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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. He cur
rently works at the college
as an Advising/Recruitment
Specialist in Student Outreach.
- a “I was involved in politics
a long time ago,” said Caudle.
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“I haven’t really been? since
college, but the last legislative
session made me so frustrated.
They didn’t do anything. The
list is a mile long of things that
they didn’t do.”
So he filed to announce can
didacy through the state parties
and started knocking on doors,
getting his name and message
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He has summed up his cam
paign into three main priori
ties: to put kids first, protect
and support working families,
and to make a smarter, more
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