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Vol. 13 No. 29 May 26, 1976

Looks at unionization

New ASLCC president outlines his program
By Tom Carlson
Newly elected LCC Student Body
President Ken Pelikan, Tuesday outlined
his program for the coming year.
One of the major objectives in the
President's upcoming program, which was
one of the main issues of his campaign, is
unionization of the LCC student body.

Said Pelikan, ''I have been brain- , happening now.''
storming with University of Oregon people,
''The U of O is proposing to become the
ASUO representatives and Emerald staff • first university (student body) to become
(with the aim of) working together (with
unionized," said Pelikan. "Maybe we can
ihem) in an on-going relationship in
become the first community college to
natters of student lobbying and involveestablish that capacity.''
ment in the legislativ~ process that is
Pelikan envisions unionization as provid-

ing for ASLCC credibility with management in formulating proposals and student
participation in decisions for social services
expansion, citing, in particular, expansion
of LCC Health Services.
"Whole systems are coming into relevance now," he said. "The LCC clinic has
tremendous potential as an evolving
holistic healing system." Pelikan said he
would like to see the clinic develop the
potential to provide comprehensive health

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The voter turnout increased from _four
per cent last year to six per cent in the 1976
ASLCC Student Senate election. Four
hundred seventy students voted out of a
total campus population of 7,138 students.
In the 1975 election only 204 students
voted.
For President and Vice-President
Lunsford-Swink 77

Pelikan-Bien I 90
Weller-Siewart 132

Ross-Miller (write-in) 59

For Treasurer
June Bichler 155
Bob Vinyard I 62
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- Karin Phillips 219
Robert MacMaster 16.3

photo by Cris Clarke·

Straub recommends

Rev~nue depart waives interest on ASH rebates

By Cris Clarke
Oregon Governor Bob Straub has given
some former and present ASH Lane
residents something to smile about.
Since Straub intervened in the matter, at

Bender, Mclennan sentenced
Two Adult Student Housing (ASH)
principles were sentenced in federal
court in Portland Monday after being
convicted of diverting over $600,000 in
ASH rent overcharges.
Fred A. Bender, 33, and Philip
McLennan, 41, were sentenced to
three-year prison terms, and fined
$50,000 apiece.
According to OSPIRG director Bill
Van Dyke, the two men were convicted
on a seven count federal indictment
for fraudulent activities. In 1972,
OSPIRG initiated an investigation of
the ASH facilities in Oregon which
uncovered the Bender/McLennan
case.

the request of OSPIRG, the State Department of Revenue has decided to waiver the,•
interest and possible penalties on rent
rebates received illegally by ASH residents
from July, 1974 to September, 1975.
Says OSPIRG Dlrector Bill Van Dyke,
"Governor Straub let the revenue department know that he wanted the interest
• reconsidered.''
When asked if OSPIRG influence helped
to get the interest waived, Van Dyke
rep1ied, "You bet it did."
OSPIRG was initially .denied their
request for the interest to be waived. The
Department of Revenue answered their
query in an April 29 le~r by stating that
the interest would be assessed and that
penalties would follow if ASH residents did
not pay back their rebates within a certain
time.
But the students weren't aware of the
retroactive tax refunds that the ASH
facilities in Corvallis, Springfield and
Ashland received until early this year,
according to OSPIRG staff member Judith
Armatta.
"After an OSPIRG appeal demonstrated
that students didn't know they were

ineligible for rebates they paid last year,"
says Armatta, ''the revenue department
changed their decision."
''Though interest is required by law
unless waived, 'it is inequitable to assess
students' interest on money they didn't
know they owed," continues Armatta. At
the time the students applied for the tax
rebate in 1975, says 'Armatta, they were
entitled to it. "But fffey lost the right to
receive it after ASH won retroactive
property tax exemptions," she says.
But according to Deputy Director of the
State Department of Revenue Robyn
Godwin, certain requirements will have to
be met before the interest and possible
penalties will be waived.
''The students will have 30 days to
contact the revenue department," Godwin
says. '' And if they don't respond within 30
·days after they're billed, they will be
assessed both the interest and penalties."
Students already having received notices
will have from June 1 to June 30 to contact
the office. For students not yet billed, says
Godwin, the 30 day period will be adjusted
from the time they are billed. The revenue
department has set up a 12 month
maximum payment plan for the approximately 375 students being billed.
OSPIRG also announced that they will
continue to press the Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to
investigate whetber ASH passed on over
$100,000 in savings from the tax exemptions to its tenants in the form of lower rent
or improved housing.

TOH.CH editor gets Emerald post .. page 3
Americans in foreign jails . . . . . page 5
Seven Titans make all-OCCAA .. page 7
One sample of award winning art produced by three LCC students. Story on page 5.

~;enators-At-Large (five to be elected )
Dolores Sandoval 285

Stormy Diven 271

Jim Lovell 245

Michael Barkhuff 224

Mark Pere, 240

Randle Ross 235

Amendments to LCC Constitution
#! Amendment to Article IV
92 NO
278 YES
#2 Amendment to Article XIV
.308 YES

65 NO

#3 Amendment to the By-Laws. Art. V
288 YES

96 NO

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care in cooperative expansion with the

White Bird and Chico clinics.
Pelikan acknowledges some difficulty in
achieving the goal of unionization, but is
dedicated to the concept. "Just like
business has to recognize its workers," he
said, "The 'business' of education must
have the same recognition of its resource,
the students, who are paying into the
system."
Many of the issues of his campaign, he
said, really are not to be credited only to
him and Vice-President-elect Carl Bien,
but in a general sense to everyone,
including his opponents. As a result of the
imput generated by the campaign, Pelikan
said he hopes to have committees studying
many of the issues for feasibility.
Pelikan suggested he will assign duties
to the Vice-President in addition to those of
the Ombudsman and set up ·agendas for
meetings of the Senate, as prescribed in
the Constitution, approximating a two-man
team at the top.
"None of the jobs are one-person jobs,"
Pelikan said. "Carl and I really work
together well, and, as much as is proper, I
will share my duties with him.''
"Among other matters to receive
Pelikan' s and the Senate's attention during
his year in office will be the granting of
college c.redit for service in Student
Government.
'' ASLCC is really a course in political
science," Pelikan said. Although the
continued on back page.

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Friday
'Phomgrnpher
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presented material and for admissions of
difficulty and uncertainty. We are given
little support, little positive feedback for
work well done. The· instructors often
police us. rather than instruct us,
maintaining an atmosphere of fear and
intimidation.
As administrators, faculty have set us a
There is a lack of
poor example.
assumption of individual accountability
(e.g .. "But there are no precedents." or
"It will have to be a policy decision").
Despite assurances to the contrary. rarely
is student input acted on. We have not
been adequately informed of policy.
Individuals have not been informed of
imminent dismissal. We have been
subjected to repeated incidents of administrative inconsistency and outright dishonesty.
The nursing program is designed to
produce graduates who will score well on
the state licensing exam. This is small
measure of a school's worth to its students
and to the nursing profession. We have
continually had to resist being molded into
servile automatons. We have been cheated
of the right to purchase a quality
education.

To: The TORCH and the Faculty, LCC
Associate Degree Nursing Program

The function of education is to meet the
needs of the students. Specifically, the
purpose of a nursing program should be to
teach the student to exercise judgment,
make decisions, and assume practical and
ethical responsibility. The basic learning
of procedures and theory should be a
foundation which we as students are able
to take for granted .. This statement is a
reaction to the failure of each i.ndividual
instructor and of the LCC ADN program as
a whole to provide us with a quality
education.
The present curriculum (i.e., the module
system), rather than being a self-paced
learning system is structured so that the
entire class does the same work within the
same time period; no opportunity is
provided for working ahead, no allowance
is made for falling behind. The focus is on
rote memorization, not comprehension of
broad general principles and their application. Modules and tests are often written
in a confusing and ungrammatical fashion.
Most students have found they must buy
several costly textbooks and read
numerous repetitive magazine articles
merely to provide an arbitrary, required
wording on examinations. Curiosity is
stifled by responses such as, "Well, it's
not in the module so you don't need to
know it." Adequate demonstration of
procedures, so essential to learning
nursing skills. usually has to be requested
or demanded.
In the clinical area. we are penalized for
seeking clarification of inadequa~ely

TORCH STAFF

reporters

editor Mike Mclain
associate editor Cris Clarke
associate editor Scott Stuart

Michael Sterling
Pam McMaster
Susan Spruance
Maxyne Strunir
Rick Landt
Original copy signed by 39 other second
year A.D.N. students and endorsed by 33
of 35 first year A.D.N. students in a class
vote.

Melody B. Gore
Russell Kaiser
Crunch McAllister
Kathleen Monje
Sally Oljar
Yvonne Pepin
Michael Riley
Don Sinclair

cultural editor Max Gano
photo editor Jeff Hayden
ad manager Kevin Murtha

ad graphics Dave Mackay

graphics

production
photographers

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Linda Alaniz

production mgr John Brooks

Brilleau
Vayne

Debbie Bottensek
Bryan Hancock
Mariano Higareda Jr ..
Doreen Potterf
Shauna Pu pke
Kristine Snipes

sport~ editor Don Sinclair
Member of Oregon Community College Newspaper Association and Oregon Newspaper Publishe~s Association.
The TORCH is published on Wednesdays throughout the regular academic year.
Opinions expressed in the TORCH are not necessarily those of the college. the student body, all members of the TORCH ~taff, or
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those of the editor.
Forums are intended to be a marketplace for free ideas and must be limited to 500 words. Letters to the editor are limited to 2SO
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The editor reserves the right to edit for matters of libel and length.
All correspondence should be typed or printed, double-spaced and signed by the writer.
Mail or bring all correspondence to: TORCH, lane Community College, Room 206 Center Building, P.O. Box lE, 4000 East J0t1o
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Pulitizer-prize winning photo-journalist
Brian Lanker, the graphics editor of the
Eugene Register Guard. will present a
slide and tape show Friday which will
illustrate what he sees as a change in the
photo journalist's art and craft.
The session will open to the public at
10:30 a.m. Friday in Forum 301. tanker's
slide-tape show will be similar to the
presentation he made last month at the
University of Missouri when he accepted
the coveted Photographer of the Year
award. the second of its kind which Lanker
has claimed in the last six years.
In a local radio interview last month.
Lanker said as a photo journalist he tries to
tell the community everything he can about
the people he photographs--and tries to say
as little as possible about himself. This,
Lanker says. is the role of the journalist
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Commentary By Yvonne Pepin
His muscles glisten beneath a taut hide of healthy skin, then flex in the arm that
sends the plastic saucer sailing into the pure blue, sun-filled sky.
Nothing is more appealing than a beautifully tanned body. And probably nothing
feels better than playing frisbee with your shirt off on a sunny day, ·except maybe
bicycling ot playing softball. Every pore of skin sucking up those vitamin and
mineral packed rays of sunshine.
Now that summer is here it feels good to shed and pack away those heavy wools
that helped to repel the damp and cold of an Oregon winter.
It's a taste of freedom to let the wind blow through your hair and gently brush
your sun-tanned back. We remove our shirts in celebration of the sunshine ... an
uninhibited human gesture. Sun is the nourisher of earth and it's inhabitants.
The young woman bicycles across town wearing cutoffs and a bathing suit top.
Her strong brown legs pedal past perfectly manicured front lawns where men rove
the grounds, shirtless. looking for a stray weed to pull or to chase the neighbor's
dog from the rose bushes.
"Whhooooooooo, Yeeeeeeeeeee, hawwwwwww. hey sweetie need some help
riding that bike?" A carload of college aged males drive by the men shouting at the
young woman. Ignoring the boyish comments, but angered by the immaturity of
their shouts, she continues pedaling.
Every since the months when she removed her jeans and sweaters of winter for
lighter summer clothes, her body has been taunted by the rude and boyish jeers of
(some call themselves) men. Every time she leaves her home not completely
dressed from head to toe. she becomes the object of a barrage of unnecesary
comments: "Hey baby where'd ya get them ... " or "what a nice ... "
The insinuations make her feel like a piece of meat being sized up for
consumption. Maybe she should wrap herself in a piece of cheese and wear a bun
ori her head when she goes out in public wearing less than a nun's habit.
At softball practice that day she removes her shirt. There are also half a dozen
men without shirts. The day is hot. She feels awkward at being the only shirtless
female, but happy feeling the sunshine warm and plentiful on her skin. Winter's
pallor begins to take on traits of sum!Tler's golden brown. The woman doesn't make
any valuable plays for the team. but is really enjoying the sun's touch and gentle
motions of wind on her body. when she is called off the field.
The butt of his gun hangs rigidly against his hip, clad in a dark blue suit. The sun
catches on the gun's chrome and glints in her eye, into which one of the two police
officers is looking. He will only look at her eyes.
"We've had many complaints. and I wish you would put your shirt back on," he
says. explaining the purpose of the meeting. He speaks about society and morals
and it's values, and how it is offensive in this society for a woman to publicly
remove her shirt. He does not consider her morals and values, as she explains why
<;he has removed her shirt.
"The neighbors have been calling in and complaining ... and after all there are
children in this park. All I ask is that you put your shirt on," he says.
I find nothing objectionable about this officer of the law, sent by the neighbors to
tell me to put my shirt back on. No, I find the neighbors objectionable, as they hang
out of their windows, off of their front porches and stand on their roofs to eye and
,complain about the indecency of my upper torso. It seems the same poeple who
think me immoral and a bad influence on their children for removing my shirt,
cannot bear not to look at this indecent. immoral young woman. who plays softball
in the same park where six men also do not wear shirts.
And what about the children. The chest of a woman can't be anything new to
them ... not every child in the world was sustained from a specially formulated
Playtex nursing nipple.
"Is there anything in the city ordinances stating that it is illegal for a woman to
remove her shirt in public?" I asked.
"No," comes the reply, and the officer repeats his monologue.
I realize he is only doing his job, and I try to explain that I feel the sun's rays to be
one of the best sources of achieving good health. and that good health should not be
denied to me just because my breasts are slightly larger than most males. The
officer concludes our conversation re-enforcing his request that I put my shirt back
on because the neighbors are complaining. These are the san;e neighbors who
-have crept from their houses and placed themselves around the ball field to watch.
I hold no complaints against my chest and leave my shirt hanging on the fence.
Angered by the gawking eyes of the neighbors. I return to my position in the field.
The next week I am sunning myself in the privacy of my own yard, and the
landlord approaches me and requests that I wear a shirt when doing so, as the
neighbors are also complaining.
I regret being offensive to anyone when I remove my shirt. I only do so for one
specific reason ... my own personal enjoyment. There is a satisfaction I feel when
letting the sun baste my body, but others, it seems, feel differently. I am not ,being
an exhibitionist, (as some have said) or being a radical feminist, (as others have
said.) I am being myself, and this self includes an identification with my body, as
well as the positive feelings I receive from sunshine on my body. By my standards I
am not being immoral, as my morals allow this body indentification.
Why is it that men make and spend billions of dollars annually on the packaging
and exploitation of female breasts, whether in the form of porno magazines or
specially designed gimmicks that enhance the sexual pleasure of a man. Who reaps
the profits from women's chests? It isn't the female of the species who is made to
conceal her bosom every time someone isn't trying to make money off of its
exposure.
. Soci~ty has taught us so well that the breasts of women are something to be
either fantasized or joked about. Women have learned well and have become
inhibited by these social mores, inhibited enough to feel ·that it is wrong to expose
their bosoms outside of the bedroom. Women's bodies have been hidden from
themselves too long.
Isn't it time in this society where equality and freedom is stressed, to first
become free ourselves, so we may be free to enjoy nature? Isn't it time that a
woman should be allowed to enjoy her body? And isn't it time that men should
allow her this privilege they take for granted?

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TORCH editor to fill Einerald slot
by Michael Riley
Mike McLain, editor of the LCC TORCH,
has been selected for the position of State
Politics Editor of the University of Oregon
Oregon Daily Emerald for the 1976- 77
school year.
According to Greg Wassom, Emerald

editor selectee for next year, McLain, 24,
was chosen along with 17 other people to
fill positions on the Emerald staff.
Wassom told the TORCH that he chose
people who ": .. have some of their own
ideas about what journalism ought to be.:'
He added that he was looking for . people

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Mike McLain

photo by Cr11 Clarke

with enough experience to put those ideas
to work. Wassom also stated that the
position McLain will fill pays " ... about $80
a month."
McLain, a political science major finishing his second year at LCC told the TORCH
t_h at he wasn't expecting his appointment
to the Emerald because " .. .I haven't been
involved with the Emerald up to this point,
and I had applied for three other
positions." He feels that his future
position is an excellent opportunity to learn
some of the complexities of the governmental process and that the state level is
" ... a damn good place to start learning."
Wassom said the job may demand that
McLain relocate in Salem, a possibility
McLain did not find objectionable.
McLain hopes to cover legislative action
that concerns students and he plans to give
students insights as to how the governmental process works.
McLain also said that he felt that the
TORCH has been a valuable experience in
his journalism career. He added that, "I
think we've done a lot of the things we set
out to do this year, not all of them, but a lot
of them."

Peace Corps jobs disillusioning but still hard to _get

(CPS)--Dave Scharnhorst just couldn't take ten years.
Would-be volunteers armed with b.1cheit anymore. The Peace Corps had plopped
him down in what miRht have been a lors degrees can expect a hard time
tropical paradise on Tonga Island in South cracking the agency. Even though the
Pacific. He found later that "the electricty subsistence living allowance and native
was off after 10 p.m. There was nothing to housing doesn't seem glamorous. the
do but go to bed and listen to the rats Peace Corps is asking for--and getting--·
technicians and skilled laborers to fill the
rustle."
The food was so poor. he claimed, that limited number of ,positions open.
While a B.A. graduate with knowledge
he and other trainees left their language
<:;lasses to forage in the jungle for green of French might still be able to find a job
coconuts to supplement their diet. His roof with the Peace Corps, the agency has been
shying away from unskilled workers in
leaked, there was no running water.
Eventually. Scharnhorst and six or seven recent years. Architects, nurses, munof 33 other trainees stationed on the island icipal planners and persons with agriculreturned to Washington. But although tural skills have a chance of finding jobs,
Washington Peace Corps officials admit while history and English majors are
that Scharnhorst's living situation was not usually left to take their chances on the
unprecedented. they've still been turning Ameriqrn marketplace.
In spite of extensive screening, about 15
away applicants in droves.
Finding work v1ith the Peace Corps has percent of the Peace <;:orps staff drop ut
become even tougher than cracking the before finishing their hitches. Like
gloomy domestic job market for liberal arts Scharnhorst. who decided that "I don't
graduates. The volunteer agency has been regret going into the Peace Corps and I
flooded with applicants eager to join .t staff don't regret coming back either," they
that has shrunk steadily since the Peace leave for reasons ranging from physical
hardships to the lack of liquor and sex.
Corps heyday in 1966.
A volunteer recently returned from
Nearly 29.000 applications came piling
into Peace Corps offices last year from Oman said that although her "group was a
persons looking for jobs in one of the 68 good one, three people never showed up in
countries receiving volunteers. Adminis- Philadelphia,'' where the group departed
trators were left with the job os throwing from. "One man dropped out a week after
out more than 80 percent of them to round we were in Oman, and one woman dropped
out after she heard that liquor and sex
out the 6.400-member staff.
Although requests from developing weren't readily available," the volunteer
nations for volunteers has risen. funding said.
Of t 2 Peace Corps volunteers who went
for the agency has not. The Peace Corps'
budget has shrunk from a peak of $114 to Oman in 1974, six were left at the end of
million in 1966 to $81 million in the 1976 their scheduled stay, according to teh
fiscal year. Under pressure to tighten its • former volunteer who didn't wish to be
belt even further, the Corps is expecting identified. Rumors have it that the Omani
government has been displeased with the
$67 million next year.
Along with the budget. the number of staying power of the last group of
volunteers put to work has shrunk since the volunteers and the success of the next
salad days under President Johnson's group will ''be an important factor in
Great Society. While 15,000 volunteers whether or not the Omani government
filled the ranks in 1966, that number has continues to request volunteers,'' the
dropped by about 60 percent over the past former staff member said.

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George Wakiji, a press officer in
Washington, said that although the Corps
recognizes the attrition problem, in many
.:ases it might be understandable. After a
recent survey of Peace Corps projects in
Guatemala following the earthquake .
'..Yakiji'said he found volunteers working in
.:onditions "that I don't know if I could
have put up with."
But with 29,000 applications and a tough
domestic job market, there shouldn't be
much trouble findine replacements.

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By Kathleen Monje
Mental health services in J.,ane County·
will be scrutinized for the next six months
by a special task force of people in the
mental health professions.
Chairman R.N. Lowe, Professor of
Counseling Psychology at the U of O says
the group's purpose "is to understand
generally the pressing issues of mental
health services and to determine a priority
of needs."
The task force, appointed by the Lane
County Board of Commissioners, will deal
first with the immediate issue of the county
jail. According to Lowe, the group is
expected to make recommendations on
current and proposed jail facilities.
Lowe says that the rapidly expanding
population in Lane County is accompanied
by rapidly increasing needs for employment opportunites, relief from boredom ,
and a hope for a better life. "The task
force will make recommendations on a
number of mental health services including
those for the drug abuser. the emotionally
disturbed, the alcoholic, and the developmentally disabled.''
The group will make recommendations
about the future of mental health care in
Lane County, including public and private
providers and crisis services. It hopes to
provide coordination to fill present.
identified gaps and inadequacies. "In
absence of a prescription for the perfect
plan. people will have to devise their own
imperfect plan. We are long overdue for
finding ways to engage people in solutions
• rather than to continue to identify them as
problems.'·
Meetings are open to the public; a
schedule can be obtained at Lane County
Mental Health, 687-4271.

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Health Service
being irevamped

300 classes. Watch for schedule in Eugene
Register-Guard on Monday, June 7.

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Drug involvement and foreign justice systems
Department of State
By Kay Chernush
When Hank Larsen was arrested on a
drug charge in Mexico he thought he could I
pay a fine--"at the most spend 24 hours in
the slammer'' --and be on his way. That 1
was three years ago and Hank is still in jail 1
in Mexico. He has four years left to serve ;
of his seven-year sentence. His "fine". ;
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was pocketed by his lawyer.
Hank Larsen is not his real name, but his
plight is fairly typical of the thousands of
young Americans imprisoned overseas on
drug charges. Many are serving lenghty
sentences for what would be misdeameanors or less under -U.S. law. Some have
been victims of torture, extortion, systematic harassment or other forms of abuse.
What~ver their guilt or innocence, it's a
bad trip and there's only so much Uncle
Sam can do to help them.
The State Department sees the problem
as worldwide--and growing. According to
official consular records, some 2,500 U.S.
citizens were serving sentences in foreign
jails at the end of 1975, about three-quarters of them for narcotics offenses. This is
more than double the number in 1973.
On the average the American detainees
are young--the typical age is 25 or
. 26--college educated and from middle-class
'Jackgrounds. Virtually all of them are well
versed in their "constitutional rights" and .
believe that somehow the American 1
embassy can get them out of prison. But :
these are just two more misconceptions
that probably landed them in their
predicament in the first place.
The lure of "easy money" is a major
snare and delusion. For contrary to what
many young Americans believe, most
countries have much stiffer drug laws that
the United States.
"There's nothing easy about this
business. It's rough and the risks are
enormous. You're being had the minute
you ·decide to get involved," says Loren
Lawrence, deputy administrator of the
State Department's Bureau of Security and
Consular Affairs, which is charged with
assisting and protecting Americans overseas.

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Even "doing your own thing," if that
includes carrying around a few joints for
personal use, can turn into an awfully
uncomfortable and costly cross-cultural
experience.
"It was such a little amount. We never
dreamed it would get so heavy," says
Deborah Friedman, whose half-ounce of
marijuana cost her $7,000 and 37 days in a
Mexican jail. "And it could have cost a
whole lot more. Tpere are people still
down there who didn't have any more
grass than we did,'' Friedman told a San
Francisco newspaper earlier this year.
"And some were arrested and didn't have

But, in Pakistan ...
and, according to the Christian Science
Monitor, they are giving Pakistani officials
a devil of a time.
The problem is that the officials can't do
a thing about the factories, thanks to
centuries-old customs that have put the
area's nomadic Pushtu tribe beyond the
reach of civil law.
- "How much longer can we let this
ridiculous situation go on,?" asks one
angry Pakistani bureaucrat. For several
decades, it appears. Given the strength of
By Michael Riley
the local tribal chiefs, no one expects the
''Transition an art show by LCC hash trade or the false-bottomed suitcase
student Yvonne Pepin is on display at the business in which the Pushtus also deal, to
Eugene Public Library until the end of this be cleaned up overnight.
"The government is going to have to get
week.
Pepin states that the artwork displayed to grips with the problem sooner or later,
is the result of her ' 're-entry into the hectic · and the time will come when the rule of law
world of technology and people." She had is extended into tribal areas, one promibeen living in a log cabin she and two nent Pakistani predicted. ''Unfortunately
it could take another 40 or SO years.''
friends built in the Cascade-s.
She says the work was also inspired by:
'' Realizing the demands and waste of a
seemingly desensitized society of people.
"Confusion over what stance to take in
the controversy over the Women's Studies
An art show consisting of paintings,
department at LCC.
sculpture, jewelery, drawings and prints
'' Rage and anger at seeing unprincipiled by LCC students is currently oii display in
power in the community obliviate Ger- the Art and Applied Design Gallery until
trude 's.
June 3.
"Remaining powerless and above all
The juried show was judged by Tom
frustrated at trying to alter these situa- Griffin, a Eugene sculptor and Chief
tions."
Preprator at the U of O Art Museum, and
Comments made about the art show by Walt Stevens, a Eugene painter and
viewers seem to indicate that her feelings instructor at the Maude Kerns Art Center.
are conveyed, according to Pepin.
.They chose four of the ·best works of the
show. An untitled print by Pamela
Tristram won the Ken Paul printmaking
award . Three other works won first place
awards: "Charge of the Light Brigade," a
Lane Community College Student Health -pencil drawing by Gary Moses; "Power of
Service is closed during the summer so if the Flame," a pottery bowl by Ida Cousino;
you need birth control supplies please buy and ''WHA TIZIT, '' a small free-form
•enough supplies to last until the end of • wooden mobile. Awards of $25 were
awarded to the winners.
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September, when fall term begins.
The show is a good representation of the
Also , if you are planning to move,
change family planning clinics, or will not whole spectrum of art. The show features
be a student at LCC fall term and need your such diverse pieces as soft sculpture using
medical records transferred, please take stuffed cloth and macrame, and a
care of this before the end of spring term. horticulture fantasy with pottery and
plants.
Plan ahead.
(CPS)--" Hash:sh factory--visitors welcome,'' proclaims the enticing sign on one
mud-brick building. "Best quality hashish
for sale, " says another nearby notice.
These hashish factories, turning out tons
of hard, black bricks which sell for $10 per
pound, are located in the wilds of
Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province

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any other foreign country), a significant
any, who have been in jail for years."
While a lucky few of those arrested number of charges ab ut harsh conditions
manage to be acquitted after only a few and abuse have been substantiated.
months in jail, the average sentence There have been instances , for example, of
around the world for 'possession and such illegal but accepted practices as
trafficking" of marijuana is seven years beatings, confiscation of property and
and some months. For hard drugs like denial of prompt access to the American
heroin and cocaine , jail terms skyrocket, consul.
What can the U.S . Government do?
with 30-year sentences not being unheard
of. Three countries--Iran, Algeria and Overseas the fact of national sovereignty
Turkey--allow the death penalty in narco- poses special problems and constraints.
Apart from protesting to the appropriate
tics cases.
"We just didn't take it all that seriously authorities any illegal and inhumane
at first,'' Margaret Engle said in a treatment of American prisoners , the legal
newspaper interview after being released • role of U.S. consular officers is limited .
from a Turkish prison in 1973. "We were They can' t use government funds to pay
so used to the American system of justice bail, legal fees or other expenses, as some
we thought it would only take a few hours prisoners seem to expect.
They can make every effort to see that
to clear up."
It took almost a year to clear up, the prisoner's rights under local law are
however. Eight anxious months with a life fully observed and that treatment meets
sentence hanging over her head. Eight internationally accepted standards. They
months spent in a tiny concrete cell, 15 by can visit the prisoner as soon as possible
20 feet, which she shared with two dozen after the arrest is known and provide him
other female convicts. An open sewer ran with a list of reputable local attorneys from
along one wall. The prison was 300 years which he may select his defense counsel.
qld, infested with large rats, lice and They also can contact family and friends,
Jut only if the prisoner requests it.
bedbugs.
Many young and enterprising consular
officers, despite staggering workloads, go
beyond these legal ·responsibilities. In
Mexico, Peter Wood and Donna Hrinac,
'The America.n system of
who together were responsible for some
185 Americans in 13 widely scattered jails,
justice stops at our border"
wrote articles in English-language maga_zines and newspapers to enlist the support
•and interest of the American community in
''The thing people seem to forget is that the plight of the American prisoners.
the American system of justice stops at our They also wrote to U.S. pharmaceutical
borders," says consular officer Roy Davis, comQa-Ries for contributions of vitamins.
who spends most of his time at the State
Department working on prisoner problems.
''Laws are different, judicial systems are
."...push the Department
different, judicial guarantees are different,
prison systems are different.''
to do more for prisoners ,,
Piled in his in-box are cables from
Manila, Nassau, Bangkok, Sydney, Cal. gary, Casablanca, Bogota and Guadalajara
"i was tenumg to push the Department
detailing new arrests. About 20-25 new
·to do more for prisoners or anyone in
-cases come in every day , Davis says.
The new arrestees shouldn't count trouble," recalls Wood, a former Peace
necessarily on bail, the right to remain Corps volunteer and psychiatric counselor.
silent, trial by jury, the right of appeal or "That seems to be the direction the
other rights provided by the American Department is leaning in. "
Still, there are definite limits to what
' legal system. Americans abroad are
,subject to the same legal procedures and consular officers can do, Hrinac points out.
penalties as the citizens in whatever And all their efforts aren't going to change
country they find themselves. In four of the basic differences between American
the ten countries where the large majority and foreign penal systems.
Says veteran consular officer Loren
of Americans are confined, this means they
are "guilty until proven innocent," the law Lawrence, "The prison system we have in
being based on the Napoleonic Code rather the United States is the product of a
. than English common law. Pre -trial moderately enlightened nation with a
detention of up to one year is common and surplus of money to spend--and just lopk at
in some places the prisoner need not even . · our .prisons . What can you possibly
. anticipate in a poor or developing country,
•be present at his trial.
Harsh conditions and mistreatment of for example, with an already overburdened
prisoners are common in many parts of the infrastructure, that doesn't have anywhere
:world, a fact the State Department views near enough resources for people outside
with growing concern as the number of f)risons much less inside?"
As too many Americans are learning, the
Americans behind bars overseas continues
. to climb. In Mexico, where nearly 600 answer is grim. Serving time overseas is
_Americans are incarcerated (more than in the kind of trip you don't want to take.

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DonQu ixote arrives atLane
by Max Gano

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Since students here at Lane are drawing
near to'the end of another academic year of
tilting at educational windmills, it is
somewhat appropriate that this year's LCC
Performing Arts Summer Theatre will
present the Quixote of them all, "Man of
La Mancha.''
Openin_g July 9, "La Mancha" will be
directed by Ed Raggozino, conducted by
Nathan Camack, and vocally directed by
Terry Gillian, all of whom are LCC .

instructors. Roosevelt Jr. High instructor,
Arnold Laferty and political journalist
Henny Willis of the Eugene Register
Guard will appear in the lead roles of Don
Miguel de Cervantes (Don Quixote) and his
side-kick Sancho Panza, respectively.
This will be Summer Theatre's second
year at Lane. Last year's· production,
'God spell" ran for a· total of 20
performances, from the first performances
in the fall of 1974. Because of the

P.E.S.

Dr. Libido on

by Bill Buckel
During the past week I have been
visiting the mountain retreat of Dr. Brian
Libido, eminent socio-psychiatric researcher who has spent the past five years1
studying the effects of modern con-

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venience on the role ot American wom~n.

Dr. Libido's new book, Bustles to Bitches,
goes beyond the aspect of idle frustration
and deals directly with the basic force
behind the rpovement: The Penis Envy
Syndrome (P.E.S.).
Dr. Libido, in your book you describe the
evolution of the woman's movement from
the struggle for emancipation into the
country's biggest headache since· the
repeal of prohibition. Does this mean that
the liberation movement has lO"St its
practical purpose?
.
"No, the Equal Rights Amendment is
the last battle for justification of womens
existence in society. However, once it has
been lega11y proven that women are
people, they will still be left with their
original frustration.''
And what is that frustration, Dr. Libido?
"The frustration of not being a man of_ourse ! That is where the movement
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.~sefullness. The empty hours spent doing
their hair have combined with an irrational
envy of the husbands ro1e in society. After
women began to imitate their fathers and
husbands they discovered that our society
was not oriented toward dealing with both
sexes equally.''
How will the passage of the ERA affect
the liberation movement?
"The ERA will only cure the symptoms
of the libbers discontent, but not its cause.
Some of the older veterans of the
movement wiil claim victory but younger
members will see it as anticlimactic. No
pun intended. Those younger women will
still be left with the frustration of not being
men, and so will have to form new groups
to further their cause."
Dr. Libido, if a constitutional amendment makes women the equals of man,
what more can they ask for?
"No one is sure since we have not
reached that point, but I believe that new
movements will be advocating "womens
awareness.'' Women will begin to form
<:!xclusive mutual admiration societies.
fhese societies may even attempt to prove
that women are more equal than men. The
ultimate method to cope with their P.E.S.''
Dr. Libido, your book wil1 create quite a
stir among womens groups across the
country; what reaction do you anticipate?
"The book has been labeled a chauvinistic slander of womens liberation by
several groups, however, only two have
1written threatening letters. None of them
have a sense of humor."
Then you take these threats seriously
doctor?
"Hell yes! What do you think all this
barbed wire is for--decoration?"

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Eldon Schafer has been elected this month
to the Board of Directors of the American
Association of Community and Junior
Colleges.
President , Schafer is one of 18 Board
members and one of six elected this year
by a national mail ballot among 1,100member colleges in the U.S., Canada, and
Puerto Rico.
He will take office for a three-year term

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organization for the benefit of, and open to, an·
interested people under the age of 22. Meetings are held Monday evenings at 7:30. For
more information and meeting locations, call
Carol 343-.8130, or Chris 746-675S.

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·RATES for classified advertising are S.2!
a line (S short words malre one line), Ads
must be paid in advance in the TORCH
office, Meeting notices, rides to school
and give-away items will receive free
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Renowned poet
to speak
at forum 302
Diane Wakoski, author of ten collections
of poetry and who has received at least five
grants for the arts, and held the position of
Poet in Residence at 11 conferences,
colleges and universities, will be the guest
at a Poetry Reading and Creative writing
seminar Tuesday, June 1.
The resident writer from the University
of Michigan has, in addition, published
nine volumes of poetry including, THE
WANDERING TATTLER, and LOOKING
FOR THE KING OF SPAIN.
The reading, which will begin at 1 p.m.
and continue until 2 p.m., will be held in
Forum 302. The Creative Writing Seminar
which will include an open discussion, will
last from 2:30-3:30 p.m. and will also be
held in Forum 302.
The afternoon will be sponsored by the
Language Arts Department and the
Women's Awareness Center, and jointly
sponsored by a grant from the Oregon Arts
Commission and the National Endowment
for the Arts, a federal agency created by an
zct of Congress, 1965.

Students awarded
Two Lane Community College Business
students have been selected by the
Business Department faculty for awards
given annually to recognize the outstanding students in the department.
President Eldon Schafer presented Judy
Noe with the National Observer award and
Mike Rugloski with the Wall Street Journal
award on May 18. The two were selected
by a faculty vote for their grade point
average, attitude, work experience, and
nearness to completion of their program.
Mrs. Noe, 27, of Cheshire, is an
accounting/ clerical student in the second
year of a two-year program. She has
maintained a 3.96 grade point average
while a student at LCC. Following
graduation this summer, she plans to work
locally in the accounting field.
Rugloski, 30, of Eugene, is a business
management student having completed 45
hours at LCC with a 4. 0 grade point
average. He attends night school while
serving as the account services manager at
the Eugene Hospital and Clinic.
Mrs. Noe and Rugloski'~ names will be
engraved on a plaque which remains in the
Business Department.

Choir to perform
The Lane Community College Baroque
Orchestra, Brass Choir, and Chamber
Choir will present a concert Thursday, May
27, at 8 p.m. in the Performing Arts
Theatre.
Nathan Cammack directs the Baroque
Orchestra and the Brass Choir, and Wayte
Kirchner directs the Chamber Choir.
The concert, which is free, will include a
variety of works by composers ranging
from Antonio Vivaldi and George Friedrich
Handel to Norman Luboff and Leonard
Bernstein.

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popularity of those earlier shows, "Godspell" was revived expressly for Summer
Theatre and became one of the most
successful shows produced here.
" 'La Mancha' is best described as an
open set, a very fluid set," according to
director Raggozino. He says "units of
scenery become lots of different things.''
In fact, make-up will actually be applied by
the actors while on stage.
This will take place during the first
portion of the show, in which the author of
the play, Cervantes himself is cast into
prison and is subjected to a mock trial by
his fellow prisoners.
In his defense Cervantes produces a
manuscript in order to prove his worth. It
is decided that the script should be acted
out by the prisoners and Cervantes, taking
the lead role, becomes Don Quixote. The
pace quickens, and it gradually becomes
clear that Cervantes and Quixote are
actually the same, not just <i.n actor and a
role.
Although ·the staging of "La Mancha"
will be unique, there will be no conceptual
changes in the script. Raggozino thinks of
"La Mancha" as a "lilly not to be
guilded."
Summer Theatre at Lane is entirely
self-sustaining, even to the extent of being
charged a "rent" fee by LCC for the use of
the theatre. This restricts the ability of
Summer Theatre to offer a reduced price to
LCC students and staff, but tickets will be
available for them on June 1, a week before
the box office opens to the general public.
The price is four dollars and all seats are
sold on a reserve basis. ~~mdents as well as
staff members should have proper I.D.
available if purcha~ing tickets early.
Besides being available here at the
Performing Arts Box Office, tickets will be
;;old at Meier and Frank, in the Valley
River Center, and at Carl Grieves
Jewelers. "La Mancha" will run through
July 24.

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graduate and some of us will find jobs.
Some are cleaning out our desks; picking
up the notes that may or may not be used
again next fall at LCC.
As I get close to the end, an almost
painful nostalgia envelopes me ... I've felt
it coming on for the past several weeks.
I've developed some very pleasant relationships this last year while working for
the TORCH and with the Health and PE
Department. I'm not enthused about the
idea of leaving an environment which has
accepted me as I am.
I find there is an amazing similarity
between the philosophies of Dick Newell,
Health and PE Department Chariman and
Mike McLain, Editor of the TORCH.
I've written considerably about the
former department, but most fol½s don't
know about the intensity which goes into
putting out a newspaper. Advertising has to be sold. Facts have to be gathered. Interviews. Assimilation. Writing the stories ... maybe 20 people writing stories, mostly on
Mondays and Tuesdays. Once written there is editing, correcting small errors. and
asking the writers for revisions in other areas. Revisions. Re-edits. Typesetting ... the
job which justifies (balancing the margins on each side of the columns) the type you see in
print ... proofreading. Then corrections back to the typesetter.
Each page must be designed according to space available because of ads and usable
copy and photos.
Each typeset story gets trimmed to the size seen in the paper and is placed on. paste-up
sheets. Headlines fly around in your mind to finally come out on paper.
You write down the headline and calculate what size type will best suit your story and
then go through the physical process of making.it appear from an uncooperative headliner
machine.
Cut and wax. Hot wax is applied to the back of stories, headlines, ads, and corrections
to make them stick to the sheets and yet still be moveable.
Throughout paste-up, headlining, reproofing, straightening and squaring, the photo
editor works with photos ... mug shots, photo stories, developer, contact prints, then you
change the cover, get prints, talk to each editor, and finish with the rest of it sometime
between one and four a.m.
TORCH folk are full-time students ... some work-study, some paid [I get $35 a month],
some hold other jobs, some with talent, some with hard work, some spacey, some
grumpy, but all working together.

The team that's functioning over here for you folk out there is a damn good unit. There
are too few people who realize how good LCC's paper really is. Every story has quality;
some have different slants than others.
The ~ORCH is great for reading while on the john, because there always se~ms to be
something else in the paper that I haven't read. I usually complete an issue across the
hall from the TORCH the day before the next one comes out.
"We came out every week," smiled Editor McLain, "and . . . with a pretty good
newspaper. Consistency--that's what we accomplished."
He continued, "My biggest frustration is that sometimes I feel like nobody's
listening."
Athletic coaches at LCC say the salne thing, "Here we are, fighting for the title,
winning most of them, and our community doesn't know we exist. And we don't have
athletic scholarships to offer either."
Dick Newell's philosophy with respect to priorities is "balance--afford the student the
best physical education possible and yet promote the gifted athlete to his fullest potential.
But not one in access of the other--balance."
I would continue with a diatribe about Health & PE, equally as boring as the TORCH
accolade, but if you've read this column, you've read about the PE people in earlier
columns and they represent the department well. From work-study student to secretary,
from ageless instructor to part-time coach, from custodian to equipment manager, LCC
provides fine athletic services.
The facilities themselves are kept in order and the department is a credit to the
community. And in turn, the college should be recognized by its community.
Balance.
'
"Balance," McLain editorialized to me, "is the most important . . . (balance) is the
very core of my philosophy about what a newspaper is. Listen to and present both sides of
each story. Newspaper people must divorce themselves from their own subjectivity in
order to be objective about the situation. I think all people should learn how to free their
thoughts to accept new input ... the process is called learning."
I don't think the community has had the opportunity to learn the value of this
community college. I don't think the administration uses the very resources that it has at
hand to promote this institution to its fullest. Mass Communication, while adequately
taught at LCC, is not effectively practiced and voters chronically reject realistic budgets
because they haven't suitable, positive, consistent information ·about LCC.
Except for the TORCH, creative stories concerning LCC activities have been
infrequent. English teachers doing a good job, basketball coaches recruiting well,
mechanics rebuilding a classic . . . all these people appreciate recognition . . . it gives
them a reason for being here.
Balance. If you want your community to give you money, I think you 're going to have to
give them information. Sounds only fair.
Anybody listening?

back· with a 149-4 in the discus on
Saturday. Shibley may well have taken
first had he not been injured. Just last
''In nearly every event, a new record was • week, Shibley had thrown a PR of 169-3
which would have easily bettered the top
set," Coach Al Tarpenning spoke of the
throw at the nationals (160- l).
National NJCAA track and field meet.
'' But we were glad to take so many
"For the first time, all running events were
people and have them finish so wel1. Gary
measured in metres rather than yards and
Barnes just missed qualifying for the 400
there were no existing records.''
metres in the fastest heat of the day. Bob
Pasedena, Texas hosted over 600
Moore actually cleared the qualifying
athletes for the nationals '' and the
height for the high jump but was ruled out
competition was just outstanding. Bob
Keith, of Linn Benton CC high jumped 7 of competition because of more attempts
missed. And of course Shibley's accident
feet and yet took second to Kyle Arney
kept him from placing in either the shot or
from Glendale, Arizona who jumped 7-3
discus."
and qualified for the Olympic Trials.''
Glenn Owen ran a PR of 9: 16 in the 3000
"We felt good about the meet," says
metre steeplechase for 7th place and Bill
Tarpenning. "We didn't score as many
Sharp followed for 8th and a PR of 9:21.
points as we'd like to have scored, but
Kenny Bell took ninth in both the long
eight guys went and five of those finished
in the top ten in the nation. That's pretty jump~ (23-4) and triple jump (46.9). John
Miller took 8th in the nation in the 5000
good.''
metre run with a 14:55, a n~w PR.
Bill Bailey, 18, from Cottage Grove,
Essex JC of New Jersey won the meet
finished sixth in both the shotput and the
discus, for the only two Titan points. His .with 78 points.
Tarpenning said the ·meet was well run
throwing mate all season, Al Shibley,
injured his ankle in a freak accident during on a Tartan track and the experience
warmups which took other sure points and enjoyable. "We were about JJ miles from
perhaps a national title away from the the track and right across the street from
the NASA Space Center. The athletes got
Titans.
"Shibley was just going out to pick up to visit that ... and we went together down
his shot after a warmup put. He stepped to Galveston Bay on the Gulf of Mexico for
into a hole made by a previous shotput and a little sightseeing.··
"Some of our athletes will get invitations
sprained his left ankle," Tarpenning
pondered. "Al tried to throw after that, to perform in the Prefon!aine Classic
but he couldn't get enough use out of his coming up next weekend at Hayward
Field," he concluded, "I don't kno~· who
left leg."
Bailey threw a personal record (PR) of will go but that will be our last participation
SO' t t '· in the shot on Friday and came this year ... and it's been a good year.··

Nearly an All-star .team
LCC's baseball Titans were honored
when seven of their members were chosen
to OCCAA All-conference teams last
Friday.
Third baseman Mike Montgomery and
outfielder Dave Gambino each batted .322
for the year while Pete Tyman (8-4. ERA
1.67) led the league in strikeouts. All three
were named, by vote of the OCCAA
coaches. to the All-star team.
Heady catcher Roger Plant, slugging
first baseman Joe Dufek, and versatile
freshm.an outfielder Randy Guimond were
voted as second team selections. Slick
fielding and hard throwing shortstoppitcher Rick Brummett was given honorable mention.
"This is the best bunch of ball players
we've ever had at Lane," Coach Dwayne
Miller stated, "those top three guys will be
playing Pac-8 ball or its equivalent next
year."

Miller mentioned both Oregon·~ and
Oregon State's interest in his three
All-stars and the overwhelming increase in·
the level of competition this year. '"Two
guys from our league (the OCCAA) were
drafted this week by the pros. (Glenn)
Fisher from Umpqua and I think Allan
Altman from Linn Benton siencd for
$10,000. That's the kind of competition
I'm talking about."
Miller says he feels the higher caliber
players are finding that the possibility they
can be "discovered" in this league if
they've got the talent is just as high as at
the bigger schools and at the LCC level
they will probably get to play more.
Asked to wrap up the season in a few
words. Miller said, "We've got 18 guys on
the squad and 16 of them arc from Lane
County. They played as hard as they
could . It's too bad we finished the way we
did .. . ! think we tried so hard against Linn
Benton we got in the way of ourselves.··

The weekend open gym time that has
been available to the community has been
discontinued for the remainder of the year
according to Dick Newell, Health and PE
Department Chairman.

The weekend open gym time will in now
way affect the open gym periods during the
week Newell assured me. and "'hopefully
with the problems solved. we will continue
a comparable program again in the fall.••

I

n a world buffeted by change, consider
the unchanging church key.
On a fateful day in
October, 1919. Mac C.
Rosenfeld received Patent
# 1,260,321 for it. A gleaming
symphony of spring steel. the
church key was used hy three
gcneratiuns of thirsty collegiate
Oly drinkers. Not until the twist-top
was its utility questioned, although the
Jiscrirninati11g Ofy drinker will always
keep one on hand for tav-Stubhies and
Okhime bottles .
The design of the church key hasn't
changed because it was made with skill.
ingenuity and simplicity. A great beer
docsn 't change for many of the same
reasons. If it's done right going in, you '11
have an unchanging standard of quality.
Some things never change. Olympia
never will.

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Apa thy plaguin'g candidates
(CPS)--"He's a paraplegic.
He's
paralyzed from the waist down, but the
other candidates are paralyzed from the
waist up.:•
George C. Wallace says that. A law
student at Auburn University in Montgomery, the thin, long-haired, former t
.;,OUt1try-singing son of George C. ·sr. is
stumping mightily for daddy this election
year, addressing Wallace fundraisers all
over the country ••almost every weekend,'•
according to a spokeswoman in Wallace
campaign headquarters. "We're very
enthused about our chances," Wallace Jr.
declares. "We have definite solid core
support across the country and there are no
plans for withdrawal.''
Fellow Alabamian law student Joe
Watley disagrees. Watley and several
University of Alabama friends have put
together a damming, investigative study of
the Wallace years in Alabama, and a
couple of huge labor unions have reprinted
the booklet and distributed it in several
early primary states. With Wallace fairing
poorly in these contests, Watley and
company are taking some of the credit.
"I think it's having an impact," Watley
claims. "For the first time, people are
beginning to question George Wallace on
his record in Alabama. For the first time,
Wallace is being put on the defensive."
Young Wallace and Watley, both
students deeply immersed in this year's
burgeoning electoral shenanigans, -are
noteworthy simply because there aren't
many other students or young people who
have seen fit to enter the political fray in
1976. In fact, reports from around the
country indicate that like many adults,
many stu9ents have decided to sit this one
out.
Jimmy Carter, sweeping victoriously
through the early primary states and
frequently mentioned as the chief contender for the Democratic Party nomination,
has been unable to muster much student
response even in New York, where in 1972
George McGovern had over 40,000 student
volunteers pounding the pavement, answering phones and passing out political
literature.
"It seems an impossible dream at this
point to get students involved," Jerry
Ciarpelli, a Carter student coordinator in
Upstate New York, told The New York
Times recently. "People say even their
friends don't want to get involved."
Howard Leibowitz, another Carter volunteer, echoed Ciarpelli' s feelings. "It's like
pulling teeth to get volunteers, but we're
getting our share. Students are just not
very active," Leibowitz explains.
Just before the New York primary on
April 6, Carter's statewide student
strength was estimated at 400, only as
many McGovern students as campaigned

in Brooklyn alone in 1972. Morris Udall,
the only candidate with a "liberal" label
still alive in the primaries, had put together
a work force which numbered 1,500
students. •
The story is the same in other primary
states. Each candidate has been able_to
tear a certain number of students away
from their studies to jump on his
bandwagon, but in every case, the
numbers are much lower than in 1972 or
1968.
Why? Many students say a lack of an
issue in this year's election--no Nixon or
Vietnam war to rebel against--has forced
many of them to opt for anything other
than politics this spring. Harvard senior
Joseph Fay. a student" coordinator during
the short-lived campaign of R. Sargent
Shriver, attributed the low number of
students applying for leaves at the
normally highly politicized Cambridgt
campus to the lack of a Eugene McCarthy-,
type candidate who can stir young people's
feelings. "Without such a candidate or ,
issue, it is difficult to recruit," Fay says.
The economy, particularly the grim
student job prospects, has apparently
failed to stfr anyone's· feelings either.
•'The economy is a remote issue,'' offers
Richard Bartman, a 20 year old New York
student who supports Fred Harris. "It
affects my parents but not me." Another
New York student, William Hartung, says
he became outraged about the war after he
•'found out what was happening,'' but he
doesn't feel the same about the economy.
"Economics isn't as clear cut," Hartung
explains. «J can't say I know what should
be done.''
In the west, University of Utah senior
Poppy Sholl, coordinator of a program
designed to encourage students to vote,
thinks young people are "more concerned
for themselves personally than causes this
year."
Although Sholl says her program,
"Participation '76," is going "rather
well,'' she finds little activity on campus in
the way of students getting involved in the
presidential campaign. "They're more
interested in getting into law school,'' the
political science major says.
Many political pundits feel that the
conscious act of refusing to vote, not to be
confused with voter apathy, is catching on
with adult voters this year, and possibly •
with students as well. At a recent mass
rally involving some 10,000 students
protesting budget cuts in Albany, New
York, one budding student politician took
the mike and urged the students to get out
and register to vote. He was promptly
hooted off the platform.
"No one is stupid enough anymore to
think they'll have any effect, whereas in
1972 they thought they would, " says

student Richard Agriss, somewhat bitterly.
Several polls have predicted that over half
of the 150 American eligible to vote will
stay home this year, leading some experts
to talk of a new "cynical majority." a~d
others to assess the non-voting situation as
"frightening."
Last October, a speaker at Bowdoin
College in Maine told students they were '
"politically apathetic." Rising to the
challenge of proving it isn't so, some
students staged a mock Democratic
convention in early February in the
Bowdoin gym, complete with students
representing 387 delegates from the 50
states, the territories and the District of
Columbia. After hours and hours of
long-winded speeches, on-the-floor political arm twisting, many gatherings of small
cabals and much chaos, Hubert Humphrey
emerged afrom a smoke-filled room the
victor on about the 10th ballot at 2:20 a.m.
On the other hand, some University of
Texas students have taken a different tact
to show off their politics this year. Calling
themselves "Students for Nixon-Agnew
and Now Reagan (SNANR)." the group has
sponsored a "Cans for San Clemente"
drive. as well as campaigns entitled
"Pennies for Lon Nol" and "Childrens
Crusade for President Thieu," saving thev
were the ex-president's "favorite charities.'· With the entry of Reagan into
national politics, SNANR also showed the
film. "Bedtime for Bonzo," which stars the
Republican candidate and a chimp.
,;We felt this cainpus needed our
eclectic political view.'· one of the SNANR
students explained.

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ASH residents will not
have to pay interest
story on page 1

Why can't women go
shirtless?
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Pelikan said that some of the cafeteria
area, now characterized by lines of people
waiting for food service, with raucus noise
hardly conducive to study and rest, may be
used to accomodate lounge activity with
comfortable furniture, and means of
recreation (pool, for example) that students
want and respect.
There will be an attempt to achieve a
redefinition of the job description of the
Director of Student Activities. Pelikan said
he feels that the Senate needs a student
advisor who will be restricted to advising,
and not possess "veto power" by dint of
his authority in signing requisitions.
In regard to election reform, Pelikan
President and Vice-President do receive
three credits for their services, he said,
academic credit should be extended to
everybody who is involved, who are
producing, and have a committment to a
project. He said ASLCC is a form of
"Supervised Field Experience," and participants deserve some "remuneration."

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Quixote comes to LCC
story on page 6

In the process of trying to get above the rigors of acadamia,
Michael climbs to the top of the wooden statue erected this
year to commemorate Lanes tenth' birthday, with a faint cry of
"High ho Sliver."
Photo by Jeff Hayden