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Peer counseling has recently become part of the services
offered at the LCC Health Services.
Two students who are a part of the clinic staff will now also
be available at certain times each day to talk with other
students. This can be done in a variety of ways, according to
the' desires of the individual: on a one-to-one basis, with a
member of the medical staff also present, or in groups.
The peer counselors will try to help other students identify
their problems, set priorities, and explore possible solutions.
They aren 't professionally trained counselors. They are
simply concerned students who want to help others.
Peer counseling is not something new or even new to LCC.
Approximately two-thirds of the colleges in the U.S . have
peer counseling programs, and LCC has a program in the
form of the Student Service Associates. However peer
counseling at the Health Clinic is a new aspect of the tota~
health program. The clinic recognizes both the importance of
preventative treatment and the connections between physical , mental , and emotional health.
The peer counselors also will make an attempt to talk with
each of the regular school counselors to determine which
areas and problems he/she is most interested in, and best
able to deal with. When requested, they can then refer students to the right person for additional help.
Hours that peer counselors will be at the clinic are:
Monday - 11-12, 2-3
Tuesday - 10-11:30, 2:30-3:30
Wednesday - 11-1, 2-3:30
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The Mass Communication Department
has had $381.328 cut from a budget
request made in September 1974.
Why? The blame can be put on the
shouldes of the current budget process.
bureaucratic restraints. and the lack of a
program,
successful voter awareness
according to John Elliott, Chairman of the
Mass Communication Department.
He stated that in terms of what money is
already spent, what is committed and what
was taken, "my budget right now is zero."

LCC
cuts
budget

Julie Overton
Budget cuts by the administration have
:aused two departments to cut both
.nstructors and classes.
Business and Mass Communication, two
jepartments which often turn out students
irmed for the competitive, will have to
regroup in the face of slashed budgets.
''Our department was the largest--by
Jne instructor--last quarter," said Jack
Kreitz, Chairman of the Business Department. ''That was because we used so
many part-time instructors--professionals
from the community who could relate their
skills to students.''
Kreitz went on to say that business,
which offers an AA or an AS degree, serves
12 percent of the total student enrollment
at LCC, had previously been allowed to
grow and spend over their budget. This
year, they were ordered to stay within their
bottom dollar line. Since the department
had been spending at their usual rate and
the budget cuts were not announced until
January, Kreitz was forced to cut the parttimers. He said the new union contract
kept him from cutting any full-timers.
" We had to cut people with top skills,"
Kreitz said, "including a real estate
broker, lawyer, bank vice president, IRS
auditor, CPA, computor programmer--just
to name a few." The cuts totaled 16 in all.
''This meant cutting 33 sections from
Spring Term, including all the beginning
classes. This means that we won't be able
to offer Typing I, Shorthand I, or Key
Punch. I advise any student who wanted
these classes to check on them ahead of
time.''
Kreitz added that they tried to keep the
evening program intact, as those students
had little flexibility in their schedules. He
also said that students "in the pipeline"
for business degrees would be given
priority for the existing classes.
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Mass Communication Department asked
for a total of $585, 789 and received only
$212,222. Out of this sum, an additional
$7. 752 was cut resulting in a total cut this
year of $381,328, a staggering 65 per cent
of the budget request.
The outcome of such massive cuts
have been many. The loss of almost
$400,000 from the proposed budget meant
the loss of five part-time instructors and
the following classes: Radio Lab, two
Photography classes, a Voice and Articula~
tion course and a speech class.
Elliott says of these people, "They're
part of our family, and their gone now.
You can't help but feel a little animosity."
He went on to say that student
productions are going to be curtailed in
television labs, and that classes that are
mandatory for graduation will possibly
have to be waivered.
Another result of the cutback is that, if a
part-time instructor is hired who's salary is
more than the last instructors, the department has to make this up out of it's own
~dget. In other words, Mass Communications was told not to hire someone who was
more qualified than the last person holding
the job because more qualifications means
better pay and money is just not available
at this time.
Elliott states that, "it's been my
observation that this department is student
oriented,'•· and added that the orientation
has been hurt because, "we dropped a lot
of the courses that are speciality courses."
Courses for students who wanted to ''begin
the educational process, get a foot in the
door or finish up requirements."
"In terms of paper, pencils, anything
else, my personal budget is zero.'' said
F.lliott.
"We can do it for one term . . . then if
some relief isn't given in the future, no one
can sustain this."

700 prospective students

may get hopes dashed

b_y Christine Rofcr

The closing registration door may not be
shut as tight as had been feared, according
to LCC administrators.
President Eldon Schafer and Dean of
Students Jack Carter admit that the situation for new students Spring Term is not
encouraging, but neither anticipates that
this will be a continuing problem at LCC.
They both admit to being continual
optimists.
Carter explained the basic conflict with
regard to the open door policy of community colleges. He said that the policy
"implies unlimited educational opportunities,'' while the financial structur>---provides only limited funding. He and S,<:hafer
both indicated that LCC is already handling
about 700 more Full-Time Equivalent
(FTE) students than the colle~e receives
state support for.
Carter estimates that about 700 students
will not be able to register for classes this
spring, but added that every effort will be
made to accommodate as many as possible,
including allowing new student registration all during the first week of classes.
Schafer said that the administration has
been criticized for being "overly generous" in trying to offer LCC' s educational
opportunities to more students than the
facilities can accommodate without strain.
"Closed" admission is not really foreign
to the campus, Carter pointed out. Several
of the vocational programs have had
admission requirements or waiting lists for
some time. Nursing, Paradental, Diesel
Technology, and others have been forced

to use these measures due to their limited
facilities.
Out-of-district students are the only ones
who have absolutely been turned away so
far. Carter said. Both he and Schafer are
aware of the problem that will present
itself when an estimated 1,400 to 1,500
people try to register for approximately 725
places.
Carter says he does not see the problem
disappearing until new ways are found to
lower the cost per student in education. He
indicated that although the legislature has
not reached a final decision, LCC will probably get an ~ncrease in FfE~mds next
year.
But local support is needed, and he and
Schafer are both concerned about the
passage of the budget next June.
The budget election, originally schedJled for September, was moved to June by
the Board of Trustees at a meeting last
Wednesday. Local school budgets have
not been easily passed by the voters in the
past few years, but Schafer felt that putting
the election off until September would be
like "holding a gun to the head of the
public." Having the election in June
would provide time for another election if
the budget does not pass on the first try.
Admission requirements are not a
possibility, according to Carter, who feels
they are "not appropriate to community
colleges. Schafer said that "We'll still
serve as ~any as the budget was designed
to serve.
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Spring hour limit may be lowered

by Mike McLain
In another effort to relieve the overcrowding, under-funding problem at LCC,
the administration is considering a five
class or fifteen hour limit on all nonvocational students.
At present there is a 19 hour maximum,
with additional credits available upon
approval of a petition to the Director of
Admissions. If the new plan is initiated,
the same approval process would be in
effect for those students needing more
than 15 hours to complete their curriculum,
according to Dean of Students Jack Carter.
Explaining the need for the new limit,
Carter said that in preceding terms, manx
students signed up for more classes than
they wanted to take with the intention of
attending the first week or so and then
deciding which classes they preferred.
They would then drop the ones they didn't.
This practice prevents many students from
getting the classes they need, Carter explained, because the classes show up as
full during the final stages of registration.

Vocational students would be exempt
from such a limit because in order to

complete their program in a two-year
period it is necessary to carry a heavier
load. Transfer students can complete their
requirements by carrying a fiftenn hour
average for their two years here.
Carter noted that under this plan more
students could be admitted without increasing LCC's FTE (Full Time Equivalency) figure.
At present there are 1,204 students
holding more than 15 hours, but Carter
minimized the possible effect of the new
policy by saying that a great number of
these (the exact number was unavailable)
were vocational students and that those
students who would need more hours to
graduate would probably be able to get
them through petition.
The recommendation at this point is just
that--a recommendation. Carter said he is
waiting for a decision from President
Schafer on the matter, and expects it
within a week. He explained that the
..decision process lies within the college
administration: It does not have to go
before the Board of Trustees.

Minority groups ·face critical space shortage
by Christine Rofer and Gerry Dennis'
Women, native Americans, chicanos,
blacks, and veterans are all having the
same space problem on campus this year.
No area on campus has been designated
for use by these groups, and crowded conditions have made it impossible for them to
arrange any permanent quarters for themselves. However, a partial solution which
would provide a center for group activities
has been worked out by Monty King and
Mike Chudzik of the Student Resources
Center (SRC).
Remodeling of the Center Building
forced the Chicano Student Union (CSU) to
move out of its third floor room last
summer. Roy Summers, advisor to the
CSU, says now the lack of a permanently
assigned area is affecting a drop in CSU
memberhip.
Women for Equality has moved into a
lounge adjacent to a women's .lavatory in
the Cafeteria area of the Center Building.
The Veterans, having the advantage of a
central office which handles their paperwork, have been able to meet regularly.
The Black Student Union and the Native
American Student Union could not be
reached for comment.
Bill Cox, superintendent of college
facilities, has heard requests from all of
these organizations. Unfortunately, he
doesn't have any space to assign to them,

except for storage of their files. A survey
conducted by the colleges Space Allocation
Committee last October turned up no place
on campus not already being used. The
Committee did, however, find various
classrooms that were often unused between 2:30 p.m. and 6 p.m.
They then offered this space to the
groups on a part-time basis for meetings,
but no group has contacted Cox since this
offer was made. : Cox does nof feel the
requests are unreasonable, but he is
unable to find rooms at this time that can
be permanent. He says he has no objection
to the women's use of the lounge as a
meeting place.
Classroom space is already short on
campus. Since the primary purpose of the
college is instruction, Cox says he cannot
take five classrooms away from instructional use. And he says no plans have been
made to provide construction money to
build a center to house student groups.
The Priority Construction Committee
lists other needs first for the limited
construction budget:
The sewer system must bebrought up
,to Department of Environmental Quality
standards within the next four years, at a
cost of $200,000;
Cox estimated that the cooling system,
already 100 percent overloaded, must be

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rebuilt at an estimated cost of $100,000 to
$125,000.
Cox said the Committee's general priorities for allocation of construction money
are as follows:
First, construction of office and work
areas for any department included in the
original plan for the college, but still
unhoused.
Second, construction for departments
that, d11e to curriculum changes, have
outgrown their areas.
Third, remodeling for areas designa-

ced as having a special need.
King and Chudzik are in the process of
working on a proposal for office and
organizational space for LCC groups. They
propose to obtain use of the back room of
the Veterans Office, "to bind together the
clubs and organizations into one office that
could effectively utilize any office material
and personnel assigned to it."
If this proposal is approved, King and
Chudzik believe each cub would have a
central message and information center.
Meeting times and places could be posted
and information about organizations would
be available to students.
King says· that the office equipment
needed would be minimal: A few desks,
two or three file cabinets, and a small
1mount of lounge furniture.
He says the major requirement would be
sound-proof panels which are needed
between the Veterans Office and the
proposed office space. This center could
offer LCC groups a permanently assigned
area with a phone extension and someone
available to do most or all of the typing.
The bonus, according to Cudzik and King,
''would be the opportunity for clubs and
organizations to weld together in a
cohesive coalition. A coalition capable of
lobbying at the LCC Board of Education
meetings.''

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Alton Baker Park
may have museum

Ro2er Cole
In an attempt to promote better student
involvement in the legislative process two
measures were approved at last week's
bi-weekly meeting of the ASLCC Student
Senate.
Beginning with the first week of next
term the Senate will hold open public
meetings in the cafeteria on every other
Wednesday and Thursday from 1:30 p.m.
to 2:30 p.m .. with the intent of channeling
student input into its organization. This
will. in effect, make the Senate a weekly
organization. members say, since the week
between the open public sessions is when
the regular Senate meetings will be held.
In addition a written questionnaire was
approved which will sample campus opinion on what students would like to have in
the way of health and legal services,
entertainment and athletics. One thousand
copies of the questionnaire are being
printed. with the senators doing the
polling.
These two steps highlighted the last
Senate meeting, described by ASLCC
President Sallie Torres as one of the best
by

Lane County will have a major museum
and science complex located in Alton Baker
Park if the plans now being formulated arc
successful.
The newly formed Co-operative Science
Museum Commission is laying the groundwork for the museum, according to Lou
Case, director of LCC Academic and
College Planning.
Three local educational factions, Inter-·
mediate Education District OED). LCC,
and Oregon Museum of Science and
Industry (OMSI) have \ncluded a planetarium in their long-range plans.
ium in their long-range plans. The Commission was formed in a combined effort to
plan one facility for the entire area.
The first action of the commission was to
select Alton Baker Park as the ·site of the
Science Museum. (The park planners had
earlier set aside an area as a possible
planetarium site.)
An interagency contract has been written to include IED, UO, LCC and Lane
County as the initial planners. However,
"others may join the group under separate
agreements," Case stated.
Under the contract, each of the four
initial planners will always .have a representative on the museum board of directors.
Commission members are Russel J.
Donnelly, chairman, UO physics instructor; Joyce H. Benjamen, attorney and JED
board memb'er; Lewis Case, LCC director
of academic and college planning; Edwin
E. Cone. former Eugene mayor; Paul
Ehinger. West Fir Lumber Company
official; John A. McDonald, chairman of
OMSI board; Gail Nicholson, District 4J
board member.
As a commission member, LCC has no '
monetary commitments, Case explained,
but will have a voice in planning and
decision making.
The means of funding the total complex
and a total cost figure have not yet been
determined. However, the IED has been
awarded a $37,000 grant for planetarium
equipment from the National Defense
Educational Act (NDEA) through the State
Department of Education which administers NDEA funds. IED must now match
these funds, according to Evelyn McKenzie, secretary to IED Director, Dr.
William C. Jones. The IED will also select
the science coordinator who will outline the
children 's programs.
OMSI is attempting to sell its present
building on Fifth Street and has pledged
the proceeds of the sale to the proposed
Science Museum. OMSI will probably administer the adult and out-of-school programs, McKenzie explained.
''The UO is planning to move its
Museum of Natural History to the new site;
and there are several museums in the
country who might be interested in locating
in the complex,'' Case concluded. He
added that each participant would be responsible for maintaining its particular
area of the complex--spreading the financial burden for the Science Museum over a
large area.
The commission is presently seeking
volunteers to serve on its four advisory
committees--education , planning, finance,
and public information.

"You're well qualified but we want
someone with experiem;e."
Those words are heard all too often by
individuals searching for employment in
today's scant job market.
But thanks to two jo~nt programs available at LCC--Supervise~ Field Experience
fSFE] and Co-operativt: Work Experience
fCWE]--they are words. many LCC graduates may not have to hear.
SFE and CWE provi~e both vocational
and college transfer students with actual
on-the-job training in t~eir major fields. In
SFE, the work student~ perform is voluntary; in CWE, students are paid for their
services by the firm or organization
employing them. In fact, according to Bob
Way, director of SFE-CWE, students participating in the program last year earned
over one million dollars.
In both SFE and cw:E students receive
credit and grades for their work as determined by departmental coordinators on the
basis of information supplied by the student's employer conce~ing job performance.
In most cases, stude'1ts work part-time
and attend classes part-time during a term,
Way said. Occasionally., however, CWE is
full-time.
Way said over 1,00Q students participated in SFE-CWE las~ year. He termed
the program "campus-wide," explaining
that 38 vocational and 22 college transfer
programs make SFE-~WE available to
students, although so.me departments-such as Performing Art~--don 't participate
to as great an extent as do others.
Different departm~nts at LCC have
varying reqµirements concerning their
individual SFE or CW.E programs, Way
said. In all cases, however, a student
cannot receive credit unless the work
relates directly to his or her major, he said.
Another common requirement is that
students must be in their second year at
LCC to enroll, or, in the case of one year
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this vear. in which action was taken on a
wide· range of topics.
A campus ski club. as well as a Health.
Physical Education and Recreation majors
club was recognized by the Senate. Each
was allocated $75 out of the contingency
fund. leaving room for only three more
clubs to be eligible for funding this year.
Earlier the Senate moved to limit its
funding to five clubs.

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Opening the gymnasium for musical
concerts was an issue that received much
attention. The college Administration has
adopted a policy against this practice as a
result of past problems associated with
burn marks left on the floor from careless

smokers. Jav Jones. director of Student
Activities, reasserted his opposition to gym
concerts until adequate inflammable floor
coverings had been secured. Further study
is in progress and the item is scheduled to
be brought up at the' next regularly
scheduled Senate meeting March 13.
The ASLCC now officially recognizes the
Community Colleges of Oregon Students
Association (COSSAC) after over a year of
unofficial participation by student leaders.
President Torres has attended ten days of
meetings as a representative since her •
term of office began. without any funding
from the Senate.
COSSAC is an organization of the State's
community colleges which. among other
things. works with veterans. college media. student government and is also a
lobbying force. Jay Jones gave praise to
the first COSSAC organizing efforts.
In other action the Senate:
Recommended to the Board of Education that on any construction projects, no
surface obstru.ction be built in doorways
which would hamper wheelchair traffic.

In some majors, such_ as medical-related
or para-dental, a certain ~mount of SFE or
CWE credits are required to attain a degree. The maximum apiount of credits a
student can earn towards a degree under
SFE or CWE is 18, but in some departments it is much less.. [Thirty-six work
hours are required to earn one credit.]
Each department pai;ticipating in SFECWE has a special ~o-ordinator who
directs program activiti~s in that area. But
there are also five full-time coordinators
employed by the college and seventeen
part-time coordinators. To enroll in SFE or
CWE, a student contacts the coordinator
directing the program in his or her major
field. The coordinator would then attempt
to locate a suitable job assignment for the
student.
Way also said stude~ts already employ~d at jobs relating to their majors could
contact a coordinator and perhaps arrange
to receive credit for their work.
Way emphasized that the "major
thrust" of the program is in locatin~ .lobs
for students and said t~is is accomplished
in several ways. Ofte~, students already
involved in the program are informed
about new job opportunities at their place
of employment and relay this information
on to department coordjnators.
In addition to this, c~rdinators seek out
suitable job opportunfties for students.
"We go out, pound on. doors and say, 'li
you 're going to hire somebody, hire one of

our students,"' explain~d Way. Positions
also are made available to students when
firms and organizations contact SFE-CWE
coordinators to obtain e'1)ployees. "We're
pretty well known around the community
and so a lot of times they'll call us," he
said. Way explained (hat the employers
will generally describe . the kind of applicants they are seeking and then coordinators "handpick" whic~ students to send.
Way stressed that there were other
advantages to enrolling in the program
other than _the obvious one of acquiring
necessary work experience. Financial incentive is one, he said. For example, work
study students are eligi~le to receive credit
for their work if it is related to their major
and performed off campus. And he said
students attending college on the GI Bill
often find the program. especially "lucrative." These students may, for example,
work full-time during (he summer under
CWE and receive full b~nefits while doing
so.
Way also said that s(udents involved in
SFE-CWE generally do better in their
major related classes . . "They ask better
questions and get higher GPA 's," he
claimed.
Way said that LCC sfudents enrolled in
SFE-CWE are generally ''really accepted
well" by their employers. Employers are
usually "highly" pleased wit~ student
work performance, and 70 percent of
SFE-CWE employees continue working at
the same place after graduating, he said.

Young Socialist team ·visits Lane·
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by Mike McLain .
In an effort to increase membership and
to inform students about their stand on
busing policies, the Young Socialist Alliance's (YSA) national organization has
sent out ''teams'' to visit college campuses
across the country, one of which visited
Lane last Thursday.
That team, consisting of Fred White
(Portland) and Calyl Sholin and Joel <;:arter
(Seattle) occupied a table iti the cafeteria
and offered various pieces of literature to
interested students.
Sholin said that another reason the team
visited at LCC was in preparation for a visit
by the Chairperson of the Socialist Workers
Party National Campaign Committee, Ed
Hiesler.
Stressing that the main thrust of their
organization at the moment is to' 'build
support for the black students' right to
attend a quality school," Sholin said "the
white racists in Boston and around the
~?u~tr~ must be stopped in thei_r efforts to

01ock the busing of the black students.''
She continued that ''there has been a
movement by both major political parties in
this decade to irradicate the civil rights
gains of the 1950's and 60's"; she said the
YSA is attempting to give ''rebirth to the
civil rights movement.''
Sholin said the YSA is closely associated
with the Socialist Workers P_arty (SWP) but
is more oriented towards young people and
students in high school and college than is
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the SWP.
White said the YSA's national organization has approximately 3,000 members,
100 of whom live in Oregon. A YSA
chapter was recently established at Lane.
Hiester will speak this Thursday at 2
p.m. in Forum 309 in support of the SWP's
candidates for president and vice president
of the US , and also to advocate socialism as
an alternative to handling the nation 's
economic crisis.

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Kesey expounds on institutions and America
b,· Mike Hefflev

Local author and publicly active citizen
Ken Kesey spoke to 250 people in the
Performing Arts Theatre for a dollar a head
Saturday night in his loose rambling,
casual and all-encompassing style which
pinpoints so much more than do mere
addresses.
He spoke of Oregon, his home state
and its "decsions of the spirit." The main
theme of Kesey• s talk was to be the effect
of penal and mental institutions on the
people who "have had to confront and
learn to live within their systems." Ticket
money went to programs for ex-prisoners
and their problems, through the campus
group Self-Help Oriented People (SHOP(.
In fact. his main point shone quite clearly
through his sporadic conversation.
"You can go to any other state and say
things, and they'll listen to you just
because you 're from Oregon. I mean I
always get asked ·abouMhe Bottle Bill, and
th<;\grass laws ... the prison•pass program.
Kesey praised Oregon further for refusing land for use by nuclear power plants,
and exhorted the state to '' get on''
Was~ington State for her potentially
hazardous operations with nuclear energy
near the Columbia River.
"We shouldn't be quiet about it. We
should say, 'Look, we're neighbors, we
share this riv6f here, and you can't be
doing things up there that'll affect our
water down here. We don't know if it's the
books that way, but if you do mess it up
we'll . .. .threaten your sources, too.

Veterans!
Veterans: You are advised to inform the

Veterans Office of any change in credit
load. An audit of veterans records for Fall
Term 1974 shows that 8.1 percent of all
veterans have reduced credit hours without
All
informing the Veterans Office.
veterans who have applied for VA educational assistance benefits have signed certified statements showing the number of
credit hours pursued. Reduction in hours
that would effect a change in educational
benefits and not reported would constitute
a false statement and is a punishable
offense resulting in forfeiture of VA educational benefits. It should be noted that the .
purpose of the audit is not to unduly harass
students but to update Veterans Office files
and bring the school into compliance with
VA rules and regulations.

LCC cuts lights

Lowering thermostats and flicking oft
unnecessary lights are turning out to be
more than simply energy conservation
measures at LCC. Such actions are helping
to keep the college within its tightl 974-75
budget.
In a time when electrical costs to the
college have risen about 12 percent, LCC
has cut its power consumption by 9 per
cent by such actions as cutting off hot
water in rest rooms, bulbsnatching from
hundreds of outlets in classrooms, offices
and halls, and lowering thermostats from
70 to 68 degrees.
Reducing demand on the college's
electric furnace has produced the bulk of
the savings. Already-heated air also is
being recirculated and less fresh, cold air is
brought inside.
Staff members don't seem to mind being
nagged to shut off lights when they leave a
room.
Such measures made it possible for LCC
to trim its December 1974 through January
1975 power by 27 per cent in comparison
with the same months in 1973-74. The
overall 9 per cent cut was achieved from
.June 1974 through January 1975. Continued conservation is expected to keep
LCC within its $222,000 electricity budget
for the fiscal year.

Kesey was asked about a magazine he
co-produces with Ken Babbs and others.
Spit in the Ocean. nd announced that
Timothy Leary would be the editor of the
next issue.This led into a discussion of
He told a
prison system-facts-of-life.
story-"That man's been doing 10 years of hard
time for two roaches. His friends and
family haven't seen him for a year. They
moved him to Vacaville with the story that
other prisoners were trying to kill him
where he was. All the probes I've sent
down to find him have been sending me
back messages like. 'Back off of this, this is
some heavy, mafiosotype can of worms ...
"I think they've messed with him. I've
gotten some reports that suggest heavy
dosages of bella donna, twilight sleep,
things like that ... STET propaganda about
acid making you rum-dum would look kind
of shady behind a 54-year-old man. in good
shape and tanned. walking the streets with
a nimble mind."
When asked about Leary's alleged leak
to authorities in exchange for his freedom,
Kesey said that everybody broke under
torture, sooner or later, in some way, and
that the things Leary might say couldn't
hurt anybody anyway. " . . . He's been
holding up through all of this incredibly
well."
"If you could get a 'karmic meter' ana
plop it down on top of some of these 'lifers'
in the pen, you'd see it just wing of the
scale ... They may have been blowing it all
their lives, but they get in there confronted
with that intense prison situation, and the
relentless testing of the other guys there

with them . . .and they just make a
decision. right there. all of the sudden. and
they're just soaring up from there on out:
The most positive people in our society
todav.
"That's where the real changes are
gonna come from. in the revolution today.
from the losers. the people that have made
that decision . . . Imagine what a boon
Nixon might have been lo our society if
he'd said, 'Fuck your pardon. let me take
my time.· then done his six months. with
three off. He'd be able to walk the streets
again. everybody would feel real good
about it."
Kesey's talk was mixed with further
comments on the oppressive nature of
penal institutions, and the American
"Stanley Kubrick Holiday Inn" culture ...
and the spiritual warefare against such
"evils." being fought on the front lines by
the prime victims and their force--the
lifers, the losers.
Kesey's perception envisions Oregon as a
state singularly high on the scale of
effective resistance of these evils, due
largely. he said, to the influence of Wayne
Morse.
He praised the maintenance of the
prison-pass system by Superintendent of
the Oregon Penal System, Hoyt C. Cup,
throughout the controversy of the Carl
Bowles escape, and warned Oregonians to
heed the spiritual energy coming from the
prisoners.
One anecdote in particular summed up
the drift of his message.
''I was just over in Egypt, and it was the
last day of Ras ... " Ras, he explai1:1ed, was

Student fights Ma Bell

Budget freezes ~ibrary

news cag

Ralph W. Ko_opman, a 25-year-old
University of Houston law student could
become the hero of the year for many
college students. He's fighting the
telephone company over its deposit policy
and he's winning.
Koopman figures the deposit should be
returned to subscribers after a few months
if their payment record is good rather than
holding it indefinitely as is often done.
He '3/0n his suit to get his $50 deposit
returned and the telephone company is
appealing. Koopman claims their policy
for determing the· amount and length of
time to hold a deposit is vague and
arbitrary. .At one point the company
offered to settle out of court but now it's a
matter of principle with Koopman.
"What really worries them is the
precedent it would set if I win," he says.

Lobby sets priorities

Calling 1975 a ''particularly important
year'' because current federal legislation
authorizing all postsecondary education
programs will expire on June 30, 1975, the
National Student Lobby has developed
these legislative priorities:
Full funding for the Basic Educational
Opportunity Grant Program.
Programs to brine: the hwnrld of work
and teducation close~ _t~g;! ..~[L.
Student participation in administration
of student aid programs.
Inclusion of students and recent graduates in unemployment programs such as
the emergency public employment programs.
Inclusion of students in any possible
emergency programs for the economy-price controls for tuition and fair ~lass
allocations for commuter students, for
Voter registration by mail.
example.
Reinstatement of discount air fares.

by Phil Beard
It you naven t seen qny new additions
at the LCC Library. lately don't be
surprised--like last terq1 the library can't
afford many new bqok purchases or
magazine subscriptions.
Due to several b,udget cuts, new
resources for the library , are almost
unheard of. "even in 'normal' year we
have to bite the bullet," said Cel Matheson. head librarian at •Lee. "Instead of
maintaining we're cutti~g back."
Don Ownby. acquisitions librarian, added that "the magazine. budget for I 975 is
the same as it was in 1972." The library
has been forced to cut~out certain magazine subscriptions due. to spiralihg publishing costs. "Instead ,of a growing circulation. it is decreasing at present,'' Mathe.
son said.
However, both libq1rians emphasized
the fact that the library pudget hasn't been
the only victim' of budge,t freezes and cuts.
Matheson said all departments at LCC
have been hit by cut-barks in funding. He
went on to say that it \Vas "unfortunate"
that the cuts in spending affect the quality
of education offered to. the students.
Ownby said tfiat the library has a
materials budget of appjoximately $50,000
per year. "Divide that.by the 20,000 LCC
students and you come 1,1p with about $2.50
per student. The average cost of a book is
around $12."
Ownby, who is respqnsible for selecting
and purchasing new n1aterials, said that
selection of new materials should be based
-on the a11alitv and content in,tP.a<i of it',
Since the budget . ts so low the
price
library has to settle fqr second best, he
.
explained.
The library employs 12 full-time . 2
part-time, and 15 woi:k-study people to
make up its staff. Personnel have been
thinned out, during the pay, to acc_o modate
the longer operating h,ours.

a five-day Moslem ritual of praying at a
holy rock • 'older than the Bible.•'
Moslems: No alcohol, lots of Turkish
coffee, all "pushing out those vibes with
everything they got--millions of them,
everyday for five days a month-- 'till people·
in America, spiritually starved. look over
there and do just what they want to do--get
distracted into thinking that's where the
energy we need is coming from. Spiritual
energy. oil . . .but that's not it. .
.everybody knows energy comes from
Within our souls, within our
within.
country. There's no energy crisis, and
there doesn't have to be a spiritual crisis ..
.All we have to do in Oregon is treat the
land halfway decent, and we got trees and
we got fish, and we can be a rich state."
As he returned from the East, he said,
he and a friend picked up a hitchhiker in
Virginia (' 'that battered, beaten. raped
land"), a fifty-five year-old man, "probably a vet, probably done time," who told
him of getting beat up while hitchhiking
once before.
'" ... they just beat the piss out of me,' he
was meaning--really hurt ... not just hurt
but violated. Suddenly the whole country
was speaking through that old guy. I
imagine he 'II always stutter and limp in his
spirit from that scar ... and American just
She might never heal."
mfght too.
"But as we came West we could just feel
theSpirit coming back to us. The West ..
.this community up here, around Northern
California, Oregon, Washington ... this is
where the spiritual energy is really at a
hopeful level, residing."

ASLCC posts open

ASLCC President Sallie Torres states
there are two positions open for
appointment:
Student member of the Institutiona_l
Bill of Rights Review Committee.
Student member of the Media Commission
Torres asks that any interested party
contact her or Connie Hood in the
ASLCC Senate offices, second floor,
Center Building.

P U otters therapy

Beginning in September of 1975 Oregon
students interested in physical therapy will
no longer have to go out of state for this
training.
Pacific University will open the first
physical therapy program in Oregon and
the second in the Northwest. The program
will consist of a minimum of three years of
• pre-professional study followed by 21
months in the Pacific professional physical
Students will be
therapy program.
accepted at both the pre-professional and
professional levels.
Additional details are available from the
Pacific University Admissions Office in
Forest Grove.

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The TORCH asked
Board of Education
and an instructor -problems faced by the

five knowledgeable people -- the college president, a
member, a state legislator, a department chairman,
to comment on the current and continuing budgetary
college and its community.

Can the college expect the legislature to help resolve the economic crisis? If so,
ho"'. much more should the state be asked to pay? If not, what will their reasons
be?

Eldon Schafer

President, Lane Community College

Would LCC students be expected to pay more in tuition?
How much?

Do you advocate any maJor change In educational

goals In order for LCC [and other community
colleges to operate with Its 6 percent budget
limitation? For example, should LCC close
Its summer school and other college programs, and concentrate on "pure"
vocational areas--or reorganize its
departments in order to keep
costs down? Do you have
any special ideas?

Dr. A. J. Brauer
LCC Board of Education

Dave Frohnmayer

Representative for the 40th District to the
Oregon House of Representatives

John A. Elliott ill
Chairman, Mass Communication Department

Again, LCC finds itself dealing with the eternal
problem of inadequate financial resources. This is not all
bad, because it does pressure all of us to develop ways to
operate more efficiently a growing institution. But our
struggle is becoming more acute. Annually we find ourselves in a bind to do more with proportionately less
money, because of varied pressures, the chief one being
inflation and its ripple effect. The Board of Education,
therefore, is placed in a position of temporarily robbing
Peter to pay Paul, causing postponement of many needs
that will.ultimately cost more.
This dilemma and its many deleterious effects must be
reduced or educational quality will suffer. Policy and
operational changes must be made to reduce the
per-student costs. The needs of those who are the primary
beneficiaries of LCC (students and employees) must be
Students and staff here at Lane have every right to
expect their legislators to assist them during the present
funding crisis that faces all of post-secondary education.
Post secondary education is an asset to both individuals
and to the community as well. It cannot be iqnored.
My staff has been informed by your President, Eldon
Schafer, that Lane will undergo only minor adjustments in
its fee schedule. These adjustments will revolve around
whether or not the same number of credit hours is used as
the base figure and should not include any substantive
changes. As the students are well aware, Lane had an 11
to 12 percent increase last year and President Schafer has
told me that he has every intention of maintaining this fee
schedule next year.
I would like to see Lane continue on its present course
and attempt to meet the needs of the student community

The Mass Communication Department has had
$381,328 cut from its budget request since September of
1974. This is staggering and will affect LCC students
immediately. There are three causes for this loss:
• The current budget process;
•Bureaucratic restraints;
•Lack of a successful voter awareness program.
The loss of almost $400,000 from our proposed budget
means we'll be unable to offer a voice and articulation
class, evening credit courses, an advertising course,
specialized speech courses, and five sections of photography. Nor are we able to purchase replacement equipment for the boradcasting program.
These cuts also force the department to shift full-time
faculty members so they teach two and sometimes three
diverse disciplines in an attempt to maintain a high level of
service to the student population. It also means the release of five highly qualified, part-time instructors vital to
the Mass Communications program.
The process for procuring a department budget at Lane
Community College is often very frustrating and more
complex than it need be. Thi~ _currently begins with the
submission of a budget request form to the Office of Instruction. This is accomplished under specific guidelines
from the deans--such as, "No line item can be raised
~bove last year's _amount more than six percent without

U there is now or has been a budget cut in your department,
who decided the amount and the area of the cut? What percentage of the total budget was cut?

How will the cuts affect th~ quality of instruction or Instructional support?

What priorities would you recommend for LCC's direction in the future?

The Governor and the Legislature are doing about all
we can expect to help us meet our fiscal needs. It appears
at thi~ time that our reimbursement per student will be increased 10 percent next year and an additional 8 percent
the following year. That will do a lot to offset inflation. We
have to remember that the state collects a limited amount
of taxes and there are many services drawing on those
taxes . Money has to be provided for the public schools,
the four-year colleges and universities, welfare (which is
spent primarily on elderly people and young children), environmental concerns, and other high priority items.
Community colleges probably are getting their share of the
pie.
If we have a reservation about state support, it would
relate to the number of full-time equivalent students which
the state is willing to support. We believe that community
colleges were organized to serve everybody who seeks admission . LCC has stretched its staff to serve nearly 2,000
FTE students in the last few years beyond the number
supported by the state. It has been a heavy load and I
don't think we can continue this policy. It now appears
that LCC may be funded by the state to accommodate
7,348 next year and 7,788 the following year. If additional
fairly balanced with the expenditures of those who are the
financial supporters. We live in an era of spiraling inflationary costs and increasing limitation of resources producing a cost-price squeeze that will inflict some hurt on
everyone.
The options that the Board and the entire college community must face now are governed by a simple formula:
Total Dollars
Total Students

= CoSt!S tudent

One factor in this we have learned by hard experience
these past years is that the total dollars do not change .
much in proportion to the other factors. We must get away
from the tantalizing delusion that there are unlimited resources out there somewhere, and all we have to do is just
with a wide variety of offerings in the vocational field.
Hopefully, these offerings will include basic education, job
upgrading, and other career oriented classes.
Unless the State of Oregon accepts its responsibility to
fund the community college system as it grows, f u~ther_
talk about specific goals will become meaningless. Even
as these remarks are printed, Lane is receiving funding
from the state on the basis of 6,150 full-time students in
spite of the fact that it is serving 7,000 and has the
potential for serving even more.
President Schafer has expressed to me his disappointment in having to turn away hundreds of students this
term. If the present enrollment trends continue, this
process will have •to be repeated again this spring.
The abi Iity to meet the educational demands of the
community depends on the Ways and Means Committee
documented justification."
Additional I policy guidance comes directly from the
'Business Office. Since this process considers previous
allocations rather than needs a repetitive budget is created
every year.
Once the department has established a budget, it only
maintains what was done last year. The budget doesn't
include capital outlay expenditures (which includes
equipment replacement) and may be cut by the deans at
any time, at their discretion, based on monies available.
The second half of the process is a New Program
.
Request, which asks for additional money to enhance
programs within the department. But this isn't even considered during the current year. The comments below will
deal only with the 1974-75 budget request. In the 1974-75
school year, the Mass C.Ommunication Department asked
for a total of $585,789, received $212,222, and was cut
again by $7,752. This resulted in a total cut this year of
$381,328 or .65095 [65 percent] of our budget request.
The Mass Communication Department recommendations· were followed in only one area--and then its input
only concerned $3,900. All the remaining reductions were
based on decisions from the Office of Instruction or the
Business Office.
On a one-term basis, the Mass Communication Department can continue doing quality 1NOrk--but it will be
accomplished with stop.gap measures which will force us
to put additional pressure on next year's budget. We are,
in effect, playing catch-up ball-especially in equipment

There has been much discussion around campus in
recent weeks about ''the Spring Term Crunch,'' about a 25
percent reduction in staff next fall, and about The
Proposal which could cost the college $60,000 to
Go/dmark
and
LCC Math Department,
$100,000 during the 1975-76 year. Faculty are more conChairman of the Faculty Council
cerned now than I can recal I in my nine years at the college, concerned about financial decisions and how they are
made. These are the very decisions which affect the
quality as well as the quantity of instruction we will be able
to offer.
In the Mathematics Department where I teach, we
have not been asked to cut our budget for Spring Term.
But unlike prior years we have been told that this year we
will absolutely not be allowed to overspend any account.
That sounds reasonable; you should not spend what you
don't have, right? Maybe! Last year for example, this
department was allowed to overspend in the critical
teaching aides account by over $4,000. And, we were given
no reason to believe it would be different this year, until
recently that is!
Result: We will be making some adjustments Spring
-,
Term. We are going to have to further reduce the number
•
of hours our Math Resource Center will be open. Fall

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local funding is also approved, this will allow us to accept
most of those who want to study here. The big "if " concerns the ability and willingness of our local property tax
payers·to add their share to the state support. They'll have
their say at elections which are scheduled for May 6 and
June 17.
LCC's Board of Education raised tuition last year and
indicated that there probably would be no further increase
for at least a couple of years. I don 't think the Board is
likely to change its mind unless things get a whole lot
worse. Community colleges serve many people who likely
would be forced out of higher education if tuition were
raised much above 20 percent of the cost of educating
them. Our Board has been committed to keeping tuition at
or below that 20 percent level.
Consideration may be given, however, to raising the
maximum number of units (credits) for which tuition is
charged from 10 to 12. Or a policy could be adopted of
paying for each and every unit taken. These are questions
which the Board may well be addressing yet this spring.
It's impossible for growing community colleges to live
within the 6 percent budget limitation. The 6 percent
allowable increase applies to local tax support and that
ask and they will come flowing in.
This leaves only a few basic options open to the Board.
(1) close " the door" a little, (2) close "the door" a lot, or
(2) find and institute more efficient educational techniques. Every avenue open to accomplish that which will
do the best job for the most at a reasonable cost needs to
be explored, analyzed and then the best effected, realizing
that there are many secondary causes and effects possible
which are interrelated with the basic options.
Hopefully the legislature can help us resolve partially
the situation we face with overenrollment this year and the ,
projected enrollment increase for next year. Being guided
by the principle of putting the money where the students
are would help LCC substantially. Realistically though, we
must also face the fact that their resources are also limited;
and they have implied that increasing resources from them

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represents only 33 percent of the total budget. The 6
percent allowable growth thus really represents only a 2
percent increase.
We never stop looking for real istc ways to cut costs
without reducing the quality of programs. From time to
time I'm sure you've heard of things we're doing. But ,
eliminating Summer Term and transfer courses are not
presently ways to save money. Transfer courses, for the
most part, bring us more income than it costs to offer
them. The earnings are used to underwrite the voe-tech
programs, which cost far more to offer than the revenue
they generate. If we become strictly a voe-tech school,
costs would soar out of sight.
\/\/hat we're looking for are ways to teach students as
well or better at lower cost. The Goldrnark Project, which
the TORCH described, could be one such means. It takes
some initial seed money, however, and a lot of faith and
willingness to experiment to discover acceptable alternate
instructional modes. LCC's staff is nationally known for its
innovative spirit; I'm sure that this college will be among
the leaders in finding ways for individual teachers to reach
more students without loss of instructional quality.

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Dr. Eldon Schafer

may mean increasing state control, with the resultant
decrease in local control. This I oppose.
The Board has committed itself not to raise tuition for
the coming fiscal year and it should honor that commitment-unless the student body would suggest an increase
which would allow more students to attend LCC.
The challenge ahead is enormous, but exciting. Many
key decisions need to be made in the near future which will
have long-term effects on the college and those it serves.
My hope is that we can always remain a truly diverse community college dedicated to the goals for which it came
into being, and that the various pressures on the college
will not have a distorting affect on the decisions made by
the Board. To maintain a balanced perspective for the
general good of all elements of the college community will
require openness, hard work, dedication, strength and
fearlessness.

allocating the $69.7 million to the community colleges
without delay.
At the same time, it is imperative that the state begin
to meet its obligations to provide $1.3 million for
construction that was financed under an agreement that
was made when the initial $10 million capital construction
bond issu~ passed several years ago.
In spite of the potentially grim conditions under which
Lane may operate during the rest of the year, I am
optimistic that some of the inadequate funding programs
of the past can be overcome and that funding for the future
will be provided on the basis of realistic registration
figures, not estimates.
In the same way I am djsturbed by the fact that many
potential students cannot attend Lane and advance themselves up their career ladders. My optimism is maintained

in this regard, however, and I am confident that soon the
community and the state legislators will realize the many
urgent needs of the community colleges around the state
must be met and assume their responsibilities in this
,
matter.
One action by the students, administration and staff
that is valuable to me and other legislators as well, is to
have them write their state representative as well as their
other elected officials and work through the system to
change the policies and procedures. Positive results have
a better chance of being implemented if you can bring
specific problems and some recommended solutions in the
form of written or oral testimony to the committee
hearings in Salem.
I look forward to members of your community college
contacting me soon with your individual views. I will
respond to them to the best of my abi Iity.

replacement. Within the next six months over one third of
the equipment in the department must be replaced-and
when daily breakdowns occur no money is available to
replace the worn out item.
We might add that there are changes the college
business manager is making in the budget planning
process. For example:
A budget process is being planned by the Business
Office that begins with a base budget, its increases
considered only as revenue is available, instead of cutting
funds after money hi:15 been allocated.
A prioritized system is being worked on by the Office
of Instruction, listing all the disciplines and curricula on
campus, so that cuts can be made on a priority basis rather
_
than arbitrarily.
Yet even with these improvements, two areas exist that
need to be worked on before next year-the bureaucratic
restraints, including inaccurate, late, computer printouts,
and a voter awareness program.
One of the first survival tactics a new department
chairman at Lane learns is how to manipulate the system
so he can accomplish the goal of providing learning
experiences for students. Space does not now permit
extensive discussion of this topic, but conditions must
improve with more flexibility going to the departmentsotherwise deceptive budget practices could result.
Part of the present aura of bureaucratic distrust stems
from the late computer printout of department expendi.tures. Because the printout is late some departments are

force<j to maintain their own records. Quite often entries
vary from actual purchase prices, creating a situation
where the department records and the computer sheet
never balance.
Most institutions have recognized that they must have
a ''program'' to make the voters aware of their problems 1
and to increase popular support.
The American Association of Junior Colleges estimated
in 1968 that by 1970 junior colleges would have over 2.5
million students enrolled while their public information
efforts are negligible in paying for their dymanic expan,
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sion.
Most two-year institutions do try to keep local newspapers informed, but lack of professionalism is obvious in
colleges' disregard for other publications. Only 20 percent
of the community colleges release information to
newspapers outside their immediate region. Television
receives virtually no attention in spite of the recent studies
indicating people receive most of their news from that
medium. Radio receives little better attention. And no
colleges check the effectiveness of information releases.
Lane is not an exception. But to survive it must be an
innovator in public information.
These problems are not the end of the Mass Communication Department. The department will continue, but
many people will anguish-the staff will wince because it
knows it can be better; the students will complain because
they want it better. And the bureauracy will shake its head
because it gets the blame.

Term we were open 57 hours per week; Winter Term it was
40 hours per week, and Spring Term it will have to be cut
to 30 hours per week. This is the independent study area
of Math I, II, Ill, Elementary and Intermediate Algebra,
the very portion of the department that costs the least per
FTE student!!! Why reduce here? Because the personnel
who work in that area are paid from the teaching aides
account which is now less than was planned.
Result: Some students will most probably be turned
away at least in that section of the Mathematics Depart- /
ment. Other than the Math Resource Center, this department will be offering about the same number of sections of
courses as previously. If more students arrive than can be
.accommoaated by those sections, then, of course, those
students will be turned away. There is no source of funds
for additional sections.
Looking to the year 1975-76 .... Should the college
fai I to get a budget passed, we wi II be forced to operate
within the tax base. All departments have been asked to
preapre a budget for 1975-76 which would allow the
college to stay within its tax base. We've been told this
For the
would be a 25 percent reduction in staff.
Mathematics Department this would mean three of our

faculty members who now have contracts would not be
employed. Clearly this implies fewer students will be
served. The door will be closed. I say this is a clear implication because I firmly believe that an increase in class
sizes to accommodate a large number of additional
students has a serious negative effect on the quality of
education available. It concerns me greatly that we are
constantly told we must tighten our belts, teach larger and
ever ·Iarger classes and so on. My belief is that if the
taxpayer is unwilling to fund good quality education
(which incidentally should be defined by the professionals
in the field-Le. faculty members), for ·the number of
students who want to come, then we must provide quality
education for a lesser number of students. We owe it to
the student, the taxpayer, and ourselves to offer
something of value.
In the early years of the college we were justly proud of
our small classes. Our students told us they were learning
more, that they were getting their money's worth. It is my
hope that those days are not gone. Also, I would hope that
we do not initiate other methods of instruction which
would tend to further impersonalize the teaching/learning
process.

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I'm writing this in the hopes of stirring
1p some student presence at the next LCC
Board of Education meeting. The date is
\1arch S and the issue is called Goldmark.
_G oldmark is being presented as a
mpplcmcnt to having a human teacher,
:rnt can so easily spill over into replacing
.• rhe teacher that the possibilities for
jestroying quality educational experience,s
are frightening.
Goldmark represents an advance slidesound combination which some of you have
seen on TV in the guise of advertising. It is
the technical policy of the system which
'• would allow Gold mark to so easily slide
, into and take -over the classroom. While
the use of human instructors at close-range
places quick limitations on the size of
classes, Goldmark lends itself notoriously
well to class expansion limited only to the
number of people that may be crowded
around a view_ing screen.
Those of you with any experiences at
other schools where you cram literally
hundreds of students into an auditorium
with however many viewing screens the
powers-that-be feel are necessary, should
make those without that type of experience
aware of its ugliness.
This cannot really be a supplement; that
claim, however well felt, must face the
question of why we need another supplement rather than putting the $150,000 the
Board of Education proposes to invest in

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Chi Alpha. Hea 101. 12 noon
Women for Equality. Cen 113, 4

Black Art Festival, Uo"
Over Eaters Anonymous, First
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Piano Co~cert. Beall Hall. UO. 8

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•Student Senate, Adm 202, 3 p.m
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To the Editor:
We, as students at Lane Community
College, lend our joint support to all veterans in the State of Oregon with regard to
Senate Bills 232 and 233. These bills are
sponsored by Senators Roberts and Heard,
and Representative Dereli, at the request
of the State Treasurer.
We feel convinced that .support of these
bills is an investment in the future of
Oregon's veterans, as well as a major investment in Oregon's future economy.
Your cooperation is urgently needed to
pass this important veterans' legislation.

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To the Editor:
I would like to commend Mike McLain
for the report he did on the Feb. 13 Senate
Meeting. In my several years at LCC it was
the first time I have seen a report in the
TORCH which briefly outlined all of the
actions taken by the Senate. I am aware
that the reading public wants to know
about the campus controversies, but they
also appreciate a glimpse at other issues,
particularly Senate business issues. Mike
has done an excellent job in such a small
space!
Keep up the good work, Mike!
Jay Jones
Director of Student Activities

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Licensed tax consultant, special
rates to students. Open 8 a.m.
to 9 p.m. daily. 37 East 10th,
Eugene, 345- 7851.

Lost~nd Found

LOST: Elementary Ethics textbook lost Feb. 21. If found,
please contact Bill Morganti,
344-8571, or leave text in Social
Science Office.

STOLEN: An unglazed ceramic
bird beast, approx. 12" high,
fired Friday, Feb. 28. It has a
tear shaped body, 2 front legs, a
long neck and a removable head
with an "elephantine" nose and
handle eye. Reward for return.
No questions asked. Mery Lynn,
345-4922, or Craig, AAD 122.

Announcem ents

OSPIRG local board of LCC will
have an information table in the
Cafeteria Wednesday through
Friday, March 5, 6, 7, from
11:30 to 2. Free pamphlets and
information will be provided
concerning OSPIRG's research
projects.

ENGLISH TUTORS offer free
help and assistance on comp
papers, . poetry, and whatever
you need. Drop in anytime to
Center 467 and get the help
you've already paid for.
Women for Equality will meet
Wednesday, March 5, at 4 p.m.,
Room 113 Center. All women
welcome!
The LCC Baha'i Club invites you
to participate in an open discussion on the teachings of
Baha'u'llah and the coming
New World Order Wednesday,
12 noon, Health 109.

h-' Julie 0Ycrton
Uo you think abortion is a viable
solution to the population problem?
Marty Stephens - Social Science
"No. I'm pretty much against it. I'm
not a woman so I can't be very
objective, but no, it won't solve any
population problem."
Julie Christiansen - Physical Education
"I think it has helped stop unwanted
babies from being bom, but I don't
think it's the one answer, to stop the
world from getting any bigger."
Mike Paulson - Business
"I think it depends on the circumstances and the people involved."
Clark Smith - General Education
"I really had to stop and think about
it with what happened to that doctor. If
the kid is aborted in the first three
months I think it's ok, otherwise it gets
a little complicated. I think in the future
'it's going to really show results in
controlling the population."

Rita Samoan - English
"I'm glad to see legalized abortion.
It's about time people started wising
up and realizing that abortion should be
a personal choice and not something the
~ovemment decides."
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Agenda available

A copy of the LCC Board Meeting
Agenda will now be posted on the Student
Senate Bulletin Board, in the Student
Activities area of the Center Building.
Anyone interested in Board business can
view the posted agenda on Monday afternoons and can request.to view any specific
documentation in the "Agenda Packet"
from the ASLCC Secretary's Office, immediately adjacent to the Student Bulletin
Board. Upon request, photocopies will be
provided to anyone so requesting.

Positions open
If you are wishing to become involved in
how things are done around your school,
Wednesday is the final day for applications
to be accepted for appointment to the
Institutional Bill of Rights Committee .
Three positions are open on this comCharged with recommending
mittee.
changes in present student rights and
grievance procedures, volunteers are urged to contact Sallie Torres in the Student
Government office.

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organize your field trips, special
interest group travel, individual
personal travel, world wide. No
charge for services. Call Helene
Cary, 687-2805.
Need Help? Call the HOPE Line
345-5433 (345-LIFE), Monday.
thru Friday, 8 p.m. to 12
midnight.

I 1scope

Goldmark into bettering the current statcj
of the art alreadv at the school. With thci
financial problcr{1s that this school faces. itl
is highly unlikely that the faculty could sclli
the Board any new supplements. Why is it
then that the Board wants to get intc
anything like this when the great majorit)
of the departments of this school oppose1
the option of Goldmark?
If the word "money" has skipped
through your head as an answer. you ma)
be onto the right track. The Board sees
this as a good moneymaker, but the::
discussion at their last meeting wa5
notably lacking in thoughts of the possible::
effects in terms of Goldmark's taking over
in the classroom. A student brought the
issue up. not a Board member.
There are no controls to prevent such
takeover in the classroom built into the:
Goldmark system. There exist no written
guidelines to tell us when the machine has
taken over and once that happens, it will be
nearly impossible to change back.
Tell the Board that you are a better
investment than the machine. Tell them
that $150,000 could be better used in the
places ~hat are right on campus now. Do
your best to get it across to them.
March 5, at 7:30 p.m. in the Board Room
on the second level of the Administration
Building.
March S is next Wednesday.
Tell them Crawford Godoley

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Sallie J. Torres, President
for the Associated Students of
Lane Community College

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The Chicano Student Union
meets every Tuesday at 3 p.m.
in Room 404, Study Skills, 4th
floor Center.
Spring Term registration is Just
around the corner. Are you
aware of the many interesting
courses available in Interdisciplinary Studies? For further information contact the Interdisciplinary Studies Department, ..
Ext. 385; or drop by the 4th floor
of the Center Building, Room
493, and talk to Judy.
We still have the car pool at
SRC. If you have signed up and
don't have a phone, you should
come in and check out the other
cards.
Eugene Gay Peoples Alliance
meets every Tuesday evening at
8, 1236 Kincaid. Business
meeting followed by informal
discussion. Phone 686-3327 for
information.
.Christian Science Club meets
each Friday morning from 10 to
11, Room 109, Health. Meetings include the reading of a
brief Scriptural selection, followed by student and faculty
comments. All are welcome to
attend.

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12 noon in the Student Resource
Center.
There will be a delegation of inWashington
dividuals . from
State Umversity visiting the
LCC campus on Wednesday,
March S. They will be in the
Food Services area from 1 to 3
p.m. to talk with anyone interested in transferring to WSU.

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Titans slated for-Ricks

h.Y Kelly Fcnlc_v

Ricks is a college in Idaho that plays
basketball. and that plays basketball well.
They won the league they were in. constructed an 18-8 season record, and will
meet LCC in the Region 18 tournament that
\\'ill begin March 10 at Twin Falls. Idaho.
But the thing about Ricks isn't that they
arc especially good or that they are anything else in particular. The thing about
Ricks is that they think they're going to
beat LCC in the regional play-offs and then
go on to bigger things.
"I think they're a little cocky and
confident," says Titan Coach Dale Bates.
Bates said that in the past Idaho has
usually had stronger teams when the
Region 18 tournaments came around and
that Ricks was probably remembering that

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fact. But mavbe this year, it will be dif•
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ferent.
The Titans arc headed for their first
Region 18 tournament in LCC's history
with a 20-6 season record, the title of
Oregon's best Junior College basketball
team. and ready to win. ff Ricks is -to
sweep them o.ff the floor Monday night.
they have several things to deal with.
First of all. the Titans have a man-toman defense that held opposing teams in
the OCCAA this year to an average 66
points per game. The defense was the best
in the conference and it will be a crucial
part of the Tita·n 's hopes.
"The big thing we'll need is a strong
•defensive game and lots of boards," said
Bates. "If the game turns into a run-and-

20-6 Titans

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Weidig lead the Titans attack the reserves
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gun type of
arc uncommonly strong. "The bench has
Titans."
got to make a big contribution," said
Ricks has a couple of guards that are
Bates. Sophomore Mike Rinehart and
very good and as Bates said, "like to run
freshman Jeff Johnston are the next two in
and burp it up there ." One is Byron
line. and the starting squad will be chosen
Woods, who averages 20 points a game
from these six, according to Bates.
and who was an All American last year for
Whoever wins the game this Monday
the Junior Colleges in the nation. Wally
will then play the winner of the game
Foster is the other one who averages 21
between the College of Southern Idaho and
points a game as a freshman.
Umpqua Community College of Oregon.
But when you start talking about talent,
Umpqua will be going to Idaho with Lane
the Titans are well represented thembecause they won the tournament last
selves. Robbie Smith was just chosen first
week between the next four finishers in the
team All Conference in an Oregon ComOCCAA after Lan e . CSI is ranked 8th in
munity College Athletic Association vote
the nation and Bates feels that if the Titans
and averages 17 points per game. Doug
win against Ricks they will probably play
Ainge was chosen to the second team in the
CSI.
OCCAA and averages 14 points a game.
There is really little doubt to the Titans
Bob Woods, 12 points a game, and Rick
who will win Monday night, though.
Weidig, 11 points a game, received
"We're going to beat them," said
honorable mentions. And Bates has easily
Robbie Smith. That was all he said, and
proved his coaching ability; in eight
Rick Weidig said the same thing. "We're
seasons of community college coaching, he
going to beat th em.•' they said . And
has had five twenty game winning seasons
surely, Ricks had better not be to cocky.
and has won 143 of 213 games.
Although Smith, Ainge, Woods and

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Track team looks strong ... again

By David Martin, member of the Tl'ack Team

"We should have a fairly· balanced
team ,' ' Track Coach Al Tarpenning said of
this year's LCC track team.
The 1975 season began on March 1 with
a non-scoring meet at Portland where the
Titans met Willamette and Portland Universities. Performances from the meet
backed up Tarpenning's statement, as
there was usually at least one Titan in the
top three finishers in nearly every event.
Winners at the Portland meet from Lane
were Gary Bernes in the 440, Al Nordgren
in the Shot, Kelly Graham in the High
Jump, and Larry Goheen in the Long
Jump.
"Our strengths should be in all the field
events, especially the weight events (shot,
discus , javelin and high jump," noted
Tarpenning in an interview conducted a
few days prior to the March 1 meet. "Our
weaknesses will be in the intermediate
hurdles, because· the distance is farther
than in high school, and in the distances,
because we have so many freshmen runners with no college experience. We're
pretty weak in the steeplechase, but only
because we've never run it before." For

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the first time, the steeplechase will be a
part of'the national track meet.
At this time the Titan forte is the high
jump, headed by seven-footer Kelly Graham and six-eighter Bruce Jones, who
were seventh and eighth respectively in
last year's national meet. In addition,
there is Bob Moore, a freshman from
Springfield High School, with a best jump
of 6'9".
The weight events are the only other
areas that appear to be real strong, led by
Al Nordgren, Al Shibley, and Bob Savelich.
All were scorers in either the shot or discus
in last year's State .h igh school meet for
Oregon. Tom Bui:rows is the top man in
the javelin with a best of 219-0, which gave
him fourth in the nationals last year.
"I can't really say what kind of a team
we'll have quite yet. We'll know more
after the spring break. We have several
possible ineligibles and several more
coming off injuries,'' said Tarpenning.
This was apparent at the Portland meet, as
several performers expected to be of great
help this season did not compete.
"We have to be considered favorites for

Confereilce and Region champs because
~e're defending champs. However, we
cannot rest on last year's reputation, or the
year before's."
Titan fans should learn these names, as
they will most likely be some of the best
competitors in Region 18 track and field:
Rod Cooper, Jeff Boak, John Miller, James
Allen, Jon Wallace, Dave Babcock, and
Tom McDonnell in the distances; Gary
Sumnall and Jerome Scovell in the hurdles;
Al Nordgren, Al Shibley, Bob Savelich, and
Tom Burrows in the weights; Kelly
Graham, Bruce Jones, Bob Moore, and
Larry Goheen in the jumps; and Kevin
Tarpenning in the decathlon.
"Our best chances for scoring in •the
national meet this year should come from
Kelly Graham, Bruce Jones, and Bob
Moore in the high jump, Kevin Tarpenning
in the decathlon, Tom burrows in the
javelin and triple jump, and Rod Cooper in
the three-mile ," Tarpenning said.
Tarpenning, Burrows, and Cooper are all
returning scorers from the national meet
last year. "There are possibilities from the
shot men, the distance men, and the

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hurdlers; like I said, though, it's too early
to know much right now,'' Tarpenning
commented.
"We have four goals as a team this
year," stated Tarpenning. "Have a good
season, to become Conference champs, to
become Regional champs, and to continue
improving. Not everyone can be a
champion, but everyone can improve."
People interested in coming out for track
should contact Al Tarpenning in the PE
Department.

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