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Clackamas Pri
Clackamas graduates say ‘Adios’
. Katie Wilson
11 News Editor
It will be time for graduat
ing students to say goodbye to
Clackamas next week.
“I’m going to miss the people,”
said student and ASG Senator
Tiffany Kimmel.
She is walking with her mother
at one of two graduation ceremo
nies next Friday.
“My mom had this fear of
school,” said Kimmel. “I told her
it was going to be fun... now she’s
in love with school.”
Kimmel and her mother are
only two of 938 students gradu-
on Thursday. Tawnya Stauffer and available in Barlow 223 and at the
Greg Willis will be
switchboard in
honored on Friday.
the community
Outgoing ASG
center.
President Kristen
College
Madden will, be
President Joe
the speaker at the
Johnson will
Friday ceremony.
include
the
According
to
names in his
Rosenlof, graduat
remarks to the
ing students have
graduates, and
been asked to help
the “thankyou”
the college rec
forms will be
ognize staff and
forwarded to
Janis Rosenlof
faculty who have
the staff and
Graduation
positively impacted
faculty.
Coordinator
them during their
Of the many
time at Clackamas.
students gradu
If the student wants
ating this term,
to thank that person, forms are less than half are actually partici
“Walking
can give real
closure and
a sense of
pride. ”
pating in the ceremony.
‘Teople have different real
for walking or not walking,” i
Rosenlof. “Walking can give]
closure and a sense of pride
Parents are walking and their
will see them. Kids are wall
Families are there. It’s differen
everyone.”
Graduation will be held
the Randall Hall Gymnasiuni
Thursday, June 15 at 7 p.m.,I
Friday, June 16 also at 7p.m.|
There will be overflow s
ing in the Gregory Forum and
ceremony will be shown on a 1
screen TV.
For more information pi
contact Roselof at (503) 657-6!
ext. 2205.
Cell phones hope to dial away domestic abus
College
says ‘No’
to pets
inside
campus
buildings
Megan Koler
The Clackamas Print
. Katie Wilson
11 News Editor
ating this term with a degree or
certificate.
There are two ceremonies:
the GED and Adult High School
Diploma Graduation Ceremony
on Thursday, and Certificate and
Degree Commencement Ceremony
on Friday. In the past, the college
tried to do both ceremonies on the
same night.
“It just got too full,” said Janis
Rosenlof, graduation coordina
tor and administrative assistant of
instructional services.
_
At each ceremony two students
will be honored by the college.
“These are students that have
been inspirational,” said Rosenlof.
Gisela Altairano and Primavera
Salinas from the will be honored
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Pets have been banned
from -college buildings.
According to an adminis
trative regulation approved
by the college council on
May 19, pets can no longer
enter the college buildings
and must be kept on a leash
or under direct physical
control if outside.
The regulation sprang
from the college adminis
tration’s desire to maintain
a healthy and safe environ
ment at Clackamas.
Many people are allergic
to certain pets and some
people are frightened by
them.
Jean DeVenney from
Advising and Counseling
owns a German Shepard
named Maxi, who, as a ser
vice dog, is exempt from
the regulation.
“I make a point of ask
ing people who come to my
office if they are allergic
to dogs or are afraid of
them,” she said. “If they
are, we meet elsewhere.
These are issues you have
to pay attention to.”
Maxi has served as a
personal protection dog
for the counselor since
DeVenney began receiv
ing threatening e-mails and
phone calls both at work
and home in March 2003.
The threats have continued
to this day.
“It’s an interesting place
to find oneself in,” said
DeVenney.
She added that having
Maxi with her makes it
possible for her to work
and walk around with some
feeling of safety.
Maxi goes with her near
ly everywhere.
For other pets, however,
unless they are service ani
mals, the regulation means
they’ve got to stay out
side.
Keeping victims of domes
tic violence only a dial away
from help at all times is the
goal of the new cell phone
collection being run by the
Criminal Justice fraternity,
Epsilon Tau Alpha.
“The most dangerous part
of being with an abusive
spouse is leaving,” explained
full-time student and direc
tor of the cell phone donation
project, Greg Willis, “... this
is when the abusive spouse
will most likely break the
restraining order.”
Willis believes having cell
phones readily available to
victims of domestic violence
at that crucial juncture makes
the transition from abuse to
safety that much easier.
The fraternity hopes that
people will bring in phones
they find obsolete or in need
of repair to a donation depot.
From there, the fraternity will
hand off the phones to the
District Attorney’s Victim
Greg Willi
Advocacies office, where they
will be refurbished and dis
talks on hi
tributed.
cell phone
Willis and]
“[The cell phones] have to
be repairable,” said Willis.
members
“We just need any phone that
the Crimin
can still call 9-1-1.”
Justice ]
The fraternity is also reach
fraternityl
ing out to large organizations
Epsilon Tai
such as Cingular Wireless for
Alpha are]
help in gathering as many
leading a tj
donations as possible.
Anyone wishing to donate
phone drif
their cell phones can drop
to aid victi
them off at room 150a at the
of domesd
Criminal Justice office in
violence ai
Clairmont Hall. Epsilon Tau
abuse.
Alpha will also run a fire
work stand in the summer,
where they will have an area!
set aside for cell phone dona
tions.
“Domestic violence is a
huge issue, and anytime you
can help take a huge chunk
out of it is worth it,” explained
Willis, “I’ve donated five or
six cell phones myself.”
Megan Koler Clackamas Print
According to the American
Medical Association, it is friends a year, and that one out about donation can con]
estimated that four million of four women will be abused Ida Flippo at (503) 657-61
' ext. 2255, or by email]
women are victims of “severe at some point in their life.
Anyone with questions iflip@clackamas.edu.
assaults” by husbands or boy-
Hybrid Spanish class
offers new alerntatives
Matt Olsen
The Clackamas Print
Clackamas will be one of the first
schools in Oregon to offer the new
Spanish 101 hybrid class that will
begin this fall as a four-credit course.
James Barnhill, the instructor for
the part-online, part-classroom course,
will bring his 14 years of Spanish
teaching experience to this new part
of the College’s Foreign Language
Department.
The program promises to be a
laige step for the Spanish program.
“We think this program will be pret
ty popular,” said Barnhill. “Students
can work at their own pace.”
The hybrid course is designed for
“untraditional students” according to
Barnhill. Students that are part-time,
have a job or are somehow unable to
take the campus courses now have an
alternative.
“Because it’s a hybrid class [stu
dents] will have the opportunity to
practice the language in a class once
a week,” said Irma Bjerre, head of the
Foreign Language Department.
Students will meet in a classroom
for one hour every week to ask ques
tions and take quizzes, but will do the
majority of the work online.
The online part of the class will
include activities with a partner, voice
recording, pronunciation practice and
many other interactive assignments.
“One concern is that they’ll have
a lot of questions,” said Barnhill.
“They won’t always have that imme
diate contact.”
With any language course students
learn the bulk of pronunciation and
grammar by oral practice and by mak
ing mistakes that the teachers can
correct.
“Help is readily available through
the publisher,” said Barnhill about the
concerns. “Most of the courses are set
up by Vistas Higher Learning.”
Vistas is a publishing company
that specializes in Spanish textbooks,
and recently adapted an online course
that Clackamas’s hybrid course will
utilize.
“We’re not trying to do away with
traditional classes, we’re just trying to
supplement them,” said Barnhill. The
course will be “taking advantage of
new technology.”
If the 101 course is a success,
plans for adding 102 and 103 are in
place for Winter and Spring Terms
respectively. It is hoped that this
array of new courses will foreshadow
an expansion and improvement of the
Language Department as a whole.
campus safety incident logs.
Summaries are edited for
clarity, not content.
5-25-06
4:14 p.m.
Staff reported suspicious activity in wooded area behinl
the Environmental Learning Center„Numerous Oregon!
City Police Department and Clackamas County Sheriff«!
Office units enroute. Assigned cadet to get information!
from reporting parties and block off Inskeep Drive.
5:00 p.m.
Contacted suspicious party and advised them to leave I
campus. No crime committed. Oregon City Police
Department and Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office |
cleared area.
5-27-06
4:40 p.m.
Report. DeJardin exit door not closing. Rock removed.®
5-29-06
10:55 a.m.
Officer found two west windows ajar, enough to get I
hand inside. Officer closed and secured the windows. I