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Clackamas Community College
Oregon City, Oregon
Volume XXXV, Issue
ASG works for smoking fix
FRANK JORDAN
News Editor
ELISABETH MEYER /Clackamas Print
Gabe Parker, student, sits enjoying a smoke right outside a door In Barlow Hall. The
door posts one of the "No Smoking Within 25 Feet of Entrance Door" signs.
Attempts by the student gov
ernment to address the issue of
smoking outside of school facili
ties have not fallen on deaf ears,
according to Associated Student
Government President Stefan
Myers.
“People may have noticed that
almost all of the entrances to
buildings now have the new
stickers on the doors,” said
Myers, referring to the “No
Smoking Within 25 Feet of En
trance Door” signs that recently
appeared on most entrance doors
around campus.
“We actu
ally wanted to get those stickers
up much earlier than we did, but
we hope that this will improve the
air quality around entrances to
campus buildings.”
ASG has conducted several
meetings with the Clackamas ad
ministration, most notably with
Al Erdman, dean of college ser
vices, and Carol Patterson, asso
ciate dean of campus services.
Most of these meetings have
dealt with short-term solutions,
but long-term goals have been
discussed as well.
“Al respects the student’s
voice, as do I,” commented
Myers, “but we need to take into
account all of the students on a
particular issue, not just a select
few. We really do not want to
limit a student’s choice on how
to live their life, but the majority
of our students do not smoke, so
we have to take their best inter
ests into account as well.”
Clackamas banned smoking in
all campus buildings before the
1989-90 school year and had
banned the.selling of all tobacco
products in the college bookstore
the previous year. Several at- >
tempts to appease the smoking
population on campus have been
made, including the installation
of heat lamps and picnic tables
at several building entrances.
However, only the heat lamp fix
tures on the fountain side of the
Gregory Forum remain as evi
dence of these attempts.
As new construction is getting
ready to begin on campus in the
near future, ASG has hoped to im
plant some long-term goals on that
process, in order to have students’
best interests in mind, including
those who wish to smoke.
“We really believe in the
student’s right to choose, we are
really looking at opportunities with
the new construction bond at im
proving our current facilities to help
give our smoking students some
reasonable comfort,” said Myers.
‘We are also looking at the general
topic of student space, to see if we
can maximize the space that we
have, and soon will be getting, with
the addition of our new buildings
on campus.”
If any student has a complaint or
comment about the smoking issue
or any other issue, the student is
asked to stop in at the ASG office,
located in the Community Center
across from the Cougar Café, and
talk to any of the student leaders.
To reach Frank Jordan e-mail
fmj68@hotmail.com or drop by B-
104.
GED is anything but general; it’s a challenge
MAGGIE JIRASEK
Editor-in-Chief
Clackamas’ General Educa
tional Development program
underwent a major revision this
year and with new, more rel
evant guidelines, continues to
give students the opportunity
to complete their high school
education and plan for the fu-
What’s inside
Opinion...Pages 2-4
News...Page 5
Feature...Page 6
A & E...Page 7-8
Sports...Pages 9-11
The End...Page 12
tare.
The GED testing program,
developed by the American
Council on Education, enables
people who have not graduated
from high school to demon
strate the level of attainment
normally acquired through the
completion of high school
study. The program, originally
established for men and women
coming out of the Army, has
come a long way since its early
days.
The first tests, developed in
1942, were administered only to
military personnel to make it
easier for returning World War
II veterans to pursue their edu
cational, vocational and per
sonal goals. This opportunity
proved to be a significant aid
to the many service members
whose academic careers had
been disrupted during the war.
In 1963, the General Educational
Development Testing Service
came into being to make the
transition to a program avail
able also to non-veteran adults.
Since that time, the GED Test
ing Service has guided and di
rected a program that now
serves more than 800,000 test
takers annually at approxi
mately 3,200 testing centers all
over the nation. Testing is also
given to military personnel sta
tioned overseas and U.S. civil
ians and foreign nationals over
seas who want it,
Fundamental to the program’s
success has been the acceptance
of GED tests as a valid means of
awarding high school diplomas.
All 50 U.S. States, the District of
Columbia, U.S. insular areas and
11 Canadian provinces and terri
tories accept scores earned on
GED tests. Most colleges and
universities will allow GED score
reports instead of complete high
school transcripts.
Clackamas’ GED testing pro-
MAGGIE JIRASEK /Clackamas Print
Instructor Linda Daugherty is helping one other
students, Anna Bates, who Is Involved In the GED
program.
gram and those at others schools
underwent a major revision pro
cess this year.
Although the revised program
has only been used for about two
weeks, you can already see the
results, according to Jeff Davis,
an assistant to Miles.
“Students are getting really
high results,” he said. “It seems
like they did a good job with the
revision of the GED testing pro-
cess.”_______________________
See GED. page 5
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