Feature/News
The Clackamas Print
Wednesday, March 6,1996
TraveLearn offers study tours ‘Lady From Dubuque’
Damon Fouts
Staff Writer
Morocco, Indonesia and
Costa Rica are just three of 16
lands that CCC and TraveLearn,
an international travel/study pro
gram, are offering tours of.
“It’s a cut above the typical
eco-tour,” CCC Science instruc
tor John Snively said. Snivelyhas
escorted two groups to Costa Rica
- the first about a year ago, and
another last February.
As a faculty escort on those
tours, his role was to share his
scholarly expertise with the tour
group through informative com
ments during the tours, and
through lectures and slide presen
tations in the comforts of the ho
tel. Faculty escorts from 280 col
leges throughout the nation are
involved like Snively in the
TraveLearn program.
Snively says that like most
eco-tours, the ecology and the
environment of the host country
are examined, but the history, cul
ture and art of the country are also
explored. A native of the host
country accompanies the tour
group, and adds knowledge and
perspectives a lecturing tour guide
can’t provide.
Snively’s group got a look at
the evolving geology of Costa
Rica, first-hand, when his tour
group witnessed the eruption of
the country’s Mount Arenal from
Laney Fouse
Staff Writer
It’s the week before finals.
Somewhere in the uncharted ter
ritory you call a bedroom lies your
chemistry book. The cover is
spotless. The pages still a crisp
white. There are no smudges of
pizza or coffee. Nor are the pages
dog-eared.
If this sounds like your book,
you can probably forget getting a
good grade. Nevertheless, there
is still hope for you next term.
But, let’s say you spent
countless hours reading. You did
all your homework. You partici
pated in class discussion. You
asked what you thought were in
telligent questions. Yet, the idea
of putting your acquired knowl
edge to a test is scaring the heck
out of you.
Relax and regain your con
trol. No amount of worrying is
going to help you. Perhaps, the
following material, developed at
the Air Force Academy Cadet
Counseling Center will.
Prepare well in advance.
Keep up day to day, if you can;
but don’t judge yourself harshly
just two miles away.
Other tours offer equally ex-
citing opportunities.
The
TraveLearn program will be of
fering a tour this summer and fall
to Kenya, where the tour group
will take a safari through, among
other regions, the Masai village.
Another group will be touring the
temple of the Parthenon of ancient
Greece, the birthplace of Western
thought. And for those that pre
fer staying close to home, a tour
of Alaska’s Inside Passage is
available.
CCC Music instructor Janet
Martin was on a previous tour of
Alaska. The usual hotel accom
modations were replaced by a
two-week cruise aboard luxury
cruise ship. She and those aboard
the ship witnessed millennia-old
glaciers falling into the bay of
Glacier Bay.
“We were close enough that
we could hear it very good as the
chunks of glacier hit the water.
Some were the size of a V.W.,
some were as big as a large pick
up. Some were even bigger. They
made a low, rumbling roar that
would climax with a huge
splash,” Martin said.
When Martin wasn’t watch
ing the thundering glacial calv
ing, the music instructor was pre
paring her tour group for the
ship’s talent show. The group
wrote a song about the cruise and
sang it at the show.
According to a brochure that
gives the dates and locations of
upcoming summer and fall tours,
the groups are kept to 20
people or less, the accommoda
tions are first-class and the itin
eraries are comfortably paced.
And most tours provide the
groups with the opportunity to
share a meal with local natives in
their own homes.
CCC program representa
tives are having an open house for
those interested in the tours,
March 30 from 1 to 4 p.m. in Gre
gory Forum. Snively will be there
to share his experiences and
present a slide show from his
Costa Rica tours. Martin and
Debbie Baker from CCC’s Con
tinuing Education will also be
available to answer questions.
1996 summer or fall tours are
also scheduled for Ireland, the
Galapagos Islands, Equador,
Nova Scotia, Bermuda, Belize,
South Africa, Australia, Egypt,
Turkey and China. The cost of
the tours range from $2000 to
$5000 per person, which includes
food, lodging and air fare from the
tour’s departure cities. Travel
groups are organized at least 90
days before departure, although
late additions can often be accom
modated. CCC’s Spring Sched
ule of Classes has complete infor
mation on the tours.
if you don’t.
Avoid last-
minutecramming. Don’t go with
out sleeping the night before.
Stop studying an hour or so be
fore thè test and relax and com
pose yourself.
Know the time and place of
the test and what you need to
bring. Be on time, neither too
early nor too late. Don’t rush.
Don’t talk about the test with
classmates immediately before
hand, if you know it raises your
anxiety level. To do so may nour
ish group paranoia.
Read over the test and plan
your approach. Ascertain point
values per part, time limits for
each section, which question
you’ll start with, etc.
Don’t hesitate to ask for clari
fication if you have questions
about directions, procedure, etc.,
rather than letting anxiety build
up because you aren’t sure about
what you are expected to do.
Develop an aggressive, yet
realistic attitude. Approach the
test determined that you will do
your best; but also accept the lim
its of what you know at the mo
ment. Use everything you know
to do well; but don’t blame your
self for what you don’t know.
Activity reduces anxiety. If
you go blank and can’t think of
anything to write, go on to an
other question or another part of
the test.
On an essay, jot down any
thing you can recall somewhere.
You may write to stimulate your
memory and get your mind work
ing.
Relax yourself physically
during the test, if you notice that
you are not thinking well or are
tight. Pause, lay your test aside,
and take several slow, deep
breaths. Concentrate onyour
breathing. Do this if you notice
that you are worrying excessively
about one problem, not reading
carefully, forgetting information
you know.
Pay attention to the test, not
to yourself or others. Don’t wast
time worrying, doubting yourself,
wondering how other people are
doing, blaming yourself, etc.
Don’t worry about what you
should have done.
Pay attention to what you
can do now.
ascends on CCC
Jon Roberts
Feature Editor
two mysterious people sneak
into Sam and Jo’s house. One
Originally when I heard
is a lady dressed in black and
the play “The Lady From
named Elizabeth. The other
Dubuque” was coming to the
is a tall dark man named Os
college, I wasn’t planning on
car who is dressed in white,
seeing it. But
and is introduced
after talking to
to everyone as be
Director David
ing black.
Overall this
Smith-English
The second act
play was
and seeing his
begins with Sam
excitement for
waking up to two
very
the play, I felt
complete strang
entertaining ers in his living
like I should go
see it.
room. These two
and very
The play,
people are the
thought
which
runs
toughest part of
through March
the play to figure
provoking.
10, is about
out, I don’t want
...a definite
eight people and
to give too much
is set in 1979.
must see..
away about the
The play con
plot, but even two
sists of two acts,
days after seeing
this play I am still struggling
both of which take place in
Sam’s house. Sam is the hus
to figure out who these people
band of a woman named Jo. Jo
are. The part of the play that
has some sort of terminal dis
is tougher to figure out is the
ease. I think it might be can
ending of the second act and
cer.
the purpose behind the second
Because of Jo’s ailment,
act.
she is not a very nice person,
The play was superbly
who lashes out at everyone to
acted with great performances
try and make herself feel bet
by every member of the cast.
ter, or to possibly make every
The characters were all very
one else feel as bad as she does.
believable. The characters that
The first act is a party at Sam
were the most entertaining
were Fred, Oscar, Elizabeth
and Jo’s house and all of their
friends are there. There friends
and Sam. Fred was played by
Jim Miller, who at times had
are Fred and his girlfriend
many colorful metaphors to
Carol and Lucinda and her
husband Edgar.
add to any and all of the con
Fred is a ‘redneck’ with a
versations. Oscar was played
by guest actor Lennie Edwards
foul mouth and an even fouler
temper, his girlfriend Carol is
who was very entertaining
his latest in a long line of sig
with his kung-fu and his jokes
about southern stereotypes of
nificant others, he has had
the black man. Elizabeth was
three prior wives. Lucinda is
played by Debi Guthery, Eliza
Jo’s ‘best friend’ of sorts, they
fight a lot and just basically
beth was entertaining with her
don’t get along, what a good
constant jabbering and her
uncanny way of having a come
best friend. Lucinda’s husband
Edgar is a pansy who is not in
back for everything. Sam was
control of his life, his wife is.
by far the best acted character.
Patrick Sterling really made
The party is full of confronta
Sam into a character that I
tions between the characters,
found myself understanding
the final confrontation being
the most. He was very believ
between Jo and Lucinda, which
ends with Lucinda tearing out
able and very emotional
throughout the play.
of the house in tears. This sort
Overall this play was very
of makes all of the characters
entertaining and very thought
get tense and they leave the
provoking.
party. Sam then takes Jo up
This play is a definite
stairs to bed. This is just the
must see, if you miss it you will
basic plot behind the first act,
be sorry. It is superbly acted,
there is much more in the first
directed and performed. I
act then I have covered.
would give it four stars.
At the end of the first act,
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