Vol. XXIX No. 4
Wednesday, November 1,1995
AT A GLANCE
Compiled by Cori Kargel
Business Manager
Composer and pianist
Roger Kellaway will soon visit
the college. Kellaway has worked
with a number of well-known
artists, and his credits include 22
film scores and an Academy
Award nomination. Admission is
free for CCC students and $4 for
general public. Proceeds will
benefit the Music Department
Scholarship Fund.
Come
experience his performance Nov.
6, from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m., in the
Gregory Forum. For more
information, call ext. 2586.
Chrysalis,
the
CCC
women’s writing group is now
meeting. Join in the meetings
every Weds., from noon to 1 p.m.,
in Bl 12. For more information,
call Kate Gray at ext. 237Î.
Attention all
American students!
Native
Several
Native American students and
staff members have begun a group
just for you! Get involved. Help
this new venture be a success. For
more information, call Marie
Feddern at ext. 2556, or Sylvia
Ollgaard at 632-4619.
Several scholarships are
still available for 1995-96. Stop
by the Financial Aid office and
check them out.
Ernest Saves Christmas
will be shown this Friday at 7 p.m.
in the Gregory Forum. Admission
is $ 1.75 per person, $6 for a family
of four, $1 for each additional
person.
Warner Pacific College will
be at CCC today to meet with
people interested in their degree
completion program. Come by
and check it out from 9 a.m. to 1
p.m., in the Community Center.
Help save a life. Donate to
the Blood Drive today, from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m.
For more
information, call Carrie at ext.
2247.
Representatives
from
Eastern Oregon State College
are scheduled to visit CCC. Come
get answers to your questions Nov.
6, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in. the
Community Center.
College Closed:
Veteran’s Day, Friday, Nov. 10
Thanksgiving, Thursday and
Friday, Nov. 23-24
Wilsonville sets up
multimedia lab
Brendon Neal
Section Editor
Learn to set goals and create
a mission statement for your
business at the Small Business
Management I class at CCC’s
Small Business Development
Center. Topics will include
financial analysis, business
records and financial statements.
Participants will receive monthly,
personalized counseling at their
place of business. Cost is $330
for the year. Class will meet the
first Weds, of every month, from
7 to 10 p.m. For more information,
call Rick Stone at 656-4447.
Clackamas Community College
Clackamas is in the process
of setting up a multimedia lab at
its CCC Wilsonville/Oregon Ad
vanced Technology Center cam
pus.
The new lab will offer multi
media seminars on topics such as
CD-ROM authoring and how to
start and finance a CD-ROM
business. Courses will also be
taught in designing and manag
ing World Wide Web pages.
Fees for use of the facility and
seminars will vary on the target
audience. As an example, a semi
nar for students on web page
authoring, would be as inexpen
sive as possible, while something
more challenging that would give
individuals a chance to make
more money with the same time
and equipment would cost be
tween $100-200 for a two day
workshop.
These classes will be open to
anyone who wants to come. How
ever, Ken Roth, head of the lab,
does want to let them know that
if they have little experience with
computers or video editing, they
could probably spend their money
better elsewhere getting those
skills. -
The lab is the outgrowth of a
grant award from Mount Hood
Regional Strategies Board
(MHRSB), whose responsibility it
is to dole out lottery dollars for
economic development. The
grant was awarded last spring and
the contract between the Ad
vanced Technology Center in
Wilsonville and the MHRSB was
signed in June.
The multimedia lab will not
be open to students initially, un
less someone wishes to work there
as an intern. Rather than being
student body focused, Roth says,
“A primary focus of the lab is to
develop the multimedia industry
in the state.” This includes as
sistance for emerging and estab
lished businesses in order for
them to do more and do it better.
It will also assist in developing
new talent to support the busi
nesses once they are up and run
ning.
The prerequisites for attend
ing seminars or using the lab are
currently open, case by case. They
interview people who will be us
ing the facility to determine what
their knowledge base is.
Roth feels that users need to
be fairly familiar with Macintosh
technology and software. They
should also be willing to put quite
a bit of time into getting up to
speed. Roth advises people who
are interested to just call and ask.
He warned that the lab wouldn’t
be a place to just learn applica
tions or hardware without a spe
cific goal. They intend to have a
mechanism in place whereby
people can submit a project plan
that outlines goals and how they
plan to reach the goals. If they
seem serious, the lab will help
them.
The lab is to be self-support
ing, which means they will have
to charge larger fees than normal
college activities and services.
Right now, Roth expects to do a
lot of networking to determine
ways to generate ongoing support,
in order to develop and sell their
services.
In December they will be of
fering a demonstration of a new
authoring software called
MovieWorks. They hope to do
this in conjunction with a local
multimedia publisher at the
publisher’s offices, because they
photo by Tim Countryman
Pianist and Concord Jazz recording artist Walter
Norris gave a performance and workshop last
Wednesday in Randall Hall.
Norris was born in Arkansas and now resides in
Berlin, Germany. He was a pianist for several jazz
artists in the ‘50s and ‘60s including Stan Getz, Zoot
Sims and Shorty Rogers.
have a Macintosh network and
the software isn’t PC compatible
yet.
“I saw the product at a re
cent conference and found it ex
tremely easy to use and quite pow
erful.” said Roth.
Another workshop is sched
uled for January 1996. It will be
on clearing rights for CD projects
and raising venture capital to pro
duce CD programs and start CD
companies. There will also be an
attorney who specializes in mul
timedia there to tell the attendees
about securing rights and venture
financing. Other workshops and
seminars might deal with steps to
produce a CD project and
authoring for the World Wide
Web.
Seminars are not currently
being held in lab. This is because
they only have limited equipment
right now. Roth explains that they
wanted to hold off buying more
until they had a better idea where
the program was going. He feels
that they have the idea now and
are trying to look for ways to
stretch their money so they can
better equip the lab.
“Starting something from
scratch and building it for the
long haul takes time.” Roth ex
plained. He expects the lab to be
here in five years, and be doing
some “pretty terrific stuff’ then.
Education cuts may affect federal aid recipients
Dan Anderson
Staff Writer
Congress is currently consid
ering legislation that would cut
roughly ten million dollars from
the education budget, affecting all
students seeking federal grants or
loans, and changing other laws re
lated to the repayment of these
loans.
Clackamas students partici
pated in the “Death of Education”
protest by signing a petition against
these changes. ASG President
Mike Caudle delivered these sig- tax and eliminating the six-month achieve those goals, but seeks to
natures to Representative Jim interest-free grace period after “preserve the interest exemption
Bunn, the Republican from District graduation.
for students” after graduation.
Five, who supports much of this
According to Rep. Bunn’s
According to Caudle, this ten
sweeping legislation.
press secretary, Jerome Hartl, the million dollar cut would eliminate
“Student leaders nationwide Republican’s main goals as a mem $47,750 in Clackamas Pell Grants;
know that cuts are coming,” ber of the governing body’s pow in Oregon, 3,900 students would
Caudle explained. According to erful Appropriations Committee lose Pell Grants. Cuts in other
Caudle, the leaders’ goal is simply include balancing the federal bud forms of financial aid would fol
to reduce the impact of these cuts. get and eliminating the gargantuan low.
Some of the goals of this leg national debt.
In July, Rep. Bunn restored 16
islation include: assessing all in
Hartl stated that Rep. Bunn million dollars to the Strengthen
stitutions which lend students supports cutting up to ten million ing Institutions Fund, a support
money for college a 0.85 percent from the educational budget to legislation for community colleges.
In the spirit
English instructor
Robert Rodger
dressed up yesterday
for Halloween