Lane Community College

Vol. 7 No. 11

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January 18, 1972

Board views
p-olicy changes
The Lane Community College
Bo a rd of Education in the i r
monthly meeting last Wednesday
night, Jan. 12, approved with a 6
to 1 vote, a proposed change in
Board Policy 5117. As a result of
the policy change a physical examination is no longer required
of students enrolling in physical
education courses.
The one opposing vote was cast
by Board member, Albert
Brauer, a physician, who considered the move a "step in the
wrong direction."
The Board also considered a
new policy that would prohibit
gambling on campus and heard
from the Student Senate on their
action to financially support
Lane's athletic program.
The proposed Board policy to
prohibit gambling on campus was
submitted by Jack Carter, dean
of students. Dean Carter observed, "I am somewhat reluctant to propose policies prohibiting activities that are legal by
Civil Law, but am at leastequally, if not more reluctant, to have
LCC become well known for its
'gaming tables.' "
Mark Parrish, co-chairman of
the Institutional Bill of Rights
drafting committee. submitted a
memorandum to the Boarj on the
proposed po Ii c y. Parrish contended that the policy would be
in violation of Section 21 of the
Bill.
He charged that "the ad ministration mu st be laboring
under the false assumption that
the LCC Board of Education is
a de facto civil legislative body.,."
The proposal will be placed on
the Feb. 9 Board agenda for
action.
0 ma r Barbarossa, ASLCC
president, and David Red Fox,
.ASLCC treasurer, next reported
to the Board that the Stutient

Senate had approved a $20,000
financial base for the support of
athletics next year. ASLCC Second Vice-President Jim Martin pointed out to the Board that
this pledge represented a commitment of 50 per cent of the
student budget.
Red Fox went on to explain that
because of this pledge, the ASLCC Fin an c e Committee was
studying ways to expand the
student budget for next year and
that this might include a recommendation for an increase in
tuition or student body fees.
Another meeting of the committee will be held this Thursday, Jan. 20, to finalize the
recommendation for funding in
preparation of a presentation at
the February Board meeting.
Despite this financial support,
Richard Newell, head of Health
and Physical Education Department, informed the Board that
intercollegiate baseball and extramural gymnastics and women's tennis were beingcutfrom
the athletic program next year
because of lack of funds.
In other business the Board
heard a progress report on the
status of the adult student housing project from Marston Morgan, college administrator. Barbarossa also stated that an application criteria committee had
been appointed to determine on
what basis students could apply for this housing.
In response to student criticism of Lane's welding program
that was voiced at the meeting,
the Board has asked for a report from that department. The
criticism included charges that
the college catalogue is at odds
with the courses that are actually offered and that the courses
are not offered in the most advantageous sequence.

Police •cha·rge
while detaining photographer
While narcotics team opposes photo exposure,
District Attorney verifies 'no violation of the law'
but defends officers from 'human standpoint'

The detention of Augur photographer, Kate
Thompson, on Tuesday, Jan. 11, at the Lane
County Courthouse by officers of the Lane Interagency Narcotics Team (LINT) has brought a
series of allegations by the Augur against LINT.
Ms. Thompson explained tbat she was present,
because the Augur had heard that a secret
grand jury would be accepting testimony from
undercover agents of LINT, t~ issue indict.ments to drug users and pushers. Ms. Thompson
said that she tried to· get photos of the agents
when they stepped off the elevator at the courthouse. As she tried to photograph Steve Cain,
one of the agents, Rudy Mauch, a second agent,
grabbed the camera. Ms. Thompson refused to give
up the camera and the agents put her under arrest for "harrassment'' of police officers, which
is part of the new Oregon criminal code recently developed. Ms. Thompson was taken to the
District Attorney's offke where she was questioned for about an hour and then released. Later in the day the film was returned to her,
unexposed.
Assistant District Attorney John Moore, said
that he felt the officers were justified in their
actions from "a human standpoint." He referred to the firebombing of LINT agent Steve
Cain's car in front of his home in Springfield on
January 5. Prior to that time, Cain said, his
family had been threatened.
Charles Porter, attorney for Ms. Thompson,
met with Moore later in the afternoon. Moore
told Porter that the film would be returned and
that an official apology would be forthcoming.
Moore added that he believed unnecessary roughness had been used on Ms. Thompson. and that
the officers had been duly admonished for their
actions.
Attorney Porter said, "I think he (Moore)
realized they were off-base, since she had· a
legitimate purpose to take the pictures, and
that there was no violation of the law."
Moore added· that from now on, the D.A.'s
office will change its procedure in bringing nar..;
cotics agents before the grand jury, to minimize their exposure to the public.
The Augur, for the last three months, hasbeen publishing photographs and personal information on members of the LINT operation.
Working closely with a local group called People
Into Sabotaging Surveilance, the Augur feels that
LINT amounts to a secret police operation.

In addition, Paul Gratz of the- Augur feels that
there is a great gap in LINT's efficient enforcement of the marijuana laws as compared to
LINT's record on hard drug, and especially hard
drug seller, arrests. According to Gratz, the
Augur is now trying to establish that allegation
with statistics. Gratz also beli~ves that corruption exists within the LINT op9rati,Jn that LINT agents ·_ are far from professional in
their police work.

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Chicano Union to
serve Mexican food

LCC's Chicano Union will serve an authentic Mexican dinner
this Thursday, Jan. 20, in the
college cafeteria from 6 to
9 p.m. The public is invited to
this affair which will feature traditional Mexican dishes.
Preparation for the dinner, actually, started last Saturday, Jan.
15 . Some 5 5 0 cornhusks were
shipped from San Francisco to
wrap the tamales which are being prepared by mothers, friends
and members of the Union. To
maintain the authentic nature of
the dinner, it was required that
some of the mixing and frying
start a week in advance.
In addition to tamales, the menu
will include homemade tortillas,
chillianos, refried beans and a
choice of beverages.
In keeping with a Mexican custom at festivities, youngsters will
receive blindfolds and special
sticks so they can take a whack
at breaking open the candy-filled pinatas which will be suspended from the cafeteria ceiling • .

Tickets for the dinner are on
sale at the Student Awareness
Center and the Financial Aids
Office, both located on the second floor of the Center Building;
tickets will also be sold at the
door. Prices are $2 for adults
and $1 for children ages 6 to
12, with those 5 years and under agents of the Lane Interagency Narcotics Team
admitted free.
lead Augur photographer Kate Thompson for ques-

tioning shortly after Ms. Thompson photographed
LINT agent.
(Augur Photo)

Senate supports 'INPUT' and more student space
At the Student Senate meeting
Leppanen said that these clasThursday, Jan. 13, Student Sen- ses would, at least in part, be
ator Leppanen introduced a re- taught by students. He stated that
port, written by him, on "IN- the main objective would be to
PUT," a proposal for student have "INPUT" classes accrediinitiated courses at LCC.
ted so that non-vocational students could use these credits
The purpose of ''INPUT,"
w h i c h w o u 1d be s i m 11 a r to toward a degree, as is done in
"SEARCH" at the U of 0, is the "SEARCH" program at the
to encourage additional student U of o.
initiated classes which ensure
The Student Senate voted unashort term educational oppor- nimously to support Leppanen's
tunities which students consider report and also voted to. allocate
important to their total educa- $10 to be used to print the report
tional experience.
for student and faculty informa-

tion.
' Another issue discussed by the
Senate was the acquisition of ad:.
ditional space for student activities.
Marston Morgan, college administrator, spoke to the Student
Senate on this subject, suggesting
that the staff lounge, which is
on the second floor of the Center
Building, be reallocated for student activities. This would add
_approximately 1200 sq. feet to
the space which is already utilized by student activities ac-

cording to Morgan. The space
now used for student activities
consists of the student council
offices, as well as Center 234
which houses OOPIRG and the
Student Awareness Center office.
Morgan said that President
Schafer had already talked about
the money and architects needed
to redesign space already in use.
This would largely apply to the
Cl:,PIRG and Student Awareness
-Center offices, to which a mezzanine could be added.
(continued page 11)

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• Th• innocent bystander

LCC Boad of Education Chairman Catherine Lauris in a
series of opening remarks to the Board in its January meeting
observed;
"Finally, there can be no doubt that the one immutable reality
we all face in 1972 is one of finances. It may well be that
we shall have less money than ever before in which to do
all we have done before in addition to all we want to do.
It is auite likely that we face a year of great auste_rity I won't call it poverty. To have less money than we want,
to have to be ignenious and inventive in its use can be a
challenge. It is difficult to have to cut corners and less
pleasant than it is to have adequte funds. But such limitations
can inspire as well as frustrate. I think we can meet this
. challenge; the greatest burden will fall, of course, upon the
employees of the College. There may be r,~quired of them
a good deal of sacrifice, and certainly a good deal of unselfish generosity and cooperation in working out the best
educational program we can. Money is useful, but it is not
the only requirement for excellence.· "
The challenge of being ingenious and inventive with money
leomed before the Board and the student body almost immediately
after these remarks were made. While the Student Senate has voted
to support athletics to the tune of $25,000, it was learned at the
meeting that one intercollegiate sport and two extra mural sports
will still have to be dropped from next year's program. The grim
implications of the term, priorities, became reaL
The re-ordering of national priorities has become a popular
topic for politicans recently. ·The issue has a crusading appeal to
it because, _as a nation, we have the resources to accomplish this
reordering. However, at LCC the term becomes depressingly gloomy
bec,ause we may have to eliminate choices, not re-order them.
The problem does not stop with athletics. The Senate is in a
bind. This is the first time in recent years that the Senate has devoted this much money (50 per cent of the budget) to athletics.
The next question is where do we? find the money to fund the other
student programs the Senate has traditionally supported in the
past? ASLCC Tr,3asur13r David Red Fox admitted to the Boar,j that
the ASLCC Finance Committee was considering, among other methods,
an increase in student body fees: or in tuition, in order to expand
next year's budget. The prospect of either method being used to
raise revenues is distasteful to students who have seen the cost
of education rise year after year at. an inflationary rate.
Let us consider whether the Senate, in• voting to finance athletics, has ignored a mandate from the student body. In the stuaent
body elections held last December, students responded to three
questions on the ballot: whether student funds should be expended
to support ahtletics, group legal service for students, and expanded
health services. The health service question passed by 84 per cent
and legal services by 68 per cent, while the athletic question passed
by only 51 per cent, a narrow 16 vote margin.
Students should have, on the basis of the elction results, expected the Senate to place athletics on the bottom of the list of
priorities. Perhaps the Senate can, by some miracle, manag,~ tc
find _ some way to continue funding the other programs they have•
supported in the past without resorting to increased student bod}
fees or tuition increase. Howcv.9r, it would be impossi':Jle, even
with increased revenue, to hope or expect that an amount even close
to that pledged to athletics would be budgeted for expanded health,
services or group legal services.
To return to the theme of national priorities: the politicos,
tell us that we, the people, through our elected representatives
should determine 'our own' priorities. Doesn't the same hold true
here at,LCC~

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by Arthur Hoppe
Chronicle features
You can't help feeling sorry for
the cigarette companies. F o r
ye a rs they've been waging a
lonely battle against lung cancer,
emphysema, heart disease and so
forth - or at least against the
idea cigarette smoking has anything to do with such things.
And despite the fact that cigarAnd despite th e fact t h at
cigarette smokers keep dropping
off from these diseases like flies,
the cigarette companies h ave
gamely held their own.
This they've done, of course, by
convincing us that cigarettes are
good for our sex lives. •
Any cigarette ad worth its salt
depicts a handsome young m an
and a beautiful young lady intimately lighting up the cigarettes that obviously have made him
virile, her sophisticated and both
of them absolutely irresistible.
What's a little lung cancer if
you could snare a date like that?
But now science has dealt the
struggling cigarette companies a
blow which appears mortal: cigarette smoking causes wrinkles!

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So reports Dr. Harry Daniell
in the prestigious Annals of Internal Medicine. After studying
1,000 cases, Dr. Daniell found an
extremely high correlation between the amount of wrinkles on
a person's face and the amount
of cigarettes he or she smoked.

Letter to
Editor

the
Dear E'.ditor:

Last Tuesday I saw the basketball game between LCC and
Northwest Christian College. I
was very disappointed ln the
small number of students at the
game.
I've heard students at LCC
say that there's nothing to do.
Well, fellow students, the basketball games at LCC are free.
I think it would be a great idea
if some of our thousands of students at LCC could come out and
see some of these 'free' games
and show our ball club we're interested in how they represent
our college.
Michael Koffler

To outwit a stupid
beast isn't ditPicult!..
and 1 don't keep it
r""'1fl'Y~ to commemorate
a hunting
victory.

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You can see what this is going
to do to the cigarette industry.
Getting lung cancer is one thing,
but no one's going to stand for
losing his or her sexual attractiveness in the process. Particularly her. Last year alone,
13,407 ladies had to be forcibly dragged from burning buildings kicking and screaming solely because their hair was in
curlers.
What, then, can the embattled
cigarette industry do? The only
answer is a nationwide campaign
to sell the American public on
wrinkles.
With men it should be easy.
Crow's feet have been popular in
Marlboro Country for years.
With the ladies it may be a bit
more difficult. But I say that if
you can sell the ladies on puncturing their ear lobes, sticking
jewels in their belly buttons and
painting their toe nails gold, their
lips silver and· their eyelids
green, you can sell them on anying.
th_
We might start with simple
testimonials: "I used to have
a smooth, bland, blah complexion,
but ever since using Retch's
Rinkle Cream, men want to talk
to me about affairs-world and
otherwise."

Paul W aldsch mi dt
Editor
Associate Editor
Doug Cudahey

head on
your
wall'?

prrrm,r~

has something
in common with
,._all politicians.

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Sports Editor

vicious itWighters?
mouths that are
That they both 17.,,.,.,,,~
larger than
their
ha'le skinn~ t
~\ brains.
forelimbs.! t.

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John Thompson
Reporters: Dan Devaney

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(Copyright Chronicle Publishing Co. 1971)

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Feature Editor

No. Because
both possess

Once we've sold the American
public on wrinkles, the cigarette
companies can quick I y retool
their advertising campaigns.
"The cigarette for men of
ch a r a ct er," a mummy-faced
young man might proclaim. Or,
for the ladies, "You've come a
long way, prune face!"
True, there may be some defeatist captains of the cigarette
industry who'll say such a project will never work. But I say
hang in there, fellows!
After all, if you can sell the
American public lung cancer,
emphysema and heart disease, a
few wrinkles should be a breeze.

Lane Community College

Bill Dwyer

What similarities?...
That tlt~'re both

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The most important factor in adequate news coverage is
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Mik-e Kelly

that the brute

Then we could graduate to Vogue, which is always looking for
something new. "The charming
young Contessa di Haggard shows
the new IN look. WITH A SIMPLE
the new IN look. With a simple
make-up pencil she accentuates
her laugh crinkles and brings
out her worry lines, thus flanting
her commitment to life's joys and
s o r r ow s a n d h e r depth of
character. Men find her fascination irrestible."

From the editor's desk

News Editor

It's a reminder

...

Smokers sold wrinkles

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Then why do
you keep a
tyrannosaurus'

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Business Manager
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Man and Enviro·nment -

by Mikel Kelly'

Dichloro Diphenyl Trichloroethane! (DDT) was first synthesized way back in 1874 1 but its
potential wasn't stumbled upon
until 1939.
World War Il, fittingly enough,
pushed researchers into a frantic~
quest for newer., more imaginative agents for d~ st r:Jying things.
Since then the pesticide business
has grown right along with the
human population. From 1962 to
1964, money spent on pesticides
j u mp e d 210 m i 11 i o.n dollars.
The pesticides that poison our
environment come from virtually
everywhere. Restaurant kitchens, grocery stores, and our
own homes, patios and gardens
all rely on them to eliminate
insects. Since law enforcement is
lax, farmers often increase already hazardous levels of crop
spraying. And as time passes,
higher doses are needed to do
the same job. Bugs do such a
fantastic job of evolving, they
rapidly become immune to the
toxic substances.
Man's exposure to DDT is unavoidable, but not necessarily
problematic. However, high
doses, even on a short-term
basis, show a variety of nasty
effects. DDT has indicated a..11
tncrease i:n the h1cidence ofliver
cancer in mke, and aff~cts sex
hormom.•s in nts and birds, In
humans amount:, of DDT w~r9
higher b the fat of patLrnts who
died of softe11ing of the braL1,
cerebral hemorrhagrc~. hypertension, cirrhosis ard vi rious cancers than i.i1 paU.:!nts who di-ad
from infecti<ms tii::;easa ;. Changes hav2 been se:rn hi the central nen:Jus '.,yst9m of anLna1s,
(Tr,1ut , exposad to 20 parts per
billion of DDT ·vi_~re unahle to
lear:1 to avoid an alectric shock;

all unexposed fish tested did

leai;n).

DDT exhibits great stabil_;ity, and doesn't simply break
down in soil or water, but tends
to accumulate in increasing amounts. It's frighteningly mobil-a,
carried by dust particles and water. Even when waterevaporates,
DDT goes with it. Of course it
eventually finds a stream, winding up in our lakes or in the sea.
Probably the most ominous
characteristic of pesticides is the
way they climb up through__the
food chains. Beginning with the
smallest organisms, they concentrate in higher numbers from
one level to the next. A.s bigger
animals prey on smaller ones,
DDT moves up the ladder, increasing at each level.
For instance, in the mud at
the bottom of Lake Michigan,
DDT was found at 0.014 parts
per million (ppm.) Shrimp, living in the same mud) show~d a
concentration of 0.44 ppm. an
increase of moni than t~n tim.:!s~
The next link, whH•afl.:;11: conta.r.nad 5.6 ppm. , another tenfold
jump. FinaHy_
. the scaveagLlg
herring gull showed 7,000 times
as much DDT as the mud did.
Because of this evidence DDT
has been indicted for the van-ii!
ishing pelican population on theCalifornia coastline, and this
"food chain syndrome" leaves
little doubt wher•~ man fits in.
Theor,~tkally: he faGBS the most
immediate danger of alL
Inevitably_. man will have to
rely on the sea as a food source
much more than he does today.
Phytoplankton is a primary food
producer in the ocean. Experiments show a decrease in photosynthesis in this marine plantlife. Even low concentrations of
DDT could lead to shifts of dominance, resulting in "blooms/'

featured

A new class, Percussion and ground will learn music fundaor freak growths of one or more
Improvisation, will offer LCC mentals while students who play
species of underwater life. And
all the time, increasing amounts . students an opportunity to learn instruments will have a chance
of pesticides are found in the
by experience; jazz, "contem- to play with other musicians.
tissues of sea animals.
porary" formal music, rock and
The problems of pesticides ·foreign music, with emphasis on
Students will be introduced to
can't be considered too shocking.
as many percussion instruments
percussion.
After all, their function is to
According to Larry Williams, as they wish. The class will have
kill. It is a little too much to
the instructor, the class struc- demonstrations on such "exotic"
expect no harm to come from
ture" . . . will be totally free. percussion instruments as tablas
their success.
The purpose of the class is to and other Indian drums, African
The solution can only lie in
meet student's needs that are drums, Latin American instruthe use of common sanse in connot covered in other music pro- ments and many others. Students
trolling pests. Re-establishing a grams. We're trying to offer a will hear expert musicians play
safe bug population has to include
these instruments and then have
total musical experience."
the safety of humans. This has
Students with no music back- a chance to learn to play them.
never been a factor, chemically .
For instance, we can control
mosquit'.>s by draining swamps in
which larvae live. We can stock
lakes with mosquit•J eatL1g fi,h.
And, possi:Jly, we can use small
amounts of non-persistent insacticides in waters where fi::;h can't
be supported, where wat~rcannot
be drained.
In California's San Joaquin
Vallay, cotton is a major crop.
Researchers found that the type o
of bugs that normally ruined
50( Pitchers
cotton yields. distinctly preferTu es. 4:00-1:00
red alfalfa to cotton. So amongst
the cotton, rows of alfalfa were
planted. This was enough to keep
en 11:00-1:
the bugs happy. Ther8after, practically no insects could be found
feeding on the cotton. Harvests
were high again, and pesticides
were totally unnecessary.

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I was told to go to the Health
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Lost

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'Not a racist organization'

Jose Gutierrez is a twenty-seven year-old
teacher of political science and Chicano Studies
at the University of Texas. He was electedpr-2sident of his school board in Crystal City, Texas.
His election to the school board was largely the
result of his organizing of La Raza Unida, a
political party made up of Mexican-Americans.
La Raza Unida numbers 60>000 strong in Texas
and has spread through the Southwest into California. Gutierrez is now in the Northwest hoping
to gain support from Mexican-Americans in this
area.
Gutierrez recently spoke at the University of
Oregon explaining the gains Chicano's have made
with the La Raza Unida Party. "We are not a
racist organization," he said. "We are not antiDemocrat or anti-Republican or anti-anything.
We are simply pro-Mexican."
Since Gutierrez's election to the Crystal City
school board, he and the board have brought
about many changes.

Mexican-Americans, he said, make up 91 per
cent of the student body in the 3,600-student
district, and they had an 87 per cent dropout
rate.
"We found it wasn't a dropout rate, but a
push-out rate," he sai:l. "They were being denied their language, their culture, their food,
their History, everything. It was cultural genocide."
So, after changing some policies and "eliminating some racist personnel," the dropout rate
has decreased to 45 per cent. "And those aren't
our figures," Gutierrez said. "They come from
the Texas Education Association."
Speaking of his organizing efforts in Oregon,
Gutierrez identified three areas where the concentrations of Mexican-Americans are highest:
from just outside Eugene, north to Woodburn;
Nyssa in Eastern Or,agon; and Hillsboro-Forest

Grove area.
The permanent Mexican-American population
in Oregon numbers about 50,000 but in the summer
months when migrant laborers come to the state,

LCC ·club offers scholarship
The Farm Mechanics Club will
award a scholarship to an outstanding LCC freshman agriculture student this spring.
The scholarship, which was
first awarded in the spring
of 1967, is the first and only
one of its kind to be given by
an LCC student club.
Ken Vandecoevering, president
of the Farm Mechanics Club,
stated that "money for the scholarship is donated to the club
by various tr a c to r manufac-

turers. and varies from $200 to
$250."
Vandecoevering, who received
last year's scholarship, went on
to say that the club hopes to
raise the scholarship this year
because of the extra money received from tractor manufacturers.
The freshman candidate, who
is selected by second year club
members, must return to Lane
the following year in order to
receive the scholarship.

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He estimat~d that slightly mor,? than half the
Mexican-Americans in On:-go:i ar~ of voting age .

OSPIRG-capacity for results

Unwritten Right of American s

by Mikel Kelly
Nobody has to tell you what
makes .America great. It's the unwritten right of the people to a
speedy and public profit. Competiton, ·sales, gains and comeons are the life's blood of progress. Unfortunately we can't all
be winners. Too many of us, in
fact, are losers.
We've been burned by planned obsolescence and silver-tongued phonies. We've seen the
disregard many businesses have
for our natural resources. And
we've felt the frustration of facing a system too big to budge.
But students do have an available alternative to rip-offs in
Oregon. It's called the Oregon
Student Public Interest Research
Group (OSPIRG) which operates
statewide, with local boards on
practically every Oregon campus. And we're talking about a
centralized organization, with the
funds and legal means to bring
about change, when change is

needed.
OSPIRG has an amazing capacity for results. In Portland, students put a stop to industrial
dumping of asphalt into the Willamette River. At Southwestern
Oregon Community College,
OSPIRG brought the law down on
a lumber company that saw the
Pacific Ocean as a handy place
to dispose of sulphite.
OSPIRG is not , by nature,
a dark and brooding monst~r,
intent on finding fault. It is people,
namely students, investigating
the complaints of we, the losers.
LCC OSPIRG President, Dennis
Thorpe, said, "It's not just a
board, and it's no private club.
It's you and me, protecting ourselves."
LCC's Cl>PIRG effort is in its
infancy. Only recently has it met
the requirements (of elections,
by-laws, etc) , qualifying it for
a vote on the state board. And
only in conjunction with the rest
of OSPIRG's factions can it ef-

fectively act on behalf of the student.
One of LCC's first projects
is a study of the FHA 235 Subsidy P 1an, involving low cost
housing. "We had a complaint,"
said Thorpe, "and now we're investigating it."
In addition, Cl>PIRG has convinced the students of Joe Searl's
Geography classes to examine the
implications of the controversial
1990 Plan.

Of c r u c i a 1 importance to
OSPIRG here at LCC, however,
is the need for more student involvement. Anyone with a genuine
concern for what's going on, is
urged to look in on the group,
and by all means, relayanycomplaints of environmental or consumer abuse you've witnessed to
the group. OOPIRG publicrelations man, B i 11 Kr u e g e r,
said "We're especially interested in problems Lane students
are having."

fifty volunteers needed to help children

Bethel School District opened include a Christ mas party in and telephone num·o er and place iti
a big broth e r / sister program, mid-December; a snow trip in in the box next to the TransportJan. 3, and at least 50 volunteers February and a coast trip in May. tation Co-op box, second floor
are needed to serve elementary This year the overnight "teen" of the Center Building, west enand junior high children during snow trip will be held at White trance.
the school year. Newly appointed Branch. Free food, lodging and
Bethel District Coordinator, Bill entertainment will be provided.
LCC students interested in
Sharp, will initiate the program.
ROBERTSON'S
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by Len E. Ackland
Quang Ngai-Sixteen year old Le
Van Cau refuses to believe that
American troops are withdrawing
from Vietnam. "I hear on radio that everybody in US Army
been in Viet Nam, my country,
go back home. I don't beleive,"
exclaims in Englis~ the young
boy whose left leg is amputated
above the knee. ''US Army stay
over here help my people long
time ago, why he go home for?"
Cau, who prefers the name
"Bobby", received from soldiers
of the 23rd Infantry (Americal)
Division, is one of countless
Vietnamese children used by American units as interpreters and
scouts for military operations in
this alien environment. The Gl's
taught Bobby English, paid him
extremely well, but now the 23rd
Infantry is slated to be pulled
out of their big Chu Lai bas~
within the next _few m?nth_s. B_obby must remam behmd m Vietnam--his leg blown off seven
months ago by a booby trap during a patr_ol with his ~merican
plat~on, his dreams ~mged ?n
the idea that once agam he will
be able to work with his Army
buddies.
A US Captain hired Bobby two
years ago when he wa? 1~ years
old. A few days ago, s1ttmg on a
bed inQuakerRehbailitationCenter in_QuangNg_aiBobbytold~he
followmg story m broken Enghsh
and Vienamese.
Bobby isfromthen~rther~part
of coastal Quang Nga1 provmce, a
traditional stronghold of the Vietminh and N.L.F.
At the age of 14 Bobby was
forced to join the People's Self

Defense F·o r c e (PSDF) a homespun militia of boys too young and
men too old for regular military
service. Having picked up some
English from Gl's manning an
outpost in his village, Bobby was
assigned to work as an interpreter for the American unit.
"When my name called I know 1
go with US Army. Daytime I go
play somewhere, night-time I go
with Americans, I go ambush."
Since he was in the PSDF
working in his own home village,
Bobby received no pay. About one
month afterhebegandoingsome
interpreting for the American
unit an American captain approached him. "Captain know me,
like me, tell me go work with
Americans." Bobby became a
full-time employee of the Americal Division.
Then he began working with the
first platoon of Delta Company,
5/46 of the 196th Brigade, Americal Division which was operating
in Son Tinh district north of
Quang Ngai. As a civilian directly hired by the platoon, each
of the 30 platoon members had
to pay a little more than $3
out of his own pocket in order
to pay the young boy $100 a
month-6 times as much as a
regular Vietnamese soldier receives.
Bobby did various jobs. He
helped with pacification work in
"VC villages." "I tell civilian
people put barbed wire around
hamlet."
"Sometimes I go patrol. Daytime go patrol, night-time go
ambush."
"Sometimes I check ID card
of peoole. If not VC then give

cara oacK ana teu mem to g_o.,,
Often a member of the Vietnamese Field Police would _accompany Bobby and the US pl_atoon. "He _check ID _card with
me, sometimes he he up VC.
He make VC talk." How? "He
do everything. Everything._ He
take bamboo and hit. Sometimes
he don't."
Were any of the suspects killed? "Yeah, but ti ti (few)."
Bobby pulled a plastic envelope from beneath his pillow. He
took out a picture showing four
Gl's standing around a Vietnamese boy dressed in black pajamas sitting on the ground. One
American was bending over with
his hand on the back of the boy's
neck. ''They make VC talk. I
don't know he name, I don't know
nothing, but I know he VC."
Bobby was patrolling with the
American troops when his leg
was blown off. "me and lieutenant see VC houses. Lt. tell
three GI with me to go search.
Searched bunker, nobody there.
Go back another trail, step booby trap."
Bobby was given medical evacuation and his leg was amputated in an Army hospital. He
is now being fitted for an artificial leg in the Quaker Rehbailitation Center, which only treats
Vietnamese civiVans. Bobby's'civilianstatuswhileworking
for the America! Division means
that he is not eligible to receive any government compensation or assistance for his injury.
He happily displays a letter
from a lieutenant of Delta Company which accompanied a con-

ti:ibution of !1>192 from men of
Bobby's platoon. Bobby says altogether he has received about
$650 from his American buddies.
Bobby ''don't think much about
future. Maybe study English go
work at Chu Lai," the American base north of Quang Ngai
set to be turned over soon to
the ARYN 2d Division. This young
16 year old boy cannot see beyond the Americans with whom
he lived and worked for so long.
Bobby knows many other "15,
16, 17 " year old children who
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Bobby will probably be remembered. "The GI's will go
home and sometimes talk about
the cute kid who used to go on
patrol with them and lost a leg,"
says Roger Marshall, anEnglishman at the Rehabilitation Center who during his three years
in Quang Ngai has seen many
other Bobby's "I wonder how
many shattered lives have been
caused over here?"
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environmental story as it is in Oregon.
LCC-OSPIRG will have an OSPIRG state
representative and local representatives
available to answer questions and collect membership and contributions of $1.
(There is ~o admission charge.)

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'Dope'rs·' keep on doing their thing

by Jon Stewart
(Jon Stewart, a San Francisco
journalist, has written for SAN
FRANCISCO MAGAZINE, CALIFORNIA LIVING (Sunday section
of the S.F. CHRONICLE) and
RAMPARTS among others. This
article is adapted from a longer
piece he has just finished for
Harper & Row, publishers.)
Treasure Island, San Francisco:
Treasure Island, contrary to
popular opinion, is not located
in some uncharted expanse of
the eastern Atlantic Ocean--a
place known only to pirates like
Long John Silver. The REAL
Treasure Island is a low, .manmade appendage to Yerba Buena
Island, and it lies in the middle of San Francisco Bay. It is
inhabited by about 10,000 Navy
and civilian personnel. It's the
Navy's largest "separation center," and serves as the site for
several units of the Naval Schools
Command. Most naval personnel
returning from Asian duty pass
through Treasure Island in the
process of receiving discharges.
Among the thousands of returning veterans from Asia that
c_ome to Treasure Island every
month, a sizeable proportion are
assigned to one barracks--209.8.
Here, dopers on either Legal Hold
or Leg a 1 Transit aw a it court
martials, summary hearings, and
anything from a General to a Dishonorable discharge.

'Looking for dope?'

Barracks 209.8, which we have
had several occasions to visit
over the past month, is known
around the base as '' Dopers Barracks." ALL the men in 209.8,
e x c e p t i n g t h e "p i g s " and
"spies," are dopers. nt present
there are about 50 men in the
barracks. The turnover is high,
and it is estimated that about
7,000 men a year pass through
Barracks 209.8--7 ,000 dopers,
"THE NAVY IS LIKE A JOINT:
THE MORE YOU SUCK, THE
HIGHER YOU GET" -- Graffito in 209.8.
On our first visit to Treasure Island we wandered among
the monotonous two-story buildings looking for barracks 209.8.
Unable to locate it, even with
the aid of a map, we finally approached a group of seamen and
asked for directions. "You looking to score some dope?" they
answered. "He 11, you don't have
to go there to score. What do
you want?"

way, they despised the Navy and
were glad someone was willing
to listen.
The second floor of the barr a c ks , which has since been
closed, was , the scene of the
hottest action, since it was furthest removed from the front office where a Martial-at-Arms is
always stationed. "Actually,"
said George Hayes, who had a
bunk on the second floor, "the
pigs leave us alone pretty much.
They know what's happening, and
they'd just rather not have to
get involved. Some of them are
just plain scared to come up
here. They think we're all hardened criminals."
Hayes went on to tell about
how they'd dealt with a former
Master-at-Arms: "He'd been
hassling us pretty heavy for a
while, making busts, searching
lockers, breaking up parties, so
one afternoor. we just dropped
six hits of 'white light' acid in
his coffee. He really freaked.
He went over to the first aid
station and told them he thought
somebody'd slipped him some
acid, but since nobody knew for
sure what was wrong with him,
they couldn't give him no antidote. He's at Oaknoll Naval Hospital now. Never came down."

Shooting galleries
Hayes and a group of friends
were eager to show us their former "shooting g a 11 e r y," the
place where they used to retire to shoot skag (heroin). It
was a room on the ground floor,
between the two halves of Barracks 209. That week it had been
c 1o s e d and padlocked by MP's.
Undaunted, someone found a
crowbar and within a few minutes
the lock was off. The large room
was completely empty, but the
walls were covered with incredible wall-paintings, drawings
and graffiti--psychedelic, sexual
and political. It might have been
an empty meeting hall in the
Haight-Ashbury. "We used to
have lots of mattresses down
here, and a good radio," George
said. ''We'd get twenty guys down
here all doing acid or smack,
and just lie back all night." Since
the room had been padlocked, the
large bathroom in the rear of the
building had become the new
shooting gallery.
Another popular location in
209.8 is Wolfman's Corner, a
small area in a corner of the
second floor, surrounded by high
lockers. n table and several

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Barr a ck s 209 (divided into
209.8 and .9) is actually rather
easy to find if you know what
you're looking for. It's enclosed
(unlike all the other barracks)
behind a high wire fence, and a
small guard house stands at the
gate. Since it was empty, we
passed through apparently unnoticed, quietly entered the front
door, (again unnoticed) passed by
the office, and walked up to the
second floor. We approached the
first man we saw: "Hi, we hear
this is the doper's barracks."
"Sure " came the answer "have
a tok~." (a puff of marijuana).
For the rest of the day, and
for several days following, we sat
and talked with the men of 209.8.
They were more than eager to
talk with us, and insisted that
they didn't give a damn about
being identified or having their
pictures taken. They were all
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that declaration of student interest in OSPIRG at LCC and open
all doors to all students to join
up with some 50,000 other college and university students in
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in his own barracks. Bijika, sick
of the Navy, sick of 209.8, sick
of the continual hassles, agreed
to rat on two seamen who were
selling smack in the barracks.
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discharged and on his way home
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days before Bijika's discharge,
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sordid than most, but in other
respects it's fairly typical oflife
in Barracks 209.8. He had been
detained in "doper's barracks"
for eight months, awaiting discharge on grounds of a dope
bust. The actual paperwork and
official procedure leading to the
discharge could have been accomplished in about two weeks, or
a month at most. But Bijika was
getting drummed out because he
was a heroin addict, and the
Navy doesn't like addicts, so it
kept him around and hassled him
and busted him, and made life
miserable for him. That's how
the Navy deals with its addicts.

On one of the lockers in Wolf- ..
man's Corner, a message is
scrawled in pencil: "God, don't
let me die here." Underneath,
it's signed "Bijika." The lettering is highly stylized, bold.
Shortly after he wrote this,
on August 28th last year, Seaman "Chico" Bijika sat in Wolfman's Corner with four other
seamen and stuck a needle in
his arm. All five were hittingup their twice daily dosage of
smack, maintaining the habits
they'd acquired in Vietnam. Seconds after "Chico" released the
tourniquet from his arm, he
closed his eyes and drooped his
head. Richard Hadnett, one of the
other four addicts, concerned
During Bijika's eighth month
about his buddy reached for Bi- in 209.8, according to Dick
jika's spoon and was about to
Richards, a friend, he was sumtaste the cooked white powder,
moned to the office of Naval
when he noticed that Bijika's investigations and was offered
face was flushed. He put down
the spoon and pulled open Bijika's eyes and listened to his
heartbeat. His heart was pounding and he was breathing. Hadnett and the others assumed that
Bijika was just nodding out. But
The LCC chapter of the Oreminutes later, the 1ace across
gon Student Public Interest Refrom them became very red;
search Group (OSPIRG) willprethe eyes, pulled open once asent a film entitled '' The Soiled
gain, were white, except for
Frontier" today and tomorrow,
they
Then
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red
bright
Jan. 18, 19.
noticed his mouth was bleeding.
The film, depicting facits of
His fingernails turned red and
misuse of the environment in the
began to bleed. His ears began
state was produced in 1970 by
to bleed. And then his eyes bled,
the Oregon Department of Enstreaming red tears down his
viornmental Quality. An OOPIRG
cheeks.
state representative from the
Hadnett and the others picked
University of Oregon will be on
him up and started to walk him
to answer questions and
hand
down the long hallway of the
evaluate student activity ,p robarracks toward the exit, since
gress in environmental proteche still had some muscle tone.
tion and consumer abuse proThey figured to take him to
first-aid and report that they'd jects.
LCC is not officially recognizfound him OD'ed in the head.
by the OSPIRG State Board
ed
But , halfway d ow n the hall
because the college chapter failed
"Chico"· convulsed. He feel into
to meet certain by-laws in the
a fetal position on the floor
past, and to a lesser extent, beand froze there like granite.
cause of low student interest
"We couldn't even open his
"We hope to correct these
hands," reported one of the onsituations," according to Jon Halookers.
terius OSPIRG public relations
"Chico" never regained condirector. During the film prosciousness. Five days later, · he
gram Tuesday and Wednesday
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be a kind of small reading lounge,
but the six-foot plastic marijuana
plant that stands in the corner
suggests otherwise. Indeed,
Wolfman's Corner is a "shooting
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"Need to Laugh"
"The Miser", opening Jan. 28 in the Forum Theatre at LCC, brings to the audience a classic comedy,
a tremendous sense of fun and elan, and an elegance
of style, setting, and costuming not presented before
at LCC.
"The Miser" was written by Moliere 303 years
ago. The TORCH asked George Lauris, director of
"The Miser", about the relevance of his presentation
to today's audience. "Since its' first release, "The
Miser" has meant something to everyone in each
era. . . " Lauris said. ". . .people need to laugh.
There isn't a serious bone in it --its' pure romp."
The play itself may be "pure romp", but its'
production has involved 40 people for 12 weeks; a lot
of serious work lies behind the romp.
The laughter and fun in "The Miser" is an outgrowth of this seriousness and concentration. Lauris
has emphasized to his cast that "the comedy doesn't
come about because the actors are doing funny things-or because they are caricatures of people--but because they ar,a real people. We laugh at their excesses."
The production captures the style and character
of 17th century France. The costumes are lavish,
the materials (furs, silks, brocades) are genuine,
" . . . we can't fake anything in the Forum," he says.
The settings, characters and costumes are real;
The context is hilarious; "Our posters say the play
is 'strictly for fun'," Lauris saij. "I can't put it
any better than that."
"The Miser". . .opening in the Forum, Jan 28.

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whic:h is in th~ basement gym.
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is little interest and enthusiasm
for athletics at LCC, and that the
University of Oregon, with it's
big time athletic program, overshadows the Titan's program. But
I cannot see these as reasons
to drop ½cc base b a 11, gymnastics, and women's tennis, and that
is what it really boils down to.
The aforementioned sports have
been dropped. The following appeared in The Daily.
"The (LCC) Board learned
that the Student Senate has
approved a $20,000 financial
base for the support of athletics next vear but that continuing money pressures have
resulted in a decision to drop
one intercollegiate sport,
baseball, and two extramural
activities, gymnastics and
women's tennis. This leaves
four inter-collegiate activities, cross country, basketball, wrestling, and track."
So without student interest and
enthusiasm for LCC's sports the
Student Senate can't afford to support a full athletic program.
Perhaps Lane's Athletic Department should start charging
people to see fine basketball
entertainment in t he i r Titan
team, much as the U of Ocharges
people to see their teams· play.
However, this probably wouldn't
work because LCC student's support of their team is quite mediocre, as pointed out in a letter
to the editor in this week's edition of "The Torch."
Just a thought! Maybe those
competing in the athletic program
should be charged a small fee
to he 1p cover expenses. This
could be considered as an expense much as book expense is
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me is that there seems to be
a de-emphasis of athletics here a so-what attitude. And this is
tragic. Can you imagine LCC
without a1 Tarpenning's cross
country and track teams; Irv
Roth's basketball teams. or Bob
Creed's wrestling program?
We can thank our lucky stars
that we still have these programs,
but the others should also be included instead of excluded. LCC
should strive for excellence in
every phase and that includes a
complete athletic program.
John Wooden, head basketball
coach, at UCL~ is truly a champion - in more ways than one.
The teams he guides have won
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out of the last ten conference
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Or,~gon State in 1966.
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506 wins and only 140 losses in
23 years at UCLA? Well, you
can win another conference title,
and another NCAA title, and quite
possibly more after that.
After watching the UCLA
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8, it is this writer's opinion that
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Taylor paced LCC with 28
points followed by Terry Manthey who pumped in 12 points
and collected 14 rebounds.
In action Saturday night,
Salem's Chemeketa Community
College turned back LCC's rally
to pull out a 95 to 94 upset victory in overtime. Faced with a
ten point deficit midway through •
the second half, Lane fought back
to force the overtime period.
With nine seconds left in r~gulation time ~ Terry Manthey evened
the score with two freethrows.
Taylor scorched the nets for
36 points to lead both teams in
scoring,
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Lane is now tied for the fifth
position i.ri the league standings
with a 1-2 record. Taylor totaled
94 points in the three games.

Connectin~ on 42% from the fie.Id, l:qpJJ)
LCC earned a 47 to 19 lead at . ?/'~
halftime into the dressing roomo
The second half was equally one·sided, as .the Titans mo;>ped. up
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the job they started. On~e ,again
L a ne o-u t-rebounded it's opponent; this time by a 67 to 43 •

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Tuesday. Lane capitalized on it's
good shooting opportunities, hitting 41 per cent from the field.
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effective press employed by the
Titans. A tenacious defensive ef·. fort -and a tremendous rebounding
advantage keyed the victory.
Hot shooting Greg Taylor gunned in 30 points to lead LCC
scoring. Taylor hit 11 out of 20
from the field and canned eight
out of ten at the free throw line.
Crusader Mark Campbell scored
14 points to lead N.c.c.
Friday night LCC met Clackamas Community College in it's
second OCCAA l~onf•3Mnce game~
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Grapplers beaten at, Bend

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by Marty Stalick
While losing the services of
·Henry La Clair for an indefiby John Thompson
Greg Taylor, a six foot guard ing player fo~ LCC. H~ ha,~ the nite period of time, the LCC Matwho played forward at the be- best explanation _for this: The men dropped a 29-18 battle to
ginning of the season is The dudes I played with at Jeff were Central Oregon ComI,nunity ColTORCH "Athlete of The Month" re a 11 Y some tough, and good lege last Friday night, in Bend.
basketball players." He said that The match saw one forfeit and
for December.
Taylor averaged 14 points per he pla~ed with, and against some one default for LCC.
game last year for the Titans real fme basketball talent, and
The forfeit, unlike other forand is averaging 27. 7 per game
feits during the previous matches
as of Jan. 11 this year, as well
was against the Titans. Lane
as picking off nine rebounds per
didn't have anyone in the 150
game on the average. Taylor is •
.pound class.
now playing guard for the Titans.
Taylor got his basketball start
in North Portland where he played
Unfortunately, the biggest loss
for Jefferson High School, "the
of the night wasn't the forfeit or
school of champions." He said
the team loss; · it was Henry La
he only started about eight times
Clair being carried out of Central
for Jefferson. That indicates the
Oregon's gymnasium, on astretamount of talent playing for Jefcher. Says Creed, "We're really
ferson, for Greg has come to
going to be missing Henry (La
Lane and set the world on fire.
Clair) ••• He's the only man we've
He is leading the Oregon Comgot in the 177 pound class." Creed
munity College Athletic Associacontinued,.'' ••• the bad thing is, we
tion (OCCAA) in scoring, and is
will just have to take a forfeit
second in OCCA.a field goal accuracy with a .667 percentage. he feels this has really helped in that class, if Henry can't come
back."
Taylor feels he must improve him.
LCC Cqach Irv Roth says of
his defense to- play for a four
Year college. It appears that he Taylor: "I kon't know if he's
La Clair's match with Dave
won't have any great problems the best player we've ever had Severson was considered a win
here because his attitude is great at Lane ... only time will tell that. by default and thus COCC (Ceoand his ability as a basketball But, he does do more things than tral Oregon) picked up six more
any other player we've had here. team points.
player is truly amazing.
Taylor's 38 points in the North- He rebounds, scores, and is good
According to Creed, the Mt.
west Christian College game set on defense. The main difference
a single game school record. U in his playing this season and Hood wrestling SQUad is noted for
he continues to score as he has last, is that he's more aggressive a tough, well-balanced team, but
he will become the top scorer in this year - a real take-charge luckily for the Titans, La Clair's
injury may not be too serious,
guy out on the court."
Lane's four year history.
There is no Question about that. and he might return before this
The thing about Greg Taylor
upcoming weekend when the Tithat continues to amaze many is Anyone who watched the Clacthat he wasn't truly a high school .kamas Community College game tans face both, Oregon College
of Education and Mt. Hood.
star, but has become an outstand- would know that.

No official word as to what the · avail, as COCC won 17 to 6.
Coach Creed stated that the
extent of the injury is, but Creed
has been reassured that the in- 'lighter weights of the squad need
jury did not look too serious. some practice in getting takeOn the brighter side of the .dQwns, but Creed also allowed for
match, outstanding performances the fact that the trip was a long
for the Titans were performed two and a half hours and the high
by Curt Crone, Ken Kime, Rich- altitude may have added to the
ard Bucholtz and Murray Booth. · team's complications. "They just
Crone utilized a fine third per- looked sluggi sh," was Creed's
iod takedown and rallied for a comment.
This weekend the Titans (2 wins
come-from-behind 6-5 win, after
trailing 5 to nothing early in the •1 ·1o s s) wili' do battle with the.
match to COCC's Rick Sutherlin. Junior Varsity of Oregon College
Kime only needed a takedown but of Education and the Mt. Hood
picked-up two more points in Community College team. o.c.E.
his 4 to O shut-out over Kerry will do battle Friday night at 6
Cyrus of COCC. Rich Bucholtz p.m. here at Lane with Mt. Hood
and Murray Booth showed-off stopping in Saturday afternoon at
slick maneveurs in breaking as- 1 p.m.
saults whentheyeachpinne~their
men. Bucholtz pinned Del Gentemann in the second bout, and
LEATHER AND
Booth flattened heavyweight Al
Morris in the first fall.
U:ATHERCRAFT SUPPLIES
In the losing matches for the
Titans, AI Mc Kay, suffered his
first defeat of the season losing
4 to 1 to COCC's Rick otto.
Jerry Beach, of COCC, outpointed
LCC's Pete Faust 16 to 4. Steve·Eldrige, of COCC, pinned L'Cc'·s :
Dennis Grauer early in the second
period of that match-up. Terry
Monday .through Saturday
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best basketball team in the nation. ny helps coach the UCLA Frosh,
Mr. Wooden said it: "We have and is presently attending law
school as well.
alot of balance."
In his column George Pasero, ,
Wooden believes the entire
team is important. True, about sports editor of the Oregon Joureight players get most of the nal, had some interesting replaying time, but the others are marks from Wooden about of.
very helpful to the overall qua- ficiating:
"You don't get the breaks
lity of the team, the gentleman
on the road; you know that;
says. He also says that his playwe don't and they (OSU and
ers have a personal pride in their
others) don't when they come
game, get themselves up for a
to our place. Sometimes you
gaqie, for the most part. Keeping
get the feeling you're getting
his players on an even keel is
the works. That's dangerous
important, says the coach of the
because you get to feeling
awesome Bruins, as he doesn't
sorry for yourselves. What
like the players to be up for one
you must do is not let that
game, and then down for another.
happen and play your own
However, he stresses that this
game. You can't ·do that and
doesn't rule-out improvement by
worry about the officiating."
his players, just that he wants
Mr. Pasero made a very apto keep them at a constant emo-·
tional level. His players work propriate comment to Wooden's
hard in practice, but they stick comments: "Right coach ... ofby scheduled times, and they take ficiating seldom beats a team.
The team that thinks it does,
Saturday and Sunday off.
Notre ·Dame's head basketball more often than not, beats itcoach stated recently that Mr. self and is a loser. period."
One of the greatest things this
Wooden is probably the greatest
collegiate basketball coach in the writer has ever seen clinches
nation. I'll take that a step the fact that Johnny Wooden is
,further. John Wooden may just a champion.
Aft e r visiting teams leave,
be the best basketball coach,
period. Not many have accompli- most dressing rooms are usually
a mess; but not UCLA's dresshed what he has.
He's modest too. I mentioned to sing room. The towels were piled
him, as he was tipping his soft very neatly in a stack. The game
drink cup to his mouth, trying P r o gr am s, tape for wrapping
to get the remaining ice out, player's arms and legs, cups and
that his team had made more other trash were all placed in a
progress than Oregon State's waste basket. The dressing room
team had. Wooden said, "We was just as clean after UCLA
have more talent than Oregon had left, as before UCLA had
State." Modesty was prevelant. occupied it.
As I said previously, Mr.
He didn't give himself any eredit for an obviouslywell-coached Wooden is truly a champion in
more ways than one. A person
team.
could say that UCLA's basketMr. Wooden cares about his
ball program is a class operaformer players also. I told him
from the bottom to the top.
tion
that I remembered his national
reflects on John Wooden,
That
championship team of 1964 very
and this is one writer wishing
well, and I mentioned Kenny
Wooden's program the very best
Washington, who played on that Qf success in the future.
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UmpQua Community College here, 7 p.m.
THURSDAY, Jan. 20. Women's
Basketball, OCE - There, 7:30
p.m. Gy mn as tics, Portland
c.c. - There, 7 p.m.
FRIDAY, Jan. 21 Basketball,
Clatsop C.C. - Here, 8 p.m.
Wrestling, OCE JV - Here-, 6
p.m.
SATURDAY, Jan 22. Basketball,
Judson Baptist - There, 7 p.m.
Wrestling, Mt. Hood c.c. Here 1 p.m.
MONDAY . Jan. 24. Women•s Basketball Mt. Hood c.c. Here,
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Patsy Mink, the 44 year- old
Congresswoman from Hawaii who
is a Democratic contender for the
Presidential nomination in the
Oregon primary, was in Eugene
and Corvallis last Wednesday
Jan. 12, speaking at both the University of Oregon, and the Lane
Demo Forum. Her speech in
Corvallis was at Oregon State
University.
The crux of her speeches centered around shattering the myth
that a woman was incapable of
guiding the country. Ms. Mink
said at the U of O that she hopes
to "destroy the myth" that
women are incapable of holding
high office. ' 'We certain I y
couldn't do worse than the men
have done," she said. "Women
are no longer content with supportive roles in politics -- of
working behind the scenes to help
get a man elected," she added.
Ms. Mink, who has served four
terms as a member of the US
House of Representatives, describes her record in the House,
and her attitude toward national.
pol i c i es, as a humanistic

approach. She cited her immediate opposition to the Veitnam
War, when she took office in 1966,
as an unpopular one in Hawaii
at that time. Hawaii depended
very heavily on military spending for its employment and state
income. Ms. Mink said, "It
was immoral for us to intervene
in the genecide in Vietnam."
She labeled this genecide worse
than the genecide of Jews inNazi
Germany. "After ending the war,
if elected President, my priorities would fall to human social
needs."
Ms. Mink said that she entered
the Oregon primary after long
consultation with Ms. Shir Ir
Chisholm, Congresswoman from •
New York. Ms. Chisholm is run-.
ning in primaries in several
Eastern states. Ms. Mink said
that she and Ms. Chisholm had
decided not to compete against
each other in any primaries.
When asked if she would support other Democratic contenders who are equally opposed to
the war, namely Senator George
McGovern, Ms. Mink said that

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while she had great respect for
McGovern, she felt that, though
he opposed the war in Vietnam,
he did not object to the US
policy of sending arms to Israel.
To Ms. Mink, this is how we
began the ill-begotten venture in
Vietnam. In her view, sending
arms is not an adequate way of

forming foreign policy.
Throughout her talks here, Ms.
Mink continually blasted the
Nixon administration for its war
policy, for secrecy in government, for vetoing education and
child care funds and for tying
up 12 billion dollars in funds which
had been meant for environm

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Book Mark , Ltd.
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The Broadway
Bronson Travel
B,vno Studios, Inc.
B~get Fin~•nce Pion
Burch's Fine Footwear
C & H Coin & Stamp
Chose Flowers & Gifts
Cobum's film Shop
Conn'!:t<ticut Mutvc:il l.ife Insurance Co
C:re5'r-ey's
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mental, public works and educational and health programs.
Ms. Mink's political tactics
aim at capturing the 36 Democratic delegates in Oregon, and
delegates from other states, to
give her the necessary 50 votes
to place her name in nomination
at the Democratic convention.

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Etcetera
Eugene Federol Saving" & Loon
Eugene Hotel
F.ugene Hollmprlc Shop
Eugene Outdoor Store
Eugene's Toy & Hobby Shop
First Califomia (o.
Flint Studio's

Flowers Unlimited

Fraper's Women's Wear

Fredric.k's

The Gay L,ade
'Gold Cross Discount Drugs
Carl Greve Jewelers
Hoffman's Jewelers
Howard's Bicycles
M. Jacobs Fine furniture
Jay's Clothes for Young Men
Jim the Shoe Doctor
K-Ts lake Shop
Kaufman Brothers
Lane County Title Co.

Latham's

LI.NI World Travel

Lerner Shops, Inc,

Lisa Lee's -

Henry Lowry fine Cameras
Luby Athletic Sport Center
Lyon's furniture
Cir. Macy

McDonald Thft<ltre

Maico Hearin9 Aid Service
Mal's Custom Tailoring
Mcm's World
Marley'$

Mattress City

·Mattox Pipe Shop
MIiier's Department Store
Miller's Shoe Shop

Mortgage Service, Inc.

Montgomery Ward Co.
Nagler's Shoes
National Theatre
J. J. Newb•ry Co..
Nickles Shoes
Helen Norris Gifts

Olson Jewelers

J. P. O'Neil Lumbar Co.
Oregon Athletic Equipment
,Oregon Typewriter
Pacific Auto Supply

Pacific First Federal

J.C. P.,ney Co.
Pope's Ice Cream Parlor
Portland Federal Savings & Loan
Quackenbush'•

Red Wing Shoe Store
Ricketts-Baldwin Piano & Organ Studio
Harry Ritchie Jewelers
Robert's Townhouse
Rubenstein's Clearance. Center
Rubenstein Furniture Co.

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Sears, Roebuck & Co.
C:!!\l,er Optical
Seymour's Cafe
Skeie's Jewelers
Sleep Aire Mattress Co.
Smith & Crakes ln1urance.
Spotted Mule Saddlery
State Savings & Loan
Thompson's Record Mart
Toman's Jewelers

The Toy Shoppe

Town & Travel
Transamerica Title Insurance Co,
Vagabond House
John Warren Hardware
Dr •.Miles Webl;er-Optometrist
Willamette National Forest
Wilson's House of Music
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\Editor's Note: Last week Doug Cuda.hey, associate
editor of the TORCH, spent an hour with Wayne Morse.
The following is the first installment from this interview. In coming weeks Cudahey expects to talk with
other state, and perhaps national, candidates. Cudahey
has placed five copies of Morse's "The Record of a
Working Senator" on reserve in the LCC Library
for student reference)
On Friday, Jan. 7, Wayne Morse filed as a Democratic candidate for the United States Senate.
Morse spent 24 years in the US Senate (1945 to
1969) and was known as the outspoken voice against
our involvement in Vietnam beginning with the Gulf
of Tonkin Resolution in 1963. When Morse lost' his
Senatorship to Robert Packwook in 1968, it was over
the Vietnam issue. Morse explains that in 1968 it
was hard to find a dove in Oregon.
People have been changing their views on the Vietnam
War during the last three years and Morse thinks
that people in this country are now ready to end the
war. He feels that what is needed in this country is
a drastic cut in the war economy and a reordering
of our national priorities.
Morse views the military budget as being over
inflationary; he thinks, besides, that it severely damages
our domestic economy. He states that the domestic
budget subsidizes the military budget.
"We have been over spending our military
budget by 20 per cent for the last ten years.
We have been spending well over a 100 billion
dollars a year for the last ten years on the
military and less than 20 billion dollars for
domestic needs because presidents are impounding money out of our domestic budget without
the slightest constitutional authority to do so.
Congress lets them get by with it.
"In the last two years of the Johnson administration, he_ impounded 40 to 60 per cent of the
appropriated funds from many of our domestic
programs.
"Nixon has told us that he plans to impound
13 billion dollars of appropriated funds and
Congress is letting him get away with it. They
should take him on."
Morse feels strongly that the average citizen doesn't
think in terms of his constitutional rights. This has

a.s ever

paved the way for unharnassed executive power and
secrecy in our federal government. Morse outlines
the legal, constitutional procedure for congressional
control of taxpayer's money.
_"The Constitution gives the sole power to appropriate funds and spend these funds to Congress, not the President. The check that the
President has over appropriations is whether he
signs the appropriation bill or vetos it.
"If Congress can't rally the two-thirds vote
to override his veto, they have to cut it back
themselves and make another appropriation that
he will sign.''
•
But this method has been tampered with, according
to Morse:
'' The President has been signing the bill and
then refusing to spend what he doesn't want to
~pend .... Presid_ents for decades h~ve been trymg to get an item veto bill passed by the Congress on appropriations. They have tried to
get Congress to give them authority, whether it
cancer -- feeding on power and secrecy, and moving
be before or after the bill has been signed,
towards a police state.
to veto certain items in the bill and sign the
, "If you' re going to· support police state inrest.''
stitutions then you've got a police state. And
to that degre_e if we let the CIA get away with it,
Morse appears frightened by this unconstitutional
we got a pollce state. The CIA was responsible
maneuver. Morse states that Nixon and past presid-:for the Bay of Pigs. It was a CIA operation
ents , in transfering domestic funds, have subsidized
They convinced Jack Kennedy not to make a•
military designs, and kept them secJ:et.
constitutional use of the advice and consent
"Where do you think CIA gets their money?
clause of the Constitution. They convinced him
They get it out of appropriations. Congress
of all people, to conceal from Congress what he
can't find out what the CIA has by way of a
was up to.
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budget. W~ have here a dangerous police ~tat~
"To
his
everlasting
credit,
when
he
realized
institution just like a cancer in the body polhe participated in a terrible fiasco he told the
itic of a free society. No legislative surveilAmerican people he'd assume full responsibility
ance of CIA!
and made very clear he realized he had made
"I've said many times it should be _taken out
a mistake.
with a radical cancer operation by Congress,
:'In 1962, t~e same group {CIA) again approaced
it's easy to do, all they (Congress) have to do
him and tried to get him to bomb the Cuban
is vote to bring the CIA under the surveillance
missle sites. Had he done so we would have
of a legislative committee of the Congress.
been in a nuclear war.
You· mean to tell me that a clerk, staff member,
"That gives you an idea how far down the road
or an agent that has never had to face a ballot
Wil have walked toward a government by exbox as a candidate should be allowed to know
ecutive supremacy or secrecy. It really is
what's going on in the CIA but a US Senator
government by police state.,..
or a United States Congressman cannot find out?"
Morse perceives this executive overgrowth -- this

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A group of about 20 students,
meeting in executive session with
the LCC Board of Education on
Dec. 15, presented a petition and
statement in support of Ben Kirk,
LCC Science instructor.
Kirk was placed on probation
by the administration last year
as a result of student complaints
about his teaching methods.
The students were gathered in
support of Kirk, and in opposition to a standardized test which
was to be given to all Physical Science students. The test,
according to a story in the TORCH ·
(Dec. 7, 1971) was designed to
"provide input for the grievance
proceedings underway (against
Kirk)."

According to ASLCC President
and Board member Omar Barbarossa, who attended the executive session, the board members
"Concurred with Mr. Kirk's approach to instruction," and "as
a matter of fact, were rather impressed."

tion;
instructors should not be intimidated because they devi ate from departmental
norms;
procedures should be established to resolve this case,
and others which may develop.

Barbarossa said that the main
implication of the student protest was that LCC serves a
broad spectrum of students, ano.
must encourage the same broad
s p e c t r u m in i n s t r u c t i o n a I
methods.
Barbarossa credited Kirk's instructional methods with providing the impetus for the formation
of Students For Survival, the
Transportation Co-Op, and the
Student Awareness Center.
"Kirk," said Barbarossa, "presents a problem, and then asks,
What are you going to do about
it?''

Two blacks and two policemen
were killed.in a shoot-out during
a demonstration in Baton Rouge,
Louisianna, Tuesday, Jan. 11. City
officials charged that an ''assasination squad" from the Black
Muslims was responsible for the
confrontation. Before police arrived, two newsmen were beaten
by people in the crowd. Police
charged that someone in the
crowd fired the first shot and
then a fussillade of bullets was
fired by both sides. Blacks charged that the police fired the first
shot. Muslim leader, Elijah Muhammad, said that there was no
"assasination squad." Inanarticle from the Muslim newspaper,
the Muslim leader warned that
infighting between blacks must
stop. He added that whites furnish blacks with the deadly weapons with which they kill each
other. The article was written
·p rior to the shootout. In addition
to those killed, 34 persons were
wounded. The mayor of Baton
Rouge, fearing a takeover of the
'City said, ''We're loaded and
ready for bear."

MC CI O S k e Y a tta Ck S

The test requirement was then
waived by the Board. However
Congressman Paul McCioskey
the Bo a rd feels, Barbaross;
was
in Eugene on Monday, Jan.
stated, that . Kirk should either
revise his course content, to fall IO, where he spoke to a large
more in line with the course de- crowd at the University of Orescription as stated in the general gon, In his speech, McCloskey
catalog, or re-define the state- said he had few illusions of dement of the course content and feating Nixon in the primaries,
intent so that the course descrip- but he thought it was his moral
tion "prepares the student as to obligation to give the people an
alternative.
what the course is all about."
The 44 year-old representative
The statement presented by the
st u ct en ts revolved about four from California, felt that the
• main issues in 1972 were the war,
points:
The right of students to de '"I secrecy in government, and civil
rights. He has called for imt e r m in e the relevance of
mediate withdrawal of all troops
their education;
educational institutions must by the end of the year. McCloskey pointed to both the "Pentafind, within their structure,
gon Papers" and th~ Anderson
_accomodation for "unorthodiscoveries of the U.S. relationdox" approaches to instruc-

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ship to the India-Pakistan war
as examples of government secrecy. And he criticized Nixon's
Southern strategy in dealing with
civil rights as a step back a
hundred years in the struggle.
McCloskey cut his u. of o.
speech short to give all opportunity for questions. To a query
about his stand on women's
rights, Mc Closkey said that he
had voted against the equal rights
amendment until his wife explained the need for such a bill
to him. He then_ch~nged _h i_s voteff
The congressman said that he
feels he can justify running simply because at this point you have
only the choice of a Nixon or
a Humphrey.

TROOP WITHDRAWALS are being increased by President Nixon
announced that the present ceiling of 150,000 troops will be reduced by more than half to a
ceiling of 69,000 men by May. He
said, however, that a residual
force will remain until all prisoners are released. He added
that the present tactical and rescue air power will not change.
Secretary of Defense Laird said
that the Air Force in Vietnam
will be cut from 28,000 to 16,000
men. This will not affect present
air power, which will support
troop movements of the South
Vietnamese indefinitely. Tactical
bombers will also not be affect-

ed.Again this week, American
lives lost from non-combat fatalities was more than combat
deaths. u.s. planes attacked rriissile sites along the DMZ and several enc O un t er s between U.S.
fighter jets and North Vietnamese
Mig's were reported. In Cambodia, a Cambodian army oper. ation was hit bv communist
forces, and the 2400 Cambodian
soldiers ran, shedding their uniforms. All 2400 men deserted.
THE F.B.I. announced it is seeking a suspect in the bombing of
safe deposit boxes in three U.R
cities. The suspect, Ronald Kaufman, has been described by the
F.B.L as an AWOL Army private with a PH.D from Stanford
University.
(from page I)

Senate

A motion was made and carrieci
that the Student Senate would support all efforts to obtain more
space for student activities.
other' money alloted by the
Senate included $25 to be added to
the staff collection to fund advertising for the cigarette tax bill,
and $75 to the LCC Vets Club,
the amount normally given to LCC
clubs for promotional purposes.

BELFAST- - - -Britfsh soldiers
in Belfast were attacked by angry
women and children when they
attempted to raid suspected hideouts of the outlawed Irish Republican Army. The soldiers used
rubber bullets and nausea gas in
order to take away the prisoners
in the Roman Catholic neighborhood.

French riot police stormed the
downtown jail in Nancy, France,
on Saturday, to put down an insurrection by inmates who kept
the police at bay for more than
five hours with bricks and bottles. They printed a list of griev•
mces calling fo!" better prison
~onditions. Many prisoners were
reported drunk on beer, looted
from the prison kitchen. Some of
the inmates reportedly broke into
the women's section of the P.1.'ison.
FATHER JAMES GROPP!, militant priest and white civil rights
leader from Milwaukee, had his
conviction reversed by the U.S.
Supreme Court this week. Groppi
had been convicted of contempt
for leading a 1000 person welfare demonstration onto the floor
of the Wisconsin legislature.
CLEAR CUT logging has been
saved by order of the president. Nixon stated it would be
i.nfeasible to change the practice
at this time. Governor McCall
had said he would fight to preserve the practice when he was ,
in Washington this week. Anew
ruling prohibiting clear-cut logging would have greatly affected
the industry in Oregon. On Friday, Sen. Gale McGee from Wyoming, who introduced the bill
to have a two year moratorium
on clear-cut logging, charged
that the Nixon administration is
motivated by large timber interests and not by environmental
interests.

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