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Wednesday,
November 26, 1997
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Environment benefits
from HEEL and ASG
This year
H.E.E.L.
and the
student
governmant
have al
ready
started
planning
one of the
biggest
environmen
tal weeks
yet.
Jacob Boenisch
ASG President
The environment has been and will
continue to be one of the largest areas
of representation for the Assoe^amfr
Student Government. In additioh to
having a senator dedicated solely to'
environmental issues and a coordinat
ing officer, we have a club dedicated
to the preservation and protection of
the environment. Helping Everyone’s
Environment Live works hand-in-
hand with ASG in our environmental
program. A few of our major events
this past year have included:
•Environmental Week 1997: This
has traditionally been a week of learn
ing and promoting environmental
awareness on campus. Last year this
event proved to be the largest ever
thanks to irian-y organizations that
participated: SOLV, Ron Tonkin,
Metro, National Wildlife Federation,
Portland
General
Electric,
GreenPeace, Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife and many others.
•Waste Audit: During spring 1997
we performed a waste audit to evalu-
ate the types of material going out
as solid waste, and just how much of
this material was recyclable. 4£ter
a. 24-hour audit of the entire cam
pus, we ended up with 1,173 pounds
of'garbage — 48% of that was recy
clable. This audit led to an increase
in the college’s recycling efforts.
•Native Plants Rescue: What hap
pens to native plants when land is
developed? Usually, they are de
stroyed. Thanks to several native
plant rescue trips, over 200 native
plants and flowers were saved from
destruction.
This year H.E.E.L. and ASG have
already started planning one of the
biggest environmental weeks yet.
Also H.E.E.L. and ASG will con
tinue to work at getting more recy
cling on campus. H.E.E.L. meets two
times a week: Mon.10-10:45 in
Barlow 108 and Wed.ll-ll:45 in
Pauling 102. If you have any con
cerns or suggestions about the envi
ronment please come and share.
CCC math teachers attend
national conference in Georgia
LAURA ARMSTRONG
Staff Writer
Eight instructors from Clacka
mas attended the annual AMATYC
(American Mathematics Associa
tion of Two Year Colleges) Na
tional Meeting Nov. 13-16 in At
lanta, GA.
Math Instructors Jacque Arellano,
Barry Bergman, Alice Hayden, Janet
Kondo and Kathy Taylor attended.
Brenda Herman, math and computer
science instructor, Jack Scrivener,
math and science instructor, and Don
Hutchison, department chair of math,
also attended the meeting.
AMATYC meetings were set up
into three basic sessions. There were
two-hour workshops, four-hour mini
courses, and one hour presentations.
The meeting covered a variety of top
ics concerning math in two-year col
leges.
“I always enjoy AMATYC meet
ings because they are directed spe
cifically to two-year colleges,” said
Herman.
Many sessions dealt with national
standards for lower levels of college
mathematics. They also dealt with
things to do in classes and ways to
teach.
“I think we all use or incorporate
some standards in our teaching. We
do collaborative work and use tech
nology like calculators and comput
ers,” said Herman.
The conference will be held in Port
land next year. There is a steering
committee which plans for next year’s
meeting. Instructors from various
two-year colleges are on this commit
tee.
“I’ve got some good ideas for
teaching statistics. I’m also on a
committee to plan next year’s con
vention,” said Bergman. “I was able
Wednesday, November 26, 1997
to talk and ask questions about plan
ning. It was definitely positive to talk
to people involved.”
The conference gives the attendees
the opportunity to work with other
teachers and to hear many new ideas
about mathematics. About 1,300 in
structors attended the meeting.
“It was a good meeting. The most
outstanding moment was when I went
to one particular session that had to
do with a very interesting problem
with TI-92 calculators,” said
Arellano. “Right now that’s where my
calculus class is at the moment. I’m
hoping to use that problem in class
next week.” <
Herman was very interested in a
presentation about a liberal arts math
class. Like the other instructors, she
is mostly interested in the math area
that she has been teaching at Clacka
mas.
The AMATYC meeting proved to be
a stimulating experience for those who
attended.
“It was fun, but a bit exhausting to
be back Sunday afternoon and gear up
for teaching Monday morning,”
Bergman said.
Math
Conference
1998
Conference
set for Portland
Letters io the editor
Student feels financial aid
department is not up to par
To The Editor,
I am writiftcthis letter because of a
problem that I reblneeds to be fixed at
Clackamas Community College. I am
a 25-year-old secon&year student here
at CCC and my experience overall has
been a positive one. Up front I can
say from personalexperience that CCC
is twice the school that Portland Com
munity College will ever be. I know
this because I attended PCC several
years ago. However, there is an area
that falls well short of PCC and in my
opinion falls into the unacceptable cat
egory. This area that needs to be fixed
is the financial aid department. I have
worked in customer service and retail
for over five years and have never seen
a customer get treated the way I have
been occasionally treated by several
members of the financial aid depart
ment. After all, isn’t CCC a business
and aren’t the students its customers?
Let me make myself clear on the goal
I am trying to obtain by writing this. I
am not on a witch-hunt and I do not
want to see anyone lose their job. I
just want the financial aid department
to know that they must treat students
with courtesy and respect.
Financial aid involves large amounts
of paper work and can be very confus
ing at times. This is especially true
when I am dealing with paperwork at
the same time as I am in classes. But
the amount of paperwork would not be
a problem if we were given some help.
Instead, I am given the paper work and
told to fill it out. I fill them out fol-
lowing the directions as best as I can,
yet when I go in to turn in the docu
ment, I am treated like a two-year-old
when I do not fill it out right. In one
instance I filled out a document only
to be told that I had filled out certain
areas incorrectly. When I asked why
the document instructions were not
specific enough to tell me “exactly”
what information was needed, I was
told in a demeaning tone of voice that
there was not enough room to print
exact instructions on the document.
Seems to me if you don’t have enough
room, you should print a second
page.. .duh! I dread going into the fi
nancial aid office or to the window
because I know I will have to defend
myself from being talked to like I’m
some ignorant redneck. Even worse,
when you have to go to the entrance
or exit counseling sessions you are
talked to as if there is a 99% chance
you will default on your loan. I’m sure
there is a large number of students who
default annually, but I’m guessing it’s
a little less than 99%.
The point I am getting across is that
I just want to be treated like a customer.
Treat me with respect and courtesy. I
am not the only student who feels this
way. In fact every student I have talked
to feels similar to the way I feel. I want
my memories of CCC to be of how
good the school was, not how bad the
financial aid department treated me.
Signed,
One frustrated student
Aaron Dennis
Some students lack
maturity, waste funds
To Clackamas Print Editor:
In the past terms I have not seen the
problems I have this term.
This term, going into the restrooms,
I keep finding that some students are
writing on the walls. My belief is that
only children write on the walls; if stu
dents feel the need to write on walls,
then they do not belong in college. For
college is a place where people go
when they are ready to begin a life as
an adult. This type of immaturity costs
students. It costs to repaint restroom
stalls, which the college has no choice
but to pass on to students in the way
of higher tuition. The cost of paint,
not to mention labor cost of mainte
nance, is not a small fee.
I am hoping that you would please
write a small column in the Clacka
mas Print on the subject. I am hoping
that the students that are at fault might
start to understand that it is not just
the person next to him or her that is
going to pay the extra tuition, but also
their parents or themselves. I, for one,
do not wish to pay the extra money re
painting restrooms when the money is
better spent on learning or equipment
for learning.
One other problem this term is new
students that are very disruptive in
class. I had to drop one class because
of this problem. The instructor has
had her hands full with trying to teach
the students that want to learn with
trying to handle the students that think
it is better to cause problems than to
learn. I mean if they don’t want to
learn than why take up the time of the
instructors who want to teach, or the
time of students who do want to learn?
I will also be sending a copy of this
letter to Student Government.
I would like to thank you for taking
time to read this and hope to see a
small column on these subjects.
Thank you
Collette Kramer, student
If they
don't want
to learn
then why
take up
the time?
Collette
Kramer
Student
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