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Week of art planne d for LCC

by Steven Locke

LCC's first Spring Arts Festival will get under
way Monday. The five day festival, which will include
art showings by LCC students, LCC's stage bands
and choir, and excerpts from three plays, will be
held behind LCC above the south parking lot.
A permanent stage is being constructed just above
the parking lot by the LCC Construction Club and will
be used throughout the festival. A pavilion, rented
from the University of Oregon, will also be set up
for the festival and will house art exhibits.
According to ASLCC Senator-at-Large and Festival Coordinator, Steve Leppanen, the cultural event
will be "for the student at Lane and by the student."
Leppanen stated that '' instead of spending a lot of
money for outside groups, we are going to use our
own stuaents and staff.''
•starting Monday at noon a folk dance will be held
on stage, followed by a poetry reading at 3 p.m. and
the second year LCC stage band at 4 p.m.
eScheduled for Tuesday is LCC's swing choir at
10 a.m., modern dancing at 11 :30 a.m. and LCC's
Symphonic Band at noon. In the afternoon excerpts
from three plays, directed by Ed Ragozzino of the
Performing Arts Department, will feature '' Midsummer Nights Dream," "Dylan/' and "The Drapes
Come."
eon Wednesday there . will be another poetry
reading at 11 a.m. followed by folk dancing at noon.
In the afternoon Dick Benedum, from the Performing Arts Department, will present Chamber music
at 1:30 and Nathan Cammack, also from the Performing Arts Department, will present violin and piano
music at 3:30.
•Thursday morning at 10, Cammack will pre-

sent a Brass Choir and at 1:30 ·p .m. LCC's firs"t
year stage band will perform. Excerpts from the
three plays, performed on Tuesday, will be repeated
at? p.m.
eon Friday to highlight the five day festival
there will be a sculpture seminar, a frog contest. and
a rock concert. Also slated for Friday is a folk dance
at noon and a poetry reading at 3 p.rri.
George Baker, one of the three American sculptors invited to Expo '70 in Osaka~ Japan, will be 011
campus at 10 a.m. Friday for theSculptureSem~.nar .
A frog contest, sponsored by the TORCH and the
ASLCC Senate, will be held at 1 p.m. On hand to
judge the different events wm be LCC President
Eldon Schafer, Lane County District Attorney Pat
Horton, Springfield Mayor Darwin Courtright, LCC
Board of Education member Catherine Lauris, and
Eugene Register-Guard reporter Lloyd Paseman~
Over $100 in cash prizes will be awarded to the winners
of seven categories-distance jump, frog
race, largest frog, smallest frog, oldest contestant,
youngest contestant, and the grand finale -- a frog
beauty contest.
The festival will be wrapped up Friday night with a
rock concert beginning at 8 p.m., featuring Jeffrey
Cain from San Francisco, Coal, Sagebrush, and the
Phantasmagoria Light Show. There will be no admission charge for this concert, however donations
will be accepted.
In addition to the scheduled events there will be
drawings, jewelry, paintings, ceramics, sculpture,
and other art works on display in the pavilion. Also,
~tween performances on stage, LCC students will
smg and play guitars.

venue, eugene, oregon 97405

Bean y Schmidt,
one of a kind

Act~ess, skydiver, and weaver
by

David Butler

But expected soon

Financia l aid notificati on still awaited

'' If a high school or college student hasn't heard yet whether he
will be receiving financial aid next
fall, he shouldn't worry. He's
among the majority of students in
the state.''
This comment came from State
Scholarship Director Jeff Lee last
week in a press release from the
Colleges For Oregon's Future-a
nonprofit citizen's group which
examines education in Oregon.

In addition, a new Basic Educational Opportunity Grant program m1y
provide another 122 million dollars
in aid.
The 872 million dollar total budget is the largest federal contribution ever to st udent financial aid.
Federal funds for 72-73 totaled 766
million dollars.
Institutions won't know the exact

amount of aid they have to offer for
a few more weeks, but now that the
bill has been signed they are beginning to notify their first group of
applicants that funds are available.
'' M)st institutions have probably
penciled-in aid figures for students,'' Lee stated.
The 122 million dollars in federal funds for the BEOG program
may be awarded late. however. and

it may be impossible to implement
that program in time for students
entering college next fall. If that
happens~ funds would be transferred to another student financial aid
program. It could be September
before those few last funds are
awarded, and Lee says a few students may have to decide upon an
institution before they know whether they will be receiving financial
aid,
Community colleges will receive more federal student financial aid funds next year than they
have in the 'past, according to
Richard Dent, who has been employed by the State Scholarship
Commission and the Educational
Coordinating Council to do re(Continued on har.k page)

( Photo by David Butler)

Maureen Schmidt

Ask Maureen Evelyn-Penelope Cleavenger Beany Schmidt's mother
and she'll tell you Maureen Evelyn-Penelope Cleavenger BeanySchrriidt
hasn't got a brain in her head.
She jumps out of airplanes.
Maureen Schmidt (the Beany and the Evelyn-Penelope Cleavenger
are easily-explainable aliases) is a Eugene transplant from Tillamook,
a student at Lane Community College, a weaver of sorts, and ah, a skydiver.
The decision to take up skydiving is an interesting exercise in logic.
Witness: "I got tired of taking the same old PE courses ove.r and over
and was wandering around registration (at the University of Oregon,
The controversial results of the
an official challenge to the elec- 1 where she attended for one year) when I spotted a table that said,
Spring Elections were made offictions. Ooms cited six alledged in- 'trampoline.'
ial Tuesday, May awhen the ASLCC fractions of election procedure.
"I called home and said, 'Mom, I'm going to sign up for trampoSenate voted ten to five to ratify the The charge that generated
the most line', and mom said, 'Maureen, you'll kill yourself.', so I said, 'right',
election in accordance to the Board concern in the Senate was Ooms'
and signed up for skydiving instead.
of Tellers report.
charge that at least six students
Good thinking.
The controversey arose immed- claimed to have voted more than
Skydiving, despite the fact that it looks dangerous, is practically as
iately following the April 30-May 1 once.
safe as falling asleep, said Maureen. A lady could break her neck on a
elections when Russel Ooms, soph At the May 8 Senate meeting the trampoline.
omore senator from Industrial Board of Tellers Chairman Chuck As it turns out, however, Maureen has thrown in the towel, at least
Technology Department, submitted Packnett, gave the Senate a report for awhile. Being blown off course on her eighth jump by a freak gust of
on the findings of that committee wind took ten years off her life and three layers of paint off the building
after investigating Ooms's chal- she almost hit.
The LCC Symphonic Band will hold its second Annual Good Old
Since then the 20-year old coed has taken up downhill skiing, sailing ·
lenge.
Fashion Concert on the Green Sunday at 2 p.m.
Packnett said that it was not a and one-speed ("my own ... and I defy anyone to stay up with me ")biThe concert 1 which drew several hundred people last yE:ar, will
question of whether or not the cycling with her old Schwinn 24-incher.
feature sp,3cially written selections from the movie, "Shaft," featurinz
charges were true, but the problem
But lest anyone get the idea Maureen is the most liberated of libLCC Student Gordon Davis on the guitar, a sneak preview selection •was that there were not any legal erated women, they should know her two favorite pastimes would probfrom the upcom~ng Lane County Auditorium Association production
guidelines to stipulating election ably get her tossed out of a Status of Women meeting on her ear.
1 'West Side Story,"
(two singers will accompany this selection), a procedure. The Board of Tellers
Cooking and weaving.
trombone soloist by Walter Wilson, band director at South Eugene
recommended that the election re"If the truth were known," she said truthfully, "I'm about as doHigh School plus numerous oth•H seledions.
sults be accepted as reported. mestic as you can get. Hey look, I made this," she bubbled, jiggling a
According to LCC Band Director Gene Aitken, the hour long concert
Packnett made a motion that the large hand-woven handbag over her head.
is structured to have something for everybody.
And she cooks too. '' I love to cook, but I especially love to cook
senate accept the results of the
In addition, according to Aitken, Dave Stewart, an LCC student, has
election as valid. He also made a for men," she said. "They'll always tell you whether they like somereceived a grant from an amplifier company to do the first amplification
motion that the senate establish a thing or not. They'll level with you.
of a symphonic orchestra at LCC.
"But women will never tell you the truth. They always say they
committee to set up election guideThe concert, scheduled for Bristow Square, the lawn immediately
lines and bring these before the like everything.''
Her entire family, including the 16 sons and daughters of her mosenate for approval. Both motions
south of the Center Building, will be held in the LCC Cafeteria in case
of inclement weather.
passed.
(Continued on back page)
But, Lee added, most students
will be receiving notification soon.
The report said that President
Nixon's recently signing of the bill
authorizing allocations for student
financial aid programs ended a
Congress-Administra tion impasse
over how Uie funds should be spent.
The state's community colleges
and universities and colleges will
soon know how much aid they can
award to students-but the time lag
still leaves the colleges in difficulty in predicting their enrollments·
at this time, said the news release.
The College Work Study Program, Education Opportunity Grant
Program, and the National Direct
Student Loan Program are all to be
funded next year at levels close to
those used for this academic year.

5 pr •Ing· EI e Ct •IO n S ratified

Concert on Green scheduled by band

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strategists on the National
Security Council rate the
likelihood het ter than 50-50.
The secret intelligence
reports, meanwhile , tell of
rising tensions between the
two Communist behemoths.
The Kremlin has moved 41
of its best divisions to the
Chinese frontier . These
troops are backed by dozens
of huge, mobile nuclear
missiles. Hundreds more
could be launched against
China from permanent
Soviet sites.
The Chinese have installed
less than 50 nuclear-tipped
missiles of t.hei r o,.vn. U.S.
military experts say the Russians could knock out al1 of
them with the first nuclear
broadside. But in another
two years, the Chinese should
have enough missiles
deployed to deter a Soviet att. a ck. They ha v e also
developed a fantastic new
radar, calied phased array
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years or face a new Chinese
nuclear menace . The intelligence reports note that
Hw Kre mlin has abandoned
hope of improving relations
with Peking - at least as
long as Mao Tse-tung and
Chou En-lai remain in power .
PtesidE>nt Nixon, meanwhile, · is deeply concerned.
Not onlv would a ChineseRussian • war threaten world
peace but the prevailing
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nuciear fallout over the
United States.
Nixon vs. the Press: As an
olive branch to the press. a
contrite President Nixon told
newsmen: "Continue to give
me hell when you think I'm
wrong. I hope I'm worthy of
your trust." Yet only two days
later, his representative urg-

ed the Senate Judiciary Committee to pass a censorship
law that would prevent
newspapers from exposing
any future Watergate scandals.
The Pres id en t 's spokesman, Deputy Assistant Attorney General Kevin
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Letters to the Editor
Dear Editor:
, examples such as the two I've giv1 want not another moment to go en.
by without publicly hailing Rick
Well, he says in print: "I will
Mathews as a for-real top quality back up what I say at any time,
journalist. His letters in the anywhere.'' I think he should have
TORCH of May 8, 1973 are un- his chance. I am looking forward to
doubtedly replete with examples finding and meeting you, Rick.
of integrity and responsibility in
Devra Barnett
LCC student and
journalism (to 1:1se a couple of his
words) but I can't check them all
, , The Woman of
out due to pressures of li_fe's little
Questionable Character."
tasks. But one example shmes forth . .- - - - - - - - - - - - •
to remind us how to handle some of
TORCH Staff
what we read in print. It is, and I
quote: "The woman who manned r - - - - - - - - - - - - 1
both stations was .. ' of question- Editor
Jim Gregory
able character.'' Now this is in Associate Editor
Jim Crouch
the best Joe McCarthy tradition- Production Manager Carol Newman
right up from the early 1950's.
Robin Burns
Even if he feels called on to pro- Photo Editor
Photographers
Dave
Corwin
nounce judgement 1 Rick Mathews
Lenn
Lethlean
doesn't even know the person he's
judging.
Copy Editor
Marty Stalick
In his second letter-some of
Sports Editor
Lex Sahonchik
which sounds to me like the Pledge
Steve Busby
of Allegiance to the Flag-Rick Ass't Sports Editor
Mathews writes: "We all trust and Advertising Manager
Chuck Risse
believe in our student government." ls he perhaps clairvoyant?
Reporters:
Omniscient? Or just a thoughtless Jennie Li
Steven Locke
windbag that he "knows" these
Kathie
Durbin
things and speaks without our per- Sheila Rose
mission, for all of us? Rick only Tom Perry
Linda Elliott
wishes (he wrote) "to see honesty
Sue Corwin
and fair play in our student governof Oregon Cornmunih Col IP!.!e ;o;ewsppc>r Hs-.cwment" I only wish to see honesty iat ionMr.!llhPr
;lml Oregon )-ewsp:iper P11hl1.slier.s
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Tuesd:l\S throt1!!11011l fhtand fair play in our students, in- reguTie
l;ir :wa<lemk ,·e:n ;rnrl
other Tuesd.n ilurin: Summ"'r
Term.
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l v those of the <olle~e. sturh?n t
student
:ire signe<I ::irtirl esm>cpss.irilrthP view of the TORCH.
have what Rick wants without bo<ly.All ~or
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The Innocent Bystander
by Arthur Hoppe

Of_generals and gardens

Senator Proxmire is sore at the Pentagon, as
usual. This time ifs for spending $21 million a year
on enlisted men who labor as household servants for
the top brassc
The Senator's got a point. You know, "Join today's
fighting Army and learn a trade -like polishing flatware."
But what bothered me was a defensive statement
to the Senators from Army Secretary Froehlke, who
said he didn't want his chief Qf staff, General
Abrams, "to hurry home at 5 p.m. to mow his lawn
~nd spade his garden.''
I do.
***
I thought about it in the warm spring evening as I
dug in the dahlia bed. The first light-green, tender
shoots had poked their way up through the heavy loam
with that amazing strength all living things have to
grow and flourish.
I carefully dug around them, turning the black
earth still damp from a passing shower. A worm,
pink and slithery, scuttled frantically back into safety
of its depths.
I thought, as I dug, of the God-given miracle of
this earth. For millions of years it has nurtured life
on this planet. For millions of years it has brought
forth living things to grow and flourish. For millions
of years it has sustained us all.
And I wondered how well generals understand this
thing.
I don't know many generals. The few I've met seem
honorable and intelligent men.
But from their college years to their day of retirement with cannons booming in salute, they are
trained to one specific end: to kill and wound more
human beings than the opposing general does, to de-

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stroy more growing things, to devastate more earth.
I am sure generals don't think of their job this
way. No honorable and intelligent man could.
After all, they don't kill and wound human beings.
Thev "inflict casualties."
Nor do they send young men forth to kill or be
killed. They dispatch brigades and regiments to
"form salients'' or "outflank the enemy.''
After all, they don 1 t destroy growing things. They
'' interdict enemy supplies." Nor do they blacken millions of acres of forests and crops. They "defoliate
the ground cover.''
After all, they don't devastate the earth with their
shells and bombs. For to them the earth is a mapa rectangle of paper covered by squiggly lineso And
nowhere on that earth do dahlia shoots push forth.
For this they are honored, respected, saluted,
served and instantly obeyed. It must be hard for any
man so venerated not to believe in the righteousness
of his cause. For, after all, it is a general's duty to
defend his country's "sacred soil."

***

Yet I wish each general would mow his lawn in the
spring evening, smelling the new-cut grass and knowing that every blade lopped off will inexorably thrust
upward once again.
I wish each general would spade his garden, turning the rich, dark earth that constantly gives forth the
ever-renewing miracle of life.
Perhaps, by the nature of his profession, a general must live his days in a paper world where life
is numbers. But I would wish him a few spring evenings to enjoy the true sacredness of soil.
(Copyright Chronicle Publishing Co. 1973)

I 11rse 1•1·11~ti titn1ers
by Linda Elliott

"I hope Pm not becoming an under-educated doctor or
an over-speci alized nurse.
"I'd like to think, instead, that lam expanding my role
as a nurse through continued education."
Diana Taylor, LCC Student Health nurse,is not alone in
her apprehensions. Two other nurses in Eugene have
moved into the '' grey area~' left between traditional practices of nursing and medicine.
For nurses Pat Paschke and Jane Lamb of the Lane
County Department of Health, as well as for Ms. Taylor,
it's not so much a problem of being labelled a doctor,
nurse, or technician, It is more an identity crisis in
nursing that would have as its outcome the upgrading of
nursing as a profession and the delivery of quality health
care to all people.
Perhaps the apprehensions stem from the uncertainties of change.
This new breed of nurse - the nurse practitione r - •
may need a clearer definition of their new practice. The
definition might be made through legislation.
"Current Oregon law doesn't exclude the nurse p, ,1c· titioner!" Ms. Taylor said, "but it doesn't anticipate
her, either."
Last March 27 Paula McNeil, lobbyist for the Oregon
Nurses Association (ONA) which has introduced a bill,
the ,new Nurse Practice Act, testified before the Oregon
House. Committee on State and Federal Affairs:
'' It is our intention that the new definition not
only more accurately reflect contemporary practice, but that it very closely allow for expanded
roles for nurses."

how's and why's of each procedure, and the fact that she
too, is a female, all add to the comfort and trust of the
patient. she sa:id.

pediatric nurse practitioner
Down the hall of the Lane County Health Depa rtrnent
is a nurse practitione r whose specialty is "the well
child." Jane Lamb has been back from her training as a
Pediatric Nurse Practitione r since January. In a short
time she has begun rotating among 14 Eugene pediatricians "to sharpen her faculties," and :ias set up community education clinics all over the county.
Ms. Lamb deals with both the ph~ sic al and emotional
health of children. She has stanrling orders from the
County Health Officer to make "physical assessmen ts"
of minor illnesses and abnormalit ies, and to treat them
if she feels capable,
"I have to rely on my owL nursing judgment, and it's
a real responsib ility/' sh_e f;aid. If the child has a problem needing medical at' e!1tion (as opposed to nursing
attention), Ms, Lamb r ~fers him to a pediatricia n,

Jane Lamb: "My greatest effort
goes toward counseling parents
to have realistic expectations of
their children."

new definition of nursing
"Practice of nursing'' is defined in HB 2775 as "diagnosing and treating human responses to actual or potential health problems through such services as identification thereof, health teaching, health counseling and
providing care supportive to or restorative of life and
well-being ."
The statute further reads that the practice of nursing
includes "executing medical orders as prescribed by a
physician .. .'' These" standing orders" allow for an extended role for nurses as dictated through collaboratio n
by both riurses and doctors.
HB 2775, having passed through committee and
the House of Representatives, now awaits consideration in the Senate.

family planning specialist

At the Lane County Health Department, definition has
become practice. Pat Paschke appears to newcomers to
be a practicing gynecologist. But patients of the Lane
County Family Planning Clinic soon learn that they are
being treated and counseled by a Family Planning Specialist.
In a three-mont h training program at Harbor General Hospital in Los Angeles, Ms. Paschke said she
learned to differentiat e between the normal and the
abnormal gynecological situation.
'' I treat the normal patient and refer those with abnormal conditions (such as evidence of disease) to local
physicians ,'' she said.
As a Family Planning Specialist, she feels that she
offers a different kind of health care than a doctor might
in family planning. "I provide routine medical care/'
she said 1 "but from a nurse's viewpoint ••. this means
that I spend up to 30 minutes with each patient, only 10 of
which is examination time. 11 The other 20 minutes might
be occupied with discussion of human sexuality, common
gynecological problems, or which kind of birth control
will be the most effective or appropriate .
Ms. Paschke described patient response as the most
fulfilling aspect of her work. She performs examinations,
which include a routine check of the thyroid, heart, breast
and abdomen, as well as pelvic examination and pap
smear for cervical cancer. Her habit of explaining thE•

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"This

1s

something I have to do to give
better patient care and to
meet my own personal goals
as a nurse."

·•My greatest effort,'' she added, ·'goes towardcoun selinp: parents to have realistic expectations of their
children ancl to accept them as little people, not little
adults.··
As a Pediatric Nurse Practitione r, Ms. Lamb feels
her area of expertise is really "health teaching." Whether :1t the county clinic, in a private pediatricia n's office,
or on the circuit of community clinics, she instructs families in ·' toddler care, antiripator y safety measurrs
minor illness care, and the appropriate usr of the physi~
cian. ''
Ms. Lamb will complete her training/co ntinuing education program in July with :..1 written and oral examination :,t the University of Washington. She will then receive certific'atio n as a Pediatric Nurse Associate, "My
tr::1ining as a pn.1ctitioner has stimulated me to learn
more and has convinced me I can assume more responsilJility.'' said Ms. Lamb.

first of it's kind

LCC's Diana Taylor has a special interest in the
practices of Jane Lamb and Pat Paschke, for she will
return to a Family Planning Clink of her own this fall.
Ms. Taylor has observed the County Family Planning
Clinic in action ancJ has become aware of some of the
hazards of a profession which is in a state of transition. She agrees wholeheartedly with Ms. l'aschke that
''family planning has to come from somewhere, and 15
gynecologists in a county that has 47,631 women between
the ages of 1G and 44 cannot possilJly meet the need.·'
Ms. Taylor has been working closely with Health
Services Director Laura Oswalt and with a representative
from the State Board of Health for months to set up a
family planning clinic at LCC. The clinic will be the first
of its kind at a community college in Oregon.
However, services may not be provided to students for
free. A spPcial Plediou to be held this spring will determine student willing1wss to assess an additional health
fee to the already-ex isting student body fee,
If the st11dents don't fund the clinic she said a fee
would have to be charged for gynecological tests and the
examinations, but Ms. Taylor feels it would still undercut
the cost of a gynecologist.
Tentatively , she plans to hold the family planning
clinic two evenings per week, four hours each evening,
'' I would expect to see from ' three to four patients per
hour - which a<lcls up to one thousand patients per year,''
she added.
When thinking of her new role, Ms. Taylor most fears
becoming a "technician ,'' If I end up having to do examinations exclusively , I'll probably give up being a Family
Planning Specialist and either go back to the regular
practice of an RN or go on to brcome a nurse-mid wife''
(a practitione r who assists in prenatal and post-partum
counseling and who delivers normal babies).

the numbers game

Pat Pashke: "Now I know how
a doctor feels when he doesn't
have the time to offer the
quality of health care he
he is capable of offering."

Ms. Taylor referred to the problems Ms. Paschke encountered - being victimized by the "numbers game," She
sees from 10 to 12 patients on a busy morning. She explained that to keep cost per patient to a minimum, she
must see the maximum number possible.
',' It took me three months to resign myself to the numbers game," she said," and now I know how a doctor feels
when he doesn't have the time to offer the quality of health
care he knows he is capable of offering."
'' I get very frustrated sometimes ," she said, ''because
we can't meet the needs of all the medically indigent (incapable of payment) •.. then other times I feel relieved
spending less time with patients, because this job can be
very psychologi cally draining,"
But ideally Ms. Paschke still feels that her training as
a practitione r has freed her to a'' more complete form of
nursing."
"Nurses are privileged, '' she said, "to be able to address the health needs of a whole persun. I don't fear
over-speci alization because of the very nature of my r,ro(Continued on page 6)

May 15, 1973 Rag Time News Service

A way out of sub - poverty existen
by Kathie Durbin
Karen Lynch has wanted to be a nurse
since childhood.
Unmarried, she was on
welfare for six months after the birth of her
son. Later she received training as a
nurse's aide at LCC and went to work at
McKenzie-Willamette Hospital. She worked
with a registered nurse in the intensive care
unit, and found coronary care to be exciting
work. "I love it," she said.
With the support of "many very, very
good friends'' she had . met during her brief
period on welfare, she decided to quit her
low-paying job and apply for an ADC scholarship. She enrolled Fall Term and applied for
admission to LCC's two year professional
nursing program. She will find out in May
if she is one of the lucky 60 applicants
chosen out of a field of about 500. If she
is not admitted this year, she plans to attend LCC next year and try again, but after

next year her scholarship will have run out.
" Then I just don't know what I'd do," she
said.
She explained that although she could
probably enroll in a nursing program in
Portland, she is unwilling to uproot herself and her children from family and friends.
Her son, 5, is in the Eugene Head Start
program and has a male teacher, an influence she feels her son needs. Her daughter, 3 1/2, attends the off campus branch
of the LCC Child Development Center, located in the Unitarian Church.

Some

One year ago Fran Daniels was supporting herself and her six year old son working ·as swingshift lead cook in a Denny's restaurant in Southern
California.
Karen Lynch was a nurse's aide in a Springfield
hospital, struggling to support her small son and
daughter.
Louise Hunt, who had worked as a waitress most
of her adult life, was facing the responsibility of
raising her infant son alone.
Today these women, and nearly 200 others receiving Aid to Dependent Children (ADC), a form of
welfare assistance, are attending LCC on scholarships, grants and loans, They have chosen education
as the way out of dead end jobs and toward opportunity for themselves and their children.
Last term 130 women in situations like these
were awarded ADC scholarships. But this term there
were no ADC scholarships awarded; the program is in
deep trouble and its continuation is threatened.
According to Robin Derringer, president of the
local ADC Association, the local problem stems from
a change in federal policy,
She explained that the scholarship fund, which is
matched with three dollars of federal money for
every state dollar contributed, has run at a deficit
since its beginning, "Many times scholarships have
been granted at the beginning of a term and the funds
have been raised privately and deposited with the
state during the term," she said.
But right now the fund is in debt a record $15,000,
Ms, Derringer said, and on top •of this, President
Nixon is attempting to withdraw federal funding from
the scholarship program if state matching funds come
from private sources, as they do in Oregon. Legal .
opinions have been sought on whether this money is
rea·lly public money,
With the fate of the scholarships hanging on federal funding, the ADC Association (consisting of recipients of ADC) decided they must not go further
into debt and therefore froze scholarships at the end
of Winter Term.
Frances Howard, LCC Financial Aids director,
and Ruth Burns, director at the U of 0 , made an all-

The fund

out effort to arrange funding for Spring Term for
those students already enrolled.
Ms. Howard said funding for all returning ADC

See LCC
School

Two young girls have left their schools in Springfield to become
LCC college students at the age of 14 and 16.
In addition to these very young students, 26 sixteen year olds and 82
·eventeen year olds were registered for college level classes, while
174 students under the age of 18 were enrolled in the high s_chool comletion program for night classeso
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"Those one-dollar donations
are really appreciated."

jects. Ms, Derringer said support is needed from tht
community, "Those one-dollar donations are really
appreciated, " she said. The ADC Association meets
regularly on the first and third Fridays of the month
from 7:30 to 9:30 at the Central Presbyterian Church.
Child care is provided. She encouraged non-participating ADC students to begin attending meetings.
Ms. Howard disagrees that the threat hanging over
the ADC Schol:uship Program is a federal threat. As
she sees it, " The number of scholarship students has
increased to such a large extent that raising the local
matching funds has become almost an impossible
task. 1 ' She said that the US Se[).ate on April 18 1 passed a m2asure providing financial aid funding for all
federal programs, and possibly more money will be
avaUable in 1973-74 as was available this year. She
added that she doesn't see any real danger that federal matching funds will be withdrawn from ADC
scholarship programs in Oregon because the state
matching funds are raised privately.
Ms. Howard explained that the idea of ADC schol arships was conceived by ADC mothers , In 1967
they wrote a bill and submitted it to the Oregon legislature, allowing them to raise the one dollar of
state money that must be raised for each three dollars of federal money according to Title IV -A regu lations,
The only requirement for receiving an ADC
scholarship is that the applicant be an A.DC r ecipient, Ms. Howard said, although renewal of scholarships is dependent upon achievement, The applications for scholarships are approved by a local com-

Why has a young woman at the tender age of 14 chosen LCC over
junior high? Are these young people just looking for their own little
niche in the traditional education maze? Several people employed in the
education system say "Yesc' ' School administrators have finally become
aware of the problems connected with the tricky transition period of the
adolescent student which may begin as early as 11 years old, and absolve
itself sometime during their teen years, or later.
The students at this young age must cope with physical, and emotional changes while experiencing the educational transition from elementary school; to junior high; to high school; to college within a system
beset with tradition that sometimes doesn't seem to understand their
individual needs. It happens to everyone at different times, and some of
us just don't survive the change as successfully as others. Thus appears
the student with "special learning problems."

high

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debt

a record $15,000

Young · Students

A Ite rn_a te

1s in

students was arranged through a combination of
grants, scholarships and loans from the Department
of Health, Education and Welfare (HEW). In addition,
70 new ADC students were given financial aid through
state need-grant awards,
If federal funding is withdrawn, the local ADC
chapter will have to raise the entire $400 it costs
for each LCC student's tuition and books for ·a year,
instead of the $100 it is raising now. For U of 0
students nearly twice this amount must be raised
because of higher tuition and fees.
Funds come from private donations throughout
Lane County. Two years ago, according to Ms. Howard, contributions were made by the Walk for De. velopment, Catholic Charities, and the Presbyterian
Church. The Association also plans fund-raising pro-

school

drop-outs

In 1971, Oregon decided to tackle the problem of high school dropouts. The Educational Department changed the compulsory school attendence age from 18 to 16, allowing students under 18 to drop out of
school and obtain their diploma through high school completion programs, such as the one at LCC, or merely by passing a GED (General
Equivalency Degree) exam. However, .though; the new law released the
16 year old from school, it did not guarantee him a high school diplomar
since a special waiver is necessary from the State Board of Education,
before he may obtain his diploma, in the event that he does not pass the
test (GED). He must have a3 .fear. period of high school attendance, including high school completion. If not, his diploma will be held until that
3 year period has lapsed. The 16 or 17 year old must have a very good
reason for requesting the waiver, such as marriage, pregnancy, a job
which requires a diploma, or some firm reason : they cannot return to
school in the very near future. According to Ralph Lind, assistant
director of pupil services for the Eugene 4-J district, ''they used to be
easy to get right after the law was changed. A student need only write to
Salem and ask; not so anymore. They are very hard to get now.''
LCC's policy is this matter is simple. They accept each student who
makes committment to finish the high school completion program, and
guarantees him a diploma if he passes the test, whether he is 16 or 75.
The case of a student under the age of 16, is also simple, butfollows L
somewhat different procedure.
"When thev (the 16 year olds) come to us they' ve been playing games

Louise Hunt moved to l
birth of her son. She to
and she has no family in
an infant son to support,
ADC and began attending
ucation classes to earn her
uary she enrolled in coun
Skills Department to impr<

of getting a high sc ore on I
This term Ms. Hunt is
lege transfer courses but sh
the adjustment to academic v
times. She hasn·t dec ided o
of study yet but wants to
services.

with foE.> system for a long time. This
the Eugene school system for older stude
:,chool, and wanted to get their diploma. '
in the high school completion progra1
orities, " said Nile Williams chairman
' ' But we still hire teachers for the 1
young people. We have had some teachers
out with a traditional bias,, and thest te:
program, 1 ' said Williams.
High school completion is faster t
weeks of 6 basic classes, two hours. two II
hours a week in regular school! 'but we
get here," said Williams.
Williams went on toraurnbout a 15 y
the program because she was a m,)thell
who had quit school to help support hfs f•
difficulties, as an example of students he I
with special interest.
Karen, 16, transferred to LCC high i
ton Senior High School, and iremembers
High. ''Laurie's family moved from Spr.
in 7th grade, so I didn't see her again u
recognized me, but I didn't know her at f
as a short fat kid:' That explains Laurie's
stretches to five foot seven in her stocking

emotional

trc

Laurie explains the emotional transi1
side, Huntington Beach and two junior hi1
I returned to Thurston in 9th grade. Th
far more advanced than they are in loc
just b(?red at Thurston Junior High, so I
sides, the kids seemed so immatureo''
She talked to Counselor Ralph Burr
could handle college level classes, so he
admissions office and helped ·her choose
sonal Health, World Lit. Winter Term and
except U.S. History and she is repeatingt
Philosophy, English Comp., Drawing, ·Ba~

stence -- ADC Schol,arship Pro.gram
mittee made up of ADC mothers, businessmen, and
educators. Once an application is approved, the Welfare Department provides money for child care,
transportation, and a $30 training allowance per

1t moved to Eugene after the
on. She too is unmanied,
o family in this area. With
to support.1 she applied for
attending Adult Basic Edto earn her GED. In Janlled in courses in the Study
ent to improve her chances

month, (discontinued in March, 1973) which according
to some mothers pays for the children's shoes,
milk and doctor bills.
The scholarships and accompanying welfare assistance are granted on only a two-year basis, on
the theory that all ADC recipients are in two-year
vocational programs, but in fact many are in college
transfer programs and will therefore eventually
have to find some other form of financial assistance,
Ms, Howard said.
"This has been the most successful training program for welfare recipients ~·' she said; a great
many ADC mothers have been honor students~ and
a high percentage either transfer to other institutions or find employment after their stay at LCC ,
For many ADC mothers the new uncertainty
about their educational futures is just one more
worry in their already complicated lives, Living at

Taking a low-paying job
1s self-defeating

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fh score on her lit;V tests .
s. Hunt is enrolled in col urses but she said she finds
lo academic work difficult at
ri't decided on a major field
't wants to work in social
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a sub-poverty level and coping with the problems
of single parenthood, they also have to contend with
discrimination in the community when they need to
find a doctor or a place to live,
Ms. Daniels lives in a large 4-bedroom house in
west Eugene with another ADC mother, Her share of
the monthly rent is $92.50 out of a total monthly income of $165 (ADC and child support from her exhusband). This leaves $72,50 for all other expenses ,
She buys $64 worth of food stamps for $20. 50, and
that food lasts a month. '' If we run out of meat before the month runs out 1 well , we just do without
meat ,., she said. By the time she pays her share of
utility bills and buys non-food essentials, there is
nothing left over for recreation , she said.
"When my son wants to go to a Saturday movie,"
she said 1 ' · he goes down to the Fairgrounds and hangs
around until someone offers to let him clean the
horse stables. He gets 75~ or a dollar, and then he
can go to a movie,' ' She said she has to anticipate
when he is going to need new shoes well enough ahead
of time to set aside two dollars out of every check
until she has saved enough, and then she has to buy
shoes he will not outgrow or wear out for a long time,
Medical bills are covered by welfare, but according to Ms, Hunt many local doctors are reluctant to
take welfare patients because they are not reim-

time. This program was set up in 1946 by
or older students who had never finished high
eir diploma. These adults still have priority
etion program if we ever have to give- prichairman of LCC Adult Education
hers for the program who can relate to the
me teachers who view the 16 year old dropand thest teachers are not effective in this

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is faster than regular school. It takes 6
o hours, two nights a week, as opposed to 30
;hool;'but we expect them to work when they
~about a 15 year old woman who completed
vas a m,)ther, and a 15 year old young man
support his family who was having financial
>f students he has watched finish the program
to LCC high school completion from Thursd irernembers Laurie from Thurston Junior
ed from Springfield to Calif. when she was
)e her again until I ran into her at LCC. She
know her at first. Finally I rem~mbered her
ains Laurie's transition physically. Now she
nher stocking feet, and easily passes for 18.

Iraa I , trans1t1on
••
otionaltransition. "I went to school in River.two junior highs around Sacramento, before
9th grade. The classes I took in Calif. were
ey are in local junior highs here, and I was
'or High, so I asked to transfer to LCC. Benmatureo''
r Ralph Burns at LCC, and he decided she
lasses, so he personally escorted her to the
d ·her choose classes in U.S. Historv. Perer Term and received a" B" in each classp
is repeating that class this term, along with
Drawing, .Basic Design and P.E., which is a

bursed the full amount that they would receive from
private patients. She told about a time she was suffering a sev:ere ulcer attack and a friend tried, over
the phone, to locate a doctor who would see her. Each
time she told a receptionist that Ms. Hunt was a welfare patient, the receptionist refused to let her make
an appointment. Ms. Hunt said.
She finally went to White Bird Clinic.
Ms. Daniels told about a time when she lived in
California and her son needed to have his tonsils
and adenoids removed. She was broke, 3nd after the
operation. the hospital rt>fused to release her son
until she paid $100. After three days , :;he finally had
to call her family inNebraskaandborrowthe money.
Normally a tonsillectomy requires only an overnight
stay.
Ms. Daniels also explained the Welfare Dt~partment's policy on sharing rent, Wlwn she moved to
Eugene she moved into the house slH' lives in now.
with her brother and sister-in-bw. who werf' not on
welfare. She said she paid her half of the rent as she
does now, but since her brotht:>r was working, the
Welfare Department said he should assunw more of
the burden of rent than she should, and her allotment
was cut from $85 a month to $37.
·' For four months my total income was :fill 7. I
couldn't even afford to buy food stamps,·· shl' said,
She added that taking a low-paying job when you
are on ADC assistance is self-defe,lting; becausP for
every additional dollar earned over $30 a month. G7r
is deducted from your salary.

spi(;ler

Fran Daniels, a slender, attractive 25
year old divorcee, wants eventually to work
with retardea children; a goal that seemed
inaccessible to her just a year ago. She
quit high school when she was 17.
During her four year marriage ana
after her divorce in 1969. Ms~ . Daniels
worked at various jobs: grocery ·checker
and shelf stocker, candy factory worker,
cook.
When she moved to Eugene last
summer, she was unable to find a job and
finally applied for ADC assistance. In
September she was accepted by the Work
Incentive Program (WIN), a welfare vocational training agency, and was subsequflntly
tlnrolled in the Adult Basic Education prog-ram at LCC.
By DecPmber Ms. Daniels had received
ht'r General Equivalency Diploma (GED),
equivalent to a high school diploma, and applied for an ADC scholarship. Through WIN
she had met a "very spe~cial teacher,"
Norma Hucka 1 whom she said " told me that

Last winter her car broke down.
everyone caught the flu,
anrl the furnance blew upl
Ms. Lynch told about applying twice for cityowned low-rent housing (there is at least a two yPar
waiting list, she and others said), ··J got nowlwn,. ··
she said, ' ·so finally I started g·oing down thf'rf' ;.1ncl
bugging the hell out of them - I mean I really bug·g't'd
the hell out of them.'' Shortly after, she got a house,
and she said it is one of the nicest low-rent houses
the city has; a three-bedroom home near Sheldon
Hig-h SchooL
,
With her $181 monthly income. food stamps,
anu low-rent housing, Ms , Lynch makes ends meet,
She can almost laugh about last winter, when her car
broke down, everyone caught the flu, and the furnace
blew up, The ADC budget doesn·t leave much room
for emergencies ,

full class load by any definition.
" I would rather nobody knew about Laurie, " Burns said, "She is a
very intelligent girl, an exception to the rule.'' (He didn't want to see her
exploited.)
Laurie was given tests at Thurston to see if she was intelligent
enough to cope with college classes o The Springfield system doesn't
claim Laurie as a superior student, merely that they tried to cooperate
with her as an individual, according to I the coordinator for student
services in the Springfield district,
According to Burns. Williams, and other LCC administrators, even
though Laurie is welcome, and they are proud of her accomplishments
so far, it isn' t an accepted practice for LCC to accept 14 year olds in
college classes. Hers is an isolated case, "but she is legally enrolled,''
said Registrar Bob Marshall.
"Parents call me all the time and ask me to talk to their 14 or 15
year olds, and help him get into college , because he is bored
with school," Burns said. "but nine times out of ten, after talking to the
student, I convince him that he isn' t ready for college classes, College
is tough for the immature student. I encourage them to seek out the more
• difficult classes within their own schools, Most schools have special
classes now for students with this problem."
• other very young students enrolled at LCC as pa1t-time college students may actually be taking one or two classes as part of an enrichment program through their own junior or senior high school, as many
teachers •and administrators see LCC as an alternate incentive for the
very bright student. Nile William's says this is an excellent idea-working with public schooL

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web

Dennis Amato is one of LCC's ''moonlighting" teachers who teach
night classes after a day of regular classes at Thurston Senior High
School. When he enters the LCC classroom, he brings with him the
quality of the regular high school classroom, so by moonlighting, he
actually improves his instruction to these students, He enjoys his night
class at LCC, considers it a pleasure, and a release from the steady
daily routine. He enjoys the informal atmosphere and variety in the age
of the students.
'' The presence of the older student in the night classes enriches and
enhances the young students education. They bring a new view point and
maturity to the classroom. I was disappointed we have had so few older

I (' ould IH' a t:P:lc!Ho•r and gave me the
<·onfidencP I wi c<lt1d to try.· · Sl1e entered
LCC at thf: 1>eg'iu11in~ of Winter Term .
Duriug tl1l' term sht~ was enroll ed in
Geurge Al vergue' s Ec!ucatiou Sernina r , which
provided thr op1)01tunity to observe in el emf'nbry school classrooms, This term she
is in Joyc r Hoi)s' Advanred Seminar, and
:1ctually works with ('hilclren at Ida Patterson S('hool eight honrs J week, She
is lw{)eful and optjrnistic about ber chance s
of llernmiug a tearher.

people in the vrograrn lately," Arna to said,
Amato comparf's the high S<'liool completion program to a spi
web, with each strand an intt•gral part of tht• c·orn·0.pt which gives
young student a SE'curf~ feeling in their ed11cat10n,
·' Why do they leavf' school for night school'! Spveral reasons, Soi
tim-~s they can·t cope with restrii:tions in regular school, such ::
clost'd campus, the dn.·ss code, rul es against smokine:. and pressun
attendance. If they miss a class at LCC, nobody calls their home to
check up on them, They make their own commitmen ~ to the program. If
they haVt' family problems or financial problE ms, they can work days
and go to school nights in this program, The convenience, the lack of
pressure, the informal atmosphere, ancl the personal <:ontart with other
1

students who may have the same types of problems, all combine to
spin a web of security for these young students,''
Karen knew Amato from Thurston High and feels he has helped her
to feel more secure towaF<' ::er motivation in education. "He is one
teacher who understands what we want from an education,·, she said.,
Amato referred to Karen as an intelligent, young woman who seems
sincere about her continuing education. "She has very strong opinions.,
more so than other students her age, and I think that indicates a higher
,
degree of intelligence," he said.

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The two young women visited another type of school within the!
Eugene 4-J district recently, called the Opportunity Center. They toured:
the new buildings at the foot of Monroe Street, along the banks of the/
Willamette River, which were acquired in March,
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alternate

schools

0, C. has a total enrollment of 60 students in grades eight through ;
ten, who transfer there for various reasons, mainly due to special j
problems. At O. C. they receive tutoring in their problem areas and
counseling. They make a commitment and set a goal for themselves
at the beginning of each terin. The students are graded on their own
accomplishments by four teachers and two aides. Classes are informal .

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there is r.o grade level, and communications between student and teacher is 0n a first name basis. There is a lounge in the building where
students are allowed to smoke, and students are free to roam the
grounds during 10 minute breaks between cfasses. If they leave school,
nobody stops them, but the fact is noted in the student's report by
the teacher at the end of the term.
Ron Spidel, head teacher, has been there since the schools begining almost three years ago, and said, "our absenteeismrate is higher
than in the regular schools, but many of the students are here because of
truancy, so if we can hold the interest of 75% we're doing something.
Som,~ are just bored with public school and have lostinterest."He finds
it hard to quote any one reason for students attending O. C.
Karen and Laurie talked to Spidel and Assistant Director of Pupil
Services for 4-J, Ralph Lind, about their education. Lind was interested
in why the two young women preferred LCC over regular school, and
why they are allowed to attend LCC.
They sat at a huge round table inSpidel's Social Science classroom,
and Lind told Laurie if she had been in the Eugene school district, she
wouldn't be allowed to attend LCC, "There are special classes and
otheroptions open to the intelligent student in our district who becom,'!
bored with school, and we have many students who are just as smart as
you are,'' Lind said.
Lind quoted Oregon law, concerning compulsory attendance, to the
two women, and later said, '' schools that would allow a 14 year old to
go to college are breaking the law, and a college that would accept
them, is also breaking the law. 1 '
As the two young women left 0, C., Karen said, "its people like him
who force girls to drop out of school and get married, have a bunch of
kids and end up on Welfare. Wouldn't he rather we would be in school"?"
O.C. has been the object of criticism from the community and from
within it's own district. Some administrators feel it isn't effective, but
at least 20 students interviewed like it. They have a possessive attitude
about the school. They don't like to be referred to as drop-outs, and they
resent the number of visitors and speculation they suffered through during the schools beginning. Parents of some of the students say they can't
keep their kids home even when they are sick.
Spidel anxiously awaits arrival of the new 4-J Superintendent, Thomas Payzant whom he hopes will be the school's new champion. Payzant. is
due to arrive in Eugene in August of this year, to replace Millard Pond.
He is a 32 year old Harvard graduate, and has been Superintendent of
Springfield Township, Pa. for four years, It is a smaller district thanEugene, but they have on alternate elementary school within the district,
and an alternate high school, which is a cooperative effort between several districts.
Sam Frear, chairman of the 4-J Board of Education, said in a recent
interview, that Eugene will have an alternate elementary school in operation by Sept. of 1974, and he also believes in the individual, humanistic
approach to education.
Crone, the Springfield Student Coordinator, said, "alternate schools
are popping up all over the country. We haven't the funds in Springfield

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Noon : Folk Dancing
3 p.m. :

Poetry Reading by the Concrete Statement

4 p.m. :

Stag·e Band II

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10 a.m. : Swing Choir
11 a.m. : Modern Dance
Noon : Symphonic Band
3 p.m. : Exerpts from 3 plays - "Midsummer Night's Dream"
"Dylan"
"The Drapes Come"

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to operate a separate school for special students, but we dQ have special
classes and teachers for all kinds of special problems the student may
have in our district."
Amato said, "Springfield isn't tight with it's budget, we have outdoor
school, and other kinds of special classes. I think it is thE progressive
teacher's ideas about education that is important here, not whether er not
we have a special building. Changes come about in education through the
teachers, their advanced education ideas, and their attention to the
development of the human beine- instead of the traditional idea that we
have to pump a storehouse of information ·Into each students head. We
are tryjng more and more to use a process with teaching which allows
the student to adapt to their own process of thinking. I've been teaching
at Thurston for six years, and I can't imagine teaching now the way I
did six years ago.' '
He went on to say, that although teaching methods are changing, the
traditional monetary system in education may be holding back the use of
new ideas .
Karen and Laurie were impressed with what they learned about
alternate schools, and other students in their age bracket, throughout
the course of the interviews for this article. Both young women are
concerned for students like themselves, and maybe they have helped
some administrators see them as individuals, and realize that every
young student has individual needs.
'' The kids at Thurston Junior High are like a flock of sheep,"
Laurie said. "I don't want to be a sheep/'
-Laurie intends to obtain a high school diploma equivalency through
college credits at LCC, then go to the U of o, where she wants to
work towards a doctorate in psychology.
Both young women agreed that although 0. C. special classes
and special teachers are a start in the right direction. No junior
high or high school setting compares with the academic and social ADC.
attractions at LCC, they said. Neither of them want to go back to (Continued from page 9)
a structured, traditional school like those they came from..
mon,' he said. '' They come to us
usually after an emotional ordeal
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this is also true of many LCC students who are nof ADC recipients.
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He added that older womQn are
more apprehensive than younger
women about competing with stuRobin Burns
Norma Van
dents they see as brighter than
themselves, Many are optimistic,
but somt.) are frightened.
Shiela Rose
Linda Elliott
As for those who succeedt Bu'rns
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collaborating with doctors on medical points while seeking higher
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education and · (heaith) maintenance."
Ms. Lamb expects the greatest overall effect of a liberalized Nurse Practice Act to be
psychological. '' Now that r,ursing
nas defined itself as a professhn,
it can forge ahead. It's up to t'1e
individual to set limitations."
"Will I know my limits?"
Diana Taylor asks herself. '' I
guess I see my future as a ".lurse
practitioner as just another step
in a learning process that c~uld
take me anywhere . . . for now I
don't want to be labelled one-ofthree or one-of-four anything.
'' This is something I have to do
to give better patient care and to
meet my own personal goals as
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by Lex Sahonchik
As has become the habit in any
Oregon Community College Athletic Association Championships in
track and field or cross country,
LCC completely humiliated all the
other schools involved in the 1973
OCC.h.A Track and Field Championships last weekend,
Lane scored an overwne1mmg
250 points ~ Southwestern Oregon
Community College got 123 points,
Clackamas Community College 48
points, Blue Mountain Community
College 45 points, Umpqua CC 31,
Central Oregon 15, Chemeketa 8
and Clatsop 6.
The meet was probably described best by half-miler Tim Williams: " It's kind of ridiculous.''
It was kind of ridiculous because
LCC had already scored 51 points
on the first day of two-day meet.
That day only saw finals in the
javelin, shotput, and long jump.For
all practical purposes it was all
over by then.
On Friday afternoon the LCC
javelin crew of Dennis Wicks, Mil<,e
Daniels and Steve Maryanski gave
indications of what was to come as
they swept the first three places in
their event Maryanski fired the
spear- 193 feet 8 inches for third
place in an off day for him. Daniels •
took second with a 208-5 effort,
and Wicks 1 the rapidly improving
freshman, pulled-off the greatest
throw in the nation for junior college competition with a tremendous
235 foot 3 inch shot. That throw
was understated by Coach Al Tarpenning as '' a real fine effort."
The long jump, where Titan
trackmen are recovering from injuries and mediocre performances,
gave Lane fans more reason to
smile. Jeff Hampson took third
place with a leap of 22 feet 1/2 inch
and Bob Mosley and Freddie Long
tied for fifth place jumping 21 feet
5 inches.
The Lane weight men contmuect to
pour in their dependable points, It
was amply demonstrated Saturday
afternoon by a 1-2-3 sweep of the
discus, Ron Ladd threw 134 feet 8
inches for first, John White flicked
the disk 132-2 for second, and Doug
Lane grabbed third with a 131-2
effort.
Lane continued to assert 1t·s dominating power in all the sprint
events as Burt, Hardesty and Johnson finished first, second, and third
in the 100 yard dash. Burt , and
Hardesty, the defending OCCAA
100 champion, were both clocked at
9,9 seconds and Johnson was acYWPUTI
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Mark Burt sets 220 record
ross the line in 10 seconds flat.
Burt also won the 220 with a new
record time of 21.5 seconds, Rick
Nickell was second for LCC in 21.9
seconds with Hardesty third in
22,0. That race was marred by Dan
Seymour's mysterious relegation
to a non-placing finish when he
clearly finished in a dead heat with
Jeff Hardesty (See this week's
Bench Slivers).
Seymour came right back in
every other event he entered, however. In the mile relay he coasted
home on the anchor leg as Lane won
that event, apd won his specialty the
440 in 49,1 seconds with Rick Nickell the runnerup in 50 seconds.
The distances have always been
LCC specialties. This meet proved
no different.
In the 880 Dan Sprauer nipped
teammate Tim Williams for first

place, Sprauer was timed in 1.54.9
and Williams in 1:59,1. Randy Griffith and Chris V igeland finished
first and second in the mile, Grjffith running a 4:19,9 mile and Vig-eland a 4:20.8 mile.
Bill Cram, Dale Hammitt and
Duke Hensley entered the three
mile with Cram and Hensley finishing the race and Hammitt dropping out after a few laps. Cram
gave a excellent effort in finishing
in a winning 14:2L7 seconds,
Hurdlers Dave Edinger and Mark
DuBose both broke the existing
OCCnA and LCC records in the 120
yard high hurdles. Edinger finished
second behind SWOCC 's Rich Marineau in a time of 14. 7 seconds,
DuBose was fifth in 15.0.
This weekend the Titans will
continue to roll at their home track
in the Region 18 Championships.

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Maybe I'm just too picky or maybe I'm just too used to well-organ. ized and well-polished track meets. But I was profoundly disappointed
and disgusted with the way the 1973 OCCAA Track and Field Championships were run.
If host school Clackamas Community College feels that they presented a good meet they won 1 t find many people from other schools who
will agree with them. Initially, the town of Oregon City clearly cannot
support a community college track meet. On a day that was a cloudless
80 degrees, Oregon City stuffed a grand number of about 30 people into
the high school stadium. Thirty spectators for the OCCAA Championship!:..
The voice over the public address system was readily identifiable
as that of last year's announcer. It is very difficult to describe an announcer with as little class as the one who "'announced'· the OCCAA
meet. This particular guy evidently looks at his job in the same light as
does the head ringmaster at the Barnum and Bailey Circus-at least it
sounded that way. You almost expect him to use the loudspeaker toaska
a friend to get a quart of milk on the way home.
Mo1 e important than the inconveniences and non-championship quality flavor of the meet, were the gross examples of poor preparation and
amateurish officiating.
The 100 yard dash was a fright. LCC's Mark Burt, Jeff Hardesty,
and Wilbert Johnson finished first through third. After those runners
nobody knew what was going on. The timers and judges couldn't identify
who was running in what lane. J.C. Dixon of SWOCC was adamant that he
beat Roy Spears of Blue Mountain who was mistaken for Dave Krosting
of Blue Mountain. As a result, among the numerous corrections and recorrections coming from the announcer, Dixon was given a higher finish
and Roy Spears was moved a couple of places down. It was every man
for himself trying to find out tim,;s from timers who had no times.
The 220 yard dash was no better. Mark Burt, Rick Nickell, Jeff Hardesty and Dan Seymour were the first four placers. The problem was that
the timers forgot to look at Seymour and skipped him when they verified
the finishing places. As a result Seymour, who finished in a dead heat
with Hardesty for third was given a non-placing position. He was understandably distressed. "Those guys don't even know who the hell was in
it,·, he s~lid, "let alone who won." "They were having a big argument,"
said Jeff Hardesty, "They couldn't decide who was who.''
Basirally the combination of all the errors and mistakes from poor
organization and preparation made the meet a total joke.

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Everyt~ing you've always
wanted to know about frogs
(Editor's note: With the forthcoming TORCH-ASLCC Senate sponsored
frog jumping contest less than two weeks away (see Spring Arts story,
page 1), TORCH Associate Editor Jim Crouch offers the following as the
best way to catch and prepare a jumping frog. Crouch claims that 32
years as a resident of Oregon makes him a pseudo-expert on frogs and
other water creatures.)
command js not as simple as one
Want to enter a frog jumping
might think. All we can suggest is
~ontest ? Well, first off you need a
try what ever comes to mind and
frog, preferably a bull frog, and
when one method works stay with
this is not too much problem. The
it. Just keep in mind that, in most
best way I have found to catch frogs
cases, the bigger the frog the furis at night using a small boat,
ther he can jump-a large bull frog
flashlight and net attached to a long
should be able to leap at least 10 to
pole.
12 feet. Some of the larger frogs
Any of the many small gravel
that jump in the contest in Califpit type ponds that surround the
ornia reach distances of 16 feet or
Eugene area have populations of
more.
bull frogs. The ponds behind ValYou should also keep in mind
ley River shopping center also
that there are several categories
have a large population offrogs and
in the contest besides distance
you can find large bull frogs around
jumping. The large bull frog might
the shores of Fern Ridge resernot be as fast as a smaller grass
voir.
type. Also the most beautiful frog
After the sun sets is the best
might be a tree type frog. This will
time to find the large bull frogs .
be up to the judges to decide. WhatThey will be close to shore half
ever categories that you enter it
submerged with just their heads
might be wise to plan ahead, then
showing. Using the flashlight to
find the type of frog that possesses
spot the frog offers the best rethe necessary criteria to be a posults.
tential winner.
Once you spot a frog, maneuver
the boat towards him and at the
same time dip the net into the
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water, proceeding until the net is
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directly under the frog. Then
search on the effect of federal proquickly lift up the net and the frog
grams in Oregon.
belongs to the hunter.
The shift in federal funding will
Frogs are simple to keep, all
that is needed is some type of tub provide a little more aid for comthat will hold a small amount of m unity college students-2.bout 1/2
million dollars more-2.nd a little
water.
less for students at the four-year
Frogs don't require much care
Pxcept a place to keep them and a institutions, Dent found. Dent acknowledges that community colcouple of meals a day. The food
requirement can be taken care ·of leges were more aggressive in requesting aid for their students this
with small bits of hamburger or
year than they have been in the
earth worms .
Training the frog to jump on
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chums in Tillamook, knew her as
Beany.
"I'm not quite sure how it all
started," she said, "but it stuck,
and as far as I know, most of the
people in Tillamook don't even
know I have a first name.''
They do now.
After graduation from Tillamook
High School in 1971, Maureen
packed off to the University of Oregon and listed herself as a home
economics major. In a department
that has since been pared to the
core by budget cuts, Maureen spent
the better part of a year getting a
handle on the- mysteries of gluten,
ham and spinach souffle and kidney
pie.
But because of a combination of

the size of the University (some
15,000 students at last count) and
a slight change in priorities ("I
wanted to act and sing at the U of
o, but couldn't seem to get into any
classes because they were always
filled."), she grabbed herbagsand
transcript and moved across town
to LCC.
It was at LCC, during the winter,
that Maureen spent several weeks
as a slightly stuffy Victorian busybody known as Evelyn-Penelope
Cleavenger.
Evelyn-Penelope
Cleavenger
was actually a role in the musical
comedy "Where's Charlie" that
played before packed houses for
two weeks in Eugene and then
another week on the road in Mt.
AngelA the McClaren School for

Maroney, said the law was
needed to protect the nation's
secrets. But under the President's proposal, the bill would
give the government the
power to jail any reporter
who uncovers fraud , waste or
anything else the government
chooses to classify.
A reporter could be sent to
prison even if he could prove
that the government had
misclassified the information
and that its release couldn't
possibly harm the national
security. In effect, the bill
would empower the President
to stop t.hc publication of any-

thing he didn't want the
public to know.
This censorship provision is
buried in two bills introduced
by Sens. John McClellan of
Arkansas and Roman Hruska
of Nebraska. The bills would
establish peacetime censorship. which this country has
never tolerated even in time
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''We had to operate with all different kinds of scenery on different kinds of stages in front of different kinds of audiences. It was
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