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Vol. 7 No. 16

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February 22, 1972

Budget problems .end open door policy

President Schafer presents LCC
budget; reports money situation

Can't hear you lcnoclcing

Crowded classrooms such as history instructor Milt Madden's class will possibly become more
and more common at Lane. In this class there are
not enough desks for all of the students, and Mad-

den says his 8 a.m. history class is almost as
crowded. According to LCC President Eldon
Schafer, Lane can no longer serve all those who
want to attend.

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OSPIRG exposes repair
shops

A team of researchers from
the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group (OSPIRG)
has released a study which reveals that certain auto repair
shops in Portland are quoting prices for unneeded repairs and
replacement parts.
Data from the OSPIRG study,
gathered by three Portland State
University students, was turned
over Thursday afternoon, Feb.
17, to t he Consumer Protection
Division of the Multnomah County
District Attorney's office, which
assisted in the study.
Jon Haterius, publicity director for LCC's OSPIRG chapter,
pointed out that originally the •
Lane chapter had planned on
providing data for the project.
"We contacted the Mechanics Depa~tment here, but they weren't

willing to certify the accuracy of
their equipment for theproject,"
Haterius explained.
In 29 visits to 16 repair shops
in the Portland area - with cars
certified as sound by the automotive education departments of
Portland and Mt. Hood Community colleges-the researchers were told they needed work
done in nearly two-thirds of the
instances documented.
After certification, the cars
were taken at separate times
to the repair shops during two
periods, Dec. I to Dec. 9, 1971,
and Jan. 31 to Feb.2, 1972. On
18 of the visits, unnecessary
servicing was recommended, averaging $64.45 each time, the
report noted. Total cost for the
work which was not needed was
estimated at $1,160.19.

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operations of a newspaper. The Editor must be capable of
organizing and directing a staff, and of relating well to other
people.'~ The Editor must be a full time student.
Application forms are available in the TORCH office,
206 Center: They must be returned no later than Wednesday,
March I, to Doris Norman, TORCH business manager. Applicants must be available for a personal interview with the
Media Commission on Tuesday, March 7.
The appointed Editor will serve Spring ri:erm: An Editor
for the 1972-73 school year will be selected next term.

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The study team, in a ten-page
report, concluded that possible
fraudulent practices are occurring in metropolitan Portland
repair shops--at least in those
.visited by the OSPIRG team.
"The finding would imply that
the consumer has less than a 50/
50 chance of receiving fair treatment in this field," the report
stated,

LCC President Eldon Schafer presented the college's current budgetary situation to the 1972-73 budget committee Wednesday,
Feb. 16. His report officially concluded that the college can no longer
serve all those who want to attend a public two-year institution.
Dr.Schafer's statements were foreshadowed the week before,
at the Feb. 9 Board of Education meeting, when he announced that
a revised enrollment ceiling, passed by the State Legislature, would
prohibit any increase in Spring Term enrollment. The budget cut,
as he observed then, will amount to $25,000.
In addition, Schafer linked-LCC's budget problems with cutbacks
in state funding authorization, and pressure against property taxes
and higher tuition.
Schafer also presented a proposed 1972-73 LCC budget document,
calling for increases in the operating budget, in the over-all LCC
property tax rate, and in property tax support for the total budget.
The 14-member budget committee will be examining the proposed
budget in coming weeks to decide whether or not to cut it, and if
so, where.
He added, however, that the increases are only tentative because
the LCC Board of Education and faculty-staff bargaining committee
are still discussing possible wage and salary increases and improved
employee benefits.
The budget proposed no tuition increase, and Schafer reminded
the budget committee of last year's $30 tuition hike to $240 for indistrict students. Out-of-district tuition was raised to $510, and outof-state and foreign student tuition was also raised, to $1,407
and $1,455 respectively, he said.
He pointed out that LCC "still retains the lowest student tuition
rate in any Oregon community college."
Schafer' said the -school's budget has also been "constrained"
by reduced tax support. He said, "The operations of the college and
the level of service it provides is not controlled...by the student
demand, but by the level of support received from the local property
taxpayer and the state.
"Therefore, we must accept the concept that Lane Community
Co 11 e g e is an open door college in the humanistic sense; that is,
there are still no academic barriers for screening out potential
students, but that we cannot be an open door college in terms of
absorbing an indeterminate number of students."
Schafer told the TORCH this week that he sees no likelihood of
conflict between President Nixon's second phase of wage-price freeze
and the proposed budget increases, in spite of administrative policies
imposing price controls on the private sector.
He explained that the increases are designed to include an
additional enrollment of approximately 1,000 students next year by
the hiring of additional teachers and the purchasing of necessary
materials, supplies and equipment.
The college plans to complete paying off a budget deficit that
was incurred two years ago, said Schafer, and he anticipates having
to use local money to replace amounts received this year through the
federal Emergency Employment Act. LCC drew some $282,000 to
continue the previous year's staff level.

Technical-vocational teachers honored
Last Wednesday, Feb.16, prior
to the start of the Budget session,
Board Chairman Catherine Lauris presented certificates of
commendation to 15 students for
exceptional performance in technical-vocational programs and
20 instructors were cited for
their contributions to improving
technical-vocational instruction
at LCC during the past year.
The presentation was in observance of Vocational Education
Week, Feb 13-19.
Receiving student commendations were Jerry Vawter, drafting; Henry Wydra, welding; Julie
Geislinger, secretarial; Frank
Wiebke, data processing; Jon
Erickson and Ray Hobbs; flight
technology; Shirley King, Twyla
Williams, Gayle Alford, early
childhood
education; Denise .
Bauer, Helen Warren, food
service supervision; Gerald
Smith, law enforcement; Mike
Ruiz, wood t e c hno 1ogy; Tom
Curtis, Rod Nolte, business;
Debbie Rowden, Jan Hammond,
secretarial; Larry Foster, in-

surance adjusting; Dave Laberee,
constructional technology; and
Phillip Gourley, forestry.

Gaskill
Teacher of the Year

Also honored for their outstanding contributions to the improvement of technical-vocational instruction at LCC during the
past year were 15 instructors,

They were nominated for recognition by their departments, with
the final selection made by the
Office of Instruction.
The instructors honored were
Mel Gaskill, Howard Dull, Roland
Meyer, John Neely, mechanics;
, Jill Heilpern, home economics;
Evan Alford and Sam Blackwill,
language arts; Ken Rhodes, in. dust rial technology; Barb a r a
Bruner and Millie Hartstrom,
business; Dick Ear 1, special
training; John Auert and Charles
Car 1son, apprenticeship; Tom
Lichty, mass communications.
In addition to the commendation
presented by the Board, Gaskill,
LCC Mechanics Department
chairman, has been selected Oregon's Vocational Teacher of the
year by the Oregon Vocational
Association.
Gaskill, 56, was honored for
his leadership in Oregon vocational education during the past
30 years and particularly for his
work in developing individualized
learning packages for the mechanics training programs at LCC.

The innocent bystander

Conscience malces criminals
In 1964, when the Gulf of Tonkin resolution was adopted nearly
unanimously by the Congress of the United States, most of us were
just beginning high school. As one thinks back from this point,
the year 1964 was really not all that important to our lives.
The succeeding years became increasingly more important as
graduation day approached. For example, 1967 heralded great
decisions for many. The options, for those of us who graduated
that year were: to enter college and secure a deferment; to enlist
and have some choice in where we were sent; and of course - as
the majority did-to wait to be drafted and almost surely end up
in Vietnam.
The other option was, for some 75,000 young men, to evade
the draft. Most ended up in Canada though a small percentage went
to other foreign countries. The statistics of draft evasion were
highest during the peak war years of 1968-70.
In addition, and perhaps even more significant, are the statistics concerning those who deserted from the armed forces for
some length of time: 354,000 men were classified as "deserters''
by the Pentagon, though most were caught eventually.
If one compares these figures with those of World War II, the
contrast is startling: 15,805 men were convicted of the same offense .
in 1941-45.
The point to be made is not one of a comparison. As the ground

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A guide to the mysterious West
by Arthur Hoppe

Mr. Nixon has thoroughly prepared himself for this week's negotiations in Peking by reading a
number of books on the Far East,
including, presumably, the invaluable "An American Guide to
Mysterious China."
Meanwhile, of course,
Chairman Mao Tse-tung has been
boning up on the US. To give you
some idea of the thinking he will
bring to the conference table (if
he . comes), here are excerpts
from the work he has reportedly been studying the hardest.
It's called, "A Chinese Guide
to Mysterious America."

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For more than a quarter of
a century (the Guide begins) America has shut herself off from
the outside Socialist world. Only
recently has this sleeping giant
begun to stir. What has been
going on all these years behind
what is known as "The Plastic
Curtain"?
First of all, America watchers
in Havana and ottawa report
there was an attempt at a great
"Cultural Revolution" in the US
under the Kennedys in the early
1960s. But this ended disastrously in a series of assassinations,
demonstrations and bloody riots
throughout the country.
Since then, the picture has
been confused. But today America

is obviously in the throes of a
vast and mysterious political
struggle.
Not only does Chairman Nixon
face open opposition from Kennedy revisionists, but the whereabouts of some of those once
closest to him are presently unknown. For example, Spiro Agnew, who was photographed at his
side during last year's Fourth
of July Parade, hasn't been seen
in public for months and is rumored de ad , disgraced or dum ped.
The number two man is now believed to be one Henry Kissinger, although he holds no high
official position whatsoever, or a
"Bebe Rebozo," of whom little
is known ...
As to the people, a.mericans
are generally docile, easily-led,
unthinking automatons. This reflects the ant-like culture in
which they live.
Every morning they breakfast
on a bowl of rice or wheat cereal
and then trudge off to work in
teeming masses, clogging a 11
methods of transportation. They
not only look alike with their big
noses, but they dress alike. It
would be difficult to tell a lowly
clerk from Chairman Nixonhimself by their dress alone. (Nixon
has the bigger nose).
They share a common dislike

of thinking. For instance, their
favorite occupation is watching
football on television, for after
each play the announcer explains
to them what happened. Similarly,
every time Chairman Nixon
makes a speech, three men immediately appear on the screen
to explain what he said.
Thus the people are easily governed by simple slogans. One
sees them on posters everywhere
and hears them dinned over the
government-controlled airwaves
constantly. Typical of the many
current mass campaigns to better the environment is: "Stop
Perspiration Wetness!"

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But while the people are duU
and sheep-like, their 1ea de rs,
w it h th e i r legendary insc rutability, make clever negotiators.
They have but one weakness. To
exploit. It is this weakness alone
that has kept them mired down
all these years in Vietnam at
great cost of lives and treasure.
This weakness, so difficult for
the Oriental mind to understand,
is, of course, the American's almost paranoid fear of "losing
face."
( Copyright Chronicle Publishing
Co. 1972)

Letters to the Editor

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war winds down and people have time to think of other aspects of
Vietnam, it comes to mind that the United States' legal system has
75,000 men to deal with.
What did those men do? Four years ago, popular opinion considered them spineless cowards who should be shot on sight. But
times have changed somewhat. Now, most politicians are calling
for some kind of amnesty for evaders. The most popular opinion
calls on them to complete some form of alternate service so that
those who "fought bravely" get equitable treatment.
Regardless
of how
one feels, Newsweek polls show that
71 per cent of the American people favor some form of amnesty.
American logic escapes us on this point. At the same time that
we call on evaders of the draft, or deserters of the army, to return
and face some kind of mitigated punishment for their "crimes," we
desperately shove to the back of our minds the fact that the past ten
years of American history have comprised one of our most shameful periods. During that time, inriumerable crimes were committed
for the sake of the United States' Asian policy.
Now we find that, according_to the latest American logic, those
75,000, who at great personal sacrifice, tried their best to avoid
committing a crime, are guilty because their efforts are considered
a crime.
How many of us, after all, when we submitted to the draft,
did so out of some moral decision. More likely, it was the threat
of prison that convinced us to go.
Those in Canada and elsewhere, those who refused induction
and went to prison, and those who deserted in the field, did so not
out of a subversive cowardice, but out of a moral courage.
People should look at the last ten years, not from the close
proximity of patriotic hysteria (Vietnam is obviously no accident)
but from the distance of our overall actions. With that perspective
those evaders and deserters might, in fact, deserve a medal.

Choice not chance
Last week TORCH staff members talked to LCC students about
the qualities students were looking for in a presidential candidate
(see story, page 8). In a number of instances the response went
something like this: "I don't know if I'm even going to vote."
One can almost hear the opponents of the 18 year old vote saying,
"I told you so." However, politicians have found out that the student
vote counts. Students have become ·•involved in political campaigns
since their enfranchisement: Witness the passage of the cigarette tax.,
In many voting districts students were directly responsible for its
passage.
Before a student steps into a polling booth he has to feel that his
vote will be cast for a candidate whose ideas he can accept.
As the Democratic front-runners grab for more and more of the
middle ground, they become less and less acceptable to students.
Students want a real choice: there was little in 1968, and 1972 looks
like a repeat. The cast of characters changes, but the play remains
th~same. • '
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Dear Editor:
I appreciate your faithfullness
in sending me the TORCH. I
have read every article and I do
enjoy the paper. There are only
a few minor gripes that I have
about the last few issues I've
received.
My few gripes are mostly
about no Student Senate news.
What has happened? I'd liki:! to
hear about the student input on
.some of the college committees.
Do the students even have representation on these committees?
What is the publicity director doing? Has the treasurer given the
TORCH the monthly report on
their budget? What programs or
activities are proposed by the
second vice-president? Who are
the second and first vicepresidents? How and what is the
ASLCC President, 0 mar Barbarossa, doing for the students?
What has happened to OCCSA and
OCCA? What has been taking ,
place on the other committee::
at LCC?
The answer to all these questions is very simple. Just tell
your readers what is happening
in student government.
Sir, I would suggest that you
read the Preamble and Article 11,
Purpose, of the Constitution of the
Associated Students of Lane
Community College. I do believe
that this, with the aid of the ByLaws of the Constitution, should
give you and the rest of the staff
of the TORCH an incentive to
find out if the student government
is doing their job.
The TORCH has been a great
paper and the former Editor,
Mr. Bill Bauguess and his staff
attempted and did succeed in kee.J)ing the student body informed of
all activities and Student Senate
issues. I do believe that this is
not asking too much ofanypaper ..
I also feel that with elections
coming up this Spring Term,
that more students will be as
interested in their representation
as I am. As a former student
and a possible returning stu~ent,
I would like to have somea.nswers

to these questions. I will be ·
keeping in touch with you and ·
any other interested students of
Lane Community College.
Respectfully Yours,
Ron Davis
Dear Editor:
What's "liberation" to me?
I've not felt imprisoned. Since
I was first hired as a college
instructor at the University of
Oregon, I've had equal pay and
rank as a teacher. But Jon West
(who has the responsibility for
seeing that minority and women
students and staff at LCC have
"equal opportunity") is not so
sure that all women have equal
opportunity at Lane or that women
have equal opportunity at all

levels. A federal law says we
should (with the threat of losing
from $100,000 to over a million
dollars in budgeted federal funds
if we don't)--and Jon thinks it's
the right thing to do, anyway.
He's drawing up guidelines to see
to it.
He recently submitted a reprinted article to the "Daily''
(published for LCC staff) in which
a woman outlined "Guidelines"
for hiring women. I was shocked.
I realize those guidelines might
not seem demeaning and discriminatory to a man. They seem
so to me because they are based
on the premise that a woman
applicant should not have equal
opportunity: She should be asked
questions a man would not be
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Paul Waldschmidt
Doug Cudahey

News Editor

Bill Dwyer

Feature Editor

Mik·e Kelly

Sports Editor
Production Manager
Photo Editor
Photographer
Advertising Manager

John Thompson
Jim Gregory
Barry Hood
Manuel Rodriguez
Sue Rebuck·

Copy Editor

Marty Stalick·

Business Manager

Doris Norman

Reporter

Dan Devaney

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Mercury- ove it or leave it

by Mik-.1 Kelly

The idiots who think this country achieved greatness because
of the dollar bill could very well
do us all in yet. The ignorance
that blames the "muckraking,
pinko pre-verts" for disruption
used to be comical. Now it's
down-right spooky.
Oh, in the past, the love affair
between big business and Uncle
Sam was known to degrade and
overlook the little guy at times,
but only seldom did it literally
get away with murder. Not true
today. Mercury pollution has put
human lives in jeopardy, and all
we hear is rhetoric, verifyingthe
sanctity of profit.
Near the end of 1970, several
million cans of mercury-contaminated tl_\na and tons of swordfish were gallantly seized by the
Food and Drug Administration. It
made a big splash, stirred up
the big-shots, scared the people,
and then was forgotten. Everyone
relaxed, tickled pink that the
disaster was averted.
''The mercury disaster wasn't
averted," writes Ed Chaney, in
" Catastrophy Brewing in Quiet
Waters" (National Wildlife. Sept.
1971). "It has us surrounded.''
Ch an e y continues, "In the
1950's and '60's, scores of Japanese men, women, children
and unborn fetuses were killed
or mentally and physically crippled after eating fish highly contaminated by mercury. Hundreds
of deaths have occurred in other
countries from accidental consumption of grain seed coated
with methylmercury fungicides.
In 1969, several members of the
Huckelby family in New Mexico
suffered severe braindamageafter eating pork from a hog mistakenly fed mercury - treated
seed."
Mercury comes in a limited variety of compound forms. The
most dangerous, even in small
quantities, is methylmercury. All
forms of mercury are transformed into methylmercury when
they come in contact with water.
Says Chaney, "In animals, methylmercury causes irreversible
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nervous system. In high concentrations, the symptoms are convulsions, blindness, coma and
death. Methylmercury passes
freely through a mother's placenfa and damages or kills unborn young.
While the source ot mercury
found in the ocean is still unknown, Chaney says, "the dangerous contamination of wildlife
and fish in inland waters can be
laid directly to the use of mercury-based pesticides and various industrial mercurydischarges." Aha! (Now, you think,
"we're getting somewhere.")
Don't hold your breath.
"What may prove to be the
greatest single environmental
disaster in our history," says
Chaney bitterly, "is now generally perceived as nothing more than
a 'close call' by those not personally affected. We have now Iiterally settled back to await the
next crisis."
This is the overall industrial
plan.
"Of course we may emit mercury into the environment,"
chime the big money men. "And
as soon as it is scientifically
proven we should not do so, we
will take appropriate action."
Sounds far-fetched, but that
same statement has been heard
right here in Lane County from
the pulp and paper minigods.
The problem of mercury pollution is being dealt with most
fervently by industry today in
Public Relations Departments,
not in the areas of possible alternatives and cures.
The University of Toronto
has found mercury concentrations in toothbrush bristles, poultry, wheat flour, bread, long grain
rice, skim milk powder, cheese,
tea, beef liver and cosmetics.
A special federal task force
investigating mercury last year,
reported, '' It seems unlikely that
we will find overt mercury poisoning from the consumption of
fish or other food products, as
normally marketed, in this country. This is not to say that
there may not be a few individuals, who because of high consumption of contaminated fish,
may have signs of mercury poisoning or suffer possible subclinical effects, including delayed
neurological or intellectual damage. Also, possibly infants or
children may have impaired development ... "
In the same report, another
chiller leaked _out: " . . .it appears probable, that even with
the complete elimination of new
discharges of mercury, existing
deposits in sediments of waterways will continue to yield the
highly toxic methylmercury for
decades to come."
All of this, we were told, we
had averted. If this is aversion,
just what, in the name of money,
are our real problems?

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asked, based on sex discrimination. A woman's motives should
be questioned, and her personal
life considered, according to the
guidelines. Young women ("sweet
young things") should be considered poor job ·risks. A woman
should not be hired if she might
try to "out-do" men or critcize
. what they do. Most of the guidelines were excuses for nqt hiring women.
If such demeaning attitudes
and assumptions were used in
drawing up guidelines for hiring
minorities, the racism would be
obvious. I hope we wouldn't accept
racist guidelines, and that we
would be heard if we spoke out
against such racism.
If women truly do not have
equal opportunity at Lane, perhaps it is because discrimination
against women is more subtle
or less recognized than racial
discrimintation is. After all,
a woman wrote those guidelines,
and Jon says some LCC women
approved of them. Jon says

Springfield Rotary
sponsoring Brazilian
students at LCC

Two exchange students from
Brazil, Angela Pizzani and Juraci
Badke are visiting Lane Community College this quarter as part
of a program sponsored by the
Springfield Rotary Club.
Angela and Juraci, both English language students, are on a
two month vacation from the Federal University of EsperitoSanto. During their stay, they are
observing several LCC classes
and using the facilities of the
college's Study Skills Center to
increase their knowledge of the
English language.
When asked for their impressions of LCC, Angela said, ''I
like it very much. The boys and
girls are very kind." •
Juraci agreed, "I love it. I
ohly wish I could stay longer
than two months."

women's problems are not the
same as minority problems. To
whatever extent our problems are
different from those of minorities, perhaps we women on campus need to l}elp assure equal opportunity for women, since Jon
is a man. He has said repeatedly that he's concerned about
our welfare. Any ideas about how
we can help him assure true equal
opportunity? I am not uptight
about women's lib, but I am
anxious to make sure the college
_doesn't lose its federal funding.
Ms. Karen Lansdowne
Language Arts Instructor
Dear Editor:
I would like to encourage all
LCC students, especially the
men, to attend "The Woman's
Film" this Friday, Feb. 25. This
free showing will be in Apprenticeship Building, Room 223-224
at 12:30 p.m.
''The Woman's Film" is by,
about and for women. Jt is about
women's liberation in the truest
and most far-reaching sense.
It is political without the usual
rhetoric, feminist without being
anti-male.
The women in the film are not
bra burners and are not now
members; they are poor and
working class women with problems that have to do with their
everyday existences. They
understand that they play a secondary role to men, but know that
their real oppressor is a system
which does not recognize their
needs as human beings.
I think every one can learn
from this beautiful film. It is a
rare opportunity to see what
women's liberation is all about.
Sincerely,
Glenn Robb
Dear Editor:
We should all be concerned
with the quality of the education
we work for. For this reason,
there are quite a few of us who
wish to bring to the attention
of the students and particularly

TORCH

the administration of LCC, certain facts deserving immediate
rectification. The following major subjects are, as of now receiving only two credits: Eletrical Draftings; ..Architectural
Drafting:. .Drafting I & II; . .
Mechanical Drafting; . . Structural Drafting; ..Advanced Machine Drafting I, II & III; . .
Technical Illustration; .. Welding
la, lb, 2a and 2b; . .Drafting
Fundamentals; . .Materials of
Practical Descriptive Geometry;
. .Structural Analysis and Design; ..and Mapping and Computing I ..
Surely, when First Aid Personal Health and Typing (as examples) receive 3 credits, there
is pressing need for these subject credits to be reviewed and
adjusted without delay. It would
help, if concerned students, even
if not involved in Industrial Technology, would drop a word to the
department he ad and or anyone
who might get the necessary machinery speeded up.
Sincerely,
Daniel B. Harding

Dear Editor:
I wish to express my thanks
to the TORCH staff and advisor,
. also the secretary, Mrs. Norman,
for their tolerance of a jobsampling observer.
I came on a basis of finding
. out if schooling in the field of
journalism would suit me, I'm
now sure it will.
The atmosphere at the TORCH
is casual, without being lazy. I
think this is a great co-operating
staff. They work smoothly as a
whole, as well as individuals.
I enjoyed my time there, and
hope the students can appreciate
the TORCH as much as I have.
Someday I hope to work in this
field, and if so, I hope there
will exist the co-operation and
temperament as I found there.
Thank you again TORCH friends.
Jacki Howe

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the TORCH and they will be
referred to the doctor.

Why all the static about V.D.?
Clap is clap, isn't it?
Wondering
Dear Wondering:
Well you might wonder. As infectious diseases, syphilis and
gonorrhea, two entirely different
venereal diseases, are out-ranked in incidence only by the
common cold. In turn, they outrank numerically all other cases
of infectious diseases such as
strep throat, scarlet fever, measles, mumps, hepatitis, and tuberculosis combined! The V.D.
you refer to stands for venereal
disease, and it does deserve a lot
of static.
The common cold has yet to
find medic at ion to vanquish it.
However, venereal diseases can
be cured by penicillin and other
antibiotics so there is no reaso:i for it to be numerically almost on a level with colds. Unlike the common cold, untreated
venereal diseases can have tragic
and far reaching consequences.
Let's get names straight. The
clap you refer to is also known
as a gleet, morning drop, dose,
anj the whites. The medical term
for all these names is gonorrhea.
The cause is a specific organism
called the gonacoccus.
Another common venereal dise as e is syphilis,
otherwise
known as pox, bad blood, siff
and old Joe. The cause is a specific organism known as the spirochete of Pollidurn.
Both of these venereal diseases
are passed frompersontoperson
by sexual intercourse or by close
body contact involving the sex
organs, mouth and rectum. The
organisms causing these diseases can't live long away from the
mo!.st warm areas of the body,
and die when exposed to light and
air. People do not "catch" these
venereal diseases from toilet
seats, door knobs, or eating utensils.
No one bu i 1 d s immunity to
either gonorrhea or syphilis by
having once had them-you can be
reinfected again - - and again.
A person can have both gonorrhea and syphilis at the same
time.
A person can have either gonorrhea or syphilis and not know

it.

Untreated gonorrhea can cause
chronic infection, sterility, heart
trouble, arthritis, and blindness.
• You can infect your unborn
baby if you have untreated syphilis, causing stillbirth or congenital defects.
• You can infect your baby
when it is being born if you have
untreated gonorrhea.
• You can prevent venereal
disease by either abstinence or
by having sex only with apartner
you know is free from disease.
• You can be cured if you
contact the disease by going to a
phys.ician or the County Health
Department.
• You can help to stop this
epidemic by seeking diagnosis
and treatment if you suspect you
have contacted a venereal disease, by learning about preventive measures, by urging public
schools to teach pupils about venereal diseases, and by supporting efforts to do research about
V.D.

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Committe e to poll LCC student$

A graduation committee, composed of students, staff, faculty,
and administration, is curious
about the type of spring graduation ceremony most desired
by LCC students - or whether
students want a commencement
exercise at all.
In order to find consensus,
and to plan for June 4 - the
date established for a possible

Student Senate says no trip
The ASLCC Senate, in special
session last Thursday, Feb. 17,
refused to send student delegates
to the American Association of
Junior Colleges. During the session the Senate also approved
plans for two free concerts at

Particip~te and win
in LCC autocross

The sixth annual "Icebreaker
Autocross," slalom event sponsored by the Via Currus Club,
will be staged at LCC, Sunday,
Feb. 27. AU participants will
be awarded a dashplaque and the
best time turned in by a novice
LCC student will receive a $10
prize donated by Art Tegger,
LCC language arts instructor.
Registration starts at 10 a.m.
and the only requirement for
entry is that the car be equipp_ed
with a seat belt. For more information, phone 344-9280 or

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4. If there is a graduation
ceremony, should students be
required to wear caps and
academic gowns?
5. Would you pay $3.50 rental
fee for the cap and gown?
6. If there is a graduation exercise, should there be a main
speaker?
7. If so, what type of speaker
should the college invite: Student, Local School Official,
State Official, or Big Name
Personality?
Irene .l:'arent, graduation committee chairwoman, hopes to have
20 per cent of the student body
respond. The survey will involve
about 1,000 questionnaires, parceled to departments so ·that a
representative response is obtained. The survey will begin this
week and continue through March.

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Lane.
Both the Senate Finance Committee and the Executive. Cabinet
in earlier meetings had recommended that two student delegates
attend the convention in Dallas,
Texas. Following lengthy debate;
before the Senate the proposal
was defeated in a roll call vote,
15 to 10.
Tom Boyd, representative for
T.J. Associates, presented a
package plan for a set of two
concerts. The concerts, tentatively scheduled for the middle
of May, will feature Mississippi
George Lee (George Lee Spears)
a folk a_nd blues guitarist.

1. Do you want a graduation
ceremony at the end of the
school year?
2. Are you a graduating student?
3. Would you participate in
a graduation exercise if it
were held on June 4?

688-7403.

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Sunday afternoon ceremony - the
committee is asking chairmen
from each of the college's departments to help poll student opinion. The Department Chairmen
are requested to supply instructors in their departments with
_questionnaire cards, and ask the
instructors to have students record preferences to the following
questions:

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But watch out for the steps

Harder than it looks

Bill Bauguess, writer for the Student News Bureau, gets a
first hand idea of what problems handicapped students face during
a normal day at LCC. He felt if he became aware of the problems
involved, he would be able to inform the public of the problems
facilities for the handicapped at LCC.

Fo_r training purposes

Air Frames to get whirlybird
On Tuesday, Feb. 15 Mel Gaskill, head of the Mechanics Department, received notice from
US Congressman John Dellenback's office that the LCC Air
Frames Department will be obtaining a Hiller OH23-C Helicopter. The helicopter will be
used for training purposes by me- chanics students.
After the LCC Board of Edu-

cation approved Gaskill's requisition for t~e helicopter on Jan.12,
he forwarded the paper work to
the H~alth, Education and Welfare Department's regional office
in Seattle. HEW checked with the
Oregon Division of State Surplus Properties in Salem and located the helicopter Gaskill was
looking for.
The helicopter is one of several that were surplused to the
Portland National Guard. Now
that the request has gone through
the copter will be turned over to
LCC as soon as the paperwork
has been cleared with the Portland Unit.
The cost to LCC will be $150,
to be paid to the Department of
General Services in Salem, and
will be used to cover the cost
of paperwork.

Right or
wrong
Patriotism remains the one
major area in which we have
the most to learn. The conservatives and the hawks
have managed to capture the
symbols of patriotism while
we stood mute. They have
wrapped the flag around the
mindless principle of "My
country, right or wrong.''
The beginning of a response
might be the credo of former
senator Carl Schurz of Missouri in 1899: "My country,
right or wrong. But when
right to be kept right, and
when wrong, to be put right."
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gas refrigerator, heater. Good
tires and engine. Priced for
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trade •.. desks, dressers, bookcases, tables, couches, beds,
mattresses, springs, etc. REASONABLE PRICES.
See you
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1936 Main, Springfield. Phone
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LCC MEETING Tues. at noon,
MATH 205
Lane County MEETING,
Tues., 7:30pm
Newman Center, 1850 Emerald

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Why would a physically unhandi ca PP e d student voluntarily
spend a day at LCC in a wheel
chair? On Wednesday, Feb. 16,
Bill Bauguess, LCC student,
checked out a wheel chair from
the Student Health Service and
proceeded through his day attending classes in a wheel chair,
with his legs chained together.
According to Bauguess, "I wanted
•to spend a day in a wheel chair
in order to have some first hand
idea of what problems handicapped students face during a normal day at LCC. This is one of
_the few campuses in the state
that had in its original design
facilities fo~ handicapped peop-

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.TUESDAY, Feb. 21:
Vietnam Veterans Against the
War, 12 noon in Mth 207.
Native Americans Student Association, 12 noon in For 311.
Baha'i Fellowship, 12 noon in
Cen 420.
Christian Science Club, 3 p.m.
in Cen 421.
WEDNESDAY, Feb.22:
Campus Crusade for Christ,
film, "Explo '72" 12 rioon in
Cen 404. Also shown Feb.23,
12 noon in For 309.
THURSDAY, Feb. 23:
Deseret Club, II a.m. in Hea
102.
Student Senate meeting, 3 p.m.
in Adm 202.
Campus Crusade for Christ,
12 noon in For 309.
FRIDAY, Feb. 24:
Political Mobilization film and
speaker, 12:30 p.m. in.Apr 223.
ADC Scholarship potluck dinner, 7:30 p.m. in cafeteria.
MONDAY, Feb. 27:
Mature Women on Campus
meeting, 2 p.m. in Cen 124.

FOR SALE: 1968 Westfalia VW
camper, $2,200. Excellent condition, low mileage. Phone 3449289.
BUNDY E-FLAT alto saxophone
for sale, good condition. For
information call 343-2797.

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Bauguess andhiswife,LaVerna,
work for the Student News Service Bureau, writing feature articles about students and campus
activities for various community
newspapers.
"We have about ten people
per term here at LCC who are
confined to wheel chairs," continued Bauguess. "We suspecttha:t
there are a· large number of
handicapped people in the community who may not be aware of
the facilities here at LCC. My
wife and I will try to inform these
people through a feature article
to be published in the various
community newspapers."
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rf'ii e Springfield Chapter of
American Business Women's Association is accepting applications for financial assistance for
Springfield women going to college. Financial assistance in the
amount of $350 for the academic
year will be given out to those
who need it. Applications may
be picked up in the Financial
Aids Office.

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The Lane County.divi;r;;of
Oregon Women's Political Caucus will meet Wednesday, Feb.
23, at 8 p.m. at Harris Hall
next to the County Courthouse,
Eugene. All local women of all
political parties are invited to
participate. The purpose of the
Caucus is to encourage women
to participate in politics at all
levels.

EXPLO '72
Come hear more about how God is moving all over
the world to mak-e people whole through Jesus. This
massive Christian convention will help change mill ions
of lives.

The film ... EXPLO '72
404 Center

Wednesday, 12:00

309 Forum

Thursday, 12:00

Campus Crusade for Christ

"BATTLE OF ALGIERS"

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between 1954 and 1957
Banned in France until 1971.
February 24

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FOR SALE: Will sell cheaply-used Morse sewing machine.
Good for basic sewing and mending. $10.00 or best offer. Call
344-7659 for more information.
WANTED:
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needed to share large one-bedroom apartment in Springfield.
Close to LCC. Your share, $50.
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tered was negotiating through the
doors. "The threshholds are a
little steep. If you can get someone to open the door for you,
you can sail right through. If
you have to open the door yourself, you have to run the wheel
chair right up to the threshhold
next to the bump and its fairly
difficult. I couldn't make it
through," he admitted.
Bauguess concluded, "People
who are accustomed to the wheelchair can generally do alright.
It takes a while to get used to
the wheel chair. I didn't have
any big problems though. The
ramps were well designed and
overall, the geographic facilities
~~.re ~~ite convenient.''

Science is the basis for
religious understanding.
Science helps discover
the secrets of the material
world.
Religion reveals the understanding of the spiritual
world.
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the weekend. The first came on
Friday night against Clatsop
Community College.
Lane pulled it's usual tricks
against Clatsop, out rebounding
CCC 75 to 42. Terry Manthey
collared 16 and Dave Gibson
grabbed 13 caroms for the Titans. It was a very close first

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half. Clatsop capitalized on some
hot shooting from the field while
Lane scooped up anything that
missed and put it right back up
again. A.t the buzzer it was 38
to 38.
Then ace guard Greg Taylor
went to work for Coach Irv Roth,
hitting 20 points in the second
half and scoring at will against
the suddenly inept Clatsop defense. When the smoke cleared,
Taylor had 36 points, 12 rebounds
and LCC had the game, 95-71.
Portland's Judson Baptist visi-

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Lane's women's basketball team shown in action with Southern
Oregon College of Ashland Saturday, Feb. 12 at LCC. The Titan'
women are in the light uniforms. They won three games last week.

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All women interested in track
should attend a meeting scheduled
for Thursday, March 2, at 2:30
in room 156 of the Health Building (First Aid Class Room).
Anyone unable to attend the meeting should contact Mrs. Cooley
or leave a message for her in the
Physical Education Department,
if they wish to be on the team.
Sign-up sheets are now in the
weight room, locker room, and
the intramural office of the Health
Building for a men's weight lifting tournament. The two-day
competition starts Mar. 1 with
the Olympic lift (military press,
snatch, clean and jerk) and on
Mar. 8, the odd lift (arm curl,
military press, bench press).
Competition will begin at 4 p.m.
each day.
Interested men should sign-up
now~ indicating; name, we i g ht,
phone number, and specifying
which day(s) they will lift. The
deadline for signing up for the
Olympic Lift is Feb. 25. Deadline for the Odd Lift is Mar. 3.

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Lane's women's basketball
team had a busy and successful
week winning three games and
losing only one.
Monday, Feb. 7, LCC defeated Clark College 41-16. The Titans' defense was tenacious,
holding Clark down to 16 points.
Suzan Mitchell did her part for
Lane offensively, scoring 25
points to break the old scoring
record of 21, held by Patti Hansen.
On Wednesday, Feb. 9, Lane
hosted ·a game :with OSU. LCC
was ahead throughout the game,
but almost lost it in the closing
minutes of the game. Lane was
victorious 26-24.
In a game played on Saturday,
Feb. 12, LCC was defeated by
Southern Oregon College, 37-21.
Defensively, the Titans played
one of their best games. Lane
did a lot of shooting but was
unable to hit the bucket, as they
fell to the strong "A" team of
The quickness of Lisa Fox, the
leadership of Sharon Isaacs, and
the shooting ability of Suzan Mitchell helped to lead LCC to victory over Oregon College ofEducation Tuesday, Feb. 15 at home.
Lane's defense was outstanding.
The score was close throughout
the game until the final minutes
when the Titans pulled ahead to
win 23-21.
LCC's record is now three
wins and four losses.
They will try to improve on
their record with a final league
game before tournament play
Tuesday, Feb. 22 1 with the U of 0
"B" team at 4 p.m., here.

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ted LCC Saturday night, only to
suffer a 91 to 62 defeat at the
hands of a streaking Titan team.
The first half was close until .
Lane switched to a zone defense
with three minutes left. The potent scoring threat of offensive
rebounding and hot shooting exploded with 13 big points to virtually eliminate Judson's threat.
Lane finished the first half with
a 44 to 31 lead. In the second
half the Titans continued to methodically destroy their opposition by outscoring Judson 47 to
31 to win the contest. Greg Taylor took scoring honors with 28
points and Terry Manthey turned
in another of his almost routine
superb performances by caging
16 rebounds and firing in 23
points. The big center from Cottage Grove is one of the principle reasons for LCC's deadly
rebounding machine.
Unfortunately, the Titans also
lost a game this week, and it
was a key one too. They lost to
the . Umpqua Timbermen by a
close 79 to 74 count Tuesday.
Cold shooting was Lane's downfall in this game as they hit only
28 out of 80 from the field.
Friday, Feb. 25 the Titans battle Southwestern Community College at Coos Bay, and Saturday,
Feb. 26 Lane tangles with LinnBenton at home. The game starts
at 7 p.m.
(See Oregon Gossip).

OCCAA Baslc:·etball Standings

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Linn-Benton
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LANE
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Clackamas
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The Lane basketball team is
looking at some big games this
week. They are now in fifthplace
with nine wins and five losses,
and have a chance to gain the
four team playoffs.
A big order, true. They have
to defeat Southwestern Oregon
Community College, and LinnBenton to have a chance. If this
is accomplished, they will then
hope for someone else to defeat SWOCC, and should this happen, the Titans will have fourth
place all to themselves and be
in the playoffs.
The SWOCC game is scheduled
for Coos Bay on Friday, Feb. 25
at 8 p.m., and the Linn-Benton
game will be played here Saturday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. A nonconference game is on tap too.
This game is with Northwest
Christian tonight, Feb. 22, there
at 7 p.m.
Dick Newell, assistant athletic
director at LCC, has informed
the TORCH that the fine "12:30
Lab Band" will perform at the
Linn-Benton game Saturday. This
is an excellent group, friends,
and it should add alot of color
for the game. •
Coach Irv Roth's Titans are
a sound basketball team at this
point. Except for two games that
they really should have won,
(SWOCC and Chemeketa), their
season has really been a dandy.
Much better than most expected. I think the team has even
been a surprise to Coach Roth.
The Basketballer's Greg Taylor, leads conference scoring
with 31.5 points per game, and
has a .522 shooting per cent.
Steve Woodruff is in the conference top 20 with a 14.5 per
game scoring average.
Then we have Terry Manthey,
who is number five in conference rebounding with an average
of 11. 7 per game. Terry leads
the league in free throw accuracy with 27 for 31, and an .871
per cent.

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The Oregon Duck basketball
team suffered through another
fruitless pair of games this past
weekend, this time playing in the
friendly confines of Mac Court.
Friday the Ducks lost to California 71 to 67, and were bombed by Stanford 91 to79Saturday.
The superstars of these opposing teams were the downfall for
the Ducks. Ansley Truitt, Cal's
fine 6 foot 9 inch center was
devastating Friday night as it

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mammg, which hurt the Ducks.
But Cal's fine forward, John
Coughran, fouled out shortly
thereafter.
This
minimized
Blair's absence.
Coughran didn't want to leave
the game, but he received some
assistance from his coach, Jim
Padgett, in leaving the game.
Coach Padgett came onto the floor
and escorted him off while giving
him a lecture.
Bob Johnson hit for two for Cal
with over a minute to play to
increase the Bear's lead to three,
70 to 67.
With 1:23 to play Cal's big
gun, Truitt, le~t the game with
an injured thumb, but Cal seemingly had the game wrapped up.
Cal's Lance Armstrong hit ·a
free throw which produced the final score of 71 to 67. Oregon's
Billy Ingram shot a one and one
with seven seconds remaining,
but he missed, and so did the
Ducks at defeating Cal.
Saturday night, behind star
guard Claude Terry's 36 points,
the Stanford Indians defeated the
Ducks soundly, 91 to 79. Midway
through the second half with Stanford leading by ten, Stanford
Coach Howie Dallmar ordered his
team into a zone defense, which
broke the Ducks' back. They were
unable to penetrate it with any
consistency.
Blair also fouled out in this
game, and Coach Harter was so
upset about the last foul (Blair's
fifth) that he was called for two
technicals. Harter was vehement
in his discussion with the referees. He talked to both, and they
both tagged him with a technical.
Stanford shot well throughout
the game, finishing with a fine
47 per cent. The Indians are now
five and five in conference play,
and the Ducks have eight losses
with no wins.

seemed he could not miss. He
hit from the outside and inside
for a game high of 34 points. I
expect if he had been asked to
shoot from the balcony his consistency wouldn't have dropped
any.
The game started slow, and it
took about eight minutes for Mac
Court to come alive. Cal pulled
steadily ahead u n ti I Oregon's
Doug Little made his presence
known with 11:20 to play in t~e
first half. Little hit four straight
to tie the game at 18 to 18. He
hit seven in succession before he
missed, and the Ducks were leading 22-21 at that point.
With 4:33 to play Oregon's
Coach Dick Harter was called
for a technical foul when he protested a jump ball call. Most of
the crowd and Harter felt that
Carlson had been fouled on a rebound play by Truitt. But one of
the officials called a jump ball,
and the protest was on.
The Ducks were down 41 to 36
at half time.
In the second half they really
made a run at the Bears. With
17:30 to play, Harter sent Rusty
Blair into the game. Then things
began to happen, as Rusty seemed to spark the team. It was
catch-up time at that point, and
that's just what the Ducks did.
With 13:29 to play, Oregon called time out. They were down
by just two, 48 to 50, and Duck
fans were going wild. They even
had the score board shaking.
Oregon's Paul Sunderland, a
six foot five inch forward from
Malibu, California, hit two after
the time out to tie the score at
50 to 50. Then with 12:15 to
play, L it t I e stole the ball and
layed it in. Oregon led 52 to 5?·
Blair's shot put the Ducks m
front by four, and Sunderlund hit
another to put the Ducks in the
lead 56 to 52 with 10:50 to
play. Things were looking good
for the Webfoots.
However, with 9:55 to play,
Cal tied the game at 56 all, and
it was a see-saw battle for the
most partafterthat.Inthisperiod
Sunderlund made some clutch
baskets to keep the Ducks in the
game.
Blair fouled out with 4:40 re-

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Mikel Kelly, our feature editor 1 is quite elated with the way
his alma mater is playing basketball, and with good reas?n;
the Waldport Irish have 12 wms
and no losses in the Trico League, and are 17-1 for the se~son.
Looks like Waldport has ideas
about J Class A State Championship. Right, Mr. Kelly?

Lane to sponsor women's tourney
Lane Community College is the
site of a two-day college worn en's basketball tournament,
Friday, Feb. 25 and Saturday,
Feb. 26.
Thirteen teams representing

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Are a Basketball Championships - at LCC.

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west College Women's Sports Association will compete in the single elimination tournament. The
first round of games will begin
at 10 a.m. Friday, with the finals scheduled to begin at 2:30
p.m. on Saturday.
Game schedules may be obtained by calling the Health &
Physical Education office at Lane
Community College - 747-4501,
ext. 277. The tournament director is Lorraine Hein, a student
at Lane Community College.
The following institutions have
entered teams in the tournament:
Willamette · University, Salem;
University of Oregon, Eugene;
Southern Oregon, Ashland; Portland State, Portland; Pacific University, Forest Grove; Clark Jr.
College, Vancouver; OregonState
University, Corvallis; Oregon
College of Education, Monmouth;
Mt. Hood Community College,
Gresham; Marylhurst, Portland.
Lewis & Clark, Portland; George
Fox. Newberg, and Lane Community College.

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by John Thompson

Coach Bob Creed's wrestlers
traveled to Oregon City last
weekend for the Oregon Community College Championships at
Clackamas Community College.
The matmen placed third with
37 points in this meet parallelling their previous highest finish,
which was in 1969. The overwhelming favorite, the Clackamas Cougars finished first with
101 points; and with 71 points

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was Central Oregon's strong
team, who finished second.
Lane's Murray Booth was named the outstanding wrestler as
he pinned both of his opponents.
He now has 12 pins for the season. His record stands at 12
wins and only one loss. Booth
wrestles in the heavyweight division.
Ken Kime, who wrestles in the
158 pound division handled both
of his opponents in this tournament, increasing his season record to 13 wins and only one defeat. Kime was TORCH Athlete
of the Month for January.
- Murray Booth and Kime are
only the second and third state
championship wrestlers for LCC.
Previous to their emergence,
Wally Blood, who wrestled in the
123 pound class, had been the only
state champ for the Titan wrest-

ling program. This was in 1969.
Terry Payne, 126 pound grappler, had an outstanding to?r!'lament with a third place fm1sh,
according to Coach Creed.
Curt Crone lost weight so that
he would be able to wrestle in
the 134 pound class for this
tournament. Coach Creed stated
that Crone received a bad draw
at Oregon City, as he had to
wrestle the powerful Cougar's
Larry Johnson. lle lost this match
seven to one, but he came back
to acquire third place, and the
consolation prize.
Suffering a shoulder separation at the Clackamas meet was
Richard Bucholtz. This hampered
him as he placed fourth in the
competition. Bucholtz had five
wins and two losses prior to the
competition at Oregon City.
Co a c h Creed said that the
lighter weights have really improved this year, and. tha_
t he is
particularly pleased with al Mc' ·Kay, who placed fourth in the
118 pound division.
In other action the Titan Wrestler lost to the Umpqua Community
College Timbermen Friday, Feb.
11 by a 36 to 18 count. Booth
and Kime both won their matches with pins. The grapplers'
season record is now five wins
and four losses, and in conference
dual competion LCC has hvo wins
• and three losses.
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Next stop for Coach Creed and
his winners will be the District
18 Regionals to be held in Rexburg Idaho Feb. 25 and 26. The
young men accompanying Creed
to Rexburg will be: Murray Booth,
Kime Payne and Crone.
Coa'ch Creed said that h~ is extremely happy with the showing
of the wrestlers this year, and
hopes to do as well, if not better next year.

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Studen·ts"·- v;eYi pr;maries

by Doug Cudahey

Presidential primary season opens in New
Hampshire in a few short weeks, and so far
the masses have 14 announced candidates from
which to choose.
New Hampshire-ites are proud of their
state's holding the first presidential primary
in election years; they feel that, though their
state is numerically less than significant, it
has power to set the tone for presidential candidates.
It may seem early in the year to begin thinking about voting for a president of this country,
but it certainly doesn't seem so to the candidates.
With 14 announced candidates (and, undoubtedly
more will announce or be drafted later in the

Bill Nash

"I am for the man that puts
the money back on the street.
I'd rather see Wallace president
than Nixon. At least Wallace is
for spending money at home and
not out of the country. I would
be in a bind if Wallace were
elected, but then I would be in
the "dog house" no matter who
got into office."

Chris Smith

"I pick out things the candidates say that sound good and
then later they lose their meaning for me because a politician
will have said them. All the
candidates say that they will end
the war just like Nixon did."

year), we can expect a lot of rhetoric.
Candidates this year face immense problem
areas in the fields of the economy, the war,
peace, and myriad domestic issues. Many divergent views and solutions for these problems
are held by the candidates.
The voter, more so this year than in preceeding elections, will have to do a lot of homework in sorting through the candidates, reading
and studying each candidates' record and platform.
For these reasons, the TORCH went into the
campus community, to listen to people and find
what, if any, thoughts the approaching primaries
have sparked in them.

Don Cottel
"I wouldn't base all my decisions on past issuees. I
think Nixon would be a good
choice for the reason he is
President now and has done a
fair job ending the war."

Manuel Rodriguez
"I am looking for a president
that is going to spend money on
things that the people need, not
just random spending on his own
whims."

Desi Freeman

'' I feel • that people are tired
of Richard Nixon and for that
reason the elections might go all
Democratic. This country needs
better race relations and it seems
that the Nixon administration is
not going to help this come about.
I see things changing this year.

Paulette Medeiros
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You should find out what the
candidates stand for and what
they plan to do to help the people. I am not going to vote, If
I really understood politics better, I would vote."

This week in the news
Thousands of dollars are being
raised by Communist organizations throughout the world for the
defense of Angela Davis. Collections of some $85,000 have been
raised according to black actor,
Ossie Davis, who works for Ms.
Davis' defense fund
raising.
Among the nations contributng to
her fund are Russia, Italy, Cuba,
and other Latin American countries.

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fight any move toward a united
Ireland. The militia is being organized by the Protestant Vanguard Movement. British authorities view the Vanguard as the
beginning of the long foretold
Protestant backlash which has
been anticipated since the guerilla war of the outlawed Irish
Republican Army was stepped up
in the North.

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Administration officials have
announced this week that President Nixon is preparing to renew
economic aid to Pakistan and military aid to Greece, but is withholding a decision on whether to
renew military shipments to Pakistan. Aid to Greece had been
heavily criticized because the
Greek government has acquired
a reputation for being extremely
repressive and dictatorial.

A flood-ravaged town in Montana has asked flood relief aid
from the Soviet Union. In a telegram to the Russian Embassy in
Washington, the local committee
for flood relief said, "The people
of Three Forks having suffered
a disastrous flood and having been
ignored by all state and federal
agencies, do hereby appeal. . •
to the government of the U.S.S.R.
for foreign aid to alleviate the
present flood conditions."

Large numbers of Northern
Irish Protestants are signing up
in an armed militia pledg_ed to

In Detroit, the Ford Motor
Company announced its 1971 profits totaled $657 million, up 27

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per cent from the $516 million
earned in 1970. It was the second
highest profit year in Ford's history.

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The Florida Supreme Court
ruled that the state's 104-year
old anti-abortion law was "vague,
indefinite and unconstitutional."

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The U.S. Census Bureau reported that among women aged 1824, the nation was fast approaching zero population growth rates
because the number of children
American women expected to
bear had dropped so sharply between 1967 and 1971.

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Defense Se c r e t a r y Melvin
Laird, appealing for $83.4 million in modernization of U.S.
defenses, warned Congress that
the Russians were close to achieving a major new military capability, comparable in shock value
to the Sputnik which surprised the
world in 1957.

(Editor's note: The Campus Forum serves as an opportunity for members of the LCC community to express their opinions. The following
was prepared by Karla Schultz, LCC language arts instructor.)
I would like to share my involvement in the following issue
with the LCC community. The issue itself, and the administrative
handling of it, may well be of general interest.
In LCC's "Daily" appeared on Feb. 3 a quotation from" A
Guide to Judging Women Job Candidates," submitted by Jonathon
West, advisor to the president for equal opportunity. The text
contained several discriminatory implications, as the following
quotes will show:
• "The techniques, methods and problems involved in hiring
women are not essentially different from those for hiring
men ... it is only the women who are different."
(In what respect are women, with proper qualifications as
prospective employees, different from men?)
e"Don't look for a woman who is one of the boys ... The "one
of the boys" female is rarely a success in business and is
likely to make others uncomfortable and end up unpopular,
even with herself." (Does this mean that traits such as aggressiveness, analytic
ability, self-control, achievement motivation, and independence
are undesirable in women?)

e"Watch out for the woman who just plaindoesn't like to work
at anything and thinks an outside job wouldn't require much
effort."
(Does this mean one shouldn't watch out for a man with that
attitude?)
•"A real need to compete is a good motivation, but not outdoing the man in the family or the man on the job."
(Why not-if she is better qualified that a man?)
•"Be sure she is not really saying that what she doesn't
like is the way men treat or act toward women. In business,
that's a danger signal."
The text submitted by Mr. West was not accompanied by an
explanatory comment as to whether these guidelines are, should be,
or should not be followed by LCC. To stimulate awareness of the
discriminatory aspects I submitted a lighthearted parody of the
text to the "Daily" but was refused publication on the grounds that
the "Daily" is an administrative organ.
Since I was interested in the purpose of publishing these
. guidelines, I contacted Mr. West, but did not receive an answer
to my question.
Mr. West's position, as defined by himself, "should be one
which is based on positive progress instead of negative regression.
It, or he, should spell out goals, direction and motives as interpreted by law and school policy, then work with the same enthusiasm
and concern as we do to reach any other goals."
Inspired by this definition, I therefore sent a memo to Mr.
West:
"As a~ employee of LCC I am vitally interested in clarification
of this issue on equal opportunity. Since the text was not
accompanied by an explanatory comment I would like to request_
a written statement explaining the specific purpose of publishing the quotation."
On February 14 I received the following response from Mr.
West:
"In answer to your question as to why it was printed in the
'Daily.' It was printed because I requested it. I requested its printing
because I thought it might help stimulate an awareness regarding the
hiring of women on this campus.
"Now some women did not agree with the article. That is their
right to disagree. Many others thought it was excellent, and even
thanked me for submitting it. To those who disagreed, they may
write their comments to the author, printed in the first paragraph
of the article.
"You may disagree about the way I do my job, if it us unacceptable to you, to the proper authority. Just as I will take up any action
of discrimination you might commit with the dean of instruction.
"Any further action regarding this article I will take up with
the dean of instruction and determine its detriment to equal opportunity on this campus and request whatever action is necessary to
determine my right to submit such articles as a part of my duties
and responsibilities against your wishes that I do not submit such
articles. I'll not tell you how to teach German if you do not tell
me how to advise the president on equal opportunity."
This memo leaves my question unanswered, since to "stimulate
an awareness regarding the hiring of women on this campus" does
not quite explain the relation to the original text. (Or do we have
discriminatory hiring procedures?)
I did not question Mr. West's "right to submit such articles,"
but merely wished information.
I did not ask for clarification in my capacity as a German instructor, but rather as an employee of LCC.
I do not understand why I, or anybody else who disagreed with
the original text, should write to the author, since not the author,
but our advisor for equal opportunity requested publication in
LCC's 'Daily.'
Also, I do not understand why copies of this memo addressed
to me were sent to Assistant Dean Gerald Rasmussen and Department
Chairman John Howard, my immediate superiors. (In what way
are their functions related to my request for information from Mr.
West?)
At this point I should like to pose several questions for general
discussion:
1. Why are discriminatory guidelines for hiring published
without comment at LCC? •
2. Why is a specific request for clarification left unanswered?
3. Why is such a request, relevant to all employees of this
institution, countered on a personal level?
4. Who are the few women who disagreed with the original
text?
5. Who are the many women who thought it was excellent?
6. • What do the men at this institution think about the article?