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Vol. 13 No. 25 April 28, 1976

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LCC Nursing Program on probation with State Board
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LCC Vets Club petitions cutbacks

by Sally Oljar
In its plan to fight proposed Senate
cutbacks in the G.l. Bi11 benefits, the LCC
Veterans' Club is in the cafeteria this ·
week with a petition opposing the decrease
in benefits.
If passed the cutback would limit the use
of G. I. Bill benefits from ten years to eight.
Jerry Smith, chairman of the club, says
eight years isn't enough for all veterans to
use their benefits and hopes to do away
with any time limits on their use.
.
"One guy got out of the service," he
says, "and it took him 10 years to establish
himself and his family. You can't live and
work and go to school.''
Circumstances are different for everyone, he·adds, and the Senate. should allow
for this.
The reason for the cutback, according to
Smith, is the $1. 1 bi11ion decrease in the
federal budget. If the bill is passed
veterans will no longer be given cost of living adjustment s, and Smith says, "Eight
VA hospitals will probably not be built."
According to Smith, two of the hospitals
would be located on the West Coast, one in
Portland and the other in Seattle. "A lot of
people could be employed that won't be,"
he said.
The club will also have printed postcards

for veterans to sign and will be selling
stamps and mailing the cards to Oregon
senators and congressme n. Smith says the
cards will contain "our views on the 10
year limit and to let them know we're
watching what their doing and how they
vote.''
In addition, another petition requesting
bonus payments for Oregon veterans who
fought in either Korea or Viet Nam will be
circulated for si_gnatures this week.
Smith said the Veterans' Club needs
61.000 si~natures by July 1 in order to
place the request on the November ballot.
If passed Korean or Viet Nam veterans
who meet eligibility requiremen ts would be
able to receive $25 for every month spent in
Korea or Viet Nam, $15 for each month
spent overseas, and $10 for each month
spent in the U S. T;,e maximum payment
would be $500. Smith says the bonus
payment has been adopted in 14 states.
Veterans who participated in the Korean
conflict from June 27, 1950 to Jan. 31.
1955, or in Viet Nam from Aug. 5, 1964 to
March 28, 1973 would be eligible for the
bonus payment.
Vets and friends can obtain future
meeting times and more information in the
cafeteria this week.

Improvements in cafeteria discussed

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Dean Picrct:y

by Cris Clarke

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Carmel OcCroo~
Photos by Jeff Hayden

•Although it has no compl aints about the
quality of instru ction or facilities, the Orego n
State Board of Nursi ng has put the LCC
Nursi ng Progr am on proba tion; with th_e
threat to withd raw the progr am s accreditation if certai n requir ement s are not met by
fall term, 1976.

students on this campus can't read."
The State Board wants the Nursing have an outstanding nursing program."
Brownell also said that part of the Administrator at LCC to be named--cur rent
He says that the single most important
problem is due to a lack of racks to put paperwork does not list any name. The mistake he
made wa~ failing to mention the
trays after eating. He stated, "New racks board also appe,irs to be worrying that name of
the person who is fulfilling the
are on order and should be here any day." college guidelines exclude the Nursing duties of
Nursing Administrator.
Another area of dissatisfaction is with Administrator from activities outside the
The State Board of Nursing requires that
the coffee. According to Sutton, an effort nursing area.
a registered nurse holding a master's
has been made to improve it. He also said ·
degree
have the authority and responsibil• t s were wt·th the
th at mos t of th e comp Iam
In a March 22, 1976 letter to LCC
ity
for
the direction of the educational
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President
Dr. Eldon Schafer, the State
s reng o
e coffee. To h e IP cure the
program
in nursing. The LCC's probation
complaint s, Sutton told the TORCH, Boa rd ofNursinga nnounced th eprobation , resulted basically
from the failure to name
"Rather than use one pound of coffee for along with specific defects it found in that person.
Carmel DeCroos is the
every th ree gaII ons of wa t er, we now use 14 LCC's administrat ive structure within the present Nursing
Administrator. But ht..r
ounces." He added that the equipment is Nursing Departmen t.
name was not listed; the college is
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problems may lie with the blend.
executive director in Generic Nursing correcting this oversight now.
He continued to state that the blend of Education , visited LCC in March she
The other problems contributing to the
coffee is an important factor and that the requested a copy of the college administra- board decision
involved wording that was
food services departmen t is "locked into a tive structure as it relates to nursing. included
in Piercey's memo. One error.
company that supplies not only the coffee Associate Dean of Instructional Operations says Piercey,
was just a typograph ical
but the (coffee making) equipmen t." Jim Piercey was responsible for writing the error, but
he feels that the wording
Brownell added, "It's really difficult, once memorandu m containing that information, problems
were a direct result of his own
you get locked into a system whereby and some of the wording he used was "editorializ
ing."
somebody is supplying you with equip- either erroneous . or unclear, Piercey
Piercey changed the wording on some of
ment, to get out of that sy_stem and the admits.
the job descriptions which he included in
college has been locked into that company
"But there were some areas that needed the memorand um. The State Board
since it opened."
clarificati on," says Oregon Executive interpreted the use of the word "nursing''
Both men stated that replacemen t with Director of Nursing Beverly Andre. What as a limiting,
confining term when used to
new coffee makers are expensive and that has to be done, she says, is to sketch out describe
the duties of the Nursing
the coffee blend will possibly be replaced if the procedure s in more detail, or to Administra
tor. Piercey used "nursing" in
the complaints continue.
"delineate the areas where LCC needs to the context of stating what activities and
Also in the survey were comments on the support requiremen ts set forth in (State) programs the
administrat or will participate
lack of "Health Foods." It showed that standards."
in, such as "profession al 'nursing' organimany people would like to s~e vegetarian
But Dean Piercey says he had nothing zations" and "access to any/all clinical
main courses served. Sutton said that the but good intentions, and "our inte,nt was to 'nursing'
facilities."
suppliers of the foods now available are do everything required because we want to
The Board saw this as being restrictive
going to build a food vending carousal that
because it requires that the Nursing
will be located near the cafeteria cash
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Administrator participate in all--it stresses
register. He added that once this is done,
fo
pay HOCXJ
'all'--college activities which are approprithere is a possibility of having a vegetarian
ate, not just nursing-rel ated instructional
hot dish available where the health foods
At its meeting Tuesday, April 27.
activities or organizations. It wants the
are now located. These services will not be
the ASLCC Senate voted to pay
nursing administrat or to "actively particiavailable until fall term.
former ASLCC President (1973-74)
pate in curriculum constructio n."
Brownell told the TORCH that there is a
.Barry Hood $1,000 in salary he never
According to present Nursing Adminilot orpilferage (ripping ofO of foods in the
received while in office.
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strator Carmel DeCroos, the problem
cafeteria. This is one of the reasons that
Treasurer Kathy Monje expressed
began when former Nursing Departmen t
the health food will be moved up toward
doubts that the Senate had the funds
Chairperson Estelle Singleton left her post,
the cashier.
to pay Hood and suggested that he
about March 17. At that point, says
It's also one of the reasons that Brownell
be paid if excess funds are present at
DeCroos, the ECC Ad ministratio n took
and Sutton would like to hear from the
the end of the 1975-76 fiscal year that
action to comsolidate the health-oriented
cafeteria customers. They'd like to receive
ends June 30.
occupational areas into one department .
input from people about how they can
The suggestion was adopted in the
H eliminated the position of nursing
reduce or stop the pilferage of food from
final motion. Hood will be paid as
Departme nt chairperso n and gave one
the cafeteria. Suttom said that to avoid
·much of his salary as remaining
person, Dr. Douglas White. LCC Pararaising prices to cover the costs that occur
funds allow, and if there is a portion
dental chairman, the duties of chairing the
from thefts, some of the food now available
,un·paid after June 30 the incoming
whole unit. This action created the
may have to be reduced in selectionf
ASLCC Senate may pay Hood out of
position of "Nursing Administrator."
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by Michael Riley
"Dirty floors ... Lack of carts to hold
dishes ... The coffee is terrible ... The
coffee is horrible . : . No vegetarian entrees
offered. salty coffee."
The above comments were on a food
service questionaire that was to " . . .
• solicit the maximum amount of criticism . . . '· from food service customers at
the beginning -of winter term. Of the
questionair es· passed out, 354 were
returned. The information from the survey
has been analyzed and the results are
being used to help improve food service
here at LCC.
In a recent interview with the TORCH.
Gene Sutton, interim manager from
Mannings Incorporated, and Ken Brownell, LCC director of food services talked
about the improvements that are and will
be made.
-One of the biggest complaints on the
survey was the cleanliness of the dining
area. Sutt-0 n told the TORCH that more
people were assigned to help clean the
dining areas. Brownell added that there
were table top signs at the beginning of the
year that asked the user of the dining area
to bus their own dishes. This didn't work
because, according to Brownell, "The

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Editorial
Continuing the Dialogue

The recent controversy over the coverage the TORCH gave the women's poetry
reading last April 7 has begun an interesting dialogue--a dialogue that should have
begun at the poetry reading, but didn't.
The subject of the dialogue is this: At what point does an oppressed minority
group unintentionally begin to overcompensate and practice the same oppressive or
discriminatory actions it, itself, is fighting?
The fact that none of the women at the reading objected when the only male
member of the audience left is one of those situations.
The man was very sensitive to the feelings of the women there, and that's
commendable. · He asked if his presence would make anyone uncomfortable. He
was told by several of the poetry readers that it would. He then left. It's too bad
the other people at the reading didn't return this man's serisitivity.
that he was there and that he asked the question he did, it's evident he was
interested in learning from the women. ·He was. in effect, denied that opportunity.
Many of the responses the TORCH received last week expressed the view that
this was all justified since women have the need and the right to gather without
men.
It would be ludicrous in this professed democratic and free society to suggest that
anyone doesn't have the right to gather with whomever they please. But when you
arc speaking abut something as sensitive as sex discrimination, several other
things need to be considered.
First. this c6llege is not a private home, it is an institution of higher education
funded by state and federal monies. One of the prerequisites to receiving any
moncv from the government is that _firm guidelines be followed to insure that no
f,irms of discrimination are practiced. While the man, who was responding to an
npcn invitation to attend, left voluntarily, the fact remains that no one objected--it
,, as a subtle form of sex discrimination.
Why was he allowed to leave? Was it because he was an oppressor of women?
His letter to the editor in today's paper does not indicate this. He was allowed to
leave simply because of his sex. He made the mistake of being born male.
Second. the concept of separatism is not conducive to a deeper understanding
between people . In order to dispell many of the prejudices held by both sexes it
i-.; ncccs-,ary to communicate. to learn to feel comfortable wth each other's ideas
and feelings. If a member of one sex makes a person of the other sex
uncomfortable. then you need to discuss the reasons so that both can grow into a
more humane understanding.
To slam th.e door on someone's attempt to communicate is both rude and hostile.
In relationships between nations. the act of cutting off communications is- but one
. step before war. I hope we arc not at that stage. and if we are then it's time to
begin negotiations for a peace.
In basic political terms. if one group desires to wrestle power from another, thlcn
it mu..,t go through a three step process. First it must organize its own political
strength. Then, from its new position of power it makes demands for concessions
.\rid l"inallv. a period of communication as to how those demands can be facilitated
l)l'gin-,. Ti1e majority of male's in this society arc aware of the poor and the demands
1i1· "omen. NmY i.., the time to communicate.
Anet third we should address the very concept of an awareness center with only
t liL· mml women's preceding it. The very title seems to suggest that only women
,He in need of a heightened awareness of the changing roles of the sexes in this
..,,lL-iL·I:,,. Some of the letters we received last week made references to women's
roles as "being defined by males." This is simply not true. Both women's and
men's roles have been defined by the society in which they were raised.
No male has eve,· come fresh from his mother's womb as an oppressor of women.
The societ~· caused this to happen.
H1llh mother<, and fathers taught their sons that men were strong. brave.
aggressive providers for their female mates. They didn't stress sensitivity,
rnmpas'-.inn and an ability to show their emotions. That would make the boy a sissy.
S11 th ~• -,e trail'> \Yere reserved for the daughters of the society.
Marw men do not feel comfortable with the roles they arc expected to play. They
vould like to feel more ::nmfor1ablc ,,·ith their more sensitive. emotional side; they
would like to abandon the expectation that they must be the aggressive,
,·ompetitive provider for their mate. And they need help casting off these
stereotypes just as much as \\'Omen do.
Wh\ <.,hould there be a Women ·s A\.varcncss Center with .an emphasis primarily
11 11 helpin~ ,,om en adjust to changing roles when men are just as much in need of
' hat hl'lp' 1 Why <,houldn ·1 it be a Human Awareness Center with emphasis placed
>111 111ahi11g both s e xes aware of what it is going to tak e to undergo the
metamorphasis from chauvinist members of each sex to co-equal members of the
human r:1 ,T'' W 1· d1m"t need "sisterhood or "brotherhood'" \\L' need ro become
'>imply· -- 1·11 1·11 1 [,, • 11 ~ -,·· \\·ith all the good that implies.
Humar h,· :1 !.! 'i 1 ,u-,t ca'.-->t off these old roles and redefine the word "Human
K(·111g·· and thi-, c. 11,wl be done unless a dialogue of human understanding is
•11ai111;1inccl .

Anything that fragments and divides human beings along sexual, racial, ethnic
nr rcligiou-, line~ isolates someone. Isolation breeds fear and ignorance. If our
goals arc only raising our own level of consciousness or to make ourselves into a
nc" (\'pc of human being. who will in turn create a new higher civilization, it must
be done.
It's questionable whether LCC is a place for any group which isolates any other
group through discrimination no matter how subtle. Anything supported by an
institution is in danger of becoming doctorine.
The fact that this dialogue takes place in a newspaper is valuable, but it should
ha,·e happened during the April 7 poetry reading in the Women's Awareness
Center.
Webster's Dictionary defines chauvinism as "unreasoning devotion to one's
race, sex, etc." It also defines reasoning as "the act of arguing or discussing."
The situation in the Women's Awareness Center on April 7. where the group of·
women didn"t discuss the situation, sounds vaguely like what Webster was talking
about. Several years ago many men were justifiably called "male chauvinist pigs."
It would be too bad if the coin were flipped to the point where "female" could
justifiability be substituted for male in that"Iabel.

Lex Sahonchk 1953-1976
Alexander Sahonchik died this week
as a result of a Salem automobile
accident. Lex was the TORCH Sports
Editor during the 1972- 73 academic
year, and a friend to many students and
staff members in the LCC community.
We miss him.
Left behind to cope with the remorse
and resentment in the surprise that he
is gone, we ~ttend a funeral and talk
soberly about Lex, who was a good
journalist, a lover of athletic competition, a young man who raced his
motorcycle and spent hours at KASH
listening to music.
He wrote a

controversial feature story one term that
described two radio personalities and
their quest for individuality in toptwenty disc-jockey merchandising. It
was all true, L~x knew it, and he
enjoyed the flak it caused before
everyone else agreed with him.
He wrote "Bench Slivers" every
week to analyze the sportsnews,
covered most of the athletic competition
at LCC, did the paste-up and design and
copy proofing. Somehow, in between,
he worked in the Register-Guard
mailroom, coached in the Eugene Boy's
Athletic sports program, worked for and

. April 28, 1976
· Letters to the editor
Says 'article' improper
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am the man described in Kathy
Monje's article? commentary? ~s the
person who rose to my knees, wavmg my
arms, and asked, "does anyone have any
objections to my being here? If they do I'll
leave. I don't want to make anyone
uncomfortahle."
,
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I a1:.1 appalled at the TORCH s headhne
of the commentary? ''Can Discrimination
Be Used To Battle Discrimination?" I am
even more appalled by the Torch's
headline ~ver t.~e following issues' letters
to the editor, Commentary Draws Irate
Response."
Monje's "commentary" appeared in the
form of an article, of a reporting of the
poetry reading in the Women's Awareness
-center. Even Monje referred to her being
asked to "cover the event," and latet
writes of her feelings that "reporters don't
interact in events they are covering.''
Nowhere in the article, above it, under it,
or near it, did the word "commentary"
appear. And then you (the Torch) have the
gall to label letters to the editor, criticizing
Monje's article, as "irate" responses to
her "commentary." Webster's Dictionary
defines irate as "angry, wrathful, incensed," all of which imply irrationality;
why not just write "Commentary Draws
Irrational Response"?
I am a man, and that makes me an
oppressor. Women have been conditioned
to nurture men at their own expense, to
accept their powerlessness and men's/ our
superpower, to center their lives around
men and define themselves as mere
appendages of men/us. Women have not
oppressed themselves.
As a man, I accept, understand, and
encourage struggling sister's need to
relate exclusively with each other, to talk
about and relate their personal oppressions, to have a space where they can be
free from the presence of men, a presence
which can trigger many feelings caused by
years of conditioning, such as feelings of
intimidation, of rage, of hurt, of discomfort. Onlv in relating and sharing with
Says tolerance is key
The first time I suffered oppression
because of sexual discrimination happened
when I was ten. I wrote a poem and
showed it to my friend, Charles. He told
me that only girls wrote poetry and called
me a sissy. He told his frineds and they
called me a sissy, too, among other things.
As a poet, I was discriminated against
again (because of sex) just a few weeks
back. I was told by a Women's Awareness
Center worker that I could not read my
poetry. or my daughter's at their poetry
reading, because only women poets would
be allowed to read; however, even though I
was a male. I could come and listen . This
seemed fair to her.
I was angry and resentful until I realized
that it was fair. Some discrimination
should be tolerated. Men go to a room
marked •·Men'' and women go to a room
marked "Women." We're not trying to
get our shit together in that respect. The
poetry readings were set up for women
poets to read their poetry to an invited
public which could include men.
The one man who attended two weeks
ago and asked the women present should
he leave was showing consideration. He
didn't have to leave. The woman or women
who said "Yes" expressed an honest
feeling. They didn't run him out.
I understand that the Women's Awareness Center will allow male poets to read in
their room. We simply will have to
schedule it with them if we want to read
our poetry.
Lyle Stephens
Member of Men's Awareness Club
earned a bachelors degree in journalism
from the U of 0.
He didn't like maudlin reminiscing
and wouldn't have let the opportunity of
his own funeral pass by ·without an
irreverant piece of Sahonchik sarcasm.
But he knows, and his family understands, that we feel incomplete today
because Lex affected us so greatly. Lex
would know this as a genuine compliment from friends. His energy and wit
and good company contributed to our
own days. That has to be the best
memorial people can render to other
people. We mean it to be.

each other can women see that they indeed
have things in common, such as personal
oppression, and the political implications
of that oppression. Women are taught to
internalize their individual oppressions and
view them as personal. By sharing with
each other, it can become clear that
oppressions are not limited to the personal
realm. If my presence at the poetry
reading bothered even one woman, ihen it
was my responsibility to seek out that
opinion and act accordingly, which in this
case meant leaving.
• Monje, in her article? commentary?
spoke of men whom she quoted as sayin~.
"why did he ask (if his presence made
anyone uncomfortable)?
I wouldn't
have?" This certainly comes as no
surprise. I don't think a whole lot of men
take sexism and it's devastating effects
very seriously. Obviously the two men
quoted don't. To these men I would say
that there is a rieed for women to be away
from us, to be free from the power we were
given by being born male, to feel free to be
and share with each other. As men, you
don't have to guilt trip yourselves to
recognize that.
To women, I say that I continue to
support you and your struggle to gain the
power and privilege which you have been
denied by being born female, and I
continue to support your right to sharing
with your sisters. free of the presence of
men / us.
It is not a matter of "discrimination
being used to battle discrimination";
rather it's sisters sharing with sisters to
stay healthy and alive.
Finally. to the Torch, I suggest you
re-evaluate your defensive handling of the
poetry reading and the ensuing criticism.
Referring to your criticizers as "irate"
takes the responsiblitiy for negligent
conduct off of your shoulders, where it
belongs.
Jim Anderson
184 7 Orchard Eugene
'News' and 'Comment'

Regarding Kathy Monje's editorial
comment and the deluge of letters
responding to it--I would like to express my
support for Kathy, and my agreement with
her stand. And even if I did not agree with
her. she has every right to freely express
her opinions and feelings in an editorial
comment.
Perhaps some of those
responding do not understand the difference between editorial comment (which
expresses opinions and feelings) and news
coverage. which simply reports facts.
Kathy's article appeared as an editorial,
not as a news story. Perhaps it would have
been more fair to also print a straight news
story about the poetry reading, in addition
to the comment. However, I don't think .
the TORCH should be blamed for sexist
rcporting--any newspape; must print what
happens, and a lot of things that happen
here in our LCC community are sexist--but .
that doesn't mean the newspaper or its
editorial staff. is sexist.
I think disagreement, and the opportunity to air such feelings is healthy for
women. women's gro_!Ips, and for men.
Without it, communication fails.
Connie Hood
Says letters irrational
Last week's editorial page revealed some
interesting undercurrents in the Women's
Awareness Center. Apparently some
members have such a chip on their
shoulders that they fail to see how biased
they've become in their fight for equality.
I was angered and frustrated by many ot
the letters--some of them seemed to reflect
the very labels that women have been
fighting against . The triviality of "women's hats" and over-emotional, irrational
accusations made me wonder just how
much credit we really deserve if that's all
we have to say.
Adrienne's statement about "patriarchal
forms of journalism" was ignorant, and at
best was an insult to Kathy and other
female journalists. She was so busy crying
over bad publicity she failed to notice that
Kathy still portrayed the beauty of the
occasion.
Grow up, girls. The press is not a public
relations vehicle. If you want equality in a
man's world you better learn to take a little
criticism. Men have had to put up with it
for years.
Lynda Jackson

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• Letters .

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Says all should resign

To the editor:
Len Wassom's resignation attempt at
the April 13 ASLCC Senate meeting led to
my suggestion that all ASLCC Senators
(1) They gripe and find it unjust that
resign. Why? To let the LCC community tuition goes up 24(?) per cent.
students, faculty, staff and administra(2) The budget for next year lost by a tion - know that our powers have been so
landslide on Tuesday.
eroded in the past three years that the only
(3) Due to the above, when some way to represent our constituents reprograms for students get the ax, they sponsibly, consistent with a no-power
again will gripe.
position, is to resign.
This is election year - 1976, the
Yet ... how many didn't bother to get out Bi-Centennial.
It is time to make
and vote. . .better yet, how many don't intelligent use of the right to vote. DO
even give a damn and aren't even NOT FAIL TO REGISTER TO VOTE, then
registered to vote? Yet they sure can get as non-violent revolutionaries, cast your
the effort up to complain!
vote by writing in "FLASH!" for every
elective office in every election you vote in
Mitch Stepanovich
starting with the ASLCC Spring election.
Why? Because it is too late in the course of
laughs at spelling
events on this planet to direct the affairs of
To: The Editor
this country thru the electoral process and
Your slogan about National Secretaries the code word FLASH! let's everyone know
Week in Last week's TORCH must have there are millions of others in the country
been some sort of bad joke! ! Where did who realize it too. Form into true
your secretary learn to spell "secretary" . communes and establish the true governand/or "Secretaries?'' you"\'.ook her out to ment of, by and for the people as taught in
lunch, you should ask for a refund. If it the WORLD BILL OF RIGHTS - THE NEW
was truly meant to be a joke, cancel this COVENANT. It is our only chance to avert
criticism and ... Ha, Ha!!
violent revolution. Challenge the system
which obviously does not work.
Sincerely,
This is the age of media. MEDIA is the
Vicki Diaz
Letter to the Editor
Here are some thoughts for the students
(and staff) of LCC:

Letters

"Focus on Careers"

by Amy Higgins

Continuing with their "Focus on
Careers" series, the Women's Awareness
Center will present three more noon
programs. "Exposing women to wom_en in
non-traditional jobs," is the Center's main
objective, says Amanda Meadows, who is
in charge of the sessions.
This Wednesday. May 5, women from
the Starflower Trucking Collective wi11
provide information on a ''Truck Driver''
career. On Wednesday, May 12, Helen
Frye, Lane County Circuit Judge, will
discuss, "Attorney and Judge." Then, on
Wednesday, May 19, Shannon Rosetta,
assistant store manager for Meier .and
Frank Department Store, will speak ·on
'' Retail Sales Manager. ''
Turnout has been good, says Meadows,
who hopes the program will continue in the
fall.

the code world FLASH! - like a flash of
insight or a radio news FLASH! - be the
signal that kicks it off.

right-use of ELECTIONS. What a great
opportunity for non-violent revolutionary
people to communicate. Let's not miss it!
Are elections sacred cows? Elections are
· qought and sold just like everything else in
private-ow nersh ip-of-proerty societies.
Physical elements, for example, have
properties, not people. Who runs Ford's
campaign? A PR firm, the same firm that
bagged the governorship of California for
Reagan.

A sign carried by a picketer at the
.FREEDOM TRAIN read, "Let's Kick Off
the U.S. Bi-Centennial with a World
Buyers' Strike!" Right on! That's where
the WWPRM leads. Aren't we all sick of
wage slavery, CIA secrecy, war assassination (how many times does the word "ass"
appear in the w-0rd "assassination,"
children?), poverty, disease, crime? The
only solution is to get rid of the cause which
is the buying and selling of the Planet's
abundance for personal benefit and secular
profits instead of sharing - giving and
receiving - it with all our humanity, as
Jesus to name one, taught.
What else can we students throughout
the country do? Another thing that makes
sense is to insist that our student body
governments act the part of committees of
correspondence, as our founding fathers
did in 1774. Don't depend on governmentcontrolled national news media for information. Did not in 1774. If we are
students, we are supposed to be learning
something; and, if so, should not in 1976.

Why FLASH! Why not? It's as good as
any other word and maybe better.
FLASH! When written in must be tallied
and when cast in large numbers will not
only require run-off's but also let fellow
non-violent revolutionaries and others as
well, know that this is the time for great
changes and we are ready for them. Write
in FLASH! In the run-off's too.

This is SERIOUS BUSINESS, you say?
Damn right! This is the time for a World
Wide Passive Resistance Movement
(WWPRM) to let all the governments both left and right, east and west - know
that the old dying world order is over and
that the New Order for the Ages (Novus
Ordo Seclorum) prophesied on the pyramid
side of the Great Sea] of the U.S. (see your Michael Parry
one dollar bill), commenced by the ASLCC Senator and Minister
Marxian Communists after private banking Universal Industrial Church
took over this contry. is now at hand.· Let of the New World c;omforter

Adds to Hood' 1 story
To the Editor:
I thought one of the points missing in
your story '' Former ASLCC pr·e sident may
get $1000." was an incident which, as a
concerned student. 1 brought to Barry
Hood's personal attention. The story gave
the impression that the idea of salary had
never come up at the time Barry Hood took
office in 1973-74. I feel that Barry Hood
has forgotten the incident in which I was
involved.
At the time Barry Hood took office on the
impeachment of Red Fox it was pointed out
that Hood had given the deciding vote for
impeachment as Vice President. Article V,
section 2 which was in effect at the time of
the impeachment. said that "Roberts
Rules of Order," (Revised) would be the
policy for the conduction of the meeting.
According to Robert's Rules the Vice
President cannot give the deciding vote if
he receives personal gain from the results.
Barry Hood's vote made him president.
The argument he used at the time was
since the President of the Student Body
was receiving no salary he (Hood) didn't
achieve any gain from his vote (which
should have still been pursued on the
grounds that the office itself was reward)
but at that point when I learned that the
office had no pay I dropped the pursuit on
this point.
Ole Hoskinson
former LCC student

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Notes 200-mile limit
Dear Editor:
The President has signed into law the
bill creating a 200 mile fish conservation
zone along American coasts. The bi11 was
essential to conserve our coastal fisheries
which already have many depleted species.
I am proud to have co-sponsored the
measure which became law, but real credit
should go to the fishermen and others who
championed the 200 mile concept for so
many years.
__A key provision of the law sets up a
system for management of the resource.
Eight Regional Fishery Management
Councils are established -- Oregon has
representation on two. The Pacific Council
represents California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho with authority over fisheries
in the Pacific Ocean seaward of those
states. Of its 13 voting members, 8 will be
appointed by the Secretary of Commerce
from each state. The North Pacific Council
includes Alaska, Washington and Oregon
and has authority over fisheries in the
Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea and Pacific
Ocean seaward of Alaska. Its 11 voting
members will include 7 appointed by the
Secretary of Commerce (5 from Alaska, 2
from Washington).
Each council formulates a fishery
management plan to contain conservation
and management measures applicable to
U.S. and foreign vessels, and a description
of the fisheries (including number of
vessels fishing it, their gear, species of
their catch and location, potential revenue,
recreational interests, and nature and
extent of foreign treaty and Indian treaty

list of at least three names submitted by
the Governor.
It is evident that the voting members will
be very influential in the decisions of the
councils. Governor Straub should be
furnished promptly with the names of
persons well acquainted with Oregon's
commercial and sport fishing problems.
I urge Oregon fishermen to begin now
suggesting appropriate names to the
Governor. Oregon must take a full and
active part in making sure the plans and
decisions of the councils meet our needs.
Sincerely,
Jim Weaver
Member of Congress

rights). It must determine maximum
sustainable yield, and how much of the
yield foreign vessels will be permitted to
harvest.
At its . discretion, the council may
designate zones where fishing shall not be
permitted, or fix conditions for fishing
them. It can establish catch limits for an
area or specie. and prohibit certain fishing
gear.
Voting members will include the director
of the Oregon Wildlife Commission and the
regional director of the National Marine
Fisheries Service stationed in Seattle. In
addition, voting members will be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce from a

TORCH STAFF
editor Mike McLain
associate editor Cris Clarke
associate editor Scott Stuart
cultural editor Max Gano
photo editor Jeff Hayden
ad manager Kevin Murtha
production mgr John Brooks

reporters

Steve Goodman
Melody B. Gore
Russell Kaiser
Crunch McAllister
Kathleen Monje ·
Sally Oljar
Yvonne Pepin
Michael Riley
Don Sinclair
Cindy Tyndall

photographers

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ad graphics Dave Mackay

graphics

production

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Vayne

Debbie Bottensek
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The TORCH is published on Wednesdays throughout the regular academic year.
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9; .

BroWn wins
hands down,

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no surprise
byAttH(#t
The landslide election of Governor Jerry
Brown as President in 1976 came as no
surprise to his fellow Californians who had
long adulated him for his integrity,
asceticism, frugality and, above all, his
uncanny ability to predict the future.
His fame and popularity spread. At the
Democratic Convention that year, he was
awarded the nomination by acclamation.
"Well," he said in hi~ four-second
reluctant acceptance speech, "I 2uess
SOMEBODY had to be President."
I he campaign was no contest.
The
experts attributed Mr. Brown's astounding
appeal to the fact th~t he was more
anti-politics. anti-government, anti-spendin g and anti-interventionist that the
electorate itself. Moreover. his simple
slogan not only summed up what he had
been telling his California constituents for
two years. but it captured the mood of the
nation. "Things," it said, "Will Get .
Worse!"
And. amazingly enough, he was, as
always, absolutely right!
Nor was his reputation for honesty
tarnished by his historic five-second
Inaugural Address. "We certainly have a
lot of tremendous problems," he said,
"but don't expect the Government to do
anything about them."
And -- would you believe it'? -- it didn't!
One reason was that the new President
promptly fired every Washington bureaucrat he could and, to represent the
diversity of America. replaced them with
thousands of bright young attorneys all of
whom wore Zapata moustaches and
\\'ire-rimmed glasses. These dedicated
public servants devoted l 8. hours a day to

Calendar of Meetings
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3:00 Faculty Council Mtg.
Ccn. 124
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Bu. Dept. Adv.
Adm . 202
7:00 • 10:00

Dean's Mtg.
LRC Conf. Rm .
9:00-11 :00

Student Pottery Sale
Cafeteria

9:00 • 5:00
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Adm . 202
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LRC Conf. Rm.
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7: 00

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Board Mtg.
Adm . 202

Mental Hca . Div.
public hearing for Adm.
ru lcs for group homes.

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Apr. 2i2

unearthing huge problems and discovering
why the Government could do nothing
about them.
This, coupled with his life style,
endeared the new President to every
American. Following his inauguration, for
example, he was driven directly to his 1958
two-door DeSoto where he set up housekeeping in the back seat.
(Efforts by well-meaning friends to
purchase him a car heater for tbe
Washington winter were rejected. "We
must all suffer together," he said,
adjusting the cuffs of his white, buttondown hair shirt.)
Who will ever forget his B. Y.O.B.
pot-luck State dinners, his annual Zen
. Easter Egg Roll and Natural Food Prayer
Breakfasts, his one-second State of the
Union address ("Yeccchhh! ") or his
economic message to Congress which
caused the Wall Street Panic of 1977?
Some historians feel his State of the •
World speech to the U.N. in 1978 was a
mistake. He simply stood at the podium
holding a sign reading: "The End Is At
Hand!"
Unfortunately, this seeming threat
caused the nervous Russians to unleash a
preemptive nuclear strike. But think of the
pride in the hearts of surviving Americans
to realize. on emerging from the rubble,
that their President had been right again!
"And we sure can't blame him for our
troubles." as one put it so well. "He
didn't do anything."

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Women
Auto Mechanics . Skin flicks come
to San Jose State
discuss careers

On April 21, two women from Country
(CPS)Someone has been making pornoVolkswagen Collective talked about their
careers as '' Auto Mechanics.'' They graphic movies in the dorms at San Jose
discussed how their work has affected their State College in California for the past two
lives and how to get started in that field. In years, and the productions have opened to
an audience of about 40, junior and senior mixed reviews.
high school students and men as well as
•''The whole college thing has come
women participated in the discussion. together for me for the first time, gushed
According to Anne Stewart, Women's •one coed who took part in the filming.
Program specialist, men also need to "Drinking, drugs and sex, all at once."
adjust to women's new roles and are
•'Obscene behavior is clearly contrary to
encouraged to attend.
university policy,'' harumphed college
president John Bunzel. who has launched
an investigation into the incident.

Lion's Club donates
visual aid to LCC library

by Sally Oljar
The Eugene Lion's Club recently donated a reading aid for visually handicapped students to the LCC library. It's
called a Visual Tek Reader and it enlarges
printed material to any size for easier
reading.
A student can place books or magazines
on a base that slides right or left. A closed
circuit TV camera magnifies the material
and transfers it to a screen next to it. By
adjusting the lens on the camera a word
may be magnified one or two inches to one
word covering the ent-ire screen. The
camera will also switch the print so that it
can be read either black on white or
vice-versa.
It may also be used, says librarian Terry
Forester. for people who have trouble
visually when writing. She adds that
besides students. the community is
welcome to use the machine and also the
library.

The reader costs about $1 ,500 and the
Lion's Club has also donated one to the U
of O library and on a temporary basis, to
the Eugene Public Library, to see how
much people will use it there.

"I tried to be a cool reporter but I must
have turned 12 shades of purple before
they were through,'' admitted Louise
Randall, a writer of the student newspaper
who hunted down the action for two
months and then witnessed the filming of a
couple scenes.
"Most of them are clean, well-raised,
mom-and-apple pie types you wouldn't
pick as porno chicks," commented the
director. speaking of the nine female
students who acted for him. One male
student also starred in color films which
are being marketed, for $1,000 each. The
students were paid up to $1000 for their
parts. although the director said he had to
hire prostitutes for the "unusual" sex
scenes.
The filming went undiscovered because
of an elaborate lookout system that enabled
the sets to be dismantled and the crew to
disperse in 60 seconds.

Vet's office plans temp. close
The LCC Veterans office will be closed
Wednesday and Thursda~·. April 28 and 29 ,
for a budget election.

Recent decline in deer population ·caused worry
By Ken Durbin
Deer populations are dynamic things.
They fluctuate from year to year due to
weather, food, hunting pressure, and a
whole host of other interrelated factors.
But when deer populations took a
nose-dive during the long, severe winter of
1968-69, many people were worried. When
numbers remained low for several years,
worry turned to frustration and then, in
some cases. to anger.
Some sportsman's groups. legislators,
and others. believing poor management
the cause, have proposed that deer season
be closed for a period of several years.
Others suggest reestablishment of large
deer refuges such as those set by the
legislature in the 1920s and '30s.
The problem centers primarily in eastern
Oregon. Although deer populations
declined statewide. they have recovered
well in most of western Oregon. It is east
of the Cascades where most concerns lie.
Let's examine some of the factors that
have depressed mule deer populations and
see if a system of deer refuges or a closed
season can be expected to help.
Deer population dynamics is not a simple
subject. No single factor causes a deer
boom or bust. In eastern Oregon it appears
that a combination of known factors and
probably some unknown factors have all
influenced the deer decline.
A primary key to mule deer populations
is winter range. If you pour a gallon of
water into an 8-ounce glass, you will end
up with 8 ounces of water. In that analogy
the 8-ounce glass represents mule deer
winter range. No matter how many deer an
area can support in the summer, winter
range capacity sets the hm1t tor- yeararound populations.
In the early 1960s many deer winter
ranges were in an overbrowsed condition.
They had been supporting more animal use
than they could comfortably accommodate.
This means that some of the high deer
populations of the late 1950s and early '60s
were actually overpopulations.
An overbrowsed winter range may

continue to support fair-sized deer herds as
long as weather conditions are not too
adverse. But the winter of 1968-69 was too
much. First. the fawns of the year began to
die. The older deer fared better because,
besides being stronger and more aggressive. they could eat browse out of reach of
the smaller fawns. In addition, fawns use
most of their energy for growth during the
first year. which leaves them few fat
reserves to withstand cold weather on short
rations.
The next deer to go were the bucks,
especially the older ones which used up
much of their fat supplies during the fall
breeding. Does show a better ability to
survive under adverse winter conditions
but they, too, paid a price. Fewer fawns
were born and these were weaker and less
suited for survival.
A hard winter affects the fawns of two
generations by killing the previous year's
production directly and weakening the
following year's fawns so poor survival
results.
A winter that is hard on deer may not
necessarily seem so to humans. When we
get heavy snow, sub-zero temperatures,
and lots of wind, conditions are obviously
bad and everyone knows it. But the
weather need not be so extreme to be
to!lgh on wintering deer.
The timing of a winter is even more
important than its severity. A few days of
sub-zero temperatures early in the season
are not nearly as damaging as the same
weather later in the season when animals
are in weaker condition and food has been
depleted. A late wet and cold spring which
follows a mild and open winter can put far
more stress on wintering deer than a short
and severe winter followed by an early
spring.
Fall rains are also important to winter
survival. They stimulate a rapid growth of
grass and other succulent plants which
help deer produce a good layer of fat. It is
especially beneficial to the bucks which
lose condition during the rut.
Fall
"greenup" provides an important supple-

ment to browse plants on many winter
ranges and · on some ranges provides
almost the only winter food. Moisture in
the fall often means the difference between
marginal and ample food supplies during
the cold months.
Little or no greenup has occurred three
years out of the last five on most eastern
Oregon ranges and deer suffered accordingly.
Predation is another factor influencing
deer populations that has not been
adequately assessed. Present study on the
Steens Mountain indicates 57 percent of
the total fawn loss is caused by coyote
predation. There is always a certain
amount of predation in any deer population. Such predation may become critical
when deer populations are at a low level.
If coyotes take 20 deer from a herd of
100. the effect is more severe than if the
same number of coyotes take 20 deer out of
a herd of 1,000. Predation is thus a more
important factor when deer populations are
low than when they are high.
In some predator-prey relationships the
predators decline if the prey species
population drops. The coyote, h<.nvever,
can eat a huge variety of things so the
coyote populations don't necessarily follow
the fortunes of the deer herds .
There are indications that low populations of buffer species such as rabbits
may increase the predation on other
animals such as deer, and rabbit populations have been low in eastern Oregon the
last few years.
Poor fawn survival has been the biggest
single factor in slowing the recovery of
mule deer herds since the winter of 1968.
And a combination of difficult winter, fall
drought, poor nutrition on many winter
ranges, and the effects of predation on a
depressed population seems to be largely
responsible.
But there is more to the problem than
that. The mule deer decline is not limited
to Oregon. Virtually every western state
has had problems with declining mule deer
herds in recent years.

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Four apply for 1976~11 ·-TORCH Editor

riu111 ,cu w ngm;

Next Monday, May 3, the LCC Media
Commission will inten:iew four candidates
who filed last week prior to deadline for the
1976-77 TORCH Editorship.
Normally 12 people sit on the commission, representing the student body, the
college administration, the classified empployees, and the faculty. TORCH and
"Reflections" [the literary magazine]
editors and advisers are ex-officio members as well.
The four applicants include Mike Riley, a
journalism major from Portlan~ whose
experience includes work this year as a
reporter for the TORCH: Peter Huhtala of
Astoria, who claims English and general
art~ as his major, and who lists experience
with his high school paper and with the
Daily Astorian among his credentials;
Kathleen Monje of Pleasant Hill, a
journalism major currently writing for the
TORCH staff; and Sally Oljar of Portland,
also citing journalism experience and
TORCH reporting and production work on
her application.
Listed below are each journalist's
responses to the topics and questions listed
on the application forms. [I] Explain your
reasons for applying for the editing post;
[2 I Discuss the role of a college
publication and its relationship to various
facets of the college community; [3]
Discuss the makeup and philosophy that
you feel best suited the TORCH.

Riley sees need for
more communication
with all minorities

I am applying or the position of editor on
the TORCH for a couple of reasons. One is
that the idea of being responsible for a
college newspaper intrigues me. Another
is that I have particular feelings about the
way the TORCH has been attacked lately
for failure to understand some of the
current issues behind the feminist movement. I feel that this subject and the way
the TORCH received such a negative
response shows a need for more communication with minorities from all areas.
The role of a college newspaper is to
allow communication between students
and the school. It's entertainment for the
masses and the paper supplies and should
supply information relating to all the
members of Lane Community College. The
TORCH can be an invaluable aid to the
instruction of journalism students and to
students interested in the newspaper
business.
Editorials in the TORCH should be fair
and liberal in my views. It should reflect
on the feelings of the editor and the staff.
Advertising should be fair in any paper,
the TORCH should seek more sources of
advertising. ThP. reasoning behind this is
that with the recent failure of the budget
elections the TORCH is going to have to
work to stay in business, to produce a
paper of as good or better quality than it is
now. This is merely my opinton. As far as

~a11y UIJar, Michael l{tfey, Kathleen Monje. and Peter Huhtala.

the operation of the TORCH goes I see no
need for changes right now.

Monje wants to
continue in pattern of
TORCH improvement
I am applying for the TORCH editorship
for two major reasons: I believe I can
competently fill the position; and I regard it
as an important experience in working
toward professional goals. I have some
skills that I hope will be of benefit in
editing the paper. I have held minor
managerial positions (head waitress and
assistant manager in a restaurant, head
maid or housekeeper for a motel},
organizing the work of employees. During
the present school year I have served as
treasurer for the ASLCC and, as part of this
post, chair the ASLCC Budget and Finance
Committee. I have worked for two terms as
an English ·tutor.
The role of any newspaper is to inform
its community. The TORCH's immediate
community is the college as a· whole, from
the students to the Board of Education, and
this is its first obligation. In a larger sense,
the school is Lane County's community
college; it affects and, especially, is
affected by events outside of the college
insularity. Its students are commuters,
part of the Eugene-Springfield area. What
has impact on students, staff, faculty, and
the school itself, is news.
The TORCH was valuable to me as a part
of Newswriting 1. I think that the
journalism classes benefit the paper,
too--they make available material and
talent. Its basic value to the staff that
produces it is educational.
The tents of good journalism help define
editorial policy. I would hope to have staff
agreement in evaluating news value and
importance.
In the year and three months that I have
attended LCC, I have seen the TORCH
consistently improve; I would like to be
part of that pattern.

Huhtala: college paper

should mirror community
A college newspaper should attempt to
mirror the community it serves. Important
current happenings at the school should be
reported with clarity. Controversial
material should be presented with factual
depth and with reference to the variety of
viewpoints concerned. Features of interest to students, faculty, and the larger
community can enliven the paper if well
selected' and written. Art work, including
poetry, drawings, and photography should
play an integral part in the newspaper
format.
Lane Community College provides The
TORCH with an exciti!lg and challenging
readership. Add to this the attention of

others in the Eugene area, and the
demands on this publication are apparent.
I feel the TORCH is fulfilling its function
quite adequately at present. The issues of
this year show integrity and responsibiltiy.
This is not to say that the responsiveness
and beauty of the paper can not be
improved.
In applying for the position of editor of
the TORCH I bring my experience as
editor-in-chief of my high school pape!" in
Astoria, The Astor Post. During my last
year of high school I published a collection
of my poetry. I've attended Clatsop
Community College and worked there at
the offset printing center. I've spent
several years as a cabinet maker. For an
eight month period during 1972-73 I lived
at and managed The House of Many Ways,
a sort of contact center serving residents
and travelers in Clatsop County.
I am aware of the techniques of
journalism. I have worked with a wide
range of people. As a student of the arts
I've widened my appreciation for the
spectrum of human endeavor. I would
welcome the chance to apply my knowledge, skills, and insight by serving as
e9itor of the student newspaper at a
school I truly respect.

Oljar: "objectivity
and clear rational
judgement"

I believe that all people have a right to
know about the situations that affect their
lives, and that no individual can make an
intelligent decision unless they have all the
facts before them I do not underestimate
the intelligence or • 'common sense''
approach of people even though their
education may be limited. I believe each
possesses an individual judgement that has
the ability to weigh facts and make
decisions.
This is a newspaper's function and main
objective - to print all the news and a
balanced coverage of the news on all sides
of any issue. This is why I want to be a
journalist; to present the news for people,
to educate their minds, and foster
independent minds that make rational and
well thought judgements.
An editor must be able to evaluate the
news and its importance on the lives of her
readers. She must be sure that her
reporters have accurate information and
balanced coverage.
S-h e bears the
responsibility for presenting two sides of
an issue equally while being careful to limit
her personal opinion to the editorial page.
If a reporter makes a mistake, the editor is
responsible. This is why she must possess
a clear, rational judgement, a keen
perceptive·ness into facts, and a feeling for
what the. news is and how it should be
presented. She must be able to know she is
. right, and stand by her reporters and her
paper in any situation.

photo by Linda Alaniz
To do this the editor must have a strict
integrity, a sound and intelligent mind,
and a strong character. Although she may
not agree with many of the issues she is
confronted with, she must be able to say,
as Voltaire did, "I do not agree with what
you say, but I defend to the death your
right to say it." This is the principle of a
free press, and also, I think, the first
premise of the TORCH.
I am applying for the editorship because
I believe in this principle and I wish to see
it continue in practice·. I have my own
views on almost everything. but I believe 1
posess a rational mind that operates on the
premise "present all sides" and I will be
careful to do this. In my own mind I try
never to make a decision until I have seen
all sides and weighed the alternatives.
I think the TORCH is a good newspaper.
I think the TORCH can be a better
newspaper. I am dedicated to making it
one, and if I am chosen for the editorship,
my first and most important responsibility
will be to see that the TORCH is the best
community college newspaper around. I
have no doubt that it is and will continue to
be. I' vc . worked hard this year for the
TORCH and have loved every minute of it.
What I bring to the position is lots of
energy, a constant willingness to learn new
and better ways to present news, the
ability to make decisions that I will stand
by, the strength of my own convictions,
and a firm belief in objective news and fair
reporting of the news.
The main reading audience of the
TORCH are students, and because of that,
I think the paper should be directed toward
students and the issues that affect them.
Although the faculty and administration
make up a large part of LCC, I believe the
TORCH should serve students first. What
affects the students is different from the
concern of the faculty and· administration.
I do not mean to say that the TORCH
should ignore the faculty or administration.
I think both groups are important to
students since any decision made will
ultimately affect them.
The differences between faculty/administration and students are many.
Different ages, financial status, politics
and philosophy. I feel the students should
have a newspaper they can use. For
example, I would like to have more writers
who could write columns on health,
housing, community services, etc.
As an instructional aid it is invaluable. I
feel that the same standard of newspaper
operation that apply to a large daily
newspaper like the Register-Guard also
apply t0o. the TORCH. If an individual
majors in journalism he or she should have
practical experience in their future career
and I think the TORCH suoolies that
experience. I know it has for me, and I
have never experienced anything but a
positive attitude on the parts of the staff
and advisor. I would like to have lots of
reporters, for them to learn their craft, and
for the TORCH to have more comprehensive coverage.

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Young millionai res: a growing industry
(CPS)Ken Brown, college dropout , lives
in a $250 ,000 house in Scottsdale, Arizon~
that looks an awful lot like a Taco Bell
outlet and serves as home base for a
chimp, four horses, three dogs , several slot
machines , Gloria Swanson's old Rolls
Royce and a flock of chickens. His wife of
several years recently flew the coop and his
pet lion died in January , but for
companionship, Brown need only dip into
his ever-present briefcase to ring up a
friend on his portable phone.
Some people might consider Ken Brown
eccentric. That is open to debate , but one
thing is certain--Ken Brown is mighty rich.
So rich, in fact, that this year alone he will
gross a cool $3.5 million to add to his
already substantial fortune of $2 million in
net assets. Often working 20-hour days
and taking few vacations, Ken Brown is
certainly different but one of the mo~t
different things about him is that he is only
31 years old--and rich.
• ' 'The fear of being a failure is what
drives me," Brown recently told Money
magazine . "Money is just a way of
keeping score.''
Brown, who made most of his fortune by
selling motorcycles and organizing cycle
shows. is a member of one of America's
biggest growth industries: young millionaires. The number of young Americans
under 35 years who put their worth in the
seven-figure category jumped from 2,400
in 1962 to 14,500 in 1972--an astounding
500 percent increase according to James
Smith. a Pennsylvania State University
economist who studies patterns of wealth.
Overall, there were 133,400 millionaires in
this country in 1972, an increase of 144
percent in the previous decade.
Sociologists who study people and
money say the self-made young millionaires are mostly white Protestants who
jumped from the middle class, loners by
disposition and greedy in outlook. ''They

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outsized ambitions and capacities to by baking heir George Pillsbury. operates to subsidize people who are trying to
work,'' one executive recruiter told Money. from Cambridge, Mass. and rich kids in change the system and get rid of people
"You have to be obsessed with money to Los Angeles and Santa Fe, New Mexico like us."
Getting rid of one of the world's largest
make big m~rney," added a Boston have also expressed interest in forming
groups similar to the Vanguard outfit, fortunes has been a thorn in the sides of
sociologist who also studies wealth.
Many of them made their fortunes in mainly as a way of dealing with the many of the 21 Rockefeller cousins, the
great grandchildren of John D. himself. As
such modern fields as computers, electron- responsibility and guilt of having all that
ics and land development, financial experts money in the first place. "J felt very Peter Collier and David Horowitz explain in
say , pointing out that the old way to uncomfortable when I first got my money,•· a new book, The Rockefellers , the cousins.
wealth, such as starting a major heavy Obie Benz, heir to a food company fortune who range in ideology from Marxists to
industry like John D. Rockefeller or Henry and founder of Vanguard admitted to the spitting images of their fathers, have
wrestled with the dubious honor of being a
Ford, is all but dead. Playing the stock Wall Street Journal.
Benz says rich young people all across Rockefeller for several years with mixed
market is still very much alive, however.
While many of the young nouveau riche the country are devising ways to spread results. The activists among them have
are self-starters like Brown , the son of a around the wealth and create what they set up their own foundations, initiate d
Chicago dentist who also dabbled in used feel is a more equal society. He has been "alternative corporations" and argued
cars, many of them have received their meeting for two years with about 20 other about social responsibility with their more
bucks through the lucky but time-honored wealthy Americans between the ages of 21 conservative leaning cousins at grea t
and 35 who are also interested in length.
method of inheritance.
Marion, another daughter of Lauran ce
The young inheritors--heirs and heires- philanthropy--albeit a different brand ot
ses to fortunes with names like Rockefeller. philanthropy than their parents are used who lives in an old caboose in Northern
Levi-Strauss and J.C. Penny--appear to be to. "My father's idea of charity is giving California on $700 a month, has come up
a different breed of·fat cat than those like money to the Republicans," quips one with her own solution . " The fortun e
should be made extinct, states Marion,
Brown who hail from more humble Vanguard member.
The irony of trying to change society who has a $10 million trust fund waiting for
backgrounds. Their problem is not
acquiring money but rather giving it away. with money made in the grand robber her in Uncle David's Chase Manhattan
In San Francisco, a young band of 16 baron tradition is not lost on these young, Bank. ''I hope the social revolution will
heirs has for four years operated the rich philanthropists. "It's hard to get rid come soon and take away from us th e
Vanguard Foundation, a philanthropic of the money in a way that does more good necessity of having to deal with it. "
institution which specializes in doling out than harm," explains a daughter of
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In its first four years, the Vanguard
Foundation has given away nearly two- •
hundred thousand dollars. The average
grant is only $2,000 and members of
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One student died
from Hepatitis
One out of every 97 hepatitis
patients dies.
by _
Lynda Jackson
The Chronister family and some of Terry Chronister's friends had taken over
the waiting room of the intensive care ward. From as far as Canada and New
York, 15 people gathered on the fourth floor of Sacred Heart Hospital, waiting
their turn to spend a few minutes with Terry.
The former LCC st;.ident was transferred from Valley Lane Hospital f iv£ days
before, after she started slipping into a coma. Four days later the doctors
thought she was getting better. But today, Friday, the most vivacious and
energetic member of the Chronister family was quietly slipping away.
Greg got up from the couch and walked towards Terry's room. He picked up a
sterile gown and wrapped it around his body, tied a paper mask across his
mouth, and put on a pair of plastic gloves. Then he walked into the isolation
room and sat down next to his friend's bed.
Kathy (Terry's sister) was inside, taking off her mask and gloves. She balled
them up in her hand and threw them into the waste basket. Turning, she walked
over to the window, removed her gown, and dumped it into a separate basket
that stood beneath the glass. Then she proceeded to the sink and scrubbed up
with antibacterial soap.
Finally, she slipped quietly out of the room, but stopped at another basin just
outside the door. Pie.king up the soap the young woman scrubbed again, dried
her hands, then walked towards the others in the waiting room.
A night nurse padded down the hall and slowed in front of room 405. She
pushed the door softly and stopped short--this time there were 11 people
crowded around Terry Chronister's bed, each cuddling her or touching her in
some way.
" I' m sorry," she started, "but you can't have this many people in here. It's
against hospital pol icy."
Terry's father looked up from behind his mask. "Yes, I understand that this is
your hospital. But it's our girl."
''I' 11 have to tel I my superior about this.''
''Go right ahead." Glenn Chronister could care less about hospital policy.
His 21 year old daughter was dying -of hepatitis, -a disease, which, in Terry's
case, completely destroyed her liver.
Terry Chronister was part of the small percentage of people--less than one per
cent--who die of hepatitis, and one of the 80 per cent who die when their liver
reaches the fulmination [deterioration] stage, according to reports from a recent
nursing conference in Lansing, Michigan. For the Chronister family it was one
~oo many.
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"The .other day I went to the (LCC) Health Services because I had a bladder
infection," says Kathy. "I mentioned to Dr. Glass that, even though I didn't
think so, there was a small chance that I could have hepatitis. I told him my
sister had died from it about three months ago. You know what he said? 'Was
she a junkie? ' ''
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Kathy 's boyfriend , Greg Smith, relates a similar incident. "At one time I was
around some friends that were shooting up. I knew that some of them had
hepatitis and , although I wasn 't shooting, I decided to go to the doctor to have
myself checked . All I told him was that I wanted to be checked for hepatitis.
The doctor didn 't say anythir1g , he grabbed my arm and shoved up my sleeve.
" They just automatically think that if you have hepatitis you 're a junkie," he
says .

Why they quit:
This week the TORCH
looks at the personnel
turnover in
Printing and Graphics
with the second in a
series of stories

by Scott Stuart

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Nan Dixon likes her new job with School
District 4-J. No two days are alike for her.
She writes news releases, works with the
press, the district superintendent and staff
at all school levels, and has written a
handbook for Eugene public schools. She
enjoys working with happy, pleasant
people whom she respects.
But Nan Dixon was not always happy at
her work. As a typesetter in LCC's
Printing and Graphics Shop department
she says she found the work boring as hell.
Why did Nan Dixon and several other
employees in the Printing and Graphics
shop quit their jobs?
, For Dixon, the primary reason was that
she found a better job. But she feels that if
she had been happy with her old job she
would not have looked for another.
"I was not happy with the manager in
the department," says Dixon, "he was an
artistic, creative person who did not deal
effectively with people.''
Dixon adds that Don Johnson, then
manager of Printing and Graphics , did not
make her feel like she was doing a good
job , even though she felt that she was.
Dixon feels that although she is making
twice the money at her new job, all the
mone y in the world will not give her
self-satisfaction unless she knows she's
helping someone.

Any health book will tell you that junkies contract hepatitis easily because of
the widespread use of contaminated needles. But what most books don't
emphasize is that hepatitis can be spread a number of ways, and according to
Je.3nnette Bobst, Communicable Disease Coordinator for the Lane County
Health Department, there have been occasional incidents where hepatitis has
been traced back to hospitals where there was a failure of proper sterilization of
instruments. These instruments include anything that comes in contact with the
blood.
Blood transfusions themselves are a cause of the spread of the disease. Although screening processes are used on blood donors, it is still common for a
donor to be an undetected carrier of the virus.
No one knows how Terry contracted hepatitis. There are so many variables
and so little evidence about the disease that her doctors will never be sure. She
was good friends with a man (Charlie) who had chronic hepatftis, but doubts still
remain about the communicability of a chronic carrier. Medical opinion is
divided on the possibility of transmission by a chronic person.
More than likely transmission was probably by means of the fecal-oral route.
This is a sort of ''social'' transmission, and occurs among people in close contact
with each other (families for instance), or in public places--especially restaurants
and other eating facilities. The virus leaves the body through the urine and the
stool. There's a good chance that it's transferred to a person's hands. So if a
person with hepatitis doesn't wash his or her hands after using the toilet, the
disease can be easily spread to anything the carrier touches. This is dangerous
when he handles food or any object brought in contact with the mouth.
It 's through this fecal-oral route that hepatitis is potentially epidemic; all you
need is one infected cook in a restaurant and he or she could possibly spread it to
every customer in the house.

Even sexual intercourse is a possible route of transmission, and, depending on
an individual's sexual permissiveness, oral sex could be a means of fecal-oral
transmission.
"We don't know what type of relationship Terry was having with Charlie,"
says K~thy now, reflecting. "But he could have given it to her whether they
were friends or lovers. All he had to do was cook dinner for her and she could
have gotten it that way.
''Now they're saying that you can get hepatitis from infected saliva. If that's
the case then even if they just kissed each other, he could have given it to her.
So how do you know? Every medical authority says something different about
hepatitis. She might not have even gotten it from Charlie ... they still don't
know if a chronic person can transmit it. ''
Recent findings are even more frightening than that. At the March 31 , 1976
nursing conference in Lansing, Michigan, which dealt with care of patients with
liver diseases, reports revealed that not only can hepatitis be transmitted
through saliva; urine and feces, but also through perspiratio11, mucus,
semen--any body excretion.
Furthermore, the report said that antigens-antibody-inducing substances
which form against the virus-are carried by many people who never shown
symptoms of the disease. This is dangerous because in order for the antigens to
form, the virus must first be present in the body. Consequently, the person who
has hepatitis antigens, but shows no symptoms of the disease may be contagious
without even knowing it.

When medical science talks
about commurlicability, they
tal_k about what they _, think is
comm unicabi Iity.
The difference between chronic hepatitis and active hepatitis is basically one
of the symptoms. A chronic carrier appears healthy, whereas with active hep a
person will show signs of the disease--fever, chills, nausea, abdominal pain, and
brown urine and jaundice at the peak stage.
In both cases, hepatitis may be one of two different types: Type A, or
infectious, and Type B, or serum. There is no test to detect infectious (Type A)
hepatitis; doctors assume that a patient has Type A when his tests are negative
for Type Band he has all the symptoms of the disease. Researchers don't know
if a chronic state with Type A exists, mainly because it can 't be tested.
Terry didn't know she had hepatitis until her friend Katie got it , and thought
she might have given it to Terry.
"Terry had felt sick off and on," remembers Kathy. " She had occasional
backaches and felt tired a lot, but she didn't think much about it--her symptoms

"My. .boss says to me every day, 'You
were so helpful today.' ·No one ever did
•that at LCC. '' And according to Dixon,
"That makes a big difference."
Pat Wilson began working at LCC in
1966 and quit her job at LCC's Printing and
Graphics in 1972. But she came back this
January. She feels that the atmosphere is
relaxed now and there are no hassles.
Working conditions are more stable and
the work is getting done.
When she worked in Printing and
Graphics before, she says she felt like just
another piece of machinery. Wilson
explains that people in the department
would do their jobs well but when a
customer picked up an order , it was
Johnson who got the thanks, the credit, but
he never related any gratitude back to the
people who did the work.
Wilson feels that there was no communication.. She says she tried to talk with
Johnson but claims just ended up walking
away , shaking her head, feeling like her
words had just bounced off him. It was a
tense situation, says Wilson , you could see
the static in the air when you came to work.
She describes Johnson's management
techniques as almost dictatorial.
''It just came down to asking more of
people in an eight hour day than they can
give.''

Things are different now. Wilson now
has time for lunch. She can now come out1
from the press room and chit-chat in the
office. She now enjoys LCC.
Don Johnson hired Claudette LaPointe
as a press operator in July of 1975. She
thought he seemed a little pushy as a
manager. She realized she had come into a
strange situation and that Johnson was
having problems with a lot of his
employees, but LaPointe had a problem of
her own.
"You felt like you weren't a human
being," says LaPointe, "like you were a
machine." According to LaPointe , Johnson didn't have much compassion for his
people while they worked so his people
left.
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It was the high rate of personnel
turnover that prompted Keith Harker ,
Associate Dean of the Learning Resourc
Center, to suspend Johnson, pending aa
investigation of his managerial practices .
According to Harker , in a period of fo
months nine people left from an area wher(
six people were employed. Of the nine
one was fired and one worked only one day
Of the other seven, Harker feels they left
because of internal problems in some waY,
coming from Don Johnson, the manager ir
that area.

varied and they were periodic. The tlu was going around then, and she had just
turned 21 so she was partying and drinking quite a bit.
'' Around the end of November Katie and her brother were leaving for Hawaii,
so the three of them went out drinking before they left. Three oays later Katie
called Terry from Hawaii and told her that she had infectious hepatitis and that
Terry should go to the doctor just to make sure she didn't have it."
The co-ed did go to the doctor, but the outcome was different than anyone
expected. A week later the results came back stating that Terry had serum
hepatitis, not infectious like that of her friend.
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''We were kind of dismayed when we found out she had serum,'' says Kat-hy,
thinking back. "But our knowledge of the disease was limited. Death didn't
even enter our minds--we'd never heard of anyone dying of hepatitis."
The Lane County Health Department started searching for clues to the source
of her virus. First, they looked towards Ken Brownell, the director of LCC's
Food Services who had come down with serum hepatitis approximately five
weeks earlier.

for dinner on New Year's Day. It seemed like she was getting better, then she
wasn't getting better at all. It all happened so damn fast."
On Jan. 6, Terry was admitted to Valley Lane Hospital. The doctors told her to
eat sweets because they stayed on her stomach better, but it was still hard to
keep anything down
''They put her on IV (intravenous feeding--in the vein) because she couldn't
retain anything in her storriach. But she was feeling good enough to read; she
liked historical novels, so I went to the library and picked up some books for her.
She never did get to finish them.
"I talked to her every day, at least on the phone. Her veins kept collapsing
from the IV; the doctor would take it out, then he kept putting it back in--in her

elbow wrist the back of her hand--anywhere he could."
' ' By Sund~y she was in a Jot of pain. They were giving ·her oxyf}fan and ice
packs. Then the next day she started getting comatose . .. that's when they
transferred her to Sacred Heart.
'' Rick and Eddie, two of Terry's old friends, came to the hospital late Monday

Terry's eyes flickered, she
was probably blind.
I was
very angry--1 could feel death
like a person in the room, and
I felt like I wanted to hunt it
down and kill it!

The communicable period for hep is roughly two weeks before diagnosis and
two weeks after. During this critical time Brownell had come in direct contact
with food only once, when he had helped prepare a dinner for members o! an
Executive Session of the Board of Education. All members [except one] present
at the meeting ate dinner, .: including a cook and a waitress who also worked for
LCC Food Services, and two members of the press.
At that time Jeannette Bobst didn't feel the incident warranted Food Services
closure, but stressed that everyone should observe stringent cleanliness habits.
The Health Department re-investigated Brownell's case when they learned
about Terry, but couldn't find any evidence that linked her with the Food
$ervices: nor could they find anything that might show that Terry and Brownell
c.,'Qntracted the virus from the same origin.
Bobst explains that "since the incubation period is so long (50 to 180
days--over twice that of Type A), it's hard to trace so far back and find the
source. Plus, We're not even sure yet of all the ways it can be transmitted."
Bobst also got in touch with Charlie's doctor. "Charlie was under regular
medical care," says Bobst, "and his physician said that he always stressed to
Charlie the possibility of communicability."
This warning to be cautious may not have been enough for Charlie and Terry.
When medical science talks about communicability, they talk about what they

night , and the three of us and mom went in to see Terry. She talked when we got
there, she was happy to see her friends. She said 'Who's that guy?' and was
laughing . We stayed for about 30 or 45 minutes, and when we left she said 'See
y.ou tomorrow' . . . That was the last time that she seemed really awake.''
Kattly started calling her brothers and sisters and some of Terry's friends.
She couldn't get in touch with her brother in New York City, so she called the .
New York Police Department and got them to go-to his address and give him her
message.
All that week friends and family were arriving from Ganada. Their father flew
in from a business trip in Albequerque, and her brother arrived from New York.
Kathy remembers that, ''It seemed like something was wrong with everybody's
car, and we were running to the airport, or the hospital, trying to share cars and
take care of everything at the same time. It was a huge mish-mash of stuff, a
huge a.wf ul kaleidoscope.
''By this time Terry wasn't very conscious : She kept saying that she wanted to
leave, that-she was uncomfortable. She was hooked up to a catheter, an IV, and
had tubes throuqh her nose that were dripping medication into her stomach."
On Thursday and Friday the doctors took a "bilirubin" count--a blood test
which measures the products of the liver's metabolism, and an antigen count, a
test used to measure an antibody-inducing substance that forms against the
virus. Both were going down, which is normally a good sign. But for Terry it
meant that her liver had deteriorated, and her arteries were pumping blood into
her stomach. The doctor told the family that only a miracle could save her.
"Friday evening, my mom was in with .Terry, and she called us into the
room ... Terry's eyes flickered, she was probably blind . .I was very angry--1
could feel death like a person in the room, and I felt like I wanted to hunt it down
and ki II it. Then the nurses came in and said that some of us had 10 •leave.
I remember there was another nursedhat 'had been taking care of Terry, too.
She told her to leave us alone.
"Some of us left so others could come in; there wasn't much room in-there.
We took over the waiting room, we sat there joking and being silly. We were
talking and trying nt>t to be--1 don't know--1 guess we were all praying that Terry
wouldn't die.
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"I felt like I better get back in there so I gowned up. Gayle and my mother and
I were in there when she died. She seemed to be fighting it--she was breathing
hard and then she finally gave up ... she fought it every bit of the way."
Kathy purses her lips and looks down at the matchbook she is fiddling with.
"Then everybody came in when ~he was dead. It was like everybody just sort of
came.
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'' A nurse came in and asked us to leave so she could take out the tubes. When
we all left, the basket was stacked so high with gowns you couldn't even see out
the window."
Wasn ' t there anything you could have done?
' 'The doctors said no matter what she did she would have died of hepatitis.
It's a dangerous disease that they hardly know anything about--sometimes
medical opinion about it ..differs even from doctor to doctor. It 's a dang~rous,
stupid disease . . . ''

It seemed like she was getting
better, then she wasn't
getting •better at all.
It all
happened so damn fast.
think is communicability.
Another possible means of transmission could have been children. According
to Laura Oswalt, LCC Health Services coordinator, hepatitis affects kids just like
a cold until they're six or seven years old, but the disease is still communicable.
"We assumed that maybe Ken's "(Brownell) children contracted it at the day
care center they went to," she explains. Terry, too, was involved with children.
A psychology major at LCC, she liked being involved with kids, and during the
early part of last fall was helping take care of children in a privately owned,
state-certified shelter home.

At the time of her diagnosis Terry was-living on the coast. "She had dropped
out of school about two or three weeks before,'' her older sister remembers.
' 'We gave her a hard time about it, but she said that she didn't feel Iike she was
doing as well as she should be.
"She moved to the coast and lived alone in her friend's apartment, sewing
clothes and getting them ready to sell at the Saturday Market. So sh_e was
already being quite quiet. Terry had stopped drinking when Katie told her she
might have hepatitis. The possibility of having it made her quit."
VVhen the test results turned up positive, a good friend of the family went out
to the coast to get Terry. She brought her back to her parents house in Pleasant
Hill, where sh~ stayed until she went into the hospital.
Her doctor immediately put her on a diet of eggs and milk, starch, fruit, and
vegetables. He told her to stay away from animal protein.
"Terry followed the diet very carefully," says Kathy, "and she laid around
and slept a lot. I remember on Christmas day she got up with us to open
presents, but she was very tired.
"The diet did make her feel better, along with the vitamins she was taking.
She went shopping with mom after Christmas, and she came over to my house

According to Johnson. he was notified on
Oct. 23, 1975 that he was on suspension,
and on Oct. 24 was told to clean out his
office.
Johnson feels that a suspension is a time
to stop and evaluate, but he was surprised
that he was removed from the job entirely.
Harker says that he suspended Johnson
to remove him from a volatile personnel
situation.
"I thought it was kind of funny," says
Johnson, "I was amused because there
no indication that my management was
that poor. I knew that some of the people
were not happy with some of the decisions
I'd made in the past, but that's part of
being a manager. ' '
LaPointe stayed-on after Johnson was
suspended . She says that people thought
the problem would be solved and ,
according to LaPointe , it seemed like some
sort of pressure was released. But at the
same time it seemed like there was no
backbone to the place, she admits.
"We were all left hanging , " says
LaPointe , "no one seemed to know for sure
what they were supposed to do."
LaPointe eventually left because she felt
she was being treated unfairly. She found
out that another press operator was getting
paid more than she for doing what she felt
wa~ the same amount of work. She says

she talked to Keith Harker and talked to
Evelyn Tennis, president of the classified
union, but it seemed like no one was
listening.
Claudette LaPointe found a new job as a
press operator. She says now the people
she works for let her know when she is
doing a good job. They have compassion,
LaPointe says. "I can make suggestions
and feel like a somebody, instead of a
nobody.''
During his suspension, Johnson stayed
at home, collected his pay, spent time with
his son and worked on his house. He was
confident he would be retained. He says
that he could see no reason that he would
not b_e brought back to his job at LCC.
Rose Wenetta quit her job as a
typesetter in Printing and Graphics too.
But she quit because of the disorganization
after Johnson was suspended. She feels
that after Johnson left, nothing was
clicking. Before Johnson left, according to
Wenetta, she always had something to do,
was always busy. She explains that when
Johnson left , Harker took over.
' '1 was shocked to find out that someone
who was a good manager was gone in a day
and the new manager didn't seem to know
what was going on," says Wenetta.
Wenetta feels that when Johnson was
manager there was a competitive atmos-

phere in which she felt important. When
Johnson left, according to Wenetta, people
seemed to feel that they were going to get
paid no matter what, so why work hard.
On Nov. 7, 1975, Johnson submitted an
official grievance with Harker as provided
for in the Management Administrative
Procedures Personnel Guide.
It was Johnson 's contention that Harker
suspended him for failure to resolve
personnel problems resulting in two
resignations and one intent to resign in a
three week period during October of 1975.
Johnson says that he had no knowledge
of specific problems because, as far as he
knew, no one had submitted a written
grievance, there were no written comments
from the staff, and according to Johnson,
no negative comments in his personnel
file.

Harker's official response to Johnson's
grievance was , "I do not support your
request.''
Brian Lawrence quit his job at LCC as an
Audio-Visual Production Technician, a
position in the Learning Resources--not in
Printing and Graphics, which is located in
the Center basement in the same rooms.
He feels that the whole problem was one of
honest communication and understan5iing,
but not on the part of Don Johnson. - iawrence quit because of his feelings about the

college administration. He says Johnson 's
management and the rest of LCC's
mana_gement practices were at odds.
"What existed in Audio-Visual and
Printing and Graphics was put together by
the guts of Phil Robley (Audio-Visual
specialist) and Don Johnson . . What they
built was a complex, within a bureaucracy,
that dealt with things in an industrial
manner."
And Johnson says, " Let's face it, I run a
pretty tight ship. I got on people for being
late and expected eight hours work. and
I'm proud of it."
According to Lawrence, Johnson ran
Printing and Graphics the way a print
shop is run out in the real world wh~re
people have to compete to survive. He
feels that some people who were used to
the Alice-In-Wonderland way things are
usually done at LCC could not work in the
type of competitive industrial environment
Johnson created in Printing and Graphics,
an environment that was alien to the
bureaucracy at LCC. Lawrence feels that
alien environment was smothered because
the college bureaucracy failed to support it.
"People got their jobs done," says
Lawrence, "but people didn't get compensated. It's not the money, it's the feeling
you get when you know you 're getting

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Student protest decreases as representation increases
(CPS)Some people say the protest of the
sixties gave way to the apathy of the
seventies and cite the mood on campus as
the perfect example. Although some
colleges can muster enough students
together for a convincing show of force on
tuition increases, few schools are hotbeds
of action for more student power. Student
power, it seems, has been lost to the
scramble for jobs.
But working within the bureaucracy for
more student influence over the university
adm1nistration, many students have won
places for themselves on the school's
governing boards. And statistics indicate
that the impetus to provide a chair for
students at the regents round table is
increasing.
At last count in 1974, at least 20 states
had student members on their governing
boards at public colleges and universities.
About seven of those states allowed thier
student members to have full voting
power. About seven others allowed their
students to participate in the decision-making process only until it wa:; time to vote.
The remaining states permitted student
representatives to serve on committees but
not to attend full-scale governance meetings.
But the struggle for more student

representation on these boards continues
in earnest. A bill now before the West
Virginia state legislature creates a nonvoting seat on the state's Board of Regents
for a student to be appointed by the
governor. Although members of the West
Virginia legislature thought they were
acting progressively by putting a student in
an advisory capacity to the regents, many
students believe it only goes halfway.
''The Board of Regents is afraid students
and faculty would take over if they receive
voting rights," said one West Virginia
student body president. ''This is unfounded." Without the vote, he added, the
bill is a waste of paper.
Since in 1972 "sense of Congress·'
resolutio·n which was passed at the same
time as the Higher Education Act, more
states have been considering the idea of
putting students to work at governance.
Congress had indicated that the governing
boards of public institutions should
reassess their representation of students
and many states even went so far as to
mandate student participation in governance.
But seating those students on boards
and giving them full voting powers has
been a slow process. Many university
administrators believe that students represent a special interest group and would be
incapable of voting on crucial issues as

representatives of society's best interests.
Furthermore, critics of student representation say. Students aren't around long
enough to become effective members who
can view the university's problems in the
long run.
'' A student is transient, usually immature and not too knowledgeable," said
one opponent of students having votes on
governing boards.
Finally there is no point in trying to
appoint a true representative of students
because students are such a diverse group.
But advocates of student regents argue
that the decisions of the governing boards
significantly affect the stude_nts at the
school. Adding the student voice to
regent's discussions would provide regents
with a better idea of how students will react
to their decisions.
Where students have failed to seat one
of their own representatives on their
college's governing board, other tactics to
keep the regents responsive to students
have been tried. Several students at the
University of Nebraska have initiated a
campaign to drum out four members of
that school's Board of Regents. The leader
of the group complained that regents were
just not concerned or sympathetic to the
needs of the students after the board
rejected revisions of visitation and alcohol
policies for on-campus housing.

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by Arthur Hoppe
Jimmy Carter's blown it. He has
publicly admitted that he is emotional1y
involved with God.
As a result of a religious experience in
1967, he told a press conference last week,
"I formed a very close, intimate, personal
relationship with God, through Christ, that
has given me a great deal of peace,
equanimity and the ability to accept
difficulty without unnecessarily being
disturbed.''
This statement demonstrates Mr. Carter's provincialism. He simply doesn't
understand the sacred relationship
between God and the American politician.
It is perfectly acceptable for politicians to
say they believe in God. (In fact, this is a
requirement for high office.) But if a
politician is emotionally committed to a
religious belief, he is expected to keep such
embarrassing tendencies in the closet
where they belong.

***

Over the years, the rules for dealing with
God have become widely accepted by all
successful politicians. The first thing you
must remember as a politician is that God
is always on your side.
In the case of outright war between
nations, this good news may be shouted
from the housetops. "With God on our
side, we cannot lose!" politicians on both
sides invariably say.
When it comes to legislation, God is on
your side, but he may not be paying
attention. You may mention this depending on the type of legislation involved.
For example, "With God's help, we wil1
pass my anti-discrimination bill" is
perfectly permissible. On the other hand,
"With God's help, we will increase postal
rates" might raise eyebrows.
As a candidate, you must pretend you
don't know whose side God's on. In
predicting victory, it's always good to add a
modest, sincere, "God willing," but only if
you 're running for high office. Any
suggestion that God might be interested in
the race would be presumptuous coming
from a candidate for county coroner_
Oddly enough, every politician may and
should tell God what to do as often as
possible. "God bless you" is a fine way to
end a speech, if not said too ferv~ntly. And
"God bless America!" may be said as
fervently as you wish.

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So poor Mr. Carter. What can he do?
He certainly can't retract his intemperate
remarks. And if he says he was drunk,
he'l1 lose the votes of the few Southern
Baptists who are still with him.
Well, that's what happens to true
Christians when they come out of the
closet. They get crucified.
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Lauris'
Tempest
Doth
Prosper(O)
A review by Melody Gore
photos by Max Gano
At 8:08.20 p.m. Friday in Lane's Duke (Prospero) who schemes (justifiably) up his magic to resume his reign as Duke of
Performing Arts Center, the medieval to overthrow his usurping brother Milan.
mu s ic stopped, replaced by an eerie Antonio (Richard Sc.heeland) and coTime Winters as Prospero looks
moaning flourish as Prospero (Time conspirators to regain his dukedom. How- tremendous and does a superb job of being
Winters) came forth to conjure a mystic ever, this story of Machiavellian intrigue both a sovereign and a father at the same
storm. The curtain opened and 3 / 4 occurs on a magic island inhabited by time. I especially enjoyed his warning to
capacity audience gasped audibly at first Prospero, his daughter Miranda (Emily Ferdinand (his son-in-law to be) regarding
view of David Sherman's magnificently lit Phelps), a son-of-a-witch Caliban (Roger • pre-nuptial fooling around with Miranda
set. Already the audience was caught in Reid) and Prospero's servant spirit Ariel ··If thou dost break her virgin knot before
the spell of the show. and I knew at that (Kelly Ray). A number of other spirits are all sanctimonious ceremonies ... no sweet
instant I was about to witness something temporary residents.
apersion shall the heavens let fall . . . "
very special. I was right.
Winters is a low-key Prospero which is a
George Lauris'. or rather William
Through luck and magic Prospero real plus, avoiding the temptation of trying
Shakespeare's, " TEMPEST" is full of beaches his sailing enemies and company to overpower the audience. Instead he
magic and fun - it's wonderfully beautiful, on his shores and proceeds to show them . makes us meet him halfway. Very nice.
a trifle bawdy and is certain to delight even the error of their ways. All this happily
As shore-crossed lovers Emily Phelps
the most skeptical spectator.
results in forgiveness, a mate for Miranda, and Jim Read bring Miranda and FerdinBasically. it is the story of a banished and a return to normal'as Prospero gives and into happy infatuation very convincingly. which is tribute to either their acting
ability or the genuine affection they share.
In either event it's quite lovely and
believable .
Trying to single out the cream of the rest
is like being handed a Whitman's Sampler,
you don't know what to pick first. For
simplicity I'll handle the characters
alphabetically.
Kelly Ray's Ariel is the liveliest and
most endearing stage creation since Peter
Pan. He's everywhere at once, nimbly
causmg trouble for a good end. Ray has
captured the naughty little boy in us all.
You wouldn't know whether to spank or
hug him if you managed to catch him.
Caliban played by Roger Reid is next in
line and I found his performance bitter and
delicious at the same time. Tremendously
costumed (and uncostumed) he is
grotesque yet vaguely erotic, half-ma!1
half-fish. David and Linda Sherman found
the perfect mannequin for their creation.
Reid's gravel voice perfectly suits his
tortured presence. Caliban is a true
beneficiary of outstanding set design, as
his entrances and exits astound.
Stephano (Dale Brabb) and Trinculo
(Tom Major) are the Two Stooges of this
story. Stephano is the classic braggart and
is as drunk as Trinculo the jester is silly.
It's the age-old irony of the fool being less

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fooltsh than his betters. Brabb and Major
team up with Caliban for some of the
funniest moments of the show.
Qt-her highlight performances include
(Jim Bradford's) Gonzalo (a kindly pantaloon) and Richard Scheeland's Antonio
(the back-stabbing usurper). The playing
of the smaller roles is equally well done
and the spirits and sprites are a joy.
Tremendous lighting, original music by
Susan Greig and Barbara Myrick add depth
and continuity to "Tempest.·• The
performers and crew are worthy of
standing room only audiences. although
they were undimmed by the less than full
house they deserved. Standing room
would be in short supply though, since the
production doesn't limit itself to the stage
proper. They utilize all accessible areas of
the theater, including doorway, aisle and
(at the risk of reveal~ng a surprise) the
force of gravity is no limitation.
Some very special special-effects put the
icing on this uniquely exciting production.
There are some truly awing visual effects
aside from the domed revolving set.
Three magicians wet·e consulted for input
to make it technically perfect. Plans are
underway to video-tape portions of the
show for posterity.
In defense of sounding too praising, I
have two criticisms. On opening night
something went wrong with the sound
system at a critical point in Act Three
which was terribly distracting. And what's
more, the tempest Prospero conjured in the
opening was still raging outdoors when the
show was over. I got soaked walking to my
car.
There is a student performance of
"Tempest" tonight (April 28) at 8 p.m.
Additional regular performances are
tomorrow through Saturday. Publicity
posters designed by Dick Reid are on sale
in the lobby for one dollar and make a
memorable souvenier. Tickets cost three
dollars and can be obtained by calling
747-4559. This perfect melding of theater
elements is rare indeed. It would be
criminal to miss it! !

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ReviewbyMaxGano

Mithrandir does battle

If you've got it, you've got it. The next
step, if you're an o-n-stage band, is to get it
to the audience.
The push beat, shuffle sweet rhythms of
Mithrandir did just that during its
performance in the cafeteria here at Lane
last Wednesday. In another "a-littlemusic-to-eat-your-lunch-by concert" put
on by the ASLCC Activities Committee,
Mithrandir showed the students here what
its thing is all about.
Well planned vocals, nicely executed
instrumentals, and a sense of diggin' what
they were doing helped the seven
musicians warm to the crowd as more than
one styro-cup of coffee coooled from
neglect. The mystic smiles of concentra-

tion touched and played on the lips of
Mithrandir.
And that is what made the show, despite
the aseptic surroundings and the clanking
of trays. Mithrandir did battle with the
everyday forces of bustled hustle, and won.
The signs of victory were merely a
lingering footstep, a tapping finger, the
decision to stay and listen. What more
could be asked of an audience than to
enjoy?
The freshening of spring was_ both
outside and in.
For the music of
Mithrandir is a personal expression.
Though the music may be familiar, it is
definately that of this band, and not a mere
copy of another.

The Eugene Symphony, in conjunction
with Mason Williams and radio station·
KUGN, announces that tickets are now o~sale for 'The Mason Williams Concert for
Orchestra and Bluegrass Band.' The event
will take place in MacArthur Court on the
U of O campus, Saturday evening, May 8 at
8 p.m.
General admission is $4
Student/Senior $3.50.
Tickets may be purchased at Erb
Memorial Union on Campus; Chrystalship,
164 W. Broadway on the Mall, Meier and
Frank, Valley River Center; and Light's for
Music, 521 Main, Springfield. There are a
limited number of reserved seats in the
Lower Balcony Section at $5. These are
obtainable through the Symphony Office,
P.O. Box 10685, Eugene 97401. (Please
enclose stam'p ed self-addressed envelope
for return of tickets.)
The Concert features orchestral compositions by Williams designed to include
several Bluegrass musicians thus combining the rich sound of the orchestra with the
liveliness of the fiddles and banjos. The
extra-ordinary effect produces a delightful
musical expression, soul-satisfying to
Bluegrasser and Concert-goer a1ike.

U of O Theatre

Watkins to perform _in "Seasoning"

by Yvonne Pepin
His muscles flex through a leotard as he female dancers, Watkins switched his
studies in vocal performance to dance.
gracefully catapults over the dance floor.
"Demands for men dance teachers is
Michael Watkins, LCC's 25 year old
part-time dance instructor, is also a dance great," he says, ''it makes a real
major and jazz dance - instructor at the difference to study from a man because
men can learn easier from a man's body
University of Oregon.
Demonstrating three years of dance than a woman's,'' and vice versa he added.
instruction, Watkins will perform in "It's a definite advantage to study dance
"Seasoning." a dance concert happening from a man," he says, "because you can
this weekend, April 29, 30, and May 1. pick up movements quicker and easier."
Kinesthetic Awareness (becoming more
The performance will be held in the
University's Gerlinger Studio Theater in aware of the space, objects, and people
Gerlinger annex, room 345. Tickets cost around you), is what Watkins emphasizes
one dollar and the show will run about an in his teachings. Dance, he added, helps
people become more aware of their bodies.
hour and a half.
Dance conveys ideas through body
With a bachelor of arts degree in vocal
• performance, Watkins became aware in movement, and in "Autumn Lovers," the
1972, of his desire to dance. Realizing that dance he choreographed for the production
opportunities for male dancers were of "Seasoning," Watkins attempts to do
greater beca1Jse there are fewer male than just that.

The U of O Theatre is presenting a
series of theatrical events during the
remainder of April and May. Currently in
production is "The Dance of Death," by
August Strindberg. This play is being
presented in the Arena Theatre under the
direction of Stephen Vogler. Admission is
$2.50 and the play will run April 29, 30 .
and May 1.
"She Stoops to Conquer" or "Mistakes
of the Night'' is a play written by Oliver
Goldsmith concerning a woman who takes
things in hand to gain control over life and
marriage. . Appearing in the Pocket
Playhouse under director Jim Bartruff, this
production will run May 12, 13, 14, 15, with
a matinee on the final day. Admission will
be $2.
A choice selection of Carl Sandburg·s
works will be presented in theatrical style
as a play entitled "The World of Carl
Sandburg.'· Thomas Gressler will direct
the show which runs May 21 through 23,
and 27 through 29. with an admission of
$2.50.
The idea of Director Jean Cutler.

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''Prism'· is really a carnival of fine arts in
which a number of different artists will
combine their talents in the EMU Ballroom
and preserit a copglomerate show in a
festival format. "Prism'' will be presented
May 21 through 23, with matinees on the
22 and 23. Admission is $3.50.
U of O students can get half price on all
of the events above.

Take the Money
"Take the Money and Run," starting
Woody Allen, Janet Margolin, and Marcel
Hillaire, will be showing here at Lane April
28 and 29, 4 p.m., in Foruw 302. The
movie is directed by Woody Allen and will
be presented by the ASLCC Activities
Committee.
This is the story of Virgil. the convict,
who is the product of an unfortunate
childhood. Though he tries, he even fails
at making his way onto the FBI Ten Most
Wanted List.

Ron ,Finne Film
"Everything's become mechanized. but
the one thing that hasn't changed (in the
lumber industry) is the danger inv0lved,"
explains Ron Finne while talking abou t his
nationally acclaimed movie, "Natural
Timber Country."
Finne, an ind.ependent filmaker from
Eugene, will show his 50 minute film here
on April 29 at 2 p.m. in Forum 311.
Following the film Finne will talk about his
experiences as an independent filmaker.
"Natural Timber Country" is entirely
narrated by the actual loggers involved,
explaining what it is "that thev no longer
see in the woods." Incorporated into the
film are several segments of footage that
date back to as early as 1914, photographed by Jesse Sill. now 91 years of age.
These sequences were among the first
. taken in Oregon. Sills is still active and
plans to begin a new film soon.
A native of Oregon. Finne has produced
a number of films himself. besides
"Natural Timber Country," and \,-ill
co-show one other of his works. "Demonstration Film #1" at the Thursday
presentation. In "Demonstration." Finne
"takes a kinda wry look at the traditional
late-1940's educational film." 1t in fact
illustrates how to unfold a folding chair.
In the future, Finne will be working in a
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LCC hosts Oregon Volleyball Championships
Local team _upsets Multnomah AC
The Emerald Volleyball Club of Eugene
blasted and finessed its way to the Oregon
State Open Volleyball title over the highly
favored perennial champion Multnomah
Athletic Club of Portland (the MACs) last
Saturday.
Roger Bennett of the EVC was named
Most Valuable Player in the tournament
and his team, by virtue of the win, has
qualified to compete in the nationals next
month in Schenectady, New York.
In the women's division, the David Lee
team of Portland won an exciting playoff as
three teams finished tournament play tied
for first, a" very unusual situation. EVC's
women's team upset them in the final
game of tournament play and sent David
Lee, EVC and Seattle's team into a playoff
to determine the winner.

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photos by Don Sinclair

David Lee then came back to beat EVC
in the three game championship
match. _ In the second game the women's
team rallied miraculously after losing the
opener. Trailing 14-11, one more point by
Seattle at that juncture would have cost
David Lee the title. As it was, they came
back to win that game 17-15. and then the
final game, and the Oregon State crown.
EVC's men, led by Roger Bennett, Jim
Dowdy a!J.d his brother John (all former
LCC students), hadn't ever defeated the
MACs in tournament play. While perhaps
not as strong on talent (MACs have ex-US
Olympic and National team members), the
locals were as cohesive as old bubble gum.
They shine floors diving for balls and put
blocks on MACs spikers that had those
whistling 16 panel balls richocheting right
back at the richly .aressed Portlanders.
EVC won the best of five matches, three
games to one, and travel this weekend to
play in the Hollywood Invitationar.'
If they can fin\sh high in that
tournament, say in the-top four, they would
probably have a chance at the national
title. southern California being the hotbed
of volleyball in the country.

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"The nice thing about teaching at LCC is that I can see the goals the students have set
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for themselves. I can help them establish realistic goals. For example, in volleyball, a
person who is only four foot nine would be crazy to aspire to be a spiker but they can learn
to become a very good setter and become a valuable part of the team."
Tom Young teaches. He has four areas of expertise in his profession: racquetball
badminton, handball and of course volleyball. These sports are usually considered to be
minor in most institutions and would be at LCC, except for the expertise and dedication of
our man from Cape Cod, Tom Young.
"It's not a job," Tom says, "it's refreshing to see so many young people establishing
their own goals. It's more fun ,!t LCC than at the U of O because the kids who come here
aren't forced to come here by parent or peer pressure. A lotta kids work while going to
school. They're findin' out what life is all about. It's not a job with me ... but I accept
the pay because it is helpful in handlin' the daily expenses.''
Tom's speech pattern is very much like that of Red Auerbach, ex-coach and now
general manager of the Boston Celtics whom I watch between halves of the NBA Game of
the Week. The technical insight of'' Auerbach on Roundball'' is no greater than students
come to expect in any of Tom Young's classes.

Tom Young commands rapt attention with his racquet.

You might think that the badminton coach at a community college would not be as
competitive as a major league coach. But it's just not so here. Tom is tough. He wants
you to want to win. "You gotta know the score and until it's over, you've always got a
chance to win."
Health and PE Department Chairman Dick Newell is enthusiastic when he talks about
Tom. "Oh. Tom? Tom Young? He's a champ. We call him 'The Father of Badminton at
LCC.' He has done so much since he's been here. to establish both badminton and
volleyball not just here at LCC. but in the whole community. He's the reason we have
over l 00 people out here weekday evenings to play. He was the one who took those data
processing guys who had a hard time holding a raquet and developed them into
outstanding competitors.
. "And not just students and staff, but people from the community: doctors and lawyers,
msurance salesmen and their kids, realtors and their wives. Activities like this are what
makes a com~unity college belong to the community."
Badminton City takes over the LCC gym on Tuesday and Thursday evenings. Usually it
draws about 150 competitors of varied skill levels.
Intramural badminton fills half the gym every weekday noon hour with 30 to 40
participants--very intense now that the intramural tourney has started.
"People who take Tom's beginning classes usually enroll in an intermediate class and
now he has an advanced class in badminton. ''Newell says, "and we arc taking 14 of the
students to Seattle for a tournament. This tournament is an annual event that Tom
started here three years ago but this is the first time that just students. no staff, will
participate. This in itself shows how far the sport has progressed and Tom did most of
it."
The capsulated objectives for his volleyball course include the development of
ncuro-muscular skills in a highly skilled team sport that can be used for fun if one learns
both the rules and good sportsmanship. And, with this activity, your circle of friends
increases.
People in a class of his seem to feel at ease with their classmates even though they are
segregated into groups of stronger and weaker players. He is arbitrary in his decisions
and says as much (the rules are enforced more strenuously for the advanced skill level
people). This confuses some students, but he recognizes this and will talk to students
individually. explaining the rationale for his decisions and the student learns his own
capabilities.
According t<:, Newell, Tom's popularity as an instructor is perpetuated because, "he
teaches the skill required to compete and the students can see their own improvement.
He gives individualized instruction to a group and knows the psychology of how to
progress from one skill level to another. And he demonstrates his own intensity by
playing the sports competitively himself. He'll call up somebody and want to play
racquetball at the Y at 6 a.m .... and that's not just once in awhile."
Tom got his start at the YMCA: "I kinda went along with another guy to Richmond,
Virginia after graduatin' from Springfield College ... That's in Massachusetts ... and I
got the job. And I stayed at the Y there for nine years. Later I traveled around looking for
a spot and found Eugene and I worked at the Central Lane YMCA for seven years."
"Cecil Hodges was at LCC and Dale Parnell was (LCC) president and we played
handball at the Y. They asked if I'd every consider coming out here. I didn't have a state
teacher's certificate then but they waived that because of my 16 years in the YMCA. They
said they wanted somebody that works in classes with kids.
"I guess I've been here seven or eight years now ... I don't pay much attention to
time."
He does pay attention to detail and was awarded accordingly last weekend as the
Eugene-based Emerald Volleyball Club that won the state title, had three of his former
students on it. One of those was the tournament's Most Valuable Player, Roger Bennett,
the others being the Dowdy brothers, Jim and John and E.V.C. has now qualified for the
national tournament in New York ne~t month.
"The fact that sanctioned tournaments are even held at LCC is due to Tom's efforts,"
says Esper Richey, the regional commissioner of the U.S. Volleyball Association. "Some
adjustments had to be made--Tom took care of it. The man's enthusiasm is
unbelievable."
And so our displaced New Englander approaches people quietly for money to send kids
to Seattle to compete, while he works in his profession from six"in the morning until
darkness hits Eugene.
"Eugene is unique." says Tom Young. "when you're a professional in your field,
whatever it is. people here respect you for it."

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Mark Booth now has 28 wins on the year,
remains unbeaten, now the AAU Champion of Oregon. And now he doesn't have
the bucks to get to the Olympic Trials in
Cleveland on May 14 and 15.
NJCAA heavyweight champ Booth won
both his matches in Portland last weekend
beating PSU's Wagner much easier than
12-10 score would indicate. Booth got a
10-0 lead and then just coasted his way to
the win. In the finals, he got a 4-U lead on a
bid dude named Ives and then pinned him.
Wrestlers don't seem to be a problem to
Booth, when he can find them big enough
to wrestle him. What bothers him now is
finances.
LCC has no funds for national tournament travel and fund raising started to get
him to NJCAA tourney which he won. He
thought he was covered for the Olympic
trials but now the NJCAA committee says
they'll only pay room and board. They
won ·i get away cheap at that, Booth
weighing in at 250 lbs. and working out
twice a day. But in the interim, Booth
needs $334 for a plane ticket to Ohio (they
only make him pay one fare). If and when
he gets there, he'll need to be in the top
eight heavyweights to go to the Olympic
camp starting on June 20 and running 'ti!
Montreal. .. and all that's paid for by the
IOC.
LCC wrestling coach Bob Creed says,
"Mark can make the camp! Right now
he's just got to get to the trials."
If you've got any bucks or ideas, Creed
says he's got an open mind. Call LCC and
ask for 277.

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A perfect
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Dickson hollered
intofirst
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sunny afternoon, "Brummette pitched a
perfect game."
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J ~dson Baptist isn't doing too well on the
dtamo_nd at any time but they really hate to
see Rtck Brummette. Tuesdav afternoon
he finished up a shutout d~ubleheader
facing only the required 21 would-be
hitters. striking out 10 and the Titan
defense flawlessly gobbled up the rest.
Brummette, now 2-0, allowed only one hit
against J-B, his only other time on the hill.
J-B pitcher Purnell threw garbage
bal~s at the Titans that nobody but Randy
Gmmond could straighten out. He canned
a homer to lead off the game and trucked
1 o~t a t:iple in the third for the only two
Titan htts. Plant plated Guimond with a
sacrifice fly . . . LCC 2 runs; 2 hits; no
errors, J-B O runs, 0 hits, 0 errors and
nobody got on base.
In the first game, Dave Gambino got his
7th homer, tops in the league. and a double
with 3 ribbies while Donnie Lee spaced IO
,hits and shutout J-B, 7-0.
Mike
. Montgomery and Roger Plant each went
two for three while the sunshined and the
fans filled the hillside. Monte and Plant
are both batting above .425 and Lee now
has a 2-1 record.
The Titans are in second place (12-4) just
two games behind LBCC (14-2) as the
second half :tarts._ Pete Tyman, leading
the league 10 strikeouts with 48 said
•'Things are really looking good for us thi~
half. Clackamas split with us the first half
and we 're healthy and hitting now ... we
should sweep at Oregon City on Saturdav.
Then we have Umpqua at horn~ n;xt
Tuesd_ay a_ftcrnoon ... no way we're going
to spltt with them in front of our fans."

Twilight Trackers tuff
The U of O's Annual Twilight Track
Meet committee invited only eleven LCC
track team members and when the evening
was over, thojse Titans participating
captured two firsts, two seconds, and two
thirds in the cold weather at Hayward Field
last Saturday.
Top honors went to Gary Barnes, first,
400 meters-48.3; Charles Moorhead, first,
nigh jump 6'6"; Ken Bell, second in both
the long jump and the triple jump at 22' -2''
and 46' 4¼ "; Al Shibley, shot-put, third;
SO' 10"; and Russ Lamb, third, -long jump
21'3¼".
Other honors for LCC went to Glen
Owen, fourth, steeplechase 8:48.3; Mike
McGriff, 10,000 meters, fifth 32:47.4;
Darrel Grimes, fourth, long jump 20'9¼ ";
Tom McDonnell, 800 meters, eighth
1:54.2; Al Shibley, eighth, discus 145'8"
and Bill Bailey fourth in the shot-put at
49'5½" and sixth in the discus at 147'3".
''The cold weather was a factor for all
athletes," Coach Al Tarpenning says, "but
it wasn't raining and the meet in itself is
just for good athletes to rub shoulders with
one another and perhaps qualify for post
season track meets. No team scores are
kept because the purpose of this meet is to
compete as individuals against other

quality performers."
This coming Saturday the Titans hope to
fill their May Day b:iskets with medals at a
big three-way meet at Coos Bay against
LBCC and SWOCC. Tarp says, "This will
be a tough meet for us. Both those teams
arc strong in the field events and the
hurdles. Linn Benton has a 6-10 high
jumper in Bob Keith and we've lost both
our hurdlers. Joel Johnson has a hairline
fracture of the heel and Dennis Cooper has
a badly pulled muscle. And as such. we
don't have a pole vaulter or a javelin man.··
"Our team has accepted the challenge
before--! hope they can do it again.
Against Southern Idaho and Mt. Hood. we
won some events we weren't supposed to.
The guys this year have a lot of spiric."
I.CC will host the OCCAA conference
championships the following weekend.
May 7 and 8. Johnson and Cooper may be
off the injured list to help the Titans but
Tarp is pessimistic. "Ifs really a shame.
Joel was the top hurdler in the league and
Dennis was the only backup we had. We'll
just have to move some men around for this
Saturday and then see what happens when
the conference meet gets here."
Meet time for those traveling to Coos
Bay is 1 :30 p.m.

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ripped-off. People committed more energy
than the place returned to them."
The buck has to stop somewhere,
· according to Lawrence, and the responsibility for the whole flavor of LCC. in his
opinion rests with the number-one man,
President Eldon Schafer.
" I don't believe the man is capable of
doing the job anv different than he is
do_ir.g . " says Lawrence.
"He's an
autocrat. He's a pusher and that's not
management."
Lawrence believes that the administrative techniques at LCC are twenty years
behind the times and not sufficient for the
technology available at LCC. He likens the
administration to someone trying to push a
string from behind.
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''The best thing the institution could
do ," according to Lawrence, "is to form a
steering council to find President Schafer a
new job. He's killing that institution."
When Harker turned down Johnson's
grievance, he submitted it to President
Schafer.
Johnson's suspension had been
recommended until Dec. 22, and he was to
be terminated on that date. On Dec. 1,
Johnson had a meeting with President
Schafer, and according to Johnson, President Schafer agreed to keep the suspension , but postponed c,lny decision on
termination until the Dec. 4.
Johnson says he just sat back and cooled
his heels. He could not believe what was
happening to him.
Accordng to Johnson, on Dec. 5 he was
notified that President Schafer had reviewed all the material pertaining to his
case and recommended that Johnson be
terminated.
"Believe it or not," says Johnson, "i
had a little more faith in Dr. Schafer. I
thought if I could talk to him, he would see
the light, but I was disappointed."
Johnson engaged an attorney and
requested a hearing of his grievance before
the LCC Board of Education and a hearing
on the record was scheduled for Jan. 14,
1976.
According to Johnson, four hours before
the hearing was to take place his attorney
called to say that the college would settle
with him for X amount of dollars if Johnson
would drop the whole matter. Johnson

would also be permitted to purge any
negative material from his personnel
record.
But Johnson turned down the offer. It
was his contention that according to his one
year contract reaffirmed by the LCC Board
to begin July of 1975, he had to have 18
months notification of termination.
The college came back with another
offer. It would cancel the termination and
reassign him to a new job in LCC's Office
of Community Relations. He would work
with Larry Romine as a Graphic Design
Consultant. The reassignment would have
been effective Feb. 1.
On that date, had Don Johnson taken the
offer, he would have also received an
automatic notice of termination set at
June 30, 1977, approximately 18 months
later.
But Johnson had been looking for a job
elsewhere, and he found one. ,
Johnson decided to accept the college's
first offer, and according to LCC Business
Office records, he settled for $8,605.40, the
remainder of his pay according to his
contract.
Johnson S!YS that it was a strange
situation. He never resigned and he was
never terminated. In essence, he says, the
college bought out his contract.
According to the LCC Business Office,
Johnson was terminated Feb. 1.
Looking back, Johnson feels that he is
now pursuing brighter future, but he feels
that a lot of good people were wasted in the
process.
"It was my action that caused Don to
leave," says Harker, "not Don's decision." Harker also feels his actions were
responsible for the people who left Printing
and Graphics after Johnson was suspended.
''One mistake I make was hiring
tremendously creative people into jobs
that seem restrictive to them. Often the
most capable people will quit because they
are more able to find a job," feels Harker.
Harker says that a lot of people will back
off from a personnel problem and will hope
that it goes away.
"If it happened again," says Harker, "if
similar circumstances came about again, I
would follow the same procedure. Investigate. and make a decision. and those
decisions are alway~ hard to make."

N~rsing probation
Continued from page 1.

•• fhe LCC Administration wants to
amalgamate the nursing department with
other health occupations to form a
department consisting of all health occupations,_'' says DeCroos.
But a clear description of the duties of
the Nursing Administrator were not
submitted to the State Board. •'It has not
yet been clarified as to how the authorities
and responsibilities will be vested in this
position," DeCroos says.

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ursing Program
on probation

"To maintain the quality of the nursing
program." she continues, "the State
Board requires some kind of responsibilities and authorities for a nursing leader as
for the leaders of other comparable
instructional units."
She feels that the State Board is not
trying to run the LCC nursing unit, but is
asking how the new administrative structure will work.

Story on page 1

Dean Piercey attributes this new administrative realignment to the need for "joint
use of facilities.'' He says that the
amalgamation of the various health
occupations will allow the nursing facilities, such as the audio-visual aids, to be
utilized by paradental ana paramedical
students as well as nursing students.

AH about
hepatitis

Piercey says that the items in question
are being rewritten by Dr. White, and will
be hand-delivered to the State Board
sometime this week. The completion of the
work will come just in time for the May 3-7
official visitation by the State Board. The
Board visits every five years to re-evaluate
the program and make determinations on
awarding the accreditation for another five
years.

Story on pages 8-9

"We don't wish or plan to lose our
accreditation," Piercey says, "and we
can't afford to not offer nursing. There are
too many students who want it.'•
Piercey concludes, "The new document
will meet all the requirements for
re-accreditation.••

Rick Brummett
pitches
Perfect game

According to DeCroos, nursing students
presently enrolled will probably not be
affected. If the student graduates from an
accredited program. then he / she will be
qualified to take the State Licensing
Examination.

Agricultural Mechanics students Colin Messer and Andrew Ferguson take some sun and
speak of student revolt in France. ,
Photo by Jeff Hayden

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