Lane
Community
College
4000 E. 30th Ave. Eugene, OR 97405

Vol. 22, No. 12 January 21, 1982 - &1ma g f!!, Hsw..t

Lay off ru Ii ng shocks LCCEF
by Diane Davis

of the TORCH

Members
of
~CC's
classified union say they are
shocked and surprised by an
arbitrator's decision that one
union official says will lessen
employees' "sense of job
security.''
The binding arbitration session legally resolved a dispute
between college management
and the LCC Employees
Federation (LCCEF) concerning the right of the college to
lay off food service workers.
The arbitrator ruled for the
college saying that the union's
contract had not been
violated. In binding arbitra_tion, both parties agree to
abide by the decision handed
down by a mutually agreedupon arbitrator.
When the Food Service
Department suffered financial
losses early last fall, management reacted by issuing hourly
reductions
for
seven
employees. Conflict arose
when several senior employees
were left with only 20 hours
work per week, while junior
employees continued their 40
hour status.
The grievance filed by the
union alleged that job security
rights were violated since
hourly reductions do con-

Cafeteria workers prepare snack foods.

stitute a reduction in force
which -Should have forced the
college to follow lay off procedures outlined in the contract.
Section D of the contract

Photo by Paul Caporale

states, '' Any reduction in the
work force shall be based
upon the length of continuous
service. . .Lay offs shall be
made .. .in inverse order of
seniority.''

Atiyeh asserts budget plan
by Larry Swanson

of the TORCH

Gov. Vic Atiyeh opened the
special session of the Oregon
Legislature Monday with a
speech reaffirming his opposition to tax increases or cuts in
property tax relief.
.The governor called the
special session to deal with an
anticipated $240 million state
budget deficit. He has proposed budget cuts totalling $147
million and revenue-raising
measures totalling $100
million.
In his speech to a joint ses-

sion of the House and Senate,
Atiyeh called major tax increases ''unconscionable'' and
defended· his plan to balance
the budget with spending cuts
rather than increased taxes.
The
Legislature's
Democratic majority wants
cuts of only five percent and
some new taxes. And members
of both parties have suggested
revamping the state's property
tax relief program.
But Atiyeh says he ''will not
support a raid on the property
tax relief fund.'' His only tax
increase proposal would double the state tax on beer and

wine. This levy would raise
about $3.6 million.
Atiyeh's major revenueraising proposal, a plan to collect state income tax
withholdings from employers
within six days of payday
rather than the current 45
days, may come to a vote
before the House and Senate
this week.
Other legislation introduced
Monday included bills to:
• Limit property taxes to 1.5
percent of market value.
Citizens would vote on this
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The college, however,
argues that "lay off" is a termination of employment, and
that since no actual lay off occurred, the procedure in the
contract did not apply. They
say they exercised a management prerogative of reducing
scheduled hours and not
specific employees.
The college claims the contract is "silent" -- lacks a
clause -- regarding reduction
in employees' hours. This contractual silence appears to be
the foundation on which the
arbitrator based his decision.
"Nothing in the language or
in the testimony ever suggests
the provision was intended to
cover reduction in hours,"
states the arbitrator's final
decision. It adds,'' A lay off
and a reduction in hours are
clearly two different things."
LCC
Food Services
manager Bob Tegge says he is
"somewhat surprised" by the
decision. He says he was
prepared to
reinstate
employees' hours if the
union's grievance was granted.
Tegge says he doesn't think
''the college takes this as an
open door'' for future lay offs

or work force reductions. He
added that the food services
operations are not school
funded.
LCCEF union members object to the arbitrators decision.
"I was shocked," says
Susan McCallum, chairwoman of the greivance committee. She sees the conflict as
one pf unclear wording within
the contract itself, and she
maintains that hourly reduc•tion does, indeed, constitute a
reduction in force.
''I was really surprised at
the decision. I thought that
seniority meant something,"
says Gail Currin, union president. She says, "Seniority is
the only reward workers
have," and thinks this
precedent-setting decision will
be felt by other unions -- not
just LCCEF.
Another union official sa.ys
she was "overwhelmed" by
the implications of the decision. She says, "Any department can now take that decision and use it to their advantage by stating, 'we need a
reduction in staff,' and
(management) will 'reduce
hours' instead of laying off."

Heating assistance policy .
undergoes major changes
•

by. Paula Case
of the TORCH

Thermostat settings weren't
the only things being raised
this winter. As people turned
up their heat, electric companies raised rates , '
Three years ago the governm en t initiated a heating
assistance program that would
help households with heating
expenses. Revenue for the program came from the Windfall
Profits Tax and federal grants.
The heating assistance program •has been through many
changes in the last three years.
Last year Oregon incorporated
its heating assistance and food
stamp programs.

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However, when the pro-grams were tied together,
regulations inadvertently
allowed some households to
receive more than one $140
heating assistance check.
This winter, because of
changes by the Reagan administration, only one check
will be issued to each
household, says Richie Weinman, office supervisor of the
heating assistance department.
People interested in applying for heating assistance must
schedule an interview before
Jan. 31, 1982, according to
Weinman.
Interviews are set up with
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US policies foster violations in its backyard
Editorial
by Ron Kelley
of the TORCH

The Reagan administration
alleges support for the struggles of the Polish "freedom
fighters'' and mourns the
deaths of 200 (Solidarity's
count) workers killed during
the military crackdown.
But, simultaneously, it supports regimes in Latin
American countries (and
elsewhere) that literally
murder, torture and mutilate
tens of thousands of Latin
"freedom fighters."
By examining this contradiction, we move toward
the awkward realization that
US policies are more
manipulative than compassionate.
Why? Last week's editorial
several
on
touched
possibilities:
• . US foreign policy hinges on
the claim that the Soviet
Union is the world's greatest
terrorist and must be stopped
regardless of the level of terror
we support to achieve this end.
• Our foreign policies are
promulgated in the name of
economic protectorates -- a
system better known as col-

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onialism or imperialism.
• Our foreign policy reflects
immaturity -- call it cavalier, if
you will.
Our national self-concept
depends on being number one
in the world in everything we
do. Unfortunately, as a nation, we use others' life-anddeath gambles to accomplish
this goal.
Poland's Solidarity, to survive as a political force, faces
two chilling alternatives: Low
key resistance involving
sabotage and murder or
escalation of the struggle
which will eventually involve
mutinies within the Polish Army and probable direct Soviet
intervention.
The latter alternative will
undoubtedly induce a greater
degree of hostility between
Western and Soviet Bloc countries.
In any event, we are witnessing a dramatic change in that
hemisphere's sensitive balance
of power.
For these reasons only, the
US should monitor events
there carefully. But the US
must learn to make mature
responses that are carefully
weighed to quarantee that
human rights are not violated.
But a quick look at our
policies in Latin America

reveals our true intentions.
It is more tragic than ironic
to witness the State Department's virtual endorsement of
the atrocities commited
against the various populaces
of such countries as
Guatemala, El Salvador,
Argentina and Chile by ruling
dictatorships.
These juntas are supported
with US weapons, millions of
US dollars, US advisors and
US technologies.
They, therefore, survive the
rage and resistance of a people
wanting exactly the same basic
freedoms Solidarity members
want.
Note the following account
of murders and tortures committed with US blessing or
denials as reported by Amnesty International and other
human rights organizations:
5,000
• Guatemala:
murdered during the last 3
years mostly by security
forces. The CIA supported the
1954 coup which ousted progressive leaders.
• Argentina: 15,000-30,000
disappeared who have most
likely been murdered, imprisoned or tortured. Gen.
Leopoldo Fortunato Galrieri,
who deposed Gen. Roberto
Viola last December, gained
US favor by promising to train

the Salvadoran junta's combat
troops and to grant other compensations.
• Chile: Augusto Pinochet's
1973 coup murdered Socialist
President Salvador Allende
(elected to office). And as
many as 40,000 Chileans have
perished since the coup. The
CIA, the US Navy, Anaconda
Copper, ITT and AFL-CIO
affiliates have been implicated
in the coup.
• El Salvador: 12,000
murdered in 1980, thousands
more in 1981, according to the
Roman Catholic Church. At
·least 80 percent were killed by
security forces. Reagan's first
foreign policy act was to send
military advisors. Later he
freed millions of dollars in
.
..
.
economic and military aid for
the alleged centralist government.
A Salvadoran infantry
batallion of 1,000 was scheduled to arrive at Ft. Bragg, N.C.
on. Monday, Jan. ~' to be
tramed by the US m1htary •
Last year a congressional
de~dline
policy esta~lishe~
for Reagan s admm1strat1on
. to
prove that the ~a1vado~an Jl!nta was not gmlty of v10latmg
human rights. Otherwise further aid to the junta would not
be allowed. Reagan is in effect

Community colleges face budget slfr)tflun
Editorial
by Larry Swanson
of the TORCH

Gov. Vic Atiyeh has leveled
a double-barreled shotgun at
Oregon's community colleges.
One barrel contains a slug
aimed at community colleges'
1981-83 operating budgets; the
other, a load of buckshot aimed at the long-term survival of
these institutions.
Only courageous action by
citizens and the Legislature
can prevent Atiyeh from pulling the trigger.
First, remember that in the
last legislative session Atiyeh
fought for new taxes to prevent cuts in state funding to
higher education. But now,
only a few months later, he's
proposing that community
colleges, as well as all other
state agencies, take a IO percent cut in state funding.
Budget cuts alone would
mean some faculty lay-offs
and program reductions. But,
when coupled with Atiyeh' s
other economic proposals, this
could prove to be disastrous to
community colleges.
His proposed cuts of fouryear colleges' budgets would
increase tuition and possibly
eliminate some schools.
Freshmen and sophomores
deprived of the opportunity to
attend a university would
flood community colleges.

The 13 two-year schools
already serve 54,000 full-time
equivalent students.
And his newest plan to
stimulate the economy does
nothing for community colleges.
The governor's proposal to
spend $2. 3 million for
economic stimulation, announced in his address to the
Legislature this week as the
special budget-balancing session opened, emphasizes improving Oregon's image in the
eyes of the national business
community. Over half of the
$2.3 million would fund programs selling investors on the
idea that Oregon now
welcomes new business.
But, while it would give
$500,000 to · the four-year
schools, the plan does not include any additional funding
for community colleges -- the
very institutions that will fill
needs created by a diversifying
economy, to paraphrase the
words of LCC Pres. Eldon
Schafer.
Legislators also appear to be
lined up in the governor's
sights. Atiyeh's reluctance to
seek increases in state revenue
when such action appears inevitable puts legislators in a
precarious election-year position: They can vote for new
taxes and jeopardize their
relection chances, or follow
Atiyeh's lead and seek small

revenue increases and large
budget cuts.
And the governor has made
it clear where he would like to
see those cuts come from -higher education and human
resources.
Even if the Legislature does
avoid huge budget cuts, community colleges face the prospect of renewed support for a
property tax limitation
measure.
Legislators introduced a bill
Monday that would prevent
property taxes from rising
above 1.5 percent of a property's market value.
Such a limitation would
harm two-year schools
because community colleges
have come to rely more on
property taxes and less on
state support.
Ten years ago community
colleges received 50 percent of
their operating budgets from
the state, 30 percent from property taxes, and 20 percent
from student tuition. They
now rely on a 30-50-20 percentage formula.
The future of LCC and
Oregon's public two-year
schools is in the hands of our
citizens and legislators. They
can let Atiyeh pull the trigger.
Or they can disarm the governor and find new revenue
sources and maintain one of
Oregon's vital resources -- its
community colleges.

circumventing this mandate by
training these troops within
our borders prior to that
deadline.
So, as we can see, the US
complains bitterly about the
violations of human rights in
Poland while fostering or at
best ignoring grave violations
in its own backyard.
The Reagan, Haig, Kiss- ,
inger rhetoric about the
"Soviet Menace" is being
stretched beyond the tolerance
of reasoning people.
This form of "Red Baiting"
certainly doesn't justify a twofaced lie to the American people, the destruction of our
credibility among nations, and
worse, the loss of lives and
liberties of people in
nations
undeveloped
throughout the world.
I have a candle in my window for the repressed in
Poland.
And I have a candle for the
repressed in Latin America
and all Third World countries
that suffer the effects of the
"soft walking, big-stick
. Id'mg ,, US .
w1e
I mourn because those steps
dh ·
•
become heavier an eav1er.

L e tte rs
ToTheEditor:

Immense global tragedies
and tiny private griefs persist. ,
Inspite of (and indifferent to)
all this, the planet still spins. It
is a cold, good day. Chubby
grey sparrows are bickering
within the naked poplars outside my window. Even stripped bare they are proud and
elegant trees. Look at how the
creamy blue and grey sky
shows through a thousand
dainty branches.
How lovely grey can be. The
arched back of that squirrel;
the patchwork quilt wrapped
around the trunk of that big
oak; that fuzzy serpent cloud.
Whoever said grey was the color of committees hadn't
bothered to watch a tall
delicate poplar lose its last few
leaves against the backdrop of
a cold winter morning.
Have you ever felt a chilled
breeze touch your hair and
wash over your face and then
travel invisibly to poplar branches hanging a hundred feet
away? As they rattled and
danced did you feel small and
alone but in very good company?
On a day like this, it would
be hard to argue against the
existence of some greater
power. My guess is that it is
alive and well and residing
somewhere within a silent
stand of poplar trees.
Bill Burrows

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On the Wire
Compiled by Diane Davis
of the TORCH
from AP wire service reports

Carter, Ford support ERA

ATLANTA -- The Equal Rights Amendment's Countdown Campaign now has the active support of two
former US presidents who once ran against each other.
Democrat Jimmy Carter and Republican Gerald Ford
issued a joint statement Monday from Carter's Atlanta
office urging that the ERA become part of the Constitution by its June 30 deadline. Actor Alan Alda is cochairman of the Countdown Campaign.
Military attache killed

PARIS -- As the search continued for US Army
Brigadier Gen. James Dozier, kidnapped last month by
an Italian terrorist group known as the Red Brigade, Lt.
Col. Charles Ray, a military attache, was shot to death
outside his Paris apartment Monday by an unidentified
gunman who fled on foot. A similar attack was made
last November on US Charged' Affairs Christian Chapman, who narrowly escaped.

Disabled students are
now able to visit the
coast, the mountains and
other field trip attractions on LCC's new,
specially equipped bus.
The $35,100 dieselpowered bus has a
hydraulic lift and accom oda tions for two
wheel chairs.
Several courses, including biology and
forestry, will use the bus
to travel to interesting
places around the state
for first-hand looks at
the subjects they study in
class.

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Photo by Gene White

Bizarre bandits terrorize West Coast

San Fransisco holds claim to a "Hotel Bandit" who
has specialized in elevator and hallway hold-ups in
hotels for the last two months.
Across the bay in Oakland, a "Hospital Bandit" has
terrorized operating rooms by tying up doctors and
nurses before making off with drugs and money.
Since November, ''The Ice Cream Parlor Terror'' has
moved from California to Oregon to Washington. He
has bound workers and raped fem ale employees before
escaping with the parlors' cash.
Farmers still killing rabbits

Since Jan. 1, over 65,000 jack rabbits have been clubbed to death by Idaho farmers who say the furry
animals are crop eating pests.
Aided by farmers from California, Utah, Wyoming
and Oregon, the Idaho farmers braved below-normal
temperatures last weekend to herd 12,000 rabbits into
traps where they were clubbed to death.
Legislation to protect the rabbits is pending.
Police captain slurs rape victims

The National Organization of Women in Spokane,
Wash., is demanding that Police Captain Richard.
Olberding be fired.
The captain, who heads the city's rape investigation
team, has infuriated citizens by wearing a t-shirt with
the slogan "Lay back and enjoy it" emblazoned on the
front. Olberding himself coined the phrase during a
press conference in response to a reporter's question
about what women being raped should do.
City Council lawyers say the council has no authority
to hire or fire city employees.

Heat,

continued from page I

the heating assistance department to determine eligibility,
which is based mainly on income. For example, people
whose annual income ranges
from zero to $2500 are eligible
for $170.
According to Weinman,
since the economy has worsened, the office expects to interview 6,000 individuals this
year.
The office is already booked
into March. "Our staff tries to
be sympathetic and understanding. That's why we don't
overbook. We want to take
time with the people," says
Weinman.
The heating assistance of-

fice is staffed by nine
employees. Six handle the certifications and two answer the
phones. They also have several
volunteers and hope to receive
more.
The program has also contr acted with Community
Health and Social Services in
Cottage Grove, Florence and
Oakridge to interview applicants. Without these other
staff members in the outlying
towns, Weinman says, the
Eugene office could not handle the caseload.
Exceptions on interview appointments arise when a
household needs money immediately. ·Weinman says

Human rights in ieopardy
by Jeff Keating
of the TORCH

The Eugene Council for
Human Rights in Latin
America (ECH RI..:A) in
cooperation with Amnesty International USA will host the
symposium Human Rights:
Crisis in the Southern Cone on
Jan. 23 at 9 a.m. in the EMU
Ballroom at the University of
Oregon.
The symposium will explore
human rights violations ' in
Chile, Argentina and Uruguay
and will examine the responses
of the respective governments
to these practices. Current US

Democratico's Liasion Information Office to the United
Nations.
ECHRLA sponsored a twoday Regional Conference in
1981, Human Rights In Crisis:
Latin America, with 15 international speakers and more
than 2000 participants. That
conference was recognized as
being one of the first major
meetings of organizations concerned with human rights
violations in Latin American
countries.

In past years, Amnesty International has concerned
itself with its listing of approximately 6800 "missing" peoforeign policy in these coun- ple in Argentina and the natries will also be discussed.
tional government's apparent
Guest speakers at the sym- lack of concern. Despite
posium include Rev. William evidence showing that these
Wipfler, a human rights direcpeople , "disappeared" after
tor in the National Council of _ being taken into custody by
Churches of Christ, Juan
Mendez, an attorney who en- police or military personpel,
the authorities have provided
dured torture and imprison- no information concerning
ment in his native Argentina their whereabouts.
before being released and
coming to the US, and Jaime
Amnesty International says
. Barrios, Director of Chile a similar situation exists in
priority interviews are scheduled if a cut-off notice from the
electric company is received or
if there is no wood or oil in the
home.
The economic cruch has at:.
fected all incomes according to
Weinman.
"We're seeing homeowners
that have been laid off acting
very uncomfortable. You can
see that they are in for the first
time," he says.
But because of the economy
the program is in danger.
"What we're hearing is that
it's questionable for next
year," Weinman says.
Weinman says some
households are not eligible for

assistance. People who live in
subsidized housing •already
have heating expenses figured
into their monthly rent.
Also, two people in the
same household can't file for
the assistance separately. The
total income of the household
is taken into consideration.
Weinman thinks the
assistance program is extremely valuable: "It's a redistribution of the wealth in this country. People are in a crunch."
For those interested in
scheduling an appointment
with the heating assistance office, the number to call is
687-3835.

Uruguay. Prison conditions .
fall short of internationally
recognized standards, torture
is used and civilians are unfairly tried before military
tribunals. Coupled with a newly passed (in secret) constitution which oppresses human
rights, according to conference sources, the outlook
for Uruguay is dim.
In Chile, arbitrary detento
leading
tions
''disappearances,''
banishments and political killings are major concerns. Between 1973 and 1977, Amnesty
International reports, an
estimated 1500 people disappeared, and during the past
two years banishment to
remote parts of the country
has become commonly used as
a form of punishment.
Reports of individuals being
killed under suspicious circumstances are also common.
Amnesty International and
ECHRLA are non-profit
organizations working to further the understanding of
human rights in the Americas.

Budget

continued from page I

proposal in the May primary
election.
• Double state taxes on bee;
and wine.
• Combine the state's property tax relief programs. The
new program would be based
on income and would end
relief for households with
$50,000 or higher annual income.
• Extend unemployment
benefits for 13 weeks for people whose benefits have expired.
• Increase interest charges to
18 percent on delinquent state
income taxes. The state now
charges 12 percent.

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LCC departments learning to share
by Steve Lange
for the TORCH

LCC's instructional departments and the school's Adult
Education program continue
to grapple over the use of instructional department's
facilities.
Adult Education classes
have shared instructional
department facilities for many
years. But the controversy that
has raged over the sharing
concept of specialized facilities
-- such as the Art Department
jewelry lab -- has been apparent to only a few.
It may have reached its peak
in 1979 when Art and Applied
Design Department Head
Roger McAlister waged a brief
but highly visible and vocal
registration campaign. He
created posters proclaiming
"Ceramic Students: Earn college credit for your classes
through the Art Department"
-- attempting to urge Adult Ed
students to register for credit
classes instead of general
(uncredited) classes at the
lower Adult Ed rates. ·
McAlister said it wasn't
right that his department
budget paid for the equipment
and its maintenance while losing students to the Adult Ed
classes using the classrooms
and charging students less.
Although the issue quickly

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Photo bv Paul Caporale

Adult Ed classes share this art department equipment.

returned to the less . visible
bac 1~stage realm of administrative politics and
maneuvering, the conflict continued unabated, admits
McAlister. Then, last summer,
Dean of Instruction Gerald
Rasmussen directed Dick
Newell, Adult Education coordinator, and McAlister to
study the problem and make
recommendations for a solution.
A new policy proposal,
developed from their study,
was released last October to
promote good use of specializ-,

Engineering students' egg
drop a 'smashing' success
by Marty Schwarzbauer

of the TORCH

Dropping eggs from great
heights is a sport traditionally
performed . by Halloween
pranksters from highway overpasses.
But members of LCC's Pre-

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ed facilities by Adult Ed, and
at the same time "protect
equipment and facilities -- the
college's ability to serve
students in existing (credit)
programs," in the words of
Larry Warford, assistant to
the Dean of Instruction.
Rasmussen presented the
guidelines
with
two
philosophies,
recalls
McAlister: ''One, that there is
no space that cannot by used
by all classes of students
(credit and Adult Ed noncredit.) And two, that department administrators have ab-

solute authority over their
areas.''
''This proposal addresses
the major concerns of both
credit and non-credit areas,'•
says Newell, who confirms
that both areas compromised
to ensure the ability of the college to better serve more people.
The Adult Education program's aim is to provide as
wide a range of quality noncredit educational opportunities as possible. Therefore,
claim its coordinators, it is
necessary to use all college
facilities (when not scheduled
for credit classes) to keep costs
within the reach of the community. This has generally
been without charge.
Instructional Departments,
on the other hand, claim that
they must bear the financial
burdens of purchasing and
maintaining equipment and
facilities. Among others, these
facilities include Health Occupation's radiology (X-ray)
equipment, Performing Art's
theater with its computerized
stage lighting, the ceramic and
metal working labs of the Art
Department, woodworking
and welding shops of the
Special Training program and
the aircraft of Flight Tech.
And the credit departments
also claim that some facilities
are too complex -- an acciden-

tal deprogramming of an entire theater production's
lighting could be disastrous;
too sensitive -- long term
Science Department experiments are irresistible to inquisitive minds and fingers;
too expensive ~- many grinding
wheels, lathes, aircraft engines
have limited life spans; and
too hazardous -- exposure to
toxic soldering fumes, stain
glass dyes and glass dust,
power machinery or X-rays; if
used by improperly trained
Adult Ed instructors.
Under the new guidelines,
Adult Ed coordinators will be
able to schedule classes in the
specialized facilities through
the Office of Instruction.
For their part, the Instructional Departments will be
able to establish procedures
for use of their facilities. They
will aslo be able to exercise
control by requiring special
qualification of Adult Ed instructors, who will be given
permission -- under supervision -- to use the facilities.
While some problems are
expected between coordinators
and department heads during
the Spring 1982 ''shake-down
and evaluation" implementation, says Warford, the
associate deans will resolve
these. An adjusted policy will
be issued before Fall Term
1982.

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Engineering Students Association have broken this tradition
with their first annual egg
dropping contest held Jan. 15.
According to Kelly Wilson,
winner of the contest, the idea
was to construct the lightest
weight container possible ''so
as to preserve the integrity of
the egg" -- to keep the egg
from breaking to nonengineering majors.
Wilson's container, which
weighed only 8 .1 grams, consisted of a combination of
styrofoam, one rubber band,
two small strips of nylon.
stocking and one square inch
of foam. She earned two lunches in the LCC Renaissance
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WOW Hall future uncertain
by Vicki Crill

of the TORCH

Saving a community
resource could be accomplished if the Community Center
for the Performing Arts raises
the needed $22,000 to pay off
the land-sale contract on the
historic W.O.W. Hall.
"The hall has always been
under public institutional
ownership,'' says Manager
John Pincus, a fact which may
soon change if the community
doesn't respond quickly with
financial support.
"Some of the C.C.P .A.
board members feel that the
community has not shown
enough support in the last six
years," says Pincus. And according to a Nov. 25 news
release, if the land-sale contract cannot be paid off, the
hall will have to be sold to pay
its debts.
The needed $22,000 would
eliminate a $1,000 monthly
mortgage payment and enable
the C.C.P.A. to use forthcoming monies from events to pay
overhead costs, make renovations to the building and pay
wages ..
The C.C.P.A. seeks to be a
community-controlled
organization focused on performing arts activities. Pincus
says it provides access to local

rehearse, perform or develop
their skills for new audiences
or art mediums."
He adds that the hall has
also served as a meeting place
and that it encourages children
to be included in events with
its family-oriented atmosphere.
The W.O.W. Hall building
was built in 1857 for an
unknown church denomination and purchased by
Presbyterians in 1883. The
Woodsmen of the World, a
fraternal organization, acquired the building in 1906.
The building's current look
was gained in 1932.
''One of the few art-deco
style buildings in Eugene, it is
the only public building, with
the exception of the University, that has not had its interior
or exterior architecturally
altered,'' says Pincus. The
building also features a
suspended maple dance floor,
one of the few on the west
coast.
A variety of fund raising efforts to meet the C.C.P.A.'s
goals includes a unique deal
where donators may symbolically purchase one square
foot of dance floor space for

hours of labor or pay a $10
fee. Membership is valid for
one year and buys the right to
vote on the board of directors,
a discount to some events and
a newsletter.
All money raised is being
placed in an escrow at OUR
Credit Union and if the
C.C.P.A. doesn't obtain the
needed $22,000, donations
other than membership fees
will be refunded on proof of
receipt.
A public board meeting will
be held at the W.O.W. Hall on
Jan. 27 at 7:00 p.m. Pincus
says the board will decide
whether to continue with fundraising efforts.
The last official count of
money raised was $2,500 but it
was estimated that by Jan. 17
the total had reached $4,000.
Jan. 31 has been set for the
fundraising deadline. But. if
the total raised up to that date
is close to the goal, fund raising will continue.,
C.C.P .A. plans many
benefits for January and
February: Jan. 21, a Folk
Revue with a coffee house format; Jan. 22, the Burners and
the Cyclones; Jan. 23, the
White _Tones and the Out
Takes; Jan. 24, a Country
Dance and Feb. 16, John Renbourne and Stefan Grossman.

artists without other avenues
of exposure and makes activities available to low
income-bracket people.
Besides performances, the

hall offers classes with fees
based on a low income scale.
According to Pincus, ''The
W.O.W. Hall has gone out on
a limb by allowing artists to

who are considering college
and feel that they need
assistance should take time to
fill out the necessary forms,"
she said, noting that prospective U of O students do not
have to have been admitted to
the university to receive consideration for grants and
loans.
Dependant students and
their parents as well as selfsupporting students must submit this form each year to the
College Scholarship Service
(CSS) in Berkeley, Calif.
The CSS provides a detailed
financial analysis of the student's resources to the university's financial aid office.
Since the analysis takes about
three weeks, an applicant
should mail the FAF to the
service at least one month

financial need. A small
before the March 1 deadline to
tional Opportunity Grants,
insure full consideration for
College Work-Study, Program number of these scholarships,
aid.
Employment, Pell Grants based soley on academic per"Every year, the priority
(formerly Basic Educational formance, do not require
Opportunity Grants), and financial information from the
deadline has become more imState of Oregon Grants.
portant because more students
applicant.
have applied early, expenses
Besides financial aid in the
General university scholarhave gone up and federal
form of loans and grants, the ship applications are available
monies have gone down,'' . U of O also awards general now, Richard said, stressing
Richard said.
university scholarships, this that students must have apyear worth $250 to $1200 each, plied for admission to the
"Beating the deadline by to new and returning students.
university to be considered for
several weeks won't give you
this type of assistance.
departindividual
Many
and edge on others who make
ments also offer scholarships
it by only a week," she added,
Application deadlines for
to students interested in a
"but missing the deadline may
awards are set
departmental
the
and
study,
of
field
specific
eliminate your chances
university sponsors several by the individual departments.
altogether because some types
four-year National Merit
of aid may already be
•
scholarships.
For futher information,
allocated for the year.''
Most general university contact the Student Financial
The FAF is used to deterscholarships, requireing sub- Aid Office, University of
mine a student's eligibility for
National Direct Student mission of the FAF, are based Oregon, 260 Oregon Hall, or
on both academic merit and phone 686-3221.
Loans, Supplemental Educa-

$10.

Another source for increasing revenue is membership.
New members must donate l 0

Apply early for finc;incial aid funds

Because of the rising cost of
a college education LCC
students planning to attend the
University of Oregon fall term
are urged to begin applying for
financial aid immediately.
''Federal and state grants or
loans and a wide variety of
university scholarships can be
your allies in the battle with
costs, but to find out if you
qualify for help you must meet
application deadlines,'' says
Carol Richard, assistant finan•
cial aid director.
March 1 is the deadline for
priority consideration of
financial aid applications to
the U of O of Student Financial Aid. It is also the absolute
deadline for general university
scholarship applications,
Richard said.
As most prospective college
students and · their parents
already know, the competition
for scholarship money is stiff.
"We had twice as many
scholarship applications completed for 1981-82 as we had
the year before," Richard
remarked.
Richard indicated at least 60
percent of the students at the
U of O are receiving some type
of financial aid. For the
1981-82 school year the
university dispensed some $20
million in loans and grants and
approximately $180,000 in
general university scholarships.
"I think that all students

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They call it only a game, but to anyone who has witnessed the
, play of Lane County's Low Riders wheelchair basketball team, it's
more. Much more.
That's right, wheelchair basketball. And make no mistake about
it, these guys are good. So good in fact, they've just clinched their
second Washington-Oregon Conference Championship with a 10-0
record and are now setting their sights on a berth in the national
championships.
In a world that has a bad habit of looking away from the needs
of the disabled, Eugene and this group of 15 athletes have formed a
very special group. They're people, like you and I, who've gotten
together in a league and practiced hard to become the best.
But things haven't always been so rosy. Only five years ago, the
Low Riders were the new team in town and nobody really seemed
to care. They finished last that first season in the Wash.-Ore.
conference, but as they point out, they learned from it.
That knowledge didn't go to waste, as only four years later the
Lane County team became the league champs and almost regional
champs. Last year's dreams are reality this season.
The national championships are being held in Minnesota this
spring, and Low Rider head coach John Smith has one big idea
where to spend this spring.
"Minnesota," he says matter-of-factly. "There's no reason,
except from inexperience, that we can't go," says Smith, realizing
that defending national champion Casa Colina (LA) Condors will
likely be the major hurdle to a berth in the final four.
What has made the dreams turn into reality has been the addition
of a couple of excellent athletes, the jelling of the team's offense
and defense and the constant improvement of the team as a whole.
And a major ingredient in the success story is Ed Owen.
At 6'9", people listen when Owens talks. And you believe what
he has to say since he has been on four national championship
teams.
Then there are the Low Riders fans. Wheelchair basketball in the
US is a growing sport, and while attendance is generally low, there
are fans out there. Possibly the Low Riders proudest moment came
last March, when over 1,000 people came to Springfield High
School to see their team battle the Alberta Northern Light
' wheelchair squad for a berth in the eight-team Western Sectional.
A still young and inexperienced Low Rider
team dropped a 61-54 overtime decision to a
scrappy Canadian squad, but with the loss
came the .promise that they would be back
this season to change that. So far, so good.
At last look, the Low Riders were slicing
and dicing their opponents to the tune of 40
points per game, while giving up only 25
points defensively. Leading the Low Rider
attack, of course, has been Owen. His rangy
arms grab rebounds, collect loose balls, and
shoot over the outstretched arms of his
opponents.
But it's not a one-man show. Other players
cause problems for Low Riders opponents as
well. Rod Hart, who Smith describes as a
speedster who is developing into a fine player,
lone original Low Rider Charles Faller,
Rodger Anderson and Gary Scholl
compliment Owen's skills.
Although dunk shots, high tip-ins and
30-footers from the corner -are not likely
wheelchair basketball events, Owen and the
Low Riders believe basketball fans of all
types and ages can get something out of a
Low Rider game.
"You'll realize that you've seen a good
game," says Owen. "We make good baskets,
keep it simple using a lot of picks and rolls
and we're always looking for the fastbreak.
Our team is a good fundamentals team, and a
wheelchair can set one hell of a pick.
"Things have changed during the past
twenty years," he adds. He should know.

Story by Terry Rhoads
Photos by Gene White
and Bonnie Nicholas

Unlike many players who didn't start their
basketball playing until their twenties, Owen
began at 14.
"With the influx of Vietnam veterans, we'll
be seeing a lot more talent. There hasn't been
much of a change at the top, where the top
three or four teams are just as excellent as
they were twenty years ago, but the difference
is the next twenty (years.) They're much
better due to advancement in training and
increases in strength.
For now, the Low Riders is a team that
seems ready to break into the elite top twenty
in the nation, but first, adds Owens, a few

details need to be worked out.
''This team has the potential to b
run and gun team," he says. "We'
speed, talent, and depth. But our la
experience still gets us ·into trouble.
start of season, we worked hard on
our offense so we'd be ready if we
slow it down. We can run and gun,
can also get out of control."
Sounds like a typical basketball ti
doesn't it?
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team, and they'll have a chance to J
this March when LCC hosts the eigl
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Page 8 January 21, 1982 - JM1310

ENTERTA.INMENT
LCC teachers dramatize Appalachian l~festyle
by Susan Crosman
of the TORCH

"They's so many of us poor
people, I don't care how many
big shots there is, if the poor
people would stand up, we can
run those big shots under the
bed."
Granny Hager, a woman
born and bred in the mountains of Southern Appalachia,
a woman who knew the oppression of living in a coal
mining camp, spoke these
words.
Hager is one of seven
women portrayed in a
dramatically-illustrated lecture
entitled Change the Way It Is!
which will be presented at
LCC on Jan. 28 at 8 p.m. in
the Forum Building, room
308.
. She typifies the struggle of
many leaders who fought and
still fight for humane living
and working conditions in the
coal mines and textile mills of
Southern Appalachia.
Randi Douglas-Young, a
Performing Arts instructor at
LCC and Linda Danielson, a
Language Arts instructor, will
present the dramatic enactment of characters based on
the book Hillbilly Women by
Kathy Kahn. The event, sponsored by the Eugene Folklore
Society, will be a combination
of short scenes, narration and
music.
"Each scene involves a
detailed
and
distinct
characterization of one of the
women, with complete
costume and voice changes,"
says Danielson, who provides
commentary, continuity and
music while Douglas-Young
plays the characters.
Kahn's characters reveal the
pride, strength and deep
respect for religion, family

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Randi Douglas-Young and Linda Danielson

and music that describe hillbilly women. As Kahn explains,
''This book tells what it means
to be a woman when yoll are
poor, when you are proud and
when you are hillbilly.''
'' In many ways, these
women are dealing with the
same problems we are in the
Pacific Northwest. . .Heavy
dependence on social services
and a lot pf concern with how
to balance for economic and
ecological necessities,'' says
Danielson,
comparing
Oregon's timber industry to
the coal mining industry of
Southern Appalachia.
"We don't want to see the
land torn up, but we have to
find jobs. We can learn
something from the strength
of these women and their
strategies in dealing with these
problems."
The strategy that Nancy

Kincaid employed was anger.
While witnessing the destruction of land, homes and
families, she became an activist in the effort to outlaw
strip-mining. In 1972 she was
asked to testify in Congress.
'' All of the women are stong
and they are fighters.
Sometimes they are helped by
unions or other organizations,
but mostly they helped
themselves," says Danielson.
Bernice Ratcliff epitomizes
the courage and determination
to help herself. She and nearly
500 women walked off the job
at a Levi-Strauss factory
because the company failed to
honor seniority rights. For 14
months the strikers picketed.
But when the option to renew
the union contract came, the
new employees that had
replaced the strikers voted
against it.
Some of those strikers

Saturday, breaks down the
traditional barriers between
audience and performer: We
witness the actresses warming
up; we remain in a well-lit
room; we watch as the handcrafted set revolves with the
same finality of the factory's
shuttles or the weaver's
spindles.

negotiations which excluded
women representatives. These
concessions were eroded by
1905 which precipitated the second strike. No other workers
followed the women's staged
walkout.
Themes are tragic: Lilly
(played by Robin Chilstrom)
laments how men are being
pitted against women as the
concessions erode. "We have
a lack of understanding. We
depend on each other -- man
and woman -- for our survival."
They are ironic: Julia
(played by Kath Meardon)
says, "Iron and Steel. That's
what they celebrated. No mention of the hands that built
them.''

started their own sewing factory, McCaysville Industries.
Kahn explains, "When you
walk into McCaysville Industries, you get a feeling of
women working together. The
workers in the factory are happy."
The atmosphere at McCaysville Industries is rare.
Shirley Sommerour works at
Pine Tree Carpet Mills, where
the women must meet a production quota every day.
Along with the burden of
stress, the women must endure
the noise that has affected
their hearing, the noxious
smell of gas from machines
operating on butane and the
respiratory problems caused
from breathing in lint and
dust.
"In their way they are very
eloquent people," Danielson
says. "When they talk, you
listen."
Hillbilly women have a lot
to say and they've been trying
to say it since the turn of the
century when, as Kahn
describes, "The pride of making a living from the land was
replaced with a servitude to
coal and cotton.''
First timber, then coal and
finally industry discovered the
mountain people and their
land at the turn of the century.
The earliest movement to
organize labor unions was
among the coal miners in
Southern Appalachia. Soon
after, textile workers began to
organize. "No strike was ever
won w~hout ilie support of
the womenfolk,'' said one of
the strongest union leaders,
Mother Jones, when in the
early 1900's, the United Mine
Workers of America (UMW)
began to organize coal miners.
Kahn explains, "Southern
Appalachia was the scene of

some of the most violent labor
wars this century had ever seen
until, through the efforts of
Mother Jones and others, the
UMW won bargaining rights
for union miners. South of the
coal fields, the Textile
Workers Union hung on in
several mill towns, but by the
the late thirties the great wave
of organizing was over."
During the great depression
and • the decade following
World War II, employers continued to build their empires at
the expense of workers who
were desperate to find jobs.
However, the sixties
brought another surge of
resistance from the hillbilly
people. In 1962, Granny Hager
led the Appalachian Committee for Full Employment. The
committee proposed ''to end
job discrimination in the coal
mines, to strengthen unionization in the mines and to improve the working conditions
of coal miners in Eastern Kentucky." But the committee did
not succeed in re-establishing a
union that fulfilled tliese
goals.
However, Hager's efforts
led to a Congressional bill in
1969 to pay compensation to
the men who had the disease
"black lung," a respiratory
disease caused by breathing in
coal dust, and to the widows
of the men who had died.
The seven women that will
be portrayed in the presentation by Douglas-Young and
Danielson have all struggled to
survive by helping themselves
and encouraging others to help
themselves. Their stories span
the history of the twenties to
the seventies, illustrating that
the poor way of life is a tradition for the hillbillies. But they
have not lost their strength or
their pride.

from her companions. But
they fear the loss of their jobs.
They greet her cries with
silence as they continue to
weave yarn after yarn after
yarn.
Seasons of Silence is a play
about workers oppressed at
the turn of the century and
about workers in 1982. The
Oregon City mill's management used devices still in use
today to disintegrate the
workers' solidarity. They
separated "trouble makers"
by promoting some, firing
others, cutting wages and
splitting their shifts.
They introduced new
machinery (automation) which
reduced workers to the status
of operators rather than innovators. (Mandy, played by
Jean Graham, says, "I used to
know how to weave blankets.
Now all I know is where the
shuttle goes.")

The strongest indictment of
workplace conditions comes
when Lilly says, "But it (the
fruits of our labor) doesn't
belong to us."

Play portrays strength of Oregon women strikers
by Ron Kelley
of the TORCH

What a pity
That we working people
Don't realize
What a power we are. ..
It's dawning on us now
We've got a power
Season of Silence nurtures
the optimism of six women
workers who led a strike in an
Oregon City woolen mill in
1902 and again in 1905.
Their optimism contrasts
gravely with the unrelenting
institutions -- the mill, government and male-controlled
unions -- that eventually
co-opt, assimilate and divide
their strike torce.
The production of Season
of Silence, which played at
Emerald Baptist Church, 19th
Avenue and Patterson, last

The Portland Labor Players
II wrote and produced the play
with the aid of partial funding
from the Oregon Committee
for the Humanities last
March. Actress Marita Keys
says the grant enabled the
Labor Players to tour the Northwest beginning last August.
Themes in Season of Silence
are historical. The 1902 strike
initiated by women lasted
more than four weeks and won
the support of the male
workers. Owners of the mill
made concessions during the

And they are forceful. Emma (played by Jane Ferguson),
when she is fired prior to the
I 905 strike, pleads for support

The play was a benefit for
Lane Coalition to Save Jobs.
The coalition will use money
earned to purchase a slide
show about the effects on
workers of lumber plant
closures to show to interested
parties.
Longshoreman Harry
Stamper from Coos Bay
warmed the audience prior to
the play with workers' songs
such as Stand By Your Union
and Eugene. His music carries
on the inspiring traditions of
the worker singers of IWW
days and of the arm-linked
workers who marched and
sang in the thousands in the
early 1900's.

The TORCH January 21, 1982 -

-Mnsie Notes
by Marty Schwarzbauer
of the TORCH

Editor's Note: This is the first
in a bi-weekly series that will
attempt to keep TORCH
readers up-to-date on the concert, club and band scene in
Eugene and throughout the
Northwest. Reader input as
well as feedback is encouraged, as this column is intended
to be a service to fans and
bands alike.
•
Sneakers, a Eugene
band, has finished its second album and is planning a
move to Texas at the end or
January. There has been no
release date confirmed on the
album. The band's last Eugene
performances were at B.J.
Kelly's Jan. 10 and the EMlJ

beergarden Jan. 15. They also
opened the show for
Quarterflash at OSU on Jan.
19.

• Quarterflash, the Geffen
Records success story, has a
No. 5 Billboard hit on their
hands with '' Harden My
Heart.'' Their self-titled debut
album is currently at No. 16
on the Billboard album charts.
The Portland-based group,
formerly known as Seafood
Mama, has appeared on national TV shows, among them

Merv Griffin, Entertainment
Tonight, American Bandstand
and Solid Gold. They are also
scheduled for a Fridays show
on Jan. 22, and will soon be
featured in "People"
magazine. They are set for
Feb. 4 and 5 performances at

the Salem Armory with
another recent Northwest success, Loverboy.
• Johnny and the Distractions, another Portland band,
is scheduled to release its second album -- their first on
A&M Records -- sometime
around the end of Januarv. It
should be in the stores by early
February. But when will they
return to Eugene? Watch these
pages for more on this hot
band.
• The Cletis Carr Band,
fronted by ex-Sneaker
keyboardist Carr on lead
vocals and rhythm guitar, has
begun appearing around town
to favorable response. Besides
Carr, the band consists of
Kevin Harris on lead guitar

Transparent plot, screenplay

Ghost Story -- so far beyond

and vocals, Doug Heer on
drums and vocals, and Debbie
Smith on bass and vocals.
Carr describes the group's
sound as "a blend of early
rock 'n' roll, the old Memphis/Stax soul sound and
British pop." There will be
some original work also, and
Carr is personally shopping
for a record deal.
• Others, an emerging band
organized by former Ziller
vocalist D.B. Bonham,
features former members of
Ziller, Nightwing and Grrillas,
and blends original music with
some current new wave and
late '60s English rock

• The Community Center
for the Performing Arts (also
known as the WOW hall) has
been having trouble with
financial survival and is sponsoring a series of benefits to

J1t

keep the doors open. The
CCP A has long been an outlet for rock 'n' roll, jazz, new
wave, folk and classical music
shows as well as dance, drama
and mime. The CCPA committee seeks the support of the
community in their efforts.
• Upcoming Concert Attractions, Jan. 27 - Elektra recording artist Dan Siegel and Inner City recording artist Don
Latarski
will
be
at
O'Callahan's. Jan. 29 - Greg
Kihn and the Tazmanian
Devils will be at the EMU
Ballroom at the U of 0. Jan.
30 & 31 - Molly Hatchett and
Henry Paul at the Portland
Paramount. Feb. 4 & 5 Loverboy and Quarterflash at
the Salem Armory. Feb. 9, 10,
& 11 - AC/DC at the Seattle
Coliseum. For more information, call either concert
facilities or ticket outlets.

the grave, it's terrifying
by Jeff Keating
of the TORCH

When Peter Straub wrote
his 432-page bestseller Ghost
Story, he weaved interesting
characters in and out of a
frightening tale filled with
murder, intrigue and terror.
It seems impossible that
such a good book could be
made into a bad movie, but
Hollywood has a unique
knack for performing supposedly impossible feats.
The film version of Ghost
Story is a less-than-terrifying
waste of time and money.
This
film's
biggest
drawbacks are its lack of true
characterization and motivation, mediocre special effects,
and a plot as thin as the ice
that covers its New England
town setting.

and a transparent plot.
Less than halfway through
the film the story and the ending become predictable.
There is no real mystery here;
the only questions raised concern the number of main
characters who will finally end
up dead.
Craig Wasson plays the part
of Fairbanks' son, who falls in
love with a strangely alluring
woman (Alice Krige) who
seems to have no past and is
never willing to talk about
herself. After Fairbanks
mysteriously dies, Wasson .
returns to the New England
town to consult with his
father's old cronies in the
Chowder Society, a group that
meets once a week to tell ghost
stories.

With a cast including John
Houseman, Fred Astaire,
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and the
late Melvyn Douglas, more
than horror was expected.
Those four gentlemen are to
films what Ferrari is to
automobiles.

After being finally convinced that something strange is
going on when Douglas also
dies, the remaining men tell
Wasson a strange ghost story
that happens to be real -- it
happened to them, and it involved the same woman
Wasson is in love with. Surprise, surprise.

And indeed, Ghost Story is
technically well done. The
photography by Jack Cardiff
is effective: The shadows are
right, the angles perfect. But
good camera work doesn't
make up for a poor screenplay

Even the dialogue is poor.
The . actors would lend some
credibility to an otherwise
shoddy script if they were
allowed to say something
worth hearing periodically,
but no. They are forced to

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muddle through this film,
teciting lines as if... well, as if
they were actors reading their
lines out of a script.
If there is a standout, it is
Krige; she is a drawing force
on the screen, primarily
because she has an unusual
face. But after an auspicious
debut in 1981 's Chariots of
Fire (soon to be released), this
talented actress serves as
nothing more than a weirdly
attractive ornament in Ghost
Story.
Perhaps the most horrifying
thing about Ghost Story is its
waste of talent. Melvyn
Douglas, a cinematic patriarch
if ever there was one, leaves as
his celluloid swan song a product that cries out for development, background, and a
mediocre line or two. His
talents deserved much, much
more.
And this film is a poor excuse to get John Houseman
out of televisioP commercials
and horror makeup • people back into paying jobs. In
fact,there's really only one
thing to recommend about
Ghost Story:
Avoid it.

Ghost Story is currently
playing at the McDonald
Theatre, 1010 Willamette,
344-4343. Show times are 7: 15
and 9:30.

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LCC alum sculpts artistic successes
Two years later, when Beasly asked him to install one
more piece, Dykes left for
California. He's been there
ever since.
As part of their working
agreement, Dykes has free use
of Beasly's 100,000 square
foot Oakland studio, all of its
equipment, and free materials.

by Michael Bailey
of the TORCH

"It's a struggle to make a
living today and if you're an
artist, it's even harder," says
Dan Dykes. "The percentage
of people who make it by selling their work is small. Most
have another income."
A small crowd of LCC art
students and instructors listened intently as Dykes, a former
Lane student and an artistic
success, shared his experiences
Jan. 7.
Dykes, 34, had been at LCC
earlier in the week installing a
collection of his latest bronze
sculptures in the Art Department Gallery. His show, which
closes Jan. 27 indicates that he
has discovered the best of two
worlds with a job that supports both himself and his art.
He talked about alternatives
to teaching for artists, and encouraged audience members to
"commit themselves wholly to
their art.
"Prepare yourself, practice
your craft, and be ready, so if
the chance comes along you
can go for it."
Dykes' big chance came
eight summers ago. LCC
hosted a Northwest Sculpture

Artist's rendition of sculptured mask.

Symposium, and Bruce Beas1y, a nationally-known
California sculptor working
exclusively in acrylics, needed
an assistant to help him construct a large abstract metal
piece. Dykes was selected over
many other students "when
Beasly found out I could
weld."
That summer's collaboration had two significant ef-

Michael Bailey

fects. One is "Big Red," Beasly' s first-ever fabricated
sculpture which • now looms
above closely-trimmed lawns
near in front of the
Washington Street off ramp to
1-105.
It was also the first time
Dykes realized people could
. support themselves with their
art.

Each year they produce two
or three major works. While
Beasly politics for commissions and designs the pieces,
Dykes buys the materials, cuts
and welds. He "stands for
hours with the body grinder,''
paints and installs.
Dykes' and Beasly's latest
sculpture hangs from a ceiling
at San Francisco International
Airport. Twelve hundred
pounds of brushed aluminum
in two sections and 25 feet to
35 feet on a side, it took Dykes
seven months to complete.
Beasly's commission was
$147,000.

The show in LCC's Art
Gallery is simple but conveys a
wealth of impressions.
Twenty-five bronze masks,
some split and empty, others
grinning and sighing, hang on
their perches, oblivious to
spectators.

The masks are all bronze,
but their surface qualities
range from dull and unfinished to gleaming and lustrous.
Several surfaces are plated,
polished gold. But three masks
incorporate chunks of carved
acrylic, appearing fluid and
ethereal, of an order higher
than the rest.
It took about a month to
develop each mask from its inception, according to Dykes.
The series began with a dream
he had about creatures with no
substance that wore helmets.
'' I had the feeling of things
(people) masking themselves
and this was a continuation of
that," he said. Quad I Quest
was his first effort.
Dykes feels the completion
of the series is in the acrylic
works, where he was finally
able to represent the bodies
that ~eren't there. Two of
them, Pegasus and Phoenix,
represent mythological legends
of special importance to him.
"As a sculptor, continuity
with sculptors who have interpreted these legends over time
is an interest of mine,'' he
said.
An interest, one might say,
which Dykes has brought to
life.

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And the Titan grappler admits '' I changed my attitude
drastically and grew l I/4 inches and gained 20 pounds."
After winning by default to
Bill Ensley of Linn-Benton he
pinned James Elliot of Umpqua Community College in
last week's matches.

by Connie Boggs

of the TORCH

Athlete of the Week

Chris Strain (Fr., Gold
Beach) debuted for the Titan
wrestling squad last week and
won both of his matches to
earn Athlete of the Week
honors.
Strain was late in joining the
LCC squad. He hadn't trained
or wrestled for the sport since
his high school season last
year. "I decided to go out,"
he says, "because when I went
home for Christmas vacation I
coached the high school team
and decided l liked it enough

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The Titan men broke even
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-Around T o w n - - - - - - - ~ - - Music

O'Callahans -- 440 Coburg Rd.,
343-1221, Dan Siegal Concert, Jan. 27
at 9:30. Reserved tickets are $5 and $6.
Robert Cray Band, Jan. 19. All bands
start at 8:30. Cover charge varies.
South Eugene High School
Auditorium -- The Canadian Brass,
will perform on Jan. 27, at 8 p.m. For
more information please call
484-7242. In addition, a special
Master class will be given by The Brass
at 2:30 p. m., the afternoon of the performances, at the University of
Oregon School of Music. Please contact Ed Kammerer at the School of
Music, 687-3761 or 686-5678 for
registration and information.

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Duffy's -- 801 E. 13th, 344-3615, Explorers, Jan. 22 - 23. Spare Time, Jan.
26. Bands start at 9:30. Cover charge
$2.50.

4th and Broadway,
Hack's
935-7555, Veneta, Vickie Dallas Band,
Jan. 21 - 27. No cover charge, band
starts at 9:00.
The Place -- 160 S. Park, 484-7458,

Xplorers, Jan. 24 - 31. The band starts
at 8:30. Cover charge varies.
Excelsior Cafe -- 754 E. 13th Ave., A
benefit lunch for the Lane Regional
Arts Council will be held on January
25, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Entertainment includes The Whitetones, The
St. Germain Trio, and Mime by Russ
Fish. For more information phone
485-2278.

Theatre
Lane Community College -- 4000 E.
30th Ave., Hello Dolly, Mainstage,
Jan. 28-30, and Feb. 1-6, at 8 p.m.
Admission for the general public is $6.

South Eugene High School
Auditorium -- The Eugene Junior Orchestra, will perform on Jan. 21. Admission by family season ticket or individual tickets may be purchased at
the door, $3 for adults, $2 for students
and senior citizens. For more information phone Maxine at 687-8101.
University of Oregon -- The University
Symphony will perform on Jan. 22, at
8 p.rn., in Beall Concert Hall. The
Empire Brass Quintet will perform on
Jan. 25, at 8 p.m., in Beall Concert
Hall. On Jan. 28, University of
Oregon students will present a musical
smorgasbord concert at 12:30 p.m., in
Room 198.

Students to work weekends at Santiam lodge.
lnner•tubing facility. Pay and or college credit.
Contact Dave in P.E. Department. P.E. 119.
Calligraphers: I need small printing for cassette
tape collection. Good pay. Message at 345-4895,
ask for Larry.
The Plastic Americans seek bassist. We have jobs!
Call evenings, Peter 688-1114 or Frank, 686-1193.
Sewing needed -- Man's l'elour pullover. I have
material and pattern. Message at 345-4895, Larry.

for sale
PSI-KICK, new fun psychic: game. Details
free.lTR, 15W, Box JIii, lake Grove, Or. 97034.
E-Z lift trailer hitch/ bar. Fits 73-90 Chevy and
GMC Jrucks. $115. Phone 689-8501, Afan.
Upright

piano.

Needs

some

work.5150.

Computerized bio-rhythms. $4.50 a 1·ear. lnc:lude
birthdate. Send to JTR,15W,Box . Jill, lake
Grol'e, Or. 97034.

Negative Jon Generators, for concentration, alertness,and healing. Great for Christmas gifts. Call
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Barbara at 747-5940.

Cinema 7 -- W. 10th and Olive,
687-0733, Richard's Thing, 7:30,
Messidor, 9:30, Jan. 21. Black and
White, Like Day and Night, 7:30,
Klute, 9:25, Jan. 22 - 27. Matinee
starts at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

messages

Wanted: Mature, responsible, roommate. 13rd and
Jefferson. $84 monthly plus utilities. No pets <Jr
t<Jbac:co, fireplace. Phone 687-1557 or 345,5650
and ask for Vince.

To the Roberts family •• Thank god for fireplacel,
good food, kids and friends •• Paula.

Christian female roommate needed in Springfield.
$130 (includes all utilities). Phone 716-1405.

People on the TORCH staff beware of my return!!
-· J.inda.

Rooms/ board a•·ailable for $475 a term. Cull
Campbell Club at 686-5189, ask for Alan.

Ron -- Where's my private jet? I thought that was
the agreement. -· I,. R.

Roommate wanted: 3 bedroom house, fireplace,
Close to campus. $115 monthly. Call Tim or Jim at
341-7017.

Alternative relationship center prsents free
workshops on multiple adult iamily building. For
info call 345-5616.

JO speed Schwinn bicycle. With extras. $100. Raft
and oars with patc:h kit $30. Call 485-6505.
7 x fl tandum axle electric brakes, air shocks,
lights, hydra/ic lift. $895. Phone 716-1701.

E-Z lift hitch for half-ton to one ton Chevy trucl.s.
$100. Ca/1689-8501.
Kerosun heater. Approx. 8xl4 inches. Economical,
lots of heat. Phone 747-0511, evenings.
Wards AM/FM 8 track stereo. Asking 115. Call
Tammy or Steve at 746-7570, afternoons.
Hammond B-1 with Leslie speaker. Best offer.
Phone Doug at 485-1359.
"Pease" upright piano in excellent condition. $450
or best offer. Phone 746-ll JO.

autos

Thermorest SI0,. Yukon wood camping stove
$10.,Rain boots $5.,Down park.a S35., Gortex pants
SJ0, Call Jan 485-4134.

Cinema World -- Valley River Center,
342-6536, Rollover, 7:45 and 9:45,
and, Pennies From Heaven, 6:00,
8:00, and 9:55, and Time Bandits,
6:30 and 9:20.

Airlick -- I wonder if you reali:.e how much I tove
you. -- Yours, Stevie.

67 Chevy II, 150ci '6' at, l door, S/400. Call
746-8899.

Realistic: sttreo system. Minimum 45 watts receiver,
tower stnakers, semi-automatic turntable. $475.
Call Walt at 485-9814.

Fine Arts -- 630, Main St., 747-2201,
All The Marbles, and The /do/maker.
January 21 - 27. Call for show times.

for rent

Soccer shoes. Size 8 one-half mens, National
brand. Cheap. Pho111 747-051 I, evenings.

Pentax K 1000 SLR camera. One year old. Fl:l
lens. $85. Ca/1358-8471.

Bijou -- 492 E. 13th, 686-2458, Gaijin,
Show times, 7:00 and 9:00. Sunday
Matinee at 3:30.

McDonald -- 1010 Willamette St.,
344-4343, Ghost Story, 7:15 and 9:30.

L.L. Bean hunting boots site 6EE. New. $41. Call
344-8598.

74 Olds Omega HB, 6 cyl., ps, pb, at, Nice c:lean
car only S/495. Call Vic at 741-0896.

Must sell! lad~s antiqued wedding rin1 set, 14 Kt.
gold. One-twelfth Kt. diamond. $]()(), 689-4478.

969 WilJamette St.,
National
344-3431, Reds, 7:30.

Mayflower -- 788 E. 11th, 345-1022,
Ragtime, 6:45 and 9:30.

66 Ford pickup. Best offer. Phone Tony at
747-7578.

Large ski boots wlbindings. Used once, $75, si:.e 7.
Phone 716-1405.

FIREWOOD, lumber ends, ec:t... All sizes S35 per
cord. Delivered. Phone 935-46]9.

Eugene Public Library -- On Jan. 24,
form I :00 - 3:00, Love Signs: The
Astrologyof Relatfonships. Admission
is free. For more information phone
Dennis Block at 484-1587.

Four Harness /ooms,16",18'', 15". Excellent
prices. many yarns, too. Call Jan 941-4378.

Snow tires. One pair 15", 4-ply. $55 or best offer.
Call 746-7896.

71-73 Vega GT parts, doors, hatches, fender,
suspension parts, etc. 4-lug unused mags. Phone
687-9655 evenings.
77 16 ft. Fir~ball model, fully self-contained, good
condition, extra options. Phone 895-1107 or
746-1945 and ask for Jeff.
, Parting out 69 G TO. Many ust1ble parts available.
Phone 663-1916.
71 VW square/Jack, semi-automatic. Loa/cs t1nd
runs great! New paint and stnl /»lied radiols.
SllOO. phone 683-0857.
Good ol' Ford pickup for hire. Reasonable rates
for hauling and moving. )45-7275.
Must sell! KHS 10 speed, aluminum wheels, pump,
bock and front lights, rack inc:luded. Sn5. Phone
689-4478.

Opus S -- 2469 Hilyard St., 484-1710,
Foul Play a variety show. Hours are:
Mon. - Sat.; 11 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Valley River Twin Cinema -- 1077
Valley River Dr., 686-8633, Absence
of Malice, 7:00 and 9:15., Heartland,
7:30 and 9:15.

66 VW Van. Runs very well, some body damage.
Asking $500. Phone 343-1614.

67 Mustang 3 speed, 100 engine, good gas mileage.
$1100 or best offe!", Phone 683-8]58.

Eat for Sl.50/day at Campbell Club co-op. We accept boarders. Call 686-5/89. Veggies also.

Oakway Cinema -- Oakway Mall,
342-5351, Rich and Famous, and, The
Formula, Call for show times.

Roland Space Echo $500. Sunn Amp I-lead $300.
Wanted programmable computer. Phone 683-5934.

Snowshoes. Green Mt. Bearpaw J0"x 36 ".
Rawhide webbing and leather bindings. New $89.
Call 344-8598.

Galleries

U of O -- Danzig 1939: Treasures of a
Destroyed Community, will be shown
in the Art Museum, January 12 March 7. Admission will be $1.50 for
adults, $. 75 for U of O students.
Tours will be given for $3 per person
plus admission. For tour reservation
information, call the museum at
686-3027. Also, in the Japenese gallery
on the second floor, 30 - 35 permanant
prints will be displayed through March
15. In the Photography at Oregon
gallery, Ted Orland, black - and white photographs. The museum is
open from noon to 5 p.m. daily except
Mondays and holidays.

Movies

Temple Beth Isreal -- 2550 Portland
St., On January 30, Image Before My
Eyes will be shown at 8:00 p.m. Admission is varied.
Oregon Reperatory Theatre -- 222 E.
Broadway, 485-1946, The Glass
Menagerie, will be performed from
January 21 - 31. Admission is $3.50 to
$7 .00. CalJ for performance times and
admission.

Springfield Quad -- Springfield Mall,
726-9073, Super Fuzz, 5:45, 7:35 and
9:35., Raiders of the Lost Ark, 7:35
and 9:40., Sharkey's Machine, 6:15
and 9:30., Cinderella, 6:30, and, Tale
of Two Critters, 8:00.

University of Oregon -- The Seal/le
Mime will perform on January 26, at 8
p.m. in Erb Memorial Union
Ballroom. Tickets are $3.50 for U of
0 students, and $4.50 for the general
public and $2.00 for children under 15
years. A free workshop will be given
on Jan. 26, from 2:30 - 4:30. That will
be in the EMU Dad's Room.

West 11th Walk-in -- W. 11th and
Seneca, 342-4142, Neighbors, 9:00
and, Buddy Buddy, 7:15. Modern
Problems, 7:00 and 8:45. Taps, 7:00
and 9:15.

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wanted

First Congregational Church -- 1050
E. 23rd, Seeds of Peace, Folk music
will be performed on Jan. 24, at 8:00
p.m. $2 Donation is being asked.
Benefit on inter-church seminars.

Eu~ene Council for Human Rights in
Latin America -- 12367 Kincaid, Latin

American: Women as Artists and Artisans, Jan. 21 - 27. Center Hours:
Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 6
p.m., Saturdays, 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
NOTICE

All items for Around Town must be
delivered to the TORCH office by Friday at five. Nothing will be accepted
after deadline.

P.C. -- I'll kill you if you get me wet again!·· P.C.
Outlaw •• Hang, bang! You're dead!! -· The
criminal.

Hren/-· So, what happened to your truck??

Stubby -- We lm·e y<1u! -- Roomies.

/low can I meet other young gay guys here at l.ane?
Respond through classifieds soon!

Guardian -- You're great. -- Your secret admirer.

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dreams wme true. You deserve only the finest of
things in life. -- J,,,ve Aim.rwank.
TTT •• Angle of inc:i<lenc:e equals angle of reflection. Watch those rebounds and score. Foot healed?
Shawni -- Where have you been lately?
Malia -- Have we EVER met?-· T. T. T.
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--Omniom-Gat herom
Herpes information

Student Health Services has copies of a Herpes
• newsletter called "The Helper," a program service of the American Social Health Association.
The newsletters contain information on the
treatment, prevention and social aspects of
herpes.
This information is available to students and
staff by asking at the front desk at Student
Health Services. The material must be read in the
office.

Proposals offered
The Oregon Committee for the Humanities is
seeking proposals for educational programs that
can tour the state in July and August as part of
the second annual humanities Chautaugua.
They are looking for projects that combine
history, literature, archaeology, ethics, folklore
and other humanities fields; and presenters who
are specialists in one or more of these subjects.
The deadline date is April 2. For more information contact Lisi Fenner at LCC (Division of
Instructional Services).

U of O enrollment
Students considering enrolling at the University or Oregon next year will have a full day on
Feb. 13 to preview university programs, meet
faculty members and students and sec the campus.
Students and their parents arc invited to the
day-long series or events planned for U or 0
Preview. All high school and community college
students an: also welcome. Student registrations
arc $4 each, while parents may participate for
free.
Pre-registration forms must be returned before
Feb. 5 to the U of O Adnfr,sions Office. Community college studenb may obtain the fonrn,
from their school counselors.
Those who do 1101 pre-register must register at
the l.:i b Memorial Union, L: . 13th and Universi ty, al 8 a . 111 . I ch . 13. Those who have registered

by mail should plan to arrive at the EMU by 8:30
a. m.
Additional information and registration forms
may be obtained from the U of O admissions office, 270 Oregon Hall, or call 686-3201.

Cost of the class is $22 and no preregistration
is required.
For more information on the course contact
Fran Holland at in the Language Arts Department.

Looking Glass program

Career talk scheduled

As a father or a stepfather do you sometimes
feel misunderstood by your teenager?
Looking Glass is sponsoring a panel of
fathers/stepfathers who will be discussing what it
feels like to be the father of a teenager.
The panel discussion will be held on Feb. 2 at 7
p.m. at the Wesley Center, 1236 Kincaid.
An ongoing fathers support group will be
planned following the panel discussion. Even if
you cannot attend the panel, come to our first
support group meeting on Feb. 9 at 7 p.m. at the
Wesley Center or call Looking Glass 689-31 I I
for more information.

Those interested in learning more about
engineering and computer science careers are invited to attend a career talk at LCC Jan. 21.
Dave Meyer, a manager with Dunhill Personnel, will discuss career paths, salaries, upward
mobility and the employment outlook for those
desiring degrees in engineering and computer
science.
The talk is scheduled from 2:30 - 3:30 p.m. in
room 9, Center Building.
For more information call 747-4501, ext.
2297.

Drug, alcohol counseling

Employment services

Are drugs and alcohol starting to interfere
with your life and affecting your responsibilities?
Is someone dose to you involved with drugs or
alcohol to the point where its starting to hinder
their relationships?
Daniel Meyers and Marje Wynia offer drug information, referrals, support and counseling. Informal, casual and strictly rnnfidentail information is available.
For more information contact 747-4501, ext.
2457 or leave a message at the counseling desk
and they will be in touch with you .

The Oregon State Employment Division has
assumed the LCC Student Equipment Service
functiom.
General services offered are the public posting
of all job openings and referral of qualified applicants to employers for job interviews. Special
services are offered to veterans.
The office is located on the second floor of the
Center Building. Office hours are from 8:30 a.m.
- 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday
For further information phone 747-4501, ext.
2812.

Lit class offered

Volunteer tutors needed

Black Women's Literature is a new course of
interest to all being offered through LCC adult
cdm:ation.
Fran Holland is the instructor of the 10 week,,
class which begins winter term.
Readings to be discussed in the clas!I arc The
Blue!)/ t :ve, Their t.'. ves Were Watchin~ God,
Brown Girl, Brownstone.\ and Midni~ht Blue!).

The English as a Second Language program at
LCC needs volunteer tutors for refugees and
foreign students.
Tutoring takes one hour a week. The location
and time are flexible .
For more information call 484-2126, ext. 582
or come to the LCC Downtown Center, 1059
Willamette St.

Health services offered
Free or low cost health care at Student He~lth
Services include office visits with a nurse or doctor, health counseling, venereal disease testing
and treatment, allergy shots, vision and hearing
screening, nutrition counseling, first aid, lab
tests, and family planning services.
Student Health Services' hours are every day
that school is open from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. It is
located off the snack bar end of the cafeteria,
room 126 in the Center Building..

Overeaters club meets
If eating is causing problems in you life come
to the Overeaters Anonymous group.
The group meets on Wednesday from 12-1 :30
p.m. in the Math / Art Building in room 247.
For more information contact Julie Snider in
Student Health Services ..

Magazine wants writers
Northwest Review Books, a non-profit adjunct to Northwest Review, has been contracted
to produce an anthology of local writers.
Local writers can send typed submissions,
published or not to the Eugene Writers' Anthology number 1, P.O. Box 30126, Eugene, OR.
97403.
The deadline is Feb. 28. Decisions for publication will come thereafter.
For more information contact Jim Brown at
686-3957 or 344-0958.

Skiers alert
Skiers and would-be skiers -- would you like to
miss the weekend crunch at Mt. Bachelor's
Hoodoo Ski Bowl?
Ski Wednesdays from Jan. 6 - May 1 with the
YMCA Hookey Ski Bus.
Bus season tickets are available now for adults
only.
For more information and reservations phone
686-1222.

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