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Wednesday, Oct. 17,2012
New mandate protects abused
Emily Rask
Associate News Editor
Marsha Edwards, the Dean of
Human Resources.
If employees do not report the
child abuse that they see or hear
about, it is reported as a prosecu
tion of a Class A criminal viola
tion of the law, where the pen
alty is up to $2,000. Some have
also been sued for not reporting,
so this new law is very much
enforced.
“Basically employees fined
if they don’t report, before it
was not in place so it was not
required by law,” said Edwards.
Even though the new law is
just now being placed, many
employees have already been
aware that they must report if
they suspect any child abuse.
“Teachers have always been
mandatory child abuse instruc
tors,” said Dawn Terrill, an
Early Childhood Education and
Family Services Instructor on
campus.
Before the new law is to be
set in place, employees are not as
aware as to what to do in a case
where they witness or get told
about a child abuse. To report
child abuse contact a local DHS
office, or contact the local law
enforcement.
All around us there are
people, even at CCC who
could be child abusers
or are abused as chil
dren, but someone
should be noti
fied. Just giving
a phone call
to notify
someone
help more
than any
thing.
Portland S tate U niversity p articip ates
in SpaceX ‘Dragon’ launch
Felicia Skriver
News Editor
The
countdown
began,
five... four...three...tw o...one...
The SpaceX rocket made his
tory as it lifted into the Earth's
atmosphere. The rocket named
Dragon launched Sunday Oct. 7
Space Station Wednesday, Oct.
10. The Dragon was the first
commercial space cargo mission
out of the 12 scheduled.
According to a PSU press
release, researchers at Portland
State say they are thrilled and
proud to be part of this historic
event.
According to NASA’s website,
Administrator Charles Bolden
and SpaceX President Gwynne
Shotwell celebrated the liftoff of
the landmark cargo mission to
the International Space Station.
“This was a critical event
in spaceflight tonight,” Bolden
said. “We're once again launch
ing spacecraft from American
soil with the supplies our astro
nauts need in space. NASA and
the nation are embarking on
an ambitious program of space
exploration.”
Aboard the cargo ship was an
experiment made by engineer
ing students at Portland State
U n iv e rsity- d esi g n e d to stu d y -4 h e ~
behavior of fluids in zero grav
ity. Students were not permitted
to board the ship; however they
were able to be in contact with
the astronauts at the space station
performing the experiment. Live
video feed and constant contact
made it so students could explain
to the astronauts how to perform
the experiment.
PSU is one of the only univer
sities in the country that has any
contact with NASA; this was the
50 experiments that the school
has sent up in to space. The
results found from this experi
ment could potentially change
the way fuel systems are made
for future space crafts.
1 “Like you see with a straw
on earth, liquid will move up it
a little bit but it stops because of
gravity. In orbit gravity doesn't
stop it, or won't for a very long
time,” said William Blackmore,
a graduate student of engineering
at PSU, “So we can utilize that
effect to make fluids move on
their own.”
During liftoff there was one
complication, one of the nine
Merlin engines that power
the rocket suddenly lost pres
sure according to the company
SpaceX. Regardless of the pres
sure drop, Dragon made it to the
station right on schedule.
“[The rocket] did everything it
was supposed to,” said the com
pany. The onboard flight comput
er made some adjustments so the
Dragon capsule met the proper
orbit.
Over 1,000 pounds of grocer
ies, clothes, experiments and gear
was sent to the space station.
The Dragon is scheduled to stay
docked for the next three weeks
and . at the end of the month it
will return with almost twice the
amount in scientific samples.
This was the second Dragon
to make it to the space station,
the first one made it in May as
a test run o f the flight. Under a
$1.6 billion dollar contract with
NASA, SpaceX is scheduled to
make many more cargo freight
trips; however the focal point
is then going to turn towards
exploring deep into the solar sys
tems. The company is currently
trying to make the Dragon cap
sule safe enough for passengers.
It's projected that three years
from now they'll be able to send
personnel.
Other companies such as
Orbitcomm have similar con
tracts with NASA for space
exploration as well.
Photo Illustration by Brian Steele The Clackamas Print
Starting in January of 2013,
new mandatory child abuse
reporting will be set in place and
allemployees will legally have to
report any suspected child abus
ers or any kind of child abuse.
An email was sent out to teach
ers recently explaining the new
mandatory child abuse reporting
requirements.
Mandatory abuse reporters
now include all school employ
ees, as well as coaches, cer
tain state agency or commission
employees, legislators and peace
officers.
When watching out for child
abuse, one must be aware of
what is considered a “child,” it
is any person under the age o f 18
who is not married. Therefore,
even college employees have
become mandatory child abuse
reports because there are many
students at the college who are
not of age yet.
“It’s kind of a given that
we know it’s the law,” said
Ida Flippo, a criminal justice
instructor here at Clackamas
Community College. “We’re just
aware of it more now and it’s
wherever we are we report it.”
All CCC employees will then
have to go through every neces
sary step in reporting the -said
child abuse, such as listening and
believing what is either being
said or seen, and then reporting
in detail the age, sex, hair color
and other essential information
of the victim child.
Some teachers have taken
classes on child abuse before,
and for some schools this is actu
ally required now for all employ
ees to take, but the one for CCC
employees is actually online.
“It’s not so much a class as it
is an online video training,” said
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The SpaceX Dragon lifts o ff at Cape Canaveral with an experiment made by
PSU students. The experiment is designed to study the behavior o f fluids in
zero-gravity. The results o f the experiment could change the way fuels are
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