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G,01. 13 No. 24 April 14, 1976

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Wassam resigns, changes mind

by Cris Clarke
After officially resigning his post,
ASLCC President Len W assom has decided
by Max Gano
to remain on.
KLCC staff members met with a good
Wassom had submitted a Thursday,
deal of frustration last week when they April 8 letter of official resignation, but
were notified that their application to the with certain reservations. "I had some
Federal Communications Commission for a second thoughts about the resignation,"
new 10,000 watt transmitter placed the Wassom says, "I may have been a bit
station's location at somewhere in the hasty."
Pacific Ocean, rather than in Eugene.
He was feeling as if the job were taking
A typographical error in which an 8 was up too much of his time. 'It was taking too
substituted for a 3 in the longitude bearing much of my time," he says, "I wasn't
caused the FCC to send the application . spending enough time with my family."
back to KLCC for correction. This mistake,
Wassom, a veteran of over a year on the
while actually causing a delay of only a Student Senate, was convinced to remain
fcv..- weeks time. is representative of the by the Senate in a Tuesday, April 13
headaches involved in maneuvering paper meeting, the eve of his official resignation.
work through the FCC bureaucratic maze.
According to ASLCC Publicity Director
As it stands now. the earliest response to Ken Pelika, the Senate requested that
the application will be in late summer of Wassom reconsider his decision to resign,
this year. Before this happens, however. and supported his return with a full vote of
KLCC must meet the engineering and
confidence. The Senate voted unanimously
licensing requirements of the FCC.
on the proposal with one aostainment from
One problem that might arise is that the Judy Weller.
existing Slatten Heights Tower which
Wassom responded, "With that conmight hold the future KLCC antenna is census. I will withdraw my resignation,
on!~· capable of elevating it 35 feet off the giving my deepest apologies to Richard
ground. The FCC Jllay not think this is an (Weber, current vice-president). I realize ·1
adcq uate height for a 10,000 watt must devote my time to this job. My family
transmitter. If this is the case. KLCC may is my number one priority, and this is right
he forced to find funds to construct its own next to that." He added, "If you have that
antenna tower.
many people behind you, then you should
go with committment.''
The rationale behind the proposal to ask
Wassom to stay. according to Pelika, was
Two handicapped students·at LCC explain this:
1. Solidarity. For the ASLCC president
their lifestyles on pages 6 and 7
to resign at this point would disrupt what
organization and campus input the
LCC's "happy family" of employees may
Senate has established to date.
be turning into a broken home. Story on
Says Pelika, "There are 12 committees
page 3.
sponsored by the ASLCC, and we don't
Tuition increases are happening across the want to disrupt the present and future
nation to the tune of eight per cent. Story mechanations of the entire student government."
0n page five
2. Redistribution of the workload. The

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Len Wassam

Richard Weber
photos by Linda Alaniz

resignation would cause present ASLCC
Vice-presid.e nt Richard Weber to have
to appoint someone new and possibly
inexperienced to take over the dut~es of
the vice-president, which indudes
running the ASLCC elections. Weber is
currently involved in organizing the
ASLCC elections.
Weber, after three years on the Senate
as senator and vice-president, feels that
the image of the student government has
been changed as a, result of Wassom' s
changing decision.
"The whole situation has given the
ASLCC a disjointed image," says Weber.
Weber goes on, "I am less than thrilled

about it. I am amused at the situation ...
Len's been out and in since January."
And Weber feels that Wassom could
have done a better job. "I think he hasn't
been doing his job this last month." Weber
says. ''I'm worried about Len's (Wassom)
capacity to make a decision and stick to it.
The question of his resignation was put to
him for that reason.·'
But Weber is ready to go on. "Still. I am
prepared to work with him, but that
requires that both of us get our jobs done.
'' I hope he will honor his committmcnt to
continue the job,'' concludes Weber.
Weber has no intention of running for the
ASLCC Presidency for next year.

State says ASH-lane tenants 111st return rent refunds

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by Paul Holbrook
A furor is developing and possible court action may result from the Oregon
Department of Revenue's decision requiring tenants of Adult Student Housing
(ASH) to return part of their 1974 renter's tax refund, with interest.
Although ASH originally applied for tax-exempt status in March of 1974, it
wasn't granted that benefit until September of 1975, at which time tax exempt
status was granted retroactive to July of 1974. Because Oregon law prohibits
renters in tax-exempt establishments from receiving rent refunds, former ASH
.tenants who received refunds for the period from July 1 to December 31, 1974 did
so illegally, even though at the time they filed for and received their refunds, (early
in 1975), its illegality had not yet been determined.
The decision to grant ASH tax-exempt status retroactivly gives the state the right
to demand that the tax refunds be returned. This is what the state Department of
Revenue is doing and, according to Mark Wilborn, Oregon Department of Tax
Auditor, "We've been getting all sorts of complaints, some of the students are even
threatening court action.'' Wilborn said that the percentage of interest tacked on,
to the repayments amounts "to only three to six dollars."
According to Wilborn, there is no precedent for this case. As far as he knows
there has never been anGther case in Oregon where property was granted
tax-exempt status retroactivly.
The decisio~ affects not only ASH Lane tenants who lived at the student
apartments on Harlow Road, but also tenants of ASH housing developments at
Oregon State, Southern Oregon College, Mt. Hood Community College in
Gresham, and Pacific University in Forest Grove.
One ASH-Lane tenant who filed for and received her rent refund in early 1975
says she was first notified of ASH-Lane's tax-exempt status in September of 1975.
Last month she received notification from the Oregon Department of Revenue that
she owed the state $75. She says that she received her Oregon income tax refund
last week and it was $75 short.
The Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group, (OSPIRG) is researching
the matter and attempting to organize tenants who are affected. Steve Sands, a
state OSPIRG staff member, says he feels a full-scale investigation is warranted,
expecially because the money is being \demanded as a result of a retroactive
decision and interest is being added on. "I think it's wrong to ask the tenants to
return the money with interest a year later," Sands said, "especially because at the
time they filed for and received the refund it was perfectly legal."
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former tenants of the ASH project have banded together and are working with
OSPIRG exploring legal avenues with which to fight Revenue Department's
decision.
Sands said that OSPIRG attorneys in Portland are researching tax laws and that
legal action may result. "We'll probably contact the Department of Revenue first
and hope that they'll change their decision," Sands said, '•If they don't, perhaps
we'll initiate a class-action suit on behalf of the tenants, or maybe make a test case
out of it."
Sands said that OSPIRG attorneys in Portland are researching tax laws and that
legal action may result. ''We'll probably ~ntact the Department of Revenue first
and hope that they'll change their decision," Sands said, "If they don't, perhaps
we'll initiate a class-action suit on behalf of the tenants, or maybe make a test case
out of it.'' A test case would determine the legality of the Department of Revenue's
action in ordering the ID('N'Y returned, he edplained.
Wilborn, of the State Tax Auditor's Office says he feels that ASH should have
sent out letters to their tenants shortly after they filed for tax-exempt status in March !)f 1974. These letters, he feels, should have explained to the tenants the
possibilities which might arise from ASH receiving tax-exempt status, [namely the
fact that -tenants would no longer be able to file for rent rebates.]
Wilborn also said that ASH stopped paying state taxes in July of 1974 as it felt
sure that it would be granted tax exempt status.
However, ASH-Lane manager Dick Reister denies this. ;\SH had no way of
knowing that it wou!d be granted the tax exempt status they sought, he claims:
"We continued to pay taxes right up to September of 1975, when we received word
of the decision.'' Reister says ''The state then refunded out tax money back to July
of 74. I know 'cause I saw the refund check."
OSPIRG staffer Sands says Reister's statement raises another question: If ASH
continued to pay taxes until September of 1975 and did indeed receive a refunJ,
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what became of the refund?
It wasn't returned to the tenants, Sands says. Was it plowed back into the.
non-profit tax exempt ASH corporation as profit?
This, according to Sands, could constitute a violation of ASH's status as a
non-profit tax exempt organization.
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Whatever the case, ASH-Lane tenants and ex-tenants who are affected by this
ruling are encouraged to contact Steve Sands or Bill Van Dyke at the OSPIRG
Portland office, (1-222-9641).

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LET1 ERS TO THE EDITOR.

More than iust tuition

To th e Editor:
Sir:
The TORCH headline read: "CCC
Fizzles on Budget Bout.•' In the text of the
atiicle : "After the increase (tuition) was
passed in February, the interest of many
people began to cool down . . . there was no
longer any immediate issue to be dealt
with . .. "
It's too bad you discontinued the effort,
students, because the administration is
attempting to pull more over on you than
jt:st the tuition increase. True, it's not an
"immediate issue. " but your disposable
funds will suffer greatly next year if the
proposed budget passes on April 20.
It should be interesting to see how voters
react to this grossly inflated budget
proposal (a 39 per cent increase over last
year). given the fact the county has
adopted a new assessment policy which
raises the taxable value of all property in

Lane County. LCC' s small decrease in the
"True Cash Value" rate looks good on
paper, but doesn't change the actual
increased tax which will result to property
owners.
How does alJ this affect yQ,u as students?
Simple. Most of you rent your living
quarters. Increased expenses to your
landlord are reflected in the rent charged •
you. When taxes go up, rent goes up.
You're going to catch it from both sides
beginning the end of the year. Tuition and
rent both .
CCC may have "fizzled," but your right
to vote hasn't. Vote "NO" April 20, then
work on learning what the administration
intends to do with all your money. I don 't
see many new benefits to you, as students.
Sincerely,
Robert C. Hoffman
Accounting Clerk. Financial Services
lane Community College

International Workers Day celebration

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I n:~1resent a coalition of group_s planning
a c<''. bration oflnternational Worker's Day
,,n May 1. 1976. For many years Worker's
, : r -11 t!:! lcs have been fought and won
hn,:,,_.:, solidarity.
\ \,1:·'= of the reasons for our May Day
,·,·ieh; tion are spiraling inflation and the
i ,htc.., -, rate. both affecting the masses of
n u, p1•.pulat ion, middle class and below.
1f :,·11u represent an organization which
'.'C ;J te,, to our common struggle against

J .::,, . Imperialism, we would like to hear
Let us
·~oordinate our efforts at an organizational
meeting. Wednesday. April 14. beginning
at 8 p.m., in the upstairs of the Grower's·
~v1ark c t Building, 454 Willamette St.,
Eugen e .
Pa rt icipate ! Help change• bad to good,
~ood to better and better to best!
Rich ard Goldszer
Dexter. Oregon
,·our opinions regarding May 1.

Kesey criticizes Earth Shoe 1iterature
by Michael Riley
" We're going to have to reach back in
there and grapple for the minds of our
children . . . " Pleasant Hill author Ken
Kesey told his audience last Wednesday,
April 3.
Kesey. who is known for his books,
"Sometimes a Great Notion," and "One
Flew Over the Cuckoo ' s Nest," spoke
before the Friends of the Eugene Public
Library on the "Shrinking Book and the
Swelling Library." His talk was part of a
series of events for National Library Week
here in Eugene .
He said students now attending public
schools fecl that it is "in" to act stupid,
and the teachers are competing with
"Sesame Street " and "Welcome Back
Kotter" for the attention of their students.
Kesey told the audience of over 200
people that the classics that should be read
in the schools are being pushed off the
.shelves by ' ' ... trendy, ethnic, feminist,

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Kes.ey expects his own kids in school
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and ]earn how to read.'' He continued to
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like "Moby Dick" out loud from the start of
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Can discrimination be used
to battle discrimination?

by Kathleen Monje
The Women ' s Awareness Center is already fu ll at noon , on Wednesday, April 7,
so I pick my way through women sitting on the floo r. There's a table with space for
a notebook back by the windows, so I head for it. An hour ago the editor asked me
to cover this poetry reading by women--guests, feminists from the now-defunct
Gertrude's Silver Eighth Note Cafe.
The friend who organized this event, Yvonne Pepin, calls "Would you like to
meet these women?" As I answer, a soft voice behind me says, "Well, I'd like to
meet them, too!'' Brief introductions: Adrienne, Ellen, Devi (pronounced Davy) ,
and Reddick. I move back in the corner by the table where I can see everyone.
There are at least 40 women here; young ones, older ones , wearing dresses and
heels, wearing pantsuits, jeans or army khaki. Two of the guest poets wear men's
hats. There is an air of anticipation (with a bit of nervousness under it). No one
knows exactly what to expect. And there is one man in the audience, a bearded
student sitting on the floor near the doors. He is surprising, among so many female
faces , and I wonder why he is the only one.
Yvonne introduces the guests to the group--she is a student here, a bridge
between col1ege and community. She will be reading her own poetry. Adrienne
Lauby is the spokeswoman for the guests. She identifies herself and the other three
women as Lesbians and says that their poetry reflects their lifestyles. They have
been reading together for about nine months.
Suddenly the male student rises to his knees and waves his arm in the air. "does
anyone have any objections to my being here? If they do, I'll leave. I don't want to
make anyone uncomfortable."
I start to say no, of course not , then remember that I am a reporter. Reporters
don't interact in an event they're covering.
The room is silent. One guest poet sitting in front of me nods--he makes her
uncomfortable.
Still 1!0 one says anything, and he gets up, leaves .
I am amazed and angry, very angry. I want to follow him, and say first that if he
is vnwelcome, I consider myself unwelcome, too. Commitment struggles with
anger, and wins; if I leave, I can't report this; I stay. My thoughts are smouldering--fighting -sexual prejudice is why this Women's Center exists, why these
·women are here, and they have just done exactly what they condemn men for
doing.
Lauby continues without comment, saying that Devi Kathryn will read first.
Each poet reads in turn. Some of the poetry is very serious, some light and
amusing. Most of it chronicles experience~ it is very real.
They speak of anger and frustration, love and shared feelings . Here and there a
line is especially well put together, and very moving. "Knowing the lines on the
back of an old woman• s hand is enough for me--taking it and moving." And
"Sometimes strangers make the best friends."
There is strength in the voices, and a growing unity between audience and poets.
From the faces, nods of agreement, even eagerness. I am still angry , but I enjoy,
too.
An elderly woman who has been listening quietly now says that she writes
poetry, too. Her name is Ethel Ownby, and she is 78 years old. The guests and the
audience encourage her; she reads some of her poems. One contains particularly
delightful insights on a women's gathering, but she tells us that her work is being
considered for publication , and can't be copied.
Th_e sense of solidity is growing. Two mol.'.e members of the audience reveal that
they are poets, and read. One is a mature woman from Springfield , Thelma King,
who writes mostly comic verse. The other, a student at LCC who does not identify
herself, says that her poetry writes itself. There is much comment on everything
that is read, and one woman says, "The vibes are really good!"
At 1 p.m. I leave for a class. The reading continues until about 2 p.m . By that
time I am sharing my anger, unabated, with female and male friends.
During class I remembered an incident when I was fourteeh--my mother went to
eat lunch with a co-worker, a black man. This was in Missouri, in the only county of
that state that seceded during the Civil War. The small-town, very-ordinaryrestaurant refused to serve him because he wasn 't white. My mother and her
friend left, and she reported her anger to us at dinner that night. The incidents
seem similar to me.
The reactions of two friends, both men , surprise me. I have told them ,
separately, about the poetry reading and the male student. Both say "Why did he
ask? I wouldn't have."
Anne Stewart, director of the Women's Awareness Center, listens to me rant and
says that the Center has always been open to men. She , too , is surprised that no
one objected to his leaving, but adds that she felt the decision should rest with the
group, not just her.
Much later, when I have cooled off somewhat , I think again about the two men
who said they wouldn't have asked. I have been told that the young man is a
student of Women's Studies, and that he considers himself a feminist. Looked at as
an honest answer to a question, the guest poet's reaction doesn't seem so black.
He asked and she told him how she felt.
But the group as a whole , forty women, seem to have mislaid their social
conscience. I wonder if he would have been permitted to leave if he had been black,
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Has LCC's happy family turned into a broken home?

for leaving.
by Scott Stuart
According to the LCC Personnel Office,'
Has LCC lost that big happy family
the reasons for leaving vary from retirefeeling?
Has a burgeoning bureaucracy caused a ment to _marriage, from a change of scene
feeling of detachment among employees at to a change of occupations, from vacations
on the other side of the world to a category
LCC?
Do some people feel stuck, like flies in called "personal reasons."
Jim Piercey, associate dean of Instrucamber, in their job descriptions?
Or, is the problem more complex than tional Operations, feels that collective
that? Just why do employees leave their bargaining mandated a split between the
jobs? Are they dissatisfied, or are they faculty, classified staff and administration.
"We don't sit down at the supper table
finding a better deal elsewhere? One dean
says the faculty here doesn·'t tolerate to make decisions any more," according to
Piercy, "now there are three tables." But
dictatorial attitudes.
According to Tony Birch, dean of Piercey adds that he feels the transition
Business Operations at LCC, during the from the family attitude to collective
1973-74 school year the rate of turnover of bargaining was made smoothly.
"You gotta have unity to operate
the full-time LCC staff was 6 per cent, or 13
out of of 218 employees who either quit or: smoothly," says Piercey.
Piercey points out one area where there
were fired.
During the 1974-75 school year the has been a high rate of turnover. Last
percentage of turnover increased to 8 per school year, six members of the instruccent, or 17 out of 225 employees. So far' tional staff in the Nursing Department quit
this school year 11 per cent of the LCC staff at the end of the year. Piercey says that
has left; that's 28 out of 262 employees who , there was a conflict within the Nursing
' Department between the department head
have quit or been fired.
''I wouldn't be reluctant to say that some and faculty regarding organization and
supervisory practices have contributed to curriculum. Piercey says that person has
people leaving," says Evelyn Tennis, LCC ! left and he hopes that resolves the
secretary and president of the LCC problem.
But there may have been an additional
Employee's Federation which represents
classified personnel--secretaries, clerks,: reason for the turnover in the Nursing
technicians, custodians, etc. According to Department last year. There has been a
Tennis, the rate of turnover has increased change made in the qualifications for
in the classified staff in general. certification of instructors in nursing. By
Tennis feels this is due to dissatisfaction 1980, according to Piercey, one must have
with people in middle-management posi- a master's degree to be an instructor in
tions--those who directly supervise the nursing. Some people may have quit last
year to go back to school and meet the new
work of many classified employees.
Tennis feels that because of growth at requirements.
Piercey insists that a pioneering spirit
LCC and the increase in staff, the pioneer
feeling and the family spirit people once still exists here at LCC, if not a family
felt at LCC has disappeared. She feels that feeling. He says that the whole crazy
this loss of family spirit contributed to the college is made up of super people, many
advent of unions and collective bargaining , of whom are qualified for his job. They
could be deans at other institutions says
which began two years ago.
"Usually you don't have unions where: Piercey, but stay at LCC because they like
there isn't a need for them," says Tennis. it here.
"Lane does not have a dictatorial
She adds that the Personnel Office has
instituted exit interviews in which termin- Administration," say~ Piercey, "it's more
ating employees can express their reasons of a facilitating Administration. That's

what makes Lane an outstanding institution. The faculty doesn't feel ,like they are
being held back.''
Piercey adds that in cases where
employees were dissatisfied with a
manager, that manager may have been
dictatorial. Lane faculty will not stand for
that, he points out.
Phil Robley, supervisor of Audio-visual
Services is quitting. He has another job
waiting for him starting this June, but
that's not the reason he's leaving LCC.
"I would say my primary reason is a
deterioration of working environment,''
says Robly.
When Robly started out at LCC five and
•half years ago working in the Leaming
Resource Center, he says he was impressed by the crea.tive ideas. People
really worked hard, he says, and made the
Learning Resource Center one of the most
potent capabilities serving the instructional
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But now Robly feels that the environment has deteriorated to that point that it
can't be built back up the level at which it
once operated.
Seven people, who Robly describes as
being "top-drawer," have quit from this
school year alone. Robly sees this loss of
key people as causing the deterioration.
Robley also feels that he's gone as far in
his job as the college will allow, and there's
no place to go at LCC.
_"It's time to look for something else to
do,'' feels Robley.
What led to the loss of seven people, and
the deterioration in Phil Rob]ey's working
environment?
Next week, the TORCH will probe the
question and try to discuss what makes
people dissatisfied with their jobs, and
what it takes to make them happy with
their work and their fellow employees at
LCC.

n a world buffeted hy change, consider
the unchanging church key.
On a fateful day in
October, 1919, Mac C.
Rosenfeld received Patent
# 1.260, 32 l for it. A gleaming
symphony of spring steel. the
church key \\'clS used hy three
gcneratilH1S of thirsty collegiate
Oly drinh:rs. Not until the twist-top
was its utility 4ucstioncd. although the
discriminating Oly drinker will al\\'ays
keep one on hand for cav,Stubhics and
Ol<ltimc bottles .
The design of the church key hasn't
changed hccausc it \\'as made with skill.
ingenuity and simplicity. A great hccr
docsn 't change for many of the same
reasons. If it's Jone right going in, you'll
have an unchanging standard of quality.
Son,c things nc,·er change . Olympia
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lCC Ballot measures
Ballot measures for the May
election are now being accepted by the
ASLCC office. A ballot measure is a
proposal to define available standards of
the machinations of the ongoing LCC
experience. Rationale in favor and
opposition of the measure will be submitted with each measure for the student
vote . Results will then be presented for the
consideration and action of the Student
Senate and the Board of Education. Ballot
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Arnold elected Phi Theta Kappa president
by Scott Stuart

LCC student Jeff Arnold, a teaching aid
and computer coordinator for the Social
Science Department. has been elected
president of Phi Theta Kappa, the only
national junior college honor society.
The election took place at Phi Theta
Kappa's national convention in Biloxi,
Mississippi over April 4. 5, and 6. There,
according to Arnold, he and six other
candidates went through a nominating
committee to check their qualifications, did
a lot of handshaking and face to face
campaigning and made one campaign
speech each.
According to Arnold, each candidate
runs on his/ her own. He says that he was
helped by money from the LCC Student
Senate and that his campaign material was
printed by LCC's Printing and Graphics
Department.
Arnold says that it is unusual for the
honor soci~ty to have a West Coast
president, because about 200 of the 500 or
more local chapters of Phi Theta Kappa are
in the South.

Students slappe d with 8% cost jump
(CPS)--Most students returning to campus
next year will be slapped with an eight per
cent increase in college costs over last
year. according to a recent survey of more
than 2,500 colleges and universities.
The most startling price jump was an
estimated 29 per cent tuition hike at public
two-year colleges next year, which have
historically had low or no tuition.
The survey. conducted by the College
Scholarship Service of the College Entrance Examination Board, identified five
components of the total cost of going to
college: tuition and fees . room and board .
books and supplies. transportation and
personal expenses.
Average total college costs for the
1976-77 academic year will range from
$4,568 for a resident student attending a
private four-year college to $2.223 for a
commuter at a public two-year college, the
survey found .
In spite of the dramatic increase in
tuition for commuters at public two-year
colleges, officials at the American Association of Community and Junior Colleges do
not expect attendance' at these colleges to
drop.
They point out that the tuition money
involved is a relatively small figure--an
estimated $387 next year for a public
two-year college. This compares to $2,329
for a private four-year institution, $621 for
a public four-year institution, and $1,740

for a private two-year institution.
Another big price hike is the total cost of
attending a two-year private college . In
September, commuting students at proprietary institutions will pay 10 per cent
more than last year and on-campus
students will face a 12 per cent increase.
Seven years ago. commuters at two-year
private colleges paid an average of $1,834.
Next year they will pay $3,595 in total
college costs. or 96 per cent more.
In the same seven-year period. total
costs to commuter students at four-year
private college and universities rose from
$2.382 to $4,141, an increase of 74 per
cent. The smallest increase in that time
was a 54 per cent rise in the total cost to
resident students at those institutions.
from $2,974 to $4,568 in 1976.
Since 1970-71, when comparable data
was first compiled, the survey has reported
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women's role in China
theme of talk at Uof

The news of Arnold's election came after .
a three hour awards banquet the last night
of the convention.
next Monday night
'' It was one of those long and tedious
things where you have to wait until the last
minute to find out whether you've won or
lost." says Arnold.
"Women in China" is the theme of a
Arnold says he was shocked to find out public talk to be given next Monday night
he'd been elected. He thought for sure at the Erb Memorial Union Ballroom by
that he'd lost because he was from Oregon, China traveler Margaret Whitman . Mrs.
and the other two candidates in the runoff Whitman participated in Shirley McClain· s
were from the South, where the power is. 1973 "First Women's Friendship DelegaArnold's duties as president of Phi Theta tion" to mainland China and has returned
Kappa are to preside over the ninth annual there twice since that trip, once leading a
honors institute at the University of group of U.S. city planners arid once as a
Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi where a member of the U.S.-China People's
seminar on William Faulkner will be held. Friendship Assoc.. Mrs . Whitman's
After the seminar at Old Mississippi, he presention will include a film from Shi:-ley
will fly to St. Louis to plan next year's McClain's tour which portrays the Chinese
convention. Arnold will also attend and view of women's role's and tasks in
preside over regional and state chapter building a new Chinese society.
Mrs. Whitman, who hails from a long .
meetings of Phi Theta Kappa.
The purpose of Ph~ Theta Kappa, says Boston Republican background. contrasts
the new president. is to promote scholar- the roles of women in China an'd America
ship. fellowship, and fraternity. To be a sharply. and shows the possible road ahead
member of the Sigma Zeta chapter at LCC, for women in each country.
After her first exposure to China .
you must be a full time student. have a 3.5
grade point average, be of good moral Mrs. Whitman began working actively to
2haracter, and go through a minor create better communication between th e
initiation ceremony. He says that out of U.S. and Chinese societies and she is now
the approximately one thousand students on the National Steering Committee of the
who meet the requirements each term. U.S.-China People's Friendship As ..,ociaabout fifty join. About two or three, Arnold tion. Her talk. at 7:30 p.m. is free to th e
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[Editor's note: In view of National Handicapped Week, TORCH Photo Editor Jeff
Hayden and TORCH Reporter Don Sinclair report on Lloyd Dibble and Deanna
ArrBI e, two LCC students who are considered to be handicapped but display less
than handicapped lifestyles.]

Dean na Arran ce--lt' s a
hook, not a handi cap
story atul photo by Don Sinclair
I ts tough to write a story about a
handicaooed oerson when that person
doesn ' t feel that a handicap exists.
Deanna Arrance is an attractive 17
year old legal secretary major at LCC
and she would rather keep her 'hook'
even if she could somehow have a
hand tran3plant.
''Really, I 'm serious. There are too
many things that the hook does for me
that other people can't co. i can use it
to protect myself, reach into fire or
take hot things off the stove, scrape
:hings without fear of breaking my
fingernails, use it as a hammer or
screw driver, pull nails from boards,
even use it as a roach clip. I'd never
want to go back to a hand."
Her life reads something like a
Steinbeck novel and one would think
after hearing her story that she could
easily fall into the pitiful character

photo

Steinbeck could present.
She was born without a hand. The
umbillical cord, the attachment between mother and child that provides
the unborn fetus with n.ourishment,
wr~pped around her left arm in utero
a, ,u µrevented normal developement
from the wrist down.
When her mother arrived home with
the new born infant, she found the
daughter lacked more than one hand:
the understanding she needed from
'her father was also missing. He
stayed away for a week, thinking that
this fourth girl in the family would be
mentally retarded because she was
physically deformed. He had been
told his wife would miscarry again as
she had twice previous to Deanna's
He had wanted a boy and
birth.
questioned his own masculinity because of his inability to sire a male,

by Jeff Hayden

Deanna Arr~nce doesn't consider her hook a handicap,
in fact she looks at it as an asset.

and the deformity (which is known to
be detectable if the mother is X-rayed
at the appropriate time during pregnancy.) For a week after the def ivery
he stayed away from the house and
drank. When he returned, he was
unhappy with the time the mother
Later, when
spent with the baby.
Deanna was 13, he had a mental
breakdown and confessed these feelings to Deanna's grandmother when
she visited him in the Oregon State
Mental Hospital.
Deanna doesn't remember her first
experience with a hook--she got it
when she was just a year old.
"Mother told me I didn't like it much
and that I tried to pull it off at first but
after a few days I accepted it and
began to make it work.
"I didn't have any instruction . It is
simple to work anyhow. The cable that
runs from the hook and up my left arm,
attaches to this leather strap which
goes across by back and around my
other shoulder. When I reach out with
my left arm, the hook opens up. When
I draw the arm back, the cable tension
is released and this black rubber band
around the neck of the fingers of the
hook, cause the hook to close. It's
really easy. I can even write with it if I
want.''
The arm continues to grow with her
body and depending on the rate of
body development, a new hook must
be fitted regularly. Crippled Childrens Division was just billed $3,000 in
advance for building her latest hook
which will be her first new one in two
years.
Even earlier in her life, orthopedic
specialists tried to convince her to get
a prosthetic device that looked more
'natural' but she's always told them,
"They look phoney--and I know I'm
not the sam~ as other people.
''The first time I found out that I
wasn't like other kids was when I went
to school and they asked me about my
arm and I showed them how it worked.
I had lots of friends because kids are
curious. I want them to ask me, just
like you did. I'm not ashamed ot it."
"I love to swim. I usually take the
hook off when I swim now. I left it on
once. It didn't rust but after a couple
of weeks, it developed a squeak that
drove me nuts. I usually take it off
when I make love, too. ''
At age 14, her parents separated or
divorced for a couple of years, she
lived with her mom in Gold Beach and
met Jim Loshek, a full blooded Apache
who became her fiance. They moved
to Imperial, California where she
accompanied Jim and his dad on runs
to collect the receipts from a chain of
service stations close to the Mexican
border. The travel to Mexico, money
and guns provided excitement but Jim
beat her up and Mom sent bus ticket
money back to Oregon.
"I was glad I came back. I met a boy
named Ken and he had to choose
between me and another girl and I just
had the teeling that he would pick me.
We went to the junior prom and we'd
probably still be going together now if
I hadn't moved back to Springfield.
He was the most open about my hook.
At times he preferred to hold ·it while
we were walking along, rather than my
real .hand. He was verv tender with

me ... very understanding."
Only one time did s~e ever have
trouble. After she had gone out with a
fellow named John, he asked her out
again but he told her not to tell anyone
she went out with him. "I told him he
was more handicapped than I and that
"I couldn't go out with him. He
found out later it would be alright with
his friends if he went out with me but I
still hold a grudge."
Deanna still hasn't finished her
sophomore year in high school and
She
hasn't a GED equivalent.
considers her main problem at LCC to
be spelling, rat!_1er that anything
physically oriented. "I'm typing about
26 words per minute as of my three
minute typing test last week. All our
papers have to be error free and I
haven't had an error yet this term!"
To type, she starts with her right
hand in the middle of the key board
and moves each direction , the hook
bein·g used for caps, carriage return,
Special
tab sets and clearing.
typewriters are available with loops
hanging down that can be worked with
the legs to return the carriaqe and
make caps but she refused them .
'' Those types of machines won't be
around all the time. I want to use the
type machine I' II have to use when I
get a job ."
Her parents help her with school by
providing a small mobile home and an
old car to get to and from Glenwood
where she lives. She has applied for
financial aid in order to supplement
her $45 living expenses. In the half
dozen times we have talked, I have
never heard her complain about
anything.
"I want to have a house of my own
someday. And a dependable car. I
don't want to get old and be stuck in a
rocking chair. I'm an active person. If
I sit still, I worry about stupid
things ... like, 'Wi II I ever get a decent
guy?' or 'Why a guy doesn't show up
when he says he will' ... stupid things
like that."
She says she always wears the hook
to public places like offices where
people wou Id be embarrassed if they
were forced to look at her stub, but "I
go downtown in the summer time
without it. It weighs about two pounds
and its nice to have it off once in
awhile.
Her friends, her education, and her
family take up most of her time.
" Grandma has had open heart surgery
and I visit her often•. I like to go to
parties and I'd like to learn badminton
or tennis."
At one time, though, she was called
on to talk to a girl who had a bone
disease and could not bring herself to
allow her leg to be amputated. "I was
only about 15 and I told her that it's
not bad at all not having an arm or a
leg. But she waited too long. I went
out a couple of times with her
boyfriend after she died because I
thought I could help him. I didn't help
her, I guess. Its too bad people think
that way (being handicapped is bad).
It's not bad. It beats dying."
Deanna Arrance is getting the most
out of her living. She has truly made
an advantage out of what we would
think of as a handicap. Just ask her if
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story and photos by Jeff Hayden
Some four years ago, Lloyd Dibble sailed
through the windshield of a car in which he
was a passenger. The car careened off
Interstate 5 and flipped three times in
mid-air. Dibble landed in a heap. After
spending some 18 months in and out of
hospitals, Dibble decided that it was time
for school. A representative from the
Veterans Administration placed a telephone call to LCC Stt:dy Skills Program
director Jim Ellison. What has transpired
since Dibble's arrival at Lane is miraculous. Lloyd lost the right half of his skull on
Interstate 5, and pins hold his joints
together.
The government's best doctors said that
while breathing was a possibility, walking
and talking were out. The accident ended
Lloyd 's career in the Army and perhaps
forever wiped his memory clean. Lloyd
speaks for himself. "I sustained a 100 per
cent brain stem injury. I am not supposed
to be able to go to school. I'm not
supposed to be anything but a vegetable.
They told me I couldn't walk and I said: a
wheel chair isn't for me. All my past life is
blank, I have no memory. I woke up after
some three months in a coma. It took me
six months to realize that I was in a hospital
and an additional year to realize what had
happened to me." When asked what
chances the doctors gave of recovery, Lloyd
replied, "None. they said if I lived I'd be in
a coma maybe the rest of my life, or if I
came out of the coma , I'd be a vegetable.
I'm going to say something. The reason
my arms are like they are, one of them I
lost the use of ... It's totally disabled, one
of them partially, is because they gave me
up for dead. The army hospital wouldn't
move me when I was in a coma and with my
brain injury it affected the flow of calcium.
I feel it's the hospital's fault t!.at I'm
handicapped. I spent three months in the

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army hospital and 18 months in the V .A."
Given Lloyd's energy and active involvement in the community one wonders if
handicapped is the right word. Today
Lloyd teaches mathematics and does
tutoring at the LCC Activities Center at
13th and Olive. Jane Farmen and Lorraine
Paree work closely with Lloyd. According
to Farmen, "Lloyd shows what can be done
when you have determination, perseverance, and when you have people behind
you. Lloyd was given his start at LCC's
Study SkilJs Center. He isn't bitter, he
feels no remorse. His eyes have been
opened and he realizes that he has
something to give to people. He is an
invaluable asset as a teacher. His rapport
with people is fantastic:"
Lorraine Paree agrees and speaks of
Lloyd's teaching methods. He says,
"Look, I did it. If I can do it, you can do it.
Last year I couldn't do it and now I'm
teaching you.''
When asked what part the study skills
program plays in his recovery, he said,
''They give me the chance to prove what I
can do. They help me in every way they
can. Because I try, they are willing to help
me. I had to have one to one help for a long
time. I'm just now able to cope with the
class . . . Lorraine first suggested that
Lloyd teach. ''I went into teaching
knowing nothing about it. Now I'm
teaching a math class and tutoring at the
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trying to get a degree in special education.
When asked about the life of a
handicapped person. Lloyd replied,
·'Society doesn't give us a chance because
we are different. We are not classified
normal and they can't cope with us. They
are afraid of us and it's what they don't
know about us that scares them. We are
human, we have feelings like anyone else.
We are just limited as to what we can do.
When asked how his life is different as a
result of his handicap, Lloyd replies, "So I
can't use one arm? Does that make me any
less of a human? I've got the use of one
arm. I have one short leg. I have a trache
scar. I've got scars all over my body. I
can't bend my arms all the way straight.
But I am still a human and just because I'm
abnormal doesn't mean I should be kept
out of sight. I should have the same right
to do what anybody else does.
''The program at Lane helps me see this
society for what it is. I relate my feelings to
what has happened to me."
The classes that have meant the most to
Lloyd are Reading, Math, Human Relations, and Self & Society. "Human
Relations taught me how to talk to people.
When I started school, I would not talk. I
would do nothing. And if somebody said
something to me or even suggested
something about my being handicapped,
I'd . turn and run. Now if someone said
something to me about being handicapped
I'll look them in the eye and say, 'So what if
I am. I'm proud of it.'
"If I hadn't started Lane, I'd still be
sitting home feeling sorry for myself. I've
got to do something with my life. I've the
same right to do with my life what a normal
person does. Just because I'm classified
different doesn't mean nothing."
When asked about his future plans:
"I want to help people. I want to give
someone else the same rights I feel
everyone should have. Reading, writing. I
think people have a right to maintain
themselves in a society and not be
classified mentally retarded and called MR
and locked up in a room. They should have
the same rights as anyone else because
they are human. How can people maintain
themselves if they are not given a chance.
I feel Study Skills should be expanded to
give more people a chance.
"Lloyd isn't alone in his feelings," as
Ellison explains. "We are swamped.
Every term 75-100 people wait in line. The
problem is very large. The college must
recognize the magnitude of the problem
and start to make adjustments. The Study
Skills Center by itself cannot deal with the
problem.

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Lloyd Dibble got his new start at the Study Skills Center. Above he talks with program
director Jim Ellison. Lloyd teaches five days a week at the LCCActivities Center. Below
he helps students solve decimal equation problems as his tutor Lorrain Paree and his
supervisor Jarie Farmer look on.

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OSPIRG seeks intern applicants ·
The Oregon Student Public Interest
Research Group (O-SPIRG) is seeking
qualified applicants for summer research
internships.
Students either presently enrolled or
who will be enrolled Fall Term in Oregon
Colleges and universities are eligible for
the internship program.
Interns will work under the direction of
OSPIRG's professional staff and earn a
$1,200 salary for full time summer work.
Students selected for internships are
encouraged to arrange college credit for
their research.
According to Jennifer Wyman, OSPIRG
staff advisor to the Intern Program,
research positions are open in the areas of
forestry practices, water quality, coastal
land use, agri-business, problems of
migrant workers, and health care costs.
Persons who want to do research in areas
not already designated for summer internships are encouraged to submit proposals
and project outlines with their applications.
Applicants for all positions are required
to submit a wrjting sample and should have
experience in environmental or public
interest research, law, or journalism.

All intern and project selection will be
done by students on the OSPIRG Intern
Committee.
Deadline for applying is April 21st.
Announcement of internships will be made
by May 3.
Applications and more detailed descriptions of topics are available from OSPIRG
campus offices. campus placement offices
or by writing to the OSPIRG Intern
Committee, 115 SW 4th Avenue, Room
400, Portland, Oregon 97204.

Food dryer course offered
Lane Community College will offer a
::lass in the construction and use of the
home food dryer during Spring term.
The first class will be Saturday, April 10,
with the session running five weeks.
Students in the class, which was first held
winter term, will assemble their own home
food dryer from pre-cut parts and learn
about food drying techniques, recipes, and
safety operating factors. At the close of the
class, each student will take home a food
dryer.
The class will be held from 9 a.m. to
noon in the woodshop. which is located in
the Industrial Technical Building. Interested students may sign up in the
Community Education • Division office or
during the first class session.
Tuition for the class is $8 with a supply
fee of $52 necessary to complete the food
dryer project.
Most foods can be dried including fruits
(fruit leather), vegtables, meats (meat
jerky). and fish. Next summer the food
dryer can preserve and eliminate waste
from home garden grown foods.

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by Max Gano
Nature played along with the University's effort to bring people, music, dance, and a
little sunshine together for four days in downtown Eugene on Sunday, the 11th of April
and the third day of the U of O Festival on the Mall, summer c1othed folk lounged about
the heart of the town, listening, looking over the different performances and maybe
learning what it's like to have music and art waiting around every corner.
Even the Atrium (concrete cube) Building, shared in the afternoon's gaiety; small
troupes of musicians strolled amongst the patrons of the piazza. Art exhibits filled the
third floor.
Drifting about, a sharp ear might catch such comments as "wouldn't it be nice if this
happened everyday," "such a nice idea," and "will it happen every year?" Only the
future will tell, but watch out Eugene.
In recent studies done by those who specialize in recent studies, Eugene was found to
be among the top in the nation as having a high ratio of "culture per capita" and it seems
to be growing.
So events like this U of O Festival on the
Mall, along with organizations like the
Community Center for the Performing Arts
and the Traditional Jazz Society of Oregon
(Eugene Chapter), various and numerous
groupings of local talent are joining
together, and in so doing, have put Eugene
on the cultural map. Not too surprising,
just another stretch mark in the growth
wrinkles of Oregon. But will it last?
A country without this sort of culture is
like a person without a soul. And although
this country has many plusses in other
areas, we sometimes seem to forget the
finer aspects of life. In a hustle-bustle
fashion we create liberation movements,
form revolutionary ideals, and attempt
government reforms. But with all this,
where is a nation of people if it has no soul?
I know a man from Hungary. He has
A Portland poet

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been in this country for only a short time, and yet has observed that American life is
lacking in the "quality" that exists in his native land. Is it possible that something has
escaped with the steam that rises from our melting pot? An exchange has been made.
foreign heritage is left behind in the scramble for the American Way. Our goal has
become quantity .
But at the end of every era of primitive youth there comes a renaissance. Perhaps 1976
will mark the beginning of a new revolution, one to regain our soul, our music, our dance
. . . our art.

A:iromnJ. Town
Meters and Persuasions
On Thursday, April 15 at 8 p.m., the
EMU Cultural Forum will present an
evening of soul, rhythm & blues and
acappella music. Tickets are $3.50 for
U of O students and $5 for non-students.
The show begins with the Persuasions, a
five-man group whose repertoire varies
from gospel tunes like "Somewhere To Lay
My Head" to the classic "Oh What a
The
Night" to rocking soul tunes.
Persuasions. the highest paid, most
successful group to perform without
accompaniment in America, are synonomous with acappella.
The Meter's solid instrumental coloring
can be heard on albums by Labelle, Paul
McCartney. Fats Domino and Dr. John.
Starting out in great demand as studio
musicians in New Orleans, their own
recordings gained popularity beginning in
1969 with their hit "Sophisticated Sissy."
For two years running they were Billboard
and Record World's "Number One
Rhythm & Blues Instrumental Group."
This summer they opened the Rolling
Stones tour of the U.S. and a week after

the!r performance in Eugene they wili
again tour with the Stones, this time for
three months in Europe.

Theatre-··-·-·---."'-·"..""'Cuckoo's Nest

A Doll House

The Northwest Players will present
Henrick Ibsen's" A Doll House" will run
"One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" April 14-17 at the Very Little Theatre.
April 22-24. 29 - May 1, at 8:30 p.m .. while Tickets are $2.50 and can be obtained by
tickets are available at Gulliver's Cask and phoning 344-7751 or through the VLT box
The U of O Faculty Jazz Trio, the ,U of 0
Jazz-Lab Band, and the Mt. Hood Cleaver, which is where the play is being office at 2350 Hilyard St.
Community College Jazz-Lab Band will all presented. Tickets for all ages are $2.50 at
be present at an April 15th concert at the door from noon till 7 p.m. or can be
8 p.m. Tickets are $2 for townspeople and reserved by phone 484-0535 Monday Cat on Hot Tin Roof
"Cat On a Hot Tin Roof" is currently
$1 for students and senior citizens. The through Friday.
being perfor ,ned at the Count,ry Squire
concert will take place in Beall Hall on the
On a Clear Day
Banquet Room and will be presented April
U of O campus.
Theater Now, at the Eugene Hotel, will 23-25 at 8:30 p.m. with tickets costing $3 at
be presenting the musical comedy "On A Meier and Frank, Toad Hall Hi Fi, and the
Clear Day You Can See Forever" on EMU Main Desk.
May 20.
Singer, songwriter, guitarist, Kenny
The show features Ann Swearingen, who
Tempest
Rankin will appear <\pril 26 in the EMU recently appeared in the LCC Performing
The LCC Performing Arts Department
Ballroom on tJ-- University of Oregon Arts production of" A Little Night Music,"
campus. Ticket::. for this 8 p.m. show are and is about a girl with "extrasensory will open their new play, "Tempest" by
$3 for U of O students and $4.50 for the perception'' who slips back and forth Shakespeare, on April 23 at 8 p.m. The
general public and are available at the oetween the eighteenth century and production will then run April 24, 29, and
May 1, while tickets are on sale now and
EMU Main Desk.
modern times.
On the road for nine months out of every
Tickets will go on sale May 1, at the can be obtained by phoning 747-4559. All
year. Rankin works with Peter Marshall on Eugene Hotel. for prices from $3 to $6. seats are on a reserve basis and tickets are
$3 .
bass and Roy McCurdy on drums.
with dinner optional.

U of O iazz concert

Kenny Rankin

Entertainment
HOMEFRIED TRUCKSTOP
April 14 - Breakfast: John Crane Lunch:
Ragtime
Dinner:
Greg Fields
Millionaires
April 15 - Breakfast: Andy Widders
Lunch: Earl Kelly Dinner: Medicine
Wolf
April 16 • Breakfast: Karen Shoemaker
Lunch: Wendy Agnee Dinner: Jon
Jarvie
April 17 - Breakfast: Dayride Lunch:
George Williams Dinner: Carla Rose
& Kevin Johns
April 18 - Breakfast: Friends of the Family
Lunch: Jim & Bob Dinner: David
Winters
April 19 - MONDAY NITE CONCERT:
Ladies Night Out; Cyclone Madrone;
Automatic Writing; Carl and Rose,
8-12:00 p.m., $.75 cover
April 20 - Lunch: Debra Kelly Dinner:
Greg Fields

April 21 - Lunch: Greg Fields Dinner: COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
David Young
April 17 - Upepo 9:00 p.m., $2 cover
MURPHY AND ME
April 14 and 15 - Arroyo 9-1:30, $1 cover April 20 - San Francisco Mime Troupe,
8:00 p.m., $2.50 - tickets available at
April 16 and 17 - Dakota 9-12:00. $1 cover
Book and Tea, New Frontier, and the
April 19 and 20 - Dakota 9-12:00, $1 cover
W.O.W. Hall
April 21 and 22 - Arroyo 9-1:30, $1 cover

BACK DOOR
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON
April 19 and 20 • Arroyo 9-2:00, no cover April 15 - Faculty Jazz, Trio at Beall Hall,
8:00 p.m .. $1 students, $2.50 general
BLACK FOREST
admission
April 14 - Dakota 9-1:00, $.50 cover
April 16 and 17 - Deja Vu 9-1:00, $.50 May 11 - Percussionist Charles Dowd,
8:00 p.m., Beall Hall, Free
cover
FEED MILL
April 15 - Andy Wright 9:15-12:15
April 16 - Lodestar 9:15-1:15
April 17 - Solo Trio 9:15-l:15
MAX'S
April 20 - Cam Newton 9-12, no cover

LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Free film showing: "Lust of Life" will be
shown Wed. & Thurs., April 14 and 15 at
4:00 p.m. in Forum 302. Sponsored by
ASLCC

Mountain Pestival Films Presents
FIVE INTERNATIONAL
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING
FILMS
Everest - Fight for the Face - English
Eiger - Out of the Shadow Into the
Sun - Swiss
Little North Face - New Zealand
Abyss - French
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April 20 Tuesday 8:00 PM
EMU Ballroom, U. of Oregon
Students $1.50 General $3.00
Sponsored by
Wilderness Whitewater
Tickets on Sale Now at
EMU Box Office and Door

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14, 1976

Student loan defaults paid by HEW
HEW's Office of Education today
of their default payments. The GSLP is
announced payments of more than $19
authorized by the ammcnded Higher
Education Act of 1965.
millio1• to Federal Insured Student Loan
PtilJ'°iW • (FIS.LP) lenders, clearing up a
Today's disbursements mark the last
backlog of nearly 19,000 individual claims.
time the Central Office in Washington,
Banks and other commercial lending D.C., will be involved in the claims
institutions that participate in the FISLP process. Hereafter, the appropriate HEW
are reimbursed by the federal government Regional Office will process claims,
for the unpaid balance of a loan in the
materially cutt'ing the processing time
event a student defaults, dies, or becomes required under the old system. Lenders
permanently and totally disabled.
should n:ow receive payme.nts for valid
Approximately one-half of the total · daims within an average of 60 days.
Guaranteed Student Loan Program (GSLP)
Streamlining the claims operation to
volume is federally insured. The other half hasten the recovery of assets by FISLP
is operated by state agencies, and the lenders is one of several actions the Office
federal government reinsures 80 per cent of Education has undertaken to improve

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Re-open NOON
Fri. the 16th.
See you then

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Alternative day ·care is available to the 40
or more LCC parents presently on the LCC
day care waiting list.
Morning Sun, a newly organized,
non-profit day care center located at 1735
Henderson Ave .. opened on March 29 with

__,1ympia Brewing Company, Olympia . Wa.st,-ingfr,n •oLr@

ome things ne,·cr change.
First hinted at in 19[9 with a
patent for "a tool
\\'ith which to open milk
and fruit canS:' the sleek
:m•cl line of the classic
beer hoL)k had t() await
the inn.:ntion of the beer
ctn by American Can in
19,5.
When employee Dewey
Sampso!, w:1s detailed to in\'cnt
this pe'hultimately functional tool. he
sucCL'cded in uniting 30 years of thirsty
thruats wirh the contents of millions ()f cans
ofOly.
It took skill anJ ingenuity anJ the result
just c:111't he improved upon. The same goes for Oly.
Some things never change. A great beer d()esn ·c change.
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7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.rn., five days a week.
For the set rate of $.55 cents per hour,
Morning Sun provides full and half-day
programs, which include a full learning
program, lunch and two snacks. A
cooperative nursery school will also be
open from 9:30 to 12:30 five mornings a
week, where parents can pay a nominal fee
in exchange for working several mornings
a month in the school.
Morning Sun provides an environment,
'' Structured to stimulate instruction at the
highest level," says Barbara Littman, one
of the two directors of the center. Littman
and Kent Sundberg (Morning Sun's other
director) have both had previous experience in day care while working in private
schools, on the University of Oregon
campus, and, most recently, at a day care
center in Springfield.
A federally licensed program, Morning
Sun is in a position to help parents on
government funding. For more information and a copy of Orientation Guidelines,
contact Barbara Littman at 747-0950.

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income or need. Both types of payments
are made by the federal government to
lenders who participate in the state agency
programs as well as FIS LP. These
payments now are made within 30 days of
billing.
To increase yield to lenders who make
student loans, the Administration has
proposed legislation to increase the special
allowance from 3 to 4 per cent of loans
made prior to 180 days after legislation is
enacted. The direct interest rate would be
increased from 7 to 8 per cent on loans
made subsequent to 6 months after
enactment. Thus, the return on student
loans may more closely reflect the lender's
cost.

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Loan Program.
For example, loan
servicing--in the areas of pre-claims,
claims, and collections--will be more
efficient under a new data management
system that is expected to be operational
by the end of the year.
The loan process already has been
accelerated, taking only two to three weeks
for confirmation.
Lenders receive a special interest
allowance of up to 3 per cent every three
months on the unpaid balance of student
loans made after August 1969. Interest
also is paid to lenders on behalf of students
who qualify for the subsidy by reason of'

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For information on any of these jobs. see Jean
Coop in Student Employment on the 2nd floor
of the Center Building.

LAST CHANCE CORRAL--Five minutes
rrom LCC.
One bearoon apt..
SI JO/ month. Studio apt.. SIOO/month.
Both furnished. Call 747-2291.

PT PERM: For people interested in a sales
career in life insturance. No experience
necessary.

dance

PT TEMP: Someone to take care of a woman
confi ned to a wheelchair. Morning hours.
about 10 hours a week.

TAILORED SQUARES will dance Mon days. 8-11 p.m .. workshop 7-8. in
(;erlinger 103. UO. Everyone welcome.

PT PERM: Service station attendant to work

mornings from 9 to I . Prefer someone with
experience in pumping gas.

for sale

PT PERM:

Experienced fry cook to work
Friday and Saturday nights from 10 p.m. to
6 a.m.

lawnmower, Student Desk-SIS, Maytag
Ringer-Type Washing Machine. Please call
before 10 a.m .. 344-4526.

PT PERM: Two cocktail waitresses needed.
Experience necessary. One for Friday and
Saturday nights, the other for Sunday nights
only.

20,000 USED BOOKS. All selling at 1/, or
less off published price. Textbooks. cliff
~otes, magazines. USED BOOKS bought
and sold. SMITH FAMILY BOOK
STORE, 1233 Alder, ph. 345-1651. hours
10 a.m .• 6 p.m.
FOR SALE: I cao·1 believe it'. I could have
so ld the type writer 10 times with the last ad.
hut I've still got the Polaroid camera. the price
reduced 10 $22 as of toda). It works great for
R,\. W or co lor and I may still have the
imtruction book. We got a new one. you
ought to pick up' on this one . . 747-9967
during the dinner hour.

FT PERM: Cashier with a little food
experience needed. Hours are from 10 to
6 p.m .. or 12 to 8 p.m.

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Sale permanent
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Phone 687-9181
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Electrology by Marion.

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llnformation about Christian Science may be
obtained each Friday at meetings in Health I 10 at
, I 100. All are welcome.

Single parents and children all ages.
Parents Without Partners are invited to an
caster egg coloring party. Thurs., April IS.
7:30 p.m. at 2225 Ha yden Bridge Rd.,
747 -3018. Bring hand-boiled eggs and
coloring. then bring the kids to Armitage
Park Easter Sunday. 2 p.m. for an easter egg
hunt followed by games and a potluck picnic.
Bring your own table service • coffee
furnished.
Covered area available. if
necessary.

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LCC GOJU RYU will have an inter-club meet•
ing to be held in the PE snack room . All
interested LCC students please feel welcome.
Thursday, April 15, J0a .m.
Growing Alternative Youth (GA Youth) is an
organization for the benefit of. and open co. all
interested people under the age of 22. Meetings are held Monday evenings at 7:30. For
more information and meeting locations, call
Carol 343-8 I 30, or Chris 746-6 755.

music
PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT
If you play any kind of traditional music
(i.e .. bluegrass, old-timey, appalachian,
gospel. original folk, Dixieland. etc.) we
would like you to apply to play in the
Willamette Valley Folk Festival, May 20,
21 and 22, in Eugene. Please submit
tapes to:
Willamette Valley Folk
Festival Committee
c/o Program Office
Suite 2. EMU
University of Oregon
Eugene. Oregon 97403
before April 20, or contact Sue Nordquist
al 686-4373.

vets
VETS! Immediate openings for part-time
employment, you owe it to yourself to
check this out. Call 686-7536, if no
answer, call toll free number•800-638- 7600. The Oregon National
Guard belongs, maybe you belong in the
Guard.

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BROCHURE listing canoe trips in the YUKON
and ALASKA. climbing in BRITISH
COLUMBIA. as well as local outdoor classes
and programs. Outdoor Pursuits, 1290 Oak.
(above Hawkeyes), , 344-6525, open noon to 6.

KITS FOR MAKING OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT--equip yourself for summer at a
fraction of the cost by making your own
sleeping bags, packs, clothing. etc. Outdoor
Pursuits. 1290 Oak (above Hawkeyes),
344-6525, open noon to 6.

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SERENITY WEAVERS 111 West Seventh. Leclerc
looms. yarns, cords, books.

salesmen

personals

!!15 % COMM !! 2 AD SALES REPS.
NEEDED. CONTACT Kevin, ext. 234 .

Cracker Jack - been cross-country skiing
lately?

TORCH ad info

All that physical exercise makes me pant
curly . Those gym shorts of yours help a lot.
Signed: Your little dink. Spike.
Hey dangerous Big C . been b. bopping?

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a line (5 short words make one line). Ads
must be paid in advance in the TORCH
office. Meeting notices , rides to school
and give-away items will receive free
space in the TORCH as space allows.

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Track team tough
by Chuck Berg

politics in an election year
I don't usually mix sports and politics because I think much of it is usually the
fiction of an overzealous sportswriter, or at least rehashes of insoluble pro_blems.
As I think about it now, my upcoming column is draped with both these ivies and
I extend my apologies for violating the sanctity of the sports page.
One issue concerns Dale Bates ... he's a friend, colleague, and one helluva
good coach. Contrary to what I wrote last week, he may remain here at LCC.
Southern Oregon State College probably doesn't have the money available to pay
him the same wage that he would be making here. SOSC's salary range for the
position of "strong instructor,-basketball coach" is $11,000 to $14,000,-and from
a recent phone inquiry, a SOSC official informed Bates the range was nearly
inHexible. So there's probably no advantage for him to move, as most of his
family enioy the benefits here . . . Mrs. Bate's job, the three girls going to
college, and Rodger is attending high school. Why take a cut in salary to
increase your expenses and separate your family?
~o! Unless the Red Raider booster club comes up with some more money,
we ve probably still got ourselves a basketball coach.

Sinclair's aHai witll the Nowhtn Stair
Another hunk of politics is one that should exist in your own mind ... or I hope
it will upon completion of this column.
We have, on the east side of the gym (the women's side, if you will), a fence
guarding an outside stairwell which doesn't go anywhere.

Harter and Shibley well and winning

Tarp's Spikers amazingly "did it again
in fashion" this last Saturday by winning
their own meet here at Lane Community
College. This time it was at the expense of
Clackamas C.C., University of Oregon
J.V.'s, Judson Baptist, and Clark J.C.
There were three double winners, all of
•them Titans. Sprinter Gary Barnes won
the 200 meter and 440; hurdler Joel Johnson won both the _high hurdles and the 440
intermediate hurdles; and Ken Bell won
the long and the triple jumps.
The other Titan winners were Al Shibley,
the shot; Bob Moore, high jump; and Rich
Harter in the three mile. Lane also won
both relays. Altogether Lane took 11 out of .
18 firsts and the U of O J.V.'s .took home
the other remaining seven.
The final scores were as follows:
Lane Community College ... 119 1/2 pts.
University of Oregon J.V.'s .. 75 pts.
Clackamas Community College . 60 pts.
Clark Junior College . . . 9½ pts.
Judson Baptist Community College . 2 pts.
And to brighten the scene even more,
there were many personal bests made by
the team members including Bill Bailey,

Dufek's slam, Twy11an's
curve, Titans sweep
by Don Sinclair

Joe Dufek, the big Titan first baseman,
hit two home runs, one in extra innings and
LCC swept a doubleheader from Chemeketa CC Tuesday afternoon on Lane's new
diamond.
Dufek at 6-3 and 190 lbs., hit a grand
slam in the first inning scoring Guimond,
Plant and Gambino ahead of him. In the
fifth, he singled and scored run number
five which tied the score. When he led off
the bottom of the eighth, he lifted the ball
over the left field fence for the game
winner, 6-5, LCC.
Big Joe's totals for the game: 4 for five
at the plate with two home runs, two
singles, a base on balls, five RBl's and
three runs scored.
Donnie Lee started the game for Lane
and walked the first four batters. The
Chiefs scored three · runs before reliever
Mark Jenrette got the fire out. Jenrette
pitched well until the sixth. The first man
up ·doubled to center and went to third on

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And you ask, "a fenced-off stairwell is political?"
Apparently so.
Politics is the art of managing the affairs of government or a group, and there
would seem to be groups on this campus with interest in the "nowhere stair."
Walt Vanorden, the director of Plant Services at LCC is interested. "Way
back when, we closed the stairway because it wasn't being used and (we)
planned to open it again in the near future ... and the near future never qJJite
got here.''
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When I mentioned the inconvenience of having to go all the way around the
Health and PE Building or Performing Arts Building to get to the athletic fields,
Walt agreed.
When I noted that access to the east side of the gym was impaired because
there were no handles on the exterior surfaces of any east side doors, he said,
"Oh well, you wouldn't want to wind up in the women's locker room." I
suggested LCC's females might find that access advantageous. More than that,
the internal stairway could be used to move between levels without disruption of
feminine P.rivacy--if we just had handles on the doors.
Vanorden couldn't ag-ree more. '' I can see it (the fence and sub-par stairwell)
as an inconvenience. It limits access to the athletic fields and women must go all
the way around to get to their dressing room. If anyone had ever asked us , we'd
rave done something about it.''
VanOrde_n continued, "It wouldn ' t require special budgeting, just the
ne?e~sary t_
Ime to affect a substantial opening in the railing, strengthen the
existing staircase, and put in a sawdust path. We 've got the sawdust now. We
could ev~n put in ramp later. But ,10 one's ever expressed a need."
Athletics, especI~lly those at the community college level, should be for the
-students. Any barrier to keep the students from their vested interests should be
removed , even if it's "just an inconvenience."
_
. Write a letter ?r just send a copy of this column to Walt VanOrdenat LCC. Let
him know you think the college should repair the nowhere stair. I'd like to see an
office wallpapered with SportsSinews .

shot - SO'½"; Al Shibley, shot - 52'511•";
Tom McDonnel, 880 - 1 :55 7; Tim
O'Malley, 880 - l:~8.0; Joel Johnson, high
hurdles - 15.1; and Rich Harter, 3 mile 14:44.4, with Glen Owen, mile - 4:23.3.
After the meet, Coach Al Tarpenning
seemed pleased by his team's performances. Tarp's team's next meet will be this
coming Friday at 2:45 p.m. here at LCC
against Southern I\laho and Mt. Hood
Community College.
Coach Tarpenning remarked on the
upcoming meet. "Southern Idaho is an
outst~nding team _that had many sprinters
that placed high in the national indoor
meet this last winter and though this may
be where their strength is, they do have
adequate (distance) runners and pretty
good field event men. They are definitely a
very strong team.
"Mt. Hood is a much improved team,
fresh off of a win last weekend in their own
Fruit Bowl Festival, so it should be a very
fine three-way meet, with strong competition.''
Meet time, again, is Friday afternoon at
2:45 on the LCC track.

an error only to be picked off by Gambino
when he came in from the bullpen. Gambino picked up the win after phasing the
last eight batters he faced.
Pete Twyman had a rocky start but
stoned the Chief.,, after the first inning of
the second game. CCC opened the game
with a walk, a steal, another walk and a
double off the fence for one run and men 0n
second and third with no outs. Rocked for
a run, Twyman found his curve and
dropped a few of those into Chemeketa's
teepee and the Chiefs were swatting flies.
Line score for the Chiefs: 1 run on 3 hits
with 2 errors. For the Titans: 2 runs on
but 2 hits and no errors.
Thursday the Titans play the U of O JV' s
at Howe Field on the U of O campus.
After playing Blue Mountain in a doubleheader on Saturday in Pendleton. th e
Titans return home Tuesday to battle
Linn-Benton for first place in the league.
Coach Dwayne Miller has the field
looking great and there's a warm gras ~
incline to sunbathe upon. Start a fad .
•Cheer for somebody. You can't beat the
price.

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Apr1·1 23' 5 p.m.
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The LCC Media Commission -- a 12-member body composed of
students and staff members -- is now accepting applications for
TORCH Editor for the school year 1976-77~ All LCC students
are eligible to apply. Requirements, as stated in the "Media
Cammi ssion Guidelines, 11 include the following: "The Editor
should have journalistic ability, training and experience. He/she
should have previous service on a high school, college or profess'ional newspaper staff in such capacities as will give .him/her
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SALARY: The Editor is eligible to collect a monthly salary which
is set by consensus of the newspaper staff in accordance to budget
commitments, but usually runs to $100 per month.
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The Ct Jmmission will arrange a private interview with each applicant f, )r Monday, May 3, to discuss such concepts as journalism
ethics, theory, and managem_e nt among others. At this time the
applicant may display examples of his/her work in journalism and
other areas. Media Commission Code of Ethics permits applicants
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intervi~w sessions
APPLICATIONS: Applications, Media Commission Guidelines, and
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