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Clackamas Print
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Clackamas drunk with awarene
Left: Alcohol Awarena
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Wednesday, May 20 fr
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. oui
the Community Cent!
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activities, and a carl
demonstration.
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fliers around campus!
lighting alcohol awarl
facts such as:
• As of May 15, there!
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increased.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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