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4000 East 30th Ave., Eugene, Oregon 97405

New KLCC music
director starts
next week
by Kathleen Monje
·' My first order when I was hired was to
continue the present direction of the
station . . . I don't foresee any change,"
said Michael Handler, KLCC-FM's newly
hired Music Director.
Handler is now working part-time at the
station; he will be a full-time ernployee
beginning Wednesday, Jan. 26. "At first,
when the firings happened, I was hesitant
about applying until I felt that in fact the
musical direction of the station would
remain the same, and that I could be a part
of the continuance," he added. He served
as a volunteer at KLCC last summer.
Handler has a bachelor's degree in radio
and television fron San Jose State, and has
taught informal workshops and seminars at
KMMT radio station in Mammoth, California, where he was also the music director.

200 crowd board room to show support for station

Community concerned about KLCC
by Kathleen Monje
Over 20,0 listeners showed up last night
to express their concerns about KLCCFM 's future direction, and its affiliation
with the college, at a special hearing with
the LCC Board of Education.
The crowd, which filled the board room
and overflowed into the halls outside. had
it views broadcast live over KLCC during
the hearing. The taped broadcast will be
used in an ascertainment file required by
the Federal Communications Commission
as an indication of the public's needs and
desires. according to Dean of Instruction
Gerald Rassmussen, who represented the
administration at the session.
KLCC supporters have been concerned
that the station's programming philosophy
(now jazz and community oriented) will be
set aside in order to make the station an
instructional tool for radio broadcasting
students.
Most members of the audience supported a written proposal made to the
Board by the Listener Support Network
(LSN) , a group formed after the termination of five KLCC employees (who are to be
replaced by a new staff that is qualified to
teach one class per term each in the LCC
Mass Communication Department.)
Calling themselves "listeners . . .
involved to make sure that Eugene's
community radio station will continue to
serve the public interest," LSN represen- _
tatives recommended to the Board that:
•The Board, as FCC license holder,
directly oversee the management of KLCC,
seperate from other departments at LCC.

(The station currently is part of the Mass
Communication Department.)
•The Station Manager be responsible
only to the Board.
•An advisory committee be established

to select KLCC personnel, subject to
Members
approval by the Board.
suggested for the committee included
representatives from the administration,
the student body, KLCC's paid and
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Voluntary recognition of third union denied

He has a definite picture of student
involvement at KLCC. -;,Students in a class
structure could be responsible for daily
half-hour or 15 minute daily newscasts
about the college and the community. Of
course, it would be quality work (supervised) or it wouldn't get on the air. Any
student who is good enough should be able
to get on the air.''
A Eugene resident for the past year,
Handler has worked for both KFMY radio
Continued on page 4

Board votes against petition
by Sally Oljar
At its Jan. 12 meeting, the LCC Board of
Education voted against voluntary recognition of the petition filed by Adult Basic Education (ABE) and High School Completion
(HSC) faculty members requesting collective bargaining rights as a union at LCC.
The vote was a close 5-2, with Board
member Catherine Lauris and Chairman
Jim Martin dissenting.

If the Board had voluntarily recognized
the petition, LCC would have been the first
community college in Oregon to have a
part-time faculty union.
The voluntary recognition would have
prevented the subsequent hearing with the
Employment Relations Board (ERB).
ERB, an extension of the State Labor
Department, will conduct a hearing on the
issue Feb. 3, with ABE and HSC members,

and representatives of the college's labor
relations firm, Mills and Associates.
According to Oregon Revised Statutes,
(ORS) 243.666, and ERB guidelines, ERB
shall conduct a hearing when a labor
organization (in this case, the LCC
Education Association (LCCEA) and the
Oregon Educations Association (OEA), on
behalf of ABE and HSC faculty members)
Continued on page 3

Roller rink nostalgia revisited
by Michael Riley
I've always had a dim view of
roller-skating rinks up until last week.
To me, a rink was "the hangout" for
those unfortunate souls who thought
beating up on small children was fun
and giving the manager trouble was
included in the price. But last week
my mind was changed completely
when I tried the newest roller skating
rink in the Eugene area, Skate World.
Skate World is managed by John
Coggins, who refers to his work as
"undoubtedly the most exciting job
I've had." One might balk at this
statement unless you ·vc seen Coggins
at the rink. He mingles with the
cro\\'d, talking to the mothers of the
children skating on the floor. and I
couldn ·r help bur thmk that everybody
liked the man. A vast improvement
over the last roller-rink manager I had
an_v experience with.

My sterotype manager chews an old
cigar. hates kids. and has the kind of
breath that demands all open flames
to be extinguished when he is near. In
addition to the high alcohol content,
m_v sterotype could care less about the
cleanliness of the building or of its
patrons.
Skate World is clean, from the main
entrance to the restrooms the place
has none of the ground-out cigarette
butts and candy wrappers that I
remember lying on the floor near the
rink in my childhood. There is a
separate smoking room that maintains
a strictly enforced 18 or older age
requirement. Coggins cites very few
problems with that or with the dress
code that patrons must adhere to.
Tile dress code really threw me. It's
posted on the wall and says that its
patrons will be clothed in an acceptab Ic manner to use the rink.

Specifically. there will be no bare feet,
no bare midriffs or backs, tank tops,
body shirts, hats, caps, cut offs,
coveralls, overalls or clothing with
metal ornaments.
After a brief informative interview I

donned my skates and prepared to
embark onto the 13,500 square foot
skating floor. The floor is made _of
epoxy resin with an epoxy overcoat, a
far cry from the wood floors that I
I was under the
remembered.
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B.o ard frustrates drive to unionize
tion. A small percentage of the
income to the college has been
channeled back to teachers. Though
many teach as many hours as full time
teachers in other departments, all
teachers are considered part time and
paid hourly wage. Even with the
maximum class-load possible, teaLeiter from Adult Basic Education-High School Comchers cannot bring home more than
pletion Department. Teacher
about $500 a month. Many of these
people are supporting families. There
LCC Board of Education frustrates
is no guarantee of employment or
drive to unionize. Adult Basic
hours, and teachers have been cut
Education-High School Completion
back with no explanation given. It is
Department to take necessary steps.
impossible to affect needed improveIN THE BEST INTERESTS OF LCC?
ments in the department without job
Last week the Board of Education of security and bargaining power.
For these reasons, teachers in the
LCC voted 5-2 against voluntarily
recognizing the Adult Basic Educadepartment have met with the LCC
tion-High School Completion DepartBoard for months explaining their
ment as a oargamrng unit of the
situation. Some of the things pointed
college. This action delays improveout were the high teaching quality of
ments in the department and costs the
the staff and the fact that the average
taxpayers money since the college
length of time in the department is
must now finance hearings with the
three years. A mailed poll taken by
Employment Relations Board. The
the OEA union which represents other
reason given for denial at the January
teachers here at LCC indicated that
approximately 85 per cent of the
12th meeting was, "It is not in the
interest of LCC." Since the action will
teachers want union representation.
cause teachers. students, and taxAs a result of this poll, the Board was
payers to suffer, what does the Board
given the chance to give voluntary
recognition to-the department and the
consider to be in the best interest of
LCC?
long process of elections could have
For years the Adult Basic Edu.cabeen side-stepped. Since the Board
tion-High School Completion Departdenies recognition, the group must
ment has been serving an important
meet with the Employment Relations
role in the community and has brought
Board on February 4 to gain the
considerable income to the college
right as a bargaining unit. After this,
from state and federal government
elections will be held and the process
sources. Yet little recognition has
will rightfully end in unionization.
been given the department, it has
This delaying decision on the part of
been excluded from collective bargain- the Board shows a marked insensitiing rights which come with unionizavity to the needs of the college.
This source is undisclosed, in accordance with ORS 44.510-.540.
Editor's Note: Jeff Hayden. an LCC Agriculture and
Industrial Tech. student. prepares this weekly column
from nationwide publications. He is interested in the
workcr·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
ma1crial selected does not necessarily reflec1 1he views of
the TORCH

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---- Letters to the Editor--Loca1 group reaffirms campaign efforts to legalize

Dear Sir.
I am pleased to inform you of the
re-affirmed efforts of the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws
(NORML) in this area. Legislation wiJI be
introduced in the upcoming session in
Oregon to decriminalize possession of
marijuana and reduce penalties for the
growing of small amount of marijuana for
personal use.
While NORML fully supports a discouragement policy towards the recreational
use ·o f all drugs; including alcohol, tobacco,
and marijuana, NORML supports the
removal of all criminal and civil penalties
for the private possession and cultivation of
marjuana for personal use.
NORML supports the idea of a public
education campaign aimed at warning
users and potential users of any risks
involved with the use of all recreational
drugs. Such warnings should reflect an
honest scientific and medical concern.
However, NORML feels that criminal
penalties should not be imposed upon
those who use such drugs despite warnings
to contrary. such as is the case currently
with tobacco.

In 1972. the National Commission on treating glaucoma. Glaucoma is a leading
Marijuana and Drug Abuse presented to cause of blindness in the United States and
Congress and President Nixon their report is estimated to be suffered by one million
stating that the use of marijuana does not Americans. NORML is currently trying to
lead to the use or abuse of other drugs; that reschedule the classification of marijuana
marijuana is not addictive; that its under the Controlled Substances Act.
moderate use does not produce psychologi- NORML vs. the Drug Enforcement Agency
cal or physical harm; and most important- (DEA), No. 75-2025, U.S. Court of Appeals
ly, that neither the marijuana user nor the for the D.C. Circuit. Petition for review
drug itself can be said to constitute a was filed October 22, 1975.
danger to public safety. Until 1942,
In September 1975, a Special Task Force
marijuana had officially recognized medi- of the White House Domestic Council
cinal uses in this country.
It was recommended to President Ford that U.S.
prescribed as a oral medication for such anti-marijuana efforts be de-emphasized.
~varied complaints as rheumatism, cough, $600 million is spent annually on marijuana
pain, -menstruai . cramps, migraine head- arrests, dollars that could be applied to the
aches, and as an inhalent for asthma.
control of serious crimes. Many OregoBecause of its classification under the
Controlled Substances Act, marijuana can
no longer be used even in carefully
supervised research. This is extremely
unfortunate, for at recent seminar in To Jeff Hayden
Among the other traits that Benjamin
Reston, Virginia that was sponsored by
Research to Prevent Blindness, Dr. Keith Franklin possessed, he was "A man of
Green, of the Medical College of Georgia, determined independence" and "scorned
told the eye research conference that the idea of 'a good, steady job,' ''
tetrahydrocannabinal (THC) from mari- according to H.S. Kahm in the introduction
juana shows the greatest potential for to his book "101 Businesses You Can Start
And Run With Less Than $1,000". He
went on to say that Franklin did not like the
idea of working for others ''because to' do
so was a form of slavery.'' Franklin
believed ''that a man should be his own
master," says Kahm.

Matt Boren
Jeff Ca11aday
John Cecil
Linda Engra,·
Mana Hogard
Ad Graphics
Lori
Hylton
Dave Mackay
Teena Killian
Dave Mackay
Business Manager
Jo~· Rhoads
Linda Donnelly
Tom Ruckman
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 intend<.d 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 submission~ is Friday noon.
The editor reserves the right to edit for matters of libel and leng1h.
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 A,·enue.
pugene. Oregon 97405; Te~ephone. 747-4501. ex!. 234_
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Associate Editor
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Ka1hlcctl Monje
Sally Oljar
Michael Riley
Russell Kaiser
Jeff Hayden
Jack Scott
Janice Brown
John Brooks
Kristine Snipes

nians who have used or grown marijuana
are branded as criminals. We therefore
urge the immediate removal of all
penalities for the cultivation of marijuana
for personal use.
I hope we can work together for a more
just law for Oregonians. We need your
continuing help and support. Please write
or call us if you feel as we do.
Sincerely yours.
Charles Bennett, President
NORML Club
Clackmas Community College
19600 S. Molalla Avenue
Oregon City, OR 97045
Call 656-2631 ext. 257

What is real independence?

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John Albanese

Kahm expressed his concern for the
many young A~ericans today who ·•go to
college for the sole purpose of getting a
degree which will qualify them to get a
'good job' after graduation."_ He asks,
"What kind of ambition is this" wanting to
become a slave? He states that this is •'not
the kind of stuff our American forefathers
were made of ! ''

Finally Kahm concludes "There is only
one way to independence ... and that is to
be your own master!"
John Brooks

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To the Editor.
I congratulate you and your staff on the
excellent Torch supplement concerning
KLCC-FM.
The articles were well
researched and you and your staff did a
commendable job of isolating pertinent
questions concerning the station.

The voice of reasoned, responsible
journalism is welcomed when issues of
public concern are obscured by misinforKahm cited that many people think that mation and personal prejudices.
a good job means security but he states
Keep up the good work.
that "This is a falsehood. Anyone who has
Mike Hopkinson
a boss can be fired. and they often are.''
He states that •'Nobody gets rich working Department Head,
for others! ·'
Mass Communication Department

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$6000 approved
for special proiects

Almost $6,000 was approv ed for 12
"special projects" by the executive
Commitee of the Development Fund
Corporation on January 13, according to a
report released the following day.
There were 18 projects that had been
outlined in "Idea Papers" that were
submitted by various departments on
campus for consideration of funding
through the LCC Development Fund11 the
report said.
The report outlined the projects that
received funding and the amount each
received.
•Larry Romine, director of College/
Community Relations, will receive $900 to
buy materials for 600 room numbers and
exterior eye-level signs for each of the
sixteen campus buildings to .make it easier
for visitors and students to find their way
around campus.
•Sid Austin, a mail courier. will be
provided with $250 for his presentations
and collections on Americana. See related
story in the Oct. 7. 1976 issue of the Torch
on page one.
•Grace Can:ieron and Anne Stewart of
the Human Awareness Commission are to
receive $200 to help cover the costs of
developing a Project Awareness Workshop
to be held at Valley River Inn beginning
February 16.
•Howard Dull, the Chairman of the
Mechanics Department, is being provided
$500 in matching funds to provide time for
updating curriculum for the Aviation
Maintenance program, especially concerning the two twin-engine production model
aircraft.
•Anne Stewart, the coordinator of the
Women's Awareness Ce.n ter, will receive
$250 to purchase materials for the
Women's Awareness Center, including
films, books and pamphlet materials. .
•The Academic and College Planning
Department will receive $500 for an idea
submitted by Joyce Salisbury. a Language
Arts instructor. The money will provide a
portion of LCC' s share in cooperation with
several mid-Willa_m ette colleges for two
3-day symposiums, bringing prominent
writers. agents, editors and publishers to
the area.
•The Phi Theta Kappa, through its
advisor George Alvergue, is being provided with $390 to send a delegate to the
national convention to be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
•Jim Piercey. associate dean of the
Office of Instructional Operations. will be
provided with $250 for a dinner during
Vocational Education Week, February 6 to
February 12, to honor those instructors
chosen as outstanding vocational educators. as well as to recognize the
chairpersons serving on the Vocational
Advisory Committee.
•Piercey will also receive $960 to pay
utilities for use of the hangar facility at
Creswell airport. thereby providing valuable learning experience for LCC's
Aviation Maintenance Tech students by
using "live" aircraft.
•Dick Newell, chairman of the Health
and PE Department, will be provided with
$973 to purchase a recording "ResusciAnne'' teaching manikin. Instructors say
this is the single most important teaching
aid to effectively teach the cardiopulmonary resuscitation life-saving skins.
•The Counselling Department will be
provided with $750 in matching funds for
an idea from Jan Brandstrom, a counselor.
Her idea is the purchase of a portable color
video tape setup for interviewing persons
in various occupations. for use in meeting
the need~ of students and potential
students in career planning. job-getting
skills. student employment or placement,
and career information.
•Finally. the Evening Program Advisory
Committee will receive $50 for an idea from
Judv Weller. a committee member. for a
con~est to stimulate interest in the evening
pro~ran 1s of the College.

"Alton Baker (publisher} thinks homosexuals are sex fiends"

100 picket R-G over gay ads

by Sally Oljar
Approximately 100 people picketed the
Eugene Register-Guard last Saturday
morning, Jan. 15, in an effort to reverse
the paper's policy of using the words
"gay" and "lesbian" in its classified
advertising.
Marchers carried signs and chanted
against Guard policy, charging that the
paper discriminated against gay men and
women. The demonstration was organized
by the Eugene Lesbian and Gay Men's
Support Committee.
Committee spokesperson Martha Sadler
said the reason for refusing to use the
words "gay" or "lesbian" is because
"Alton Baker (publisher) thinks homosexuals are sex fiends."
She said that Guard was notified of the
demonstration and they were "very

irritated." She said she "can't say"
whether the demonstration wil1 have any
effect. If it doesn't, she said, "we'll do it
again."
The Guard maintains that is has the right
to formulate its own policy on classified
advertising, and that it has run non-classified advertising for gay groups in the past.
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showed "the Register-Guard and the
community that gays aren't going to sit
back and take it ... (discrimination)."
Hopefully, she added, Saturday's march
would ••educat_e the community and let
people know about arbitrary discrimination. Gay people are active members of
society.''

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can show that 30 per cent of its employees
desire exclusive representation for collective bargaining. The appropriate
collective bargaining unit is then determined by ERB.
Mills and Associates representative
Ruth Heuser said that the firm will also use
ORS 243, the-section defining "employee"
in their argument against the petition at
the Feb. 3 hearing.
"We believe it's possible they (ABE and
HSC faculty members) don't meet that
definition," she said; however, she would
not comment on how that rationale will be
used at the hearing.
Board member Steven Reid said that he
preferred ERB to make the final ruling,
and that he was not "closing the door on
Adult Basic Education and High School
Completion faculty members."
President Eldon Schafer added that he
also preferred the ERB decision, to bring
'' clairification ·' to the process. Since LCC
will be the first community college to have
a part-time faculty union (if ERB decides in
their favor). guidelines will be established
for other campuses to follow, he added.
If ERB rules in favor of the petition, ABE
and HSC members will be under the
auspices of the LCCEA in conjunction with
the OEA, which is statewide. The two
groups on the LCC campus will be separate
entities, however. The LCCEA will
represent the group in contract negotiations.
LCCEA President Pat John told the
Board that in late October or early
November, several members of ABE and
HSC faculties had asked to "explore their
options'' and to be represented before the
Board. In late November the group filed a
formal petition with ERB. the result of
signatures collected at LCC. They asked
the Board for voluntary recognition of the
LCCEA petition at the Jan. 12 meeting,
because over half (29 out of 42) the faculty
members had been represented.
John said faculty members wanted to be
part of the LCCEA and the OEA, because
"their needs haven't been met" in
individual representation with the Board.
, She described the groups as "unique"
from other part-time faculty members - the
average instructor has been teaching for
three years, they feel "no camaraderie"
with other faculty members, and they have
different working conditions and salaries,
she said.
Board member Jim Perry said that for
the Board to voluntarily recognize the
group's petition would "not do service to
our employees to recognize this group and
no others." John replied that "this
doesn't preclude other group's (efforts) to
organize.
OEA state field representative Alan
Hein told the Board that ABE and HSC
members differed from the rest of the
part-time faculty because •'for all purposes
they are regular employees, not "typical"
part-time instructors. They have an
on-going relationship with the college."
Many of the college's part-time instructors are hired on a term-to-term basis.
teach only one or two classes, and often
hold other jobs in addition to their teaching
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As a result of an OSPIRG inquiry, the
Oregon Attorney General has issued an
opinion stating that it is illegal to
automatically exclude handicapped persons from jury duty in Oregon.
OSPIRG initiated its inquiry after
receiving a complaint from a person
confined to a wheel chair who was initially
rejected from jury duty in Multnomah
County.
The Attorney General's letter opinion,
which applies to all counties in Oregon,
states: "In most instances, confinement to
a wheel chair would not impair one's ability

Nominations sought
for Vocational Ed
Week celebrations
Nominations for outstanding vocation
instructors are being accepted in the
Associate Dean of Instructional Operations, Jim Piercey, office until January 21
according to a memo from Piercey to "past
recipients of the Outstanding Vocational
Education Award."
Recognizing vocational instructors is
how LCC celebrates Vocational Education
Week, according to Piercey. It runs from
Feb. 6 through Feb. 12. This week is
recognized nationally in various ways and
~as started by Piercey in a motel room in
Port Angeles, Washington in August 1969.
On Friday, Jan. 14 a few of the past
recepients met in the board room and
formed a selection committee. It will select
five outstanding vocational educators
from the nominations made.
The awards wil be presented at the
February 9 regular LCC Board of Education meeting. Dinner will be served before
hand for Board members, this year's
winners and all past winners of the award.

to act competently as a juror. The same
would usually be true for most physical
handicaps."
The opinion adds that in selecting jurors
who Are physically handicapped, the courts
must consider the '' effect of the handicap
upon the person's ability to understand
testimony, perceive characteristics of
witnesses which bear on heir veracity ...
and generally receive the full impact of the
case being presented."
The person who complained to OSPIRG
had been barred by Multnomah County
Circuit Court under a provision of law that
requires a juror to be "in possession of his
or her natural faculties and of sound
mind."
After the individual talked with OSPIRG
and then with court employee, the Court
agreed to allow the person to sit as a juror.
OSPIRG continued to press its inquiry
regarding the Court's official policy to
prevent similar incidents in the future.
This prompted the Court to request the
Attorney General's opinion.

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.January
Through Jan. 28

Two-man exhibit open-s

Paintings by Norman Gee and sculptures
by Harold Hoy will be exhibited Jan. 10
through 28 at the Art and Applied Design
Department main gallery at Lane Community College.
Gee is an instructor at the University of
Kansas in Lawrence. He received both his
bachelor's and master's of fine arts from
California College of Arts and Crafts.
Other recent exhibits include Two Man
Show at the 7E7 Gallery in Lawrence and
Selected Painters Invitational at the
Mulvane Art Center in Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas.
Hoy is an assistant professor of art at
Lane Community College. He received
both his master's of fine arts in painting
and sculpture from the University of
Oregon. Recent exhibits include Works in
Wood by Northwest Artists at the Portland
Art Museum, Northwest Projects I at the
And/Or Gallery in Seattle, 28th Annual
Spokane Art Exhibition at the Cheney
Cowles Memorial Museum in Spokane,
WasJ-i., and the Mayor's Invitational Art
Exhibition in Salem.
Gallery hours are 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Monday through Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 5
p.m. Fridays. The gallery, located in the
art and mathematics building on the east
side of campus, is closed on weekends.

Wood Sculpture in Search of its Mate by Harold Hoy

Shields to speak at
Women's Awareness
Center
by Michael Riley
Laurie Shields, National Coordinator of
the Alliance for Displaced Homemakers,
will speak here at the Women's Awareness
Center this Friday at noon.
Shields is part of a displaced homemakers workshop that wll be held Friday in
Harris hall. The workshop's purpose is to
focus attention on the needs of displaced
homemakers in Oregon and to help Oregon
legislators prepare a bill that will aid the
displaced homemaker (defined as a woman
35 years or older who is divorced or
widowed).
Persons interested in attending the
worksop should register at Harris-Hall this
Friday, January 21st, between 9 and 10
a.m. For more information, call Marv
Klonoski at 345-2627
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station and KVAL television. His reason
for coming to KLCC, he said, is that "I
know I can do a good job for the station and
the community--that's why I'm here."
He extended an invitation to any
members of the community or school who
have ideas about the station to come and
talk to him.

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volunteer staffs, minority groups, and two
people from the station's listening supporters.
•The station "do everything in its power
to reduce the portion of its budget
received" from the college's general fund.
Board member Larry Perry questioned
the last proposal, saying he found it
inconsistent with the first LSN recommendation. Jan Weaver, one of the terminated
KLCC staff members, explained that "In
order to remove ourselves from instruction,
we should be willing to pay some of our
own bills.''
The recommendation of the administration, prepared by Acting Mass Communication Department Head Mike Hopkinson,
is to "reaffirm the direction of KLCC-FM
as a public broadcasting station," rather
than one extensively used for instruction.
His report also opposed removing KLCC
from his department, saying "This option
would negate action . . . to incorporate
station full-time staff members into the
instructional effort." Rassmussen, speaking for the administration, said ··A
meeting like this is long overdue -- like five
years too late -- but I am quite convinced
that if the Board establishes the direction
and policy of the station. its placement is
secondary . . . I favor a continuation in
Mass Communication."
The Board will decide what that policy
and direction are to be, and whether the
station will be a separate entity. at a future
meeting yet to be announced.

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forming. If you think you might be interested. attend
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in Room 214 Math Bldg .. I :00 to 2:00. For more
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Young and Olds 98: do wa·h ditty
"I find some delight in my job as a radio
broadcaster. I'm able to set my own pace,
my own standards, and determine for
myself the substance of each program.
Some days are more sunny than others,
some hours less astonishing than I'd hope
tor . .. but it is, for better or worse, in my
hands. I'd like to believe I'm the old-time
cobbler, making the whole shoe. Though
my weekends go by soon enough, I look
toward Monday without a sigh. "
Studs Terkel, from Working
Story and photos by Pete Peterson
'ou can't see the audience down
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~here in Eugene, towards Junction
City, or over in Springfield. Under the
soft orange sunset only street I ights,
headlights, and floodlamps mark the
outlines of neighborhoods. A pointillistic.
constellation of bright dots, it's a mass
audience, seemingly vague, homogenized,
silent.
The broadcast towers watch trom tne
ridgetop of Blanton Heights and beam out
Jeff Young's greeting ...
"Six o'clock, Sunday night. Time to turn
the ignition key on our Olds 98. I'm Jeffery
and I'll be with you on Olds 98 until nine.
Dedicated To The One I Love, the first
Oldie-But-Goodie gets a twist of the
potentionmeter and his show moves-out
slow like an old but very good Oldsmobile

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He scrambles to the relatively uncatalogued stack of 20 or maybe 30 LP's from
the station's large library of 1960's popular
music. To his visitor he says "These are
only two minute cuts, so it keeps me on my
toes.'' He cues-up Shirley and Lee's
Come On Baby Let The Good Times Rolf on
the second Rekokut turntable and twists
the pot knob just as the Shirells play out
their last chord on the first moving wheel.
He pauses. Evaluates.
"You gotta be right there. It's the
challenge of doing this kind of format. You
have to search it out," he says, already
preoccupied with the next matchup. He
pulls out a Beatles album.
Jeff Young swivels in the chair so the /
silk-screened writing on his yellow T-shirt
unfolds to read Summer Jam '76 on the
back. It's a KFMY-FM promo shirt, with
From The Ridgetop on ~he front.
He teaches radio at LCC, and he grew up
with KFMY, his family's 3,5000 watt
station. He's an instructor, but he's also a
disc jockey,a "radio junkie," he admits
with a kin~ of pride. But he l~ks ~t ¥(_)~,.
wondering if you know, if you really
understand radio enough to know a radio
junkie tag is one of endearment, of praise
to the people who ply the cra:t.
He's not a radio personality. Not a news
person. He creates audio compositions,
sounds and rhythms and themes put
together (other peoples' sounds, rhythms
and words) hoping each one works what
it's supposed to work on a listener's
emotions, and that several in a row will
create a chain reaction. He takes the six
hour board shift every Sunday night.
'' I work within a very strict radio format .
.. and I tell my students they won't be able
to go on the air and just be themselves,
playing whatever they want. The station
sets the format. At KFMY I'm given the
"oldies" show -- see, "oldies" isn't my
favorite kind of music. I like it, but I like
other forms more. I play it and play it wel I
because there are people out there who do
like it. I play it for them."
Paul, Ringo, John, and George push out
a rock version of Ain't She Sweet. Jeff
writes down the title in a spiral notebook.
Comeon Without, Comeon Within; then
I'm A Real Straight Shooter picks up the
tempo. Cherokee Nation makes it more
emphatic and off the mike Jeff shouts ''The
RAIDERS!"
He's hit a good, good synchronization.
·'You don't want to drop the beat. If it

ends with the fourth beat, the next cut's
gotta be there on the first beat. Listeners
may not look for it specifically, but they
feel it.
"I've played mu_sic all my life. I have the
feel for puttin' it together." He worked in
the station's library when he was 15,
making tapes that went out over the air. '' I
got to know music as a language. Music is
my tool ... And the thing is I'm making
people feel better. Lifting them. This is
communication. I'm talking to them."
!earing his throat three times; bobbing his head left and right trying to
drain an imaginary earful of water;
placing the Sennheiser earphones lightly in
place and speaking to his audience in a
surprisingly soft voice with smoothly
calculated words chosen, nevertheless,
spontaneously as he watches his own
reflection in the studio window, Jeff Young
delicately def uses and retards the tempo
with his own tone as he backraps the titles
of eight cuts already gone by in the flurry
of the first fifteen minutes.
He has said that early rock and roll is
really a folk genre and blues derivitive.
"I like the challenge and artistry of
out sounds in a format other people like.
But basically I'm a blues fanatic."
And the next quarter hour begins with
Roll over Beethoven, tell Tchaikovsky
the news/I got the rockin' pneumonia, I
need a shot of rhythm and blues
And he talks to his guest about blending
Otis Redding, Jimmy McCracklin,Lovin'
Spoonful and the Beachboys. ''You work it
in," he says, working in Junior Walker,
working in Buddy Guy and Junior Wells Motown sounds and Chicago Blues.
Do Wha Ditty, Ditty Do, Ditty Do
He gives his listeners British Rock, too
("Which is really blues, you know"). The
[)oors. "The blues has a call-response
pattern, something you can talk back to."
Then the Manfred Mann cut talks back to
him.
"And Olds 98 keeps truckin' down the
highway," he says to his unseen listeners
on the other side of the ridgetop. He gives
the people Percey Sledge, Booker T &
Priscilla, and even a real oldie, Smokey
Joe's Cate ... with a call-and-response
pattern for sure.
This part of the valley is a good, but
competitive market for radio. Eugene and
Springfield together have 14 radio stations.
But radio professionals here have already

one cut of an album with the music going
over the air, he squints, listens.
"Yeah!" he whispers and lifts the mute
switch in time to make the next match Do You Want Somebody To Love
The phone rings. Yes, he can find that
old one.
He sips quick sips from his coffee mug,
lights his pipe.
Fingers snapping, he experiments with a

Mom and Pop station, a small locallyowned outfit, can do. "Mom and Pop
operations have more familiarity with the
community and its unique characteristics.''
He cites Marshall IVlcLuhan's mass media
theories here, saying radio can be a drum
in the village, a global village.
And Jeff's father Duke Young wants to
keep the station small. It's quite literally a
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learned their craft. Competition is tough.
Studied techniques apply here.
"We're looking for good people at
KFMY right now and can't find anyone to
suit us ... I've go a few students who will
be able to make this market soon.
'' But most wi 11 have to start in even
smaller areas -- Cottage Grove, Medford.
But that's what I like about being able to
teach radio and participate in it: I can
catch the students while they're still
putting their radio ideas together. I can
show them what radio is capable of doing.''
He hits it again, a transition from Last
Train To Clarksville to Then I Saw Her
Face and then to Love Me Do. Matching

Phil Harris oldie that works perfectly,
somehow, with Jefferson Airplane.
'' (A good jock) has to have a good feeling
about himself. He can come into a
situation like this and deal with it because
he's mature and talented . . . I think
self-confidence is 90 per cent of it. To not
be intimidated by the microphone -- we all
are a little bit - but you have to feel you
can talk to people, you know?"
He steps down on the Olds accelerator.
The Robbins. Jimmy Reect Jeff Beck and
Rod Stewart. The Everly Brothers.
Johnny Tilitson. Rolling Stones. The
Monkees, Dave Clark Five, the Four
Tops. Elvis.
his could be automated radio - other
stations in the market have suscribed
to automated programs from some
regional and national outfits that distribute
ready-made "shows" like Jeff Young's. It
would be cheaper even than the $2.50 per
hour that Duke Young oays his son and the
other part-timers. "But it wouldn't be
radio, it would be prefabricated packaged
stuff, '' Jeff smirks, a bad taste in his
mouth.
He bites into a green apple.
"Let me tell you, a computer doesn't put
together music like a human being. A
station would lose its soul." Even Jeff
Young doesn't prepare his show in
advance. He has some ideas, he says, and
he marks in a notebook from time to time,
but he loses the notes or ignores them once
he's in the middle of a broadcast. In
automated station operation, where humans don't run the show, " ... You can't
take into account that it's slippery down
there in the streets tonight and dangerous
and people should know it.'' And later he
confesses that although he believes
strongly that words and ideas have impact
on the audience, it's not guaranteed.
"Maybe I'm foolish to think it has a
tremendous impact. I used to play Bob
Dylan singing Masters Of War years ago ..
.. if it really threatened the masters of war
then CBS wouldn't have allowed it to be
recorded. Maybe CBS knows more than I
know about it."
He likes KFMY's smallness. He knows
his listeners, the community. So do many
other radio professionals who have played
for this market for some time. In larger
markets consulting firms (like Lee Abrams
or Bill Drake) formulate successful programmi ng after studying trends and
norms. But even though the method is
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and Mrs. Young have worked at KFMY.
''We talk about radio at the dinner table .
like some families talk about football,"
says Duke.
He says Jeff learned the idea of intimate
radio when he was 16. The idea of
"intimate" radio as practiced on KFMYFM means limiting commercials to only
eight minutes every hour. Duke Young
says some stations in the area sometimes
air 15, 20, or 25 minutes. "If you turn
I isteners off with too much commercial ism,'' the elder Young says, ''they
won't ask you back." Over commercialism
turns the intimate radio into a "money
machine," instead, he says flatly.
At 8:50 after nearly three hours of rack
and roll, Jeffery starts to warm his
audience for the coming three hour jazz
show. He gets off on Elvin Bishop's guitar
at four-four time. He dances, slaps his
Levis. Then he plays The D>ors ('' My
all-time favorite British-Blues group!").
Jeff hurries to find a good opening
number. The Waterbed Warehouse
cartridge spot plays its way through the
tape deck.
Ahh, he has it. And the Seth Tho~
wall clock gives him time enough. Five
seconds. Four. Then he leads off the hour
with Chick Corea's album, "Return To
Forever," using The Romantic Warrior.
The phone rings immediately. Can he
play Sun Goddess? He'll try.
''Whooooo! The bass player's fingers
are moving, man! Listen. I can't imagine
anyone's fingers moving like that.''
Then a mean harpsichord comes in.
"Oh, I love it, I love it." He plucks the air
and races his fingers over the neck of a
guitar.
And next comes Merger of the Minds,
Perfect.
matched in the last bar.
''UHHHHH. I got it tonight. A good
start is important."

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or Jeff Young it can be like composing. Like taking a dune buggy over
hills and finding something he didn't
expect.
And Burton Cummings' new slow-jazz
version of the Bachmann-Turner-Overdrive's hit You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
f Ioats out over the ridgetop of Blanton
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Heights.
"Radio really is a personal medium, a
one-to-one relationship with the audience.
Right. Like that old cobbler, doing it all, a
jock can do it all for the audience. Oh, I
like it."

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Calendar of Events
JANUARY 20

Film Showing
'' Sometimes a Great Notion''
Starring Henry Fonda
Noon, 1:30, and 3:00 p.m.
For more information call the ASLCC
office at ext. 221
Folk Concert
Elizabeth Cotten and Tracy Schwarz
WOW Hall, 8th and Lincoln, Eugene
8:00 p.m.
Tickets are $3.00 in advance, $3.50
day of show and are available at the
Sun Shop, Everybody's, Crystal
Ship, and the Community Center for
the Performing Arts
For more information call 343-6215

JANUARY 22
Masters Degree Recital
Susan Rocky-Bowles, cello
Beall Concert Hall, U of O School of
Music
8:00 p.m.
For more information call 686-3887

Experts to speak on
publishing industry

Concert
Eugene Symphony Orchestra
Beall Concert Hall, U of O School of
Music
8:00 p.m.
Tickets are $2.50, $4.00 and $4.50
For more information and tickets
reservations call 687-0020

at 3-day symposium
Eight speakers distinguished in one or
more areas of the writing and publishing
industry will lead programs during a
three-day symposium to be held in
Eugene, Corvallis, Albany, and Salem on
Feb. 15-17.

JANUARY 26

JANUARY 23
Film Showing
"Modern Times," and "Finally Got
the News"
177 Lawrence, U of O campus
For more information see January 21
events

The speakers, in groups of two or three,
will lead discussion at 2 and 7:30 p.m. at
Oregon State University in Corvallis and
Linn-Benton Community College in Albany, Chemeketa Community College and
Willamette University in Salem, and Lane
Community College and the University of
Oregon in Eugene. The sessions will be at
one location of the three areas in the
afternoon and the other location in the
evening. All the sessions will be open to
the public free of charge.

Concert
Eugene Symphony Orchestra
For more information see January 25
events

ADVANCE NOTICE

JANUARY 21

JANUARY 24

Film Showing
"Modern Times," and "Finally Got
the News"
150 Science, U of O campus
7 and 9:30 p.m.
Tickets are $1.00 and are available at
the door
For more information call 343-6215

Concert Eugene Symphony Orchestra dress rehearsal
Beall Concert Hall, U of O School of
Music
8:00 p.m.
Admission is $1.00
For more information call 686-3887

Concert
Eugene Community Chorus
Beall Concert Hall, U of O School of
Music
8:30 p.m.
Admission is $1.00 for students and
senior citizens and $2.00 general
For more information call 686-3887

New Mime Circus

JANUARY 25
Concert Country Joe McDonald and
Don Hicks
EMU Ballroom, U of O campus
For more information call 686-4636

Speakers include Gwendolyn Brooks,
poet, Pulitzer prizewinner; Ricliard Kostelanetz, essayist, experimental poet; Paul
Schraeder, screenwriter ("Taxi Driver");
Rhoda Weyr. literary agent with William
Morris; Len Fulton, editor, publisher.
essayist; William Gass, fiction writer,
philosopher; Richard Hugo, poet; and
Gordon Lish. fiction editor of Esquire
;magazine. They will discuss problems in
publishing, and possible approaches,
alternatives and solutions to those problems.

Play
"Cabaret"
LCC Performing Arts Theatre
Feb. 4,5,9-12, 1977
8:00 p.m.
All tickets are $4.00
For more information call 747-4559
Play
''Macbeth''
Horace W. Robinson Theatre, U of 0
campus
Feb. 4,5,9-12. 1977
8:00 p.m.
Tickets are $4.00 and $3.00
For reservations call 686-4 l 90 or
686-4192

Sponsored in part by the Oregon Arts
Commission and the National Endowment
for the Arts. the event has been organized
by the six cooperating schools. It is the
first undertaking of its kind by the schools
in the lower Willamette Valley.

Children's theatre program to

to present new show be offered by church in February
Eugene's only repertory theatre company, the New Mime Circus, will be
A children's Theater Series consisting of
appearing in the Eugene Hotel's King Cole
Room for six performances, January 21, two Saturday morning programs of drama,
22, 23, 28, 29 and 30. Curtain time is 8:30 puppetry and music will be sponsored by
the First Methodist Church Co-Operative
p.m. for all six performances.
For this engagement, the New Mime Nursery School, beginning February 5.
The Theater Series, a popular annual
Cir~us is_ pr~paring an entirely new sho~ .
whtch . wtll be a~ded to the company s fundraising event for the Nursery School
e~ensive _repertoire. The performa~ces since 1958, is planned especially for
will consist of two plays at theatrical three-to-eight-year-old children. It will be
extr~~es: Bertolt Brecht:s .'.'El~p~a~! held in Fellowship Hall of the Methodist
Church, 14th and Olive Streets Eugene.
Calf, and Robert Anderson s Sohtatre.
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"Elephant Calf" takes place in a British
On Saturday, February 5 and Saturday,
pub in 19th-century India, and will be
accompanied with an original music score February 12, Eugene puppeteer, edby Eric Regener. "Solitaire" is a futuristic ucator and clown Carol Wade will be
play with a collage of recorded sounds and featured in her show, "Pockets and
music. The New Mime Circus will again Puppets." Audience participation and
demonstrate that each of its shows is a encouragement will be invited as Pockets
The Clown leads singing and the puppets
concert of art forms.
Tickets are $3.00 in advance, $3.50 at the mime short fairy tales. In a second fifteen
door and $2.00 for senior citizens, and are minute segment on these mornings, the
availabfe at the Sun Shop and at the Pick-A-Wish Players will present "Jack
Frost Saves Spring". or "Mother Nature's
Eugene Hotel.
For more information, call Robert Scholl Big Sneeze," an original play written and
directed by Jim Bradford.
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either the February 5 and 19 series. or the
February 12 and March 5 series, with
performances at 10 a.m. or l 1 a.m. on all
dates. A one dollar ticket will admit a child
to both Theater Series programs on
February 5 and 19, or the programs on
February 12 and March 5. An adult
accompanying children will be admitted
free.
Tickets may be purchased from any
Co-Op Nursery parent, or by contacting
Mrs. Curt Spanton, 1970 Taylor Street, or
Mrs. Pau(Sherrell, 3528 Regent Ave.,
Eugene.

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offered by students
A discount for watching french films on
Tuesday nh?hts is available through a
They
recently formed group at LCC.
receive a group discount r~te of one dollar
per person at a commercial Eugene theater
which is showing a series of French Films.
Five films remain, running through Feb.
22. The Jan. 25 film is ·'Vincent, Francois,
Paul, and the Others" starring Yves
Montand. All movies are in French with
English subtitles. Showtime is 7 pm and
afterwards there is a get-together for those
who would like to talk in French.
Membership is not limited to LCC
students. More information is available in
the Language Arts tutoring room, 436
Center Building, during these hours: 2 pm
to 4 pm Mondays, Wednesdays, and
Fridays; 9 am to 11 am, Tuesdays; 9 am to
noon and 1 pm to 4 pm Thursdays.

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will offer a specialty act including music
played on a carpenter's saw and group
singing with guitar accompaniment.
Following this will be the traditional Co-Op
Nursery Parent's Play -- this year, "The
Little Red Hen," adapted and directed by
Ken Bierly.

Exact locations for each of the sessions
will be announced in early February. For
more information, contact Nancy Harbison
at Oregon State University, 754-1266; John
Mock at Chemeketa Community College,
399-5096; or Dick Reid at Lane Community
College. 747-4501. ext. 318.

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Women netters rip Saints
Ballhawking full court pressure
and superior ballhandling enabled the
Lane women's basketball team to defeat
rival Mt. Hood, 52-35. here Tuesday.
The Titans were never seriously threatened in what was predicted to be their
toughest challenge of the young season.
After a sluggish start in which Lane held a
6-3 lead at the 10 minute mark, Teri Booth
and Cindy Corkum combined for 12
counters to stake a 30-14 local advantage at
halftime. From there the outcome seemed
decided.
The second half also started slowly with
four and a half minutes passing before a
point was scored. But then. as before,
coach Sue Tompson 's cagers went on
another tear, outscoring the Saints, 12-4, in

just over two minutes. That gave them a
comfortable 24 point spread. Thompson
substituted liberally during the remaining
garbage time and the visitors took control.
erupting for 17 points to Lane's 10 and

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making the score more respectable albeit
misleading.
Corkum with 12. Booth with 10 and Janel
Huser with eight topped the balanced Titan
scoring that saw 10 players contribute.
They shot poorly percentage-wise, only 29

per cent, but often earned third and fourth
attempts with their aggressive rebounding.
Surprisingly. the teams tied in total
boards with 39.
They now travel to Salem today for a 7
p.m. game against the Willamette University JV's and then to Roseburg Tuesday
to face Umpqua at 5 p.m.
Last Thursday they dumped Willamette
University. 24-22, lost to Lin field, 42-41,
and tied Lewis and Clark. 27-all. in a
jamboree at the Salem school. Each squad
played three 20 minute games in this noncounting action. Booth and Huser teamed
for 62 tourney points, the former sinking a
basket with no time left to tie the Pioneers
and the latter hit for 20 points in the
Linfield loss.

Nip COCC but fall to Um pqua

Grapplers split league action
The Lane wrestling squad managed .a
split in two league matches here last
weekend, nipping Central Oregon Friday,
25-21, but losing to Umpqua, 26-14, on
Saturday.
A bit of line-up juggling proved the
difference in the win over the Bobcats.
Dennis Mowry, usually a heavyweight,
starved himself the week before in order to
qualify for t 90. That opened the top slot
for Creswell grad John Dunn, an ex-serviceman who walked onto the squad at the
Christmas break. They combined for nine
points in the final matches to erase a 21-16
deficit and nab the victory.
The pressure almost got to Mowry, who
had to win to keep the Titans alive. He
quickly fell behind. 6-2. but came back in
the final round to claim a climactic 12-10
decision. Dunn was not to be denied. Lane
trailed 21-19 going into his match, so the
6'4", 240 pounder went out and earned six
points by pinning opponent Al Maich at
2:45.
Each of the other victorious Titans
claimed decisions. including Thad Brill at
126. Mike Bramlett at 134, Dan Kramer at
142 and George Rayburn at 167. Kramer
was devastating, winning 23-10.
A little luck would have helped against

Umpqua. The local matmen lost three
decisions by one point. Had it not been for
the tough night before, they might have
turned those losses into victories. "We
looked awful stale against Umpqua,''
opined coach Bob Creed. He cited the
overall team inexperience as the reason
they couldn't come back strongly against
the visitors.
Creed did note that several of his
wrestlers turned in impressive performances. Kramer kept his undefeated
record intact with a 10-9 decision, Jim
Warner stepped in at 167 and won 17-5 and
Rayburn, competing despite a sprained
ankle suffered the previous night, who
dropped a 5-4 decision only ~.fter being
penalized for riding time on his opponent.
'' Warner has done an outstanding job
replacing Lou Christian," beamed Creed.
He added that Christian may be out for the
year with his knee injury but Dave Ehrich,
who, like Christian, placed at 167 during
OCCAA tournament action last year, may
be back to strengthen his injury-riddled
forces.
Lane will now travel to Longview, WN.
tomorrow for a 4:30 p.m. match with Lower
Columbia, a member of the Northwest
Athletic Association of Community Col-

Crusaders tip Titans
for milestone victory
by Jack Scott
The Lane men's basketball team lost for
the first time in league play last
Wednesday at Judson Baptist in Portland,
68-66, but came back on Friday to down
Southwest Oregon in Coos Bay, 81 -68.
They went into last night's game here
against Central Oregon with a 3-1 mark in
OCCAA competition. Although results of
that game were not available at presstime,
it appears that the Titans would have
needed a super effort to defeat the
talent-laden and 4-0 in league Bobcats. In
games through Jan. 15, COCC was leading
the OCCAA in the sta.n dings. team offense,
team field goal shooting, team free throw
shooting and were second in team defense,
behind Lane's 67.8 average. And most
importantly. their squad is so well
balanced that no individual had placed in
the top 15 in scoring
The Bobcats undoubtedly possess some
of the finest talent in the league ... at least
a lot more than Judson Baptist. But the

Male bowlers sweep
The Lane bowling club opened second
half action last Thursday against Oregon at
Sprinfield Lanes with the men winning 4-0
but the women losing 3-1.
Lane will face Chemeketa at Town and
Country Lanes in Salem today at 3:30 p.m.
and will host Oregon College of Education
at Springfield Lanes next Thrusday at 3:30
p.111. Bellisimo admits neither team is very
tc,ugh this year and expects his squads to
fore well against burh.

Crusaders, who had never beaten the
Titans before, last Wednesday rose to the
. occasion by nipping the locals, so if there is
such a thing as kharma, then maybe Lane
might have had some last night against
COCC. Anything would have helped.
The Titans almost beat Judson Baptist.
If Jerry Applebee's shot with four seconds
left hadn't rolled off- the rim, they could
have forced an overtime, but it shouldn't
have had to come down to that anyway.
Lane beat themselves by committing badly
timed turnovers and missing key shots
down the stretch, in short, by playing like
the youthful squad they really are.
Four Titans finished in double figure~.
headed by Rob Holmstrom's 16 points.
Larry Hampton, who fed Wes Friesen for
the game winning bucket, paced the
Crusaders with 23 counters.
They showed more poise and discipline
in their conquest of Southwest Oregon.
After taking a 36-30 intermission lead,
Lane coach Dale Bates placed reserve Mike
Kay in the second half line-up and h~
teamed with Kevin McCarthy to increase
that lead to 20 points and it was downhill
from there.
McCarthy led in scoring with 24 points
while Steve Halverson netted '16. The
spark plug Kay contributed 11 points.
Lane hosts Umpqua tomorrow at 7:30
p.m. The Timbermen boast but one league
victory but they held on tight before losing
the last game with COCC, 64-57, last
Friday. Their team defense is currently
third best in the league, giving up 73.3
pc,intc, a game.

leges. This confrontation will not count in
OCCAA standings.
They will then compete in the Clackamas
tournament starting at 9 a.m. in Oregon
City. "It ought to be a real dogfight,"
allowed Creed, adding that the 19 team
field will include junior varsity squads from
Oregon, Oregon State, Pacific and Washington.
Their next match is slated Jan. 29 at 1
p.m. against Blue Mountain.

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Cindy Corkum shoots and Loree McKay
watches against Mt. Hood here Tuesday.
Lane won, 52-35.
photo by Steve Thompson
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DOC TALK
Scabies caused by mites

Scabies is a skin disease caused by
a tiny eight-legged menace known as
the "human itch mite." (Sarcoptes
scabiei.) These creatures are too
small to be seen by the naked eye,
and they make their living by
burrowing into and eating the
superficial layers of human skin.
Actually, it is only the female mites
that do the burrowing, and they lay
eggs and deposit dried-up fecal
pellets behind them as they go. The
male spend_s his life wandering over
the skin looking for a burrowed-in
female to mate with. Fertilized eggs
hatch inside the mother's burrow
and the immature mites then begin
to dig their own burrows and develop
into mature adults in about one
week.
Not surprisingly. infected persons
are usually aware that something is
wrong with their skin. The primary
symptoms is intense inch which is
characteristically worse at night,
perhaps because that is when the
female mites do most of the
burrowing. The human itch mite is
expecially fond of living in areas
where skin rubs against skin, and for

this reason the webs of the fingers
and the skin of the scrotum are often
involved. Other frequently involved
sites are the wrists, the elbows, the
buttocks and the area surrounding
the nipples, expecially in women.
The face and scalp are never
involved, at least in adults.

How does one get scabies? By and large, the
female mite is acquired by
sharing a bed with an
infected person or by other
close personal contact. (It
is claimed that in the
presence of a rather severe
infection, a hand-shake
may suffice.)

Mites of either sex do not survive
for more than a few days if they
become detached, and they cannot
reproduce in the absence of a human
host.
In the past scabies was also called
the "seven year itch" because the
untreated disease may be very
persistent. Today the preferred

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treatment is the careful thoughtful
application of a mite-killing chemical
called gamma benzene hexachloride,
which is marketed in two forms:
lotion and shampoo, and usually
goes by the trade name of '' K well''.
Unfortunately, following sucFessful treatment the intense itch
associated with scabies may persist
for several weeks, or even longer.
Nobody is quite sure why this is so,
but it may be because some infected
people develop an allergy to the
mite's body during the course of the
disease. Kwell kills the mites, but
leaves their dead bodies intact inside
the burrows where they are later
digested by white blood cells. It is
thought that the itch may persist
following successful treatment because of the presence of the dead
mites which have not yet been
digested.
It should be noted that scabies can
mimick other skin diseases; therefore, if you feel you might have this
type of infection you should see a
physician or other medical personnel
at the Public Health Clinics or
Student Health Services.

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Jeff Young:
A disc
jockey as
well as an
instructor
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p. 4

Part-time
union still
struggling
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impression that the floor is easier to
maintain th,m a wood floor; wood
warps.

the top 40 sounds that change each
week. Coggins is proud of the sound
system; he demonstrated the system's
ability to give "stereo in every corner
of the building." He's received a
number of compliments on the system. Its cost has been estimated at
over $8,000.

Skates on, my mind set, I launched
myself out onto the floor with the
grace of a hippopotamus. From that
moment. I was on a trip through
nostalgia. My past memories of
skating came back; the marches, the
I skated to the music of Paul
couples-only skating turns and the
Williams. The combination of the
organ music that every rink has.
music and the skating drove me deep
Skate World has recorded music, into a kind of romantic-nostalgic world
ra11ging from the traditional organ to full of the memories of past loves and

friends that I'll never see again.
Maybe it was the atmosphere or the
music, but whatever it was, it allowed
me to have the time of my life.
Skate World is open seven days a
week. This month the rink will hold a
"disco dance" on the 27th. It will be
emceed by a local radio station
personality and held in two sessions
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and from 9 p.m.
to Midnight. No matter when you go,
it's an enjoyable experience for
skating and seeing people who care
about their work.

photo by Jeff Hayden

Over 200 attend special LCC Board hearing
on KLCC; story, page 1.

wo·men's
basketball
crushes
Mt. Hood
p. 7