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xñr>----- 1----------------------- t T • Vol. XXIX No. 8 Clackamas Print Wednesday, December 6,1995 AT A GLANCE Compiled by Cori Kargel Business Manager Attention all Native American students! Come to the next Native American Students Club meeting Dec. 13, from 4:30 to 6 p.m., on the Sky light Dining Room in the Community Center. For more information, call Advisor Sylvia Ollgaard at 632-4619 or Vice-Pres. Cori Kargel atext. 2578. Come to the Late Night Study Night in the Computer Lab and Library tonight. Both places will be open until midnight, then will reopen tomorrow at 6 a.m. Plan to do your holiday shopping at the Club-Sponsored Craft Fair. Find unique and interesting gifts. The fair will be today only, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., in the Community Center Mall. For more information, call ext. 2455. CCC students are now perform ing Agatha Christie’s “The Mouse trap.” Come see this mysterious mas terpiece Dec. 8 and 9 at 8 p.m., or Dec. 10 at 2:30 p.m., in the McLoughlin Hall Theatre. Admission is $6 for adults, $3 for students, free for seniors 62+ who have made reservations. For reserva tions or more information, call ext. 2356. Christmas by Candlelight, the annual holiday concert performed by CCC vocal students, will feature choral music from around the world. The con cert is scheduled for Dec. 10. at 8 p.m., at the Oregon City United Methodist Church. Admission is free and open to the public. For more information, call Jean Marshall at ext. 2434. Native American-students-at PSU are sponsoring a UISHE Pow-Wow to be held at PSU. There will be a com munity Christmas dinner from 4 to 6 p.m. The grand entry will be at 7 p.m. A canned food drive will be held throughout the event. The pow-wow will be in PSU’s Main Gym. For more information, call UISHE at 725-5671. Clackamas Community College Student government helps the needy Amy K. Hanson Managing Editor ASG is playing Santa Claus to a number of people by doing many fund-raisers and projects this holiday season. The first fund-raiser that ASG is doing is a raffle. Tickets go for $1 and the prize will be a $30 gift certificate for the Olive Garden Restaurant. Proceeds will go to the McDonald’s Center to help feed and clothe the homeless. A drawing will be held and the winner announced today. Volunteers are needed for this Saturday’s home weatherization project. The group will be weatherizing pipes and windows for those people who are physically unable or cannot afford to do so. This non-profit project is ex pected to take approximately five hours. Snacks will be provided. Anyone interested can contact Helen Dunlap at ext. 2247 or in the ASG office room CC140. The Christmas Giving Tree is another project that ASG has created to help families have a better Christmas. Set up in front of the cafeteria, the tree is covered with ornaments that have the names of different children on them. People willing to participate are asked to take the ornament to the ASG office where they will be given the child’s name and de scription enabling them to buy a suitable gift. They then return the gift to ASG unwrapped which is given to the parent for the child. Last year the Christmas Giving Tree was a big suc cess, providing gifts for about 90 children. This year’s gifts are due by Friday and will be distributed Dec. 12-14. ASG is also selling Almond Roca, mint truffles and raspberry truffles. This fund-raiser sponsors the Family Resource Center childcare scholarship. Prices range from $1 to $7.50 and orders will continue to be taken in CC140 until the end of the term. Auto program receives donation Lisa Kelton Contributing Writer Toyota has expanded its training program to include Clackamas Community College beginning winter term to help fill the growing need for qualified automotive technicians. “The advantage of this kind of program is that it shows the critical need of quality techni- cians and the commitment made by the manufacturers, the deal ers and the educational networks to provide those quality techni cians,” said Marc Essig, depart ment chair of automotive pro grams at the college. CCC has entered into an agreement with Umpqua Com munity College, which has been affiliated with the Toyota Pro- Registration for Winter Term began Dec. 4 for returning students with appointments. New students can be gin registration by appointment Dec. 11. Open registration begins Dec. 13. Win ter term starts Jan. 2. For more infor mation, call ext. 2770. Petitions for graduation are now being accepted. The graduation cer emony will be June 7. For more infor mation, see the Registrar’s office or the Help Center. The Environmental Learning Cen ter will soon be offering a wreath-mak ing class. Come join in the holiday spirit Dec. 9. from 2 to 5 p.m., at the ELC. For more information, call ext. 2351. Come visit the ELC’s Benefit Christmas Gift Shop. Items offered will include handcrafted jewelry, puzzles, model kits, and more. The shop will be open fronrS a.m. to 4 p.m., Tues, through Sat., through Dec. 22. For more information call ext. 2351. The Oregon Women’s Symphony Association has decorated Pittock Mansion with themes drawn from 100 years of program notes. Visitors may tour these holiday decorations daily, from noon to 4 p.m., through Dec. 31. Call 823-3624 for information or direc tions. The Hood to Coast Runners had a Thanksgiving Dinner Raffle during the week of Nov. 13-21. Thank you to ev eryone who helped make the raffle a success. Congratulations to Elaine Kin dred, the CCC cashier who won the raffle. The John Inskeep Environmental Learning Center has dropped its $3 per car surcharge for recycling services. The ELC invites the public to drop off recyclable materials free. For more in formation, call ext. 2358. Photo by Josh Kehler The Giving Tree is one of several fund- raising projects arranged by ASG. Photo by Rene Siracusa Jerry Cook and Marc Essig work on a 1995 Toyota 4Runner donated by Toyota for its training program. gram for three to four years. Clackamas will provide the first year of training. For the second year, the student will transfer to UCC. “The advantage of this ar ticulation is that the greatest number of dealers are in the Port land Metro area,” Essig said. “This allows the student the first year to, most probably, live at home and go to school.” Essig explained that Toyota sponsors the student in an intern ship. The student is funded by and supported by a Toyota dealer. Depending upon the class load, the student may work part-time at the dealership for the first year. Upon completion of the program, the student is contracted to work for the sponsoring dealer. The college is working with the dealerships in thé Portland Metro area to find students. Stu dents are located through the dealer network and recruiting. Essig, who is the program coor dinator, commented that anyone interested in this program may contact him directly. The dealers are looking for students who have stability and are high school graduates with good math skills, communication skills, logic and analysis and can think through a problem. The stu dents have to be approved by the dealers before they can enter the program. Toyota donates instructional vehicles to UCC, whose goal is to have one of every model for the See AUTOTECH, page 5 TACT Center a unique resource Becky Harrison Contributing Writer The TACT Center (Train ing Adaptive Computer Tech nology,) is a distinctive re source located at Clackamas Community Collégé, managed by its originator, Jan Wight. It is designed to enable all people with disabilities to access com puter technology for future em ployment. It is the only lab for matted like this in the North west. “This is the only center which has a full computer lab,” explains Wight. “We are modeled after a program down in California, but they do "not offer software designed for spe cific disabilities.” Beyond key board awareness, the center of fers memory and sequencing programs for traumatically brain injured, several pro grams for learning disabilities and “Voice Playback,” for vi sually disabled. The TACT Center has a high success rate of employ ment assistance. “Over 60 percent of our students last year entered the work force,” said Wight. With such a variety of students who enroll at the center, Wight as sists with homework, specific competencies and employment See TACT, page 5 Page 7 Page 9 Fellowship of Christian Athletes; a club for anyone Printmaker Anne Warnock’s works now on display
