March 21, 2001
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Comforts Added to Home Serving Sick Children
PCC Announces Free, Flexible School
Opportunities for N on-N ative Youth
Portland Community College’s
Multicultural Academic Program has
opportunities fornon-nativestudents
who wants to learn or improve their
English skills work toward a high
school diploma or GED at PCC.
The Map program is holding ori­
entations for students during March,
with classes starting on April 2. Stu­
dents need to be between the ages of
16 and 20, have some reading ability
in English, not currently attending
high, and live within the boundaries
o f P o rtla n d , D avid D o uglas,
B eav erto n ,
T ig a rd -T u a latin ,
Newberg, Hillsboro, and Forest Grove
school districts.
Classes are held at various times,
Comforts Added to Home Serving Sick ChildrenVolunteer artists from the Northwest Society o f Interior Designers
used decorative painting techniques to achieve the appearance o f a cozy log cabin in the Oregon woods in this new
Southwest Airlines lounge at the Ronald McDonald House at Legacy Emanuel Hospital The 14-room McDonald's
guesthouse serves out-of-town families whose children are receiving medical care.
(P hoto by D ick P owers )
are free ofCharge, and are held at the
following locations: in Portland at the
Southeast Center, 2850 SE 82nd; the
Portland M etropolitan workforce
Training Center at 5600 NE 42nd Ave’
and in Beaverton at the Capital Cen­
ter, 18624 NW Walker RD.
Linda Huddle, director o f PCC’s
alternative high school programs,
said the MAP program at PCC fo­
cuses on “second-language learners
who have either never enrolled in
public school, or have enrolled but
have not been successful in the tra­
ditional school environment.”
The factors that prevent their suc­
cess are usually threefold, Huddle
said.” Most o f our ESL (English as a
Small classes
Airport Group to Hear Noise Concerns
The Airport Issues Roundtable is
sponsoring a public discussion on
the impacts o f noise on human health,
Tuesday, April 3 at 7 p.m. in the
second floor auditorium o f the Port­
land Building located at 1120 S.W. 5th
Ave. The citizen advisory committee
was created last year by City Com­
missioner Dan Saltzman to keep the
city informed about air traffic issues,
including noise.
The upcoming session will feature
Dr. Darien S. Fenn, a clinical psy­
chologist from the Oregon Health
Sciences University.
“In addition to his work at OHSU,
Dr. Fenn is serving as an advisory to
the Noise Control Task Force” said
Commissioner Dan Saltzman.
“Our economy is booming and, as
anyone who lives near our increas­
ingly crowded freeways and busy
airports can tell you, the booming is
often accompanied by roars, clangs,
second Language) students have to
work to help support their families or
them selves and the high school
hour’s conflict with their work sched­
ule. Or, they can expedience cultural
isolation in the traditional high school
setting. Another factor is the age range
The students are often older, 18 to 20,
so they don’t fit in.”
At PCC. the program is set up for
students so they can either go to school
from9a.m. to 1 p.m. from 1 to 4 or from
6 to 9 p.m. Huddle also said that three
college has set up multi-level classes
so students can be placed in class that
is consistent with their ability inter­
ested students may contact PC C ’s
Alternative Programs at 503-788-6141.
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sirens and any other number o f noisy
intrusions into the hum o f daily life.
Besides disturbing our sleep, noise
can interfere with reading, speech
and other activities, to say nothing o f
our need for peace and quiet. “The
real question is how does all this
impact our physical health and psy­
chological well being,” said Dr. Fenn.
Dr. Fenn will also talk about
changes that would lead to noise
control improvements.
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WSU Researcher Establishes
Link Between Sleep, Health
passed your first test.
C la s s e s s t a r t t h e w e e k o f A p ril 2
C a ll 5 0 3 -6 1 4 -7 2 7 0 .
James Krueger to Speak at National Conference
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PULLMAN, Wash. — Your
mother was right; a good night’s
sleep will keep you healthy. James
Krueger, a W ashington State
University scientist who studies
sleep, says adequate slumber ap­
pears to be a key factor in our
ability to fight illness.
In recent studies, K rueger
found that deep sleep, taken within
a short period after infection,
helped animal research subjects
fight o ff illness and recover. Sub­
jects with similar infections that
did not get adequate sleep had
more serious symptoms and did
not recover.
The non-sleeping subjects were
mice with a genetic mutation that
inhibits their ability to regulate
sleep.
“This is an area that is largely
understudied,” says Krueger.
“There are many unknowns, and
the National Institutes o f Health
are taking a keen interest in ex­
panding research into the rela­
tionship between sleep and pa­
thology.”
Krueger will discuss his re-
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Portland
Community
College
College That Tits Tour Lite
search results during a confer­
ence at the National Institutes of
Health in Bethesda, Md. The con­
ference, titled “Science o f Mind-
Body Interactions: An Explora­
tion o f Integrative Mechanisms,”
will be held March 26-28 and
videocast live on the Internet at
http://videocast.nih.gov.
It will include presentations by
other distinguished scientists from
around the United States. The
MacArthur Network on Mind-
Body Interactions sponsors the
conference.
Minority Students Top Oregon Drop Out List
re g o n ’s annual high
A m ericans and N ative A m eri­
school d ropout rate
cans is disheartening, p a rticu ­
m ay have declined
larly com ing the sam e week
slig h tly again th is year,
as a but
report show ing the fail­
m any m inority students c o n ­
ure o f O regon schools to re ­
tin u e to leave school at a high
cruit m ore teachers o f c o lo r in
ra te .
the past decade.
T he d ro p o u t ra te for the
A ccording to com puter e s­
1999-2000 school year was 6.3
tim a te s, 18 p e rc e n t o f 9th
percen t, com pared w ith 6.6
g ra d e rs in th e 1 9 9 9 -2 0 0 0
percent the y ear before and
school year are expected to
6.9 p ercen t in 1997-98.
drop out som etim e in their high
school career.
T h irteen percent o f O regon
L atino high schools students
The figure was 22 percent
quit school last year, and 11
in 1998-99.
p e rc e n t o f b la c k s tu d e n ts
The report only includes stu­
dropped out.
dent who quit during the school
N early 10 percent o f A m eri­
y ear.
can Indians dropped out last
S ta te law r e q u ir e s th a t
year.
schools try to learn the rea ­
B o a rd C h a irm a n D o n n ie
s o n s w h y s tu d e n ts le a v e .
G riffin said the dropout trend
A m ong the top reasons stu ­
a m o n g L a tin o s , A f r ic a n
dents cited for quitting school
O
w as th at th ey w ere too far
behind in cred its to graduate,
la c k o f p a re n t s u p p o rt at
hom e, dysfunctional home life,
not fitting in at school and preg­
nancy.
T he sta te D e p a rtm en t o f '
E d u c a tio n p ro p o sed a $2.7 )
m illion program to train school
s ta ff to better deal w ith the
problem , spread the best a n ti­
dropout ideas to all schools
and target m iddle schoolers
who m ight be at risk o f d rop­
ping out.
G ov. John K itzhaber in­
cluded the m oney in his next
budget, but the R epublicans
have dropped it, along w ith
o th er proposed cuts that they
say are necessary given the
s t a t e ’s s lo w in g e c o n o m ic
fo re c a sts.
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