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May 31, 1972

Priorities Review Committee releases recommendations
by Bill Dwyer

In a memorandum sent yesterday to President Eldon Shaefer,
the Priorities Review Committee
released its recommendations for
re-evaluation and budget cut considerations for the academic year
1972-73. Those recommendations
are expected to affect the administration, instructional and classified staff, and the student body.
In its memo to President Shaefer, the PRC said "we have not,
in all cases, come up with a dollar
savings. Overall we believe the
recommendations could save up to
$250,000 by a combination of increased FTE(student enrollment),
and budgetary savings."
Foremost in the minds of the
committee members was the operation of the Office of Instruction.
The committee said, ~'We strongly
believe that the recommendations
under Dean of Instruction dealing
with accountability be implemented
by that office by January 1, 1973,
or appropriate changes of personnel should be made ..... Within
that office, there do not appear to
be plans for any cut-backs--only
add-ons. This is not possible under the severe budget restrictions
the college is operating under."
The heaviest concern of the PRC
dealing with the Office of Instruction is that "LCC does not have
instructional leadership."
PRC
sees areas of responsibility being
fragmenting of instructional progams away from departmental supervision, implementing of board
policies, and maintaining high instructional skills.
Some instructional courses and
programs came under heavy criticism from the PRC. Most of
these programs are considered to9
costly for the number of students
served. The chie_f concern of the
committee was generating FTEthat is-reimbursible student enrolJment in courses. The more
FTE, the more money the college
is reimbursed from the state.
Construction Tech., Welding, Medical Office Assistant, Dental Assisstant, Flight Tech., Second Year
Food Tech., Sales Marketing, ASsociate Degree Nursing , Landscape Development, Radio and TV
Broadcasting, Electronic Tech.
Comm., Ethnic Studies, and the entire Adult Ed. and Special Training Programs all face at least
reorganizational changes if the
PRC recommendations are accepted. The PRC recommended that
programs such as Landscape ,
Flight Tech., Second Year Food
Tech., and several others be eliminated as programs, while retaining some courses in those
areas. The others mentioned had
cuts recommended in both staff
and student enrollment. All of
the Special Training areas such
as the Work Incentive Program,
Supervised Field Experience, and
Cooperative Work Experience, as
well as the Outreach program,
This will be the last
issue of the TORCH until
June 27. During the Summer Term the TORCH will
be published every other
Tuesday. Deadline for the
June 27 issue is June 22.

were advised to centralize adminposition, that salery increases for
istratively and to cut costs.
the coming year be modified, finIn" the administration of the col- ancial responsibility and accountlege, the PRC found that, "There
ability between the Student Governis evidence of excessive adminment and the College, modification
istrative layering and duplication
of the College /Community Serthat should be solved by the advices due to overlapping of duties,
ministration.'' Specific recomputting certain personnel on a remendations concerning administainer salary basis, plus considertration include: reducing Equal
able cuts in publications and radio
Clpport unity Advisor to a half-Um~ l'l""and television publicity. Reco -

mendations also include cuts in
travel expenses, limits .on longdistance phone calls, automation
of payroll, and indirectly the cutting of personnel that now function
in those areas. The committee
also recommended that the office
of Institutional Research and Planning stop duplicating architectural
functions already assigned to outompanies, and concenlra le

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Campus displays heavy art
These large stone sculptures that grace the
lawn between the CenterÂ· Building and the Art
and Applied Design Building are creations of
Bruce West of Mount Angel College. West
has loaned these pieces to the school for display, and he is scheduled to appear on campus
today to talk, as well as demonstrate his meth-

ods to interested listeners at 1 p.m. in the
gallery area of the Art and Applied Design
Building.
The sculptures are not permanent fixtures
at LCC, however m_ost will agree that they
make an interesting and pleasant addition to
the campus.

LCC tax request sees almost two to one defeat
Officials at Lane Community
College began laying plans for reducing the colleges' 1972-73
property tax needs Wednesday,
May 24 in response to an almost two to one defeat of an
$894,682 tax levy request in the
balloting the day before.
Lane County voters, turning
out in unprecedented numbers,
defeated the levy by a vote of
41,941 to 26,770 -- a 15,171 vote
margin.
According to LCC Business
Manager Bill Watkins, the date
for another budget election will
not be decided until the college
receives notification from the
federal government on whether or
not they will be eligible to continue receiving some $283,000
through the Emergency Employment Act (EEA) for the 197273 school year. The LCC administration expects to hear from
the federal government sometime
in July. Watkins explained that
if the federal money is allocated it could save some 14 cents
on the LCC tax rate. The money

allocated to LCC through the
EEA this year was used to hire
part-time and flJll-tima teachers
as well as some classified employees, and enabled the college
to serve the equivalent of an additional 460 full-time students.
In the event that the college
does not receive additional EEA
money, Watkins explained, the
college may be faced with having to make drastic cuts into
staff and related student services from an already "bare
bones'' budget.
LCC President Eldon Schafer
said the results of the balloting
on the college's tax levy request reflects the voters' "concern about continued use of property taxes for public education."
Schafer also expressed concern
about voter attitudes on the levy
request explaining that the tax
rate increase requested represents only a 6 per cent increase in the tax rate of three years ago.
At that time LCC's tax rate
was $1.55 per $1,000 true cash

value on property. Through five
election defeats in seven attempts
over the past two years, it reduced its budget proposals and
its tax rate to $1.52 last year
and to $1.50 this year.
In other election results affecting LCC, one incumbent L 8C
Board of Education member was
returned to office and another,
who had been appointed to his
post, was elected to a full four
year term.
Dr. Albert Brauer, 42, a general practitioner from Florence
won an unprecedented third year
term on the Board. He began
serving on the LCC Board in
the fall of 1964 when the college
was first organized. His opponent
was 31 year old Norman Noble,
a construction laborer, also from
the Florence area.
A Fall Creek logger and rancher Stephen Reid, 44, won a new
four year term over challenger
Charles Goldspink, 31, a Creswell High School social studies
teacher.

on evaluation of college programs.
The PRC also advised that 10
per cent of all course offerings
be scheduled at night. Also recommended was that the counseling
staff be decentralized under individual departments. ;. further financial advisement was that all
tuition be tied to the number of
credit hours--so many dollars per
credit hour.
President Shaefer's initial reaction to the PRC findings was
that the committee had done a
thorough job. With Lane facing
major financial overhaul because
of the failure of the budget during the primary elections, Shaefer said "at least one-million
dollars will have to be cut to
live within the tax base," if the
budget is not passed.
Jim Evans, chairman of the PRC
said that the most the committee
could come up with if all recommendations are accepted is aproximately $250,0IJO.
Shaefer said that the Priorities
Review Committee's duties were
similiar to those of the Hearing
Panel on University Priorities
(HPUP), which recently recommended radical changes and cuts
at the University of
Oregon.
"The same general plan will be
operative here ... but their committee was administratively dominated--! didn't feel that this was
our job here," Shaefer said.

The next move by President
Shaefer in incorporating the PRC
advice is to have the different
departments respond to the recommendations, documenting any
differences of opinion that a department might have. This feedback is
expected by June 9.
Shaefer then expects to bring these
recommendations, and the department responses before the June
14 Board meeting.
Shaefer added that no
new
election date has been set, but
he hopes that the Board will choose
a September date when people directly affected by the budget will
be in the area.

Students needed
for summer and fall

TORCH positions
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The TORCH is interested in
interviewing people who would
like to work on the newspaper
either Summer or Fall Term.
No experience is necessary-the TORCH is designed to teach.
Writers, photographers, salesmen and women, and production
people are needed.
In many cases transferrable
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given for working on the newspaper.
For more information or for
an interview contact Jim Gregory in the TORCH office, Room
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TORCH

May 31, 1972

The innocent bystander
Seeing that this is the last issue of the TORCH I will have the
pleasure to edit, I would like to state my rebuttal to the accusations that have been brought before me during my term as editor
of the TORCH.
Some letters to the editor have set the tone that I am hung-up
on one issue, Vietnam. It has been said that I am Vietnaming every
on one issue, Vietnam. It has been said that I am Vietnaming
everyone to death. I have a sense of humor, but I could never see
the irony in that statement.
Personally, I feel that the United States should remove itself
from Vietnam immediately. This war has lingered on regardless
of all the political rhetoric promising peace to Vietnam that has
been issued to us by Richard Nixon and his administration.
Congress has never declared war against Vietnam. This Vietnam crisis has continued to grow with more US involvement.
Richard Nixon has the audacity to call the North Vietnamese people,
"international bandits," when in fact he is one of the worst criminals to wage war on the face of thi s earth.
The continuation of killing, burning, maming, and crippling Asian
people cannot be seen through my eyes as a good wholesome act
that should be condoned by the American people.
I don't feel that we as citizens of this country have had the opportunity to . talk among ourselves and see just how we, the people,
feel in regard to the Vietnam issue.
The stories that are printed in the TORCH cannot be found
in any other paper in the state. If I were duplicating information
it would be easier for me to understand the fuss that is being
raised. But our sources include V. V.A. W., Dispatch NE?Ws Service,
Liberation News Service--Â£ources that established newspapers
normally ignored.
It seems to me that a lot of people have not been heard on this
issue of whether or not the TORCH should print articles about
Vietnam. Letters that have come to the editor express the discontent
wit~ material that pertains to Vietnam. But as of yet these dissenters
are only a few people trying hard to make a loud noise.
The TORCH staff has been united this term on their stand dealing with Vietnam.
We people of the TORCH staff have sent 19
telegrams to our congressmen, congresswomen, and senators stating that we are fed up with this war in Vietnam and demand, yes Â·
demand, an immediate end to the war.
Replies have been favorable from these politicians--explaining
that they view this matter in the same fashion that we do, and
that they appreciate our support.
People tell me that Vietnam has no place in our lives and especially no place in the TORCH.
I view these people as being hardheaded and in most cases
uninformed people who go around taking a television stand on life.
I have hope that in 1972 the leadership in this country will change
and we, the people of the United States, will be able to start working on domestic problems that have long been overlooked.
Americans are more than ever trying to find that old feeling
of Nationalsim. But in order to be patriotic in 'this country, you
have to support the war and your country, right or wrong.
-Douglas Cudahey

Lane Community College

EDITOR

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Associate Editor
News Editor
Feature Editor
Sports Editor
Production Manager

Elizabeth Campbell
Bill Dwyer
Mikel Kelly
Lex Sahonchik
Jim Gregory

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Photographer
Advertising Manager
Sales Manager
Copy Editor
Business Manager

Jim Otos
Barry Hood
Sue Rebuck
Bob Meyer
Steve Locke
Doris Norman

Member of Oregon Community College Newspaper Association and Oregon
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 signed 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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Wonderfuland wins again
by Arthur Hoppe Â·
Once upon a time there was a big, rich,
decent country called Wonderfuland. lt loved wildflowers, Westerns and Wonderfulism. And it had
never lost a war. It was very, very proud of its
8-0 record.
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Well, one day, a tiny little war broke out in
a tiny little country far, far away. The little
country had been accidentally divided. The North
was ruled by rabid revolutionaries who said they
believed in nwfulism. The South was ruled by
corrupt Generals who said they believed in
Wonderfulism.
Naturally, Wonderfuland was for the South.
So it sent a few hundred soldiers to help the
South's Loyal Royal Army. But the Loyal Royal
Army kept losing.
''Look here," said The Leader of Wonderfuland with a frown. ''We can't lose a war.
Send a few thousand soldiers to mop up this
mess." But the Loyal Royal Army went right
on losing.
"No one's going to lick us!" vowed The
Leader angrily. And he sent more soldiers.
And more. And more. Until finally, he'd sent
half a million of them to the tiny little country.
And with this kind of help, the Loyal Royal Army
at last managed to hold its own.
Phew!
Phew!

** *

But as the years passed, the people of Wonderfuland grew tired of the endless, pointless warthough being proud Wonderfulanders, mind you,
they didn't want to lose it. So they elected a
New Leader, who said he had a Secret Plan to
end the war. And he did!
His Secret Plan was â€¢to withdraw the half
million troops ten thousand at a time. And everytime he withdrew ten thousand, he'd say to the
enemy:
"Now will you surrender?" But the
enemy remained adamant.

And anyway, the people of Wonderfuland dictn>t
care. For their New Leader was bringing the
troops home. And as soon as he got all of them
out of the way, everybody knew that the Loyal
Royal Army would somehow or other win the
war. Somehow or other. (cq) Because Wonderfuland had never lost a war.
Unfortunately, before the Loyal Royal Army
could somehow or other win the war, the enemy
attacked it. In fact, 120,000 soldiers from the
North ran right over the 1.4 million-man Loyal
Royal Army.
The New Leader was furious. He said the
Northern soldiers, who had been invading the South
for years, had now treacherously invaded the
South! And he said the Northern soldiers, who
had been supplied by Awfuland for years, were
winning because they were now treacherously
being supplied by Awfuland!
So it looked -as though Wonderfuland might
at last lose a war. But not if The New Leader
could help it. He gathered all his mightiest planes
and his biggest ships and he bombarded the North
from one end to the other. But the Loyal Royal
Army went right on losing.
"Don>t worry,,, he said, "Wonderfuland will
never lose a war!" And so, not knowing what
else to do_, he dropped mines in the enemy's
harbors, saying to Awful and, "Look, if one of
your ships blows up, please,don't take it personally. We just can't lose a war."
But Awfuland had its pride, too. And when one
of its ships blew up, it sank three of Wonderfuland' s. Naturally, Wonderfuland couldn't take
that lying down, so .. ...
Well, to the eternal credit of Wonderfuland,
it never did lose a war. For this, the last one,
ended in a tie along with Wonderfuland,
Awfuland, the North, the South and all the wildflowers, too.
Moral: What this country needs is a good
thrashing.
(Copyright Chronicle Publishing Co. 1972)

Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor,
There has recently been adistinct lack of continual support
for the Native American students
of LCC Reports, announcements,
and items submitted to the
TORCH which we felt would encourage Native American Students and would keep the balance of the student population
informed as to our activities
have been ignored.
.
The TORCH is supposed to be
a student representative newspaper, but there is an over abundance of war news, national news
and other events already covered
by the local newspaper. other
groups on campus have at least
had their calendars printed, but
ours have been conspicuous by
their absence.
We feel the TORCH should represent the students first and
that it should represent all the
students.
Sincerely,
Frank Merrill
Charlotte Minor
Dear Editor,
There is, as you may be aware
of, parking slots under the shelter, assigned to the physically
handicapped. But, every time I
or other handicapped students arrive at school, regardless of the
time of day, we find that most
of the slots are occupied by the
student senate, administrative
staff and students who are in
no way handicapped.
I wish to propose that the
mentally handicapped find their
own parking slots elsewhere or
ask the senate to endorse the
idea that a p ark in g area be
specially assigned to the mentally handicapped. Not meaning of
course, that the senate and college staff are retarded to the
extent that they can not read a
sign in front of them that says,

"All spaces assigned to the Physically Handicapped." If they
cannot read a sign in front of
can not read, I suggest that they
ask someone if they are parked
in the right area. Perhaps if
the fine on an illegal parking
ticket was five dollars instead
of a measley two dollars, the
people who have reading handicaps could learn to read.
The monies from the increase
in fines could be used to pave
the parking areas which suffer
from rut-holes and etc.
from rut-holes and etc. Then
those areas could be set aside
for the mentally handicapped,
John Hayslip Jr.

1 find your action extremely contumelious and presumptous. I
submit that you have no authority
t~ speak "on behalf of the American people" or on behalf of any
people for that matter and that
forthcoming elections will refute
your hypothesis that Mr.- Nixon
will not be President for another
term. I, as an American 1 want
more than just peace at any
cost. I firmly believe that I have
a right to expect and receive
a just peace.
Regretfully yours,
Ken DePew

Dear TORCH Staff:
Please be assured that I share
the deep concern you have expressed over the decision to expand our military effort in Vietnam. Enclosed is a copy of my
statement in response to President Nixon's actions. (Interested
persons may read this statement
in the TORCH office.)
This most recent escalation
of the war serves to emphasize
the need for Congress to examine
its constitutional responsibility
and terminate military expenditures in Indochina. I have consistently directed my efforts toward the passage of such legislation. In the days ahead, a vote
is expected on a measure I am
co-sponsoring which is designed
to cut off all funds for American
military involvement in Indochina, on the ground or in the air,
by August 31, 1972. This measure woultl also insure the return of our prisoners of war.

Dear Editor,
In response to the telegram
sent by Barry Hood to the premier of Russia.
I would like to know how Mr.
Hood determined he represented
the American people? How wonderful it must be to be a selfproclaimed representative of the
people of a nation as large as
ours. How superior he must feel
to put himself in judgement of
the President's sanity. Have you â€¢
psychoanalyzed the Pres id en t
lately, Mr. Hood'! .Perhaps, Mr.
Hood, you used the phrase "he
is 'Obviously a lunatic and doesn't
represent the best wishes of the
American people" to best describe the twisted introspection
of your altuistic behavior in the
matter of this telegram.
The next time Mr. Hood, you
decide to insult the intelligence
of the people of this nation by
These matters are of vital inassuming you are their repreterest and concern to every Asentative, please do us all a
merican, and I hope you will
favor and send your therapeutic
continue to let me know your
etchings to your psychiatrist.
views.
D. Anderson
Sincerely,
Dear Editor,
Mark O. Hatfield
With regard to Barry Hood's
United States Senator
Kosygin;
recent. telegram
. to Mr.
.
.

May 31, 1972

Thieu's Familv Prepares

The following article came from reliable
sources in Saigon, South Vietnam. They preferred
not to be identified because of possible ill consequences.

***

Saigon, Vietnam - DNSI - President Nguyen Van
Thieu's wife has begun preparations for the
possible political exile of her and her husbands'
families, informed sources close to the President have revealed here.
The President and his wife plan to stay in
Saigon as long as possible but will send their
immediate families to Singapore if an evacuation
of foreigners begins under possible Communist
pressure against the capital, the same sources
said who asked not to be identified.
For the past two weeks Madame Thieu has
been working to pack and ship the President's
Â·most valuable treasures overseas to unknown
European ports. Fifty crates have already been
shipped out of the country by a French shipping
agent located in the Saigon capital, the sources
said.
Last week Madame Thieu and her sister took
a three day ,Â·, holiday" to Singapore where they
made arrangements for the first leg of their
p
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_A French shipping agent, Jean Massida has
been shipping the Presidential family's p;ized
treasures to Europe. The crates, however, have
been shipped under false names, the sources
said.
a female pharmacist and millionaire lower
house Deputy, Nguyen Thi Hai, has been assisting Madame Thieu in planning possible exile
of the President and his family.
The present plans for the exile of the President's family include President Thieu's mother,
Madame Thieu's mother, as well as the first
family's sisters.
It is presently unknown which other relatives
would leave with the family.
The present evacuation plans call for the
President and his wife's immediate families to
leave the capital should it come under heavy
North Vietnamese attack. They would leave along
with other foreigners who would presumably leave
at that time.
Theiu and his wife, however, hope to stay in
Saigon as long as security allows them to. After
that they would fly to Singapore to rejoin their
relatives and sef up a provisional government in
exile which would last until Thieu could return
to Saigon or until it became apparent that any
return would be impossible.

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by Mik-el Kelly
If you find yourself pausing,
from time to time, to consider
the environmental consequences

This being the last TORCH,
and hence last "Human Environment" of the school year, it
would seem fitting to make some
grand and sweeping summary
statement of optimism.
I can't think of any.
Maybe we've all come to think
a little more instinctively of
the relation between our acts and
our environmental surroundings.
Maybe not. Either way, it's nothing for any individual to take
credit for, like the politico shouting from his incumbent cloud.
This column has been an attempt to remind people of the
environment, and make it more
of a routine consideration not to necessarily build any hardcore eco-freaks.

TODAY:
Campus Crusade, 12, noon, Cen
403.
Student Senate, 3p.m. - 5 p.m.
Forum 309.
Classified staff meeting, 4-5 p.m.
Adm. 202.
ABE Recognition exercises, Loomis, 8 p.m. For. 301/2.
Board meeting, 7 p.m. Aam.
202(boardroom).
Gradution dinner, Chinese cooking, 7 p.m. Cen. 124.
ABE Reception, 9 p.m. Cen 101
Tomorrow:
LOS Student Assn of LCC, 11 a.m.
-1 p.m. Health 102/3
Christian Science Club, 3 p.m.
Cent 404.
Academic Council, 4-6 p.m. Bu.
Conference room.
Early Childhood Education graduation, 7-9 p.m. Cen. 101.

of an otherwise unwitting act ot
habit, then perhaps we're all a
little closer to a desirable level
of awareness. The main thing,
however, is not to lay back and
gloat over the inherent goodness
of humanity; we would be better
off by far, to go on assuming
that maybe we're really not all
that cool.
If we ever get in the habit
of remembering just how dangerous we all are, we might (just
possibly) get somewhere.

0 re go n Inventors C o u n c i 1
7-10 p.m.,Adm. 202.
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Friday:
Jazz concert, all day, gym.
Planning 12 noon-1:30 p.m. Apr.
215.

Saturday:
Jazz concert 8 a.m., gym.
Sunday:
Graduation Banquet, 4 p.m. Center 101.
Tuesday:
Bahai Club, 12 noon, Cen. 420.
Ca:binate meeting, 3-5 p.m. Adm.
202.
Curriculum Com. 4 p.m.-8 p.m.
Cent 124.
Summer basketball, 6-9 p.m. gyms.
Wednesday, June 7:
Campus Crusade, 12 noon, Cen.
403.

$200

BARN SALE

Colc;,r sets
Approx. $100-$150

A WHOLE BARN FULL OF RECYCLED TV'S
An LCC student has purchased a barnful of late model color and black and
white TVs. Most of the color sets are Motorola and Zenith. Black and white sets
include Motorola, RCA, Magnovox ,and Admiral. Some remote control.
Part of profits will be donated to LCC Mass Communications towards purchase

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of color broadcasting equipment. Other profits will go to BRING.
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LCC

DOUBLE 'J' TELEVISION SALES

200 EAST_ BEACON DRIVE

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May 31, 1972

TORCH

Bolton looks for alternatives

by Kevin Moran

TERM PAPERS typed. See Darlene, SAC 2-4 p.m. Monday and
Wednesday, or 807 W. 26th. First
come, first served.

''I feel that the Board didn't really consider us students when
they increased our tuition. I've been here a year and we've had a
tuition increase twice. You know that's twenty bucks man, and none
of that comes back to the students."
Jay Bolton, the new ASLCC President feels that next year he
sllould concentrate his efforts on helping to establish a health and
legal advice program for students. The philosophy of the programs
is to provide students with free medical treatment and legal counseling.
''We had on the ballot a measure dealing with the Health
Service program and it would call for an 85 cent increase in student
fees. If we don't get 40 cents from the Administration and 40 cents
from the students, then the students are going to have to pay the full
ff5 cents. So we' re trying to exhaust all our possibilities all the
alternatives first."

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buy it or not buy it."
The Administration has given
permission for the program next
Fall Term. The new courses
under Biology 101 are; Ecology
and Environment; Mushrooms~
Ponds and Stream Life and Survey of General Bioiogy; and
Trees and Shrubs. - ..
Students will receive complete
transfer credit for Biology lOi
if they take any of these courses.
Courses such as these will be
offered Winter and Spring Terms
in 102 and 103 also. For students who would rather take the
basic general biology courses,
three terms of the regular general biology will be offered.
Rowe is confident these new
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During Spring Term registration, Freeman Rowe and Tom
Wayne, both of the Science Department, ran a survey dealing
with some new biology courses.
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Rowe, an attempt to define student interest in the field of biollgy and to find out how students
felt about the present courses.
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Rowe , in explaning a new student-staff relationship said, "a
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level, so what we are trying to
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"I feel the budget failed because the people of the community
are just tired of this school's big business trip. It's operated like
a supermarket. Programmed in and programmed out. Once you've got
your product, you're in and out. And I .feel that there's a lot of duplication of jobs in the Administration that are really not necessary.
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will benefit the students of LCC.
"We're considering a lot of possibilities. We have this new
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operated store, a co-op type situation somewhere close to the housing
project, and we've considered three major money making events one in the fall, one in the winter, one in the spring. We haven't really
decided what these events will be yet; right now everything is on
a tentative basis."
In an effort to work for the students, Bolton has delved into
the possibility of obtaining relevant guest speakers who will generate
student interest. But, he emphasized "I can't do anything unless
the students want it done."
"We've discussed a variety of speakers. You know, Left, Right,
Middle of the Road. One, for example, is Dick Gregory and we'd
like to get some of the Birch e rs, some of the Klansmen. I
think this is what will generate a lot of student interest on campus
rather than a lop-sided program. You know, everything favored
to the Administration or trying to please the Board of Education.
_One thing I'm not going to mind is stepping on any toes."

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never did anything really

useful until I got back to the
land and started to live like a human again instead of a machine
tied to society and a job," said
Ben Kirk, dropping his ax and
picking up the firewood he had
just cut.
Working and living like early
pioneers, Ben, his wife June,
and several others live on a commune about 20 miles east of the
Eugene-Springfield area. They
are members of a new group who_
have given up their materialistic values and the high pressures
of society in order to seek a
better way of life on the land.
Having attended MichiganState
University, University of Michi-

al rebirth and a new love for the
land and meaningful work."
Even though many communes
are in heavy religious trips,
ranging in faiths from Christianity to Zen Buddhism, Ben's group
has no institutionalized religion
other than a faith in the e3:rth.
''The Christian religion and
religions in general have too
many restrictions placed upon
you. You can't be yourself, instead you are something some one else wants you to be. You
aren't free," commented Ben,
leaning on his ax.
"One girl remarked when she
first came here that she was
never really free and never really
started living until the day she

A. member of the family sharpens stakes,
with an ax, for a fence which will be used to
keep the goats from straying:

gan, and Purdue University, Ben
holds three Master's degrees in
forestry, physics, and science
education. His job as a physical
science instructor at Lane Community College helps pay for food
and the payments on the fifty
a c r e p 1a c e , which has been
1eve 11 e d several times by
the lumber industry.
As a teacher at LCC, Ben's
ideas and unstructured teaching
methods have been under fire
by the LCC administration during the course of the year. After several months of hearings
and appeals the Board of Education recently voted to renew his
teaching contract for next year.

en and his group ar-a not
alone, nor are they the first to.
throw over their middle class
life for communal living. Since
the late sixties scores of communes across the United States
have sprung up, offering a new
start in life for those willing
to bear the elements and hard labor. Their rewards according to
Life magazine being a "spirit-

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1fiife- a 1finue for
bout wasting anything, ' 1 smiled
Erlene looking up from her garden.

strong believer in cons1~rving the earth's natural resources,
Ben makes good use of the materials which others tend to throw
away. His own house, the communal kitchen, and the buildings
planned for the future are and
will be made out of used lumber.
Even the used nails are often
straightened and used again. Ben
once remarked that materialism and our tremendous waste
of natural resources will be the

May 31. 1972

tqe 1fiand

have invested the most money in
the place, have lived there the
longest, and are the oldest, they
don't consider themselves as the
owners or leajers of the group.
Everybody has an equal amount
of say in the group, although the
people who have lived there the
longest usually know more and
their advice will carry more
weight in final decisions.
Ben isn't the one who foots all
the work and bills. One of the
girls travels to Eugene twice a
week to clea:i houses. Several
others weave blankets to sell at
local craft stores and on market
days. Dwight, a student at LCC,
is J professional art student. Oth~rs spend most of their time
working on the commune. ToE;ether the grnup makes and gives

Friends spend the afternoon helping Elsa, Ben's step-daughter,
(second from left) clean a fleece. The wool will later be washed,
spun into yarn, and finially woven into a rug or blanket on a loom.

left the Christian church," concluded Ben, placing another stick
of wood on the chopping block.
A girl named Erlene explained
her religion as a love for the
land and nature. "The Christian
religion," she explained, "teaches you about Christ and how
to worship him. It doesn't teach
you how to live with him on the
earth."

Erlene said that she and the
others feel more like a family
rather than a commune. Almost
all of the work is shared by the
group, including the preparation
of the meals, where everybody,
even the men, take turns.
The meals, which are all cooked on either an open fire outside, or on a wood stove in the
communal kitchen, consist
main 1y of grains, vegetables,
fruits, and very seldom is any
type of meat eaten, except fish.
Goats and chickens supply milk
and eggs for the group.
"When Ben cooks the meals
he a 1ways uses up the leftovers. He is really cautious a-

doom of the American people.

Unlike many communes, local
people, drugs, freeloaders, and
money problems haven't really
posed a serious threat to the
group.
"The people around this section of the county don't really
care how we live and don't bother
us much," said Ben in his
quiet distant voice.
"As for drugs," Ben continued,
with a slight nonchalant smile
on his face as he straightened
another nail before pounding it
into the chicken coop he was
building, "we neither encourage
nor discourage their use on this
place. We (the group) have sort
of figured that it wasn't anybody's business if a person used
drugs."
Most of the group agreed that
drugs were originally useful for
opening their minds to the world
and life. They feel that they have
gone beyond the use ef drugs and
that drugs aren't really needed
anymore. .
Even though Ben and his wife

o this date the group buys
a large portion of its food and
relies
on a refrigerator and
freezer to store it. However,
they look forward to the day when

June transplants young sprouts in the green
house. Since most of the group are vegetarians
the green house is important for growing plants.

as much as they can towards
mortgage pa 1Â·,w::: ,~s in hope of
some day owning the place collectively.

ers. However, winter and the
new arrivals have inspired the
group to plan a large geodesic
dome to be used as a shop and
for winter living.
The reason for tepees and
domes, stated one person, is because it is so much more natural to live in a round environment. The earth is round and humans are the only living animals
which live in a "boxed-in" environment.

ut of the original ten who
moved in last year only five remained this spring. However, ten
more people recently moved in
and eight more are expected soon.
According to Ben the new people will supply new energy for
the place. Also the people who
live on the place now have their
"heads straight" and have a better idea what they want to do
and accomplish.
Some of these ideas include the
raising of grains, vegetables, and
various fruits for food, the building of a fish pond, and the building of more stable living quarters
for the long, cold wet Oregon winters. As it is now most of the
group lives in either tents or
hand-fashioned tepees.
The tepees, built on wooden
platforms f o r the purpose of
keeping the winter rain and mud
out, are very comfortable to
live in, according to their own-

they will be able to grow all of
their own food and store it by
canning and drying.
''We still have many so-called
comforts, but we are finding as
time goes on that we don't need
them anymore," stated Sharon
as she washed the dinner dishes
with boiled water and home made

CONSCIOUSNESS Ill
soap. Sharon said that it "will
take a lot of time and work to
become completely self-sufficient and live like we really want
to, but time is one of the things
we have plenty of."

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May 31, 1972

A leg end grows and sky iack ing increases
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by Shari Hilyard

Where is D.B. Cooper?
This Question has been asked ever since the man bailed out
of a Northwest Airlines 727 jet with $200,000 somewhere between
Seattle, Washington, and Reno, Nevada on Thanksgiving Eve, 1971.
Since his escape he has become a living (or dead) legend and his
daring methods have been imitated several times over.
On April 7, a United Airlines 727 jet scheduled to fly from
Denver to Los Angeles arrived in San Francisco. This skyjackers'
demands for parachutes and a ransom of $500,000 were met.
Two days later, a Pacific Southwest Airlines 727 jet was skyjacked. The sum asked for was $500,000.
In Portland, Oregon on April 11, another skyjacker demanded
the same $500,000 when he delayed a Continental Airlines 707
jetliner.
A Frontier Airlines 737 jet was skyjacked over New Mexico
on April 13. The ,skyjacker demanded radio and television time for
a political interview to discuss issues concerning a militant MexicanAmerican group.
None of the four attempts was successful. According to US
News & World Report, in April, 1970, 17 out of 26 tries were successful. In 1971, 11 of the 25 attempts to skyjack were successful.
In 1972, so far there have been 12 attempts and only three skyjackers
have succeeded.
The article also stated that the Federal Aviation Administration
has tightened security. On Feb. 29, the FAA ordered airline and
airport employees to interview passengers more closely and to be
alert for any abnormal behavior. The FAA also ordered more than
500 municipal airports to tighten security on March 18.

Security
The New York Times reported Jan. 8,1972 that the screening

Airport

manager

Robert

Shelby,

stated,

"There

adverse

effect

system devised to prevent skyjacking consists of two parts: metal

detection, and search. When a passenger receives his ticket, an

telling

employee checks to see if the passenger fits the genera 1 description of a potential skyjacker. If he does, the employee signals

Municipal

Sweet

Mahlon

the

how

accomplishe d. The

the passenger activates the magnetometer, he is asked to submit

can

to a search to be co_nducted by a Customs Bureau sky marshal,

a federal marshal, or a municipal police officer. If the passenger
refuses to be searched, the airlines can refuse to let him board
a plane.
In spite of the precautions being taken by the FBI, the FAA,

use

'How

deterrent

to
The

surprise

hijack-e r
articles

the

manual.'
of

hiiack-ing

another employee operating a magnetometer (metal detector). If

public

do
element

has

value

also."

tempted. Paul Joseph Chi, who skyjacked an Air Canada DC-8
jet last November, has been tried and sentenced to life in prison.
On Dec. 4, 1971 according to The New York Times, Canada and the
US signed an extradition treaty banning persons accused of skyjacking from political asylum.

Publicity

"Ther~ are two general class -

ifications--t he rational and

Robert Shelby, manager of Mahlon Sweet Municipal Airport in

the irrational skyjack-er

Eugene stated, "Newspapers cover hijackings in too great a depth. The

LCC psychology teacher Don

newspapers have an obligation to tell the public the news but I

Wilson said.

object to detail personally as a citizen and as a manager."
also said, "There is an adverse
Shelby _

effect in telling the

"The rational

skyjack-er is a sociopath who
intelligently plans an oper -

public how the hijacking is accomplished. The hijacker can use the

ation. He is able to justify his

articles as a 'How to do manual.' The element of surprise 11:as some

:acts or to rationalize his guilt.

deterrent value also."

The irrational skyjacker

Northwest Airlines employee at the Portland Municipal

Airport stated to the TORCH on April 14 that the airlines are increasing security to prevent skyjacking but that the media fail to
cooperate. She said the newspapers are publicizing the skyjacking

media that informs the public of the methods of prevention provide
the skyjackers with vital knowledge to avoid the securities set up.
Richard Quinney, author of "The Social Reality of Crime, ' '
stated in his book:
" . . . . persons who are involved in patterns of criminally defined activity are more likely to be influenced by crime portrayals
than persons not so involved. On an even more subtle level, however,
the effect of exposure to crime in the mass media may not be significant until a personal problem or a particular social condition
presents itself. Exposure in the past may thus furnish a future alternative for action."

some

and the airlines themselves, more and more skyjackings are at-

Des P it e th e s e and o the r effort s, skyjacking c on tin u e s.

attempts to- such an extent that it has turned into a fad. Also, the

commits the crime to clraw
attention tâ€¢ himself. He i1
111ore n.evrotic,"W ibâ€¢n state4..

Public Opini o.n
Why does the public respond to skyjackers? The Register Guard
reported of one attempt Jan. 30, 1972. The headline read: "Jet hijacker described as James Bond type." Garrett Brock Trapnell
was described as blond, blue-eyed, and boyish looking. He was said
to have been a bank robber, a jewel thief, and an escapee from
mental institutions.
Dan Hodges, sociology teacher at LCC described the public's
interest in skyjacking as "an admiration for something difficult and
very well done - as the thrill felt in any new adventure. These
are just guesses," he stated.
Hodges said, the public is conditioned to think skyjacking is
''fantastic.'' English literature's heroes portray an attempt fo , achieve
the imoossible and the skyjacker represents "a hero who succeeds
-against overwhelming odds," he said.

Chara cteris tics
LCC psychology teacher Don Wilson gave spontaneous ideas as
to the characteristi cs of a possible skyjacker. "There are two
general classificatio ns- the rational and the irrational skyjacker,"
he said. "The rational skyjacker is a sociopath who intelligently
plans an operation . He is able to justify his acts or to rationalize
his guilt. The irrational skyjacker commits the crime to draw attention to himself. He is more neurotic," Wilson commented.
The actual characteristi cs of the skyjacker used by the airlines . to screen passengers must remain a mysterty to the public
for security reasons. Here then, a guess as to the personality of a
skyjacker:
He must crave attention .
He probably considers the airlines as part of the rich establishment he opposes.
He might consider himself a failure and may wish to compensate by accomplishing a spectacular feat to suppress his feelings
of financial insecurity.
He may live in a fantasy world in which the D.B. Cooper
image is the ideal to attain prestige and fame.
D.B. Cooper made it, and each time the public is reminded of
his mysteriolas disappearance, his legend grows.
And other men seek to imitate tbe fantasy.

May 31, 1972

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Films:

from hallmarks to "perfectly awful"

by Liz Campbell

To attempt to capsulize an era
of films and its stars, as well
as to place the era within the
context of its times, is nearly
impossible. The best one can do
is hope for a supreme example,
the mood of the country, the joys
and agonies of the times.
The fifties have been accorded
such epitaphs as ''faceless,"
''spinach culture," and "the fast
age of innocence." These may be
founded in some fact, but in the
area of films, they must be,
in large part, set aside.
The "last age of innocence"
in rock and roll, fads, and paraphernalia, was met at the box
office by stars of such depth
and character as Marlon Brando,
Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth
Taylor, Ingrid Bergman, Spencer
Tracy, James Stewart, and perhaps the greatest symbol of his
time - the supreme example James Dean.
The "last innocence" being a
peculiar sort of innocence, also
created a particular sort of depth
in its stars.
With conformity and a strong
tendency to cling to increasingly
outdated values the hallmarks
. of that era, actors such as Clift,
Brando and Dean, appealed to an
increasingly rebellious young audience. The fifties, at their
height, smoldered, and these
three actors epitomized the process. Demanding honesty and an
end of phoniness, painfully aware of injustices and hypocrisy,
- these "new sensitivity" actors
expanded and enhanced rebelliousness in v a r i o u s stages
through their careers, and appealed to the ever-enlarging conciousness of their audience.
James Dean, to reiterate, is
perhaps the supreme example of
the changing times. Although
Brando, Clift, and their peers
cover a wider range and a longer period of time, it is precisely Dean's mercurial rise and
tragic, perversely glorious finish
that transform the actor into the
symbol. He is the embodiment
of that age's search, of the agonizing choice between tradition and
conscious awareness, between
doing what you were told, and
what you felt. It was neither
, simple nor faceless, and certainly not easy. The fifties were
at least the beginning of the transition to a national self-awareness
and thoughtfulness. James D,:an,
like many, was caught in the
squeeze, and he suffered.
Dean made three movies and
one teleplay that I know of. His
movie characters suffered and
searched in his classic way most
importantly in "Rebel Without
a Cause," and "East of Eden";
to a lesser degree in "Giant,"
(in which he agonized over Elizabeth Taylor, also a n at io na 1
vogue). Dean's expressive,
brooding face and nonverbal emotiveness and sensitivity created a

wave of empathy and instantly
identified him with the youngin-search-of-som ething-better ,
as had never been before.
His personal life followed suit,
with a lost love and death from
the recklessness and foolish honesty of a drunken auto race.
In a generalized, grand sort of
way, James .Dean WAS his era.
Smoldering, searching, painfully
receptive to dishonesty and hypocrisy, and finally, tragic, he
made it possible to transfer all
ones hurts and longings, and even
dreams, onto him and his personal agony. He longed for the
truth of a people's ideals, and
scorned the hypocrisy and injustices of a gene ration and a

country. He and his kind were
perhaps the beginning of the new
era of social consciousness and
situation ethics.

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The fifties were infested with
B-pictures, the "perfectly awful" movies that sway us from
work on weekday mornings, keep
us from play on Saturday and
Sunday afternoons, and are now
beating even Johnny Carson in
the late night ratings.
Rock Hudson strained through
1950's manners and domestic
trials with Jane Wyman; Susan
Hayward wept through the '50's
with nearly every leading man.
Randolph Scott and Robert Taylor stoically tamed the West;
Charlton Heston converted the
heathens of the Old (and New)
Testament, and John Wayne
tamed and converted everyone
and thing in sight.
But the perfectly-awfuls were
not the only product of the industry. In a tight contest with
TV for viewers and the studio
system of controls dead or dying, films had to turn to quality
as well as the quantity they turned out in the thirties and forties.
The number of fine personalities in the business at the time
is seemingly endless. Spencer
Tracy and Katherine Hepburn
graced the screens and our lives in a number of films, together and separately; James
Stewart proved an equally adept
. performer in all genres of film,
and Marilyn Monroe pleasured
her way into our hearts and our

consciences, with her insecuritv
and dream-come-tru e naivete:
Bogart played it c o o 1 on the
screen until his death in 19G5,
with his particular style that
is so gloriously the vogue today.
A list of fine films could go
on for pages; depth of themG
and fine character studies we :.- e
in great evidence during the socalled faceless, sexless fifties.
"A P 1ace in the Sun" and
''Streetcar Named Desire" are
two hallmarks of drama with
themes of realism and intense
personality studies. Tenn es s e
Williams' plays (of which '' Df1sire" was one) were continually
brought to the screen with their

interesting combination' of decadence and triv.fa in modern life.
Sophisticated comedies were in
force, and even the spectacle
came of age with "Ben Hur."
The American perennial, the
Western, enlarged our scope of
vision through such intelligent
vehicles as "High Noon," Bad
Day at Black Rock," and John
Ford's blend of genius and good
o 1d fashioned brawls. Indians
were still savages, but (white)
Jeff Chandler brought humanity
and intelligence to Hollywood's
picture of the Native American
in such films as "Broken Ar.rows."

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One could go on forever, naming names and titles, themes
and characters, box-office hits
and the psychology behind it
all. But such nostalgia is a delicate thing: it can be mused to
death; working it too much can
kill it.
The deliciousness of a Sunday afternoon with a wonderful
terrible line-up of great, bad old
flicks; the excitement of a Bogart revival, or a Stewart or
Holden movie of any kind; the
pricelessness of the great dramas - these are things to be
savored and enjoyed for their
own sake and our own enrichment. They highlight the
strengths and follies of the age
they were made in, but they are
still basically entertainment, an
art form that keeps us happy
while enlarging and enhancing our
very world, and oursei v2 :;

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May 31, 1972

Rock 'n Roll ...

'' Bop-

l,y John Etheredge

sing "Carol" and "little Queenie" at Madison Square Garden and
noticed that these were not Stones originals, but something from
another place, another time. A couple of tunes written by Chuck
Berry.... Chuck who?
They heard Fats Domino sing the Beatles' "Lady Madonna,"
but when they heard his oldies they realized that the Beatles were
echoing a sound that Fats helped originate.
So now the old and the new, the contemporary and the nostalgic,
are competing for the same audience, the same record-buying public.
Jerry Lee Lewis is once again kicking over his bench and
jumping atop his piano on the Dick Cavett Show. There's Chuck
Berry, chatting with John and Yoko on the Mike Douglas Show.
There's Bo Diddley at Portland Coliseum thanking his fans for
supporting him the past eighteen years. There are those highly
successful record hops at the EMU Ballroom in Eugene, and there's
pulling in more requests in six
"Saturday Gold Rock and Roll,''
hours than could possibly be played.
As the host of "Saturday Gold," and a collector of oldies myself, I'vebeenaskedmorethanoncetorecommt""?nd currently available
albums that will give the casual record buyer with a limited budget
a nice representative rock 'n roll collection. Most of the originals
have been re-issued; some have been re-recorded, and some of the
rock 'n rollers have tackled new material.
Here are my suggestions:

(Note: John Etheredge hosts "Saturday Gold Rock and Roll" every
weekend on station KLCC, broadcast from LCC's radio facilities).

I'm sitting there at the microphone trying to think up a snappy
introduction to "Great Balls of Fire" by Jerry Lee Lewis, while
Nat Kendrick and the Swans are belting out over the studio monitor,
"(Do the) Mashed Potatoes ... "
Piled in a heap on the floor beside me are records by Bill
Haley and his Comets, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, The Coasters,
and The Drifters. The request line rings, and the guy on the other
end of the phone wants to Â·hear "Surfin' USA" by the Beach Boys.
And this is what's happenin', not in 1956, not in 1963, but every Saturday night here in 197?, on KLCC's weekly "Saturday Gold Rock
'n Roll."
All over the country, retired, once forgotten, or still plugging
rock 'n roll stars are dusting off their dinner jackets or letting the
seams out of their leather suits, putting their bop;.iin' shoes back on,
and stepping back into the limelight.
Richard Nader's "Rock 'n Roll Revival" stage shows are touring
the country, featuring people like Jay and the American,s The Belmonts, Gary US Bonds, The Shirelles, Bo Diddley, the Dovells,
Freddie Cannon, the Crystals, Jimmy Clanton, Little Eva and the
Five Satins, performing to wildly enthusiastic sell-out crowds.
,
Fats is back.
Litt 1e Richard has once again proclaimed himself "The King
of rock 'n roll."
And Elvis (did he ever really leave?) is having million sellers
again.
A few short years ago it seemed that contemporary rock was
about to become so big, so powerful, so beautiful that it would simply
swallow the universe. I suppose Woodstock was the climax. Then
other things happened - things like Altamont, Kent State, Charlie
Manson, and Hendrix, Joplin, and Morrison.
The balloon was busted. The magic was gone. But there was
that ''other" rock--those oldies but goodies, and their charm was
still intact. They had retained their innocence, and they offered a
return to less complicated times. They didn't ask you to take a political stand. The only message was, "You' re a teenager. Celebrate
it-have fun--Rock and Roll."
Where did it all begin?
â€¢ Well, Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" can be pinpointed
as the first rock 'n roll hit, back in 1955, but it wasn't by any means
the beginning of rock 'n roll.
Rock was sort of an alloy made up of blues, rhythm and blues,
folk, country and western, jazz, and who knows what else. It came
from black vocal groups in Brooklyn , and from guitar-dragging
crooners in Nashville. The point is it did come, and nobody believed
it when Danny and the Juniors sang "Rock and Roll is Here to Stay."

â€¢ Roulette: "Echoes of a Rock Era," - "Early Years" (RElll), ''Middle Years" (RE-112), and "Later Years" (RE-113).
â€¢ RCA: "Elvis' Gold Records" - Vols. 1-4 (LSP 1707, 2075,
765, and 3921), or "Elvis' Worldwide 50 Gold Award Hits" (LPM
6401).
â€¢ Chess-Checker: ''Chuck Berry's Golden Decade" (Chess 1514
-D), "Bo Diddley's 16 AU-time Greatest Hits" (Checker 2989, and
"Cruisin' 1955" through "Cruisin' 1963" (Increase 2000-2008).
â€¢ Atlantic-Atco: "History of Rhythm and Blues" Vols. l-8
(SD 8161-8168), "The Coasters" (SD-371)," La Vern Baker" (SD-372),
"Chuck Willis" (SD-373), "The Clovers" (SD-374), "The Drifterssi
(SD--375), "Joe Turner'' (SD-376), "Tl,e Ray Charles Story" Vol.
1 and 2 (SD 8063-4).
â€¢ Si>ecialty: "Little Richard's 17 â€¢Original Grooviest Hits"
(SPS 2113).
â€¢ Decca: ''Bill Haley's Greatest Hits"
â€¢ Janus: "Razzle Dazzle'' (Bill Haley and his Comets) (JX2S7003).
â€¢ Barnaby: "Everly Bros. Original Greatest Hits" (BGP 350).
"Carl Perkins--Original Golden Hits" (Sun lll), and
â€¢ Sun:
''Jerry Lee Lewis-Original Golden Hits" (Sun 102).
â€¢ Coral: "Buddy Holly's Greatest Hits" (CRL757492).

But it did that, too. So the term "rock 'n roll revival" might
be inaccurate; I think it's more of a back to the roots movement.
At first, the oldsters made up most of the "revival" audiences;
the people who grew up with rock in the fifties. Then the youngsters
came, probably out of curiosity at first. They heard the Rolling Stones

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and blues, each with counties
too many, in fact, to pin down.
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of rock and roll are many and
back a lot farther than Chuck
Richard; they are people .like W
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evolving in one place, so, too, was a
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They were insolent, rebellious, undisc1plined, and
about half-crazy, as far as the old folks were
concerned. To the young people they were heroes
--daring, courageous, and most of all, alive.

dredge up social comment in every turbulent
corner of existence, but that was all to come
later. In the fifties simplicity was the key.

The first legitimate rock and roll hit, or
rock and roll performer is subject for controversey. At any rate, it got here~ and in no small

No element of rock and roll music underwent more criticism, though, than the lyrics.
The frenzy and the volume was bad enough,

While critics were scoffing in profusion at the
tastelessness of this foul, new noise, millionaires
were being made. Overnight (or so it seemed),
greasy-haired kids were making it, and making
it big. Rock singers were becoming sound investments (honestly, no pun intended). The Coasters, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Elvis, Jerry
Lee, Little Richard and Chuck Berry were all
enjoying success, so naturally, the profit mentality
sprung up with a vitality that rivalled the music
itself.
Top 40 radio produced its own celebrities,
each claiming to be the number one rock jock.
Big money -TV personalities pimped their way
to the top, exhibiting a liberal "inness' and inherent lust for the movement. Ed Sullivan became famous (or notorious) for his weekly dabble in teenage idiocy. Dick Clark was soon an integral feature of rock and rolldom. Eventually
the dollar bill would spin the ultimate trick,
when promoters would boast of selling a prefabricated box office draw-a plastic young notalent creature named Fabian. This supreme spoof
on the part of the capitalist would even be repeated over again in the middle and late sixties,
with such formulated ventures as The Monkees,
The Archies, and The Partridge Family.
Parents were shaking their heads, critics
were dismayed, and the rich were getting richer-all because of rock and roll. and yet the kids
rocked on, for despite all the negative forces
at work in the country, one fact was undeniable:
this bold and frantic new idiom was molding
attitudes in the minds of the younger generation.
Perspective and social habits were locked into
a rock 'n â€¢ roll-boogie-while-you -can frame of
reference. The unholy marriage between teens and
the new music would only show its true results
in the late sixties, when a bastardly aura of
violence and dissent would settle over the world.
Life in the f~fties was an inescapable discrimination between the cool and the un-cool.
And, though the sages of the beat-world-Ginsberg, Farina, Ferlinghetti, Miller and Mailer-were speaking of loftier things, the non-pubescent masses were committed to rock and roll.
The last thing they needed was relevance.
Rock music was a source of energy for the
younger generation, and a common meeting
ground, where typically '' unparentlike" attitudes
could be reinforced, It was largely responsible
for the development of a new life-style, plainly
visible following the English invasion of American
pop in the sixties. "It is almost sad to note that
the golden age of rock slang is passing away,"
stated Goldstein. "With the growth of liberal radio stations across the FM dial, lyricists are now
becoming increasingly direct. Those mangy young
savages from England, who could make even a
virtuous love song sound like statutory rape, helped force this new frankness upon our virgin
ears."

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diagram cannot be over-emphasized; practically
any generalization can be firmly disputed. But
a small taste of rock and roll's history is,
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Bill Haley and his Comets

way.
The epitome of middle fifties rock and roll
was Chuck Berry. Richard Goldstein wrote (in
"The Poetry of Rock") "How could we have
faced the fifties without Chuck Berry? He helped
us survive that oppressive spinach-culture, with
its sexless platitudes and arthritic rhythms. Suddenly you could forget all the sugar-and-spice
sterility that passed for pop. Chuck Berry was
sex, speed, and see you-later-alligator jive. While
Allen Ginsburg howled, he rocked."
Energy was a necessary part of early rock.
A fair share of teeth-gritting intensity and violence was common to most of the rock and roll
pioneers. Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Little Richard,
Bill Haley and Chuck Berry did something new;
they dared to take a kick at their world--and
got away with it. Fans couldn't help but appreciate
their honesty and no doubt it played a part in
their becoming idols.
The hitherto innocent daughters of Americ2,
began, with help from this degenerate tribe of
nasties, to think and do things not entirely virtuous. Hem-lines inched slowly (very slowly) upward, socks were rolled down, and even a few
of the brazen hussies were seen in two piece
bathing suits. Teenage skin was appearing in
public, and everyone knew it was because of that
hideous new music.

but there was no Â·way the older generation could
figure out what "Yip yip yipyip yip yip yip yip,
mum mum mum mum mum mum get a job"
meant. Titles like "Be-Bop-A-Lula" and "Who
Put the Bomp'' only reaffirmed the middle age
despair that was hardening, like cement, in the
minds of adults (of course they'd already forgotten their own "Mares-eat-oats-and -does-eatots" frivolity).
"Every corner worth its traffic light had a
resident grouJ;>---9.nd a surly lot they were,''
said Richard Goldstein; "To uninitiated ears,
theirs was punk-music: coarse, constrained, and
claustrophobic. . . The pop song had become a
chant, carried by four or five voices in a dissonant wail. Measured against the aesthetic standards of current rock, these nonsense syllables
may seem ignoble. But the primary purpose of
a lyric in 1957 was to convey mood, not meaning."

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Instrumentally, the sound of the fifties was
stripped to the bare necessities-a skimpy collection of rhythm tools (drums, bass, guitar,
and piano). Nothing else was needed. In fact,
more complex instrumentation would have spoiled
the purity and crispness of the strange new sound.
Simplicity, above all else, was a key to rock's
.appeal. The nation was hiding in a cloud of
"cold-war-A-bomb-p hobia," trying to latch-on to
whatever The Big War had been fought for. A
new wave of helplessness and impotence hung in
the air-the kids could smell it-and somehow
just couldn't dig it. Rock and roll provided no
answers, but it was an ideal weapoll-{l healthy
and powerful form of expression, aimed at the
bigness of society. It was much more inviting
to thrust one's self into more irrelevant mattersthings like hot-rods, new dances, and the opposite sex.
"Now, since muh beh-beh left me-(pow!)
Ah found a new place to dwell ...
Down at the eh-u-nd of Lo-ho-nely Street
At. .. Heart-break Ho-tellll. .. "

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Not until well into the sixties would pop music
begin to examine the real world, and then only
on an exterior plane at first, with Brian Wilson
of the Beach Boys taking in-depth, mystically introverted peeks at his car, his girl, and his
surfboard. Donovan (accused by Goldstein of
"image-mongering"), Dylan, and a raft of spokesmen for the counter-culture, would inevitably

Rock music occupied more space in the teenager's cultural sphere than any other form of
art, and that alone makes it a valid subject
for study. But why the apparent recurrence of
interest in it today?
The evidence of some kind of back ward
movement is unquestionable. Sock Hops and "history of Rock" radio shows are coming out of
the woodwork. Rock and Roll can be studied formally at the University of Oregon through the
SEARCH Program. Sha na na and Jr. Cadillac
are relatively new groups, but they flaunt that
old-time sound. Practically all of yesteryear's
heavies are enjoying renewed success. There can't
be so many of us oldsters left that rock and
roll just can't afford to die, so why?
Whatever appeal the music had in the fifties,
must still be appealing. The simplicity remains
precious; the world still has the same old problems, and as of yet, no answers have magically
appeared. Nevertheless, the chances of re creating the all-out universal thrust of the golden years of rock and roll seem doubtful. We've
seen and heard too many things at this point
to return to an age of such innocence. It would
be much like trying to become a virgin again.

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May 31, 1972

~ 'elevision: those infant years

more than pure goodness, and, like everything else in television, he and she were undeniably virgins (though no one thought much about that). In 1948 William Boyd, better
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known as Hopalong Cassidy, saw his films about to be used in television so he quickly
Mirshill McLuhan h:1s davoted hterally tho~s_ands of pages of prrnt man eff~rt to
bought up the rights to the films and became very wealthy. Gene Autry also began in
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show the Am~rican public and tha world that tel~vis10n and :h,3 rest of the "electromc
movies and brought that format onto the tube. Roy Rogers and Dale Evans were of the
m~dia" have fundame~tally chan~ed th_e w~y s:~r::iety se,3s the world..
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same ilk. With its tremendous reputation in radio, The Lo~e Ranger was an instant sucsom~how on _the me~mm. }'hat . medium ,,brrngs the _whole world mto our llvmg roo_ms.
cess in 1948. But by 1955, programmers realized that American was ready for better
We become mternahonal Paepmg Toms who can view events as they happen-an idea
w,~sterns. The "Adult Western" began with Wyatt Earp, Matt Dillon's Gunsmoke,
constantly pounded in~o our heads between commercials.
.
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P1ladin (who could quote Shelly and Keats between bounty hunts),and an endless variety
(This m1y well be true. Or McLuhan could a:1,j up berng ?0 . mu::h h?t air. ~ly
of other sophisticated cowboys.
history can prove that which hasn't been jud.s~d yet. Anyway, the ?rigrns of this twe_nhe th
While Westerns may hav8 changed, the situation comedy, the bulk of evening encentury revolution in sight anj sound really began to transmJ.t some form and image
tertainmrnt, remained unchanged through the decade. Ozzie and Harriet and David and
in the late forties).
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Ricky, and Wally and . .. lived in hometown and got into all the usual trite problems of
By 1950 television had become, at least to some degree, a mirror of what was g,)m6
everyday life. Ricky held it together for the kids at the end of every show when he curled
on--at least what the producers wanted refle ::: ted. Sponsors realized thâ€¢:! 9ot9n~y of telehis lip, regreased his hair, and pretended to play a guitar while the record played. The
vision to "acq'Jaint" the viewer with products that migh~ be of so:nn â€¢1 se i~ Mom's kitquestion that always irked a lot of people was: While the rest of America was out earning
chen, or D-ai's workshop. Almost immediately the obJ~ct of t~i~ new _miracle cal~ed
a living, Ozzie was always hanging around at home. Was he retired ? Unemployed?
television be came TELEVISION. Amff:ica was enj,)w.9d m televis10n with three m'3.Jor
Father Knows best with t11e Anderson Family was another weekly ritual. Bud, Kathy,
rn:!tworks, as was its si.ster in radio .
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and Betty resembled the Am=rican family in the roles they played. But Betty was a virgin,
Those early shows were judged less on whether they had _top ratm~s and _more o:1
while a lot of girls her age were not. And Bud and his jalopy never did anything wrong,
whether a sponsor would buy the show. The network executives hadn t realized th a~
while the Bud's of this world were getting drunk or carrying switchblades or at least
popularity and sponsorship wâ€¢.He mHried forever.
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having dirty thoughts. The Anderson family was consistently happy and prosperous, but
None of us remember tho::;-; early fifties shoÂ·.vs except as syn:hcated reruns. Mmy
the Am9rican famUy was suffering from that tradition. Bud was to fantasyland what James
of "the now generation" w9ren't even an idea yet.
.
Dean and Marlon Brando were to reality.
Curio:.isly if we get to see those early s:10ws we reahze that more often than not,
But the Dean's 1 Brando's Ricky Nelson's and Annette's of this weird kind of world
th0se shows reflected dreams more than reality. Except i~ the fie!d ~f news, where
all got mixed toge therc An 'obscure disc jockey in Philadelphia got a brainstorm. His
an o'2c asional real event was able to creep_ through the ~ishful thrnkrng~ m'J st proidea was to mo:1itor the tastes of the younger folk, and give them what they wanted . . .
gramrning in the early part of the fifties consisted of slapshc~ com2dy '.:ie,rns tha_t reidols. His name was Dick Clark.
fleeted happy families where children obeyed their parents, or q:nz shows where o~d_mary
Our older brothers and sisters remember better than we do, Clark's first shows of
people, the " Middle Am2ricans" of th,:? fifties could find ~he short road to upper m :>bihty by
"A.n0 rican Bandstand." But Clark had a talent for recognizing a cloudburst and he grew
answering that "BIG" question.
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progressively more popular. As time went on, into the midfifties, Dick Clark had two
People vie Â·.ved W.:,rld. War II. o:i fl_lm, ba~k_rng m the_knowledge that Am_erica h:ld
shows going, Bandstand took care of the young rockers after school, and on Saturday night
s:ived the world from Fac1sm and imperial ambition. American was at p_2ace, mternally
"The Dick Clark Show" from the little theatre on 42nd Street in New York brought all
a11 internationally. While the newspapers reveal~d that t~ere wa~ a dise_ase krnwn as
the big nam2s to the tube. Since Beechnut Chewing Gum was the sponsor,the audience
"juvenile delinquency," the tube told us that s_uch sickness didn:t exist. .
chewed their gum, interrupting their chewing to scream for Frankie Avalon, Fabian,
We were tucked away in had :Jy 7:30 at mght, or maybe a_h!tle later if a really good
Bobby Rydell, etc. The unique thing was that Clark created these stars out of Philadelshow was on.,,What we ~em-:-mher best a:e the shows fo_r "'k1ds" because,, we w,~re.
phia's Italian neighborhoods. For Clark, the more unique fact was that 45 r,p.m. record
yea. â€¢ .M,cky â€¢â€¢â€¢ Yea â€¢â€¢â€¢ ~1ckey â€¢â€¢ yea Mick_ey ~ouse Club
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sales soared. Every acne-faced young bopper ran out on Saturday afternoons to buy the
Walt Disney, the late molester o~ c~nldren's mmds, capitahzed o~ th~ new m_edmm
famous top ten.
to help create a dynasty of fairylanj for America's pre-puberty crowd. By the hme of
Clark is still around, doing bandstand in a Saturday afternoon slot just before the
Disney's d,~ath little more than a year ago, Disney ProdJo~tiom had grossedhundreds
fake wrestling show. Most of his time is spent trying to turn today's hippies to Jesus,
of millions of dollars 'JJ the now famous Disneyland in California, the newly opened
a m'Jvement with which he has unclear connections. He still pretends to be a spokesman
Disneyland East, in Florida, and a Production Company which continually flooded the
for youth. But after being involved in the "payola" scandals of the late fifties, he was
TV market with feature length films, serials, and cartoons. While Disney helped to m 0 Id
never quite able to make a comeback.
television :.nto what it is Â·.vith his imagination, and perservere?ce, i~ must be remembe_red
Television today has nothing to rival the fifties. In the fifties n:> on knew what they
tha~ television made Disney a world-renowned figure m children's P: 0 grammi?.sâ€¢
were doing with that medium. There were no experts. The industry was young. Now the
Th~ Mfckey Mouse Club was probably the biggest single show for children ?un~i;
formâ€¢1las are tried and true, and used and used and used. Som13time during the end of the
th1:! eg_rly and mid-fifties. Until Disney came back n~ar the turn of the decade w1th 'ns
decade, ratings and money became supreme.
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And with the sixties, corruption, civil rights, the war in Vietnam all became hot
saturated the minds of what is now the "now-generation." Each day presented a new
TV coverage. Sure, Buffalo Bob is out trying to make a buck bringing Howdy Doody to
format. There w::i.s adventure day, mystery day, comedy day, all ch,)reographed and
college campuses. But no one is really swallowing that. David Nelson in a recent interview
polished to p,Jrfoct;) Â·:. Many of the prodigies in the Mouseketeers became today's stars.
said that life with the Ozzie and Harriet show was unbearable and stifling. John Wayne
Bobby is a Â·fa 1r~er with the LawrenceW.alk Show.An1ette, the only mouseketeer who could
became a symbol not to be admired unless you were a hawk. Pat Boone, that white buck
arouse the libido of six year olds, aroused the libido of those same peo~le in the '60's
crooner from the fifties, sits in his plush house telling Am13rican young people to turn
with a series of grade-B bikini b,aach surfer movies. Annette was the only twelve year
to Jesus. But Jesus told peopleto give away everything,and Boone continues to pile up his
old in television who could be described as _''ch~s.ty.''. And the leader of the Mo~s~ investments.
keteers, Jimmy was still :ible to capture the identif1cahon of the youngsters, remmdSince we can now see instant replays of death and destruction, the murder of an
ing them to obey their parents and not play in the traffic.
assassin in live livid color, and since the advertisements are often of higher quality
Disney's Mouse Clu'J showed features <5Uch as Spin and Marty, ~here the st_rugg~e
than the shows, one would think that the '' now generation" might yearn for them good
for good and evil set the scene for a constant battle between a ,::,po1led urban rich kid
old days.
and a knowledgeable country t;oy on a summer carny ranch. After saving each other's
But it happened to us like it happens to everybody. American turned cycnical somelife for about thirty weeks, they becam8 friend:, â€¢ â€¢â€¢ and the summ : r ended an;way.
where along the line. In 1951, during the first "See It Now" news program with Edward
In additio,, Disney helped to launch Fess Parker into television stardom. The Davy
R Murrow, Murrow 1J~ened that show with simultaneous live pictures of the Atlantic
Crockett specials on tha Sunday nigh~ Disney show in the mi.d-fifties ed 11â€¢~ated the children
and Pacific Oceans. " We are impressed by a medium in which a man, sitting in his
of America int'Â·â€¢-= '.: . torical "tru~hs' : ,1:" .1elegends . C;â€¢:rkett helpe,i in ~hs 11Â·Â·', Â·minatio'1
living room, has been able, for the first timn, to see two oceans at once," Murrow said.
of !1, :â€¢ive A_rnnricam, fr:.,.a â€¢... ,;nnessee, although they w~'lra cal J:Â·' â€¢ :nj~'~s" or"red~ki_ns"
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studio he hung by hardly visible wire while a film flashed on th~ s~reen m b~ck of hm_1.
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Chuck Berry
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tights could fly. More than one child sought to imitate the dynamics of the "man of steel."
Pat Boone
Buddy Holly
This bubble broke, as the decade closed, with George Reeves (we all believed he was
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really superman) commiting suicide. The first hint crept in that what we saw was not
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Steve M~Queen
Each afternoon after a hard game of cowboys and Indians, the future "now generation"
Johnny Crawford
Haley Mills
sat down to the opening lines, "Hey kids, what time is it?" The peanut galler~ broke
Sandra Dee
M_ar1lyn Monroe
loose in thunderous screams. Clarabell gyrated and honked his horn. The strmgs on
Bob (Maynard) Denver Vic Morrow
the puppets grew taut, and Buffalo Bob took us on our_daily fant~sy trip into H?wdy Doody
Dion Dimucci
Rick Nelson
land. To look back or see films from the shows it seems bizarre to consider a mate
Troy Donahue
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clown who honked his horn a full-grown man who looked like a used car salesman, and
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did. Instead, most stayed glued to the set for at least the first of a b~rrag~ of Westerns.
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The radio disk jockey: is he fact or fiction?
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" ... this is the fabulous Ray

hit from the fabulous top

Ramirez on the mighty 94

forty sounds in KYNG country

fifty thousand watt KFRE,

the number one song for the
third great week in a row,

Allen, Don Kennedy, Mark stewart, Ron Lloyd and John Hryson.
Of all the disk jockeys working for those twoÂ· stations, the most
interesting match-up is KEED's John W. Napier and KASH's Ron
Lloyd. The two men have contrasting styles, philosophies, personalities and maybe more important, work for different stations.
Ron Llcy d is a former country and western disk jockey from
The Dalles and Medford. He inherited a standard program at KASH
and slowly changed the format to one of progressive rock music.
This was accomplished by playing more "oldies but goldies" and
less "bubblegum." Taking it from there Ron began playing less
of the oldies and more of the newies, but only album cuts and only
by accomplished musicians.
The concept was different and radical from the traditional program, particularly in it's time slot: 7 p.m. to midnight. People
have a habit of rejecting changes and for this reason Lloyd waited
for the initial ratings with a great deal of apprehension. To his
relief KASH was shown to have a higher listening audience than it's
competitors, despite the fact that the University of Oregon campus
was not polled, (an area Lloyd considers one of his strongest).
In the months that followed the ratings the program was
structured completely towards a progressive rock format, eliminating
all of the "top 4QH trends. The music was not the only change in

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by Lex Sahonchik-

From out of the unrelated screams and roars of rock music
one inconsistant product of the age rises above the now mundane
sounds of the rock and roll teenyboppers. The radio disk jockey
is that inconsistant product, and he draws his audience from a
wide variety of people. However, he is not embraced as dearly by
anyone as by the fad-following adolesc::ents> most of whom were
born into the "Beatle Era." You wouldn't call it mystique or charisma that draws the wide-eyed young fan towards the disk jockey;
the word would more likely be adulation and in most cases even
worship. Worship because today's disk jockey is the only connection
existing between the music and its young fans.
Along with this worship goes the power over the thoughts,
actions, and opinions of the young listener. Some D,J' s use their
power with restraints and wisdom, others pump their hot air into
alrGady over-inflated egos.
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a listening audience formerly alienated by reams of advertising
pouring out of the radio speaker.
Ron Lloyd's philosoph-y of radio is very simple, give the listener
what he wants, This includes a very wide range of music: from heavy
blues to country and folk. There are limits on what he will play
however; Lloyd stays away from "high energy" music, such as
Grand Funk Railroad, with the idea that more people will be alienated
r faster and more permanently by high energy than with lo w key music. Whether or not his theories are, in fact, correct, Lloyd's
popularity in the past few months has soared past that of even KZEL,
and _FM station well-known for it's progressive format.
KEED's John W. Napier has always run a progressive rock
form3 t at 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. Napier offers a completely different
image to the listener than does the very quiet Ron Lloyd . Napier
X uses the airwaves to speak out on anything and often everything.
. . }}; Napier can and will embark upon fifteen minute edi torial comments
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of a variety of subjects, usually politically oriented.

The daytime disk jockey has traditionally been under the impression that he was obligated to conduct himself in a prescribed
fashion - one that appealed to the sometimes dull wit of the youthful
fan or maybe fanatic. This behavior usually included a myriad of
pet-phrases and quick-quips, invariably containing the pronouns me
or I. In fact, anything with the words me or I is popular with the
deejay. These "jocks" are notorious for starting records and then
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chattering through half of the song, only to break in and blot out the
- - - often
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last half with tainted jokes and offcolor and often unrelated comments
versation and_~ial~gue. Hi~ style i~ veryp?pular.Joh~ h_as one of the
about the talent of the musicians no one heard. And who can blame
... ;.C)~-iâ€¢iÂ¼,..,};~ ?1ost loyal hstenrng audiences m the city, and this 1s even more
them-with titles like "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show," "Baby
mteresting when one looks at the time slot.
l'ma Want You," and "Bang a Gong (Get It On)."
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The position of the disk jockey has evolved from one of objective
news reporter and when time allowed, to an entertainer, and when
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tell who's got the correct theory, both have large audiences and
comments and occasional music.
"Wolfman Jack,,, the Los Angeles both are succes~ful.
There are degrees, of inundation. The degrees usually vary with
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Both have different outlooks on life. Napier is almost pessimistic
the individual disk jockey but sometimes the entire station joins the
IS JOC ey wor mg for radio
and it shows on his program, Lloyd is a very spiritual person and
circus. Nationally famous for pouring a hail of machine gun cliches
station XPRS, is the epitome of
h~ gets into scientology, alche111y, and, in a nutshell, his religion is
into the airwaves, radio station XPRS (formerly XERB) stands head
the breed of disk jockey centering simply love - he. loves everybody and everything. John thinks
and sometimes shoulders above the competition.
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Lloyd's style and ideas about playing only music are mistaken
XPRS style consists of 24 hours of rapid fire rhetoric spewing
the flstener s attention upon him and in reference to Ron's large listening audience, "I could whip hi~
forth from it's 100,000 watt Tijuana towers. The broadcast studios
self and his style.
ass<' Ro~:s reactio~s are different, he considers Napier to be
are located in Los Angeles California, but the transmitter is in
playmg
good music, I love him." When told of Napier's conMexico. The reason for the distant and foreign locale is to avoid
fidence
in
getting
better ratings Lloyd replied, ''He probably could."
the Federal Communications Commission regulations. But banishment
Wolfman's style consists of an
Two different disk jockeys, one convinced the thing to do is
from the United States doesn't stop XPRS, in fact, it doesn't even
project his personality and the other convinced that success comes
unlimited .number of publicity
slow them down. "The soul express" simply aims it's directional
with music. Both are successful and both think their own theories
beam northward and bombards California, Oregon, Washington,
stunts such as his show in the
are the right ones. The only test is to match each one in the same
Montana, Utah, Idaho and Nevada. The voices behind the XPRS
lane Community College gym.
time period, and that will happen in the near future when John
microphone belongs to such notables as "the Master Blaster "
Napier moves to the early evening slot.
Such "shows" often include a
Wolfman Jack,'' and Art Laboe, host of the "oldies but goldi~s
One fact stands out; both men play progressive rock music
show.''
revised type of a "telethon,,in
and. few_ commercials and both jocks think that eventually daytime
All of these DJ's have their own personai style of delivery.
which Wolfman expands his
radio will become progressive. It seems clear through this and KZEL
The Master Blaster is extremely fond of rhymes and has the knack
audience
by inviting them to a
-:- F_M's overwhe~ming popularity during the daylight hours that raof rhyming nearly everything he says. Wolfman Jack is quite possibly
live telephone conversation while dio is undergoing changes and these changes are bound to stick
the most famous disk jockey in the nation at the time. Wolfman who
~round and q~ite possibly even affect the unaffectable daytime disk
made a trip to the LCC campus in 1969 comes on with a deep
he is on the air.
Jockey, shootmg the mounts out from under the turntable on which
g~ating voice, soul music and numerous canned promotional tape~
his world turns.
with wolf howls, testimonials and recommendations from Hollywood
stars, all plugging his show.
C~oser to_ home, KGAL in Lebanon prese11ts the XPRS image,
but with considerably less success. KGAL has decided to use disk
jockeys with semi-original nicknames: "The Blue Frog," and
''.Mother ~ear." However the format has a distinct lack of profess10nal pollsh and the dee jays come off sounding a little too hurried
a little too commercialized, a little too insincere and a little to~
corny.
_ The obvious result of this outward thrusting of the disk jockey's
image, (by the disk jockey himself), is an audience that .is tuned
not to the music itself but to the disk jockey himself.
A. disk jockey . has two main ways of establishing popularity
for himself and his show; play the music or play himself. It is
extremely difficult to do both, and do both effectively. If however
the D_J suceeds with either one or the other, his ratings go up:
Sometimes they increase dramatically. This new audience tends to
carry over from that particular show to others on the same station
This puts pressure of the other disk jockeys to keep the carry~
over ~ud!ence, either by co~tinuing the original jock's style or
e_s!abhs_hmg a P?PUlar one of his own. The whole point of this competitive circle boils down to the eventual fierce level of competition
between stations.
Eugene has quite a battle of it's own between stations KEED and
KASH. These two stations are different in almost everything but the
"top 40" concept. KEED disk jockeys are more permanent than those
of KASH. The KEED cr~w consists of "Doc" Holliday, Jeff Murray,
Eug1H's radio KASH disk j,ck,y Ron Lloyd: "tlu 1xpa11di111 Â·11uma,, t#lsciousness.,,
G&i-aon Scott, Dave Decaser, and John Ii. Napier. ~ I I &5 Jack

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May 31, 1972

NIXON'S VIEW ON POLITICAL REALITY

By Jim Otos
Nixon seems to make his presidential mov9s
with a great deal of political timeliness, and to
many people this timeliness is irritating.
It is interesting to note that for the first
two years oJ Nixon's term in office, he was
almost totally impotent, and in the third year
of his term Nixon initiated some of the biggest presidential moves of the last three decades, with the hope that these moves would mature by election time in November, 1972, but actually these moves are maturing into a batch of
political miscalculations.
In the last week of April, 1972, Nixon announced that he would continue to pull out American
troops from Vietnam, even as North Vietnamese
troops advance deeper and deeper into South Vietnam in their strongest offensive of the Vietnam war. Nixon said that he would increase the
already accelerated B-52 bombing and air strikes
if necessary. In character, Nixon feels that it is
politically imperative to continue troop withdrawals in this election year.
During the first half of his term, Nixon pulled
out only a small number of American troops,
while continually alluding to the Paris peace talks
as the answer to an end to an "unwanted war."
Then, wHh 18 months of his first term remaining, Nixon disclosed secret negotiations with the
North Vietnamese, saying that they were balking,
and he used that as rationale for revealing the
secret talks.
Nixon described his plan for Vietnamization,
and the withdrawal of American troops bv implying that the United States can get out of V1etnam without ending the war; all we had to do was
teach the South Vietnamese to fight.
At about the same time President Nixon announced his Phase 1 and Phase 2 economic plans,
plans that would cure the internal ills of America. Phase 1 made it illegal to raise prices
and wages, which was supposed to control inflation, and Phase 2 consisted of a Wage and
Price Board which would consider all wage and
price increases before those increases could be
put into effect, the Board having thP power
to refuse any increase.
In January of 1972 Nixon went to Red China,
and this seems to be his political triumph of his
first term. Since Red China gained the capacity
to explode nuclear weapons the American people
have had to live under the threat of not one, but
two nuclear "enemies." Until 1972 Red China was

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a secretive country of millions of American-hating people. But
now, since the Nixon visit, Red China is a friendly country with
millions of industrious, friendly people who may be siding with
America against the great Russian threat. Not only did Nixon
turn an enemy into a friend, he also put the American voter into
his debt.
Nixon has also made, in the last few months, a positive stand
on busing. This has been analyzed as his fulfillment of a commitment to his Southern supporters from the 1968 campaign. It was
actually a political mov9 to gain Southern and Northern votes for
the coming Presidential election.
A well-timed political, if not
moral, move.

Analysis
Much has been said about Nixon's political sense, but it is
obvious that Nixon's moves are beginning to backfire. Nixon initiated his Vietnamization program at such a time that it was virtually impossible to tell how it would be going at election time.
Politics is like a chess game -- before making a move one must
determi11e all the possible ramifications, and then expect the op-

DaNang, Vietnam

The US .dropped 800,000 tons of bombs in 1971.
In 1972 the bomb tonnage will double that of 1971

ponent to make the best corresponding move for
himself.
Nixon may have considered a North Vietnamese
offensive, possibly designed to discredit him, but
whether Nixon knew this or not he put himself in
an almost indefensible position.
In March of 1972 the North Vietnamese began
a huge offensive in South Vietnam, literally running
over the South Vietnamese army, and in early
May of 1972 the people of Saigon were told by the
South Vietnamese government to sand-bag their
homes and prepare for an attack on the South
Vietnamese capital.
Nixon responded by sending 150 new planes
to South Vietnam and the B-52 force in the Pacific was doubled. Nixon changed a ground war
with a unforeseeable end into an air war with
and unforeseeable end, at a cost of over one
billion dollars annually, with 30,000 Americans
in the Pacific and Vietnam.
On May 9 Richard Nixon, in a broadcast
to the American people, said that even though
he knew many Americans were against any escalation of the war he had made the decision
to mine the harbors of North Vietnam, and he
gave foreign ships in the harbors three days
to leave. If they stayed it would be at their own
risk. This remark was directed mostly to Russia, which had 29 ships in Haiphong Harbor.
Carl T. Rowan, a national syndicated columnist, paraphrased Robert McNamara, secretary
of defense to John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B.
Johnson, as saying that any step by either
country which carries a clear risk of war between the United States and Soviet Union is a
step bordering on lunacy. This is exactly the
step taken by Nixon in mining the harbors of
North Vietnam; it puts Soviet ships and men in
danger; it was a calculated political move to gain
votes in the November presidential election.
Greg Deli, a history instructor at Lane
Community College, said of Nixon's decision to
mine the harbors of North Vietnam: "A shameful policy of putting personal motives ahead
of serious politics." Delf explained that he had
heard that the North Vietnamese had enough
supplies in South Vietnam to carry on the offensive until July, 1972; and he thought that then
they would pull back and lick their wounds, until
fall, when they would begin a new offensive,
Delf said that Nixon wants to stop supplies so
that there will be no offensive or North Vietnamese victory at the time of the presidential
elections in November of 1972.
Nixon's economic plan at this point is not
doing everything that he had hoped it would
do. The unemployment has gone up and although
inflation was controlled for a time, not long
after Phase 1 was lifted there was the biggest
inflationary jump in six years for a one month
period.
The Wage and Price Board is in trouble,
too. Probably the biggest opposition to wage controls come from Labor Unions, and Nixon, in
an effort to pacify the Unions, appointed a
number of labor leaders to the Board. Last
April all of the labor leaders walked out of the
Board meeting in protest to its policies. Nixon's
economic plan is faltering.
Many people in the Eugene area are aware
. that Nixon puts a good deal of emphasis on
political timing. John Astin, a resident of Eugene
for the last 35 years commented, "Nixon? Well,
I'm not going to vote for him, I guess because
I don't trust him. He seems to do things to benefit himself, not us." Astin is a Republican.
A woman college student from Lane Community College said about Nixon, "I don't think
it is unusual that it took Nixon two years to do
anything. The job of president is complicated.
But I don't like the way he is picking-up the bombing of North Vietnam, especially in the populated
areas around Hanoi and Hiaphong. I think that
is a mistake.''
Nixon remains enigmatic to many Americans
but it is obvious to many more Americans that
Nixon planned his moves of last year to coincide
with the upcoming election, and that some of
these moves are turning into gross mistakes.
Six months ago Nixon would have won the presidential election easily, but he has lost a great
deal of credibility since December of 1971, and
if war in Vietnam, and the economy in America,
continue to go badly, Nixon might do well to
drop out of the race as Lyndon Johnson did in
1968, to save himself the shame of an overwhelming defeat at the polls.

Final Exam Schedule
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M, W, F, MW, MWF, MUWHF,
MUWH, MWHF, MUHF, MUWF

If your class is on

And starts at

Your exam day and time will be:

0700 or 0730

H, 8-10

H, 10-12

0800 or 0830

0900 or 0930

w, 8-10

w, 10-12

1000 or 1030

H, 8-10

H, 10-12

1100 or 1130

M, 12-14

M, 14-16

1300 or 1330

w, 12-14

w, 14-16

1200 or 1230

u, 14-16

1400 or 1430

H, 12-14

8-10

12-14

10-12

H, 14-16

1500 Qt 1530

w, 16-18

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M, 16-18

u, 16-18

F, 8-10

F, 10-12

or 1630

1700 or 1730

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Eveni11g classes: those that meet 1800 or later, will have their
final exams during final exam week at their regularly scheduled
class time.

1800 or later

U,H,UH, UWHF

Read across the day(s) of your class, then read
down and find the starting time of that class.
This is your final exam day and time.

Students having moreÂ· than two exams in one day,
may request a rescheduling of the third exam
at a different time. See your insturctor to make
this arrangement.

Kese y speak s at Lane
Legalization in Oregon (MELO)
at many colleges and universities
throughout the state.
Kesey told the Lane audience
that the American public has been
using drugs for a long time
but has made the best drugs
illegal. He jokingly said, "the
only dope you can buy legally

by Lee Beyer

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"I've been smoking dope a long
time and plan to continue to smoke
dope," said author Ken Kesey to
a packed Forum Theater crowd
last Monday, May 22. Kesey implied he was not worried about
the physical effects of drugs,
and jokingly said, "I'll match my
chromosomes against anyone's."
He added that smoking marijuana
brings about a more passive
attitude in people.
Kesey, using a series of metaphores and reviews of his "drugged visions," told the college
audience that he sees the war,
the Administrations inattention to
public opinion and the w h o I e
American style of being in a
hurry to get from here to there
and back again - as a problem
of not being able to slow down
and think things out. He said
that marijuana smoking was one
way to slow down.
Kesey, the author of "One
Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"
and "Sometimes A Great Notion,'' has been speaking in support of Marijuana Education for

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is aspirin, alcohol and belladonna."
According to Dave otis, an LCC
student who has been working
for MELO on the Kesey tour,
Kesey told a Portland University
audience that he has never written anything when he was not un(Continued on Page 16)

Kuhle W aJmpe
(Whither Germany?)
This was the last film made in Germany
before Hitler officially took power and
as such reflects the bitter social conditions of the time.
"This film gives a
concise idea of what German life was
like during the crucial Pre-Hitler days."
Siegfried Kracauer
ALSO: The Earth Belongs to the People
A radical analysis of the ecological crisis.

Thurs., June 1, 7 & 9 pm 150 Science U of O $1.00

May 31, 1972

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OSPIRG funding revised by

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Board of Higher Education
The Oregon State Board of
Higher Education voted Monday,
May 22 to eliminate "individual"
student assessments by students
in public universities and colleges for the Oregon Student
Public Interest Research Group
(OOPIRG).
Instead, the Board decided to
allow individual state institutions
to decide whether to fund OOPIRG
through general incidental fee
budgets or to participate on the
basis of voluntary student contributions.
OOPIRG Director Stephen R.
McCarthy said he was pleased
with the Board's decision, suggesting that several of the institutions-flotably Oregon State
University and Portland State
University-already had evolved
Â·toward such an approach.
"It's essentially the same policy we've had all along, except
that it p rec 1u de s student refunds," McCarthy said. Funding
from general incidental fee monies--if adopted by a particular
institutioit--Would mean that the
OSPIRG budget be approved by
student body and institutional au-

thorities in the same fashion as
other incidental fee programs.
Institutions that choose voluntary funding for OSPIRG would
also have the option to participate in collection of volunteered
monies.
Also included in the Board
action were the stipulations that
OOPIRG engage in non-partisan
analysis, study and research, and
that OSPIRG may not enter into
litigation without losing its incidental fee backing.
"We've always been under an
understanding that we couldn't do
that (litigate) anyway, and now it's
just reaffirmed," McCarthy said.
Po Ii c i es adopted under the
Board's action will become effective Fall Term 1972.
The recommendations for the
proposals were made by a special ad hoc committee established
at the April 28 meeting of the
Board's Academic Affairs Committee.
The Board vote was six "yes,"
two "no," -and one abstention on
the 00 PIRG proposal.

Magazin e to be released
LCC's literary-art magazine,
The Concrete Statement, is scheduled for publication this week.
It will be sold at tables on the
second floor of the Center Building, and in the LCC Bookstore.
The magazine contains creative
work, including fiction, poetry
and photography, by LCC students and staff members.
Among selections printed in the
magazine are "Sneeze," (apoem
about the joys of sneezing), a
story about Dachau, a song about

the Attica prison uprising, and
prize-winning photographs from
the Concrete Statement photography contest. One of the highlights
of the magazine is an epic poem
about a zoology field trip taken
by a class at LCC.
The magazine is financed by
the Student Senate and by sales;
it will be sold this year for
75 cents. It will be about 60
pages, including full-page prints
of photographs.

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Adult Student Housing announces the
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May 31, 1972

Mining Won't Stop Supplies

by J.J. Brown

Mr. Bown, a captain in the Air
Force Reserve, was chief of all
Air Force night photo intelligence
in North Vietnam and Laos from
December -1965 until December
19 6 6 , and senior Air Force
PHOTO INTELLIGENCE OF FICER attached to the American
Embassy in Vietnam :, Laos,
from December 1966 through September 1968. Mr. Brown, 30 a
native of Chicago, now heads a
management consultant firm in
Singapore.
Singapore -DNSl-Pre s ident Nixon's move to cut off
supplies to North Vietnam is unlikely to have a major impact
on the ability of North Vietnam
and the National Liberation Front
to c a r r y on fighting in South
Vietnam.
While the naval blockage most
likely will succeed in blocking
s up p 1i es from coming through
Haiphong port, its main impact
will be to force the funneling of
supplies down the roads and rails
from China.
To succeed in blocking military supplies from reaching Hanoi, the US will still have to
rely on air interdiction-but this
time over terrain as rough as
any the US has faced in Indochina.
The border between North
Vietnam and China runs for over
one hundred miles and the terrain is very mountainous and
forested. Since 1965 a number of
1

road networks have been constructed and today three major
roads service North Vietnam
from China. The two countries
are also linked by one railroad.
None of these arteries of communications are within the range
limits of naval gunfire and therefore all of the interdiction will
have to be attempted by air just
as the US has been trying to
do over the "Ho Chi Minh trail"
since 1965.

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nature is destroying everything below~ homes, schools,
gardens,
pagodas,
rice
fields, forests, animal life,
and , of course, any people
caught in the open."
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_Ce_nter
And it continues.

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LCC MEETING, Tues. at noon,
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lane COllltv MEETING.
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Unlike the Ho Chi Minh trail,
however, the highway system
from China is very modern with
concrete and asphalt cover over
most of the surfaces. Anti-air
defenses in North Vietnam are
â€¢ also much more extensive and
sophisticated. While SAM missiles are rarely used along the
Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, the
entire area coming down fro~
China is covered by SA Ms and
one-hundred milimeter radarc?nt~olled ant_i~aircr~ft artillery
pieces. In addition Chinese troops
and laborers help maintain the
road and provide for its defense.
A zone twenty miles long extends from the Chinese border
into North Vietnam where, in the
past, air strikes have been prohibited by the joint chiefs of staff
on order of the President to insure that no overflights are made
by the Chinese border by mistake.
On the Chinese s~de of the
Border vast trans-shipment and
stor_a~e areas house the supplies
awa1tmg the convoys, and trucks
by_ the hun~red move up and down
th1s area ll~e ants.
The. Pr~s1dent_ cann~t of course
bo~b ms1de h 1n a without provokmg a maJor response. Even
bombing within the twenty mile
zone takes a serious risk of confrontation.
The North Vietnamese pr~pared for a naval blockade m
1966 by building up a supply network from China and preparing
its de_fense. ~ajo_r inte~dictionof
supphes at this hme will be next
to impossible.
. S_ince 1967 China has beenprov1dmg nearly all of the small
arms and ammunition coming into
North Vietnam. These supplies
are shipped overland. Most of

the sophisticated and heavy
equipment came in by sea and
was supplied by the Russians and
other communist countries. other countries like France have
been conducting a brisk trade in
consumer and capital goods.
While it is possible that supplies from the sea may be stopped, what happens in the south
is not likely to be effected greatly. The Soviet T-54 Tank, for
example, is produced in both
the_ Soviet Union and C~ina. The
Chinese can and most llkely will
provide tank treads and engine
spare parts and new tanks if
necessary. In general they can
supply 90 per cent of what the
North Vietnamese need. The rest
can probably be done without.
us military intelligence analysts seem preoccupied with the
North Vietnamese supply problems. They don't seem to rea~
lise that all armies are not
supplied on the grandious scale
of their own. The North Vietnamese and NLF supply network
functions throughout Vietnam because the quipJl?.ent is for the
most part not sophisticated and
can easily be replaced or done
wihout.
The North Vietnames have not,
for example, used their tanks
well in the south and no doubt
would have achieved the gains
they have made without them.
The wire-guided missiles and
other advanced weapons have achieved more of a psychological
effect than a military one. These
w~ap_ons are not needed and if
ehmmated from the battlefield
the effects on events would be
slight.
The Russians and the Chinese
have never gotten along as part-

Aerospace class

ners in the supply of North Vietnam. From 1966 to 1968, accord.
.
.
.
mg to Americ~n intelllgence. reports at. the hme, the ~u~sians
would ship overland sophisticated
Fan-Song and Bar-Lock acquisition radars and SAM missiles.
The Chinese provided so many

to be offered
at LCC in June
An aerospace workshop for
primary and secondary teachers
will be conducted June 19-30
at Lane Community College.
Sponsored by LCC in cooperation with the Division of Continuing E?ucation, the s~~si~ns
are des 1g n e d to fam1har1ze
teachers with all areas of aerospace education and help them
prepare instructional materials
for aerospace study in the classroom â€¢
The workshop director is Melvin c. Gaskill, chairman of the
Mechanics Dept. at LCC. He has
been a promoter of aerospace
education for over 25 years rit:1
is recongnized as a leading authority in the field.
D~r~ng the h~o-week workshop,
par_hcipants will have an opportumty to _hear guest l~cturers
from var_10us . aeronautics a_nd
a~t~ona~hcs. fields, _deve_lop mdivi~uallzed mstru~honallzed ~aterial_s, and work m LCC 's airframe. a_n~ powerplan~ labs. othe~ activities planned include making audio and video instructional tapes, touring local flight operations, cross-country flights,
and a visit to a smoke jumpers
school.
Workshop sessions will be held
weekdays from 9 a.m. to 12 noon.
Labs will ~emain o~n and instructors will be available in the
afternoon to assist persons in~erested in individual studyproJects.
There are no pre-requisites
for the workshop, and a back(Continued on Page 16)

obstacles, however, that by 1968
Russi a decided to bring everything in by sear.
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seful items th e Chmese w?n t
be able to supp_ly th e North Vi?tna~fsiAa~e m_ig ~wenty-one airera '
missiles and radar.
( Coryright Dispatch News Service)

P ayground built for
Day Ca re Center
with combined effort
.
.
by Km Smith
LCC's Day Care Center will
have aÂ· new playground area located on the lawn behind' the
auxillary gym due to the efforts
of Jed Merrill, the Industrial
Technology classes, Georgia Pacific (GP) and Scharph's Twin
Oaks Building Supply.
Merrill Industrial Technology
Departme~t instructor and his
classes donated their' labor to
build a shed for storage of equipment. GP andScharph'sTwin
Oaks Building Supply donated the
lumber with which Â·the shed was
built.
David Wallace, Early Childhood Education major thought
the area would be of vaiue to the
Center. "If you have everwalked
by the previous playground in the
Center you would know why. The
space and thus types of play
are :ather limited,,, he said.

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Oregon Gossip

Plaudits are in order for Coach
Al Tarpenning' s track and field
team . That performance in Euâ€¢
gene Saturday, May 13 was truly outstanding. Any community
college that runs up 1231/2 points
to capture a regional title sure
has comething going for them and that's fine athletes and good
coaching.
Standing out for LCC in this
meet were Bill Cram in the three
mile, Randy Griffith in the mile,
and Dennis Hilliard competing in
the 880.

"Valenti ball."
But take nothing away from the
gentleman, he left a winner 85 wins, 74 losses. In 1966 when
capturing the Pac-8 title he was
named "Coach of the Year" for
the West Coast, and was award-

Who was the last coach to
win a Pac-8 basketball title
other than UCLA's John Wooden?
it was OSU's P au 1 Valenti,
friends, in 1966,
His style of basketball was a
tenacious defense, and a ball control offense, with_some mu students referring to his style as

Two women place
in Regional track
and field contest
By Lorraine Hein
Lorraine Hein and Beth Boehmer were the only women to place
in the final competition of the
Northwest College Women's
Sports Association Northwest
Track and Field meet in Ellensburg, Washington Friday and Saturday, May 20-21.
Lorraine Hein tossed the shot
39 feet 10 inches to bring home
a first place for Lane. Beth
Boehmer took fifth in the 3,00
meter run, in spite of an injured leg.
Several other competitors for
Lane made it to the finals but
were unable to place. Lisa Fox
broke the school record in the
preliminaries of the 100 meter
hurdles with a time of 16.1 seconds. Her previous best time of
the season was 17.2 Kristy Phillips was 8th in the high jump,
jumping 4 feet 8 inches. Molly
Read also finished in 8th place
in the discus, hurling the platter
103 feet 9 inches.
Lane placed 10th with 12 points
out of 19 schools in the Northwest Region representing the
states of Oregon, Washington,
and Montana.

OSU's Paul Valenti tennis now
ed the '' Man of the Year'' award
at the Hayward Banquet. There
wasn't a better disciplined basketball team on the coast that
year.
He retired as basketball coach
in 1970, and became Oregon State's tennis coach. In two years
he has led his netters to two
Pac if i c Northwest titles, His
team of this year has an 18 win,
4 loss record.
''Comp et it o r" is the word
many use to describe Valenti.
Mike Brundage (former U of O
quarterback 1 now assistant Portâ€¢ land State football coach) told
George Pasero (sports editor,
Oregon Journal) just that in the
following words;
''I played Paul when I visited
OSU and one would think that,
under the circumstances, he
would have taken it easy (OSU
was trying to recruit Mike, at
that time an outstanding prep
at Roseburg High). But Paul's
such a competitor that we were
arguing and playing as hard as
we could. I really respect him
... a heckuva guy."
That explains why Valenti's
netters are tops in the North-

â€¢â€¢â€¢
Â·â€¢â€¢
rports Brief~ â€¢
The LCC Intramural Sports
Office has scheduled two more
intramural events for the last
week of school. The events will
be a weight lifting tournament and
a "watermelon run."
The watermelon run will be
run in the same way the "turkey
run" was staged last fall. â€¢ The
object is to predict the exact
time it takes to run the cross
country course. Watermelons
will be awarded to the men and
women who most closely predict their finishing times. Women will run 011e mile and men
will run a mile and a half.
The race will begin at noon today. Both faculty and students
are eligible.
Also planHed for today at 4
p.m. is a weight lifting tournament, which will consist of a
military press, arm curls, and
a bench press. Competitors will
be assigned to their weight
classes. Sign-up sheets are now
posted for both events on the bulletin boards in the locker rooms.

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Congratulations to the UCLA
Bruins outstanding basketball
center. Bill Walton has shown
couraÂ·ge off the floor as well as
on, friends.
He was arrested recently in
Los Angeles at an anti-war demonstration on the UCL.'\. campus. According to AP ' 'the 6foot-11 sophomore center was
placed in a paddy wagon after
refusing to obey police orders
to disperse from Murphy Hall,
an administration building which
protestors had barricaded."
Hopefully, the "boys in blue"
didn't use their riot sticks on
Mr. Walton. If that had occurred, I should think that the wrath
of the great Bruin basketball
coach would have com~ down upon
the LA Police Department.
Walton was asked by anewsman if he felt the arrest might
jeopardize his athletic career.
"If being arrested is what it
takes to get the point across ... "
Walton said.
Now, just maybe the Prez will
start looking twice at his war
policy if more athletes begin making their view known. After all
Nixon has a high regard for athletes and athletics.

* ***
Willie Mays, the grand veteran
of major league baseball returns
to New York City as a Met.
Interesting indeed! Leave it to
Horace Stoneham, over 60 per
cent owner of the San Francisco
Giants, (formerly the New York
Giants). Stoneham trades many
of his good players: the Alou
brothers, Orlando Cepeda, Gaylord Perry, Tom Haller, Dick
Deitz, Bill White, Jose Pagan,
Randy Hundley, and there were
others. Really, it's a wonder that
there are any Giant fans remaining in the Bay Area.

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It is sometimes customary on the last issue of a paper, last
issue of a magazine, or last television program of the year, to
recap the year's events in a neat, compact, orderly little package.
The only applicable package for the 1971072 Lane Community
College athletic program is the word, frustration.
The Lane athletic program is one that is hamstrung by administrative policies prohibiting athletes from achievement to the
best of their ability. Throughout the past year, potential national
champions were barred from national competition by an antiquated
school policy that specifically will not allow national competition
and generally snatches away incentive.
The 1971 LCC Cross Country team compiled an excellent
record with some truly fine athletes on their way to the Oregon
Community College athletic Association Champi,:mship. The team
then closed out their season with the Region 18 Junior College
title under their belts and a bittertaste in their mouths. The reason ?
A conspicuous absence from the national meet in Da~ville, Illinois.
Ricks College of Idaho representated the Region 18 instead of
lane Community College; Ricks was the second place team.
Last February Titan wrestler Murray Booth pinned three opponents in the Norhtwest Region 18 WrestlingÂ· Championships and
became the first wrestler in Lane history to win a first in the regional championships. Murray was defeated only once during the
season, by Bill Scott of Clackamas Community College, a man
Booth later beat twice. Certainly an outstanding wrestler, Murray
Booth was a "potential national champion" in the words of his
coach Bob Creed. But he never got the chance to find out, as the
Student Senate would not donate the funds for Booth and fellow
wrestle~ Ken Kime to travel to the nationals in Minnesota. The
total amount was $34. When outside sources tried to donate the
money the administration refused to allow the wrestlers to compete.
The 1972 track and field season saw the Lane Titans fall in the
early season and then rise up in the OCCAA Championship meet
to overwhelm all opponents and capture the title. The trackmen
kept the momentum for the Region 18 meet held at Lane. LCC won
that meet, showing totaling 123 points to Blue Mountain Comm 1mity
College's 85 points. The Titans did the trick with some tremendous
performances by some tremendous athletes--athletes like javelin
thrower Steve Maryanski who ranked second in the nation with a
throw of 227 feet 9 inches, three-miler Bill Cram who ranked fifth
nationally, 880 men Dennis Hilliard and D:rn Van Camp who ranked
seventh and tenth respectively, and Randy Griffith who was the
nation's tenth-ranked runner in the three mile.
nation's tenth-ranked runner in the three mile. But it was the end
of the line for the track stars; they too were unable to participate
in the national meet in Mesa, Arizona.
A reflection of the athletic year shows a picture of uncompleted seasons, possible national championships, and in short, an administrative policy that takes the luster off outstanding athlet ic
performances,
The only way to restore that luster is by eliminating a pitifully inept rule for future Titan athletes.

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Sunday, June 4, 1972

Graduation
Center Buildin11

Banquet

first floor,

4 o'clock

ee to all graduating students

--pick up tickets in Registrar's
All others $2.50/person
$1.00 children
â€¢
--purchase in bookstore

P a ~ TOR<::'.H

May 31, 1972

This Week

TJ-IE FORUM
(Editors note: The Forum serves as an opportunity for members of the LCC community
to express their opinions. The following Forum
commentary was submitted by John Earley, LCC
Broadcasting student.)

to assume the TORCH should play any role
in reporting the project?
The Archie Bunker Benefit Picnic and Rock
Concert was begun as a class project in LCC's
Public Relations class. The project was designed
to earn money for a needy community cause.
The Aid to Dependent Children Scholarship Fund
was picked. The ADC is a program which helps
place 'underprivileged' people through college.
Many of the people attending LCC are here
thanks to ADC..
Publicizing the event would have been difficult
if not for the public service aspect of it. ALL
of the local media contacted were more than
willing to help.
All but one.
When initially contacted, several members
of the higher echelon TORCH staff commented
something to the effect-we'll help if you give
us FREE tickets. At first this response was
considered a joke. Of course, theTORCH would
help-wouldn't they?
Time passed and no help from the TORCH.
As the date of the picnic drew near, the TORCH
was contacted for the umpteenth time.
Still, no help from the TORCH. â€¢
Now, the picnic is over. It is impossible
to determine exactly what effect a word in the
TORCH would have had. A story or mention in
the "events" column would have helped the cause.
But the TORCH was too busy slanting news and
trying to end the war to pay any attention to the
needs and wants of its students.
This is not the only instance of an LCCoriginated public service project that the TORCH
seemed to overlook. Many other students involved
with the public relations class experienced similar
problems.
Students, if you want a newspaper responsive
to your needs and interests, don't let this happen
to the TORCH next year.
Mr. Cudahey and friends are not publishing
YOUR paper. They are only recreating another
'Free Press' in the hallowed halls of Center 206.

This term, the TORCH has shown the Lane
Community College students its many colors.
Gleeful green, biased blue, and (mostly) journalism yellow.
Why has the TORCH abandoned the needs and
wants of its students (yes, the TORCH is an LCC
paper) and taken considerable time and space
to push ''liberal" causes? Why has the TORCH,
instead of presenting objective, factual news to
its readers, taken up delil5erately slanting propaganda and proselytizing to the point of ridiculousness?
Maybe it's because the TORCH sees itself
as the supreme digest-fodder for its faithful.
Or, maybe it's because the TORCH sees itself
students as under-knowledged, sub monitor i a 1
masses who must receive large doses- of world
news in order to keep in touch with reality.
But what grounds are these for complaint?
Who is to say the TORCH cannot do a better
job of reporting national and regional news
than the various public networks? Indeed, who
is to say news items directly pertaining to
LCC students have any place in the TORCH?
A small group of students?
The faculty?
A latge group of students?

NO!
NO!
NO!

Everybody knows the EDITOR is solely responsible for the content of His newspaper. Praise
the Editor.
When a group of LCC students devote considerable time to a class project, a project worthy
of support on local television and radio stations;
when this project receives a well-placed column
in the Regist_e r Guard; when it rates front-page
coverage in another local newspaper; when the
U of O Emerald devotes space to it, is it silly

Sincerely,
John Earley

LCC Anouncem uen1ts

Female students are needed
this week for continuation of
psychology research conducted
last term.
Some twenty females are needed as heart beats are tape recorded while color slides are
shown. In some cases a poly-graph will record body changes.
Sign up sheet is on the bulletin board in the cafeteria area.
Re s e a r c h will be conducted
Thursday and Friday this week
from 1-5 p.m.
Results of last term's similar
experiments using males and fem ales is on two hour reserve
in the Social Science section
of the library. Ask library assistant for the book "Gender
Responses to 35 MM Color Slides," 1953 A.

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The Office of Community Services announces the opening of a
funding program for proposals
designed to. stimulate first voters to engage actively in the national election. The Sophia & William Casey Foundation will offer grants up to $500 per proposal to first voters who conceive
and undertake to carry out a project of their own in relation to
this year's national election. The
project may be along the lines
of making issues meaningful,
maintaining the credibility of our
political process, expanding public interest and understanding,
etc. For information and application forms call Lisl Fenner,
Ext. 337.

W o u 1d you like your teeth
cleaned/and or x-rayed free?
How about a free trip to Portland--your choice of one way
or round trip. You can have all

this and be taken out to lunch,
too. Graduating students from
the LCC Dental Hygiene Department need patients for the Oregon State licensing examinations.
These examinations will be given from June 12 to June 15
and you would be asked to participate on one or two of these
days.
If you are interested in helping a fe llow student while benefitting yourself, come to the LCC
Dental Hygiene Clinic on Wednesday or Friday afternoon after
1 p.m. and students will be signing up patients. The class is
particularly interested in finding patients who have not had
their teeth cleaned recently.

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.Present 1y enrolled studenfs
who plan a change in their major for Fall Term, 1972, should
initiate that c hang e through the
Student Records Office. All
vocational-technical s tu de n t s
who plan a change of major, and
any lower division collegiate students who plan a change to a vocational-technical major must be
formally accepted into the major. New students will be accepted into majors starting July
31, 1972, and returning students
have until that time to make
changes.

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All vocational-technical st u dents who have been taking courÂ·ses related to their major but
who have not been formally accepted into the major must report to the Student Records Office to assure their position for
Fall Term.

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LCC students are needed for
Big Brother/Sister program in,

the Bethel district. Children are
2nd through 6th grades. A minimum of 15 hours per month
is required.
If interested or for more information contact Bill Sharp, Willamette High School 9 a.m. 12 noon. Call 689-0731.

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ground in science is not required.
The workshop program will emphasize both elementary and secondary level curriculum as well
as obtaining a broad overview of
the aerospace field.
Registration will be conducted
June 19 from 9 to 10:30 a.m.
in room 255-6 of the Math building at LCC.
Tuition is $60, and participants
may earn three undergraduate
credits through the Division of
Continuing Education.
A brochure detailing the workshop program is available upon
request from the LCC Mechanics
Dept.

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der the influence of a drug.
Kesey gained fame and notoriety in the mid-sixties as the
subject of a best selling book
on the "drug culture'' by Tom
Wolfe called the "Electric Kool
Aid Acid Test." The book gives
an account of Kesey as the leader
of a group called the "Merry
Pranksters," whose escapades
with drugs and the police carried
them around the West Coast in
a psychedelic painted bus. Two
of the former "Merry Pranksters" were part of the cast
Kesey brought with him for his
Monday performance at Lane.

The trial of Angela Davis, indicted in connection with the shootings at the Marin County Courthouse in 1970, reached its climax this
week with the defense presenting its case and resting its case.
While the prosecution based its case for conviction on "motive",
inferring that Ms. Davis conspired and planned the action aimed at
freeing the ''Soledad brothers" out of a "passionate, almost blind"
love for George Jackson, one of the Soledad inmates. other prosecution witnesses placed Ms Davis at the scene of the attempted
break just one day before, on August 5, 1970. The defense sought
to counter these charges by bringing "alibi" witnesses who swore
Ms. Davis was at another place at the time of the break and the
previous day. Ms. Davis' roommate swore that Ms. Davis was
shocked and worried when she found the guns attributed to the
shootings, missing.
This week the prosecution will give its final arguments and
summary. Then the jury will deliberate on the guilt or innocence
of Ms. Davis with a verdict possible by the end of the week.

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The war in Vietnam continued with the same intensity this week
as the communist offensive entered its second month. Both the
northern sector and the central highlands saw combat this week.
Communist troops hit An Loe, 60 miles north of Saigon, Hue>
the ancient imperial capital, and Kontum, in the central highlands.
The South Vietnamese launched a commando raid against Quang
Tri in the nortti.
The South Vietnamese comman.dos, using the seventh fleet for
landing craft, landed about 2,000 South Vietnamese marines about
10 miles east of Quang Tri, which is now enemy-held territory
in the northernmost sector of South Vietnam, The object of the
commando raid was to disrupt a North Vietnamese concentration

which was to join the offensive at Hue, further south. South Vietnamese marines reported 133 North Vietnamese killed in the
initi:1.l assault. US B-52 bombers "softened up" the area before
the amphibious assault took place.
On Wednesday, North Vietnamese troops attacked in force along
the My Ci1a11.::h river, just north of the imperhl dty of Hu,~.
Field dispatches said that the North Vietnamese initially opened
up with artillery barrages across the river, and then crossed
the river in force and attacked from three separate directions.
South Vietnamese forces engaged in the Quang Tri commando
raid were pulled back to counter the three-prong attack. AlthJugh
the main attack against Hue was said to have been repelled, South
Vietnamese patrolling the ar8a eilgaged heavy guerilla fire after
the initial attach indicating that the Â·North Vietnamese were still
in the area.

An Loe, the scene of several major attacks since the attack by
the North Vietnamese opened their offensive, is 60 miles north of
the capital of Saigon. North Vietnamese forces continue to hamper
a relief column whi.::!h has been trying to reach An Loe all week.
The relief column was hit on Monday by a heavy North Vietnamese
am~111sh as it continued to reach the heavily besieged city.
US fighter bombers continue to pound enemy supply lines in an
effort to reduce the North Vietnamese by starving them of their
much-needed weapons and ammunition. Rail bridges and tracks
between China and North Vietnam have been pounded almost daily
in that effort. Planes continue to bomb infiltration routes between
North and South Vietnam.
The Pentagon disclosed this week that US air targets would
include indus! rial as well as military targets. Pentagon spokesman
Jerry Friedheim said he "would not rule out any sort of industrial
target,"that supports the enemy's war effort.
In response to Anthony Lewis' stories about the effect of bombing
and mining in North Vietnam, the White House released information
that "the stress in the regime is much more intensive" than it
was before President Nixon ordered his military policy two weeks
ago. That White House official chose not to be .identified. Lewis,
a New York Times correspondent writing features from Haiphong
and Hanoi, reported questionable results in the heavy US and South
Vietnamese efforts to stop supplies reaching the enemy offensive
in the South. Lewis also reported this week that the consensus
of foreign diplomats in North Vietnam was that the mining of
Haiphong has disrupted the supply lines.

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As the political campaigning narrows with the California primary
just ahead, Senator George McGovern said on Tuesday that "there
is no specific discussion between himself and Senator Edward
Kennedy on the possibility that Kennedy might informally endorse
him or become his running mate. In response to several published
reports on these possibilities, McGovern said "I cannot quiet
such speculation but I can state that there has been no specific
discussion between Sen. Kennedy and me on these matters."