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Inside Inside A look back on a Clackamas year in sports. Read more about it on Page 14 and 15. Graduation takes place on Friday, June 12. Turn to Page 4 for articles on the profiled students. The Clackamas Print has dedicated a page to I this year's retirees. Read more about it on | Page 6. Drama production finishes the year with a production of Shakespear's Twelfth Night. Read more about it on Page 8. Wednesday, June 3, ?98 Clackamas Commi :ty College Oregon City, Oregon Garcia namedVord Scholar CCC student MikeWai^j^ras been named a Ford SctuHBma will receive an award totalTn $15,000 to apply toward his college educa tion. The Ford Scholar Prograh hon ors 100 students annually; thnwear, Garcia is one of 2,369 applicants for the award. Winners are selected from Oregon high schools and two- year colleges. Garcia, who is copy editor of The Clackamas Print, plans to attend Western Oregon University in the fall to major in English with a mi nor in Computer Science. Garcia won his award by success fully completing an essay and a 30- minute interview with the Founda tion Board. Kenneth W. Ford, a Roseburg area businessman and owner of Roseburg Forest Products, started the Ford Scholars Program. His company is one of the West Coast’s largest wood product manufacturers with mills in Oregon and Siskiyou County, Cali fornia. He is also the founder of the Ford Family Foundation, which as sists with a number of worthy causes. The Ford Scholars Program is open to college students who are not single parents. A companion pro gram, the Ford Opportunity Pro gram, is designed specifically for students who are single parents. Winners must use the scholarship at an accredited, nonprofit Oregon College or University. While receiving money as a Ford Scholar, students must achieve and maintain satisfactory academic progress. Garcia is graduating with honors this spring from Clackamas. Students who are interested in apply ing for the Ford Scholars Program should obtain a copy of the Oregon State Scholarship Commission Private Awards Application available from most college financial aid offices. Distance learning creates controversy ROBERT SCHOENBERG Staff Writer Much as the workplace is now switching to home whenever possible, the trend in community colleges to day is to hold classes online. At a symposium organized by Com munications and Theater Department Chair Jane Rickenbaugh, held last Thursday in the Gregory Forum, a panel of CCC instructors discussed the effects computer technology will im pact higher education through distance learning. The panel included Linda Vogt, Journalism instructor; Eric Lewis, Social Science instructor; Shannon this tool, when is it appropriate for Stiles, Librarian, and David Smith- what we need and when is it not ap English, Theater instructor, and was propriate?” Rickenbaugh decided that a dia attended by about 50 interested stu logue was needed concerning this sub dents and faculty. Online courses, offered over the ject and so she organized the sympo Internet, could have a great impact sium to began discussing the issue in on students and the college as this an open forum. “We needed to articulate several technology is embraced by campuses points of view about technology and throughout the country. “We are spending a great deal of using computers in higher education. money oh technology in education, I have some reservations and I feel they and we are looking at it as part of the need to be expressed,” said way we teach, and we need to expand Rickenbaugh. Rickenbaugh, using a Teaching Ex on its strength and its weaknesses on what it does,” said Rickenbaugh. cellence Grant, has been studying “Computers are tools. How do we use See Controversy, page 5 Volume XXXI, Issue 24 Writers' workshop to feature three established authors A two day writers’ workshop, sponsored by CCC, is scheduled for July on campus and will feature three estab lished and award winning children’s book authors, an nounced English Instructor Allen Widerburg. Readings and critiques of submitted works over the two- day workshop will feature Becky Hickox, author of The Golden Sandal, Susan Workshop Fletcher who wrote the fantasy Dragon nuts and trilogy and Linda Crew award winning bolts writer of the books, Children of the Rivemná Fire in the Wind. •Two day The two-day workshop will cost $15 workshop will to attend as an observer and $25 if a cost $15 writer wants to participate and have his (observer) or or her work critiqued by the authors. $25 (participant) Deadline for submissions of manu scripts is June 22 and should be sent to • Deadline for Widerburg in the English Department. submissionsis The workshop will be held July 10 June 22 and 11 in the McLoughlin Theater and •Workshop will the participants will receive written cri be held July 10 tiques by the writers. and 11 Becky Hickox will be discussing the __________ writing of children’s picture books for young children. Su san Fletcher, also a recipient of the Oregon Book Award, will cover writing stories for children in the middle grades and Linda Crew will discuss writing of children’s fiction for young adults. For more information on the workshop call Widerburg at ext. 2359. Schoenberg to be next editor-in-chief CHRISTINA MUELLER Co-Editor-in-Chief Robert Schoenberg has been named The Clackamas Print's next editor-in-chief. He currently works on The Print as a staff writer. At Monday night’s clubs banquet the Clackamas Print announced their Editor-in-Chief for the 98-99 school year. Robert Schoenberg, 45, of Tualatin has been a staff writer on the Print for one year. During his time on the staff Schoenberg has braved the odds and joined his fellow staff members on a beach retreat, as well as other outings. Schoenberg’s dedication to the pa per proved true by his staying late nights waiting for the final copy of each page to be finished so he could drive it to Salem for printing. His full-time job at Nordstom limited his ability to take classes at Clackamas. So through reading books and ex amples of other newspapers, Schoenbeig has learned Asso ciated Press style and creative techniques for story writing. Schoenberg’s self teaching has proved beneficial through his first place award for feature writing at the Oregon Newspa per Publishers Association’s annual workshop. Schoenberg came to Clackamas with quite a bit of jour nalistic experience. He worked as an editor of a weekly news paper for one year in Spokane, Wash. He worked as a gen eral assignment reporter, photographer, paste up and lab tech nician for the Clackamas Review, Enterprise Courier and some other newspapers. Schoenberg wanted to be Editor-in-Chief to improve the Clackamas Print as well as accept the challenge of being in charge of a college newspaper. “I like doing challenges like this - going as far as I can to the highest level I can,” he said. As for the improvement of the Print, Schoenberg said, “I am compelled to make the Print the best damned newspaper of two year colleges, four year colleges and maybe of this county.” Schoenbeig doesn’t plan to make any drastic changes in the paper next year, but he does plan for improvement in all areas. He would like to emphasize the advertising aspect of the paper and help Advertising Manager Kristina Brooks to form an ad team for selling and designing incoming ads. “I’ve always looked at the newspaper as a circle—distri bution, advertising and editorial. If there’s a break in the circle it doesn’t work,” he said. Schoenberg is also hoping to give every department weekly representation with a small news story or feature about what they’re doing. It is also his goal for the Print staff to place or win in each category at the ONPA awards. Schoenbeig looks forward to “showing people the. road to take and how to get down it,” in terms of learning how a newspaper staff works. After earning his associate's degree at Clackamas, Schoenberg hopes to transfer to a four-year college, hope fully the University of Washington where most of his family has gone in the past. He plans to major in journalism. Schoenberg’s only fear of taking this position is: can he do what he would like to do with the paper and will people listen? Overall, like everyone, Schoenberg is taking this position for the experience and the opportunity to learn. “I definitely want to do it, because I want to do it well,” he said.
