NEWS/FEATURES
The Clackamas Print Page 3
Wednesday, May 3,1995
Language clubs work
Graduation quickly approaches
for same cultural goals
V Sophomores begin preparing for ceremony
by Anjanette Booth
News Editor
With graduation quickly
approaching on June 9, there
are a few things that excited
graduates may need to know.
Graduation fee, ticketsand
announcements
For graduates who wish to
participate in the ceremony, a
$10 fee will be required. Be
ginning May 1, fees can be paid
to the cashier’s office in the
Community Center.
Graduates may request up
to six tickets for guests, which
may be picked
up at the book
store after pay
ing the gradua
tion fee. Stu
dents will need
their fee receipt
and coupon
that was given
to them at the
cashier’s office.
Announ
cements may
also be picked
up at the book
store. The first
one is compli
mentary and
each additional
announcement
needed can be purchased for 65
cents each. Extra tassels and
other graduation paraphernalia
may also be purchased.
Caps and gowns
Caps and gowns can be
picked up in the Fireside
Lounge in the Community Cen
ter on the following dates with
your receipt:
May 31 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.;
June 1 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
and 5 to 7 p.m.; June 2 from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m.; June 5 from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 to 7 p.m.;
June 6 from 5 to 7 p.m. and
June 8 from noon to 3 p.m.
Graduates are encouraged to
pick up their gown prior to June
8 to assure availability of proper
size. Honor cords are given to all
students who have a cumulative
GPA of 3.5 Or above through win
ter term. Following the ceremony,
gowns should be returned to the
Fireside Lounge. The cap/tassel
are to keep.
Graduation rehearsal
Rehearsal for graduation will be
held June 8 from 3 to 4 p.m. in
Randall Hall gym. Graduates that
are not able to attend rehearsal
by Brendon Neal
Staff Writer
Certificates-Counseling Center
Associates Degree - Main Mall
Students will only be re
ceiving a diploma cover during
the ceremony. Diplomas and
certificates (for spring term
graduates) can be picked up be
tween July 17 and July 28 in
the registrar’s office. Those not
picked up will be mailed.
The Camp Fire Day Care
will be providing free child care
for children ages 2 1/2 to 4 dur
ing the ceremony. It is limited
to the first 30 children signed
up in the Fireside Lounge dur
ing cap and
gown pick up.
Formore infor
mation, call
Judy at 657-
6683.
Photogra
pher
need to listen carefully to instruc
tions given during the lineup the
evening of graduation.
Ceremony
The graduation ceremony
will be held at 7 p.m., June 9, in
Randall Gymnasium. To allow
time for parking and seating,
guests should plan to arrive by
6:30 p.m. Graduates should also
arrive at the CC-Mall by 6:30
p.m. with cap and gown. You
should report to the following ar
eas.
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A photogra
pher will be
taking pictures
of each gradu
ate while cross
ing the stage.
By the end of
June, a proof of
the photo and a
price list will
be mailed to
each graduate.
For friends and family
who are not able to attend the
ceremony, it will be aired on
cable television at 9 a.m. and 9
p.m., June 10 and 18 (TCI 53,
Jones Intercable 15 or 18, N.
Willamette Telecom 41, Tel.
Systems W. 45).
Reception
A reception will be follow
ing the ceremony in the Gre
gory Forum for graduates,
guests, faculty and staff. For
more info, about graduation,
call Becky at the Instructional
Services Office at ext. 2205.
want to learn about other cultures
or meet some of the foreign stu
The German and Interna dents going to Clackamas are in
tional Clubs work from different vited to attend.
angles to bring about better cul
The club met during the fall
tural understanding.
term. However, because of lack
Deutschen Veren, the Ger of interest, they didn’t meet dur
man club, is made up of the stu ing the winter term. They met
dents who are studying German. for the first time this term last
One of their main goals is to show Friday at a party put on by David
students that learning a language Campbell; the new advisor. Prior
can be interesting and enjoyable, to this term, Ellen Wolfson was
despite being quite a bit of work. the advisor. However, she won’t
The club currently meets on be here next year. About 20 mem
Mondays in the lounge area on bers attended the party. The
the second floor of Barlow by the members came from places such
vending machines, and on as Switzerland, Japan, Indonesia
Wednesdays in B237. Thomas and Mexico.
Thackery, president of the club,
The club has been around for
explained that they hope to get many years. However, Campbell
more people involved by having said the club has varied in mem
two meetings a week, because stu bership and how active they were
dents often have busy schedules from year to year, depending on
and have trouble getting together what the members wanted and
at one time.
what their frame of mind was.
Thackery says language and
The purpose was to get the
culture are really intertwined con students to get to know each other.
cepts. In order to study a lan “Some of the foreign students do
guage, one should also study the not know each other.,” Cambell
culture. Both in the class and in said.
the club, they focus on both in
To break that feeling of iso
order to learn about Germany.
lated cut off, as students feel com
The advisor of the club is ing from another country or cul
Dick Stone, who teaches German ture, the club has meetings over
at Clackamas. Lisa Lyndquist is the course of the term to get to
the secretary and Susan Belinski know each other.
is vice-president.
The club has about $800 in
In order to help fund the their account that they earned sell
club, the students have put on a ing T-shirts, food, etc. Along
Gustav’s Raffle. Cesar Use won with the Foreign Language
the raffle was drawn on May 1. classes and clubs, they will be a
He received a gift, certificate to part of the International Day on
Gustav’s restaurant. On April 24, May 10.
they had reached about the half
There have been officers of
way mark of the amount of money the club previously. However,
they were hoping to get for the they haven’t had any elections this
raffle. Their hope is to get about term,
$500.
In preparation for next year,
The International Club is Campbell feels that, “It is prob
mainly made up of students from ably important for students before
other countries who are going to they start here to get together, to
school at Clackamas. Some of get to know each other to break
these are students just studying some of that discomfort they
in the United States. Others are might have in a new situation.”
from other nations but have He hopes to make contact with the
moved to the U.S. permanently. new students before registration
However, other students who and do something together.
New fee to be put into effect
V Earnings to provide structural change
by Brendon Neal
Staff Writer
Starting summer term,
there will be a new student fee
put into effect.
The fee is $2 per credit
hour, but the charge will only
go up to 14 credits.
Any credits beyond £
The athletic fund will receive
the majority of the funds at 53
percent. The technology fund is
next on the list at 31.7 percent.
Associated Student Government
will receive 8.65 percent of the
money. The co-curricular fund
will then be split to the four ar
eas.
The expected profit from
the fee is $264,000. While the
fee is going to be called a Stu
dent Registration Fee, Mary
Dikes, director of admissions,
says the fee will actu
ally be a kind of par
ticipation fee. This is
because the fee will
not go into general
funds, but instead go
toward four areas.
At the end of the 95-96
school year, the administration
and ASG will examine the re
sult of the fee and determine
whether to continue it and/or
change it. Suggestions are wel
come in either office in the
Community Center or in the
ASG suggestion boxes.
^Beginning summer term,
there will be a $2 per credit
hour fee.
• •
14 will not have a
registration fee in
cluded.
Tuition
waivers will not
cover these new fees. —
The fee is in place of a $2
per credit increase originally
planned. The major difference
is that it only goes up to 14 cred
its, instead of including 18 and
over like a normal tuition fee
increase would include. In ad
dition, the revenue is designated
for specific uses.
will receive the least amount at
6.628 percent.
The fee will not fund any
new initiatives, but is instead a
structural change. In order to
keep the revenue from the fees
separate from state and/or tax re
sources, the funds will be put into
“special revenue” funds where it