NEWS
2 • The Clackamas Print • May 28, 2003
Scholarship recipients honored
Frank Jordan
The Clackamas Print
The annual Clackamas scholarship
reception was held May 20 in the
Randall Hall gym and honored over
200 students with scholarships for the
2003-04 academic year.
CCC Foundation Development
Secretary Janet Meister, who organ
ized the event, said that the evening’s
festivities are mainly to give the
donors a chance to meet the scholar
ship recipients.
“Our donors are a very passionate
group of people,” said Meister.
“Overall endowment donations are
down due to the struggling economy,
but we just go to the longtime donors
to help make up the difference in
funding. Any and all of the help that
they give is greatly appreciated.”
The recipient of the Phi Theta
Kappa Transfer Scholarship, Susan
Peznecker, said that she was thrilled to
be a scholarship winner and praised
the staff and students at Clackamas for
the educational experience that she
received here.
“I wasn’t quite sure where this
experience was goiryyo le^d.mg, but I
c¥< you that the^ducatiorvjhat I
reoeiveg
not
trade for anything,” said Peznecker. /
Shilo Burke, the winner of th/
Colton High School Opportunity
Scholarship, made a moving address
to the crowd of over 700 about the
hard times that she and her family
faced in her life, and the opportunity
that college has presented for her.
“I would really like to thank all of
those who believed in me and have
given me the chance to make a differ
ence in the world,” Burke said.
“Education is so important to me and
my family, and although times have
been hard, we have persevered and I
am on the verge of making dreams
come true.”
•There were several new scholar
ships given out this year, including the
Ruth Rippey Memorial Scholarship,
designed to help students who are fac
ing obstacles while trying to finish
their education. The recipient is
Shannon Cooley of Wilsonville.
Rippey, who died in October 2000,
was a longtime staff member at CCC.
Terence Shumaker, CCC drafting
All reports are taken
from CCC’s public safe
ty incident logs.
Summaries are edited
for clarity, not content.
TAMARA BARRY Contributed
M+chael Lantz of Molalla (right) sits with Mimi and Jack
Chitty during the 2003 Scholarship Reception May 20.
Lantz received an honors scholarship sponsored by the
Chittys. Mimi Chitty is retiring this year from the CCC
Board of Education after 1 5 years.
department chair, contributed an
endowed scholarship for the first time
to a Life and Career Options program
student at Clackamas. That student is
Desiree Short-Maryea of West Linn.
The Jim Ritacco Memorial
Scholarship will help Clackamas soft-
ball players- with their educations.
This year’s-; recipient is Kim
Kraxberger of Canby.
The/-Patty "Fowler Endowed
Scholarship was set up to help gradu
ates of Molalla High School continue
their educations at Clackamas. The
recipient of "this year’s award is
Stephanie Koler of Canby.
Almost $300,000 was provided by
the foundation this academic year for
scholarships. All of the monies come
from either endowments set up by the
CCC Foundation or from direct con
tributions from donors.
AS-OT degree approved
Frank Jordan
The Clackamas Print
ISAIAH CREEL Clackamas Print
Marlies Berney (left) and Becca Blevins make calls during
the CCC Foundation phone-a-thon May 19 in the Gregory
Forum. The event raised about $7,000 for the Student
Opportunity Fund.
Phone-a-thon raises
funds to aid students
Isaiah Creel
The Clackamas Print
The CCC Foundation, in con
junction with the Associated
Student
Government,
raised
approximately $7,000 for the
Student Opportunity Fund (SOF)
through a phone-a-thon campaign
during the last two weeks.
Statewide budget cuts have left
students to foot the bill for the $8
per credit hour tuition increase.
This seemingly small increase
translates to $96 when you multi
ply it by the number of credits a
full-time student takes (12).
According to a Foundation pub
lication, “The SOF is being created
to help students respond to recent
tuition increases and other urgent
needs. It will be used for need
based scholarships and emergency,
childcare and/or textbook grants.”
Every tuition increase leaves
more and more students desperate
for funds. The financial aid office
offers some solace, but with
increased enrollment some stu
dents fall by the wayside.
Fear not brave student, your
salvation comes in the form of the
various student clubs that bombard
you with posters around campus.
ASG offered $20 to every club for
each member that volunteered to
help them in a fundraising phone-
a-thon to bolster the SOF.
Sixteen groups, from Campus
Crusade for Christ to your very
own The Clackamas Print, were
involved in raising money through
telephoning. Ninety-one donors,
many of whom were either donat
ing for the first time or had donat
ed previously but hadn’t donated
recently, contributed to the SOF.
“The great thing about [the
phone-a-thon],”
said
Karen
Martini, director of development
and college advancement, “is' not
that we raised the money, but that
we got our message out.”
The money raised during this
effort, in addition to other funds
raised by the CCC Foundation,
will help cover the increase in
tuition, and will be distributed
through the Financial Aid/
Scholarship office.
The Oregon State Board of
Education recently approved the
creation of an Associate of Science-
Oregon Transfer/Business degree
for community college students
beginning fall term 2003;
The board created the Associate
of Arts-Oregon Transfer degree in
the late 1980s, which implemented
a set of standards 'to facilitate a sim
pler transfer from community col
lege into a four-year program. The
transfer degree includes a set of
general requirements in writing,
math and oral communication, as
well as another set of requirements
in arts and letters, social sciences,
science/math/computer science and
general elective courses.
Community colleges usually tai
lor an individual’s coursework for a
transfer degree toward the institu
tion that the student wishes to trans
fer to. The new Associate of
Science-Oregon Transfer/Business
degree was created with this in
mind. Many of the business pro
grams in Oregon four-year universi
ties have specific requirements for
entrance. The schools involved
came up with a list of requirements
that would satisfy their degree pro
grams. All of Oregon’s community
colleges teach the courses required
by these four-year programs; which
courses to take to satisfy the
entrance requirements to that partic
ular business school is left up to the
student.
“The ASOT-Business degree
would meet all of the general
requirements that the four-year state
schools require for acceptance into
those universities,” said Baldwin
van der Bijl, associate dean for
allied
health/math/science
at
Clackamas. “Having the degree,
however, does not automatically
guarantee acceptance into the busi
ness school of the student’s choice.
It just means that they would have
junior standing at that particular
university.”
Business was the first discipline
considered for the new ASOT
degree, but other disciplines are
being considered, such as nursing,
life science and computer science.
“Computer science would seem
to be the next degree offered, as
most community colleges teach the
course work required for a transfer
degree,” van der Bijl said. “It may
be a few years. I just think the state
wants to see how this new offering
works out with the university sys
tem before expanding it.”
5-20-03
Talked with a white adult
male carrying a Japanese
sword in a case. He said he
had just arrived on Tri-Met
and was leaving campus to
go straight home.
5-20-03
Received report that a stu
dent got paint in his eyes
and face. Medical is
enroute.
5-20-03
Talked with staff about three
white male juveniles playing
in the observatory and try
ing to catch the ducks in the
pond. Was unable to locate
the juveniles.
5-20-03
Was patrolling near bus turn
when I saw a white male
juvenile walking away- from
the visitor parking lot.' He
saw me and ran away
toward the Pauling Center.
I walked toward Pauling,
saw him again, but he ran
away again.
5-21-03
Talked with a group of
about 20 juveniles playing
Frisbee. Told them that the
campus was closed.
Calling all actors
The theatre depart
ment will hold open
auditions for the 2003
fall term main stage pro
duction "Uncle Vanya"
on June 2 at 3 p.m. in
the McLoughlin Theatre.
Actors will need to
have a monologue pre
pared and be ready to
perform a cold reading.
ASG puts on carnival for students
Clackamas students enjoy the wilds of Jurassic Survivor in the courtyard during the
May 4 4 carnival sponsored by the Associated Student Government. The event was
blessed with decent weather and many students were out lounging in the spring sun.