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Hot rods roll into Barlow Hall Skills contest: No dav classes on main campus tomorrow Check it out on page 3 Check it out on page 8 Who is Paul? Find out on page 4 Copy Çlackamgs Community College Wednesday, February 21, 2001 Oregon City, Oregon Volume XXXIV, Issue 14 Keyser opposes road through college property DIANA SCRIVNER way right by it, as opposed to iso lating it a little. It's just a little College President John Keyser troublesome," said Keyser. is objecting to a proposed road The OCHS administration has which will go through college prop also objected to the proposed erty allocated for future expansion. road, and presented their objec This road, which would connect tions and proposals to the com Meyers road to Beavercreek road, mission yesterday. is proposed by the Oregon City "The high school wants to break Planning Commission to accommo ground this summer, so they’re re date the new Or ally pressed to egon City High get these deci ................................................ '.... ........ '■ ■'................... ■ School, which is sions made," "The jogging trail to be built on the Keyser said. is used by hun current Moss Before receiv campus. ing the permits dreds ofpeople "They want to necessary for each week... it is expand Meyers the construction Road so that it of the new high a concern to us." cuts through the school, OCHS John Keyser corner of our must have the College President property... where road proposal we have our soc done and the cer field and jog City Council's ging trail. It would interfere with approval, according to Keyser. the recreational field and the jog They are also responsible for pay ging trail," explained Keyser. “The ing for the road improvement, jogging trail is used by hundreds which will accommodate the 1,600 of people each week, and although automobiles that will be at the cam this would not be a severe disrup pus each day. This means they will tion, it is a concern to us." have less money to build their high The proposed road would also school. cross a wetland area, other private Keyser said both the college and property, and the proposed athletic OCHS are promoting more exten field of the OCHS campus. sive use of Glen Oaks, and are op- "Here's the high school... posed to expanding Meyers road, They're putting a fairly major road- See Meyers road, page 3 Editor-in-Chief MAGGIE JIRASEK/ Clackamas Print American sign language instructor Glenda Edwards, left, teaches two-year-old Isaiah Dinsmore the sign for food. Isaiah's father James, at right, is also learning Sign language to help his son who is blind to improve his language skills. Students, instructor teach sign to blind two-year-old, dad expect someone to be who is in need of learning sign language - Feature Editor but he has been blind since birth. Teaching a 20 month-old blind Because of his handicap, Isaiah child the basics of American Sign doesn’t have the ability to express his wants and Language in order needs the way to improve his lan other children do. guage development "We just want to Edwards and her skills is a new students took on project taken on by help this little boy. the challenge to Clackamas’ Instruc He is really cute." help increase his tor Glenda Edwards Glenda Edwards ability to commu and four of her stu ASL Instructor nicate, and vol dents. unteered to work Since the begin with the boy. ning of February, “James called James Dinsmore and his 20 month-old son, Isaiah, Clackamas and asked if anyone have been visiting Clackamas could help teach his blind son weekly to learn sign language. sign language. We were sur Isaiah is not deaf - as you would prised at first, but the father ex MAGGIE JIRASEK DAISY BAIN Staff Writer DIANA SCRIVNER I Clackamas Print See Sign Language, page 4 a convention Arter chosen as Dave Arter, chemistry instructor and Phi Theta Kappa advisor, was chosen to lead a group at their conference in Georgia this summer. plained that an occupational therapist said his son was lag ging language development and that sign language possibly might help,” said Edwards. “We just want to help this little boy. He is really cute.” With four of her second-year students - Tina Day, Yvonne Ingram, Jennifer Jeuck and Erica Anderson - Edwards meets Isaiah every Friday, trying to teach him and his dad the ba sics of sign language. “Basically, we are going to show the father how to show the signs to the baby,” Edwards ex plained. “I gave him a basic sign language book so he can prac- tice with his son at home.” CCC Instructor Dave Arter has been selected out of about 60 ap plicants around the country to lead a group of Phi Theta Kappa mem bers at their 2000-2001 International Convention. “The advisors compete for the honor of serving as a seminar leader in the (honors) institute,” said Arter. The convention will be held at Georgia Institute of Technology, June 17 through June 24. In order to be selected as a leader, each ad visor wishing to attend had to fill out an application. The applica tion included a questionnaire and an essay on the study topic for this year’s convention. They each had to write of their expertise in leading small group discussions and de scribe what kind of materials they might have to contribute to the convention. Out of all the appli cants, only 23 were selected. This year’s study topic is In the Midst of Water: Origin and Des tiny ofLife. “The honors study topic is a broad inter-disciplinary theme around which the chapters across the country organize their schol arly activities,” said Arter. “They are designed to be broad so they can be approached by different perspectives. “Phi Theta Kappa members and advisors come to this from all over the country to spend a week study ing the honors study topic in preparation of the coming year,” said Arter. The honors institute offers a variety of different experts to talk about the topic and provide dif ferent perspectives for the mem bers. After the members listen to the experts talk, they all break up into small group discussions of about six or seven people. There they discuss what they’ve heard with the advisors. The goal is to come up with ways they can implement this new topic within each college chapter. During the conference, the main topic is split up into 10 dif ferent issues, such as how hu mans access and use water, or what the water cycle is and what our place in it is. Accompanying these issues are questions that are asked to the members to stimulate conversations... ques tions such as, How do land plants participate in the water cycle, or When did the term “aquifer” come into existence? To sum it all up, Arter said that this was a great chance for the Phi Theta Kappa members to ex ercise their minds with stimulat ing conversation, and for him, this is an honor to serve as a leader in the institute.
