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Vol. 14 No. 2 October 7, 1976

Student's $250
stolen from
padlocked locker
By Kathy Monje
Tom Woods, an LCC pre-dental major,
returned from his badminton class Oct.1
and found that $250 was missing from his
still-padlocked locker.
Woods had paid his tuition with a
National Defense Loan; the money was the
remainder of the loan. He left his wallet,
containing 1he money, in a metal locker
(not a basket) provided by the P.E.
Department for students.
''The only way someone could have
gotten into the locker was to open the back
of the padlock with a key, or to have
already known the combination ... there is
a box of computer cards with both the

locker numbers and
the combinations on
them behind the attendant's window,"
said Woods.
The attendants had
not noticed anyone
near the locker, but
the room is open to ·
all students and their
comings and goings
are not monitored.

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Woods reported the theft to LCC
Security and to Dean of Students, Jack
Carter.
When contacted by the TORCH, Carter•
said, "We have checked with our
insurance company and it does not cover
individual losses to students.'' He said
that ''the cost of such insurance would
probably be prohibitive."
LCC Security personnel refused to
comment at this time, pending investigation of the theft.
Woods has since changed his lock, but
wonders if other students will suffer
similar losses.

President had charisma

Collector impressed by Lincoln
Story and {)hotos by Michael Riley

• 'The two things about Lincoln that
impress me the most are his integrity and
his charisma," Sid Austin, LCC mailroom
courier, told the TORCH in a recent
interview.
Austin has lived in Oregon for most of
his life and states that he is a " ... fourth

generation Oregonian." He collects
memorabilia on Abraham Lincoln and has
displayed his collection at various events
throughout the state.
The collection includes a bust of Lincoln
done by Volk, a famous sculptor of that
time period, a lithograph of Lincoln that,

says Austin, "Is considered to be a good
likeness according to Lincoln's son."
Other items included in the collection are a
book about Lincoln that was published the
same year he was assassinated and an
etching of Lincoln that Austin obtained in
Eastern Oregon. These items are just a
part of th~ actual collection that is still in
storage.
Austin's collection started· in 1965 with
Lincoln pennies and a Lincoln bank.
"That's what got me really into it," says
Austin, "from there I got the etching and
some early American school readers on his
life." Austin has not read all the books
that he has on Lincoln. His collection
includes over 35 volumes all dealing with
our 16th president.

admires a bust of Abraham Lincoln sculpted by Volk.

Austin also collects inkstands and is
presently waiting for a reproduction of an
inkstand used in the signing of the
Declaration of Independence. He told the
TORCH that only 56 of these replicas will
be made, the same number as the people
who signed the important document.
Austin also ordered the stand on the 200th
anniversary of the day that the Declaration
was publicly read.
Both collections are impressive, Austin,
is knowledgeable in both, and one cannot
help but see the love that he holds for
Abraham Lincoln. This summer, Austin
went on a "Bicentennial Trip" back east
and visited many of the same places that
Lincoln visited over 100 years ago.
Austin's inkstands will be on display in
the LCC Library from November 22 to
December 17. The display, titled, "200Years of Writing Impliments in the United
States of America,'' will include the replica
of the inkstand used in the signing of the
Declaration of Independence and other
stands used throughout America's history.

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n inkstand simiiiar to the type us;d by Linc~ln sits next to a book about the
President published the same year as his death.

Also this term Austin will be speaking at
a "Brown Bag Forum'' on the Bicentennial. The forum will be announced in the
LCC daily bulletin.

IRS says

low income
returns available•
Although the April 15th deadline for
filing Federal income tax returns is past,
some low-income individuals who didn't
file tax returns because of low-income can
still receive up to $400 from the
government by filing a return at this late
date, according to the Internal Revenue
Service.
The $400 payment is the maximum
provided under an '' Earned Income
Credit" established by Congress. The
credit can only be paid to those filing
income tax returns, even though they
would not otherwise be required to file a
return because their earnings are so low,
the IRS said.
To qualify for the credit, workers must
have received less than $8,000 in total
income from all sources in 1975--including
wages, salary, tips, or other employee
compensation. Additionally, the individuals must have paid more than half the cost
of maintaining a home in the United States
for themselves and at least one dependent
child for the entire year. The dependent
child must be younger than 19 years old, or
a full-time student.
Those qualifying for the credit who had
total income of $4,000 or less would receive
a check for ten percent of their earned
income, up to the maximum of $400. The
amount of the credit is reduced when
income from all sources runs between
$4,000 and $8,000, the IRS said.
Individuals who believe they may qualify
for the credit, but who haven't filed an
income tax return this year, should check
with their nearest Internal Revenue Service
office.

ASLCC applications due
The application deadline for ASLCC
positions has been changed from October 8
to October 15. For further information
contact Karl Bien, ASLCC Vice-President,
in Student Government offices.

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Commentary by Sally Oljar
1968: A banner stretches across •
the west end of the Center Building,
exclaiming, "Pigs go home!!!"
Armed police Jump from steel vans
and quickly spread themselves to
form a wall between the building and
the students.
The students scream obscenities
and well-wom political slogans from
the bottom of the stairs. Their
leaders shout encouragement from
the third floor balcony.
The tens.ion Is contagious and
spreads &om students to police; the
students provoking the cops and the
cops just waiting to crack their heads
open.
The "pigs" unleash billy clubs
from their belts and with almost
religious zeal, bring them down on
the heads of the students. The first
scream of &fght is heard among the
crowd and panic spreads, like the
tear gas cannisters that release
poison.
A file cabinet is thrown through a
window in the library, miraculously
missing someone's head. Glass,
paper, fire, and students are scattered over the courtyards between
the Center and Business buildings.
Harry and Jan ignore the bloodshed around them, and in their own
sort of protest, make love on the
stairway leading to the bookstore.
"Violence is a turn-on," Harry says
to Jan.
Does any of this sound
familiar?
Almost ten years ago, the film
"Getting Straight" was shot at the
LCC campus.
Oh my, how things have changed.
Elliott Gould plays Harry, the
sexist, smart-ass-know-it-all, former
"radical" who is trying to get
"straight" in order to complete his
master's degree in education. He's
got some real problems, though, not
the least of which is his impatience
with anyone less brillant than he is.
And his brillance, or the producer's
idea for a_"star student/' "is open to
question by anyone.
Candice Bergen is Jan, a middleflass WASP who possesses a "perfectly chiselled nose." (It's true.
I've never seen one more beautifully
sculpted.) She's trying to calm the
war raging in her soul: Marriage/

kids/suburbia or self-made revolutionary?
The other characters are a crosssection of the sixties more politically
oriented students; a few black
militants, some hippies (one of
whom freaks out when he goes for
his draft physical, then turns Harry
in for cheating on a test, thus getting
him kicked out of the education
dept.), and feminists. But there are
no gay people, though, as far as I
could tell.
The plot, if you could call it that,
revolves around student demands for
a later curfew, a Black Studies
Department, and for more freedom
to run their own lives.
Harry, much to his dismay, is
elected to take the demands to the
President. After discussing it with
the Board of Regents, the President
comes back with a "compromise:" a
10:00 p.m. curfew, and scholarships
for five black and one chicane
student. (I guess the feminists
didn't have any demands, or maybe
they were ignored, not being important enough to warrant any consideration.
Harry looks first at the President
in disgust, then through the window
(the window in the Board Room in
the Administration Building) and
sees a kid getting his head· busted
open over a 10:00 p.m. curfew. He
then says to him, "Don't try to hold
back time. It'll tear your arms out."_
It's probably the best line in the
movie.
I guess it has. Maybe no one has .
had any limbs tom off, but time has
definitely moved forward. •
Leaving the· film showing in the
Forum Building, my friends and I
walked down into the late afternoon
sunshine, blinked our eyes, and
looked around in a sort of dream-like
state.
The courtyard was peaceful as the
wind blew gently through the trees.
A few students were walking toward
their cars. No broken glass, here.
The trash cans weren't burning and
people were walking quietly between
the buildings.
It was hard to believe I'd seen so
much blood on the concrete and the
stairways that I've walked on so
many times. If I hadn't seen the
blood on that kid's head, I might

Letters

Letters
To the Editor:
On September 9, Mao Tsetung, chairman of the Communist Party of China, died
at age 82. Who was this man, that even the
rulers of the United States, after viciously
slandering him and ~hina for over 20
years, find themselves in a position where
the President must say: Mao Tsetung was
a remarkable and great man? Who was he
~that the two most powerful countries in the
world, the US and Russia, have no leaders

that compare with him in stature, either in
love and respect from the people, of fear
and hate from enemies?
From his days as a student, and
throughout the Chinese Revolution, Mao
Tsetung stood with and led the Chinese
people in the struggle against the old
system and against those who tried to
restore it. With his leadership, and that of
the Communist Partv, the people trans-

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was ever accomplished that satisfied
everyone.
I'm glad that the violence that
characterized the sixties, and climax••
ing at Kent State in 1270, is over.
But I wish I saw more energy put into
communication between administrators and students.
Anyway, I enjoyed the movie. It
was a flash from the past, a memory
of an exciting time, that in some
ways now seems rather· .ddiculous.
I'm glad no one is going to clobber
me for wanting to stay out past 10:00
p.m.

have laughed. A riot over a curfew?
I suppose the movie was symbolic
of changes, not only at LCC, but at
most campuses around the country.
It gave me some time for a little
reflection on the state of education
and what all this violence in the last
ten years has brought.
The last few years of the '60's, and
the forces that clashed on campuses
around the country, have helped to
bring the relative peace and freedom
we have today.
Black Studies departments are on
almost every campus except, ironically, at LCC, where the Ethnic
Studies Dept. was disbanded last
year. Dorms are coed, student
newspapers have a high degree of
independence, and I don't think
anyone remembers a curfew.
As for making love on stairways i~
the middle of a riot ... well, violence
doesn't turn me on, but then, neither
does apathy.
There are those who feel that
students still don't have a strong
enough voice in the way universities
and community colleges are being
run. I've heard them talk about it,
but what's being done?
Where were they this summer
when the LCC Board of Education
cut out student legal services while
cancelling mandatory student fees?
Except for a few people involved in
the ASLCC, no one cared, as far as I
could see. And with the mandatory
fees went a proposed childcare
program, without a whimper from
anyone.
Have we run out of issues? I don't
see how. I don't know if everyone
has mellowed out, gotten ·01e1, or is .
just tired of ttghting.

A couple of instructors, Paul
Malm, Social Science Dept. Chairman, and Language Arts Dept.
Chairman John Howard, appeared in
the last sequence of the film.
Harry is taking the oral examination for his master's, and in the
middle of an instructor's spee<;h
about F. Scott Fitzgerald's homosexuality as exspressed in ''The Great
Gatsby," Harry realizes he's never
going to make it in the straight
world.
Malm and Howard appear as part
of the group that test Harry. And
although they don't have any
dialogue, they do very well at
running out of the room when Harry
explodes into a frenzy after decidinP
to blow to hell his chances of getting
degree.
When I called Malm to get his
comment on the film, he told me,
surprisingly enough, that he hadn't
"I think it was a
seen it.
disreputable movie," was his opinion.
He said he hadn't seen the entire
script before he was asked to appear.
and felt that the producers had made
instructors look "like idiots."
Cecil Kellaway, (now deceased)
who portrayed an instructor, impressed Malm with his '' gentleness and
professionalism." He added that his
feelings about Elliott Gould were
exactly in reverse.
As for the riot scenes that
appeared in the film, Malm said,
"Nothing like that," had happened
at LCC.

We've forgotten that much of
today's "academic freedom" is the
result of a long struggle between
administrators and students. Although both groups have quit yelling
at each other over barricades
[they've moved that kind of dialogue
to board rooms], there still doesn't
seem to be any real communication,
or more importantly, any real effort
at working together.
I've always felt like I was in a
vacuum at all the Board meetings
I've attended. Everyone went
through the motions, but nothing

About SO or 60 people attended
last Thursday's film, which was
sponsored by the ASLCC.

Co-ed dorms change
men, women students

Letters
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formed China from a country where they
lived in misery and oppression to an
advancing socialist country where the ·
workers and peasants rule. He pointed the
direction for the working class and
oppressed people not only of China but for
the whole world .
Mao Tsetung's life and death have given
rise to a lot of questions, which the rich
man's press has tried to answer in its own
way. Was Mao Tsetung an "idealist" who
pulled China together by his sheer
strength, vision and will? Will the Chinese
Revolution continue? Do Mao Tsetung's
contributions apply just to China, or do
they have anything to do with the rest of
the world?
The Revolutionary Student Brigade
(RSB) at the University of Oregon is
sponsoring a memorial meeting on Thursday, Oct.7, at 7:30 p.m. in the Erb
Memorial Student Union (room to be
posted) on the University campus. We will
be paying tribute to Mao Tsetung and
talking about t.hese questions and others.
The RSB invites all LCC students to come
learn about Mao Tsetung, the struggle he
helped build. and the lessons we can learn
.from his life.
John Lanier
Peter Harvey

(CPS)--Does co-ed dorm living mess up
your head? Yes, no and sort of, according
to two Stanford University psychiatrists
who reported their findings in Human
Behavior magazine.
The pair quizzed 900 freshmen students
at a large public school in a small town
where most students live in university
housing. They found that overall, co-ed
dorms are more pleasant, relaxed, friendly, enjoyable and that the atmosphere
promotes greater personal growth than
single sex living arrangements.
They discovered men who opt for co-ed
living have higher academic and career
goals, like to drink beer and think of
themselves as easy going and "on top of
the world."
Women in co-ed housing, however, were
found to be quite different than their
female classmates stuck in women-only
dorms. Women who lived under the same
roof as men had higher academic aspirations, took part in more social and cultural
activities and engaged in more of what the
psychiatrists call ''impulsive-deviant
behavior," which means they occasionally
break school rules and drink hard liquor.
These women also had a better self
image than other university first year
women. thev described themselves as
"easy going," and they were l~ss likely to
view themselves as cautious.

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Ma Bell demanding-------

How to avoid

1nstRUCtORS' t=oRum

phone deposits
(CPS)--Ask not for whom Ma Bell tolls.
She tolls for students around the country
who pay anywhere from $40 to $100 in
deposit fees for new telephone service.
These extravagant payments are no
indication, however, of any financial
distress in Ma Bell's kitchen. American
Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) reported
net earnings of $ l. 1 billion for the past
three months, a record rivalled only by the
Exxon Corporation. The Bell system has
already received approval for 32 regional
increases so far this year which will provide
$641 million in added revenue.
These figures offer little comfort to the
student dealing with the phone company
for the first time. In DeKalb, Illinois, two
seniors at Northern Illinois University with
good credit and a similar record of long
distance calls for three years had completely different experiences at Continental
Telephone Company. One student was
charged $50 in deposit fees while the other
was only charged an automatic installation
fee of $14. When asked about this
discrepancy, a manager at Continental' s
DeKalb office said that _the phone company
employees are hired~at_the beginning of the
school year rush and often charge
differently.
Phon e· companies are generally not
allowed to use anything other than their
own records to check a credit rating. In
most cases, if a student has not had a
phone in the past, the phone company
charges twice the student's estimate of one
month• s long distance calls plus twice the
local monthly charge as a deposit. Under
federal law, telephone companies must pay
interest on deposits and return them if the
person has paid the telephone bill for nine
months.
In general, a student who gives a. higher
estimate of long distance or toll ca11s risks
paying a higher deposit. One case in
DeKalb involved a student who estimated
she would make $40 worth of toll calls and
was charged a $100 deposit. When she
returned with a lower estimate, she was
charged a lower fee.
At the Rochester Telephone Company.
which is not part of the Bell system, the
situation is not much different. A series of
six questions is asked of a prospective
phone owner which include name, address,
employment and income-source data.
Each of these questions, when answered,
receives either a negative or positive rating
from the phone company. For example, if
a person has lived at his or her residence
for fewer than two years, this is a
"negative" response according to the
phone company. Full-time student status
is a "positive" answer. The only time a
student's deposit fee is computed according to estimated long distance calls is if the
student has never had phone service. A
Rochester Telephone Company official said
that college students are treated the same
way as residents.
The situation is different for the
on-campus students at the Unviversity of
Rochester who is, by virtue of living in the
dormitories. automatically treated to a
telephone, courtesy of Rochester Telephone's Centrex system serving the UR
since 1967.
The University of Rochester has agreed
with the phone company to pay for campus
phone service in one lump sum. When
asked for an estimate of the sum, Mary
Inis, a centrex operator at the University
could only say "it's alot."
Students with on-campus phone service
are issued toll-billing numbers resembling
credit card numbers at the beginning of the
school year by Rochester Telephone. A
student cannot elect to have phone service
shut off and in protest, several students
turn in their cards each year.
There are ways to avoid the deposit
problem that are simply kept under wraps.
If a student has had Bell service in another
state and maintained good credit, he or she
should not be required to pay the deposit
fee,

by Ted Romoser, Language Arts and
English Composition instructor
Study Skills classes are bulging,
basic composition courses are sold
out, people are seeking skills, my
students are attentive and listen
carefully to see what assignments
must be completed. The year is
starting quietly; no demonstrations
no agonies over war, drugs , politics,
sex, race.
Sounds like good news for a
teacher, right? Well, for this teacher
the answer is a definite maybe.
Here's why. It's like mornings when
you step out the door into a foggy
Oregon/ Scottish Highlands kind of
day and sniff to see if the wind is
blowing over the Springfield mill
toward you or if that's just healthy
thick air. I'm sniffing the atmosphere at LCC and other colleges and
wondering if there isn't a faint odor
that can't quite decide if it's healthy
activity and economic energy or if
it's pollution.
I'll tell you why a quiet year might
keep unpleasant notions lurking far
back in the conclusion-jumping,
department of my mind, if you'll
accept my theory about good teaching and good writing and (your part)
good learning.
Good teaching, like good writing,
requires a point of view, a position, a
relationship to the people in classes
and to the material being taught.
Writers whose work is alive and
moving, don't just write about
something, they believe strongly,
have a definite attitude toward their
subject. Good teachers know what
they think about the various materials and theories and techniques used
in their classes, whether they're
talking about history or how tightly
to adjust the valves. They sort out,
and accept or reject. Investigative
journalists like Woodward and Bernstein created excitement and told a
good story because they had a point'
of view toward Watergate. And
good students learn well not by
memorizing everything presented
but by sorting out what they like or

don't like , by comparing new
information with what -they know
already, by questioning. What
learners, writers and teachers have
in common is position, point of view,
beliefs.
So the year begins quietly, but is
this a quiet of satisfaction , a quiet of
people with settled positions and
definite directions? Or is this a quiet
of timidness, a quiet of insecurity, a
quiet of people and a society without
positions? That's my worry.
A few years ago the books of
readings we used in composition
classes had themes. They were
essays, poems, stories, newspaper
articles on civil rights, the the war,
then the role of women. Students
and teachers had positions all over
the place, violently for and violently
against. We had crusades (on all the
issues above), we had Nader versus
GM, Humphrey versus Nixon, a
long-haired student jumping up in
heated classroom discu~sion to point
a finger of accusation at an exMarine and accuse him of being a
closet Yippie after the Marine
accused him of being conservative.
And I think most students also
learnPn hasic skills.

Now we're all clamoring "back to
the basics," learning practical skills
and skipping the frills, there's talk
again about making community
colleges purely vocational. On the
national level, we have two major
candidates (no, maybe I should say
candidates of major parties) who
take a nationally televised debate
and do what? While one hundred
million people (at the beginning)
wait for one of the leaders to show
himself as a person with something
to say, they both play it safe. One
tries to make a virtue of having done
nothing and planning to continue,
the other tries to make a virtue of
general emotions of love and trust.
Both come across as boring technicians who are good at memorizing
statistics. But do positions come
across clearly? They didn't, and I
was one of the ten people west of the
Mississippi River who paid attention
to the entire debate, even the
silence.
Maybe you see why I'm worried
about quietness. Is this the quiet of
the hollow men, "headpieces filled
with straw," that the poet T .S. Eliot
described as typical of our modem
age: people without emotions,
without commitments, without positions?
Maybe that's not who we _3:~e. but
just to argue, say it's true and
Are we
speculate about why.
intimidated by discovering that the

economy can be so badly handled
that it won't provide jobs for eleven
per cent of Lane County's work
force, so we need to shout up about
issues and get trained? Ar~ we
disgusted by actors in high places
who tell us they're not crooks while
lifting our moral wallets or who use
the public payroll to create a Capital
Playboy Club, so we're ready to give
up on the whole process of political
battle and compromise? Or are we
just worn out by wars and assassinations?
Those are some of my guesses.
And you can add six more of your
favorites. We both end the same
place: The atmosphere of education
at LCC and other colJeges is different
now, it's quiet.
I'm afraid quiet may slide over to
passive, and I don't believe education happens to peopl~. I think
people have to reach out and grab it,
then wrestle with it and take some
bruises from it. No one is going to
get an education or give one if we
think it will ·be like the shof line at
military induction centers: a dose of
typhus, a dose of flu, a dose of
tetanus. No, not that way. We 'll ·
end with the disease instead of the
cure.
Here's why I'm worried about
quietness. It just might mean people
have decided to go along and make
out as best they can with things as
they are. Maybe people have lost
the belief that individuals can
change anything by caring and
acting, by taking positions and
fighting for them. Probably our
belief in the individual's ability to
::hange the system has been too
simple and optimistic; but sometimes it has worked. And belief that
some one person can begin to change
things is not far removed from belief
in yourself. Bot~ of those beliefs
have been important in keeping our
society healthy.
I want you to get employed and to
get at LCC the skills you need for
employment. But I also want you to
use LCC as a testing ground for
positions. I want you to take classes
aggressively. To take positions. To
say, "I accept this but I reject that."
I want you to look for classes that will
give you a chance to test your
positions on all your concerns as an
individual and citizen. Personally,
I'd prefer a year that required me to
put up with lots of boorish behavior,
with crusades, objections, and even
noisily wasted time in gassy debates.
I'd prefer that to a quiet year spent
with passive people.

Retirem ent class offered
"Looking Forward to Retirement" is a
new class for couples preparing for
retirement in the near future. The course
is offered by LCC at the Kaufman Senior
Center this term.
The ten week course, coordinated by
G.G. Goldthwaite, will feature speakers in

specialized areas to help in making
retirement decisions.
Topics that will be covered include estate
and financial planning, housing, leisure
time, physical health, medicare, consumer
fraud, personal protection, investments
and insurance. The speakers will be from
local businesses and services.

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Registration will be held this Thursday,
October 7. The Kaufman Senior Center is
located at 996 Jefferson, in Eugene. Fifteen dollars will be the fee for couples or
individuals.
For more information contact the Adult
Education Office, 747-4501, ext. 323.

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Auto/Diesel clears out its waiting list
Story by Michael Riley
LCC's Automotive ·and Diesel Technology Departments have eliminated their
waiting lists for Fall term, according to
Diesel Technology instructor Daryl Jossart.
In a recent interview with the TORCH,
Jossart talked about the department and
the number of students that are taking the
course. According to Jossart there are
" ... about 120 ... " students in the first
year courses and there are ". . . between
30 and 40 in second year Automotive and
30 or 40 in second year Diesel."

According to Jossart, job possibilities
are good. He stated that most of the
students are already employed by the time
they finish the course and that, "We could
place more good students, the ones that
are interested and really work at it. ''
One of the women enrolled in the first
year Automotive course, Elizabeth
.Simonson, likes the class. The only
problem that she has had was at the start,,
"I didn't talk mechanic language." She
did state that she has learned "a little"
and is doing bett_er than when she starteq.

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Calend ar of events

Thursday, October 7
LCC Veterans Association first fall meeting
2 p.m., President's Dining Room (immediately adjoining carpeted area of cafeteria).
Topics to be discussed include pending
legislation affecting veterans, election of
new officers, and the fall quarter getacquainted beer bust.

Felicidades will play a reggae music
benefit dance for Edcentric Magazine
WOW Hall, 8th and Lincoln, Eugene,
8 p.m., admission at the door will be $1.
Continuing Art Show at Maude Kerns Art
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Center, 1910 E. 15th Ave., Eugene.
In the Rental-Sales Gallery: Dick York will
show watercolor series entitled, "Sharing," and in the Gift Shop, LCC instructor
Kathy Hoy will be showing Chinese Brush
paintings. Both shows will continue
through October 31. All galleries are free
and open to the public.
Friday, October 8

OSPIRG will hold open house at their office
in the Student Resource Center in the
Center Building on the LCC campus from
1 - 4 p.m. Snacks will be available along
with answers to any questions you might
have about OSPIRG and what they are all
about. For more information contact Jay
Jon~<= . exc. 230.

Allison Wonderland Luminous Light Show
creator Jim Allison has appeared with such
artists as Richie Havens and Seals and
Crofts.
Two shows tonight at 9 and 10:45 p.m.,
WOW Hall, 8th and Lincoln, Eugene.
Tickets $1.50 at the door, Homefried Truck
Stop, Sun Shop, Crystal Ship and Everybody's Records.
At the second Allison Wonderland show on
Friday only, dance to the music of Wisdom
Star. Tickets for this show only are $2.
Saturday, October 9
Allison Wonderland Show again; See
Thursday events for more information.
Sunday, October 10
Community Meditation
WOW Hall, 8th and Lincoln, Eugene, from
10 - 12 a.m.
Family Circus, a Portland theatre troupe
will present two original comedies,
'· Superman Meets the Plutonium Tycoons," about nuclear energy, and "Who
Stole the Umbilical Cord," a play written
by women for women.
WOW Hall, 8th and Lincoln, Eugene,
8:30 p.m., tickets are $1.50 at the door.
Monday, October 11
Oregon Congressman Jim Weaver will
speak in the LCC cafeteria at 1:30 p.m.
For more information, contact Robert
MacMaster, ext. 221.

Carl Meyers and Tom Havercroft repair a diesel injection pump.
photos by Jeff Hayden

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Symphony prices lowered
The Eugene Symphony has preferred,
for the ensuing season only, subscription
seats in the first two rows on the main
floor, at the special price of $12 instead of
the normal $18. This is a special price and
only be available to those who purchase
their tickets no later than October 1.S .
There are still a limited number of
regular subscription seats available for the.
Tuesday or Wednesday series. These
tickets are only ·available for singles in the
$20 price range, but there are still a
nominal number left for doubles in the $18
price range. According to the latest
information, there are still many $11
non-reserved tickets still available.
And, for those of us who are either cheap
or find ourselves indigent, yet wish · to
maintain a certain cultural balance in our
lives, the symphony is offering tickets to
dress rehearsals. While it should be
remembered that these are rehearsals, the
$1 price tag is indeed a bargain of
mammoth proportions. Dress rehearsals
take place at 7:30 p.m. on those Monday
nights before regularly scheduled performances.
The Symphony season will open at Beall
Hall on the University of Oregon campus,
on Tuesday, October 19, at 8 p.m. The
program will include works by Haydn,
Berlioz and Tschaikowsky. The piano
soloist for the first performance will be~
Mona Golabek. She will be featured in '
Tschaikowsky's Concerto Number 1 in B.
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Tickets may be secured by phoning the
Symphony office at 687-0020, or by
dropping in to visit at 1245 Charnelton
Street in Eugene, open from 9-5, Monday
through Friday.

Appia 800th informs students
by Al Smart
The Apple Corps is looking for a few
good men and women, not for the
purveyance of fresh fruit, but rather to man
their new portable structure, the Apple
Booth.
The Apple Booth, conceived during the
hepatitis scare last year as a tool of the
Student Health Services to bring the true
facts to students and faculty, made its
debut at registration this term. Its primary
function, that of educating in event of an
epidemic wherever students and faculty
may be reached, will be coordinated also
with general information on such topics as
ear and eye care, women's services, family
planning, and cold and flu information.
Jenny Hayes, RN, Apple Corps coordi·nator, plans having the Apple Booth open
daily, two weeks each month, at various
sites on campus to handle weekly topics.
Persons i,n terested in helping with the
Apple Booth should contact Jenny Hayes at
Student Health Services. SHS is open
Monday - Thursday, 8-5, and 8-1 on
Friday, with two nurse practitioners on
duty. A doctor and lab technician are also
available 10-2, Monday - Friday. Stop in
and see what's "going around."

LCC cross-country and soccer
teams already into fall season

by Steve Park
It's cross-country season again and LCC
is already off and running. The Titans
have competed in three meets so far thi_s
:year. Lane won the first meet in Reno with
"Rich Harter coming in fifth with a time of
'20:38 and Ken Marti!l finishing sixth in
:21:45. The score was Lane 60. North Idaho

63, and Clackamas 83.
The second meet in Portland saw the
Titans finish third with Rich Harter aszain
taking fifth place in 20:34 and Ken Martin
taking seventh in 20:47. Mike McGriff
finished twelveth in 21 :02.
The loss in Portland was probably due to
the fact that two starters, Dave Martin and
Tim O'Malley were not able to compete.
Coach Tarpenning felt if these two runners
LCC's soccer team, after demolishing an
had been in the competition, the outcome
outmatched western Baptist Team 12-0, would have been different.
Thursday, suffered a surprising setback
The results of the meet were: Spur T.C.
Saturday at the hands of Willamette 66, Willamette 78, and Lane 102.
University in Salem.
At the last meet, held Saturday in
This was the first meeting ever between Bend, Lane did very well, finishing third
the two teams and was highlighted by a but defeating all other community colleges
physical second half comeback by Willam- and junior varsity teams. Rich Harter
ette.
placed seventh in 24:28, Ken Martin was
Lane raced off to an early lead on a goal tenth in 24:43, and Dave Martin finished
scored by Jack Debrick less than a minute thirteenth in 24:58. The standings
into the first half. He was assisted by Larry were: B.S.U. 16, O.S.U. 53, and Lane~ 64.
Sylvester. Larry then scored the second
The rest of this year will be a real
LCC goal about 15 minutes later on an challenge to the Titans. The team will have
assist from George Trano. At that point it to be at their best all season if they plan to
looked like the Titans had the match under retain their conference and regional titles.
control. Coach Gyorgyfalvy, hoping to
The Titans have won the OCC Confersave some players for the match against ence and Regional ,Championships for five
the University of Oregon, started substitut- consecutive years. Along with that, they
ing freely. About 30 minutes into the first finished a strong fifth in the National
half, by playing more physically, Willam- Junior College Championships held last
ette scored it's first goal. That made the year in Rochester, Minnesota. LCC's
score 2 to 1. LCC quickly countered 3 cross-country teams of the past have
minutes later on a goal scored by George dominated the conference. But this year,
Trano. That goal made the score 3-1 and with the other teams' improvement
that's how the first half ended.
won't be easy.
The second half was all Willamette.
This year Lane has a strong cross-counPlaying harder and much rougher than in try team. When they've had everybody
the first half, Willamette, although slower running and are competing against coland not as coordinated offensively, began leges at their own level, they win. Five
to take charge.
returning lettermen along with some fine
Willamette thwarted the Titans' attack freshmen runners provide what coach Al
by mowing down the opposition's forwards Tarpenning calls, "A solid nucleus for a
time after time when they were in a good team.''
position to score, which is illegal. HowSo even if we can't support them in
ever, the Titans got no help from the · ·person, because of no scheduled home
referees as they were seemingly content in ,meets, we can support them in spirit.
repeatedly penaJizing the Titans for being :Join me in saying good luck and continued
off-side. This combination of events :success to Rich Harter, Ken Martin, Dave
slowed and eventually snuffed out the .Martin, Mike McGriff, John Mithen, Tim
usually potent LCC offense and enabled IO'Malley, Jerry Rea, Jim Russell, Kevin
Willamette to first tie the match, late in the :shaha, Dan Vancamp, Mike Bailus, and
second half, and ultimately score the •coach Al Tarpenning of the LCC crosswinning goal with only a few minutes left.
country team.
Willamette is a good team. Coach
Gyorgyfalvy rates them in the top four in
the conference. But it was clear to
everyone who watched the match they
were the weaker team. Coach Gyorgyfalvy, trying not to make excuses, said,
"We were guilty of two things: Being
overconfident and not being able to turn it
on the last four or five minutes."
In the future Titans may have problems
turning it on whenever they want to, but
after this game, it won't be from
~verconfidence.

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by Susan Arrow

Tracy Nelson has been ar0und a
long time, and it shows. Her
performance last Saturday at the
WOW Hall was dynamic, tight, and
gutsy. She sang rock, blues, and
country with equal assurance,
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songs were old, some new, but
clearly each was hand-picked by the
artist, and no single genre predominated.
In contrast, the warm-up artist,
John Hyatt, sang original songs that
fell in one musical bag.
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audience had a mixed reaction to
him--many people thought him a
man in touch with his roots, but a
large number were offended by his
sexist, racist, and ethnic cliches and
walked out on his set.

Student Health Services introduces the Apple Booth, an
epidemic-fighting service new at LCC; story on page 7.

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