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THE PRINT Vol. XXII No. 2 Wednesday, October 12,1988 Clackamas Community College Counseling revamps department more students (oyer six percent more than lastyear) in less time. The most noticeable of the restructuring is the new infor mation center. It is the first thing that students walking into the counseling department will see. Betty Reynolds, who was a coun seling secretary before this year, and Pat Fontaine are the infor mation specialists. The Information Center is the first place to go if a student needed a question answered from the department. The two infor mation specialists will split time in the Information Center from 8 a.m.to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday and until only 4:30 p.m. on Fridays. Student information assis tants have been added togive the student a more in-depth answer to any question which may.arise. There were six of these positions during open registration, but now there are three. The student information assistants are the next place to go if the information specialists can’t answer the question. The Stu dent assistants also have the lib erty of spending more time with the student. If the student still seeks an answer, then the student will be directed towards a counselor, who will be able to answer the ques Photo by Brent Johnson tion completely. “We increased registration The Information Center In the Counseling Department Is one of several changes made to Improve the department this year. time from one to two weeks (this year),” said Turpin. “We accom modated students with less chaos by Christopher L. Curran Editor This year Clackamas Com munity College is experiencing a change in the counseling depart ment. “We restructured the sys tem,” said Director of Counsel ing Lee Turpin. “We wanted to work on getting the traffic flow down.” That goal of reducing the “traffic flow” down was met as the counseling department helped than before.” He added that there were never any long lines like those during past registration periods. The Counseling services have also been altered. The first two weeks during fall term were set aside for information, assessment (testing), and advising. Weeks three through nine are when the mote detailed coun seling and assistance takes place. It’s at this time of the term when students can make appointments with a counselor and receive extra help. Some of this extra help in cludes career decision making, educational planning, personal counseling, and satisfactory prog ress check-ins with the student. In the counseling department there are some new faces and some old faces in new places. Turpin has taken over the direc tor of advising and counseling from Art Hames, who retired at the end of last school year. Ellen Burbridge has stepped into the counseling role left vacant by Turpin. Fontaine and Reynolds have assumed their .roles asinforma- tioit specialists, Teri Harold is replacing Reynolds as the coun seling secretary, and Judi Mills is a new assessment specialist. “We’re changing the concept of the counseling department,” said Turpin. “It’s been done be fore, but it’s a new approach for Clackamas.” Observatory opens at Clackamas | by Michael L. Walker News Digest Drug/Alcohoi week to be held at CCC Clackamas is coming up on Drug/Alcohol week. It is to be held the week of Oct.17- 21. Activities are planned that week at the college. "The Addict" will be fea tured Oct. 19 in the Commu nity Center. It is a production by the Frankliun High School theater department. The performance will be present 10 vignettes about the effect of drugs and alcohol. PSU President resigns post Portland State University President Natale Sicuro re signed his post at PSU Mon day. The resignation ended a period, of battle between Sicuro and faculty members over his finacial management and leadership style«. Sicuro’s resignation is effective immediately,, al though he will keep his title until Dec. 31. Roger Edging ton, PSU vice president for finance. and administration will assume the duties of president while the presidency is vacant. Movie to be shown in mall The Community Center mall will be the sight for the first family night movie of thé year. "Lady and the Tramp” will be on thescreen Friday at 7 p.m. "Lady and the Tramp” is just the first of several films planned this year, which are sponsored by the Associated Student Government of the college. Copy Editor The Haggard Memorial L Observatory, donated by Darcy Haggard of Redland, is now open | and is available for student use I at the Environmental Learning Center. The observatory was built in | honor of Harrold Haggard who [was an astronomy enthusiast, [haggard had builthisownobser- [vatory above his home in the Met holds 48 districts 1950’s. It was the Northwest’s?, [largest observatory at that time, The Haggard Observatory is [valued at $17000. The structural According to the Oregon Department of Education, 48 of Oregon’s 303 school dis tricts fell into the Safety Net this year, due to levy or tax defeats. Of the 4& districts, there are 21 wwhich were in the net last year and 27 which are in the net for the first year.. There are 17 districts which were in the net last year that are out of it thisyearthanks to levyor tax victories. [poles were donated by Portland . [General Electric and are valued at $2500. ' The “tower” design was [created by Duane Lee of Lee Engineering in Oregon Cityand is also valued at $2500. A new class, which began bet. 6, was added, to the Fall ■Schedule. Students may now have Biands on experience with the ■instruments used to view distant galaxies, planets, nebulae and other space phenomena. Oregon City, Oregon p^oto by jniian Porter The Haggard Memorial Observatory, built on the Clackamas campus, is the third largest observatory in the northwest.