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Women's group suggests full-scale program
The LCC Status of Women Committee is proposing a
full-scale women's program for the college. According
to the plans the program would be headed the first year
by a staff of two female students in part-time paid
positions, and thereafter by a full-time professional woman working out of the Office of Instruction.
The proposed program would serve many functions,
chiefly, providing education for students and staff about
the changing status of women, through use of films,
speakers, and forums.
Another goal would be encouraging academic departments to review their course offerings to insure that
the woman's perspective is included in such disciplines--€specially history, psychology, anthropology and
literature.
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other objectives of the program might include hanctung
complaints of discrimination from women students, establishing such stut.ient personnel activities as discussion groups on marriage and parenthood, peer counseling,
expanded medical facilities for women, and career counseling.
The Status of Women Committee, headed by Counselor
Jan Bradstrom, was set up last spring as an ad hoc
association of women staff and faculty members to insure equal opportunity for women employed at LCC. It
was not intended as a vehicle for student complaints
of sex discrimination, but according to Ms. Brandstrom
since there is no student organizationdevotedtowomen's
rights at LCC, women with complaints simply have
no other place to go. Because of this the new program
was proposedg
The recent controversy over admittance of women
students to a zoology project brought to many students·
attention, possibly for the first time, the existence of
the LCC's staff group.
One of its chief concerns in the area of equal opportunity for LCC women staff and faculty is the ratio
of women to men in various categories of employment
here. Ms. Brandstrom reports that women make up
only 24 per cent of foe faculty and 12 per cent of administrative positions, but 60 per cent of classified
staff, mainly in clerical jobs. This is alower percentage
Landscape plans
sought for Spring
Garden housing
Only two weeks remain .for
students to submit their photos
for the TORCH-Gerlach's Camera Center sponsored photo
contest. See rules on page 8.
Ms. Brandstrom said the Committee would like
student in-put on the problems women students encounter
at LCC. Interested students are being asked to contact
either Ms. Brandstrom at ext.381, or student Jane Rackleff at 686-0658.
Workshop classes
delay permit for
Construction plans for the proposed 105 unit Garden Apartments,
the private complex intended for
the land site immediately west of
the LCC campus, have been submitted to the Lane County Planning Office, according to Lane
County Senior Planner Vernon
Delk.
But a building permit has not
been issued yet because the complex planners have not submitted
the landscape plans. Delk said both
plans are necessary to obtain a
permit.
Last year LCC appealed to the
Lane County Commissioners to
refuse a building permit request
by the developers of the complex.
LCC f e are d the apartments
would overload the sewage lagoon
that serves the college. Under the
1990 Plan the county cannot extend sewage systems to the LCC.
Basin until at least that year.
Therefore, if the lagoon were to become overloaded, the college fears
its growth would be halted.
But the County Commissioners
voted to issue the permit.
According to a 1966 agreement
LCC has the right to only 4/7
of the lagoon. The Oregon Research
Institute has the right to 1/7, and
the owners of the proposed apartment complex have 2/7.
LCC Board of Education inOctober asked the Department of Environmental Quality to make an
environmental impact study on the
proposed construction and the use
of the sewage lagoon but thus far
no study has been made. Such a
study carries no ~egal implications and since the County Commissioners have a 1 ready g1 ven
their approval, an impact study at
this tiI?e would be" meaningless,''
according to Marston Morgan, LCC
director of Institutional Research
and Planning.
of women in important policy-making positio,ns the committee claims, in comparison to other colleges in the
state.
The Committee acts in hiring disputes offering legal
backing. (Federal Executive Order 11246, as amended
11375, issued by President Johnson, encourages the administrations of public institutions of higher education
to give staff members training in Affirmative Action to
handle hiring disputes involving women and minority
groups.)
At the present time the Committee consists of about
15 women of the faculty and staff, 8 or 10 of whom attend
meetings regularly. About 15 other sympathetic female
employees and several males give the Committee moral
support.
The Social Science Department
is proposing three new workshop
cla~ses for Spring Term. The
classes, not yet approved by the
college) would all be college transferable, said Bill Beals, Social
Science Department chairman.
The tentative class titles are
Oregon Landscapes-Natural and
Cultural, Consumer Problems, and
Socialism-Promise and Practice.
Beals said that the classes would
be limited by room size only.
None of the proposed workshops
have prerequisites. All will be
scheduled during the day.
0 re go n Landscapes would be
team-taught by Ryan Anderson and
Joe Searl, LCC geography instructors. Searl said that the proposed
workshop would use visual presentations, field work, and student
projects in a study of the different
regions of the state. The study,
Searl explained, would cover the
physical landscape, and the patterns of man's use of the landscape as well. Searl jokingly referred to Central Oregon as the
Willamette Valley's weekend home
when queried about one portion of
LCC Nurse Diana Taylor aids two students with a medicr.l problem. the class study: "Hiker vs. the
The Student Health Service has been doing quite a bit of business car camper." Searl has taught
lately due to the annual rampages of cold and flu. It even hit one of esentially the same course at the.
the nurses--Laura Oswalt--who was at home with the flu yesterday. UofO Fall Term. He said the
The Health Service has sent a memo to instructors urging them to course drew 150 students.
"go easy" on absences because, as nurse Diana Taylor said, "The
Consumer Problems would inonly cure is plenty of rest." (See health column on page 8)
volve many different instructors
(Photo by Robin Burns)
of the Social Science Department
but would be under the primary
direction of LCC economics instructor Dale Gramley.
Gramley pointed out the disThe LCC Board of Education decided to continue salary and
tinction of the social science nafringe benefit negotiations with the Staff Personnel Policy Comture of the course over simimittee (SPPC) -- at least for the present.
larly -named courses offered in
At the Jan.17 Board-SPPC negotiations, the Board told the SPPC
many colleges stressing personal
that if progress wasn't made at the Jan.31 meeting the Board would
finance and home economics sayconsider hiring a professional negotiator to continue the negotiation
ing the workshop class would coprocess for the Board. The two groups, however, decided to meet
ver the legal and economic facagain tomorrow night to continue discussions.
tors affecting the consumer. Beals
At Wednesday's meeting the SPPC had a chance to examine the
Board's "tempered'' pay and fringe benefit package for 1973-74 and noted that the course is designed
to satisfy new requirements for
to speak to the package with the Board.
education majors graduating in the
The Board and SPPC failed to agree on several proposals, including one to abandon the traditional five per cent step increase next three years or so by the State
salary schedule and to make changes in the methods the college uses Board of Accreditation.
Beals explained that the Board
to pay part-time teachers.
Good Business
lsoard continues negotiations!
is planning to institute consumer
e,i ucation in Oregon high schools
within the next four years. However, Gramley said that the workshop class would not be restricted
to education majors, but would be
of interest to a 11 students. The
class would have guest speakers
from banking, insurance, and c redit firms, he said.
History Instructor Dave Croft
has proposed a class on Socialism which would cover Socialism
in theory and practice in the different regions of the world and
the roots of socialist theory. Croft
said the class would discuss the
Ame r i can perspective on Socialism and the reasons for the
failure of the American socialist
movement. The class would also
study the Socialist criticism of
Capitalism.
If the workshop classes are accepted by the students Beals said,
they would be on their way to
becoming reg u 1a r 1y scheduled
courses.
Beals explained that the procedures for offering a workshop
class (a class not part of permanent curriculum) involves an
eight-week process. He said that
class outlines are still tentative
and that it would not be certain
(Continued on page 8)
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Fashion hits the toilet
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(CPS/ZNS)-A Cleveland mail
order house is currently churning
out toilet seats that are specially
designed for the alumni of 26 different colleges and universities.
The sanitary specialty manufacturing company reports that its
typical alumni seat usually features the school's crest on the top
of the lid-and that when the lid is
opened, the school motto is revealed. For example, an Ohio State
graduate would get a seat that
says: "Go Bucks!"
The company reports that it is
now working on a toilet that would
play the school fight song when the
lid is lifted.
Page 2 TORCH Feb. 6, 1973
EditoJuat ~e,ee
"Goodnight, Dick ... "
Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
Looking over the (ASL CC) budget
for 1972-73 I ran into some very
questionable situations. It seems
that $25,000 a year has been appropriated five years in advance
to the Athletics Department. This
seems highly questionable to me.
In a democracy that changes constituencies every two years, how
can the representatives speak for
people they'll never see ?
The Student Senate should take
that $1. 71 a term we all pay to
a select minority and put it where
we all can use it. Student Health
Services, housing p:::-oblems,
transportation> and general activities ar e what a community college student government ought to .
worry about. Take notice, that no student funds are given to any
other department. We buy no art
supplies, we fund no science projects. It is my contention that
the sports program is a carry over
from 1956 student activity thinking.
Let's make the student government reflect what is now, not
what is past or future.
Rick Mathews
" ... Goodnight, Dick."
The Innocent Bystander
The ne~ crisis in Washington
by Arthur Hoppe
Now that peace is at hand,
again, in Vietnam, a major crisis has erupted in Washington.
Where it's erupted is in The Major Crisis Center located deep in
the bowels of the W ash in gt on
Monument.
An atmosphere bordering onpanic pervades the little-known but
Gritically-important age n c y. •
I - found its usually complacent
director, Homer T. Pettibone, pacing _· furiously back and forth,
barking orders to subordinates.
'' Take a look at China through
the M-416 Alarm Viewer!" he
shouted.
"All quiet, sir,'' said an aide.
"What about Russia? The Balkans? The Middle East?"
"Sorry, sir," said the aide, rotating the scope. "Nothing.''
"Cuba! Try Cuba."
"I can't even find it, sir."
Pettibone's shoulders slumped.
"You can see the problem we
face," he said glumly. "How can
we have a Major Crisis if we can't
even find anything to View with
Alarm.?" •
. I ignorantly inquired whether a
Major Crisis was absolutely necessary.
"Necessary!" cried Pettibone
aghast. '' Think of our President.
You know how proud he is of
keeping cool and calm in a Major Crisis. How can ·we keep him
cool and calm unless we provide him with a Major Crisis to
keep cool and calm in?"
I agreed that keeping the Presi.dent cool and calm was a good
idea, but •...
"It isn't just the President,"
said Pettibone. " The entire future
of our Government is at stake.
Now once we've found something
to view with alarm, we release
the Trial Ballons. The last one to
be shot down is soaked for 48
hours in brine to form a Tough
Policy, which we take out of here
the hard way... "
The hard way?
"We never take the Easy Way
Out. The Unity Caller is then
sounded. In a Major Crisis the
people always respond to The Call
to Unity. This enables us to raise
taxes, impose controls and double
the size of the Government again."
Was this good for the people?
"Certainlyf It takes their minds
off their other problems, like
s mo g , poverty and high taxes.
Without a Major Crisis, people
would go around tending their gar. dens, raising children and not
giving a thought to their Government." He shuddered. "They might
even want to abolish it."
Was he sure?
"Frankly, we don't know," he
said. "In my lifetime we've always had a Major Crisis. And
once again we' re countiflg on you
newspapermen for your invaluable
help. After all, without a Major
Crisis, what are you going to write
about."
I loyally pledged him my full
support. But I was worried, I
said, that after a generation of
hot wars, cold wars and the long
agony of Vietnam, the people might
not be too eager to accept a Major Crisis again so soon.
"You have put your finger," said
Director Pettibone grimly, '' on our
current Major Crisis."
(Copyright Chronicle Publishing
Co. 1973).
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Dear Editor:
The Jan. 30 issue of the TORCH
makes light of a problem that
should be rectified before it is
too late.
Mr. Jay Bolton, president of
the ASLCC, requested and received
$385 from the ASLCC to finance
his trip to the National Third
morld Student Orgailization
(NTWSO) conference. Mr. Bolton
admits the NTWSOconference represents only non-White people, and
I understand that the conference
will bar all White people from
attending.
In view of this clear-cut example of discrimination, I, as a
student, strongly oppose the use
of my money to send Mr. Bolton
to the conference. I further question what "valuable input" Mr.
Bolton can bring back if the conference can only be attended by
non - Whites?
I personally feel that the ASLCC
Senate should represent all student needs without any discriminatory actions or policies. There
should not be any policies or actions that support any group or individual that discriminates on a
basis of race, religion, creed, or
sex. I don't know if the NTWSC
is of a racist nature or not, but
since they will not allow me tc
attend their conference, because
of 'my race, I will never fine
out.
Any organization that works on
a premise that excludes people
because of their race should not
be supported by the ASLCC Senate. The ASLCC should not send
their President, Mr. Bolton, to
conference in the above category.
Jim Crouch
Dear Editor:
In last week' s issue of the
TORCH the question was asked:
Why have I heard so little about
LCC President Eldon Schafer?
Second year student Gerry Ebbighausen raised that question in
a letter to the editor .
That is a good question and one
that is not easily answered.
For starters, Eldon Schafer can
be found almost every Wednesday
at the regul arly scheduled LCC
Board of Education meeting. He
and several of his administrative
aids attend this meeting to respond
to, and interact with , the LCC ·
Board. It is here that our President, Eldon Schafer, must answer
to the Board any question that they
might have pertaining to the operation of this school. He, and he
alone, is directly responsible to
the Board for the functions of
LCC.
Also, this is the setting where
policies are adapted and enacted
into Board policy. That answers
another question that was raised in
the letter which was started: ' ' I
have never heard Eldon Schafer
speak to an assembly of students
on LCC policy making." LCC
Board meetings are the place to
be if you want to voice your
opinions on matters that pertain
to policy-making on the campus.
Unfortunately, the attendance is
low at a regular session of the
Board, but can easily run to an
over-crowded situation when a
special item is on the agenda,
such as Ben Kirk or a tuition
hike.
Also in the letter the writer
explains that he has attended LCC
for five terms and not (he admits
he ·could have missed the articles)
seen an article in the TORCH
dealing with our President, Eldon
Schafer.
As it turns out in the orientation issue of the TORCH there
was a comprehensive article on
Mr. Schafer.
Also, if you read articles in
the TORCH reporting LCC Board
meetings you will come to the
name, Eldon Schafer.
It is true, though1 that he is
not exactly what you call hot news
and does not appear in print that
often in the TORCH.
In Mr. Ebbighausen's letter ·he
concludes that Eldon Schafer is
deserving of more ·coverage than
he receives and possibly this is
right. Mr. Schafer is an important
figure in this campus and does
wield a lot of power.
It is true that the TORCH is
not always there first-hand when
new administrative decisions are
made, but the TORCH learns rather
quickly when a new decision has
been bestowed on the campus when
the administration makes a decision that relates directly to the
school.
Ben Kirk is the one most recent and well-published issues that
has evolved from the administration, Eldon Schafer's office. That
move to r elieve Mr. Kirk was
initiated by Eldon Schafer.
I • advise anyone who wishes to
see the powe r structure at LCC
work to attend the LCC Boar d
meetings and lend a hand from
the audience and make their voic e
heard.
Douglas Cudahey
Dear Editor:
For quite some time now there
has been a group of people who
have had to bear all kinds of
injustices. They have had to put
up. with discrimination in employment, housing, and other facets of ·
life. These are young men who have
selected to serve their country in
a non-violent way. They are Red,
Yellow, Black, and White; they '.
are Conscientious Objectors.
Conscientious Objectors are separated into two different and separate classifications; those who
serve in the military(l-A-O), and
those who serve in a non-military
fashion. The people mentioned have
served their country with honor
in such jobs as helping the wounded, sick, aged, young, and mentally disturbed just to mention a
few jobs.
My belief that concientious objectors deserve the same benefits that veterans receive has recently been upheld in a federal
court ruling on a class action
suit; William Robins~n~. Veterans
Administration. The court judge,
W. Arthur Garrity , ruled the
Veterans Administration interpetation unconstitutional. In doing
so Judge Garrity said: ''The Veterans Administration law was to
compensate veterans for the deprivations of educational and economic opportunities while in military service and not to reward
them for physical risk of military life."
It should be quite clear that such
a ruling has to have an effect
not only on federal VA laws, but
also state laws as well. In Oregor
there are two benefits: Educational
and Home/Farm loans. The educational benefits being a statutory benefit and the Home/Farm
loans being derived from article
XI-A of the Oregon Constitution.
Laws were meant to be changed
when the facts so merit. The facts
so merit change in Oregon's Veterans Affairs laws, even to the
point of voting to change the Constitution (of Oregon). Concientious
Objectors have served this country
with distinction and yet they have
received nothing in the way of
reimbursement or thanks from
either the people or the government of this country.
I hope the time has come when
the laws will be changed as well
as the attitudes towards CO's.
But if such acts are to happen,
our elected representatives must
be given the word; whether they
be in Salem or Washington, D.C.
Sincerely,
Gill J. Thomas
'You just help people the best you can, ... '
Chicano Student Union (CSU) member Angelino Rom ero (at right)
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explains the goals of the lettuce boycott to LCC student Casey Boone.
A petition campaign by the CSU persuaded MerliR Ames, LCC cafeteria manager~ to purchase head lettuce harvested by the United
Farm Workers Union. The petitions were signed by 250 studentso
(Photo by Paul Wozniak).
O'dell Carmicle, Student Awareness Center (_SAC)
director, is used to handing out advice, "It seems
like all my life I have been involvect with other
people's problems.'' Laughs O'dell, "But I like
doing it.''
At the Student Awareness Center, O'dell has many
chances to do the thing he is so used to doing.
The Center, explained O'dell, '·takes care of those
needs that make students kind of give up,'' the
problems that often cause stud.ents to drop out of
school, O'dell 'listed housing as one of the needs,
and recalled an experience he once had in helping
a young woman secure a place to stay while going
to school.
"She was a hippie,·• O'dell said, "and she went
to this one place she heard was for rent. The
lady, when she saw her, just decided she didn't
want to rent to her. So she came back to us for
help."
0 1 dell went to the house and discovered the
"For Rent'' sign still in the window. He was eventually able to persuade the woman to let the younger
woman reside there.
O'dell feels this kind of extra involvement is
necessary in the Student Awareness Center, and
that staff members should be dedicated to helping
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Cafeteria manager agrees
to ~uy only union lettuce
Union harvested lettuce is now
being served in the LCC cafeteria
as a result of a two-day boycott
led by the Chicano Student Union
(CSU).
The boycott was scheduled to
last three days 1 but was discontinued Wednesday when an agreement to purchase union lettuce
was reached with cafeteria manager Merlin Ames.
Ames agreed to purchase head
lettucf) harvested by the United
Farm Workers Union (UFWOC)
led by Cesar Chavez, instead of
non-union or "scab" lettuce.
During the boycott, 250 students
signed a petition pledging to support the boycott, according to CSU
Vice-President Angelif\a Romero.
The boycott at LCC was part
of a nationwide boycott of non-
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union head lettuce grown in California and Arizona, Ms. Romero
said. UFWOC has won contracts
covering about 15 per cent of the
harvest in the two states, where
virtually all of the country's head
lettuce is grown.
The CSU is also supporting a
boycott of the local Safeway store
at 18th and High Streets. The store
is part of one of the country's
largest supermarket chains, and
sells only non-union lettuce. Boycotters feel that if they can convince Safeway to sell union lettuce, other stores would soon follow suit.
Arrangements to have a speaker·
attend any class at LCC to talk
about the boycott may be made
through the student government,
Ms. Romero said.
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others. "We need students who are really serious
because sometimes students come up with some
needs that are really hard to satisfy." O'dell
said this often involves work outside of school and
that the SAC staff ·' should have a sine ere desire
to help students and not just because they are
getting paia.''
O'dell stated that it is hard to secure a good
staff because staff members constantly leave LCC,
and new members must be found, this is a continuing process. O'dell himself is leaving LCC soon,
and a new director must be found.
0' dell was a student senator last ter, but has
found his work in SAC more interesting than that
in the Student Senate. Of the Senate work, he said,
"You have to like the kind of thing where you go by
rules. Everything has to be said just so, and they
spend days at a time working on one problem.
There are a lot of hassles and I don't have time
for that"
But in SAC, he said, you get right to the problem.
"The students come in when they don't have
classes, and they sit down and tell me their problems.
In SAC, you don't have any rules. You just help
people the best you can, and you don't have someone
saying, ·Well you can't do it that way because that
will make that person over there mad.''
O'dell who has been SAC director for a term
and a half, said working in SAC is giving him experience and a background which he hopes to apply
to a career. He describes himself as an ''ambitious'· person, and some day hopes to be the
first Black president. "I might not make it, but
rm going to give it a try.''
He has found that working in SAC has taught
him the best ways to go about solving a problem.
·'When I first became director, I didn't know
nothin'. I didn't know what to do,,. he laughs,
"I thought all I had to do was go to my boss (Jay
Jones, Student Activities Director), but he kept
telling me that it wasn't his problern--his problem
was all the clubs altogether, and my problem was
just SAC .• ,
He's most interested in philosophy, even though
he admits "with that kind of degree you soulct
starve to death," His minor is psychology. Surprisingly, he states that he has no particular
philosophies himself. He does believe in the Golden
Rule. "I've thought about the Bible too, he said,
"but I don't believe in the Bible, and I don't even
believe in Christ.''
·' I just believe that if you do unto others as you
you would have them do unto you, then everybody
Kingsmen Concert
set for Salem Armory
The original Kingsmen, whose
recording of '' Louie,Louie" has
sold several million copies since
1963, will appear in a concert
and dance at the Salem Armory
Auditorium Saturday.
The event is for persons age
THRIFT AND GIFT SHOP a u- 21 and over, The show will feanique place where you can find ture an evening of music with the
excellent buys and quality used Kingsmen, along with a nostalclothing for every member of gic "record hop" featuring local
the family. Small appliances in disc jockies. Doors will open at
working condition, household 8 p.m., with tickets available at
it~ms, sporting goods, gift items. the door.
The concert and dance is the
Open Monday through Friday
10 • a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday even- first of several planned by Big
ing 7-9 p.m., 2839 Willamette Bird Productions, a group of SaStreet, across from Willamette lem businessmen who are interested in promoting concert and dance
Plaza.
events at the Salem Armory which
Federal and State income tax pre- will appeal to persons in the 21
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Removal of car device illegal
Many automobile owners are attempting to remove the air pollution control devices from their
cars, according to David Gemma
from the Lane Regional Air Pollution Authority (LRAPA). This act
is against both Federal and Oregon Laws.
Once the device is removed a
car will start polluting again said
Gemma. "Most people yell an<!_
scream about wanting clean air,
but when it comes to putting on a
device that would control this and
give them clean air, they would
not accept this sacrifice," stated
Gemma.
More than 77 per cent of the
carbon monoxide problems in this
county are due to vehicles. An automobile without an air pollution
control device would pollute at
least one pound of air every 10
miles it travels.
People who are caught and convicted of violating these air pollution laws are subject to unclassified misdemeanor penalty which
carry a $250 bail and a maximum
of 30 days in jail. Garage mechanics or dealers involved in such
acts are subject to at least the
same or more severe penalty plus
a $10,000 fine against their franchise as a dealer.
Many people believe that air pollution control devices decrease the
performances of their cars
Gemma said, but with these devices removed, their vehicles will
increase in power. "That's not
Outlying areas to
receive expanded
training programs
LCC is attempting to reach the
citizens of western Lane County
through a $100~000 "Outreach"
program.
The special training program is
a "commitment" LCC has to provide services to Lane County taxpayers distant from the Eugene
campus, said program director
Larry Murray.
The Program offers both credit
and non-credit courses ranging from from English Composition
and First Aid (credit classes) to
Beef Production, and Welding (noncredit classes).
The extension program has actually existed since the college's
inception, but the LCC Board is
cu r rent 1y reviewing options for
f u rt her extension programs including the use of cable television and video and audio playback
systems.
The option of building a physical facility in Florence also exists. Murray said that the concept
would have to be researched to see
if the need existed or if existing
public facilities could be used.
true/' said Gemma, "These devices are factory installed by engineers and therefore works intricately with the engines. If you take
it off, you've actually broken or
malfunctioned the engine.
"You're liable to have more
problems with your automobile after you've taken if off such as
burning up of valves and things
like that," Gemma said.
At present, the LRAPA is dir:cting attentio? toward educahng the people m what the penalties a~e, what harm they can do
to their cars, and what damages
to health can be caused by failure of installing the device.
Legislation concerning mandatory vehicle inspection might be
passed sometime later which would
require every vehicle to be inspected, Gemma said. Owners
without air pollution control devices in their cars will be penalized. As LRAPA sees it, it would
not be as easy for them to reinstall the device as they had taken
it. o.ut, and they would find it ve.ry
difficult to sell such an automobile
as n~ dealer would be willing to risk
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TORCH tries to offer as many varied subjects as possible. Expanding
Consciousness, written by former .LCC psychology instructor Jack
Baughman, will appear from time to time in the TORCH. Baughman
deals with areas of psychology that aren't always examined in a
traditional psychology classroom.)
Webster defines PSYCHIC as something lying outside the sphere
of physical science or knowledge. The scientific world accepts only
those phenomenon which can be empirically observed and objectively
measured with a high degree of consistency. The mainstream of Western
psychology now considers itself scientific in approacho
The problem that seems to have developed out -of the almost
exclusive use of this approach is that scientists have begun to develop
a view that anything which cannot be put through these tests is unim portant at best to downright foolhardy.
A survey of more than 20 of the most popular introductory psychology textbooks used across the country today reveals that oh an
average only about four or five pages are devoted to the entire subject
of extrasensory perception (a misnomer itself). Two of the perhaps
Howard, who is an ex-convict,
most important subjects in psychology today (thinking and feeling)
gives his own case as an example.
SHOP got him a grant and is keepoften receive the least emphasis for the same reason-they are difficult
ing him in school. If SHOP had not to objectively measure.
Today we are witnessing a rapid penetration of Eastern thought
helped him he feels that he would
now be doing the same thing that into our culture. Eastern wisdom has always accepted psychic energy
got him sent to prison earlier. as fact and regards an understanding of it as essential to the development
SHOP is trying to set up a pro- of human potential. The usual explanation is that psychic energy exists
gram that will allow them to visit on a higher plane of vibration than the physical plane of which our
Oregon's correctional institutes experimental tools are designed to measure.
True, with more sophisicated techniques, some breakthroughs are
and to help orient convicts in rebeginning to come in such as the use of Kilner screens in phototurning to community life.
SHOP's emergency phone num- graphing the human aura. The Soviet Union is far ahead of us in this
field where, since the late 1950's , scientists have been involved in
ber is 686-5461 or 686-5462.
a massive governmentally funded program into psychic research.
On March 1, SHOPmemberswill
This research has resulted in an acceptance of the reality of such
be meeting with various state legphenomenon as psychokinesis (movement of objects by the mind
islators and officials of the state
with out physical means), telepathy (direct thought transference), and
Corrections Division, to offer a
clairvoyance (knowledge of events outside the physical senses) to
public explanation of the SHOP efname just a few. An excellent account of these experiments can be
fort.
found in the book "Psychic Discoveries Behind the Iron Curtain" by
Howard said that the group has
Ostrander and Schroeder.
received considerable help from
The difference in the East seems to be that they are not caught
Francis Howard, director of finup in the need to "prove" these phenomenon to anyone. Rather they
ancial aid, Ken Hills, director of
are concerned with their develpment as a means of better undercounseling and advisor to SHOP,
standing themselves, their fellow man, and their relationship to the
and Paul Franklin of project
cosmos. Many psychology . students (and others) today are aware of
BOOST, a scholarship program.
and have had experiences in-- these higher vibratory senses but experience
a difficulty in relating it to a teacher if his mind is limited to
U of O patron cards
accepting only scientific evidence.
Psychology is supposedly devoted to understanding the mind and
required for library use
its resultant behavior. The question should not be whether one tool
LCC students will no longer be (science) or another (experience) is better-but how we can best inable to use their student body cards tegrate all of the available tools for a fuller understanding of the
at the University of Oregon li- nature and purpose of our true being.
This broadened attitude would seem to have important implications
brary. Students wishing to use the
library are now requested to ap- • for all areas based on the scientific method in addition to psychology.
Anyone who is interested in the psychic world and would like to
ply for U of O town patron cards
share information or find out more about this vast and fantastically
instead.
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Ex-convicts establish organization
for transition from prison to community
Making the transition from prison back to the community'' is very
difficult, says Mike Howard, secretary-treasurer of the newly organized Self Help Oriented People
(SHOP).
SHOP, which has been operating
for about three weeks, is an organization of ex-convicts with the
;'sole purpose," according to Howard, of helping other ex-convicts
make the transition.
Howard explained that a person
just out of prison is really lost and
doesn't know what to do. "It helps
to have someone there."
In the three weeks that SHOP
has been in existence members
have set up an office near the
Snack Bar, (room 112 Center Building, office hours from 8 a.m. to 4
p.m. daily), found jobs for nine
people, and found houses for six
people. The group has aided three
people in registering and in arranging financial assistance, and
obtained emergency loans for five
people. After listing the&e accomplishments, Howard adds that exconvicts have a way of getting
things done.
SHOP asks ex-convicts what kind
of help they need and then tries to
give them that help. "We gear what
we do to what they want us to do,"
said Howard. He also pointed out
that they do not just send people to
get help, they take people to get
help: For example, recently they
took an ex-convict to a specific
place to get a job; they didn't just
~end him.
Howard believes that if SHOP can
reach ex-convicts and help them,
the return rate (to prison) could
be cut in half.
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oe1ng board chairman claims SST will come back
y Ron Wolf
(CPS)-- The SST isn't dead," claimed presidential aide
John Ehrlichman in a recent speech in Seattle.
"The SST
will come ,Pack," says T.A. Wilson,
chairman of the board of the -Bo~ing Company.
Even President Nixon is reported to have told French
President Pompidou at their meeting in the Azores
last year, "We will have an SST... ''
The likelihood of some attempt to resurrect the SST
(supersonic transport) in the next session of Congress
has prompted the old "Coalition Against the SST" to reassemble.
Congress killed a measure March 24, 1971 which
would have authorized the actual construction of two
prototypes of the highly controversial plane. At that
time the government had already poured $1.2 billion and
eight years of research into building an SST designed
to move passengers at a speed of 1800 miles per hour.
The fight over the SST was one of the biggest battles
of the last Congress and the largest victory ever won by
environmentalists. The "Coalition" of about 30 environmental, conservation, and consumer groups opposed the
plane on numerous grounds.
They cited the effects of sonic booms from such
high-speed flights, greatly increased engine noise, and
possible alteration of the upper atmosphere as possible
dangers. They claimed SSTs would be more wasteful than
slower planes because the would use more fuel per passenger-mile to operate at high speeds. They said that if
the SST were economically feasible it could be built with
private money instead of government funds. Finally, they
questioned the nation's priorities. Was it really necessary to spend an eventual $5.5 billion to move people from
New York to Los Angeles in two hours instead of six
hours?
The Senate, led by William Proxmire of Wisconsin,
voted 49-48 to end the expensive program. Now, 21
months later, the program's proponents are back
again, preparing to make another pitch for government
money from the new Congress. And the opposition is
gearing up for another fight.
Senator Proxmire (D-Wis.) sounded the alarm November 12, by saying that if the administration tries
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to bring back the SST "it will have a major fight on
its hands."
Proxmire said, "I'm absolutely convinced that Congress made the right decision in ending the project
last year. I've seen nothing to change my mind about
that decision. In fact, nothing has changed except the
price tag, which would be about four times as high as
before."
David Brower. president of Friends of the Earth
(FOE), has promised "an all-out effort'' against the
resurrection of the SST.
FOE is the national environmental group with a
membership of 30,000 which put together the successful
coalition against the plane during the last session of
Congresso
Brower says, '' I think the Nixon administration is
serious about building the SST. But again they seem to
have ignored the fact that the people of this country do
not want to spend billions of dollars of .tax money on
a technological white elephant."
Bower and FOE have had the coordinator of the
last fight, George Alderson, working full-time for the
past few months on new SST developments.
"We are reorganizing the coalition against the SST
we had two years· ago," said Alderson.
The Sierra Club, a participant in the old coalition,
has already begun mobilizing its members. Lloyd Tupling,
Washington lobbyist for the organization, says, "If the
administration insists on trying again, the Sierra Club
will fight the SST just as vigorously as before."
The Nixon administration has not yet formally
proposed reactivation of the project. The opposition,
however, is responding to a substantial amount of eviddence that the administration will do so after the inauguration,
In addition to the public statements by Ehrlichman
and Wilson, there are many other clues indicating a move
to resurrect the program. F0r example, William Magruder, who headed the abortive SST project has spent
the last year as a Whi~e House "consultant on technology." Secretary of Transportation John Volpe has made
statements that '' the U.S. wouldn't want to let other
nations" go ahead on an SST alone.
George Alderson points out that, in fact, the project
was never really dead in spite of the wishes of Congress.
SST work, he says, has quietly been going on in a number of government agencies, NASA is spending $11 million on research this year related to the development
of an SST engine. Last year NASA spent only $1.5 million on the same project.
Boeing still has seven contracts from the Department of Transportation to do res~arch and development
work similar to that which was curtailed by Congresso
T.A. Wilson, the Boeing chairman, even admits that he
still has "dozens of workers" busy on SST project.
The Department of Transportation has also awarded
research contracts in hopes of settling some of the objections raised by opponents of the SST. Prominent in
the debate two years ago were statements made by Dr o
Harold Johnston, a professor of chemistry at the Uni-
niversity of California at Berkeley. Johnston claimed that
• nitrogen oxides from SST exhausts could act as catalysts in the destruction of stratospheric ozone which
shields the earth from dangerous solar radiation. The
Department of Transportation has since given Johnston
$400,000 to study his hypothesiso
The government money did not buy a supporter,
however. Johnston has completed four research projects
with the funds and all support his original warning.
In October a panel of the prestigious National Academy
of Sciences examined Johnston's research and generally
agreed with his conclusions.
The Nixon administration may not ask Congress directly for money for an SST but may try for some type
of indirect funding. One such plan is that proposed by
Secor D. Browne, chairman of the Civil Aeronautics
Board. Browne wants Congress to establish an "Aerospace Reconstruction Finance Corporation'' which would
guarantee private loans to aircraft manufacturers. The
aircraft. company would then be free to build an SST
with private money knowing the government would bail
them out if the project failed,
Alderson explains Browne's plan this way: ''The
government takes on the risk without any supervision
over the technical aspects of the project. Tlte aircraft
company builds the plane, without the constraint of
having to pay the tab if some of its technical decisions
come out wrong. When the new plane doesn't sell, the
government appropriates the money to pay off the
banks that financed the project. In such a case, it's
like the original SST setup, except that the government
pays at the end instead of throughout the development
process,"
Administration witnesses recently failed to show up
at a congressional subcommittee, called to investigate
reports that the SST project may be revived.
"What is the administration trying to hide," Senator
Proxmire asked, ''if nothing is planned why don't
they come forward and say so?"
Witnesses who did not appear to testify included
Browne, chairman of the CAB, representatives from the
Department of Transportation, two aircraft manufacturers, the Boeing Company and the McDonnell Douglas
Corporation, and two airlines, United Airlines and Pan
American World Airways.
The fate of the reincarnated SST will lie in the
hands of the new Congress. Alderson admits that he
doesn't "know what effect the changes in Congress will
have on the SST vote." There are 66 new Congresspeople and eight new Senators who have never voted
on the SST before, and Alderson's top priority is getting
the information to them.
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ELECTRONICS
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FOR MORE INFORMATION APPLY TO THE ASLCC SENATE OFFICES
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Page 6 TORCH Feb. 6, 1973
Titans even mark Jn
conference ·a ction
Friday night in Pendleton the Titan basketball squad dropped a
close 76 to 71 decision to host
Blue Mountain Community College
but re t r i eve d a victory in its
Saturday game against Chemeketa
Community College in Salem 71
to 58.
After defeating the Blue Mountain team earlier in the season
70 to 61 in the LCC gym, Lane
made the long trip to Pendleton
only to fall in defeat. Plagued by
Bobcat
a season-long problem weakness
on the rebounding boards Lane
was never able to compensate for
the rebounding deficit with hot
shooting. They only hit 28 for 76
shots from the field for a 36.8
percentage.
in predicament
meet. LCC's wrestlers return home this weekend
to take on Columbia Christian CC Friday and Urnpqua
CC Saturday in conference action.
(photo by Lenn Lethlean)
Willis Carmen fights for leverage in Saturday night's
action against Central Oregon Community College.
• Lane _lost to the Bobcats 26 to 23 as Al Morris
defeated Eligher Jones in the last match of the
LCC YJrestling team splits pair o·f squeakers.
By Steve Busby
LCC's wrestling team, split two
meets over the weekend, as they
returned to OCCAA action.
Friday night the Titans beat
Cheuieketa Community College of
Salem 27 to 22, and Saturday night
they lost to Central Oregon Com-
munity College of Bend in a close
one, 26 to 23.
Against Chemeketa the Titans
found themselves with more of a
fight on their hands than they had
been expecting. After four matches the Titans trailed Chemeketa
Women, are you interested in
playing basketbal1?1 If so, the Intramural Office can help you.
Sign-up sheets for a women's
basketball tournament are posted
in the women's locker room and
at the Intramural Office. Signups should be in by Feb. 16 ,
with play scheduled to begin Feb.
19. Play will be with either three
or five people on a tearri, depending upon the number of people
signing-up for the tournament.
SPORTS BRIEFS
The Lane Community College
Rally Squad will make their 1973
debut in the Lane-Judson Baptist
OCCAA Basketball game in the
L CC gymnasium, Friday at
7:30 p.m. This year's rally is the
second in LCC athletic history.
The previous rally was in existence for one year, being discontinued nearly four years ago.
This year's rally is comprised of
Rita, Mac e au, President, Pam
Warren, Sandy Walton and Andrea Lodestein.
Sports Calendar
Thursday Feb. 8
Women's Basketball, OCE 'B' at
LCC, 4:30 p.m.
Gymnastics, PCC and SOC at LCC,
7 p.m.
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The Central Oregon Community
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division, the last match of the
meet, to take a 26 to 23 win
over the LCC Titans, Lane dominated the middle weights in building up a commanding lead before the Bobcats began their comeback.
After three weeks of action in
the LC C intramural basketball
tournament the Furtrappers continue to dominate the standings
and the offense statistics.
The Furtrappers and ·the Stuffers are tied for the Jead with
identical records of four wins,
against no losses. They are followed by the Animals and the Us,.
both having one loss.
The scoring race has turned
into a one team show with Larry
Olson and Randy Schneider of the
Furtrappers in the top two spots.
Olson has upped his scoring to
Dave Parks continued his string
of consistently strong showings as
he swept both of his matches during the action over the two weekends. He was joined as a double
winner by Steve Huffman and Rich
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in the win over the Us. Jeff Hunter
of the Leepers moved into third
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Dick Newell, leading scorer for
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Mountain wasn't to be denied however, and they came right back
to grab the lead for good.
Blue Mountain made no substitution during the game, going with
the same five players, all of whom
scored in double figures. Craig Ely
paced BMCC with 20 points while
Rod Cross hit 18 for Lane.
Saturday was a different story
for Lane. They played good team
offense
and downed the Chemeketa Chiefs by a score of 71
to 58.
T)le foul situation, always a
trouble spot for short teams such
as LCC, was solved very effectively as the Titans did not allow
Chemeketa to get into the bonus
freethrow situation at any time
'cturing the game. Committing only
14 fouls in the whole game, Lane
capitalized on the Chemeketa defense and their 22 fouls ,
The Titan freethrow accuracy
proved deadly as they hit 21 out of
furtrappers dominate intramurals
RAINTREE LOUNGE
Friday Feb. 9
Varsity Basketball, Judson Baptist at LCC, 7:30 p.m.
' Wrestling, Columbia Christian at
LCC, 6 p.m.
Saturday Feb. 10
Wrestling, Umpqua CC at LCC,
7:30 p.m.
Varsity Basketba11, SWOCC at
Coos Bay, 7:30 p.m.
12 to 3, but Lane rallied to score
24 points in four matches, three
forfeits, and a pin, to take the
lead. Chemeketa made a run at
Lane at the end but the lead proved too large to overcome.
LCC had trouble all through
the first half and fell farther and
farther behind BMCC and their tall,
agile front line. The Blue Mountain margin never grew into runaway proportions due to the hosts'
·poor shooting percentage from the
floor. The halftime score found
Blue Mountain out in front, 42
to 34.
Lane heated up and began to play
tough defense to cut the BMCC
lead with a 53 to 52 score. Blue
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Women improve record
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The women's basketball team improved their record to one win
and four losses after last week's win over the Oregon State University
"B" team 34 to 26, and a loss to Mt. Hood Community College for the
second time this year, 25 to 34.
LCC shot well from the floor and the line Tuesday Jan. 30 along
with consistent defense. They led OSU throughout the ga~e. In the first
half, the lead was six, but they widened the margin to nine points at
the end of the third quarter. In the fourth quarter OSU tried to narrow
LCC's lead but was unsuccessful, as LCC w:nt on to win 34 to 26.
S~aron Ba_ugh _was high scorer for LCC with 11 points, followed by
Sue Mitchell with six. Baugh hit 50 per cent of her field goals averaging
five out of every 10 field goal attempts.
• According to Coach Sue Thompson, LCC outshot am in a very
fast paced game..
But Thursday night LCC lost to Mt. Hood in a game in which some
spectators claim a lot of bad calls were made._Certainly a lot of mistakes and turnovers were obvious by the teams.
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LCC started out with a strong defense, but in the second quarter
1t was gone. Mt. Hood took advantage·of LCC's weakness to take the lead
at the end of the half, 16 to 11.
The third quarter saw LCC struggling to keep Mt. Hood from
running away with the game. And LCC was successful_2__Mt. Hood
lead by only two points at the end of the quarter. But still, in fourth
quarter play LCC's weak defense, shooting, and rebounding proved
to be the key to LCC's loss as Mt. Hood widened their lead and went
on to win, 34 to 25.
• . Sue Mit_chell was LCC high scorer with 10 points in spite of a
dislocated finger that put her out of the game in the second quarter.
However_ Mitchell returned in the second half to finish the game.
Chris Ford was named most outstanding rebounder of the week
by Coach Thompson.
The 1973 track and field season officially began this year as it
does every year with the running of the 1973 Oregon Invttational indoor
Track and Field Meet.
The me~t, Jan. 27, was directed by North Eugene High's Bob
Newland. It mcluded top trackmen Steve Prefontaine, Steve Smith.
Tom Woods and Al Feuerbach, despite the competition of other
track meets offering th~ athletes money for expenses and extra 1
cash over and above the expense costs. LCC also participated.
The Oregon Invitational is a meet with a lot of tradition. Some
of that tradition comes from the attitude of the local track fans and
~ome of the tradition comes from the superlative performances tu'rned
m at the annual meets. In 1960 a group of Portland businessmen solved
financial problems with an underwriting of $15,000. A wooden track
was constructed of Qregon plywood, unique among indoor tracks which
• are usually made of spruce in Europe for about $25,000.
. World-clas_s performers, including many of the greatest of all.
time, have given the meet international standing: New Zealand's
Murray Halberg set a world indoor record in the two-mile run; C. K.
Yang, competing for UCLA, broke the pole vault record· Neal Steinhaur, while at the University of Oregon, broke the i~door shotput
standard; Roscoe Cook, as a U of O performer, tied the record for the
60 yard dash.
The 1973 meet did not lack in either excitement or in records as
Steve Prefontaine set an American record in the two-mile run with
a time of 8:24.6, and Al Feuerbach established a new world record
in the _indoor shot-put with a heave of 69-5 3/ 4.
Prefontaine, concerned after losing badly in the Olympic Games
in Munich, received a long, loud ovation from the 9,756 people packed
into Memorial Coliseum when he first made an appearance. Steve took
off on his usual fast pace and it looked like he would win easily until
former Stanford star Don Kardong put on a sprint and passed the University of Oregon runner. Prefontaine prevailed however, crossing the
finish line well ahead of Kardong, breaking the old American record
of 8:26.2 held by Frank Shorter.
In the shotput Al Feuerbach did not have to worry about any
competition as on his first throw he came within a half foot of breaking
his own world record of 69 feet 4 1/2 inches. After a second throw,
the crowd grew silent and Al crouched in the ring, silent in concentratioa. With a great bellow he heaved the shot past the 69 foot
mark and into a protective screen at the end of the shotput area. The
measurement was 69 feet 5 3/4 inches--a new world's record. Feuerbach said, "The throws were so easy, all I used was technique."
LCC ran in the mile relay. LCC runners Bill C.r am, Dale Hammitt
and Randy Griffith also ran in . the College Division Mile Run. Cram
put on a display of speed and strategy as he came bounding from
the back of the pack to take the lead in the mile with a tremendous
sprinting drive towards the end of the race.
The fast pace soon left only he and Mike Munne of Portland to
challenge each other for the lead. Munne took the lead for good with
half a lap remaining in the 11 lap event and won the race. Cram held
off Dave Micholson of Willamette and Jay Frentress of Linfield, to
win the second-place spot with a fine time of 4:20.5. Griffith and Hammitt
were never in competition for a high finish as they were unable to
maintain a blistering pace in the early laps.
The mile relay team powered by a strong leg from sophomore
Jeff Hardesty, formerly from North Eugene High, took the third
place award behind the winning Oregon College team and the team from
Willamette University. The Titan team was clocked in 3:33.2.
All in all it was a good meet for everyone as Lane showed some
early season talent and the crowd watched Oregon State high jumper
Tom Woods .challenge the indoor world mark, and current world mark
holder, Steve Smith, take the pole vault just hours after setting his
second record in the Millrose Games in New York the night before.
Despite those performances and a good crowd, being a spectator
at track meets held in Eugene gave me a chance to compare this crowd
with the ones I had come to take for granted at Hayward Field on the
Oregon campus. I must admit, that fanatic enthusiasm Eugene is
known for did not appear in Portland. The hot dogs were pretty good
though.
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Tarpenning teaches defense techniques
By Lalana Rhine
• Attackers beware! Many women
are learning the techniques of personal defense in Al Tarpenning' s
Personal Defense class at LCC,
Tarpenning has been teaching
personal defense classes for about
six years. He is author of a book
entitled ''Pers on al Defense For
Women" with Margaret Heyden of
Portland State University.
These women don't necessarily
enjoy throwing men to the ground.
But after four weeks of practice
on personal defense techniques,
some LCC women are quite capable of protecting themselves.
In Tarpenning's class, the women learn about the vulnerable body areas, the basic ways of rolling or falling, and about wrist
holds and escapes. They learn and
Sports Briefs
F red Sackett, head baseball
coach at LCC, will hold a meeting
of all interested players in room
156, of the Physical Education
Building, on Feb. 20 at 3 p.m.
Persons unable to attend the
meeting are encouraged to contact
Sackett through the Physical Education Department.
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are not reported.
Th e women practice holds,
throws and escapes on each other
in the class, taking extra safety
measures not to hurt each other.
But according to Tarpenning, almost every term there are some
injuries, although mostly minor.
This term is no exception. Oddly enough, though, it's the large
built women who are being inju red and the smaller -ones doing
the damage.
Tarpenning st2.rted teaching personal defense to males in
high schools in 1967. He successfully expanded the high school
cla_sses to include girls. In 1969,
whlle teaching at LCC, he started
personal defense classes for women. Tarpenning after four years,
is now thinking about making the
class co-educational
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7 attempts at the line. The Lane
defense effectively shut off the
leading CCC scorer, Vic Todd, =
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holding him to only eight points.
Unfortunately, however, John Farrar hit 26 points in the losing
K-2 Skis 20% off
cause. Rod Cross continued to cook
the nets, leading Lane for the seHead Skis 20% off
cond straight night with 17 points ..
LCC is now in a tie for fifth
Selected Ski jacke·ts
place in second-half league standings with Linn-Benton. The next 120-40% off
conference action will be a game •
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practice body holds, choke holds,
and other defense techniques.
The women practice these techniques every day the class meets.
According to Tarpenning, the more
practice, the better the women
become at executing the element
of suprise--the element most attackers are not prepared for.
In 1967, two out of every one
hundred Americans were victims
of serious crimes. And the number of violent crimes against people are increasing steadily. During the first six months of 1968,
the number of murders increased
16 per cent over the same period in 1967; the corresponding increase in rapes was 15 per cent.
According to the Jan.29 issue of
Newsweek, 85 out of every 100,000
women in major cities are victims of rape. The magazine also
adds that authorities think as much
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! 'Plague'
victimizes valley ! EPAC to send_letters "to night students
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by LCC Health Services
The "Willamette Plague" is a disease indigenous to the Central Oregon Valley and is characterized by symptoms much like those
of the common cold, influenza, hepatitis, ·mononucleosis , bronchitis
and the "wrath of God."
When you fall pre·y · to the "plague" you will have part or all of
the following: Fever, chills, headache, muscle ache, increased mucous,
coughing spasms, sinus drainage, sore throat, loss of energy and a
desire to go south for the winter.
The plague is seasonal, it strikes almost exclusively in the
winter months. This is the time during which people get depressed,
stay indoors with poor ventilation, make excessive use of dehydrating
gas heat, smoke too many cigarettes, and generally treat themselves
worse than they do their pets.
There is no cure, unless you're a California transplant, in which
case you can immediately return to your natural environment. If
you intend to make a serious attempt to deal with the plague you must
remain in bed during the severe stages and 24 to 48 hours after you
think you should get up and around. If you don't do this you will succeed
in (1) spreading the plague, (2) prolonging your illness, and (3) having a
relapse.
Some other helpful remedies include proper diet, light and bland
foods are recommended with an intake of three quarts of fluids a day.
Garg l.e with warm salt water for sore throat. Inhale steam for respiratory disorders.
Teas are especially useful in dealing with the plague--comfrey,
yarrow, golden seal, lobelia and ginsing are very effective. Some people use a tea made from 1 oz. elder blossoms, 1 oz. boneset, 1 oz.
peppermint, 1/2 oz. cinnamon, 1/2 oz. skull cap. Steep 60 minutes
and take a glass every two hours with hot water, lemon, and honey in
it.
These herbs and teas can be obtained (with instructions for use)
at Sundance, Health Food and Pool Store, Community Store, and at
the Kiva in Scarborough.
A doctor should be seeri if a fever, cough, or an increased lung
congestion persists.
If you want to lessen your chances of getting the plague take care
of yourself. Eat well, rest, get plenty of sleep, and maintain a proper
balance in your life.
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Radio contest meets planning stages
At today's meeting, members of
The Concrete Statement Literary
Club is scheduled to discuss a raaio script-writing project that
offers cash awards up to $1,000.
The suggested project will be
explained by Pete Peterson, Mass
Communication Department instructor, and Bill Tufts and Jim
Crouch, two LCC students who have
already started to write radio
scripts for the project.
Peterson said the project, '' Earplay," is jointly sponsored by the
University of Wisconsin Extension
and the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting (CPB). It is an attempt to create a market for
radio ,scripts of literary quality.
Peterson continued, ''If we
bounce ideas off one anotherread our scripts and ask for criticism-we'll all gain. The Literary Club seems like a perfect
forum. Whether a club member
The Evening Program Advisory
Committee (EPAC) decided at a
Thursday night meeting to publish a monthly newsletter for evening students and faculty.
Tom Stevens, E PAC faculty
member, suggested that more
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In a 30 minute special meeting
Thursday, the Student Senate gave
approval of the proposed ASLCC
Constitution, By-Laws and fiscal
policy.
An addition to the fiscal policy
was the only change made to any
of the documents prior to the final
Feb. 2 to 4 at De Anza Colleg
in Cupertino, Calif. EPAC stu
dent members Doris Koumoungi
and Bob McCarty were to atten
the_ conference, which was to de
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communications need to be established with the evening students.
In other action the EPAC decided to expend $256 for a trip
to the United States Association
of Evening Students' Regional Conference, which was scheduled for
readings. The addition states that
the ASLCC second Vice-President
shall be a member of the Finance
Committee.
- The Constitution will be presented to the student body for ratification in a special election slated
for the end of this month.
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exciting subject are welcome t'
contact me at school or by horn
phone 342-8510-as a group of
are planning some get-togetheri
for that purpose.
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the Spring Term begins, after th
LCC Board of Education meets
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According to Mike Crouch, Literary Club president, "the meeting will be used to discuss some
of the probl,ems that might be encountered. We will schedule informal meetings to exchange ideas
and to criticize each other's efforts, if the club decides to become involved in tl1.J project."
According to an CPB Earplay
press announcement, anyone may
submit entries to the competition.
The only· restrictions are that the
manuscripts submitted must not
have been professionally produced
and that they must be under 30
minutes when produced. The Earplay Competion will make purchase
awards to 20 scripts this year.
The club will meet at 2 p.m.
in the Concrete Statement Offices,
fourth floor, CentPr R11ilding.
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Age of maiority bill
faces rough sailing
by Doug Cudahey
The · age of majority is again a topic before Oregon's leislature.
If the last legislative session (1971) is an indication of Oregon
law maker's views on the age of majority bill, the bill (Senate Bill 27)
will become a controversial issue once it is reported out of committee
and comes back on the floor this year.
Last session the Oregon legislature, in a close vote, ratified
the 26th Amendment to the US Constitution that lowered the voting age
from 21 to 18. According to the Oregon Community College Student
Association (OCCSA), Robert Burns, Speaker of the House during the
last legislative session, let that bill come out of committee to the floor
in hope of defeating it by a vote of the House.
During the last session the age reform bill was proposed by
Representative Betty Roberts and Senator Ted Hallock, both Democrats
from Portland.
The bill would. have lowered the age of majority from 21 to 18.
The bill related to voting, rights of contract, consumption of alcoholic
beverages, right to marry and all other statutes dealing with the age of
majority.
The bill was introduced into the Oregon House of Representatives
in January 1971 and was sent to the State and Federal Affairs Committee where it was tabled in June and subsequently died.
During the same session another bill concerning the 18 year olds was
introduced, this time in the Senate. The bill was introduced by Senators
Betty Roberts and Wallace Carson.
This bill w·ould have only allowed persons 18 years or older to
purchase alcoholic beverages.
In a floor vote, following the third reading in the Senate, the bill
failed by two votes.
These past examples of legislation dealing with the 18 year old
may have a bearing on the future of the current SB27.
Oregon state capitol building in Salem, completed in 1939 after a fire in 1935 destroyed the old
copper-domed capitol. The pioneer figure in gold
leaf looks west from atop the capitol buildingo
The capitol houses both the Senate and the House
of Representatives.
'Grass roots operation'
educates for citizenship
and the efficiency they put into their job on their
own campuses.
'' To educate for citizenship, 11 according to Greg
Member schools have several students working
Leo, coordinator of Oregon Student Association as 03A contact people on their campus. Their job
(OSA), "is the principal purpose of 03A."
is to find what bills are going before the legislature
03A, a relatively new organization, established
and how they affect the student body on their campus.
during the past academic year, is designed as an
Since OSA opens its membership to high schools,
educational service-disseminating information on community colleges, four year colleges, and other
issues revolving around the states legislature perstate schools of higher education, the interest is
varied. Yet it all pertains to education and student
taining to education.
03A member schools wanting information on
interests.
a particular bill before the legislature contact 03A' s
This keeps in line with the goal of OSA to be an
main office in Salem and request that information
educational service and provide information to
to be researched and mailed.
gchccl~ wrt~i!!i!lg to the state'slegislature.
Information that schools request ranges from the
as A·is governed bv ;;_ ~!?nstitution and by-laws
name of a legislator that initiated a particular bill
with provisions for eiectioi15 to be htld annually
to a list of supportars of a certain issue.
in April with all the executive seats Ci,~~- There
03A dues are pro-rated on the Full Time
are four executive seats - coordinator, assista.x"it
Equivalent (FTE) student basis. Schools are charged
coordinator, secretary and treasurer.
$1.00 per FTE per year. Lane pays $56 a year.
This year's a3A officers ~re: Greg Leo, coDues are used in most part for supplies, with a ordinator, University of Oregon; Charles Rueth, aslarge portion paying mailing costs.
sistant coordinator, Treasure Valley Community
Leo recently mailed information to all new legis- College; Robert Marsh, secretary. Oregon College
latorsexplainingthe function of OSA and reminding of Education; Linda Anania, treasurer, Southern
them that "this year, more so than in the past, Oregon College.
students will be taking a closer look at state govern03A is going to need a great deal of partici::ment."
pation from the 14 active member schools to insure
Volunteers manning the OOA offices, in most
CSA a productive first year and secure the orcases, receive college transferable credit from their
ganization so that it may flourish into other academic
school in either government or political science.
years. Also, as well as a3A keeping their eye on
CSA has no paid positions.
the state legislature, the state is going to keep their
A grass roots operation relying heavily upon eye on the OOA to see if this group of schools, ban' member schools, CEA is an organization that wields ded together, can in fact survive the up-hill grind of
little power.
the fifty-seventh legislative assembly in Salem
The only power lies with the individual schools this year.
·by Doug Cudahey
No hearings scheduled for new bill
The bill is now being held up in committee with evidence provided
by statistics from Michigan which showeLl Michigan's arrests of drivers
Under the influence of alcohol rose 87 per cent during the first year
the age of majority was lowered in that state. That evidence was
provided by the Traffic and Safety Council.
If made into -law SB 27, like its predecessor in 1971, would extend to
persons 18 to 21 the right to purchase alcoholic beverages, and would
affect statutory requirements on blood donations, contracts, marriage, and receiving of life insurance payments, among others.
Thus far SB 27 has been read twice in the Senate and been assigned to a committee. That committee happens to be the State and Federal Affairs Committee, the same committee in which the 1971 age
of majority bill died.
According to Senator Eugene Pott's office, (D-Grants Pass), SB
27 has not been scheduled for any hearings. Potts is the chairman of
State and Federal Affairs Committee.
It will be hard to predict the outcome of SB 27 as it travels through
the House and the Senate as well as predict if it will reach the governor's desk for his signature.
Traffic & Safety Council show cause
Two groups working against the pass... of Bill 27 are the traffic
~nd Safoty Council which has been mailing literature to all Senators urging
the biii's defeat and TRAIN, a conservative lobby group thii.t 1s also
opposing the ~~ual R~~hts Amendment (ERA). .
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A few organizatrv:~ have taken up the fight to see Bill 27 pa-ss
and be made into law.
One of those groups is the Ort';:-:,n Student Organization (OS.h)
which is disseminating information on legislJtive issues in Salem.
They have been supplying a community college caucus working on ~ill
27 with information that is pertinent to its travels through the legislature.
Also Oregon Community Colleg~ Student Associatio~ (OCCSA)
is working with their schools to help cJrculate informa~10n to those
schools which have taken up Bill 27 as a.. issue on their campuses
In respect to past history it seems that SB 27 , ill see rough weather
in its voyage through the state's legislature and ,w ill be one bi_ll Uiat
can either go one way or the other, pass or be defeatt d, depe n<1mg on
which side pttshes the hardest.
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AAJC coordinates national Oregon Senate okays
programs for iunior colleges Equal Rights legislation,
by Doug Cudahey
American Association of Junior Colleges
established in 1920, is an organization comprised
of community and junior colleges. AAJC nationally
coordinates programs and projects established to
combat problems shared by both community and junior colleges.
Dues to this national student organization are
rated on the Full Time Equivalent student (FTE)
basis. The ASLCC pays $700 a year.
AAJC collects information on student interests
at their yearly convention where approximately 3500
delegates representing CO!llmunity and junior colleges from across the nation meet. The meeting
is adequate for an exchange of ideas, thoughts,
problems, and possible solutions.
Through the convention procedure AAJC is able
to understand on a national level the problems and
priorities facing students in two year schools.
After establishing a priorities list AAJC channels
those problems brought fourth during the convention,
into projects or programs that already exist and if
necessary form new programs.
Some projects a.nd programs that AAJC has
under way include: programs for veterans and servicemen, programs for minorities , and occupational education and development to name a :few.
These and other progra.mi are sponsored by such
organizations as the CarnegieCorporation of New
Combat veterans only
York, WK Kellog Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
In their literary department AAJC publishes an
award winning monthly magazine called" Community
and Junior College Journal."
To keep its membership up to date on existing
programs and projects AAJC compiles newsletters
and reports for daily correspondence.
AAJC has the approach that to go forward in
to the future you must take on step backwards into
the past. Confusing... not reallyc
The programs and projects that AAJC is undertaking today are the results of problems anticipated
by students in the sixties.
Some ol;>jectives interpreted in the sixties by AAJC
and implemented into programs includE Faculty and
Staff development, Curriculum Improvement, Legal
Basis, Public Communications and Administrative
Leadership.
The Board of Directors of AAJC consists of 30
members. The Board at one time was made up of
only administrators. Today it includes representatives of state offices, trustees of colleges, university faculty, students and other staff as well as
school presidents.
AAJC officers include a chairman and vice chairman of the board, elected by the board every year
for one year terms. The president of the association is responsible for the execution of
such plans and policies as the board of directors
author_izes, directs and approves.
Oregon Senate considers
educational aid for -vets
by Paul Wozniak
A bill that would amend pre-
sent state statutes and allow combat. vetera_ns to receive stat~ educahonal aid concurrently with federal GI Bill benefits is now in
committ_~e in the Or~gon Senate.
The . bill (Senate B11183),sponsored by Senator Vernon Cook
(D-Gresham), has a projected budget of over four million dollars.
_At the present time, veterans
studying under an 18 month voeational program (the length of most
vocational programs at LCC) cannot receive state educational aid
if they are receiving federal funds
under the GI Bill. The amount
of federal funds is greater. 1
GI Bill funding is in a ratio of
one and one-half months of school
financing to~one month served, according to Barbara Harmon, coordinator of the newly-established
Veterans Affairs office at LCC.
Since most veterans have served
the 12 months necessary for fed-
top. Burton also said that veterans on the GI Bill are "low
on the list'' for scholarship consideration, He said the married veterah, who receives $261 per month
under the GI Bill, has an even
more difficult time with support.
Burton said in support of the
propose·d Oregon bill that state
aid -would put vets on an equal
level with students who are financially independent or who receive financial assistance.
eral funding for the length of a
vocational program, they cannot
receive state funds.
Ms. Harmon said that approximately 1,300 students at LCC
receive . funds under the GI Bill.
The new bill if approved would
allot $35 to $50 .per month tocombat veterans only.
According to Mark Burton, student body vice-president of LinnBenton Community College in Albany, who testified before th€ committee last week, the GI Bill allots $1,900 per year (220 per
month) to the single veteran going to school full-time (12 credit
hours). Burton said that thE) federal poverty level for persons
with no dependents is $3,925 per
year and that even though most
veterans work during the summer, it is difficult for them to
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Burton told the committee that
it is almost impossible to fight
both educational and financial battles in college and come out on
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clears first obstacle
by Sheila Rose
The Oregon Senate passed the proposed US constitutional amendment
which would provide equal rights forboth sexes last week.
The Equal Rights Amendment was approved by 23 members of the
Senate and received six ''no" votesc It now moves to the House for vote.
The amendment, which reads "Equality of rights under the law
shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State
... needs ratification
by 38
states ...
on account of sex, ''needs ratification by 38 states to become part of the
US Constitutuion. So far, 22 states have cast a favorable vote.
Discussion during the first hearing held on the amendment centered on fears voiced by opponents of the measure that passage would
result in .the integration of restrooms and drafting of females for
military services.
The arguments were answered by sponsors of the bill, Rep.
Roger Martin, · (R-Lake Oswego), and Sen. Betty Roberts, (D-Portland), who explained that restrooms would remain segregated duct to
the Ninth Amendment to the Constitution (right to privacy).
Of the possibility of drafting females for military service, Rep.
Martin commented that because of the different roles of the sexes,
Congress could make provisions to exempt certain females (married,
with ·children, etc.) from the draft, but stated that the draft would be
ending as of July 1, anyway.
Two other main arguments were given in the first and subsequent
hearing of the amendment. The opponents felt that passage of the
amendment ·would result in the abrogation of present ''protective
laws" provided for women.
The amendment, often described as providing "equal rights for
women," would deal with constitutional privileges of either sex by
. . . law to cover the unprivileged sex
extending the law to cover the unprivileged sex. Such as the case of
rape: After ratification of the amendment men would also be protected under present statutes, said Rep. Martino
The opponents also voiced fears that ratification would remove
the husband's responsibility to support his family .
Proponents of the bill denied the arguments, and said that sex
discrimination exists, and will require constitutional protection to
correct. Examples of discrimination against men and women were
cited in the areas of job, housing, credit and legal benefits awarded
(alimony).
The State and Federal Affairs ·committee heard the testimony on
the amendment.
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National Student Association
by Jill
Bergstrom
The oldest, and cme of the largest confederations
of student government is NSA (National Student As. sociation). It h~s a current membership of over 500
campuses through9u~ the US 1 botb ::-year ang ~year colleges. Afthe annual ~mdent CMgress, beld
each summer in selected US cities Otte blst Coagre,;s
was held iri Washington D.C.), delegates from every
college or university gather to discuss issues, needs,
directions and skills for resolving student problems
for. the coming year.
.L ast August, ASLCC Second Vice-President
J'LU13~
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Kenny Walker, First Vice-President Chuck Packnett,
Jay Bolton, ASLCC President, and Jim Gregory,
.Editor of the TORCH traveled to participate in the
convention. Walker was elected as one of the four
West Coast representatiffs to _the NSB (rfational
Superytsory Board)~ and Ch,ack Paclmett to be
of f@lfl' representati-vies tc the CSC (Congress ~eering Committee}. Both Packnett and Bolton were
elE;!cted as alternates to the NSB. (See TORCH,
Sept. 12 issue.) The eight day congress consisted of
over 600 delegates, and speakers such as Gloria
Steinem, Ralph Nader, spoke on recent issues.
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Membership ,fee
insures LCC aid
Feb. 6, 1973 Rag Time Page 3
by Steve Busby
Every year LCC pays the Oregon Community College Association
(OCCA) an institutional fee to retain its membership in that body. Last
September this fee amounted to $5805, paid from the college's Fees and
Dues Fund.
What does this membership fee pay to support?
The OCCA is the administrative body of the community colleges
in Oregon. It handles the communications between the member institutions lobbies for or against legislation that would affect the colleges, and administers rules and by-laws of the organization.
The OCCA is composed of five sections within the individual colleges. The five sections, students, faculty members, administration..a..
boards of education, and classified staff, elect section members who are
delegated the task of voicing the needs and wants of their constituents;
---Funds- supporting activities--These views are aired at monthly section meetings and at combined association meetings involving all sections. These OCCA conventions are held once a year at a time and place specified by the Central Coordinating Committee.
The Central Coordinating Committee, chosen at the association
convention, is made· up of members of the five sections. cross section of all member institutions is maintained in the Coordmating Committee.
The Central Coordinating Committee meet& monthly_to deal with
current legislation and problems confronting Oregon's community colleges.
Membership in the OCCA gives membership in each of four suborganizations.
These sub-organizations; the Oregon Community College Student
Association, (OCCSA) the Oregon Community College Faculty Association, (OCCFA) the Oregon Community College Atheltic Association,
(OCCAA) and the Student Activities and Inter-Collegiate Athletics
.the body surrounding
the skeleton .
Commission form the body surrounding the skeleton of the OCCA.
As such, these daughter commissions route legislative, administrative and budgetary needs and problems through the OCCA.
All of these organizations are for the aid of the member institutions and the students, faculty and other persons connected with
them. There are four methods of routing inquiries and suggestions
through the OCCA and its subsidiary commissions.
A student at Lane could contact his student section member,
and inform that person of the problem or suggestion. .
Secondly, contact should be made with the college representative
on the Coordinating Committee.
The next step in the procedure would be to get in touch with the
State Section Officer member of the Coordinating Committee. This
member would take the inquiry up to the next monthly meeting of the
Committee.
If quick action were desired, or if all other avenues fail, contact should be made with a staff member at the central OCCA offices
in Salem.
This procedure should be followed in all actions with the OCCA
and all of its Commissions.
ASLCC Executive Cabinet
The ASLCC student body government is governed
by an executive cabinet of five members.
The
1972-73 cabinet, pictured from left to right; Chuck
Packnett, (first vice-president), Pam Frost, (pub-
Duties of officers viewed
by She,ila Rose .
The ASLCC student body is gove:rf?ed by a five
member executive cabinet, members of which are:
Jay · Bolton, Chuck Packnett, Kenny Walker, Bob
Vinyard and Pam Frost.
The ASLCC, (Associated Students of Lane Community College), officers; president, first vicepresident, second vice-president, treasurer and publicity director are responsible, according to advisor
Jay Jones, for providing the Senate members with
the information necessary to make decisions.
Each officer is elected by the student body to
a one year term, and receives tuition based on need.
ASLCC President Jay Bolton, who holds the
Senate's highest office, is the official representative of the student body. He presides over all meetings of the student body and Senate, and is generally
responsibl€ for all executive and administrative work
resulting thereof. In addition to tuition, Bolton said he
receives $200 monthly for the estimated 40-50 hours
he works for the Senate weekly.
Chuck Packnett holds not only the first vicepresidential position of LCC, but is also acting President of the Oregon Community College Student Association (OCCS.A). In addition to two national
committee appointments. His duties at LCC inclu<;le
House-Senat·e review rights of news~en
by Lee Beyer
The rights of newsmen to protect their sources were again in
the limelight this past week as
House Speaker Dick Eymann and
Senate President Jason Boe announced the appointment of a joint
House-Senate committee to review
legislation dealing with conflicts
of interest and shield laws for
newsmen.
In announcing the new committees Boe said, "It makes me very
uncomfortable to think about the
government making laws regarding the press, because autonomy is
so vital to a free press.''
Governor Tom McCall (aformer
newsman himself) has also showed
a great interest in the problems of
the press. Last week Governor
McCall introduced his version of. a
shield law in tbe Legislature,
bringing the total number of shield
law bills before the state's assembly to four.
The Governor has said that he
feels any shield for newsmen
should be absolute, in that it should
be without qualification from
court-order disclosure of news
sources.
The other bills were introduced
by Senator Fred Heard, D-Klamath
Falls (SB 32), Senator Ted Hallock,
D-Portland (SB-97) and by newspaper publisher Representativ€
Robert Ingalls, R-Corvallis. The
Hallock bill was actually drafted
by the Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.
All of the last three bills have a
qualified approach to protection of
newsmen, in that they give specific instances where a newsman may
be required to reveal his sources.
The instances differ from bill to
bill.
At the center of all the bills is tbe
right to the newsman to protection
of his sources of information. Some
profa.s.ions snch ~s law~rs, doctors and ministers already have
this right. Rep0rters desire this
privilege in order to install confidence in their sources and to keep
the channels of communication
Qpen. Newsmen argue that if they
are not able to obtain information
licity director), Jay Bolton, (student body president),
Bob Vinyard, (treasurer) and Kenny Walker, (second vice president). (Photo by Robin Burns)
the public will be at a loss for information.
In the past newsmen seemed to
have little problem with the authorities or see a need for a special
shield law. In fact according to US
Senator Robert Packwood, in the
1967 session of the State Legislature a then-entered shield law
fail;d to pass because the newsmen present felt no need of such
a law. However, lately opinion has
reversed with the jailing of several reporters for failing to reveal
to the courts their sources of information. The most famous of
these being Earl Caldwell of the
New York Times, William Farr of
the Los .Angeles Times, and Peter
Bridge of the Newark Evening
News (now defunct). These jailings
have brought onlegislativeoutcries
in the U.S. Coogress
state legislatures th:rottglloot the country to
tbe point where thffe ue now bills
being entered in each to give somt!
form of protection to newsmen.
The basic problem now facing the
Oregon Legislature is not whether
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running· ASLCC elections, chairing the Board of Tellers, and serving as ombudsman for the student
body.
Second vice-president Kenny Walker's duties center around student activities. Walker is a member
of a national block-booking committee and would like
to take steps toward bringing "big name" groups
to the area. Walker also prepares a student handbook
which includes an activities calendar for the ye-u.
ASLCC Treasurer Bob Vinyard chairs the Finance Committee, which recom~nds action to the
Senate on all appropriation requests. Vinyard feels
resp on s i b 1 e for seeing that funds are voted on
logically and not emotionally, aad that the fiscal
policy is followed. Vinyard also chairs the committee which prepares the budget. Vinyard served as a
Senator-at-large before being appointed to replace
David Red Fox as Treasurer.
Pam Frost, was recently appointed publicity director after the resignation of Jack Hart, and is responsible for all official publications of the Student Senate or executive cabinet. Ms. Frost will also
distribute information to other colleges and prepare
a bulletin board and advertisei:nents to publicize the
calendar of activities.
Student s voicing
•
power ,n
survey
Student governing power
(CPS)-- A recent survey shows
that only seven per cent of the
more than 2500 institutions of higher education in America have
governing boards with students in
voting capacities.
The American Council on Education surveyed over 450 schools
in its study on student participa tion in academic governance.
Only 11 to 17 per cent of all colleges have students sitting on governing boards in any capacity, voting or non-voting, the study concluded.
leernin1 tett• sports
(CPS/ZNS)-- Two student body
leaders at Scottsdale College in
Arizona successfully reversed a
December recall election which
was launched after they criticized
the school's athletic program.
Students voted overwhelmingly
to retain student body President
Roger Brooks and· Vice President David Palmer. They had beer.
leaders of a drive for Scottsdale
College to spend more money on
books, and less on sports. Brook~
charged th;3.t the school administration had spent a total of $124,000
last year for a practice football
field, while spending only $15,000
to purchase books for the library.
The two stuoont leaders said
that Scottsda~ students now have
to_ travel to ttte nearby Arizona
St ate Uni'VffSity library to compl,ite class
(a ledts.
Scottsda~ ~ t s , in another_
protest, voted k, adopt the artichoke as the sciool's mascot :md
selected pin le and white ;is the
school colors. Ignoring that vote,
the administration selected <1 more
traditional mascot and colors.
Page 4 Rag Time Feb. 6, 1973
Vice-Presid ent caucus
Student body vice-presidents from various Oregon
community colleges, meet at the annual OCCSA Fall
Convention to discuss the different aspects and
problems of booking and showing live entertainment
on their campuses. The caucus was one of many
held at the annual three day convention at Diamond
Lake where community college delegates discussed
problems and issues that face Oregon community
colleges in Oregon.
(Photo by Steven Locke)
OCCSA ,repre sents state
two year institu tions
by Doug Cudahey
Oregon Community College Student Association
(OCCSA) is comprised of the 13 community colleges in the state and represent approximately 100,000
students.
The organization meets twice yearly in a convention atmosphere controlled by the OCCSA president who chairs the convention . .
At these conventions all 13 school's -send representatives from, in most cases, ·their student
government. These delegates are vested with the
power to address problems that exist in.their schools
and, through f o r m a 1 motions that are placed on
the floor for the entire body to vote on, bring attention to these problems and pass legislation to
cure those ills.
The state is divided into OCCSA sections for the
purpose of holding meetings. These section meetings
allow schools to meet and discuss problems oi their
,\
particular geographical locale.
Problems of section schools are discussed, u
well as special interests, whether they be student
related activities or those which affect the advancement of student rights and representation.
These topics are accumulated and voiced at state
conventions.
Legislative issues that are excepted by the con-
vention are collected and again read at the Oregon
Community College Association (OCCA) convention
for final approval before being implemented into
policy. (See Oregon Community College· Association story).
The OCCA is composed of administrators, school
board members, classified staff, faculty and students.
It is at the OCCA convention where a legislative
directive, already approved by OCCSA, is either
accepted and \mplemente<) or defeated by a vote
and not considered.
OCCSA is governed by an executive co111mittee
with four officers holding the positions of president , vice president, publicity director and treasurer. All these positions open in the spring.
Each school pays $275 in membership dues to
the OCCSA. Conventions are sponsored on a rotating basis by member schools. Those expenses are
incurred by the individual schools student government operating budget. So far this year the ASLCC
has spent $4,235 on conventions.
Issues that OCCSA. has endorsed in the past
include student ' ' representation on school boards,
veterans related issues, legislative measure number nine, support of classified personnel in job
bargaining, support and involvement in other state
organizations and legislative bills that appear before
the state legislature dealing with community colleges.
Studen ts gain maior victory
Toronto, Canada (CPS/~UP)---Students in the University of Toronto's Sociology Department gained
a major victory January 25, when they won parity
representation on the department's staffing committee •
The decision, passed by one vote of the Sociology Assembly. the Department's deci.sion-making
body, gives students an equal say on the committee
. . . equal say . . .
that hires, fires and promotes staff. Students already have parity with' faculty on all other departmental committees. including the executive and curWant to check on a Bill? It's not hard this year
since the State Legislature has installed a toll-free
telephone liae to the Salem Capitol from anywhere in
the State.
To find out the status of any Bill •or when and
where legislative hearings are to be held dial 800-
452-0290.
The cost of personal contact with a legislator is
somewhat higher. since one will have to pay for
either a stamp or the cost of a long distance call.
Mail to legislators shoultt be addressed toelther,
Oregon State Senate, state Capitol, Salem, Ore. 97310
or State House of ltepresentatives, State Capitol,
Salem, Ore. 97310.
riculum committees and the policy-making assembly.
Students have long regarded a say in staffing
decisions as crucial for long-range planning and
for meaningful control over course content.
The assembly had approved the student staffing decision in principle last February, but im.:
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shield laws ...
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to pass a shield law but which type: an absolute or qualified shield.
The Heard bill, a qualified shield, would require the newsmen to
reveal his confidential information or its source whm a defendant in a
libel suit asserts a defense based on the source or the information or
when the information bears on a threat to life or foreign aggression.
The Hallock bill, also·.a qualified shield, which is backed by the
newspaper publishers, would require that the information be revealed
after a circuit court hearing determines that too information ''is
clearly relevant to a specific violation of the law," the information
cannot be obtained elsewhere or there is a "compelling and overriding governmental interest to be served in having the information or
sources disclosed."
The Ingalls bill, the third qualified shield, would require disclosure
if a court determined "through clear and convincing evidence" that
the information is needed to prevent a threat to human life or to meet
a compelling and overriding interest of the state."
The Oregon newsmen and publishers are in conflict over which
is the best type of shield law. Newsmen want an absolute shield while
publishers maintain that a qualified shield is good enough. But, the
reporters maintain that they are the ones that will have to go to jail
to protect their sources.
veterans
plementation was held up by opposition from the
then-department chairman and the retiring dean of
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arts and science. Their successors seem wilhng
to accept students .
Two other people, in testimony before the committee, advocated
The Sociology Department is the only U of T
of all veterans-eombat, non-combat, (including those with
inclusion
the
formal
a
allowed
are
students
which
department in
less than an honorable discharge) and conscientious objectors (CO's)
in state educational aid.
Richard Hawkins, representing the Eugene chapter of Vietnam
Veterans Against the War (VVAW), told the committee that it would be
an honorable step by the state to include all veterans and CO' s •in the
program. Hawkins said that the goal of financial edueational assistance
is to help the veteran to reenter society, it would be correct to include
say in staffing, although some others have unall veterans, prisoners of war and CO's.
official student committees that are allowed to state
The last witness at the second hearing of the committee last
their preferences to all faculty staffing committees. week was Glll Thomas, a CO from the Salem area now in prescribed
The former Arts and Science dean claimed th.rt service. Only two committee members were present to bear his testiUniversity rules prohibited student involvement in mony.
staff decisions. Since bis rnling has apparently
Thoma& advocated the inclusion of all CO's who have completed
been discarded, previously rejeeted demands for a service in or eut of the armed services. He told the Senators that
similar role in other u of TDepartment'swill most alternative service is complementary to mftitary service, and that ·
likely resurface.
it is just as disruptf,e to one's llfestyle as ls military service.
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