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Vol. 15 No. 8 Nov. 10, 1977 • ~ , 1977

Maternity benefits now
part of LCC employees'
insurance coverage

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by Larry Magder

4000 East 30th Ave., Eugene, OR 97405

Funding proposal 'left to student vote

Board gi1'es OK to ASLCC
by Sally Oljar

The LCC Board of Education struck a
The Oregon Legislature -- recogmzmg
that only women get pregnant -- passed a compromise between two different student
law during the last session which says that government proposals in approving a plan
if an employer discriminates against for ASLCC funding at its Nov. 9 meeting.
On Nov. 14, 15, and 16 students will vote
someone due to pregnancy, that employer
to
approve or reject the proposal put
is guilty of sex discrimination.
As a result, women employees of LCC together by ASLCC officers and Dean of
,
are now eligible for maternity benefits and Students Jack Carter.
Carter's plan calls for funding of Legal
disability compensation from the employee
Services, student lounges, the Student
insurance packages.
But according to Lorane Dillon, who until Resource Center (SRC), ASLCC elections,
recently was the LCC personnel services
LCCEF accepts
Insurance Clerk, any increase in premiums
that result from the increased coverage will
come out of the employees pockets.
The new law (Senate Bill 714) states that
"women affected by pregnancy, childbirth,
The LCC Board of Education, after
or related medical conditions or occurances
receiving the factfinder' s report on a
shall be treated the same for all
possible agreement between the · LCC
employment related purposes, including
Employees Federation and the College,
receipt of benefits under fringe benefit
rejected the findings in a 6 to 1 vote on
programs, as other persons not so affected
Nov. 9.
but similar in their ability or inability to
''While the majority of the recomwork by reason of physical condition."
mendations would be acceptable to the
An opinion issued by Attorney General
College, there were some critical issues
James Redden, said "Senate Bill 714
which the College could not accept,"
prohibits employers from funding lesser
stated Board Chairwoman Catherine
medical benefits for pregnancy that for
Lauris. Oregon law requires total
pregnancy that for othe.r conditions . . . .
acceptance or rejection of the factBasically, pregnancy benefits must be
finder's report.
treated the same as benefits for other
Members of the LCCEF, in a 120 to 9
temporary medical conditions such as
vote, accepted the report.
LCCEF
continued on page 4

and membership in the Community
Colleges of Oregon Student Association
and Commissions (CCOSAC).
These
programs will be funded, upon student
approval, by collecting a $1 mandatory fee
from each part-time and full-time student
enrolled in credit classes.
The proposal submitted by the ASLCC
required a $1.30 mandatory fee that, in
addition to funding the programs that
Carter recommended, would provide money for clubs, a president's salary, and a
full-time ASLCC secretary. At the present

Board rejects factfinder's report
President Darrel Allen told the Board
there was '' disagreement on the cost of
living factor, but in almost all other
areas it's (the report) fair and equitable.''
The College and the LCCEF had
resolved 30 of the 44 issues submitted to
the factfinder before the report was
published.
Both parties declined to make the
report public.
It will not become
public until five days after the State
Employment Relations Board has received notice of the College's rejection
of the findings.

time, the position is one half-time.
The Board approved Carter's recommendation, but added the ASLCC's three
requests.
ASLCC Vice-President John Miller told
the Board that a non-salaried presidential
post would exclude some students from
running for office because of financial
"The amount of time
considerations.
(required) would exclude the majority of
students, unless they were wealthy,
supported by their parents, or on the G.I.
Bill," he said.
Under the ASLCC proposal the SRC
would have received $650 along with $300
for membership in CCOSAC for Winter
and Spring terms. The Board approved
Carter's recommendation which provides
$400 per term for both organizations and
ASLCC elections.
Carter recommended that student lounges be located in the Math, Apprenticeship
and Center Buildings. The funds allotted
for the lounges would be used to acquire
furniture.
The ASLCC will also have approximately
$6,000 in vending machine revenues to
support cultural events, in addition to the
service~ that the proposal will support.
These funds are approved by the Office of
Student Activities.
Another $2,900,
designated for the Creativity Fund (that
will support student projects) is available
continued on page 4

Student irate over salad & college treatment .. •
(making a complaint) if someone respondby Paul Yarnold
Controversy centered in the LCC cafeter- ed with ''What do you want me to do,
ia this week, following complaints by a pump your stomach?" Woods said.
Frustrated, and admittedly angry, she
student that her salad contained a large
ball of matted hair, about the size of a
half-dollar.
Claiming that her complaints were
virtually ignored by the cafeteria staff and
management -- and that she was treated
rudely while attempting to proceed through the proper college administrative
channels -- Debi Woods called the Public by John Healy
Health Department last week and reported
the incident.
There's no way, according to Tegge, that
The call prompted almost immediate a ball of hair could fall into a bowl of salad
action by health inspectors. They paid the served in the LCC cafeteria without one of
cafeteria a visit and conducted their his people noticing the foreign substance.
routime unscheduled inspection, but gave
Tegge offered to give a TORCH reporter
the facility a clean bill of health. a first-hand view of the entire process used
Adding fuel to the controversy, KV AL- to make and serve salads in the school's
TV sent a reporter and film crew to cover cafeteria. •
the story, and report on the health
The process involves stripping • and
inspection. Woods said she didn't call the discarding the outer leaves from roughly a
station.
dozen heads of lettuce, placing the lettuce
" I didn't really want it to go this far, but heads into a large chopping machine filled
I couldn't get anyone to look into it," said with water, and running the machine for
Woods later. She claims to have originally approximately two seconds.
reported the fouled salad to one of the
The lettuce is then scooped out of the
employees who was serving food, getting bin-like machine (having been finely
little more than a shrug of the shoulders. chopped into bite-size pieces), drained,
Following a friend's advice, Woods went washed again, and then placed in large
to see Dean of Students Jack Carter. salad bowls which are taken out to the
Finding Carter out to lunch, she was cafeteria serving area.
directed to the office of Tony Birch, the
There, according to Tegge, the Food
Dean of Business Operations, who was also Service personnel serve the salad into
on his lunch break.
smaller bowls.
All employees are required to wear hair
According to Woods, the first person she
found who would listen to her complaint nets at all times while tn the kitchen or food
was Food Service Manager Robert Tegge, serving areas, (but cashiers are excluded).
"There is no way that the hair could
who responded by saying, "We-'ll give you
your money back. Let me take the salad.'' have come out of our kitchen,'' said Tegge.
Dissatisfied with Tegge's response, Woods "No one in the department has hair that
then hunted down Birch. She claims that long."
his response was rude, and equally • Tegge maintains that the hair would
dissatisfying. "How would you feel have been spotted floating in the tank of

claims that indifference prompted her to
call the Health Department but that she did
not intend the report to be malicious.
"I would like to see more glass

protectors around the cold food and the
relish trays to protect them from contamination," Woods said. "I really don't think
that it would be difficult to do."

but Food Service says methods hygienic

photo by Keith Yo_ung

Robert Tegge, LCC Food Services Manager, demonstrates chopping machine. The
machine Is part of'the salad-making process In the cafeteria.

water where the lettuce is shredded (he
doubts it would have even made it past the
blades used to chop the lettuce), while
being washed after cutting, or when it was
served.
''When employees put salad into the
smaller bowls, they pick up very small
quantities of lettuce using a pair of tongs,
so as to ensure equal portioning,"
explained Tegge.
Tegge believes he did all he could for
Woods when she brought her cpmplaint to
him. "I apologized to her, I offered to buy •
her another salad," he recalls.
'' She actually went into our serving area
and cursed at the girls who work there,
then threw the hair at one of the
employees," he maintains.
Tegge believes this is the first major
complaint he has received since he began
working at LCC as the Food Service
Manager.
"People have complained about the food
itself at times, but never about finding
something such as a piece of hair in their .
food."
The State Board of Health has certified
that '' general sanitation and maintenance
are excellent'' in LCC' s food service area,
according to a report issued last week.
''They come every few months unannounced, but since they received a
complaint last week they came on Friday,''
explained Tegge.

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Taiwan waits, wonders about lJS polirg
&lltor'• Netes Social Science chairman Paul Malm visited
the Republic of China (Taiwan) last summer. In the Nov. 3
issue of the TORCH Malm gave a brief description of the
sights and personalities he encountered during his stay. The
following essay is Malm's opinion of the political
relationship between the United States and Taiwan. The
TORCH welcomes other comments on this issue.

by Paul M. Malm
At the recent 11th National Congress
of the Chinese Communist Party,
Chairman Hua Kuo.feng echoed the
late Chou En-lai's policy line to the 10th
Party Congress in 1973: China's 800
million should forge an alliance of world
Communists and Third World nations to
press the "unrelenting" struggle against both the Soviet Union and the
United States.
Chou had pointed out then that
Peking-Washington detente was quite
different from Moscow-Washington ' 'detente.'' The former was merely a
tactical maneuver, the latter a compromise on principles. Tactics could
differ depending upon China's need of
the moment; goals, however, would
remain immutable.
Despite the new leadership of 1977,
Chairman Hua confirmed the immutability of those goals just the other day.
They remain '' . : . to overthrow the
reactionary rule of the United States."
And before Secretary Vance set foot
in China, Hsinhua, the official Chinese
news agency, reported Hua reminding
him that the price of "normalization,"
of being drawn toward detente, was still
repudiation of its treaties with the
Republic of China and severance of
diplomatic ties with them.

With this gun at its head, what is the
response of tiny Taiwan? As my wife
and I saw it, it is to fly the Olympic flag
defiantly alongside the national ensign
in front of the magnificent Grand Hotel
for all its visiting dignitaries and
businessmen to see. This not-too-subtle
reminder of Canada's shameful repudiation a year earlier seemed like a
wind-blown plea to the United States to
embrace a higher concept of international morality.
It is the voice of populist Premier
Chiang Ching-kuo calmly informing the
graduating class of Taiwan's service
academies that, "We must save our
own country and walk our own way.•'
It is experiencing the feeling ot
aloneness for the first time as the
dwindling force of about a thousand U.
S. servicemen seem now more conspicuous by their absence than for their
former ubiquitous presence.
It is to flood the post offices with
scores of thousands of letters to
President Carter reminding him of his
oft-stated commitment to "human
rights" and freedom, and Communist
China's commitment to neither.
It is a sad bewilderment expressed
equally by high government officials
and the man-on-the-street. ''Why? We
have kept every international commitment we have made since our inception!
We have lived peaceably with all men.
We asked the U.S. to discontinue
foreign· aid in 1965, rather than the
reverse. We are the number twc
economy in the Far East. We, with 16
million people, export more than the
mainland with 800 million. We are a

major trading partner of the U.S. We
are an integral part of a Far East
defense line running from Japan to
Singapore; once breached where will be
your defense line?"
There is no doubt that the republic is
frightened and uneasy. The Institute of
International Relations which invited
me to Taiwan arranged lengthy interviews for me with top diplomatic,
military, economic, and media authorities. In addition, I enjoyed numerous
encounters with people in their homes
and business activities. None could
comprehend the thrust of American
policy.
None felt that the People's Republic
of China was a major nation. They saw
no need for us to meet their demands as
a precondition for normalization. Rather, the reverse, China needed us far
more than we need them. Our Navy was
a deterrent to the Soviet Navy at
Vladivostok; our technology, a vital
necessity for China to keep abreast of
the needs of its enormous· population.
China should make the concessions, not
the U.S.!
They could understand our repudiation of Taiwan - such is the bitter reality
of international politics - if such a step
would enhance or maintain our ow!!
security. They feel that our policy would
do precisely the opposite; it would
undermine our security and that of
Southeast Asia. Where would our new
line of defense be? Who would trust us
any more? Oaims of spokespersons for
the U.S. State and Defense departments
that we could move to Sobie Bay in the
Philippines and/or Guam are challenged by Taiwan. And former Malaysian

.,'From the Doctor's Ba,!'

Lice·don't discriminate

It's no disgrace to get lice, but it is a
disgrace to keep them. Getting lice is easy.
We are in the midst of a lice epidemic in
the United States. Lice have invaded
wealthy suburbs as well as the inner cities
of our nation. Lice do not discriminate in
their choice of victims -- rich or poor; black,
yellow, red, or white; individuals or
families; old or young. AU lice demand is a
warm body! From 1970 to 1975 the base
rate of lice infestation in the U.S. has risen
278.3 per cent . . . and it is continuing to
rise. Five million cases a year are
conservatively reported.
Concurrently with the increase, physicians in western countries are noting a
return of polio, malaria, scabies, and lice.
Failure to immunize for polio, failure to
spray swamps against the malaria-carrying
mosquito, and failure to educate the public
on the nature of lice infestation are the
causes of this rise.
Lice are contagious. They are passed
from person to person by direct contact
with an infected person; by personal items,
e.g. combs, brushes, towels, pillow cases,
and sleeping bags; and by clothing, e.g.
hats, ribbons, scarves, sweaters, or other
garments.

It is important that treatment be done
carefully and according to directions to the
infected area.
It is important to clean the immediate
environment of lice and nits which could
reinfest the patient and his/her contacts.
This involves boiling, steaming, or drycleaning clothing, linens, brushes, combs,
etc.
There are over-the-counter medications
available for treatment, as well as
prescription medications. Some come in
the form of lotion and some are shampoos.
Each will have specific directions as to
application - how much and how often - and
·how to clean up sinks, counters, combs,
brushes, linens, and clothing.
For that wicked itch, the persistent louse
is accountable. Meticulous attention to the
details of treatment (once diagnosed) will
stop the infestation and spread of '77's
epidemic.
There are three kinds of lice commonly
involved -- head lice, body lice, and pubic
lice. In addition to ridding oneself of the
louse, one must concern oneself with
getting rid of the egg cases (nits) which lice
attach to hair shafts or else reinfestation
occurs.

Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman,
whose nation would become perilously
exposed by the projected U.S. policy for.
Taiwan, warned the highly industrialized nations against letting the S.E. Asian
countries fall into the hands of the
Communists. Speaking in Taipei, July
27th, he stressed the strategic importance of Southeast Asia: "A takeover
by the Communists would close the sea
lanes connecting the East and West. I
am sure other Western powers are
aware of keeping the Straits (of
Malacca) free for all time.''
There is a feeling that the Carter
administration is rushing pell-mell into
a policy without considering either the
alternatives or the long range consequences.
But, in the midst of all the concern
and upheaval, life goes on at the same
dynamic pace as always. Typhoons
Thelma and Vera both visited Taiwan
the week we were there. Devastation
mounted into the billions of dollars.
Reportedly. 7S per cent of the trees in
Taipei, the capital (pop. 1,800,000),
were blown down and muddy yellow
water surged through the streets and
alleys. Within three days almost all the
trees had been replanted, the streets
washed, the homes cleaned, the neat
piles of rubble everywhere awaited the
fleet of trucks commissioned to pick
them up. so Taiwan's residents could
return to "business as usual."
They are trusting - and many praying
- that that will be the status of the U.S.
and the Republic of China now that
Vance has returned to Washington from
Peking - "business as usual."

Memoranda
To the Editor:

The recent protest movements against
When you are infested with lice, it is the government of South Africa bring to
important that you learn how to prevent mind once more certain fundamental
infecting others and how to best avoid questions regarding tyranny.
getting lousy a~ain.
Why is it right to oppose the tyrants in
South Africa while appeasing the tyrants in
Russia?
Why should one protest tyranny in Peru
but condone it in Cuba by granting full
diplomatic recognition to the tyrant
Smokers across the nation are being Castro?
If the tyrannical government of Rhodesia
invited to the "Great American Smokeis
to be shunned why should the at least
out," a day-long happening, and all that is
required is an absence of cigarettes. The equally tyrannical government of Red
day is Nov. 17, and the American Cancer China be courted?
ls tyranny of the right to be condemned
Society is sponsoring the event. To
while
tyranny of the left is accepted?
promote the day, American Cancer Society
I suggest the formation of a protest
volunteers will be out in force to ask all
cigarette smokers to sign a card pledging group based on the principle of Thomas
not to smoke for a complete 24-hour period. Jefferson who swore 1:1pon the alter of
On Nov. 16 The Apple Booth of LCC almighty God. eternal hostility to tyranny
Student Health Services will be set up in over the mind of mankind, wherever it·
the cafeteria. Pledge cards and pamphlets might be found.
about not smoking will be available. The
Sincerely.
booth will be staffed by volunteers of the
American Cancer Society.
Bob Fauvre

Smokers:
Quit for a day

Hunters prohibited on LCC aeres
by John Jansen

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If you see a hunter on LCC property, call
the LCC Security staff, says Dean of
Business Operations Tony Birch.
Deer season is again upon us, and with it
comes the hazard of hunters carrying
firearms, venturing into the many wooded
areas used frequently by Lane Community
College students.
According to Assistant to the LCC
president Bert Dotson, the college owns
some 302 acres of .land, of which 144 are
heavily wooded. Twenty acres of wooded
land are located just west of the central
campus, while the other 124 are located
southeast of the campus.
Forestry, Science, and P.E. classes, for
example, all use these wooded areas for
daily activities, and all face the possibility
of a stray bullet or a hunter firing without
being sure of his target.

Much of this land is marked with "no
hunting" signs, although "no trespassing'' signs have not been posted. Why?
"We are not interested in keeping
people off," says Birch, "but we are
mainly interested in keeping hunters off
because of potential safety problems.
''The security staff watches as best as it
can," stated Birch, although LCC relies a
great deal on public reports from people
who observe hunters on the college-owned
land.
Birch says that, "many people don't
realize it's college property,'' and that this
is the reason for some of the stray hunters.
LCC tries to handle any encounters with
hunters by requesting that they hunt
somewhere else, according to Birch, but if
any problems come about, LCC will call on
the State Police to enforce the regulations.

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Nov. 10. 1977 - ~ . 1977

Rash cards say 'sexist language' spoken here
by Shirley Perez
Jones explained that the use of
Have sex discrimination issues been masculine nouns where neutral ones could
resolved at LCC?
be used tends to perpetuate sexism and
Are the administration and faculty reinforce male dominance. Some examples
successfully complying with Title IX, the
education amendment of 1972?
In many areas of the college's operation
the answer might be yes, but according to
student Shelly Jones of the Women's
Awareness Center. one important aspect of
discrimination is still present -- sexism in
language.
Briefly, Title IX states that "No person
in the United States shall, on the basis of
sex . . . be subjected to discrimination
under any education program or activity
receiving Federal financial assistance ... "
In her letter to WOMINTREE, the
Women's Awareness Center's new monthly publication. Jones. a Mass Communications major. stated that "lack o( effort on
the part of instructors to eliminate sexist
remarks which range from blatant oppressive remarks to the subtle use of 'he',
'him'. 'man•. and 'mankind' . . . is in
Shelly Jones
violation of this law . .,
photo by Keith Young

of this are "chairman," "manpower, '' and
the words "man" and "mankind" used to
refer to the human race.

Books, keys, jewelry
said most common items
at College Lost and Found

by David Shaw
"It's too early to estimate our track
Jones also takes exception to spellings record for this year, but last year roughly
such as "woman," and "human." Jones 80 per cent of all items turned into the Lost
has adopted neutral spellings such as and Found were returned to their owner,''
"womin" for "woman," and "s/he" to said Paul Chase, head of the Security
Department located next to the Performing
indicate both genders rather than she or Arts Center.
he, in all of her writings without opposition
The 20 per cent of items not claimed are
from her instructors.
kept well into the summer at which time
Jones said that she has not yet made use inexpensive items and clothing are given to
of her flash cards but attributes this to the the Goodwill. Expensive items -- there are
simultaneous publication of her letter in a few calculators stored away -- are kept
WOMINTREE with the making of her indefinitely.
The items most commonly misplaced
cards. "I'm sure they (her instructors)
have read the letter and are consciously said Chase are books, inexpensive jewelry,
avoiding sexist remarks," Jones said. coats and purses.
An item reported lost is logged in the
When asked if the project of revamping books and if the Security office determines
the English language to eliminate sexism the item was stolen (based on the owner's
seemed feasible, Jones replied, "We analysis) it will also file a theft of mislaid
can't ignore language, it's the most property with the Lane County Sheriff's
effective means of communication we Department the next day, said Chase.
have."
When an item is brought into the Lost
and Found a record of the item is entered
in the Lost and Found Property Log and the
object is put in a locked cabinet.
•'The person who finds the item may
leave their name if they like,'' Chase said,
•'but we don't require that they do." Chase
Groups in favor of appropriating state explained that some people prefer to
receiving "at least 30 letters a day for the
past two weeks" from individuals on both money for abortion gave both economic remain anonymous and gave this example;
sides of the argument. Senate President and social arguments. Economically, it "If someone brought us a wallet that
Jason Boe, D-Reedsport. said he expected would cost the state less to fund abortions contained no money, that person may think
a new influx of mail regarding any action than to cover the medical costs of the their name could be associated with a theft.
that the Emergency Board takes on the pregnancies, they said. Socially, propo- We don't want to discourage people from
nents argued, every woman should have bringing us found items."
issue.
This issue should be decided by the the right to choose whether to bear a child
Chase said, ''the least claimed items are
entire Oregon Legislature Senator Boe and poor women should have the same keys, we've got a whole pile of them down
said. Members of the legislature, polled choice as women who can afford to pay for here that we'll keep indefinitely."
last month as to whether to meet in a their abortions.
Chase also said that school propety is
The Executive Director of Planned rarely misplaced, and when it is, it's
special legislative session to decide on the
funding responded strongly in favor of Parenthood for Benton County favored usually returned.
having the Emergency Board decide the state funding for abortions, arguing that
'• abortion is medically a safer procedure
issue.
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Before deciding to postpone action until than the procedure of childbirth." She also
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January the Emergency Board rejected said, "Ithink that we don't hear a lot about
several alternative actions. A motion to psychological damage associated with Your prescription,
approve the $1 .8 million requested by the abortion because in fact there is very little. our main concern . . .
Department of Human Resources was The typical response to the abortion
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rejected by a close 8 to 7 vote. Senator procedure is great relief.''
Ripper said that he felt that eligibility
requirements for abortion are too lenient.
He expressed concern about the number of
women having second and third abortions
and suggested that a welfare recipient
should be eligible for only two state paid
abortions. "I do not approve of abortions
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as a method birth control," he said.
Two motions were rejected that would
have allowed continued state funding with
strict limitations on who would be eligible
for the abortions. Representative Vera
Katz, D-Portland, the only woman on the
W(tCQ't(t(l)(t~
15 member board, proposed allowing any
welfare recipient to have two abortions.
Additional abortions would be paid for only
when there would be physical risk to the
mother in continuing the pregnancy, or the
child would be born with serious defects, or
in the case of rape or incest. The Board
rejected the proposal by an 8 to 7 vote.
EXPERT
Most of the opposition to using state
money for abortion has come from the
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strongly opposes all abortions.
In testimony before the Emergency
Board subcommittee on Nov. 3, Linda
Peccie, chairman of the "Right to Life"
political committee stated, "The fundaBus. Ph. 342-2912
mental issue here today is that (unborn)
child's rightto life." She argued that using
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tax dollars for abortion is not ''the highest
and best use of that money.'' She also
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State board delays abortion decision
by Jeanine Streeter

On Nov. 4 Oregon's Legislative Emergency Board voted 8 to 7 to postpone its
decision on state funding for welfare
abortions until January.
The Emergency Board did allocate
$200,000 to continue funding abortions for
welfare recipients until its final decision in
January.
The delay allows the state Adult and
Family Services Division to come up with
suggestions for restricting eligibility for
elective abortions.
On Thursday, Nov. 3, an all male five
member Emergency Board Subcommittee
voted 3 to 2 to send the full 15 member
board a recommendation to deny state
funds for abortion. The subcommittee,
chaired by Senator Jack Ripper, D-North
Bend, heard three hours of public
testimony. Senator Ripper restricted testimony to the issue of funding for abortions,
stating that the U.S. Supreme Court's 1973
decision legalizing abortion was not at
issue.
The need for additional state funds arose
when federal funding for elective abortions
stopped in August, following a U.S.
Supreme Court ruling that it is constitutional for the federal or a state government
to refuse to pay for elective abortions.
Until the Supreme Court decision the
federal government had paid 90 per cent of
the costs of all welfare abortions. Individual states paid the remaining 10 per cent.
This amounted to $200,000 in Oregon.
According to the Oregon Department of
Human Resources an additional $1.8
million is needed to pay for an estimated
5,104 elective abortions during the 1977-79
biennium, without the assistance of federal
matching funds.
A report submitted by the Oregon
Legislative Fiscal Office stated that if state
funding for welfare abortions is not
continued, the estimated additional medical costs would be from $8.3 to $13.1
million dollars. The cost to the state would
be from $3.5 to $5.6 million dollars.
Oregon began paying for a limited
number of abortions in 1967, and since
1969 has received federal funds for all
physician recommended welfare abortions.
Each subsequent legislative session has
appropriated money to cover the state's
portion of welfare abortion costs.
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appendicitis or pneumonia.
At LCC the employee health insurance
and lont-term disability policies have been
affected, according to Dillon. Both policies
formerly excluded pregnancy from coverage.
Dillon said that the companies providing
these policies have been contacted and
have agreed to increase their coverage.
The health insurance policy will now cover
a percentage of costs arising from pre-natal
care, hospitalization, and the cost of
delivery. And pregnancy will be treated
like any other disability in determining
disability benefits.
"We've been forewarned that the
premiums would probably be raised for the
health insurance policy," said Dillon, but
she noted that there has been no increase
to date.
If an LCC employee has opted to provide
coverage for his/her dependents, the
dependents will also receive the increased
coverage, according to Dillon.
Women who were pregnant before being
covered by LCC's group insurance policies
will not be eligible for benefits, Dillon
adds, in compliance with the pre-existing
conditions clause in the health insurance
contract. Those who became pregnant
before Oct. 4, 1977 (the date the law
became effective) but while they were
covered by the policies, will be eligible for
benefits.
Dillon said that no effort has been made
to nofity employees of the increased
coverage, but she felt that "most of them
who are affected are well aware of it."

Arab culture night
this week

by Bill Larremore
This Saturday night at 6:00 p.m., the
Organization for Arab Students will
present an Arab Culture Night at the EMU
ballroom, located on the U of O campus.
The evenings festivities will present an
interesting look at Arab culture with an
exhibit of singing, dancing and plays
performed in both Arabic and English.
Food and drink will be served with
admission of $4 at the door.

Petition bans tuna sales

by Sarah Jenkins

"A lot of people think I'm trying to stop
all tuna fishing, but all I'm trying to do is
save the dolphins," says Carol Williams,
an LCC student and 1972-73 TORCH
editor, last week at her '' Save the
Dolphin'' display in the cafeteria.
Williams is currently working on a
petition banning the sale of tuna in Food
Service areas on campus which she hopes
to present to the LCC Board of Education in
the near future. "I want a public statement
from the Board stating it opposes killing
dolphins," she explained, and she doesn't
feel this would present a "hardship" to
Food Services staff. Food Services Director
Bob Tegge could not be reached for
comment.

to Williams, because of the fishermen's products ~ade by the tuna companies.
threats to the observers. She claims she "But that's not as easy as it sounds," she
has heard that during the "observer explained. "To boycott 'Star-Kist Tuna',
period'' some fishermen would shoot the for example, you have to boycott its parent
dolphins before they got in the nets so they company, 'Ralston-Purina'."
Williams added that she is getting more
wouldn't be counted as "incidental kills."
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trying to generate concern among LCC
students and staff about the ''incidental
killing of thousands of dolphins'' which
takes place in current tuna fishing
practices. She said tuna usually fo11ow and
swim below schools of dolphins. And by
herding the dolphins into net areas, the
fishermen can locate and catch the tuna,
she explained.

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killed by this practice, the National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS), under the U.S.
Department of Commerce, has set quotas
on the maximum number of dolphins that
can be killed. However, according to
LCC student Carol Wllliams Is leading a movement to save dolphins from being
Williams, the quotas have not been
enforced due to pressure from the tuna slaughtered during tuna fishing. Dolphins are often caught and killed In the tuna nets.
industry's lobby in Washington, D.C. She Graphic by Judy Jordan
also claims that very little is being done to allegation.
sources, such as the 'Save the Dolphin
improve fishing methods, although the
At present Williams is the only person in Foundation" in San Francisco, and that
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number of incidental kills.
Last week's display included an eighted with saving whales, has recently
established a committee to study the page mimeographed article detailing the
Two years ago, federal observers were tuna-dolphin problem, but it isn't involved statistics on incidental kills and the history
placed on 10 per cent of the ships in the yet, she said.
of the tuna industry, along with petitions to
tuna fishing fleet to provide the NMFS with
Williams urged consumers to write ban or boycott the sale of tuna in cafeteria
accurate incidental kill statistics. This letters to the tuna industry opposing its foods, and several other items about
policy has now been suspended, according fishing methods, and to boycott all dolphins.

Coming op • • •
The ASUO supported University Food-Op is now offering lower food costs to the
Univesity community.
A non-profit, non-competitive student-run organization, the foo-op caters to group
housing, as well as the individual.
The food-op offers a long list of items from sausage to granola, at down-to-earth
prices.
Items may be purchased from the inventory at the main store at 15th Avenue and
Agate Street. Other items may be ordered, with ordering periods depending on
distributors inventory. Usually this is no more than one week, depending on product
availability.
The food-op is open from 12 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and
Friday.
Membership fees are not charged, and the food-op invites the entire community to
take advantage of these services.
For more information contact Jim Spevak, Food-Op Director at 686-4314 or
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Room of the Eugene Public Library, as part of the ''Thursday Night Affair at the
Library" series. As part of the Children's Book Week celebration, Cynthia Orr will be
sharing Native American and South American tales and traditional and original adult
stories she has picked up throughout the country. Don't miss out on this evening of
story telling for adults, Thursday, November 17. Monthly calendars are available from
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Day Care Center
still has
vacancies for
students' kids
by Jeanine Streeter
Several afternoon vacancies still exist at
the off-campus LCC Child Care Center
located at 40th and Donald Streets in
Eugene.
The TORCH reported in a Nov. 3 article
that the Child Care Center was actively
looking for children of LCC students to fill
10 vacancies. The Center enrolled six
children of LCC students in response to the
article, said Barbra Cox, clerk for the
Center. She said the remaining full-time
positions will be filled by children of faculty
members.
Enrolled faculty members' children are
assured of a place at the Center only
through the rest of the school year. "Next
fall they will be placed back on the waiting
list, to allow LCC students first chance to
enroll their children," Cox said.
The two Child Care Centers serve 60
children between three and six years of
age. They are located in the Health
Building on campus and the Unitarian
Church in Eugene.
There is no minimum requirement that
parents enrolling their children must meet.
The normal fee per child is 92 cents per
hour, which includes a noon meal and
snacks. Parents may leave their children
up to eight hours per day on days they have
class, but must schedule for a minimum of
four hours per day.
LCC parents wishing to enroll their
children winter or spring terms should
apply for the waiting list now, said Cox. To
do so, contact the Child Development
Center at LCC, ext. 264.

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A new travel game to pfuy I
by Michael Riley
Have you ever watched the exciting
sport that occurs near campus every night
around 4:30? Anyone with an eligible
driver's license can enter. It's called "Get
onto 30th Avenue from Gonyea Road
without killing yourself.''
I have played this game, for almost two
years now, along with its counterpart:
"Getting onto Gonyea from 30th." It has
only one rule, you must be heading
westbound on 30th. It does not matter what
kind of vehicle you drive.
Gonyea road runs in front of LCC to 30th.
There you are given the choice of heading
east toward the freeway or west toward
Eugene. It is the exit and entrance on the
north side of 30th that becomes a
battleground in the early evening. Cars,
trucks and an occasional motorcycle
entering onto 30th have to cross with traffic
that is exiting off of 30th onto Gonyea.

For the novice driver, it can become a
little nerve wracking. My last bad
experience on this interchange involved my
slightly mistreated Pinto and a very large
pick-up truck. Fortunately both of us were
courteous and we managed to avoid
bending each other's fender.
In trying to find something out about this
engineering gem I talked to John Goodson
of the Lane County Transportation Department. Goodson explained that the exit/entrance interchange is scheduled for improvement. Future construction plans,
according to Goodson, call for a rebuilding
of the present interchange so vehicles
heading west on 30th would exit onto
Gonyea east of the present exit. The new
exit would be located further west of the
present exit, thus making for an easier flow
of traffic.
Goodson wasn't sure when this would
take place but he did acknowledge that the
county maps show the future construction

in dotted iines. Goodson recommended
that I talk to George Price, Lane County
engineer, about the possible identity of the
designer.
Price contended that the present design
occured "long before" he became the
county engineer. He added that the
information on the designer would take
some time to gather, time that I did not
have. Price also agreed with Goodson
about the future exit and entrance ramps,
"We hope to correct that, I just don't know
when." He added that the present
exit/ entrance system is '' a very bad
situation."
Price wanted to make it clear to me that
the future ramp construction would take
place. Of course, it "won't happen
tomorrow.'' In some respects it's too bad
that it won 't, I'd hate to be the one to lose
in the game of exit/entrance.

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to the ASLCC from the voluntary fees
collected this term.
If the plan is approved by students it wil
stay in effect throughout the 1978-1979
school year unless rescinded by Board
directive or a student vote.
ASLCC President Tom Ruckman "does
not know'' what the ASLCC will do if the
measure isn't approved by students.
Students will be handed ballots in their
classes next week. The voting booth will
be located in the foyer of the cafeteria.
At the same meeting, LCC Education
Association President Joe Kremers pointed
out that the college had resumed negotiatiosn with the LCC Employees Federation
before the College and the LCCEF had
received the factfinding report that was
requested. Unlike the LCCEF, the LCCEA
and the College, -which are both in_ the
factfinding stage, have not returned to the
bargaining table since the factfinder's
hearing. "We (the faculty) are feeling left
out and a little like second class citizens,"
Kremers said.

·LCC prOvides facilities and instruction for convicts
by Susan Shepard
A choice of finishing a prison sentence or
living in a work release center and
attending Lane Community College was an
easy one to make for 11 young convicts.
"I decided to take the classes because I
figured it was a way out of jail •• and
besides that it might be kind offun," one
of the young men freely admits.
The lack of motivation doesn't seem to
worry Carl Horstrup, Community Education Coordinator at LCC who helped
establish the Training Alternative Project
(TAP) on campus. "Because of the
program some of these fellows are going to
be a success -· no matter their reasons for
participating," he says with conviction.
Of the 11 men who started the Oregon
Corrections Division-sponsored TAP program, which has as its goal to provide
intense training for young prisoners so
they have employable skills for use when
they are released, five finished. Two
voluntarily removed themselves from the
program, and four violated work release
guidelines and were sent back to prison.
While Rich Gardner, local TAP coordinator isn't happy with the less than SO per
cent completion rate, three of the five who
completed the 10-week program at LCC
during July and August are now paroled
and employed. And for Gardner, that's
equivalent of success.
"We weren't happy with the completion
rate so we are tightening the screening
criteria for future programs," he says.
"But when you get a success it is nice ••
really nice.''
George Larson, 22, is one of those
successes. Larson found himself sentenced
to 10 years in prison after a burglary
conviction at age 19.
Raised by grandparents, who in retrospect he terms as too lenient, Larson was
expelled from school as a freshman for
truancy. He then bummed around the
streets '•too busy having a good time to
work. I was lazy, I guess. I always thought
there were other ways to get money."
Larson has been paroled and is working
as an apprentice plasterer for a local
company. While he's not working in the
field for which he was trained at LCC,
Larson credits LCC with giving him help in
finding a job.
"The LCC instructors were more than

willing to do anything they could for us,''
he says of his teachers. "It is a great
program."
He qualifies his praise, though, by
admitting "it is hard having to go straight
to classes and back to the work release
center. You can't do much socializing."
Gardner agrees that the program is no
picnic. "The men live in a structured
situation and have intense training in a

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'' At a work release center, the men must
abide by 13 guidelines, including agreeing
to be where they say they will be, not using
alcohol or drugs, not driving, among other
rules. It isn't any easy way to live and a
violation can mean being sent back to
prison.''
The LCC class Larson attended was in
machine shop skills. Students attended
machine shop classes from 7 a.m. to noon, S:1t::1t:!lt:St:Slt=Q::lt~:f.t:~(t:(t::llt:::n::lt:tt::st::lt:St=(lt:::n::lt:1t;::ct=!t=~:t:ilt=Q::lt~:1t::~[t::St:S!t:::ni)
and welding classes from 1 to 4 p.m. five
days a week for 10 weeks.
"Many of these people haven't had a
very good experience with school, so we try
to keep them away from books. We just
want to teach them skills to earn a living so
they will stay out of trouble," Gardner
says.
For David Whitlock, 25, the program

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life-long career. Whitlock had never been release from prison or parole when
in trouble before he was convicted of first selected for TAP. All participants are
degree theft at age 24 and was sentenced screened as to their background, their
to three years in the Oregon State aptitude, and their institutional adjustPenitentiary.
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Whitlock was paroled Aug. 29 after
The Corrections Division pays the
completion of the machine shop program expenses of the students, including tuition,
and is using his training with a local supplies and materials, and the salaries of
company. "I liked the machine shop the two teachers -· about $600 per student.
Pt.~gram so well I am t~~in,g_ classes toward Lane Community College cooperates by
providing the facilities and instruction.
While other community colleges in the
state have participated in TAP, this
summer's class was the first for LCC. As a
result of the summer program, other TAP
classes are scheduled for the current school
year.
Another of.the summer TAP students is
William Rentz, 24. Rentz claims a bad
driving record (seven tickets in one week,
at one point) was his only trouble with the
law before his conviction for being an
accomplice in a second degree burglary.
He was sentenced to 18 months in the
Oregon Correctional Institute.
Rentz says the LCC training was
valuable but working in a machine shop is
not something he wants to do for all his
life. "I intend to work at the machine shop
the rest of the year and save some money
so I can travel around some," he says.
He adds,'' All the fellows who completed
the class are pretty happy with it. They
learned enough to get a job."
And Gardner and Horstrup agree: That
my associate degree in addition to working. is what the program is all about.
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LCC student makes Hollywood film debut

off on me ... I don't know why they're like
that, you can tell it's all National Lampoon
stuff."
Serena is 18 and has lived in Eugene
most of her life. Before .. Animal House"
she did children's theatre in elementary
school and junior high. Perhaps "Animal
House'' is her big chance. She believes it'~
a start, and maybe a star will be born. She
certainly hopes so.

"Saturday Night Live") sits in a tree and
watches through the window. The second
still has Belushi in the tree but the girls are
The woman casting extras sat behind a
having a pillow fight in their underwear.
long table in the Erb Memorial Union. She
To get the "nude" part Serena took off
watched 500 students file by and leave an
her clothes for Coleman. ''Just down to my
application. "Thank you, you'll be contactunderwear'' she says. He peered at her
ed," she said.
and nodded his approval. She had made it.
As she glanced at each applicant she put
Was she nervous? "I didn't think about
down a number between one and five on
their form. Five was the highest rating:
it."
Will she be nervous when the scene is
For women it meant they were "cute" and N
filmed? Complete with camera people,
for men it meant they were ''weird'' or
technicians, and lighting directors? "I try
"good" looking.
not to think about it," she repeats.
Serena Scholl showed up at the EMU
But she also says she would pose for a
that morning to answer the "Cattle Call."
"Playboy" or "Penthouse" pictorial. "I
The term is movie jargon for the casting of
could make a lot of money, and it would be
movie extras. The movie is '' Animal
a good way to get a lot fu!!!t~r things."
House," a National Lampoon spoof of the
1960's sorority/fraternity house scene.
Serena wants to make a lot of money and
Serena ''knew'' she should be in this
she wants to be famous. She sees herself as
movie. She's got "stars" ·in her big brown
the "star." She thinks that "Animal
House'' may help open the door to
stardom. The next step is, of course,
migration to Los Angeles. "I just have to
meet the right people ... That's all there is
to it," she says.
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small part in the film's nude scene. There
She describes the makers of the film as
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almond shapep eyes and is trying to get on
the road to "making it" in pictures.
When she was rejected twice at the
cattle call, she walked to the assistant
director Cliff Coleman and told him "Your
making a big mistake."
Apparently Coleman thought so too.

by Sally Oljar

Out of state tuition
may be illegal
(CPS) -- A case before the Supreme
Court may make out-of-state tuition rates
unlawful. The Supreme Court will review
two lower court decisions that ruled that
the University of Maryland cannot charge
the higher. out-of-state rates to students
holding nonimmigrant-alien visas.
The University has been allowed to
continue charging the rates on the
condition that it retroactively reimburse
affected students if it ultimately loses the
case.
The American Council on Education and
four states have filed a "friend-of-thecourt" statement that says that the
consequences of striking down Maryland's
.. rational" system of classifying students
for in-state tuition may be to ••ultimately
force publicly-supported colleges and
universities to charge the same rate of
tuition to all students, regardless of state
residency or domicile. This would deprive
state taxpayers of the direct benefit of their
support by raising the cost of education for
them and their dependent children.••
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The play isn't about a plumber and a
seamstress, it's about a nun and a priest,
and that, according to a Eugene priest,
could make it a controversial comment on
Catholicism.
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The play is about a young nun who is
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of being her lover and killer.
But after Father George Matanic of the
U of O Newman Center, was called upon by
director Stan Elberson for technical
assistance with the Catholic aspects of the
production, he said, "The play is a
caricature of the (Catholic) Church, not an
accurate rendering." Although he acknowledges the play is based on a factual
incident, he holds that the Catholic Church
is not now, or ever was, as it is portrayed
by Stitt.
Matanic also says that while a plumber
and a seamstress don't generate much
interest. there is a cetain intrigue where
two people dedicated to the church go
astray. To use this situation for entertainment, he feels, degrades the church and
doesn't want it used as an example of the
Catholic clergy.
Freely admitting he is biased because he
is a priest, Matanic indicated he wouldn't
endorse the play.
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highly recommended the play to several
people. Dierinnger, the LCC Campus
Newman priest, said "Balderdash" to his
good friend Matanic's view of the play,
adding ''I would love to take a group of
people to see it, and then spend two or
tJ:iree hours over coffee or beer discussing

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it."
Dierringer feels •'The Runner Stumbles'' gives an accurate and sympathetic
view of the Catholic Church around the
turn of the century -- and is a '"great
whodunnit."
Elberson brought the play to LCC
because he thinks Eugene is a good theatre
town and would appreciate the play's
dramatic appeal. When asked his view of
its contents, he stated ''This is a play
which illustrates the struggle and psychology of two individuals with faith and
beliefs,'' and that it dido 't try to imply this
was what priests and nuns were like.
.. The Runner Stumbles," with a cast of
nine headed by Duffy Baker and Aseneth
Jurgenson, opens Friday, Nov. 11, at 8
p.m. in the LCC Performing Arts Theatre.
Tickets will be available at the Performing
Arts box office for three dollars.

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Titan harriers claim Region 18 crown in Idaho

by Steve Myers

"Ken Martin has a good shot at
the individual title at the nationals,''
boasted LCC Cross Country Coach,
AI Tarpenning, two weeks ago, right
before the Region 18 Cross Country
Championships. "But he's got to win
the regionals first."
Martin easily captured the regional crown, last Saturday at the meet
held at a ninsoaked golf coarse In
Coeu d' Alene, Idaho. Be croued
the finish line In a time of 26:17.4 to
outdistance Paul PIikenton of the
College of Soathem Idaho [CSI] by
60 yards and led the men's team to
its seventh regional title In nine
years.

Lane scored an impressive 27 points, as
it placed five men in the top 15, to easily
take the championship plaque awav from
defending champion Ricks College, which
was second with 67 points. Oackamas was
third with 87 points. CSI, Northern Idaho,
Central Oregon and Linn-Benton rounded
out the team competition with scores of
109, 127, 129 and 150 respectively (the
lowest score wins in cross country).
Pilkenton clocked a 26:29 for the
five-mile course and LCC' s Dave Magness
was right behind him for third in a time of
26:30. Kelly Britz of Oackamas was fourth
across the line in 26:34.
.. Britz beat Dave in the conference
meet." announced Tarpenning. "It was

good to see him come back a week later and
win."
Lane's Rich Harter placed fifth behind
Britz in 26:35. Harter was ineligible during
the regular season meets because he had
competed in two previous seasons. But, he
is eligible for the regionals and nationals
because he missed the two meets as a
freshman, due to an ankle fracture.
"Having Rich back sure helps," added
Tarpenning. "He adds a lot of depth and

he scores well."
Lynn Mayo was seventh in a time of
26:47 and Jerry Hammitt finished in the
eleventh position in 27:00, to be fifth and
final scoring man for Lane. Mick Bailus
was a non-scoring 15th in a time of 27:24.
(Only the top five men for a team can
score.)
Bruce Arnold and Scott Spruill also
finished a non-scoring 19th and 20th in the
54-man field in times of 27:45 and 27:46.

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Followlq victories at the OCCAA and . Region 18 ~m;lonsblps, LCC'a cross
coantry team heads for Tucson today In preparation for the National Janlor Collegiate
Athletic Aun. crou coantry championships, slated for this Saturday. Team memben
Include-- front row, left to right-- Mick Ballas, Lynn Mayo, Joel Gray, and Bruce
Amold.--Second row, left to right-- Scott Spndll, Rich Barter, Ken Martin, Coach AI
Tarpennlng, Jerry Hammitt, and Dave Magness. Photo by Steve ~yen

Soccer squad faces U,of Portlan d
Saturd ay in OISA semi-final game

by John Healy
The men• s soccer edged Southern
Oregon State College (S0SC) 1-0 in
Ashland last Friday. ensuring the Titans of
a spot in this weekend's OISA play-offs as
the Southern Conference's second place
team.
Forward George Tnno's goal In the
eighth minute of the first half was the only
tally LCC needed to defeat SOSC and
advance to Saturday's semi-final game
against the Unlvenity of Portland, the
Nortbem Conference champion.
Friday's game against S0SC, billed by
soccer coach George Gyorgyfalvy as a
'•showdown" for a berth in OISA postseason competition, was the first victory by
a Titan team against SOSC in Ashland in
the last half-decade.
.. We've never beaten them in Ashland
since I have been coach," explained
Gyorgyfalvy ... In fact, I believe it's the first
time anyone from the OISA has defeated
S0SC at home."
The Titans, penetrating SOSC' s defense
repeatedly during the first half, were
unable to shoot with any consistency
because of strong, gusting winds.
.. We would shoot at their goal and the
ball would curl back toward our end of the
field," said Gyorgyfalvy.
Trano finally put LCC on the scoreboard
when he stole a ••c1earing" pass from the
S0SC goalie and rifled a shot into the
opponent's net.
The Titans' defense made certain that
Trano' s goal and the resulting 1-0 LCC lead
were sufficient.
Blunting S0SC's fastbreaking offense
with a swarming defet'!se, LCC limited
Southern Oregon to a meager three shots
at goal.
Explained Gyorgyfalvy, '•The score
really doesn't indicate how well we played.
On six occasions we took a shot within
three yards of S0SC' s goal. Only their stiff
defense near the goalmouth and their
goalie' s performance prevented a much
higher score."
The Titans' Brst-round playoff foe, the
University of Portland, went undefeated In
OISA regular season play this year with an
8-0-0 record while LCC finished up at 5-1-2
in second place behind Southern Conference- champ OCE.
''They (UP) were last in the Northern
Conference last season," said Gyorgyfal-

vy. ••This summer they dropped their
football program and transferred a lot of
the money to the soccer team.''
"Now they are able to give their players
financial aid, dorm accomodations, and
even full scholarships," added the Titans'
coach.
Stocked with a number of high-quality
foreign players from Mexico and England,
UP has become a top drawing card for
graduating high school soccer players in
the metropolitan Portland area, analyzed
Gyorgyfalvy.
"They pass well, shoot well, and play
Slood defense."

Volleyballers
fall to George
Fox at hoine
by Debbie Cornwell

Gale Hammack served six points while
teammate Cindy Harding came through
with some timely spikes to beat George Fox
College 15-10 in the second set of volleyball
action here last Thursday.
George Fox, however, ended up putting
the game away with wins of 15-12 in the
first set and 15-13, 15-5 in the third and
fourth.
••we played better than we have in a
long time. The team felt that they played
very well and didn't mind losing," said
Coach Marci Woodruff. "We made a few
mistakes though at critical times, mostly
mental errors, but I thought they played
excellent."
The team traveled to Bend Saturday for a
match against Central Oregon Community
College (C0CC), Willamette College, and
Oregon Institute of Technology (0IT). Due
to a communication problem there was no
match.
It seems host COCC made prior
arrangements for a game at OIT Saturday
and didn't inform LCC of their plans.
Coach Woodruff was uncertain at the
time how this would effect the Titans'
record, whether it registers as a forfeit or a
win.
Instead of a volleyball game the women
took in a bowling game before .turning
around to return home.

Saturday's match against UP, slated to

begin at 1 p.m. In Portland, should provide

a lot of fireworks, as It will pit the OISA'stop two offemes against the league's two
outstanding defenses.
LCC, averaging 4.6 goals per game in
0ISA action, will take on a stingy UP
defense which has limited opponents to . 7
goals per game.
At the other end of the field, UP will
throw its high-powered offense (4.2 goals
per game) against the Titans' stifling
defensive unit, currently giving up only .8
goals per game.
Something has to give.

.. The race of the day was between
Bruce and Scott," exclaimed Tarpenning."
Only seven men go to the nationals. Scott
wanted to go to Tucson and he took the
challege to Arnold. He ran a heck of a race
. . . they both did." Arnold finished
seventh for the Titans and will go to
Tucson; Spruill finished eighth and will
stay home.
Joe Clark and Joel Gray finished 29th
and 30th for individual scoring, in times of
28:16 and 28:22. They also will not be
headed for Tucson.
"I was pleased with the way the race was .
run," said Tarpenning. "Martin was
supposed to check it out for the first two
and a half miles, then open it up .. . which
he did." Martin added, "The race went
pretty much as expected. The first mile
was a little slow. The hill at the start did
that."
'' A lot of people had blood in their eyes
for us, since we're number one," joked
Tarpenning, "which is a good position to
be in. We just did the job."
Defending champ Ricks College returned the regional plaque to LCC immediately
following the race, which it had held for so
many years, and given a regional trophy
for being the 1977 champs. Martin,
Magness, Harter and Mayo were honored
as first team members and Jerry Hammitt
as a second team member.
The top seven runners in the meet were
named to the first team All-Region Squad.
The next seven were named to the second
team.
Lane will be joined by runnerup Ricks
College in representing Region 18 at the
•nationals in Tucson. The team will fly to
Arizona on Thursday and go over the
course on Friday. Then, on Saturday, they
will attempt to reclaim the national title
Lane won back in 1972.
According to Tarpenning, his team's
toughest competition will come from
Alleghenny Community College out of
Pennsylvania.
"They are the heavy favorites. They are
ranked number one in the nation,"
commented Tarpenning. "They have four
foreign athletes: Three from South Africa
and one from Britain. The foreign athlete
puts fear into some people, but we willnot
be afr~id. We have the best-balanced team
in the history of our school. We're
currently ranked number three in the
nation, which elates me!
"Our goal and objective is to run in a
group and run together," he added. "The
euvs will have to run faster than they ever
have in their lives.;; .

Wonien fin'Ulh fourth at regiona&

people I haven't beat before.
"I hate cross country," she added. "I
The Women's Cross Country team run the quarter mile and half mile in track;
ended its season Saturday with a fourth it's just not the same."
Nadine Lindsey, Karia Fitzgerald, Vicki
place finish at the Region 18 Championship
meet held at Coeur d' Alene, Idaho. Graves, Sherre Bird, Debbie Oldham and
Clackamas ran away with the meet title Julia Harvey followed Ho~ in across the ·
placing seven women in the top 10, to score tape in 25th, 28th, 31st, 32nd, 33rd, and
21 points. Central Oregon was second with 34th places respectively, out of a field of
46 points and Northern Idaho Col1~ge was 35.
"I'm pleased with the way everybody
third with 73. Lane rounded out the team
ran," commented coach Bill Theriault.
scoring with 98 points.
Brenda Cardin of Central Oregon won "Everyone improved her mile times."
According to Theriault, the major
the 3000 meter, rain-soaked race with a
time of 15:31.6. Kathy Mickel of Clacka- problem with this year's team was the lack
mas finished the race behind Cardin in of recruiting.
"I only got the job in August. I had to
second place in 15:41.
CherylBoff was Lane's top finisher. She recruit in the hallways on campus," he
crossed the finish line In 18th place In said. "If I can get 16 girls on the limitations
17:26. "I hurt the whole way," commented I had, I ought to get a lot more when I go
some --_nationwide."
pretty w ~
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by Steve Myers

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pound, 12 by 15 foot mock up will he on display at the LCC Downtown Center.

The Pioneer • space craft
was an entry probe space
craft for Saturn and Uranus.
The National Aeronautics
and Space Administration
sent the model space craft to

the· Willamette Science and
Technology Center but when
the Center closed the model
was given to LCC for display.
The Downtown Center is
located at 1059 Willamette.