,

Lane
Com mun ity
Col-I ese
Vol. 19 No. 1 September 1241, 1983

'The Pacesetter of Oregon College Newspapers'
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Saddleback Mountain
(4,969 feet)

Butte Disappointm ent
(2,142 feet)

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On a semi-clear day you can see.
It is said that on a clear you can see forever, but even on a hazy one it's possible to
see some of the hills to the east of LCC. Geography instructor Joe Searls, checking this photograph against a topographical map from the US Geological Survey,
used his best judgment to deduce the above names for the peaks shown, which

/(.Mt. June

A,617 feet)

Rattlesnake Mountain
or
Castle Rock

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have been outlined for clarity. In future issues the TORCH intends to further explore the area around LCC. If you have any information about these hills, or
other local landmarks, please come by the TORCH office, 205 Center Building,
Photo by Will Doolittle
and help us share it with everyone.

Don' t leav e hom e with out it-:
A studen t ID, fee receip t, I ibr-0ry card;
an embos sed, lamina ted,
coded Lcc ·creden tial
by Chris Gann
TORCH Editor

The student photo ID program goes into full swing during registration this term.
Last spring LCC students
voted to increase the mandatory student fee from $1.30
to $3 beginning Summer Term
1983. Part of the increased
proceeds go to purchasing the
equipment necessary for producing identification cards,
and to increase support of
other student activities.
adTennis,
Evelyn
ministrative assistant in the
Student Activities Office, emphasizes that '' Any student using the library will have to
have a photo ID card,'' which

The new ASLCC student
body president and the new
TORCH editor take their
places. See page 2.

carries an electronically-read
"bar code," in order to check
out library materials.
She says- "infrequent
Library users" -- students at
outreach centers, in adult
basic education classes, and in
the high school completion
program -- will pay only $1.50
for a card, but these cards will
not carry the library bar code.
During the first two weeks
of registration the cards will be
issued in the gymnasium, in
the lobby of the PE Building
during late registration, and in
the library after that.
The Student Activities Office began administering the
ID program during the summer registration and Director

A variety of services are
available to LCC students.
For a comprehensive listing
see pages 3 and 4.

Jay {Jones says a~ut ri200
students received the new '
cards then~,. He expects to 'is.sue
about 6500 cards during Fall
Term registration.
Jones and Tennis have
worked all summer to plan the
new ID card program so it will
run smoothly at registration.
"We're hiring people to help
so we'll have sufficient staffing to expedite things and keep
everything covered all the
time,'' Tennis says.
Jones says that once
students complete registration,
they will move to the ID card
area in the gymnasium:

On The

Inside

A review and update of
LCC's top stories of
1982-82 begins on page S.

• >,,b .t Station. l (printer) they
will present a tuition payment
receipt, inform the operator of
address and name changes
since their last registration.
• At Station 2 they will be
photographed by a dual-lens
camera containing cards preprinted with ID information.
• At Station 3 (validation)
students' cards will be embossed with "F83," indicating
enrollment Fall Term 1983. If
they've paid a PE fee, their
cards will be validated to prove it.

From Vietnam to Child
Development, new telecourses offer a unique way
to learn. Story, page 11.

A b"ar code for library use is
added to the back of each
card.
Students who received their
ID cards Summer Term go only to Station 3 for Fall Term
•
embossing.
Tennis says it is important to know that when students
lose ID cards, for $1.50 library
personnel will issue new cards,
invalidate the old bar code -so no one else can use the card
-- and issue a new bar code.

LCC Board authorizes
negotiations with a company seeking natural gas on
campus. Story, page 9.

Page 2 September 12., 1983 The TORCH

Free For All

Editorials, letters, commentary

A Free Press: Open For B~siness

by Chris Gann

ice TORCH Editor

For a week I pondered the
ways
to
gracefully/ smoothly i scintillatingly present TORCH
readers with an essay on
TORCH editorial policy.
The topic isn't the hot, sizzling stuff controversy is made
of. I kept wondering why
TORCH readers would really
want to know about this
business of running a student
newspaper?
But Wednesday night I picked up the Eugene RegisterGuard and read a column by
J eremey Cohen, a U of 0
assistant jounalism professor
and author of a new study of
Oregon newspapers. Cohen
says, "In essence, newspapers
don't do enough to explain

their newsroom and reporting terview the news sources, write
policies to readers. And and eclit the news stories,
without that context, the value shoot the photos, typeset
of a newspaper is severely the copy, and design and
reduced.''
paste-up the pages each week.
The
• Responsibility.
True enough. If TORCH freedom
we
enjoy
does
not
readers are going to realize full
we
have
mean,
however,
that
benefit from this newspaper the right to print any unconthey need to know how the firmed allegation or rumor.
TORCH defines the ''free
No story is whole unless it is
press" standard it lives by. As
fair, as well as accurate,
we see it, the primary elements
balanced,
and
easily
of the business of reporting
understood.
the news are the following_:
• Immediacy. Lane Com• Autonomy. Simply put, munity College news is our
this means the TORCH stu- first priority. But let's face it,
dent editor (yours truly) and none of us lives on the camstudent staff determine the pus. So the TORCH will cover
content of the TORCH. It is events and issues that have an
student staff members who in- LCC "an~le."

• Accessibility. Although we
keep watch over situations
that may have impact on the
LCC community we can't be ·
truly aware and sensitive
without hearing from our
readers. There are several
ways (most of them free) for
TORCH readers to express
their views and concerns: staff members who've received
Write a Letter to the Editor awards, entered new jobs, or
(250 words or less, deadline in some way achieved recogniMonday, 5 p.m.); arrange to tion; use our classified ads (15
submit a Forum, a well- words or less, free to LCC
developed essay of about 500 students and staff).
Use the TORCH. Pick it up
words that addresses a controversial issue; send in public every Thursday morning -- it's
service announcements for the free.
Omnium-Gatherum section;
It's a free student press.
And we're open for
for our Of Interest column, let
us know about stq_dents or business.

·A Stable Institution: Ready With Resources
by Eldon Schafer
LCC President
It is always tempting to
start •a message like this by
saying it's hard to believe
summer is over. In this instance, I feel justified. Our
summer weather was very
late in coming. But it is
September, and I do have
good news to share with you.

Budget, Ai_d Levels -- Intact, Even Growing Some

I

If you're enrolling at LCC for the first time, I'd
like to extend a special welcome and to tell you
that you're not alone. If this fall's enrollment is
like last fall's enrollment, we can expect approximately 3,500 new credit students.
As a new student, you'll soon find that LCC offers excellent student resources. I urge you to
spend some time in the Center Building familiarizing yourself with our library, counseling operation, the Study Skills Center, and Student
Employment Service. We also have a Women's
Awareness Center, a Veteran's Office, and an International Student Office.

If you are returning to LCC, you'll be pleased
to know that we have good news from both the
stat~ and federal governments. The state
legislature approved the .Governor's budget
recommendation for LCC and even added a bit.
This will enable us to maintain essentially the same
number of classes and sections as last year without
asking taxpayers for additional funding.
The other good news comes from the federal
level where cuts had been proposed in federal
financial aid programs. Since most of the aid LCC
students receive comes from the federal government, this was of concern to all of us. According
to our financial aid people, the aid level will remain about the same as last year. People who have
been promised aid for the coming year will get it,
and, in fact, our Financial.Aid Office is still accepting applications for the Pell Program, which provides .small grants, and for the Guaranteed Student Loan program.
Added Classes, Programs, Telecourses

As you look through the fall class schedule,

you'll notice several new class offerings. The
Business Department is launching a new, two-year
Office Systems option which will train students to
work with various kinds of word processing and
typesetting equipment. For now, at least, LCC offers the only program like it in the state. A lot of
the equipment was donated by local businesses.
Among new classes to be offered fall term are
five new telecourses. These range from a
telehistory of Vietnam to a course on medical terminology produced right here at LCC. A survey of
our telecourse students has shown that many
telecourse students also take courses on campus,
so apparently for some students it works well to
combine the two.
-

You'll also notice that the campus has been
spruced up with a bit of cleaning and painting-major repairs must wait for us to obtain additional funding--and that Lane Transit District is
making major improvements in LCC' s passenger
stop on c~pus.
I hope your fall term is stimulating and productive.

A Prepared Student Government: Waiting To Serve
by Bryan Moore
ASLCC President
Student Government has been
working throughout the summer,
getting organized and planning for
the 1983-84 school year. I feel very
fortunate to be working with such
dedicated and creative people as
the ones who are involved with this
year's Associated Students.
The ASLCC is your student
government. We are in these positions to serve you, the LCC student, and to be sensitive to overall student needs. Our main offices are located
on the fourth floor of the Center Building while our "front line" is located in
the Student Resource Center which is on the second floor of The Center
Building. Feel free to come in to either of these places if you are curious about
. us and have questions, suggestions, concerns or any feedback that you may
want to share with us. In fact, in order for us to function properly as a governing body, student input is essential.
College, Community Events

During this year, we will be sponsoring many events which will provide a

cultural, social, and educationally enriching atmosphere. ASLCC plans to
work together with other student and community groups on common projects.
Having a broader community effort will ensure quality events. These events
will be in the form of speakers, lectures, films, concerts, political forums and
many more.
''Student Voice'' Needed At Legislature

The ASLCC also plans to be active within state and national student
associations. We are experiencing very crucial times when support for higher
education is being stripped away and diverted towards massive military buildup. This year alone, there have been huge cutbacks in all the major financial
aid programs. The "student voice" must be heard within our legislative bodies
now more than ever to secure the future for higher education.
We are fortunate to live in Lane County where the community is generally
supportive of its community college. LCC has many fine, quality programs. I
urge you to take full advantage of this educational opportunity and use time
spent at LCC to its fullest poptential .
I wish to conclude this with a big welcome to everyone -- returning and
beginning students. May the upcoming year be a fulfilling, growing and learning experience for you. Once again, the Associated Students is your student
government and we are excited to serve you. Come in and get to know us. I am
personally honored to act as student body president and am looking forward to a creative and productive year.

student Services
Student Activities

Student Activities, located
on the second floor of the
Center Building, schedules
non-academic activities including the chartering of clubs
and organizations, political
activities, meetings, information tables, bake sales, and
postings on bulletin boards.
Theater

Performing Arts offers
season tickets to three plays
for $15. The plays this year include:
• Luther, November 11, 12,
16, 18, 19.
• "How to · Succeed in
Business Without Really Trying,,, February 3, 4, 8, 9, 10,
11.
• My Sister Eileen, April
27, 28, May 2, 3, 4, 5.
Season ticket sales open
Monday, October 3. Tickets
for individual plays will be
available as of October 17.
Telephone 747-4501, ext.
2202.
KLCC

LCC operates public radio
station KLCC-FM (frequency
89.7), an award-winning, fulltime broadcast facility with a
paid central ·professional staff
and volunteers from the community.
One of the leading news and
public affairs stations in
Oregon, KLCC-FM operates
with translators in Florence,
Cottage Grove, Oakridge, and
Bend.
KLCC has openings for
work study students, and also
needs volunteers possessing a
Third Class, Operator's
license, radio experience, and
a knowledge of classical and
jazz music. Persons interested
in working in music broadcasting or as production
assistants should contact Ken
Croes, 747-4501, ext. 2807.
People with journalistic
skills in reporting and interviewing can contact Don Hein,
747-4501, ext. 2485, to
vblunteer as news reporters.

KLCC also needs three office workers per term. Interested people should contact
Kris Fox, 747-4501, ext. 2486.
DENALI

DENALI (The High One) is
a literary arts publication
featuring creative works by
LCC students and faculty
presented in a high-quality
magazine format. Submissions
of
poetry,
writing,
photography, graphic arts and
photographs of sculpture are
accepted.
For further information
contact Patricia McDonald,
DENALI editor, in Room
479-G of the Center Building.
Telephone:
747-4501,
ext. 2330.
Health Clinic

The Student Health Service
has doctors and nurses
available for students on a
walk-in basis during days
when classes are in session;
Services include health
education diagnosis, venereal
disease testing and treatment,
administration of allergy
treatments and lab tests.Most
services are free of charge to
students.
Family planning services include breast, thyroid and
gynecological sexuality
counseling and birth control
instructions.
Emergency and major cases
are referred to appropriate
medical agencies.
The Health Center is located
is located in Room 126 on the
cafeteria floor of the Center
Building. Hours are from 8
a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday
through Thursday, and 10:30
a4m. to 3 p.m. on Friday.
Employment

• The Student Employment
Service has part time and full
time job openings with
employers in the Eugene/Springfield area. The office is
located on the second floor of
the Center Building (near

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2 Bedroom ... $16.2.50
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Financial Aid) and is open ter writing, interviewing, netMonday through Friday, 8 working, and other aspects of
a.m. to 5 p.m.
the job search process. In.• The Career . Information dividualized assistance and
Center, located on the second small group sessions are profloor of the Center building, is vided. Call 747-4501, ext. 2299
open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
for information.
Monday through Friday.
Evening hours will be posted
The Bookstore
at a later date.
This year the Bookstore
The center has the Career features a new Computer
Information System terminal, Center that offers several
which has information on 260 brands of home computers,
career fields in Oregon. Infor- software and computer supmation includes job descrip- . plies.
tions, employment outlook,
Students may purchase texwages, methods of prepara- tbooks for courses, school
tion, and Oregon schools.
supplies, and a variety of art,
Staff is always available to engineering and welding supassist students invloved in plies in the Bookstore. The
career search. Telephone: Bookstore also features gifts,
747-4501, ext. 2297.
cards, stationery, candy and
• The Job Skills Lab is snacks as well as a new general
located in Forum Building, book department. The store
• Room 304, and is available to also sells postage stamps, LTD
students who are developing bus tokens and monthly
skills in resume and cover let- passes, and rents typewriters.

Classifieds

FIREWOOD! Planer ends. $25/cord.
Tim 726-0709.
MECHANIC -- Tune-ups, engine
rebuilding, brakes, front ends. Cars,
trucks, diesel, gas. Tim 726-0709.
ROOMMATE WANTED -- Female
preferably. 1 bedroom in large Victorian farmhouse. Lots of space! Dog
or cat negotiable. $113 per mo., plus
utilities. Sharon or Tim 726-0709.
Greetings mutants! Love, (Barney!)

Chardonnay
White Wine

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Grapes

-·we'll do the same
job for less money!

John's Home Telephone Services is ready to serve
you. I'll assist you in the selection of equipment
best suited to lit your needs, then supply and install the equipment exactly to your requirements.

Changes in the law last January oi 1983, allow you
to select suppliers and service for your end use
equipment. I oHer prompt, courteous, experienced services at very reasonable cost. H you have need of my
services for your residence or
small
business
telephone
equipment, please call 485-

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perpound

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JOHN'S

HOME TELEPHONE

SERVICES

Dial 485-7104

Phone orders only

licensed and Insured Journeyman John A. Rauzon #514JLE

747-4681

Residential and Sm'lll Business
• telephone installation
• prewire services
• repair

M-F 8am to 9pm _

HOUSTON
VINEYARDS

Another service offered is
the Used book buy during
final exam week of each term.
The Campus store is located
on the third floor of the
Center Building with elevator
and stairway access. Store
hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Monday through Thursday,
and Friday 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Hours are extended to 7:30
p.m., Monday through Thursday the first two weeks of each
term.
The Downtown Center
Bookstore Annex is located in
the basement of the
Downtown Center. The Annex
provides textbooks and supplies for courses offered at the
Downtown Center. The Annex
is open 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.,
Monday through Friday. During the first two weeks of each
term only the Annex will open
Monday through Thursday
evening from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.

Classified ads are

ackstau

F-REE

to students.

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• Leotards
• Tights
• Dance Shoes(Expertly Fit)
• Warm Ups
• Gymnastic Wear
• Theatrical Makeup

Page 4 September 12--art,, 1983-The TORCH

Student Services
The TORCH

The TORCH is a weekly
LCC publication managed entirely by students. The
TORCH provides comprehensive coverage of activities of
interest to LCC students and
staff.
There are currently several
paid staff positions open on
the TORCH. Interested
students should contact Chris
Gann, editor, at the TORCH
office, 205 Center Building.
Telephone: 747-4501, ext.
2656.
Mechanics

The Auto Mechanics and
Body Shop can help get your
wheels back on the road.
Students in the program work .
on vehicles as part of their
class studies.
'
• No car over 10 years of age
will be accepted.

• Nothing will be charged
for labor, but if parts are
needed they must be purchased.
• No guarantee is offered on
the work.
• Vehicles must have
mechanical difficulties that
relate to what specific classes
cover.
• Telephone 747-4501, ext.
2388.
Mechanics students also
work on farm equipment. The
same conditions apply on
charges. Telephone 747-4501,
ext. 2386.
Women's Center

The most visible part of the
Women's Program, the
Women's Awareness Center
on the second floor of the
Center Building helps students
tap into a variety of services
on- campus and in the community. The center has

HOW TO-BUY
TEXTBOOKS
ANDSAVE
MONEY
COME TO THE SMITH FAMIL V
BOOKSTORE. FIRST.

Chances are you wlll find most of your books at
half price.

BRING THE TITLE AND
AUTHOR'S NAME.

resource files and a lending
library, as well as brochures
on Women's Program course
offerings. The center provides
a place to make friends and
find support. Call or visit Izetta Hunter at the center,
telephone 747-4501, ext. 2353.
SRC

The Student Resource
Center is located on the second
floor of the Center Building. It
provides students with information on recycling, child
care, housing, ride/ share, bus
schedules and maps, as well as
information on questions
students might have regarding
LCC.

Renaissance Room

The Renaissance Room, a
student-operated restaurant
located on the south side of
the cafeteria, provides
gourmet meals for students
and staff while training future
chefs, waitpersons an~
buspeople.
-•
The Renaissance Room will
begin serving lunch October
10. Hours will be Monday
through Thursday, 11 a.m. to
1 p.m.
Reservations help with meal
planning. Telephone 747-4501,
ext.2670.

The LCC Dental Hygiene
Clinic offers limited dental
Food Services operates a· care to adults and children
cafeteria and a snack bar throughout Lane County.
After· a free 15-minute
located on the first floor
evaluation,
patients can have
of the Center Building.
their
teeth
cleaned
for $8. A
The cafeteria is open Monfull set of x-rays and bite wing
day through Friday, 7 a.m. to x-rays (molars) are also pro1:30 p.m. Lunch is served vided for a fee. Students trainfrom 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
ing for degrees as dental
The snack bar is open Mon- hygienists perform treatment.
day through Friday, 10:30 The students work under the
a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Breakfast is supervision of dentists and the
served all day. Lunch is served . dental hygiene faculty.
11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Dinner is
Call 726-2206 for an evaluaserved 3 p.m. to 7 p.m.
tion appointment.

Outreach Centers

LCC' s three Outreach
Centers and mobile classroom
offer credit and non-credit
classes to citizens of Lane
County:
• The Downtown Center,
1059 Willamette Street,
Eugene, is open Monday
through Thursday, 8 a.m. to
10 p.m., and Friday from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. Telephone:
484-2126. • The Siuslaw Center, serving western Lane County, is
located at 3149 Oak Street,
Florence. It is open Monday
through Thursday from 8 a.m.
to 9 p.m., and Friday from 8
a.m. to 5 p.m. Telephone:
997-8444.
• The Central Area Center in
Cottage Grove serves southern
Lane County. The Center is
located at 103 South 5th
Street, Cottage Grove.
Telephone 942-4202.
• The Bus, LCC's mobile
classroom, also operates out
of the Cottage Grove Center.
The Bus travels to Junction
City, Veneta/Elmira, Walterville,
and
Oakridge.
Telephone: 942-4202.

Legal Services

The Student Legal Services
office, sponsored by the
ASLCC, offers free legal service to students. Lawyers are
available Tuesday, Wednesday
and Thursday from 1:30 p.m.
to 5 p.m. and Friday from 9
a.m. to noon. Appointments
are required. The legal office
is located on the second floor
of the Center Building in
Room 225-B. Telephone:
747-4501, ext. 2340.
Child Care

LCC provides two Child
Development Centers for
students with children three to

The Library

The library, located on the
second floor of the Center
Building, is open Monday
through Thursday 7:30 a.m. to
10 p.m., and Friday 7:30 a.m.
to 5 p.m.

Students must present their
photo ID cards to check out
any library materials.

Students have access to
photocopy
machines,
typewriters, microfilm,
microfiche, video and audio
tapes and tape players,
periodicals, newspapers and
college catalogs. Students may
view telecourses in the library.
The library also offers an
inter-library loan service.
Visual enlargers are provided to aid students with impaired vision. The library is
elevator accessible.
ASLCC

RETURN BOOKS YOU DO NOT
NEED.
If you buy the wrong books or drop a class, you
can return the books for a full refund.

SELL YOUR OLD TEXTBO.O KS ..

After you buy your textbooks, bring in your old
books and the Smith Family Bookstore wlll buy
them for a very fair price.

768 East 13th-Upstairs In the Smith ·
Bulldlng, Next to the Excelsior. Eugene,
Oregon 97401 345-1651.

Dental Clinic

Food Services

It might take some time to find your books, but
we wlll be glad to help you look,_and the savings
are worth the wait.

SMITHFAMUY
bookstore

five years old. The campus
center is located at Health
Building 115; the off-campus
facility is at the former Dunn
Elementary School, 3411
Willamette Street. Students in
the Early Childhood ·Education and Teaching program
staff the centers.
-The service costs $1.05 per
hour. Applications are
available in the Childhood '
Development Center, Health
Building 115.
The CDC has a limited
amount of space. No drop-in
service is provided.

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~Ith this coupon

Visit WISTEC

A playground for the mind

Science Exhibits
weekend planetarium shows
COLLEGE STUDENTS $1.00

Willamette Science and_ Technology Center
Next to Autzen Stadium

484-0927

The Associated Students of
Lane Community College
(ASLCC) is the elected student government that serves
student interests at the college
administrative levels.
ASLCC is supported by the
mandatory $3 fee that students
pay. This income allows
ASLCC to support many services including: subsidized
LTD bus passes, legal services, the Student Resource
Center, free telephones, student lounge areas, photo ID,
Multi-cultural Center, voter
registration, club promotions,
DENALI, cultural events and
activities, . and a textbook
exchange program.
Students who wish to participate in or have suggestions
for student government can
visit or call the ASLCC offices
on the fourth floor of the
Center Building, Room 479.
Telephone: 747-4501, ext.
2330.

The top stories of ·1 982-83

1.
Student

elections
spark
discord

tions Commission.

information to newspapers;

Among other things, the
grievance charged that election
supervisors and personnel
violated several provisions of
the ASLCC Constitution by:

• Preventing several candidates from urging fell ow
students to vote.

• Campaigning for and
publicly endorsing presidentelect Bryan Moore;
• Stuffing ASLCC Voter's
Pamphlets with Moore flyers
and distributing them to voters
throughout . the election process;

The 1983-84 ·ASLCC elections, held May 3 and 4, were
marred by a controversy which
continued after the newly
elected officers and Senate
took office in June.

• Failing to put candidate
photographs and information
on student opinion survey
questions in the Voter's Pamphlet;

A group of 10 students led
by Student Resource Center
Director Roger Fisher and
ASLCC Sen. Larry Mann,
both presidential candidates,
_filed a list of ten grievances
May 6 with the ASLCC Elec-

• Failing to hire election personnel through the Job Placement office and hiring nonstudents to serve on the Board
of Tellers (ballot counters);

2.
Fumes

problem
addressed

LCC Child Development
Center (CDC) head teacher
Marci Temple remembers Feb.
5, 1982 as a day she'd prefer to
forget. For that Friday marked the beginning of a major
controversy involving the
CDC and the Health Building.

That day, the CDC was
cleared when thick fumes
entered the classroom, causing
the children to complain of
nausea and headaches.
Sources for the fumes were
thought to have been the college's laundry department

3.

ROTC

rescinded

In April 1982, the . commander of the University of
Oregon Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) program
introduced a proposal before
the LCC Curriculum Committee requesting the implementation of six lower division
ROTC courses at the college.
This April, Lt. Col. Steven
Wolfgram officially withdrew
the course proposal from
possible consideration by the
LCC Board of Education.
Between those two events, a
year-long debate was held on
possible benefits versus
drawbacks of an ROTC program at LCC.

• Failing to submit campaign
where, among other things,
shop rags were cleaned.
Another possible source was
the dental lab, where materials
were used to make dental impressions.
In the fall of 1982, the college created a task force comprised of 13 people from the
Health Building, administration, and the Science Department. An updated newsletter
on the fumes issue was given
to staff members and available
to the students. The college
also established a fumes ''Hot
Line.''
On November 3 and 4, the
National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health
(NI OSH) tested the building to
determine what contaminants
might be found from
chemicals used in the building,
and what symptoms were
caused by the chemicals
reported.
After testing, NI OSH made
a • list of recommendations
which included:
Anti-ROTC advocates cited
a lack of student input in favor
of the proposal and stated that
a ROTC program at Lane.
would be economically unsound.
They also objected to what
they perceived to be a growing
overemphasis on militarism in
America and feared that this
influence would affect LCC if
a ROTC program were implemented.
Persons favoring the UO
proposal asserted that LCC
should live up to its purpose as
a broad-based, comprehensive
educational institution. They
urged that LCC continue to
provide a . wide variety of
courses and sociopolitical •
points of view.
Another popular pro-ROTC
argument stemmed from belief
that a strong defense led by
well-educated, well-rounded
personnel would be in society's best interests. Some claim-

The grievance further stated
that several alleged violations
provided· grounds for invalidating election results and
re-polling the student body.
Of the ten complainants,
eight were candidates for
ASLCC offices. Two -Treasurer-elect Cristina
Becker and senator-elect
Johnna Harms -- were successful in their quest for office.

The panel ruled that two
complaints were valid: Election personnel weren't hired
through prescribed channels
and the Board of Tellers was
not comprised of LCC
students. No repolling of the
•student body or other punitive .
action was recommended.
Two groups of students led
by Mann and former treasurer
candidate Bob Baldwin, unsatisfied with the judiciary
committee decision, have
taken their complaints to the
LCC Grievance Committee
for further action.

Hank Douda, director of
employee
relations, says that
An ASLCC judiciary committee chaired by Treasurer the Complaint Hearings ComRon Munion met May 11 and mittee heard the complain•12 and heard two hours of : tants' presentation on June 6,
and the respondents' on June
testimony by complainants,
14. Based on the presentations
ASLCC officers and senators,
other students and staff the committe found that
members. Munion presented
''violations occurred on both
the committee's findings to the sides of the issue. No evidence
ASLCC Senate at its May 16 was presented, however,
which established that any or
meeting.

all of the violations did, ·in fact
change the final outcome of
the election.''
The committee recommeded that in the future:
• Ballots and poll books be
turned over to the Financial
Services Office for an impartial recount of ballots and a
comparision of poll books to
ascertain . whether •students
voted more than once.
• ASLCC By-laws and Supplemental Election Guidelines
pertaining to student elections
be reviewed and clarified.
• Consider alternative polling methods such as computer
or electronically counted
ballots.
• Number the ballots for better control.
• Set up one or more voting
booths in other areas on campus.
In August Mann filed an appeal for Board review of the
Hearings Committee decision.
Mike Sims

• Elimination of parking
between the tennis courts and
the Health Building;
• The use of non-kerosene
based detergent used for the
laundry and the washing of
rags stopped;
• Classrooms being kept
under positive air pressure
(when a door is opened more
air goes out than comes in);
• Moving the dental lab to
the Science Building;
• Venting dental lab
darkroom fans up instead of
to the side of the building;
Bill Berry, vice president of
fianancial services, reports
that installation of a new air
filtration unit for the Health
Building and reventing of the
Dental Lab will be completed
before classes begin Fall Term.
In November 1981 , LCC requested formal testing by
NIOSH, who found no toxic
levels in the air and indicated
that there did not appear to be

a common cause among the illnesses.
I
Bill Porter, assistant to the
vice president of instruction,
says that the Health Building
Task Force met through the
spring, and will meet again in
September ''to continue
monitoring to make sure the
recommendations are being
complied with.,,
The fumes problem has also
prompted legal action. Home

Economics employees have filed suit against the manufacturers and installers of the ventilating systms, and the
building's designer.
Those employees who have
had to seek medical help are
currently embroiled in court
proceedings to determine
whether the State Accident Insurance Fund (SAIF) must
cover the employees' medical
. expenses.

-Robert Ecker

ed that in their experience the
. most cool-headed, liberal
military officers were college-·
educated and. ROTC-trained.
The ROTC proposal was
tabled by the LCC Board in
June 1982. In September
board chair Charlene Curry
told the TORCH, "As far as
I'm concerned ROTC is a nonissue.''
On~campus speculation rose
in January that the board
would revive and act upon the
question during winter term.
At that time, concerned
students, faculty, staff and
community members began to
organize in favor of or opposition to ROTC at Lane. The
ASLCC Senate reaffirmed its
earlier resolution against the
proposal by forming a "Stop
ROTC committee.'' Meetings
and public information sesWolfgram's withdrawal of _- jor victory, has rendered the
sions were held on the issue.
Nevertheless, the board con- the proposal, hailed by some LCC-ROTC question a moot
Mike Sims
tinued to sit on the proposal. . anti-ROTC activists as a ma- point.

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4-

Tuition

time in two years.
LCC's per-credit hour tuition cost, as of Summer Term,
is $18. The new amount means
full-time students pay $198 per
term, or $11 more than last
year.

pact on the students while
allowing the college to be
responsive to their needs."
Lane's new tuition figure
places the college in the
middle of the Oregon Com-,
munity College Association
pack. LCC's new tuition is no
higher than sixth in cost in the
13-member OCCA.

-hike Will
boost fee

In making its decision, the
board recognized that a tuition
hike was inevitable, given the
difficult economic times and
the failures of the Nov. 2 and
March 29 school levies.

to $198

But it also noted with interest the words of Dean of
Students Jack Carter.

Larry Perry, the lone dissenting vote in the board's 7-1
decision, expressed concern
over the narrowing of the
"cost gap" between a university and a community college.

Perhaps the most financially
significant event to affect LCC
students last year was the LCC
Board's April 13 decision to
raise tuition for the second

''It's never easy to tell
students that their tuition is
going up,'' he said at the April
13 meeting. "But what we've
got here will cause the least im-

"If we are truly offering a
less expensive education,''
Perry said, ''it has to be
reflected in tuition." And
after noting that the difference

classes, and budget cuts, her
status would be reduced to a
term-by-term, part-time instructor,. and an undetermined
portion of the Women's
Studies classes would be cut.

In May, the administration
decided that Barry would
teach a total of six Women's
Studies classes -- two less than
last year -- and would continue
to teach students enrolled in
Independent Studies projects
in the women's studies field.

5.

Barry's
job to be

intact for
1983-84

Last October, Women's
Studies Instructor Kate Barry
learned that her status as a
"contracted, . 53 percent
employee" was in jeopardy.
Barry received notice from
Dean of Instruction Gerald
Rasmussen that because of
low enrollment in one of her

Throughout the fall and
winter months, Rasmussen,
other administrators, Barry,
and Women's Program Director Bev Berhman explored
several options to meet budget
and class requirements. Under
Berhman, the LCC Women's
Program maintains the
Women's Awareness Center
on the second floor of the
Center Building, and promotes several informational
and support efforts for
women. Barry's Women's
Studies classes, although considered an element of the
Women's Program, are paid
for and administered by the
Social Science Department.

6&7 Sports

awarded
league
trophy;

merger
finalized

LCC's athletic program
earned the 1982-83 OCCAA
all-sports trophy, with men's
and women's athletics earning
a combined total of 83 points
in eight .sports.
The Titan men won OCCAA championships in cross
country, basketball and track
and field to earn the bulk of
their 42 points.
Women's teams took conference cross country and

track and field championships
and finished with a total of 41
points.
Points are tabulated on a
per-sport basis, with each OCCAA team receiving a certain
number of points based on its
final standing in conference
play. Both LCC men's and
women's teams collectively
outscored the six other participating schools.

Additionally, Barry became

the Women's Program Coordinator of Education, making
her once again a .53 percent
contractural employee. The
new job makes her responsible
for organizing and running the
Steilacoom, Wash. Marty
Beauchamp set a new course
record of 23:22, with Nate
Morris close behind.
Men's Basketball

The LCC men's basketball
squad had a successful 1982-83
campaign, winning the OCCAA championship with a
10-1 conference record. The
Titans were 13-3 overall.
Lane came in second at the
Women's Cross Country
Region 18 playoffs in Twin
The women's cross country Falls, Idaho, losing a hardunit took its fourth-straight . fought championship game
NJCAA Region 18 champion- 71-62 to OCCAA runnerup
ship. The women then placed Chemeketa. Lane gained a
berth in the finals by thrashing
third in the Northwest chamRicks .College of Rexburg,
pionships at Spokane, comIdaho, 72-61.
peting without number one
Co-captain Mike Cooper, a
runner Pam Vasey.
sophomore forward from Los
The
team
included
Angeles, was named the toursophomore Laur~e Stovall and
nament's mos.t valuable
frosh Vasey, Shannon
player. Cooper and guard
O'Malley, Tami Young, Kerry
Stanley Walker (So., Gardena,
Leahy, Julie Zeller, Jeannie
Higinbotham,
Annette Calif.) were named to the AllOCCAA first team. Coach
Steinhardt, Dawn Ray, and
Dale Bates was named conAmy Rice.
ference Coach of the Year.
Coach Lyndell Wilken says
The Titans led the OCCAA
one of the season's highlights
was the win over Mt. Hood -- in total team offense with an
a team LCC had never before average of 73.9 points per
game.
beaten in cross country.
Men's Cross Country

The men's cross country
team placed third in the Northwest Championships at Ft.

Women's Basketball

Lane's women's basketball
squad finished the season tying Mt. Hood for third place

in cost between LCC and the
U of O is about $260, he added, "Everytime we change our
tuition, we change that difference."
The tuition boost left LCC' s
2900 Pell Grant recipients in
financial limbo until June
when students approved an increase in student fees. The
$11-per term tuition increase
had not been enough to put
Pell students into the next
higher bracket where each
would receive federal monies
to off-set the tuition hike. The
$1. 70 per-term student fee increase was enough to put those
students "over the hump,"
however.
Jeff Keating

Brown Bag Talks and
workshops on women's and
feminist issues, as well as doing public speaking for the
Women's program.
To Berhman, it means an
added dimension to the
Women's Program. She states
that Barry is the "expert" on
campus who can help LCC
women become aware of their
physiological, sociological,
political, and historical identities.
And Barry is pleased. "I
think there are lots of things
that should be dealt with -- a
lot of issues that specifically
affect women students here,
and general issues in the
women's community.''
Her long range plan is to
help instructors integrate
material about women into

their curriculum if they are interested in doing so. "A lot of
people just simply _d on't know
that the new scholarship of
women is available. It's not
their own individual prejudices, they're just totally
unaware that all of this work is
here."
In fact, she says last year's
crisis has brought invitations
from two male instructors to
speak to their classes. "This
all means new visibility and
new understanding,'' she says.
Barry feels the Introduction
to Women's Studies class" ...
are certainly not for women
only. I would be pleased to see
a higher percentage of men
taking the classes, too. I want
more women than I'm getting
now. And I want men to know
the classes are open to them
also.''
Cathy Benjamin

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in the OCCAA. The Titans,
7-5 in league and 14-7 overall,
then played a grueling three
playoff games in four days
before being eliminated by
Chemeketa, 63-54.
Earlier, Lane put on stellar
performances in a 59-57 overtime win against Mt. Hood
and a 67-57 decision over firstround foe Clackamas.
Co-captain Dawn Bredesen
was named to All-OCCAA
and All-Region 18 first teams.

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Bredesen also earned two
MVP awards in pre-season
tournaments at Linn-Benton
and Clark CCs. A 5'7" guard
from Eugene, . Bredesen has
signed a letter of intent to play
at the University of Portland
this season.
Center Konnie Denk was
tapped for the All-OCCAA second team and Camee Pupke
the third team. Sam Prentice,
(continued on next page)

The TORCH September 12-1!8, 1983 Page 7
who consistently led the conference in rebounding, earned
all-league honorable mention.
Track and Field

In the final moments of the
season the men and women
each captured OCCAA championship trophies at the conference meet at LCC. Each
team turned in sterling performances, scoring over 200
points against stiff conference
opposition.
Action then shifted to the
Blue Mountain CC oval in
Pendleton, where the men captured the NJCAA Region 18
crown. The Titan women placed second to Ricks College.
Titan men set 18 personal
records and three LCC
records: Romund Howard in

8.
LADD

plan
revised

In early April, administrative officials announced the implementation of a
new disbursement plan for
LCC - faculty and staff
members.
The program, known as

9.
Budget-

approved

"Unless the bottom falls out
we're pretty well set with the
1983-84 budget for general
operations,'' reports Dean of
Administrative Services Bill
Berry.
The proposed $26.2 million
budget was approved by the
LCC Budget Committee April
13. On June 8 the committee
presented the budget at a

10

Satellite
dish
•
es
rece1vprograms

the 110 high hurdles ran 14.2
and Mike Ewing ran a record
51.1 in the 400 meter intermediate hurdles.
Former Thurston High standout Cory Randall ran the
steeplechase in 8: 59. And
sophomore Curt Denny had a
new record in the shot put of
56 1 10".
The women had several
standout efforts: Juanita
Nelson ran the 100 meter in
12.7; 200 in 25.4; and 400 in
57.3.
Both the 400 and 1600 meter
relay, teams met with success,
finishing second.
Compensating for the loss
of national post-season competition, the LCC track and
field program hosted the first
Eugene Indoor Track meet

Feb. 19. The meet, held in the
Lane County Fairgrounds
arena, drew 1500 runners from
all walks .of life and levels of
ability. Both teams also participated in a number of meets
at the University of Oregon.

LADD (for Lane Automatic
Direct Deposit), would have
given college employees the
option of having part or all of
their monthly paychecks
deposited either in the SELCO
(Service Employees of Lane
County) credit union or other
financial institutions.
Employees who did not
choose either option would
have had their paychecks mailed directly to their homes.
New employees and rehires
would not have had the ''mail
home'' option: Their checks
would automatically be direct
deposited.
But the proposed plan drew
fire from several LCC

Purchasing
employees.
Department employees circulated a petition calling for a
fourth option: Receiving
payroll checks at their
workplaces, as was the procedure before the LADD plan.
Employees had a chance to
voice concerns and opinions
during three open meetings in
mid-April. Financial Services
Director Verne Whittaker told
employees that he would
assess staff feedback (which
•included a questionnaire
distributed to those attending
the meetings) and consider
making some changes in the
original LADD plan.
As a result of the petition,

public hearing. No one spoke
for or against the budget
before the Board formally
adopted it.

voters rejected a proposed
$4.6 million serial levy ·that
would have allowed LCC to
begin reroofing, painting and
carpeting college buildings.
Money from the levy would
have also replaced outdated

Berry says the LCC budget,
which receives revenue
through property truces and
state FfE funding, is ''tied to
the governor's request (for
community colleges}-- and it's
a fairly good bet we'll get
(
that.''
But Berry is quick to point
out that although the college
has a 1983-84 operating
budget, the need for funding
for deferred maintenance projects and instructional equipment has not gone away.

Swagerty, outfielder Mike
Kane and designated • hitter
Bob Vertner were named to
the OCCAA first all-star
squad.

The new dish also makes
LCC the only community college north of San Francisco equipped with facilities
to present live and in-house
teleconferences to and from
around the country.

Teleconferences are broadcasts that are transmitted to
other parts of the country via
: communication satellites.
LCC has so far hosted four
In January of 1983, LCC inThe first live
teleconferences.
meter
stalled it's new 4.6
satellite receiving qish on the conference,· on April 7, was
aimed at the health profession
top of the Center Building.

Baseball

LCC' s baseball team finished fourth in the OCCAA with
a 6-10 league record. The
Titans were 14-15 overall.
Coach Bob Foster said it
was a disappointing season for
the team. Out of 15 losses,
nine were by narrow one-run
margins.
First baseman Scott Swagerty, who hit six grand slam
home runs during the season,
was named OCCAA most
valuable player.

LADD
meetings and response to the
questionnaire, a clause on the
LADD individual authorization form directing the bank to
return any excess funds that
employee~ might have been
paid was eliminated.
Employees were also asked,
through a questionnaire
published in The Daily on
April 15 and 18, whether they ·
would like the option of picking up their checks or having
them mailed to their homes.

LCC employees were eventually given the optio·n of picking up their paychecks at
work.
In a letter written May 25,
Peggy Phillips of Cash
Management Services for the
First Interstate Bank in
Eugene said that the 40 percent initial sign-up for LADD
is ''very encouraging.''

and worn instructional equipment.
Berry says college officials
are ''looking for different
ways to solve the problem."

replacement needs, Berry says
the college must find a new
source of funding and set aside
a reserve fund for those projects that carries over from
year to year.
But, he says, "It's tough to
set aside a reserve account
when • we're trying to serve
students, and we're experiencing budget cuts (from the
state)."
He says the private sector
criticizes public institutions
for not creating special accounts for maintenance projects. But when the college
does have large accounts that
carry over from year to year,
people wonder why the college
has so much money. Chris Gann

Graphic by Jason Anderson

,.

and may consider submitting a
one-year levy or anQther levy
to the voters in the fall.
To meet long-term building
maintenance and equipment
and the second, on April 19,
introduced a new concept in
testing the reading and learning abilit!es of students.
According to Media Services Coordinator Jim Brock,
several other events are now
being scheduled for the upcoming months. On May 26,
LCC recorded a preview of a
telecourse on anthropology,
sponsored by the Central
Education Network off the
satellite on May 26.
On July 28, LCC hosted an
American Library Association
(ALA) teleconference and sent
the signal through the Group
W cable system. The U of 0
received the telecast as part of
an ALA teleconference.
Cathy Benjamin

OCCAA, NAACC set merger

The President's Council of
Soccer
The soccer squad finished Oregon Community Colleges
with a 3-3-1 season record and _ (PCOCC) approved in March
placed two players on the all- the merger of the OCCAA
with the Northwest Athletic
conference first team, at- Association of Community
tackers Sola Adenji and Dan Colleges (NAACC). The
Corona. Team MVP Craig NAACC is comprised of 20
Harless and Scott Potter were community colleges from the
named to the second team.
state of Washington.
Coach Dave Poggi embarkThe merger will take effect
ed on a strong statewide
the 1983-84 academic and
in
recruiting program of high
year.
athletic
school players. He says he
PCOCC decided to
The
wants to field a strong Titan
of its own
because
merge
squad in the new Northwest
policy decision prohibiting
Conference this season.
' athletic teams representing
Volleyball
SPORTS continued on page 13
The Titan volleyball team,

In March, Lane County
The $9500 unit enables the
college to receive signals from
various communication
satellites, thus expanding the
old telecourse system,~ which
only received Public Broadcast
programming.

coached by Cheryl Brown,
finished third in the OCCAA
with an 18-6-1 season mark.

1

Mike Sims
Jeff Keating

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11 -

was defeated by the State
Board of Higher Education

April 22.

State
nixes UO
sem·esters
A University of Oregon proposal to implement a semester
system of classes in 1985-86

12.

Board
tackles
problems

The LCC Board faced decisions regarding everything
from health hazards to a tuition hike last year, and
its decisions affected the community at large as well as the
college.
The board's year in review:

13 -

Board members split 5-5 on
the proposal with one member
absent. Board Pres. Robert Ingalls of Corvallis declared the
tie vote a rejection of the UO
proposal.
The UO Faculty Assembly,
a body comprised of faculty
members and student
represenatives, had approved
the semester system proposal
in March by a 169-122 vote.
UO Pres. Paul Olum favors
a semester system because he
feels that two 15-week

• Sept. 12, 1982: Board
decides to put a property tax
base increase proposal on the
November 2 ballot, upping the
old base by 18 percent, from
$10.59 million to $12.5
million. The increased funds
would help offset increased
college costs.
• Oct. 13, 1982: Board
refuses to close Health
Building after a barrage of requests from -staff members,
parents of Child Development
Center (CDC) students, and
the LCCEA and LCCEF concerning possibly harmful
fumes in the building. Dean of
Instruction Gerald Rasmussen
announces Oct. 22 that the administration will accomodate
requests from parents and
staff to move the CDC to

semesters each year would give
professors the opportunity for
more in-depth instruction.
Members of the board who
opposed the UO proposal were
concerned that students would
have problems transferring in
mid-year from the university
to other Oregon state colleges
and universities operating
under a quarter system.
Board member Louis Perry
of Portland said that the
board will not bring up the
issue again ''unless the U of 0
presses for it."
David Sokolowski

Dunn School. All of the
children are moved.
• Nov. 2, 1983: Property tax
increase proposal fails in election.
• Jan. 12, 1983: Board
decides to place a serial levy
request on the March 29 election ballot, with the amount
undetermined.
• Feb. 9, 1983: Board votes
to present a three-year, $4.6
million levy to . voters. Funds
from the levy would be
directed primarily toward
deferred maintenance and instructional equipment.
• March 29, 1983: Levy request fails by a nearly 2-1
margin in election.

Graphic by Jason Anderson

• April 13, 1983: Board approves a $1 per-credit-hour
tuition hike effective Summer
Term. The hike boosts perterm tuition from $187 to $198
for full-time students. Objections are raised by board
member Larry Perry, who
casts the lone dissenting vote.
Board also approves, with
reservations, the 1983-84
operating budget.
• May 11, 1983: Board votes
in favor of a proposal that
allows students to vote on proposed $1.70 student fee increase. The increase would
fund a photo I.D. program
and increased costs of student
government. Student elections
slated for June 1 and 2.
Jeff Keating

Dean Bill Berry

30th Avenue construction nears completion

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The TORCH September 12-JI., 1983 Page 9

Of Interest •••
Associate Dean of Instruction Z.
Joyce Hopps announced Sept. 6

that she has accepted a post as
Dean of Instruction at Everett
Community
College
in
Washington. Hopps officially
leaves her LCC job Oct. 28.
Hopps says becoming a dean of
instruction "has been a career goal
of mine for quite some time. I love
LCC, the people here are superb
and committed to their work, but
there comes a time when people
need to move on and do something
else."
i • With the departure of Dean
, Hopps, ·Vice President for Instruction Genld Rasmussen will be
recommending to President
Z. Joyce Hopps
Schafer today that the Office of
Instruction be reorganized. Rasmussen say the plan that is under discussion
involves dismantling the Division of Instructional Services an having the
. associate dean of that division, Jim Ellision, replace Dean Hopps in Division
·A. Under the proposed reoganization plan, Curricular Services and Scheduling will move into the Office of Instruction under the supervision of Bill
Porter, assistant to the vice president. What remains of Instructional Services
will move into Division A.
• In the meantime, some -management personnel have new titles: Former
•Dean of Instruction Gerald Rasmussen is now titled Vice President for In-struction; Dean of Students·Jack Carter is Vice President for Student Ser• vices; and Dean of Administrative Services Bill Berry is titled Vice President
for Administrative Services.
•
• The Special Training Programs Department has changed its name to Industrial Technology Programs, with Carl Horstrup as its coordinator. A .
welding quality circle proposed the name change as one which better
describes what is taught in the department: cabinet and furniture making,
contruction technology, landscape development, pre-vocational course, and
welding technology.
• Another new unit, Classroom Training Programs, . under Leslie Rasor,
takes responsibility for industrial orientation and CETA programs.
• LCC's mobile classroom, The Bus, is now under the wing of the Central
Area Education Center in Cottage Grove.
• Development Fund Director Lyle Swetland has retired from that capacity, .
although he will remain with the college as the Downtown Center's director
until December. Development Fund programs are now administered by the
Community Relations and Development Office, headed by Larry Romine.
Pat Williams stays with Development as special gifts coordinator.
• Jim Dunne, already department head for Mass Communication, now
heads the Health and Physical Education Department as well.
• After Susan Watkins left the Word Processing Department early this
summer, the office came under the supervision of Barry Vaughn, manager of
Printing and Graphics.
• Members of the LCC Education Association, the faculty union, elected
new officers effective Aug. 1: Charles Bentz, Science, is president; Susan
Monteith, High School Completion, vice president; Sharon Savage Hagan,
Health Occupations, secretary; and Ryan Anderson, Social Science,
treasurer.
• LCC Pres. Eldon Schafer has appointed a Technology Steering Committee to coordinate the increasing use of new technology in instruction and administration. Associate Dean Jim Ellison· heads the group, which includes
Jim Keizur of Data Processing, Vern Whittaker of Financial Services, Bob
Marshall of Admissions, and Larry Warford of the Presdent's Office. A
planning process is to be developed between now and Dec. 31.
• The TORCH, until this summer administered under the Mass Communication Department, now fits into the administrative structure of the Student Services Office. Pete Peterson remains as Faculty News and Editorial
Adviser, and Jan Brown is still the Advertising Adviser. Dorothy Weame
replaces Marsha Sheldon as Production Adviser.
• Language Arts Instructor Chinosole will take a leave of absence without
pay this year to study at the University of California/Santa Barbara Center
for Black Studies.
• Custodian Isaac Johnson been hired as second-shift custodian manager
for Plant Services.
• Kei Yasuda, a former math teacher in Glendale and recent recipient of an
MS degree from the University of Oregon, has been hired as an instructor in
LCC's Mathematics Department.
• The winning design for a poster for the City of Eugene was co-produced
by Eugene designer Louise· Grunewald, and Charles True, part-time
photography instructor in the Mass Communication Department.
• Counselor Bjo Ashwill has won first prize in a play-writing contest sponsored by the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts in Richmond, CA. Her
one-act play focuses on a group of performers who are turned down for an
audition because they are physically disabled. Ashwill, who is disabled by
rheumatoid arthritis, is the founder of Bjo's Follies, a local repertory company whose members all have disabilities.
• Julie Aspinwall-Lamberts, associate director of LCC's Productivity
Center, and Z. Joyce Hopps, an associate dean of instruction, are two of 100
women managers nationwide chosen to participate in a leadership fraining
program under a grant from the Fund for Improvement of Postsecondary
Education.
• Vice President for Instruction Gerald Rasmussen has been selectged vice
chairman of the Policy and Planning Board of the Oregon Alliance for Program Improvement.
STUDENT NOTES

• At the end of Spring Term, 1983 the LCC Media Commission selected
. journalism student Chris Gann to edit The TORCH for the 1983-84 college
year. She has selected Will Doolittle as associate editor; Mike Newby photo
editor; Sharon Johnson, production manager; Shawnita Enger typesetter;
and Celest Pawol sales representative.
• Jeff Keating, 1982-83 TORCH editor, is now studying at the University of
Missouri School of Journali!,m in Columbia, and is on the staff of the
Missourian, the U of M student newspaper.
• Patricia McDonald was selected as this year's Denali editor. Former
editor Cynthia Whitfield remains in Eugene, attending the U of O and
volunteering at KLCC radio.
• In May LCC students elected Bryan Moore as 1983-84 ASLCC president,
Kevin Taylor, vice president, Christina Becker, treasurer, and Stephen
Wysong, cultural director. Student senators are Unda Baehr, Kristen Clark,
David Cooley, Johnna Harms, Fran Johnson, Tim Lane, Michelle Miller,
John Morgus, and Mike Scbimmels. Cathy Jlenjamin was appointed com~unicati~ns director, and Nigel Griffith student resource director.

Board also buys buildiryg,_a_pproves ,:epairs

Drilling lease negotiated

by Chris Gann

terms of the lease agreement.
Berry says, "We haven't
through all the legal
In July the LCC Board of jumped
hoops ... there's still an awful
Education authorized Pres. . lot of work to do" before any
Eldon Schafer and college of- drilling begins.
ficials to negotiate with a Springfield drilling company for a
No September levy
gas and mineral exploration/drilling lease.
The drilling firm, Leavitt's
LCC will not have a serial
Exploration and Drilling, Inc., levy on the ballot in
believes natural gas may .be September.
present under campus 'properBecause the 1983-84 budget
ty -- perhaps under the nor- was submitted and approved
theast parking lot.
with no
in balance
Vice President of Ad- "expenditure excess" -- and
ministrative Services Bill Berry . because the college passed the
says that the college is pro- July 1, 1983 deadline without
c ee ding, "perhaps over- filing a supplemental budget
• cautiously,'' as it explores the to be submitted to voters, the
possibility of entering into a college cannot ask the voters
gas/mineral drilling lease for more money for fiscal year
agreement. "It has to be in the
1983-84, says Bill Berry, vice
best interest of the institu- president of administrative
tion."
services.
College officials are workBut Berry says the board
could ask the voters for money
ing with the State Geologist
for the next fiscal year. He
and the State Mineral Leasing
says the property tax relief
Department to define the
TORCH Editor

measures that may come out
of the state legislature's special
session, and the possibility of
another property tax limitation initiative will help the
Board determine whether to
ask voters to increase the tax
base or support a one-year
serial levy.
WISTEC receives $3,000

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During the June 8 meeting
the Board allocated $3,000
from the contingency fund to
the Cooperative Museum
Commission for support of
the Willamette Science and
Technology Center and
Planetarium. In the past LCC
has contributed $15,000 annually .
Gerald Rassmussen, vice
president for instruction
describes WISTC as a
"worthwhile project" but one
that "offers a mm1mum
number of opportunities for
LCC students.''
BOARD

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Available to all students taking College Credit
Classes, also available to their dependents
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During the July meeting the
Board purchased the building
the college had been renting in
Cottage Grove for the LCC
Central Area Outreach
Center. The cost: $85,000
from the South Lane School
District.
Formally the college leased
the 45,000 square foot facility
for $10,000 per-year. Berry explains that the South Lane
District's offer to sell the
building to the college, was

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Repair projects started

When students return to
campus this fall they will see
workers finishing painting,
roof patching, and general
repair projects. The Board of
Education approved $118,000
this summer for the work.
But Vice President of Administrative Services Bill Berry
says the college will actually

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spend about $85,000 because
some jobs were bid far under
the estimates.
One example of savings,
Berry says, is the contract for
moss removal from shake
roofs. The college estimated
$17,500 would be needed to
complete this job, but the bid
came in at only $7,000.
Managers' salaries raised

In July the Board accepted
President Schafer's recommendation to increase
management employees'
salaries.
In summary, the salary adjustments range from a 3. 7
percent increase for those at
the top of the pay scale, to a
6.3 percent increase for those
at the low range of the
management scale. Each
management employee received a 2.5 percent salary increase
as well as a $50 per month annuity increase.

TAKE AN
EASY PASS THIS TERM.

LCC students will again
be able to save money on
Lane Transit District (LTD)
bus passes because of an arrangement made between
LTD and the Associated
Students of LCC.
According to Kevin
Taylor, ASLCC vice president, stutlents will pay just
$40 for a three-month bus
pass that normally costs
$60. The ASLCC uses student body fee money to
subsidize the tickets, and
the LTD discounts the norrp.al fee as its contribution
to the plan.
Passes will be on sale in
the gymnasium during
registration, Sept. 13, 14,
15, and 20 from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m, and at LTD's
Downtown Customer Service Center beginning Sept.
23 to LCC students with
validated ID card.

Now it's easy to pass the whole term, with an Easy Pass from LTD. It's good
for unlimited rides for three months beginning September 26, and the Easy
Pass saves you money.

needed for adds
Late registration for fall
term 1983 will be Monday
through Friday, September
26-30. However, beginning
Thursday, September 29, the
instructor's signature and
department stamp will be required for all added classes
and new ·registrations. The
change is meant to emphasize
the importance of the first
class meetings and to allow the
instructor additional latitude
in refusing admission to a class
if a student has already missed
a major portion of the instructional content.

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All students are invited to an open house to be
held on Tuesday Oct. 4th. in the Boardroom
of the Administration Bldg. from 11am until
Jpm.

We're making this special offer for all LCC students at a price that's easy to
take-only S40.00 for the entire term. That's even cheaper than the regular
Fast Pass.
You can buy your fall term Easy Pass at the LTD Customer Service Center at
10th & Willamette, or on campus at LCC on September 13th-15th and 20th.

COME AND MEET THE MEMBERS
OF THE CAMPUS MINISTRY:

Take it easy and pass this term with the moneysaving Easy Pass from LTD.

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Instructor's okay

The Reverend Penny Berktold Episcopal Deacon
Father James Dieringer Roman Catholic
The Reverend Norm Metzler Lutheran
The Reverend Dan Johnson Faith center
Tom Rooney with The Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship
The Reverend Tom Hagger Presbyterian
Dick Beswick Restoration Campus Ministry
David Lee Campus ~rusades for Christ

•~BUS

Take It easy, take The Bus.
For Information call 687-5555

Campus Ministry
Rm. 125 Center Bldg.
Ext. 2814

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for registered LCC students

Services include
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(uncontested divorce.
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Tuesday through Friday. by appointment. on the
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New TV classes expand gala video season
Five new telecourses. will be
added to the growing list of
classes-by-TV offered at LCC
this fall, including a television
history of the Vietnam conflict
spanning the years 1945 to
1975.
In all, LCC will offer 17 different telecourses for credit
fall term. Most offer three college credits.
The course, Vietnam: A
Television History, is based on
13 one-hour programs that
will be shown on Oregon
Public Boroadcasting channels
•this fall. The series was produced by an educational foundation for viewers 1 'to form
their own conclusions about
the basis for the conflict, what
was won and lost, and by
whom.''
Other new courses include
The Business of Management:
Management Fundamentals;
The Growing Years: Child
Development; DC Electrical
Circuits; and Medical Terminology I.
The medical terminology •
course was produced by LCC
staff, with graphics help from
Portland Community College,
and features LCC instructor
Norma Stevens.
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The variety of telecourses
offered by LCC, and their
varied viewing times, make
them attractive options for
college study. Telecourses
have been developed by
media
and
educators
specialists, and offer a practical alternative to attending
classes on campus.
LCC informs students who
intend to enroll that each
telecourse includes a required
orientation session, viewing of
weekly telecourse sessions on
television or in the LCC
library, study guide texts, required written assignments
and periodic exams. Instructors are available to help
students by phone or in person. Students usually are required to come to campus
three or four times a term.
Orientation sessions for all
telecourses will be held during
the week of Sept. 26, when

students meet instructors and
receive course outlines with
tips on taking telecourses.
Seven courses will air on
Oregon Public Broadcasting
channels this fall. All 17 will
air on Group W Cable Channel 20. Some courses will air
on cable stations in Florence,
Oakridge and Creswell.
Cable channel 20 is
available only in Eugene and
Springfield. Converters,
necessary for reception of 20,
may be rented or purchased
from Group W cable.
Telecourses that will be
aired on Oregon Public Broadcasting include Making It
Count, The Business of
Management, Understanding
Human Behavior, Project
Universe, Focus on Society,
The Growing Years, and Vietnam.
Telecourses that will be
shown on Cable 20 include the
above and Understanding
a
Behavior,
Human
psychology course; Voyage:
Challenge and Career Life
Planning; Your Health -- Your
Choice,· The Drama of Child
Development,· Business
English I and IL· Focus on
Society, a sociology course;
The Art of Being Human, an
interdisciplinary humanities
course; Consumer Education;
Making It Count, an introduction to computers; and Project
Universe, an astronomy
course.
Florence Cable Channel 10
will air Consumer Education,
Making It count, The Business
of Management, Vietnam: A
Television History, and
Human
Understanding
Behavior. Florence-area
students will be able to attend
their orientation session and
complete tests at the Siuslaw
Area Center, 3149 Oak Street,
Florence.
Thirteen telecourses will be
available for credit at LCC's
Central Area Education
Center in Cottage Grove.
Students will be able to view
some of the telecourses over
OPB channel 7 and some at
the center. Cottage Grove

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students will be able to attend
the orientation session and
take tests at the LCC center,
193 South Fifth St., Cottage
Grove.
Students living in outlying
areas other than Florence and
Cotta~e Grove must attend
orientation sessions at the 30th
Avenue LCC campus. They
will be able to take tests on
The Bus, LCC's mobile
classroom. The Bus this Fall
will visit Walterville on Mondays, Veneta on Tuesdays,
Oakridge on Wednesdays, and
Junction City on Thursdays -all between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.
Telecourses available for
viewing on The Bus include
The Drama of Child Development, Business English I and II, Consumer Education,
Your Health -- Your Choice,
Making It Count, and Medical
Terminology I.

Tuition is $18 per credit
hour. There is also a $5 fee for
each telecourse. To receive a

complete broadcast schedule,
call C;ynde Leathers at
747-4501, ext. 2318.

Now every ·body
gets 50% off.
Now through October 5, every body who joins the
V gets 50% off the initiation fee-and that includes
tennis memberships.
The Eugene Family YMCA has the most complete
•facilities in town, with 2 pools and a spa, 4 racquetball and handball courts, instruction,
and special programs for you.
Call us at 686-9622 for more
information, and get
half off the regular price,
now through Octo~er
5 at the YMCA.

There's something
for every body
at the Y.

Persons interested in taking
telecourses may register at the
orientation sessions, by mail,
on The Bus, or during LCC's
Fall Term registration on campus.
For more information about
registration and about the
telecourses, consult LCC's
class schedule.

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ASLCC Communications Director

The Associated Students of Lane Community College -ASLCC -- welcomes you back, and encourages your participation in your student government this year.
Summer Term has shown this is a group of dedicated people
that can work well together. Teamwork is the key word.
• ASLCC has recently taken membership in the United States
Student Association. USSA is a strong lobbying force and national forum for students across the country for expressing their
views on political and higher education matters. ASLCC President Bryan Moore, along with three delegates from the U of 0
were elected to the board of directors. This gives the Northwest
excellent representation for the first time.
• The ASLCC-sponsored Student Resource Center has
upgraded .the recycling program, bringing in $187.75 over Summer Term. Recycling bins are located around campus for you to
use. Recycling is not only profitable, but ecological as well.
Please be conscientious LCC student and use the bins.
• ASLCC sponsored one benefit dance this summer for the
"Fast for Life" effort. It marked the first time in years an
ASLCC event was so successful, bringing in over $1,000. We are
proud of the teamwork that went into making this event happen.
• We in student government look forward to meeting you. /
Remember we are here to serve you. You voice does make a difference. Speak up, be heard, and have a good term.

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TORCH

EDITOR: Chris Gann
ASSOC IA TE EDITOR: Will Doolittle
PRODUCTION ADVISER: Dorothy
Wearne
PRODUCTION COORDINATOR:
Sharon Johnson
ADVERTISING MANAGER: Jan
Brown
ADVERTISING ASSISTANT: Shawnita
Enger PHOTOGRAPHER: Witt Doolittle
ADVISER: Pete Peterson

The TORCH, a member of the
American Scholastic Press Association, is
a student-managed newspaper published
on Thursdays, September through June.
News stories are compressed, concise
reports intended to be as fair and balanced as possible. They appear with a byline
to indicate the reporter responsible·.
News features, because of their broader
scope, may contain some judgements on
the part of the writer. They are also identified with a byline.
All correspondence must be typed and
signed by the writer.' Deadline is 5 p.m. on
the Mondays prior to publication. Mail or
bring all correspondence to: The
TORCH, Room 205, Center Building,
4000 E. 30th Ave, Eugene, OR, 97405.
Phone 747-4501, ext. 2655.

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Work Study and volunteer positions include:
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Printing and Graphics Aides
Photographers
Typesetters
Receptionist/File Clerk
Reasearch Assistants
Advertising Sales

If int~rested please attend the first general staff meeting
3 p.m., Monday, Sept. 26, 205 Center Building.