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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
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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.”.
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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
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