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November 26, 2003 ♦ Clackamas Community College, Orégon City, OR ♦ Volume 37, Issue 5
Rook Hall will open for winter term
Frank Jordan
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Clackamas students Samantha Rodríguez (left) and
Mindy Birch pass by Rook Hall on their way to class.
Moving day is here for Student
Services and the English department as
Roger Rook Hall gets ready to open for
business on Dec. 15.
Rook Hall, named for longtime
Clackamas Board of Education mem
ber Roger Rook, is the latest in the
series of new buildings being erected
on the Oregon City campus. This
building was paid for by the construc
tion bond passed by the district’s voters
back in 2000.
“We are very excited about this new
space,” said Glenda Tepper, associate
dean of student enrollment services.
“We will be able to significantly
upgrade our services to students in the
new building.”
Althoflgh staff members are
presently moving into Rook Hall,
Student Services will remain in the Bill
Brod Community Center through the
end of fall term.
“We officially will not open for
business until Dec. 15 in Rook Hall,”
said Tepper. “We will continue to pro
vide frontline services for enrollment
and financial aid through fall term
finals.” •
One of the most significant changes
that Student Services will be able to
provide is a one-stop enrollment
process in the new building. Students
will be able to enroll, add/drop classes,
have their questions answered and pay
for classes without having to go from
one line to another in the process.
‘We have spent a lot of time design
ing this new process for enrollment and
we are very excited about the possibil
ities,” said Tepper. “This new building
and new spaces provide us a chance to
fulfill those possibilities.”
Students will have access in Rook
Hall to about twice as many computers
as they currently have in Student
Services to be able to access the
CougarTrax enrollment system, mak
ing the process of signing up for class
es a whole lot easier.
Student testing has also begun the
move into Rook Hall, ending a
nomadic journey for that essential ele
ment of the enrollment process.
“We will be
able to signifi
cantly upgrade
our services
in the new
building.”
Glenda Tepper
Associate Dean
Student Services
Testing has occupied many locations
on campus, moving each time to help
accommodate construction of new
buildings.
Although student enrollment serv
ices will be moving, counseling and
advising will not be moving to Rook
Hall. The change, however, will allow
the counseling office to have access to
more space in the Community Center.
The English department will be tak
ing over the second floor of Rook Hall,
with the addition of new offices and six
new classrooms that will be shared
with other academic departments.
English instructors will begin moving
into their offices after fall term finals.
“We are very excited about the
move to Rook. It presents itself with a
great opportunity for English majors to
have one central spot to concentrate on
their studies,” said English Department
Chair Emily Orlando. “We are also
opening a literary arts center in RR
220. It will be a space where students,
staff and the community can come to
exchange ideas. It will be a resource
room as well. It helps to give the
English department a sense of identity,
one that we really haven’t had before.”
The English department will begin
moving into Rook Hall on Dec. 1, but
instructors will be in their present loca
tions through fall term finals, before
moving to Rook Hall.
The offices of the student newspa
per, 77ic Clackamas Print, will move
from their temporary space in Modular
B behind Randall Hall into their new
first-floor space in Rook Hall.
“We are very happy about the
prospect of moving into a professional
looking space and in a central location
(on the campus),” said Journalism
Advisor Linda Vogt. “It is really a huge
boost to the journalism program and
it’s great to feel the support from the
college about this.”
An open house and dedication of
Roger Rook Hall is scheduled to take
place on Dec. 10 from 2 to 5 p.m.
Students, staff and the general public
are invited to this free event and tour of
Rook Hall.
‘Beagle 2 * * to probe Martian planet Sudden snowstorm sends
Cyndee Mady
- Search far subsurface water.
- Global high-resolution photo
geology and mineralogical mapping
• Analysis of atmospheric compo
sition and circulation,
■ Deployment of geochemistry
and exobiology lander, ‘Beagle 2,’
onto the surface. •
- Sharp-eyed 3D photography to
discover more about the surface and
geology of Mars.
- Looking at the ‘invisible’
beneath the surface by using radar
beams to penetrate below ground.
- Study of the interaction of the
atmosphere with outer space.
Expected Timeline
Dec. 19,2003
06:51 GMT
Decision to release ‘Beagle 2’
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Dec. 19,2003 ;
10:14 GMT
First results of release available
Go E ditor - in -C hief
In addition to holiday presents,
festive food and good cheer, students
have something else to look forward
to this Christmas day—Europe's
‘Beagle 2’ landing on Mars in hopes
of revealing once and for all, if
Martians really “do exist.”
On June 2, 2003, the ‘Beagle 2’
headed on a six-month mission to
Mars via the ESA ‘Mars Express’
spacecraft, which houses the propul
sion system.
“I thought it was interesting that
the British nicknamed this Martian
lander the ‘Beagle 2’ and it only
makes sense historically if you have
some sort of knowledge of what
‘Beagle 1’ was,” said Bob Misley,
life sciences instructor at CCC.
Misley will conduct a slide pres
entation on Tuesday, Dec. 2 on the
voyage of the ‘Beagle 1,’ which will
also include information about the
scientific experiments ‘Beagle 2’
plans to administer on Mars. The
presentation will take place from
noon to 1 p.m. in Pauling 101.
“The reason I’m giving this talk
now is because the ‘Beagle 2,’ this
voyage of discovery, is scheduled to
land this Christmas,” said Misley. “I
wanted to give everybody a heads up
on it.”
According to David Southwood,
director of science for the European
Space Agency (ESA), “Europe is on
its way to Mars to stake its claim in
the most detailed and complete
exploration ever done of the ‘Red
Planet.’”
‘Beagle 2’s’ predecessor and
namesake, a British ship called ‘The
Beagle,’ embarked on a five-year
voyage of discovery, mapping and
surveying the globe in the early
1800s.
“The ‘Beagle 1’ has gone into the
history books as kind of an odd
curiosity piece, because of a young
21-year-old naturalist who was on
board: Charles Darwin,” said Misley.
“If Darwin hadn’t been on ...
surprised students sliding
Please see BEAGLE, Page 2
Dec. 20.2003
AU day
Retargeting of Mars Express on an
orbital insertion course
Dec. 23,2003
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Update on ‘Mars Express’ orbital
insertion sequence
Dec. 24,2003
Night
Final decision to steer ‘Mars
Express’ into a Martian orbit
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Dec. 25,2003
02:54 GMT
‘Beagle 2’ lands on Mars ; ’/ a -’
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Tftw information obtained firm
www.sciesa.im/sdence.
INTERNET PHOTO
Artist rendition of what the ‘Beagle 2’ will look like on Mars.
The few students who could make it to college on Nov.
19 were surprised by the unexpected snow storm.