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CommuJtitg
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4000 East 30th Ave., Eugene, Oregon 97405

The old est Yippy
enters 'The System'

book, and the key to his self-described
vu lnerability.
"Using myself as a g uinea pig, I am
trying to learn to give up my negative
games, my defenses, the mechanisms I use
to survive. Before I can change other
people, I mu st change myself ... When I do
t h at, I will b eco me a t ru e, spirit ual
revolutionary. "
Ru b in . as co -found e r of th e You t h
In ternational Party (YIPpies), emerged in
the sixties as a catalytic spokesperson for
the anti-war movement; he went as far as
to ad vocat e for ceful o verturn of th e
capitalist system.
Along with fellow "y ippie " Abbie
Hoffman, Rubin blasted headlines across
th e country , with more than one outra geous stunt designed to shock the
ma sses.
A humorous example:
A
"yippie " greenback give-away at the New
York Stock Exchange.
Hoffman, Rubin and a dozen cohorts
climbed the stairs (pressmen and photographers in tow) and made their way to the
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visitors' gallery above the bustling brokers, who paused to watch the spectacle of
longhairs.
Before the police could
intervene, the "yippies" let loose with
handfuls of dollar bills. Reaction to the
free money is described vividly in "Do It"
. . by Rubin himself:
'' ... Floating currency fills the air. Like
wild animals, the stockbrokers climb all
..," over each other to grab the money."
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Four years later in 1972, ~ixon was
overwhelmingly re-elected, and movement
activism drew its last deep breath,
:.3
according to Rubin.
''The movement of the sixties was a
Rubin taped radio and T.V. spots, gave
several interviews, and put in a personal wave of history that made its splash, and
appearance at the Son of Koobdooga • s·e ttled into restless waters,'' wrote Rubin
bookstore for a low-key autograph session. 'in a recent open letter to Abbie Hoffman
Conspicuously absent was the presence of which is included in "Growing (Up)" at 37."
" yippie" guerilla theatre, described in For Rubin, those restless waters created a
Rubin's best selling book "Do It." whirlpool into which he was sucked.
Kids of a newer generation mockingly
The new Jerry Rubin on hand Wednesday was, in his words, '' a more vulnerable • retired him from the "yippie" leadership,
me." Rubin's personal "growth" and and coined the phrase, "Put the zip back in
transformation is the fulcrum of his new
continued on p.5
by Paul Yarnold
Jerry Rubin and the "Chicago 7'' had
the news media by the tail as they
whooped and cursed their way through the
courtroom of Judge J ulius Hoffman ... 1968.
This week, Rubin was in Eugene to give
that tail another t ug as part of a
promotional kick-off fo r h is new book:
"Growing (Up) at 37."

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Jerry Rubin

photo by Steve Thompson

Women's Day celebrated -_
by Sally Oljar
It was International Women's Day
around the world last Tuesday, and it did
not go unnoticed by Eugene-Springfield
women and women's organizations.
It does go unnoticed by the United States
government. First celebrated in 1908,
International Women's ·Day is a recognized
holiday everywhere but in the U.S.
But the women in this part of the
Willamette Valley don't seem to care, and
the day long celebration began at the
Atrium during the noon-hour. LCC
President Eldon Schafer and U of 0
President William Boyd granted a halfhou rs extension of the lunch hour for
interested staff to attend.
"' The Atrium was filled with women of all
ages, children, and a generous sprinkling
of men. The pretty tree-lined courtyard
was filled with people, as were the second
and third balconies. The celebration of

sisterhood and the self began with a
brown-bag lunch amid cultural displays.
The festivities were orginally planned for
outdoors but the weather proved quite
uncooprative.
But no matter--the picnic tables were
filled with participants who enjoyed their
meal and the entertainment provided .
Wildflower Dance order entertained, as did
the women who demonstrated marshall
arts. Susan Arrow led a song-fest, and the
LCC Womens Awareness Center handed
out the sing-along copies. After lunch a
folk and square-dance session was held.
Photographs of outstanding women -Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Eleanor
Roosevelt, and Jane Addams among others
-- were displayed on the walls around the
court-yard. Some photos were informational and a few were alarming -- in some
foreign countries women are considered
useless and when deprivation sets in, they
continued on p.4

Irish celebrate holiday; Eugene ignores it
by Michael Riley
My Irish ancestry is riled.
Apathy is all I see about St.Patrick's
Day here in Eugene.
Nobody seems to be concerned
about the penalties for not wearing
green on March 17, the celebration
day of the festival pf Saint Patrick.
Sure, I can understand the confused
looks on members of the younger
generation when I mention the holiday
to them. But my fellow students
should have some knowledge of the
event. After all , part of the festivities
include drinking toasts to your friends ,
relatives, enemies and any other
possible excuse you can conjure up.
Alas, tfie general reaction I get is a
dull stare and a shrug of the shoulders
when I ask, "What are you doing for
St. Patrick's Day?" Of course,
Eugene is not New York, where over
100 ,000 "Irish" marched in the
parade celebrating the holiday last
year.
Even Ruby Brenne, spokesperson
for the Eugene Chamber of Commerce, informs me that nothing has

been scheduled. She was willing to
talk about the parade in New York, but
knew of no structured activities here
in, of all things, the Emerald Empire.

For those who are still wondering
who St; Patrick is, he was the
Christian .missionary to Ireland in the
fifth century who founded schools and

churches in that country. On this Irish
national holiday color green is usually
worn in lieu of the more traditionalshamrock.
With the thought of green, the City
of New York paints a green line along
'Fifth Avenue, the route of the parade.
The street is blocked off for the event,
which starts at noon. The celebration
has been held every year with no
cancellations for the last 215 years.
My research on this subject shows
that at no time during the parade's
200th march were there any shamrock
covered toilet seats sold. Considering
what happened with the bicentennial
last year I can only say it had to be the.
luck of the Irish.
But parades are nice; I called the
community relations offi~e of the
Eugene Police Department in the
hopes of learning what might happen
to me if I painted a green line down
Willamette Street. The line could
possibly draw the subconscious Irish
out of most of us and we could march
to the nearest bar.
But Gloria Timmons, the com-

munity relations of6cer, informed me
that painting a green line down
Willamette could draw three charges
from the city. Defacing public
property, disturbing the Dow of tnflic,
and possibly disorderly conduct. The
maximum penalties for these charges
is $500 per charge and 100 days in jail.
Timmons did say that with preparations made through the city council
such a line could be painted. Still, she
added that allowing a line to be
painted without authorization could
pave the way for other infringments.
Yet, I am convinced that somewhere
out there lies a feeling of kinship with
New York. And that on "St. Paddy' s
Day," as my grandfather called it,
there will be plenty of people who
daim to be Irish drinking toasts in
their favorite pub.
I'll be in there with them, maybe a
little disappointed with the lack of an
official parade. But just as happy.
Besides, I've got some green watercolor paint and the dullest looking
sidewalk you've ever seen . HAPPY
ST. PATRICK' DAY!!!!!

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State keeps v.omen workers down Only one person may
Editor's Note: Jeff
an LCC
Agrlcnllare and lndnstrlal Tech.
prepares this weeldy cobuan from
pabllcatloas. He la
In the worker's
role In society, and speelOeally
preparing for the job -'et. Cemmeats both
pro and con are encoaraged ud may be
submitted te the editor. The material selected
don - t necesurlly reflect the views of the
TORCH.

by Arlene Eisen
reprinted from the Guardian
Jn the ·bourgeois family the woman
has primary responsibility for bearing
and raising children and maintaining
the home. Even when a wife works
outside the home at a full-time job,
she still carries the lion's share of the
workload in the home. There is no
way that women can have equal
opportunity with men in the labor
market as long as the family institutionalizes a sexist division of labor.
The state reinforces the subordination of the woman in the family in a
variety of ways. A woman can be
charged with felonious child abuse if
she does not take care of her children ,
while the state do~s not even expect
the father to take this responsibility.
The fact that the federal government
spends a paltry $1 billion per year on
daycare centers while squandering
$92 billion on the B-1 bomber program
shows the low priority given to
providing conditions for working women ' s equality . Approximately 9
million children live in woman-headed
households and it is impossible to
know how many millions of women
would use daycare centers if Jhose
were available. But less than 1 million
slots are available.
The public education system is a key
institution in the perpetuation of a
sexually segregated labor market.
Beginning with registration for kindergarten, sex roles that subordinate
girls are an integral part of all school
curricula.
The schools provide·
training for the country's next generation of workers that is consistent
with the struct.u re of the labor market
and the needs of monopoly capital.
Tracking perpetuates white supremacy and male supremacy. Young
women, Black and other third world
students are taught what is needed for
their subordinate jobs. Discipline and
tedium in the classroom prepare
working-class children for the discipline and tedium of the factory or
office. Nearly all the young women in
vocational programs study ''homemaking" and clerical skills.
The courts also institutionalize
women's inequality. Most recently, a
Dec. 7 Supreme Court ruling effectively legalized sex discrimination by
stating that it is constitutional for
employers to exclude pregnancy as a
disability to be covered by sick leave
programs and insurance. The decision
legalizes discrimination against women because they are, or can be,
pregnant. In addition for years, local
court rulings in cases of wife beating,
rapes, alimony and child support have
all reinforced the assumption that
''women are the property of their
husbands'' and are not entitled to
equal treatment.
Beginning in 1900, the fact that

protective labor legislation was applied only to women workers meant
that the legislation provided a device for dividing workers along sex lines
and further consolidating labor market
segmentation. Such legislation explicitly recognized th1t .1 woman's
primary role was as reproducer of the
labor force and she was not allowed to
be a full-fledged member of the
working class.
Some protective legislation did
safeguard women's health and improved some of the most outrageous
working conditions for women. But
1:hese laws should also have safeguarded men. Instead, they protected
men's access to better-paying jobs.
More-over in many cases, protective
laws are more for chivalry's sake than
for health's sake. Susan Deller Ross,
cochairperson of the Campaign to End
Discrimination Against Pregnant
Workers, pointed out that while laws
in 45 states chivalrously require that
women have chairs for rest periods,
no state law gives women job security
for maternity leaves of absence.
Historically , protective legislation
has prevented women from gaining
better paying jobs. They institutionalized "proper roles" for women
who worked in factori~s and shops and
also insulated them from male coworkers and reduced the jobs available to them. In "Labor Market Segmentation," Alice Kessler-Harris
points out that working women found
themselves subject to an increasing
barrage of laws limiting the h,mrs of
work, establishing minimum wages
and regulating ·sanitary conditions
under which they could work. These
laws reduced the economic desirability
of hiring women and limited competition with male workers. Adolph
Strasser, secretary of the Cigar
Makers Union in 1879, was only a few
years ahead of his time when he
exposed the male supremacist ~otive
of protective legislation: "We cannot
drive the females out of the trade but
we can restrict their daily ouota of
labor through factor)'.' laws."
In the 1960s, the pressure of the
Black and women's movements forced
the government to pass antidiscrimina tion laws and to institute an
affirmative action program. Yet in the
last 10 years, they have done nothing
to change the pattern of white and
male supremacy in the job market.
The Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC)-charged with enforcing Title VII of the Civil Rights Act
which prohibits discrimination in
employment-does not have the staff or
budget to do the job. As of.1976, the
EEOC had a backlog of 150,000 case~some of which are seven years old
In cases where the EEOC did act, it
found discrimination only 5 percent of
the time and the penalties imposed
were too lenient to deter abuses.
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance (OFCC)-charged with implementing regulations on affirmative
action-is even more ineffectual. And
various court decisions are now

...

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

P!1otographers
Steve Thompson
John Albanese
Ad Graphics
Dave Mackay
Business Manager
Linda Donnelly

.hven when women are union
members, they often do not receive
the same protection and privileges
granted to male members.
For
example, during World War 2, women
constituted one-third of the membership of the United Auto Workers
(UAW). But the UAW did nothing to
stop the massive layoffs of their
women members after the war, and
sex-based job and seniority provisions
were standard in UAW contracts.
Even where women form the majority
of union membership, they do not
control their unions. While approximately 70 percent of its membership
is female , the Office and Professional .
Employees International Union
(OPEIU) has only two women on its
13-member Executive Board .
to be continued

• Production
Matt Boren
Jeff Canaday
John Cecil
Linda Engrav
Marta Hogard
Lori Hylton
Teena Killian
Joy Rhoads
Tom Ruckman

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claim dependent status
Portland, Or - While several _persons
together may contribute over one-half the
support of a dependent, only one taxpayer
is qualified to claim the dependent's
exemption, according to Ralph B. Short,
the Internal Revenue Service District
Director in Oregon.
If two or more persons support the
dependent, but one pays more than
one-half the support cost, that individual
receives the exemption, assuming the
other dependency tests are met, Short
said.
If no one person contributes more than
one-half of the support cost, but a group of
two or more persons together contribute
more than one-half the costs, the group
must choose one of its members to claim
the exemption, Short continued.
The taxpayer who claims the exemption
must h_ave contributed more than 10
percent of the total support costs and must
meet all other dependency tests.
The remaining contributors must complete and sign Form 2120, ''Multiple
Support Declaration," stating that they
will not claim the exemption that year.
This form must be filed with the income tax
return of the person claiming the exemption, Short said. Different rules may
apply in the case of divorced or separated
parents.
For more information on claiming
dependents. taxpayers can obtain IRS
Publication 501. •'Your Exemptions and
Exemptions for Dependents," free at your
local IRS office or by calling the toll-free
"forms-order" number listed in all Oregon
telephone directories.

Weaver introduces socio I security bill
Raises in social security payments
on social security and veterans benefits to
get by; for many, the combination of these
would not be lost to elderly citizens who
benefits is their only means of support."
also receive veterans pensions under a bi))
The 4th District congressman explained
introduced in the House Thursday,
according to Rep. Jim Weaver, a cosponsor that social security payments are raised
every year or two to account for inflation.
of the bilJ.
"But then the VA turns around and
The Veterans' Benefits Pass-Through
deducts this increase from the veterans
bill would end the Veterans Administration
benefits. The government is literally
practice of counting cost-of-living increases
in social security payments as additional
taking money out of one pocket while it
income, and then cutting the benefits of puts in in the other," he said .
Eighty per cent of the nation's 5,470,000
each veteran by a similar amount, Weaver
recipients of veterans pensions also receive
said.
''The government has been playing a . Social Security benefits.
The bill has 75 cosponsors, and is backed
cruel hoax on millions of elderly veterans,''
Weaver said. "These are people who rely by all major veterans organizations.

Letters to the

Editor

LCC's grocery store .ma·y slither. into lake
To the Editor:

immediate repairs it is sure to slither into
the lake. According to Oregon environDid you know LCC owns a store? mentai iaw no new buildings can be built
Actually it is no longer operating as a Qver the water. Maybe the Construction
grocery store; in fact it's on the border line Technology .class could make the repairs
of being condemned. It is a unique old or possibly a student movement could lead
structure built over Siltcoos Lake on the to a solution. It doesn't seem fair that the
Oregon coast. The building is but one part college administrators· get their raises and
of the former Christenson's Resort. The the students·loose a fine facility.
resort was a gift to the students of LCC by
Gertrude and Jimmy Christenson.
Siltcoos Station received its name years
If the old grocery store doesn't get ago from being a stopping point for the

Story called 'hodgepodge'

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threatening the "legality" of affirmative action itself.
'
Most trade unions have followed the
tradition established in an 1836 report
by the National Trades Union Committee urging that female labor be
excluded from factories. Once women
were in the factories, some unionsparticularly the Knights of Labororganized them into unions. Craft
unions, on the other hand, were
stubborn in their exclusion of women
and still attempt to maintain their
organizations as sanctuaries of white
and male supremacy.
In 1972. stilJ only 12.6 percent of
working women were union memberswhich is nearly 3 percent less than. the
number in 1952.

To the Editor:

coastal train. Many passengers experienced a fine Saturday night swinging
their partners in the old dance hall. Years
after, when the road was built, most of its
visitors were fisherpeople trying their luck
in this fresh water lake, famous for the
many varieties of tasty fish. Of course,
many aim just to enjoy the peacefulness
of Siltcoos Station. Christenson's Resort
was kept in tip-top shape. Then the resort
was given to the college

The Mar~h 3 article by Arlene Eisen is a
hodgepodge of misleading statements. At
first she states that white male supremacy
is the cornerstone of imperalist oppression.
Then she quotes Lenin, "The state is an
organ of class rule, an organ for the
oppression of one class by another" Is she
As concerned neighbors we ask that the
admitting that Cuba is oppressive and Siltcoos Station store be saved not only for
imperialistic? Perhaps beneath that the sake of the students, but for us as it is a
psuedo-leftist jargon lies a budding community historical landmark.
anarchist. If so right on!
Tia Gale
Matthew AIJen
Gary Menser
Science
Linda Fuller

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Stars offer hope for finals

by Esther V. Leinbach
For individual counseling on your particular problem you may call 343-2713 for an
appointment. Shorter more informal-basis
appointments may be made on a contribution basis at the Book and Tea for
Friday Afternoons between 12 and 3 p.m.
MARCBI0-17
Thursday the Moon is void in Scorpio
most of the day until after 4 p.m.
This will be frustrating since it is coupled
with a certain amount of rebellion.
Nothing will be accomplished.
The Moon in Sagittarius on Friday sets
off a grand fire which will tend to scatter
your energies and in this case bring you
fact to face with unpleasant people and
situations.
Sunday is a day to contemplate your,
rebellion and put an end to feelings which
are destructive and unproductive.
Monday you will feel a more certain and
reliable control. Both Sunday and Monday
offer a sense of stability and restraint in
personal position. Public opinion is
important. People are concerned about
their image and what other people think.
Individual responsibility will be felt to
some extent by everyone one way or
another. Nice things could happen from
just out of the blue.
On Tuesday things will be uncovered.
Although you may be wise to be cautious of
exaggerated claims and expectations, you
will be able to unearth information you
have been seeking unsuccessfully. Investigations or information you stumble on
to will begin unraveling a series of
questions and answers.
On Wednesday intuition and hunches
will play a large role in your success.
The Moon in Aquarius will help you
recognize bits of information on which to
build. Avoid jumping to conclusions
without checking to be sure. This is a good
day to finish up and close-out things which
may be just hanging on. Things tend to
seek their own level today.
The Moon will spotlight Sagittarius,
Capricorn and Aquarius this week. Sagittarians will be difficult if not impossible to
pin down about anything. They will also
have difficulty accomplishing their aims.
Capricorn will benefit mostly by selfanalysis and re-establishing their perspective. Aquarians will be hot on the trail
of solving some mystery which will
challengy their problem solving ability to
an advantage.

MARCH17-24
Thursday should bring some happy
rewards to those who find themselves in
the right place at the right time.
This is a receptive influence rather than a
time to try to begin anything new.
Friday you must take a stand to win or
lose. This is a culmination influence for
something that has been started earlier.
You must make it known what you expect
and be willing to give up if what you want
isn't there.
Saturday at 10:30 a.rn. we have a New
Moon 29 degrees in Pisces. The influence
is moving into Aries, further reving up an
already scattered situation. This is a time
for new beginnings but there will be little

control in your hands. You may or may not
feel that things are out of hand. If you
think you have things well under control
you are merely fooling yourself. Take
another look.
Sunday things may fall into place for
some of you. Whatever you set into motion
is likely to have long term effects.
Monday will be very active with a lot of
movement from one place to another.
Information from a friend and your own
hunches will be important.
Tuesday will be power orien t ed.
Remember that everyone will be feeling
this influence. Few of you will be as clever
as you would like to believe. Be careful not
to outsmart yourself. Self-restraint and
responsibility will serve you well. Holding
power is more likely to work today.
Wednesday will bring a turnover. You
will be free from something which has
restricted you. This will bring in a new
responsibility which may not be any easier
to deal with.
The Moon will spotlight Pisces, Aries,
and Taurus, which fits smoothly into the
Under the Pisces
over all framework.
influence things will be finished up.
Aries ushers in the New Moon cycle while
Taurus attempts to establish and hold
some established direction. All of this
cycle is supported and encouraged by the
long lasting fire trine we have been
experiencing .

MARCff 24-31

Thursday it will be difficult to pin things
down. You will be frustrated by wanting to
know and not quite being satisfied by what
is evident. Everything is foggy and
scattered. A void of course Moon stymies
everything from 8-11 a.m. After that the
Moon enters Gemini and people will not be
serious or reliable. There will be a lot of
hot air being blown around. Imagination
and drama will add much to keep things
livened up but add little_to knowing exactly
what is going on or exactly how to handle
any situation. It will be important for you
to discriminate about what is true and what
is not. Things will be falling apart in many
instances.
Saturday it is important to keep things
moving. You cannot deal with everything

Film lo be featured in
can m unity alcohol

education

Using the film "The Alcoholic Within,"
Laurie Griffith of the State Mental Health
Traffic Safety Project will present the next
community alcohol education program on
Tuesday, March 15. The free program is
designed for the general public and
coordinated by the Lane County Council on
Alcoholism. The series is presented every
Tuesday evening at 7:30 in the social rooms
of the First Christian Church, 12th and
Oak, Eugene.
The film Tuesday is a psycho-drama in
which human emotions are represented by
actors and actresses. Griffith will talk
about and lead a discussion on decision
making and problem solving as related to
the alcoholic.

that comes your way. Pay attention to what
you want to do without being distracted by
all that is going on around you.
Sunday will be emotional. People will be
sensitive and generous but also dictatorial
in their desire to be helpful. Efforts will be
made to resolve many issues behind the
scenes. This is not likely to be well
received by those not included, even
though those involved will be well
meaning.
Monday things will be more out in the
open even though this may not include all
that happened yesterday. Emotions
will still be running high, perhaps as a
result of yesterdays activities.
Tuesday people will be attempting to
join forces to gain cooperation for whatever
they want to accomplish. Things may be
snarled until after the Moon enters Leo a
little after 1 p.m. Then there may be a
power play to resolve the log jam.
Wednesday will be a sneaky day. Things
will be intangible and frustrating. Cooperation is necessary but information will
be scattered and ill-defined. Influence will
be attempted by flattery and seductive
persuasion rather than open logic.
The Moon will be spotlighting Gemini,
Cancer and Leo.

Childcare su,.:.,ey will
circulate during registration
The ASLCC in cooperation with
CCOSAC (Community Colleges of Oregon
Associations and Commissions) and OSL
(Oregon Student Lobby) will be conducting
a child care needs survey during registration.
The results of this survey will be
compiled by the OSL and used in testimony
of support for House Bill 2459. HB 2459
appropriates 3.65 million during the next
two years to provide day-care services for
low-income students. It would also expand
the eligibility requirements to include such
people as transfer students in community
colleges and graduate students.
Cooperation with this survey will enhance the chances for the passage of this
bill. Also. any parents who benefit from
this bill are encouraged to write letters of
support. Indicate in this if you won't be
able to attend school unless you receive
day-care assistance as a result of the
passage of this bill. Letters may be sent to
Vera Katz or Jack Ripper, co-chairers of
the Joint Ways and Means Committee,
C/O The State Capitol, Salem, Oregon
•
97301.
If you'd like more information or would
like to help in any way in support of the
bill, please contact:
John Miller at the ASLCC offices or call
ext.220.

.

SPRING TERM
Study those people and
Places you always
wanted to visit and·
learn about.
REGISTER IN ONE OR MORE
OF TI-IE FOLLOWING:
China: Traditional and Maoist Hst 192

DAVID CROFT

International Relations PS 205
Joseph Kremers
Cootemporary Middle East PS 207

PPLJL M. MALM
Geography of Europe Geog 201
Joe_Searl

Math Notes
"Do you hate math? Were you 'turned
off' or did you 'tune out' mathematics way
back somewhere and vow you would never
take math if you could possibly avoid it?"
'' I suspect that a rather large percentage
(whoops--there's a ma thy word ... ) of
people feel more negative than positive
(two more math words ... ) towards mathematics."
The above is an excerpt from an article
which LCC Math Instructor Jim Snow
wrote to describe the birth of a ' 'math
appreciation" course--not a "how-to-do"
course but a course about mathematics-with the emphasis on people: who
originated the ideas, who wants them, who
uses them? Mathematics In Our Culture
was offered for the first time winter term as
a workshop. The class filled quickly and,
while a few found that it wasn't the
"free ride" they'd anticipated, those who
remained enjoyed the course. The content
deals with math history, the relation of
math to art and music, some logic and
games of chance and a survey of where and
how math fits into our lives.
If you are interested, the class will be
offered again Spring term as Wk 203 and
carries 4 transfer credits. If you don't like
math but need math credit, this may be for
you.
The Math Resource Center will offer
variable credit independent study courses
as usual. These allow a student to work at
his own pace aided by instructors and other
resource people. The courses offered
range from basic math to lntermediate
Algebra and carry from 1 to 4 credits
depending on the amount of work
completed.
The same courses will also be offered as
lecture classes for those who are either not
self-motivated or who find that without
structure an independent study course will
slide in favor of active deadlines.
Two of these lectures will be nine-week
courses, beginning a week late. While
these classes will be open during registration, some spaces will be held until the first
week of the term so that those students
who begin independent study and find it's
not for them can change to the more
structured lecture approaches.
One other registration alternative will be
a course in computer programming which
teaches Fortran language instead of the
more common Basic language. This is
offered as Math 233F.

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'Goldmark' video system makes ifs debut
by Bonny Williams
First in a two-art series
When three videotapes arrived on
campus last month from Los Angeles they
warranted a special debut. They were the
first delive~y of a series produced for a new
rapid-transmission videotaping system
known at LCC as both "Goldmark" and
"ACCESS" to those who have followed
their development during the last 18
months.
Dr. Peter Goldmark , known as the
"father of color TV" and inventor of the
long-playing record, has designed the
''hardware'' for an instructional program
system who's far-reaching ability sparks
interest among some educators, but retorts
among others. (See related story, this
page)
Lane Community College and five other
schools across the nation compose a
non-profit group called ACCESS (Association of Community Colleges for Excellence in Systems and Services) which is
concerned with the development and
production of instructional TV programs.
Keith Harker, the associate dean of the
Learning Resources Division , explained
recently that the schools entered into an
agre e ment with Dr . Gold mark so their
instructional expertise could be combined
with Gold mark's ad vanc·e d electronic al
developments.
When the LCC Board of Education first
voted in March 1975 on whether or not to
join ACCESS and invest the necessary
$150,000 share, the Faculty Council
(technically composed of one faculty from
each educational department), opposed the
proposal 17 to 2. However, the Board
overrode the opposition with a 4 to 1 vote,
and LCC became a charter member of
ACCESS.
Two of the first three modules to be
produced were viewed on campus last
month by some students and faculty
members, "Buying a House ," and "Essentials of Contracts and Bailments,"
modules 7 and 8 respectively, are tapes
from the first ACCESS course entitled
"Consumerism."
In late 1976, Dr. Goldmark completed
development of the Goldmark Rapid
Transmission and Storage System--the
RTS. According to ACCESS literature, the
system functions in two parts.

•The first, the Goldmark I RTS, consists
of a patented instrument about the size of a
large suitcase, which is capable of storing
up to 60 thirty-minute slide/ sound and
motion programs on a one-hour videotape,
(or 30 hour-long programs, 120 fifteenminute shows, etc.)
•The second part of the system, still
being developed, the Goldmark II, is a
receiver; a black box designed to be
attached to regular television sets.
ihe Mark II receives the programs sent
out by the Mark I transmitter. The Mark II
is able to receive and store an entire 30

Keith Harker
minute show in less than seven
seconds; hence, the rapid transmission
name.
Once a program is stored in a television
receiver, the viewers can play it back at its
original length whenever and as often as
they want.
The Goldmark I and U RTS are expected
to telecast programs over open or closed
circuit television, cable TV, or all three
simultaneously. They are even expected to
be flexible enough to broadcast programs
in remote locations--even from the trunk of
a car if necessary--when connected to TV
circuits.
But according to Harker, the programs
are presently restricted to wherever the
play-out equipment is located. And he said

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be available for home TV use for a few
years he said, however that an instructor
could take the Mark II to a rural area and
attach it to a TV in any building that ·can
can serve as a make-shift classroom. Use
at home could be expensive, although
Harker has no idea, at this time, about the
purchase price.
''One of the big advantages th€
Goldmark tapes have over videotapes is
that you can have as many as 8 programs
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the developing concept with the current
method of using videotape. He explained
that this would make it economically
feasible to have small classes--it wouldn't,
be a problem if only a few students signed
up for a particular course.

An instructor could play several tapes
simultaneously to separate classes, and
still provide individual interaction with
students.
Harker noted that whether the students
were on campus or in a classroom building
off-campus, they would be required to
register for the classes, but could take the
videotaped classes for credit, non-credit, or
audit.

RU bin continued from

Designing the courses for ACCESS is
done by selected faculty members. The
faculty members on one campus design
televisable, transferable-credit college
courses that are geared as introductions to
basic subjects. The courses are planned in
modules, with each class in the modules
being 30 minutes long.
After consensus is reached about a
suitable course, faculty members draw up
a plan and list the objectives of the course.
Then they go to work-creating a script to
get their information across clearly to
students. They also collect or create
pictures they think would make appropriate companions for the narration they've
written. The slide/ au<;Iio presentations are
then sent to Los Angeles to be produced.
The finished product , the modular
program, consists of non-stop slides
displayed on the TV screen while a narrator
presents the instructional material. Music
is possible--as background as the narrator
speaks.
So far , ACCESS has designed six
In addition to the ' ' Concourses.
sumerism" course, they include "Child
Care, ' ' '' Health Science,' ' '' Introduction to
Business," "Math , " and "World Cultures.''
Harter says with the use of a satellite the
videotape programs could be broadcast to
other parts of the globe and used
internationaIJy. Seven different languages
can be plugged into the instructional
programs by laying one tape over the
other.
"This satellite communication link
would also allow North Carolina to share
live programs with us here in Eugene.
If North Carolina had an exceptional
program in marine biology, for instance,
and there were SO students here who
wanted this course, North Carolina may be
able to share that with us via satellite and
the students would be able to ask questions
here of the instructor who may be in North
Carolina," said Harker. He- explained that
students would be able to either call in
their questions on a toll-free telephone
line, or speak into an auofo sub-carrier on
on FM radio band and therefore be
involved in a " live " classroom spanning
several states.

Next issue: Many still oppose "Goldmark"

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YIP!!!" By his own account, Rubin "felt
deaa at thirty-four."
At this juncture in 1974, Rubin began his
"self-growth" studies, chronicled in
"Growing (Up) at 37!" The book is a
gallop through the world of accupuncture ,
Arica, EST (Erhard Seminars Training),
psychic therapy, Reichian therapy, rolfing,
sexual re-evaluation, and yoga. His
rendering is subjective, personal, and not
without humor, and the Rubin flair for
put-on is still intact. When confronted eye
to eye, Rubin's twinkle is still there.
Werner Erhard seemed to be one these
twinkles in Rubin's eye (was it his third
eye?). Rubin refered to Erhard as a Zen
Master trying to shock people out of their
minds " ... (Werner) permanently altered
my consciousness. I am responsible for
everything that happens to me ... To
become the center of my life .. . EST is there
to get you to live the moment." .
On a more earthy note, Rubin criticizes
EST and Erhard for the "self-indulgent
attitudes (which they) create in the middle
class." Rubin predicted eventual self
destruction for EST as an organization,
based on his premise: "Anything that
works disappears after making its impression.''
Again, a twinkle. Jerry Rubin must have
had to consider his own "disappearance"
from the scene many times during his exile
from the political arena .

Rubin. and is now available in paperback.
It appeared to be keeping him in
double-knits.
For some die-hard radicals still enfatuated with a "yippie" image of Rubin,
his lack of commitment might be more of a
shock than his wardrobe ... ' 'I (Rubin) don 't
feel much ur,gency anymore ... for me, there
are no pressing issues anymore." Rubin
did express s~pport for women's rights.
which he termed the outgrowth of a rather
sexist radical era: the sixties.
What do we look for in the immediate
future from the new and improved Jerry
Rubin? An article is already in the can on
the former governor of Georgia, Jimmy
Carter . . .Jimmy Carter?! It will be
published in a forthcoming issue of Oui
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Magazine.
The article casts Carter in a positive light
according to Rubin , who looks for a more
honest . open government under the Carter
Administration. Andrew Young, Carter's
newly confirmed Ambassador to the United
Nations. was also held in high esteem by
Rubin.
For now, Rubin is working within the
··system." As he slung his travel-bag
overhis shmtlder to leave, he remarked o~
his newest plan for system re-entry. He
was returning to New York to hunt down
$300,000 to open a restaurant. How much
twinkle was in his eye I could not say.

When asked about a sumptuous meal for
this reporter on a possible visit to the "Big
His re-emergence for the present is in Apple." Rubin seized his one-liner to exit
the image of a writer. "Growing (Up)" with ... "You ;_now, there's no such thing as
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by John Healy

MECHA, an organization of LCC
Chicano and Latino (Latin-American) students, has joined with two other minority
organizations on campus to form a coalition
to press for changes in minority services at
the college.
According to Mona Rodriguiz, MECHA
president, the new coalition will be
composed of MECHA, the Native American Student Association, and the Black
Student Union.
High on ME CHA• s priority list is a
cultural center. All three minority
organizations would be willing to share a
common center, said Rodriguez. "Minority students at LCC desperately need
some type of support service, and a center
for minorities would really help,'' she
added.
·~we feel that all of the minorities on
campus face many of the same problems,''
said Rodriguez, "Hopefully, this coalition
will be a first step towards solving those
problems," she added.
She said in the last year MECHA has
been hit with a number of setbacks,
resulting in a major reduction of MECHA's
effectiveness.
The club currently has no permanent
faculty adviser, as the current adviser,
Loi via Rennoso, isn't teaching at LCC this
term. and isn't available much of the time.
She pointed out that MECHA also lost
its office, which was located on the second
floor of the Center Building last year, and
lost a course on "Chicano History" last
term when only three students signed up
for it, resulting in automatic cancellation.
Rodriguez believes that MECHA' s major
func;tion should be to provide assistance to
Chicanos ~nd Latinos who are having a
difficult time at LGC.
That is why she thinks the coalition
being formed will be such a valuable asset.
Explained Rodriguez, "By consolidating,
our requests to the LCC Administration
'
would carry a lot more weight.''
MECHA presently holds its meetings
every Tuesday at 3 p.m., "wherever the
club can find a place to meet,'' said
Rodriguez. Anyone interested, even if
they aren't Chicano or Latino, is welcome
to attend the meetings.
Mariano Higareda, MECHA treasurer,
feels that minority students such as
Chicanos have a definite need for a place
where they can go for help with their
unique problems.
'' Many of them take classes that are for
above their level, but because they don't
know where to go for help, they end up
dropping out of class and eventually giving
up on school," said Higareda.
A major blow to minority students at
LCC was the 1975 loss of the Interdisciplinary Studies Department, which dealt
with minority studies, and provided a base
for Chicanos on campus.

New program orients women to industrial training
Larry Murray, Head of the Special
Training Department and one of the
co-ordinators of this new program hopes to
have female instructors and aides, Brand. strom stated, ''because we realize women
need female models in these areas."

by Janeese Jackson
Not suited for clerical work?
Are you the family breadwinner?
Do you need better pay?
Do you need a "different" kind of job?
This is the heading for the posters
announcing ·Lee's new Industrial Orientation Program.
''The course is basically designed to
enable women to explore vocational and
technical skills," said Jan Brandstrom of
the LCC counseling department, "though
men are also welcome.'' This new
program is for women and men who have
not been exposed to skilled trade and
industrial experiences.
In an interview March 8, Brandstrom
said that this new exploratory program
emphasizes women because many women
don't have the experience with the·tools or
the language to enter into traditionally
male oriented training programs. Thus,
they begin with quite a disadvantage.
According to Brandstrom, the Industrial
Orientation course was conceived as a
short term modular survey of the industrial
arts. The course will provide a lecture and
lab orientation for nine vocational areas:
industrial safety, Electronics and Electricity, Drafting, Motor Vehicles, Blueprint
Reading, Metalworking Tools, Welding,
Woodworking. and Construction.

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by Edna Webster
Twenty-seven persons testified on the
Displaced Homemaker's bill for the House
Social Services Committee at the State
Capitol before Chairperson Dereli called
time-out, last week.
"I'm wearing three hats today," Nancy
Fadeley said as she began her testimony on
HB 2241 for Displaced Homemakers which
she is sponsoring.
•
A ''displaced homemaker'' as defined by
Fadeley's bill is a person who has provided
unpaid services for family members and
because of death, divorce, or desertion
must assume a new role.
Fadeley began her testimony by reading
a letter from Gladys McCoy, ombudsperson for the State of Oregon, and a letter of
support from Governor Bob Straub. Both
letters affirmed the importance of filling
the need for social services and a system to
help displaced homemakers m·aintain an
independent existence in society.
For herself, Fadeley stated that the bill's
function is to establish a multipurpose
program of services for displaced homem a k e rs in the Department of Human
Resources.
According to the Director or' Human
Resources Dick Davis, '' At the present
time this need has been demonstrated
through pilot programs all over the United
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None of the recommended courses,
however, are required for partic.ipation in
the Industrial Orientation course.
The Industrial Orientation Program is
offered by the Lane Community College
Special Training Department in cooperation with the LCC Counseling Department, Electronics Department, Mechanics
Department. and the Women's Program.

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Many groups had tables filled with
literature and information about women.
Included were of the U of O Womens
Resource and Referral Center, the Women's Awareness Center, The Women's
Health Clinic, the Eugene Women's
Commission, the New American Movement. Women's Press, Women's Political
Caucaus, the B'hai faith, and th Christian
Women's Temperance League.
Festivities and tributes to, the women

weren't limited to festivities and tributes to
women weren't limited to festivities in the
Atrium. KLCC ~pened its broadcast day
at 6:00 a.m. and featured women's songs,
interviews, and stories until sign-off.
The station also broadcast live programming from George's Garage, where an
evening pot-luck desert and party was
held. The U of O Daily Emerald devoted its
March 8 issue to stories about women and
women's issues.

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There are other courses recommended to
accompany the Industrial Orientation
course, such as the Career Planning/
Support Group. The Support Group is
geared to provide moral support and is
open to women only. It will cover career
options and career planning to help women
make the choice of which trade to pursue .
Introduction to Women· Studies is also
recommended to complement the program.

This course introduces the basic issues
necessary to understand the position of
women in this society.
P. E. is another highly encouraged
course because many of the industrial
courses de_m and physical strength and
stamina.

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Hazel Foss, director of Widow's Services
Center, a pilot program affiliated with the
Dept. of Gerontology at the University of
Oregon, and Emily Samms, a recent widow
and volunteer at the Center, brought
documented proof of the need as well as a
number of persons who had experienced
extreme hardship in this "neglected
area."
Marta Casebeer, representing the Aid to
Dependent Children Association in
Eugene, and a student at LCC, had

never testified before. "I was scared stiff"
Casebeer said," but I read my testimony
anyway. It was a terrific experience."
The Women's Resource Center at LCC
has been serving the displaced homemaker
since the center's inception according to
Ann Stewart, director. "I feel this to be an
integral part of the service which Lane
Community offers this group and hopefully
we shall be able to continue to do so in a
very real way," she said.

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U.F.O.'s, Bigfoot, and now c0ffee Prices
Then Mother Nature climbed into the
drivers seat.
On _the night of July 17, during the South
American winter, in an Antarctic cold wave
swept into ··Brazil. It was a devastating
frost in which more than a billion trees
(two-thirds of Brazil's orchards) were
destroyed, and many of the remaining
badly damaged. Brazil however, was not
the only one with problems.
Disaster was striking coffee crops
around the entire globe. Extremely heavy
rains had washed away 20 percent of the
trees in Columbia. February's earthquake

by Mark Smith
Over the last twenty years, the number
of U.F.O. sightings has more than
doubled. During this same period of time,
the numbered of filmed encounters with
Big Foot, and Loch Ness monsters, have
almost tripled.
However, the most unbelievable thing
witnessed by millions of Americans has
been the increase in the price of coffee.
Housewives, bachelors, students, restaurant owners, and businessmen are
wanting to know exactly why the price has

While there might have been a reduced
supply of coffee, there was certainly no
• shortage. By dipping into the stockpiles
(now estimated to be about 25 million bags,
132 pounds per bag), Brazil actually
exported more coffee in 1976 than in 1975.
That is 15.6 million last year, compared
graphic by Jan Brown 14.6 million a year earlier.
In the current marketing year, the
had left Guatemala's crops in ruin. Foreign Agricultural Service of the U.S.
Angolia, traditionally a cheif exporter of Department of Agriculture estimates that
the harsher African robusta type beans, there will be 45.5 million bags, just over 6
billion pounds available for export. The
was in the midst of war.
American roasters, their inventories at a world demand is expected to be about SO
near record low, knew that another million bags. The difference can easily
disruption could cause an absolute short- made up from Brazil's stockpiles.
Many people may feel that the coffee
age. The roasters, caught with their pants
down, panicked and played right into producing countries are trying to rip them
off for as much as they can, but not all the
Brazil's hands.
In their haste to obtain coffee beans, profits leave the United States. This is how
none of the U.S. roasters thought to see the figures break down:
Brazil earned $2.3 billion from coffee
exactly how much of the crop had been
sales in 1976, about 2 and one half
saved. This was their fatal mistake, for
more than in 1975 ($934.1 million), alBrazil, in all of its moaning and gnashing,
though its exports rose less than 7 perhad somehow forgotten to mention that
cent.
two-thirds of the 1975-1976 coffee crop had
been picked before the frost.
Columbia boosted its coffee revenues
The Government thne merely stashed
by about a third to $917. 7 million,
huge reserves in warehouses, to dole out a
little at a time. It ws true, the fr0st had cut despite a nearly 25 percent drop in exports.
production sharply, •but there were still
enough green coffee beans on trees and in
stock piles to meet demand. Even though _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Brazil hadn't actually planned this, it was a
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producing countries.
Thus the stage was set, and things
began to happen.

skyrocketed. Is it the fault of Mrs. Olsen,
the grocer, the manufacturer, the farmer,
or just the crops?
For the first six months of 1975, things
were running quite well in America, ·
coffee-wise. In an average twenty-four
hour period, Americans would drink 300
million cups of coffee. In order to keep up
with demand, America, unsuited to grow
coffee beans within her own borders, took ·
in 45 percent of the world coffee exports.
Brazil was our major supplier, with
Columbia second, and Guatamala third.
On the open international market,
unroasted coffee beans were selling for
about 60 cents per pound, down substantially from the prices in 1974. U.S. roasters,
accustomed to plenty of coffee at low
prices, had let their inventories dwindle to
near-record lows.
Countries which had their economies
dependent upon coffee exports, had been
historically at the mercy of a wildly
fluctuating world commodities market.
Producing countries had before, in vain,
tried to raise the price of coffee beans by
withholding their crops from the market,
but there was always too much coffee still
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Although it's hard to give an exact
breakdown of the retail price, most of what
is paid for coffee b~ans account for more
than 90 percent of the cost of producing a
can of roasted coffee.
In Brazil, a 132-pound bag of green
coffee sold for $240 last month. Of that
$240, according to exporters and officials,
the government takes $103 in export tax;
local levies, commissions and fees, account
for $27, and the grower gets $110. He
spends about 68 percent of his share for
salaries and production costs, leaving him
with a profit of about $35.
In 1975, before the price risings , the
132-pound bag of coffee sold for $64.
The government export tax was $21, and
according to one exporter, the proportion
of money the grower had to spend for local
levies, labor, and such, was about the same
as it is now. That left the grower with a
profit of about $11 or $12.
The growing nations use coffee revenues
to buy oil and American tractors, which is
no different from what the U.S. farmers do.
The reaction to the rise in the price of
coffee has taken a number of different
shapes. At the beginning of January, there
was a call for a national cutback in coffee
drinking by Americans. Almost immediately there was a sharp drop in the prices on
international markets.
Across the Atlantic, prices fell four
straight days in response to consumer
activism. Green coffee landing on the
London docks had reached an all-time high
of $2.89. After Monday's shakeup , it
tumbled to $2.02 a pound, dropping 87
cents in two weeks.
Some people's reactions have been more
of an awakening. "Frankly, I think it's
great,'' says Don Renfro, who with his
family owns the McKenzie Coffee Co.
"These countries feel like they've been
ripped off for years by the U.S., Germany,
and Japan. Now they're putting this
money back into schools and hospitals."
Some people high up in government and
business are beginning to act like they're
just waking up. Southern Coffee Association President A.J. Forstall declared ,
"Personally, I don't think there is any

U.S. roasters, upon word of the frost,
quickly moved to build up their stocks,
boosting the demand for beans .. The
producing countries were quick to take
advantage of the possibility of shortage,
raising their prices sharply, dramatically
increasing their revenues. Then, i-n a fast
turnabout, producing countries withheld
their coffee from the market until they
could further gauge the frost's impact.
Many U.S. coffee companies, willing to pay
higher prices and immediately passing
them along, made a quick killing on the
coffee they already held.
In two days of trading on the New York
Coffee and Sugar Exchange, just after the
news of the frost, the price of a pound of
coffee jumped from 27 cents to 84 cents;
within a week, the price of green coffee
beans from Colombia ·stood at a record
'$1.01 a pound. Brazil slowly exported fair
amounts of coffee beans, maintaining
unnaturally high p•rices sparked by the
frost's psychological impact on the brokers
at the New York Exchange.
The brokers, feeling the pressure,
offered more money for the available green
coffee beans, charging the roasters more.
They turned around and charged the
retailer more, )Vho then charged the
consumer more, who still refused to stop
having his morning cup of coffee (even
after watching the price rise from an
average $1.27 a pound. to over $3 in some
places today).

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shortage of coffee. It's just a controlled
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Ellen Haas of the Consumer Federation
disputed industry claims that a coffee
shortage, prompted by a crop freeze in
Brazil is behind the rise. "Coffee imports
are at the same levels or even above those
of 1974 and 1976," she said. "We don't
have shortage, but we're ~~ying triple
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the pnce from two years ago. .
Most of the people however, Just sit back
and drink their coffee while they complain
about it. "They're all in cahoots,"
complains Jeff Ferguson, who owned the
now-bankrupt Coffee Bean stores in
Eugene and Portland. "The growers, the
government, the exporters - they all work
together to keep the price up. Everybody
gets a piece of the action except the
Americans.''

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1977

Television students produce
programs for KOZV, KVDO
Story by John Brooks

Ftrst year student Jerry Degier operates the master control switcher, which monitors
picture quality.

Two students sit in front of a long control
panel in a small dark room, peering at the
meters on the console and at a Flintstones
program playing in duplicate on two
screens among two rows of screens on the
wall opposite the students.
A third student sits leisurely stretched
• out over a low stool against a wall at the far
end of the panel. He is the head technician
and gives brief orders to the other two
while he talks and jokes with them and the
group of fellow students crowded around
the door.
The instructor squeezes into the few
narrow spaces around the conso!e and
students, giving advice in a quiet voice.
Suddenly everyone is quiet but the head
technician. He straightens a little on the
stool. He gives a steady stream of
commands. His voice growing tense.
The students at the console furiously
press buttons and adjust dials. Two
screens light up with a jumble of static.
. The screens playing the Flintstones go
blank and another two screens Ught up.
The group now watches two ads playing on
four screens.

The classes film these shows during a
simulated three hours of television programing from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., Tuesday
through Friday that is "as realistic as
possible," says Hopkinson. The students
also do a newscast during the three hours
and the last half hour is usually devoted to
students' use of commercial programs for
inserting their own ads.
The classes have used Teleprompter
cable TV company as an outlet for its shows
"for a long time," says Hopkinson, but
until 1973 the students had to make tapes
that were sent to the U of O TV program
which then used the tapes with their
programming that was aired over a
Teleprompter channel. In 1973 a direct
line was established to Teleprompter from
LCC although LCC's shows were still aired
on the same channel. LCC TV students
also made tapes but they plugged them.
into the direct line and programming was
coordinated by both the TV students from
LCC and the U of 0 .
Then in September of 1975 Salem station
KVDO resumed broadcasting after several
months of being off the air when their

Blake Hoffle threads a film onto the projector so that it
will appear Oil the television screen.

Photos by Steve Thompson an~[
John Albanese

Dave Baker and Blake Hoffle thread video tape in preparation for recording a TV production.
The students are practicing a common
task perfotmed in many television stations:
They are inserting local advertising in
nationally televised programs. In this case
the students are using programming from
a local commercial station and inserting
ads they -have made themselves.
The students play two roles.
The first year program students are
learning the operation of the various
pieces of electrical equipment used for
television broadcasting. Second year
program students are learning how to
organize and produce television programs.

Ed White, also a first year student, mixes the sound for a program, at the audio
console.

But the students don't only practice
plugging in ads, they also produce shows
that are used by local cable station KQzy.
The programs they now make for KOZY
make-up a half hour show called "Eugene
neighbors" (about neighborhood groups in
Eugene), and a cooking show called
"Metro Kitchen."
Early in April the classes will have
another show on KOZY, an entertainment
piece for senior citizens, although according to Mike Hopkinson, Acting Mass ·
Communication Department chairman and
instructor, the students have not yet
decided on a name for the rrogram.

antenna was cut down. Before the antenna
had been destroyed, KVDO's signal had
b~en picked up and distributed on one of
Teleprompter's channels. Shortly after
KVDO stopped broadcasting Teleprompter
filled the empty channel KVDO left with
Home Box Office.
When KVDO did return and requested a
channel, Teleprompter was required by
fee laws to grant the station a channel.
Teleprompter had to open a channel and it
decided LCC and the U of O had to go.
Now LCC TV students arc back to making
tapes which they now send to KOZY and
plans are being made to send tapes to
KVDO also.
Although the students get plenty of
practical experience, Hopkinson said the
television job market "is static." This is
because, he says, the FCC has limited the
number of television stations that can
exist. So with no new stations being
formed, the market is not expanding. But
Hopkinson addes that this eased by the fact
that there is alot of movement of people
within the industry itself.
The instructors in the program, who
keep close to the media, and former
students, who are in the tlelvision industry,
help graduating students to find jobs.

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by Cheri Shirts

ethn1c1ty

For the last 10 years during '~ead week'
(the week before final examinations) Sociology Instructor John Klobas has brought
his accordian to campus to play music,
Ethnic Music.
He plays 'Skoda Lasky' and· 'Kanarek'
and 'Myslivi<;ek.' He plays the Beer Barrel
Polka, too.
He'll play today and tomorrow·between 2
and 3 p.m. in the cafeteria.

John Klobas is a traditionalist. Even his personal appearance exerll)lifies a pi~ of his pcm-he

quite often \Y88f"S oolorful
vests vvhich, when blended

with his salt and peppery
untrirTITlOO beared, aeate
an image of a man very
Eurooroud of his
pean heritage.
He is the first American
generation son of Yugoslavian immigrant parents.
He is also the founder of
the Polka Pipers, a local

band dedicated to preserving and perpetuating
authentic rrusic of his Eat

European ~ors~

All the music used by the Polka
Pipers is authentic and because
authentic music is difficult to find,
John Klobas is always on the lookout
for it. Kio bas purchased some of his
collection while in Eastern Europe and
some comes from other bands who
have quit playing it altogether. The
bands themselves dwindle as the
,players get so old they can no longer
1play.
Or they die, and no one seems
interested in carrying on the tradition
of playing their music.
John ~lobas pulls at his beard and
relates his most important purchase of
authentic music. It came in 1973-4
after he discovered a name printed on

some Polish Polka sheet music--the
lgnaci Podgorski Publishing House in
Klobas the music
Philadelphia.
detective had made a bust, or so he
thought!
He decided to call Philadelphia to
see what he could find. '' It just so
happens," Kio bas says, • "That their
business was on Orthodox Street in
Philadelphia!''
He remembers the voice on the
other end when the call was answered.
It sounded like a "genuine Pollack,"
Klobas mused. That voice said,
"Please hold on while I get Papa to
answer the phone.''
When Papa Podgorski answered the
phone, Klobas identified himself and
said he was calling from Eugene,
Oregon, and that he had heard that
Podgorski had some Polish music.

Podgorski said, ''/ do.
Wlat is it that you 'NOlild
want?'' Klobas was thrilled at his authenticity.
Klobas then replied, ''I
lNant all of whatever Y0l!
have.'' Podgorski answered, "There are 21
books in all; for 10 instruments. You want that
I should send them all to
you? That will cost . you
about $fxXJ. ''
Then he suspiciously
added, ''What is it Jhat
you would want all this
music for?''

Patyomself
onlbemap.

That's another way of saying ... become a navigator
in the Air Force. It's a responsible job with a challenging future.
Think you're interested? Why not sample the Air
Force ways by enrolling in Air Force ROTC in college?
There are scholarships available. 4-year, 3-year, or
2-year. There's atso a monthly allowance of $100.
And more important ... you'll get the feel of the Air
Force and an indication of what's to come.
Chart your course to the future .... At the end is a
rewarding, challenging job as an Air Force navigator.
And the checkpoints leading to that end are "proven
benefits" and "_educational opportunities."

Pat It Ill t.....• ·1111lr rerce BOTC.

It was then that John Klobas began
to explain that he is very interested in
preserving the music of his ancestors.
He also explained that he is a sociology
instructor at LCC and is interested in
preserving cultural values. Most
importantly, Klobas said, "I want it
for my band to play. When I die, I'm
gonna leave the music to the college
where I teach so they can file it and
keep it for our kids and grandkids. I
want to preserve it here, on the West
Coast, so that the people out here can
know of our music, but mostly (he
repeats) because I want our kids and
grandkids to know where they can go
to find what their people did musically
10 generations ago."
Papa Padgorski listened patiently,
then said, "I think I understand you,
Klobas. But write me a letter, and tell
me more." So Klobas did, indeed,
VKite a letter.
In that letter, he included some
details about his polka band, proudly
sharing the fact that his whole Klobas
family participates in the music-making, along with three or four other
musicians. Klobas plays the accordian, his wife is the bass clarinetist, his
son plays the trumpet, and his
daughter completes the family ensemble on the clarinet. Other instrumentation in the group varies, but quite
often includes a trombone, a tuba, and
hammer dulcimer.

Two 'Neeks later, Klobas
received a reply from
lgnaci Padgorski Publishing House, Orthodox
Street, Philadelphia, Pa.
It was from Papa Padgorski himself.
''.. . Klobas, we understand you and your need
for the music and so we
will send all we have to you
... we will charge you only
for the price of the printing
... $100."
Klobas was elated, of
course, but, at the same
He
time, perplexed.
didn't have the $100. He
had only the desire to
make the purchase, not the

means.

Not long after he received the letter,
Klobas was relating his story to
instructor George Alvergue, then and
currently advisor for Phi Theta Kappa,
a scholastic honorary society, at LCC.
Alvergue responded to Klobas' dilemma by offering to contact Phi Theta
Kappa and suggesting it to sponsor a
folk festival to help earn some of the
money.
That was the Spring of 1974. Phi
Theta Kappa did sponsor the "Kielbassa'' Festival in the LCC Cafeteria.
The event was named for the sausage
that was served with the meal. And

the Polka Pipers played and the people
danced, and Phi Theta Kappa generously shared their proceeds with
Klobas.
With $100 in hand, Klobas went
home, and immediately wrote to Papa
Podgorski and said, " . . . here is the
money, please send the music ... "
Weeks went by without any word from
Podgorski. No word and no music.
The Polka Pipers continued practicing
in the Klobas' family room every
Sunday afternoon. They enjoyed
practicing and were dedicated to
perpetuating their music.
Finally, after several weeks of
waiting, boxes started arriving at LCC.
Klobas reflects, ''Not only the music,
but a dozen recordings were tucked in
there, . . . ''Skoda Lasky'' . . .
"Kanarek" ... "Myslivicek" ... "Z
Wojna'' . . . and three or four of
nothing but words.''

Papa Podgorski also
sent along a note explaining, " ... We sent 'fOU also
the recordings of some of
our music, because we
.think that in Oregon,
people may not know our
music so good and they
must play it right . . . also
we have put in all the
VKJrds because maybe still
there are some people that
can sing the words and
they must sing the right
'NOfds . . . also this is not
yet a complete set of the
published works, but I
have asked some of the
people we sell to, to send
in their music so that I can
make copies to send to
'Y()U . . . . ,,

For the next two-three months,
books kept trickling into complete the
set.
Klobas pauses for a moment, twists
his whiskers and says, "And that's
how I scrounged at least part of t:ie
music we have."
The Polka Players is an extension of
Klobas, his family, and their cultural
values. They are still rehearsing every
Sunday from 4-6 p.m.
Currently, the group is putting on the
finishing touches for an appearance at
the annual Musicians Ball at the
Eugene Hotel on April 22.
The Polka Pipers evolved after the
Klobas family moved into Eugene in
1959. When asked why he started the
band, Klobas replies, "I started the
band to save soroe of the music.
I knew if I didn't do it, it wasn't going
to get done. Some of the music
doesn't exist in print anymore . . .
I learn by word of mouth and some
from other players and thus contribute
by preserving what I can . . . ''

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Instructor learns to live with his artlfcial legs
by Wendell Anthony Werner

Something is afoot over in the Electronics Department. Instructor Jim
Huntington hasn't changed his socks for
over two months. What's more, he says he
usually changes them only every six
months--not even taking them off his feet
until either the socks or the feet wear out.
You see, Jiri1 Huntington takes off his legs
every night. He has been doing this for
.
more than 25 years.
It was an unmercifully cold night in
North Korea, sometime between Thanksgiving and Christmas, back in 1950--or was
it '51? Jim doesn't dwell a lot on the
memory, and prefers not to keep careful
notes of the unpleasant details ... Jim's
forward observer group, with a company of
infantry (perhaps 50 to 100 marines), was
bedding down for the night. No one could
guarantee a good night's sleep on the front
lines in Korea, but "if that's where you
are, that's where you are," Jim says,
shrugging. But then again, many of the
soldiers going to sleep that night never
woke up again. ..Losses that night were
quite high," Jim recalls, adding that his
position had been "more or less overrun."
But Jim Huntington was in no condition
to be counting the dead. Shrapnel from a
Chinese grenade vehemently lodged itself
in his wrist. Jim went into shock from the
foreign material in his arm--and the foreign
soldier standing a few yards away with a
Thompson sub-machine gun was ''not too

damage.'' But the night was far from over.
Explosions continued. Snipers shot at
people just like Jim, who were trying to
crawl to safety. Jim had crawled as far as
he could--maybe 50, 100 feet from where
he was first hit--one doesn't crawl very far
after being hit by two explosions. All Jim
could do was lay there, helpless and in
pain. There weren't many Americans
around--alive Americans--to help him. It
would be a long night.
What do you think of when you lie on the
cold ground all night? One of Jim's
comrades had estimated 20-below. Jim
knew he "was hurt bad, but (he) didn't
know how bad." He wasn't considering
that in his state of shock his left hand and
his legs·were dying of frostbite. No, Jim
was wondering if he would make it through
the long night--or the long week. He
worried that Korean Soldiers would
discover him, put a rifle to his head as he
lay there, semi-conscious, and shoot him
like a wounded animal.
Jim seems to remember being alive the
next morning--and then he was discovered.
Volunteer stretcher-bearers found Jim and
took him away.
He was taken away, and the shrapnel
taken out, but Jim's ordeal had just begun.
In Japan, a weary doctor, overrun with
causualties took a quick look at his left
hand, decided it was beyond help, and
lopped off the fingers with an overweight
pair of scissors. A month later, at Oak
Knoll Naval Hospital in Oakland, Cal.,
doctors chopped away Jim's feet, as would
a vandal destroying an antique sculpture.
But the amputations weren't the
painful part--spinal blocks prevented pain
during the operation-but not during the
recovery.
"They gave things like
morphine rather freely,'' Jim recalls.
Jim spent about a year recovering and
rebuilding at Oak Knoll. A pair of artificial
legs was designed to slip on over the
"stumps" that remained. And finally, Jim
walked away from the hospital on his new
pair of legs.
Jim very rarely dwells on the bad
memories of Korea, and today he concedes
there may be a certain amount of novelty
to some people who own artificial legs. He
talks about those who stick ice-picks into
their limbs--no doubt a sure way to making
new friends.
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reassuring." However, Jim says, "one
shot from (another American Marine's)
M-1 rifle, and that was the end of him."
But it wasn't the end of the barrage of
fire and the explosions surrounding Jim
Huntington as he lay there helpless and in
pain. Jim tried to crawl to a safer location
and was hit again.
Jim is alive in 1977 to reconstruct his
unpleasant encounter with the battlefield.
But the effects of the Korean War are by no
means in the past. Jim awkardly operates
a mini-calculator with his thumb, because
the fingers on his left hand are gone.
Walking is often painful to him, as both his
legs have been amputated well above the
ankles.

His weight is supported
by a pair of plastic lower
legs which slip on over his
"stumps<'
Jim's right wrist convincingly
testifies to its encounter with the shrapnel,
as it bulges like a kind of third bicep, and is
of a different color since it is transplanted
skin.
Is Jim handicapped? He would ask you
to define what is meant by ''handicapped.'' Jim teaches several classes in
the Electronics Department--and he
doesn't do it from crutches or a wheel
chair. The only problem with the artificial
limbs that Jim Huntington has not adapted
to is the continuing discomfort. "It
depends on what day it is," Jim says; some
days the legs can be tolerable other days
they can be quite painful.
But why did Jim lose his legs? You
probably recall he was injured in the right
wrist--but that was the first explosion.
What about the iecond time Jim was hit?
Well, Jim says, "it didn't do much

Jim says he has never
been kicked in the shins of
his new legs, but, he adds,
"I've always wanted one of
those nasty little dogs to
come up and bite me."
Mr. Huntington worked as an electronic
engineering technician shortly after leaving Oak Knoll in the early 1950's. He had
his own repair shop for a time, and worked
as engineer at several broadcast stations
he began teaching at LCC when I was still
known as a vocational-technical school at
200_ N • Monroe St.'. in Eugene.
Jim has the typical, U.S. Government
, variety, type-approved legs. However, he
doesn't receive a lifetime guarantee with
the set. In fact, three years is the expected
life, although Jim gets somewhat better
mileage out of them. He estimates he has
gone through about half a dozen pairs since
the first was installed in the early '50's.
When an old pair of legs wears out, it's
time to apply to the Veteran's Administration for a new. When Jim is invited for
the fitting he goes up to Portland and
undergoes a series of tests at the V.A.
hospital there.

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For Information on tonight's music in
Eugene, and concerts coming to the
area.

485-1411
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a recorded message updated daily

Jim has worn several different kinds of
legs since his first ones, including a pair of
wooden limbs. At the present time, Jim
uses plastic. His latest pair are not the
most comfortable he has had. Asked if he
thinks the next pair will be better, "I hope
so," he replies.
Needless to say, Jim Huntington doesn't
run a four-minute mile on his plastic legs-nor does he make a habit of running up and

Jim's pants hang about two inches above
the tops of his socks as he sits, revealing
the hard, shiny, but obviously scratched
and nicked shins of his artificial legs.
He gets up from time to time and steps out
around the Electronics Lab to make sure
students are proceeding successfully with
their projects.
Jim's wife, Seiko Huntington, will tell
you she and Jim live a fairly normal life.

down stairways of skyscrapers (a splitlevel LCC notwithstanding). And he hasn't
modified his U.S. Government limbs into
one of those atomic-powered servocontroiled varieties everyone always
dreams of owning, even though he is an
engineer.
His new legs aren't good for the walks in
the woods Jim used to take--a three-mile
hike on the V.A.-manufactured devices has
been known to put the good teacher in
considerable pain.
But for the most part, the legs do their
job. Jim is able to work more or less
normally .. .It is not uncommon to see the
tall, robust electronics instructor giving
very animated lectures to his classes,
walking in a slightly ·stilted manner -but not a limp. Usually wearing an older
tie, a bluish-grey suit, and a flat-top
crew-cut, Jim sits in his office, his wide
knees straddiing the very corners of his
swivel chair, talking to a student. The
student asks the instructor if he has a lab
assignmentto hand back. "I'm sure I do,"
Jim says in his high-pitched voice,
huffling through papers, transistors,
)Oks, and other parts on his desk,
' he question is, could it be located.''

Jim takes his legs off in the afternoon
sometimes to relax or take .a nap, (but there
were no complaints of Jim leaving his legs
lying around the house.)

Jim and his legs have
been known, however, to
part company on occasion.
Once he got them stuck in
the mud at Fern Ridge
Reservoir, west of Eugene.
One of his friends had to
dive for the leg.
But Jim Huntington's legs, as a rule, do
not appear to interfere with his daily life.
It takes a few minutes to put them on and
take them off every day, but he says he
gets used to this. They certainly don't
impede his lectures in electronics, or his
effectiveness in working with his students.
The legs can be uncomfortable at times,
even painful, -- but with them, Jim
Huntington can do most of the things he
needs to in work and leisure. It is entirely
possible that many of his students are not
even aware of the existence of the artificial
limbs.

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''The Way of
the Wind'

Jethro Tull returns to praise
Review by Jack Scott

Apparently, life has been picking up
recently for Ian Anderson, leader, composer and focal point of Jethro Tull.
First there was his marriage to beautiful
former stagehand Shona Learoyd, then the

showing any of the scars of criticism saying
he was "Too Old To Rock N' Roll,"
(as the group's cynically titled eleventh
album suggested). Whether joking about
bassist John Glascock's private parts,
careening the stage in cadence with the
band, or caressing his flute like a $100 call

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Ian Anderson, Jethro Tull's "dominant ringmaster," on stage at Mac Court Friday Night.
critical praise of the group's latest release girl, he couldn't have done anything more
"Songs From the Wood," and now even to please the audience, except to perform
some positive press from Rolling Stone their curious AM hit ''Bungle In The
Jungle," which was probably omitted out
magazine, often a nemesis in the past.
So, if Anderson and Tull needed of spite.
The rest of the group must also be on top
anything else to brighten their collective
spirits, they need only look back at the of the world. Formerly written off as
bravura acceptance they received during simply pawns for Anderson to use in
their appearance at a near capacity Mac conveying his didactic teachings, they
Court Friday. Indeed, the crowd truly finally have developed a stage persona to
became involved and showed their ap- take up the slack when their sometimes too
preciation -- it didn't simply go through dominant ringmaster would exit left for
the motions as it had during the group's much needed rest. That new confidence
two previous Oregon visits, ever since was long in coming, for before their
1973's disasterous "Passion Play" pro- mediocre individual talents became too
obvious when forced to go it alone.
duction.
This time around, Glascock, percusAnderson glowed with his newfound
peacefulness fr~m the beginning, not sionist Barriemore Barlow, guitarist Mar-

alendar of event

IN CONCERT

March 10
Concert
Jazz Lab Band I
Guest Artist: Oscar Williams on
trumpet
Beall Concert Hall, U of O campus
8 p.m.
Admission is $2 general, $1 U of 0
students and Senior citizens
For more information, call 686-3887
March 10
Concert
LCC, Sheldon High School and South
Eugene High School Choirs
LCC Performing Arts Theatre
8p.m.
No admission charge
For more information call 747-4501

tin Barre and keyboardists John Evan and
David Palmer didn't let down in those
intervals. Instead, they extended their
more suitable group abilities much further
than ever before when jamming on a
vocal-less "Living In The Past" and other
instrumental bits and pieces from past
works. And, when Anderson would return
to the fore with his transmogrifying
vocals, they were more than apt in filling in
the background textures before lacking on
stage.

March 12
Concert
Tommy Smith, Greig Carothers
8:30 p.m.
Admission is $2
March 14
Concert
Cumulo Nimbus, Lisa
8 p.m.
Admission is $1.50
All three preceeding concerts will take
place at George's Garage, 3rd and
Blair Streets, Eugene
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Charles Tobias had had a dream all his
life to sail in a small boat to Greece but he
spent the first 31 years of his life becoming
a millionaire. Then he found being a rich
man was drudgery and he began to think
seriously about going to sea. He argued
with himself and his wife until one day,
while driving his Rolls Royce to the bank.
he picked up the telephone in the car and
called his wife and told her ' Tm going to
sea.''
Tobias then jumped on his 60 foot ketch
"Mar," which he had owned for several
years but had only sailed twice. He left Los
Angeles and cruised through the South
Pacific, doubled back and went through the
Panama Canal, across the Atlantic to the
Mediterranean and Greece.
He took several movie cameras with him
and when he came back five years later he
took the almost 150 hours worth of film and
cut it up and spliced it back together into a
two hour film called ''The Way Of The
Wind."
At first when I heard about the movie I
thought it was something made by Walt
Disney or some one like that, and having
been a sailor on a yacht for a couple of
years I did not want to see a movie about
what landlubbers thought sailing was like.
I had seen the movie "Dove," the true
story of 16 year old Robin Graham, who
sails around the world. In the movie they
show him dismasting once. This scene was
a farce. In the book Robin wrote, he was
asleep and a sµdden gust came up and
blew his mast over the side. In the movie a
storm develops and grows and Robin is

Anderson opened the show accompanied
by Evan alone for an almost perfect
re-creation of "Wond'ring Aloud," flashing a wispish smile when spilling out
the line , "Will the years treat us well?"
The highlight of the pre-intermission
segment was a 15:rriinute montage of
themes from their opus ''Thick As A
Brick.'' Anderson was at his Pied Piperish
best, fully utilizing the built-in stage
potential of the composition in its shorter
version; the original's SO-minute length
stretched his limits too far.
After the expected smatterings of
later-period recordings, the second half of
the evening climaxed with the final four
numbers coming off thier classic "Aqualung." Because it is tight, sophisticated,
hard-driving rock n' roll, and because that
album was their most commercially viable,
those songs, intertwined with fragments of
their other albums, created a tasteful
topping for an excellent evening.
Yes, Jethro Tull can rightfully claim
their stop in Eugene as a triumph.
With his frustrations behind him and
peacefulness ahead, perhaps Anderson
will continue steering his forces in the
direction he had them going Friday,
towards mass critical and public acceptance again.

March 11
Concert
Good 'n' Country
8:30 p.m.
Admission is $2

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LECTURES

MISCELLANEOUS

March 10
Lecture
Topic: "Racism and Sexism in
America''
Margaret Sloan, founding editor of
Ms. Magazine
Room 167, Erb Memorial Union
Building, U of O campus
2 p.m.
No admission charge
For more information call 686-4373

March 11
College Visitation
Pacific University
10-11:30 a.m.
Food Services area, LCC Center
Building

March 12
Lecture
Topic: "Energy-Resources for the
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Dr. Walter Youngquist
Southwest Oregon Museum of Science
and Industry
27 East 5th Avenue, Eugene
10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Admission is 75 cents for adults, 50
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and 25 cents for those under 6 and
senior citizens.
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Miller Says diamond hopes bright
by Jack Scott

''We hope to have our best season
ever." proclaimed bas~ball coach Dwayne
Miller, glancing over his list of eight
returners and 22 fine freshman recruits.
He has good cause for that optimism.
Among those eight returners are three
starters from last year's OCCAA third
place team, which finished just one game
away from snaring a berth in the regional

playoffs. They include outfielder Randy
Guimond: a first aff-feague selection,
outfield mate Tom Younker and shortstop
John Baird. Other returners are infielders
Mike May, Mike Ryder and Ron Bour and
pitchers Steve Upward and Mark Jenerette.
With those returners, plus the fine
recruits, Miller foresees his first big
problem of the season being to cut the crop
of 30 hopefuls down to the league limit 22

players. "So many of them have equal
ability, I just don't know which eight I'll
have to let go," pondered the second year
coach.
Although he avows that no posistions are
wrapped up, several of the freshmen stand
good chances of making the club ba'sed on
their prep accomplishments. Some he
mentioned were infielders Mark Piesker
from North Eugene and Steve Gi11espie
from North Bend, both all-state picks last

year, McKenzie's all-district catcher Richard Bean, pitcher Kurt Kordon of
Springfield and Terry Kirby, an all-Wilco
selection in the outfield for Hood River.
Miller hopes the unusual spring-like
weather earlier this term which allowed his
players to practice outdoors will have had a
maturing effect on those frosh, ·and that
they may be able to step right into the
line-up.
Besides the returners and the freshmen,
Miller also expects good things from
several transfers. Most prominent were
David Rose and Joe Chavarria off the
Oregon JV's, infielders Rodney Perkins
from Linn-Benton and Donnie Anderson

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from Umpqua and catcher Rick Egner from
Southwest Oregon.
The diamondmen open pre-season play
next Friday, traveling to Ontario for eight
games in four days with Treasure Valley.
Miller also hopes to slip in another game
with Mt. Hood while there, as the Saints
will just be completing their stand with the
hosts as Miller's club arrives. Why is
Treasure Valley so popular? "There's a
smaller chance of rain on the other side of
the mountains," reasons Miller.

Women to face

Shoreline today
by Sheryl Jurgena

photo by Steve Thompson

photo by Steve Thompson

Jim Pitts, top shot putter

Andrew Ban ks, ace sprinter

Sprinter keys cinder fortunes

by George Kengle

The Tital men's track and field season
kicks off April 2 in Oregon City with the
annual OCCAA relays. The Titans go into
the season with their ususal tough
reputation and a host of outstanding
athletes.

Ken Martin, a distance runner from pre-season meets are scheduled.
Coquille, has looked impressive during the
There is still time to join the team,
indoor meet season in the mile. Andrew according to the veteran coach. Anyone
Banks, a sprinter from Los Angeles, . interested should contact Tarpenning
chased Don Quarrie to a world record tying through the Physical Education Departtime in the 60 meter dash duri~g the 1976 ment.
Oregon Invitational Indoor meet. "Both
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Martin and Banks have a good chance at a
national title," says Tarpenning.

Nine lettermen return to form the
The Titans have taken the OCCAA and
nucleus of what coach Al Tarpenning .
Region 18 titles the last five years in a row.
describes as the most balanced team in the
According to Tarpenning, the only teams
college's history.
that will pose any tough competition this
Returning lettermen are Bob Person, season are Ricks, Southern Idaho, Clackasprinter; Joel Johnson, decathlon and mas and North Idaho.
hurdles; Russ Lamb, long jump; and
The team has been working out since
distance men Mike McGraff, Tim O'MalOctober and several individuals have
ley, Jerry Gray, Glenn Owen, Mike
participated in various indoor meets.
Everette and Rich Harter. Harter was
named-to the 1976 junior college All-AmerMost recently, Tarpenning took his
ican cross country team last fall.
squad to McMinnville to perform in the
The team will also consist of many Linfield "kebraker" meet Saturday. It
·incoming freshmen and transfers. Among was simply an early tune-u'p • for the
the new recruits are some athletes that upcoming outdoor season. "Although no
could perform very well in national team scores were kept, I feel we performed •
well,'· evaluated Tarpe11ning. No other
competition. says Tarpenning.

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• The women's basketball team left for
Flathead, Montana Tuesday to play in the
Northwest ''A'' regional tournament today
through Saturday.
They will enter with a season record of
15-2, facing Shoreline Community College
of Seattle for the first game of the
tournament. If they down Shoreline, their
next likely opponent would be the host
school, Flathead, winner of the tournament
last year.
Looking over the other teams in the
tournament, coach Sue Thompson noted,
''height may be a problem but the
improvement in our defense will neutralize
those advantages.''
Thompson will also rely on Janel Huser,
Carol Miller, Loree McKay and Teresa
Olaen of last year's tournament team in
leading the new players with their previous
experience.

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awake at the tiller fighting it with all
sail set. Of course the rigging gave
way and the mast met King Neptune
but I know by the time Robin reached
the Indian Ocean (which is where he
was in the movie when he lost his
mast) pure instinct would have told
him to drop sail. A very bad mistake
in my eyes.
Then Charles ("call me Chuck")
Tobais came to the TORCH office to
buy an ad. He talked at length about
the trip and I quickly realized it was a
documentary made by a sailor and
would do justice to a way of life I hold
dear to my heart.
But in the movie Chuck portrays the
wonder of Greek mythology better
than varying moods of sailing, or
cruising as it is better known. Th~re is
a storm at sea in the movie but I could
see the wind was only blowing about
30 to 40 knots and admittedly only a
fool would go out of the cabin with a
camera in weather any worse but he
only showed the seas and the man at
the wheel. A storm is also felt by
those below. When the man at the

wheel comes below he peels off his
rain gear slowly and hangs it to drip,
for it doesn't dry in this weather.
He will go sit down on a bunk, peering
,at the other sullen faces, and curl up
with a blanket and perhaps a cup of
something hot to get warm. The crew
members who have been sitting for
awhile will get up and stare out of the
portholes, grimly hoping the weather
ha~ eased. Talking is rare and sleep
difficult.
But the rest of the film outweighed
this detail. Chuck went to the Azores
where the natives still hunt whales the
old way from long boats with hand
held harpoons and lances. This
intrigued me immensely for although I
had read about hunting whales, to see
it done made me fully realize how
dangerous it was in the old days and I
wonder what men were made of then.
Certainly more than man today.
Chuck definitely knows Greek mythology and so he should because he has
been intrigued by it since his early
boyhood when he knew an old Greek
sailor who had spent much of his life
along the shores of ancient Greek
Ionia in Asia Minor. The Greek's

See page 4

stories of that old coast left a
permanent impression on Chuck.
In the film Chuck visits, among
others in Greece, two places that the
Greek sailor had told him about and
that he had been particularly fascinated with. Chuck tells of the
history of these places while I watched
the crew exploring them both on shore
and in the sea. The small boat
(compared with an ocean liner)
heightens the sense of discovery and
adventure in remote places where
other human life rarely ventures. I
remember myself feeling significant in
places like that, feeling that I was an
individual rather than a part of a
crowd. I could do as I pleased within
certain bonds of nature. Chuck found
this out for he portrays it in his movie
and when he speaks of his boat or his
trip.
Although he has spent a great deal
of time promoting his film, like an
amphibian he must return to water to
keep alive or in Chuck's case to be
content with life. The film is not in
this area for long either but it shall
return.

LCC baseball
team looks
good, coach
Says See page S
No real coffee
shortage? See page 6

photo by Jeff Hayden

A demonstrat.ion of Martial Arts was part of the International
Women's Day celebration at the Atrium last Tuesday. See story
on page 1.

Traditional
mu sic kept alive
by LCC
in~trU CtQf Seer

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