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Peer counseling foi; students at LCC
will become a part of tJie Health Services
Program beginning thi~ week.
This means that there will be students
available at the clinic at specified hours to
talk with other students. about problems or
Peggy (iraber
dilemmas they may haye. • Hours will be
Barbar~ Connely
posted in the clinic, and.students may drop
in or make appointmeµts as -they wish.
Next Monday [Feb.J4].from 11:30 to 1,
there will be a venere disease forum im
the Board Room of the Administration
Building. The film "Hidden Epidemic"
will be shown, followed '.bY a discussion led
by Bill Leslie from th~ Lane County VD
Clinic.
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editor _Rick Bella
associate editor Mike Mclain
news editor Jan Brown
feature editor Mike Heffley
photo editor
sports editor
ad manager
production

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Kelly Fenley
Mike Abbott
Linda Cuyler
Shauna Pupke
feature writer Kathy Craft
• reporte-rs Cindy Hill

Februa,Y :
LDS, 11:30 a.m., Cen 4,36
Internat'I Club, 2:30 , <;en 470
Women's B~ktbl, 6 p.fl1., Gym
Gay Peoples Alliance, 8 p.m.
Cabaret, 2350 Hilyai:d, 8:15

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photographers "Linda Alaniz
Bob Norris
Cockerill
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advertising
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Student Senate, 3, Adm 202
Sticks & Bones, WOW Hall, 8
Cabaret, 2350 Hilyard, '.8: 15
Tower of Power Rock Concert,
MacCourt, 8:30
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We thank the LCC C~feteria food management for •
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Handicapped Students,) p.m.
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Jazz Concert, LCC Theatre,
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LCC produces several authors
Stories on pages 4 & 5

Open enrollment comes to an end
by Rick Bella

The lack of money <\nd an end to open
enrollment caused consternation as the
LCC Board of Education· met Feb. 12 in the
Board Room of the Adp1inistration Building.
Open enrollment,, as the College,
has known it, came to an end at
•
the meeting.
In a memorandum to the Board, Dean
of Students Jack Carter said "No new
foreign students will be admitted after
Jan. 31, 1975 . . . No new out-of-district
students will be admitted after Jan. 31,
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1975."
Carter also said that the school would
admit 600 to 800 students for new
student registration on: March 26. This
is, he admitted, "about one-half the
norm for spring term.":
He went on to s~y, "Other new
students will be give.n an opportunity
to check for open cl~sses during the
first week of the term."
This is essentially th~ same policy used
this winter, except t~at approximately.
2,000 new students were admitted before
•
the cut-off date.
In regard to new stµdent registration.
Carter said that students would have
a "difficult, if not iplpossible time"
and added that "We rec.ognize that we are,
in effect, slamming the. door.''
Money to be rajsed by a serial
levy vote in May wquld be collected
at a rate f approxima,tely $800,000 per
year for the next thre.e years, if LCC's
appeal to its public is .successful. These

Defaults jeopardize
loan program
CPS--As factories clo,se, workers pound
the pavement, stock brokers wince and
President Fo1d WINs, students too have
played a dour role in the economic passion
play: they default their loans.
Last year almost 2,509 students filed for
bankruptcy, leaving $~-million in state,
federal and institutional loans unpaid.
But while student bankruptcies rose,
they accounted for only about ten percent
of all loan evasions, according to the US
Office of Education [O.E]. The other 90
percent were ex-stude~ts who for some
reason cannot or will not eay.
In an effort to rec~up some of their
losses, the federal government and other
lenders have undertaken a massive crackdown of both student <(efault and its nonstudent causes.
Last year the newly-_reorganized Office
of Guaranteed Student Loans in OE hired
nearly 100 more loan collectors to dun students for unpaid funds. H a school or bank
cannot collect a guaranteed student loan
120 days after a student.misses a payment,
the federal collectors get on the case, since
the government insures both the loan and
the interest.
Uncle Sam is no stra,ger to bill collecting and the results of his latest collection
effort were gratifying. During the last six
months of 1974 twice the amount of bad
debts were collected as during the first six
months.
Many Joan officers haye hit upon another
way to deal with defaulters: don't give
them loans in the first place. Rigorous
application procedures have begun to shut
out many who are considered bad risks.
According to a new OE report, these
chronic bad debts are ~sually poor, black
males or older married students.
But while the government has been
slashing right and left .at defaults, it still
can't agree within itself about how much
default is going on or about what an
acceptable default rate might be.
Last month, for instance, the General
Accounting Office [GAO] and OE faced a
showdown at credibility gap. GAO had
predicted that guarante~d student loan defaults would reach 24.3 percent by this July
. while OE had predicted. only 18.5 percent.
In an "I'm OK, Yo~'re OK" brief°mg,
OE explained that GA O's figures described
the default rate poten~ial, while OE had
calculated the rate assµming the government would not permit defaults to reach
their potential.
•Under its new "Loan Estimation Model," developed at a co:st of $180,000, OE
said it would be better able to estimate how
much money would be necessary to pay off
defaults for years to come.

funds would be used for capital outlay
materials and supplies used in new
buildings and the rem9deling of existing
facilities on campus.
The Board discussed _the main pressing
need. the refurbising of the sewage
ponds in order to bring them up to the
new and more stringent standards set
this year by the Dep,artment of Environmental Quality. Co~ts for this project
are still uncertain, b~t will. according
to Colllege Facility so.urces. "run us a
pretty pen nv."
The capital outlay. levy to· be held
in May. would be follqwed by a request
for an increase in the rate for salaries
and operating expens:es in September.
The proposal for th,ese two elections
met with some oppo,sition. ''I fully
support the need of such a levy, but
doubt that this is an <:tppropriate time,"
said Board Member Robert Mention.
"There should be one: annual operating
. .
budget."
Dick Eymann, the {.,CC specialist for
government affairs and funding and former
Speaker of the Oregon ijouse of Representatives, said that the dell:\Y of the September
vote would leave "doubts in the minds
of teaching staff as :their reltionship
to the college."
And Board Member Jim Martin said
"I'd vote in favor of the motion. but
make it skeptically.'' •
So, amid laughter, tpe motion passed.
Critics of the move, 11otably John Elliott
Mass Communication pepartment Chairman, said that it was convenient to bring

a reduced figure before the voters in
May. but there is f1 strong chance
that salaries would not be ratified in
the September vote. •
Members of the pr_ess doubted that
<'ither measure would pass.
The Board also consi<;lered the following
items:
The review of the, Special Projects
and Acti°vities Funds' (SPAF) budgetary
procedure implemented last spring. This
fund is for student programs which receive
money from more than one source.
Re.working the agreements in the
KVDEO-TV acquisiti<;rn. ~llowing LC~
a smaller role in the consortium. Prestdent Eldon Schafer ins.isted that the new
agreement would hqld Lane to ''no
financial commitment,. either implied or
real."
The possibility of ,eliminating commencement exercises due to lack of
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interest by the student :body.
The review of the ~apid Transm1ss1on
and Storage system, the video system
invented by Peter Gol.dmark which was
offered to LCC and 17 other schools
in a situation where the college could
earn royalties through i.ts use.
The meeting was rou.nded off by a slide
show presentation by,lnformation Specialist David Butler. It ;ihowed the growth
of Eugene Vocational T~chnical School--the
institution from which LCC descended.
The next meeting )s scheduled for
Feb.26,7:30 p.m. in .the Board Room
of the Administration Building.
The public is invited .to attend.

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The students at LCC ~ach and all are ·
: due to enjoy some type of activity
sponsored by ASLCC. . Since you all
have paid 50 cents t,o $5 for such
activity, it would behoove each student
to protect his interest by informing the
office of the Second Vice President or
Director of Student Activities as to what
type of function would interest you most
Without such information the Second
Vice President may o~ly guess as to
what would be most successful.
The students, or at ltiast a portion of
them, have been asking for more
activities, but only a small percentage
have attended a function thus far. It is
my desire to provide what the student
_ body wants, not what I enjoy. What is
the use of having a par~y for the World
when only your neighbors come?
j In order that a more honest estimate

of what type of undertaking would best
serve LCC, I prevail upon you the students to fill in the following and hand it
to Jay Jones, Connie Hood or myself.
Please tell us the type of function you
would like sponsored by the ASLCC:
1. concert
2. dance
3. impressionist
4. symphony
5. art show
6. crafts show
7. bake sale
film program
8. film program
9. speaker [what type?]
10. dinner
11. other [please specify]
Len Wasson
ASLCC Second VP

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Oregon colleges
healthiest on coast
h~ Jan Brown

Oregon's community, college system is
healthier than Washin,gton's and is advancing more rapidly th.an California's, according to Earl Klapstein, Mt. Hood
Community College president.
In a recent newslctt~r. "Colleges Arc
Oregon ·s Future," Kl~pstein noted that
Oregon's community colleges cooperate
with each other whenever possible.
Re~pond ing to the, newsletter LCC
President Eldon Schafer: explained some of
the cooperative programs. For example.
Mt. Hood offers the only Funeral Directors
program in the state. Out-of-district
students may enroll in this program
without paying out-of-district fees if the
course has not been filled by in-district
.
students.
The same is true of LCC' s Farm
Mechanics program, : another one-of-akind.
LCC is not geographi~ally located where
it would be feasible to share facilities with
another community college. So instead,
LCC "tries to be a part of the community
by making its facilities available to public
organizations," explain~d Schafer.
The Oregon Museur:n of Science and
Industry has classes here, Eugene Sports
Program holds tournaments in the gym,
the Boy Scouts have junior jamborees here,
Campfire Girls use college facilities for
annual state meeting~. and Springfield
public school bus drivers hold an annual
clinic in the parking lots.
Lane County lnter111ediate Education
District, Mental Health Association, and
the State Forestry Service also use LCC's
campus for meetings.
LCC's Heceta House at the Oregon
Coast is used by the Oregon College of
Education, UO's Outward Bound, River
Road Park District and ~everal churches in
the area.
LCC has a good working relationship
with the area high schools; high school age
students are enrolled in the Adult Basic
Education program and occasionally a
regular high school st4dent will enroll in
additional classes at LCC.
Klapstein also noted that all of Oregon's
community colleges are being hurt by
inflation.
'' One option is to us~ a meat axe on a
fine healthy program ... another is to go
out and at least try to see if the local people
will support you at a time when you really
shouldn't be askine."
In spite of budget problems, Klapstein
said community college enrollments will
continue to grow because "the programs
they offer are meeting the needs of
society."

Security deals .with two serious incidents,

by Mike McLain
After a term and a ha)f of relative quiet,
the LCC security off.ice reported two
unusual incidents last w,eek--a bomb threat
and an assault.
At 9:05 p.m. on Tl,lesday, a woman
student, whose name was not released,
was assaulted as she was preparing to
enter her car in the northeast parking lot
behind the Performing ,Arts Building. Paul
Chase, of the Security O,ffice, described the
assault as "an attempt~d theft" while Sgt.
Riddings of the Lan~ County Sheriffs
office, said "it coul.d have been an
.
attempted rape."
The sheriff report inq.icates that, as the
woman was preparing to get into her car, a
man grabbed her fror:n behind and at:
tempted to sexually .assult her. The
report said as she b~gan to struggle
and scream, the ass~ilant turned her
around, struck her in ,the face, grabbed
her by the throat anc1 threw her to the
ground.
According to the rep~rt he then grabbed
the strap of her purse ~nd tried to tear it
away. The woman was _d ragged across the
asphalt as she held on, 1,mtil the outer shell
of the purse was torn away from the rest,
dumping its contents ·Qn the pavement .
The man escaped toward Springfield on
foot with the shell of the purse. The
woman then ran to the Performing Arts
Building where someone called security.
Chase dispatched one security officer tc
the scene while he and Randy Hart.
another security officerl went to Performing Arts and treated the woman for a nose:
bleed, cuts and scrapes on her knees anc
one hand. and a bruise on her throat.
Riddings described ,the assailant as a ·
white male adult, 25 to JO years old, sandy

ear-length hair, brown eyes, approxima~ely
six feet-one, 185 lbs., ,wearing all brown
clothing. Riddings said.he escaped on foot
and Chase added ''we have no direct
information on an escape vehicle."
As of Monday there pad been no arrests
made according to Ridciings.
Chase said the lighting in the northeast parking lot is a~ good as in any
other, but the northe?st entrance does
the
not have adequate ljghting at
present. ''The approach lighting is
ordered and we will have it installed
pretty soon,'' he added°.
Ross Barton, the s~curity department
head, advised womaq to try and walk
in groups at all time.s, but especially
at night. He said wqman should carry
shoulder strap pursy with the strap
LCC

in the
fonliness

an:1
isofati{)n

of night

over their shoulder while holding the
purse firmly. The hai:idbag type purses
should be carried under the arm. He
said these measures :would probably
discourage a potential attacker.
Last Monday (Feb. 9),at approximately 9
a.m. the Security Offic~ received a phone
call from someone saying that two bombs
would go off, one at 10 a.m. and one at 2
p.m. Ross Barten, of Security, said that
the caller had ·not specified any certain area
so each department wa!i alerted and asked
to make a "thorough s~arch." No bombs
were found.
According to Barton, this was the only
bomb threat this year, although last year
there were several. He added ''we hav&
never had a bomb threat bear fruit."

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Senate creates crowded seat

Mike McLain
Two students were ratified and sworn
in as senators for the same office at
the Student Senate meeting last Thursday,
the TORCH has discovered.
Richard Metzger and Jim Frank had
both applied for the Freshman seat
from the Interdisciplinary Studies Dept.,
and both thought the other was applying
for the sophmore seat, [despite the
fact that that position is not vacant].
No one at the meeting noticed the problem
until they were both sworn in and then
ASLCC President Sallie Torres decided
to let the situation stand until the next
Senate meeting.
Two more students were sworn in at
the meeting, filling two more vacancies.
Russel Linebarger was ratified a the
senator from the Social Science Dept.,
and Marty Ravellette was ratified for the
Health and P.E. vacancy.
The large photo case in the snack
bar area of the cafeteria was given
to the Women's group for their use.
A motion was pass~d calling for office
space to be supplied for the Student Health
Service Coordinaor in the Student Activi-.
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TheAirForce ROTC
College Program has 3
things to offer that other
college programs don't.
I. Scholarships.
2. $100 monthly allowance.
3. Flying lessons leading
to jet training.

ties area.
Two members of th~ Phi Theta Kappa
honorary scholastic fraternity were granted
$250 to attend their organization's national
convention in Philadelphia, April 3, 4, and

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The Chicano Student Union was granted a $300 loan so it could hold a
fund-raising dinner in April.
A motion passed giving non-Senate
members the same right to be recognized
and speak at regular Senate meetings
that senators now have.
A workshop was established to look
into the possiblity of incorporating ASLCC.
A letter expressing the ASLCC support
for the passage of Oregon Senate Bill 232
and 233 was sent to Salem. The bills
would increase veterans benefits.
The P.E. department was given 102
t-shirts alleviating a present shortage.

Feminist to perform
The Co-Respondents\ a . three-member
feminist readers' thea~re from Olympia,
Washington, will perfqrm two programs
in Eugene Feb. 21--one at Lane Community College, the other at the University of Oregon.
The LCC performance, called "Fun
and Games'' 1 deals with women and
marriage and begins at 1 p.m. in Forum
·309, while the U of O program, "Here
She Comes", concerns women and power
and begins at 8 p.QJ. in the Arena
Theatre at Villard Hall. Both performances are free.
A combination of drama and music will
be used in the Eugene programs. "Fun
and Games'' will include songs composed
about marriage and will feature excerpts
from a variety of historical and dramatic
material. In "Here She Comes", the
group will focus on ~ale-female roles
in the use of power. whether women
have a "right" to power, and whether
women can "feminize" society.
The Co-Respondents is comprised of
actresses Patricia Br_a nch Larson and
sandra Lewis Nisbet a~d singer-guitarist
DeniseLivingston. They began touring the
eleven western states in 1972 presenting
feminist concerns in the form of drama
and music. Performances have been given
at colleges, women's groups, libraries,
military bases and, in 1974, at the national
conference of the Nat;onal Organization
for Women. Larson and Nisbet were
students together in college, both earning
bachelor of arts degrees from San Jose
State College and masters degrees from
the University of Oregon and Indiana
University respectively~ Livingston, the
third member of the troupe, composes
most of the songs for the performances.
Their appearance is sponsored by LCC,
the LCC student body, and the U of 0
Cultural Forum and Women's Studies
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Exhibit space avail/able

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Barbara Matt
If you are an artist looking for a
place to exhibit your work the LCC
Libra~y is looking for y9u.
According to Del Matheson, head
librarian, the library has space avalable
for artists who want to display their work.
"If we can promote student hobbies and
interests all the better," he said.
The procedure for getting work displayed is "incredibly it)formal" according
to Matheson. The artist or artists contacts Matheson, Teri:y Forster or any
library employee ano arrangements for
available time and transporting the exhibit
are made. Matheson stressed that the
library makes every effort to help artists
get their work to the library and get
it arranged once there. Matheson added
that no fee is paid to artists for their
display.
The area near the card catelogs is
provided for atists. There is room for
12 to 20 paintings.
In the past the library has exhibited
works of Los Angeles, Portland and
Washington artists as well as Oregon
artists. Six years ag_o the library displayed some sketches and paintings done
by film star Vincent Price.
Each of these type,s of displays require a lot of planning said Matheson.
He added that he wo_uld welcome any
assistance in arranging for these exhibits.
Students and faculty who have ideas
for future displays _or who know of
artists interested in exhibiting should contact the library.

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LCC -iMtructors and administrators,

!{\ rather than students, are active in the

WOregon

Women's Political Caucus.
The Caucus goes beyond just talk about
f:H women's rights, according to Mabel ArmMstrong, one LCC instructor involved. It is a
i% politically influential organization that
l[j lobbies in Salem and affects the passage of
ii bills. Armstrong said that the Caucus
made some impact on 10 or 11 Oregon
legislative bills last year.
fffe At present the group _is working for the
Wpassage of a bill that would allow
!@ deduction of state t~~es for child care
i@ costs. And it is proposing alterations in a
bill about admissible evidence of rape
w cases.
fil The Eugene-Lane County branch of the
ff Caucus is currently preparing a workshop,
!# to be held next month, on the legal aspects
ii of divorce. Last year the Caucus made a
ji study of sexism in public school texts that
;i•resulted in the creation of a special task
force on textbooks that now reports to the
::l( State Board of Public Instruction and to the
l~ govemor.
@ Two weeks ago five ftCC staff members
@attended a state-wide Caucus meeting in
~J Salem. The five--Mabel Armstrong,
Mscience instructor; Joyce Hops, associate
]J dean of instruction; Grace Cameron,
@! supervisor of student records; Lisi Fenner,
\{ assistant to the office of government
@funding; and Anne Steward, information
@I and public relations assistnat--were briefed
ft on the way the Caucus could acquire the
Mtechniques of lobbying. They were en{f, couraged to study the process and the
[f upcoming bills the women might want to
@support or defeat. And they were told how
\@ members can be influential by getting
# appointed to boards and commissions.
J\j The Caucus is non-partisan but supports
Mj political figures sympathetic to its cause. It
tl supports legislation which would allevaite
I women's problems, and it educates women
ff about the political structure and how it
,daffects their lives.
[I~; LCC students are welcome to join. The
[}should contact Armstrong in the Science
MBuilding.

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mmeeting on Feb. 20 sponsored by the

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fl -sity, on the U of O campus from 9 a.m. to 3
aj p.m.
Registration begins at 9 a.m., followed
Ji at 9:30 with a talk by Mr. Daniel Krawczyk,
MChief of Laboratory Services Branch at the
Ml Pacific Northwest Environmental Research
iii Lab at Corvallis. He will discuss basic
parameters of water qu~lity.
~ii A sit-down Iucnh will be available for
$2.50. Advance reservations are needed.
For further information, or to make
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through July 31, 1974, are eligible for new
low-cost Veterans Group Life Insurance
IVGLII, but they must apply before Aug. 1,
1975. The new program is designed as
interim protection duria,g readjustment to
civilian life, according to the Veterans
Administration.
Servicemen dischar:ged since Aug. 1
receive application forms automatically,
but those discharged before the insurance
became available must apply, VA said.
Former servicemen may convert Servicemen's Group Life Insurance to VGLI
without medical examination if applications are received within 120 days of
separation. Applications after that time
must include evidence of good health. This
requirement is waived for veterans with
VA-rated, service-connected ~isabilities.

Tower of Power to play

' Cultural Forum wHI present the
country's #1 "Funk-Rock" band Tower of
Power and blues/rock artist Taj Mahal in
concert at MacCourt on .the U of O campus
Thursday evening, Feb. 20, at 8:30 p.m.
Tower riding on their fifth and latest
Warner Brothers releasP--Urban Renewal-will bring an eleven piece band to Eugene
featuring Lenny Williams, lead vocals.
Taj Mahal, one of ~he most versatile
blues artists, brings with him the six-piece
raggae-jazz band he used on his current
Columbia album--Mo-Roots. This ninth
album explores many different musical
forms--raggae, blues, rock, and jazz.
Tickets for this concert are $3.50
advance to U of O students, $4.50 to the
public and $5 reserved and at the door.
They are available at th~ EMU Main Desk,
Chrystal Ship, and Sun Shop.

18 per cent of adults
have tried mari,·uana

Dr. Thomas E. Bryant., president of the
private and independent Drug Abuse
Council, made public t~e results of a national survey of mariiu.ana use and atti-'
tudes.
Eighteen percent of adult Americans age
18 and over report having tried marijuana,
and 8 percent are current users, according
to the survey. The poll showed that among
teenagers age 12-17, 14 percent have tried
marijuana a nd 5 percent are current users.
The distinguishing feature of this project
is that it is the first national marijuana
survey to ask the public's opinion on a
variety of changes in marijuana laws currently debated by many state legislatures
and the US Congress.
The survey shows a narrow margin
between the number of adults who favor
reducing criminal penaJties and those who
favor imposing stiffer ones. Thirty-nine
percent favor the elimination of criminal
penalties for the sale or possession of small
amounts of marijuana and private use of it,
while 40 percent believe there should be
.tougher laws for possession of small
amounts. Only 13 perc~nt favor retaining
presettt laws.

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Outstanding instructors
from LCC named
Ten current and former LCC vocational
teachers have been selected by a committee of their peers as Outstanding Vocational Educators of the year at LCC. Their
selection was announced Wednesday as
part of LCC's observance of National Vocational Education Week, Feb. 10-15.
They are Carl Lemke and Bob Maxwell,
mechanics; Jack Kreitz and Betty James,
business (Kreitz is also department chairman of flight technology]; Muriel Peterson,
paradental; Sue Thompson, health and
physical education; Edward Seabloom,
mathematics; Rick Romanek, electronics;
Ken Brownell, home economics; and Bill
Mobley, MDTA. All are current LCC
teachers except Mobley, who was a
welding instructor for the Manpower
Development Training Act until the federal
program was phased out last year.
About 70 teachers were nominated by
their colleagues, with the 10 finalists
selected by a committee of instructors and
administrators.

Paper chain record sought

Two local residents will attempt to break
the world record for the longest paper
chain in history by constructing a chain of
50,000 links--nearly two miles in length.
The current record, according to the
"Guiness World Book," is 6,077 feet.
Construction of links will be "financed"
by public donations at ten cents per link,
with proceeds to be donated to the Easter
Seal Telethon on Saturday, March 22--to be
seen locally on KV AL-TV, Eugene.
Television star Peter Falk, National Easter
Seal Campaign Chairman and emcee for
network portions of "1.'elethon '75," has
accepted an offer to purchase some of the
links in this chain.
If the goal of 50,000 ~'financed" links is
reached, a check for $5,000 can be
presented to Oregon Easter Seals to aid in
its statewide services fQr physically handicapped children and adults. In addition, if
thfs goal is indeed met, the presentation
may actually take place on national
television!
Advance donations fqr "financing" the

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it at the U of 0, Mt. Hood, and the
UniversitJ of Hawaii as a reference
text, and part-time ~t Blue Mountain
in Pendleton; and t}Jere are a lot of
library requests from around the country-even the Philippines." .
Houglum looks for_ward to working
past his retirement age.
''I hope to work p~rt-time for some
book publshers, as _a reviewer or a
consultant, maybe do some speaking.
Once you get a book ~ccepted, it opens
up new moves on the chessboard, so
really, my experiences here at Lane have
helped me in terms of public exposure."

Some or the TORC(l's recent feature
stories Ion Gene Aitkt;n, PeggyStevens
Leonard Landis, and IV(edium/Rare l have
emphasized the connection LCC has as
.a training ground for the world of
vocation. This week. we'll be looking
further along those linP~, at LCC instructors--Those who have written books for
instructional purpose~ and succesfully
expanded, by the valu~ of their material,
beyond our local turf.
Roger Houglum, th~ most prolific of
th'e group, is an instructor of electronics. He taught radio broadcasting
technology for 22 year. at LCC's "antecedent school," the Euu,ene Technical and
Vocational School. Dqring that time he
was also manager of _Eugene's primary
educational FM station, KRVM.
With this experience ~ehind him, he was
asked by Dale Parnell,. LCC's first president, to be Director of Broadcasting
and to prepare the applications to the
Federal Communications·com mission for
the license of KLCC radio and TV.
The two books in th~- Bookstore, "The
History and Development of Radio Broadcasting," and "The ~merican _System
of Broadcasting," are basically workbooks
for the first two quarters of radio broadcasting class. The tl,ird one, "World
Systems of Broadcasting and Telecasting''
is out of print. The three books were
written at the requests of other community
colleges [Chemeketa, Clackamas, Oregon
Technical Institute] for a consolidated
body of information.

"In a way, that got me further into
magazine work, because editors all read
other publishers' ma_gazines . . . Once
you get underway you have a momentum
that you don't want to lose--which you
can sustain over a long period of time."
. Houg!um does ~II w.-iting, apart from
mstructional matenal for his classes on
'
his own time.
One of the biggest problems Houglum
has run into is illustrations.
"Photographs are a · real problem. H
you go straight to thf! archives in New
York, it'll run you S~OO for one book.
So you have to figure some angle. I've
gone to the Smithsonian Institute, the
Library of Congress, the Herbert Hoover
Archives in California. . . wherever you
can get the best deal in a particular
:situation is what you have to keep
digging for.

Houglum says that his. particular field
is in a constant flux, and all books
must be updated to keep in touch.
'' As long as I have the opportunity
and the drive, I'll co~tinue to do that
[print ne~ editions]."
Several publishing firms have requested
that he collate his three manuals into
one textbook, which he figures would
take "At least two years." At 64
Houglum looks forwa.rd to working on
that as a post-retiremer,t proje~t.

- Roger Houglum

Before publishing his books through
LCC Print Shop, Houglum contributed
"scores of articles" to various educational
and professional journals, such as School
Activities, The Journ~I of the National
Association of Educational Broadcasters,
and Radio and TV News. These have
mostly been "how-to-do-it" projects, and
teach how to build an audio amplifier,
or a receiver.

"What I was mainly interested in was
communicating with people. I wanted
to reach some of the other colleges
that wanted to get .started in radio
broadcasting but didn't have the wherewithal. When I first started this text
there was only one college In the state
that had a radio broadcating program,
Now they use
and that was LCC.

Richard Romanek's book, "Introduction
to Electronic Technology," published by
Prentice-Hall, was put. on display in the
Bookstore just this qu~rter. But he says
he didn't intend to ~ave it published
when he first began to write it.
"I've been here for seven years. The
textbooks, written seven years ago were
for a four-year college student. The
approach is entirely different--vocabulary
style, sentence structure, and the alternative solutions for probl~ms."
Romanek asked his students [in Introduction to Electronics] to critique the book
they were using. Aftel' collecting enough
concurrentopinions, he nut together some
manuscripts in mimeoeraph form, which
were geared for the t_w o-year program
at LCC. His wife, .lanet, helped him
type and proofread.
''There are a lot oJ good books out
on the subject. . .but they give alternate
solutions to problems all at once. I
thought it would be better to give the
student one solution. let him get a
handle on it, and then go through the
others.''
Salesmen from boot< publishers visit
the LCC Bookstore every few months,
and when the man from Prentice-Hall saw
Romanek's manual he . noted the special
emphasis for the two 7year student and
decided to market his book for two-year
programs all over the country.
"It could be used at a four-year
school for the first two-years, or in a
high school for advanced students,"
Romanek qualified, "or even in certain
factories as a training manual. I'm
sure the publishers will try to hit all
these markets."
Asked about a possibile future as a
textbook writer, Ro111anek responded,
"Well, a man's got to set his priorities ...
whether he's going to work on a book,
or go down to the coas(, spend some time
with his wife--whatever. I feel that
I've written a book, I've. proven my point ..

maga zine staff n~w 'lean ,' but still pull

by Mike Heffley
The financial status .of the Concrete
Statement, LCC's lite~ary/photographic /
graphic-art magazine, isn't so concrete,
these days, due to lack of sales.
Funded by the Special Programs and
Activities Fund (SPAF), it returns to the
fund any money left after production, and
returns any profits after sales, to be used
towards the costs of the next issue. But
this quarter's magazine, produced last
term, is far from meeting production costs.
"The thing is," says Sandy Boyson,
editor of the issue now on sale, in describing the problem, '' everybody involved with
producing it had to leave for various
reasons, and there are just not many
people left to push or promote it.''
The staff is lean this quarter, and illness.
has slowed down Walt Chambers, the new!
editor. Positions on the staff are open to
volunteers with an interest in the project,
as well as Work-Study and Supervised
Field Experience students. Editors are
elected for each issue, two issues coming
out per regular school year--unless some.: thing goes wrong.
'~u we solicit funds for ·two issues, and
•we're only able to put out one, we give half
the money back to SPAF,'' relates Ruby
Vonderheit, faculty adviser to the Concrete
• Statement.
Although the Editorial and Advisory
•Boards of the staff deGtde which submissions to accept, students from Vonderheit's
•Introduction to Imaginative Writing class
offer criticism and comments on works of.
. interest to them.

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"Right no~ there aren't too many people
working on the magazine, and most of
LCC's Literary/Photographic / Arts Club is
helping us out," mentions Vonderheit.
The Concrete Statement is open to the
writers, photographers, and graphic artists
of the Lane community, _off-campus as well ·

photo and graffiti by

as on campus. Submissions should be
made to the Concrete Statement Office in
theLanguage Arts Department on the
fourth floor of the Center Building no later
than Feb. 21.
The current issue js on sale in the
Bookstore for $1.25~

This issue of C~
more Ii
In attempting to understand the ,
when, what, and where of the e
magazine it seems suspiciously akl
attempting to swim through cen
It is indeed ironic that the e~
apparent attempt to produce a '
flowing, flexible vehicle for "ar1
expression'' has, in actuality, inhi
that very expression. For it is
that there is nothing of merit withi1
Concrete Statement. To the cont
between those peacefui blue covers
some rather good poetry, short st,
graphics, and photographs. But,
simply too difficult t~ trudge thrJ
the tangled jungle it:i which the)
buried to truly enjoy anp appreciate t
Perhaps the staff _of the Con1
Statement lack adequate time, pers1
and / or money to produce a 1
professional magazine; l don't know.
it might be just as easily suspe
that its amatuerish prpduction rest
instead from a misplaced "let it i
let it happen'' attituoe on the pai
its editors. I do not deny there
time to get loose, but there is al
time to get it together, and in
opinion the production of a college•

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Much the same story lies behind the
book written by a pair of instructors,
asked to write a book .with '' less mathema tic~I rigor and more applications to
technical problems'' de~igned for two-year
students. There were. already a couple
such books on the m~rket, but not as
many as the numerous "four-year books,"
with emphasis on forrpulas and derivations
"Mathematics for TP.chnians with an
Introduction to Calc~lus," by Leland
Hallberg and Howard Zink of the MathematicsDepartment. Li~e Romaneck, Zink
publisher [from
was approached by
Wadsworth Publishing Company, after
deliverying an address ~ta convention] and
I'm not really inJerested in doing
another.
"I would like as much feedback as
possible from any of 't he students here
on campus who might read it. But
no flattery--that doesn't help anybody."
How does a collaboration work between
•
authors?
"Usually," says Zink, they try to
divide up the work a,ccording to each
person's strong poinJs. Mr. Halberg
is good at detail anq working things
out, so he did all that. I came up
with the rough draft of it because
I work best on a general level. But
usually they don't say t like, 'you do
the first five chapters of this book and
I'll do the second five."
Like Romanek, Zink thinks he's probably
had enough with the work of writing
a book, at least for awhile.
Paul Armstrong and John Howard of
the Language Arts Department, have each
put out books of poem~ and short stories
respectively. These were printed by the
LCC Print Shop, copyrighted in their
names, and are on sale in the Bookstore.

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Lou Bellisimo was a~ Springfield Lanes
before he arrived there last Thursday
afternoon.
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matter, and part of Lou would be there.
Perh aps no bodY has ••n fl uence d b ow1·mg
like Lou has. He may be the only author in
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copies. He he!p~d ~rang the gam! fr~m
cella~s to sophastJcat1on through has paoneermg research on form and movement.
{j And. he's one of the very f~w men to
U rece1v~ honorary ~e1rber!h1_p from the
Professmnal Bowler, s Assoc1atmn. ,
N From the 1930 s to .the 1950s he
:i] was regarded as perhaps the greatest
t~ left-hand bowler in the nation. And
@ nobody anywhere has taught more people
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rn ~ow to bowl. Belhs1mo
p mstructor at the U of O for 22 years,
and taught 1,500 stud~n_ts to bowl each
year. . He starte~ coachmg the U of O
and won • 16
m 1949,
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if~
ffi I a!ked the lady ~IVlng o"?t shoes.
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'/::: plays basketball, or does Steve PreHe wasn't
::\J fontaine run •the two-mile.
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}J but then agam, he was~
~J.l "What do you want to know about
g Lou?" someone asked, and the three
or four people at the concession booths
@turned around. They all knew Bellisimo
if~ very well. They had read his book
(J over and over, and patterned their game
f:~ after it. And they, all loved him.
~l "He's a likeable guy," said LCC
~t student Nathan WelslJ, anxious to talk
about Bellisimo. "\ don't care who
ffi the heck it is, _theY. all l!ke Lou.''
I "He's got that httle ,somethmg extra,"
added Alvin Beck, another student i_n
d the class. "I don't know what it 1s
j about him, but gosh dang. . . " Someti one mentioned Bellisimc_>'s book and Welsh
This is Lou's
saic:I "It's all Lou.
' whole thing. Lou w~te the book, it's
his technique. He's .the top instructor
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When Bellisimo did ~rrive for his class,
it was obvious that h~ belonged there.
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Of course, it may be answered that the
Concrete Statement is the production of
central core of workers and that these
people understood and followed the format
of the magazine clearty. Supposedly,
however this magazine is designed for the
LCC community as a whole. Furthermore , the fact that those not directly
involved in the magazine's production
virtually need a map t9 follow its course
isn ' t the only indicator of what might
be termed its elitist nature. It also
appears that the m~jority of the
(attributed) work is th.at of those either
on the editorial board., or on the production staff. While I doubt if hordes
of hopeful contributors were beating
down the doors of the Concrete St atement' s office, I maintain a more equitable
balance between staft contribution and
public contribution is ip order. It is not
that I necessarily object to the Concrete
statement representing the work of only
a handful of the many talented writers,
artists, and photograp}:ters at LCC. But
if it claims to be "th,e". arts magazine
of LCC, then it should live up to that title.

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He came in laughing wi,h :moth er st udent,
P!esence
a nd c~ery one felt has
"I ~o t~is because I just like to do it,,;
he said. When I get ~hrough with them
good." Then he. laughed
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beginning bowler devt;lop his own com- .
fortable form, but within the limits of H
proven, basic principles of bowljng; and,
Bellisimo discovered most of these.
1
Bellisimo was born in Johnstonberg ' •;·-,
Pennsylvania ' in 1906 • He moved to Los lli,,
Angeles in t 925 and started to bowl.
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said, was usually reserved for some wino j,
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or young kid trying to earn pin money. 1
"You would go to the place and .
ask to bowl and the, guy would say, ~'hey, Joe, wan ta set P,ins for this guy?' f,i~
And maybe he'd set. pins for you to ~1~, ·
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had come along a fe,w years later he t
would have been one of the big stars ~on PBA tour. Right when he was at \
his best, and just be{ore bowling went ~1:;.
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and even t od ay h"1s b ac k pams
tame
Still, Bellisimo has bow,led six 300 games,
averaged 200 a game i? L~ an~ claimed ~l
a 765 three game seraes m his career. fli'
h a e ages 180 a game despite I
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tho ay,. eh. v rd. sted &orm and lighter ID
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Tod_ay, he works with the American f
Machme and Foundry Co. [AMF] and J,,
conducts bowling seminars throughout m
the Northwest. He's enjoying his part-J
time instruction at LCC, and said "Ass ii
I'm
If long as I can, I'll be here.
·"I teach them the_ correct way.
f
they want to become professionals, that's enjoying every minute of it."
"Mr. Scientific," "ti;ie Old Professor," f.:~,
okay. But I teach them the basics."
A young woman can,e up to Bellisimo "Professional," and fri,end, Bellisimo has ij
Perhaps I
and told him she was having trouble been called all of these.
hitting the poc~et between the .number one no man who h~s every bowled has. b~en ii
and three pms. "Well, 1f you can loved or admired as much. His m- fj
s!e. that arrow, look at it, and you'll fluence on bowling wil, be felt for years ii
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to come.
hit d." he started to tell her.
"It goes without saying that you can
Bellisimo's always been one to help, and
find out more about the game. They spot my bowlers. 4nd I don't care~
nicknamed him Mr. Scientific many years .if you quote me on this, when I get
ago in Los Angeles because he was through with them, they know how t(] t,J
alw.ays study~ng bowling style and form of bowl. They know how it should be
f
dehvery, which has le~ to some of the done."
Lou Bellisimo is g~nna be around a ••
greater understandings of the game's
principles. His book stresses that the lom! time .
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reviewed by Kathy Craft
Side by side on a qtther unobrtrusive
shelf in the LCC Bookstore sit two equally
unobtrusive appearin,g .booklets--'' Six
Shorts_' ' .1:>Y Long John (4KA John Howard)
and "The Flip Side of .Paul Armstrong."
What is notable about tqese two volumes is
the fact that both Howard and Armstrong
are language arts instJ:'.UCtors on campus.
Those bent on soci,,t lly significant or
serious work should probably ignore both
volumes; the only enligntenment provided
is in their ability to stimulate buddin_g
r'

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John •Howard

writers' dreams that pfrhaps their work,
their literary gems, too ~an be embellished
in print via the Lane Community College
Press.

But for those willing _to settle for some
amusing, if occasionally trivial, entertain- ·
ment, both works m,ay merit leafing
through at least.
For those with a fetish for folk tales "Six
Shorts'' is a pleasant e~ough way to spend
a half hour or so and 75 cents. Author
Howard is a Dakotan P,migrant, and the
series of vignettes and anecdotes he
unwinds are a skein of tales of sod house
and the Sioux, the Black Hills and the Badlands. Howard spins •these yarns quite
successfully, dying them with a bit of fact
here, a touch of fiction tnere, and a portion
of fun everywhere. All in all, he's tied
together some pretty humorous, if slightly
stereo typed tall-tales ,, and if you ·have
either a penchant for such things or you 're
simply a misplaced Midwesterner in
nostalgic need of some. prairie wheat and
corn, pick this one up.
Paul Armstrong's "The Flip Side" is a
collection of short verses (as opposed to
poetry) intended , according to its author,
"to share the amusement" he finds.
inherent in human beings.
It cannot be denied that of the 90 some 1
verses the absurdity or'human behavior is
indeed occasionally revealed, and smiles
and perhaps even a chuckle or two may
result. But while I must agree with
Armstrong's comment ihat "Criticism We
Believe More Bl est to Give Than Receive,''
still I must point out that the line between

light and trite is a fine one over which
Armstrong occasiona,lly hovers·. But
humorous little rhym,es such' as these
defintely have their pl~ce (those included
in this volume have flippantly adorned
the pages of such div.erse publications
as the New York Till).es andMcCall's)
and no doubt occasio~ally provide some
welcome relief from ~n all too serious

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Paul Armstrong
I personalJy find an entire
world.
book of them a bit monotonous, but
perhaps if bitten of( in small piece·s,
Th e Flip Side is worth $1. 95.

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1. Protect the King, castle early in the
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3. Develop position tast and efficiently.
Move each piece but once.
The opening is generally considered the
period during which all f)f the minor pieces
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IDear Editor
Thursday, Feb. 13, tlie Phi Theta Kappa fl
W, Having been recently elected as Freshl!\man Senator representing Interdisciplinary appealed to the ASLCC Senate for $500 in @
~1Studics, I would like to .take the opportun- order to send two delegates to the Phila- @
!Hy through av_ailable media to present my- delphia Annual Co'!ve~tion--one of which !t
!self and services to the general student would be a candidate for Northwest ~%'
W:
· Regional Representative.
~populace.
Considering the active work this group M
W Being new to LCC leaves me somewhat
jin the dark as to the needs and wants of my doe.s for the school and com"!unity,. Ij1[
f_ffellow students. Therefore, I have made beheve they should have received this @
@mvself available to those who need an grant as requested. However, the tie vote M
ll ac"tive voice in their student government. I was broken in the negative as the chair, f:j
j]have arranged permanent office hours, and Sallie Torres, is a me~ber of this group, fl
iiwill be available at the ASLCC offices on and we must respect her vote in this fi,
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The Phi Theta Kappa dad receive $250 [:l
may also be reached by phone after 3 p.m.
from a following motion for a lesser amount
at 485-9672.
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by Julie Overton
&LCC will share their thoughts and needs spect in keeping a representative position @
Question: Do you think there will be f~ with me. And I hope just because I am a at this school. Thus, let us embark to r.:i
another war in the Mid!1le East?
@: departmental senator, that all of the maintain further funding for Phi Theta t(
11 students will fee_I free_. to call on me, no Kappa. If every student gave five cents to [!!I
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the group, they would have enough.
-matter what the issue 1s.
Chris Rofer--TVbroadci\sting
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Richard L, Metzger, Senator
question about it. The only question is ~/j1,/
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Interdisciplinary Studies
when and how severe.
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itself, is the work of men; they de- f;J
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the economic state of the country in the
n I as wee s ORCH m the foreign stu- tjscribe it from their own point of view, t!
next few months. The present adminisdent story on ~age two a referenc~ was f1which they confuse with absolute truth." @
tration would start a war to boost the
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made by a foreign student about bias on ijr=~
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economy, that's what's happened in the
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the part of Eldon Schafer. The incident tM
likely
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like
seems
there
past, and over
concerned Schafer's rejection of an Aca- Mi \Yomen for Equaltty 1s an orgamzationmt
place."
demic Council recommendation to raise a m des1gned by and for_the women of LC~. f~
Im.Our sole purpose 1s to create a sohdN
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e were una e to reach Schafer !basis for ourselves to understand and deal@
g e.
Vana Woodward--Business
fo~ co~ment at the time and would like to iTu:with the everyday sexism we experience.ij]l
"Who cares?" ·
goals\?
Mi 1 In order to accomplish our
prmt his response now:
"T~e infere?~e to prejudic~ was not w_ell f:i! effectively , we ha~e establis?ed a resourcel!:I
Eldon Schafer--LCC President
take?, t.h~ dec1s10n had no_th1~g to do ~•th @center and meeting place m the lounge@
"I would guess not b;,cause I believe
the md1v1dual. After rev1ewmg the situ- N!iarea of one of the women 's restrooms JJ
the country is ready to accept the fact
ation, I decided to sid~ with the instruc- ]j This is the only space available to us~J
that dependence on foreign sources for
tor." Schafer continue•-f that he is reluc- tJ;lat this time.
a major portion of energy needs are not
tant to step into the matter of a teacher's [f We are work>ing towards discarding the@,
in our long term interests. The Arab oil
presen~ sexist system a~d ~eplacing it ~i~h~Ii
reserves are also limited. There needs
opinion of what a student's grade should
ID~ one with more ?~manishc and ~eahstic@
to be alternative sources. To be able to
be.
wage war requires unlimited fuel. We
l ?9~1s.:: We ar ~mators of equahty, not~):!
st
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tlJ 1m1tatQrs of sexism. We do not deny%
,e
aint got it. I don't think there is
one Ti
sufficient reserves to confront that type
(EARTH NEWS)-;-The city of Spo- ;f that men are victims of the sexist systemir,1
of situation."
kanc. Wa shington, home of th e recent ~as well as women, but those men feelingffil
world' s environmental fair ("Celebrating l oppresed by this system must get it@
Tom Johnson--Mathematic s
Tomorrow's Fresh Environment") just got i toget~er ·for themselve_s, as we ?ave!t
"It's really kind of scary, because I
its report card from the Washington State ii We w1l! be glad to provide suggestions.,
think the way things are going we will
f(s
Msuggest10ns.
Department of Ecology.
have a major war with the Middle East.
Cheryl .~val~sen
It flunked.
It's frightening when you consider what
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Spo~ane exceeded the federal carbon
the consequences of a nµclear war could
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of every three M
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Editor's Note:
Cyril Tobiasson, L< :c chess expert, is
kicking off a column of chess problems for
readers.
In this, the first, he asks how the white
can win the black queen in six mov~s.

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will be available to assist students who are plan~ing to
attend the U of O Fall '75 and
want to apply for Financial Aid.
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International Club mee1ing Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2:30 p.rp., Center 470.
The Baha'i Fellowship meets
each Wednesday at 12 noon in
Health 109. Everyone invited
Christian Science Clu!> meets
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Women for Equality rpeeting
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welcome.
The Young Socialist ~lliance
[YSA] is presenting seminars in
its Introduction to Marx.i sm pro- .
gram. The sessions will, be held
on Tuesdays from Feb., 18 thru
March 4, at 7:30 p.m. at.the U of
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The Co-Respondents, ti threemember feminist readers' theatre from Olympia, Washington,
will perform two programs in
Eugene Feb. 21--one ~t LCC,
the other at the U of O. The
LCC performance, called "Fun
and Games," deals wit~ women
and marriage and begins at 1
p.m. in Forum 309, wh~le the U
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Comes," concerns women and
power and begins at 8. p.m. in .
Villard Hall. Both performances
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Titans may be in trouble
Will they wake up before it's to late?

b~· Kelly Fenley
It's just like the stor:v about the turtle
and the hare, only it could develop into
something much more drastic. The rabbit,
at least, woke up ana realized he was
trailing in the race he had dominated for so
long.
The Titans have led. the Oregon Community College Athletic Association all
year, at one time by four games, and now
at a time when they only need one win to
clinch the OCCAA crown, they're losing.
They lost to Linn-Benton Community College Friday night, 71 to '17, and then turned
around and lost to Umpqua Community
College· 76 to 72 at R~seburg Saturday.
The Titans are now 13-3 in the OCCAA,
still two games in front of Umpqua, who
holds down an 11-5 record, but are, nonetheless, in a position to make th.em
scramble.
LCC has two games. remaining in the
regular OCCAA season ,against Clackamas
and Clatsop Community Colleges. Should
they win either one, they will automatically
have captured the OCCAA crown and move
to represent the Oregon community colleges in Idaho for the regional play-offs in
March. But if they lose to both Clackamas
and Clatsop, then they will have to settle
for a first place tie with either or both
Umpqua and Linn-Benton Community
Colleges. That would mean playing off for
the Number 1 seat within the OCCAA and
a role that would seem tragic for the Titans
after the way they've competed all year.
"The way we're playing .now we couldn't
whip too many people,:' said Dale Bates,
Titan coach. "We're not playing any team

Wheelblazers roll over ·
KPNW amidst laughter
by Kelly Fenley
The guys who do the talking for KPNW
may be some of the better disk-jockeys·
around but when it r.omes to playing
basketball in a wheelchair they proved
even better as comedians. And the
Ironsides managed laughs from the crowd
when they confronted t~e Portland Wheelblazers of the National Wheelchair Basketball Association.
Although the score: ended with the
Wheelblazers only winning by 107 to 104,
KPNW managed only a few bizarre and
hilarious baskets which were worth anywhere from 4 to 20 points. The Wheelblazers were bound t_o regular college
basketball rules and only received two
points a shot.
The Wheelblazers orened with a quick
fastbreak and trampled over the Ironsides
with 14 points before KPNW really even
shot the ball. But with 3:21 left in the first
quarter, Lee Chabre banked one in from
outside the key and th~ 1120 radio squad
found themselves ahead, 20 to 14.
Player-coach Jim Herna.n dez of the Wheelblazers then scored on a fastbreak,
followed by buckets from Harvey Martin
and Fred Rider. Portland tied the score.
Meanwhile, Dan Nims of KPNW had
shot a couple of air balls, Lee Chabre threw
a pass that hit Steve Meridith on the head,

ball, we're resting on our laurels and were
not taking away anything from the other
people. If we don't wake up. we're not
going to be in that tournament."
Both Clackamas and Clatsop are near the
bottom of the OCCAA standings. but,
within the last couple of weeks they've
played like Number 1 teams. For instance.
Saturday night Clackamas dealt Southwestern Oregon Comm11nity College a loss
and SWOCC beat LCC last weekend.
Clatsop gave the Titans plenty of trouble
the last time they played and have won
several games since.
"They're tough." Bates said, tense and
obviously worried. "They're hungry, and
they want to win. We're not, and we only
play not to lose."
The Titans should be winning. The
eligibility question of Doug Ainge. the
~econd leading scorer, over his transfer
from Brigham Young University to Lane
has been completely cleared up and he's
playing again. The team is fairly healthy
and the talent remains in an abundance.
The problems, it seems, goes a little
deeper.
"It has a lot to do with the type of
personalities," said Bates, who has criticized the Titans all year for lack of
intensity. '' Some of the individuals are
just too nonchalant and easy going." Bates
also said that "the le:-idership has been
non-existent in these la~t four ball games,"
and repeated that "we're just playing as
individuals and not as a team."
But on the other hand, the Titans were

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up against s~>mc stout ~oml?ctition t_his clock. in good position to tic again. Instead
\\'Cckcnd. Lum-Benton 1s nght bchmd thcv thrc\\' it awav and who else but
Umpqua in the OCCAA \\'ith a 10-5 record Poc.tsch laid it in at the quzzer and they lost ·
be four. Doug Ainge ended the night. with
and is in t_hird place.
Doug A111ge and Bob Woods rallied the 20 points. followed by <;,reg Anderson and
Robbie Smith \\'ith 14. Bob Woods claimed
Titans in the second half of this weekend's
game and caught Linn-Benton at the 8. Rick Weidig 7. and Mike Reinhart had 4.
It was much the sam<' the next night at
buzzer, 65 to 65. Anq. if it weren't for
Roseburg when the Titaris fell to Umpqua.
This time the game was pretty even all the
\\'a_v but again they couldn't score when
they had to. One of lTmpqua ·s reserves
came off the bench to hit a couple of crucial
free throws and added a three-point play
\\'ith 33 seconds left in the game to give the
Indians a four point win. 76 to 72. Robbie
Smith played well against Umpqua. hitting
eight of ten from the field and seven of
eight from the line for 23 points. Doug
Ainge ended high again with 18 points.
Rick Weidig hit 15 points. Bob Woods had
6 and Davy Ohmer and Greg MacKay had 4
each.
There were at least two basic problems
common to both games. For one. Bates
said that "the play execution was poor,"
and two. "\\'e 've just lost our defensive
intensity. The board-play is inconsistent
and some of our big people are just
standing around." Linn-Benton out rebounded the Titans 40 to 37 and Umpqua
grabbed 41 boards compared to Lane's 37.
Rick Weidig displays talent, but
Both Umpqua and Linn-Benton scored over
what the Titans usually allow. "They've
Titans lacking playexecution
just got to decide to play like champions
Linn-Benton's Paul Poetsch, they might and not pussy cats." Bates said.
have won. Poetsch, who is the second
Both of the next two games are at home.
leading scorer in the OCCAA, scored on Lane will host Clackamas Friday at 7:30
two free throws at the beginning of p.m. and Clatsop Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
overtime to put Linn-Benton up by two.
Admission is free with a student body card.
Lane answered with a field goal of its own,
but then Poetsch scored to put Linn-Benton
up by two again. The Titans were running
out of time, but still managed to get the
ball down court with 8 seconds left on the

and Jack Fleming got his finger caught in
the spokes.
The Wheelblazers w~nt on to a 14 point
lead and if not for Mike Makela, the
Ironsides may not have scored for a long
time.
"I scored more than, thought I would,"
said Makela, KPNW's new newsman. He
scored two buckets for KPNW that were
worth 20 points each and kept the Ironside~
in the game, that is, until Steve Meridith
made that shot.
It started somewhere around mid-court
when the referee started pushing Meridith
to the basket. The ref released Meridith
when he was well out of control and
speeding towards the hoop. But somehow,
Meridith threw the ball up and--even more
miraculous, it went in. ''That was a speed
thing we worked on ali week," kidded
Meridith, who stole the show from the
start. "It was a simple move, actually,
called 'help'."
After Meridith's shot, the game came to
a climax. Fred Rider, president of the
Wheelblazers and top scorer, changed his
jersey and joined the Ironside team.
Shortly after, Chabre sneaked another ball
on court in a jump-ball situation and for a
few seconds, the game was played with two
basketballs.
"I can't remember when we've had
more fun," said Meridith, who spent half
time pushing kids aro!]nd in his wheelchair. Dan Nims, who has the morning
show for KPNW, added that "We did
pretty well, considering our handicap."

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