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effects it has, although these effects may not be really
considered in depth or appreciated. This is no wonder as
drinks such as coffee and colas are constantly presented as
part of sociable and fun activities. In fact, it's hard to avoid
having coffee shoved at you.
If you drink coffee or other caffeine-containing beverages •
realize that you don't get the taste or the effects that you want
without the harmful ones. Know that it is an addicting,
destructive drug. And the next time that you invite someone
over for a friendly cup of coffee, try_to have herbal tea or juice
instead.
by Barbara ConneHy
(Sources: "The Consumer's Union Report--Licit and Illicit
Every morning the cafeteria is filled with students siaruu 5
their day with coffee and donuts. The coffee is often an · Drugs" and "Eater's Digest" by Michael Jacobson.
all-day companion, as it is with many workers. What is the
effect of all this coffee, and especially of it's major
constituent--caffeine? (We'll get to the donuts another time.)
First of all, caffeine is a drug. Because it is not only legal
but also strongly socially accepted and encouraged, many
people don't think of it as a drug at all. Caffeine in modest
doses (2-3 , cups of coffee) stimulates the central nervous
sy~m, affects the heart rate, heart rhythm, blood vessel
diameter, cotonary circulation, blood pressure, and urination.
The secretion of gastric acids is stimulated, a concern to
people with peptic ulcers. It increases the basic metabolic
rate an average of 10 per cent.
People drink coffee for it's stimulting functions--it produces
fast and clearthinkin__gand allays boredom and fatigue, mainly
affecting the mental functions of the cerebral cortex. Motor
activity is increased, although caffeine-induced tremors may
interfere with activity requiring coordinated muscular
movement.
editor Rick Bella
One problem with using coffee for these functions is that
associate
editor
Mike Mclain
people develop tolerance to it, the effects gradually fading
news editor Jan Brown
with the same dose. To get the desired effects, you must
dtink_more. This is one feature of it's addicting quality.
feature editor Mike Heffley
.Another such feature is physical dependence. Withdrawal
photo editor • Ed Rosch
symptoms include depression following the excitation of the
central nervous system, headaches and irritability. You end
sports editor Kelly Fenley
up "lower" than you were before you drank the coffee, unless
ad
manager Mike Abbott
you dtink more. Once a habitual user, it is physically painful
to ,quit. Meanwhile, its destructive effects are working on
production. Linda Cuyler
your insides.
Fred Jones
Caffeine does it' s greatest harm in excess. Cafeinism is a
Shauna Pupke
condition of chronic poisoning, indistinguishable from
anxiety attacks. One gram {7-10 cups of coffee) produces
Barbara Taylor
acute toxic effects--insomnia, heart irregularities and
feature writer Kathy Craft
palpitation, slight fever, and restlessness which may progress
to mild delirium. The essential oils of coffee may also cause
reporters Cindy Hill
gastrointestinal irritation and diarrhea, whereas the high
Ju lie Overton
tannin content of tea tends to cause constipation.
photographers •Linda Alaniz
A cup of coffee and one No Doz tablet each contain around
100 milligrams of caffeine. Caffeine is also found in the kola
Peter Reiter
nut, from which cola drinks are made, 40-70 miliigrams in one
Roger Whang
12 oz. serving. One ounce of cocoa contains SO milligrams
caffeine. It's also found in the ilex plant from which mate tea
Tim Messmer
comes.
Bob Norris
The existence of caffeine in substances other than coffee is
especially important in relation to children.
Caffeine
advertising staff A Ian Cockerill
stimulates children even more strongy than it does adults,
Gerry Dennis
and may cause them to be hyperactive and nervous. Parents
Mc
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of
Oregon
Commu
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Coll
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. ofteri forbid children coffee but give them colas and soft
Oregon Nc1,n papcr Publishers Association.
T h e T ORC H is pub lis h ed o n Tuesdays throughou t the regu l ar
drin~s, also unhealthy for them.
~rademic vcar.
Opinio0s expr essed in th e TO RCH arc not necessar ily t hose of the
One area of unknown danger is the possibility of birth
(.·ollcgc , the student bod). all members of the TORCH staff. or those of the
rrli l or.
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defects, which caffeine has been shown to cause in animals . .
t- orumS arc intl'ndca to be a ma rketplace for free ideas and must be
limited to 500 \\Ords. Letters to the edi tor arc limited to 250 words.
People may be either more or less sensitive than other species
Correspondence must be typed and signed by th e aut ho;. Deadline for all
submilii'iions is Thursday noon.
of animals to these chemicals, so it' s unknown whether or
The editor reserves thr riJ;tht to edit for matters of libel and length .
how much caffeine causes birth defects in humans.
All corrcspondCncc shoul d be typed or pr inted. ctouble-spaced and
signed by the wr iter. M ail or b ring all cor rc~po ndcnce to: TORCH.
When asked why they drink coffe~, people usually reply
Center 206. Lane Community College. 4000 East 30th Avenue . Eugene.
Oregon 97405; Telephone 747-4501. Ext. 234.
that it gives them a lift, helps them wake up, that they feel a
need for it; There is soI1_1e understanding of the strong drug

Coffee:
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or everyone's fiend?

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Dispite the
overwhelming
opposition
from faculty,
classified employees, and
students, the
Board voted
4tolto
dedicate
$150,00
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aid

Community College
emergency funds

reserved

Board approves Coldmark system

by Rick Bella
The LCC Board of Education supported
the Administration and overrode overwhelming faculty opposition in voting to
support participation in the_ Goldmark
Rapid Transmission and Storage System in
its meeting last Wednesday evening in the
Board Room of the Administration Building.
The Board voted 4-1 in favor of joining
the 18-college consortium which will
John
design courses for the project.
Barber of Junction City ab,;tained because
he said that he didn't have enough
information to make a decision. Board
Member Richard Freeman was vacationing
in California.
The Goldmark plan, a system of video
transmission, will allow LCC to broadcast
courses over cable to outlying parts of the
school district. With the proper translator,
the programming could be pumped out
over OEPBS-TV.
The project will cost LCC an initial
investment of $22,500. The investment
will total 150,000--to be paid off at the rate
of $25 per "FTE student" that the project
generates.
The meeting kicked off with a statement
read by the lone dissenting Board Member, Jim Martin, reading a statement from
the LCC Veterans Association. The letter
stated opposition.
Then Jim Snow, chairman of the Faculty
Council, read the results of a faculty vote in
which opposition to the project was clearly
stated: Yes-2 departments, No-17 departments. (Counseling abstained as it was felt
that it was not applicale in their case.(

SALEM (ENS)The Joint Ways and Means Education
Subcommittee has voted to , put $500.000
in an emergency reserve fund in the event
that community college enrollments exceed
the next
official estimates during
biennium.
The emergency fund allocation is an
addition to nearly $69 million the subcommittee has already voted to allocate to
the Board of Education for the operation of
the state's community colleges during the
next biennium.
The $69 million figure is Governor Bob
Straub's recommendation and represents a
47 per cent increase over the appropriation
made last biennium.
Based on Fall '74 enrollment, Straub's
staff has predicted a state-wide Full Time
Equivalency (FTE) . enrollment of 91,763
during the next biennium. The Eduction
. Coordinating Council (ECC) thinks . that
figure is too low.
The ECC, using enrollment figures from

Snow continued with statements from
experts on the inadvisability of implementing electronic teaching aids in the school
system.
He concluded •by saying "It is the
opinion of your faculty. by overwhelming
majority. the participation of LCC in this
program would be a serious misuse of
public funds on a high-risk venture neither
proven nor tested."
He also stated that in joining the
consortium, LCC may be purchasing
courses which it does not need. He added
"The needs of Los Angeles City Community Colleges are different from those of
the LCC district.''
Brauer of
Board Member Albert
Florence said that he "could not believe
that basic courses will be that different
here, or anywhere else.''
Board Member Lauris added that "Today in Lane County there are 5,000 adults
by C. Rofer
who cannot read." _
The Comprehensive Employment and
In regard to innovative spirit, Brauer
said "I don't know what's turned the coin Training Act (CETA), designed to provide
jobs and training for people with a history
around, but something sure has."
With little more delay, a motion was . of unemployment, is creating its own
problems for LCC.
passed to participate.
In other action at the meeting:
•John Elliott, chairman of the Mass
"difficulty of
Communiction Department, was asked by
•President Schafer to head the Publicity
creating jobs"
Committee for the May 6 election.
• A Budget Calendar, along with the
bones of next year's budget which will be
Hank Douda, LCC director of personnel
hammered out, was approved. The final
services, commented on some of the
meeting is set for May 7, immediately after
"knotty problems" that CETA has brought
the election. This will allow what Assistant
to the campus. In an interview last week,
to the President Burt Dotson calls ''time
Douda said labor union contracts, discrimfor final alteration."
inatory employment practices, and the
difficulty of creating jobs are becoming'
confused areas with regard to individuals
employed with CETA money.
Those employed under the CETA Section 6 provision are not given any
prominent people from the community who
guarantee of continued employment after
work with an executive secretary appointCETA funds run out, Douda said. They
ed by the- college. The members ·are
are, however, eligible as regular emappointed by the Board of Education, serve
ployees for union membership and the job
voluntarily and receive no pay. Comprotection afforded to regular employees.
mittees have no formal authority and serve
Douda indicated that this could become a
only to give advice !o the college in the area
problem if general fund money is not
in which they are concerned.
available to retain them when federal
The lay members of the committee have
money is gone.
not yet been _selected but Elliott expressed
hope that they would be by this Friday.

CETA brings 'Knotty problems'

Information advisory committee formed
by Mike McLain .
A new lay advisory committee is being
formed to assist the Information and Publications Department in getting information
to the public, and John Elliott, chairman of
the Mass Communication Department, has
been appointed as its Executive Secretary.
Elliott, whose department has recently
had its operating funds cut for the
remainder of the year due to the college's
budget difficulties, s.iad that one of the
initial functions of the committee will be to
assist in the dissemination of information
in preparation for the upcoming budget
elections in May and June.
But, he added that the college has
needed a better system for information
"instead of having to gear up for elections
like politicians.''
LCC' s Information and Publications Depart!11ent has, according to Elliott, "been
fragmented in the past. It had neither the
authority nor the resources to do the job."
He said that the new committee will act as
a compliment to the department, adding
the expertise of people in the community.
He stressed that ''it will not be the committee's intent to try to influence the public
in favor of LCC in the upcoming elections,
but to facilitate the information flow; to
communicate with the constituents about
our problems, and our programs."
Lay advisory committees consist of

19-hour limit retained
Editor's Note: In a page 1 story in the
March 4 TORCH, it was stated that a 15
hour student limit was being considered for
Spring Term. Bob Marshall, registrar,
said that student hour limitations will
remain the same as previous terms. Any
student may still register for 19 hours and
may petition the Director of Admissions for
additional class hours.

Winter '75 has predicted a state-wide
enrollment during the next biennium of
92. 948 FTE and has asked for about
• $800,000 more than what the Governor has
recommended.
The subcommittee wrestled with the two
different enrollment figures and dollar
t'equests all through the work sessions
before finally approving the Governor's
- request.
approval of
If the subcommittee's
straub's recorrimendation is accepted by
the full committee, and then by the full
legislature. LCC will have a total operating
budget of over $ l O million for the next two
years. This is an increase of 26 per cent
over the budget from this biennium.
The other construction decision that
must be made is where to spend new
construction dollars.
What certainly is the policy of Chairer
Rep. Vera Katz, D-Portland, and seems to
be the feeling of the rest of the members, is
that new construction dollars should be
spent on emerging campuses such as
Chemeketa and Roque.
To date, the subcommittee has approved
the spending of over $4 million to be used
as partial support for new construction
The
project on community campuses.
remaining construction funds, like additional operating funds, must come from the
tax payers living in the college districts.
Lane is not scheuled to receive any state
money during the next biennium for
support of new construction projects.

One of the grounds for hiring on which
discrimination is forbidden by federal law
is that of economic need. But Douda
pointed out that the CET A program itself
screens applicants on this basis, and sends.
them to potential employers to be considered for jobs. Douda feels that this
apparent inconsistency has accounted for
some of the controversy surrounding the
hiring of some employees.
The college is not permitted, under
CET A rules, to hire personnel for any job
Which would otherwise be performed by
regular employees, according to Douda.
When regular college personnel are laid
off or their contracts are not renewed,
other employees in their department are
often placed in a position of assuming the
extra load in order to fulfill vital needs of
their department.
This automatically disqualifies the position as a CET A job.

"get-we/1-slo.v/y program"
Douda is sympathetic to the needs of
people who have been unemployed for a
long period to have ''food on the table.''
But he sees CET A as part of a "get-wellslow" program.

Commencement c·e remony interest under ~crutiny

by G. Dennis
Due to lack of interest, there may be no
future commencement ceremonies at LCC.
President Eldon Schafer has requested a
survey of LCC staff and students that will
determine if there is current interest in
commencement ceremonies. The result of
this survey, now being taken by Student
<\ctivities Director Jay Jones, will aid
Schafer in deciding if LCC should continue
having commencement cermonies.
The issue has been raised because of the
poor turnout at the 1974 ceremony in
comparison to the 1973.
According to Grace Cammeron, supervisor of student records, in 1973 approximately 550 students graduated from LCC.
The commencement ceremony was attended by 200 students. In 1974 approximately
the same number of students graduated,
but only 80 students attended graduation
ceremonies.
Cammeron says that sh~ doesn't know
why the 1974 attendance dropped, but
apparently ''what we did last year was not
meaningful to students ... why, we don't
know.'' Cammeron also points out that
LCC commencement cermonies '' generally
didn't have faculty support."
Jack Powell, co-chairman of commencement activities, feels that the college needs
a "long hard look at comencement ... to
see where we stand." Powell said, "If we
have a decided indication that there is a

lack of interest from the survey, or if this
year fias a poor turnout then there is a
possiblity that there would be no future
commencement."
In 1973 Powell felt that the students,
mainly vocational and technical students,
wanted a ceremony to represent the ending
of their education." The 200 student
attendance bore out what he felt. Powell
viewed the 1973 graduation ceremony as a
success, but .he viewed the 1974 com-

mencement program as a dissappointment.
Powell wants to know ''what we did last
year to make commencement attendance
drop.''
Powell pointed out that there is no
out-of-the-pocket cost to students for
commencement. The largest expenditures
.are the diplomas, certificates, folders, and
eostage, which are paid for out of the

College tax money. The bulk of the cost of•
the ceremonfitself, about $300, is paid for
from student body fees.
Jay Jones, co-chairman of commencement activities, says regardless of the
survey results, commencement should
continue.
Jones says that the students are aware of
the ceremonies ~nd those that are interested attend. In spite of the masses that
are not interested in commencement, there
are a few that want a graduation ceremony. " ... if there are no more than 10
we should have it for them.''
He views gt'aduation ceremonies as a
family affair: ''The students and their
families deserve it.'' And he concluded
that both the 1973 and 1974 affairs were
"successful, for those who were there."
LCC also took a survey of all Oregon
community colleges to see if they were
having commencement ceremonies that
were well attended.
All 13 community colleges have some
form of commencement. Even the larger
colleges, Mt. Hood and Portland, not only
have ceremonies but with good responses
.
and attendance.
Schafer is ''Looking for the total ramification of commencement.'' The President
hopes that the results of these surveys will
lead to ''commencement_programs·that are
the best LCC is capable of doing," thereby
increasing student interest.

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LCC campus minister:

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It's a special "office" where "employees" punch the clock, get raises . .. and bite their
Ups when a colleague messes things up.
by Christine Rofer
Hele!}· Lynn of LCC's Business Department has a better idea for preparing students for the professional world they plan
to enter.
She operates a simulated business
office, complete with paychecks and invoices, for six hours each week. Students
are asking for more.
"It's the only class I can get up for at 8
a.m.," says Cincii' Conrad, a student
member of the "office staff."
The "Office" opens busin·e ss the first
week of every term, and each student is
assigned to one of the 15 job titles--ranging
from payroll clerk to administrative assistant. From there on, it's up to them to set
up and run the business, with the help of
Lynn's carefully written procedure manuals and her guidance as Office Manager.
The jobs are rotated periodically throughout the term to provide greater breadth of
experience. The students receive "paychecks'' and several recently got a
''raise.''

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Lynn feels this approach helps develo~
initiative and independence, qualities that
are often lost in the course of traditional
education. She feels that the emphasis on
obedience in education "conditions" peo- ,
pie to depend on authority to direct them.
The problem was apparent at the start of
the program. She says "Office" work
came to a complete halt as students stood
in line at her desk, asking to be told what to
do. The problem was solved with a system
of appointments, and disappeared as the
students acquired more professional attitudes toward their jobs.
"It's the ouly class I can get up for."

The students agree that the class is
"fun," but the greatest benefit is "confidence :" Dorothy Mandis, who has not ·
held a job in an ·office for 27 years, says
she feared that her skills would be
outdated. But the office simulation, she
says, has given her confidence that she can
cope with a business situation again. The
change to electric typewriters, and the
more casual style used in business correspondence, have alerted her to other course
work she wants to pursue before taking a
job.
Student Leore Trojan pointed out that
participating in the simulation has caused
her to bring all her office skills "together,
and to use them.'' She also indicated
greater confidence in her ability as a result
of "not relying on someone else to tell me
what to do," and "searching out the
answer to a problem." She also feels that
all the students are developing greater tact
as they are confronted by each other's
mistakes, and required unsnatl the resulting confusion.

by Barbara T1J,ylor
A committee recommendation approving
a tax status change has sprung OSPIRG
one step doser to its goal.
This recommendation, to allow the
Oregon Public Interest Group (OSPIRG) to
apply to the Internal E,evenue Service (IRS)
for a tax status change came from the
Academic Affairs Committee of the Oregon
State Board of Higher Education (OSBHE).
OSPIRG, controlled under the OSBHE, is
restricted by its current status from
attempting to influence legislature by

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(Editor's Note: When Archbishop Cornelius M. Power came to LCC from Portland
last week. we accidently discovered an interesting person "under our own roof,"
father James Dieringer.)

Church and State--so never the twain shall
meet--could be revised to benefit both
sides.
Dispelling myths about ministers and
churches is a vital part of Dieringer's work.
by Jan Brown
"People have "headlines" about the
Everyday of the week the same man sits church," Dieringer said, "but sometimes a
in the northeast corner of the cafeteria headline is misleading or only tells part of
drinking coffee--but almost never alone. the story.•• A typical misconception is that
If you've seen him there, dressed in he Church, especially the Catholic Church
black, then you've seen him in his office, is authoritarian, dogmatic, domineering
working at his chosen profession.
,and seeks to condemn.
Father James Dieringer, LCC campus
He represents the ideas of the Church,
minister is here to show people someone but points out that the Church is not afraid
cares about them. "I'm here to offer of new ideas, scientific theories. or
counseling, as a sounding board, as a unchristian concepts. Dieringer feels the
shoulder to cry on and to provide a kick in most harmful thing the church could do
the britches if necessary," he said, would be to shut out opposing ideas and
operate with a closed mind.
describing hfs self defined role.
Dieringer is at LCC to answer questions,
Dieringer, who is neither a member of
the faculty or administration and has no but emphasized that his answers are those
office from which to work, has translated of the human being who lives in the clerical
this lack of facilities into the ability to garb. "The Church has no pat answers,"
relate to students on an informal basis. the minister emphasized.
''I'm not here to give the 'correct'
''I'm a low-key representative of the
church. I try not to be a threat to thecollege answers, but to help people understand
Administration. I'm not proselytizing or their problems and enable them to make
trying to make converts to the Catholic their own decisions.''
In most ways, Dieringer is his own man;
church.
"The Church is a valid and legitimate he has no superior giving him orders, he is
part of the community," he added, "and the first LCC minister so he has no •
should be represented at the community tradition to follow. At this time, the
~olleg~. the local market place of free Catholic Church provides about 25 per cent
of . his support, which he supplements by
-tdeas.
Dieringer says the Church and state both teaching woodworking classes in Adult
Education and doing small carpentry jobs.
have hang-ups about their separation.
"I'm sold on the community , college
There must be separation, he emphasized,
but both sides, misinterpreting the original concept. It's my ~chool as well as my place
intention of this law, feel that wherever tax of work. I know its shortcomin_gs and I still
money is concerned the Church cannot ·be think its ideals and people-centeredness is
involved in any form. "Unfortunately, this great. The Church has a great calling to be
puts tax supporting institutions at odds here. Both the Church and LCC operate to
help people solve problems and better their
~with the Church."
He feels the old concept of dividing the lives."

Keepsake Comer

two different stories

Two press releases
The Oregon Stud~nt Public Interest
Research Group (OSPl'!{G) charged today
that serious Oregon D~partment of Revenue errors on tax forms and instructions
couJd deprive some Oregon renters of their
rights to property tax relief.
A 1973 Oregon law allows renters and
homeowners to obtain a property tax
refund from the state.

Lobbying for OSPIRG

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Irritated and confused homeowners and
renters are causing sparks to fly at some
district offices of the Department of
Revenue, according to a Department of
Revenue news release. The confusion
apparently is due, it says, to news stories
following a recent complaint by the Oregon
Student Public Interest Research Group
(OSPIRG) that there was an omission from
the department's instructions in the 1974
income tax packets.

one step closer .

lobbying.
The .law now restricting OSPIRG from
.presenting research to the legislature is the
Lobbying Disdosure Act, a new law of
government ethics, which "requir.es them
to register as lobbyists," according to
Holmer.
A vote of three to two reflected the
mixed feelings among members of the
Board during the meeting Feb. 25.
Freeman Holmer, vice chancellor of Board,
explained that the opposing feelings
stemmed from some doubt as to whether
the Mandatory Incidental Fees collected on
many of State's campuses should be used
by a group independent of the Boara. But
he determined that these feelings were not
shared by most members of the Board, nor
himself.
Holmer thinks that OSPIRG will not

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change if allowed to lobby, except to
"freeing itself from the concern" of losing
its tax exemption under federal law. If this
happens, foundations granting money to
OSPIRG would not continue to receive tax
deductions for their donations.
According to Mark Evans, sec. of the U
of O OSPIRG Board, OSPIRG would go
around this by forming another student
organization parallel to itself with a
different tax status that would not be
The formal
restricted from lobbying.
approval of OSPIRG's request will be
considered by the full state Board March
25. Other groups such as the Sierra Club
have also used this route, says Holmer.
A status change will not affect the basic
resolution of OSPIRG, professes Evans;
research will continue to be the main
objective but dissemination of this research
will be able to prove its own worth.

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Grad jobs tight

news cap

Dental debt downed

by Nan Rendall
(EARTH NEWS)--June graduates are
Do your teeth need cleaning?
going to have a worse time than ever
LCC's School of Dental Hygiene offers
getting jobs, according to the College cleaning and care of teeth for about a third
Placement Council's annual winter em-· what it costs from most private dentists.
ployer poll.
A $6 visit includes:
The poll shows an unexpected four per
an evaluation
cent drop in job openings this June as
cleaning
compared to a year ago. It's the first
polishing
overall drop in four years.
floride application
While engineers will probably have
flossing instruction
seven per cent more job offers than a year
a new toothbrush
ago, the poll predicts that a total of only
nutritional counseling
four per cent of the graduates in the
and even follow-up visits
humanities and social sciences are likely to
Dental hygiene students perform these
find jobs in their own fields.
ser,vices under supervision by their inIt's equally dismal for new Ph.D.s, who structors. The students have been trained
will be getting 17 per cent fewer job offers and are ready to work on patients.
this June than last year.
Second-year students work on the more
complicated cases, and two registered
dental hygienists and a dentist are on duty
at all times. Fillings are not usually made
at the clinic, but x-rays can be taken and
The Elvin Bishop Group will be appear- mailed to the patient's private dentist.
ing in concert March 13, at the Lane
Both students and non-students are
County Fairgrounds, Expo Hall at 8 p.m.
eligible to receive the clinic's services.
Tickets are $5.00 advance, $6.00 at the Patients with a large build-up of calculas
door and are available at Chrystal Ship, (tartar) and plaque are especially useful as
Meier and Franks in Eugene and at subjects for the student hygienists. BleedEverybody's Record Shop in Corvallis. ing and swollen gums are often a symptom
of calculas.
Appointments may be made by phoning
extension 266 on the LCC campus or by
CPS/PNS---Before you bite into that coming into the Paradental Office in Room
succulent tuna-salad ~andwich, Project 207 of the Health Building.
Jona wants to ask you a question:
How many dolphins ~nd porpoises were
. killed last year by the tu.na-fishing industry
~-the "incidental" victims of technology
employed by some of t'1e big brand tunaWe wish to thank the more than 40 packers?
people who suggested over 200 items for
The estimated kill nqis from 200,000 to the new restaurant menu. The following 400,000 annually, according to officials of peo-ple won two free lunches with their Project Jonah, who have launched a sug-gestions which are being included
nationwide tuna boycott in an effort to stop either as a regular or special item. We
what they call a mindless and needless thank them and hope you enjoy the new
slaughter.
menu as much a~ we enjoyed putting it
The practice Jonah W?nts to eliminate is together.
called "fishing on p~rpoise," and is
Darrell Allyn, College Facilities; George
limited to yellowfin tuna, which follow the Alvergue, Social Science; Mark Andrew,
porpoises and dolphins and feed on their student; Frances Clark, Home Economics;
leftovers. Yellowfin comprise 60 percent of Ralph Cook, College Facilities; Terry
the annual US catch, and 60 percent of the Forster, Library; John Gilbert, Correctives;
yellowfin are caught by '1}ulti-million dollar Hohn Howard, Language Arts; Debbie
vessels called purse-seip.ers.
Miller, student.
Jonah's Eugenia Mc~aughton said the
Laurs Oswalt, Student Health Services;
seiners are like the h~ge whale factory- Jim Piercy, Office of Instruction; Linda
boats. The tuna catch is cleaned aboard Riepe, Home Economics; Dave Roof,
the ships, then frozen f~r ultimate delivery Mechanics; Emily Sachs, Business Office;
to the canneries.
Rod Sheperd, student; Ruby Vonderheit,
When a herd of porpQises is spotted, the Language Arts; Arden Woods, Language
seiner drops its speedboats which, under
radio direction from the. big ship's captain,
"herd" the porpoise.s into a compact
bunch.
Then a skiff is dropped, holding one end
of the net. It follows. the big ship in a
by Fred Jones
tightening circle around. the propoises [and
tuna]. Once the net i~ "set," its top is
In the Emerald Empire, where we have
drawn tight like the tqp of a drawstring
lush green plants, we are forced to use
purse, trapping both the sought-after tuna
herbicides to keep weeds under control
and the unwanted porpoises.
despite the tight money situation.
When the catch is hauled aboard, the
But the Director of College Facilities,
tuna are sorted out a~d the porpoises-Bill Cox, said in an interview that •vv~
many badly maimed, a~lready dead from
haven't felt a pinch yet" in using
suffication--are dumped unceremoniously
herbicides to control plants.
back into the sea.
Gary Washburn, grounds keeper for
Jonah has learned that a scientific
LCC, added that we have not used enough
survey shows ''the porp~ise population has
herbicides to feel a pinch in funds. He
been drastically reduced," over the past
estimated the cost at about· $200 a year
two years.
which is less expensive than hiring labor to
Said McNaughton, "~he case is stronger
cut the weeds.
and mo're urgent th?,n ever we had
Cox said, ''We use a chemical cont~~t
thought"--and the boycott has now become
type grass spray on the outside peria hard reality.
meter." Washburn added that it is only
Main targets of the bc;,ycott are Star-Kist
used in the summer time when the fire
Foods, Inc., and Van Caµip Sea Food Co. [a· season is here, he said it is not harmful to
division of Ralston-Puriµa], both of Termiman or animals and diminishes when it
nal Island, California, and Bumble-Bee
comes in contact with the soil.
Seafoods, Astoria, Oregon.
Washburn said that the weeds are
Jonah has urged boycotting consumers
controlled by soil composition testing
to switch to chicken ~alad and to quit
procedures, and Cox added that the college
buying any tuna packed by the producers
uses a Chemical Organic which tests the
named. With few exfeptions, the cans
PH factor and tells whether the soil is
don't say what kind of. tuna is inside, or
alkaline, acid or neutral.
how it was caught. T~is. leaves it up to
Cox also commented that the college
consumers to fmd independent canneries,
uses Stem-Ax which is not a herbicide but
.probably in Washington and Oregon.
is used to kill aphids on trees. It is used
"We don't want t~ put the small,
around the dry line of trees and is then
independent tuna man out of business,"
absorbedby the roots.
says Ms. McIntyre. "What we're against
is agribusiness in the sea.''
Jonah has chosen an 1,mlikely weapon for
their new campaign--a .comic book called
"Net Profit." The book extolls the intelliRachefs Income Tax Servte
gence and friendliness· of porpoises and
Licensed Tax Consultant
dolphins--and describes in graphic detail
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Concert Thurs. night

Porpoises plight

Palate preferences picked

Weed woes worded

Widow wills Wilters

Various vacancies

ASLCC President Sallie Torres reminds
that there are two positions which must be
filled:
Student Health Coordinator
College Budget Committee (2)
Any interested student is asked to
contact Secretary Connie Hood in the
ASLCC offices, second floor, Center Bldg.

RN's can refresh
A refresher course for registered nurses
will be held this summer at LCC.
The course, offered by the LCC. nursing
department, is scheduled from June 23 to
Aug. 15, with registration June 16. A
nurse intending to renew his or her license
should apply first to the State Board of
Nursing.
Tuition will be approximately $150.

.Broadcastors banding
BY Julie Overton
The Oregon Association of Broadcasters
(OAB) will hold their first seminar here at
LCC April 12.
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The Association is a group of people who
have "a very high interest in students,
what they do and what they want,'' says
John Elliott, chairman of the Mass
Communiction Department.
He added that they want ''to put their
efforts into creating an all day seminar for
thoe interested in broadcasting.''
Twenty to thirty broadcasters will be on
campus April 12 for the entire day, holding
seminars dealing with news. They hope
then to break the audience into five
different groups to speak on a one-to-one
basis about news, modern trends in
programming, job entry, and sales.
This will be an interchange between
professional broadcasters and students,
sharing ideas and trends, and giving
students exposure to problems on their
own level.
John Kendall, an FCC lawyer, will be
guest speaker at a luncheon to be held on
that day. His topic will be "ACCESS."
It will deal with the access of peoples' ideas
in the news, radio, and television.
There will be a charge of $5.00 which wffl
go to defray the cost of the luncheon and to
help with transportaion.
If you have any questions, write Oregon
Association of Broadcasters, Allen Hall, U
of 0, Eugene, Oregon, or contact John
Elliott in the Mass Communication Department.

Phys Ed fees fixed

Classes offered by the Health and
Physical Education Department Spring
Term, 1975, which carry special fees
are:
Golf ,. . . . . . . . . . $15.00
Backpacking . . . . . $ 5.00
Scuba . . . . . . . . $25.00
Swimming . . . . . . $15.00
WSI . . . . . . . . . . $15.00
(Water Saf~ty Instructor)

Willamette Welders

The LCC Chapter of the American
Welding Society will host the A WS
Willamettte Valley Section meetng in the
LCC Restaurant on Wednesday, March 5.
A no-host dinner will be provided at 7
p. m., with the meeting immediately following at 7:45 p.m.
J. W. Moeller,
National President of the American Welding Society will be guest speaker. For
further ipformation call Chet Aubrey,
President Richard Schoen, 345-5793. The
meeting is open to tbe public.

by Fred Jones
' 1 One day we received a mysterious
telephone call asking if we would like to
have 200 orchids for the greenhouse."
Freeman Rowe, LCC instructor of biology who was given charge of the orchids,
said the· ehone call came from a lady
(seeking to remain anonymous) whose
husband had died and left them in his
estate. LCC was given the choice to take
all or none--so the Science Department
took all of them.
The orchids are used along with the
other plants for experiments for the
classroom. Rowe said that some of the
orchids have been used by students who
try to raise "starts" from them, which is
extremely hard to do.
Richard Null;a botany instructor said that
some of the orchids have been used to
decorate the campus.
Null continued that he was raising plants
in the greenhouse for his spring botany
class to illustrate the different ways plants
propogate (reproduce).
Null said that
plants are grown from a seedling in the
greenhouse for classroom use.
Null added that the greenhouse is
getting much more use lately because
people are more interested in plants.
The greenhouse is located in front of the
Science Building.

'Seasons' seats sold

Tickets for the Lane Community College
production of ••A Man for All Seasons'',
starring George Lauris as Sir Thomas
More, go on sale .at the LCC box office
March 3. They are $2.50 each and all seats
are reserved.
The box office has previously been
located at the college informatiorr desk in'
the administration building, but beginning
with '' A. Man for All Seasons'' it will be
located in the new performtng arts theatre
at the northeast side of the campus.
Directed by Edward Ragozzino, "A
Man for All Seasons'' is based on the life of
Sir Thomas More in his last years as Lord
Chancellor of ·England during the reign of
Henry VIII. It opens April 4 and runs April
5, 9, 10, and 12. All performances begin at
8 p.m.
Besides Lauris in the leading role, other
cast members include Fred .Pattie as
Common Man, Al Stobel as the Duke of
Norfolk, Wayne Ballantyne as Cardinal
Wolsey, Time Winters as Will Roper, Dick
Reid as Thomas Carnmer, Steve Boregadine as Cromwell, Rebekah Albert as Lady
Alice More, Jule Robinson as Lady
Margaret More, Arnold Laferty as Signor
Chapuys, Alan Wood, as King Henry VIII,
Don Porter as Master Richard Rich,
Mathew Pearl as an attendant, and Sydney
Fortner. a woman.

Awards available

The Eugene area Rotary Clubs are
seeking young men and women as candidates for Rotary Foundation Educational
Awards for study abroad in 1976-77.
Four types of awards are offered:
Graduate Fellowships.
Undergraduate Scholarships
Technical Training awards.
Teachers' Awards.
Deadline for applications is March 15.
For further information write or call the
Presidents of-the Eugene-Springfield area
Rotary clubs, or write ROTARY, Box
10368,Eugene, Oregon, 97401.

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Florence: the Heceta House (so called for
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"The purpose of it," says William Cox,
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Heceta House, ''is primarily for instruction, conference--for retreats ... " not only
by LCC, but by many other organizations.
The idyllic locale, Cox says, while not to be
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'' And then,'' continues Cox, ''true
enough, when I say instruction ... is that it
is away from people, it's away from things.
It has a dormitory that will sleep 19 people
(nine on the women's side and ten on the
men's side), so that you can get down there
in a group atmosphere of a workshop, and
you're not bothered by having to go home,
or out for meals. There's a nice kitchen so
that food can be prepared right there . . .
and you can become an integral group
while you're right there."
Heceta House is on a ten-year lease from
the Forestry Service. LCC is in the fifth
year. Besides the student groups from
LCC the Administration and the Counseling department retire to the grounds for
conferences and workshops.
''Then there are many other off-campus
groups who use it," Cox expands: "the
Boy Scouts, the Girl Scuts, junior high and
high school groups ... some church groups
(not to engage in religious teaching) . . .
the Red Cross, the state nurses' organization, the state dental organization . . .
some from as far away as Washington
State . . . There's only one open weekend
from now until June on the schedule."
Use by LCC-based groups is rent-free,
while "outsiders" pay three dollars perperson-per-night, at a minimum of 17
people.
Heceta House was built by the Coast
Guard in the late eighteen hundreds , a few
hundred yards from the light house there,
which is still in operation. It's a big house,
and LCC met over half its $600 per year
• lease by doing repairs, and remodelling.
~ents collected go towards the operation of

the house (' 'its uses an enormous amount
of oil"), and utilities for the caretakers.
"The caretakers aren't paid a salary, ·
unless we ask them to do some specific
work," Cox says. "But we pay for their
lights and heat.''
Christianson's Resort was donated to
LCC by its heir the late Mr. Christianson' s
son. It's an old fishing resort with six
"auto courts" (cabins), two of which have
been combined for the caretakers. Located
on a freshwater bank at Siltcoos Lake it
much the same purpose as the
fulfiJls
sea-coast estate can housing 16 people.
Along with the cabins is an old store which
can be used for extra sleeping space on
field trips.
"It's not as convenient for groups'
meetings as Heceta House," says Cox,
"because of its decentralized dwellings
and its lack of food facilities ... The science
people are the main ones who use it,
mostly for mushroom identification , wildflower identification, and trees ... And it's
also fairly close to Camp Arago, the higher
education area near Coos Bay, for oceanography. This makes it expedient. "
The projected Siuslaw Skills Center is a
costal holding of a different stamp.
"We' re just literally breaking ground on
that right now, and it's scheduled to be
finished November 16, 1975 ," Cox reveals.
Built on 20 acres of land just north of the
Florence High School , the Skills Center will
be about 10,000 square feet of sub-campus
facilities to LCC, including homemaking,
sewing, classroom , mass media, business
areas , welding and mechanics shops--all of
which have hitherto been conducted in
rented or donated areas in Florence.

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by Rick Bella

"You would be amazed at how much you
can learn from the African natives--their
honesty and humiiity--their simplicity."

I was amazed, not with the -subject of
hospital work in Africa, but at the man. A
member of the LCC Board of Education for
eleven years, a physician, and a member of
the Florence Board of Education, Dr.
Albert Brauer stands as a model of
integrity in Lane County. An Oregonian
for 17 years, originally from Nebraska,
Brauer received is MD degree at the U 0
Medical School and interned at Sacred
Heart Hospital in Eugene.
As I left his comfortable Florence home,
I felt that I had gained more than just an
interview.

TORCH--"Dr. Brauer, I was wondering
if you could tell us how you view the needs
of the district you represent, and how those
needs may be different from the rest of
Lane County.''
Brauer-- "Certainly. I represent an area
from about Elmira west this way (towards
Florence). It is the most unique district in
the county simply because of its geography. It is long and narrow, with a population that centers on the coast--over the
mountains. The people here sometimes
feel that the people in Eugene-Springfield

do not consider their feelings or needs in
administrative decisions.
"A 'community college' is essentially a
'commuter's college.' But that is largely
impossible here due to that geographical
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problem.
'' People would prefer to go to college in
the area that they live. Their parents
would prefer that, too. The best compromise that we could institute was a token
tuition discount for people living in the
fringes of the school district.''

and still carry with them some rather
parochial attitudes. We are trying to
broaden the scope of these people with
anything which will help the cultural and
educational environment.
''One major step will be the Siu slaw
Skills Center. This will offer a variety of
courses, both vocational and college transfer--things which will improve and enrich
their lives.''
TORCH--"How do you try to relate these

different needs and attifudes to the
Board?''
Brauer--"Well, as a Board member, I
must try to speak· for everyone in the
county. When the original Board was
formed we committed ourselves to be the'
vehicle in Lane County to give people the
chance to get an education as broad as
possible. We feel that we must honor that
original commitment, or we would be performing a disservice. So while I do not
specifically lobby for our interests, I try to
make them all aware of the differences."

TORCH--"What about the people? Are
they very different from the people in
Eugene-Springfield?''
Brauer--"Just- having the University in
Eugene has had many diverse effects on
the community--generally positive.
'' A much higher percentage of people
there are oriented toward participation in
post-secondary education. It has been my
aim to try to make available the same sort
of benefits to the people on the coast. I
have supported anything which would seek
and promote exposures of the advantages
of continuing education.
"We find ourselves in the situation
where we have to deal with less motivation;
the people are not taking advantage of the
opportunities available to them.
'' Unfortunately, a higher proportion of
the people here are welfare recipients than
in Eugene. fyfany of them originally moved
here in an attempt to retreat from society

Wildlife face · extinction; commission works for inclusion on protected list
The Oregon Wildlife Commission recently reorganized a list of 12 animals
which are considered to be endangered or
threatened in Oregon.
The list includes four mammals, seven
birds, and one amphibian. It was compiled
by an endangered species task force of
biologists from state and federal resource
management agencies and universities.
Some_of the species are permanent residents of Oregon; others are seasonal
visitor~.
Five species are considered endangered,
meaning they are in danger of extinction
throughout all or a significant portion of
their ranges. Included in that category are
the Columbian white-tailed deer, California brown pelican, Aleutian Canada goose,
American peregrine falcon, and arctic
peregrine falcon.
A threatened species, according to
Wildlife Commission sources, is one which
is likely to become endangered within the

foreseeable future throughout all or a significant portion of its range. In Oregon,
threatened species include the sea otter,
wolverine, and kit fox; the northern bald
eagle, northern spotted owl, and western
snowy plover; and the western spotted
frog.
Many factors can cause a species to
become threatened or endangered. Habitat
destruction or change; overutilization for
commercial, sporting, scientific, or educational purposes; predation or disease;
inadequate laws and other natural or
man-made factors can substantially affect
the continued existence of a species.
One example given by the Commission is

the sea otter, which was overutilized for its
fur around the turn of the century, and was
They have,
eliminated from Oregon.
however, been reintroduced. Wolverines
have lost substantial habitat to logging and
human encroachment. Kit fox and Columbian white-tailed deer are both extremely
The
vulnerable to habitat alterations.
falcons and pelicans are susceptible to persistent pesticides and the Aleutian Canada
goose is declining due to predation by the

arctic fox. The fox was introduced into the
breeding grounds of the goose without regard for the delicate balance which was
later proven to be upset.
The spotted frog has been supplanted in
many areas of western Oregon by the
introduced buTifrog and in eastern Oregon
by the leopard frog.
All these species are not protected under
the federal Marine Mammal Protection
Act, Endangered Species Act, or state law.

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stationing the center in a lounge adJacent
to the women's restroom in the Center
Building. snackbar area.
Sandven. recalling the decision to use
the lounge. said "We had reached a dead
end through official channels in locating
space in which to establish a center. The
group •'was getting pretty bummed out
about the whole situation.'' she said, when
a woman present at a WE meeting suggested the lounge as a possible site for the
center: "We all got up and went over to
look at it and said, 'Why not'?"

or whatever." both for use in the Center
and in tbe glass showcase in the snackbar
WE is involved in several other activities
as well. It was the initial force in bringing
to LCC last month the Co-Respondents, a
feminist readers-theatre group. "We felt
that went over really, really well, she
noted. ••A lot more people came than we
expected, which was good. and there
seemed to be a real rapport between the
audience and the performers.''

Soon afterwards the group held a work
party at the lounge furnishing it with literature and posting information concerning
upcoming events of interest to women.
Thus the LCC Women's Center was
"opened."
Sandven considers the Center a success,
although she acknowledges some difficulties. '• Almost every tirhe I go in there
someone is sitting in there reading the literature. Unfortunately, some people are
leaving it kind of messy and a lot of our
magazines and pamphlets have disappeared. I just hope they're taking them home
and reading them."

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modest, and that it fell short of original
hopes of having a staffed Center replete
with telephone and other conveniences.
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She said the organization would appre"We're not man-haters.
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Ruth Sandven

Members of WE have organized one
"support rap group" according to S_a?d·ven, and are in the process of orgamzmg
others.
"Sign up sheets are posted in the Center
for women interested in getting into a
group." she explained. She added that
men interested in forming male support
groups could contact members of WE for
information on ''how to get them going.''
She also said WE plans to attempt to form
male-female rap groups in which members
of both sexes could discuss aspects of
changing roles in society.
Events WE has scheduled for the future
include a rape study workshop to be held at
LCC Saturday, May 10. The group plans to
have a variety of speakers discussing rape,
including a policeperson, a psychologist,
and a lawyer. A film by Frueda Bartlett
entitled "Sexuality" will also be shown,
and discussions will be held afterwards.
Members of the group also plan to stage
a petition drive to protect "women's right
to abortion,'' Sandven said. She explained
that many people are unaware that the
current legal status of abortion is in
danger, with a variety of legislation,
including constitutional amendments, being introduced to prohibit abortion both at
federal and state levels. Along with the
petition drive members will try to e~courage LCC faculty and students to wnte or
wire their representatives in Congress to
preserve the current legal status of
abortion.

and May. The six-session course, scheduled for Monday nights, will examine such
issues as the politics of rape, rape
legislation, rape prevention, and methods
of dealing with and helping rape victims.
The fee for the class is six dollars.
The group . also is scheduled to participate in the rape workshop which Women
for Equality, an LCC club, is planning for
May.
And the organization also will be
sponsoring two self-defense classes beginning in April. Held at the Goju-Ryu Karate
School in Eugene, the ciass will consist of
10 hour-long weekly sessions. The cost is
$12 and those interested may pre-register
and obtain additional information through
RPC.

To finance itself, RPC requires a fee for
speaking engagements, "at least enough
to cover our transportation costs," explains
Herdman. The remainder of its income is
derived through public donations and such
familiar methods as bake sales .and
breakfeasts.
RPC also sells books concerning rape,
but rarely, if ever, are any actual profits
obtained from this endeavor. ''usually we
just get enough to pay for the next order of
.. books," she said.
RPC is currently attempting to obtain .
additional funding to cover operational
expenses from the city of Eugene. "We're
trying to get some money from them to
help us out, but it's still up in the air right
now," Herdman explained.
She also said the ·group would like to
apply for a grant from either the federal'
government or a private foundation "if and
when we get the energy. Applying for a
grant really takes a lot of time and effort.''
She added, however, hat if the RPC was
successful in such an attempt "it would
help things incredibly. Then we might be
able to pay some of the people who work
here, for example. We could assure our
survival and really get things rolling."

Rape Prevention Center
3701/2 West 6th Street
Eugene OR 97401
485-0234
University Feminists
University of Oregon
EMU. Suite 1
Eugene OR 97403
686-3327

"

LCC Women for Equality
For information call 345-8166
Lane County Women's F
For information contact
at 689-4087
The United Nations has declared 1975 International
Women's Year with the threefold theme of equality,
development and peace. To celebrate, wo~en around
the world are planning a variety of conferences,
festivals and exhibits. More information on these
activities may be obtained through contacting the US
Center for International Women's Year, 1630 Crescent
Place, N.W., Washington DC 20009.
Here in Eugene, the women's movement will undoubtably be shifting into a higher gear in the spirit of
the celebration. As it is generally acknowledged that

Sandven said from 10 to 15 persons
generally attend WE meetings and that
involvement is growing. Meetings are held
every other Wednesday at the LCC
Women's Center, Room 113 of the Center
Building. The next meeting is sc!leduled
for Wednesday, April 9, at 8:30 a.m.

Rape Center shifts focus

by Kathy Craft
• "We wanted to do something about rape
before, rather than after the fact.''
That's how Kathy Herdman of the
Eugene Rape Prevention Center (RPC)
accounted for recent changes in ''structure
and focus" which have transformed RPC
from an organization concentrating basically on aiding rape victims into one
primarily aiming at rape prevention.
Although RPC, formerly entitled the
Rape Crisis Center, still provides "supportive services'' to help victims in dealing
with the aftershocks of rape, its new
emphasis is on "re-educating the puplic
about rape and how to stop it,'' Herdman
said. To accomplish this, "we're mainly
into speaking gigs, self-defense classes
and workshops now,'' ·she explained.
RPC' s new focus will undoubtedly be
well-demonstrated in the Adult Education
dass it will sponsor at LCC during April

Eugene Women's Center
171 Washington Street
Eugene OR 97401
343-9750

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t>y Mike Heffley

Many readers may· recall the TORCH
cover story a couple of months ago, about
the resignation ~f. Jeanette Silv~ira fr~m
her part-time pos1t1on as Women s Studies
instructor here at LCC. The move was
made in protest to what she felt were unfair
wages to part-time faculty.
Her courses, Introduction to Women's
Studies, and Women's Studies Seminar,
have been continued under the direction of
Robbie Hanna, in the Interdisciplinary
Studies Department.
''The first section describes the present
position of women,'' Hanna explains,
"primarily in tbe US culture ... and it talks
about Third World women, and white
middle-class women. The emphasis, in the
first class is to acquaint people with the
problems women face in this culture. The
emphasis in the second class is to acquaint
people with the strategies that women have
developed in this community to change
that which oppresses them."

Marriage, family relationship
work, the kind of jobs women ca
kind of pay that women get ... t
discrimination that women ha,
professional fields . . . out into
that minorities are oppressed, 1
ences in oppression from mi
minority and from minorities to
The politics of rape, the politics 01
control over their own bodies
women in mental asylums, ha
asylums are used as a ,means to i1
women who are taking tacks tha1
disgrace themselves, and how
asylums they're encouraged tog<
the role that was set up for them
the meat of the first section.
~n the second section strategi
all those things are discussed.
using all the outlines and materi~
set up, but she says her ap
somewhat different.
''I am·not as well acquainted 1
facts as Jeanette is. My emp~
I've done, has not been intell1
been more strategically oriente1
of an activist than an academic
that teaching doesn't come all th
me. But I enjoy it because I enjo
my classes ... I also work partliquor store, so I really like getti1
what I like to think about and do
Part of the program has inch
speakers.
''One person was Betsy Mere
said, ''who works with the Hu
Commission. She talked about li
and what she could offer womeIJ
discriminated a~ainst in emp

Robbie Hanna

~ - - ~ • Women's Clinic
341 East 12th (White Bird)
Eugene OR 97401
Sundays. 5 to 8 p.m.
or call Jan, 344-1930
Women's Press
387 Lawrence Street
P. 0. ,Box 562
Eugene OR 97401
City of Eugene Human Rights Specialist
Attention Betsy Merck
City Manager's Office
Eugene City Hall
777 Pearl Street
Eugene OR 97401
687-5010
·olitical Caucus
Barb Coleman

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the local women's community is already an especially
active one, particularly for such a relatively small city,
predictions that the movement ''will really get going in
Eugene" during 1975 appear quite plausible.
The articles collected here reflect but a small
portion of the women related activities and issues
important at LCC and in the surrounding community.
As the directory above indicates, much, much more is
happening. There are a host of other organizations and
groups women in the Eugene area can plug into to both
provide and receive inform_ation, energy, and support.

International

Women's
Year

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an Rights
er position
who were
loyment.

Also, a women from the Women's Health
Clinic came in ... and Jeanette was there
today, to talk about feminist theory.'' Next
quarter I plan to do even more of that.''
Tentatively, future speakers are women
from the Rape Prevention Center, the
police force, public welfare (a rights
organizer), the Women's Press, a group of
women truck drivers in Eugene who run
their own business, and a panel of lesbian
women.
Are there any men in the course_s?
• "In one class there are six men, but in
another, there are none. It was a real
problem at first, because . . . I think they
wanted to show that they were exceptions
to the male rule ... so they tended to talk a
lot more, which wasn't a very good
situation. We talked about it in class, and1
now it's a lot better ... They're still there,
but they're no longer dominant."

Linda Danielson teaches a class called
American Ethnic Folklore, which, perhaps,
one wouldn't normally connect with a
''feminist movement.''

-----M~&~~p~

Mature women
return to school
by Nan Rendall

who are returning to campus to continue
their
education or to gain new skills is in"I came back to school because the
highest thing I could go to from a waitress creasing at a rapid rate. These women
often are fearful, emotionally up-tight, and
was to a bartender.''
' 'I have teenage kids and want a job with lacking in self-confidence. Lane must conday hours," said a woman in the women's tinue to offer special services to this segstudy-lounge, 222 Center Building, de- ment of our school population such as the
'women's lounge in Room 222 of the Center
scribing her situation.
Building."
According to Margie Holland, LCC • Holland describes the same difficulties.
career information specialist, there are two
general groups of women who are return- "It's a real trauma for some women to
ing to school. One group is women who are come back to school." She perceives furfinancially secure, but are going back to ther that, •'A good many of the women
school because they want to take part in the have no social life outside the school beworld. Often their children are grown, and 'c ause their wh.ole life structure has
they are tired of doing volunteer work.
changed."
The women who use Room 222 confirm
A significant number of LCC students this. "It's been very hard after 20-some
are women who are going back to school to years, but the counselors really go to bat
build new lives for themselves. Fall Term for us."
there were 262 full-time women students
Bob Way, program coordinator of the
over 30, and 333 such part-time students.
cooperative work experience program, says
The other group is composed of women the most rewarding part of his job is seeing
who are faced with supporting themselves these women graduate and find jobs. He
and their children. Many of them are di- says it is gratifying to see a woman who has
vorced or widowed and have financial
problems and are concerned about raising come to the college under severe hardship
their children by themselves. Some are become capable of supporting her family.
trying to help sickly or unemployed
One of the women in Center 222 said,
husbands.
"Ten years ago if a gal was divorced and
Irene Parent, LCC counselor, says, "The went on welfare, she stayed on welfare."
LCC and a considerable number of brave
number of divorced or widowed women
women are changing that.

•ings of themes peculiar to each sex in their
different work groups: The myths and
songs of loggers, or any typical male
vocaton and the tendency, in literature for
the male themes (ware, to name the
plainest ex-ample) to be regarded as
universal.
The "female province" in
literature consisted of recipes, healing,
household activities, and childbirth and
menstruation, and the latter two were not
regarded as universal. She cites a
contemporary folk-tale (ever hear a variatio
on the man with the hook for an arm
wandering around lover's lane?) to show
how an artificial "protectiveness," in the
male, and "submission," in the fomale
could be induced and perpetuated.
"I expect that story will begin to die
out," Danielson mused, "simply with the
increase of sexual freedom and sex
education over what there was 20 or 25
years ago.''
"Everyb'ody has biases. The dishonest
people talk about unbiased views and
honest people acknowledge their bias, and
outline it carefully so that Ws clear to
everybody. It's the unacknowleged bias
that has done the damage, and that is what
has happened with the academic world-and with knowledge in general ; .. People
have said ,' 'Oh no, it's quite, quite
androgynous'--and meanwhile it has been
male dominated.''

'' How all this applies to the teaching of
If you figure that in any
folklore:
sexually-mixed large folk group," Danielson emphasized, ''like the people living in
a region, or people who are part of a
particular religious sect, or the people of a
particular ethnic group . . . half of any of
those kinds of groups are women. You
"I find it very revealing to discover that
realize that they've got some separate . women, in the works we have studied,
interests, and some separate concerns ... always come to a bad end if they are too
then you realize that·the issues of sexism, strong, bright, influential. All the authors
sex roles , and sex stereotypes are going to are men, of course."
be very important in folklore."
So wrote one student of Karla Schultz' ·
Danielson points out the obvious· group- course, Survey of World Literature. Like

.

free clinic for
women in need
by Kathy Craft
Women--you know the routine: Maybe
you're afraid you're pregn~nt, perhaps you
fear the last partner shared his social
disease with you, or possible your body has
been invaded by a cruel colony of yeast and
they're out to itch you to death.
In any case, you're broke, tired of
fatherly male physicians and couldn't get
an appointment with a gynecologist in town
for the next two months if you wanted to.
Next time you 're in that predicament
(and as many females well know, it's not
that rare) perhaps the Eugene Women's
Clinic can help provide solutions to your
health problems.
The Clinic, which meets at White Bird
every Sunday from S to 8 p.m., is a volunteer organization composed of several
registered nurses, student nurses, a midwife, a lab technician and concerned lay
persons. They identify and treat vaginal.
disorders and veneral diseases, give
pregnancy testing, and offer counseling.
ln addition to this, members of the staff
also teach women to perform vaginal selfexaminations (through the use of a
speculum) and breast self-examinations.
Information about -birth control is provided, and the clinic also serves as a health
referral agency for women, directing them
to the proper persons for tre~tment of
problems it is unable to deal with.
All services are either provided for a
small fee or offered free of charge.
Although appointments are not mandatory,
.the clinic advises women to call in adv~nce.

Danielson, Schultz teaches a course which
"When Eve took the initiative . . . she
easily could be--and, she feels, mostly has brought doom on all p~ople. On the other
been--presented in blissful oblivion, re- hand, Mary, the essence of passivity,
plete with male s~xism.
•
reeptacle of the Holy Spirit, and such . . .
"What I think is necessary most of all is was held up throughout history as the
to have both men and women exposed to perfect example of purity, and the virtue in
the range of experience (represented in woman," Shultz points out.
literature) . . . and to understand how
Schultz doesn't limit these revelations
certain attitudes and views have come into concerning women to her own particula
being, and have come to seem so natur.al course.
simply because that's what used to be said
"What i'm trying to do in the Survey of
all the time.''
World Literature by emphasising women, I
Only by understanding the stereotypes • think could • be done in history, in
the image of women has suffered in psychology, in many academic areas,
literature, say~ Schultz, (even in "very without making it a specific women's
beautiful works of art ... ") can one be free program.''
of them to create . ones which one more
valid and useful.
To reach this understanding, representatives works in (Western) world literature
have been selected for theyr portrayal of
women, rather than men. Some works
remain the same, with only the emphasis
being changed, such as Virgil's Aeneid.
"I focus more on Dido, . the woman
Aeneas stays with on his travels. She
eventually kills herself because he leaves
her to go found Rome," sketches Schultz.
In a classroom survey, all the females
expressed dissappointment
in Dido's
suicide as an act of weakness on the part of
a once-great queen: The males accepted it
as a more natural act in the face of Aeneas'
compulsive destiny than that of Medea,
Dido's literary model, who killed her
children to revenge herself on her husband--and act the females sympathized
with, under the circumstances.
Citing Eve, as the mother of men, and
Mary, that of God, Schultz s_ums up the
dilemma of woman's place in literature
through the last four thousand years.

Lois Enman, the painter whose works
grace the comers of these two pages.

the concRete statement

.page. 'f

March 11, 1975

(Editor's Note: These two pages were composed from submissions to the Concrete
Stacmcnt. and were edited by Concrete Statement Editor Walter Chamhers.)
Harvey Biggs lay on the rocks. shivering, the rain beating down on him, driving into
It was 2:00 A.M. A steady rain pattered the pavement on the old bridge
ey~s and ears and mind. the long. pattering. living rain of Oregon.
his
From below came the sound of a swollen river with a heavy current rushing past the
Somewhere out of the wet-cold, Red's voice saying"Come on, we gotta go! we gotta
pylons. Upstream, and above, an Interstate crossed the river. Headlight beams from
go! "Gasping for breath, freezing. on his back in the rocks.
passing cars flashed upon the steel girders above the bridge when they came around the
"Alright! alright!" Harvey Biggs. now shoving off. stumbling along through the
low hills to cross the river on the freeway. The sounds of the freeway carried to the bridge
rain-slickened rocks, being guided, almost carried by Red Bowen, who could see at night
and became lost in the noise of the rain and the river.
like a deer. and whose ankles didn't swell with the pain of walking frozen-footed across
An old Chevy pickup truck followed it's headlights through the rain down the old river
the
uneven ground, and whose mind wasn't constricted by the intense cold of the river;
road. It pulled onto the bridge a little too fast and skidded into the guardrail, then slid
born in the upper reaches of the snow laden Cascades, so cold as to make one's very
alongside the rail to the center of the bridge before it stopped, it's headlights stabbing out
bones ache when the numbness went away.
•
•
into the black void above the river, lighting up the raindrops and the brush on the far
steps
forward
and
They
began
to
ascend
a
high,
shifting.
loose
gravel
bank;
taking
two
bank..
•
sliding back one. Their progress was swifrbut awkward in that Red had to do most of the
The truck's engine died. It's headlights went out, the driver's door opened, and a man
work of keeping Harvey's balance, as well as his own.
stepped out onto the running board. He stood thus for a moment ... listening.
At the top was a gravel road, and surrounding them· were piles of crushed rock and
He could hear the river and the rain and the wind in the trees across the river, and, in the
sand, highlighted by the hollow glare of electric light that protected McKenzie Sand and
distance, the sound of a truck approaching on the Interstate.
He stepped to the ground, at the same snatching a five gallon gas can from the bed of Gravel's rock crushing plant from the darkness of night. The rain gleamed si.L,ver in the
glow and _took on the appearance of myriads of needles driving to earth. Red made for the
the truck. He couldn't see what he was doing very well but it didn't matter; it wasn't
shadow of the nearest rock pile where '63 Ford Econoline waited; parked with the
something he needed to see to do. He took the gas can cap off and tossed it into the
.
engine
running at a low, inaudible level....
blackness. He listened to hear it splash but he couldn't, with the river and the rain so
Inside the : van ·t he heater was going full blast, sending waves of internally
loud. He sloshed gas all over the truck; over the engine and into the cab, then under it. He
combusted heat throughout the interior. Harvey Biggs took off his soaked clothing,
moved swiftly, with precise motions. When he had finished dousing the truck his eyes
wrapped them in the scorched jacket, and -threw the bundle to the far back corner of the
shot to the Interstate; there were lights approaching
van. His toes were still numb, and his ankles hurt from crossing the rocks.
He took off his jacket and poured the remaining gas from the can over the back of it,
The transmission grinding into gear met with his silent approval as he towelled dry.
then set the can over the guardrail on the wall of the bridge. From his pants pocket he
produced a book of matches. He held the matches with his teeth while he put the The warmth couldn't touch him yet even after pulling on wool socks and blue jeans and a
gas-soaked jacket back on, then, bending over to keep the rain off the flame, he lit a •sweatshirt; sitting now in the passenger seat contemplating the rush of air from the
match. The flickering light revealed him to be a young soldier, with short black hair and .heater outlet over his tingling feet.
From somewhere a bottle of rum found its way to his dead-white hands. Slowly he
black eyes. On the breast pocket of his jacket was stencilled PVT. Biggs. He tossed the lit
lifted the flask to his lips then tipped his head back for a long drag, listening intently to
match at the puddle of gas under the truck, but the rain quenched it in mid-air.
Quickly he struck another match, throwing it in the same motion. The gas under the· the glug, glug,glug as his mouth filled with the sweet liquer, holding a mouthful, then
truck ignited with a whoosh and the flames began to engulf the truck, he struck another· swallowing the whole of it at once, lighting the fire from within that burned in Harvey
Biggs, lighting the fuse of life and setting off in a chain reaction the elements of his being
match and touched it to the back of his gas soaked jacket. The jacket burst into flame and
retarded
by the cold; the warmth from within travelling the route faster than the warmth
then he began running; down the bridge about fifty feet, back to the truck, then turned
from the heater, sped on by more drags from the bottle until the warmth reached his brain
and ran down the bridge again. The flames trailed off behind him as he ran.
He saw cars stopped on the Interstate to watch, so he climbed over the rail, and as the and fused with I the external warmth; and Harvey Biggs became once again himself,
saved from the unspeakable cold, rescued from the division of soul from body by his
truck's gas tank exploded sending a ball of flame fifty feet high, lighting up the bridge,
the trees, the bank, everything but the dark mass of the river, the man dropped like a friend behind the wheel. He handed the half-empty bottle back;"Thanks, Red, that's just
the stuff.''
falling star into the current .....
The man behind the wheel with the red hair and freckles and blue eyes below bushy
Red .Bowen squatted on his heels on a gravel bar, watching the river slide by. The
orange brows took a couples of swallows from the bottle, then set it between his legs
darkness was complete on the point ofland where he waited in the rocks that the river had
where it wouldn't spill. He took the cap from the breast pocket of his Penney's work shirt
put there in the years before, when the waters ;had risen to change the river's course, as
and screwed it onto the bottle with his right hand while he drove the slick road with his
well as the courses of the lives of men living on the river bank. To Red, the river was a
left. The glowing word 'FREEWAY' appeared on a green background out of the dark as
living thing that both gave and took away from the men that belonged to it. He thought
the van slowed for the on-ramp, whining into second gear; then pulling out onto the
the river rather awesome in the night and the rain. ~oreso than ever before in the time he
Interstate, winding out, then shifting into high gear, coming up to seventy. A steady hum
had waited for it to give him something he wanted.
from the engine offset by the slunk! slunk! of the windshield wipers.
He held a coil of rope in his right hand ready to throw out into the current, and
"Sorry I ain't got no radio, Harve."
squinted, trying to pierce the darkness. The bridge was a quarter mile upstream, now lit
"That's okay, I'm used to it. Seem like I've never had a car with a good one."
_by the burning truck. There were two fires; one, the real one, on the bridge ... the other
"Yeah, that's right," Red said, putting the rum bottle under the seat, "We can have
just an image reflected on the river. Harvey Biggs had dropped all aflame, a product of
some more of this later.''
the real flame,into the glow reflected from the water, and Red was waiting for him.
"There's the bridge," Harvey said rather routinely, pointing in the direction of it off
Harvey Biggs was a friend, and this was something he couldn't do alone.
to the left and below. On the far side of the southbound lane cars were stopped, watching
Ten minutes after the fire started Harvey came floating by, holding onto the gas can,
the burning truck and the red and blue flashes from the County Sheriff's cars.
and a foot out from the bank. Red saw the shine of the can first, then a face, a hand
"Looks like a wreck", Red said.
reaching out to him. He dropped the rope and grabbed the hand with both of his and
"Sure does," he answered, leaning ovet and peering intently out.
pul~~d his friend out onto the gravel. The can clicked against the bank, then w~s gone . .
John Saunders
The end
Is sweet
When
The rest
Is sour
And time
Won't change
This pain
I feel
Deep
Insid,e
L'aurie
B.
._Wessely

In The Eye Of The Beholder
The morbid wretch who comes to call
Perhaps from some mob fleeing,
Looks nothing like your friends at all,
Or fellows you've been seeing.
At three A.M. he rings your bell,
His breathing fast and ragged,
His eyes will catch you in their spell,
His teeth are long and jagged.
His voice, as soft and smooth as silk,
Pleads for sanctuary.
His breath smells like stale buttermilk,
His face and hands are hairy.
You've realized the full impact,
Survived the ugly sight.
You find your mind is still intact,
And simply say '' All right''.

Do you hear the wind blowing
Do you hear the trees sigh
In the hush of the evening
Do you stop for a time

All kinds of shed blood,
Ignoring ethnology,
Turn black as th~~Y dry.
Paul Armstrong

In the spark of a cobweb
Or glance of a cat
The cinnamon brightness
Do you know where it's at

Laurie Wessely
THE PRINCESS AND THE

Cris L. Clarke

~ -- ~

. ~·~:_:~ 0
last night i courted
a 14 year old: i was drunk
on grapefruit wineshe looked away, a lot,
thru her glasses-and some brown
cloth hid her knees; which were
. skittishBut! When ya gotta go, ya gotta go ...
and so she consented
to hold my hand ...
(three jearts.
a club,
and a one-eyed jack,
wild/
Derek S. Lamson

.....c;::::

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et me try to
explain that what I need is
chance to try, maybe in
ain, but to try
ndependence, for I have
eed to
row

H elp me, you need
0 nly to understand
M y needs and
E ver to remember I love you

Your senses awakened
Can a paradise be
If you stop for a time
Jn the sigh of a tree
Jerry Garger

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L
E
A
V
I
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G

- ~-- -

I
am like an egg
with a shell
all around me
Sometimes
people crack that shell
and find
I gladly ooze out
and become
me
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fried
or scrambled
or poached
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raw.
and real.
Ramona McCoy

·wATSOONKA BRAVE

·Every day when the sun finished its bright vigil,
And touched the peaks in the west,
As the birds n·e stled down in the boughs of great trees,
To prepare for their nocturnal rest,
A W atsoonka brave both tall and strong
Would come to the north edge of the water,
And call to his love across the still lakeThe rival chief's fair daughter.
And she in response would send her sweet words
To her brave on the far distant shore,
And wish to her soul that they could be wed,
But their tribes were with each other at war.
So day after day when the sun dropped down low
The Princess and Watsoonka brave,
Would add fuel to their love by the passing of words,
And by this to each other they clave.
But the fires of love burned too hot for them both,
To be by mere words satisfied.
.And though 'twas forbidden she begged him to come
O'er the water and b~ by her side.
And he, in his zeal and desire to be
By his Princess, her pleading he followed,
And dove in the lake, but half way across,
He by the water was swallowed.
When the Princess well knew death had taken her brave,
She went mad 'neath the weight of despair,
And returned to her tribe never again,
But instead she ran off with a bear.
When the tribes of the two of the tragedy knew,
They lay down their weapons of war.
And together they came in the grief of their loss,
·And agreed the:9' would fight never more.
;And, grateful for peace to the Watsoonka brave
Who was slain by the arrow of Cupid,
iThe tribes, in remembrance from shore to for shore,
Na1!_l~d the blue waters '_'Lake Stupid."
by C,raig Shaw

the concRete statement

March 11, 1975

It is cold in the small room. Cold and
clammy. Just like a down town morgue.
she thinks. Old rickety bones partially
paralyzed by gout creak in unison with the.
old rocker as she rises painfully to turn up
the small gas furnace. Robed in an old
crocheted afghan, she stands for awhile in
front of her single small window, and
thought of nothing. Burnt out emotions,
dead in the past few years. no longer direct
her life. She stands and awaits nothing,
anticipates nothing.
•·Mrs. Miller?'' Came a voice from
behind the door. "Are you awake.Mrs.
Miller? It's time for breakfast."
"Come in. Blanche."
A small, middle aged woman enters the
room. Her graying hair is tightly rolled into
a small bun, and she is wearing a
ridiculously bright orange and yellow
dress.
"Good Morning. And how are you this
fine winter morn?''
'Tm fine/Blanche, I'm not too hungry
right now. Just a muffin and some tea will
do."
, A clucking sound and wagging finger is
the younger woman's response.
"Now, now. We can't expect to stay fit
and spry on just tea and a muffin, now, can
we? How about some carrot juice and some
eggs to go along with that,hmmm?"
"Look, Blanche. I don't feel well this
morning. You can put a little jam or apple
butter on the muffin if you wish. I really
don't feel like anything else."
"You're ill ..~ell, I'll call Dr. Kinny just
as soon a~ I··:

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_Is That All There Is?

'Tm not sick. Blanche. Just a little
down in the mouth I guess. I'll snap out of
it. Don't worry ...
"Well. if that's the case. I have just the
right medicine.·' She reaches into the big
pocket on the front of her dress and pulls
out a postcard. •'I was going to put this on
your breakfast tray, but here. It's from
your son." She hands the card to Mrs.
Miller.
•Tll go get your breakfast now."
Blanche gone. she sits to read the note
from her son.
Ginna:
Can't make it down this weekend.
J3ig case coming up Monday. Will be busy.
Will come to pick you up Wednesday for
Thanksgiving
Roy
My son the corporate lawyer. A fine
boy. making lots of money. Our dream has
come true, Pappa. All those years in that
shoe factory made this possible, Pappa. Do
you remember when we came across 'the
sea in that big ship and talked about our
boy and the great life in store for us in
America? You worked hard to put him
through school. You should see him now.
You'd be real proud to have a son like him.
He's rich; lives in New York. Has a big
apartment and family. In the high :5ociety.
Has a real pretty little girl named Leica.
Comes to visit at least once a month. If you
had lived to see him now, you'd be real
proud to have a son like him, Pappa.

As she thinks to herself. she slowly
tears the postcard into little bits and throws
them into the trash can by her bed.
She sits quietly for a while. There is
another knock; her breakfeast along with
the unwanted juice and eggs. She sits
again. absent-mindedly munching on the
muffin. sipping tea. and staring out the
window.
Yes Pappa. he's doing fine. Graduated
with honors the year after you passed
away. Was snapped up by a big office in
Boston. He worked real hard and got his
own office in New York. I'm still in Boston.
He said that I just wouldn't fit in with his
lifestyle in New York. Says he has too many
parties and entertains too many friends.
Says I wouldn't like all the hubbub. He lets
me come spend a few Qays occasionally,
though. Usually on holidays. Couldn't
make it without him, I guess. Your Social
Security wouldn't keep me alive. Certainly
not in this place.
She stands up, sets the breakfast things
on a small table, and walks over to stand in
front of the furnace.
Yes, Pappa. Our boy is grown up. I
guess we did the best we could, and it paid
off. It must be time to rest.
She bends over to turn up the furnace
again, this time all the way. Bending
farther she blows out the pilot. She shuffles
over to the door and stuffs her afghan into
the crack at the bottom. She moves over to
the bed. lays down curled in a ball, and
waits patiently.
Rod Mack

page. t6

Middleman

I admit I can't avoid
Being somewhat paranoid
Any time that I am sure
I'm robbed to feed both rich and poor.
Paul Armstrong
When my friendship with myself is new,
then we shall sit and talk for awhile. When
I am an old friend to myself, we shall walk ,
together on our path.
Guy S. Bowman

If all my fragile sensitive feelings plus
my bitter bitchy hurt feelings had to be
condensed into one feeling I'd like it to be equal to love.
Lisa Duncan

--

SAD MICHAEL

by Alan Estler
There was a sad youth named· Michael whoso:! melancholy spread in contagion.
Walking 'neath a covered bridge one misty autumn morning, he spied a pretty girl
emerging from a footpath through the cedar trees. C11rly auburn hair grew natmally en
her \lead, like some glorious mushroom. Her clear, crystalline eyes bespoke good nature.
As she looked up frorn her early morning preoccupations, Michael stood mute before
1er. Yet she was not startled, for so was her nerve not easily .:,haken.
" Good morning, and I hope you are well?" said the girl as she smiled most sweetly
and cocked her head precociously. Michael liked her steady way and so close was she that
he sav~red sweet breath and felt the w&rmth of her.
" I cannot love the morning so well when I feel in my bones that the world is all wrong.
! do not see my fellow men as much except defilers and desecrators. Tell me this is not
so?"
His words tumbled forth passionately and unhappiness shone in his Questioning eyes.
A subtle frown was on his lips and his furrowed brow held desperate portent.
'He is too yo:mg for this somber attitude' thought the girl. She said; "Do you not
return the morning's greeting before your criticisms?". She smiled sweetly. "Is it not a.
good morning? '' .
Michael could see her nipples pressed snugly against her woolen sweater. She coyly
gathered her arms about her when she saw his gaze. Yet she smiled and drew nearer. A
glimpse of love light shone in her eyes and Michael migfit easily bring them to a radiant
luster. The young woman's boJy spoke her mind and Michael did not miss the
conversation. He opened his mouth and broke the charm.
'' All around me are greed and injustice. The wealthy are judged apart from other ncn
and poverty is shamed. There is resentment in so many eyes, and no one knows who to
blame. The people sleep in anguish."
Here Michael hung his head in despair and frustration. 1'~e very air seemed charged
with maudlin sentiment. The lady felt herself touched, then clutched by his indulgent
pessimism. Her spirit slid from its pleasant heights like a bird turning silently with a
headwind. Down, down she soared as .her concentration on harsh realities overwhelmed
her. Her gentle climate had gone like last year's snow. It would only return with a change
of climate.
"Such a sweet, sad soul," said Michael to himself. He watched her walk slowly into
the shadows of the covered bridge.

Onward and onward and onward--striding purposefully to a meaningJ~ss job, Michael
did not pause for the fragrant tiger lilies at roadside. In a few short days they would
wither, their last sweet odor would pass unnoticed on a cool breeze. Their orange spotted
leaves would be gone from the landscape. A legacy of crumpled fragments would remain
to mark the site of next spring' s bloom.
Onward and onward-- Michael wearing a rueful grin which did not become him more
than a bitterness enhances honey. His special blend of spirit was tainted with anger. He
recognized enough to bring him sorrow but not enough to rise above it.
"Ahoy, Hoa! Me boy! " Michaels reveries were interrupted. An old man of white hair
and beard smiled expectantly, his leg~ astride a thick-tired bicycle. His head bobbed
amiably beneath a battered brown slouch hat. Michael saw he had ridden down a gravel
driveway that meandered off into the trees. He had not not.iced the drive before, but then
on his morning hikes to work he more often than not watched his own footfalls.
Michael began; "'you are old,sir ... "
" .. .I am older ... ". was the interjection.
"I am troubled by the world around me. You perhaps might have an answer ... "
" ... and perhaps you might say good morning. Good morning, ~tormy seas!' Smell the
air! It's crisp and clean! Does it not make you stir in your breast? Come, young animal,
beat your chest like a gorilla! Come on, now, with me!" The oki man pounded his chest
fiercely and gave a cry 'til his wind gave out. Then he bowed his head and his shoulders
shuddered as he •chuckled softly; "Remarkab!y refreshing!" --and he chuckled some
more.
"Crackers," thought Michael to himself, "The old are lonely and uncared for and so
•
their mental faculties break down. Poor fellow.''
Ah, this good youth was not stingy with lhis : sympathy, yet truly it was misapplied.
The old man looked benignly at Michael.
"My name is Slocum. I've got a fine aviary. Come to it with me. We'll chew some
honeycomb." He and Michael shook hands.

"'my name is Michael and I shall be pleased to come I cannot stay for long though, fo.r
I'm off to work." Michael said the last wor:d with some vexation in his voice. Thcu,
remembering himself, he smiled at the old man in a condescending way. He hoped to
show a dotty old man his empathy. Slocum returned that same smile toward Michael and
they looked sadly and tolerantly at one another for several moments 'til Michael realized.
he was being mocked. He suddenly became absorbed .with his own feet which were
shifting restlessly. The old man heartily clasped his shoulder, "Come, now, I'll show you
my home."
They walked the drive in a comfortable silence and when they reached the house
Michael saw that it was well kept. Or was it? Its outside had not been painted for manv
years so that it looked worn and grey. And yet the shutters were securely fastened and n~,
windows were broken. Two wicker rocking chairs on the front porch were clean an: ·
cushioned and though the ivy bore no trace of trimming, it wrapped the porch snugly an
wound about the chimney. Michael could see white, wooden hives behind the house, and
they walked to them. Rounding the house he saw plainly that they were eight in numb':!!
and several had a golden swarm abou-t them. Their buzzing filled his ears with a conce1i: ot
wonderful harmony. Michael stood quite still and felt a kinship with this strange voice. He
felt .... contentment. A thing he had rarely felt since the advent of adolescence.
"Here. It is their gift," said the old man. He had drawn a board from a hive and takeu
a h~neycomb several inches long. Golden threads ran from it to a small jar in his other
hand. When it slowed to a yawning drip, Michael took it and popped it into his mouth. He
smiled splendidly with great, bulbous cheeks of honeycomb and Slocum burst intc
laught~r at the sight. "Like a happy bulldog!" he roared, and Michael placed his hand tu
his mouth to keep from laughing wads of honey and wax.
When the laughter faded the buzzing of the bees poured into the void. Michael spoke
slowly.
''You see the ruin of the world. I feel that you do and surely you have abandoned hope
and found solace in this country of perhaps in God. It seems almost a holy place.
Slocum, with raised eyebrows of whimsy, answered; "If I had abandoned hope then I
should place a sign at the end of my driveway saying, 'abandon hope all ye who .enter
here', for surely I would warn my guests that here resides despair and hopelessness." He
chuckled softly and Michael felt his hackles rise at the shame of subtle mockery.
" No!" cried the old man, and he faced Michael squarely, laying both hands on his
shoulders. "I do not mock you! I dare not, for one who takes himself so seriously is as
fragile as glass. I would not hurt you. But I would teach you".
"Teach me then; I ask it," said Michael. "Where do you find solace?".
"It is here, my friend," and Slocum spread his arms wide to the world. " It was here
b~fore you or I ~ere born and it will still be here long after we are dead. Like the song of a
bird or the buzzing of bees, the succor you seek can be heard if you listen. The peace and
tranquillity are here for all men amidst the beauty and mystery of the planet.
Michael was not satisfied with this answer yet his eyes had drawn a tinge of fear. Not
unlike the man who sees suddenly what is near to him and is affrighted at how close he
had come.
''But I must change things. I must show concern. I cannot deny the ugliness for all the
beauty!''
''Yet your concern will not change things so rapidly as you would like. Your concern is
out of proportion. Michael, you will grow old before your time. Since the dawn of man,
there have been problems for each generation to face. The problems may grow worse and
worse. Some men have ridder the storm and othere gone down in the face of it. Learn to
ride it,Michael, and look around you for .he joy." The old man smiled broadly into
Michael's stone face. "It's there, yes it is.· He nodded his head up and down slowly, and
then quietly; " It is ..... "
Michael said his good-bye rather abruptly and started to leave. He walked a few
•
hesitant steps and then turned to Slocum once more;
"May I ... come back some time?"
Slocum looked surprised. "You bet your ass!" .. and he threw back his head with a
roar of laughter.
There was a sad youth named Michael whose melancholy sometimes spread in
contagion. Walking 'neath a cc;:>vered bridge one misty, autumn morning he spied a lovely
girl he had hoped he would see. Her clear crystalline eyes bespoke good nature. She
passed by Michael and smiled hopefully, "Good morning." She almost whispered 1t.
"Good morning," said Michael, and he'd whispered it, too.

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LDS Club, Cen 436, 11 :30 am
Chicano Stu. Un., Cen 404, 4 pm

Sincerely,
Jeanne Mason
Baha'i Club, Hea 109, 12 noon
Chi Alpha, Hea 101. 12 noon

"Jeanne Kibbe Mason and Arthur
Klinzmann cordially invite you to
:§ share in the joyous celebration of their
.§ union in holy matrimony through our Lord
5 and Savior, Jesus Christ.
i!! The ceremony will be at Hope Lutheran
,§ Church, 7209 South Puget Sound, Tacoma.
5 Washington, at 2 p.m., March 22, 1975.
'§ Reception following the ceremony.''
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5 Richard

Dental Assistant Student Breakfast, 8 am
Student Senate, Adm 202, 3 pm
The Family of Man, Concert
Choir, LCC Theatre, 8 pm

Christian Science, Hea 109, 10
OSPIRG, SRC, 12 noon
Han~capped Stu., Art 103, 2

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To the Editor:
I would like to alert the students at Lane ·§
of a bill which would lower the legal age of§
drinking to 19, as well as lower the age for 5
bus drivers, notaries public, and certain
incorporators from 21 to 18. House Bill
2397. sponsored by Rep. Mary Burrows
and 28 others, is in the House State and
Federal Affairs committee and will be first
heard Thursday, March 13, at 7 p.m. in
Room 20 of the Capitol.
Anyone interested in the bill is welcome
at the hearing and encouraged to make
their views known via letters, phone calls
and visits to members of the committee,
legislators from their own districts and any
other legislator.
Your Student Body
President has been sent a list of the
legislators which includes their addresses
and phone numbers. •
Letters should be addressed to: Rep.
Dave Frohnmayer, State Capitol Building,
Salem, Oregon 97310.
Also please encourage friends, faculty
and parents to write.
Thank you.
Sincerely,

§

Leslie Duke Hall, student
Willamette University

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Would you please print this wedding
=announcement in the TORCH starting the
first part of March and continuing until the
publication just before the wedding.
Thank you very much.

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Private Lives, UO Theatre, 8 pm
The Harold Bradford Group,
LCC Theatre, 8:30 pm

Restaurant area closed today.
FINALS WEEK--Lots of Luck!

•Final Exam Schedule
If your
class
ison

and
starts
at
0700 or 0730
0800 or 0830
0900 or 0930
1000 or 1030
1100 or 1130
1200 or 1230
1300 or 1330
1400 or 1430
1500 or 1530
1600 or 1630
1700 or 1730
1800 or Later

For sale

FOR SALE:

King size water.
bed and frame. Includes headboards,
jointboards,
liner,
sheets, foam rubber pads, fine
condition~ Naugahaide brand.
$90. Call 345-7966.
FOR SALE: 5 drawer chest with
night stand, $25; full length
mirror, $5; B/W 12" TV, $60.
747-0054.
DIRECT from Alaska. US Air
Force Arctic parkas with real
wool fur, from $25 to $40,
designed for servicemen in arctic areas. Warmest jackets of
all. Action Surplus, 4251 Franklin Blvd., Glenwood, 746-1301.
VACUUM CLEARANCE SALE.
"Brother" super powered vacuum cleaners. Compact and
great for apartments. Many
features
and
attachments,
$38. 75. All LCCstudents and
faculty receive a 10 percent
discount on wallpaper through
March. For Sale: Lindsay 25
cfm gas compressor, $815.
•Dutch Boy Paints, 1986 West
6th, Eugene. 345-2397.

'For rent

FOR RENT: Pleasant trailer,
pine paneling, patio. One becroom, cozy, private. No pets.
4660 Franklin Blvd., #36. $110.
746-8121 or 747-0361.

Lost and Found

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

Services

NEED HELP? Call the HOPE
line, 345-5433 (345-LIFE) Monday thru Frid~y, 8 p.m. to 12
midnight.

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Evening classes, those that meet 1800 or
later, will have their final exams during
FINAL EXAM WEEK at their regularly
scheduled class time.

Let an experienced travel agent
organize your field trips, special
interest group travel, individual
personal travel, world wide. No
charge for services. Call Helene
Cary, 687-2805.

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scope
b~· Julic OYcrton
Question: Do you feel that marriage is
becoming outdated?
Answer: Larry Brian, Mechanics
"I don't think it will be around for
much longer because people are living
together more than they used to. Who
says you have to have a stupid piece of
paper to be legally in love?"
Answer: Gregg Howard, Economics
"Oh, I don't know. I think everybody
dreams of growing up and getting
married--the American dream you
might say. I think people will always be
getting married, probably because we
are all so possessive."
Answer: Helen Franklin, Secretarial
"Marriage any more seems almost
like a dirty word. It's so final--well anyway it's supposed to be. No I definitely
think that it's on it's way out, and it's
about time."
Answer: Linda Hope, French
"If two people really love each other,
they probably think they could stick it
out forever, and they would probably
try--marriage or no marriage.''
Answer: Denise Cary, Health
"Marriage isn't for everybody, but I
think it's a good thing."
Wanted: Applicants for the position of
Student Senate Health Coordinator ·
Who: will be a valuable member of the
LCC Student Hea~th Service
Team
Must be sensitive to "people:
needs" in realm of physical,
emotional, and social health
Who: Needs communication skills
organization skills
high interest in delivery of
health care
budgetary knowledge
Need replacement at the end of Spring
Term this· year to replace the present
Student Health Coordinator.
Reply in writing or call for an interview
[Ext. 268 or 269] to:
LCC Student Health Service
Attn:
Ed Langston, Student
Health Coordinator
or Laura Oswalt, PHN
Coordinator

ROBERTSON''S
DRUGS ·.

By APRIL 10, 1975

You~ prescription,
our main concern .....

Announcements •

White Bird Sociomedical Aid
Station, Inc. announces The
Annual Dinner Meeting Wednesday, March 12, 6:30 p.m., at
the First Congregational Church
23rd & Harris, Eugene. Guest
speakers: Rep. Nancie Fadeley,
Sen. Ed Fadeley, Dr. Andrew
Weil, author of The Natural
Mind.
Tickets available at
White Bird Clinic, 341 East 12th
Avenue 1 __Qtat the door. $3.
Spring Term registration is just
around the ~orner. Are you
aware of the many interesting
courses available in Interdisciplinary Studies? For further information contact the Interdisiplinary Studies Department,
Ext. 385, or drop by the 4th floor
of the Center Building, Room
493, and talk to Judy.
CHICANO Student Union meets
every Tuesday at 3 p.m. in
Room 404, Study Skills, 4th floor
Center.
Christian Science Club meets
each Friday morning from 10 to
11, Room 109, Health. Meet- ·
ings include the reading of a
brief Scriptural selection, followed by student and faculty
comments. All are welcome to
attend.
OSPIRG meets regularly every
Friday at 12 noon in the Student
Resource Center.
The Baha'i Club invites you to
participate in a discussion on
the the teachings of Baha'u'llah
and the New World Order.
Wednesday at 12 noon, Health
109.

- mMarch 11, 1975-

30th & Hilyard

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Regrstration Schedule
RETURNING EVENING STUDENT COURSE SELECTION

Returning evening students will be given first choice of all spring term evening courses.
Tub cards will be available for distribution on March 15, 1975 prior to official registration ll
dates. This day has been set aside for the convenience of evening students. Course cards
will be distributed on the second floor, Center Building, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Students
should complete the registration process during the regularly scheduled registration •
dates.

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REGISTRATION FOR PRESENTLY ENROLLED STUDENTS

March 18, 1975 .
March 19, 1975 .
March 20, 1975 .
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noon and 1,30 p.m.
THURSDAY, MARCH 20

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10:00-11:00
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by Kelly Fenley
It may have seemed funny that the LCC
Wrestling team left the Worthington.
Minnesota airport in a single taxi cab last
Feb. 26.'
They were there to compete in the
National Junior College Wrestling Championship which went on the week before
last, but the team arrived with -only two
wrestlers. About that time, it would have
been easy to joke about it. Okay, sure, this
is the team who will sweep in from the
West, claim a second and a seventh place
in the national competition and go home
tied for the sixteenth-best Junior College
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wrestling team in the US.
But funny as it may seem, that's just
what they did.

few. AAU meets." he said.
To get back in form. Booth said "The
main thing is just to get myself in top
physical shape. I think I have the talent,
abiltiy and moves."
Rexius was very happy after his seventh
place victory. '' A lot. of people would tell
me, 'oh, that's okay, you wrestled hard,'
and think I was disappointed. Bul I think I
wrestled very well, and I'm real happy."
Rexius graduated from South Eugene in
1973, attended LCC last year and will leave
after this year: "I think I'm going to retire
from wrestling," he said smiling.
Rexius is a Diesel Mechanics major, and
coupled with the work he does at Rexius
Fuel, has followed a tough schedule. "I'm
only home from 1 a.m. to 7 a.m.," he said,
because he goes to school until 4:30 p.m.
and then works until midnight.
Along with Rexius, the LCC wrestling
team will lose Dan Cox-- and Dan Nugent.
Returning lettermen will be Mark Booth,'
Brice Knutson, Steve Mitchell [4th place in
the Region 18 tournament], Tracy Likens,
Richard Gile, • Mike Forrest, and Ralph
Beaver.

with,"saidCrecdofthcreturnin gsqu~d.
Creed has been frustrated, though, with
competition from other junior colleges who
can offer athletic scholarships. LCC has no
such program.
•• fhey have scholarships for just about
"The
everything else." said Creed.
double standard still exists. It's too bad we
have to be discriminated against."
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Women getting ready

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by Elma Barr
Seventeen LCC women are readying
themselves for· their first scheduled track
meet. to be held April 2 at the U of 0.
Coach Susan Cooley feels LCC has an
excellent team but would like to see more
women try out for track events. She said it
is not too late and asks that interested
women contact her in her office in the
general therapy area or phone her at
extension 283.
Cooley says she has some outstanding
distance runners including Cheryl Bates,
Debbie Roth, Molly White and Shauna
Pupke.
Other proven performers include Ellen
Downey, Peggy Curran and Julie Angal.
According to Cooley, the Northwest
Region is one of the strongest competitive
areas in the U.S. The region includes
Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Southern
Canada. The regional meet will be held at
the U of O May 9 and 10.
Of great interest to local people is the
news that, for the first time ever. the
Nationals for women's track and field will
be held in Corvallis May 15 through 17.

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Heavyweight Mark Booth won four out
of five matches at Worthington to claim
second place in the nationals and 150pound Arlen Rexius won three out of five
Together they
bids to earn seventh.
totaled 23 points in the tourr\ament to put
LCC sixteenth in the natioi't along with
another Oregon school , Umpqua Commu'
nity College.
"They did a heck of a job," said Coach
Bob Creed, who made the trip also.
"That' s a pretty tough tournament, and I
think they wrestled well."
Booth and Rexius had to face 32 other
competitors in each of their own weight
classes when the tournament started.
There were 102 schools· from all over the
That means a lot of
country there.
wrestling in just three days.
"It takes a lot out of you," said Booth,
who' won every match he's wrestled this
year except for the last one. And, he may
have won that one, if he hadn't come down
with the flu. He was in bed for a week after
he got home. ''I don't want to start making
excuses," he said, " but I didn't feel well."
Booth wrestled his final match against
345-pound Rick Long of Rose, Oklahoma
Junior College. He jumped to a 1-0 lead
but then Long went ahead 3-1 on a take
down. Booth got Long down again, forced
him to a near fall, .but then Long reversed
him for the pin four minutes into the
match .
Rexius won his first two matches at the
tournament, but lost his first quarter-final
match. He then went into the consolation
bracket, won his match, and had a chance
to finish as high as third place. But in his
final match, he lost a 4-1 decision to finish
seventh.
"I've never wrestled better in my life,"
said Rexius. ''I was wrestling way above
my head.''
Booth was a 1968 graduate of North
Eugene High School where he earned two
State wrestling championships. He was
also chosen All-State his senior year in
football. He went to OSU on a football
scholarship in the fall of 1969, but
withq,rew for academic reasons. A while
later, he went to work for Georgia Pacific
Railroad. Booth and his wife Alexis have
two daughters--Ellen (three) and Jennifer
(one) .
"I have a lot more potential than I
showed this year," he said. "I've been out
for ·five years and it's hard just to come
right back.'' Booth weighed 265 when the
season started, but is down to 240 now.
"When I wrestle the big guys I give up a
lot of weight,'' he said. Long had a
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Booth plans to attend LCC next year
again, but in the meantime will·do a little
off-season wrestling. "I might wrestle in a

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