Newell Brief
compiled by Vicki Welch
The Clackamas Print is now
accepting submisssions of short
fiction and poetry for publication
in a future issue. Bring your sub
missions to Barlow 104.
The Literacy Council isseek-
ing volunteer tutors to help stu
dents with basic reading and/or
math skills. No experience is nec
essary. There is a nine-hour train
ing program provided. Schedules
for sessions are arranged by the
tutor and student. For more infor
mation, call Laurie Blakely at ext
2591z
The College is hosting a busi
ness seminar Dec. 4 from 9 a.m. to
4p.m. attheHarmonyCenter,Room
H-107. The workshop will intro
duce the steps needed to open a
business. Instructor KeithMischke
will discuss business licensing, per
mits, tax requirements, hiring, de
veloping a business plan and iden
tifying your market. The cost is
$25. For more information, calf
656-4447.
Clackamas is hosting a holi
day craft fair today and Thurs
day in the Community Center Mall.
The times are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
today and .9. a.m. to 4.p.m. Thurs^
day. Eighteen vendors will display
a wide variety of crafts to choose
from, including stained glass,
wooden furniture and bowls, jew
elry, silk flowers, stuffed animals,
hand-knit items, ornaments, toys
and more.
There will be an In ternational
Education Brown Bag talk Thurs
day. Kay Davis will talk about her
visit to Prague, the capital of
Czechoslovakia.
Have you ever desired to
broaden and enrich your life by
making an international friend
ship? Clackamas International
Christian Fellowship would like
to help you make an international
friendship. CIQF club is forming
to provide friendship-making
skills. For more information, call
David Doty at 266-9684.
The Clackamas Community
College Foundation has received
a $4,000contribution from Blount/
Oregon Cutting Systems of Port
land. The gift will be used to
provide state-of-the-art instruction
to students in the computer-aided
manufacturing program. Blount
helped the college’s manufactur
ing department get its first nu
merically-controlled cutting tool
and personal computer to begin
training students in CAM. For
more information, call ext. 2402.
' The Oregon State Police is
looking for people interested in
1994 summer work through their
Cadet Program and is accepting
applications through Dec. 31. The
employment time is from mid-June
through the first week of Septem
ber. The starting salary is $7.83
per liourf I£mteffisi«i.. aB)liGar’
tions may be picked up : at aify
.Oregon State Police office,
Low income families and
individuals in Clackamas County
may begin signing up for gifts of
food and toys for the holidays at
the Clackamas County public li
brary. Sign up began Nov. 3 and
extends through Dec. 10. The
Clackamas County Food and Toy
Program is coordinated by the
Clackamas Holiday Committee.
THE CLACKAMAS PRINT
Editors-in-Cbief-
Jeff Kemp, Heidi
Branstator (Ext. 2576)
Feature Editor- Tina
McFarland (Ext. 2577)
Sports Editor- Justin
Fields (Ext. 2577)
Copy Editor- Paul
Valencia (Ext. 2309)
Photo Editor- Anjanette
Booth (Ext. 2309)
Co-Business Managers
Michele Myers, Tyson
Morrow (Ext. 2578)
Staff Writers: Cathryn Belleau,
Mike Bradley, Nate Clark, Eric
Eatherton, Jason Eck, Garry Egan, Kate
Gibbons, /Jennifer Gunst, Chris
Haberman, Jason Hunter, Frank Jordan,
Cori Kargel, Zach Krienheder, Chad
Patteson, Michelle Shipman, Andrea
Smith, Staci Smith, Nicole Turley, Maury
Webber, Vicki Welch
CCÇ ; É
Secretary: Cheryl Willemse
Advisor: Linda Vogt
The Clackamas Print aims to
report the news in an honest, unbi
ased, professional manner. The
opinions expressed in The
Clackamas Print do not neces
sarily reflect those of the student
body, college administration, its
faculty or The Print's advertis
ers. The Clackamas Print is a
weekly publication distributed
every Wednesday except for fi
nals week. The advertising rate is
$4.50 per column inch. All letters
to the editors will be considered
for publication and must be sub
mitted by 2 p.m. the Friday prior to
the next issue. Clackamas Com
munity College, 19600 S. Molalla
Avenue, Oregon City, Oregon;
97045, Barlow 104.
New program provides 'two-way
conversation' for faculty and students
by Maury Webber
Staff Writer
It’s not often that students
and staff are provided a format in
which to discuss ideas, concerns or
problems in an open and informal
manner. But the new College Con
versations program offers just such a
format to all members of the college
community.
The program resulted from
an idea by Instructional Services and
is now co-sponsored by the Associ
ated Student Government
The program was an im
mediate success. At the first meet
ing on Nov. 15, seven students and
five staff, including College Presi
dent John Keyser, attended.
“It was a small group but
then everybody got a chance to talk.
It was a great exchange,” Keyser
said.
Dean of Students Dian
Connett, who was also in attendance,
agreed. Although it was what she
had hoped for, she admitted it wasn’t
what she had expected.
“It was a wonderful sur
prise,” Connett said. “It was an
informal way for students to touch
base with the faculty. It was really
student time.
“We had planned for Dr.
Keyser to talk for about 20 minutes
after everyone had introduced them
selves and indicated why they were
there, but during the introductions,
each student brought up their per
sonal concerns,” she continued.
Keyser immediately bor
rowed some paper and beg an to take
notes, Connett added.
Topics included public
safety on campus, the revised com
plaint process and new registration
procedures.
“In the end, 45 minutes
had past before we got to Dr. Keyser,”
Connett said.
As aresultof the first meet
ing, Connett’s secretary and pro
gram coordinator, Becky Carnahan,
has planned other meetings to dis-
cuss specific topics.
“At our next meeting,
we’re going to focus on registration.
Future topics will probably include
possible tuition increases, annual
registration and the club council,”
Carnahan said.
“We want this to be a ca
sual and informal meeting,”
Carnahan added, noting that talking
with an instructor or even a college
president can be very intimidating.
“This is a two-way con
versation,” she emphasized.
The next meeting is atnoon
today in CC-127 with staff members
from the registration and counseling
departments planning to attend. Any
body interested in getting more in
formation on upcoming meetings
shoiddcontact Carnahan at ext 2205.
“I hope this will continue
because it’s great for the faculty as
well as the students,” Keyser said.
“We need to keep talking about con
cerns and perceived problems and
how to solve them.”
New speech class offered Winter Term
by Cathryn Belleau
Staff Writer
In an effort to increase
intercultural communication, a new
class that teaches the concept of com
municating wiflrpeople of different,
backgrounds is now being offered at
Clackamas.
Speech 115, Introduction
to Intercultural Communication, is a
class with a team approach being
taught by two instructors, Molly
Williams and Ellen Wolfson. The
enrollment is 25 students, half of
which are international students and
the other half are American students.
There are no prerequisites for the
class.
Williams has been teach
ing at Clackamas since 1979 and is
currently the coordinator of English
as a second language and the Learn
ing Center. She got her masters
degree in ESL at Portland State Uni
versity and also taught Introduction
to Intercultural Communication there
for five terms.
Wolfson is the Interna
tional Student Adviser at Clackamas
and has been employed here for 13
years. She got her degree in social
work from San Diego State and PSU.
The class teaches cultural
differences between people from
various parts of the world along with
people from different areas of the
United States. One thing this class
stresses is the realization of your
oWn life and surroundings.
“The key to intercommu
nication is to understand your cul
ture first,” Williams said.
The students learn behav
iors that are typical to their own
culture so they can better understand
the differences in the other cultures.
By doing this they can better com
municate with other cultures.
The students do a “Cui-
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tural Simulation” where two people
from different cultures interact and
learn more about the other culture.
This is to help relieve “culture
shock.” During this course, students
yillhave.jto kegp a journal, they will
be given a midterm and will have a
final paper to write in which they
will have to contrast the cultural
values of others to their own. They
will also have to discuss what would
happen if the values clashed.
“This course gives the
students an increased awareness of
their culture, an awareness of value
ALL FULL-TIME
STUDENTS (12+hrs)
are now eligible to join
ClackamasFederal Credit
Union, a non-profit financial
cooperative. Some benefits:
checking with no minimum
balamce, no monthly fee, no
per check charge, audio
response and ATM's, new
car loans from 6.5%, safe
deposit boxes, family
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Age 21 and under need to
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Clackamas FCU welcomes
CCC full-time students, and
invites you to become
differences, an increased sensitivity
toward and an appreciation of cul
tural differences, along with the abil
ity to better deal with the intercultural
misunderstandings,” Williams said.
“it’s a chance to get to know people
from different cultures.”
Wolfson said that this
course “raises the awareness of how
we see ourselves. Also it enables us
to understand that we live in a world
that incorporates different cultures
and to learn to place value on diver
sity.”
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