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Vol. XXVin No.22 Wednesday, May 8,1996 AT A GLANCE Compiled by Cori Kargel Business Manager DON'T FORGET TO VOTE! Students will be able to vote for next year's ASG President and Vice Presi dent TODAY and TOMORROW, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. outside of the Community Center, weather permit ting. In the case of bad weather vot ing will be held inside the Commu nity Center. Students must have photo ID or a student body card to vote. Attention club members: The club listings can now be found in the Feature Section of The Print under Club Calendar. The ASG Legislative Commit tee wants to let you know you can do something about your financial aid. Contact your Congressperson at 1- 800-574-4AID. Tell them you want more aid now. For more information, call ext. 2247. Be sure to remember that this week is Native American Aware ness Week. Donations are now being ac cepted for Phi Theta Kappa’s fundraising garage sale, scheduled for May 18 and 19. For more infor mation, call Laney at ext. 2309. Phi Theta Kappa will be hold ing a candy sale today and tomor row, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., in the Community Center. Be sure to stop by and treat yourself, while support ing your honor society. A volunteer speaker from the Portland Art Museum will be giving a slide presentation and discussion about the Imperial Tombs of China exhibit today in M202 at 4 p.m. Attention returning students- Early Fall Registration will be May 20 to 24 at 10 a.m., 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. Mon. thru Thurs., and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fri. in the CC Mall. Schedules have been mailed or are available at the Help Center. For more info, call ext. 2770. Were you home schooled? Are you a current CCC student? If your answer to both questions is YES, then Brenda Inglis wants to talk to you. Please call ext. 2515 orstopby D133. ART SHOW-The works of Art Instructor Leland John will be dis- ’ played in the Pauling Gallery from from now until May 31. There will be an opening reception tonight at 6:30 p.m. in the gallery. The Horticulture Club Plant Sale is Friday from noon to 5 p.m. in front of the greenhouses. Bring your own boxgs to transport your plants home. See live theatre FREE- Ush ers are needed for the Spring produc tion of "A Midsummer Night's Dream." Stop by M120 or call ext. 2356 to sign up for one of these per formances: May 16, 17, 18, 31 and June 1 at 8 p.m., or the special 2:30 matinee on Sun., June 1. See where your chosen career fits into the projected occupational growth areas for Oregon. Pick up your free copy of Oregon Careers 1996 at the Career Center in the Com munity Center. Would you like to show some school pride and tell others about CCC? If so, you should consider be ing a CCC Ambassador. Applica tions are now available in the Student Activities office for ambassador po sitions for the 1996-97 school year. For more information, call ext. 2261, or visit CC 149. Clackamas Community College Auto skills cbmpetition held at Clackamas Andrew Beck Staff Writer Oregon high school students tackled onboard car problems at the Ford/Automotive Association of America (AAA) Oregon State Auto Skil.ls/Troubleshooting Competition held at Clackamas last Friday. The event was held in front of Barlow Hall and sponsored by Ford Motor Corporation and AAA. It included several 1996 Ford automobiles from Hertz Rental Cars. “This is the state finals for this event. The kids got here by scoring among the top ten teams in the state on the written exam. The winner (auto skills competi tion) goes to the nationals held in Washington D.C. on June 17, this year,” said Gordon Turner, Moun tain View High School Automo tive Instructor. The 10 teams were com prised of students from select high schools in Oregon. Each team was given a car with the same problems that needed to be fixed to run properly. The problems ranged from computer difficulties to lighting and wiring defects. Due to the competition’s time limit and the fact that the cars were on loan, no mechanical ob stacles were created for the stu dents. “The focus of the contest is on accuracy rather than the speed Oregon high school automotive students test their knowlege against the clock in the Oregon State Auto Skills/ Trouble shooting Competi tion. Photo by Jessica Dvorak in which they repair the cars. We time everybody; the car that which finishes most quickly, and which has the least demerits, wins,” said Technical Competi tion Manager and Clackamas In structor Ray Conklin. Clackamas has been the host school for the state auto skills competition since thel970s. The national auto skills competition has existed since the 1950s. The competition was originally known as the Plymouth Troubleshooting Contest. Clackamas had one of its own teams in the competition, the C-Tec Training Center. The high school level class is taught by Pat Nesbitt. “C-Tec is the high school automotive training program here at Clackamas. There are two teams from Benson High School since they have more than one in structor,” said Conklin. Trophies were given out for tne top tnree teams in ihv mn«- skills competition. Turner’s Mountain View team took first place with a time of 40 minutes 23 seconds. “It (the competition) wasn't -SPECIAL EVENT Renowned fiction author to read tomorrow Fiction author Ron Carlson, winner of a National Endow ment for the Arts Fellowship in Fiction and the 1993 Ploughshares Cohen Prize, will be reading from his works in the Gregory Forum tomorrow at 7 p.m. as part of the Writers-in- Residence Series. Carlson is the author of four books including: Plan B for the Middle Class, The News of the World, Truants and Betrayed by F. Scott Fitzgerald. His fiction has appeared in Harper's Magazine, The New Contributed photo Yorker, Renowned fiction author Ron Gentlemen's Fiction Reading Carlson will be reading Quarterly, with Ron Carlson tomorrow night in the Gregory Story and doz Forum and presenting a lunch ens of other Free and open to the public journals and discussion on Friday in CC127. When: Tomorrow anthologies. Where; Gregory Forum ■ ing any of their poignancy and with- Accord Time: 7 p.m. ■ out importing sentimentality." ing to Marga Carlson lives in Tempe, Arizona ret Bradham ■Bi with his wife and two sons where he of the New Mexico Humanities Review, Carlson's is a Professor of English and Director of short stories reveal not only "his irrepress Creative Writing at Arizona State Univer He will also be on campus Friday ible imagination but also and more impor sity. tantly, Carlson's capacity of feeling deeply to lead a lunch discussion on the craft of the special moments of ordinary life and writing and teaching fiction from noon to 1 p.m. in CC127. his talent for describing them without los- very hard. We thought it was go ing to be harder than it was. But we were actually going deeper than we were supposed to,” said Mountain View Student Marshall Bex. The C-Tec Training Center won the second place trophy with a time of 84 minutes 35 seconds. Previous winner Vale High Ovl.vvJ ^-OV-JJ jt*-«--. A-J ------- m----- X place with a time of 30 minutes 25 seconds, but had points de ducted for a sparkplug defect. Vale had to settle for third place in the competition. Join in the fun of INTERNATIONAL DAY TODAY 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Gregory Forum Featured will be: •Kaagba Ohenaa dance group from West Africa at 10:30 a.m. •The Clackamas Tai-Chi class •Presentations by the French, Spanish, German and Japanese Clubs •Music, food & displays WHAT’S INSIDE Movie Reviews ~ page 2 Environmental Week ~ page 5 Denise Haselwood ~ page 6 Softball & Baseball ~ page 8
