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Vol. 14 No. 13 January 13, 1977

Voluntary fee
card a success

New students at LCC purchased almost
haif the amount of the new ASLCC student
body cards in the first day of registration
than returning students did in three days,
according to Ken Pelikan, ASLCC President.
Pelikan said one reason was "students
didn't know what was happening, '' or
couldn't afford the card at registration
time. " New students responded favorably," he said, partly because an outline
describing the services offered by the' card
was available. (It wasn't available for
returning students.)
He says that approximately SO cards are
being sold each day, enough to fund
"important services that are dependent on
this program" and to pay for the photo ID
machine. "I feel comfortable about how
the program is beginning,'' he said. Legal
services, one of the programs funded by
the card, is available beginning this week.
ASLCC representatives will be in the
cafeteria (mornings, lunchtime, and afternoons) to assist students in purchasing the
card, Pelikan says. No program has been
set up for evening students at this time. In
the future, students will make appointments in the ASLCC offices to purchase the
card.
Students wishing to purchase the new ID
card should go to the -Business Office to
pay the $5 fee. A receipt will be issued to
show representatives in the cafeteria.
where a photo will be taken, and the
student will receive the card at that time.

Photo contest w inners

by John Brooks
The winners of the first LCC photography
contest were announced and given their
awards on Thursday, January 6.
The awards were presented by Lyle
Swetland, the Office of Development
director, in the Mezzanine Gallery in the
Library where the winning photographs are
continued on p. 3
displayed.

VA changes stand on enrollment

LCC vets not affected

by Sally Oljar
At press time the TORCH learned that
the Regional Veterans Administration
Office had contacted Dean of Students Jack
Carter to inform him of a modification of its
position c;m the new veterans ruling.
Carter says the rule, for all practical
purposes will not affect LCC as long as less
than 35 per cent of total enrollment [for the
entire college] consists of veterans. He is
sure that enrolled veterans will not exceed
this percentage.
"Philosophically cockeyed."
Those were Dean of Students Jack
Carter's words on the newest federal law
affecting veterans at LCC, and campuses
across the nation.
The law, which has been effective for
proprietary schools (those that make a
profit on their programs), requires that no
more than 85 per cent of any curriculum be
comprised of veterans, Basic Equal
Opportunity Grant (BEOG), or Supplemental Equal Opportunity Grant (SEOG)
recipients if additional G.I. Bill beneficiaries wish to enroll.
Vets may be a part of the original 85 per
cent, but once this quota has been met,
other students must drop the curriculum
(to change the percentage) before another
veteran can enroll.
Carter said the intent of the law was to
prevent "fly-by-night" educational operations; those that enroll students, collect
tuition, and then "fly". However, this
type of thing doesn't happen at LCC he
said.
"In an instituition like LCC the
curriculums we have are approved by the
Board (LCC Board of Education), the state
(State Board of Higher Education) and the
state approving agency (an affiliate of the
state board)."
"It's not a rip-off program," he said.
He is even doubtful about how the law

affects proprietary schools. Even these
schools, he said, have to be operating
successfully for two years, according to the
Veterans Administration (VA), before
receiving state and VA approval.
, "There's no reason to suspect that we
have curriculums whose sole purpose of
existence is to rip-off the feds,'' Carter
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said.
The VA, acting in cooperation with
federal authorities, has given LCC until
Feb. 1 to comply with the new regulation.
Carter isn't sure it can be done, and if it
is accomplished, the cost will be enormous.
"For us to go through this red-tape, I can
see thousands of dollars being spent to find
the 85 per cent," he says. (Approximately
$30 - $40per veteran).
According to enrollment figures, less
than SO per cent of LCC's students are
receiving either G.I. Bill benefits, BEOG or
SEOG grants. The figure is lowered 10-20
per cent if students have a combination of
benefits and/or grants.
For the college to comply with the
regulations specified by the VA, some type
of system will have to be created to stop
over-enrollment of vets. Carter says he
isn't sure ''if we can handle the
paperwork," that would be required.
One of the reasons for the difficulty is
that before registration the percentage of
vets or grant recipients in a given
curriculum isn't known. Another is that
some students may drop out, thereby
lowering the percentage; however, at that
point it may be too late for further
enrollment.
,Carter is also worried about the way vets
will be selected, and the fairness of
refusing enrollment to those vets wishing
to enroll in a curriculum. He also
speculated on future developments: the
same restriction may be placed on BEOG

Jack Carter
or SEOG recipients someday, although this
isn't required at the present time.
And even though LCC was granted an
extension, the law became effective forcolleges on Dec. 1. The 260 veterans who
registered for Winter Term were refused
certification (to receive benefits) by the VA
until Carter supplied the percentage
figures. Because they weren't available,
he gave the VA figures from Fall Term. No
vets were refused enrollment, however.
''There is no way to do it (supply
percentage figures) until after the fact,'' he
says.
There will be a '' concerted effort'' by
colleges to get the law changed, he said,
but until then LCC ''has to make the
effort'' to comply. He indicated the
likelihood that the matter will have a high
priority in the opening months of the state
legislature, although the law is federal..
Oregon Senator Mark Hatfield was one of
the co-authors of the bi11 , Carter said.
He feels the law is "an over-reaction that
could very well lead to over-kill."

BSU: needs campus meeting place

by Michael Riley
Increasing awareness among black students is one of the ·goals of the Black
Student Union (BSD) .. according to Glenda Bell, BSU president.
Meeting with other members of the union last week, Bell discussed membership,
goals and attitudes toward blacks on campus. Bell emphasized that the union is
going to maintain a program that will ''. . . make us more progressive as black
students on campus."
Membership for the union is up to 23 people. Pat Creai, advisor for the union,
:says that there is always room for more members. She feels the membership will
increase since the enrollment of blacks here will be higher than last term. One of
the Union's goals that Creal mentioned is to help new black students get classes
they need. Not classes that are "pushed" onto blacks.
Creal also explained that the union members also attend the BSD meetings at the:
University of Oregon. The idea behind this, says Creal, is that when the black
student transfers to the university he/ she will not be lost with a lot of strange faces.
There will be someone there that the student knows and can talk to.
Some of the goals the union is working toward include obtaining a meeting place
on campus. Bell feels that this would help 'b ring more self awareness between
blacks on campus, "Many blacks don't speak to each other ... we need to come
closer together.''
Creal feels a need for more black oriented classes. She feels the lack of these
clas:.es here and at the university, force black students to reconsider comin_g to the
Eugene area. Bell says that the school should have more black instructors, people
who can understand the needs of the black student.
Presently the union is trying to set up sessions that will aid students in choosing
different fields. These sessions are in addition to the regular meeting held each
Sunday at a different member's house each week. Bell said that the first session
will involve ideas on how to deal with LCC.
Randy Ross agrees that there is no black orientation given here. A member of
the union, Ross also feels that there is no black encouragemet given by the school.
All the members feel that the union can offer a lot to LCC if given the chance. Creal
would like to see a black festival similar to ones held at the university given here.
"Black students deal with a feeling of uneasiness here," says Creal. She adds
that many black students arrive here in the morning wondering what they are going

to have to deal with for that day. Creal also feels that a meeting place on campus
would aid in disseminating information concerning black students.
Most of the members feel that many people on the campus are racist. Julia
Sandoval, BSD secretary, states, "It faces us here more, we're not a large group."
Other examples of racism involve being ignored in lines during registration and grading, accordin& to Sandoval. Creal told members that such incidents should be :
reported to a superior.
"We're here, we want to help, but we need more people to help us do things ·
we'd like to see happen here," says Creal, "You cannot survive in the community if
you cannot survive in school. It's hard for blacks to survive here."
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Editorial: l(LCC-- Educational or Public?
by Bruno Cohen
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Recent personnel chages within KLCC have prompted basic question about the
role of a college-owned radio station.
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•Is there a difference between a "public" and an "educational" .. .ullo station?
•What types of programming should a public or educational station be engaged
In?
•Should the station be used as a "sandbox" -- an Instructional tool for students?
To start with the facts, KLCC is licensed to the LCC Board of Education as a
"Noncommercial Educational FM Broadcast Station:" The station's operation is
funded by property taxes, state reimbursments, and student tuition through the
LCC budget, as well as by a Community Service Grant from the Corporation for
P.ublic Broadcasting (CPB).
Originally , noncommercial educational stations engaged primarily in
instructional types of programming. The FCC reserved space on the FM dial for
educational broadcasters to ''transmit programs directed to specific schools in a
system or systems for use in connection with the regular courses as well as routine
and administrative material.' '
However, educational stations have always been permitted to broadcast
"educational, cultural, and entertainment programs to the public."
It is this public aspect of educational broadcasting that has developed nationally.
Congress put public broadcasting on its feet when it passed the Public Broadcasting
Act in 1967 and established the CPB to administer the federal funds it allocated.
In the ten years since the passage of the act public broadcasting has grown to
provide an alternative to its commercial counterpart. According to the FCC,
educational stations ''meet cultural and informational interests often given minimal
attention by commercial broadcasters.''
- To be eligible fo; federal funds from the CPD, a station must have as its first
priority the broadcasting of programs of consistently high quality to the public. ·
This means that a station cannot devote Its programming to any one element of the
community it serves, such as a student population, or any particular minority. Nor
may the station serve primarily as "a facility for training students In broadcasting
or other limited purpose.''
To insure these standards the CPB specifies that all stations receiving its

Community Service Grants have a minimum of five full-time staff members, all of
whose time is devoted to station operations. The only exception to this rule is for
stations operated by educational institutions. In such stations staff members may
teach no more than one class each term.
How does a station determine the kinds of programs to present the public?
As of 1976 educational stations are required to go into the community they serve
and discover what needs and interests exist there (see the accompanying article on
ascertainment).
It is the responsibility of all stations to program to meet the needs and interests
they discover. The FCC also encourages stations to present programs intended for
various minority audiences. The discussion of controversial topics has always been
interpreted by the Commission as a broadcaster' s responsibility.
However, it is important to note that noncommercial educational stations are
prohibited by federal law from editorializing.
An educational station engaged in essentially ''public'' broadcasting must
maintain the highest of professional standards to be eligible for CPB funding. For
this reason the "sandbox" aspect of such stations is carefully controlled. This
doesn't mean that broadcasting students within an institution that supports a public
station are not getting the full benefits of that station.
Good broadcasters are not necessarily trained by having unlimited aGcess to an
on-the-air microphone. This is not to say that well conceived and well produced
student programs have no role in a public station. Just the opposite is true. A
station which is substantially engaged in bringing the highest quality radio service
to the community it serves not onlv fulfills its oublic resoonsibiHties but orovides an
inspirational educational environment for broadcasting students associated with it.
Furthermore, students in a vocational program associated with such a station will
come to future employers more high'y recommended.
The LCC Board should be fully aware that the retention of CPD funding for KLCC
is dependent upon the station's commitment to public broadcasting. Such a station
may not editorialize, nor may it be used merely as a "sandbox" to train students.
The Board has full authority to determine the policy of KLCC and should use that
authority to promote the operation of a public station of the highest caliber.

Letters to the Editor

Inflation, unemployment, and cut/Jacks continue

Prospects for

"Changes in listener's best interests"
Dear Editor:
Listeners of KLCC-FM can rest assured
that present changes are in their longrange best interests. LCC will be in better
position to assure continuing support for
keeping the station on the air and of efforts
to improve its services, both to the
community and the college.
Increased power to reach listeners'
receivers remains a high priority, as it has
been since the public helped make it
possible through Buck-a-watt donations
which are held in a savings account at the
present time.

Continuation of current programming
has been directed. Future changes will
have to meet guidelines developed after
listener input to the Board of Education.
Volunteers will continue to find opportunities to work at the station. Professionalism is still the overriding concern, with
radio students and others to get air time
based on qualifications.
It seems clear that integration of KLCC
into the Mass Communication Department
bodes no threat to listener interests. Stay
tuned in; we believe you'll continue to like
what you hear.
Eldon G. Schafer

King dealt with personal, social problems
Dear Editor:
S.aturday, January 15, is the birthday of
Martin Luther King, Jr. This seems an
appropriate time to call attention to his
character and to his achievements, although to do so only once annually is
hardly sufficient, or even respectful, as has
been pointed 01~t to me by my friend, Jon
West.
Dr. King continually and repeatedly
dealt with both the personal problems
which exist in our modern world and with
social problems which obscure peace,
freedom, and justice. He put himself out
fron't in the many crises of his time,
demonstrating his personal commitment

by his wholehearted involvement in all that
he professed and encouraged.
Perhaps each of us has a personal hero,
whom we consider deserving of adulation
from everyone. Martin Luther King, Jr. is
mine. I intend to reread some of his
writings this week as a way of renewing my
commitment to his principles, ideas, and
actions. The test of commitment will come
for me as I make practical decisions and
behave in particular ways throughout the
year.
Sincerely yours,
Jeanne Armstrong
Instructor
Home Economics

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Editor
Associate Editor
News/Feature Editor
Cultural Editor
Photo Editor.
Sports Editor
Advertising Manager_
Production Managers

Kathleen Monge
Sally Oljar
Michael Riley
Russell Kaiser
Jeff Hayden
Jack Scott
Janice Brown
John Brooks
Kristine Snipes

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Photographers
Steve Thompson
John Albanese
Ad Graphics
Dave Mackay
Business Manager
Linda Donnelly

Production Staff
Matt Boren
Linda Engrav
Jeff Canaday
Marta Hogard
Doreen Potterf
Lori Hylton
Joy Rhoads

Member of Oregon Community College Newspaper Association and Oregon Newspaper Publishers Association.
The TORCH is published on Thursday's 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 staff,
.or 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 250
words. Correspondence must be typed and signed by the author. Deadline for all submissions is Friday noon.
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, 4000 East 30th Avenue,
.Eugene. Oregon 9740~; Telephone, 747-4501 , ,_..:...
ext. 234.

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workers in77
Editor's Note : Jeff Hayden. an LCC
Agriculture and Industrial Tech. student,
prepares this weekly column from nationwide publications. He is interested in the
worker' s role in society, and specifically
students preparing for the job market.
Comments both pro and con are encouraged
and may be submitted to the editor. The
material selected does not necessarily
reflect the views of the TORCH.

the Guardian
Inflation, unemployment, cutbacks
continue The prospects for workers In
1977
By Hen Hedell
Even the most optimistic economic
forecasters are promising Q.1ore misery
for U.S. workers in 1977. Unemployment will remain at its historic highs
or at best decline slightly they say.
Inflation will continue at about the
same pace. ·More cutbacks will be
required to balance municipal budgets
especially in those cities where many
third world and poor people live.
And wage and benefit increases for
the nearly S million unionized workers
whose contracts are to be renegotiated
this year will be kept "moderate."
The cont~adictions heightened by
the recession will undoubtedly carry
over into the new year. Against the
political background of a Democratic
President and Congress, the top
leaders of the trade unions are
promising relief from the crisis. Will
they be able to deliver?
And equally important, the special
demands raised by national minority
and ·women workers will come to the
fore in one form or another as they
fight against double or triple oppression.
The working class as a whole goes
into 1977 carrying the weight of the
continuing crisis forced on them by the
demands of capital and the sell out of
their union leaders. The real wages of
the average worker (wages adjusted
for the effect of inflation) have
remained constant over the past three
years and have declined slightly since
1967. Unemployment officially affects
nearly 8 million workers. The actual

Graphic from
Popular Economics Press
figure is probably· double that. Third
world workers, women and youth
suffer about twice as much as their
male counterparts. Family incomes of
third world households continue to be
only 63 per cent of those of white
families -- and the gap continues to
grow, according to Labor Department
statistics. Similarly, despite the high
number of women entering the
workforce, a male worker gets, on the
average, 75 per cent more than a
woman.
That gap is growing too, according to a
Labor Department study released last
November.
fflE UPCOMING CONTRACTS

Contract negotiations and the rankand-file struggles around them in the '
coming year will be a barometer of the
larger economic and political picture-the attempt to shift the crisis onto the
working class and oppressed nationalities, and the fightback against this
attempt.
Keeping wage settlements ''moderate'' and strikes down is an integral
part of the government's strategy for
this year's economic game plan.
"There's every expectation that the
unions will follow the 1976 pattern'' of
"restraint and moderation," said
outgoing Labor Secretary W.J. Usery
in the Dec. 16 Wall Street Journal.
"Our general assessment is that
there's not going to be much trouble
between labor and management'' in
1977, adds Paul Jensen, the "labor
specialist'' on the Carter transition
team. Both said they thought annual
wage boosts could be confined to an
average of 8 per cent, in line with the
1976 pattern.

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continued from p. 1 - - - - - - - There were two categories, black and
white photographs and color photographs.
In each category there was a first place
award received $100, a second place that
was awarded $50, and a third place that
received $25, plus five photographs that
received a certificate of Honorable Mention.
'In the black and white category David
Joyce won first place with a photograph of
snow on a windshield, Laurelee Mangers
won second place with a photograph of
rope wound around a cleat, and Susan
Klien won third place with a high contrast
photograph of a person standing on a rockstanding with arms outstretched looking
over a body of water.
In the color category Sharon Clancy won
first place with a photograph of a child in a
coat and oversized sunglasses blowing
bubbles. The second place winner was
Sajean Eng with a photograph of Mount
Everest poking above the clouds, and John
Kocker won third place with a photograph
of an old Englishman standing in a
doorway.
The Honorable Mentions were: in the
black and white category, Steve Miller,
Jeffrey Hayden, Dei Zumwalt, and two by
Cheryl Shrumm. In the color category,
John Kocher, Mitch Stepanouich, Peggy
Crocket, and two by Sajean Eng.
The judges were Jimmy James, who has
a portrait studio in Springfield; Cathrin
Chinney, a photographer in a portrait
studio in Salem; Robert Degulio, a
photographer for the Statesman Journal in
Salem; and Eggert Madsen, the photography instructor at LCC.
This contest was the first photography
contest held for LCC students and faculty.
It was organized by Madsen; the prize
money came from Swetland's office and
from the one dollar entry fee charged for
each print.
The winning photographs will be displayed in the mezzanine gallery until the
end of the month.

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Cold weather ices LCC

Photo by John Brooks

Unemployment

continued from p. 2 . - - - - - - Major contracts in 12 industries are
up for renegotiation. They include oil
refining, steal making, aluminum
refining, construction, clothing, can
manutacturing, the phone company,
longshore, coal mining, railroads and
aircraft manufacturing. These contracts will set the patterns for
hundreds of other similar industries,
as well as having an impact on the
wages and conditions of 75 per cent of
U.S. workers who remain unorganized.
The union leaders are emphasizing
demands around job security. Exactly
what those demands will mean when
translated into contract settlements is
much less definite than the rhetoric of
the union chiefs.
Al Grospiron, president of the Oil
Chemical and Atomic Workers union
(OCAW), states in a recent interview
that job attrition due to automation
and speedup has him "concerned."
But in bargaining now underway for
some 60,000 OCAW refinery workers
whose contract expires Jan. 7, job
security is a low-priority item.
Increased wags, pension benefits and
other economic demands are being
given top priority.
Job safety. an important issue in the
hazardous refinery industry, is also
unemphasized in the OCA W's collective bargaining program. One refinery accident last August in Chalmette,
La .. killed 13 workers and injured six
others. Four of the workers were
Black. reflecting the reality that
Blacks are often consigned to the most
dangerous refinery jobs.
While a national strike against one
or all six major oil companies is
unlikely, local strikes over safety and
other issues are probable. The last
industrywide strike was in 1969.
While the ruling class is optimistic
about the fidelity of the trade union
bureaucrats in 1977, it recognizes that
a rand-and-file upsurge could have a
destabilizing political effect. '' Any
major prolonged strike always tends to
have a n un se ttlin g effect on an
adm inistrarion." Notes Labor Department official James Scearce.

The Emerald Empire felt a cold snap last week, from which LCC was not excluded. Even the ducks and the fountain froze,
besides students.
photo by Steve Thompson

Film: 'screwed up sexually' critic says
(CPS)--lf movies are supposed to reflect
society and its values, then the American
culture as portrayed in Hollywood movies
today is "certainly screwed up sexually,"
said Mo)Jy Haskell, film critic for the
Village Voice.
A few years ago, while appearing on the
Today show, Haskell had the audacity to
suggest that images of women in films
were, for the most part, degrading and
inadequate. Barbara Walters promptly
• dismissed the idea as "paranoid."
Today, even with women's liberation,
the situation isn't much better. "It may
even be a little worse now than during the

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1930's and 40's," Haskell told CPS in a .
recent interview in Boulder, Colorado.
"Women are in such a transitional
sex scene or two--rather than fuss with
trying to show them as real,'' she
explained.
In her book, '' From Reverence to Rape,''
Haskell provides an extensive history or'
women in films. The degeneration of
women's roles began during the 1950 's she
says. It was then that women started being
portrayed as either vamps or tomboys.
"Since there was no middle ground there
was no room for growth," she said.

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We, the students of Lane Community College, being interested in our
educational, cultural, social, and material welfare; and being interested in
safeguarding our democratic rights as citizens and in providing an
effective representative student voice, do hereby establish this
Constitution by and for the Students of Lane Community College.
The name of this organization shall be called the Associated Students of
Lane Community College.
In order to insure funding for the ASLCC programs and projects., we are
asking students for a voluntary $5.00 fee. In the past, the LCC Board of

Education has assessed a mandatory fee for Student Government. On June 1,
1976, the Board changed its policy and directed the Student Senate to seek
funding through a voluntary program. At the same time, the Administration
was directed to fund Athletics, Health Services, and the TORCH, out of the LCC
general fund. The budget for the Student Government had historically funded
not only Student Senate programs and projects, but also the Athletics, TORCH,
and Health Service Program. [Health Services was initiated through Associated
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at the Oregon State Legislature.
The ASLCC is the first Student Association in Oregon to be denied an insured
level of funding. CCOSAC critically evaluated the action of the LCC Board of
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just what is a public

radio station?

A recap of recent events and the
station's involvement with students,
this page
Public need ascertainment,
page 6
Comparisons of KLCC with other
college stations,
pages 7&8
KLCC's programming philosophy,
KLCC's budget
page 9
The Marathon, KLCC's new transmitter,
page 9
CPB rule may have effect

Board to decide station direction
by Kathleen Monje

The LCC Board of Education will hold a special hearing on
Jan. 19 to receive suggestions and make decisions concerning
the future direction of KLCC-FM, the college's radio station.
The hearing is a direct result of the termination of five KLCC
employees·on Oct. 29 of last year; the Mass Communication
Department decided to replace them with staff who have
degrees and can teach, in order to save money on part-time
instructors. The firing of Roger Wood, program director,
Michael Canning, music director, and Jan Weaver, Barbara
Stern, and Cal Turlock, who shared the position of public
affairs director, was protested by KLCC supporters at two
successive Board meetings. When the college administration
made it clear that the terminations were irrevocable, the
question of the station's future programming became the
major issue. Board member Catherine Lauris proposed the
hearing, saying ''There is a split in philosophy on the Board;
this fact-finding (the hearing) is what I've salvaged.''
Though both President Eldon Schafer and Mass Communication Department Head Mike Hopkinson have made
assurances that the station's community and jazz oriented
programming philosophy will not be changed by the personnel
turnover, both the former employees and some KLCC
supporters are concerned that the station will be used mainly
as an educational facility, or "sandbox," as a part of the LCC
radio broadcasting program.
The first outside assurance that the station will continue to
air community programs as a public radio station rather than
an educational one was received Wednesday, Jan. 12 by the
TOR CH. Basil Ramnarace, the Corporation of Public
Broadcasting [CPD] Auditor who recently reviewed KLCC's
books, said that the station cannot be used for instruction and
still receive its $19,000 CPD grant. "We are phllosophlcally
promoting public radio, not educational radio. H the station
changes, it will not receive our money," he said from
Washington. So, unless the college administration and the
Board of Education are willing to provide money &om the LCC
general fund to replace the CPD grant, the present direction of
the station wm not change.

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Student involvement has declined
by Nancy Hale
Student involvement at KLCC has
steadily declined for several years, according to Roger Wood, program director. Will
the introduction of a new core staff at the
station change this situation?
One common concern related to the
amount of student participation at KLCC,
and particularly the number of students on
the air, is that the station will become a
sandbox, or training ground.
Mass Communication Department
Chairman Mike Hopkinson stated, "as
far as we are concerned, the professional
standards and professional operation of the
station come first. If they don't, any
student involvement in it is meaningless
because training students in a sandbox
isn't training them at all."
Tom Lichty, former KLCC program
director, agrees that the primary objective
is that the station maintain high key
professional programming because '' ... if
you are not working with an audience,
you're not learning anything." Student
involvement during Lichty's years at KLCC
was much higher, however. He estimates
that an average of 12 to 20 students workeci
at the station then, although he suggests ·
high participation was '' . . . entirely
coincidental, because since KLCC was a
community radio station, no particular
advantage was given to LCC students."
LCC Radio Broadcasting Instructor Jeff
Young also emphasized the necessity of
maintaining '' ... a level of competence in
order to benefit both the station and the'
student.'' He explained, '' Students learn a
lot from osmosis, from being around a
radio station. But they must be exposed to
professionals.''
Young also said he believed there were
many opportunities for student involvement not presently being utilized. News
gathering, production format, and station
and program promotions were a few of the
areas he suggested students from many
different departments could become active
in.

"Once a core staff is directly related to
the students by teaching classes, it will be
more open to mutual understanding and
that should facilitate increased student
involvement," Young declared.
Roger Wood maintains that there has
always been the potential for considerable - organized student participation (and from
every department at LCC) in the radio
program, but says that the potential hasn't
been filled. Wood says the idea of
involving the talents of students from
throughout the various departments has
been discussed for years and with a very
positive outlook. But who will inject the
energy into writing up proposals and
getting the programs off the ground?
Wood suggests that the programmers at
KLCC could _be intimately involved with
the development and coordination of these
student-affiliated programs; they are, after
all, he says" ... experts in communication
and in filling the community's needs."
"We could involve a lot of students over
the course of the year, and there would be
room for them," Wood further explained,
''but for this student involvement potential
to be explored the station must have
full-time, fully involved station manager,
program director, and public affairs
director. ''
One final facet of the student involvement question might lie in whether or not
interested, qualified students shouldn't be
given credits for their participation in the
station. Wood says, "I feel KLCC should
be considered as a College Work Expeperience opportunity, in the same vein as
KUGN, KPNW, KASH, or any of the
others."
And Hopkinson adds, "There is at this
point no deliberate effort to put students
into the station. But hopefully student
involvement wll continue through some
kind of more formalized basis than it has in
the past, like Supervised Field Experience.''

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Regulated Radio:
What it means

by Bruno Cohen
In 1927 and again iu 1934 Congress
created a commission to deal with the
problem of broadcast regulation. The
commission was given broad power to
license radio stations, assign them frequencies and power limitations, and make
general rules governing broadcast operations. It is still the Federal Communications Act of 1934 which is in effect today,
and the seven-member Federal Commimi:
cations Commission (FCC) which executes
and enforces the Act's provisions.
One basic philosophy rules the FCC:
The airwaves are a natural resource which
belongs to the people. According to the
congress the airwaves are the property of
the public in general, and should be
utilized for the public benefit. Therefore
FCC is required by Congress to make its
decisions in the "public interest, convenience and necessity.'' The FCC conse. quently requires all radio and television
•stations to operate in the public interest to
be eligible for licensing or relicensing.
(Broadcast licenses are issued by the FCC
for a period of three years.)
But the specifics of what is in the public
interest is a complex issue.
Over SO years of policy statements and
court decisions form the history of the
federal government's definition of what
broadcasting practices are in the public
interest. Those decisions continue to
change and evolve.
• Before 1949 broadcasters were prohibited from editorializing, but today the
practice is encouraged by the FCC, but not
common.
•The presentation of controversial issues
over the air is regulated by the FCC' s
"fairness doctrine" -- a complex system of
rules whose own fairness is considered
controversial.
• It wasn't until 1966 that representatives
of the public had legal standing before the
FCC during license renewal hearings.
Today public pressure on broadcasters
through the FCC plays a major role in
na~ion~l policy.
In 1960 the FCC released a policy
statement that attempted to more clearly
define service in the public interest. The
Commission stated: "In fulfillment of his
obligation (to serve in the public interest)
the broadcaster should consider the tastes,
needs and desires of the public he is
licensed to serve in developing his
programming and should exercise conscientious efforts not only to ascertain
them but also to carry them out as well as
he reasonably can.''
The FCC went on to cite 14 "major
elements usually necessary to meet the
public interest, needs and desires of the
community in which the station is located ....
1) Opportunity for local self expression;
2) The Development and Use of Local
Talent; 3) Programs for Children;
4) Religious Programs 5) Educational
Programs; 6) Public Affairs Programs; 7)
Editorialization by Licensees; 8) Political
Broadcasts; 9) Agricultural Programs; 10)
News Programs; 11) Weather and Market
Reports; 12) Sports Programs; 13) Service
to Minority Groups; 14) Entertainment.
The intention of the FCC was not to
make this list '' all embracing or constant.''
For example in an area where agricultural
news is not particularly pertinent to the
community, broadcast time devoted to that
subject is not necessarily in the public
interest.
Ascertainment
In theory, a radio or TV station does two
First it goes out into the
things.
community it serves and determines what
sort of programming that community
needs. This is known as ascertainment.
Secondly the station airs programs to meet
the needs it discovered during ascertainment.
All broadcasters, be they commercial or
non-commercial (like-KLCC), are governed
by the concept of the public interest. In
theory a radio or TV station must take two
steps to conform to the concept. First, its

Non-commerci al
stations now require
ascertainment

staff must go out into the community it meet the needs discovered during ascerserves and determine what sort of . tainment.
Non-commercial stations are just recentprogramming that community needs. This
ly required to ascertain their communities-process is known as ascertainment.
Second, the station must air programs to it's a new policy from the FCC.

• It's not done to determine hard rock or classical radio
formats: ASCERTAINMENT Is a means of determining
community needs. And KLCC -- a publlc radio station -thinks It can do more to fill these needs then commercial.
counterparts.
by Mildred Holly
Formal ascertainment procedures must be completed by radio station KLCC
prior to the license renewal date in February 1978, according to Mike Hopkinson,
Mass Communications Department acting chairman.
Rules and regulations for ascertainment are outlined by the Federal
Communications Commission (FCq, and those procedures are explained in a
separate story on page
Ascertainment means that a station must identify the needs or problems of the
community which it serves. This can be achieved by a demographic profile of the
community, by interviews with community leaders, and a survey of the general
public through random sampling, call-in programs, letters, or periodic public
meetings.
The "problems" of a community which might be identified through
ascertainment could be related to transportation, pollution, taxation, drugs,
housing, crime, schools, the special difficulties of minority groups, or__the many
other issues which confront today's communities. Deciding whether to play
classical or hard rock music is not a part of the ascertainment process.
Hopkinson indicated that up to this date KLCC was required by the FCC to enter
into formalized ascertainment procedures. But a recent FCC ruling requires
educational public radio to ascertain in the same manner as a commercial station.
However, KLCC has already ascertained, in various ways, some of the needs of
the community which it serves, Hopkinson said.
One method of ascertainment is through the Eugene Broadcast Council (EBC)
which meets monthly to interview leaders of the community. The FCC permits all
of the stations of an area to meet at the same time to interview leaders in order to
eliminate duplication of efforts. Hopkinson said that the representative of each
station ''takes notes on the interview, which become a part of our public file.''
Linda Wilt, development chairperson for KLCC, and the only full-time employee
qualified to remain on the staff after the change in job descriptions, stated that she
as;isted recently in submitting to the EBC a list of 25 names of persons to be
contacted tor interviews. These persons were selected as people ''with a larger
perspective'' and a sense of social awareness of the needs of the community, she
said.
Wilt feels that informal ascertainment must go on all the time. "People in public
radio have a certain obligation to seek and find out what the needs of their
community really are."
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ascertainment by looking at what is available in local radio programming and trying
to fit in the missing pieces. For example, she recently chatted with a driver of the
Dial-a-Bus service to determine the use of the special busses for handicapped and .
elderly people. As a result of this conversation, she called Rosemary Boss, public
relations director for Lane Transit District and invited her to an interview on KLCC.
Guidelines for ascertainment state, "Systematic ascertainment of community
needs and problems is of limited value unless there is an equally systematic plan for
utilizing the information provided by such ascertainment.''
Hving met several times with representatives of the senior citizen group, in order
to identify needs of senior citizens of the community, Wilt says KLCC now plans to
utilize this information by developing four or five different types of programs.
Senior citizens will then be given the opportunity to indicate which, if
any. of the programs meet their needs. The programs will include one on political
issues, one explaining services of local agencies, some game or talk shows, and
possibly a religious program.
The extent of involvement in serving particular needs of the community is
determined somewhat by the involvement of other media. The Corporation for
Public Broadcasting issued the following statement not too long ago: "The term_
'problems' should be interpreted broadly to include 'interests and needs' in the
sense of those life enriching interests that are not served, or are not adequately
served, in the commercial broadcasting sector."
During the past November election, KLCC interviewed every candidate for local
office (the station stresses that--every candidate) and many state candidates.
"Commercial stations could not afford to do this," Wilt said.
Plans are now underway to gear up for the formal ascertainment procedures
required by FCC. There are tentative plans to involve a Broadcasting Research
class in random sampling of the general public during Spring term. Attendance at
meetings of neighborhood groups could be a part of the ascertainment process.
Hopkinson said, "When the new staff gets here, we'll try to find new ways to go
beyond the minimum requirements for ascertainment."

by Bruno Cohen
All non-commercial education broadcast
stations must now formally ascertain the
needs and interests of their communities
according to a Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) ruling made in March
1976. The ruling reverses a 1971 decision
which exempted non-commercial educational stations from formal ascertainment
reg uirements.
Ever since the FCC issued its '' 1960
Policy Statement" all broadcasters have
been required to go out into the community
they serve and discover the needs and
interests of the people who live there.
The FCC issues a license to a station with
the stipulation that the licensee will
operate the station in the ''public
interest.'' The commission therefore
requires broadcasters to involve themselves in a continuing process of dis. covering those interests.
Each non-commercial station is now
required by the FCC to document its
ascertainment process with "a narrative
statement regarding the sources consulted,
the survey methods followed and the
principle needs and interests discovered.''
In addition, stations must "complete an
annual list of up to 10 problems found in
the community during the preceding 12
months, together with examples of programs broadcast to meet these problems.''
Non-commercial educational stations
must maintain a listing of the basic
population statistics of the community,
including such figures as the percentage of
males, females, minorities, youth, and the
elderly.
It is also the responsibility of non-commercial stations to interview' community
leaders. At least 50 per cent of these
interviews must be conducted by members
of the station's management.
In 1971 the FCC released its '' Ascertainment Primer" -- a document which
specified the procedure a station must use
to ascertain its public. Certain classes of
stations were made exempt from the
requirements. among them all non-commercial educational stations. The FCC
assumed that the programs offered by
these stations would be entirely "educational," making ascertainment unnecessary. The Commission said, " ... given the
reservation of channels for specialized
kinds of programming, educational stations manifestly must be treated differently than commercial stations.''
But by 1973 the commission had
received petitions from some parties
requesting that formal ascertainment
procedures be extended to non-commercial
stations. Their arguments were summarized by the FCC as follows:
". . .these [non-commercial] licensees
are no longer purely educational licensees
offering in-school instructional programming,.. but that they have come to provide
'public' programming to the community at
large which often competes with the
programming of commercial licensees.
Therefore, it was said, they should be
required to ascertain the needs of their
communities in the same fashion as
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commercial licensees."
The FCC agreed with these arguments,
but stipulated slightly different requirements for non-commercial stations than for
their commercial counterparts.
Commercial stations are required to
canvass the general public with a survey.
Non-commercial stations may conduct a
survey, but are not required to do so.
Other exemptions from the ascertainment rules do exist. A number of very
low-power FM stations ( l O watts) whose
signal strength is so low that they cannot
broadcast outside a one mile radius or less,
are exempt; their signal reaches only a
portion of the community so all needs of
that community could not be met.
Non-commercial stations such as LSLC-PM
at Linfield College and KRBM at Blue
Mountain Community College are two
examples.
Non-commercial educational stations
• have until April of 1977 to comply with the
new requirements.

Five public stations list their budgets, programming format
AIIDOtlt every campus baa Its own radio 1tatlao •· IOrile are solely (IICUltlell uaed IO Instruct students, othen extend
their 1lgnal1 and prognmmlna beyond the campaa boandrles and Into the eommanlty.
Attempting to Illustrate the slmUutllea and differences, TORCH reporter MUdred HoUy 11ent qae1tlonnalre1 to 10
campus-hued or school stations. 0( that number, five reapon11e1 are Hated lielow--KLCC; KSOR, at Southern
Oregon College; KBVR, Oregon State Unlvenlty, KRBM, Blue Mountain Community College; KSLC, LlnOelcl
Colleae. [KOAC at Oregon State reapondect'courteoualy by 11endln1 a bound booklet on Its hlatory, bnt did not
addreu the questions; KWAX at the University of Oreaon refused to respond to the questionnaire]. Oregon
Technical Institute'• reaponaea were Incomplete. And the pubUc station of the Portland pubUc schools responded
with printed material rather than addreulna the queatlonnalre.
Holly's question• were u follows: (1) When wu your station ntabllabed; by whom and for what parpoae; (2)
What kind of llcenae doea your station hold1 when will yoar lleenae be up for renewal, and what 11 the anticipated

KLCC-FM
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by Mildred Holly
Radio station KLCC-FM first went
on the air in 1968 for the purpose of
training radio broadcasting students,
according to Mike Hopkinson, acting
station manager and Mass Communication Department chairman.
When the LCC Board of Education
approved the license application, it
became the licensee and accepted
legal responsiblity for station operation, programming, and management.
The Board of Education continues to
be the licensee even though many
changes have occured since KLCC was
original1y administered by the Electronics Department with Roger
Houglum as the station's first
manager.
KLCC is licensed by the FCC as a
rton-commercial FM station affmated
with National Public Radio. The
~urrent license period ends in February of 1978. Hopkinson said that
license renewal involves filling out
1ppropriate FCC forms, documenting

KSOR-FM

Southern Oregon
College
by Mildred Holly
The Oregon Legislature in 1971 took
educational broadcasting from the
Division of Continuing Education
where it had operated since 1932 and
placed it as an individual unit in the
office of Chancellor Roy E. Lieuallen.
Don R. Larson, assistant chancellor for
public affairs, was named by pr.
Lieuallen as director of broadcastin_g.
Oregon Educational Broadcasting
became known at that time as Oregon
Educational and Public Broadcasting
Service (OEPBS).
Radio station KSOR-FM was established on the campus of Southern

procedure for renewal'! [3) What 11 your approach to ucertalnment'! Are tbes procedarn on-aolna, yearly, or
eonducted at the time of Ucenae renewal'! (4) What II yoar pn,pam f-at and policy, who determlnea
proarammlna for the station, and how [staff, administration, the publlc through bearing,, or other metbod1). [SJ 11
your 1tatlon uaed u an ln1tractlonal tool for broadcast students; If so, In what way,, and to what exteat1 (6) How
many fall-time staff memben do you have •• plea11e outline thelr reapoaalblllllea. (7) Do your fall-time staff
memben have ln1tractloaal re1ponslbUlllea'! If they teach some dUllel, II that portion of their aalary absorbed by
the educational Institution of which you are a part'! (8) Do you have part-time staff; If so, are they paid or volunteer;
If they are paid, by whom'! (9) U you have part-time 1taff, what are their reaponalblllllea'! (10) What are the
neceuary qaallflcatlon1 for both fall and part-time staff; are staff members required to have a degree; If so, what
kind'! [Ill Explain your 1tatlon'1 funding; what la yoar budget'!

that the station has carried out
programming promises made in the
last renewal application, and describing the ascertainment conducted by
the station.
Ascertainment
Ascertainment by KLCC of community problems and needs is attained
by interviewing community leaders,
randomly surveying the general
public, reviewing correspondence in
the public file, and informal1y contactin_g citizens in the community (see
stories, page 6). Hopkinson indicated
that all of these processes, except the
random survey , are ongoing. He
added that current plans cal1 for yearly
random surveys of the general public.
Programming
Both jazz and classical music are
broadcast by KLCC, as well as public
affairs programs. At the present time,
program decisions are made by the
Program Director. Hopkinson stated
that in the future (once the new staff is
selected), programming decisions will
probably continue to be made by the
Operations Manager/Program Director subject to the approval of the
Station Manager.
Student Involvement
Even though KLCC was established
for the pu-rpose of training radio
broadcast students, the station is not
being used as an instructional tool at
the present time. Hopkinson said that

in the future, qualified and interested
students may be involved in station
operation through the Cooperative
Work Experience program. He added
that class projects may be submitted
to the Program Director for possible
broadcast.
Personnel
Until recently KLCC had 3 full-time
staff members: A program director,
programming
for
responsible
decisions and supervising operations;
a music director, responsible for
screening records and maintaining the
station's music policy; and a development director, responsible for developing and maintaining sources of
funding other than the college general
fund. In addition, three persons
shared the public affairs position responsible for planning and coordinating public affairs.
A recent Board of Education
policy requiring that all full-time
station staff members have a bachelor's degree or its equivalent, resulted
in the December 31 termination of the
employment of those who held the
positions of Program Director and
Music Director, and the three persons
sharing the public affairs position.
The degree requirement will permit
the staff to lead classes within the
Mass Communication Department,
thus saving money currently spent on
part-time instructors.

A Mass Communication Department screening committee is currently
reviewing applications for new staff
who will meet the qualifications
specified by the Board of Education.
KLCC will then have five full-time
staff members: program, music,
development, and public affairs
directors, and a station manager.
Each of these persons will be required
to teach no more than three classes
per academic year.
Funding
The station uses both paid and
volunteer part-time staff. Part-time
people have been used as engineers,
announcers, to produce programs, or
pertorm other station operation tasks.
Hopkinson said that part-time paid
staff are paid either by the college
general fund or with Corporation for
Public Broadcasting (CPB) grant
money.
Hopkinson stated that KLCC's
funding comes from four sources:
LCC's general fund, CPB, local
businesses, and •contributions from
listeners. KLCC's license prohibits
the sale of advertising time.
The total expenses for the station
for the fiscal year ending June 30,
1976, were $102,000. But Hopkinson
said the budgeting process for the
station is being extensively revised
and the fiscal year budget for the
station has not yet been determined.

Oregon College at A-shland in 1969 by
the State of Oregon. The purpose was
to serve the community and the
college. As a part of the state system,
KSOR receives services provided by
OEPBS.
License Status and Ascertainment
According to Ronald Kramer, KSOR
general manager, the station has a
non-commercial, educational license
with an a_ssigned power of two
kilowatts (KLCC has 440). Kramer
said, "All Oregon licensees apply for
renewal in 1977, with licenses expiring
in 1978."
KSOR is required by FCC to
ascertain the needs of its listeners by
conducting interviews with members
of the general public and with leaders
of significant groups found in its
service areas. It is necessary to
document ascertainment by placing in
a public file a narrative statement
describing the methods used and
results obtained in ascertaining
members of the general public,
summaries of interviews with community leaders , and a problemsprograms list.

Kramer said that KSOR ascertains
annually on an informal basis. But
''formal ascertainment will not be
undertaken until necessary in conjunction with license renewal."

students are paid work-study wages.
The federal government provides 80
per cent of work-study monies, with 20
per cent funded by the station.
Personnel
Station KSOR has three and a
quarter full-time staff members: A
full-time director , a full-time
announcer, a full-time engineer, and a
one-fourth time secretary. There is no
non-student part-time help, he
indicated.
Both the director and announcer are
college faculty members and each
teaches one class per term. Kramer
said the station requires appropriate
degrees for staff members with a
bachelor of arts degree as minimum
for faculty. "This is a standard
staffing arrangement used at many
schools, including our own, and it
works very well , " he said.
Kramer indicated that the budget
for station KSOR is not a typical
budget because money is received
from a "multiplicity of budgets." An
HEW grant of $45,000 was recently
received in order to increase the
stations power and convert to stereo.

Programming
Programming is discussed by a
committee comprised of the Director
of Broadcast Activities (a faculty
member), the Student Manager, and
the Student Program Director. However, Kramer notes that "the state, as
licensee, reserves final control over
programming."
The station is licensed to "operate
the station and determine what is
educational, and the FCC interprets
that term very broadly," he said.
Student Participation
Students receive academic credit for ·
participation in the various aspects of
programming and production. But
Kramer indicated that not all students
are allowed to announce because the
station demands proficiency beforehand, ''but there is something (production, etc.) for everyone who wants
to be here.'' In addition, some

"Any station th at truly exists
to provide service to the
, community must continually

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offerings ... to keep pace
with the needs of that
community," says Roger
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KBVR-FM
Oregon State
University
by Mildred Holly
Radio station KBVR-FM was '
founded by the Department of Speech
of Oregon State University in 1965 as
an adjunct to the instructional program in broadcast communication.
License Status and Ascertainment
Since KBVR is affiliated with
Oregon Educational and Public Broadcasting Service (OEPBS), the service
will handle license renewal and
ascertainment procedures for this
non-commercial, 10 watt, FM station.

KSLC-FM
Linjie/4 College
by Mildred Holly
The president and trustees of
Linfield College authorized the establishment of KSLC-FM in Jan_u ary o~
1972 in order to provide '' a communication channel between the college
and community and to provide a
broadcast training experience for all
interested students," according to ·.
faculty adviser, Dr. Craig Singletary.
•License Status and Ascertainment
KSLC is a class D, non-commercial
FM operation with assigned power of
10 watts, as authorized by FCC, with
license renewal date in February of
1978.

KRBM-FM

Blue Mountain
Community College
by Mildred Holly
Blue Mountain Community College
(BMCC) in Pendleton established
KRBM-FM in the spring of 1970 to
serve ''primarily as a training facility
for students in our two year broadcasting program,'' according to Blaine
T. Hanks, adviser/manager of the
station.
Hanks helped establish the station
and developed the radio program. He
teaches most of the broadcast classes,
maintains the station's equipment,
and is responsible for license renewals
and ''for making the right moves to
keep the FCC reasonably happy,'' he
said.

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All radio station staff members at
KBVR are part-time, and students are
an important part of this staff. The
station manager and program
manager are part-time paid student
staff, while the broadcast coordinator
during Fall Term was a teaching
assistant (also paid). Other positions
are either voluntary or for credit.
Student Participation
Dr. Richard Weinman, general
manager for KBVR, said the station is
used as an instructional tool for
students to gain experiences in the
various phases of radio broadcasting,
"from management through talent."
He said that individual students
predetermine a project for a term, •
carry out the project on the station,
a.nd meet with faculty for review and
evaluation. "This process is used for
most station functions including
management, news, production, and
special projects,'' Weinman said.

Most part-time student staff are
broadcast majors. A broadcast media
committee interviews staff candidates
and chooses them according to the
qualifications which are included iB
the guidelines for the station. According to Weinman, ''The staff work is
part of their learning process and
achievement record."
Weinman added, ''The broadcast
faculty are full-time but are not
considered staff of the station.''
Programming
Program format for the station
varies with the student management
which changes from one academic
year to the next.
So programming decisions result
from input of the student station
manager, the student program director (if there is one), the broadcast
coordinator between the Speech
Department and Student Activities,
and the broadcast media faculty.

Class D FM stations are not
required by FCC to engage in the
ascertainment procedures in order to
retain their licenses. However, the
station makes twice-yearly surveys of
the college audience to determine
program interests. "But no inquiry is
made of what students perceive to be
major college issues,'' Singletary
added.
·student Participation and Personnel
• Station KSLC is used as an
extension of the classroom and is run
completely by students, Singletary
said.
Both the general manager and
program director are students. In
fact, there are no full-time staff
members -- all part-time staff are
students. '' Students, some of whom
are on work-study (grants), run the
entire operation,''. he said.
After students learn how to operate
the board, learn the use of tape

recorders and other basic skills, they
receive on-the-job training in various
station functions. But students are
required to obtain a third class FCC
license before being assigned a board
shift.
Singletary said that students are
given a wide range of broadcasting
experiences through the use, as much
as possible, of live broadcasting of
speakers, concerts, and sports.

License Status and Ascertainment
KRBM holds a standard FCC
three-year license for F-3 emission
which is up for renewal on Feb. 1,
1978. Hanks indicated that since
KRBM is a 10 watt station, procedures
for renewal are relatively simple at
this time. Until this year, low power
FM educational stations did not have
to develop an ascertainment process
but merely were required to fill out
forms pertaining to technical specifications and programming percentages Hanks said.

Programming
The broadcast students design the
music format which is usually a
modified Top-Forty style. The station ·
is open for requests and attempts to
respond to ''what our young audience
likes," said Hanks.
KRBM assists students in finding
jobs and rides, covers the sports
events of the college, and generally
involves itself ''in campus and community life," he said.
As adviser/manager, Hanks
schedules public affairs programming.
Complete hourly newscasts and
weather and road condition reports
are featured.
Personnel
Although Hanks is the only full-time
employee, a part-time instructor 1
teaches a class on broadcast systems
and a local radio personality gives a
preparatory course for second year
students in their final term. There is
also a part-time technician who helps
with the Television Producton class.
Local experts in sales, production and
other areas are brought in on a

Student Participation
Since the station was established as
a training facility, second year
students carry on the full range of
station operations. Students take
turns as program director, music
director, and news and sports directors. Each second year student has a
daily 3-4 hour board shift on KRBM.
"Within a flexible structure, they
have responsibility for the station,"
Hanks said.

Programming
Program policy is formulated by the
faculty adviser (Singletary), the
general manager and program director (students).
Currently KSLC has a block programming format, signing on at noon
with 5 hours of contemporary popular
music, followed by 15 minutes of local
news, 75 minutes of music, a 30
minute strip of educational/informational programs, 2 hours of classical

Weinman said, "Programming is
determined to meet interests of the
student audience and needs of
students using the station for their
educational goals."
Funding
Station KBVR is partially funded by
OSU student activities and partially
funded by the Department of Speech
Communication.
The Student Activity budget allocation for this year was $5,700 and
mainly provides stipends for
managers and staff, and production
supplies and materials.
The Department of Speech Communication funding includes salaries
of broadcast faculty, building, capital
equipment, engineering, operations
and maintenance, and production.
Weinman said that funding also comes
from the central administration which
provides for special requests through
the university's instructional budgets.

music, and 3 hours of rock music with
a 15 minute local newscast in the
middle. High school and college
sports are also broadcast.
Broadcast classes are taught by
regular full-time faculty members with
appropriate degrees, but Singletary
stresses that these faculty members
are not considered a part of the radio
station staff. The students are given
guidance by the faculty adviser and
faculty teaching broadcast classes.
Funding
The yearly budget for KSLC is
approximately $3,500, most of which
comes from student body funds. A
small portion of the budget is derived
from the Communications Department, and is used for equipment items
and to pay student staff members who
are on work-study, Singletary said.
About $200 a year is received in
programming grants to support
athletic broadcasts.

non-paid basis. As Hanks said,
"Usually a cup of coffee suffices."
A degree is not necessary at BMCC
in order to assist with the program or
teaching. Hanks said,' "We want·
persons with practical experience,
common sense and a high survival
quotient.''
Funding
The station was established and all
equipment provided by the BMCC
budget. The college budget provides
funds for the annual operating budget
of KRBM. The annual operating
budget request is between $1,500 and
$2,000 but does not include Hanks'
salary nor the part-time staff members
pay.
Although the station is comparatively young and small in staff and
power, it serves the needs of the
community and students of the
college: "We don't have tons of
gear," Hanks said, "and an alphabet
full of studios, but we have turned out
good people who now have jobs in
broadcasting."

"KLCC has established itself as a jazz radio
station, not only in this area, but in this
state and maybe in the Northwest,"
says Michael Canning.
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for transmitter

by Nancy Hale
As 1977 begins, with more than a year
having lapsed since the Buck-A-Watt
~arathon, KLCC is still searching for
mcreased power transmitter. The question
now being considered is whether to invest
in new or used equipment.
KLCC Engineer Bill Riley has been
searching for acceptable used equipment,
but nothing has materialized. After doing
an engineering feasability study to determine the amount of money and man hours
needed to fix up a used transmitter offered
by KZEL, Riley admitted ''. . . it is an old
tube-type transmitter in very poor condition that would have to be rebuilt from the
ground up." In a study submitted to Mass
Communication Department Chariman
Mike Hopkinson, Riley estimated $5,000
and two months work would be needed to
restore the KZEL transmitter.
The alternative to the trouble and
ongoing expense of used equipment would
be to buy a new transmitter. But the
$8,000 in pledges finally collected from the
marathon would cover only half the cost.
Hopkinson says they are working on ''The
possibility we could get Health, Education
and Welfare funding, use the marathon
money to match that, and get new
transmitter." Any such plans for HEW
funds would first have to be submitted to
LCC President Eldon Schafer and then
would be three to six months in
government processing.
Once the station secures the transmitter,
there is the problem, too, of finding a new
site to place it. The present site at KFMY
will not handle a 10,000 watt transmitter.
A new higher powered transmitter site is
now being constructed by KSND. This site
would serve KLCC's needs if the president
can go to the Board of Education and get
approval to spend the extra $220.00
monthly rental.

Marathon was a success
by Nancy Hale
In October 1975, KLCC faced the threat
of radical budget cuts and the growing
pressure and necessity of becoming
independent. In a story by TORCH
Reporter Scott Stuart he emphasized the
fact th.:.t independence for a public radio
station hinges on how far the station can
broadcast and how many listeners it can
reach. (The theory of a listener-supported
station being, more listeners means more
money, and more money means improved
and more diversified programming.)
The first step toward independence for
KLCC required increased power in the
form of a 10,000 watt transmitter. But
10,000 watt transmitters aren't cheap. The
one KLCC needed was expected to cost
$10,000. That's a buck a watt-- and that is
what the KLCC Buck-A-Watt Marathon
was all about.
On Wednesday, Oct. 1, 1975 KLCC
staffers and volunteers went on the air with
96 hours of live programming. During the
fund-raising extravaganza there were local
bands playing, documentaries, comments,
exposes, and even an on-going auction of
scores of items and services. At one point
there was even a tension-relieving staff-listener volleyball game in Studio A.
By the end of the fourth day the response
had been astonishing. An outstanding
show of listener support brought more than
$10,000 in pledges during the first KLCC
Buckawatt Marathon.

How much does KLCC cost.

by Kathleen Monje
Lane County taxpayers contributed a have been combined with that departsubstantial $70,450 toward the cost of ment's budget.
He explained that
operating KLCC-FM for the fiscal year operational materials such as telephone
1975-76, via LCC's general fund. The total service,office sqoulies and secretarial help
expense of maintaining the station is are some of th,:- items paid for by the
$102,677 according to a report compiled by department. Hopkinson and LCC budget
the Mass Communication Department for Director Vern Whitaker are completing a
the Corportation of Public Broadcasting restructuring of the two accounts at this
(CPB), a federal agency which makes grant time.
monies availabe to public radio stations, is
As a means of insuring that CPB money
the second largest source of KLCC's is used for broadcasting in the "public
financial support providing $18,707 last interest,'' the federal agency sends its
Additional funds from local auditors on yearly inspections of the radio
year.
businesses (almost $3,000) and contribu- stations it funds. KLCC was visited in
tions received through the KLCC Marathon
($10,000--$7,500 after expenses) complete
the station's income ledger.
This year's total cost of KLCC increased
by $25,000 over the 1974-75 figures.
However, a May, 1975 study of KLCC' s
impact on the radio broadcasting program
made by LCC Program Evaluator Julie
Lamberts noted that ''The cost of operating
KLCC-FM has experienced a constant
dollar (1970 base) decline annually for the
past four years.''
Since the station's creation in 1969, it
has been difficult for even the KLCC
·station manager--usually the Mass Communication Department Head--to be sure early December by CPB Auditor Ba-silexactly how much the radio station has cost Ramnarace, who made an evaluation of
KLCC's finances.
the college.
According to ~ike Hopkinson, acting . When the Torch contacted him by phone
department head smce October, 1976, the m Washington, D. C., Ramnarace declined
reason it ~as been hard to pin-point dollar to comment on his report until KLCC and
amountsts1that many of the KLCC expenses the college, as licensee, receive copies of

the analysis at the end
of January. However,
he did say that the
seperation of the
KLCC and Mass Communication budgets
was "long overdue."

Julie Lambert's

KLCC study expressed

a similar opinion a year
ago; she recommended
that '' Budget books
reflecting the

income and expenditures for KLCC-FM be
maintained separately from the remainder
of the Department of Mass Communications. . . She also said ''the accounting
system currently employed does not permit
an accurate breakdown of expenditures by
program within a department to occur."

Jazz-KLCC's bread and butter

by Howard Leff
It was after the Buck-A-Watt Marathon
in the Spring of 1976 that jazz became the
full time music alternative on KLCC.
According to former Music Director
Michael Canning, "KLCC has established
itself as the jazz radio station, not only in
this area, but in this state and maybe in the
Northwest.''
Jazz has become very popular in
Eugene, since it has become the fulltime
musical format on KLCC. Artists such as
Eddie Harris, Dizzy Gillespie, and Mose
Allison have been a few of the jazz
personalities appearing in town recently.
Sales of jazz records in stores has increased
markedly. "That's the thing I'm most
proud of," says Canning, "I think we're
turning-on a significant amount of
people."
But local public affairs and local
community needs are a strong priority in
KLCC programming. Under the direction
of Roger Wood, KLCC was praised for
having the finest pre-election coverage in
the area.
Wood says that programming should be
flexible depending on community needs;
'' Any station that truly exists to provide
service to the community must continually
examine and re-examine, its offerings,
making changes and additions as necessary to keep pace with the needs of that
community.''
KLCC offers strong local programming
with such shows as "Soapbox," "Earscape," and "As the Woman Turns."
Future considerations for programs includes, a program for the elderly, the

What's new in LCC
Food Service Cafeteria ?

A .LUNCH Wagon Special

That's What!

What is it?
A delicious entree with all the trim mings
A complete meal for a price you can't beat
Why not come in and try it
From $1.60. to $1.7 5

young, on health and nutrition, one on fine
arts, (other than music) and an open-mike
session for the public.
Listed below is a recap of the historical
roots of the current programming.
_In October of 1967 KLCC began a 15
mmute program called '' Jazz From
Canada.'' Thus began the music, which
later would become KLCC' s bread and
butter.
Early KLCC programming, under the
direction of Radio and Electronics Instructor Roger Houglam carried such features
as a world news report, campus news, a
magazine of the arts, and the jazz show.
But mellow rock and roll was the
predominant music format.
Jazz increasd its presence on KLCC in
1969 when Colin Campbell's "Jazz 90"
took to the airwaves. The station's news
focus took on a stronger emphasis, with the
addition of the United Press Internationl
news service. "Focus," a program of
music and information, featuring a talk
show, plus unique music and fine art
presentattons! began to blossom.
Then in 1970 jazz moved to the dinner
hour on weekdays at the time that KLCC

was expanding. On May 4, of that year
KLCC began full-time operation, broadcasting 16 hours a day. A program
featu ring golden oldies became an instant
hit with KLCC listeners. Remote broadcasts from Valley River Center began.
Community news became prominent and
an application was being prepared for
submission to the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting (CPB) for federal support
operation in 1971.
The application was approved-KLC'C
received a grant from the CPB and became
a National Public Radio (NPR) affiliate.
NPR is a non-commercial network providing public affairs, cultural and educational
programs on a national level rather than a
local level. "All Things Considered,"
NPR's national news· program, which the
most recent Program Director, Roger
Wood, called "The best daily news and
information package produced by any radio
or television network,'' slanted to attract
more and more listeners to KLCC-FM.
The public has a chance to comment on
future KLCC programming as it stands and
as it will stand in the future, at the special
LCC Board of Education meeting, Jan. 19.

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RIDE WANTED

1968 CHEVELLE MALIBU. excellent mechanical
condition. 20,000 miles on rebuilt engine. Body needs
work. $695 or best offer. Call Jeff or Tony. Nights
686-2847, days 686-2644.

RIDE WANTED to LCC from Harlow Road Monday,
Wednesday, Friday mornings or to Harlow Road
Monday, Wednesday evenings. Sandy, 687-1859

EMPLOYMENT
1953 OLDSMOBILE ROCKET 88. perfect mechanical
condition and cherry body. Best offer. Call Jeff or
Tony. Nights 686-2847. days 686-2644.

SUMMER JOBS: Crater Lake Lodge will be
interviewing applicants on campus for resort summer
work on Feb. 10. Contact the placement office for an
app<>intment and application.

TYPEWRITER. portable. manual. $25. AIR FORCE
COAT. blue wool. size 40. like new. Linda, ext. 234 or
747-4677. evenings.

SERVICES

OVAL BRAIDED RUG. 7 x 10 ft .. wool and nylon.
multicolor, $35. Linda. ext. 234.

Pregnant? Need Help?
Call BIRTHRIGHT. 687-8651.
HORSES TO RENT. No guides. hourly rates. 7 days a
week. For information and reservations call Windgate
Farms. 998-6789.

REFRIGERATOR. Frost-free. four years old. 15 cu. ft.
Coppertone. $150 or best offer. Linda. ext. 234.

PERSONALS
DOREEN - I miss you. I miss your touch. Love, Comp .

NEEDED
REFLECTIONS--LCC literary magazine--is accepting
poetry. short stories. and art work of its next issue.
Deadline for submission is Feb. 11. I 977. Bring your
work tu 206 Center Bldg.

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Concert
Classical guitarist Michael Lorimer
Beall Concert Hall, U of O School of Music
8:00 p.m.
Admission is $2.50 for U of O students,
$4.00 general

Concert
Taj Mahal
South Eugene High School Auditorium
8:00 p.m.
Admission is $5.00 in advance, $6.50 day of
show..

Speaker
Former U.S. Congressperson Bella Abzug
EMU Ballroom, U of O campus
8:00 p.m.
No admission cha!"ge

Play
"Cabaret"
LCC Performing Arts Theatre
February 4, 5, 9-12, 1977
8:00 p.m.
All tickets are $4.00
Por more information call 747-4559.

JANUARY 19

Tickets are available at Crystal Ship,
Everybody's Records (both locations:
Corvallis and Eugene), and the EMU Main
Desk
For more information call 687-3201

Concert
Gil-Scptt Heron
EMU Ballroom, U of O Campus
8:00 p.m.

Film Showing
'' Sometimes a Great Notion''
Henry Fonda
Noon, 1:30 and 3:00 p.m.

starring

Play
''Macbeth''
Horace W. Robinson Theatre
February 4, 5, 9-12, 1977

"King Kong:'' the ape is great
Very few events have ever impressed me
enough to prompt hastily scribbled notes
with a pen borrowed from a girl behind the
popcorn counter who couldn't seem to
understand why I needed it; notes on the
back of a payroll check that in all likelihood
won't be cashed; notes written in a
darkened theatre that seemed to be in dire
need of a heater repairman. That is not to
say that I am hard to impress. I'm not. It
is to say, however, that the mechanical ape
in Dino DiLaurentiis' latest film "King
_Kong" did impress me.

speci~s and report back to campus with his
findings, but he is mistaken for a "Shell or
Exxon" spy and locked up below deck until
cleared. Once exonerated; he becomes
an authority of sorts · because of his
extensiv~ knowledge of the area.
He also becomes the love interest of a
flighty, scatterbrained aspiring actress
named Dwan; ("It's just like Dawn, only I
changed two letters to make it more
memorable."); whose life is saved when
she refuses to watch "Deep Throat" -showing aboard the yacht upon which she
is sailing -- and leaves to stand Qn deck.

• The yacht t.A'.plooes and she Just happens to
be the sole survivor, found floating in a
life-raft that just happened to have an
automatic-inflating device that was "by
some miracle," all that was left of the
yacht. Dwan is portrayed by Jessica
Lange, and while she appears to have a
modicum of acting talent, one is left with
the suspicion that she was cast as the
modern-day Fay Wray solely because of
her attractiveness of features, highlighted
by the scanty costuming.
Jack Prescott also happens to be an ace
with a camera and is appointed "official"

.... whose lie saved when she
refuses to watch '1>eep Throat" ·
Usually inclined to refrain from using
superlatives in everyday speech and a firm
believer that their only place in print is the
sports page, I am somewhat reluctant to
use the following adjective. But I feel
reasonably certain that most persons will
agree with me when I say that the ape was
tremendous. Too strong? I think not.
Resplendent with blinking, bloodshot eyes,
wrinkled skin, authentic growl and fairly
realistic fingernails to boot; the ape is truly
a masterpiece of genius--a genius named
Carlo Rambaldi. It was Rambaldi who
designed and built the giant ape which is
nearly 40 feet tall and weighs. in at almost
six and one-half tons.
While the mechanical marvel did
impress me, the film; now playing at the
National Theatre on the mall in Eugene;
did not.
The story line of "King Kong" centers
around a fictional oil company--Petrox,
Inc.--and its attempt to cure the world's
fuel ills. Petrox commissions a merchant
vessel, provides the accoutrements necessary to drill a 2,000 foot oil well, and sets
sail for a mysterious island that has been
surrounded by the same fog for the past 40
years. The fog, it is reasoned, i~ caused by
the reaction of surfaced oil to the island's
tropical atmosphere. The operation is kept
a secret to avoid '' Shell or Exxon'' catching
wind of it and beating Petrox to the punch.
Directly after leaving port, a meeting is
held in which the protagonist is introduced.
Jeff Bridges portrays Jack Prescott, a
stowaway professor of paleontology from
Princeton who sees the island as a
wonderland inhabited by a species of giant
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film, however, is used to take pictures of
the lens-happy, power-mad leader of the
expedition, Fred Wilson portrayed by
Charles Grodin. Grodin's performance is
somewhat overplayed and subsequently
receives a number of unplanned laughs
from the audience as he barks orders fore
and aft through a little-needed but
image-enhancing megaphone.
Eventually, the ship reaches the outskirts of the perpetual fog, sets anchor and
sends a landing party, that includes Dwan
for some unexplained reason, to explore
the island. They come across a fortress
that looks as though jt was contructed to
meet safety standards for a nuclear plant.
Upon closer examination, the group
discovers that it houses some two hundred
natives who just happen to be in the middle
of a wedding . When the scarcely

believable natives notice the party, they bnrter with Prescott for the right to offer
Dwan, the white goddess, to their own
God--Kong. When they are rebuffed, they
kidnap her from the ship, drug her, and
offer her to Kong, who graciously accepts
hastily departs through the forest, Dwan in
hand, leaving giant footprints and broken
trees in his wake.
Dwan , the only female on board, is soon
missed and a search party is sent for her.
Through a series of cliches and tin:ie-worn
gimmicks, the giant ape is captured,
deposited on a giant oil tanker, taken to
New York, subjected to playing the sick,
slick Madison Avenue exploitation game
and made to be Petrox's answer to the
Exxon tiger. At its unveiling, amidst
thousands of on-the-spot spectators, the
ape relieves himself of his inescapable
cage and proceeds to search for Dwan, with
whom the ape has fallen madly in love. He
finds her, captures carefully, and escorts
her to the top of the World Trade Center.
Several National Guard soldiers proceed to
upset the giant ape to the point at which he
has to be killed simply to save the throng of
innocent bystanders that have gathered
below. Kong is disabled, rolls off the
Trade Center, and the film ends with tears
in the eyes of both Kong and_ Dwan,
Most of the acting was overplayed,- but
fortunately, that fact can almost be
overlooked because of the tremendous
special effects of Carlo Rambal<li, whose
efforts not only hold the film together in its
entirety, but also cast a shadow on the
film's bad points. The most used, most
blatant and most obvious of which are the
many sequences in which happenstance,
serendipity and large doses of good
old-fashioned luck provide the basis upon
which twists in the plot seem to hang.
The use of cliches can sometimes be
necessary, but the art consists of disguising them so that they aren't obvious. Not
only were the cliches in "King Kong"
obvious, but they were far too many in
number; such as the windblown scarf that
just happens to land on the imprisoned
Kong, used to illustrate to the audience
how much Dwan means to the ape; and the
full moon glaring over Kong's shoulder as
he stands atop the World Trade Center;
and the priest who, upon walking into the
street to observe the commotion, sees
Kong and retreats in the church making
the sign of the cross; and the soldiers who
want to be heroes so badly that they
proceed to fire upon Kong against orders.
Granted, without the use of many of
these cliches the film would have been
much longer than its 2 hours, but there are,
or should be, limits.
"King Kong" probably will not win any
Academy Awards, save possibly special
effects, but several points of the film
deserve honorable mention. Jeff Bridges
comes across well as one of a new breed of
college professor, young and serious, with
the tough, take-charge personality that,
fortunately. has not been in evidence long
enough to be made a cliche. While there
probably won't be any "Theme from King
Kong'' top-forty hits playing on your radio.
•the score, composed and conducted by
John Barry, combines just the right
amount of searching suspense and hesitant
excitement that doesn't come on too strong
nor take a back seat but, rather provides
the film with a fine background soundtrack.

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Women boost hoop record to 3-0

The Lane women's basketball team will ·They dumped Umpqua last Friday, 57-43,
have a good chance to evaluate their and overwhelmed the Oregon College of
strengths and weaknesses at the Wil- Education JV's on Monday, 52-36, in two
lamette University Jamboree tonight in home contests. They are now 3-0.
Freshman Teri Booth connected on 10 of
Salem at 5:00.
They will face the varsity squads of the 20 field goals for 20 points and teammate
host school, Lewis and Clark and Linfield in Cindy Corkum added 12 counters in the
three 20 minute contests. Other partici- Umpqua win. Defense was the key to
pants are George Fox and Clackamas in the victory, however, and Coach Sue Thompson cited their full court press in particular.
non-counting action.
''They weren't very good ballhandlers, ''
The Titan women started 1977 off on the
she explained, '' and the shock of our press
right foot with two impressive victories.

forced them into 31 turnovers."
And the press was too much for the OCE
JV's to handle also. They dominated the
game from the start and led at intermission, 34-12, after which Thompson
substitute d freely and called off the
ballhawking pressure to make the contest
respectable. "It was their first game and
they looked pretty· ragged."
Thompson named 5'9'' sophomore Janel
Huser as another deciding factor. "Her
play was excellent. She scored eight

points, grabbed nine rebounds, blocked
five shots and earned four assists and just
dominated the game inside."
Lane now hosts Mt. Hood on Tuesday
and the Willamette JV' s next Thursday.
"The Mt. Hood game will be our most
challenging of the season so far,'' opined
Thompson. The Gresham squad finished
second behind co-champi ons Lane and
Clark last season. "I'm sure they'll be out
fot revenge,'' the Titan first year coach
added.

SWO CC on tap next

Me n cla im vic tor ies
in lea gue ne t act ion

The return to OCCAA competitio n
apparently ,was a good omen for the Lane
men's basketball squad, as they won their
league opener with Chemeketa, 71-68, last
Wednesday and toppled Blue Mountain on
Saturday, 91-67. Both games played here.
Last night the Titans traveled to Portland
to face Judson Baptist, a scrappy but
comparati vely weak contingen t. The
Crusaders have yet to beat a Dale
Bates-coached Lane team but always seem

Sp or ts
to play them closely on their home court.
Results of that game were not available at
presstime.
The Titans are on the road again
tomorrow for a 7:30 p.m. encounter in Coos
Bay against Southwest Oregon. The
takers returned six lettermen from their
league leading offensive team of last year.
They currently sport a 1-1 league mark.
Lane will host the team that Bates feels
is the favorite for OCCAA postseason
honors, Central Oregon, next Wednesday.
"They are tall and talented," he underscores. The Bobcats lured away two top
prepsters Bates thought he had hooked for
Lane, Don Hayes from Sheldon and
Parkrose's Lynn Lamvik, and also nabbed
All-Stater Dave Hildahl from Madison, a
6'3" scoring machine. They are undefeated in league play.
Lane needed some second-half heroics
from freshman Dennis Immonen to down
Chemeketa. He came off the bench to
score 12 key points after replacing foul
plagued John Hassler. After his clutch

Athletic Calendar
MEN'S BASKETBALL
Jan. 14-Lane vs. Southwest Oregon
in Coos Bay. 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 19-Lane vs. Central Oregon
here. 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 22-Lane vs. Umpqua here.
7:30 p.m.
WOMEN'S BASKETBALL
Jan 13-Willamette University Jamboree in Salem. 5:00 p.m.
Jan. 18-Lane vs. Mt. Hood here.
6:00 p.m.
Jan. 20-Lane vs. Willamett e University JV's here. 7:00 p.m.

WRESTLING
Jan. 14-Lane vs. Central Oregon
here. 7:30 p.m.
Jan. 15-Lane vs. Umpqua here. 7:30
p.m.

BOWLING
Jan. 13-Lane vs. Oregon at Springfield Lanes. 3:30 p.m.
Jan. 20-Lane vs. Chemeketa at Town
and Country Lanes in Salem. 3:30
p.m.

shooting kept the Blue and White even
going into the last minute, Steve Halverson
connected on a one-and-one foul shot at :36
for a two point lead and Rob Holstrom
ensured the win with a gift toss with two
seconds left.
Hassler and Keith Baltzer, top two
scorers in preseason play, were held to six
and four points respectively. Halverson
led against the Chiefs with 19 points while
Immonen and Kevin McCarthy netted 12
Except for the final score, the teams were
practically even statistically.
Lane outscored Blue Mountain in the
second half, 51-33, in notching that win.
They played fairly evenly until midway
through the final stanza when Brent
Merriman~ the Timberwo lves top·point
producer with 21, was hit with three
technical fouls and ejected. The Titans
completely dominated after that.
Also important was the large Lane
advantage on the boards, 64-31. Mc
Carthy, Baltzer and Halverson led in
scoring with 17, 15 and 12 points
respectively.
"I'm disappoin ted in the amount of
turnovers we've been having," assessed Lane's Janel Huser drives to the hoop against the Oregon College of Education JV's
Bates. "We've been forcing their passes Monday here. She played a key role In the Titan's 52-36 victory. [Photo By Steve
too much.''
Thompson]

Matmen thrash Chiefs, 58 -6

points came from a dual forfeit in the 118 the following match, 142 pounder Dan
pound class, where Lane also garnered six Kramer, a sophomore transfer from the
Corvallis institution , faced his former
counters.
Saturday's pairing with the OSU JV's teammate Mike Miller. After jumping out
went pretty much true to form, according to a quick 5-0 lead, Kramer had to hold off
to Creed. "The were jJst bigger and a stiff Miller rally in the final period for a
stronger,'' he explained. The Titans did 5-3 decision.
Creed has several line-up changes
manage three individual victories, albeit
for this weekend. Randazzo will
readied
with
one by an OSU forfeit at 118 pounds,
stay in the 118 class after starting as a 126
Randazzo claiming the win.
Their other two match victories were . pounder, Mowry will move down to 190
more impressive . Sophomor e Mike pounds and newcomer John Dunn, who
Bramlett at 134 pounds earned a clear-cut didn't join the team until the holiday
11-3 decision but couldn't nab the pin. In season, will man the heavy weight slot.

by Jack Scott
The rebuilding Lane wrestling squad
opened conference action by whipping
Chemeketa , 58-6, in Salem last Friday but
dropped a noncounter the next night to the
tough Oregon State JV's, 32-13, in
Corvallis.
They return to OCCAA competitio n
tomorrow against Central Oregon and on
Saturday face Umpqua. Both are home
matches starting at 7:30 p.m.
Wrestling coach Bob Creed predicts both
matches "should be real close. I'd like to
win them both, but to do that we'll have to
stay healthy and fill out our weight
classes." He points out that Central
Oregon is a strong wrestling school and
that Umpqua has the personnel this year to
challenge for OCCAA laurels.
The Chemeketa match, though impressive score-wise, was not a true indicator of
Titan mat strength for conference competition. The locals picked up 30 points on
forfeits alone.
In actual matches, Lane picked up pins
from 126 pounder Dennis Randazzo, 167
pounder Lou Christian, Rick Klohn at 190
and heavy weight Dennis Mowry, plus a
George Rayburn decision. The Chiefs only

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The Lane men's and women's bowling
clubs open the second half of league action
today at Sprinfield Lanes at 3:30 p.m.
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against Oregon.
"We've never had our men's team do so
well before,'' boasted Coach Lou Bellisimo
of their league leading first half performance. They finished 19-1 and compiled a
phenomenal 985 team average. They were
paced by Tom McDonald with his 213
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BY THE STAFF OF STUDENT
HEALTH SERVICES

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ills needed to co

In our pill oriented society, it has
become popular to give or prescribe
some type of psychotrophic drug - a
medical solution to a non-medical
problem. The giver and the taker
receive rewards. The taker is
reas~ured because his "problem"
has been identified and treatment
prescribed. The practitioner feels
goQd about helping in a non-medical
situation which is really beyond his
or her control. The real danger is
that the treatment by a drug may
start the patient on the road to drug
abuse - drug abuse of legal drugs,
our largest drug abuse problem.
Drugs (including alcohol) are not the
answer to the relief of tension.
One of the commonest problems
seen in a campus health service is
tension, or the results of tension. No
one is completely free of tension.
Students, faculty and staff are
constantly exposed to situations
-ANNOUNCEMENTNew hours for the LCC Student
Health Services are:
Monday - 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Tuesday - 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Wednesday - 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Thursday - 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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BYTHE STAFF OF STUDENT HEALTff ;ERVICES:

which are likely to produce tension.
Competing for success has become
one of our strongest drives. Failing
to achieve, to attain our goals, or the
fear of failure may cause tension.
Basically, without a complicated
lesson in physiology, tension is the
result of increased secretion of
adrenalin. Adrenalin increases the
blood pressure, the metabolism, the
heart beat and the flow of blood - a
reaction to fight or flight, a protective response needed for survival in
earlier times. Tension can lead to ill
health, cardio-vascular disease and
ineffectiveness. Irritability, testiness, and worry are common symptoms.
The problem is not that everyone
on campus worries to some extent,
but what one does about it - how to
handle tension in a positive manner.
People can be trained to relieve their
tension -through a relaxation exerFriday - 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
The Student Health Services is
open on the days that classes are in
session, during the fa11, winter and
spring terms. Health Services will
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cise. This exercise is an effective
technique requiring only four steps:
1.
Select a quiet place, be
comfortable. Some do best sitting
up, others do better lying down (the
floor will do). 2. Repeat a pleasant
word or phrase over and over. Some
do we11 saying a simple prayer. 3.
Become passive, relaxed. Simply
repeat the word, phrase or prayer.
4. Close your eyes, but do not go to
sleep. Repeating this exercise for
10-15 minutes, two or three times a
day has been effective for many
people.
The LCC counseling department is
offering a de-stressing seminar this
winter in cooperation with the LCC
Student Health Services. A referral
can be obtained through the Health
Services and we can reassure you
that there's nothing physica11y
wrong!
10 a.m. Patient services are closed
after 4 p.m. daily and will be limited
to campus emergencies from 4 p.m.
to 5 p.m. On Fridays from 3 p.m. to
5 p.m. the Health Services wi11 be
open but can offer only limited
services.

Photo from 1974 KLCC GUIDE