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2 the clackamas print De Wednesday, Dec. 2, 2009 Mapping program gets remodelée By Abigail Neet News Editor If you are into map making and computer programming then CCC has quite the program for you. The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) department at Clackamas is revamping its pro gram. GIS is doing so because, accord ing to Peg Caliendo, fee project manager responsible for redesigning fee program, fee industry no longer needs people to have GIS degrees but now is wanting people wife GIS skills. The college has a two-year GIS degree program currently but is work ing on a one-year program and is also creating a center for GIS studies. * For those riot familiar with GIS, it is in simple terms a way of putting data into 3-D form and making it easy and quick to read and under stand. Companies such as TriMet and Metro use GIS to track where people live and where they commute to. GIS is also used for marketing reasons. Levi. Strauss & Go. used GIS to determine where to place a new store, where the best market would be according to previous store data and stores in the' surrounding areas. GIS is also used for crime map ping and agriculture. Tom Wasson’s design class has been working on initial sketches for the logo of the new GIS center. Until last year, GIS was part of the drafting department. Now that, the drafting department is gone, it has given GIS a new opportunity to recreate itself. GIS did not have classes fell term but is offering them in the upcoming winter term. “A person-can learn GIS fairly easily,” Caliendo said. Caliendo compared gaining GIS skills to how 20. years ago people were about gaining general computer skills. GIS classes, are offered at. times convenient for those in the work field hoping to update skills, with classes starting at 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. ‘Tim Maher is working on find ing out the college’s carbon footprint and it is turning into a GIS project,” said Scott Giltz, Dean of Technical Career Education Division. Maher is one of Clackamas’s new sustain ability coordinators. Mike Mattson advises people not familiar wife GIS to take intro classes. “GIS is fen. You get to make maps. It can be used for recreation,” Mattson said, adding more reasons he believes people would take GIS classes. This is one of the designs Tom Wasson’s design class is contemplating using as the low the newly planned GIS center. Metamorphosis class puts new focus on food and cultun By Annemarie Schulte Associate News Editor If Trista Cornelius had a motto, it’d be “You are what you eat.” Cornelius is a vegan writer with a 17 year-old pet turtle and could hardly be considered dull. This is fitting for the new class she is now offering’for win ter term 2010. Metamorphosis is a humanities class that will inves tigate “the process of change within human cultures and indi viduals.” The description in the CCC course catalog reads “by exploring'myth, art, science, reli gion and literature, we approach a better understanding of the abil ity of humans to change.” ÍÍ I walk into a room and I say ‘What’d you have for breakfast?’ and people can talk for an hour. Trista Cornelius English Instructor CORNELIUS Clackamas Print The Clackamas Print , 19600 S. Mplalla Ave. Oregon City OR 97045 503-657-6958, ext 2309 Co-Editors in Chief: Kayla Berge and John Hurlburt Copy Editor: Kayla Calloway News Editor: Abigail Neet Associate News Editor^ Annemarie Schulte A&C Editor: Matthew Ostergren Sports Editor: Mark Foster Photo Editor: John Shufelt Web Editor: Brad Heineke Cornelius has been at Clackamas for eight years and teaches anywhere from three to four classes a term, including Writing 121. She went to Pacific University and has her master’s in English from Portland State University with an emphasis on composition theory and rhetoric. She has just come back from her sabbatical, where she spent a lot of time at home reading and writ ing. Her hobbies include food, writing, crochet and “just being creative.”. Ad Manager: Meredith James DeSign Editor: Kelsey Schneider Staff Writers/ Photographers: Erik Andersen, Dale Balbi Carlos Calderon, Matt Garrison, Jessica Foster, Jessica Homer, Javierh Montero, John Petty, Brian Steele, Mark Sunderland, Steven Weldon The new class she will teach ing is called Metamorphosis: Hum 170. The course has existed for years in the catalog, but has never been focused on food like Cornelius plans it to be. The class will focus on “how food shapes our city, our planet and our lives,” said Cornelius. “I walk into a room and I say ‘What’d you have for breakfast?’ And people can talk for an hour,” Cornelius said. Aside from lots of discussion, students will study articles, some short stories, a few films and will get to listen to a few guest lecturers. Cornelius added, “How you eat shapes your family, commu nity, planet and also affects you economically and spiritually.” Cornelius has been vegan for a few years and has cut almost all animal byproducts from her diet (except for honey), as well as sugar and caffeine. She says it is extremely important that students realize that, while she is vegan, it does not mean she will judge or shut out anyone else who eats differently. Shi sizes that she does noil other people eat but! interested in it. Cornelius set the cl early evening time sloj that the class will attri ent majors and ages a] cultures. When asked wn dents will gain from! Cornelius responded, 1 and deep sense of food own lives and how tha of food affects every] their life.” If anyone is interest] ing the class for win there’s still room. It is] five credit course th] Mondays and Wednesd 4-5:20 p.m. For more'informal« tact Trista Cornelius« at tristac@clackamas.el http://tristasclasses.wd com/food-hum-170 I One can also find™ page 62 of the course ! online under humanities Correction In the last issue, The Print ran a story| the school’s budget in which there wa error about measures 66 and 67. A “yes would maintain the school’s budget. Production Assistants: Jaime Dunkle, Corey Romick, Jessica Sheppard Journalism Adviser: Melissa Jones G oals : The Clackamas Print® to report the news in an hotel unbiased, professional mantel The opinions expressed do not! necessarily reflect those of tel student body college admins-1 tration, its faculty or Ute E-mail comments to chiefe# | clackamas.edu.