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April 18, 1972

Ben Kirk supporters
confront LCC Board
Open hearing set for May 3

PRC

Members of the Priorities Review Committee
discuss aspects of the college community during a n executive session of their committee.
The committee has been looking at administrative and supportive services on campus in terms

of their expense and their efficiency. The committee will report its findings to President
Schafer, who will then discuss their recommendations with the Instructional Council and
the College Cabinet before sending his own recommendations to the Board of Educations.

PRC to delay action
On Thursday, the Priorities
Review Committee (PRC) decided that any recommendations
made would be withheld from the
public until President Schafer
had reviewed their decisions and
the committee completely finished its examination.
According to Jim Evans, chairman of the committee, the decision was made because of concern that any premature knowledge of the committee's recommendations would be incomplete.
Last night, the committee continued in its extensive review of
the various aspects of the LCC
community. Jack Carter, Dean
of Students, who is a member of
the committee, stepped down
from that role to respond to
questions concerning areas which
he supervises.
Carter's own office of Dean
of Students, the Admissions office, the Director of Placement,
Director
of Financial Aids,

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Health Services, and Student Activities, were all examined in
terms of both their expense, and
their efficiency.
Because of the decision to
withhold any recommendations
until the completion of the committee's task, the entire meeting
both last night, and Thursday
night, was held in ''executive session." Executive session limits
information on what transpired
in the meeting to merely a general outline.
Another area which the PRC
examined last night was counseling. It came to light that the
committee's responsibility extends beyond merely functioning
as a budget balancing group that
simply cuts costs, to an increased efficiency effort. Counseling
was given a good deal of attention in terms of ways to increase
its efficiency as a student service.
The committee will call on
the head of Counseling for the

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The Media Commission announces that applications for
the 1972-73 TORCH editorship are now being accepted.
Applicants must qualify under the Media Commission policy
which states: "The Editor must have journalistic ability, training and experience. Normally, he will have previous service on
a high school, college or professional newspaper staff in such
capacities as will give him an adequate understanding of the
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,
April 26 at 6 p.m. to Doris Norman, TORCH business manager.
The Media Commission will schedule an interview meeting with all candidates: Date, time, and place of the meefing will be announced when applications are returned.

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next scheduled meeting. He will
further explain the role of counselors in providing a service to
Lane students.
President Schafer organized
the PRC to examine all facets
of LCC's operation. When the
committee finally comes out with
its recommendations, the recommendations will be reviewed by
President Schafer, who will confer with both the Instructional
Council and the College Cabinet.
The President's recommendations will then be referred to
the LCC Board of Education.

The LCC Board of Education
met last Wednesday in a session that was attended by more
than fifty people, many of them
students.
The large turn-out was a show
of support for the physical science professor, Ben Kirk. Kirk's
instructional methods and course
structure were recently reviewed
by the college administration and
the SPPC (Staff Personnel Policies Committee); both recommended that the LCC Board not
rehire Kirk.
Ben Kirk has been accused
of employing unorthodox teaching
methods and not adhering to the
prescribed curriculum in his physical science courses.
Supporters for Kirk attempted
to make public testimony in support of his stand and in most
cases asked that the Board reopen the SPPC hearings to allow
those who had not had the chance
to make testimony before to do so
at reopened hearings.
Bob Darough, a Student Senate
member who has been working for
Kirk's reinstatement, summarized students' feelings. Darough
said, "Students are willing to
talk with the Board in whatever
way they (the Board) sees fit.
We're trying to handle an uncomfortable situation in the best
way for the college."
The administration has been
evaluating Kirk's methods since
Winter Term A group of Kirk's
students protested to the Board
last December after the administration ordered all physical science students to take a standardized national test. The students
said the test would have discriminated against them and against

Kirk's teaching methods. The test
was cancelled.
The legal counsel for the Board,
Ed Harms, brought to light some
of the technical legal questions
involved in the Kirk affair. According to. Harms, Kirk had
signed a waiver extending the
deadline for renewal of his contract to b.pril 14. If Kirk does
not hear by that date to the con trary he is automatically rehired.
Therefore, the Board decided to
recommend that Kirk not be rehired so that the reopened hearings could begin.
After meetings between Kirk,
Ted Romoser of the SPPC, and
Harms, Kirk made the decision
to remand his case back to the
SPPC for further testimony by
students. The Board would still
have the option of acting on the
case if the SPPC decides contrary to the Board's wishes.
The LCC Board decided to have
an open hearing for Kirk on May
3. According to the Register
Guard, Kirk will choose an option to re-open the SPPC hearings instead of appearing before
the Board.
Earlier in the meeting, student
Dan Fowler complained that he
was dissatisfied with the way the
student government was spending
its funds. Fowler was told by
Board members that the LCC
Board did not feel it appropriate
to intervene into student government business; the Board recommended Fowler to personally
attend student government meetings and let ·his feelings be known
to them.
In other business, the Board
reviewed a position paper on ath( Continued on Page 11)

Budget committee prepares strategy
The LCC Budget Election Committee met again
Monday afternoon to continue preparations for
the budget election to be held May 23. LCC has
requested a 15 cent increase in the present
property tax rate of $L50 per $1,000 true cash
value. The committee discussed final plans for
the publication of the informational fact sheet
to be distributed to the community and strategy
to combat what many committee members considered "negative community sentiments'' about
the college.
Also announced at the meeting was the formation of the Voter Relations Committee. According to Committee Chairman Richard Eymann.
th_
e committee, framed Friday, is designed
to answer questions trom the community about
the LCC budget and to distribute the information fact sheets. "The committee is comprised
of people on the campus payroll who are off
campus most of the time dealing directly with
voters. They include members of the Cooperative
Work Experience and Adult Education programs,"
explained Eymann.
One of the major concerns expressed by the
Budget Election Committee is community reaction to the recent transfer of 25 thousand dollars
of student loan funds from LCC to Oregon State
University last term. Eymann explained, "There
was some impression in the community that we .
could have kept the money and used it for teacher
salaries or to buy class room materials, but
the money is earmarked for financial aid to

students and cannot be used any other way.
"When the College applied for financial aid
money for this year, the application was based
on an estimated enrollment of . six thousand
students.
"When the LCC budget was defeated, enrollment was cut off at about 5,500 students, which
meant fewer students were eligible for financial
aid.
"Since we were short of other financial aid
money to match the federal share to put a
package together for a student, some of them
couldn't come to LCC because there wasn't
enough total money available to put a package
together. The federal government then had to
re-allocate the 25 thousand dollars to another
institution that needed the money,"-Eymann said.
Another problem, expressed by committee
member Phil Robley, involved justifying the 15
cent increase in property taxes to the community.
Eymann asked the committee members · if
the recent Board of Education decision to deny
Physical Science Professor Ben Kirk a renewed
contract was having any impact on voter attitudes.
According to Robley, many LCC students are
expressing discontent with the decision by the
Staff Personnel Policy Committee and with the
Board, and are further disturbed by the tuition
increase. "They want more and they want to
pay less for it, and so I think that the Ben Kirk
incident could be influencing student voters,"
. explained Robley.

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T()RCH

April ra,·i972
The innocent bystander

We can forget the Viet.n am War

life is a gasl
"It kills by coming in contact with the skin or by being
inhaled. A single drop, if not immediately removed, will
result in vomiting, involuntary defecation, convulsions, and
a complete paralysis of the central nervous . system that
ends in death. From contact to death the time elapsed is
about ten minutes."
-type VX Nerve Gas
-Earth Magazine
In the mid-fifties, when many of us were in grammar school a
weekly ritual would be the air-raid drill. At a given signal we were
told to crouch under our desks with our heads down. After several
minutes, class resumed - to everyone's dismay. We had a basic
knowledge of what nuclear war might mean-especially because of
the "big bear" of the Soviet Union. But crouching under desks would
have done little to alleviate the instant death that would have followed.
But our twelve-year old minds---full of air-raid drills and fallout shelters--could never imagine the technical wonders reflected
in the above quote-a description of the effects of nerve gas on
living creatures.
We prefer not to scream "doom and destruction" or the end of
the world. There are enough fear-mongers on both sides of the
weapons issue in America today. Such a topic as nerve gas-though
fascinating in terms of what one fascinating in terms of what one
can:1ister would do - wouldn't normally cross our minds except
that two items in the world of current events drew our attention to
this particular wonder drug.
Early in 1968, scientists at the Pentagon's Rocky Mountain
Arsenal outside Denver developed the chemical. The operation at that
point was called "Project Waterfall." In the summer of 1968--several
short months later-the United States Air Force dropped two cannisters of Type VX nerve gas on elements of an equipment recovery
station operated by the 94th North Vietnamese Army-our present
enemies. Each cannister was equipped with an explosive charge to
shatter the casing at a pre-determined altitude, releasing the gas
over a set area. A professor at Portland State University believes
that one cannister of Type VX, if properly disseminated, could kill
two and a half million people.
What brings this news closer to home is the fact that Umatilla
Air Force Base in Hermiston, Oregon is the home of Type VX
Nerve Gas. In shiny cannisters, in underground bunkers resembling
giant ant hills, the wonder gas of the century sits waiting for the next
group of guinea pigs to test the lethal miracles of Type VX.
When it first became public that VX was in their town, the
people of Hermiston felt that the income derived from using Hermiston
for a storage area rnade the risks worthwhile. This democratic
decisio1r-a vote of cunfiddnce for the poet of death--ignores the
scientific truth that the entire Northwest would suffer the consequences. And if the wind was right? It would take only a couple of
hours for the gas to saturate Lane Community College.
Picture , 'if you will, the scene of the silvery mist settling over
the fountain outside the student center. In five minutes everyone is
on the ground vomiting uncontrollably. Five minutes later, EVERYONE
is convulsing uncontrollably. Five minutes later the central nervous
system of EVERYONE is paralyzed. In a total time span of fifteen
minutes, we all join the North Vietnamese recovery unit in the one
common experience--death.
The comparison of situations might seem pretty far-fetched right
now.
We agree. But, our education should teach us that we an
succumb to the same frailties of being human. Why even Orientals do.
We hope that it doesn't take this common experience-this
lesson in being human-to make us realize that we, and our country,
are continuing to sail on an ocean of death. Hysterical patriotism
aside, the war we are fighting, and the defense planning that is our
design, can't be viewed only as a simple fist-fight outside of a bar.
Yet, we talk of the war and we talk of the weapons, as if that were
all there was to it. Such lines of wisdom as "If we don't stop them
now' ' or "we're fighting for the sake of democracy" are more at
home in the fifteenth century crusades then the twentieth century.
Until the fighting in Vietnam intensified, many of us forgot that
the war was still going on. And though it is 3,000 miles away,
Type VX nerve gas, Posiden missles and the other technical
miracles of the '60's should'bring it home to all of us that Vietnam
is really our own backyard. Such is the lesson-that the world is
really small.

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by Arthur Hoppe
Some experts feel the current escalated fighting in Vietnam may doom Mr. Nixon's plan
to Vietnamize the war. Perish the thought. It's
only a temporary setback.
Mr. Nixon's plan, as you know, is to withdraw
our ground forces and let the Vietnamese go on
killing each other - with only our bullets and
bombs and napalm and planes to help them.
The plan was going extremely well. Thanks
to stepping up our bombing attacks to the highest
level of the war, we are killing upward of a
thousand Vietnamese a week, while losing only
a half dozen GIs plus a pilot now and then.
This was well within acceptable limits. For,
after all, few Americans care how many bullets,
bombs, napalm and planes we expend. What they
care about is how many friends and relatives
get sent over there to be killed.
So no one was talking much about the war
anymore. And Mr. Nixon was predicting confi<lently· that it wouldn't even be an issue come

mitting the noise and vibration of trucks and
transport along the Ho Chi Minh Trail.
These have now been refined to detect the
heat or movement of two or more human bodies,
one water buffalo or half an elephant.
By homing in on these devices, our pilots
have been able to blow up trucks, transports,
human bodies, water buffalo and elephants even
on the foggiest of moonless nights.
The second advance, now being perfected, is the
automated take off, aerial maneuvering and landing
of our bombers without a human hand at the
controls
a feat long within the range of our
technology.
All that remains, says General Pettibone, is to
tie in the giant computers now being installed.
They will digest the information from the sensors,
select the targets, launch the pilotless planes and
release the rockets, napalm or bombs at precisely
the correct instant all by remote control.
"Project Dehumanization," says General Pettibone proudly, "will completely eliminate the
hum al} factor."

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November.

Then the North Vietnamese attacked. We had
to rush carriers and B-52s and troops into the
battle. our casualties have soared. Suddenly, the
war's an . issue again. It looks bad for Vietnamization.
Fortunately, however, the solution is at hand:
Project Dehumanization.

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The project is the brainchild of General
Homer T. Pettibone (retired), Director of the
US Bureau of Acceptable Casualties.
• The heart of the Project is the Fully Automated Bombing System, known as F AB.
hctually, work on FaB has been underway
in Vietnam for the past three years. It began
with the scattering by aircraft of small, delicate sensors capable of picking up and trans-

TUESDAY, April 18:
Curriculum Committee, Cen.
124 (LRC Conf.), 4 to 8 p.m.
WEDNESDAY, April 19:
Landscape Planning Commission Dev. Com., Lunch 11 to
12:30.
Campus Crusade, Cen. 403,
12 p.m.
All staff meeting, room to be
announced, l p.m.
ADC Scholarship Basketball
game, main gym, 8 p.m.
THURSDAY, April 20:
LDS Student Assoc. of LCC
aSLCC meeting, Forum 311,
3 to 5 p.m.
SATURDAY, April 22:

Its prime advantage. of course, is that • it
will allow Mr. Nixon to withdraw all US troops
and pilots as well. Our casualties will be cut
to zero. Target date for the project is, hopefully,
the California June Primary or, at the latest,
the opening of the Presidential campaign in
September.
Asked about the Vietnamese, General Pettibone
said that by eliminating our humanerror through
Project Dehumanization their casualties should
be tripled.
"But actually," he said, "our Bureau feels
anything over 2000 casualties a week would be
acceptable."

All Day: Science Exposition
and Workshop programs, grade
4 through 6; Science Building,
MONDAY, April 24:
Elections Committee Meeting,
LRC Conference room, 3 to 4.
Priorities Review Committee,
Adm. 202, 7 p.m.
OOPIRG, Cen. 234, 4 p.m.
This is the final notice to stu dents to come to the records office and sign an application for a
degree, certificate, or diploma.
If you want your name to appear
in the graduation program and in
the final list of graduates for this
1972 year you must file now. If
you are in doubt about your stat-

Letter to
the

Barry Hood

us, please let us have a chanCe
to figure your records with you
and maybe you do qualify.
Cash prizes will be awarded
in the Literary Art Club sponsored photography show May l
to May 12. Any original photograph made by an LCC student
or staff member is eligible for
the contest, and winning photographs will be printed in this
year's edition of the LCC maga.;.
zine "The Concrete Statement."
Entries may be left for
Marilyn Waniek in the Language
Arts Department. Deadline for
entries is april 20.

Lane Community College

Editor

Editor,
It seems that society has ways
of putting down those of us who
(due almost entirely to socioeconomic factors not of our own
choosing) are already put down.
It seems that the Lane Community College Board has a way of
putting down students who can
barely afford tuition at it's present rate.
Is this an attempt by society
to weed out the wrong kind of
people.
I answer yes to this question.
Just who are we to the School
Board? Are we statistics or are
we people? If we are people, then
it is quite logical that we are
individuals with individual wants
and needs. To treat as as statistics is to ignore the individual.
To ignore the individual is to
treat us like consumers. But is
boycott or legal help the answer?

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Steve Locke
Doris Norman

Member of Oregon Community College Newspaper Association and Oreg:m
Newspaper Publishers Association.
The TORCH is published on Tuesdays throughout the regular academic
year. Opinions expressed in this newspaper are not necessarily those of
the college, student government or student-body. Nor are sjgned articles
necessarily the view of the TORCH'
All correspondence should be typed or printed, double-spaced and signed
by the writer. Mail or bring all correspondence to: The Torch, Center 206
Lane Community College, 4000 East 30th Avenue, Eugene, Oregon 97405;
Telephone 747-4501, Ext. 234.

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Student groups urge response to war
Two national student organiza tions are joining together to persuade college student body presidents to'' respond to the crisis''
of the current re-escalation of the
war in Vietnam, according to a
joint letter mailed to LCC student body President Omar Barbarossa from the two groups,
the National Student Lobby and
the National Student Associationo
The two student organizations
state that they have three goals
in mind:
'' (I) To get full details on the
escalation currently in Vietnam
from Daniel Ellsberg, Howard
Zinn, Fred Branfman, Ngo Vinh
Long, and others,
"(2) To plan strategy for the
four days that we are in Washington (a date to be announced) and
for spring actions on our local
campuses, and
"(3) To lobby our Congressmen
and Senators on Capitol Hill on
Monday (April 10) regarding Senator Gravel's bill which will end
the war. This bill has already
been co-sponsored by 10 senators and 43 congressmen."
Senator Gravel's bill has passed the Senate and is now in a
conference committee in the
House. The bill is reprinted below:
House of Representatives, H.R.
14055;
Senate, S. 3409

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A BILL
To provide for the cessation of
bombing in Indochina and for the
withdrawal of United States military personnel from the Republic of Vietnam, Cambodia and
Laos.
Be it enacted by the Senate and
House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
Section I
That subject to the provisions
of Section 3 of this Act, no funds
heretofore or hereafter appropriated may be expended for longer than thirty days after the enactment of this Act to support
the deployment of United States
Armed Forces or any other military or paramilitary personnel
under the control of the United
States in or the conduct of military or paramilitary operations
in or over the Republic of Vietnam, the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam, Cambodia, or Laos.
Section 2
(a) That no funds heretofore
or hereafter appropriated may be
expended after the date of enactment of this Act to conduct offshore naval bombardment of, or
to bomb (including the use of napalm, other incendiary devices,
or chemical agents), rocket, or
otherwise attack by air, from any
type aircraft, any target whatsoever within Laos, Cambodia,
Thailand, or the democratic Republic of Vietnam.
(b) No funds heretofore or
hereafter appropriated may be

expended after the date of enactment of this Act to conduct offshore naval bombardment of, or
to bomb, (including the use of
napalm, other incendiary devices, or chemical agents), rocket,
or otherwise attack by air, from
any type aircraft, any target whatsoever within the Republic of
Vietnam unless the President determines any such bombardment
or air operation clearly to be
• necessary to provide for the immediate safety of United States
Armed Forces during theirwithdrawal from the Republic of Vietnam, and submits to the President pro tempore of the Senate
and the Speaker of the House for
immediate transmission to the
respective bodies of the Congress, within 48 hours of each
such bombardment or operation
(or if the Congress is not in session, as soon thereafter as it
may return), a written report
setting forth the time, place, nature, and reasons for conducting
such bombardment or operation.
Section 3
(a) If, by twenty days after
the date of enactment of this
Act, the Democratic Republic of
Vietnam and other adversary forces in Indochina holding American prisoners of war have not
made arrangements for the release and repatriation, by the date
in Section 1, of all such prisoners:
(1) the date in Section ·1 shall
be extended for thirty days,
and
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A documentary about Black auto workers
in Detroit and their fight · against racism
and exploitation.
Focuses on League of
Revolutionary Black Workers' activities in
the Black community, organizing students,
workers, and community people in a common struggle for Black Ii be ration.
ALSO: "YIPPIE"--Directed by Abbie Hoffman and Jerry
Rubin. A Yippie response to Mayor Daley.

Wed. April 19--7:00 and 9:00--150 Science--Uof0--$1.00

WAR DUES
April 15 has come and
gone. Did you pay your war
dues? Your income tax is
not being used to build
schools, .or hospitals, or polution-free industry, or very
much of anything except
DEAT=f. More than 60% of the
tax you pay this year will go
to finance the war in Vietnam
and other related war costs.
If you think this isn't true,
then look into it. If you know
it is the truth and don't accept it, write your congressman and tell him that if he
wants to continue to represent you, to vote to stop this
war today!

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by Mikel Kelly
One of the biggest (and most needless) drains on our timber
supply is the thoughtless waste of paper products. Each person
in the US discards 540 pounds of paper a year, a grossly unnecessary
amount. In 1966, IO million tons of paper were recycled in this
country, resulting in 10,000 jobs worth 45 million dollars in salaries,
and saving 12,800,000 cords (13 million acres of trees) that did not
have to be cut.
ewe can improve on this in many ways:
esave your newspapers. There are boxes located all over town,
from which they are picked up and recycled. Every ton of newspapers
is the approximate equivalent of 17 trees.
einsist on legislation that will eliminate waste of our resources
and facilitate their reuse. The government should realize that we are
just as concerned about life on earth as we are about space exploration. The technology is available to handle many of these problems.
• Share your magazines with neighbors or pass them on to
libraries, service organizations, barbershops, and doctor's offices.
eBug the phone company about picking up and recycling old
phone books to make new ones. (This is already done in some parts
of the country). A goodway to do this is to add a note in with your
monthly phone payment.
eDon't throw away your old books. Keep them circulating.
Donate used books to the libraries; often they can be rebound and
put to good use.
•Use common sense in buying new books. Buy only those you
intend to read. Consumption can be cut down by either buying used
books or by using the local library.
• Conserve writing paper. Write on both sides of the page.
Use the backs of used sheets for note pads.
eJunk mail and unsolicited advertising is a good example of
paper waste. Inform these people that you don't appreciate their efforts and explain why.
esupport legislation that will prevent the Department of Motor
Vehicles (and other governmental agencies) from selling your
name and address to potential advertisers.
• Make your legislators aware of the magnitude of this problem
by saving your junk mail and sending the accumulation to your
congressman, explaining your feelings.
euse cloth napkins and towels.
eAvoid buying paper plates and cups.
euse cloth diapers instead of the disposal ones.
eReuse cardboard boxes Department and grocery stores
sometimes bale the cardboard and sell it to paper processing
companies. Boxes can be used over and over again. Don't throw
them away.

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THE FORUM

Editor's note: The Forum serves as an opportunity members of the LCC community to
express their opinions. The following Forum
commentary was submitted by Omar Barbarossa,
ASLCC president
Last night (April 12) I was appalled and quite
disgusted by a certain "student" who stood up
in front of the LCC Board of Education and made
allegations and false distortions about the Lane
Community College Student Government.
After a meaningless diatribe and half hearted,
nonsense attempt at trying to explain how student
government monies are spent, he was given a mere
shrug of the shoulders and there was even a slight
smattering of laughter at what he said.
I got to thinking about the gall and effrontery
of this psuedo reporter. In the first place, this
individual inadvertently undermined, by his action,
efforts by students to gain autonomy as an entity
or a group within this insitution.
Needless to say, students more than ever before,
through -hard work and much effort in organizing
to bring about relevancy in education and in services which are offered to the student population,
have made positive gains in doing such. However,
much of our effort is wasted through stupid gestures
such as Mr. Fouler made.
I would like to invite Mr. Dan Fouler to the next
scheduled senate meeting, April 20, in Forum 311. If
he has the guts to appear so that he can inform
himself at first hand, and not by his imagination,
as to what is really}going on regarding the students
on this campus. Just for the record, here is what
Mr. Fouler enumerated as expenditures by the
senate:
1. Women's Day $75
2. Village Inn $250
3. AAJC Convention in Dallas
4. Three typewriters for the senate
5. Sponsor the Vietnam Veterans against the
War Convention in Houston.
6. To David Red Fox, Treasurer
7! Retaining of an Attorney
8. Pottery show
For the record, here are the explanations,
Mr. Fouler:
On the Women's Day activities, the senate felt
that many of the Women's clubs today are pushing
for equal rights and equal participation at all levels
of our society. The senate felt that this kind of
activity is productive to this institution, and as
such, I do not apologize for the granting of a mere
$75.
As for . the $250 for the Village Inn; what you
neglected to say, was that the senate appropriated
up to $250; of which, as yet, not one dollar has been
spent. The Village Inn is reserved for a workshop
session whereby the senate can get with all individuals who are running for office. At this same
time, we will conduct a workshop to define the roll

of student government, student projects, and toes.pecially pin point priorities for the coming year, i.e.
the money may or may not be· spent; but if it is,
please be assured that it will be for a good reason.
As for sending two delegates to the AAJC Convention in Dallas, the school administration also
sent a representative to that same_ convention, the
college president. Why didn't he bring this up? I
•might add, that the following were some of the accomplishments at that convention:
a.) The granting of college work study assingment for all returning veterans upon their enrollment at any community college;
b) To do away with any admissions requirements to any publicly supported or privately en•
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c) The guarantee of a financial aid package
that will continue throughout the entire duration
of student's education, whether it be two, three
or four years.
d) The creation of a National Student Council, with a student representative on the National
Board of AAJC. It would seem that this is a
worthy endeavor.
e) Typewriters, Mr. Fouler seemed irate over
the fact that we had the temerity to buy three typewriters. For your information Mr. Fouler, we have
only two typewriters (had ty
only two typewriters (had you bothered to check
the facts regarding our purchases). I would like to
ask you if you think that two typewriters are sufficient to meet the needs of 5,000 students on this
campus when there are over one hundred typewriters to serve the clerical staff of 150.
f) The VVAW, one of the forceful catalysts
for change in our country, has been the courageous
involvement of the returning veterans of Vietnam
who have stood up and broughtto light the injustices
and immoralities of our involvement in Vietnam.
The VVA W are very actively represented on our
campus; so again, I do not apologize if we support
our veterans when they want to go to a national
convention which is held ·for the purpose of highlighting their aims.
g) David Red Fox, Mr. Red Fox, as the trea-.
surer of the ASLCC has presented receipts for
items which he has purchased for usage by our
office personnel and paid for them out of his own
pocket. I am sure that, Mr. Fouler if you purchased
something for use in your department, you would
like to get paid for it.
h) The Attorney, the ASLCC decided after reasonable deliberation that it was time for us to
retain an attorney so that we could be advised of
our legal rights, and at the same time act on our
behalf upon any matters that the ASLCC might
want to engage in. I would refer you, Mr. Fouler,
to article 18 of the institutional bill of rights which
states that the student government is the body
which represents the students, and is not a part of
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Midway through ''The Last Picture Show" I painfully wondered what I was doing there - I had lived through all this before,
and didn't want to go through it again.
Peter Bogdanovich's excellent parable of growing up in the
America of the fifties is more powerful than mere nostalgia, and
achingly real, ev,en to viewers who did not grow up in a small town
similar to Anarene, Texas.
But where to start in an attempt to convey the quiet beauty in the
film's simplicity, to transmit the mood of soft, painful reminiscence
we all feel when looking baek on our days of (comparitive) innocence.
Perhaps a comparison is best: "Summer of '42" is a popular, ·
recent film also dealing subtly and gently with the awakening of the
adult in a youth. "Summer" was how we wish our growing up had
been - a grand illusion. "Picture Show" is the painful reality.
In Anarene, there were no beautiful, soft ladies to ease a young
boy into the world of sex, nor handsome princes to quelch a girl's
frustrating boredom. There was only dust and the picture show, the
comings and goings of the townspeople, and wind.
''Summer of '42" enchants; "Picture Show" makes one ache.
It makes us ache because we realize there is more here than
the shedding of that particular kind of innocence of youth: we see as
well the growing-up of a country. The last picture show in Anarene
is an old John Wayne flick, "Red River." A surface symbolism can
be considered in the handing-over of the (cattle) empire from the
old to the young. But I think Bogdanovich pointed to something far
greater; the fifties were truly the last age of innocence - embodied
in John Wayne.
Here were the last times that men were men, women had their
place, villains were easily recognized, and deserved to die for their
sins. Problems were simple and could be solved by direct methods.
Life could be determined in simplistic, black and white terms. There
was either right, or there was wrong, and we waited for our heroes
to solve the wrong.
Since the fifties, that frame of mind has become a revered
memory. Like the boy who learns that real pain is not losing a football game, who discovers that life must be lived with and that one
cannot hide from hurt, we have grown up. We have discovered that
our actions have consequences we must deal with, that life is interdependent, and that we can no longer truly be responsible only to
ourselves. And we have learned the most painful thing of all:
We can never go back.
"Picture Show" plays out this bittersweet reminder through its
various, interrelated love stories and incidents of the town. The
actors bring the parable to life, notably Ben Johnson and Timothy
Bottoms.
Johnson plays the wise old man who allows himself to reminisce, but never gives into the temptation of trying to "get the old
feeling back." Johnson's understated performance is a highlight of
the film, and a major element of the mood created.
Timothy Bottoms is the young boy becoming a man. His performance is by no means a disappointment; his quiet bewilderment
and final agonized acceptance of life are believable and give the
film its core.
Bogdanovich has proved himself a sage purveyor of the American
past and development. "Picture Show'' is both a tribute and a touching
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OCCSA Convention attracts 12 schools
~Y Doug Cudahey

Mt. Hood Country Club. nestled in the foothills of the Cascade Mountains in Wyme, Oregon, was the setting f o r the
Oregon Community College Student Association (OCCSA) spring
convention.
OCCSA is a group of delegates
representing 12 community colleges. Each school's delegation
is comprised of student government leaders and, in some
cases, representatives of the
school press.
. Part of the Lane delegation
left Thursday April 6, for the
OCCSA convention headed by Mel
Wood, publicity director. Friclay Jay 3olton, student body
vice president, arrived at the
convention to take over as leader of the delegation. Student
Body President Omar Barbar- ..
oss a did not attend.
Bolton1 at one point, addressed the convention in regard to
what it was doing as for representing Black people, and other
minority people. The Executive
Council explained they were con-

cerned with this particular issue
and had been working in earnest
to deal with that problem. However Bolton was the only Black
person to attend the convention.
Each delegation, regardless of
the number of delegates representing that particular s c h o o 1,
could cast only five votes.
In the area of presidential
elections LCC was represented
by David Red Fox, Student Senate Treasurer. As it turned out
though he was withdrawn from
the running when the convention
moved along to the election of
OCCSA president.
Two proposals were presented
at the convention by the Lane
delegation. Both of these proposals were defeated on the floor.
One pertained to OCCSA organizing a campaign tour through
all community college campuses
for the Oregon Primary in May,
and presenting the plan to all
the presidential candidates' campaign managers.
The other proposal endorsed
placing the marijuana issue put
to a vote in May. lt was explained by the OCCSA president
that both issues were political,

and according to the OCCSA guide
lines, they could not, even if
favored in the previous polling,
be undertaken by the organization.
Convention excitement centered around the election of executive officers to OCCSA that will
head the organization next year.
Sharon Danford, a de 1e g ate
from LCC, ran for the office of
Vice President, only to be removed from the running by two
votes lacking in the first ballot.
This sparked protest, and at
times heated feelings from the

Lane delegation. Votes on the
first ballot came down 19-1817-4, Sharon having 17 votes.
A majority of the time, three
days, spent at the convention
was used for "politicking." This
led to many discussions held over
·a glass of something or other o
The drink could have been anything from Scotch to tomato juice,
depending on the hour.
Parties were held in delegate's
rooms to give candidates a chance
to talk with members of the convention.
The convention was not one
continuing party though. Work
shops were held on all student
government levels. Each work
shop had been issued topical
questions and their job was to
discuss among themselves the
problem and make recommendations that could resolve these
problems. Most questions lent

themselves to student apathy and
what could be done to get more
student participation in student
affairs.
Me m be rs of workshops, in
most cases, gave a positive attitude that something was being
accomplished. It was said that
in one member's school the
apathy attitude was rising every
day and the convention sparked
feelings in him that have long
been asleep.
All workshop groups compiled
their information on fact-finding
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governments. Some of the recommendations involved food and
dispensing it free to students.
One idea was to offer free coffee, milk and doughnuts at all
student government meetings with the idea of enticing students
to attend.
other delegates from Lane at
the convention were Katy Eyman,
sophomore senator from social
science, Steve Leppanen, senator
at large, Douglas Cudahey editor
of the TORCH, and Debbie Scharn,
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"The Fantastics" is many things wrapped -up in one exciting
musical bundle.
"It has a strange kind of charm," says Director Ed Raggozino,
who is opening the play at Lane Community College April 28.
"The . magical musical" is a simple play, but it's not simplistic. It makes a philosophical point without being philosophical.
In fact, "it's a very hard play to describe," says Raggozino.
Needless to say, one must see it to experience the full scope
of the play. ·The audience is constantly involved in the play:
characters "speak their piece" and the narrator asks viewers
to imagine certain sets and times of year. Another angle of audience
involvement is in the ability to identify with the foolishness and
anxiety of the characters.
Aided by Dave Sherman on sets, Nathan Cammack on musical direction, and Wayte Kirchner on vocal direction, Raggozino's
production promises to be a polished, exciting production.
J Jhn Coombs will star as El Gallo, with Sandra Isom and
,Jennifer Pack as two mothers plotting to get their two children
(Craig Wasson and Jan Jackson) married. A"functional" member
of the cast is the Mute. played by Jenny Pashowski, who also is
choreographer for the play.
Other performances are April 29 and May 3,4,5, and 6. All
seats are reserved. Tickets may be obtained at the information
desk in the Admi.nistration Building.

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Story by Liz Campbell

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SPORTS

Titans Y11in over Y11eather
The Titan baseball team finally won it's biggest game of the
early season - with the--,weather. Amazing as it may seem Lane
got in a doubleheader with Southwestern Oregon Community College
Tuesday, April 11, winning both games.
LCC swept both ends to the doubleheader by scores of 6-4 and
6-2. The first game saw Titan pitcher Larry Glaze fire a 5 hitter at
the Lakers from Coos Bay. Glaze struck out 6 batters in the seven
innings he pitched while the Lane firepower exploded for five runs in
the third inning behind the bats of Kirk Hoff and Don Hiney.
In the second game LCC took advantage of a mass of fielding
errors by SWOCC and coasted to the win behind the strength of a
~hree run first inning. In both games the Titans had to overcome fine
performances by Laker Ron Overstake who went 5 for 7 and had
4 runs batted in the two games.
Thursday's game with Oregon College of Education was back to
the old grind as the heavens opened up and the rain cancelled the
contest.
LCC travelled to Bend to take on Central Oregon Community
College in another doubleheader. The results were the same; two
more victories for Coach Fred Sackett.
The first game featured Titan ace Larry Glaze and his strikeout
show. Larry hurled fire at the host Bobcats and held them to one
hit, struck out nine batters and walked nobody. Add another game
to Glaze' list of superb efforts. When it came to the runs Lane got
6, 4 in a big second inning.
The nightcap saw the Titans edge COCC 2-1 on the muscle of
Kirk Hoff who came through in the fourth inning by smashing a solo
home run, John Bradford followed with a double in the fifth, scoring
on Chuck Dickerson's single.
LCC moved it's record in the OCCAA conference to 4 wins and no
defeats. The next home action will be Saturday against the University
of Oregon JV at Howe Field, game time 3 p.m.

by Lex Sahonchik·.
The LCC Board members have
taken a step toward eliminating
the much criticized athletic policy of prohibiting Lane athletes
from participation in national
competition.
The Board members met Wednesday night and voted 4-2 to
direct representatives from the
three major groups involvedthe LCC administration, the athletic department, and the student
government-to formulate a policy
regarding national competition.
Hopefully the recommendations
will be available for review at
the next Board meeting, on May
10.
Although the Board expressed
approval of changes in the national competition issue, it reaffirmed its past opposition to
athletic scholarships and public donations supporting national competition.
The athletic policies discussed
in .the meeting were developed·
when the school was organized.
They have been the subject of
criticism from all sides, mainly
the Lane athletic department,
coaches and players. Most recently the policies were under fire
due to the inability of wrestler
Murray Booth to attend a national
meet because of school policy.
The athletic department and
p h y s i c a 1 education department
both had representatives present
at the meeting. Robert Radcliff
and Richard Newell expressed
approval of the decisions taken
by the Board. Newell said that
the desire of the coaches was
· simply a c 1 a r if i cation of the
school's athletic policies.
By unamimous vote the Board
directed the college administration to develop proposals for
Board review in the area of car
and medical insurance for athletes and coaches travelling to
and from athletic contests, and
the possibility of coaching contracts separate from teaching
contracts.

Oregon overcomes lane trackmen
but Titans make good showing

Pole vaulter goes high
An unidentified competitor participates in the pole vault at the LCCUniversity of Oregon J. V. Track Meet held at Lane last Saturday.
The event was won by Oregon's Dave Lewis with a vault of 14 feet
6 inches. Lane did not place a man in this event. The Titans finished second in the team totals by maassing 52 points to 78 for the
University 's, while Southern Oregon College had 31, and the Oregon
Track Club totaled 17 points for last place.

Coach Al Tarpenning's Titan
trackmen were overcome by the
powerful Oregon J. V. team last
Saturday by a score of 78-52.
The meet also included Southern
. Oregon College and the Oregon
Track Club, scoring 31 and 17
points respectively.
Although Lane failed to upset
the University of Oregon team,
s eve r a 1 outstanding individual
performances gave Coach Tarpenning reason to be pleased with
the effort of his crew. Jim Gorman of the Oregon Track · Club
won the •mile run with a time
of 4:07 .4 but LCC stars Bill
Cram and Garrie Franklin both
achieved lifetime bests, Bill finishing in 4:20 and Garrie running in 4:32. Despite the fine
effort of these two runners the
competition was so keen that they
failed to place.
Titan Randy Griffith also re-

corded a great effort with a
third place in the three-mile
run. Randy turned in a time of
14:43, an admirable mark for
community college standards.
Lane's 440 yard relay team of
Kent Larsen, Jeff Hardesty, Wilbert Johnson and Dan Walsh continued to defeat any opposition
by streaking to a 43.8 clocking.
The relay team has run very
close to the school record of
42.6 all season.
Javelin thrower Steve Maryanski also continued to show a
great talent in his event by winning with a throw of 203 feet
1 inch.
Lane's next home action will
be Saturday in the Lane Invitational. The Titans will be hosting Mt. Hood Community College
Oregon State University JV and
Clark College. Action will start
at 10:30 a.m.

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Women shine in track meet
• by Lorraine Hein

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Two LCC women made a fine
effort in the 3000 meter run,
a new event for women this year,
in Saturday's track and field
team at the U of o. Beth Boehmer took second with a time of
12:05. 7 and Kris Stoneberg took
fifth with 13:33~L This was the
first time either Ms. Boehmer
or Ms. Stoneberg had competed
in the 3,000 meter.
Oregon S t at e U n i v e r s it y,
Oregon College of Education and
Willamette University also competed in the Lane, U of O cohosted Meet.
Oregon State with the power in
the field events was able to over
come the strong OCE and U of 0
teams. OSU scored 68 points,
OCE 64, U of O 61, LCC 19,
and Willamette 10.
Other Women Placing for LCC
were:

SHOT PUT: Lorraine Hein took
second with a toss of 36' IO"
and Peggy Sullivan took fifth with
a toss of 31'7".
discuss; Lorraine Hein took fifth

John Thompson's

with a throw of 106'3".
The next meet for the LCC
women will be Saturday when they
travel to Portland State University.

by Sue Rebuck·

880 MEDLEY: Lane Atookfourth
and Lane B fifth with times of
2:07.0 and 2:09.4.

HIGH JUMP: Penny Shoop cleared
the bar at 4'8" for fourth place.

The time has come to announce my resignation as sports
editor of the Lane Community College TORCH. I am resigning
because I have withdrawn from school, but taking my place will
be a very capable young man by the name of Lex Sahonchik.
Lex wrote the basketball stories for the TORCH last term and
and did an excellent job, friends. Recently he has been on the LCC
He previously wrote sports for the Churchill
baseball beat.
paper, and has a lot of overall knowledge of newspapers. Lex will
make a fine addition to the TORCH central staff.
I leave the position of sports editor with a great deal of regret. I've enjoyed working with a fantastic staff. I have gained
probably about as much as I could ever realize from a fine college.
Now,- it is on to greater challenges, 'though I am not sure what
that is to be yet.
In any event, I will continue to write "Oregon Gossip" for
the period of Spring Term, at least . . Here's hoping you sport's
fans will enjoy it.
I want to thank everyone involved with me at LCC for their
wonderful cooperation. It's a shame that they are too numerous
to mention.

LCC karate team competes

200m HURDLES: Lisa Fox took
fifth with a time of 33.3.

100 m HURDLES: Lisa Fox was
fourth with a time of 17 .I.

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Lane's Lisa Fox stretches for a hurdle in the five-way women's
track meet held at the University of Oregon Saturday. Lisa finished fifth in the 200 meter hurdles and fourth in the 100 meter
hurdles. LCC finished in fourth place.

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Students to form
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S e v e r a l s t u d e n t s a r e attempting to form a soccer club
at_Lane. According to Bob Buss,
club treasurer, the purpose of the
club is " ... to enable interested
people to have a chance to participate in games with other organized groups."

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Team traveled to Seattle Saturday to participate in the Allcollegiate Karate Tournament
held at Shoreline Community Col•
lege.
One-hundred fifty people, representing 21 schools took part in
the event.
Although only five members of
the LCC team were able to participate, all five, according to
Chief Instructor Bruce Combs,
performed well, with four members placing high in their divisions.
Teresa LaCoy and Paula Loftin
competed in the Women's Division. Ms. Loftin (green belt)
won four matches by shut-outs
2-1), giving her first place in the
division. Ms. La Coy followed with
second place.
Ron Henry, fighting in the
heavy-weight white belt division
won four match by shut-outs,
winning his fourth match in overtime to take first place honors
in his class.
Bruce Combs, fighting in the
heavy-weight black belt division
lost his first match 2-3 in double-

elimination competion and won
his second match 3-1, giving him
third place in his class.

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resolution authorize such further action as is recommended by the President to secure
the release and repatriation of
American prisoners of war.
(b) Nothing in this section shall
be construed to affect the authority of the President to arrange
asylum or other means of·protection for individuals who might
be physically endangered by the
withdrawal of United States military or paramilitary personnel
from the Republic of Vietnam,
Cambodia, or Laos, or to arrange
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April 27th, LCC Gym Lobby
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~pril 30th, Westmoreland
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DEMONSTRATIONS

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Evenin·g classes suffering
from lack of information
"As I began to collect the
credits I needed, I realized that
there were fewer and fewer classes I could take. This is not
just because I've completed a
lot-there just aren't as many
evening courses now."
Tom Curtis is a night student.
Like a lot of working people in
the community, he sees a need
for furthering his education. The
only way he can afford to do
this is by taking night classes.
As the chairman of the Evening College Advisory Committee, Curtis gets a close view
of the problems facing LCC's
evening students. "There is a
possibility that in the future,
there won't be a night school,"
he said. Rather than making
any big improvements in the
evening curriculum, he warned,
the college is going backwards.
"We've gotten real fair treatment from the administration,"
he stated. "We don't have any
real complaints about anybody
specifically." He explained the
problems mainly in terms of
awareness and communication.
"Anything we've tried to get
done was usually accepted. But
the administration and the people of the college tell us that they
never realized these things were
wrong."
A year-round undertaking, approved by the Board of Education, the Evening College A.dvisory Committee has had a visible
effect on the conditions surrounding the night school. "We don't
advise anyone," said Curtis. "We
simply make recommendations."
Some examples of the committee's accomplishments are keeping the cafeteria open until 10
p.m., and providing them with a
hot meal, rather than just hamburgers and sandwiches. The
bookstore is now kept open until
8:30, and the library's hours
were extended as well.
In all of these instances, there
was no real difficulty in persuading the responsible people to
make adjustments. The problems
besetting the committee isn't a financial one.

"It's attendance," Curtis stated. '' We need more classes offered. It's impossible for me to
get an A. A. degree going to night
school." When his committee recommended this to the administration they were receptive. "But
they told us if there is more at:
tendance, WP,'ll add more classes.' "
Despite the backward logic of
such a proposal, the committee
undertook a survey, which indicated a strong interest in a stenography course. "It was immediately filled up," said Curtis.
"We had a class in small
business management that went
fr.om 30 to 72 students overnight. Now we've got the attendance, but not enough classes."
One of the biggest shortcomings in the evening program is
the lack of information about night
school needs, especially in the
area of registration.
"The problem with an evening student is that he's not as •
persistent as a daytime student,''
he added. "If a guy comes in to
About two to three hundred people who attend
register for a night class, and
"There is a possibility," he said, "that in the
LCC night school may have no place to go in
is told that the class he wants is
future there won't be a night school." He
the future according to Tom Curtis, chairman
full, he is likely to just give up.
commented that he felt the college was going
of the Evening College Advisory Committee.
backwards.
A daytime student knows he's
going to have to go through some
kind of hassle."
As soon as 12 people are turned
away at registration, a class that
could have been offered, isn't.
No one know how often this hapby Don Grimberg
"Through the Skills Fair there
A Mexican dinner, Karate dempens. Curtis would like to see
onstrations, paintings (by Washis
now a reason to come out.''
some sort of record kept of these
The LCC Skills Fair, as menington artist, Charles Mulvey)
She said this being the first
refusals at registration in order
tioned in last week's TORCH
year
of
such
an
event
"we
hope
antique displays and paintings,
to initiate new classes when sufis set for April 27. The college
it is a real success so we can
and batik works by adult edu- ficient interest is shown.
invites the people who pay for the
cation
classes high light the specontinue
the
program
annually."
'' All we want to do is keep the
facilities to see first-hand the
cial events and exibits of the
But she expressed a drawback
wide varity of skills students are
Skills Fair. Admission will be
in having the Skills Fair just
door open for people who want
learning. All departments and
one month before the election.
to go to school. What we' re going
free. Most departments will open
many classes will be open to
"I would like to see the Fair
for is a night school that's comat 5 a.m. on the 27th.
visitors.
held a week or so after the
plete. If we don't do it, we'll
The Office of Community
election next year, so that the
lose it in a year and a half or
Services is organizing the event.
people don't think its just a potwo years," warned Curtis.
Ann Stewart, a Community Serlitical move, " she explained,
vices Aide working on the event is
pointing out that citizens should
The Evening College Advisory
encouraging local clubs. such as
see their school functioning
Committee would like to see ten
the Lions and Kiwanas club to
throughout the year.
per cent of the college courses
visit, and she has also sent adoffered at night. Right now they've
vertisements to the Lane County
got about five per cent-not much
District schools. "People have no
of a choice in obtaining a wellidea what is out here," she said.
rounded education.

Not much of a choice

All departments to ·open for Skills Fair

THE

Barbarossa answers accusations
(continued from page 4)
the LCC Board of Education or the administration.
I would not quarrel with any student who questions how the student
senate spends monies which are collected through student fees. Our
books are always open apd anyone is free to make inquireis at any
time they so desire.
My unhappiness with you, Mr. Fouler, stems from the manner and
attitude of spirit in which you did your" little thing." It was obviously
intended to embarrass and challenge the integrity of your fellow
students. Have you ever heard of the solidarity or of brotherhood?
Well, Mr. Fouler, only small people hold grudges. Peace be to you,
and I hope that you will be my guest at the next senate meeting.
Omar Barbarossa
P.S. It was my understanding that you are quite unhappy with the fact
that there are not enough white people in the student government. All
I can say is go and get yourself a petition and start campaigning like
everyone else who is in office did. Again for the record, thaer are
only three nonwhites out of 52 members in the senate. They are
Jay Bolton, First Vice-President; David Red Fox, treasurer; and
myself. One of these was elected and the other two were appointed.

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The Kirk affair...

• (Editor's note:
The following
commentary was submitted by
Dave Otos, a reporter for !he
TORCH. Otos favors .Ben Kirk
in Kirk's protest over administration and SPPC decisions to
deny the instructor's contract
renewal, and, therefore, wishes
to acknowledge that his personal inquiry is a point-of-view
report.)

'' I DO want the students to
realize the things in their own
lives that create or promote
major problems in our moder_n
world." savs Ben Kirk "but 1f •
they want to solve the problems
they'll have to apply themselves
to the hard science. Research
• and hard work, not political hassles."
.
Kirk's job as a physical science
instructor at LCC is now in
danger. The SPPC (Staff Personnel Policy Committee) voted
4 to 2 to recommend that Ben
Kirk not be re-hired as a physi•cal science instructor•
.
In the spring of 1971, Kirk
was placed on probation and asked
to outline the class that he would
be teaching the next fall at LCC.
He was also asked to outline _an
, alternative course for a tentattve
implementation in the school year
1972-73, H,~ was told that as long
as he followed those course plans
his job would not be in any jeopardy.
.
Kirk feels that he followed his
outline through the fall as closely
as possible in a classroom e~vironment; he puts the empha_sis
on freedom, choice, and committment from the students.
Kirk feels that classroom motivation should come from within
the students. Consequently, much
of the class time is spent talking
about the application of physical
science to students' lives.
This classroom freedom has
brought Kirk under fire_ fro~
other instructors who believe m
tighter structures. An instructor
friend of Kirk's, who asked to
remain anonymous, stated that
Kirk is putting those instructors
who do their minimal 15 hours
of lecture a week and slide
through the rest, in a very "u~comfortable" po s i ti on . Individualized instruction is very
hard work.
His emphasis on action and invol vment has inspired many programs such as Ride-on> Stude~ts
for Survival, and others dorng
work in environmental technology.
"Kirk came to us as a tall,
slender, well-groomed man with
respectable references ... '' reads
the 1970-71 supervisor's recommendation report submitted by
Sc i enc e Department Chairman
John Jacobs.
The report goes on to say that
Ben Kirk's philosophy and conduct are definitely geared to a
"special group,'' but fails to
define what exactly a "special
group" is. The recommendation
finishes with "under present conditions and philosophy I do not
consider Mr. Kirk an asset to
the school, nor is he causing
any degredation.'' It fails to mention who's philosophy Kirk would
better function under but it is
assumed it would be Jacobs!
Most of the selective in -put
into the evaluation procedings
was not quite as middle-of-theroad, but maintained the same
ambiguity.
One married couple in Kirk's
class maintained that Kirk and
his "student friends" asked them
to leave the classroom after
they criticized a film the class
saw as being Communist propaganda. According to Kirk "It
was said that the film was Communist propaganda ... and later,

April 18, 1972 TORCH P:1p' 11

This Week
THE BLOODIEST FIGHTING in the Vietnam W:1~ _si_nce 1968
continued into its third week with North Vietnamese_ dms~ons :01:tinuing on their southern advance. Most of Guang Tn p_rov1_nce 1s_ m
Communist hands and the provincial capital of An Loe 1s w1tness111g
house-to-house fighting.
.
..
Yet the biggest sincrle US action in years occured with the dec1s10n
to bomb the Haiphong Harbor area near _H~noi. The h~rbor has been
off-limits to US air power since the ongmal escalation of_ the war,
because Soviet and Chinese ships use the port for supplymg North
Vietnam with her needed weapons. If US air power attac~ed th_ose
ships the possibility of open war with those two countries might

that one is exposed to American
propaganda every?ay. With that
reality in our mmds the class
broke up. I had no knowlege the~e
was any harassment to anyone m
the class or that anyone left."
One ;tudE!nt from Thailand
criticized Kirk in a letter for
his discussion of the ;war in
Vietnam.
A third letter complained of
the time spent on political issues
in the class.
These letters that are part of
the evaluation are somewhat peculiar in the fact that the authors
had exposure to Kirk · in different terms, but all wrot_e their
letter in the same week m January.
Generally, Ben Kirk's rela·tionship with students is one that
is a bit unusual. Science Department head Jacobs told Kirk's
class that he truly wished that
he had the support and following
from students that Kirk had.
When asked why he taught, he
replied in the same breath "for
money of course,'' at which,
according to report. Mr. Jacobs
recieved much crilisism from
Kirk's students.
After his extraordinarily long
day Kirk puts in several hours
of labor on his small farm on
Little Fall Creek, that he and
his wife, June, own. Kirk is up
in the morning with the sun and
jogs a couple miles before leaving for school. That and the
way he eats is a large part of
the reason he looks so young
at age 58.
Ben Kirk received master's
d,~grees from Michigan State Un~versity in forestry in 1937, Umversity of Michigan in science
educatio:i in 1960, and from Pu:cdue University in physics in 1964.
He thinks he has enough college
credits now for another master's.
During the war (World War II)
Kirk was a lieutenant in the US
Navy as a gunnery officer on a
battleship, and later a!l aircraft
carrier in the South Pacific.
He was assigned to the army
after the war to work on the military government in Korea.
•
He presently has a son who
is an MD in the Navy in Boston,
a son with a Ph.D. in chemistry
who works for an electronics
components plant, and a son who
works for the Office of Economic
Opportunity. Kirk says he has
learned a lot from his sons.
"I used to argue value-systems
with them,'' Kirk said, "and t~en
one day they made me reallze
that I wasn't arguing my values,
but those · of others that I blindly
accepted."

According to Board Chairman
Catherine Lauris, the Board has
very little more information now
than they did in December wh 1.m
th e y evaluated and approved
Kirk's teaching methods. "!think
it is unfortunate that there isn't
a structured place for students
on the SPPC , but that could
change." She added: "We wanted
to be as fair as possible in the
evaluations and to have them done
by the instructors' peers.'.' ..
The SPPC includes two md1viduals from the Mechanics Department, a secretary, a warehouseman, a worker for Adult
Education, and individuals from
Language Arts, and the Science
Department. They were elected
by· the members of classified
(janitors, secretaries, etc.) the
administration, and the faculty.
"There has been some questions raised by the type of inquiry that was done," commented ASLCC President Omar Barbarosa. He continued: "President Schafer gave us his word
at the Board meeting in December that Ben would be allowed
to also teach an alternative
course with co 11 e g e transfer
credit." Later a very similar
course to Kirk's proposed course
was presented to the Instructional Council from another department. : 1 1 was somewhat suspicious when this happened, and
I got it tabled," said Barba rosa;
"but later one of the Board
members was approached by one
of the d,?ans and told 'we stopped
Kirk now.' " H,? felt it isn't the
proper time to disclose the
names, but said that sooner or
later it would come out.
Barbarosa said he felt that
freedom of education was the
fret:dom to teach what is morally
contemporary. He concluded: "if
we allow Ben Kirk to be fired,
this school is the one that will
suffer. Wr, will be shutting the
doors to other imag'inative and
creative instructors who are here
now, and certainly the 'nontraditional' types will not entertain the idea of coming to LCC.''
According to math instructor
Bad Cook, "Ben's primary ihte rest is his students." If that
be the case, other rnstructors
please take note, aml take caution
accordingly,,
Ben feels this is the mo!.it
successful year he has had in
his 25 years of teaching science.
"I grew aware of myself as a
human being, and not as someone playing a role or a part."
Ben said softly: "Naturally this
has modified my behavior somewhat but I haven't degressed."

be the result.
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About 200 bombers took part in Saturday s ~aids ·~1 i1g_ er
escorts. Informants in Saigon said that the bombmg raids avoided
the harbor itself and concentrated on warehouses and storage areas
.
.
in the city of Haiphong.
In Phu Bai, which is just south of the capital city of Hue, about
loo us soldiers refused to advance when ordered to because t~ey
•
felt the advance was too dangerous. The soldiers
were f rom "Char he"
.
Company 2nd Battalion 196 Infantry Brigade. The US Command said
none of the soldiers a~tually refused t? go in_to t?e field. One of the
officers present told the men that their hesitation t? _go would endanger another Company already at the forward pos1t_10n. Th_e. men
then climbed aboard trucks to be moved _to_ their _defensive positio~s;
Politically critics of Nixon's pohcies said that !he bombmo
of Haiphong w~s a very "dangerous" decision and that 1t could only
mean further escalation of the war.
and the North Vietnamese delegates to the Paris Peace Talk~,
still stalled by the President's decision to postpone them, said
Saturday that Nixon had secretly offered to r~open the talks ancl
that when the North Vietnamese accepted, Nixon then refused.

*****
The Chinese Ping-Pong team which has been playing th~ir
US counter-parts in Detroit this week, ran into ~ifficulty regardmg
security arrangements. Unlike the US tour to Chma where the team
was free to go virtually anywhere. the Chinese team here has ~ound
security so tight that their movements are almost totally restricted.
Police escort their buses to and from matches, and FBI agents
surround them wherever they are. Added to this restriction, the Rev.
Carl McIntyre, the anti-communist evangelist preacher, _has led a
small but vocal group of demonstrators constantly callrng on the
athletes to "defect" to the US.

*** **

United Press International reported this week that a task force,
commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency, has found
that mercury poisoning potential to Americans i_s far more
problem than previously thought. The task force discovery, which has
not yet been released, was leaked to the media by a group of ecology
activists who got access to the report.
The report states that, though most of th~ publ~c is aware ?f
the mercury contamination resulting from the m~est10n of certarn
fish that the total mercury absorbed to people 1s far more. Co_nsid;ring industrial use of the chemical, the task force feels that
absorption through the air, drinking water, and skin~ absorpt~on
represents a percentage much higher than the .5 parts per m1lhon
. .
which is the government standard.
The task force said that if mercury contammahon were suddenly to cease, the effects would continue f?r ye~rs _to com_e, They
called for much stronger measures in dealmg with mdustrial contamination by mercury, · as well as much more effort m the researching of the problem.

To inquire about Jobs, contact
the LCC Placement Office at
747-4501. ext. 228.
PART TLME/ male or female
vocalist to audition for position
in band. $30 per night.
FULL TIME/ Combination Frycook and Waitresses: Summer
work out of town. Housing will
be provided. Pays $1.50 an hour.
PART TIME/ Babysitter: Hours:
2 p.m. to 6 p.m. 50~ hour.
PART TIME/ Radio & Television
repairman: Would prefer student
about to graduate from program.
Wants person to gointonewbusiness. Pay: 80 per c-ent of repair
work done.
FULL TIME/ Summ,~r Work: 6
men preferably with farm background. To do truck driving, ba~er
operator, hauling straw (twme
tie) in Coburg area. Pay: Up to
$2.50 per hour. Starts: July 1st.
FULL TIME/Bus boys and room
service: Hours: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Pay: $1 .25 plus tips and room
service money.
PART TIME/ Farm Hand: Work
with sheep, mend fences, etc.
Hours: Variable Pay: Open.Summer Work.
FULL TIME/ Any student about
to graduate who would be inter-

ested in positions with an insurance company: All information on
qualifications and training program at Placement Office,
FULL TIME/ Student apartment
managers needed: Must be married, 23 years old, some experience in managing and maintenance. Must be available for minimum of one full calendar year,
preferably two.

Board of Education
(Continued from Page 1)
letics submitted by the coaches,
the athletic director, and Health
and Physical Education department chairman. It stated their
positions on several matters relating to intercollegiate athletics,
and funding teams and indivudual
athletes for championship meets
and tournaments.
The Administration was directed to return to the Board with
a plan for handling the problems
mentioned in the paper. The
Board also requested the administration to develop a position paper on the funding of the entire
athletics program. (See story in
the Sports Section.)

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