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a few ways to. stay heal!
season.
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infected and when sick stay!
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or sneezing with a cloth o|
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In order to help prevent!
on campus, Clackamas’!
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out five hundred bottles of I
ASG members Jennifer Borowczak and Lydia Burris pass out hand sanitzer to Daniel Birch and Jennifer Rodríguez
during the community fair Oct. 7.
By John Hurlburt
Co-Editor In Cheif
Summer this year was birthed with
portends of doom.
As months of warm and dry days
were approaching, thoughts of what
would happen in the cold, wet months
following turned into a full fledged
panic. Swine flu had come and media
coverage of the new influenza strain
made it seem like the world was
going to be shattered by a modem day
equivalent of bubonic plague.
ENROLL:
Over the summer microbiolo
gists discovered that the H1N1 virus
was not going to kill off a third of
the world’s population. In fact, the
symptoms of swine flu are no worse
than that of the ordinary flu, accord
ing to Microbiology Instructor Chris
Strickland.
Regardless Clackamas. officials
have decided to take preventative
steps to ward off widespread illness.
“The planning on (swine flu) was
going on over the summer,” said Bill
Leach, dean of campus services and
incident commander.
“We deal with swine flu like we do
with any other emergency. We have a
plan for it,” Leach explained.
Leach says right now we are in
stage one of a three stage “Pandemic
Influenza Plan.”
Stage one, Standard Surveillance,
means no flu activity has been found
in the community and the college
is studying daily attendance, watch
ing for trends that might suggest an
unusual amount of students absent
due to influenza.
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NAMI: First one of its kind opens up to Clacka
Continued from ENROLL,
Page 1
Chris Morgan explained
as he waited in line Sept 29,
“Right now it’s going pretty
quick cause they have five
workers. Usually it’s pretty
slow.”
Jenkerson believes fee
enrollment increase is caused
by a mixture of things; gradu
ating high school, losing a job,
being retrained or getting skills
and because a community col
lege is a cheaper alternative to a
four year college.
Bello explained that a lot of
students who were waitlisted
have to have teachers sign off
on registration and bring it in
physically in order to officially
join fee class.
Other community colleges
are having similar problems,
some even more extreme.
Central Oregon Community
College, located in Bend, had
completely stopped accepting
applications for fall term Sept
3, more than two weeks before
the term would start
With 6,000 plus students
on COCC’s waiting list, clos
ing registration seemed fee best
way to service those already
enrolled.
Although preventative measures
are a smart decision, Strickland
believes this will not be a flu season
that people will have to fear breath
ing in.
“It is no more severe than any
influenza ... in terms of symptoms,
in terms of death rate.” Strickland said
regarding the H1N1 strain.
According to her, the reason that
H1N1 is getting so much attention is
mostly because it is di fferent.
“It’s a new virus and for the most
part humans have no resistance to it
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wife fee flu,” ASG Presid]
Fava said.
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Swine flu was previoil
Robert Crawford Clackamas Print
Dale Chambers, Krrstiejohhson and Kathy Fredrickson talk
to students during mental health awareness week Oct. 5.
Continued from NAMI, Page 1
However, only those wife men
tal illness; spouses, boyfriends, and
friends are not allowed. As Vice
President Dale Chambers stated, “It
has to be only fee person wife mental
illness so that we can focus on them
alone.”
Chambers is also fee President of
NAMI for Clackamas County. After
hearing about Fredrickson starting
NAMI On Campus at Clackamas, he
decided to join for support and says
their first week wife students being
back has been going well.
Chambers also added, “NAMI.
Connection is a recovery support for
adults with mental illness. Led by
trained individuals who understand fee
challenges we free.”
Students are encouraged to attend
these group sessions, because there is
“no one who is not welcome.” This
includes students wife minor illnesses
such as ADHD, ADD, and anxiety. .
During Mental Health Awareness
Week (October 4-10), NAMI spon
sored several speakers and even had a
music/craft fair which featured crafts
made by people wife mental illness.
All donations went to NAMI on
Campus.
However, since fee event took
place in fee Community Center and
a majority of fee students continued to
talk during the presentation, a sched
uled speaker left fee event because
he was upset about students ignoring
speakers and not listening. Fredrickson
remained upbeat, one of fee qualities
that has taken her this far and allowed
her to create this club onbampus.
During
her
presentation,
Fredrickson said that her coping skills
were her grandchildren and NAME
She also went on to say that she felt
her main successes were keeping her
children and husband through hard
times, going to college' and getting
good grades.
When asked if it was hard to see
people in low points Fredrickson
answered “The lows don’t bring me
down, and it is so rewarding to see
people recover.”
NAMI is currently trying to reach
out any way they can to fee press, stu
dents, and fee psychology department
to get more involved wife I
Community College.
NAMI offers the I
things: Classes about mel
& Treatment, ‘From Difl
Recovery” on Thursday nl
Oct 1 through Oct 29.6:3(1
The meetings will take plaol
Lutheran Church in Hapl
Call 503-723-4989 to reg]
are also NAMI Connect]
Meetings (part of NAMI oi|
beginning Oct 12, ran by]
Kathy Fredrickson and Vicefl
Dale Chambers. The meeffl
be 4-5:30 p.m. every Monffl
community center, room 1]
NAMI also offers 11
Campus meetings which al
Friday of every month froifl
in fee Fireside Lounge in Col
Center.
If you’re looking to cofl
one by phone there is ■
Warm Line; where apersonl
another person about their ■
rience wife mental health fl
concerns. Call 1-800-698]
addition there is the N Ml |
1-800-950-6264. For finfl
mation on any of the abofl
Kathy at Clackasmascollfl
yahoo.com or Dale ate®
dale@yahoo.com or online!
nami.org.