payments from their ex- Borders at 655-6655 or Brenda husbands when the husbands are Breames at 668-8781. r The main reason for ACES is to ensure that all children of divorced parents receive their child support payments. To ac complish this they offer educa tional programs to the com munity which provide informa tion about legal rights and cures for problems with child support enforcement and visitation pro blems. They have “advocacy programs to ensure that child- supporVlaws and visitation laws are justly, strictly and ex peditiously enforced.” Other programs which they offer are outreach programs to educate the community about the plight of the children caught in the pro- blems of neglected child support Cindy Borders is one of the co-founders of are counseling programs for ACES—Association for Children for Equal Support. The families with such problems and ACES is a community education program for euqal child training sessions for volunteers. support. Inches HrafisraHOM D50 Illuminant, 2 degree observer Density