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The 4 Feature Wednesday, April 19, 2006 Clackamas PrjnJ Student to serve and protect Jeff Sorensen The Clackamas Print There’s only a few weeks left until graduation, and Criminal Justice student Josh Crader has been trying to stay focused through his last few classes at Clackamas. Before Crader graduated high school in2002, he spent the ’01 - ’02 year taking art, music and recording classes at Clackamas. It wasn’t until Winter Term 2003 that he found his way to the Criminal Justice depart ment and got addicted to going to class. “I would just add as many CJ classes as I could every semester,” said Crader. “I’d take anywhere between 12 and 20 credits.” Beyond his normal course work, Crader spent some time through Clackamas’ CWE program shadow ing a corrections officer at Clackamas County Corrections Facility, where he fulfilled the requirement of 180 hours in under four and a half weeks. It was there that Crader had a chance to not only learn about his potential career in corrections, but to also learn a few things about the variety of inmates who get sentenced to lhe facility. Crader learned through personal conversations that many of the people living there were more complex than a “stereotypical crimi nal.” “We’d have conversations about their lives, families, and their job. [For many] yeah, it’s a screw up, but it’s not the end of the world,” Crader said After graduation, Crader will con tinue to work toward his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice at PSU. “Clackamas is totally this com fort zone how,” said Crader. ‘Til have new classes, new professors and a new campus to deal with. I’m looking forward, to the higher level course work... I’m looking forward to the challenge.” After Portland State, Crader is still deciding whether he wants to get a graduate degree, but that decision is still some time away. “I have two years left to finish my undergraduate degree. If I’m not sick of school by then, I’m going to enroll in a graduate program,” said Crader. “I’m toying with the idea of Boston University for that ... but that’s way down the toad.” Eventually, Crader will want to get started on his career as well. “At some point I do want to work patrol,” said Crader, “I think that if I start out in correc tions, dealing with those kinds of people on a day-to-day basis in that kind of environment, when I did actually, get out on patrol I’d be more equipped to deal with people that the rest of soci ety doesn’t want to deal with or shouldn’t have to.” Crader may not have known right away that he would find a passion for upholding the law, but growing up he knew it was definitely something that inter CRADER ested him. “Always as a kid I would look up to police officers. I guess it’s that he’s come. “I was pretty much labeled in high whole hero aspect... being needed by people, conflict resolution. Just school as someone who wasn’t the being there when people can’t deal most academically ‘smart’ person,” with their problems and need some said Crader, “and in a way I was out to disprove that fact I think, that with one to interject,” Crader said. He has worked hard to get where anything in life, if you set your mind he is arid although he still has more to something and you work at it dili work to do, he’s proud of how far gently, you can get it completed” Jeff Sorensen Clackamas Prit Crader will be getting Associate of Applied Science De in Criminal Justice/Coirections fa Clackamas on June 16, as well a certificate in corrections, and insists that nothing is going to stan in his way. “I’m going to graduate come he or high water,” Crader said Clackamas employee runs for seat in state legislature Katie Wilson The Clackamas Print Mike Caudle is ready to start making a difference. Caudle is running for state legislature for the Canby/ Oregon City district. 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