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Students juggle
work and school
Emily Rask
Associate News Editor
students can be very lenient in
giving time off to students for
them to study for finals. If pos
sible, students should find stu
dent-friendly jobs, that way the
employer is already expecting to
give time off for studying, rather
than a job where they expect
their employees to be committed
to their job and aren’t willing to
give time off for schoolwork.
One student at CCC, Jen
Morris, has a three-year-old to
take care o f and is currently
going to school and working.
“I usually get work done at
school. I balance homework by
taking notes,” said Morris. “I
try not to work as much. It’s
definitely hard balancing home
work, school and work.”
Sophomore student Russell
True has taken on more than
most students and is working
two jobs.
“Well, I am on call on con
struction, but I can say no if I
have homework,” said True, “I
have a pretty regular schedule
with McDonalds.”
True also agrees that it can be
tough working two jobs, but that
the extra money is always nice.
“The construction job isn’t as
consistent since school started,”
said True. “But if it were con
sistent then I would turn down
Brian Steele The Clackamas Print
Many students here at
Clackamas Community College
have the extra workload of bal
ancing school, work, and their
home life, but how do they do
it? Not all students have jobs for
various reasons. There are many
who have to remain organized in
order to support themselves with
a job to get them through school.
The consensus seems to be
that education is very important
these days, but keeping a job
and foeusing on home lives is
just as important, according to
College Money Insider, a web
site devoted to stress relief rem
edies.
According to Dawn Williams,
a case career coach on campus,
time management is the biggest
concern when balancing school,
work and home life. One helpful
tip that she suggests is to create
a master syllabus that combines
all courses into one.
“If you create one space,
maybe a desk calendar, or
maybe it’s in your phone, or
maybe it’s on your desktop, to
just put all of your assignments
in one place,” Williams said, “so
that way you can look at your
next week or next two weeks at
a glance and say ‘Oh, look! Next
Friday I have three papers due
for different classes,’ so then
you can try and spread it out a
little bit.”
This is also a great way to
make sure that one is on track
with the classes that they are
taking and to still have time to
focus on their home life as well
as their job to support them
selves.
“Working with advisers or
careers coaches and kind of
using the resources on campus
to make sure that you’re staying
on track,” said Williams. “You
want to make sure you’re kind
of doing the right thing in the
right order.”
Some things that every stu
dent can do to organize between
school and work is to set up a
routine in which every day you
can have a set time to do home
work and then still have hours
left to be available for work.
Students usually have _ some
free time in their days, even if
it’s not scheduled to do home
work, then, they can still work
on homework instead of pro
crastinating.
Many jobs that hire college
Kjell Overgaard is a worker at the information desk in
gaard studies fo r classes while working at Streeter.
one.”
It may be a difficult lifestyle
to have a job and work and
focus on home life, but for col
lege students in can be the only
option they have. Many students
need to keep a job to support
themselves, but it can be easy to
stay organized and keep up with
studies as well as keeping com
mitted to a job and home life.
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Ballot Fraud
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During the last few days
leading up to the presidential
election, Clackamas County
election officials discovered
that one of their own had turned
against the. system
Deanna Swenson, age 55, is
a temporary elections worker
for Clackamas County who has
been accused of tampering with
voter ballots according to the
Department of Justice.
Swenson is accused of tak
ing some ballots out of the box
that were to be counted, and
filled in bubbles that the origi
nal voters had left blank.
“To
date,
Clackamas
County, under supervision
of my elections monitors,
has identified six ballots that
were potentially altered by
the accused temporary county
elections employee,” stated
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in a press release. “The to tal,
number of ballots potentially
affected is still under investi
gation by the Department of
Justice.”
The main concern of the
investigation is to find out how
it happened, and what can be
done to prevent it in the future.
Michelle Baker, ASG
Student Life and Leadership
Advisor expressed her con
cerns.
“In my opinion, the person
that’s there and the systems in
check to watch to make sure this
doesn’t happen,” she said. “The
person who did it is ultimately
responsible for their actions.”
The epartment of Justice is
working alongside the Secretary
of State, the County Clerk and
high-ranking elections officials
to look at how this happened,
and to make sure that changes
are put in place which would
stop it from happening again.
VETS: Praised
by Clackamas
C ontinued fro m P a g e 1
The Army Strong Community
Center was opened in 2011 by
the U.S. Army Reserve and is
the first of its kind here in the
northwest at a community col
lege. The goal of the program is to
connect with families of military
personnel and give them a resource
here in the community. According
to Greg Myers, the Veteran Affairs
Coordinator, there are approxi
mately 375 veterans attending
Clackamas Community College
today.
Daniel Faust and other veterans
at Clackamas have expressed their
gratitude for the benefits available
here.
“Thanks to Greg Myers, we
have a program that helps support
people,” said Faust. “We have had
good experiences.”
According to Faust, the Veterans
Club was invited to a dinner for
Veterans Day put on by the Elks.
There they were given a small
grant for the program in which the
money will be dispensed in hun
dred dollar increments for book
scholarships to vets on campus.
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Since 2007, C lackam as has
increased the services provided to
veterans to add additional support
for those returning from overseas.
In 2009, the Veterans Education
and Training center was opened
after Clackamas received a grant
from the federal government to
reach out to veterans. Tha school
also offers college credits for mili
tary training, making it easier for
veterans to go to school.
“For me it has been the staff,”
said Scott Meuser, another vet on
campus. “They're really knowl
edgeable and since the G.I. Bill it's
been great.”
In recent years the college has
hosted three career fairs. These
fairs have allowed veterans and
their families to connect with vet
eran-friendly employers and ser
vice providers.
The consensus seems to be that
veterans have been treated well on
campus. The college has worked
hard to welcome the troops coming
home and has diligently worked
towards a better program for vet
erans.
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