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News Pg. 2 The Clackamas Print Wednesday. March 2.1994 Virtual Reality: A brave new world News Briefs Compiled by Vicki Welch Neil Lomax, former quarterback for Portland State Uni versity and the Phoenix Cardinals, will speak at Clackamas Tuesday at 12:30p.m. in the Gregory Forum. Lomax will discuss his Christian beliefs in a presentation sponsored by the Fellowship of Christian Athletes. The public is invited to attend the presen tation free of charge. Bring a brown-bag lunch. For more information, call ext. 2418. Annual Writers' Club Contest deadline has been ex tended to March 4. Entries may be Action, poetry or creative non fiction. There may be a maximum of six poems and/or one fiction or non-fiction entry. Entries must be typed, double-spaced with three copies of each entry. Entries must have a cover sheet with name and titles of works and Social Security number on individual entries. For more information, call Allen Widerburg at ext. 2359. Now accepting submissions of short fiction and poetry for publication in future insert of the Clackamas Print. Please bring your submissions to Barlow 104. Don’t be afraidto submit to The Print. The last day for submissions to Rhapsody is Friday. Illusion and reality will take center stage in Clackamas’ winter theater production, Six Characters in Search of an Author. Performances arescheduledforMarch 3,4,5,11, and 12 at 8 p.m. and March 13 at 2:30 p.m. in the McLoughlin Hall Theater. Tickets are $6 general, $3 students and staff, and senior citizens free with reservations. For reservations or more informa tion, call ext. 2356. There will be a panel discussion today to discuss “Gender Issues in the ’90s” in the Gregory Forum aUnoon. The panel will consist of Loren Ford, Bernie Nolan and Joe Uris.They will discuss healthy relationships, promoting them and maintaining them,and will have a debate discussing education, salary, communication and health. Tryouts for CCC’s Spring Theater production will be Mon day from 3 to 5 p.m. Tryouts are open to the public. Three men and four women will be needed for the production of Neil Simon’s “Brighton Beach Memoirs.” Audition materials may be picked up in M-120. For more information, call ext. 2356. Students in the college’s Theater Arts program will present three one-act plays March 8 through 10 in the McLoughlin Hall Theater. The performances are free and open to the public. For more information or showtimes, call ext. 2356. Professional Core entrance interviews will be held April 14 and 15 on the Western Oregon S tate College campus. They will be selecting students to enter the program during the 1994 to 1995 school year. Applications from community colleges are due in the office by March 24. Candidates should be third-term sophomores (minimally) who are completing Westem’sLACC requirements or the Block Transfer. Candidates will be notified of their eligibility to interview and an appointment time. For more information, call (503) 838-8471. Continued from page 1 impression of being inside computer’s database which Could be sentdirectly to a builder. Voila! the model. Despite the reality of You have a custom-designed these virtual worlds, Shumaker home. Virtual Reality can work said they won’t be really real. “Models in Virtual Reality will the same way for office design. not in the near future be equal Japan uses Virtual Reality for with reality because of the limits kitchen design. Despite all the of computers. The quality of the leaps and bounds made in discov system you want is directly re ering the possibilities of Virtual lated to the hardware and the com- Reality, the U.S. is still behind in plexity of the computer,” the game. “It was developed in the Shumaker said. The software used here, U.S., yet we are the last to use it in AutoCAD, allows for the drawing a practical way for human ad of 3-0 models which can be used vancement,” Shumaker said. . That is just the begin in the Virtual Reality software. So now that the software ning. Telepresence Surgery al and hardware are all set up, what lows doctors to operate on patients can VirtualReality do for the draft without even being in the operat ing department? Well, the practi ing room. The surgeon is in a cal applications of this experience room in one city with stereo eye are about as limitless as those in wear, hooked up to a satellite. The patient is in aroom in another the entertainment industry. . Imagine walking into an city prepped for surgery and situ architect’s office and saying, 'I ated beneath apair of robotic arms want to design my own home.' that emulate the surgeon’s moves. The architect takes you to the The doctor is only present via computer,puts thegoggles on you, satellite, yet this new form of sur puts the glove on your hand and gery has been used, and according turns you loose inside a model. to Shumaker,is “highlyaccurate.” Telerobotics is similar to You then have free reign. You walk down the hall and decide it is telepresence surgery, except the too narrow, so you push it out robot is sent into situations that You walk into the kitchen and humans would not be able to enter decide the window is too high, so into. “It is dangerous work. You you lower it. And every time you have the robots do it, but, who make.iubangeJtos.storeçHnjthç^j^onü^^ working with the 3-D Virtual Re ality model,” Shumaker said. While this new form of technology is intriguing and fun for many, Shumaker said it does have its dangers. “With every ‘advance’ made, we lose some thing. There are negative sides to everything we do. We sacrifice of our world, ourselves and our rela tionships with each other. We have no plan for the technology we create. We have not yet to begun torealize where technology is taking us. And that is the dangerous part of where we think we’re going,” Shumaker said. Shumaker warns against becoming too hooked on Virtual Reality. As it becomes more real and more detailed, the abuse people encounter in the real world can be displaced with the seeming realities of a self-created virtual world. Shumaker said it is pos sible to abuse Virtual Reality and not want to leave a self-created virtual world, or to not be able to distinguish between real life and a virtual life. While Virtual Reality is still hew and exciting there are limits to what can be done, at least right now. However, even those limits aren’t too binding. “Imagination is the only limit to the possibilities of Virtual Landmark class offers glimpse of Virtual Reality by Kathryn Tongue Lake Oswego High School First Place NewsWriting - “Thtsis ih&onlyclassof its kind within several States of the west,” said Diane Delvers, news service coordinator for CCC white speaking of a new, one-daycourscm Virtual Reality whichwrilbe offeredat Clacka mas CommunityCoHcgeonboth May b and May 20, . . The .course will be of-' fered through theClaekamas Drafting department and is anon- <3Editclasseosting$lM It will introducestudcntstosoftwareand hardware available to do Virtual Reality, The class will also in clude diseusstonsoftheapplica- tions ofVirtual Reality and will allow students recreate and navi Reality is expected to become gate a virtual worfd, iT' moreavailable to more people," • According to Delvers, said Delvers. “You can expect severalfaculty members, suchas VirtualReality topopupatmalts Terence Shumaker, were instru- and theme paries,?* The college has already mental in bringing the course to taken advantage of the increas Clackamas, ■ ’“They wanted, tri ¡offer the ing availability of Virtual Real course to keep Clackamas on the ity and has created a 3-dimen- edge of dehvermg new knowl stonai mapof campus. In add*« edge,” DdvefS said,;.CV;' tion, Clackamas is planning re Virtual Reality has al ofiertwo more nine-hour courses ready been used to perform sur in Virtual Reality next fall,' There are no prerequi- gery via satellite, and it will en ablefire fighteiWextmguish toxic sites for the courae; and any in fires without endangering them terested high school or college selves. Inaddition, Virtual Real students, as well as educators, ity Canbe combined With robotics school administrators and bust- andsatelltetoovercomeobstacles ncsspeoplcmayenroll. Space is hunted, however, to 15 students qf distance and danger, „ / * “This .summer. Virtual per class. - CFCU - CLACKAMAS FEDERAL CREDIT UNION INVITES CCC STUDENTS TO JOIN! All full-time Clackamas Community College students are now eligible to join Clackamas Federal Credit Union, a non-profit financial cooperative. Once you join, your family members will also be eligible to become members/owners. Clackamas FCU offers a wide range of services such as: Checking accounts with no minimum bal ance & no monthly fees, free audio response and . ATM's, savings and investment accounts, auto and 7 other loans with low rates, VISA cards, safe deposit boxes and more! If you are 21 and under, you need only to maintain a savings account of $5, while those 22 and over will need a $ 100 savings. We have offices in the Hilltop Oregon City area and the Milwaukie Express way area. Call 656-0671 or 653-7788 for more infor mation or simply stop by either office. Join today and see the difference. We wel come you to become a member/owner of Clackamas Federal Credit Union. . 270 Warner Milne Rd. ■ Or tgon City, OR 97945 - Phone (5«3) 459-4471 FAX (543) 455-7453 4440 SE International Way ■ Milwaukie, OR 97222-4409 - Phone (503) 453-7733 FAX (503) 453-9771 Men and Women in the 90's Rules, Roles & Responsibilities Gregory Forum Noon March 2 Speakers include Dave Campbell, Loren Ford, Bernie Nolan & Joe Uris Sponsored by CCC Social Science & Counseling Departments
