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■ W ËË ^SD M W W W lf How are you getting to campus? College hires expert to break down transpor tation barriers fdr stu dents by PATTY SALAZAR editor-in-chief Clackamas Com m unity College launched Imagine ClacKamas, a survey for students, college employ ees and community, in late 2012 to get a feel o f what respondents think the college needs to improve. Transportation was the second largest barrier that the Imagine Clackamas team found. Now the college has found dedicated indi viduals who can evaluate what transportation hurdles students are dealing with on a daily basis. Adam Moore is a recent gradu ate with a masters degree in civil engineering from Portland State University. He was hired by the college in March to conduct studies bn how to improve transportation to better suit the needs of students. Although Imagine Clackamas was able to identify the problem, it is now up that the college and Towncenter to Moore during his , eight-m onth Xpress provide to the O regonC ity fellowship to conclude w hat can and Harmony campuses. That route be done to make students’ life'a usually takes him an hour to and from the college. little easier. “It sk in d o f scâry” Moore said. 1 In addition to taking different “To have this big huge campus routes, Moore is also setting up a with thousands;>bf students and transportation survey that is going we’re n o t entirely sûre how they’re to be sent out to a random sample of students, staff and faculty. “We want getting here.” W hether you are riding the to know what m odes students are bus; biking or .driving to CCC, using to get here,” Moore said. “It’s there seems to .be some room for really im portant for what we need improvement. To get à .better under to look at because for instance, if standing on what the obstacles everyone is driving to campus then students have to deal with to get we don’t need to look at bike paths.” Moore says it’s a tough project tp and .-from the, college, Moore is because there is so m uch to do but trying out different routes. “My goal is'to try ,out all the he’s also finding some of it to be easy different ways to get here myself?’ because there are simple fixes. One Moore said» “Just so I have experi o f his ideas is to establish a carpool ence with them.” Moore, who lives network. “All it takes is a pretty inN ortheast Portland, usually rides simple fix... A light bulb goes off his bike to a nearby bus stop, hops in your head,” Moore said. W hile Moore is spending a lot on the 33 and gets dropped off in front of the college, taking him an of time on the Oregon City cam pus, he’s also keeping a dose eye hour and 15 minutes each way. The second way he commutes on the Harm ony campus located to .college .is by riding his bike to à' in Clackamas, and the Wilsonville MAX platform, catching the green campus. Moore hopes to recom line to Clackainas Town Center and m end a shuttle system for the then jum ping on the free shuttle' Wilsonville campus, but knows that it will ultimately be up to the college on what they decide to do. T t l m y goal to give them all the information they need,” Moore said. “So the college can look at a glance and they can say, ‘we need to apply resources here; there and everywhere?’ So what do students think the college can do to improve trans portation? M addieP izzuffaC C C student, drives 45 minutes to the Oregon City campus and constantly runs into traffic, especially at the mam entrance. “Traffic can be a beast,” she said. “W hen I’m waiting to turn into the college, the turning light is so short. There will be 40 cars waiting; I swear? Can we make that light five seconds longer, please?” For students who sometimes use public transportation such as Elena Allen, she finds herselfpreferring to catch th e Clackamas Town Center shuttle and then catching TriMet, but the shuttle does not offer Friday afternoon rides. “Taking the shuttle and then a bus makes it a little easier,” Allen said. “Running the shuttle a little later on Fridays would help.” ■ PRINT I T h eC lackam as Print ■ I oims to re p o rt th e news ! I in an honest, unbiased , a n d professional m a n -:.. , ner. C on te n t pu b- | fished in The Print is not screened or su b je e fto censorship. I I- I I The Clackamas Print wins six awards , . Emaikcomments, t concerns or, tips t©: i chiefed@ clackam as.edu | or,callus a t 503-594-6266 On Friday, The Clackamas Print attended the annual Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association awards ceremony at-Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Ore. After a moving speech by Willamette Week news editor Brent Waith, The Clackamas Print took home six awards. I I First place: Best News Story by Editor-in-Chief Patty Salazar and Best Spot News Pfeoto b y Brad ft I Third place: Best Writing by Sequoia Allen and Best Graphic by Anna Axelsdii. Right: Editors o f the Clackamas Print proudly display their awards. Correction: The graph printed in the previous issue had George Fox University's 2013 - 2014 per credit cost incorrectly at $798. The tuition increase is from $930 to $954. W e regret the error. MARYLHURST STUDENT BODY: 90% TRANSFER STUDENTS. With determination and disregard for.obstacles, each of them ¡^finishing a four-year degree while transforming their lives in the process, if ftp s sounds appealing, we have one thing to say: Welcome. • Beth Slavic efeabeth?sfc>vta@ ' clackamas.edu EDITORS ill- Patty Salazar Editor-In-Chief chiefed@ clackam as.edu Erin Carey News & Culture 1 d ce d@ ctacka m as.e du 3 I hew sed@ clackam as.edu 1 Tim Young Associate News 1 Amber Fairbanks Associate Arts & Culture. ■ Blake Thomason Sports Editor ' sportsed@ clackam as.edu jjjj Denee Shelton Photo Editor ph otoed@ ctackam ds.edu Liz Gomes Associate Photo J Donny Beach W eb Editor webeditor@clackamas.edu wejjo Chris Morrow s . 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