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since 1966
Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR
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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.
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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
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CONFLICTS
Illustration by Kayla Berge Clackamas Print
}IRIT meetings guide students asking for help
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group-therapy meetings,
suffer from a mental
oi ust need someone to talk
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college.
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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.