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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
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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.