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Oregon Promise Bill is now a reality

Oregon students will now be eligible to attend community college for $50 per term, a significant discount from the $1,500 cost of attending full-time currently.

Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said the Promise Bill and other higher education pending funding should improve college affordability for families, according to her press release. Oregonians can now afford to dream big,” Brown said, “Today, we fling wide open the doors of opportunity by expanding access to post-secondary education, the precursor to a better life.”

Writing trauma is its own trauma

The public’s perception is that reporters are unfazed by the words they write. Truthfully, nothing is as hard as giving bad news, as journalists almost universally agree.

The UCC tragedy was one such event where information needed to be readily available for the public. However, the college’s community relations team, whose office had been in Snyder Hall, were locked down at the fairgrounds while over one million hits per second bombarded and shut down the college’s website.

Crime Victims Compensation Program

Funds for “unanticipated medical and counseling expenses” related to the Oct. 1 incident at Umpqua Community College are available now for students and staff or “any person on the Umpqua Community College campus at the time of the shooting who has suffered physical or psychological trauma as a result,” according to the Oregon Department of Justice Crime Victims’ Services Division.

The funds must be applied for through the Oregon Department of Justice which has created an online emergency application form to expedite processing of the financial assistance.

Cognitive distortions can slow healing process

Feelings of anxiety after trauma are normal. In fact, they’re so normal that the director of the Johns Hopkins Mood Disorders Center says,“It's common, and occasionally even helpful, for you to react to life's stresses, challenges and dangers with anxiety.”

Students who’ve dealt with trauma are especially vulnerable. During trauma, “Intellectually, you lose from 50 to 90 percent of brain capacity," Ellen McGrath of Psychology Today writes.

Students enjoy Halloween fun on campus

Adjunct Speech Communication faculty Dustin Cosby is creating a series of portraits to be shown beginning Nov. 16 in Whipple Fine Arts. The finished project will be displayed over a three screen process in the gallery. The photographs will feature students, staff and faculty members wearing their I Am UCC and UCCStrong apparel in a setting of the subjects choosing. He is looking for volunteers to be photographed showing, or to offer anonymous statements about, where they are at in the grieving and healing process after Oct. 1.

In light of the recent tragedy on campus, various individuals and businesses have reached out, trying to do something to help those affected acknowledge and move forward in their healing process. Cosby is no exception.

Volunteers wanted for photography project

"Things Observed" faculty art show at UCC

“Things Observed” is the theme of this years’ art department faculty exhibit now in the Whipple Fine Art Gallery. Faculty members Renee Couture, Ted Isto, Greg Rice and Susan Rochester are displaying their respective talents in a presentation of photography, pottery, clay works and modern art.

“The faculty in our department all have active art professions. This exhibit helps students get a feel of where the faculty is coming from before and while they take art classes from us,” said Rochester, associate professor of art and department chair. She noted it was interesting how the observation of the world in different ways came out in each professor’s various works. One of the more unique pieces is the modern art exhibit by Couture featuring light, linens and laundry.

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