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Ft:ma,e roommate wanted:
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meetings
There will be an open house sponsered by
the L.D.S. Student Association, Friday,
January 9, 1976 in the President's Dining
Room from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m. Registration for discussion groups will be
offered. Everyone welcome.

SPAF Users Meeting, Thurs., 10 a.m.,
Mr. Carter's office.

vets
Are you a disabled veteran? Do you know
what benefits you have? If not, call
D. Johnson -- 747-3622, Mon.-Fri.
between 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.
PRIOR MILITARY SERVICE -- We will
be selecting JS veterans for service in
Eugene's National Guard unit. These
individuals will be eligible for up to
Sl,400.00 yearly and other benefits for
serving one weekend a month and
attending a 15 day annual training
period: Veterans need not attend basic
training again asnd this service will not
affect GI educational benefits. Qualified
veterans call Sergeant Asa 686-7574 or
800-638- 7600. THE OREGON ARMY
NATIONAL GUARD.

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most be paid in advance in the TORCH
office. Meeting notices, rides to school
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space in the TORCH as space allows.
The TORCH needs competant advertising
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This is a good way to add to your income.
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The decisions,
the issues,

to room 206
in the center
building

and the feelings

story on page 1

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(_1000 East 30th, Eugene, Oregon

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Vol. 13 No. 12 Jan. 7, 1976)

January 19, 1976
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LANE
COMMUNITY
COLLEGE
CJanaury 7, 1976--

60 LCC Women Boycott Women's Studies
15 form alternative class,

"Women's

Union"

continues boycott of accredited classes

by Mike McLain
"As far as we're concerned the issue is not dead."
This was the overriding sentiment expressed by a Language Arts instructor at the first
meeting of an alternative Women's Studies course organized by students who are
boycotting the college's accredited Women's Studies course.
The formation of this alternative class, (as well as of "Women's Union"), the continued
boycott of the college's Women's Studies classes, a possible fawsuit and much confusion
and hard feelings, are all the result of the changes that were instituted in LCC's Women's
studies courses this term, say the women.
The controversy had hs beginnings earlier this year when the college Administration
did not allocate the necessary funds to continue the 2/5 teaching time of Robbie Hannah.
the Instructor of Women's Studies for Fall Term, when it established the Women's
Studies program. (See story, this page).
In response t6 the Board's action, a group of former Women's Studies students
organized a boycott of the Women's Studies courses during registration for Winter Term .
According to Debbie Anderson, one of the organizers of the bovcott. 60 women signed a
petition in support of the boycott, stating an interest in the Women's Studies program but
not 'in its present form. According to an Administration source, 20 women signed up for
the new courses.

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Former students of the class continue the boycott as the Women's Studies Seminar is held
in the classroom behind them.

Board
Supports
Administration~:
Hanna loses job
by Todd Johnstone
r

No need for alarm yet
by Scott Stuart

...

When the LCC Board of Education
adjourned Pee. 10 without allocating an
additional $4,000 to the LCC Women's
Studies Program it thus eliminated the
part-time teaching position occupied by
Women's Studies Instructor Robbie Hannah.
The Board decision not to allocate the
additional money concurred with an LCC
Administration recommendation that the
money not be allocated. The Administration justified its recommendation by saying
there are programs at LCC which have a
greater need for funding than the
Women's Studies Program.
Several of the 100 audience members
attending the meeting expressed opposition to the Administration's recommendation. In arguments that ranged in tone
from eloquence to obscenity, members of
the audience portrayed the Administration
recommendation as an attempt to divide
the women's movement on the LCC
Campus, an attempt alleged to prevent the
expansion and stabilization of women's
programs at LCC and as an attempt, some
claimed, to exploit women.

Then on Dec. 23 it was decided bv the Administration to institute a "team teachin_g''
effort for the classes Winter Term. According to Gerald Rasmussen, Dean of Instructional
Operations, this was in response to a recommendation by the Women's Program Advisory
Committee, an 11 member group of lay citizens which makes suggestions for the
program.
The team effort will include teaching duties for Grace Cameron, supervisor of Student
Records and Lee Pettigrew, a research assistant and other guest lecturers.
Rasmussen said he felt this would ''broaden the base of the course.''
But these moves haven't satisfied the demands of the boycotting students, according to
Anderson, so she and other students and instructors have formed the alternative class,
continued on page 3

The Board also reviewed an Administration recommendation to disband the
Interdisciplinary Studies Department
[IDS], but decided to retain and support
the program through the remainder of the
year.
The Administration says that many
departments have incorporated an ·interdisciplinary approach to studying and that
a specific IDS is not needed. It also said
that disbanding the department would
enable the department chairman to teach
full time and thus save approximately
$3,600 in teaching costs.
However, the chairman, William Powell
argued that the amount of money the
college would save by disbanding the
department would be between $500 and
$1,000. He said that the Administration
has repeatedly attempted to disband the
department, and he said that the Interdisciplinary Studies Department should be
recognized as a productive department.
Jay Jones, director of Student Activities,
said - that the Administration had never
intended to back the IDS and that Powell
has been ''treated like a second class

citizen rather than like other chairman.''
Members of the audience spoke in
support of the department. One individual
expressed the sentiment that if the IDS is
disbanded and its classes are administered
by other departments, then interest in the
classes will fall away. Another individual
said that the department has too many
elements to be represented in other
programs.
Prior to the decision Board Member
Catherine Lauris said, "It's is too soon to
break up the department" because the
program will be "weakened and watered
down.''
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The Board also discussed LCC's lettuce
purchasing policy and voted to continue its
present policy of purchasing ''produce of
the highest quality at the lowest price."
The decision was opposed by groups who
support the United Farm Workers (UFW)
movement and who want LCC to purchase
UFW lettuce rather than Teamster lettuce.
Supporters of the UFW said a college
decision to buy only UFW lettuce would be
"to engage in an act for freedom." continued on page 3

Hepatitis crops up at LCC again

Two new cases of hepatitis have been reported at LCC bringing the total
reported LCC cases to three since last October.
During fall term, Ken Brownell, director of the Food Services at LCC,
contracted viral hepatitis. Just before the end of the term, Brenda Castleberry,
an accounting clerk in the LCC Business Office, and one other unidentified
female student both were down with the same type of hepatitis that Brownell
had contracted.
According to Laura <;>swalt, LCC Health Services coordinator, although there
are three reported cases of the same type of hepatitis in the same area at roughly
the same time, it is not unusual becau~e hepatitis is all over Lane County.
Oswalt explains that because the area is growing so fast, people often build
septic tanks for their new homes. But if septic tanks are not properly cared for,
contamination of surface water may result, especially in areas with a high water
table such as in Lane County.
Oswalt says that the type of hepatitis reported at LCC, serum hepatitis, is
transmitted by blood contaminants. Possible methods for hepatitis entering the
blood stream include (but are not limited to) contaminated instruments used in

dental work, ear piercing, blood transfusions and other instances where one
person with serum hepatitis may contaminate another's blood. Oswalt went on
to explain that once a person has serum hepatitis, it can also be transmitted
through the fecal-oral route.
Because there have been three similar cases of hepatitis reported at LCC,
blood samples have been sent to the State Health Division Laboratories in
Portland. From there, portions of the samples have been sent to a satalllte office
of the Center for Disease Control ]cdc] in Pheonix, Arizona.
According to Jeanette Bobst, Communicable Disease coordinator for Lane
County, the blood samples sent to CDC will be used in Phage Typing research--a
method used to determine whether viruses originated from the same source.
This method has been used with diseases like strep throat, but has not been
done with hepatitis. Bobst says that since the three people with hepatitis are
from the same place, it is a good opportunity to find out if Phage Typing can be
used.
. Both Bobst and Oswalt stress that the best way to prevent contracting
hepatitis is to wash your hands after- using the toilet.

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A questionable approach to people

In an institution such as a college, where the consumer [the student] is purchasing
'iomething as intangible as an education, the student has a legitimate right to influence
the decisions that affect the product which he or she will purchase.
A decision was made earlier this year. The college Administration decided that the
Women's Studies classes could be taught by the newly appointed Women's Program
Coordinator Anne Stewart, as part of her job but this decision eliminated the part-time
position held by Robbie Hannah, who had been teaching the classes. The Administration
said the result was a $4,000 savings to the college. In these tight economic times where
all of the college's programs are operating under overly-restrictive budgets, the
~dministration can easily rationalize the savings of $4,000 with a change it believes won't
adversely affect the program.
But the potential consumers of this program attended the Dec. 10 Board meeting to
express dissatisfaction with the change.
The Board was scheduled to consider the change, which was to go into effect Jan. 5, but
instead it tabled the matter. This, in effect, supported the Administration's decision
since the next Board meeting would not be held until after the change occurred.
!It might be noted here that Anne Stewart also expressed dissatisfaction with the
decision, saying the classes might be better served by an instructor who is not so involved
in other things].
But this line of input was closed--the Board's failure to act -advocated the
.c\dministration's move. Some of the dissatisfied consumers instituted a very effective
ho~·cott of the class during registration. Sixty people honored the boycott and signed a
peit.ion expressing a desire to purchase the offered commodity, but not in it's present
form.
They preferred the 1975 Women's Studies to the new, improved 1976 version.
Now, in the private sector, if a company modifies a product and its old, loyal customers
~xpress dissatisfaction with the change by not buying it, the company has two choices:
H can return the product back its old version, or it can ignor its old customers and institute
an advertising campaign to generate enough new customers to make up for the ones it
:ost. Either road is fine for an institution concerned only with generating profits.
But for an institution that sells training and knowledge, the latter road shows a total
Jack of concern for what should be it's highest priorities.
Last Saturday, Sunday and Monday the college spent approximately $100 to advertise
the one particular program that was the object of the dissatisfied students' boycott.
An Administration spokesperson explained that this is a standard procedure when a
dass or program looks as though it may be under-enrolled, but in this instance it looks like
attempt to bolster up the Administration's rather tenuous position. It seems it would
;ike to say, "Look, we have sold out on our new product, so it must be just as popular as
:he old."
But even if the college enrolls the necessary 24 students, instead of only the 20 it has.

·there are still 60 dissatisfied consumers with nowhere to tum. And that is not acceptable
for an institution that should be concerned with people.
The Register-Guard advertisement began with "A New Approach to Women's
Studies" which the new program no doubt is; But it's also a new and questionable
approach to dealing with women, students, consumers and people in general.

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Ad Hoc Committee requests answers
The recent administrative actions in the attempt to dissolve the Interdisciplinary
Studies Department and the arbitrary revision of Women's Studies Program have created
havoc and divisiveness on this campus. We in the Language Arts Department want to
help change this discord into harmony and establish better rapport among the staff,
students. administration, and community. We believe each of these groups has the
common goal of making LCC an even greater institution than it is today, but recent events
have pushed this goal into the background. Today we find the students picketing
registration, the LCC Board being attacked by both staff and students, and
Administration being challenged from all directions, and the dignity of individuals being
abused. Now is the time to make an assessment--all factions must study this conflict as
objectively as possible. We know that each faction sees its role as paramount to the
institution and possible in this fallacy lies the root of our troubles, but this fallacy may be
the key to re solving the conflict. We, in our frustration, have prepared a list of questions
for the Administration and LCCEA to study. We have tried to limit the questions .to the
two issues that have caused this severe break in relationships. We are not asking eitl}er
the Administration or LCCEA to respond to the questions individually, but to study the
policies and procedures that precipitated them. Through this process possibly a way of
precluding or at least lessening conflicts in the future may be found. We are writing thes
questions because we distrust what we do not understand.
1. Why, when, and how was the decision made to establish the Women's Awareness
Center?
A. If the intent was to establish a Center and to help the Women's Studies
Program grow and become an integral part of the college, then ...
(1) why w;_s Anne Stewart not given a contract, even for one year?
(2) was she given a clear job description? If not, why not?
(3) why was the budget for the Center withheld until December?
(4) why did the staff have to petition the Administration to give her visible
office space?
(5) what is her salary? How was it determined? What budgets are involved?
(6) where did the Center money come from for materials, supplies, and
personnel?
b. When Dr. Schafer announced the creation of the Center at out Fall In-Service
meeting, many of us were delighted to hear of this positive move, but in retrospect we wonder . . .
(1) why he did not explain the process by which the Center was created?
(2) why were we not told that Anne Stewart would teach the existing
Women's Studies classes?
(3) why was Anne chosen without advertising the position to other qualified
women employed at LCC?

2. If we had known at the beginning of Fall Term that the conditions of Anne's appointment involved a possible dismissal of a highly qualified (albeit part-time) instructor,
all questions could have been considered in a positive atmosphere. Instead we saw
questions raised by frustrated, angry students and concerned members of the
community at the December 10th Board meeting. Since our college has
"community" as its middle name, these questions should be studied without delay.
a. What are the qualifications for teaching a college transfer Women's Studies
program?

(1) Would they be the same for a full-time or part-time teacher?

(2) Is Anne Stewart as well qualified to teach the Women's Studies classes as
the part-time teacher, Robbie Hanna, she is displacing?
(3) How can Anne Stewart be effective in developing awareness when her
appointment to replace a qualified teacher polarizes both the students
and staff? (This action has led to picketing of the very program she is to
strengthen.)
3. As faculty members we are concerned about the quality of instruction and the
funding of instructional programs; therefore, we must ask questions about the
administrative attempt to dissolve the Interdisciplinary Studies Department.
a. Since the Interdisciplinary Studies Department has been given a short tenure ,
why was the money for Women's Studies classes removed from the department?
(1) Was it the intent that the Women's Awareness Center is to become
another instructional department?
(2) Or, is this a ploy to reduce the need for the Interdisciplinary Studies
Department?
b. Was the implication of divorcing selection, screening, and evaluation of instructors from an instructional department considered?
(1) If a program specialist teaches the Women's Studies classes who will
evaluate her as a teacher?
(2) Who will select future instructors in such college transfer classes, and
what procedures will be used?
c. Two years ago the Interdisciplinary Studies Department and the Office of
Instruction established a thorough screening process for the two-fifths
part-time instructor of Women's Studies. Why was this process abandoned
when Jeanette Silveira resigned?
CONCLUSION

Unfortunately, the study of these questions will not immediately heal the wounds that
are today disrupting out campus. The picketing seems to have so effectively reduced
enrollment in the Women's Studies classes that we believe only contrived enrollment
could slavage them under the current policy of deleting non-productive classes. Neither
cancellation notr contrived enrollment would be a viable action. We suggest that the
Women's Awareness Center be the full-time job for Anne Stewart, and that Robbie
Hanna continue the Women's Studies classes as a member of the Interdisciplinary
Studies Department for the remainder of this year. These actions will give time to the
administration, faculty, and students to make sound decisions about the future of the
Interdisciplinary Studies Department and the Women's Studies classes.
We ask the LCCEA to distribute this memorandum to Board members, Administrators,
and the entire faculty. We urge that an ad hoc committee be established to study these
questions and make recommendations of administrative policies that will preclude such
destructive incidents in the future.
Ad hoc Memorandum Committee
Evan Alford
Susan Bennett
Karen Lansdowne

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Women's Studies Boycott

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Student hearings to be held

cont. from page 1
plan to continue the boycott and organize support for their points of contention. Those
points, included in the petition are:
•"The teaching of the Women's Studies cl~s~es w_ere taken out. of_ th~ h~nds_ of a
qualified instructor and taken over by the Adm1mstratlon, and const1tutmg a v1olat1on of
academic freedom.
•That the Administration did not follow proper hiring procedures when it hired Anne
Stewart for her present position. That there was no advertisement for the position, that
there was no search committee to screen applicants, and that there is no job description of
minimum qualifications.
•That the Administration is being sexist by not conducting a search for the most
qualified instructor, and that it has the attitude that it's "just a women's course, anyone
can handle it.''
The g_o_als of the group are to have the issue--additional money needed to re-es~ablish
the part-time teaching position, put back on the Board agenda for Jan. 14 meetmg; to
establish this position as halt-time so that 1t would nave tne protecuon 01 me tacuny
union; and to conduct a proper search for both the Women's Studies instructor and the
Women's Program Coordinator.
The LCC Women's Union was described as a politically active alternative to the Women
for Equality, another women's group at Lane. The Union is sponsoring the alternative
course and the boycott.
According to student Debbie Anderson, the alternative Women's Studies course, which
carries no credit, will deal with welfare, rape, housewives, anger, women and depression,
and other topics. The emphasis will be on political activism and social understanding.
It will meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays at noon in the Women's Awareness Center.
Dean Rasmussen says that he has not been approached by anyone from the boycott
group about any changes, but that in any_case he "has no plans to facilitate the students
who signed the petition."
Saying that "we obviously have a problem here," Rasmussen explained that "steps
will be taken to continue the team approach and could include participation by those from
the boycotting group, but as far as I'm concerned Anne Stewart will be the instructor for
Winter and Spring."
Robbie Hannah, the former Women's Studies instructor feels that the Administrations
handling of the matter was ''very gross and ungraceful,'' and that the recent actions
affecting both her class and the Interdisciplinary Studies Department "shows a lack of
knowledge and concern about both sexes and races" on the part of the Administration.
Hannah said she has retained a lawyer and is studying the possibility of two lawsuits, but
would not expand on the idea, she said, for fear the suits may be jeopardized.
Members of the add hoc-committee, formed in the Language Arts Department, have
sent a memo to the Administration asking them to answer some of the many questions
they feel need to be answered in order to diminish the distrust among different factions
that the issue has created. That memo is printed in full on page two of the TORCH.

Board: Thumbs down on $4000

continued from page 1
But the LCC AC1mmistra1i...,.i said the
lettuce controversy is a political issue, and
it is not related to the educational goals of
President Eldon Schafer, in
LCC.
expressing his opinion to the Board, said,
"The matter of purchasing lettuce from
0nly one union places the Board of
Education in the middle of a disagreement
between two political groups (the Farm
Workers Union and the Teamsters
Union)."
Board member Richard Freeman agreed
with Schafer and said he feels the Board
should not make a decision on what type of
lettuce the college buys.
The other point of view had backing from
Board member Jim Martin who said that
the Board should not use the argument that
the lettuce controversy is a political issue
and therefore outside LCC boundaries: He
said that if the college has to take a stand
then it should have a policy stating that it
won't purchase merchandise from groups
which treat people poorly. Martin called
for the formation of a committee which
would study the issue and make a
recommendation on the course of action
the board should follow.
But the Board turned down Martin's
proposal and decided to maintain its
current lettuce-buying policy.

Am&~
Se¢fttie4

In other action, Social Science Coordinator George Alvergue presented a proposed board policy addition which states
"It shall be the policy of the college to staff
teaching positions with full-time instructors whenever it is reasonably possible to
do so.''
Alvergue's proposal points out a concern
by many college faculty members that in
the future the LCC Administration may
decide to adapt a policy which would favor
the hiring of part-time instructors over the
hiring of full-time instructors.
The Board also received recommendations on actions which are felt to be
necessary for the improvement of evening
program offerings at LCC and recommendations for proposed changes in the 5000
and 6000 series of Board policy.
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In a Jan. S meeting, the Special Programs and Activities Fund (SPAF) Committee
decided to recommend to Dean of Students John Carter that an increase in student body
fees be initiated.
As a result of LCC Board of Education policy that student input be acquired before
action can be taken on student-involved issues, the SPAF committee has scheduled open
public hearings. The hearings will be held Monday and Tuesday, Jan. 12 and 13, from 10
a.m. to 12 p.m. and 2 to 4 p.m. in the LCC cafeteria.
Discussions will entail student tuition and fees, the possible increases thereof, costs,
budgets, how the money is being used, and why the money is needed.
If you have information or input, please attend.

Resolution: Know your body
Too many of us are "Health illiterates"!
We worry about where we will eat,
rather than what to eat, for a'balanced diet.
We worry about the right brand of cough
medicine to buy rather than how to stop
smoking that pack or more a day.
We pay four times as much for a popular
pain reliever that has caffeine combined
with aspirin instead of buying plain
aspirin, or rather than ask what that small
amount of caffeine has to do with relieving
pain.
We marvel at the wonders of open-heart
surgery rather than ask how the need for
this surgery can be decreased.
We ask how we can get out of taking
'Personal Health' rather than thinking it
may be one step on the road to learning
how to be responsible for our own bodies
We complain about the cost of a health
insurance plan rather than ask why the cost
of medical care is so high.
If we are tuned in to consumerism and
our right to be a knowledgeable consumer,
why not begin by learning how to be a
knowledgeable Health consumer?
In 1972 Americans spent ~1.4 billion

dollars on health--double the amount spent
six years earlier. Medical care costs have
risen far more rapidly than costs in
general. Thus the health consumer faces
the task of financing health care. You, we .
and us had better try to understan d
something about this complex problem ol
proposals such as National Health Insurance, Health Maintenance Organizations,
and plans to build a new Health care
delivery system responsive to our needs.
This affects each and everyone of us.
A crisis in healt~ care faces al l
Americans.
Act now. Learn about your body. Leaw
1.bout your health needs. Participate ir:
Health planning. Ask questions about you r
health care. Be a responsible health
consumer. Happy Healthy 1976!

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