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First copy FREE, additional copies ltf Clackamas Print ■------------------------------------------- I independent, student- run n since 1966 Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR ------ Wednesday, March. 14, 2007 Volume 40, Issue 15 What? A new mural in Randall Hall College, legislature • • • money? Katie Wilson Where? If coming up from the direction of the locker room, it is locat ed in the stairwell between the 1st floor and the basement. « Who? Artist Anthony Bemert, and collaborator Nancy Mikleton, retired Clackamas health and PE instructor. When? It was painted over the summer and through Fall Term, Why should you care It’s pretty. - Compiled by Megan Koler, The Clackamas Print Final Exam Schedule Ex am Ciass day & start M/W or Î.I/W/F T/TH 7:45 or 8 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 or 10:15 a.m. 11 or 11:30 a.m. 12 or 12:45 p.m. 1 p.m. 2 p.m. 3 or 3:15 p.m. 4 or 5 p.m. Mon. 3/19 8 -10 a.m. day time Wed. 3/21 Tues. 3/20 8-10 a.m. 10 a.m. - noon 10am- noon noon - 2 p.m. noon - 2 p.m. 2 - 4 p.m. 2-4p.m. 4-6 p.m. 7:30 or 8:30 a.m. 9 a.m. 10 or 10:30 a.m. 1 p.m. 2:30 or 3 p.m. 4-6 p.m. 4 or 5 p.m. 8 -10 a.m. 10 a.m. - noçn. noon - 2 p.m. 2-4 p.m. see instructor 4-6 p.m. CONFLICTS Illustration by Kayla Berge Clackamas Print }IRIT meetings guide students asking for help Nl Dickerson lackamas Print group-therapy meetings, suffer from a mental oi ust need someone to talk ’ k on‘Monday nights here college. i Snook, Gina Hahn and - Vsuvius lead the weekly gs< which are from 3:30 to 5 J J )om 104 in the Training ' in Clairmont Hall. The ses- "ill continue until April 9. e g nl of the meetings is to ■ and expand the SPIRIT m. t SPIRIT program is a sup- loup meant to teach those ¡ng how to become advo- ■o lemselves. SPIRIT is an ” ihich stands for Service kr idix dualized Recovery >fe Training. Aimes of the SPIRIT pro- lx : -who gram have support groups. This is tiie sort of support group for people who have not graduated, or are not part of tiie SPIRIT program “This is for people who have challenges on campus,” said Hahn. “It’s for people who say, ‘We want to work on ourselves,”’ said Shannon Bierly, who is on the board of directors at Empowerment Initiatives Inc. Empowerment Initiatives Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping those who suffer from mental illnesses heal and cope, as well as overcome their obstacles and move on with their lives. There are two main branches under Empowerment Initiatives Inc., the SPIRIT and Brokerage programs. Typically, SPIRIT meetings begin with introductions given by the people attending, followed by a two-minute meditation time for participants to center themselves and relax. After the meditation is an edu cational time during which Snook, Hahn and Vesuvius speak to partici pants about self-healing and what they have personally overcome. At the end of the meetings, there is another two-minute meditation. According to Casey Sims, the disabled students and tutor coor dinator for the counseling center, the support group is not an offi cial service offered by Clackamas’ advising and counseling center. However, the counseling center has worked with the SPIRIT program in the past, sometimes providing lectures. Bierly and Hahn graduated through the Brokerage program, which is similar to the SPIRIT pro gram. Because they have worked through the programs, they are qualified to help others, ¿rough they don’t necessarily have an actual “certificate.” Hahn is taking “small steps towards the big step’ ’ of getting certi fied officially. She is now employed full-time with the Brokerage pro gram as an administrative specialist; she answers telephones and e-mails from people who suffer from men tal illnesses. “I know how to support because of my past I’ve been there,” she said. “There is a sense of mutual sup port, which is a shift in mental health recovery,” said Hahn. “It’s a way for folks who have walked the walk to help others lift themselves up.” “We’re giving hope and direc tion,” said Bierly. “It’s help for those who have been stuck in their mental health problems. It is healing.” All are welcome, whether or not they have been officially diagnosed with a mental illness. For more information about Empowerment Initiatives Inc., go to http://www. choosempowerment.com. [ Co-Editor-in-Chief Applying for scholarships isn’t just for students. The college is currently in its legislative session and is campaign ing fiercely for funding. The community colleges of Oregon, represented by their admin istrative heads and student govern ments, are trying for a $529 mil lion budget as opposed to the $483 million budget recommended by Governor Ted Kulongoski, accord ing to Tim Lussier, Clackamas’ associated student government president. “Last week and through* the beginning of April, Clackamas will be represented two or three times per week in the capitol building,” said Clackamas’ Interim President Joanne Truesdell, who has been splitting her time recently between running the college and represent ing it down in Salem. Truesdell gave a short pre sentation last week, highlighting Clackamas’ goals, and how contin ued and increased funding will help the college reach its goals, Lussier and other members of ASG traveled down to Salem last Thursday as part of the Oregon Community College Student Association. They met with individual rep resentatives, trying to gamer more support for community colleges, Clackamas in particular. Lussier believes that student involvement in the proceedings is important. “We’re telling our stories as stu dents,” he said. “[The] legislature will give us more money if they remember [you] and how great a person you are.” Each member of ASG who went to Salem wrote a letter to a repre sentative. “They heard from 15 people on ASG,” said Lussier. ASG plans to involve Clackamas students in much the same way. They are organizing a postcard lobby effort. Students will write brief messages on postcards which will be mailed out to representa tives. ASG hopes to keep four goals up front in the representatives’ minds: 1. Support community colleges by supporting the full $529 mil lion. 2. Support “Shared Responsibil ity Model for Financial Aid” - a proposal which, if funded, would enable students to attend col lege who might not have had the chance. 3. Fund ASPIRE, a program for high school students earning col lege credit. 4. Support Capitol Construction - a.k.a get funds for the construc tion of a three-story, allied health building on the Harmony campus. ASG hopes to have this effort started by the beginning of next term. Meanwhile, Truesdell will be keeping busy. “We’re in a lot of tilings,” she said.
