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EDWARDS:
Candidate
speaks at
town hall.
forum on
campus
October 13, 2004
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(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
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10:05 a.m.
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OAC kiln area - adviB
staff - #66 responded!
10-05-04
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12:55 p.m.
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10-05-04
12:56 pan.
Direct AMR and met
victim location - toan
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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,
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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
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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
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“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
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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
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of
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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
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