w~ Eugene Smith delivers lecture and slide show

photo anct story by Jeff Hayden

The lights go out and world renowned photographer
Eugene Smith begins his story. The scene: Minamata,
Japan, 1972. A mother cradles her child in the bath; limbs
deformed, the central nervous system destroyed, incapable of
speech, a victim of methyl mercury poisoning. Hundreds of
thousand of people living in teh area eat the affected fish, the
mercury accumulates and the people are ill. Why? Smith
talks of the Chis so factory, of their responsibilities, legal,
moral, and human. The implications are clearly political.
What system can allow, what system perpetuates this
suffering? Who is responsible? Smith is severly beaten,
during a protest, by the Chisso corporate thugs. He is
partially blinded and can't photograph. The recovery is slow.
The story goes round the world.
The frames change. An American concentration camp in
Asia. World War II. The children starve. Few survive.
Something the Nazis would have done? Certainly something
we do not find in our U.S. History books. Why? The
government censors. Smith explains. "They confiscated my
films."
The frames change. 1951, the spanish village. "The
spaniards are a people not easily defeated. They work the day
and sleep the night, struggle for and bake their bread, and
believe in life."
The frames change. South Carolina, 1953. The black
nt1rse-midwife. Smith speaks; "This essay on the
nurse-midwife, Maude Callen, is in many ways the most
rewarding experience photography has a11owed me. At the
time of the essay, she bore total responsibility for several
thousand scattered, swampbound, backwoods individuals.
They are better off for her care, and I certainly know that I am
a better person for her influence. And, if that sounds like a
love letter. . .it is."
The frames change. Pittsburg 1955. The scene:
steelworkers, pollution. The company executives advise
Smith to abandon the project saying, "only the blacks can
stand the heat." The workers are diseased, exploited,
opressed. smith perseveres, his empathy with workers is
obvious. The message is clear. Things must change.
The show continues and Smith speaks of his early years
with Newsweek and Life magazines. These years were filled
with struggle. Smith's fanatical determination to remain
steadfast to the truth, his uncompromising stand with editors
and his love for and ability to empathize with people gave rise
to his greatness, to his genius. Camera 35 magazine
described Smith as "the most important photographer thetwentieth century has produced.''
cont. from front cover
true meaning of "synergism"--how the integral parts of your
nature, workrng 1:ogether, create inner harmony and evolve a
more powerful you.
There are many barriers that keep people from attaining
peace of mind. McNally described subconscious training as
"tools you can use to get rid of those barriers."
The course is the brainchild of Tom Willhite, founder of PSI
World and the nucleus of a college which will eventually offer
degrees in parapsychology and train PSI instructors.
After 24 months on more subconscious training frontier,
PSI Energetics, with over 250 graduates in Hawaii alone, has
established itself in 18 cities across the nation, as well as,
Mexico and Canada.
For more information an/or applications for next month's
course, contact Yvonne Maxwell at 746-5437 or visit the
Student Resource Center, second floor of the Center Building.

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LANE
COMMUNITY
COLLEGE

4000 East 30th, Eugene, Oregon,

November 26, 197 5

Peace of /Vlind , syner gism
story and photo by Rex Ruckert

Smith is committed, he is determined. His aesthetics are
inextricably bound up in his politics: ". . .and each time I
pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation
hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through
the years, with the hope that they might echo through the
minds of men in the future--causing them caution and
remembrance and realization."
It was a memorable evening, one not easily forgotten. The
event was held a week ago Monday in Beall Concert Hall at
the University of Oregon. The photographers appearance at
the university was sponsored bv the Cultural Forum.

Michael McNally

TORCH STAFF

cont. on back cover

editor Mike McLain

sports editor Don Sinclair

associate editor Cris Clarke

photo ~ditor Rex Ruckert

news editor Todd Johnstone

production- mgr John Brooks

feature editor Max Gano
reporters Cyndi Hill
Crunch McAllister
Kelly Fenly
Scott Stuart
Karen Hiedeman
Lynda Jackson
Gerry Dennis
Steve Goodman
graphics
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David McKay
Kevin Harris
Tom Om

''Peace of mind, that most elusive of blessings for many,
comes only with inner balance. To deny any side of your
bein~ destroys_that possibility.''
This is one point put forth by Michael McNally, vice
president of PSI Energetives, a· "brand of suocvnSClOUS
training. ''
McNally lectured on the concepts of PSI (a greek letter
meaning unknown factor) at an introductory meeting
arranged by Self Help Oriented People (SHOP), the referral
organization forex-convictson th~ LCC campus.
A second such meeung will be held on Dec. 9 at 8 p.m.
In addition, a course in PSI will be held at the Eugene Hotel
Dec. 11-14, the tuition is $140 for full time students and $190
for other interested persons.
Specifically, what you can expect from a PSI course
depends on your willingness to participate and your ·degree of
commitment to change. "To change is to grow, " says
McNally, "and if you aren't growing, you are decaying, and
will die.''
These are a few dynamic capabilities you can gain from the
training:
* Learn to take control of your thinking. Most people direct
their thoughts and energies in a negative manner. This basic
course in awareness will train you to use your thoughts and
energies as productive tools.
* Expand your awareness. Your mind is an infinite source of
inspiration and creation. The conscious, decision making
level of your mind is only a tiny part of the total capabilities
present in all of us.
* Discover the power of inner balance. PSI teaches you the

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[ November 26, 1975

Board to review lettuce decision
Students asked to boycott
About 20 sympathizers for the United
Farm Workers Union attended the Board
meeting Wednesday to protest the Board's
decision to purchase non-union lettuce and
grapes for LCC' s food service operation.
Last year the Board made the decision
not to buy anything but UFW lettuce and
grapes in response to requests of upw·
su,p porters.
The Board recinded that decision on
September 10, and several of the speakers
were concerned that student input on the
decision was lacking, since Fall Term had
not yet begun.
Board member Larry Perry said he felt
the decision ''was not in support of the
Teamsters but simply an academic
freedom consideration.'' He felt that
students should have a choice as to waht
lettuce they buy.
A speaker for the UFW said that the
boycott against non-UFW lettuce hasn't
ended and should still have the support of
the college.
Board member, Katherine Lauris said
1

she "thinks there's merit in the policy that
an educational institution doesn't take a
political stand, but we must take a moral
stand, and this is a moral stand."
The Board then agreed to place the issue
on the agenda for the next meeting on
December 10, and urged the supporters to
present any additional arguments at that
time.
Since that time, the UFW has been
organizing for a boycott of lettuce and
grapes on the LCC campus, with petition
tables set up in the cafeteria.
The petition tables are being manned by
a student group which is trying to get the
board to rescind the current lettuce buying
policy.
The. group is being assisted by ME Ch A
Last year the Board made the decision not
students should have a choice as to what
they wtlt present to the board at the
December 10th meeting.

LCC budget

expected
to increase

Taxpayers and students can expect to
pay substantially more in support of Lane
Community College next year if initial
budget estimates presented to the LCC
Board Wednesday hold up.
Emphasizing that the figures are
"rough" and subject to change, Anthony
Birch, LCC's dean of business operations,
placed the college's general fund needs for
1967-77 at $14.6 million.
Birch said that figure could require
increases of about 20 per cent in both
tuition and the district's property tax rate.
The present tax rate is $1.61 per $1,000
of true cash value, and district residents
who are full-time students pay $100 per
term in tuition. This year's general fund is
$11.8 million.
Next year's LCC budget is still in the
preparation stage. It is scheduled for first
presentation to the budget committee on
Feb. 4 in anticipation of an April 20 elec-

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tion.
Birch said the rough estimate presented
Wednesday assumed that the college
would pick up the salaries for all employees
now being paid by the federal government
under the Comprehensive Employment
and Training Act. He said, however, that
there is still some chance that the federal
government will continue to fund at least
some CET A positions next year.
In addition, Birch said, the estimate
included 10 per cent salary increases for all
employees. Under two-year agreements
reached this year, LCC employes will
receive raises of 5.5 to 10 per cent, based
on the increase in the cost of living. Only if
the 1975 consumer price index for the
Portland area exceeds 12 per cent will
salaries be reopened for negotiation next
year.
If the figures presented by Birch turn out
to be accurate and the budget committee
sends the document to the voters unchanged, the college would be asking for
about $2.85 million in excess of the per
cent increase limitation.
That would mean a property tax rate for
district voters of about $1. 92 per $1,000 or
31 cents more than this year. At that rate,
the owner of a $20,000 house would pay
$38.40 in property taxes in support of the
college as against $32.20 this year.
LCC President Eldon Schafer told the
board members that the administration will
present new estimates as additional
information becomes available .

ASLCC holds questionable executive ·session

Analysis by Mike McLain
The ASLCC Executive Cabinet met last
Friday, Nov. 14, perhaps in an illegal,
executive session meeting, to allocate $100
as tuition reimbursement to last year's
Senate President, Sally Torres--in direct
violation of the ASLCC By-Laws and
iASLCC Fiscal Policy.
The meeting was attended by the
Executive Cabinet of the Student Senate
which consists of President Len Wassom,
Vice-President Richard Weber, Treasurer
Kathy Monje, Coordinator Francie Killian.
Also in attendance were ASLCC secretary
Connie Hood and Advisor Jay Jones.
According to Hood, the meeting was
held ''with the full advice and consent of
Jay Jones."
The closed executive session may have
been in violation of Oregon's "open
meeting" law which states, "No special
meeting ... of a governing body of a public
body . . . shall be held without at least 24
hour notice to the members of the
governing body and the general public."
According to several members of the
Executive Cabinet the decision to hold the
executive session was made within an hour
of the actual meeting. The TORCH was
notified approximately five minutes before,
the meeting began in a telephone call from
Connie Hood.
Although the president and treasurer
have since decided against sending the
$100 requisition to the Business Office
where a check would have been issued, the
cabinet nevertheless violated the following
ASLCC regulations.
* The ASLCC fiscal policy, which states:
"Expenditures of less than $50 may be
authorized by a 3/ 4 majority of the
Executive Cabinet for off-campus supplies,
services, rentals, etc., without Senate
approval." There is no reference in the
fiscal policy to any other legal means for
expending funds by the Cabinet in
Executive session.
* The ASLCC By-laws, which state: "All
Cabinet members and officers receiving
salary and/ or tuition grants shall complete
a minimum of 10 credits per term . . . ''
Last year's President, Sally Torres completed only three credit hours for Spring
Term, the period for which the reimburse_ment was allocated.

Jones explained his support of the
Cabinet's action saying, "Sally had some
extenuating circumstances last spring and
couldn't complete registration 'till late in
the ter!Il," at which time she could get only
three credits. He said that she then talked
to Russ Linebarger, the newly-elected
ASLCC President, and to himself and they
agreed that the ASLCC By-law's had no
restriction against Torres' making up those
hours during Summer Term. So they and
the new Treasurer, Leanord Landis, signed
a requisition for tuition reimbursement so
Torres could afford to attend Summer
Term.
But that requisition was apparently lost,
according to Jones.
- Hood says a new requisition was made
on June 30 and signed by then VicePresident Wassom and Activities Coordinator, Francie Kellian, in the absence of
Linebarger and Landis. This requisition
was sent to the Business Office with no
amount written in because it wasn't known
how many hours Torres had registered for,
for Summer Term, according to Hood.
Jones says that Torres was not able to
attend Summer Term without this money,
and so was unable to complete her
requirements for tuition reimbursement.
But the ASLCC fiscal policy specifically
states that ''no tuition grants shall be
disbursed until the sixth week of the school
term for which tuition is being reimbursed."
Hood explained this means that the
tuition is '' a reimbursement, the student is
expected to pay their own tuition for the
term, and they will be paid back later.''
Hood said that when Fall Term started a
new requisition was made up and given to
Kathy Monje, the newly-elected treasurer,
for her to sigp.
Monje ,sa'ys she told Hood that she
wouldn't sign the requisition until she had
propPr verification that Torres had completed the necessary number of hours. She
said they checked with Grace Cameron in
Student Records who said that as far as she
knew Torres had completed the requirements but they would have to check with
Torres to be sure.
Hood says that Monje asked what she
should do and that they (Wassam. Hood.

Monje and Jones) all decided that the
Cabinet should meet to decide the issue.
The Executive session was then called
and other Senate members were asfed to
leave.
,
Hood says no one thought the meeting
might be illegal at the time.
Monje says that during the meeting she
expressed the feeling that the requisition
was illegal, but that everyone else felt that
they were just honoring. a previous
commitment by Linebarger. She says that
Jones verified, during the meeting, that
Torres had completed only three hours for
Spring Term.
•
Monje explains that since she was new
she thought she would sign the requisition
if the Cabinet felt she should.
After she had gone home she says she
realized that she shouldn't have signled and
called Hood back and told her to hold the
requisition.
Wassom reached the same conclusion
and on Monday he called the Business

Office and asked them not to issue a check.
He explained •that after the meeting he
"got to reading the By-laws which said that
if you don't complete 10 hours, then there
is no reimbursement.''
Jones said he didn't feel that dealing
with an amount over $50 was in violation of
the Fiscal Policy since it was a matter that
had been dealt with before.
When asked by the TORCH why he
didn't advise the Senate that the Executive
session was in violation of the law, he said,
"What you have to do is prove to me that
the ASLCC falls under the state law
•controlling governing bodies. ''
When pressed to explain why he didn't
at least advise the members that the
neeting MIGHT be against the law,
because they hadn't notified the press, he
replied, "I elect to do the same kind of
thing that you, the press do. When you
want something done, when you want
some information, you get it. I'm not going
to let the Open Meeting Law stop me."

Student Senate condemns its director
A motion was made and tabled calling for the immediate resignation of Jay
Jones, Director of Student Activities, at last weeks Student Senate meeting.
Jones, who functions as the advisor to the ASLCC was criticised for what were
termed "two very irresponsible actions" since the last Senate meeting.
At the meeting in the Eoard Room Thursday it was alleged that Jones "helped
organize and took an active part in a meeting of the Executive Cabinet on November
16" which was "illegal in that it did not provide 24 hour press notice" and that he
participated in an illegal agreement to expend Senate fund over $50. (See related
story)
The motion read ''The ASLCC Senate feels its position and authority have been
undermined by the Director of Student Activities. Therefore we call for the
immediate resignation of Jay Jones.''
The second allegation was that Jones "vetoed two motions passed by the Senate
at their previous meeting." According to the motion, Jones refused to sign a
requisition for funds to send six Senate members to a conference in Portland this
weekend.
The matters were tabled for future action.
In other action the Senate:
Recognized five clubs, OSPIRG, the International Club, The Latter Day
Saint Student Association, United Students for a one world Family,
and Student Nurse~ Organization.
Heard a report on the progress of the LCC committee to Stamp Out Senate Bill 1.j

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By Arthur Hoppe
"Excuse me, Mr. President, bu~ there's
a lady out here in a long, white robe
carrying a set of scales. She says her name
is Justice.''
"Justice, eh? That certainly sounds
familiar. Well, Bob, send her in. Ah, here
we are. Miss Justice, is it?"
"Plain Justice is sufficient sir, thank
you.''
"Well, Justice, what can I do for you?"
''Whenever there is a vacancy on the
Supreme Court, sir, I appear before the
President to seek the appointment.'''
"Oh, a job seeker. Well, you're a
woman. That's sure a point in your favor.
Betty'll skin me alive if I don't name a
woman. Too bad you're not black."
"Color is in the eye of the beholder, sir.
And, speaking of that, perhaps I should
point out that I am blind.''
"Don't worry, I believe in hiring the
handicapped. You don't happen to be
Jewish, do you? That would be a plus. We
haven't had a Jewish Justice on the Court
in years.''
"No, I suppose you would call me
ecumenical."
'' Some of my best friends are
ecumenicals. Say, you don't just happen to
be a Republican, do you?"

"No, I'm sorry. I'm an independent."
"I was afraid of that. You wouldn't
believe how hard it is to find a Republican
these days. I don't know how appointing
an independent would sit with the National
Committee. I guess it sure beats naming a
Democrat. Not, of course, that politics
enter into these things."
"Of course not."
''But would you describe yourself as a
fiscal conservative?"
''No; I would say I was a moderate in all
things."
"Hmmm, that's too bad. I mean some of
my best friends used to be moderates, but I
have to think, of course, of the challenge
from the right in the primaries. I don't
want them accusing me of unbalancing the
Court in the direction of moderation.''
''You certainly seem to have a problem
there, sir."
"Tell me, Justice, are you working
now?"
"Oh, off and on, here and there. But
generally I'm unemployed. People say I'm
often quite poetic, though."
"Well, I'm sure for reducing unemployment. And you have my highest
admiration. If there's anything I can do for
you ... But don't call us; we'll call you."
"How odd. That's what you Presidents
always say."
"Is she gone? Why did you ever let her
in, Bob? Can you imagine the Senate
approving a blind, unemplyed, hippie
poetess to sit on the Supreme Court?"
"Sorry, Mr. President."
"No more oddballs, Bob. Remember,
what we need is a black, female, Southern
Republican, conservative, distinguished
jurisLwith . . . Say! Sammy Davis Jr.,
4oesn 't happen to be married to a judge,
does he?"
(Copyright Chronicle Publishing co. 1975)

Editorial
By Don Sinclair

In an article appearing in the November
11, 1975 issue of the TORCH, Max Gano
wrote about the financial situation of
KLCC-FM, the LCC based radio station.
Several replies appear in the Letters to the
Editor section of this week's paper. Editor
Mike McLain asked if I would write an
editorial comment concerning KLCC.
I think that the administration of LCC
has the responsibility for funding KLCC.
The fact that the radio station derives
money from the Corporation of Public
Broadcasting (CPB) does not alter the
responsibility.
KLCC in return should be responsive to
the needs of the student body, within the
same framework that other radio station
are responsible to their respective communities.
These tough economic times are going to
continue, so say the market indicators.
The United States is dependent on the use
of oil which becomes ever more expensive,
inflation will persist.
These are not the times for small radio
stations to wander off on their own to
become economically independent.
Similarly, the administration of LCC is
passing up one of the greatest tools of
communication that it could possibly hope
for--one that has never been effectively
used here in J ~- . .:ounty.
The most dbLTessing thing I find here at
LCC is that the skills that are required for
one person to effectively communicate with
others, are repressed. This is a moral
crime. It is ironic though, that either the
motivation or the skill to communicate the
paradoxical dilemma hasn't been fully
realized.
Communication is the one thing that all
people have overlooked for years as a
learned skill. For example, the English
Department has to wander over much of
the campus to find place to hold classes in
literature and writing. The TORCH has a
budget so small, the entire travel allowance for a year is $60. Voice and Articulation, one of the best classes I have ever
taken, has a part time instructor. And of

November 26, 1975

Miller says

S.B.#1

Senate Bill 1, entitled, the Criminal
Justice Reform Act of 1975, presents a
clear and present danger to our
constitutional rights, and is the first
Congressional attempt to revise and codify
the U.S. Criminal Code since 19'
Repressive measures abound tl.
6 hout
the bill; for example:
WIRETAPPING: S.l continues 48 hr.
"emergency" taps without court approval.
Directs telephone companies and landlords
to cooperate "forthwith" and "unobtrusively'' with government wiretappers
and provides compensation (payment) for
doing it and penalties for refusal to
cooperate. (Chapt. 31 A; p. 206-208).
DEATH PENALTY: S.1 attempts to
circumvent a 1972 Supreme Court decision
which held capital punishment to be "cruel
and unusual" because it was "so wantonly
and so freakishly imposed." It would
provide mandatory executions for certain
crimes under certain conditions. (Chapt.
24; p. 194-98).
Under the subjects of Sabotage (Sec.
111; p. 64), Sedition (Sec. 1103; p. 64) and
Demonstrations (Sec. 209; p. 391; Sec.
1114-16; p. 66-67), virtually every kind of
civil rights, peace and other protest action,
including labor strikes, would be
t,ireatened with severe penalties under a.
series of vaguely drafted infringements on
the right of assembly.
SECRECY: By placing freedom of the
press under government censure, S. l
challenges the Constitution by substituting

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course, the college is ostensibly through
with KLCC-FM.
The administration might just as well
wipe out the Mass Communication DepartBRINGmobiles are located at the
ment.
The administration might just enroll in following places at the following times:
one of the communication classes they step
on and learn how to use the tools they have First Saturday of each month:
right here on campus. Perhaps then, they
10:00-1:00
Spencer Butte Junior High
would utilize sources that could help both
1:00-3:00
Ellis Parker Junior High
the college and the students which attend.
10:00-12:00
Alvadore Fire Station
In tough inflationary t~mes, it's always nice
1:30-3:30
Patterson Elementary
to help two for the pnce of one.

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Did you believe this ad ?

TORCH News Editor, John Brooks, was suspicious of the following ad which
was placed In the TORCH for two weeks:
MEN:! •• WOMEN!
No experience required.
Jobs on ships! American, foreign.
Excellent pay. World wide travel. Summer Job or career.
Send $3.00 for Information. SEAFAX. Dept. J-2, Box 2049,
Port Angeles, Washlngton 98362.
Brooks, having been to Port Angeles before, felt that It was pretty small and
not exactly a shipping town. He alse felt that three dollars was "a rather
exorbitant fee for Job Information."
For lnformadon on SEAFAX, Brooks wrote to the Port Angeles Chamber of
Commerce and received the following answer:
"Mr. Brooks: Anyone answerlna this ad did receive back S pages of
mimeographed Information about how to apply for Jobs. It Is placed In th;
category of "Buyer Beware" by legal terms. The post-office had had several
complaints and at least one steamship Une was se annoyed by the hundreds of
letters received from this ad that they are trying to get It discontinued~ ..
however, due to It's wording the post-office cannot do too much. It would be a
service to your readers not to nm the ad, I would say. Congratuladons on
being so alert and Interested In doing a good Job as editor. As a past editor and
then publisher of my own weekly, I say thank you.
Sincerely, Dorothy Munkeby, Executive Director, CIC."

A few days after Brooks wrote to the Chamber of Commerce, he sent In three
dollars using another name to SEAFAX for further Information. He Is now
awaiting an answer.

government secrecy for the freedoms
guaranteed by the First Amendment. It
extends suppression of information to the
ultimate, providing 3- 7 years/$100,000
fine for passing vaguely defined "classified information" to a person who is not
authorized to receive it. (Secs. 1121-1124;
p. 69-70). In addition, the penalities for
receiving such information are so severe
that the price of enlightening the public to
Watergate, the Pentagon Papers, covert
CIA operations, etac., would be stiff prison
sentences and astronomical fines.
WATERGATE CRIMES: S.1 would inhibit
prosecution of wrongdoing by ''public
servants" if illegal conduct is the result of
"mistaken" belief that it was "required
or authorized" or based on "written
interpretation issued by the head of a
government agency." (Secs. 542, 544 &
552; p. 57-59).
Locally, a group of citizens has united on
the need to defeat SB-1. Planning
meetings of the Eugene Committee to
Stamp Out SB-1 (SOS-1) are being held
Wednesday nights at 8:00 at 454 •
Willamette (above Growers Market).
Other effective action includes writing
Sens. Robert Packwood and Mark Hatfeild,
(Senate Office Building, Washington D.C.
20510), urging rejection of the entire bill,
and demanding public statements on how
they will vote.
Write letters to the editors of local
newspapers, deqianding adequate coverage of SB-1.

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p-OO't;,

By Russell Kaiser
If you are among the thousands upons
thousand of people in Lane County who
throw away all of their empty tin cans and
glass jars, maybe you should recycle them.
At least BRING wants to recycle for you.
BRING (Begin Recycling In Natural
Groups) is a nonprofit organization
specializing in recycling. All you'd have to
do is keep the empty cans and bottles
instead of throwing them away, drop them
off every week at a BRINGmobile. BRING
stations trucks at locations all over Lane
County throughout the month so that
people can drop off their recyclables.

Don Sinclair

rA Danger'

Second Saturday of each month:
North Eugene High School 10:00-12:00
- 9:00-11 :00
Willamette High School
1:30-3 :30
Whitaker Elementary
Third Saturday of each month:
10:00-2:00
Edison Elementary
10:00-12:00
Monroe Junior High
Fourth Saturday of each month:
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10:00-2:00
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'Student Associates'
are problem- solvers
opinion by David Miller

Where you find people, you find
problems, and the LCC student community
is no exception. A large part of the col1ege
staff -- the part called Student Services -- is
devoted to lessening the possibility of
problems for students and in solving those
which develop.
Working with student personnel is a
group of th~rteen people caned Student
Services Associates. As full-time students
themselves and also a part of the student
personnel staff, Associates are in a position
to relate to problems and needs from both a
student and staff viewpoint. As '' students
helping students", they are able to get
students in touch with a particular service,
explore alternatives to problem situatjons,
and develop support groups.
Associates work both on a one-to-one
basis and with groups, and can be found in
a variety of areas. They are available in the
Student Health Center as peer-counselors
-- the ''someone to talk to" which can be an
important part of keeping wen.
Other Associates work with counselors:
co-counseling or giving a little extra
support to someonw who needs it, helping
with human relations classes, working with
people on job-getting skills, and working
with parents of children who attend the
LCC child-care centers.
Associates are also currently active in
the Womens' Awareness Center, in a
native American organization; and in
exploring the development of a mens'
awareness group.
There is usually a Student Services
Associate in the Career Information Center
on the second floor of the Center Building
(outside the library), and they can also be
contacted through the counseling department.

Bicentennial sculpture dedicated
By Cris Clarke
A beaming Bruce Dean accepted the
dedication of his sculpted cedar log to the

birthday in a Nov 21 ceremony on LCC' s
Gonyea Terrace.
ASLCC President Len W assom directed

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the ceremonies, which were honored by
Dean himself, Art Department head Roger
McAlister, LCC Board member Jim
Martin, and U of O history professor
Thomas Govan.
Dean expressed gratitude and thanks to
everyone who aided him in his feat, citing
the particular help he re_s~ive-9 from his U
of O sculpture teacher, Jon Zach.
For those who may have trouble relating
to the sculpture's abstract form Roger
McAlister passed along a tew words on
unde.r standing the significance of the
piece. "Sculpture forms can be analogous
to music forms," he said, "they both take
:m certain patterns once they are created.''
. LCC' s Bicentennial Flag was presented
by Dr. Govan and received by Jim Martin,
,giving LCC official status as a Bi,centennial School." With the presentation
of the flag and certificate, Dr. Govan
expressed his hopes at seeing a
rekindling of the American revolutionary
spirit, and the continuation of the ideals
inherent in the American tradition."
The ceremony, which was attended by
about 100 students, faculty, and administration members, was conceived and
organized by Lisl Fenner, of LCC's
Bicentennial Committee.

SHOP . helps ex-offenders to stay out of penitentiary
Sponsors are needed to help alleviate the
Making available a permanent place
where ex-prisoners can come for help with burden of social stigma faced by exprisoners and to help them adjust to ·Jife
problems.
Two of these objectives have already outside an institution, emphasizes Hougak.
"The institutionalized person can't relate
been attained. The orientation course
offers lectures by doctors, lawyers, and to people, " he says.
By giving outside contact to those still in
other professional people that are geared
toward helping the released prisoner prison, the letter-writing exchange can
socially and legally. The class is held at the assist in solving the problem too.
Interested students can contact Stan
same time as SHOP meetings, every
Wednesday at 3 p.m. in Apprenticeship, Hougak in the S.R.C. or Marilyn Hicks in
Room 214, under the direction of Marilyn .:::ounseling. "We want people to know
we're here."
Hicks, counselor.

By Kathy Monje
Helping ex -offenders stay out of the
penitentiary is the concept behind Self
Help Oriented People (SHOP), says Stan
Hougak, coordinator.
SHOP is a student group organized by
and for former prisoners now attending
LCC. "We want to help people stay out of
the joint," emphasized Hougak (Ho-jack).
Hougak outlined the major goals of the
organization's new program as these:
Continuing a credit course, ''Orientation
to College,'' designed especially for
ex-inmates;
Finding sponsors to help cushion the
transition from the institution to school and
community;
Encouraging students to write to people
presently in the penitentiary who plan to
attend LCC after their release;

"I want ex-cons to know they can come
and talk to me if they're having problems.
This place is quieter and we have less
hassles,'' says Hougak (an ex-inmate
himself) of the group's new space in the
Student Resource Center. (Last year the
organization was quartered in an office
next to the snack bar in the cafeteria.)

New Literature class scheduled ·for next term
will deal with writers' perspective of Northwest
By Lori Reid
A new class called Literature of the
Northwest will be offered next term
through the Language Arts Department. It
was taµght twice last year as a workshop
class, but the class has now been added to
the curriculum and is worth three hours of
transferrable credit.
The purpose of the class is to aquaint
students with a wide variety of the

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The class will deal with the writings of
such authors as Ken Kesey, Don Berry,
A.B. Guthrie, Jr. and many more.

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Architectural problem
faces handicapped
OABC Pres speaks
By Nora Blackwood
The guest s·peaker at the Tuesday, Nov
18 meeting of the Handicapped Student
Association was Martin Weidman, president of the Oregon Architectural Barriers
Council (OASC), w'hich is a non-profit
corporation dedicated to human right and
to the improvement of conditions of the
handicapped.
"The emphasis of OABC," says
Weidman, "is toward eliminating architectural barriers in buildings and facilities,
and making our state accessible to the total
community." He adds that with a lobbyist
in Salem, a lot has been accomplished in
this area.
OABC is actively involved in helping the
handicapped find employment and it also
sponsors workshops to educate supervisors
or department heads about the problems of
the handicapped.
Any handicapped student needing
assistance in securing a job should contact
Gene Sorensor, counselor at LCC, ext. 395.
OABC is recruiting members, especially
people interested in conducting surveys,
and helping to produce newsletters.
Applications for membership are available
in Sorenson's office, room 29 in the Science
Building.
There are presently 10 members of the
HSA , although there are 82 handicapped
students registered this term.
Ed
Hummel, the newly elected president,
emphasizes the fact that ''The club needs
more active members if it is to remain an
active organization.' '
' ' Not only the visibly handicapped are
eligible for membership, ' ' he says and
added that ''We need all the help we can
get in helping us to help ourselves.' '
Meetings will be held on Tuesdays at
2:15 p.m. in the Health Building, room

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•hat is au option paBe?

OPTIONS is still a new concept for the
TORCH. We are interested in learning the
reactions to features which deal with such
controversial questions. I asked Joe
Kremers to give his impressions of the
speech by John Birch Society member
William Mcllhany II, an option presented
in Scott Stewart's feature last week. Here
is an account of that interview.
Kremers had a ''lot of very complicated
rea,ctions. ''
''The speech was a classic piece of
propaganda, the veiled fuzzy language, the
failure to closely link up these things which
he has suggested are linked. To link
Martin Luther King, the KKK, the
Illuminati, Karl Marx, World War I, the
United Nations, the League of Nations, and
rhe increase in drug traffic is carrying to an

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extreme what is a justifiable susp1c1on;
especially in the light of recent revelations
about the FBI and CIA. Its an improper
reaction to never again doubt any
conspiratorial theory, no matter how
screwy.''
"Mcllhany's only suggestion of a link
between Martin Luther King and the
KKK, for instance, was that both had said
it was their function to disrupt, in order to
bring down federal intervention. It's a rule
of thumb in social science that the more
items you try to link together, the looser
the theory gets.
Yes, there are conspiracies of limited
scope and limited duration that we must be
on guard against at all times. It would be
wonderful if the solutions to major
problems were as simple as identifying the
problem in such stark dimensions.

Faculty eyes new program
by Todd Johnstone
The LCC faculty council initiated, during
Thursday afternoon's meeting, the implementation of a program designed to
promote greater efficiency in educating
students at LCC.
The program was presented to the
council bv Jim Ellison who is the chairman
of the St~dy Skills Department at LCC.
The council, which consists of faculty
representatives of the various departments
of LCC, their alternates, and ex-official
members designated by the consensus of
other council members, initiated the
implemehtation of the program by accepting, and agreeing to circulate among
faculty members, a student needs questionnaire.
The questionnaire, which will assess the
academic skill needs of students, comprises part of the first point of the seven
point program outlined by Ellison.
The major points of the program, which
were listed by Ellison in the following
order, are:
* To assess the needs of the students and
the faculty of LCC.
* To identify the needed improvements in
education at LCC.
* To set goals to describe the needed
improvements in education.
* To reduce the goals to manageable
projects with measureable objectives.
* To implement these strategies .
* To evaluate and monitor the implemen. tation of these :;trategies.
* To improve each project in light of the
evaluation process.
Ellison emphasized the need for such a
program by pointing out that severe
educational deficiencies exist among students attending LCC. Ellison said that a
survey conducted at LCC in 1973 showed
that 18.62 per cent of the students
attending LCC have a reading skill level
below the 10th grade level. He also said
the survey showed that during the winter
term of 1973, 992 students completed less
than 50 per cent of the classes they
attempted, and that 220 students fell below

a 2.00 grade point level for the term.
Ellison says this data suggests the need
for educational supportive services at LCC.
He also said that the problem of
inadequate educational skills among students is a problem that has been dealt with
on an individual basis by the faculty of
LCC. Ellison says that the faculty lives
with the problem everyday and that they
should have suggestions on how to correct
it, and suggestions on which areas would
benefit from a supportive services program.
At this point Ellison introduced the
questionnaire to the council and he said
that the questionnaire would be instrumental in finding out to what areas a
student supportive service program should
be directed. Ellison asked the members of ·
the council to circulate the que,s tionnaire
among the faculty so that th.ey could
evaluate and offer suggestions pertaining
to the format and the content of the
questionnaire. Ellison said that the
questionnaire, with any chang~s which
result from the advice of members of the
faculty, will be distributed to the entire
faculty at a later date so that inf~rmation
on needed improvements in education at
LCC can be compiled.
Members of the council offered some
ideas and suggestions on where to direct a
supportive service program at LCC. Some
of the suggestions were a remedla_l
program for students, a testing program
mimeographed information about how to
apply for jobs. It is placed in the
which arise in high school can be solved.
In other action the faculty council:
* Expressed concern with changes in
administrative policy which deals with the
faculty.
* Elected the officers of this year's faculty
council and appointed members to the
steering committee.
* Announced appointments to the Curriculum Approval Committee, to the Campus
Safety Committee, and to the Academic
Council.

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COMMUNISM -

The distinctions
By Steven Goodman
Communism. It's a word the dictionary can only begin to define. Red Menace. Cold
war. Mao. Marx. Krushchev. Castro.
The list of associations extends cancerously in my mind. What's the difference
between communism and socialism?
Socialism is softer. Seemingly more rational. Do the impressions cloud the issue?
I've never read Marx, nor do I know more than a few key phrases "Dictatorship of the
proletariat." "Means justify the ends." "To each according to his need, from each
'
according to his ability.'' So I started talking to a few of the people around Eugene who know.
Floyd Ramp has his own ideas about communism and socialism: I grew up in New
York. A lot of people associate New York with leftist politics. Liberalism. But now, in the
light of the brief sketch of Marxist thought I've outlined here, I see New York as a
possible example of the highly developed bourgeois society Marx predicted, and not at all
representative of socialist thought.
This area, the Northwest, seems to me to have had far greater contact with real socialist
thought, and attempts by workers to control government. Populism, and unionism,
particularly with the ''Wobblies,'' or Industrial Workers of the World have claimed great
popularity here in times past.
Floyd Ramp goes back to the Wobblies heyday: he met union leader Eugene Debs' Red
Special in Portland, shook hands with Lenin and Trotsky, and played some poker with Big
Bill Haywood in the Soviet Union. He's now 93 years old and still a member of the
communist Party in Eugene.
He's still a highly visible member of the community, and sells the communist
newspaper, People's World, at the Saturday Market and on campus at the U of 0.
Ramp formed his leftist ideas when he was a boy in Brooks, Oregon and _says, "I've
•never had occasion to abandon them since.''
He opposed World War I, and spent 19 months in the "hoosegow" for his stand.
There was a widespread interest in the movement in the Northwest in the early days of
the century. Ramp recalled a Eugene Debs meeting in Portland in 1908 that drew 7,000
people. "You couldn't draw that number of people to any kind of radical meeting in
Portland at the present time. Right after the Populist movement and William Jennings
Bryan, which was very popular here, the socialist movement became a part of the
people's thinking, mostly through the s,1cialist paper, Appeal to Reason. They put out
several issues of a million copies. Up in the hills and all around here you'd find people
who were subscribers.
''That was more ot less a protest against the general conditions in the country,'' says
Ramp. He feels now there's a better understanding of political activity and more
widespread interest in political affairs. In his view, "Capitalism has nevr been weaker."
That would pretty much agree with U of O social science professor Al Szymanski's view
that ''the world capitalist system has revealed itself to be in its most serious crisis since
the 1930's." Great efforts have been made, Szymanski said "by socialists and
communists in the U.S. to organize new political forms.'' In his view a lot of the energy of
the anti-war "New Left" has been harnessed into Marxist-Leninist channels.
These people have tried to organize the working class. They have become firmly rooted
i:.1 the working class, and are not very visible at this time. In the event of economic and/or
political crisis, Szymanski is convinced, these people will surface, and the ground work
they are laying will be of great value to the cause.
Szymanski says most socialist groups at present don't believe that socialism will come
about because a majority of people will be convinced in the abstract. Most people believe
it will come about becasue of struggle; through building the workers confidence by small
vitories. For this reason, many socialist and radical groups in the Eugene area have
concentrated on specific issues which they consider abuses of the people. Among the
groups are:
* Eugene Coalition Liberation Support Movement. This group focuses on the oppression
of "Third World People" and of minority groups. They brought Angela Davis to town last
year.
* Labor Action Committee. This group stresses organizing the working class. It puts
out Stand Up monthly, and distributes it at factory gates and thrugh bookstores. It shows
films on the campus of U of O and supports strikes.
* Revolutionary Student Brigade. This group is involved in student issues and
currently is fighting cutbacks in higher education and tuition increases.
* Women's Union. This group that some say is closer to the working class than most!
campus feminist organizations, which are similar in thrust.
• * The Young Socialist Alliance exists as a political party, .primarily for students.
* The Communist Party is also an existing political party in the area.
Joe Kremers, a social scientist who teaches a course at LCC titled "Socialism Prophecy, Problems, and Practice'' says there is a basic difference between Marxist and
Leninist socialism. "Even in Marx himself there is a tendency to emphasize the
separation between the various branches of socialist thought. So you can say that
socialism isthe big category and communism is the subcategory; or you can look at it in a
temporal sequence.
"Lenin stressed politics, whereas Marx stressed economics as the key factor for the
timing of revolution.
''If you begin to talk about the possibility and desirability of revolution planned and
carried out by a professional group of revolutionaries, regardless of condition, without a
view to Marx's notion of economic stages and you start believing that revolution can occur
in semi-feudal states or an underdeveloped autocracy like Russia; you are talking about
Marxist-Leninism.
Lenin looked to underdeveloped states to have less opoosition to revolution. Lenin felt
you could eliminate the state of a highly developed bourgeois and liberal capitalism. In
that sense he was very non-Marxist.
To Kremers, "Lenin's emphasis on the economically underdeveloped nations and his
foresight in seeing the key role underdeveloped economies would play in the world
political scene, established him as more than an organizer and tactician--it established
him as a visionary who saw some very important relationships."
"Socialists are against welfare, (as we know it) they're against people living off the
state. What they'll do is guarantee that everybody has a job, and that only people who
have jobs eat, except when someone is actually sick or incapable of service. It's not just

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SOCIALISM
nd-the qualities
extending t~e welfare plan; it's taking people like Rockefe1ler off welfare.
"In America, the propaganda is somehow that socialists are in favor of the state.
Actually socialism h~s always been anti-state. In Nazi, Germany, ·the state was running
all-kinds of things--that doesn't mean they were socialist. Socialists want to smash the
state, and even if they use if for a while after the revolution it gets smaller and smaller all
.
the time; it withers away."
particularly with the "Wobblies," or Industrial Workers of the World have
Kaiser? No, he's a schweinhunt, I am sokialist unt I live toity years in Union City ant own
my home unt pay taxes unt I'm a good American, but dot don't mean dot I vill foight for
Banker Morg~n, ~ot vonce. I know American workmen in de sokialist party toity years
unt all day do ts fotght among each oder. Every sonofabitch denk him better den de next
sonofabitch. You loafers get out of here ... (Later) "If I talk like dot I lose my yob."
John Dos Passos, USA, 1930
Socialism has always had .its vocal supporters among the students in America, and in
. intellectual circles. Many writers have focused their attentions on either envisioning
flawless socialist utopias, or ''muckracking" exposing the injustices perpetrated upon the
American workers. •
John Dos Passos, a Harvard educated writer who was attracted to Marxism throughout
his early career, wrote this bit of fiction, which seems to expand on Szymanski's
reasoning for the failure of socialism to date in the U S A.
Szymanski says ''there's a lot of confusion between what 'right' and 'left' mean. If you
look beyond organized forms of radicalism to people's general attitudes abut things,
you'll find that the working class is the furthest left of all the classes in society. A lot of
George Wallace's supporters are following the same sentiment that, in a lot of other
countries, would come out in the form of pro-communism. but it's a confused ideology."
Szymanski defines communism, in Marxian terms, as the "final stage of the
revolutionarv orocess; the time when there's no more state, no more social classes and no
more subsantial inequality among the people. The basic things tying people together
are co-operation, love and solidarity. The economic principal is "From each according to
that person's ability, to each ·according to that person's need."
Marxist socialism, according to Szymanski, is only a transitional stage between
capitalism and communism. There needs to be, for a generation or so, a dictatorship of
the proletariat, there is a police and army (in pure communism, the absence of the state,
there is no poliee or army; and no jails.) Only the working class votes, lest the upper class
conserve to regain power.
You can't stir up people if people are happy. There has to be a lot of trouble before
people will turn to communism. Szymanski went on; ' ' So a good communistwould want_to
seize on any example of spontaneous fighting back among the people. Oppresssed people
fight back. People are always being oppressed in this society, women are oppressed,
blacks are oppressed, students are oppressed, workers are oppressed, people in the army
are oppressed. There's oppression going on all the time. The role of a good communist is
to seize on any type of event of spontaneous resistance, and to try to raise the
understanding of those people as to what the cause of their_problem is. So people don't
say that it' s just one isolated example, just that it's a bad boss . or a bad general or it's the
whites, but that it'~ the system's nature. Someone will provide leadership for the
struggles. Naturally if the struggle,can be furthered the communists will want to do
that.
- According to the ·"Communist Manifesto," which Karl Marx wrote with co-author
Frederic Engels in 1847, society "as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great
hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other; bourgeoisie and
proletariat. " The " Manifesto" savs "A ~ociety that has conjured up such gigantic means
of production and exchange is like a sorcerer who is no longer able to control the power of
the nether world whom he has called up by his spells. Not only has the bourgeoise forged
the weapons that bring death to itself; it has also called into existence the men who are to
wield those weapons - the modern working class - the proletarians.''
Marx predicted the lower strata of the middle class--the small tradesmen, the
shopkeepers , the handicraftsmen, the peasants, would all sink _gradually -into the
proleteriat, because they cannot compete with their small capital against big business and
because their specialized skill is rendered worthless by new methods of production.
' 'Thus the proletariat is recruited from all classes of the population.''
Marx says "Law, morality, religion, are to (the proletarian) so many bourgeois
prejudices behind which lurk in ambush just as many bourgeois interests ... the modern
laborer, instead of ri~j:i:ig with the progress of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the
conditions of his own class. And here it becomes evident that the oou~eoisie is unfit any
1 lo~ger to be the rulil!_g class in socie~y, and to impose its conditons of existence upon
society as an overriding law.
It is unfit to rule, because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his
slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state that it has to feed him,
instead of being fed by him.''
It is worthwhile to note, in these excerpts in the "Manifesto", that Marx pointed to a
revolution which would inevitably occur in a highly industrialized society, where
capitalism had run it's full cycle. Marx looked to England and other highly industrialized
nations, France, Germany, and the U.S.* FOR REVOLUTION. "the bourgeoisie
produces, above all ... It's own grave diggers. It's fall and the victory of the proletariat are
equally enevitable."
Yet, as Szymanski says, ''The US is almost the only capitalist country not to develop a
large Socialist or Labor party.
•
"In the United States", he says, "the thing that's probably held it up, in the last
analysis, more than anything has been the role of racism. With immigrants coming from
all different countries speaking all different languages, of all different religion and all
different colors, the mutual antagonisms were stirred up by the Bosses. People
developed a racial or national co_nsciousness instead of seeing themselves as workers
first, the way it happened in France and Western Europe."
Secondly, the Left in the US had also been extremely divisive throughbut it's history,
putting so much of it's energies into attacking other tendencies on the left. That clearly is
going to have to be overcome before the Left can get it together, says Szymanski.
A third factor is the repression the Left has always faced, he adds.This has been a major
problem. McCarthyists purges
from unions and universities have happened
periodically.''

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Nixon attacks OLCC

by I Lynda Jackson
Bud Nixon , president of the newly
formed Association for the Abolishment of
the Oregon Liquor Control Commission
(AAOLCC), announced his plans for the
reallocation of liquor control in the state.
At a press conference last Tuesday in the
Citizens' Bank Building in downtown
Eugene, Nixon described the AAOLCC, his
latest retaliation against the Liquor Control
Commission. His battle with the agency
began 11 years ago when the OLCC closed
his Golden Goose Tavern for seven days
becaus_e one of his employees served an
intoxicated person. Since then Nixon has
lost two taverns to urban renewal and has
been denied his last five applications for a
liquor license. "Their (OLCC) actions
tend to be dogmatic, discriminatory,
obtuse, unethical, procrastinating, expensive and in summary, totalitarian," stated
Nixon. ''The AAOLCC is launching a_
program to delete the OLCC and effect a
new, equitable, efficient, effective, and
economical system.''
The president of the association cited
inconsistency in license granting and the
closing of the Raintree Lounge in Springfield as two examples of the many unfair
practices by the OLCC.
Nixon said the basic aims of the
AAOT,CC include:
Combinmg tavern and cocktail bar
licenses into one, thus giving taverns and
hard li_q uor bars equal tJrivileges.
Granting liquor ;_ 1ses through a
lottery system, which would eliminate the
possibility of prejudice or ·favoritism.
Applicants would apply to a city council for
a license, and, in instances where there are
more applicants then licenses, the names
of those eligible will be put into a container
and will be drawn at random at a public
council meeting.
Closing the now existing OLCC Liquor
Stores and replacing them with private
enterprise operations. The new businesses
would be encouraged to sell other items
such as soft drinks, mixers, and ''munchies'' in order to lessen the need for
.nark-ups on already inflated liquor prices.
Revising the system ' so tliat liquor
wholesalers would pay taxes directly to the
city and county. Under present practices,
the OLCC collects the taxes and then
disburses them.
"If alcohol is not under proper controls ,
slaughter on the highways will become a
problem," stressed Nixon. "We do need
definite enforcement.''
The AAOLCC just wants to change the
murce of that enforcement, he told the
press. "We want to dispose of a system
which has a government agency in control
of a man's business. We need a new
system whereby a man breaking a liquor
law will get charged by the police, and
tried under the state system--not by the
OLCC.
At present there are about 25 members
in the association, all of them Lane County
residents. Although only a small percentage are OLCC license holders, Nixon
withheld their names ''for their own protection.''
A statewide campaign to promote the
association is being conducted through
speaking engagements with various social
The National Bicentennial Association's
Freeuom Train in 5pringfield

clubs , organizations and educational institutions , said Nixon. Funds for the
AAOLCC will be collected from membership dues, the placing of fund raisers at the
doors of the OLCC liquor stores and an
occasional AAOLCC dance--providing the
OLCC will issue the group a beer license
for the event.

Associated Vets
lacking 1n
participation
The Associated Veterans of LCC
(A VLCC) is an organization involved in
keeping vets aware of available services
and making sure that veterans get their fair
share of their benefits, according to Jerry
Smith, chairman of the assoicated vets.
But so far, only 9 out of 1,900 veterans
attending LCC this term have shown an
interest in such lofty goals.
In an AVLCC meeting Monday (Nov. 24)
Smith said that because the old officers of
the association are transferring to the U of
0 next term, the club has to reorganize. To
be effective it needs the support of
veterans attending LCC. Some of the
services the association offers a veteran
are:
* Information concerning G.1. Bill
benefits.
* Information about other organizations
that offer services to veterans.
* A Veteran's Emergency Loan Fund.
·* An involvement in political issues
affecting veterans.
Smith points out that it is easier for a
veteran to be informed of changes in his
benefits if he is a memher of the association. The association hosted a special
veterans information day Nov. 14 to keep
veterans aware of organizations that offer
services for vets. The association's
emergency loan fund of $50 that is
available to all veterans.
The association is also concerned with
elevating the status of Vietnam era
•veterans to that of the WWII vets. Smith
explained that after WWII, a veteran
received $75 a month on the GI bill. By
current rates of inflation, that $75 would be
worth $450 today--substantially below the
rate a veteran receives today--$270 for
full-time, single vets, $321 for vets with a
dependent, and $366 for 2 dependents.
Smith says he is concerned about
pending legislation which , if passed, would
require a veteran to be a resident of
Oregon for two years before he could buy a
home through the G.I. Bill. He looks for
AVLCC help in investigating this proposed
legislation.
In the Nov. 24 meeting, Jerry Smith,
Gary Hargett and Charlie Lusk volunteered
their services as officers of the Assoicated
Vets of LCC, but in order to be an effective
organization, they need the support of the
veterans at LCC.
In order to receive funding from the
ASLCC, the club must submit a copy of its
last meeting's minutes with the signatures
of 10 members. So far, that's not possible.
Anyone wishing to support the efforts of
this organization should contact Jerry
Smith in the LCC Veterans Office.

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Mannings cleans up
By Rex Ruckert
After much reorganization, planning,
budget maneuvering and the hiring of 2
full time tray busers, Mannings Inc. (the
company hired earlier in the year to
oversee LCC food service operations)
hopes, with its big company buying power,
to spend less and get more people in
buying more food and thus make more
money for LCC.
'' If we clean it up, we can get more
people in here and make more money."
Fred Goodman, the new Mannings
supervisor of food services, who thinks
enough new business will be generated as
a result of a more sanitary atmosphere, to
put the cafeteria and snack bar into ''full
line service,'' having both ends of the
counters stocked and in use simultaneously
by Dec. 1.
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DRUGS

CalenbaR o~ meet1nqs
November 26 - December 3

Wendesay 26th
12:00

our main concern .....
343-7715

A health food bar and more ''finger food
- basket type meals'' - are in future plans,
as well as the installation of security doors
that can be used to seal off the entire food
service area of the Center Building's first
floor after hours. Over $3,000 in materials
has "walked off," due to shoplifting says
Goodman. He plans to have the large,
plain surfaces of the doors used by the art
department for creative art space.

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LOSSA
LRC Conf. Rm

Sunday 30th

Tuesday 2nd

8:00

10:00

Students Forum
For 301
12:00-1 :00

Chess Tournament
Cen IOI north end
8:00 a. m. -8:00 p.m .

Staff Tours
Adm 202
10:00-10:30

1:30
Creating America ' s 3rd
Century
LRC Conf. Rm
1:30-3:00
4:00

12:00

Thanksgiving Day
Friday 28th
Thanksgiving Holiday
Saturday 29th
8:00
Chess Tournament
Ce n 101 north end
8:00 a.m.- 11 :00 p.m.

Staff Tours
Adm 202
10:00-10:30

SHOP
Apr 225
1:00-2:00

LOSSA
LRC Conf Rm

1:30

Students Forum
For 302

U of O Visitation
Cafeteria
9:30-2:30

In fo rm a ti on Commission
Mtg
Adm 202
1:30-2: 30

Staff Tour
Adm 202
12:00-1:00

10:00

2:30

Bake Sale by Dental Dept.
Gym Foyer
10:00-1:00

Ha ndicapped Stude nt
Assoc.
Hea 206
2:30-4:00

12:00
LOSSA
LRC Conf Rm

s200

10:00

12:00

9:30

Thursday 27th

Bahai Club of LCC
Table in Cafeteria
8:00-3:00

1:00

Monday 1st
8:00

" A breeze to fly ". This
red, white and blue 41 " long Kite is made
by the Tetrakite people.
8 to Adult.

8:00

Bake Sale by Dental Dept.
Gym Foyer
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10:00-1:00

Graphic Arts Exhibition
Mez Conf Rm
8:00-5:00

Slide Presentation
Student Health
Hea 209
4:00-6:00

Wednesday 3rd
Wednesday

LOSSA
LRC Conf Rm

Dece mber

Mannings hopes to eliminate scenes like
this.

FLYING FISH

Paper Delta Kite . An
easy-to-fly kite from Japan is colorful and also
decorative.

s2so

2:00

FUNSTAR
AIRPLANE

Guitarist-Singer
(ASLCC Activities)
Cafeteria
2:00-4:00

3:00

7:00

Cabinet Mtg
Adm 202
3:00-5:00

E.P.A.C. Mtg.
Ce n 124
9:00 p.m.-

A kit kite . Simple to
put together, easy to fly.4-tt. wing span and on
pre-printed silk span .

---------TRADITIONAL
EDDY KITE

The favorite diamond kite
comes with appliqued
butterfly, tulip , balloon,
whale or beer mugs.

s1100

Exhibition and sale of original

---------GIVE A KITE FOR .

graphic art
Major works by early and modern masters

Priced from $200.00

Convenient Cradit Terms
Magnificent styling, perfect
quality and lasting value
make Keepsake the finest
giftofall.
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(10% off for Senior Citizens 65 and older)

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L.R.C. Mezzanine Conference Room room

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Registered Diamond Rings

Fine watches Jewelry and gifts

11:am. to

VOMJewelers
Kccp'i~tke

CHRISTMAS

They can be packaged and mailed come in and see the differ.ent kites
from Oregon's complete kite headquarters.

Mon. Dec.1
3:pm.

Sale arranged by Ferdinand Roten Galleries

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For Sale: Rubber raft, 6 man, ony been used once.
Complete with paddles and air pump .. . 747-9967 ..•

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or less off
20.000 USED BOOKS . All selling at
112
published price. Textbooks, cliff notes magazines. USED BOOKS bought and sold_' Smit~
Family Bookstore. 1233 Alder. Phone
_
345 1651 •
IQ a.m. to 9 p.m.
For Sale : Upright Singer Vacuum cleaner:
Works fine, but not on long shag rug. Disposable
bags. Sl5 .00. 747-9967.

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child care

vets

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Are you a disabled veteran? Do you know what
~1ght time child care services can be obtained.
benefits you have? If not, call D. Johnson ••
Th'.s wo~ld be open f~r chi_ldren age~ 3-6 years _old.
747-3622, Mon. - Fri. between 4:00 - 7:oo o.m.
!his chtld care serv1c~ will only exts_t on basis_ of _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __ .
interest on the parent s part. There 1s now a sign
up sheet in the Womens Awareness Center , PRIOR MILITARY SERVICE--We will be selecting
(northeast corner of the 2nd floor Center Bldg.).
35 _veterans for service in Eugene' s National Guard
_As soon as there are enough participants hours
umt. These individuals will be eligible for up to
will be arranged. There will be a slight fee. If you
Sl400.00 yearly and other benefits for serving one
are interested or have any questions, please
weekend a month and attending a 15 day annual
contact the Womens Awareness Center and ask for
training period. Veterans need not attend basic
Joy between 2-5 weekly.
training again and this service will not affect GI
educational benefits . Qualified veterans call
Sergeant Asa 686-7574 or 800-638-7600. THE
OREGON ARMY NATIONAL GUARD

meetings

All are invited to the Christian Science College
Organization Meetings each Friday at 11 :00 in
Health 109.
Tailored Squares will dance, 8-11 p.m., Gerlinger
103. U of 0 . Stu Taylor, caller. Come join us!

lost
LOST
Silver locket in staff women's dressin rrom Call
Judy, ext. 24 1.
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through Mexico , Central America and Southl
America. Leaving in January. Return May or
June. For more information, call John, 998-6119. :

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Last Chance Corral -- Five minutes from LCC. One
bedroom Apt. , Sll0/ month . Studio Apt.
HOO/ month. Both furnished. Call 747-2291.

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TORCH ad info.
he TORCH needs competan t advertising salespeople . Must have transportation . This is a good
way to add to your income. Contact Mike McLain,
206 Ce nter.

Personals: Christmas is coming. Send your folks a
picture of yourself while studying, acting, making
ceramics, playing ball or whatever. Call the Pup
for any kind of picture ... 747-5885.
RATES for classified advertising are S.25 a line (5
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - short words make one line). Ads must be paid in
Personals: Happy Hanukkah, Herbie ... Too bad advance in th e TORCH office. Meeting notices,
Library Circulation Clerk II, closes Nov. 28. Apply •
you can't go to the concert with me. I'll miss you rides to school, and giv e,away items will receive
at Personnel Services Office.
and I understand. Mary.
free space in the TORCH as space all ows.

typing

TYPING. IBM Selectric. Term papers and so
forth . Pica and Elite. 343-5124.

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SUPPORTING
LANE co:r~~~~~6sCOLLEGE

This has been a particularly good week for LCC athletics . Some important
I
-= steps have been taken in developing the total program. The Athlet ic DepartOFFER EXPIRES JAN. 15, 1976
ment has not only signed a contract with MacDonald's Restaurants to promote
NO CASH VALUE
both the food chain and LCC athletics but, attempts have been affected to get
_ this news out to the community.
··-~·~;:;:,....~-~---- The Titan Cross Country Team that finished fifth in the nation was honored at
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- ~ a dinner last Monday evening. Not only that, but an attempt to get that informaBy Don Sinclair
tion out to the community was affected.
_The soccer team lost the division championship to SOC but the players
get
can
people
and,
"
meet,
The LCC Athletic Department has before a track
themselves made sure they talked with me so that I could communicate what
signed a $5000 contract with MacDonald's them here at the office too."
\
happened at Ashland.
"It's a great deal, people can give us SO
Restaurants to promote both MacDonald's
We learn from athletes and athletic teams' observations why they did as well
cents every time they go down for a Big
and LCC athletics.
~s they did in their respective leagues. Most of them say something like, ''We
The promotion will be in the form of the Mac and fries, at no extra charge," Tarp
Just play well together. I knew what the other guy was going to do and I just
Titan Token, $1 certificate good toward any went on, "they'll make great Christmas
to the right spot," or, "We haven't played that long together, we don 't
went
inexpenyet
and
welcome
purchase at any of the MacDonald's outlets gifts that are
communicate that well yet."
in the Eugene-Springfield area between sive. "
The point that I'm trying to stress, not only to athletes but to anyone who
now and January 15, 1976. The LCC
breathes, is the importance of communication in what you are trying to do well.
Athletic Director Bob Radcliff said, "We
Athletic Department wiU realize 50 cents
I finally found the Intramural Department after being at school for three years.
are very thankful to MacDonald's for
on each Titan Token sold.
"All our athletes are seHing them, both sharing this promotion with us. We both The director of lntramurals, Steve Dougherty, has a fine program over in the
gym. Once I found his office, I met a very articulate and dynamic person, as was
here and in their local communities and feel we have something good to offer."
Titan Tokens are scheduled to be sold at his assistant in charge of women's intramurals, Patti Vanchura. Their office lies
we've got a special prize for the guy who
sells the most," blurted out Coach Al athletic events and in the Winter Term behind the concession booth window in the foyer of the gym.
The big intramural activities this term have included flag football ,
Tarpenning, grinning like he does right regiS t ration line.
r ________ ______.:.,_________ _________ _ three-person basketball for both men and women, a cross country turkey trot for
men, women and faculty taking place this week, and concluding ~his term is the
Weight Lifting Championships to take place on Dec. 10. Drop-in basketball and
volleyball times are also posted for those who haven't been able to get on a team .
The nice thing is that Patti and Steve are trying to get the word out.
Further, the self-proclaimed 'second
Maine cheese' in the graphics department of the TORCH, a ·man called
By Don Sinclair
Brilleaux (Brill-Oh), came up with a
symbolic Titan for our athletic teams in
Mike Manley, Olympic competitor and
answer to last week's SportSinews. I
coach at North Eugene High School spoke
think it's dynamite and would press
out against professionalism in track and
:the Athletic Department to accept it as
field at a banquet honoring LCC' s Cross
its logo. It's another move toward an
Country Team last Monday evening.
eff.e ctive program. Thanx, Brilleaux.
"People should not take money for
running,'' he said, ''because then they can
tell you where you run, and when you run ,
and maybe even how fast you run."
A resume of the year's progress by each
runner and the team was covered by Cross
Country Coach of the Year, Al Tarpenning.
Other speeches were presented by Dr.
Doug White , Chairman of the ParaMedical/ParaDental Department, Athletic
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Redeemable only at
c:DONALD 'S of Eugene - Springfield

Strid ers
feast ed

Lastly, I am announcing my resignation as the Sports Editor ot the TOHt;H.
The dE:Cision to resign was a difticult one, I'm sure those of you who have read
my articles must know. I haven't been able to move in my chosen field of radio
as well as I would like. I may write for the TORCH once a month or so but the
~or:,tinued pressur~ of tryi~g to do the whole sports page by myself fro~ start to
Photos by Rex Ruckert f~nish was_ not e~u1table, m _my eyes. I thank the people who have given their
time for interviews, especially those whose stories I've not yet had the
J.C. All-American, Titan John Miller, opportunity to publish. I do thank also, those people who have given me feedlistens to praise from Coach of the Year, Al back, both negative and positive, that was well intended.
Tarpenning.
I think the TORCH and its staff is underrated and underpaid. The responsy that goes with putting a newspaper that allows 7,000 people their only
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~eaders realize. If _we want our community to understand its college, we must
inform t~em. I think t~e coltege and the community both got their money 's
worth this term and a little more. My very best wishes to my successor.
With sincerity, Don Sinclair. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...J

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By Don Sinclair

Connie Manley watches her husband Mike
Striders
Titan
the
congratulate
Director Bob Radcliff and Dick Newell,
Chairman of the Health and Physical
Education Department.
Manley's speech was obviously the
highlight of the evening as he congratuated
the LCC men that he'd run against, and the
community which supports the fine
running programs that Lane County has.
He urged the men ''to justify the reasons
why you are running , to yourself.
Enjoy ... enjoy the fraternity of runners and
the freedom you alone can experience.
Runners and joggers are introspective
because they get a better chance to think
about things . Use your time well."
Manley drew warm applause that
lmatched both his and his wife' s smiles.

Bobby Henderson had four assists and
league leading scorer Cort Lae added three
goals, but LCC's soccer team dropped the
league championship game 6-5 to the
Southern Oregon College Raiders.
'• I had my worst game ever. If I could
still would've
just have had a fair game,
won. Two of their scores came on balls that
just dribbled in.'' Gary Sunman, the Titan
goalie tried to accept the blame.
"We scored on some professional-type
soccer shots. Cort (Lae) was magnificent!
He's short you know, and he scored as
beautiful a header as you'll see in any
soccer game ," Sumnall went on, "but our
defense just didn't come to play. The one
day when we should've been up, we were
flat. And we Jost. "
At press time , The Titans are playing
Portland Community College in a challenge
match at Portland. Cort Lae wiIJ be going
for the school record for goals scored in a
single season.

rhe College Side now has
a 52".X69" TV screen for:
Football

U of O Basketball

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Sports Events
Blitz on tap

Pool

Foosball

Dime beers on
Monday-n1tes
Lunches daily