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2 The Clackamas Print new sed @ clackam as. edu Wednesday, March 7, 2012 News Bill proposed by local representative can help fund projects By Patty Salazar News Editor No student should have his classes- in a hollowed out trail er home, right? Well for some students that is ‘exactly the case anClackamas Community College. , Moffe technical degrees come out'every year; it’s not a big surprise that the college is. trying to upgrade to keep up with more efficient technol ogy. Clackamas is known for its- career technical education: (CTE);. renewable energy is one of the newer available degrees. If you have ever won dered what the mobile home sitting by the tennis court is used for, it’s a classroom for renewable energy students. Dean „ of technology, health occupations and workforce, Scott Giltz said the college was unable to house the stu dents elsewhere and that the uncongenial classroom was a last resort. “It’s simply over-, flow,” Giltz said.. The. college isn’t the only one who notices the changes of technology. House district 40 representative Dave Hunt introduced house bill '4028 that .would -allow all- 16 com munity colleges in Oregon to get’lottery bonds.; money” they scrambled to put together a $800,000 proposal to submit towards the i bill. Luckily for the college, most of the things' in their proposal were already written up under ■ the failed 2011 May bond. House Bill 4028 would sub stantially benefit the college’s CTE program by being able to buy hybrid and Flex fuel vehicles for the automotive program. As of right now the automotive program students are working on older cars that can.just be taken apart and put back together; one can learn only so much from that. “Right now, we don’t do a lot ofTt and we want to do more of training for hybrid vehicles. It’s' a- whole differ ent technology for technicians and there are quite a few on the road now and we want- to increase our efforts there^L Giltz said. “Right now we get them totaled from insur ance companies and we repair them and giye them back and; that is all the experience we get, obviously not a controlled structurfed curriculum and we need to (buy) a couple of those.” With the Harmony cam pus used predominately by the nursing program, medical assistance ana cynical lab assist tant, the bill would be able to fund laboratory improvements and smart technology. Robotics equipment for welding.is also under the bill. Giltz explained the “robot” similar to the Wii. John Phelps, weld ing instructor said that the Lincoln Electric VRTEX 360 •is a virtual welding stimulator. you exactly what your doing wrong and tells you how to fix r it. Before actually going to the shop and weld you can play With it a little bit and get an idea, in what to do when you get out there.” During the skills- compe-1 tiori, Montminy was using the VRTEX and got a score of 94 points out of 100. Nobody beat Montminy’s score. “It does take some pressure off the general funds. It’s kind of one of those point and timeS questions. Do we need this stuff? Yes. If we don’t get the bill are we going immediately charge it to the general fund, no we are going to do with out. We are going to phase in purchases over time and rank them on what’s critical, and what’s not,” Giltz said. ■ “The money obviously would be very helpful in that it would allow [the] college to strengthen some existing academic programs. The com munity wins as. a result by us being able to do a better job of serving them. Some of these purchases will also be from Clackamas area ven dors, which helps the local economy. Our board arid; other inter ested community members are explains the need o f new technology on campus fo r students contacting Specific legislators I in g tool i n . case som eon e had liHfeiiPC for rhf‘ir support. .!£. a n d c o m m u n ity . T h e b ill wouLd cover manufa c tu r in g a u to legislation does no.t,pass, these motive, robotics welding a n d energy technology. forgotten their gear,” said Phelps. He explained that buying such a machine would save money over time because i f would reduce s some of the money spent buying metal for students to practice on. Second year welding stu dent Travis Montminy said, “I can see how it is usefuL.lt tells improvements simply woift, happen. We wifi "Continue to look for ways to strengthen ©ur programs regardless, but it’s, challenging obviously -given existing funding constraints and the absence of a bond,” said Courtney Wilton, vice president of student services. Representative Dave Hunt wrote “As Co-Chair of the Transportation and Economic Development Committee, I wrote and passed legislation during this year’s Legislative Session to invest $9.6 mil lion in community college construction projects that will strengthen tneir work force development partner ships with local businesses and-create good construction jobs. 11 am especially excited that we funded an $800,000 construction project at CCC to upgrade industrial technol ogy and science workforce advancement right here in Clackamas County.” Rules of the Road — driving Miss Douchebag By James Duncan Design Editor Traffic, it can basically be summed up to little more than a large group of chil dtarr The Clackamas Print aims to report the news in an honest,, . unbiased and professional manner. Content published in The Print is not screened or subject to censorship. - 19600 Molalla Ave. Oregon City, OR 97045 dren in very large, fast moving death machines. I say children because when most people get behind, the wheel of their car, they lose all. serise of human ity and sense of give and take. Later this month the exit that many of us take to school will close. The crowds of com muters will be funneled into yet even fewer routes to their destinations. This means we are all going-to have to learn to get along and-follow some basic rules of the roàd. One of the first skills teach ers tried to offer us was shar ing. Letting Billy play with your balls and letting Suzy Editors Editor-in-Chief: Brian Baldwin Copy Editor: Katherine Suydam -- News Editor: Patty Salazar Associate News Editor: Josh Dillen Arts&Cuiture Editor: Isaac Soper Sports Editor: John William Howard Photo Editor: Hillary Cole Web Editor: Anna Axelson Design Editor: James Duncan Ad Manager: Brad Heineke use your crayons. For many e sharing is onfe of the* lessons’ that is ¡-learned around three, /but when rolls around and yotrre driv ing a car for the first timef.it all goes right out the fucking window and let’s be honest; it just gets worse from there. The problem is that most people are babies when ?Jt comes to the road. You Jose your ability to share, your temper and start to think that shoving the front end of your car up the muffler of another is a great idea. It is all basic human psychology, when you are trying to get somewhere S W riters & Photographers Nora Goodman Hiroaki Hayashi Mark Sunderland Chris Taylor Adviser: Melissa Jones 503-594-6266 you want to fill the space between you and the person in front, of you. 16 Rule of the road N o.l: Don’t get so close! This really is part of being human. It is why people are trampled to | death in lines to see Justin Bieber and why drivers think it is a good idea to be a foot away frotn your bumper. The law requires a minimum distance of one car length between vehicles. Read your drivers manuals! When in motion and stopped you are REQUIRED to be a cer tain distance away.'This is for everyone’s benefit . If you leave The required amount of space, it makes it easier for other people to merge and it helps traffic flow smoothly.-If traffic is moving, leave the normal three seconds worth of space, but if traffic is getting worse don’t hug their bumper. Leave more space arid go at the right pace for the traffic. The less you hit your brakes in heavy traffic, the faster it will clear up. It’s, simply a fact. Production Assistants Contact Information Christian Adams Mollie Berry Breanna Craine Tyler Eheler g Joey Fisher Járonte Goldsby Telicia Juliano Hicham Kerkour Ellen Niles Darla Nguyen . 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