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About The Clackamas print. (Oregon City, Oregon) 1989-2019 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 2004)
ilUu JJI i 2* ^^LACKAMA^p^lflf EDWARDS: Candidate speaks at town hall. forum on campus October 13, 2004 Coming next week: Update on campus construction I I I AU reports JwH are taken /^CiFin from CCC’s to campus safety incident I Summaries are edited I clarity, not content B 10-04-04 ry 5:10 p.m. Met with CCC staff rB ing student making thB ening statements in cB (continued from page 1) (including all children), cut premiums by $1,000 per fami ly, and import drugs from Canada, hoping to reduce the cost of prescription drugs. After the speech, there was a question and answer period, in which the senator fielded questions from concerned members of the community, one of the biggest concerns being education. “My own personal worry is that now, 50 years after Brown v. Board, we still have two school systems, based not on race, but on social status,” Edwards said. He went on to explain a plan with the goal to make educa tion more affordable to college students. In addition to provid ing a $4,000 tax credit, Edwards outlined a plan to trade education for communi ty-based work. “If you give two years of service to your country and your community, we’ll give you four years of college,” Edwards said. In his closing statement, Edwards gave one final pitch 10-5-04 I 10:05 a.m. I Conducted walk thniS propane/gas smell ftB OAC kiln area - adviB staff - #66 responded! 10-05-04 Vs 12:55 p.m. I Staff reported studemoi falling in mall area -< called. 10-05-04 12:56 pan. Direct AMR and met victim location - toan ed to PDX Adventist 10-05-04 3:55 p.m. Staff reported threats! student in D building! 10-06-04 8:50 a.m. Contact white male juvenile - minor in posession of tobacco, I want to ouiiu VULV America, and bridge the divide,” Edwards said. “If you believe America is headed in the right direction, you should vote for George Bush and Dick Cheney, but if not, you should vote for President John Kerry.” The new Communication Arts Center, on which construction began in July 2003, is planned to be finished by December of this year. It will house music, theatre and speech. SPEED: Legislative laws slows, confuses students (continued from page 1) Before a year and a half ago, the on-campus speed limit was 30 mph. This line of thought clearly comes through in Senate Bill 179, whose staff measure sum mery at the Oregon State Legislature’s website (www.leg.state.or.us) notes the discussion of “significant con stituent contact to Senators regarding school zones.” The new law defines school zones as follows: While on a road that is 30 mph, a school zone is always 20 mph. However, if the rQad’s normal speed limit is 35 mph or above, then the 20 mph limit only applies when either flash ing lights indicate children are normally coming or going from school, or when a sign has post ed times and days children are expected to be in the area. The third category is the only one that still will contain the cryptic phrase “when children are present.” However, accord ing to the Oregon State Legislature’s website the new bill removes the subjective phrase about the children being “in a place where they are or can reasonably be expected to be visible to a person operating a motor vehicle.” campul Algebra department reforms programs with focus on real-life Thus, the new definition of I ladon Triplett “when children are present” will The Clackamas Print be, according to the website, when children are “in a cross This year’s Math 60, 65 and walk, waiting at a crosswalk, 95 reforms aim to answer the on/along a highway on the side age-old question about algebra, walk or shoulder, [or] on “How will I use this in real unfenced school grounds within life?” 50 feet of [a] highway.” According to instructor “People are supposed to Alice Hayden, “It’s supposed yield and stop when they see to be more hands-on...where pedestrians approach a cross the students see a reason walk,” offered Officer [behind] thé algebra they need Kandratieff. to dp.” The bill also clarifies what Up until this year, the math school zones have their fines department instructors lectured double when the criteria on their about algebra skills first, and signs are met, as then had students take a well as the length look at applications last. of school zones. Now it’s “approached According to by coming at it with the Oregon doing application prob Department of lems first, and seeing Transportation ■ | what math is necessary website, (ore- to do [those] applica gon.gov/ODOT) 1 tions problems’,” said “[d]ouble fine Hayden, “then learning provision i the math to go with the applies in problem.” school zones In the reformed class only if posted | es, group learning is as double and such an integral part of lights are flash-1 [ the algebra sequence WHEN ing or the defi- I ¡that students have yet nition of I CHOREN another reason to fear ‘when , chil- I ARE PRESENT not being able to make dren are pres- I it to class. ent’ is met.” 1 J “It’s perhaps more [ school SPEED’ LIMIT 120 important that students be in class, because we are doing group activity learning,” said Hayden. This news will make many groan, as it was already difficult to catch up after miss ing an algebra class due to the nature of the material. One of the biggest changes students will notice when they take the reformed algebra sequence is the new textbook. Hayden said that the book is “a real change in what the text book looks like, what happens in class, and hopefully in how [students] look at it.” “It’s an advantage to you as a student; your work is all in one place,” said Hayden. “The paper, the problem, the answer is all in one place.” Books are made to be written in. Of course, this presents a problem for students hoping to sell their book back to the campus book store. Whether these reforms will answer that age-old question is yet to be seen. It’s easy to be skeptical of a subject that is cited by many as being extremely difficult and mostly useless in today’s world. “We’re hoping that stu dents.. .will find it more enjoy able and relevant,” said Hayden. 10-06-04 1:35 p.m. Staff reported white ■ adult harassing femala students in mall area. 10-07-04 11:55 a.m. Student reported her keyed while in McL lot. 10-08-04 11:10 a.m. Student parent report complaint regarding registration gatherini mall area. 10-08-04 2:49 p.m. Honeywell reported fire dispatched - coni in bus turn around - by #85 - false alarm tern malfunction. Toda 10 a.m. to Gregory Ford Walk-ins wefcMe
