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PRINT: News Smokers kicked to college curb Wednesday,Oct.10,2012 •¡J> 3 Emily Rask Associate News Editor Smoking is a huge part o f many people’s lives, especially college students. The CCQ campus has had several designated smoking areas. This year brings a change with the designated smoking areas being moved to the outskirts o f the college. Before the move, many areas were located between buildings such as the one directly outside o f the cafeteria and by McLoughlin Hall. Now, all except one have been moved toward die parking lots. The only designated smoking area that has stayed in the same spot is located outside o f Niemeyer Hall. Most of the smoking areas have been moved toward the parking lots, such as one located at Roger Rook Hall, is now located directly next to thè Roger Rook parking lot. Many students would walk by these smoking areas on any given day and have to walk through the giant smoke cloud, especially the one previously located right out side o f the cafeteria. Some students do not agree with the new smoking areas though, such as CCC student Aaron Farwell. “If you don’t like smoke,” said Farwell,“stay away from the smok ing areas.” Although now with the new smoking areas, some students and staff who don’t pay attention to the new areas continue smoking in the old smoking areas. “I don’t even know where they are,” said nonsmoker Melissa Nickell, who just started attending CCC. “I ’ve seen the signs, but they are not in the places where I walk.” When students don’t even know where they are, means that mov ing them to the new locations has helped give nonsmoking students a way o f going around campus without having to walk through smoke clouds. Call center coordinator Rochelle Dawn also had some opinions on the new smoking areas. She expressed that she likes die new locations. “I’m all for it, actually for several reasons. There’s a lot of positives,” said Dawn. “I think in regards to respect for nonsmokers to have them on the outskirts o f campus and is visually better on the outskirts.” “I smoke less ’cause it’s not as easy. I thank them very much for putting pavilions with roofs and benches,” said Dawn. “There’s some empathy there, which is nice to see. Smokers don’t get much empathy.” Although the new designated smoking areas have now been put in place, there are not many stu dents who have been using them. CCC student Mark Stimac gave an honest opinion on the new smok ing areas. “Honestly, I don’t know, I see a lot o f people walking around not using them, so the concept hasn’t really sunk in yet,” Stimac said. Now that there are new desig nated smoking areas that are out o f the way o f many students’ daily paths, CCC can start to lessen the amount o f smoking that goes on within the campus. Many people have stopped smoking on campus just because the new areas are too inconvenient for them to go to between classes. The new designated smoking areas are put in place to help CCC become more o f a smoke-free cam pus and to help nonsmokers avoid the clouds o f smoke with more ease. Tanner Leitner and Brittany Watson spent some time in the smoking area by the Pauling Center to study. Leitner, at 18 years old is a smoker. Watson, 16, is a nonsmoker. BRIDGE: Opening many more bridges for everyone Continued from Page 1 As bicyclists and pedestri ans are not allowed on the 1-205 Bridge, die closure caused a road block for these people. back, staying dry when it rains and the people I always talk with on here.” The weekend prior to its ODOT began The Arch Bridge Shuttle, which transports twelve Monday re-opening will be the commemorative Willamette Falls riders and four bikes on free round trips from the West Linn end o f the bridge to downtown Oregon City on 7th Street. The shuttle will end when the bridge reopens. “The shuttle has carried more than 70,000 riders, including over 12,400 bicyclists.” according to Hanson. “A t first I didn’t like the shuttle and was pissed about the bridge closing,” stated Shane Borland, who has ridden the shuttle to and from work since it started. “It actually added time compared to walking because its schedule doesn’t always line up with Tri- M et’s. Now I will miss sitting Festival which runs from Oct. 12 to Oct. 14. Events will include live music, O.C. and West Linn high school marching band parades, an art walk and sculpture exhibit and street entertainment. There will also be a 5k fun run and a Fun-Athlon including bik ing, paddling and a run, fireworks and a trolley heritage tour. On Sunday, Oct. 14 there will be a ribbon cutting ceremony and a parade o f historical cars from 1915 to 1932, the first to cross the reopened bridge. For schedule o f events or to register for races, visit www.willamettefallsfestival.com. Preview Construction on the Oregon City bridge started in Jan. o f 2011 which will be reopening to the public at 5 a.m. on Oct. 15, 2012 with the conclusion o f the Willamette Falls Festival. GED testing to begin online Chris Morrow The Clackamas Print Join us 1 p.m. Saturday, October 13 Learn about Academic programs Paying for college Application process Campus life Find Agenda, directions and RSVP at vancouver.wsu.edu/preview W ashin gto n S tate U niversity ancouver ^V In p re p a ra tio n fo r th e tra n sitio n aw ay from paper- based GED tests, C lackam as C o m m u n ity C o lleg e now offers com puterized GED tests through Pearson VUE, an inter national com pany that grants students testin g services via co m p u ter in 5,000 d ifferen t authorized centers in over 150 countries in the w orld. ■ “I t’s going to be a hot topic ... it’s going to get h otter and ho tter as we get closer to the conversion date,” M elissa P irie, director o f Student A cadem ic Support Services at CCC said. “Dec. 19, 2013 is the last day w e w ill offer p ap er here at C lackam as.”, The test is accessed from the Internet, but in order to be allow ed to access it, it m ust be done in a proctored environ m ent, a place au thorized to adm inister th e test. “We h ad to go thro u g h som e very heavy restrictions, req u irem en ts and u pdates in order to get our center to a p lace w h ere th ey [P earson V UE] w ould allow it to be accessed online by those com puters,” Pirie said, “You can access it online but it has to be through an ISP on a com puter th a t’s m apped to th eir system . You can ’t ju s t log onto any com puter and get on [the GED test].” The new GED te st allow s for greater flexibility. “I t’s the sam e test, paper or on the co m p u ter,” said B ecky Torres, from the Student A cadem ic Support Services. This new option is unique am ong O regon com m unity col leges. “W e’re the first for O regon right now, I think. We h av en ’t run any yet. It w as ju s t autho rized to release th is w eek. So w e h a v e n ’t had any testers y e t,” said Torres. “ We have other tests w e give that are not the GED and th a t’s been busy like crazy. I t’s a closer site to com e take a test, and [it’s] con venient.” “I th in k if anything, i t ’s m aking p eople w ho h av e n ’t com pleted it rush in here and finish it because the new one is going to be totally different,” said Torres. “I t’s going to be a w hole new test. I think it’s done every 10 years but they revam p it.” Students are able to register for the online GED testing as o f Septem ber.
