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2 Clackamas Print Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Clackamas drunk with awarene Left: Alcohol Awarena Week is May 18-22.1 main event will be oil Wednesday, May 20 fr 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. oui the Community Cent! will have free BBQ, J ages, T-shirts and mJ It will also have speal activities, and a carl demonstration. ASG has also been po| fliers around campus! lighting alcohol awarl facts such as: • As of May 15, there! already been 4786 d] driving deaths in the! States this year. AsyJ read this note, then] ber of deaths caused] drunk driving has air] increased. 1 • Half of all teenage] -fatalities are due to] driving. I • Among people age] or older, males are n| twice as likely as fell to drive under the in] erice of alcohol in th] year. Brad Heineke Clackamas Print Veterans receive aid for education ■ Mark Foster 11 The Clackamas Print The Wal-Mart Foundation recently donated $2 million to the American Council of Education to be distributed to 20 schools across the nation to help aid veterans who wish to return to school. Each school receives $100,000-to spend over a two- year period. Of the 250 schools* that applied, CCC received one of the 20 grants, Clackamas is one of two schools in Oregon to receive one of the grants, the other being Lane Community College. Each of the 20 colleges who received a grant drew up different plans as to what they would do with that money. According to Bill Zuelke, Dean of Student Services, the surrounding area of Clackamas County has the most veterans per capita in the state with over 35,000 veterans living there and 80 percent of them have never used the benefits available to them. At Clackamas, there are only about 100 students who have taken advantage of the benefits, offered to them for college aid. Zuelke said, “It- is the number one barrier to military people Clackamas Print The Clackamas Print 19600 S. Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045 503-657-6958, ext. 2309 advancing their college educa tion.” Part of this grant will give Clackamas Community College the resources it needs to reach out to veterans who may be unaware of the benefits they are entitled to. Representatives from the college will be going out to community and local events to inform vets of what is going on. The second part of the grant, will give the college enough money to build courses for vet erans who have already fin ished training for their specified field. Jeff Davis, an adviser for the Advising and Counseling Department, said, “The. plan is to hire somebody to sit down and figure out how to translate these military training courses into college credit.” Davis also noted that a lot of the detailed and hands-on training veterans go through only transfers as general elec tive credit. Zuelke estimated that approximately 65 percent of the money awarded to the school will go towards translating mili tary work experience to college credit. Eor any person who has walked past the Veteran’s Center, they have probably real ized there is rarely anyone there. Davis said, “There is a lot of uses planned but it just hasn’t kicked off yet.” Due to the bud get crunch, many of those plans have been squashed. One of the hopes is that the attraction of transferrable cred its for veterans will bring more vets to the Veteran’s Center. Quoting the movie Field of Dreams, Zuelke said, “If you. build it, they will come,” refer ring to the fact that once more veterans come to Clackamas, it Will get more use. This is something Clackamas officials are especially excited about. Currently, the only recurring use of the Veteran’s Center is by the Veteran’s Club. The Veteran’s Club is a student club that meets twice a month, but is only a small handful of stu dents. Zuelke said, “We think there should be a lot more veter ans here and part of having the Veteran’s Center is a sign of our hospitality and bur interest in welcoming them by designating a very beautiful and comfort able space just for them.” . At the end of the two years, all 20 schools involved will convene in Washington D.C. to discuss the successes bf their programs and how it has helped veterans in their communities. Editor in Chief: Lydia Emily Bashaw A d M anager : Meredith James Copy Editor: Matthew Ostergren Web and Graphics Editor: Kajda Berge S taff W riters / P hotographers : Dale Balbi, Jessica Foster, News Editor: Tohn Hurlburt Mark Foster, Brad Heineke,. A&C Editor: Abigail Neet Jaycob Izso, Michelle Newby, Feature Editor: Nick Komafel Lisa Sellars, Greg Stoltz, Mark Sports Editor: Kayla Calloway. \ Sunderland, John Petty Photo Editor: John Shufelt Photo Editor: Robert Crawford The Print wins eigfl awards in contest The Clackamas Print won eight awards Friday, May 8 in the annual Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association Collegiate Newspaper Contest. Editor in Chief Lydia Bashaw said, “It really showed our diverse talent this year. Our writers and our photog raphers produced some really good work that was obvious with the amount of awards we brought in this year.” Among the awards were first place honors for best edi torial, best feature photo and best headline writing. Print staff members also won second-place aw in news writing, head! (a sweep of this cated photography, design and fl place for spot news phot! Photography awardi ner and photo editor for] Print, John Shufelt said, cool. Being there and rec ing an award out of all] entries makes you feel fl you actually did some! right for once. It’s wil sick.” I Oregon College new pers submitted a total oil entries in 21 categories! cover the spectrum of ■ paper arts. G oais The Clackamas Print aia Kelsey Schneider, Sean Huggins to report the news in an honest, unbiased, professional manner. The opinions expressed do not J ournalism A dviser : necessarily reflect those of the Melissa Jones •student body college adminis tration, its faculty-or 77ie Print D epartment S ecretary : E-mail comments to chiefed@ Pat-Thompson dackamas.edu. P roduction A ssistants : |
