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Check It Out Sarah McLachlan performs at‘the Schnitz } 1 fli ■/ ' - See Page 2 Oregon City, Oregon ~ ' ' i. Clackamas Community College Vol. XXVIII No. 17 Wednesday, April 12,1995 AT A GLANCE Compiled by Cori Kargel Copy Editor "V Petitions for graduation are now being accepted at the Registrar’s office and the Help Center. Petitions turned in after Saturday are not guaranteed. The graduation ceremony will be June 9. In formation on the ceremony will be sent out during spring term. For more infor-' mation, call ext. 2254. V Meet with a representative from Warner Pacific College, from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m„ today, in the Com munity Center. Help Center relocates out of Fireside Lounge to center of student mall by Christi Snavely Opinion Editor “Everybody be re assured, the Fireside Lounge is coming back; the piano’s coming back.” These words of encourage ment came from Gale Miller, man tional opportunities are now available ager of the Help Center. She and to you. Call Guy Crooks at ext. 2247 to the rest of the Help Center crew find out about volunteering in local will be relocating out of the Fire classrooms. Contact Eric Lewis at ext. side Lounge and into their new 2251 to find out about the Psychology location in the middle of the stu of Education class. a / The Small Business Development dent mall this week. The move should be fairly Center provides 10 free hours of coun seling to entrepreneurs all over the painless as far as students are con region. This free community service cerned; they hope to have one sta often includes questions and answers tion up and running on Monday, about computers, marketing, tax liabili with the rest to follow. ties and more. For more information, “The idea is that it (the new or to schedule an appointment, call 656- location) is to provide better ser 4447. a / The Oregon Advanced Technol vice to students. Before the Help Center was developed, the student ogy Center will soon be hosting an open coming to register might have had house in honor of comhiunity college month. The free event will include a to stop at four different places. number of demonstrations and/or tours. “The concept of the Help Visitors may browse and enjoy refresh Center is to take all the areas that ments. The open house will be from we used to have, and put them all noon to 4 p.m., April 24. For more in together so students can go one formation, call ext. 4609. a / The Portland Women’s Crisis Line place to get most of their services,” needs female volunteers who want to Miller said. So, with the change of loca help end domestic and sexual violence, as well as help victims and survivors of tion, will the way in which we re such violence. Practicum credit is avail ceive our service change? able for students. Training includes in “We’re going to experiment. formation on domestic violence, active Basically, we want to do what listening, oppression, sexual harass works best, and my guess is we ment, coping mechanisms and other im will probably start out by having portant areas. Training is 46 hours long and begins in May. For more informa all stations open at once.” Miller tion or an application, call 232-9545. used phones to illustrate her point. a / The American Hiking Society is now “This has a lot of seeking experienced hikers to join the flexibility...We do handle most of Volunteer Vacations program. Teams of the main phones now, so we have volunteers are sent to a variety of loca to balance the phones and people. tions across the United States to work a / Education majors - several educa on projects ranging from trail mainte nance to bridge-building. For more in formation or an application, contact AHS Volunteer Vacations, PO Box 20160, Washington, D.C. 20041-2160. Or call (703)319-0084. a / Clackamas Community College now has a soccer club. It is open to women and men. There will be meetings at 1 p.m., today and tomorrow, in the Stu dent Government office. For more in formation, call Pablo at ext. 2247. INDEX NEWS Page 1 FEATURES Page 2, 4, & 5 OPINION Page 3 SPORTS Page 6 & 7 Photo by Josh Kehler Renovations are underway as the Help Center is moved from the former Fireside Lounge to the middle of the CC Mall. There is nothing more frustrating than taking the time to get in your car and drive somewhere, and then standing there waiting for some one to get off the phone to help you. “Now, that person just called, but they have priority, and that’s the way it shouldn’t be. We’re go ing to experiment with separating phones and walk-ins so we don’t have to interrupt someone we’re helping to pick up the phone.” Another concept Miller men tioned is having a “quick answer” table out front to field the students through quickly, instead of having to stand at the end of a registra tion line. This was implemented for spring quarter registration and was a popular time- saver for everyone involved. For those of us who remem ber a not-too-distant past, when we could congregate together in the Fireside room to discuss the space and time continuum, which came first; the chicken or the egg? Or the latest Seinfeld episode? “This (the fireside room) was always considered to be tempo rary,” Miller said. “The college recognizes that it’s a very impor- tant student space. “What we wanted to do was have a chance to develop a con cept before we spent any money building any thing.... we needed to find out what it needed to look like. “It’s a new environment, and we need to get in. I think there’s going to be some really neat ad vantages, but we need to try it out,” Miller said. Inevitably we will all get our turn to do just that. Make sure and let the staff know how glad we are to have our new center and our old room. V Volunteer and paid positions available Program coordinator seeks student tutors by Amy Ku’uipo Bierman Staff Writer Are you a student on campus who may sometimes need help, but knows not where to find it? Or are you a student who has answers, but knows not who to give them to? The key word here is tutoring. According to Don Shula, learning resources instructor and tutor coordinator, there are two tu toring programs that most students here on campus are unaware of. The first is the drop-in tutor program. Any CCC student, trans fer student or professional techni cal student, can get help with any subject. Tutors are hired for all sub jects taught here, and tutoring is available one-on-one or in group sessions. The math and computer labs are probably the best known places to get help for these sub jects on campus, but help in other subjects is available. Information on receiving help in a specific subject can be found by asking instructors or by calling Robert Pardun at ext. 2736. Students interested in becom ing tutors can call Don Shula at ext. 2324. Work study students are accepted, and the average wage for a peer tutor is $7.37 per hour. The second tutoring program mentioned is the Volunteer Lit eracy Program. This program is available in conjunction with Port land Community College, Oregon Literacy Incorporated, the Mount Hood Literacy Coalition and CCC. Tutors are needed to teach adults, 18 years and older, to read. They must have a high school di ploma, a GED or some college experience. “The ability to communicate with adult learners in an accept ing, non-judgmental manner” is also required. Responsibilities of a tutor in clude attending a training work shop, “an initial commitment of six months to the program” and the agreement to tutor two to four hours per week. Some of the benefits involved with being a literacy volunteer are the satisfaction of helping others, work experience and job recom mendations, as well as the oppor tunity to start friendships with stu dents from varied backgrounds. For information about becom ing a literacy volunteer, call ext. 2326 or 1-800-322-8715.
