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Sports Scores Inside Two opinions along with polls and quotes on the so-called White House sex scandal. Read more about it on Pages 4 and 5. - Wf K Wednesday, January 28, 1998 Men’s Basketball Clackamas beats 1 u ox cq Lane Professor Wakeling's History of Jazz class is in danger 1 of being canceled. Read more about it on Page 3. | Quick Stats: 1 BiUy Bright 20 pts Robbie Nix 20 pts, 7 reb, 4 blk Billy Townsend 12 pts, 14 rt>s Clackamqs Community Coilege Oregon City, Oregon I Volume XXXI, Issue 10 MM Latino students receive new $30,000 grant Contributed Article Courtesy Clackamas Community College Public Relations Portland State University Admissions Counselor Jill S. Staffers looks on as Clackamas student Samuel Liebelt fills out forms for more info about PSU. This year’s College Transfer Day lived up to the hype. Clackamas students were given the opportunity to meet with col lege representatives Jan. 26. There were spokespeople from colleges around the Northwest giving stu dents answers to their questions about further schooling. Tables were set up and organized displaying college applications, pamphlets, pencils, keychains, and other miscellaneous college para phernalia. Joann Zum Brunnen, academic assistant for the University of Or egon, shared her thoughts on the effectiveness of Clackamas’ college transfer day. “It gives Clackamas Community students the option to see what’s out 1 ■ U4-OO Denise Bean 21 pts, 7 reb, 6 st College Trahsfet day: questions, answers LAURA ARMSTRONG Staff Writer Portland Quick Stats: MM I MM ? Women's Basketball Clackamas over 1 ^2“53 there statewide,” she said. “We’re here to provide the students with choices.” The three hours that college repre sentatives were visiting was ample time for them to meet Clackamas stu dents interested in attending their re spective schools. According to Zum Brunnen, her table for UO had about 50 students stop by. “We are giving a face to our school,” said Zum Brunnen. The student turnout for each college’s booth varied but representa tives were satisfied with the numbers. Betsy Ellsworth, assistant dean of ad mission for Reed College, said that she had about eight Clackamas students stop by and ask about the school. Of course, on a community college cam pus, financial aid is a prominent topic. “Never let the price tag deter you from a school,” encouraged Ellsworth. “It might work out or it might not work out, but at least you tried. The hard thing about colleges is that you can’t use blanket statements.” The Army ROTC accompanied the college representatives on cam pus. Second Lieutenant Ward, a Gold Bar Recruiter, advocated the Army ROTC’s main goal to make students aware that there are schol arships available to them. The Army ROTC bases its scholarships on a student’s merits. They do not give any attention to race, sex or creed. Clackamas students who visited the booths with a good idea of which school they want to transfer to now have more information to help make their choice final. Oth ers who are still looking were able to gather important information about colleges around the North west. This information will help students, many of whom are still deciding where to transfer, to come closer to making a choice. The college received a $30,000 grant from the Oregon Community Foundation for a collaborative plan among Clackamas, Mt. Hood Community College and Portland Community College to serve the educational needs of the growing Latino Community with the es tablishment of the Council of Latino Educational Support. “We are thrilled that the Oregon Com munity Foundation funded this pro posal,” Dian Connett, dean of instruc • Grant designed tional services, said. “This gives us an to meet needs of opportunity to do a grassroots planning effort with other educational providers, the Latino social service agencies and businesses. community We intend to itemize existing educa • Project is tional resources and to identify gaps in designed to service that will build a plan for future create an successful action.” educational The three colleges work with the Or outreach and egon Council for Hispanic Advance support program ment and will incorporate the for high school organization’s experience with the high students school leadership program into the plan ning. The project is expected to result in the design of an educational outreach and support pro gram. It would transition Latino youths from high school to community college and then onward to a baccalaureate degree program. Ayde Manzano de York will be project coordinator. Her background includes 16 years of teaching English as a Sec ond Language. She has also taught Spanish at the high school and community college level. She is completing her master’s degree at Portland State University, where she is researching reasons for high drop out rates Hispanic youth. The grant is possible through the James F. and Marion L. Miller Fund of the Oregon Community Foundation. The Oregon Community Foundation, established in 1973, manages charitable funds given by individuals, fami lies and businesses to enhance and support the quality of life in their community. Today, the Foundation’s endow ment consists of 500 funds with combined assets of $200 million. Tuition to rise by $1 per credit hour JEREMY STALLWOOD Staff Writer Tuition will rise one dollar per credit hour begin ning summer term, according to College President John Keyser. The one-dollar increase reflects the general cost of in flation, said Liz Goulard, Dean of Instructional Services. Tuition is “used as a means to transfer a portion of the costs of education to the user,” according to an Ad ministration Regulation report. “Tuition revenue is in tended to cover the student share of the instructional and facilities costs of normal classes taught in stan dard classrooms. Tuition rates are established by the Board of Education of Clackamas Community College for all classes offered by the college.” The report also explains that a general student fee, $2 per credit hour, “provides the student’s share of the cost for non-course related services available to the general college community, such as athletics, technol ogy, student government, and co-curricular pro grams.” Roxie Hobart explained how the $2 student fee is split up among departments: 53% athletics, 31.7% Streeter Lab, 8.7% ASG, 6.7% co-curricular and the extra cur ricular fund (drama, forensics, music, etc.). Other fees are charged to transfer some of the direct costs of instruction and instructional support services to students rather than raising tuition for all, accord ing to the Administration and Regulation report. This pays specifically for the benefits a student gets out of a particular class, according to Hobart. Hobart also explained that these other fees may not be all used up at the end of the class and would go into a “carryover” fund. This fund supports upgrades and replacements in that specific department. The draft ing department, according to a Fee Carryover Budget June 30, 1997, totaled $155,753, which they used to turn their manual lab into a computerized one. “We are looking at fees,” said Goulard, “and require departments to specify what their fees are for.” “In the future, as more and more fees are added to provide student services, hopefully the students will know how these benefits apply to them,” said ASG President Jacob Boenisch.
