Event
Kathryn Tongue from
Lake Oswego High School
placed first in news writing in
the Regional Skills Competi*
tion. Her winning story on
" Virtual Reality" is inside.
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Clackamas' Drama de­
partment will present "Six
Characters in Search of an Au­
thor,” March 4,5,11,12 at 8
p.m., and March 13 at 2:30
p.m.
Men'sCougar basketball
suffers triple-overtime defeat at
the hands of league foe Mt
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Coming Friday from 5
p.m. to 1 a.m. is the return of
Ski Ball ’94, the all college and
university party at Mt Hood
Skibowl. Tickets are $7 in the
ASG office. Rental packages
are also available.
Wednesday^ March
The Clackamas Print
Vol. XXVII No. 16
Clackamas Community College
Oregon City, Oregon
ELC Director arrested Opening up new worlds
. ■ College's funds allegedly used for drugs
by Maury Webber
Tfre Prtnf Editorial Staff
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Learning Center, Clackamas
County Sheriffs office arrested'
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Clackamas wrestlers
shine at Nationals
by Jesse Sowa
The Print Staff
Six members of Clacka­
mas’ wrestling team showed the
rest of the nation what their coach
had been talking about all season.
Mike Haluska had stated
at the get-go that his team could
beat anyone they faced if they
wrestled to their potential.
TheCougarsprovedhim
right as they competed in the Na­
tional Junior Championships at
Bismarck, N.D., and came away
as the fourth best team in the
country.
Clackamas totalled 62
points and finished behind na­
tional champion Garden City,
Kansas (97.5 points), Iowa Cen­
tral (84.5), and regional foe North
Idaho (64).
The Cougars were led by
118-pounder Travis Rollins, who
took a 12-7 decision over T.J.
Marcaurele of Garden City in the
finals to be declared national cham­
pion.
“Rollins wrestled a fabu­
lous, flawless tournament,” said
Clackamas Athletic Director and
former head coach Jim Jackson.
Jackson said that Rollins’ perfor­
mance was the best he had ever
seen Rollins wrestle.
Jake Whisenhunt came
away with second place after los­
ing 4-0 to Scott Steft of Meramec,
Mo., in the finals.
Heavyweight Nathan
Sullivan also took second after
suffering a 4-0 defeat to Tony
Kenning from Willmar, Minn.
Jason Marshall placed
sixth in the 190-pound weight
class.
Josh Whisenhunt and
Jamre Dixson also competed, but
didn’t place at Nationals, at 134
lbs. and 177 lbs., respectively.
Jackson said thatDixson
and Marshall, who weren’t even
expected to reach the national
level, exceeded all expectations of
their performances this season.
“We were both very
pleased with what happened,” said
Jackson of Coach Haluska and
himself.
Jackson explained that
Josh Whisenhunt was injured prior
to the beginning of the tourna­
ment and didn’t do as well as he
could have, but that he gave it his
all at the meet.
Jackson also said that
Sam Federico got hurt in the re­
gional meet. Jackson believed that
Federico Could have been an All-
American had he not been in­
jured;
The Cougars are looking
forward to the future and for more
good things to come. The team
will lose just two wrestlers from
this team andjustone who went to
the national meet (Sullivan).
“We’re excited about
next year,” said Jackson.
Jackson gives a lot of
creditto those wrestlerswhodidn’t
make it to the national meet, but
helped prepare those that did
“Our wrestlers set high
goals. They also have a lot of self
confidence.
" All of our wrestlers had
tremendous tournaments,” said
Jackson.
by Tina McFarland
The Print Editorial Staff
Last week the Computer-
Aided Drafting program was fea­
tured in The Print. This article
about Virtual Reality is the sec­
ond part of that story, telling how
an entertainment craze can be
used for practical, as wellas ben­
eficial purposes.
Virtual Reality. A whole
new world is being created in the
entertainment industry. People
put on the headsets and the fiber­
optic gloves and they can enter
into a 3-D world where they can
get the bad guys or become fighter
pilots. Theycanbecomejustabout
anything they want. And what’s
really great about this new kind of
video game is if the bad guys get
the players first, the players can
always come back to life. The
options are virtually endless.
The term Virtual Reality
brings similar thoughts to many
Americans, but a thought that
probably doesn’t cross many
people’s minds, is the use of Vir­
tual Reality in the drafting indus­
try. While Virtual Reality attracts
many video game fans, few people
realize the impact it’s had in non­
entertainment areas, the areas that
Drafting instructor Terence
Shumaker would call “thepracti­
cal applications” of Virtual Real­
ity.
According to Shumaker,
Virtual Reality was actually first
developed in the military. Some
of the first encounters with these
almost-real experiences were the
first flight simulators that NASA
(National Aeronautics and Space
Administration) helped develop.
The military uses Virtual Reality
as well.
“The Gulf War was
fought on a virtual screen several
times before it was fought for real.
Mostpeopledidn’tknowthat How
do you think they were so accu­
rate? They would fly through the
real world and the virtual world at
the same time,” Shumaker said.
It hasn’t been until the
last three or four years that Virtual
Reality has broken into the enter­
tainmentindustry. Shumakersaid
that in the near future there will be
many Virtual Reality arcades
opening in major shopping malls
around the country. He said to
look for theme parks where Vir­
tual Reality is a major attraction.
“Millions of dollars will
be pumped into Virtual Reality
because there’s money to be made
there,” Shumaker said.
While the general public
around the world plays with Vir­
tual Reality, Shumaker and others
members of the Drafting depart­
ment are working to implement
an almost-real world in the draft­
ing program at Clackamas.
“Virtual Reality is the
next logical step in the design
process. You can go into the
computer and the model you’ve
created and not only manipulate
the model but interact with the
model, change it It’s powerful,”
Shumaker said.
To be able to hook Vir­
tual Reality up to the AutoCAD
system the Drafting department
uses now, they will have to invest
in some basic hardware and soft­
ware. For example, in order to be
able to see into a virtual world,
some sort of head gear is needed.
Currently, most Virtual
Reality users wear the helmet that
provides a mini-screen for each
eye. An image is projected on
each screen inside the helmet giv­
ing the wearer the feeling of being
inside a 3-D model. Shumaker
said that the helmets are in the
process of being replaced with
goggles or some “less obtrusive”
eye wear, because the headsets
present a hygiene problem,
“Wearing the helmets are
equated to putting someone else’s
sneaker on your face,” Shumaker
said.
With the eye wear, some
sort of tracking device is needed
allowing the user to see a repre­
sentation of his hand in the model.
This is, in part, where the gloves
come in. These gloves have fiber­
optic cables running through the
top, laying next to the knuckles.
When the knuckle bends, the
amount of light passing through
the cables decreases which tells
the computer to bend the finger of
the hand in the model. Essen­
tially, the less light allowed to
pass through the cables, the more
movement thecomputer registers.
This adds to the sense of being
inside of the model.
Two devices are located
to form a triangle with the glove
and eye wear. For example on the
desk and on top of the computer.
“It’s like a survey crew, it con­
stantly monitors the location of
the hand (in the model)i”
Shumaker said.
In order to create a vir­
tual world, some basic software
and computer programming are
necessary. And depending on how
“real” this virtual world is to be
relies on the complexity and the
power of the computer.
There are two basic forms
of Virtual Reality. The first, sim­
pler View, is “Through the Win­
dow.” This doesn’t give as much
interaction. It. is, like the name
says, similar to looking through a
window into a model. The other,
more extensive view is called “To­
tally Immersive.” According to
Shumaker, this immersive world
is a “stereo world” and gives the
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