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Sports Scores Inside Clackamas sweeps Pierce 1 1 Quick Stats: The Cougars’four-game winning streak has put them at the Hk top of the Southern Division. Read more about it on Page 7. | Wednesday, April 21, 1998 Baseball Softball 1 ASG elections are fast approaching but fear not: your ■ decision will be easy. The candidates are running un- l opposed. Read more about it on Page 4. g q 7-4 ’ •' */.; . *■ Clackamas sweeps SWOCC Clackamas student Eric Woods checks out the Oregon Army National Guard's "Hummer" all- terrain vehicle. The National Guard was at Clackamas to help celebrate the college's annual Community Fair Day. a -s 1 Game 1: Ryan Suyama: 4-5, HR Game 2: Tim Fellows; 2-3,3B, HR Volume XXXI, Issue, 19 C regon City, Oregon Community Fair Day y 1 l_/’ Quick Stats: Game 1: Sue Johnson: 3-3,2 RBI Game 2: Marissa Smith: 2-3, 2 RBI, 2B, HR Clack nas Community ;ollege I 1 Dye Learning Center fails mold test BRAD ZIMMERMAN Co-Editor-in-Chief Two CCC students awarded USA Today scholarships LYNN ELSEY Staff Writer A reception with Governor Kitzhaber and a $1,000 schol arship were just two of the rewards for students Danielle Faber and Alina Palmer after being named to USA Today’s All-State Academic Team. The awards program is designed to recognize scholarly achievement of students and is co-sponsored by USA To day, Phi Theta Kappa and the American Association of Community Colleges. Criteria for nomination include undertaking “career and cultural enrichment” activity outside the traditional class room as well as academic excellence, according to pro gram guidelines. Above and beyond these lofty require ments nominees must have a GPA of at least 3.25 and be scheduled to graduate by August 31, 1998. Earlier in the year the faculty and staff at the Clackamas nominated 12 students whom they felt met the require See USA Today, page 3 It shouldn't surprise anyone that, for the nth time, there has been another mold-related problem. During a recent spore count and culture test of 40 dif ferent locations in the Dye Learning Center it was revealed that three of those 40 locations had above acceptable lev els of types of mold. According to Director of Plant Services Kirk Pearson, two different tests are conducted to determine if buildings are safe to move back into. The first test is a spore count test, where microbiolo gists determine what the levels of mold are in a given space. The Dye Learning Center passed that test. The second test is a culture test where scientists collect material into a petri dish and then determine, after two weeks, if mold has grown in the dish and also how many different types of rnold have grown. Pearson also said that if there are zero types of mold outside then one type inside is acceptable — within cer tain levels. If there are two types inside, regardless of the levels, it is considered unsafe. "We're disappointed," said Dean of College Services Pe ter Angstadt. "But we're glad they are being cautious." Angstadt also commented that it is possible that the Dye Learning Center might reopen during spring term but that it all depended on whether or not the Dye Learn ing Center passes the spore count and culture tests, which will be re-taken in two weeks. At this point the Library, ESL, Tutorial Services and Disabled Student Services are being affected by the delay. Gregory Forum and the Wilsonville campus have re opened on schedule, however. "We don't want to disrupt the students any more than is necessary. We don't want to interrupt the WR 123 re- search process," commented Director of Instructional Sup port Services Cynthia Andrews. Clackamas instructors nominated for Who's Who CHRISTINA MUELLER Co-Editor-in- Chief Eggling Espino Clackamas had four part-time fac ulty members nominated to the Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers pro gram: Sue Eggling, Ritch Espino, Tim Pantages and Jennifer Porter. They were nominated by former stu dents. Each of the nominees’ names and a brief biography will be printed in a national directory which is avail able as a resource in many libraries across the country. Sue Eggling has been teaching for a total of 30 years; seven of those have been at Clackamas. Eggling was nominated by Doris Richey, a student whom she had several years ago. “I nominated her for Phi Theta Kappa because she was such a good student,” Eggling said. Eggling teaches introductory, gen eral, and college chemistry and for her first time at Clackamas she is teach ing MTH 60 [beginning algebra]. She feels that she may have been nominated because, “I tried to relate whatever it is we’re studying to every day life—how it fits in with what we’re doing. In introductory chemistry it works pretty well,” she explained. Although Eggling is a part-time in structor, she teaches full-time hours at Clackamas. This is Ritch Espino’s second nomi nation to the program. He was nomi nated in 1996. Cindy Brewer, a stu dent whom Espino taught two years ago, nominated him. Brewer went on to Dental Hygiene School after Clacka mas. Espino has no idea why he was nominated, but he does have some unique teaching techniques. “I want to make sure that students get what I’m talking about, and I do everything I can to do that,” he said. Espino is modest when he says he only does what every other teacher does. From making his lecture notes available for purchase in the bookstore so students can follow along, to hold ing test reviews for two or three hours on a Friday night before the exam on his own time, Espino makes the extra effort to make sure his students un derstand. “I really relate to them in how diffi cult school is because I was a student here,” he said. Espino has been teaching anatomy and physiology classes at Clackamas for eight years. He also runs a small chiropractic practice. “It’s nice to get it because to me it’s someone saying thanks because they felt that somehow I helped them. That’s always nice to hear, because most of the time you hear from stu dents how hard the class is, or that we don’t care or we’re just trying to trick them. And every once in a while I get something like this or even students send cards or something saying thanks and how much you helped them, and that kind of keeps you going,” Espino explained. “Why me and not anyone else, I have no idea. They all put in just as much work as I did, I just happened to be the lucky one,” he added. Former Clackamas student Deanna Edlund nominated Tim Pantages. “She originally heard me when she was in LCOP and I was a guest speaker. She was interested in what I had to say and ended up taking three or four classes form me so that was nice. It’s especially nice because she’s one of the Clackamas success stories,” Pantages said. Pantages teaches a number of health and leadership classes at the college. See Who’s Who. page 3
