Lauris, Curry, Hendrickson win Board seats
Charlene Curry and Les Hendrickson are new
members of the LCC Board of Education as a result of
their victories In the April 3 election, along with
Catherine Laurls, a current board member.

Vol. 15

No. 21

1978

4000 East 30th Ave., Eugene, OR. 97405

Laurls' victory for the Zone S [Eugene] seat wW begin
her third four-year term on the seven-member board.
[She bas also served In 1969 as an appointee to complete

the term left unfuJfllled by William Bristow]. Curry, who
bad attempted twice before to win the Zone 3 seat for the
Sprlngfteld, Marcola, and McKenzie area, also served as
an appointee In 1974, completing Robc,rt Ackerman's
unnplred term. Hendrickson bas not served previously
on the Board: be defeated Incumbent Richard Freeman,
who was the At-Large representative for two term1, 1lnce
1970.

Scheduled far May 23 ballot

Board will ask for tax base hike

percent. This increase, combined with the
current base and the college's request for an
LCC district voters will be asked to additional $784,184, will make a total tax
approve a $784,184 increase in the college's base of $6 million.
tax base on May 23, 1978. The LCC Board of
The tax rate will increase from $1.35 to
Education gave its approval to a request for
$1.42. The tax rate is a dollar amount set on
an electon at its meeting April 5.
each $1,000 of assessed property in the
If the increase in approved by the voters college district. This means, for example, an
the additional tax revenue, the recent tuition owner of property assessed at $10,000 will
increases and other reductions in college pay $14.20, instead of $13.50, for LCC
expenditures, will balance the projected operation if the tax base measure receives
$1.2 million 1978-1979 budget deficit, Dean voter approval.
of Business Operations Tony Birch told the
If the tax base measure fails, the college
Board.
has asked for another election to be held on
The tax base, currently $4. 9 million, June 27, 1978. This ballot measure will ask
automatically increases each year by six for $784,184 in excess of the six percent
by Sally Oljar

Turning her life around
Editor's Note: All told, '20,000 community memben travel to
the campus each week to take classe1. In a survey taken f.U
term, TORCH readers said they would Uke to read stories
about these many personalities. TORCH staff writers wlll
select students at random for Interview,, but wW allO 11eek
recommendations for personality sketches for this weekly
column.

by Frank Babcock

Fortunately, the trial ended before it
began. Jones' accused murderer, Robert
B. Turner, 30, faced with overwhelming
evidence and testimony against him,
pleaded guilty in a Lane County
courtroom just as his trial was about to
start. He was immediately sentenced to
life jmprisonment.
And Susan Taylor was freed of an
agonizing nightmare.

"On Christmas day (1976) this dude I
know called me up and said 'hey, did ya
hear? They just pulled your boyfriend's
Today, she smiles easily. At 29, her
body out of the river.' "
long hair and the lingering scent of
As heartlessly as she was given the , patchouli oil call up memories of the
news, Susan Taylor's fiancee, William
"flower children" of the late 1960's.
Jones, Jr., had been brutally murdered
But the carefree idealism are as faded
with an axe as he lay sleeping on a couch
as her jeans.
in a house in Springfield. Police had
"I was a part of all that," she says,
discovered his body stuffed in a sleeping
smiling coyly, '' and I still believe in love,
bag in the Mckenzie River.
peace, caring, sharing, and honesty ...
In the following weeks, Susan was
but many of those people were not
battered with the endless horrors of the
making the commitment. They began
crime: The body identification, despair,
ripping each other off. So now I try to
and contemplated suicide.
avoid those kinds of people."
But refusing to succumb to self-pity by
drawing on a reservoir of innate courage
Instead, she prefers to talk about
that most people can only hope they have,
school, her future, and her children.
she began to turn her life around -- to seek
"I like LCC. My major is business now
a new fulfillment and a new purpose for
.. but lately I've really gotten into social
herself and her two children.
science
anthropology, sociology,
''I finally began to realize that death is
psychology ... I enjoy the way they all
a reality ... that I might die tomorrow ...
correlate.''
(that I must) try to make every day
Butherimmediate, most pressing goal
count.''
is to get a job.
In the spring of 1977 she enrolled at
"I'm on welfare," she says flatly, "but
LCC.
it's temporary. There's noway I'm going
''My mind was stagnating ... I needed
to stay on welfare. I feel smothered by it.
some self-satisfaction -- to feel I was
doing something right. I wanted to learn
"I wanttoworkforthepostoffice ... be
-- and I don't mean basketweaving.
•
a
clerk/
carrier ... carry the mail through
"I wanted a challenge and that first
rain or shine," she laughs. "I can meet
term I made a 3. 75 (GPA). Fall term I did
people, get exercise, and relatively
well, too. But then last term (Winter
independent. It pays well, too.
1978) the trial for Bill's murder was
coming up and all those things I'd
"I'm planning to take the (Civil
managed to pu.t into the back of my head
Service) exams soon."
were all brought out again.
But Susan hopes she will always have
'' It was difficult to come home from
the opportunity to attend school because
school with school on my mind and be
of the sense of accomplishment and
greeted by a subpeona. '.'
self-worth it has given her.
Yet Susan was moved by the way her
"I'm really beginning to feel like my
instructors supported her: ''You know
head is on straight ... I feel good about
what happened? Ingrid (Funke, LCC
myself. And I see my kids come home
anthropology instructor) offered to take
from
school and they're happy and that
time off to go with me to court ... she said I
makes me happy. It makes me suspect
shouldn't be going through that alone.
I'm doing something right."
Ingrid is really a terrific person.''

limitation. Unlike the tax base, which
increase each year by six percent, a request
for funds to exceed the limitation is a set
dollar amount. Also known as a fixed serial
amount, the life of the levy is limited to three
yea.rs (the tax base stays in effect until voters
agree to change it) for support of operations
and must be specified for certain purposes,
Birch said. The tax rate would remain the
same. If the May ballot measure passes the
June request will automatically be cancelled.
In addition to the tuition increase, which is
expected to generate $100,000, the college
has reduced expenditures in other departments, Birch told the Board. Full Time
Equivalency (FTE) reimbursements by the
state are expected to increase by six percent
next year. FfE enrollment is based on 45
hours of course work for credit per student
each year.
_
President Eldon Schafer told the Board he
is "fairly confident" that the college will
have an approximate $300,000 cash
carry-over from the 1977-1978 budget.
An "increase in instructional productivity'' is also expected to bring the budget in
line, Birch said. Dean of Instruction Gerald
Rasmussen told the Board that instructors
who have resigned or retired will not be

replaced.
Part-time and contracted
instructors will "pick up the (teaching)
load" of departing instructors. If these
measures are not successful, he added, the
his office will look at potential reductions in
the instructional staff of each department.
"I don't know that this is what's going to
happen," he explained.
In other business, Adult Basic Education/
High School Completion (ABE/HSC) bargaining unit members rejected the state
fact-finders report of current contract
negotiations between ABE/HSC and the
college.
Board Chairwoman Catherine
Lauris said the Board ''was not prepared to
take a position on it (the report),'' because
there had not been sufficient time for Board
members to study the document.
Under the law the •college and the
bargaining unit will seek mediation to settle
the contract differences between the_m.
Charlene Curry was appointed by the
Board to fill the Zone 3 Board postion until
July 1, 1978, when she will officially take
office in the position. The seat was vacated
by Springfield lawyer Lynn Moore, who died
on Feb. 3. Curry was elected to the Board on
April 4. The Board chose not to make an
appointment to the position until after the
April 4 election.

KLCC n1icro-wave grant request
sparks new controversy at station
by Sarah Jenkins

Just a week after a $102,000 grant
application was sent to the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare (HEW) to
financt a microwave interconnect system for
LCC's public radio station,. the majority of
KLCC's volunteer and paid staff members
sent off a protest letter asking HEW to deny
the grant.
Depending on who you're talking to, the
proposed interconnect system might be
called a "win-win" situation, a "co-operative" action, a "scary proposition;" or a
"unique proposal."
The time-table goes like this:
• On March 2, 1978, LCC President Eldon
Schafer signed a federal grant application
asking for just under $102,000 from HEW to
_finance a 17-station Oregon public radio
microwave interconnect.
• On March 8, the LCC Board of Education
held a special meeting with the KLCC
Advisory Board to discuss KLCC policy. At
that meeting, the interconnect proposal was
discussed with the Board for the first time.
• On March 10, 35 KLCC volunteers, four
paid staff members, and the Program
Director of the U of O's public radio station
(KW AX) signed a protest letter asking HEW
to de~y the grant application.
Thus began KLCC's most recent controversy.
- Mass Communication Dept. Head and
Acting Manager of KLCC Jim Dunne, who
helped write the grant application, explained the interconnect as a "way of sending
(radio) signals over long distances without
having lines. You just flash the signal so it
kind of bounces from place to place -- it's a
distribution system for sound signals."
The interconnect would be operated by the
Non-Commercial Radio Consortium of
Oregon, an organization of 17 public radio
stations stretching from Ashland to
Portland. Although KLCC is the "lead"
(first) applicant, it is applying on behalf of
the consortium.
Simplified, the interconnect would mean
that KLCC would have direct access

(through microwaves) to the radio programming from almost anywhere in Western
Oregon. Likewise, KBPS in Portland or
KSOR in Ashland or KOAC in Corvallis
might choose to broadcast a KLCC program
at the same time it's being broadcast in
Eugene.
However, this fairly simple idea raised
many ey~brows and tempers on the KLCC
staff. The main brunt of the controversy
centers around these five main questions:
• Will the Interconnect change KLCC's
programming?
•
''The interconnect will give us some
options we don't currently have," Dunne
explained. "The word 'change' is always
used as though if you change something it's
for the worst. There is the possibility to
change things forthe_b etter-- I think we have
to look at it from that point of view.''
''The boundaries of Lane County are not
the boundaries of intellectual curiosity -- we
are not an intellectual island. What goes on
in the rest of the state is, and should be,
important to us ... the interconnect will give
us more options (in programming) to a larger
number of people,'' he added.
Dunne repeatedly stressed that the choice
of programming (whether to use KLCCproduced programs or those from the
interconnect) would be left open to the
station. "We do not have to take everything
--we would choose what we want to use.'' He
compared the system to National Public
Radio (NPR) which KLCC already uses.
"NPR has about SO hours of available
programming a week, but we (KLCC) only
use (broadcast) about 10 hours a week of it.
We can do the same thing with the
interconnect.''
Barbara Dicker, a KLCC volunteer and
author of the protest letter to HEW, stated
that at the time she wrote the letter on behalf
of the KLCC staff, she (and other paid and
volunteer staff members) believed that the •
interconnect would ''take away all the
volunteers. You would just have to press
buttons and you'd get pre-taped shows. You
would just need a core staff of thre_e or four _
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Will Gay rights spell 'Anything goes.
Commentary by Paul Yarnold
The Human Rights Ordinance, which was
passed by the Eugene City Council and will
either be passed or rejected by voters in a
May 23 referendum, has been opposed by
some Eugenians on purely religious
grounds. But some of us see purely secular
problems with the amendment as it
presently stands.
The Eugene "HuP1an Rights Amendment" is a common term given to a city
ordinance which was passed by the Council
on Nov. 28, 1977. If the ordinance is retained
by voters it would make it illegal in Eugene to
discriminate in employment, housing, and
public accomodations on the basis of sexual
9rientation.
But if the ordinance stands, will gay
people have the right to demand houses,
jobs, and public_accomodation primarily on
the basis of being gay? This is a right that

TORCH

Editor: Sally Oljar
Associate Editor: Paul Yarnold
Features Editor: Sarah Jenkins
Entertainment Editor: Jan Brown
Sports Editor: John Healy
A3sociate Sports Editor: Steve Myers
Photo Editor: Daniel Van Rossen
Assoc. Photo Editor: Jeff Patterson
Contributing Editors: Rick Dunaven, Wes Heath, Janet
Boutelle
Business Manager: Darlene Gore
Production Manager: Michael Riley
Copysetting: Nikki Braz}
Production: Susan Fosseen, Marta Hogard, Judy Jordan,
Jack Desmond, Judy Sonstein, David Girrard
Photographers: Samson Nisser. Christie Davis. Mary
McCullough. Susan Lee, Ray Armstrong

The TORCH is published on Thursdays, September
_
~hrough June.
News stories are compressed. cond,c reports, intended to
be as objective as possible. Some 111," appear with 6y-lines
to indicate the reporter responsible- .
News features. because 01 a bn-u, kr scope, may contain
some judgements on the part of thl' writer. They will be
identified with a "feature" bv-linc .
"Forums" are intended to be es~ays contributed by
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Editor reserves the right to edit for libel and length.
Editorials are signed by the newspaper staff writer, and
express only his/ her opinion .
All correspondence must b~· typed and signed by the
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many married people with children are
denied when seeking rental housing, for
example, and a right which single people do
nothaveiftheyw ishtorentorbuy. When is a
landlord or an employer free to decide who
he/ she rents to or hires?
H the ordinance remains unchallenged,
are we merely tolerating homosexuality, or
advocating it as a healthy lifestyle and sexual
orientation? Since the ordinance puts no
labels of•• abnormality'' on sodomy or other
forms of homosexual behavior, can we
assume that homosexuality can be taught as
normal sexual orientation to our school
children? And can we assume that gay
people will soon be demanding a quota
system for employment to match other
minority groups such as blacks and women?
We should all support human rights as
part of our legal framework -- but we must
not fall into the degeneracy that says,
'' Anything goes ... ''; a society does shape
its own • destiny and should set moral
standards for itself. History, if nothing else,
shows us the imp~rtance of such a policy.

And probably 90 per cent of the American
public still views homosexuality as immoral,
and as a form of abnormal sexual orientation
which is a threat to what it holds as "decent"
or "natural."
On the other hand, it would be
counter-producti ve and inhumane to provide malicious individuals with the means to
exclusively discriminate against homosexuals who choose to depart from "normal"
standards within the privacy of their own
homes.
Yet, when deciding on the Human Rights
Ordinance, we must ask ourselves: Do we
want this law to serve as a social mandate -which lends approval to open or flagrant
sexual behavior of any orientation -homosexual, bi-sexual, or heterosexual?
And do we want homosexuality taught in sex
education classes as normal and socially
well-adjusted behavior?
Being tolerant and fair is one thing;
advocating and promoting any "deviant"
social standard by changing the law is
another.

Tarpenning brings nationals to LCC
Many Eugenians feel that our fair city is • LCC Track Coach Al Tarpenning who had
becoming the track capital of North America. been named director of the 1979 National
Each day and evening more and more Junior College Athletic Association (NJC
runners and joggers seem to hit the streets, AA) track and field championships for men
seeking competition, or just a better and women. The event will be held in May of
1979atthe U of O's Hayward Field/Stevenmeasure for fitness.
Track, and will bring more than 600
son
The University of Oregon and LCC have
Eugene for three days of
done a fair amount to promote this running athletes to
competition.
phenomenon here, and in recognition of
We hope the community will continue to
their efforts Eugenians will be rewarded
enthusiastically to these events -respond
with some top class collegiate track and field
and paths
events featuring athletes from all over the and will continue to hit the streets
for the thrill of
whether
-themselves
nation.
victory, the agony of defeat, or for the
We would like to extend congratulations to satisfaction of a commitment to health.

LCC instructor honored
by Rick Dunaven

The Eugene Downtown Association has
given Leila Matheson, assistant mathematics instructor, their Employee of the Month
•
Award.
The award was given Matheson during a
short ceremony at the LCC Downtown
Ceriter. She received a trophy and a bouquet
as part of the award given in recognition for
courteous and friendly work performed at
the Downtown Center. Matheson is the first
LCC employee to receive this award.
"I was extremely surprised, but very
delighted to receive this recognition," she
said.
MatJleson has worked at the center since
it opened in 19T7. "I helped move furniture
before we opened and I also helped
coordinate the open house for the Center,"
she said. Matheson said she was pleased to
receive the award but also thinks this award
will help the businesses in downtown
Eugene become more aware of the services
offered by the LCC Downtown Center.

KLCC boosts watts
Communities outside Eugene-Springfield in Lane County should be able this
week to hear radio KLCC-FM at Lane
Community College.
The station increased its power from
440 to 10,000 watts through use of a used
transmitter purchased with nearly $10,
000 in donations raised in a 1976
Buck-A-Watt marathon.
Listeners will find KLCC at 89. 7 FM
instead of the former 90.3. The change in
frequency was necessary due to possible
overlap with other stations with close
frequency and similar power.

Cente r offers rehab progr am for disab led
by Judy Bruce

This year, at least eight Lane County
adults classified as developmentally disabled will depend less on state human
resource funds and more on their own
earning skills to make a living. And next

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year, eight more mentally disabled will be screech through woodworking projects.
And in a much quieter corner, a classroom
working. And the year after that, eight more.
And the trend will continue if Molly atmosphere prevails as clients study job
safety precautions, appropriate work habits
Holsa.p ple has anything to do with it.
Molly is a cheerful blond who appears to and time card preparation.
So far, the business community has been
be super-charged by some inner die-hard
battery. She is the director of the Work pleased with WAC employees. Some
Activity Center(W AC), located in one corner benefits to employers are that jobs are bid at
of the Lane Community College Downtown minimum wage and that WAC provides
supervision and quality control for its
Ce.nter at 10th and Willamette.
work.
clients'
for
rung
WAC acts as a preparatory
''Another benefit that businesses hadn't
mentally disabled people climbing from total
dependency to self-sufficiency. It's goal is expected is that they just get a good feeling
normalization for the 24 clients who daily from helping our people be self-reliant,"
says Molly:
attend its programs.
In addition to vocational training, WAC
•'These people have the right to as normal
a living environment as possible," stresses teaches home and practical living skills and
Molly. "For years they've been told they social and recreational skills. Portable
can't do this or they can't do that, but there partitions divide the areas physically while
are so many things they are capable of teaching approaches divide them psychologically.
doing."
In the Home Living area, shelves lining
To prove her point Molly and her staff
walls hold a stockpile of taken-for-grantthe
clients
teach work and social skills to their
and help place them in jobs they are capable ed items. Although measuring spoons,
of performing. It takes about two or three forks, glasses, toothbrushes, shave cream
years of training at the WAC before a client and shoe polish are rather easy for most
can enter the job market. Each year about a people to use, they're items that require an
third of the total enrollment is ready to work explanation for WAC clients. Because many
either in a sheltered workshop, such as of the clients are overweight, they are taught
Goodwill Industries or Diversified Produc- how to use scales regularly and establish
tion Systems, or in one of the many local proper eating habits. Students in the Home
businesses that employs WAC people. Economics Department at Lane Community
Many of the· clients have come from ColJege have prepared menus for • nine
institutions; and in addition to mental - simple meals that clients are learning to cook
disabilities, 63 per cent also have physical or for break.fast, lunch and dinner.
In the area of budgeting, clients are
emotional disturbances. Although these
how to count and make change. ''Do
learning
jobs,
most
for
compete
to
unable
adults are
there are many jobs for which they are very you realize that money transactions require
only pennies, dimes and dolJars!" asks
•
well suited.
"We teach job skills one step at a time," Molly. ''Working with pennies, nickels,
explains Molly. "Our clients learn rather dimes, quarters and fifty-cent pieces is
slowly; but once they have learned a job, they confusing, so we simplify the process and
don't forget it. Their retention is better than work only with three money denominations."
that of the average population.''
In the Social and Recreational area, some
The inside ofWAC looks like an on-the-job
training shop. On a typical day, metal clangs clients gather around a "Sorry" game while
as workers adjust fittings for sewer pipes. others practice handshakes and proper
Voices call out numbers as clients practice verbal pleasantries to use during introduc.
letter sorting procedures and bulk mail tions.
Because public transportation i~ vital to
handling. Hammers pound and wood
continued on page 3
shavings collect on the floor while saws

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people to run the whole station.''
She told the TORCH that since that time
the staff's opinion has changed somewhat:
" It's possible that it will be like an NPR
system -- you can take whatever show you
want, then do your own programming the
restofthetime. It was never made clear what
Jim Dunne and the folks he wrote the
application with wanttodowith KLCC. lfit's
just to use an NPR system, we think it's a
great idea. We're in favor of that.
"But if they're considering majority
programming (using the interconnect the
majority of the time), which would get rid of
everybodywhoworkshere, then we're not in
favor of it at all. Jim Dunne has said that it
will be pick and choose, but it's still a scary
proposition -- he may say that now and then
change his mind in three or four months.''
LCC Board of Education Chairwoman
Catherine Lauris stated that the Oregon
legislature and the Oregon Educational
Coordinating Commission (OECC) have
stated in the past that Oregon's public radio
stations should act in a '' co-operative
manner.'' She added that the interconnect
' ' can only be a step in that direction.''
• Should the Board of Education have been
informed about the grant application?

Dicker claims that Dunne and other
unnamed administrators went "over the
Board's head.'' As the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) license holder for
the station, ' 'the Board had the right to know
about the writing of the application long
before March 8,'' Dicker stated .
President Schafer disagreed. ''That's not
the way LCC operates when asking for
federal funds,'' he stated. '' Jim Dunne and I
were following normal operating procedure
on this application."
While Lauris admitted that she would
have "liked to be advised," she explained
that, "I'm not sure he (Dunne) had to advise
us.'' She added that according to Board
policy, approval offederal grant applications
is not required.
• Can the Board reject the grant if it is
deemed undesirable for KLCC?

The interconnect application is a ''winwin'' situation for the Board, Dunne
explained. "The Board will be able to decide
if they want to take part in the system.
Ultimately, they say yes or no."
But Dicker disagreed. "We (the staft).
discussed going to the Board (with
objections to the proposal), but decided
against it. The grant cannot be rejected once
HEW gives it. If the Board rejected that
grant, they (HEW) would take away every bit
of money that is coming to the college right
now. And that would have been a really
unfair thing to do to LCC, because God
knows how much money the college would
have lost.'' However, Dicker said that no
staff member had discussed this possibility
with any Board members.
In a telephone conversation with the
TORCH, Mary DeNota, Oregon program

officer for HEW's Telecommunications
Commission, denied Dicker's assumptions
about HEW funds. "The interconnect
proposal has no bearing on any other grant or
proposal through the college," she explained. '' It has nothing to do with any other grant
given by HEW.'' (While DeNota stated that
the interconnect idea was a ''unique
proposal,'' she added that it is ''too early to
say anything" about the particulars of the
application.)
Chairwoman Lauris agreed with DeNota.
"We (the Board members) will be the ones
signing the contract with HEW. We have the
final say."
• What will the interconnect cost LCC?

In addition to the $101,944 requested from
HEW, the 17-station consortium will have to
put up another $33,982 to finance the
interconnect. This amounts to a little under
$2,000 for each station involved.

'' President Schafer made it very clear to
me,'' said Dunne, ''that he will not provide
any additional money for this. It will have to
come out of the KLCC operating budget, and
I think it can ... without in any way impairing
what we're doing now."
Dicker strongly disagreed. "That implies
to me that the station is going to be
drastically changed. We are operating on a
shoe-string budget as itis. If they're going to
draw off another $2,000 it has to cut
somebody's salary. That implies to me that
they're going to get rid of some of the paid
staff."
• Was KLCC's letter to HEW the
"appropriate" action to take?

Jim Dunne concedes that he "understands their position." He added, "I think
it's unfortunate thatthey (the volunteers and
paid staff) wrote the memo, but I understand
and appreciate and even agree with the way
they feel. It wasn't a totally unreasonable
position. Had we had more time where we
could have met with them and talked anu
explained it to them, I think their position
would have been different. They felt they
had a right to be consulted --we simply didn't
do it.
"Itwasn 'ta matter of not wanting to talk to
them or not thinking that they had a right,
but things just moved so quickly -- it
happened within a week.''
Dunne also mentioned his "newness" as
acting station manager as a reason for not
consulting with the staff: He replaced Tim
McCartney on Feb. 14, just over two·weeks
before Schafer signed the application.
Dicker feels strongly on this point. '' I think
that on that particular grant proposal, no
matter how long he had known the staff, he
would have tried to keep it from us anyway. I
think there still would have been a lot of uproar, especially since they went over Lyndia
Storey-Wilt's (then -KLCC Development
Director) head. She was supposed to be in
charge of writing our grants!''
She continued, " I got the feeling that they
(Dunne and the others who wrote the

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One of the reasons we were scared is because
they seemed to be ignoring us -- and not just
because Jim Dunne was new. They had been
writing that grant since early last December
and they could have come to us anytime."
Dunne agreed that the grant proposal had
been "in the offing" for some time prior to
March 2. "People had talked about it,
engineering studies had been underway for
some time, some of the financial data was
being gathered, but we were still trying to
put together a package. Finally, all the
pieces came together and we moved quickly,
always with the idea that even if the grant is
offered, we can choose not to take it."
Catherine Lauris, who is also president of
the Friends of Public Broadcasting, stated
that she was preparing letters to both HEW
and KLCC on behalf of the Friends. In her
letter to HEW, she plans to explain the
KLCC staff (protest) letter did not speak for
the Friends, although, ''it seemed to imply
that they were acting with the Friends'
approval, which they were not."
In her letter to KLCC, Lauris said she will
ask them ''if they don't consider the welfare
of public broadcasting more important than
their own welfare.'• She added that she feels
their action was "premature." "They were
not acting on facts," she concluded.
Schafer believes that the protest letter to
HEW was '' a logical extension of their
(KLCC's) concern." He added that he had
"no real objection" to the letter. However,
on March 31, Schafer drafted his own letter
to HEW restating his support of interconnect.
Dunne willingly admitted that the staff
members should have been consulted. 'T
will not say that the people who wrote that
letter were wrong. Ifwe had to do it again, we
would do it differently. When people say,
'Hey, you're not communicating with us,'
and they're right, that's not a problem -that'sa legitimate complaint. We've tried to
rectify it and I think we have."

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off a city bus, deposit the proper fare, and
conduct themselves while riding.
Because only about SO per cent of mentally
disabled people can read, clients are taught
survival reading. Such words as "Men,"
''Women,'' ''Exit,'' and ''Danger'' are
included in the survival list.
With so much activity in the vocational,
home and recreational sectors of WAC, a
visitor can only be amazed at the orderliness
surrounding him. Each client is busy at his
own project and noise is minimal.
"We treat our clients like the adults they
are, and so they respond like adults,''
explains Molly. "Unacceptable behavior is
simply ignored and adult behavior is warmly
accepted."
Another reason why the program works so
well is that the professional staff can devote
all of its time to helping the clients. Looking
for funds is not a part of the staff's job. LCC,
the State Mental Health Division and Adult
and Family Services take the responsibility
for funding. Out of the 35 adult programs of
this type in the state, this is the only one
connected with and funded by a community
college.
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course at LCC, the program has grown into a
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Twenty mile walk for
March of Dimes

by Sarah Jenkins
H you're hardy, hungry, or just want to
exercise for a good cause, Saturday's
Walk-A-Thon may be just for you.
Completing the 20-mile March of
Dimes' -sponsored walk around Eugene, is
exercise enough to make the finishers really
appreciate the coupon for a free McDonald's
burger and fries they receive for the effort.
At 8 a.m. Saturday men, women, and
children (all in blister-preventing shoes) will
gatheratthe Fairground's Expo Hall to start
the walk. The walkers earn contributions
through pledges based on the number of
miles of the route they complete.
Anyone who wants to walk and raise
money for the March of Dimes can pick up
sponsor forms at any McDonald's, aJJ US
National Banks, and all area schools,
including LCC.
Finish~rs are also invited to an "R & R"
(Rest and Recuperate) party after the walk at
the Fairgrounds. They will also be eligible
for the May 10 drawing of prizes ranging
from six-months use of a new car to gift
certificates.
For more information, call the March of
Dimes office at 686-2170, or 345-7778.

Healthful lirint!

Accidents aren't only 'acts of God'
by Dr. StaJwell and Staff of Student Health
Service
The dapper, weH-dressed businessman in
the TV commercial walks with a carefree
stride down and across a busy city street,
narrowly missing cars, avoiding a can of
paint spilled from a ladder towering
overhead and skirting a wall that tumbles
down at his heels.
Would it be possible for all of us to go about
our daily lives with such reckless abandon?
No. In fact, accidents do happen and
almost every minute of our waking lives we
must guard against them. They are the
fourth largest cause of deaths in adults and
among children 1-14, outrank the next six
causes of death combined.

before) are probably the result of: (1)
ignorance or unawareness of important
safety aspects in personal, home and
community living; or (2) carelessness
resulting from behavior or attitudes that are
antagonistic to safety.

Unfortunately, accidents too often are
thought of as happening to the· 'other guy''
or as being out of one's control. But most
accidents, which do happen to all of us, are
preventable.
Accidents that don't fall into the category
of unforeseeable "acts of God" (such as
lightning striking where it has never struck

• You can be poisoned by merely tasting
and not swallowing certain foods that are
spoiled due to certain toxins such as botulism
(found in the interior of sausages, ham ,
bacon and spiced or pickled food and canned
food). A food's taste is not always an
indicator of safety.

SHS opens women's health clinic
by Rick Dunaven
The LCC Student Health Service, in
cooperation with the Women's Clinic, is
offering a new program called the Women's
Health Care Service.
The service is designed to help prevent
women's health problems by giving
students information to increase their
alertness to possible symptoms of disease.
This service also offers women a comprehensive check-up, from breast examination
to birth control devices, for a $10 fee which
includes screening for rubeJla, syphilis, and
gonorrhea.
Laura Oswalt, student nurse and coordinatorforthe Women's Clinic, said one of the
main concerns of the Health Service,
presently, is venereal disease and birth
control.
Although, on the average, only four cases
of venereal disease a month have been
screened through the Health Service this
year, Oswalt expects an increase during
Spring Term.
'' Spring is the time of year when students
are more sexually active," Oswalt said.
'' And this activity usually brings us an
increase in VD cases," she added.
Along with information on venereal
disease prevention, the Women's Health
Service is offering information and products
for birth control.

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Shermaine Swearingen, a registered
nurse-practitioner for the Student Health
Service who works with the SHS' s physician,
Dr. Stanley Richardson, said, "Included in
the $10 check-up fee is a tube of
contraceptive jelly or a 28 day supply of birth
control pills."
Swearingen said, ''We can fit diaphragms
here in the office,'' but she added that ''The
diaphragms are not included in the check-up
fee, but rather are available at the health
office for four dollars. I personally see that
the diaphragm fits properly and that the
patient knows how to correctly insert the
device," Swearingen said.
"Aside from diaphragms and the birth
control pill, we have a variety of birth control
devices, including foam, condoms, and the
Billings method," she said.
"We don't prescribe Intrauterine devices
(IUD), because the Health Servke is closed
for the summer, and the IUDs require close
observation," citing a possible case of a
uterus performation as a reason for
observing patients: ''Though it rarely
happens, (it) would require an immediate
withdrawal of the device,'' Swearingen said.
Director Oswalt said the Women's Health
Care Service examination is one of the most
complete and up-to-date offered anywhere.
A private doctor's fee for an exam of the type
the SHS performs could run from $50 and up,
Oswalt said.
Both the woman and her partner are
encouraged to participate in t he examination. Good health, Oswalt said, "should be
the concern of both the man and woman in
any relationship.''
An a ppointment can be made by calling or
stopping by, the reception desk of the
Student Health Service.

Accidents that occur out of ignorance or
thoughtlessness might include some of the
following:
In the Home
• A study of 4,000 households has shown
that product-related accidents or injuries
were more likely to occur from the use or
repair of secondhand products or appliances
than from the use of new items.

• Loss of life or extensive damage to
property from a fire could be avoided by the
installation of one or more inexpensive
smoke detectors in the home. These are
highly recommended by the local fire
department and can be purchased at local
department stores.
• Wood fires in stoves and fireplaces can,
if left untended with a closed flue, cause
carbon monoxide poisoning. Carbon monoxide is not detectable and may lead to
headaches, nausea, weakness, collapse,
coma and eventually death.
• Accidental poisonings by adults are not
uncommon. Medicines become stronger or
weaker with age, are often transferred from
container to container without proper
labeling, and are frequently taken in the
wrong dosages. If you suspect being
poisoned, call the Poison Control Center at
1-800-452-7165 (toll-free).
At Work
• In lifting 1-)eavy objects, don't bend over
at the waist while legs are straight. Plant
yourfeetfirmly, well apart and squat down.
keep your back as straight as possible and
lift slowly by pushing up with your legs.

• In using a ladder, make sure it has safety
feet and is firmly planted on the ground. It
should be set one foot away from any wall for
every four feet up to the point of support.
Ladders should be long enough so that you
don't have to step on the top rungs.
• Such items as safety glasses, hard hats
and steel toe box shoes can prevent almost all
injuries due to falling, moving or flying
objects.
At Play
• In cold weather, wind and wetness can do
as much if not more damage to body
temperature. "Wind chill" can increase
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lose body heat much faster than air.
• The National Safety Council estimates
that only half of all Americans swim well
enough to take care of themselves in water.
Learning to simply float could save your life.
The body floats naturallybecauseofairin the
lungs, and full lungs can easily keep a
person's head above water indefinitely.
• The greatest mistake a beginning jogger
can make is trying too hard. This can cause
sore or strained muscles, shin splints, or
worse. Start by alternately jogging or
walking, increase your distance only when
you feel ready, do warm up/ down and
stretching exercises before and after each
jog. and jog (at about seven and one-half
minute per mile pace) before you run.
While Driving
• Marijuana is among a number of drugs
which are increasingly being shown to
contribute to driving accidents. Studies
reflecting users' subjective assessments of
their driving skills while high, measures of
driving-related perceptual skills, driver
simulator and actual driving performance ,
and highway fatality reports aU link
marijuana to car accidents.
• Your chances of surviving a fatal car
accident as a driver or passenger are more
than ten times greater using seat belts than
not, according to figures from the Oregon
Motor Vehicles Department in 1976. Of 501
fatal car accidents, 332 were killed in cars in
which seat belts were installed but not in use;
28 were killed using seat belts. (141 fatalities
occurred in cars without belts or in cars in
which belt status was not recorded.)
It is interesting to note that one study
indicates that individuals prone to automobile collisions tend to have personalities that
are either (1) "anti-social," using their
driving as a weapon to provide expression for
frustration and hostile acts or (2) ''passive,''
leaving themselves open for blundering.
Safer drivers are more conforming, controlled and tend to avoid hazards. Another study
of traffic fatalities tends to indict the
"socially obstreperous" person -- belligerant, talkative, hyperactive.
So if the results of these studies of
automobile drivers is any indication,
destructive behaviors and attitudes must be
recognized and overcome before people are
likely to live more safety-conscious lives.

SHS sponsors forum
An open forum to discuss health
concerns of students will be held
Tuesday, April 11 in Room 8 of the Center
Building at 3 p.m.
The Student Health Service-sponsored
forum is being scheduled in response to a
recent survey of LCC students that
indicates interest in forming discussion
or support groups in such areas as
smoking, alcoholism, women's self-help,
men's self-help, holistic health and other
health topics .
The forum will also help determine
what directions the Student Health
Service should move in encouraging
student and SHS cooperation.

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Influential ·poet
seheduled to
read at LCC

Hoffman romanticizes felon's life

by Rick Dunaven

Film Review by Janice Brown

Robert Creel~y will appear at LCC's
Performing Arts Theatre on Tuesday, April
11, for a one hour reading of his poetry at
noon. There will be a one dollar charge, at the
door. Students who are taking a literature
class at either LCC or the U of O will be
admitted free.
Creeley is part of a program called
"Poetry and the People" sponsored by the
Willamette Writers Gild. For information
about other poets scheduled to appear on the
LCC campus, call Heather McConnell, the
program coordinator, at Lane Community
College, extension 339.
Creeley will also appear at the U of O at 8
p.m.at the Erb Memorial Student Union.
Creeley's position
is secure in the
forefront of contemporary American poetry. His
work has exerted a
great influence on
the poetry of our
time, and it has
brought him an
international reputation.
Creeley was educated at Harvard,
Black Mountain
College, and the
University of New
Mexico. For his
works in poetry,
Creeley has been awarded a Rockefeller
Grant, aGuggenheimFellowshipanda D.H.
Lawrence Fellowship.

Dean Stanton, becomes Dembo's gun
. carrying accomplice. Dembo has felt the
"Straight Time," a film currently at thril1ing rushes that Schue experiences
Cinema World, is the story of Max Dembo, a
convicted armed robber, who is pardoned during robberies, and he knows that nothing
after completing a six year period of gets Schue off like wielding a powerful gun
over the heads of the victims of their
incarceration.
robberies.
Dustin Hoffman plays Dembo with
Stanton's interpretation of Schue's exconviction. He constructs a new celluloid
is so vibrant that we know whv it is
citement
character as vivid as his memorable '' Ratso''
in '' Midnight Cowboy.'' Like Ratso, Dembo that he wants to be freed from his mu;dane
is a low life character but the similarity stops Southern California poolside barbeque
there. Ratso provoked intense compassion marriage.
from the audience, but the icy Dembo is as
Schue has his weakness, and so does
hard and insensitive to life as the walls of the Dembo, but Schue doesn't benefit by
prison cells he has spent so much time in. recognizing Dembo's shortcomings, rather
he dies because ofit. Dembo' s intoxication is
When Dembo meets his parole officer for with greed. He stays in the bank and the
the first time, "I'm not fated to be a menace jewelry store they rob long after Schue has
to society/'. says the chronic felon. said that time is up and that they have to '' go
The parole officer, played with an now'' in order to escape safely. Dembo
authentic repulsiveness by M. Emmett continues to grab more money, more jewels.
Walsh, smiles knowingly at Dembo and Schue yells at Dembo as the terrified robbery
agrees to give him a chance (one week) to victims look on, "You're pathetic! You are a
find a job and a place to live, if Dembo can pathetic human being, I'm never going to
obey the regulations of his parole. But work with you again!'' But he waits for
Dembo succombs to loneliness and against Dembo.
regulations invites an old cell-mate back into
The pace, the performances, and the
his life. the cell-mate, Willy, played by Gary
Busey, is a junkie. Taking advantage of direction by Ulu Gros bard, of this film all add
Dembo's hospitality, Willy shoots up in up to a realism that perhaps the film
Dembo' s room. The parole officer busts shouldn't offer. The excitement of the
Dembo and it's back to the slammer again. robberies is enticing. Dembo is a sleezy,
But only for a few days. Upon release, unlikeable character. But the fact that an
Dembo maddened by the cunning of his actor of Hoffman's distinction portraying
parole officer, and the inequities of society, such a man romanticizes the felon's life.
abandons the idea of seeking the straight
life; so, it's back to robbery for Dembo.
Easuy manipulated by Dembo, an
unhappily married Schue, played by Harry

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Angus Bowmer and Black Swan Theaters in Ashland, Oregon. The play will be performed
on April 14, 15, 28, 29, and May 12, and 13. Tickets are available for all performances by
calling the Ashland Box office, 482-4331 and through local ticket agencies.
National Endowment for the Arts grant recipient Richard Misrach will be the f;atured
photographer in a show at the Oregon Gallery at the University of Oregon from April 4
through May 7. The Gallery is open free of charge during the regular museum hours, 12
noon to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Sunday.
On April 6, from 7 to 9 p. m., Maude I. Kerns Art Center will host a reception for Harold
Hoy, Tom Blodgett, and Pete Shoemaker. A show of their work will be on exhibit at the
center, in the Mezzanine, April 6 through April 30. Hoy will be exhibiting wood, cast
bronze, and kinetic sculpture. The assistant Professor of S<;ulpture at LCC has exhibited
his work in the Northwe~t and California. Photographs will be exhibited by Shoemaker,
and Blodgett will show his drawings. The gallery is open to the public daily from 11 a.m. to
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Teaching women's studies is a _'push for·change'
News Feature by Marie Connor
Students begin to gather outside Koom 222 of the Apprenticeship Building, waiting for the room to empty. Two women, both waiting for the Kate Barry's Women's
Studies class, lean lazily against the , wall and talk casually to each other.
"You know, ldon'tfeelsoguiltya boutworkingnights andleaving my little girl at
Day-Care while I go to school during the day," says one woman, probably in her
mid-20's.
''I don't feel guilty about anything anymore. I realize that it's just society's misplaced values that are causing women to feel guilty about not conforming to their
stereotyped image.''
If the instructor of the class had heard the conversation, she would have smiled,
probably with pride.

The classroom door opens and students begin trailing out. The two women enter,
continuing their conversation. The rest of the class straggles in and the students
immediately begin to talk among each other , talking even when Kate Barry enters
and makes her way to the front of the room. Barry, 33, looks more like one of her
students than of their teachers. Her hair is dark , almost black , and hangs straight to
her shoulders except in the fron where it shapes the contours of her full face . She
almost always wears bluejeans. Her wardrobe is far from Vogue.
She removes her coat, throws it over a chair in the corner, and positions herself
firmly on top of the table . She looks around the room, smiling and laughing vibrantly
at a comment made by one of the students. She has said that LCC students please

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Teaching, she says , is a method of social change, and that's what Kate Barry wants
to do with her life.
Finally, the drone of conversation dies out and Kate Barry reveals her topic for the.
day: Sex Role Socialization.
Kate Barry teaches Women's Studies-a class for and about women in today's
societies . The class is unique . For one thing , a student doesn't have to memorize
algebraic theorems or proper punctuation rules or the fundamental properties of an
atom or a diesel engine. The important preparation for a student is to open her/his
mind and become aware of the forces in societv that control oeoole' s lives .
. Women's Studies has been included in the offerings at LCC for four years. Barry
was the first instructor to be hired on a part-time contract by the school to teach the
subject. '' And that was really positive because that was the first time that Women's
Studies had been a contracted position .. . it has a sort of turbulent history at Lane,''
she says . --· r She wonders about the previous lack of support for Women's Studies classes
since there are no more women at LCC than men, and "there has always been
support for the classes from students,'' said Barry. The total enrollment in her two
Women's Studies classes is 40, of whom only two are men.
Barry says she never had more than one or two men in her classes at a time. Her
guess is that men are'' in some senses threatened by a Women's Studies class. They
see it as a feminist class and perhaps not pertinent to their lives." She added,
however, that she has had ''very positive responses from the men who have taken
the class, and the classes have been very positive for them.''
One of the men said that he took the class because '' I am appalled with the
positions that women are placed in in society. I didn't realize that women could be
that unenlightened-cou ld be that far behind, and so I was wondering what
community colleges were offering to women as alternatives to help them enlighten
themselves. ' '
"I am a democratic-socialist -feminist ," said the other man, "and I would like to
know a lot more about feminism . It's something I should study."
Barry says, ''Getting women to understand what's happened in their lives, why
it's happening, and what they might start to do about it''. is her main goal in teaching
Women 's Studies classes . Throughout the term, her students delve into topics such ·
as "The Creation of Masculinity," "Organs and Orgasms," and "Is Women's
Liberation A Lesbian Plot?'' She feels that topics such as these are ''very important,

or I wouldn't teach them. "
But Kate Barry doesn't consider teaching as a profession only-for her, it means
much more. ''I consider (Women's Studies) as a kind of political practice in terms of
women," she said with a tone of zeal in her voice: "I consider it as something
·
directed towards change."
Her own political views, her cultural innovations, her life styles, ambitions and
education reflect her attitude toward evolving social attitudes . Her life has been
caught up in the process of change since she was in her early 20' s.
"I started off ... at University at England when I was 18 and went to medical
school for two years. I couldn't take that at all, hated it absolutely, couldn't stand
i(;'-She laughs, remembers, and continues. "I got thrown out of medical school
because I didn't do any of the exams, because I couldn't stand it."
Then she was on her own and worked at various "odd jobs" to support herself.
Those most available were factory and retail work. Kate was getting a taste of a different life-style , and it playeci a part in her personal ideologies.
She became involved with the British political and social upheavals of the sixties,
in the'' Arts Movement,'' which she explains·as ''a group of people that were in the
kind of anti-establishment cultural activities that were going on in the sixties ."
A vocalist in a rock band call "Steamed Copper," she was concerned with
organizing "happenings" and "establishing acenterfor all types of arts ... a place
where non-traditional artists could present their works.'' Up until then , unconventional artists in England had no channel by which to exhibit their talents.
''The Arts was a cultural establishment and if you were not part of that culture it
was very difficult to get an alternative art form across."
When Kate returned to school at the age of 23, she earned a B.A. in psychology
and philosophy-but she didn't stop. "Then I did an M .A. in psychology and
worked asa counselor for a while and then taught Social Psychology for two years .''
The next step in Kate's life was a drastic one . In 1972 she packed up and came to
Oregon to find a job as a psychologist .
" Essentially, I came here because the college I was teaching at in London had
connections with the U of O . . . and I wanted to come to the U.S." But jobs were
scarce. She became ''disenchanted '' with psychology . She decided to go back to
school, to the University of Oregon , and work for a degree in sociology .
Kate feels that Oregon is a very liberal state as far as women's rights are concerned . Laws concerning marriage , rape , and battered women are very liberal in
comparison with other states , she says , but she is also aware of the conservative
aspects of Oregon: ''Ina way , there is a kind of Puritanism here.' ' She cites the local
Obscene Touching Ordinance, which prohibits members of the opposite sex from
touching in public as an example. She says such laws-against nude bathing and
sexuality- are absurd .
Kate has lived in Eugene for five years with her daughter Anna, who is now three.
Her eyes brighten at ihe mention of Anna and she reveals that ''she (Anna) is
centrally important in my life." Yet for Kate Barry , "Whatever I'm doing is the
most important thing in my life ."
' 'My teaching here is really important to me ,'' she says soberly . '' I like teaching
and I like teaching here .. . better than teaching at a university ... because of the
different kinds of people you get , the different kinds of backgrounds . .. and the
classes are smaller here so you get more contact .' '
Her studer.ts also feel that contact. One woman said, "She (Barry) puts her
classes on a personal level . I feel free to express my own views and I feel that she
really takes an interest in what I'm saying .' '
Between spending time with her daughter, teaching at Lane, and going to school
to receive her Ph .D. in sociology, Kate has very little time for relaxation . She is
involved in the Women's Center at LCC and is an active supporter of the Gay
Liberation movement.
Kate is totally dedicated toward feminism and says that whatever she does in her
life will be connected with women. And yet she does not consider herself a'' radical
feminist," but rather a "socialist feminist."
'' What that means for me is that an answer for women's oppression in this society
is bound up with dismantling capitalism.''
Kate sees an ideal society as one in which '' everyone can have complete control of
(his or her) life and develop whatever potential each has without, in any sense,
blocking anyone else . . . and where everyone can be in control of their own
existence .''
But right now she sees our society as ''a whole system of male privileges that
operates independently of capitalism, yet the two are interrelated . . . For me, any
decent socialist theory has feminism right there at the heart of it: If it doesn't have
women's issues at the center of it, it isn't a good socialist system."
The first step in solving women's oppression, she says, lies in changing ''the
power relationships between men and women-socially, culturally, and
personally.''
She was married for four years and feels '' a general negativity about the
possibilities of men and women forming long-term relationships-which comes
from my experiences. I know very few people who are in positive couple relationships . . . and not have one of them suffer.''
Kate would prefer to live in a cooperative living arrangement where people would
be part of a group setting . She doesn't see herself as being part of a '' couple relationship'' at any time in the near future, however, even under those circumstances.
''I mean, Ican'tenvisagehavin gtocopewith a male in my kitchen in the morning." Kate doesn not expect students in her classes to agree with her personal views
·and methods for change. '' When I teach Women's Studies I'm not trying to press a
particular ideological line on women. I try to separate out ... what I think from what
is going on.''
Students in the Women's Studies classes range from 18 to 50 years of age, and yet
all seem to have a common purpose: A desire to study women. One woman said,
''The class is really goocl. It is taught from a feminist perspective and even though I
can't agree with everything (Barry) says, at least I'm becoming aware of other
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Joyce Salisbury, and LCC Language Arts instructor who is auditing the Women's
Studies class, has positive views about the method of teaching and the content of the
class . '' I think (Barry) is a delightful teacher and she is so persistent in the points she
wants to make ... I just find it very interesting and I think everybody ought to take
it-everybody. ' ' Salisbury went on to say that the class ''is an explanation of a need
for change rather than a push for change . "
Nevertheless, Barry has a different idea in mind. "If I didn't think that teaching
Women's Studies wasn't in some sense a push for change, I wouldn't teach it."
Kate would like to continue teaching at LCC and hopes eventually to see the
Women's Studies program expand to include more classes and more teachers. She
would like to continue her education and political activities, but for now she says,
"My life is open to any kind of change. "

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Priest fosters q,ccessibility by 'living among the masses'
by Jeanine Ferguson

If you're a community college chaplain,
soft-spoken, balding and not given to guitar
strumming, how do you go about getting the
attention of a student body that is somewhat
indifferent to Catholic priests?
Well, first of all you don't dress like a
Catholic priest. Or talk like one. Or act like
one. You just think like one.
At least, such is the approach of Father
James Dieringer, Newman chaplain at Lane
Community College since 1971.
Dieringer, whose "office" is the third
table to the west of the elevator in the LCC
cafeteria, can be found most mornings in a
black shirt and coat (but no priest's collar),
talking to a tableful of companions. His
conversation is peppered with unhallowed
but good-natured "hells" and "damns,"
and the topic under discussion may be
Christian doctrine, Jimmy Carter, or the
price of wood.
The price of wood? Yes, because
Dieringer isn 'tjust the only campus chaplain
LCC has ever had? he's also a carpenter.
Carpentry is, in fact, a major source of
income for him, since his ministry at LCC is
without pay. He teaches two Adult
Education woodshop classes and does
carpentry jobs for staff members at LCC and
for other friends, as well as teaching a World
Religions class.
He sees his work with wood as a way of
getting to know people on a different level
than a traditional priest gets to know· his
parishioners.
"That's how I make contact-- it's an entry
with people. Many of my woodworking
students don't know I'm a priest, and are
very surprised when they find out. They
would never talk to a Catholic priest
ordinarily ... but they don't look at me as a
person different from them.''
However, once his students find out he's
the campus chaplain, they don't hesitate to
talk with him about their lives and to bring
him their problems occasionally. Since they

have gotten to know him as a carpenter, he is
much more approachable in his role as a
priest.
He says this close contact was one reason
he chose a campus ministry over a traditional
parish.
''There are people here, and churches
should be where the people are. There are
people who cannot -- for sociological,
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approach the Church. But they can approach
me."
One example is a woman Dieringer met at
Lane who had strong anti-Church feelings
because of a rigid Catholic upbringing. She
had grown up resentful of the hierarchial
nature of the Catholic Church, in which the
priest is revered, privileged and alien.
Because she came to know Dieringer as a
carpenter, he was able to help her resolve her

feelings of resentment after she learned he
was a Catholic priest.
Dieringer likens himself to the workerpriests of France, who left the insular
atmosphere of the Church to live among the
masses. He explains that the worker-priest
movement began in Paris in the 1940s in
response to the alienation between the
Marxist working classes and the bourgeois
Church, with a resulting "dechristianization'' of the working masses. In an attempt to
rectify this, the worker priests left the parish
churches and settled in small Christian
communities in the midst of the proletariat,
working for the same low wages as their
neighbors.
Although Catholic priests in America
today may sometimes be seen as inaccessibleforreasons otherthan class differeneces,
Dieringer feels a certain kinship with the
French worker priests.
''The fact that I have calloused hands, that
I sometimes go around with a bandaged
thumb, that I cuss a bit, makes it easier for
peopletorelatetome. Therefore, when I talk
about Jesus and who he is, it has a little
different ring to it because I'm a working
stiff.''
The fact that he's a working stiff can
sometimes be a drawback, too. He must hear
his ministry to a noisy cafeteria or a cluttered
workshop.
"I don't have a chapel here, which I miss
very much. My role here is somewhat that of
a missionary in a foreign country -- I have no
canned_ answers, no prescription for all the
problems brought to me."
Accountability to the Ch~rch can some-

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times be a difficulty, too: "I'm in a
non-traditional role here. I can't present any
statistics -- how many marriages have l
performed? How many confessions have I
heard? How many people do I have in the
parish? I don't have any of those statistical
pegs, so my work has to be judged on
subjective grounds.
'' Most of the priests around here support
my work and are able to see its value, but the
higher levels of the Church can't iud_ge mv
work because I have no statistics to offer
them."
The students and staff members who
know Dieringer, however, don't need
statistics to judge the value of his work at
LCC. He tells of a time when he was gone
from campus this winter for some knee
surgery. When he returned, a woman with
whom he exchanged greetings each morning
in the cafeteria stopped by his table to
demand, with mock indignation, where he
had been. She had come to rely on his cheery
hello each morning, she said, and her day
hadn't been the same without it.
''That's one of the most important
services I perform," Dieringer says
modestly, ''just being here for those people
who need someone to talk to.''

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by Rick Dunaven

The LCC Counseling Department ts now
recruiting applicants for the Student Service
Association (SSA).
The SSA is an organization consisting of
paid students who work in cooperation with
counselors, to provide assistance to
students.
The basic work done by an associate will
include helping students during registration
and career planning, reaching students who
counselors may not be able to meet with on
an individual basis.
Each associate is trained and supervised
by a counselor. Eash is also paid for his/her
work-- an associate may work an average of
12-15 hours a week. The Counseling
Department has enough money to hire eight
full-time associates, but work-study funding
is also available, as is Cooperative Work
Experience credit. The counseling department hopes to attract at least 24 people for its
staff of Associates.
In the 1978-1979 school year the associates
will have two different categories to work in,
General Associates and Job Skills Associates.
The General Associates, in addition to
their basic duties, will work in the Career
Information Center, located in front of the
library. These associates will help students
find and utilize the appropriate job resources
available at LCC.
The counseling department is hoping to
operate the Career Information Center at
night, in addition to its daily operation, to
assist students who may not be able to use
the Job Service Computer during the day.
The computer lists 228 occupations in
Lane County. When a student fills out a
"Quest" exam, which has 25 questions
dealing with student career interest, the
computer matches the student with possible
career opportunities in Lane County. Thee
occupations are also listed with educational
requirements.
The associates then explain the approprf-

ate educational programs that are available
at LCC.
Among the other assigned duties, a
General Associate can arrange to work with
students having special needs, such as
minority, handicapped or foreign students.
The associates may also assist counselors in
classes, but mostly, an associate's duties
will be to work with counselors in their efforts
to help students who need friendly and
knowledgeable information about the
educational programs that are available at
LCC.
The Job Skills Associate will concentrate
on helping students to obtain appropriate
employment by focusing on a creative job
search, how to go about locating and
attaining jobs in a student's particular field.
These associates will also help students
learn to write comprehensive resumes, as
well as conduct interview role-playing, to
help students understand these concepts
and be able to use them to attain
employment.
All associates will be trained in basic
communication skills (listening, paraphrasing, and behavior description). They will
also receive an in-depth knowledge of the
Career Information Center, learn about
campus resources, and gain an understanding of organizational cooperation.
Students selected as associates must be
available June 9 to 11 for a weekend training
session at Heceta House, on the Oregon
coast. Associates must also be available for
all day training sessions September 5
through the 7 and half-day sessions
September 8 to the 22. Specific on-going
training for both Job Skills and General
Associates will continue throughout the
school year.
Applications, which may be picked up at
the counseling desk, second floor, Center
building, are to be turned in no later than
April 28, 1978. For information, call Tim
Blo9d, coordinator for the Student Service
Associates, extension 214.

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April 6 J:ptll i,, 1978

Diamond men boast six_ possibl,e home run hitters in'78
by Steve Myers

Lane Community College basebaJl coach
Duane MiUer feels that the Titans should be
the top contenders this spring for the Oregon
Community College Athletic Association
(OCCAA) baseball title.
Lane placed third in the OCCAA last year
with a 20-8 record and narrowly missed the
·regional playoffs due to a 3-2 loss to
Linn-Benton Community College in the final
game of the season.
Already this year the Titans have
compiled a 9-3 season record and an
un1'1emished· 4-0 leaque record to their
name. Miller feels that part of the team's
early success is due to the ambitious season
opening during spring break. The hardballers made a road trip through Northern
California in which they played eight games
against Californian community colleges.
They won five and lost three.
Traditionally, Northwest baseball coaches shy away from the prospect of opening in
California against teams who already have
10 games under their belts. But, this year
Miller finds an exception.
"In the past I've gone to California and
won maybe one ball game," reflected
Miller. "This year we did much better."
It seems that the road trip payed off for
Lane this year. They've swept their two
league opening double headers from
Concordia Community College and Judson
Baptist Community College.
Miller is welcoming back to his 1978 squad
three OCCAA All-Conference team members. Making the elite team as freshmen last
year were catcher, Rick Edgar, second
baseman, Mark Piesker, and designated
hitter, Gary Weyent. Also returning to this
year's squad are outfielder Rich Bean and
pitcher Tony Stearns. The rest of the club
consists of a talented group of freshmen.
"We .a re looking forward to our best
season ever,'' stated Miller. ''I believe this
is the best group of kids ever at Lane and it

Mike Anderson, 5-11, 185, pitcher, because it was local, offered a good
Eugene [North]: Competed in football and education and had a good baseball team;
baseball in high school; voted M.V.P. and born in Eugene, Biology major.
Rick Edgar, 5-10, 180, catcher, North
was second team all-district three years in
baseball; second team all-district two years Bend: Competed in baseball in high school;
in football; high school baseball coach was all-district in high school and all-conference
Garry Selby; chose LCC because of fine at LCC; high school coaches were Romano
baseball program; born in Eugene; unde- Romani and Tom Younker; chose LCC
cided on college major.
because he liked Eugene and two teammates
Rich Bean, 5-10, 185, left field-right field, here were high school acquaintances; born
McKenzie: Competed in football, basket- in Tillamook; History major; hit .372 at LCC
ball, and baseball in high school; all-league as a freshman.
Russ Hale, 5-8 1/2, 145, pitcher, Eugene
and all-state three years in football;
all-leaguefouryearsin baseball; high school [Churchill]: Competed in football and
coaches were Ken Kramer and Jeff Hamer; baseball in high school; high school coach
chose LCC for baseball and closeness to was Mike Nicksic; chose LCC for baseball
home; born in Springfield; Hotel and program;borninNyssa;Architecturemajor.
Jim Jordan, 6-2, 195, first base-pitcher,
Restaurant Management major.
Jeff Brandhagen, 5-9, 175, pitcher, Sweet Home: Competed in basketball and
Eugene [Sheldon]: Competed in baseball in baseball in high school; all-league two years
'·high school; second team all-district and andleagueM.V.P.oneyearinbaseball;high
Eugene Register-Guard Prep of the Week; school coach was Paul Dickerson; chose LCC
high school coach was Tom Bowen; chose because of coach; born in Portland; Physical
LCCbecauseofcloseness to Eugene; born in Education major.
Vallejo, Ca.
TimKammeyer,6-2, 190,pitcher,Eugene
Dirk Collins, 5-6, 155, shortstop, Phoenix: [North]: Competed in football and baseball
Competed in football, wrestling, and in high school; all-district and second team
baseball in high school; M.V.P. and team all-state in baseball; played in State-Metro
captain in football; all-conference, Ameri- Series; high school coach was Garry Selby;
can Legion Batting Award and Coaches' chose·LCC for its location, fellow recruits,
Award in baseball; born in McMinnville; baseballfieldandacademicreputation; born
in Moscow, Id.; Liberal Arts major.
undecided on college major.
PeteDelZotto,6-2,180,firstbase,Eugene
Kurt Kordon, 6-4, 165, pitcher, Sprlng[North]: Competed in baseball in high field: Competed in football, basketball and
s_chool; all-district one year in baseball; high baseball in high school; all-district second
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Netters short on players & coach
by John Healy

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Gail Rogers returns from last season to help
anchor the women's tennis team. Photo by
Jeff Patterson.

This year's women's tennis team is
marked by contrasts.
They won the Northwest Conference
Women's Sports Assn. [NCWSA] Southern
Conference title last year and return their
No. 1 and 3 players, yet the Titans lack a
coach and only had six women show up for
the opening week of practice.
'' Right now,'' states men's coach Don
Wilson, "I'm coordinating both programs.
We have plans for a women's coach, but we
don't have one right now."
Cheryl Shrum, last season's top ranked
Titan, returns with Gail Rogers to give the
Titans a potent one-two punch. "We sure
would like to have more women players,''
says Wilson.
The women's team will join the OCCAA
next year, but will be playing at home against
OCCAA opponents this year in conjuction
with the men's team, plus playing a full
schedule of NCWSA matches.
However, they won't participate in the
season ending OCCAA tournament, but will
instead compete in the NCWSA tourney for
the last time.
The women's team began official team
practice last week.

Titans blast opposition
by John Healy
The men's track team swept all seven
relay events and went on to win the Oregon
Community College Athletic Assn. (OCC
AA) Relays last Saturday at Lane.
The Titans scored 110 points to easily
defeat Linn-Benton (93 points) and defending OCCAA Relays champion Clackamas on
a day plagued by wind and rain. LCC set
three meet records in the relay events, but
only won one in.dividual event, the 3000
meter steeplechase, in their season opening
meet.
Lane won the 400 meters, 800 meters,
mile, two mile, four mile, sprint medley, and
distance medley relays. They set records in
the mile, two mile, and distance medley
relays, and steepler Robert Stanley added
another meet record, recording a fine 9:29.5
effort against minimal competition.
ScottBranchfield, Lynn Mayo, Joe Axtell,
and Bill Mitchell combined to win the mile
relay in3:24, breaking the old meet record of
3:25.9, set by Lane last year.
Ken Martin helped propel the two mile
and distance medley relay squads victory,
teaming with Jamin Aasum, Joe Cook, and
Lynn Mayo in the two mile relay to establish a
new meet record of 7:47.1, snapping a mark
of 8:00.6 established in 1977 by Lane.
Martin combined with Kevin Shaha, Tom
Brown, and Dave Magness to run a 10:27.2
distance medley relay, in the process
cracking the former record of 10:56, set last
year by the Titans.
Stanley led the steeple from start to finish
and just missed qualifying for the national
meet. His time just nipped the former record
of 9:30.8, set last year by Kelly Sullivan of
Central Oregon.
The Titans' sprinters failed to establish
any new records, but they did sweep every
relay event they entered. In the 400 meter
relay, Chuck Casin-Cross, Charles Warren,

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Men's tennis teain joins OCCAA

by John Healy
The men's tennis team joins the Ore2on
Community College Athletic Assn. (OCC
AA) this season after seven years of playing
as a club team.
''On the whole, we are among the
strongest community colleges in the state,''
says head coach Don Wilson. "Weliveinone
of the stronger tennis areas in the state, and
this year we have great depth even though
only three of our players from last year are
returning.''
Doug Knudsen, last year's No. 5 man, is
the Titans top singles player this year. He is
being pushed for the top spot by fellow
letterman, John Johnson. The third
returning player is Tony Brandt.
LCC has been playing extramurally the
entire seven years that Wilson has coached
tennis at Lane. The Titans played a wide
variety of teams, ranging from fellow
community colleges to city teams to four year
universities.
' ' A season record is rather pointless
unless you have a league,'' explains Wilson.
"Our record last year didn't really indicate
our potential."
The match format that the OCCAA has
adopted is the only regret Wilson has about
joining the league. Matches will involve a six

point match form, meaning four singles and
two doubles games will be played. The
Titans played nine point (six singles, three
doubles) matches last year.
''It's rather ridiculous,'' exclaims Wilson.
"I'm definitely opposed to it. The weak
teams voted for the format because they only
need two good players to be competitive.
Both play singles matches, they combine for
a doubles match, and they are almost
assured of a tie."
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OCC Relays

Branchfield, and Axtell combined to win in
42.6, over a second and a half ahead of
second place Umpqua.
The 800 meter relay team of Casin-Cross,
Warren, Delbert Childs, and Jodell Bailey
won in 1:32.5 for another Titan victory, and
Kevin Richey, Brown, Bailey, and Childs put
together an easy win in the spring medley,
romping over Linn-Benton 3:39.1 to 3:51.9.
In individual competition, Joe Clark
finished behind Stanley in the steeplechase,
clocking 9:55.2, and Branchfield also

grabbed a second, finishing the 110 meter
high hurdles in 15.9.
Bruce Rolf hurled the discus 137-3' to nab
another second, and decathlete Bruce
Goodnough leaped 41-10 3/4' to take third
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MEN'S TEAM RESULTS -- Lane 110,
Linn-Benton 93 1/2, Clackamas 75 1/2,
Umpqua 63, Southwestern Oregon 37,
Chemeketa 36, Central Oregon 10, Blue
Mountain 6.

W olllen's track teaID grabs third
behind Central Oregon at home
by John Healy
Strong finishes in the sprints and jumps
enabled the women's track team to finish
third in the women's section of the OCCAA
Relays, held last Saturday at Lane in a windy
rainstorm.
Vickie Graves won the 400 meter dash in
1:02.2, and Kelly Tarpenning finished
second in the 100 meters and fourth in the
long jump as Lane recorded 57 points to
finish behind Central Oregon (103 points)
and Linn-Benton (97 points).
Tarpenning recorded a 13.8100 meters to
lead a trio of Titans to the finish line behind
Linn-Benton's Monica Niebuhr. Graves
finished third in 14.1, and Cindy Harding
nabbed fourth in 14.5 seconds.
Tarpenning and Harding combined in the
long jump also, Tarpenning sailing 14-9 and
Harding jumping 13-5 1/2 for sixth.
Gigi D 'Angelo recorded a third in the 3000
meters, running 12:28.3 behind OCCAA
cross country champ Brenda Cardin of
Central Oregon.

In the 400 relay, the Titans finished in 55. 9
to claim second.

WOMEN'S TEAM RESULTS -- Central
Oregon 103, Linn-Benton 97, Lane 57,
Umpqua 45, Southwestern Oregon 39,
Chemeketa 32, Blue Mountain 20.

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Depth couul be key to thinclad 's success
by John Healy
''Potentially,'' begins LCC men's track
and field coach Al Tarpenning, "this is
perhaps the most balanced dual meet team
we have ever had. We are two, three, and
four deep in all the running events."
Tarpenning is a man not given to waving
his own flag. But in the last six years he has
directed LCC to six Oregon Community
College Athletic Assn. [OCCA] track and
field titles and five Region 18 crowns.
All .with little or no fanfare.
But if the host of outstanding pre-season
marks posted by Titan track and field
athletes this year are any indication of things
to come, then Al Tarpenning may receive a
goldmine of recognition this year.
"Our real strength is our depth,"
emphasizes the Titans' coach, "which
•means we have a lot of opportunities to

In fact, Keeran could face his stiffest
competition at the Region 18 meet, instead
od the national level.
"Rick's College of Idaho has two good
discus throwers, and Bruce Rolph (a transfer
to LCC from the University of Oregon) has
the potential to place in the top six nationally.
"(So) there could be four throwers from
our regional in the national discus finals,"
states Tarpenning.
Another field event competitor, freshman .
Brad Breen, is currently ranked second
nationally in the javelin throw.
On the oval, the Titans have one of the
most talented community college distance
runners in the nation in Ken Martin. A
sophomore from Coquille, Martin has an
impressive list of credentials to his credit:
Two-time OCCAA cross country champion,
1977 Region 18 cross country winner,
seventh in the national at 5000 meters last

LCC is known f~;it~..di~~~~ru:;.ers, but this se~on'~~;;;t~~uad looks promising
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experiment with people before the big
meets.''
The Titans are loaded with depth, as
Tarpenning is quick to point out, and there
are a number of national-caliber athletes on
this year's squad who have legitimate
chances for gaining national recognition.
Charlie Keeran is LCC's only returning
point-producer from last year's national
championships, where he notched a sixth
place fmish in the discus. Tarpenning feels
Keeran will definitely be in the battle for the
discus title at this year's nationals.
II'

year.
To prove that be isn't going to rest on past
accomplishments this season, Martin ran an
incredible 29:4010,000 meter race for fourth
at Hayward Field late last month in the
Oregon Invitational. He didn't win -- the U of
O'sAlbertonSalazarmadesureof that-- but
a time that fast this early establishes Martin
as a definite threat to score at the nationals
this spring.
"Ken is very versatile," says his coach.
"He has already qualified to run at the
national meet in the 1500, 5000, and 10,000

meters. He'll also qualify in the steeplechase. Wewillonlyrunhiminoneorpossibly
two events. He is definitely our premier
runner."
Tarpenning lost All-American sprinter
Andrew Banks from last year's sprint squad
(Banks, a junior at the U of 0, is now
anchoring the Ducks' hopes in the sprints),
but welcomes back Chuck Casin-Cross and
OSU transfer Joe Axtell, both "potential
point producers."
The Titans have to be "considered the
defending champs'' in Oregon community
college circles, understates Tarpenning.
"We are capable of winning another
OCCAA title," he states, "although
Clackamas could challenge us."
Sheer numbers could play a key role in
both the OCCAA and Region 18 meets, says
the Titans' coach.
LCC has 55 men out for track this season.
and Tarpenning believes the Titans
numbers could prove influential. "We
should be able to take a lot of thirds, fourths.
and fifths," he says, "which could provide
enough points to offset individual performers from other schools."
Coupled with size in numbers is what
Tarpenning calls "versatility." "For instance , some of our distance runners can Ken Martin leads a talented distance squacl.
drop down to the mile relay," he notes. Photo by John Healy.
And regionally, only Ricks and the College
of Southern Idaho(CSI) should challenge the
Maybe he will hit his goldmine this year.
titans.
Monetarily and athletically.
Ricks dethroned the Titans last year at the
Capsules of the Titans' strengths and
regional meet, bringing LCC's string of five weaknesses in each area:
straight Region 18 championships to an
abrupt end.
SPRINTS
This year, Ricks looks '' strong in the field
events," according to Tarpenning. "They
Casin-Cross and Axtell are the only names
should be tough at nationals -- they have of note this year. The Titans went 1-2-3 in
quality performers in the javelin, decathlon, both the 100 and 220 yard dashes at last
discus, and (pole) vault. But they don't have year's OCCAA championships, but two of
LCC' s depth or strength.''
the three big guns -- Banks and Bobby
CSI, which Tarpenning terms a "dark- Persons -- are at the U of O this season.
h<'~se," faces much the same problem:
Casin-Cross, the third past of last year's
Quality, but not enough quantity to match ''sprint trio,'• is a proven performer, having
the Titans.
made it to the national meet in 1977 in both
"They can't the 100 and 200 meters.
Explains LCC's coach:
handle the depth coming at them, even
Tarpenning says he is "coming into his
though the-y have a good man in each event.•• own. He's smarter, and wiser." He has run
Tarpenning has so much depth this year bestsof10.56for 100 meters and 21. 9for 200
be is worried about finding enough money to meters in preseason action.
take all the athletes who post qualifying
Backing up Casin-Cross in the short
marks for the national meet.
sprints are Kevin Richey and Rich Collett
"We have the potential to take more (who only lost to fellow Titans Banks,
people than we have the money for," be Persons, and Casin-Cross in last year's
says. ''ff they are well qualified, my goal is to league finals).
make sure they are there."
Richey, who also runs the 400 meters and
Unfortunately, the school provides the doubles in the long jump/triple jump, has
track team no money for traveling to the clocked 10.62 for 100 meters this year and
national meet, so Tarpenning is forced to Collett has hit 10. 70 for the same distance.
turn entrepreneur to dig up enough money to
In the 400 meters, Tarpenning has Axtell,
take a team to the national meet every year. a 50 flat quartermiler, and Tom Brown,
whose cross country training in the fall
seems to have paid off, as he has gone 51 .5
already. In the mile relay, miler Lynn Mayo
drops down to add his49.2speed to the relay.
Untested Charles Warren, Vern Liebel,
Mike Wright, Ron Cook, and Jodell Bailey
round out the Titans' sprint squad. All are
capable of competing anywhere from 100 to
400 meters, according to Tarpenning.

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April 6 - ~ . 1978

Track

continued from page 10

jump at last season's OCCAA finals. He has
gone over 22 fe_et in the long jump, but can
score in the triple jump if the points are
needed.
The big story, though, is triple jumper
Mike Yeoman, a transfer from OSU. He hit
48-8 earlier this winter in an indoor meet,
which qualifies him for nationals. The
OCCAA triple jump was won with a jump of
ju~t 44-8 last vear, so it looks as if the Titans
have a sure winner in Yeoman. Although
plagued by muscJe injuries, Yeoman has
managed to record four 46 foot plus jumps in
indoor competition this year.
Decathlete Bruce Goodnough provides
support along with sprinter Cooks. Goodnough has gone 14-3 in the pole vault, 6-7 in
the high jump.
He joins Rod Boneright to give the Titans'
two vaulters with bests of 14 feet or more in
the polevault.
In the high jump, the only jumper of note is
Goodnough, who will compete in the high
jump and pole vault in meets that don't have
decathlon competition.
WEIGHTS
The Titans are thin in this area, but the few
athletes that compete in the shot, discus, and
javelin for LCC are national-caliber performers.
Keeran competed in the shadow of
teammate Jim Pitts last year, Pitts winning
the discus and shot at the OCC' s while
Keeran finished second in the discus. Pitts
went on to take a sixth in the shotput at the
national meet, an effort Keeran matched in
the discus.
Keeran has been working out all winter in
the weight room, and with what he feels is an
" improved technique," he could do better
than last year.
Breen has tossed the javelin 226 feet in
preseason competition, whi1e Rolf is equally
competent in the shot and discus, being a 150
foot plus di_scus thrower and a 50 foot
shotputter.
HURDLES
Scott Branchfield is the only "true"
hurdler the Titans have. He has gone 15.0 for
the high hurdles and 55.6 over the
intermediates.
The Titans are loaded with steeplechase
runners, as a majority of the distance men
are capable of competing here. Rob Stanley
missed qualifying for nationals by a few
seconds at the OCCAA Relays, and if
Tarpenning decides to run Martin in the
steeple, the Titans could have an awesome
one-two punch.
DISTANCES
As usual, the Titans are loaded with
quality distance runners. The cross country
team won both the OCCAA and Region 18
crowns last fall, and the top seven from that
team form the nucleus of this year's distance
squad.
Martin is a "bonafide All-American,"
according to Tarpenni~g. "Right now he's
one of the top 10,000 meter men in the
nation. He could run under nine minutes in
the steeple before the end of the year.''
Martin has bests of 14:26 in the 5000,
29:40 in the 10,000, and a fast 4:12 mile in
preseason competition.
Possibly the most improved runner of late
is freshman Lynn Mayo. State AA champ in
the 880 and mile last year, Mayo is as
versatile as Martin but in the shorter
distances.
He ripped off a 3:54 1500 meter race last
month (equivalent to a 4:11 mile), and has
done the half-mile in 1:57 and run a 49.2
quarter-mile leg on the mile relay team.
In the half mile, Tarpenning can call on
Mayo and four other sub two minute
runners: Joe Cook (1:55), Joe Clark (1:55),
Jamin Aasum (1:57), and Kevin Shaha
(1:58).
Dave Magness, who enjoyed a superb
cross country season earlier this year, has
already qualified for nationals at 5?00
meters with a time of 14:45. Backmg
Magness and the versatile Martin are Mick
Bailus (a qualifier in the 5000 for the
nationals), Jim Russell, Scott Spruill, Rich
Totten, Ron Kuentz, Richard Baer, Ralph
Briggs, and Jeff Bumgarner.

Baseball

continued from page 8

American Legion tournament; M.V.P. on
American Legion team ; high school coach
was Jerry Gjesvold;
Mike Reese, 5-10, 180, catcher, Grants
Pass: Competed in football, basketball and
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school; high school coach was Dave Steen;
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[North]: Competed in football and baseball
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football in high school;
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Cottage Grove: Competed in football,
baseball and basketball in high school; first

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program, closeness to home, affordability,
good baseball program; born in Eugene;
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Eugene [North]: Competed in football,
tennis and baseball in high school;
all-district in baseball in high school; M. V.P.
and all-conference at Lane as freshman; high
school coach was Garry Selby; chose LCC for
coaching staff, affordability; Hotel and
Restaurant Management major; batted .376
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