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FEATURE Clackamas Community College January 24,1990 Page 5 Horror of worms is enjoyable Although the campus Itself is accessible to diabled students transportation to and from school poses a problem. Photo by Lane Scheideman Transportation limitations pose problems for disabled students by Margy Lynch Staff Writer Although CCC has made improvements in the campus’ handicapped access, disabled stu dents are finding it difficult get ting to and from the college, ac cording to Dave Cambpell, coun selor-coordinator for disabled student services. Elevators, automatic doors and ramps are some of the things that have been done on campus to make it easier for handicapped students. Although these things are helpful, there is still room for improvement, says Cambpell. The elevators, located- in Randall and McGloughlin, re quire either a key or that a but ton is pushed in order to operate. This is a problem for some dis abled students, according to Cambpell. “Some students with upper body limitations, who happen to be in wheelchairs, can’t operate the elevator because the buttons are too high,” Cambpell said. There are ramps in Barlow and McGloughlin to make more classrooms accessible to handi cap students. Though the ramp in Barlow, Cambpell believes, is too steep. He added that stu dents in wheelchairs have to have a lot of upper body strength to use it. The automatic doors located at the openings of some build ings and some bathrooms have been around for years, according to Carol Paterson, custodial/ grounds service manager. A re cent improvement, however, is that the bathroom stalls have been extended so they can accommo date wheelchairs. This project was completed just last term, ac cording to Paterson. Paterson commented that the exterior doors to Pauling will be fixed sometime within this cal endar year. “The doors meet code,” Paterson added, “ they are just not functional for handi capped students.” The restroom doors will also be adjusted sometime before summer term, according to Pa terson. Cambpell feels that the big gest problem is with transporta tion to and from the college. “If you can’t get the people to the college, the access issues aren’t an issue,” Cambpell commented. The only mode of transpor tation at CCC for disabled stu dents is vans which run only be tween 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. While these vans can transport students in wheelchairs, they can not transport people who use motorized scooters, according to Cambpell. The students who use motorized scooters can’t be belted into the vans that CCC uses now. Multnomah County, how ever, does have transportation accessible for students in scoot ers. Cambpell mentioned that the High Tech Center (for the dis abled) Committee, which he is a part of, is currently working on the transportation issue. “Tremors,” despite its first impression, is not just a "horror" movie. It’s first a comedy really; a horror-suspense comedy. Not many movies such as this are ever released unfortunately, which is what makes it so fresh and en joyable. Kevin Bacon (Vai McKee) and Fred Ward (Earl Bassett) star in this Ronald Underwood direction (he also co-wrote the script) of a Universal release. Basically, dirt worms have made Perfection, Nevada, (Pop. 14) their new home and its citi zens, their dinner. Vai and Earl, along with a college student (Finn Carter) who is working on her Ph.D. in geology studying seis mology in the area, and later be comes Bacon’s love-interest, put their rationale and wits together to try to figure out what these things are, let alone stop them. Michael Gross (Family Ties) and Reba McEntire play a sur- vival-of-the-fittest couple who have so many firearms of every variety that even the president of the NRA would be suspicious. Mr. and Mrs. a running human and are power ful enough to suck an entire sta tion wagon under subterranear style faster than you can say “This is not your father’s Oldsmobile.’ “Tremors” is not an “Eln Street,” nor is it another “Aliens’ or even a “Dune.” It’s filled wit! first class one-liners found only ir a pure comedy like this. "Trem ors" is as well written as it coulc have been, bordering on educa lively corny, yet staying a horroj movie in the classic sense. Bacon and Ward also have i chemistry that is hard to find or the silver screen. Neither become super heroes like Sigournej Weaver in the “Alien” movies nor do they fail their dust bowl o a town. They simply make one ra tional decision after the other basec on the clues they’ve progressive!) found. Prepare to be enlightenec by the Perfectionists of Nevada. A Reel View by Roseann Wentworth Bert Gummer have great chemis try and provide a dozen laughs for the viewer in their gung-ho, Rambo-like serious quest to help defeat the worms. It’s soon realized that the ground worms can only move through top soil and can’t pene trate rocks. These rednecks do anything from pole vaulting to distract-and-r un tactics to escape. The dirt worms are faster than Short displays art in Pauling by Me-Lissa Cartales Rhapsody editor Ninety to one hundred people attended the reception that opened the art show of Margret Short, a Clackamas alumna, at the Pauling Gallery last Wednes day. Short took some art classes in high school, but she says, “I’d never had any formal training.” In 1970, when her youngest son started day school, Short began to study art with a woman by the name of Betty Brodhagen. She learned a basic three step style of painting that has stayed with her throughout her painting career. Short studied with Brodhagen for five years. “I started back to school in 1978,” said Short. She spent her first year at Marylhurst but then came here, to Clackamas. “I loved it here,” Short commented on her two years at Clackamas. “I loved getting to know the younger people.” Short graduated from Ma rylhurst in the Spring of 1984 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree. “I graduated from college when I was forty years old,” she commented. Short has been in several one ihf Alumna Margret Short's artwork is on display In the Pauling Gallery. Photo by Scott Johnson person shows since graduation, as well as many group shows. Ac cording to her resume, her work is included in collections through out the United States and also London, England. She has taught painting in several places, includ ing Clackamas. The artist creates her work at her home and studio in Milwaukie. During the reception, she showed slides of her home, which is a veritable monument of her work. Short's work displayed in the Pauling Gallery now through February 28 includes ten still life portraits, and several portraits, including her most recent works: a full-size self portrait and a por trait of her husband, David Short. Also in the gallery showcases are sketches, hand painted handbags, original stationary, and souve nirs of her travels. NOT FOR THOSE WHO THINK ALIKE, BUT FOR THOSE WHO LIKE TO THINK. ATKINSON MEMORIAL CHURCH Sixth & John Adams, Oregon City The Reverend Mr. Richard K. Bellingham, Minister COMING JANUARY 28TH "CREATIONS COUNTERPOINT 11:00AM Public Services 9:30 AM Adult Forum 9:30 AM Attended Nursery 9:30AM Church School (except Aug. 1-Sep.15) i f f || centimeters 49.25 -0.16 0.01 38.62 -0.18 -0.04 18(B) 28.86 0.54 0.60 19 16.19 -0.05 0.73 20 8.29 -0.81 0.19 21 3.44 -0.23 0.49 Colors by Munsell Color Services Lab