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r, as Community College, Oregon City, OR
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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Volume 41, Issue 22
■ OregonCtty
farmers Market
s fiMsustainablity on their own as they sell their goods at the
City Farmers Market, which opened May 3
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st the sound of a pan flute wafts the
and conversation of families, couples
4 ividuals browsing the Oregon City
_ Market.
narkdt, located on Kaen Road, opened
, May p, in the parking lot of the
s County Pubic Service Center.
Even with the overcast and dreary weather,
the mood was surprisingly jovial as old
friends and new acquaintances milled around
the lot, admiring each others’ wares.
The Farmers Market opened four years
ago and, this year, features several veteran
vendors, including Monica Honegger and her
88-year-old mother, Carlos Lewis.
Please see FARMER, Page 4
Photos by Andrea Simpson Clackamas Print
^■onegger, left, and her mother, Carlos Lewis, discuss the mix of greens to put
at the Oregon City Farmers Market.
.^^^Bfiong, left, and her sister, Nancy Xiong, select flowers to sell in bouquets. They
-n working for C & K’s Garden Flowers since the Farmers Market opened four years ago.
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te-of-the-art technology coming to a campus near you
mmer,JI33,000 is slated for
yytion^echnology Services to update
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0 the time a new computer-technology system is imple-
. is already outdated. Clackamas’ computer resources
ption to this fact - some of the systems on campus are
“ioming^hool year, Clackamas’ IT infrastructure is
(ceive reriaccment equipment, starting with about 300
ystemswann ing multiple buildings, specifically the
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grades are part of the regular cycle of technology
t the college invests in to remain current As software
ore complex, faster computer hardware is necessary to
^ix yeaygo, Clackamas released approximately 800
computers to replace the then-ancient systems that were in place.
The process began last school year when this lease expired,
providing funding to procure new equipment Along with being
free from the lease, the college had also increased the student
technology fee from $2 to $3.
“The combination of this fee going up and then also that lease
going away means that we have an ongoing revenue source of
$450,000, and there are a lot of responsibilities for that fee,” said
Courtney Wilton, vice president of college services.
On July 1, 2007, the money was available to begin replacing
about 280 systems during the academic year. For the next school
year, 300 additional systems are slated for purchase for the student
labs.
The oldest computers are exchanged first, as they are generally
six years old and harbor Pentium IE-level performance.
Joe Austin, dean of information technology, is responsible for
planning out the cycle and keeping track of which systems are
substituted with more efficient models and when.
“We’ve been trying to upgrade the oldest computers first, obvi
ously,” Austin said. “We reevaluate each year which ones need to
be replaced.”
Student computer labs, such as those in the drafting, computer
science and business departments, are the first to be given the
newest systems. Regular classrooms receive the older hand-me-
downs taken from the student labs and continue to make use of
them. When they are no longer sufficient, the systems are cycled
down to faculty offices.
Finally, when computers are too old for useful application
on campus, they are liquidated either as donations to local K-12
schools or collected by the vendors for proper disposal.
In addition to computer work stations, another IT category is
slated for $133,000 of improvement
The funding will go toward “smart classrooms” because, as
Wilton explained, “It*is kind of a new standard. (They) are really
popular, the teachers love them, and I think students like it too.”
These systems consist of projectors, smart screens, digital
overhead cameras and a computer for the instructor, as well as
a command and control interface. Currently, the campus has
approximately 65 - or half of all classrooms - equipped with the
setups and plans to add about eight more this academic year.
Finally, some minor additions are planned for the campus
WiFi network, particularly for McLoughlin Hall in the form of
two new access points. The additions should cover any blind spots
in coverage for that area.
In all, students can expect a technology system by the next year
that, at least for a short while, will actually be up to date.
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