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Clackamas $rínt Vol. XXII No. 21 Wednesday, April 19,1989 Clackamas Community College Oregon City, Oregon Tri-Met bus turn around finally finished by Briane C. Dotson News Editor The Tri-Met bus turnaround by the Community Center has finally been completed, five months after it was initially started. Originally slated for comple tion anOd 15, the bus turnaround was not finished until April 12, almost six months later. Parker Construction of Port land, the sub-contractor, refused to complete the construction in bad weather. They said that the asphalt would not hold and the job would have to be done over again. Parker Construction prom ised that as soon as the weather was good enough they would get a crew out immediately to finish up the job, according to Administra tive Dean of College Services and Planning Bill Ryan. “I feel really good about this being completed,” said Ryan. Ryan had hoped that the turn around would be completed in March, but the weather was not good enough. In order to complete the tum- around, temperatures above 50 degrees were needed without, precipitation. The spring-like weather that recently covered the Northwest allowed the construc tion to be completed. The turnaround cost nearly $127,000. Clackamas Community College paid $44,000; the State of Oregon paid the remaining 65 percent of the bill. “We were fortunate to get some help paying for the turn around,” said Ryan. Ryan said that the turnaround will last for 15 years, hopefully 20. There will probably be some minor patching to be done however. The original Tri-Met turn around was built in 1978, and had to be overhauled because of dam age done by the heavier buses which Tri-Met now uses. The new turn around has been built to with stand the weight of the new heav ier buses that Tri-Met is now us ing on many of their routes. The bus turnaround should be open for buses to use later this week. After months of waiting, the Tri-Met Bus turnaround Is complete, enabling the college to remove these detour signs blocking it. Controversy surrounds Veterans' Office by Jim Titus Copyeditor An upcoming personnel change in the Veterans’ Office has stirred up controversy among Clackamas Community College military veterans. Betty Reynolds, who currently works as an information special ist in the counseling center, will switch positions with Pat Fontaine, the present veterans’ specialist, April 21. Reynolds will retire in December of this year. The change has created concern among veter ans who feel that it will cause problems with processing paper work, leading to delays in receipt of veterans’ assistance funds. According to Garrett Lytle, who works in the Veterans* Office under the work-study program and is also a United States Army vet eran, the primary issue of concern to veterans is the short time in volved in the changeover. “The biggest question is ‘Why change in the middle of the term?’,’’ Lytlestated. “Let’s review this, let us (veterans) get involved, and wait until the summer.” Lytle is concerned that the switch is being “pushed” through with little or no involvement on the part of the veterans. He said that he had talked to about 25-30 veterans who told him they “want to be involved in this decision and in future decisions.” Director of Counseling Lee Turpin says his rationale in mak ing the change is that he is trying to “make sure we keep the same levelof service. Pat,is theonlyone right now that fully knows what’s going on (in the Veterans’ Of fice). We need to strengthen the department by making sure that more than one person knows the job.” Turpin says that after Rey nolds retires he will hire a new person to fill the position of vet erans’ specialist With the population of veter ans on college campuses projected to increase nationwide by about 25 percent in the next five years, Turpin is determined to maintain or even increase the level of serv ice the college provides to veter ans, “My emphasis is to make sure that we keep full service. If the situation warrants we may even increase (the level of service),” Turpin explained. Turpin is also under the im pression that Fontaine may de cide to leave soon,'but she denies this claim. “I hadn’t thought about leav ing until this issue came up. It’s Photography, Columbia Gorge are topics in... Classes being offered by ELC The John Inskeep Environ mental Learning Center, located on the Clackamas campus, is conducting several programs this month. Wildlife, scenic, and macro photography are being explored in a series of evening classes. The first class, Wildlife Photography, was held April 12. Aclass in scenic photography will be conducted tonight from 7-9 p.m. and includes a field trip to Silver Creek Falls State Park Saturday. The macro photography class will be held April 26 from 7-9 p.m. with a field trip to Camassia Wilderness Area the quested. The Columbia Gorge’s unique following Saturday. The cost of individual classes is $21 for ELC role in climate and geology, and members and $24 for non-mem- its significance to Northwest In dian tribes and white settlers will bers. Special Sunday programs will be the focus of a program that is be conducted throughout this available as credit at Lewis and month at the Environment^ Clark College. Classes will be Learning Center. The programs conducted at the Environmental include a slide show at 2 p.m., tour Learning Center 8 a.m. Saturday, at 2:30 p.m., and film presenta April 30 through 5 p.m. Sunday, tion at 3 p.m. There will also be a Mayl. discussion on Birds of Prey fea For more information on any turing live owls, hawks, and fal of these programs, contact the cons. The programs are free but a Environmental Learning Center donation of $1 per adult is re at 657-8400 ext 351. not a valid consideration,” Fon taine refuted. Fbntaine is also concerned that the switch will create problems with the service the office pro vides to veterans. “I definitely foresee some problems. Betty (Reynolds) is very competent but she is working with a whole new system. However, we will work together to make the transition as smooth as possible.” Fontaine stated that it takes 30 days to fully notify the Veter ans’ Administration regional of fice of such a change. This notifi cation period could cause the of fice to send back paperwork signed by Reynolds for verification, re sulting in delays in processing paperwork According to the Portland regional office of the Veterans’ Administration thereare no stan dards for the training of local college veterans’ specialists. The regional office also stated that local veterans* specialists are consid ered employees of their respec tive colleges and are thus subject to the administrative supervision of the college department to which they belong. The Veterans’ Office proc esses paperwork relating to money received by. veterans under sev eral programs that provide tui tion assistance in exchange for military service. The office also coordinates compliance of indi vidual veterans to the guidelines of such programs and provides tutoring to veterans. The bulk of the work in the Veterans’ Office is completed at the start of each term. ELC to sponsor plant sale Thellohn Inskeep En- I . vironmental Learning Center will be sponsoring its annual plant sale May 5- 7 and 12-13,10 a.m. to 6 "p.m. ‘. .. . ; 5 Expens will be on hand to help pick out the plants which will be best for you the landscape and wildlife. All landscape materi als will be priced reasona- bfy low and there will be a large variety to choose from. For farther informa tion » contact Jerry Herrmann at Ext 351. ; IW. AH proceeds will help support the new Lakeside Education Hall. Play to premiere Portland in The Oregon premiere of "Yankee Dawg You Die" by Phillip Kan Gotanda will ¿pen April 21 and runs through May 21. The play will be shown Fridays and Saturdays at 8 p.m. at the International Firehouse Cultural Center, 5340 N. Interstate, Portland. ’Drunk or Sober* video airs today The video "48 Hours: Drunk or Sober’ will be shown today at 11 a.xn. and 2 p.m. in the CC Fireside Lounge. The video portrays two days and two nights with alcoholics, families of alco-' holies and MADD support groups. Next Tuesday,the video "Alcoholism" will be shown at 9 a.m. in the same loca- Kn« • J; Ex-addict to speak A guest speaker will be appearing at the Cocaine Anonymous meeting today from noon to 1 p.-m. in the Community Center Mall. The speaker will talk about his experience with drugs.