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Vol. XXIX No. 18 ;amas Community College Wednesday, ABril 10,1 AT A GLANCE Manufacturing Magic Students finish major project Compiled by Cori Kargel Business Manager Attention club members: Club dates can now be found in the Club Calendar located in the Feature Sec tion. Join in the fun!!! Attend the CCC Club Fair today from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Community Center. Manufacturing students Roland Gerchow, Brian Newton, Ron Rubrecht and Eric Hansen revealed their masterpiece last week, a new type of backhoe. This project took over 100 hours to complete and will be used in the Horticulture Department and in plans to replant trees lost last season. The 1996 CCC Women’s Get- Away Weekend will be April 26 through 28. Come enjoy the music, workshops and relaxation, while stay ing in heated cabins and enjoying fam ily-style meals. The fee is $150. For more information, call ext. 2268. Synesthesia, the literary maga zine, is accepting submissions for this year’s publication. All submissions need a cover page with name, SSN, address, telephone number and a brief bio. Limit three poems OR one cre ative fiction OR on creative non-fiction, 2000-word limit. All submissions are due Friday. For more information, call ext. 2371. Petitions for graduation are still being accepted in the Registrar’s office. A petition must be filed to indicate a student’s desire to have a completed certificate or degree posted to their tran script. A separate petition must be filed for each certificate or degree. Informa tion regarding the graduation ceremony will be sent to you during Spring Term. The ceremony will be held June 7. For more information, see the Registrar’s office or the Help Center, Poet Naomie Shihab Nye, of Texas, will read some of her poetry at 7:30 p.m., April 18 in the McLoughlin Hall Theatre. Shihab Nye has traveled to the Middle East and Asia for the' United States Information Agency pro moting good will through the arts. For more information call Diane Averill at ext. 2370. Grow your own food, flowers— CCC’s Recreation office is now accept ing registrations for thé 1996 Green Fingers Community Garden Project. There are 150 individual garden sites available and each garden is about 700 square feet. Gardens wil be open from mid-May through mid-Nov. The fee for a garden site is $15. For more in formation, call ext. 2211. Photo by Karin Redston College gears up for accreditation The ten-year term is over, and now it is time for the school to get its report card. Get into a life saving habit—give blood-April 29 in the Gregory Forum, 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information, contact Carrie Blake in Student Activi ties, ext. 2247. Damon Fouts News Co-Editor CCC has been cramming for over two years in preparation for an “exam” that could affect the college’s federal aid and grant funding, as well as the ability to apply course credits to four-year college degree requirements. The process is called accredi tation and all accredited colleges go through it at least every 10 years, as CCC did a decade ago. A twelve-member committee of evaluators sanctioned by the fed eral government will be on cam pus April 17 and 18 to review course curricula, sit in on classes and talk to student-body and fac ulty to determine whether CCC is in compliance with accreditation standards. These 10 standards, drawn from the Commission on Col- leges, are described in a 231 -page Accreditation Self-Study booklet that administrators, staff and fac ulty throughout the campus have created. Complying with the standards ensures that CCC re mains attractive to students who have qualified for Veterans’ ben efits, federal aid or a federal grant to pay for college, or to students who want to cut costs by attend ing CCC for two years before transferring their course credits to a four-year institution. Without accreditation, CCC gets no federal money and offers no courses transferable to four- year colleges. And students get no guarantees regarding the qual ity of the education they’re receiv ing. “It’s quality assurance for education. It’s a process to make sure each school meets some level of excellence,” Associate Dean of Instructional Services Dian Connett said. Without accredita tion, “(Students are) just not get ting an assurance the college is giving them the education they should be getting.” Consequently, preparation for the evaluation has had staff secretaries collecting course out lines from instructors from one end of the campus to the other and has had administrative leadership analyzing college procedures and policies and statistically measur ing the college’s effectiveness. “Outcomes are a big thing. The government says you should measure what you’re doing,” Connett said. So the college is statistically measuring such things as the level of satisfaction with counseling and career plan fee ACCREDITATION, page 5 Competition causes Recycling Center closure ELC Plant Sale -April26 & 27 at the ELC Nursery. For more infor mation, call ext. 2351. Come enjoy a full barbecue meal in the quad, in front of the Com munity Center. All proceeds will ben efit Childcare Scholarships. The bar becue will be from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., today. Cost is $3 for a complete meal. A representative from Eastern Oregon State College will be on cam pus tomorrow, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., in the CCC mall. What’s Inside... Women’s Weekend Page 10 Death Valley Page 9 Track Team Page 12 Pamela Sirianni News Co-Editor The John Inskeep Environ mental Learning Center was forced to shut down its once-in- novative but now unprofitable re cycling center after 15 years of of fering recycling services. When the ELC began the re cycling program, curbside recy cling did not exist and the Metro Transfer Station was not even an idea. “When we started the center curbside recycling wasn’t avail able. Garbage haulers didn’t pick that (recyclables) up. The Trans fer Center wasn’t there,” said Chuck Scott, associate dean for science, math and allied health and ELC board member. The recycling center pro vided a valuable service educat ing the public and lobbying the legislature for mandatory recy cling. “It was set up not only to pro vide recycling services, but to also teach people about recycling and to raise public awareness,” said Scott. “I think over the 15 years it’s done a terrific job of doing that.” With a depressed market and lack of other revenue to support the recycling center, the ELC board of directors voted on April 2 to close the recycling services at the end of the day on Friday, April 5. “If you’re not getting enough for the goods that you sell then you’re losing money and that’s where they (ELC) were. They couldn’t continue to operate it,” said Scott. “When markets were better it was self-supporting but lately that hasn’t been the case.” The ELC has been respon sible for handling the recyclable materials for the college. The Continued on page 4 Photo by Paul Ulmen The Environmental Learning Center closed down its recycling center last Friday due to lack of funds. Batch Downing, recycling center manager, was layed off when the center closed.
