LANE
COMMUNITY
COLLEGE

FEB.6, 1987

VOL.22, N0.15

Faculty question
computer plan
by Robert Wolfe

TORCH Lead Reporter

The Willamette River rises rapidly with the winter rains.

Financial aid regulations updated
by Lois Grammon

TORCH Associate Editor

In October 1986, the Reauthorization of the Higher
Education Act (HEA) was completed, and has some
"very serious implications for students," says Linda
Wad dell, director of LCC' s Financial Aid Office.
"Some changes the students won't ever see. ·
Others will be cosmetic, that the student will notice
immediately,'' Waddell says.
The HEA was established in 1965, and every four
years its regulations (such as eligibility standards. for
financial aid) are reauthorized. The last reauthonzation was in 1980, but Congress gave themselves two
additional years to complete the next one.
''They felt that four years was too short of time to
come up with new laws to goyern the program," says
Waddell. However, the law still specifies reauthorization every four years.
The new laws began to go into effect on (?ct. 17
when President Reagan signed the bill, and changes
are being incorporated with rolling implementa_!ion
dates.
The first change to become effective in Oc~ober was
a switch to exclusively needs-based Guaranteed Student Loans (GSL). Prior to Oct. 17, a student coul~
qualify for $2,500 ·per year GSL, as long as the stu-

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dent's or family's adjusted gross income did not exceed $30,000. There was no need analysis'applied.
A need analysis determines students financial
needs based on education costs minus resources
available, with loans made for the amount of the
need. The National Direct Student Loan Program is
also need-based.
Another change in the GSL program took effect
Jan. 1, 1987. A new definitioi;i of financially independent status for students has been included, and will
affect loans made for winter term and later. Loans
made earlier in the year will not be affected. (See
related TORCH article).
The most obvious change in the •National Direct
Students Loan Program is a new name. No longer the·
NDSL, it is renamed after the late senator Carl
Perkins.
First time borrowers in the Perkins (NDSL) loan
program will be affected by new loan deferment and
repayment clauses, beginning in Suqimer Term 1987.
Present borrowers in the Perkins program (NDSL)
start repayment six months after finishing classes.
Under the new terms, students will have a ninemonth deferment if they are borrowing for the firsttime after July 1, 1987, which is the same length of
time used in the GSL program. Students having
already existing loans in the Perkins (NDSL) program
see Regulations, page 7

The administration's plans to buy computers, and the projected $200,000 budget
shortfall, dominated the sometimes heated
discussion at the second All-Faculty Conference Thursday, Jan. 29.
The conferences allow the faculty and other
parties to meet with Vice President for Instruction Jacquelyn Belcher.
Members of the faculty submitted questions to Belcher prior to the meeting. Agenda
topics included computer purchases, the upcoming levy election, public relations, the recent decision to shift Oregon's four-year
schools to a semester system, and enrollment
concerns.
Belcher believes the meeting, attended by
approximately 75 people, was productive,
despite some faculty disagreement with administrative policy. "I invite dialogue," she
said after the meeting. ''This was a genuine
discussion, and was more productive than
last time. ' '
The plans to spend nearly $100,000 on computers for administrators dominated the
discussion. Belcher and Jim Ellison, dean of
Telecommunications and Instructional Support, repeatedly defended the proposal
against queries and attacks concerning its
cost and appropriateness.
''If we are being asked to reserve five percent of our budgets" to ensure an adequate
carry over of funds for next year, "how can
we spend money on this?" demanded
George Alvergue, head of the faculty union.
"It would allow me to communicate with
departments, and get quick responses to
faculty," explained Belcher. "But I can't
speak for the whole administration, I can only speak for. the Office of Instruction,'' she
added.
Faculty member Pete Peterson, one of the
conference organizers, explained that faculty
and staff were frustrated because they were
not informed of the plan until it was proposed at the November Board of Education
meeting. "What process is the college going
to follow to take advantage of these ideas and
this criticism'' from the faculty before making
the purchase, asked Peterson.
This drew a retort from Larry Warford, executive dean for the Office of the President.
"Nowhere is it written that we have to check
with the faculty. We don't need permission,''
he declared.
The other major topic of discussion was a
recent Eugene Register-Guard article which
see Faculty, page 10

Women
hoopsters
win again

Mechanics
Program .
gets.·turbo
boost

Loan
proposals
have serious
implications

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ASL CC Financial Aid Action Committ ee formed
forum by Dan LaMarche

Chairman, Financial Aid Action Committee

What is school? What is
education?
School teaches basic
reading, writing, and math
skills to help us survive in an
increasingly literate society.
It is a fountainhead of
knowledge, technical and
social skills that really improve our lives. Education
offers insight and growth,

opportunity and direction; it
brings to us the lessons and
voices of the past. Educaticm
points to, and helps us create
the future for ourselves and
our children.
So, cutting funding to
education is like chopping off
one's head to lose weight.
What's the point?
Education as a national
priority has been seriously
jeopardized. Larger chunks

of our national budget are being spent on the military,
and we learn from news
stories of $600 toilet seats and
$7000 coffee pots, that the
military is not spending it
wisely.
Here's part of the Reagan
Administration's proposals:
• No more College Work
Study
SEOG
more
• No
(Supplemental Educational

Opportunity Grants)
• No more SSIG (State Student Incentive Grants)
• Over $1 billion dollars cut
from Pell Grants (31 percent)
• $1.8 billion cut from
Guaranteed Student Loans
(60 percent)
Higher education becomes
more and more crucial as
jobs become more complex
and specialized and the
world-wide job market more

Governm ent not listening to people
forum by Rob Ward

ASLCC Presiden t

Thank heavens there's only one left. One more State of the
Union Address from Ronald ~eagan. There have already
been seven too many.
Ronald Reagan, in his State of the Union Address 10 days
ago, said he had read the constitutions of many countries.
Three words, Reagan claimed, separated our constitution
from any other: "We the People." In all other countries, the
government tells the people what to do. But in the United
States, the people tell the government what to do.
We the people might tell our government what to do in this
country, but unfortunately the government usually has its
hearing aid turned off. What good is it to tell government
what to do if it's not listening?
Countless polls in this country have shown that Americans,
by a vast majority, are against giving aid to Nicaraguan contras. Why then isn't the president listening to the people? Instead, Reagan calls the contras the moral equivalent of our
Founding Fathers. He is completely out of touch with reality.·
Do the people of our country want our polluted lakes,
rivers, and waterways clean? I believe so. Then why does
Reagan veto legislation passed overwhelmingly by both
houses of Congress which will start the cleanup? Because it

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costs too much. The people say yes; the government just says
no.
The people of this country,_ believe education is the corner
stone of our society. Then why does Reagan try to slash
educational funding every year?
Because if the people of a country are educated, they are
not likely to elect a regressive, ignorant person to "lead"
them. The high illiteracy rate in this country is beneficial to
men like Reagan. Reagan would rather have the people put
blind trust in him, than to investigate for themselves.
Reagan has slashed education funds and every social program in this country. He has doubled our Defense Department budget. Do you, the people, feel any safer after six
years of Ronald Reagan?
Do we, the people, sit back and let Reagan set policy for
we, the people? This country is now two trillion dollars in
debt. Who is going to pay this debt? We, the people, that's
who.
I don't know how he does it. Reagan's policies benefit the
wealthy few, while we the people struggle harder every day
just to make ends meet. It won't be long before only the
wealthy, or only those willing to mortgage their future, will
be able to afford a post-secondary education. Don't say we
weren't warned.
We the People? Baah. We the Sheep.

AIDS educatio n needed now

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by Kelli J. Ray

TORCH Editor

It's in all the newspapers. It's the
talk of the nation, even causing a
temporary rift between Surgeon
General C. Everett Knoop and
Education Secretary William Bennett.
And although some people want to
brush it off as a homosexual problem,
nearly 600 heterosexuals in the U.S.
have conracted it through sex.
Yes, I'm talking about AIDS. And
yes, it CAN happen to you. A total of
about 700 college-aged people in the
U.S. have already contracted the
AIDS virus, and that number is
growing.
A worldwide AIDS epidemic will
become so serious that the Black
Plague will pale in comparison, the
U.S. Health and Human Services
Secretary Otis Bowen told a National ·
Press Club audience recently. ''You
haven't heard or read anything yet,''
he said in the Jan. 30 Register-Guard.
And although he is sure a vaccine
will be found, he is equally sure it
won't be in time to head off an
epidemic -- including at least 270,000
cases in the U. S. within the next five
years.
Between 1 million and 1.5 million
Page 2 T he TORCH

Americans are believed to be current
carriers of the virus, but since AIDS
is spread by people who don't yet
show symptoms, the figures are still
tentative.
One thing is certain, however.
Researchers have established that a
carrier can '' spread it to others and
not know it for 10 years or so.''
Bowen reminds us that "when a
person is having sex, they' re not just
having it with that partner; they' re
having it with everybody that partner
had it with for the past 10 years.''
In a Register-Guard letter to the
editor 0n Feb. 2, Jim Clay of the
Willamette AIDS Council says that
since most people in Lane County
don't personally know anyone with
the AIDS virus, the threat seems distant. This "unhealthy, continued
denial" of the fact that thousands of
Lane County residents are already infected with the latent stage of the illness allows everyone to go about
their business as usual, without taking preventive measures.
But, Clay says, it also allows more
and more people to get infected -people who won't become aware of it
for years, and who, until then, will
infect everyone with wh om they

come in sexual contact during those
years.
What are these preventative
measures? There are currently only
three: Abstaining from sex completely, maintaining a monogamous relationship, or using a condom -studies show that the virus can't pass
though a condom's wall.
So now, the issue seems to be how
best to educate the public.
Controversy is raging over whether
to it's "proper" to run condom ads,
whether to teach teenagers and
children about AIDS in the school
system, and even whether to tell
young people to abstain from sex or
wear condoms. Would telling them
to practice '' safe sex'' encourage
- them to be promiscuous? Shouldn't
they be told to abstain or stay
monogamous, the argument seems
to go.
Personally, I think the decisions
concerning the way young people
conduct their sexual lives is better off
left to the individuals. They will, as
always, make their own choices.
But when it comes to AIDS,
everyone deserves all the information available now -- while there's
still time to make those choices.

competitive. If our country
has ever been in need of accessible education, it is now.
And accessible education is
exactly what is being
threatened .
If even part of Reagan's
financial aid proposal is passed by Congress, many of us
will simply be between a rock
and a hard place. Many of
my friends have joined the
Armed Forces -- to get an
education. Many students
may quit school.
Luckily, we have people in
Congress to soften and
mitigate such economic
blows. But Congress will
have many tough decisions
to make, and it needs to
know how its decisions are
going to affect our lives.
That is why the ASLCC
has created the FAAC
(Finacial Aid Action Committee). We need signatures of
students to shuffle under the
noses of Sen. Mark Hatfield,
Rep. Peter Defazio, and
others to let them know we
are CONCERNED about cuts
in financial .aid.
At the FAAC booth in the
cafeteria, and the Student
Resource Center (second
floor, Center Building) we
will have information about
financial aid cuts, sample letters, and the names and adsee ASLCC, page 4

EDITOR: Kelli J. Ray
ASSOCIATE EDITOR:
Lois ,Craminon

ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:
Beverly Moore
SPORTS EDITOR: Val Brown
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LEAD REPORTER: Robert Wolfe
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Hayes, Muriel Willingham, Beverly Moore .
STAFF PHOTOGRAPHERS: Bob Olson,
Jamie D. Machett, Zach Nathan, Chris Edwards, Janite Burdick, Sean Elliot
PRODUCTION MANAGER :
Susan LoGiudice
PRODUCTION: Val Brown, Damon Mitchell, Beverly Moore, Robert Wolfe, Kyle
Abrams, Kerry Kendall, Dan Druliner, Harry,
Dowling, Saxone Woon, Diane Davis, Muriel
.
Willingham
DISTRIBUTION: Michael Ditzler, Zach
Nathan, Melody Adams, Damon Mitchell
GRAPHIC ARTIST: Stephen Mosely
ADVERTISING ADVISOR:
Jan Brown
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Kim Buchanan
AD SALES: Jackie Barry
PRODUCTION ADVISOR:
Dorothy Wearne
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February 6, 1987

Advice to Editor:
become a janitor
To the Sports Editor,
Hey, Val Brown, where the
hell do you get off attacking
Kristine Hayes' s forum article in your column?
Hayes was simply exercising her right as a reader of
the Torch, to utilize the
forum page in its intended
fashion.
You, on the other hand,
seem to have mistaken your
weekly column for an avenue
of attack on someone's personal opinion. As a journalist
(and I use the term laughingly) it is your job to report the
news in an informative,
precise, and timely fashion.
As a columnist, it is your task
to comment on timely subjects of interest to your
readers. So far Val, you are 0
for 2.
The column begins by tell-

ing us of the anger and
sickness felt by you upon
reading Hayes's article. You
then proceed to tell us of
your glorious high school
career. Hey, WHO CARES?
Outside of the fact that a
column is no place for venting your frustrations over a
reader's opinion, it definitely
does not give you the right to
publicly express how much
better you feel you are than
someone else.
You wrote '' ... she didn't
experience her four years of
high school to its fullest
potential.'' Tell us Val, is this •
an educated opinion, or have
you never met this girl and
asked her if her high school
experience was fulfilling?
God knows it could not have
been as fulfilling as yours.
One more thing. Why bring up women's athletics at
the end of the story? It had
nothing to do with the subject matter in the column.
Take some sound advice,
grab a mop and become the

Student says child molester
needs more than therapy
forum by Regan Lee
LCC Student

Rob Ward, in his TORCH Forum the week before last, said
he felt that we (should) face math Instructor Robert Thompson's re-hiring openly. But I don't believe the majority of the
staff, faculty and students are facing this problem openly at
all.
Thompson's presence on campus serves as a catalyst, reopening the scars of women -- and men -- who were victims
of abuse as children.
Thompson's adrrrission of what Ward calls "errant"
behavior, is not enough. We're dealing with the issue of child
abuse here. Rob Ward also says that restitution is beinQ made
to the victim. My question is, what in the hell kind of restitution can be made to a victim of sexual abuse?
We're not talking about some type of car accident here,
we're talking about scars that will last a lifetime, and are reopened every time society and our institutions (such as LCC)
support the presence of someone such as Thompson.
Refusing to re-hire Thompson is not '' sweeping the problem under the rug," as Ward suggests. By (attempting to

'Thompson has turned the issue
.... so that he's now the victim'
fire) Thompson as instructor at Lane, the college (was) indeed
dealing with the problem. It (was) dealing with the problem
by taking a stand.
I met and spoke with Thompson. It was very difficult for
me. Thompson was very open with me, and we both spoke
freely. I assured him I wasn't on any witch-hunt, but I also
told him my feelings about his presence on campus. He
spoke of his therapy, told me he understood my position,
and gave me the business card of a woman therapist dealing
with victims of sexual abuse. He told me he's aware that what
he's done is wrong. He also waved the LCC contract at me,
telling me his position here at Lane is protected by contract.
I came away from our meeting with the feeling Thompson
has conveniently turned this issue around so that he is now
the victim.
It seems to me he lacks a real sense of awareness, deep
down, of the wrong he's done.
According to material on child abuse put out by Childern' s
Services Division, people who sexually abuse children are
often devoid of the knowledge they've done something
wrong. The mind-set that accompanies this behavior is quite
different from the mind-set of the person who abuses drugs
or alcohol, or that of someone who batters children.
Thompson, and those who support his presence here on
campus, either does not understand the mentality of the sexual abuser, or doesn't want to understand.
Thompson needs to be held responsible for what he's
done. Simply being open, and going to therapy, isn't
enough.
February 6, 1987

TORCH's janitor. You have
to be more qualified for that
than you are as Sports
Editor.
Pete Hodson
Journalism major

Jloster gets zapped
by reader
To the Editor:
A poster on campus boldly
proclaimed ''The Woman
Who Talked Back To God ..
.and didn't get zapped!"
Two points about that statement:
• She "talked back" to the
Mormon Church, not to
God, which did "zap" her
by excommunicating her.
• Mormons worship the
god of this worl_d, not God
Almighty, the Creator, my
God. Don't blame Him for
the actions of the Mormon
Church. He has nothing to
do with it.
K.C. Thomas
Data Processing

Reagan has
performed well
To the Editor,
We the people have heard
enough about the credibility
of our President. I have
never once questioned the
performance of President
Reagan.
He has consistently shown
credibility in his .every action.
The greatest question that I
pose is that of the credibility
of the congressmen that
challenge our president's
every move.
I own a small business here
and often see people that remind me of the honorable
congressman aforementioned, (who) are so insecure
with their own actions that
they are constantly pointing
a finger at someone else.
They live by this premise:
if every one is looking at
Ronny, they won't be looking at me.
Since the beginning of the
arms deal, President Reagan
has been more honest than

any man I know. He has
gone to great lengths to perform the duties of his job.
Meanwhile, Congress has
allowed the national media
to manipulate (the arms deal)
into a hype that has crippled
the progress of our nation.
Our system was established with several checks and
balances. I do not recall that
Congress was to do nothing
but grand stand any piece of
dirty laundry that they could
. find.
I am quite satisfied with
three separate bodies of
government. A forth would
be a typical governmental
immoderation.
.
Gentlemen, please get
back to work, and at least try
to accomplish something
good for this nation.
Sincerly,
Larry Harris

Teacher's return
angers student
To the Editor,
I am an angry student. I'm
angry because Robert
Thompson is back on this
campus, teaching. And my
tax money and tuition are
paying his wages.
I would like to know what
Thompson's punishment is
for sexually molesting a
9-year-old. girl. Was it that he
got caught?
It is not right for a person
who commits such a heinous
crime to be given his job
back, let alone 100 percent
back pay.
It's also not our responsiblity to monitor Thompson's behavior, as Dwight
Miller seems •to think some
ought to do on campus,
(Torch, Jan. 16). Thompson
is an adult who is capable of

making adult choices and no
one but Thompson is respon•
sible for that!
Did Robert Thompson seek
counseling for himself on his
own, or was he courtordered to do so? What is
happening with the 9-yearold that he violated for months? It will take some time
and commitment on the
girl's part to rediscover that
carefree,
fun-loving
childhood that she was robbed of.
I wonder about Thompson's thinking mode when
he said (that reprimands
from people like Dave Roof)
" ... scare the pants off the
offender and victim. . . . ''
That is quite a descriptive
allusion coming from a
perpetrator.
Yes, I am angry and I
believe I have a right to be,
until justice is done. Until offenders are held accountable
for their reprehensible acts,
especially where the abuse of
children is concerned.
Linda Steward
LCC Student

Please preserve
ethnic unity

To the Editor,
Too bad most of the ethnic
groups on campus are not as
involved as they could be.
Please preserve unity and
identity, and be involved.
Don't let it be taken from
you; be involved with others
and do something.
Hey, the Multicultural
Center in the Center Building
in Room 409, has an international hour -- every Thursday
from 1:30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Come on out, and be a part
of the solution.
Mark Perez

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SAD may cause your depression
by Muriel Willingham

TORCH Staff Writer

Do you get "the blues"
every winter? Scientists have
ga~hered evidence that the
lethargy, decreased ability
to concentrate, and loss of interest in work and sex that
some people experience in
winter are a real physical
phenomenon. The cause is

transmits light to nerve
centers in the brain, which
send messages to the tiny
pineal gland at the base of
the brain.
Dracula-like, the gland
comes to life in the dark and
produces a hormone,
melatonin, which seems to
play a key role in regulating
body rhythms. Too much
melatonin produces a

self-diagnosis and treatment,
because the symptoms of
SAD may be the result of
another type of depression.
Many kinds of therapy are
available to treat depression,
but correct identification of
the problem is vital.
What can people do to ease
the winter blues if light
research programs are too far
away, and $500 for special

Cut down on sugar, salt and
caffeine.
• Most important, do
something, almost anything,
to avoid feeling like a victim.
Make time for enjoyable
things you can do despite
low temperatures, high rainfall, and early sunsets.
Reading, learning new computer skills, family games
and activities, and sp~nding

time with friends can all be
especially pleasant in winter.
LCC .s tudents may suffer
less from depression than the
general population. Sandra
Ing, head of the Student
Health Services, reports
most of the stress and
depression the center sees in
students is related to cycles
of the school term rather
than to the yearly cycle.

Flu virus trans£erred
through hand contact
by Diane Davis.

TORCH Staff Writer

Zach Nathan

the decrease in daylight.
While some people may
feel slightly depressed in
winter, others are so affected
they become unable to function. Researchers have labelled the problem Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), and
believe there may be many
more SAD victims than
originally suspected.
Research on winter depression began at the National Institute of Mental Health in
Bethesda, Maryland, in the
late 1970's. By 1980, researchers had established that
decreased amounts of
daylight caused SAD. Further research, there and at
other centers nationwide,
has revealed that the eye
does more than see. It

physical state resembling
hibernation.
To treat the disorder, the
researchers experimented
with different types of artificial light and a variety of
treatment schedules. A twoby-four fixture using fullspectrum fluorescent lights
produced the best results.
The fixture produces 2500
lux, about five times the
amount of light in the usual
office.
Patients sat in front of the
lights twice a day, for a total
of two to three hours. Results
were dramatic. Improvement
usually began in three or four
days. When light treatment
was stopped, symptoms
returned within a few days.
Researchers discourage

lights is more than the
budget can stand?
LCC counselor Tim Blood
found a dramatic solution a
few years ago. He took a
leave of absence during
winter term, and he and his
wife hiked and biked in New
Zealand. "We had three
summers in a row," he
recalls. "It was great!"
Acknowledging that a
vacation like his isn't a
realistic option for most people, he offers several suggestions nearly anyone could
•
adopt.
• Make aerobic exercise a
regular part of life.
• Get outside and enjoy the
light there is.
• Eat a well-balanced diet.

There's more chance of catching a cold from a handshake
than a kiss.
Winter's here, and catching colds and flu seems inevitable.
Still, you bundle up and increase daily vitamin doses and fret
about catching the sniffles from the sneezing, coughing student beside you.
In light of recent experiments at the University of Virginia
School of Medicine, chances are your precautions are for the
wrong reasons.
Drs. Jack Gwaltney, Jr. and Owen Hendley, professors of
internal medicine and pediatrics, respectively, conducted experiments at the university which showed that healthy
volunteers caught few, if any, colds when exposed only to
• coughs and sneezes.
The common cold is an inflammation of the mucous membranes of the respiratory passages caused by a variety of
viruses. While highly contagious, colds are not transmitted
by bacteria flying through the air from sneezes and coughing.
The university research suggests that hand-to-hand contact is
the most important mode of transmission. Kissing is rarely a
culprit as there are very low concentrations of cold viruses in
saliva. Ors. Gwaltney and Hendley discovered however, that
cold viruses survive for one hour in cloth handkerchiefs, two
hours on hands and up to 72 hours on hard surfaces.
When cold sufferers touch or blow their noses, they
transfer live virus particles to their hands. The virus may then
be deposited on whatever surfaces they touch, from
telephones to doorknobs. Healthy people literally pick up the
virus with their hands and infect themselves by touching
their own noses or eyes.
The researchers found that although colds and flu are more
common during the fall and winter, the illnesses have
nothing to do with cold, damp weather.
They also conducted experiments inoculating healthy
volunteers with cold and flu viruses and exposing them to
frigid temperatures for several hours. There was no difference in the number or severity of colds and flu suffered by
this group than a group of in9culated healthy volunteers who
were kept warm.
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New cars given to Auto Mechanics Departnient
by Sean D. Elliot

for the TORCH

Four new cars have joined the Lane Auto Mechanics
Department since the beginning of the year.
General Motors Corporation donated a 1986 Buick T-Type
in late November, and Hutchin's Import Motors donated a
1983 Nissan Turbo Z-car just two weeks ago, adding to a 1986
Merkur Turbo donated last March and a 1986 Capri donated
in early November.
"The department is always needing more cars," says AutoAirframe Technology Department Chairman Ted Kotsakis,
because each car has an expected life span of around five
years. ''There are only so many times a car can be torn down
and put back together," Kotsakis explains.
Car manufacturers donate cars for a number of reasons.
Although the donation is useful as a tax credit, Kotsakis says
that manufactures and dealers consider donations an investment in the future. "In the long run, it will benefit them (car
"Jllanufacturer s)," says Kotsakis.
"It's difficult to put a price on it (the donation)," says Kotsakis. The Nissan is valued at $11,000 and the Buick at
$16,000, but both are "priceless," according to Kotsakis,
because the cars afford students access to state-of-the-art
technology that they might otherwise not get a chance to
work with.
With the donation of the Z-Car, the 95 students enrolled
this term in auto mechanics courses now have two different
turbo configurations to work with.
Kotsakis says he's been fortunate enough to have made
friends in the auto industry. He is negotiating with Honda
and Chrysler Corporation in hopes of receiving further donations. This involves writing letters and making phone calls to
companies, exhibiting a need and showing the quality of the
program.
Hutchin' s General Sales Manager Robin Reinhard says
Lane has the best Auto Mechanics Department in the state, so
donating a car to Lane has great advantages for the dealership.
Students completing the Auto Mechanics program may
eventually find work with a local dealership, he says.

Comb at stress
naturally
by Diane Davis

TORCH Staff Writer

Rather than popping vitamin pills daily, try some
"natural" ways to control stress.
Diet, of course, plays the greatest role in maintaining
good physical health. B-vitamins, pantothenic acid,
vitamin C, folic acid and biotin (also known as vitamin
H) -- all effective stress resistors -- can be found in places
:
other than on the pharmaceutica l shelf.
The greatest natural'' sources for vitamins are
disguised as meats and vegies, and are seldom considered seriously as sources of vitamins by a junkfoodeating, hurrying-as-f ast-as-1:-can society that pops
vitamin pills daily to help aHeviate dietary guilt.
In reality, daily food intakes commonly undermine
the effectiveness of vitamin supplements, says the 1986
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Reducing intakes of coffee, alcohol, sugar and tobacco
increases the absorption of vitamins important in
resisting stress, and is necessary for normal functioning
of the nervous system.
Liver and brewer's yeast contain all the abovementioned vitamins, except C, but for those of us who
would rather gag than touch liver, two or more of the
vitamins necessary for combatting stress are contained
in whole grains, milk, legumes, egg yolks, wheat germ,
brown rice, leafy green vegetables, organ meats, pork,
cantaloupe, fish, orange juice and tomatoes.
In other words, mom's advice is still the best. Eating~
well-balanced diet each day, from each of the four main
food groups, is the best protection against stress and illness.
February 6, 1987

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More grants than loans at LCC

Emergency Wans
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Emergency loans in amounts ·· ·of up to $50 will be
available to most students beginning Feb. 9, due to the
combined efforts of the Financial Aid Office, the LCC
Foundation, and Financial Services.
The LCC Foundation has provided $7,000 as "seed"
money, according to Financial Aid Director Linda Waddell, whose office will coordinate the program. The office will process most applications in less than a day and
pay students in cash at Financial Services, in the Ad•
ministration Building lobby.
"We're really excited about it," says Waddell,
because the loan program will help end the frustration
of her staff having ''really nowhere,tq refer'' students· in
emergency situations who need financial help.
Any student over 18 year~ of _age who has accumulated six credits at LCC ~nd is regist~red at least
half-time qualifies for a loan.
There are several conditions an,d restrictions regarding the loans.
• Students cannot use an emergency loan to pay debts
owed to LCC.
• A student can receive only one loan per term.
• The student must repay the loan befo,re registering
for the next term, and must repay the loan from sources
other than financial aid ·grants and loans.
Though interest free; the loans will be assessed a 75
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cent per month billing charge.
Waddell hopes to see the progra_m expand to $40,000
in the future, providing loans from $100 to $200.
Students have had trouble acquiring financial
assistance for several reasons in the past, says Waddell.
One reason was the lack of visibility of the LCC Foundation. The other, according to Waddell, were restrictive
policies most departments used in determining who
would receive loans.
The new loan guidelines are patterned after other prog~ams Waddell surveyed. "We think we'll prove this is
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Although much media attention has been
given lately to increased borrowing by
students, LCC has not experienced the shift
from grants to loans that is reported nationwide.
In fact, just the opposite is the case, according to LCC Financial Aid Director Linda
Waddell.
Across the nation, many students have
been forced to borrow more in recent years
''because the federal government has supported appropriations for loans at a rate
greater than that of grants," according to
Waddell.
Between the academic years 1981-82 .and
1985-86, LCC students rece1.ved financial aid
in these percentages:
LCC Loans and Grants

Fund Types 1981-82 Funds 1985-86 Funds

Grant
Work Study
Loans

50 percent
10 percent
40 percent

52 percent

10 percent

38 percent

Reliable data does not exist prior to- the
1981-82 school year.
History of Financial Aid
In 1973, the Pell Grant Program was
enacted during a time of tremendous expansion in federal student aid funding, particularly in the. area of grant ,support, says
Waddell.
The government believed that economically needy students should spend their time in
school, rather than divided between work
and class. The goal was to help them become
productive, .tax-paying members of society.
Grant assistance was felt to be the most effective way to keep students from impoverished backgrounds from becoming encumbered with huge consumer debts.
Then, in response to a growing concern for
the needs of students-from .-middle income

families, th~ Guaranteed Student Loan Program (GSL) bec;ame available to all students,
rather than needs-based.
It was felt that people froil). ·the middle income groups, the primary source of federal
taxes, should receive some of the benefits.
In 1978, during the Carter Ad.ministration,
the Middle Income Student Assistance Act
expanded participation in all programs for·
students with middle incoµ,.e backgrounds.
When President Reagan took office in 1981,
he used technical amendments to overturn
the expansion put into motion by President
Carter.
R~agan believ~d the programs should be
reserved for the "truly needy," who would
benefits.
re·ceive
to
continue.
So, rather than there being tremendous
cuts, which Waddell says·is a commonly held
perception, there was '' expansion that was
_
never realized."
At the same time, a· sliift began in federal
aid from grants to loans, to accomodate the :
growing feeling ~hat students should be more
responsible for their own education. It was·
believed that if students couldn't pay for a
college education, then they should be held
responsible to repay borrowed money when
they finished and found w·ork.
As a result, funding for loans increased,
while grant money stayed at about the same
level, accord~g to Waddell.
That, along with rising tuition costs, has
forced . many college students to rely more
and more on loans.
However, Waddell thinks that LCC has not
experienced as rapid of an increase in tuition
costs as have many colleges over the last
decade, especially private _ i~stitutions.
"Tuition at LCC only comprises 20 percent of
college operating costs."
Wad dell says she tries to be sensitive while
see Loans, page 10

F AF changes reclassify students
by Kelli J. Ray

TORCH Editor

Federal changes in the
of
definition
"self-supporting student"
now reclassify many
students on financial aid for
the 1987-88 school year,
changing their status from
to
"independent"
''dependent,'' according to
Linda Waddell, director of
LCC's Financial Aid.
Because of this, many
students who were considered independent, and
therefore eligible for financial
aid last year, will now find
themselves classified as
dependent on their parents
for support --· whether they
are really dependent or not.

Under the new federal
guidelines, a student is considered self-supporting if he
or she:
• was born before Jan. 1,
1964.
• is an orphan of the state.
• has legal dependents
other than a spouse.
• is a veteran of the US
Armed Forces.
A student is also considered self-supporting
under new federal guidelines
if he or she:
• is married, and won't be
claimed on his or her
parents' 1987 tax forms.
• is unmarried, isn't claimed on his or her parents' 1985·
and 1986 tax forms, and if he
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Students who could get
caught in the middle are
those who are single, under
23, unclaimed by their
parents in the previous two
tax years, and received financial aid last year, says Waddell.
These students were probably concentrating on
studies rather than wageearning, and didn't earn the
required $4000 to be considered independ~nt under
the new guidelines.
But Waddell says that in
spite of the federal
guidelines, if students were
obviously self-supporting
during the years prior to
receiving financial aid, '' each
college has the right to excercise conservative professional judgement'' in awarding financial aid.
''If a student earned over
$4000 the year before, but
since receiving aid has _earned $2000, there's a very
strong possibility we can still
award them aid at LCC. We
can look at each case individually, but the law prohibits us from making a
blanket policy," she says.
Students •could easily experience confusion about the
changes, since the federal
government is still finetuning the new policy. Waddell urges anyone with questions "to come to the Financial Aid office and talk to
us."
February 6, 1987

Loan proposals could have 'serious implications'
by Lois Grammon

TORCH Associate Editor

If changes in student aid
programs proposed by the
Reagan Administration
become reality, there would
be no allocation of federal
funds for College Work
Study and Supplemental
Educational Opportunity
Grants (SEOG) in the 87-88
academic year.
In addition, 87-88 funding
for the former National
Direct Student Loan Program, now renamed the
Perkins Loan Program,
would be eliminated. All
three programs would be
phased out in the 88-89
academic year, if the proposal is accepted.
The Pell Grant and
Guaranteed Student Loan
(GSL) Programs would be
relatively unaffected, according to Linda Wad dell, director of LCC' s Office of Financial Aid. In 1985-86, LCC
students received $4,395,966
from these two programs.
Money was already appropriated for these programs in the fiscal year 1987,
but the recissions proposed
"could have serious implications for students," says
Waddell.
The Income Co~ti_ngent
Loan Program (ICLP), intended to parallel the Perkins
Loan Program, is being proposed as a replacement for
funds lost through the recissions.
The ICLP has been approved as a pilot program by the
1986 Reauthorization of the
Higher Education Act.

However, in&tead of funding the ICLP at the level
suggested by congressional
experts for the pilot program,
the $5 million currently
authorized would be expanded to $600 million for the
fiscal year 1988.
The ICLP pilot program is
planned to include ten col-

sidized by the · Federal
loans could potentially end
up repaying them for 30
Government.
The proposed expansion of years. "I'm not sure th~t it is
the program would use the reasonable to commit a stusame terms.
dent to that amount of debt
Since students must either . repayment. It enables a stupay interest while in school dent to acquire a greater debt
or allow it to accrue each burden than they are curyear, it would result in a rently able to do, and I'm
higher level of debt. There concerned,'' says Waddell.

leges and univershies
throughout the US, and
would last fiv_e years. Loans
will be made to students for
$2,500 for the first two yec1rs,
$3,500 for the third year, and
$4,500 for the fourth and fifth
years, up to a combined total
of $17,5000. Repayment will
be contingent on the borrower's income.
Interest will accrue at the
average annual Treasury bill
rate plus 3 percent, a
"special allowance" by the
banks, but will not be sub-

will be ~o time limit on
repayment, and borrowers
will not pay more than 15
percent of their monthly income.

Regulations,
stay under the old rules.
''When they run out of innovative ways of changing
the program, they just go
back . . . to what it was once
before. It drives us crazy,"
says Waddell. Deferment
terms for the GSL and NDSL
programs have switched·
several times since they
began.
People on the Financial Aid
staff "laugh because we can't
remember this year what the
definition of this or that is,''
adds Waddell, because they
change so often.
After July 1, 19~7, a new
Satisfactory Progress clause
will deny benefits to enrolling juniors on financial aid
who have not maintained a
"C" or better average.
Another regulation going

The students debt burden
would be open to variable interest rates, so that climbing
interest rates could mean
drastic payment increases.
Also, people who; take longer
to repay because of low incomes would pay more over
the greater length of time.
Students who use the

Another result would be
increased paperwork which
would be needed to determine the proportional p·ayment based on the previous
year's income. The student
would need to submit (to his
or her lender) a copy of each
year's income tax return.
This would be '' a cumbersome administrative task,
plus a tremendous invasion
of privacy if you have to send
your return all over the country," Waddell says.
Reports on the operation of

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into effect July 1 is the Ability
to Benefit clause, which
states that if a school allows
students without a high
school diploma or its
equivalent to enr!Jll as
regular students, the school
must have a means to verify
that the individual has the
ability to benefit from the
education that they will
receive. Colleges will be required to do testing of those
students to determine if they
have the basic skills needed
to succeed in college-level
work.
Students rece1vmg Pell
Grants under the _new rules,
as · of Summer Term, 1987,
have five years (Gr its parttime equivalent) to complete
a four-year course resulting
in a bachelors degree while
on the Pell Grant. Grants in

effect prior. to Summer Term
1987 will continue under the
old qualifications. Before
amendments were made to
the program in .- 1980, a five
year limit was also enforced.
'The college was responsible for monitoring whether
or not the student is making
satisfactory progress toward
their objective. The t ,
government felt that
burden should: be shihed
toward the student to
monitor their . own progress," says Waddell.

She adds that there are
other administrative changes
that take up a lot of time, but
'' do not affect the students
directly, nor have direct implications for them."

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the ICLP and the feasibility
for its expansion are to be
submitted to congress by
Oct. 1, 1991, under the terms
of the Reauthorization Act.
Part of the criticism
directed toward Reagan concerning the proposed expansion of the ICLP "is that we
do not even know the results
of the tests. What was the
purpose of the test project, of
which we won't even know
the results for five years, if
the NDSL (Perkins Loan Program) is eliminated and all
loans become incomecontingent? They need to
find out if the pilot program
is going to work by going
through the test stage
already set up," says Waddell.
''Reagan is trying to say
'we're going to eliminate
NDSL; regardless of what
the test says, this is going to
be the new program.' I don't
think Congress will ever buy
that, because there is no indication that it really is going
to be the 'be all, end all' program it's being touted as,"
she adds.
Yet, if the grants are cut
under Reagan's proposals,
there are not any alternatives.
The real emphasis, Waddell believes, should be making grant opportunities
'' more in balance with loan
opportunities, like they were
five to eight years ago."
Congress has forty-five
legislative days to consider
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·LCC beats Western Oregon Small roster has its advantages
hoped to have quit or didn't
show up. I guess they didn't
As they watch the Titan want to work that hard,"
women prepare for a basket- says Assistant Coach Camee
ball game, spectators scan Pupke.
the entrances. Where is the
Instead of bemoaning the
rest of the team? Will they lack of depth, though, Head
make it in time for the game? Coach Dave Loos has conBut the six women on the- centrated on the positive
court will no~ get rein- aspects of the situation~
forcememts .
"Our conditioning is ex' ' Some of the players we •cellent, we use all the girls in

by J.V. Bolkan

for the TORCH

Freshrnen "lead Titans over
Clackarnas 58-49
by J.V. Bolkan

for th e TORCH

Lane, lead by freshmen
Maryann Graham and
Theresa Hosier, powered to a
58-49 league victory over
Clackamas Wednesday, Feb.
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Graham's 21 points and
Hosier's 16, also got a gamehigh 12 assists from Sheryl
Jones.
Lane led by only one point
a halftime. According to
Titan guard Lisa Bregg,
''They used a fullcourt press
that we had trouble with. We

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by J. V. Bolkan
for the TORCH

The Titan women, balanced by , Cara Murock' s drives
to the basket and Sheryl
Jones' jump shots, held on
to win a close non-league
basketball game against the
visiting Western Oregon JV
squad, 55-53.
Jones' accurate long-range
jumpers complimented
Murock's slashing drives, as
tr.e Titans opened up a
16 point lead in the first half
Jan. 31.
Western Oregon scored the
final seven points of the first
half, cutting the Lane lead to
nine, 32-23.
''We had lots of energy
coming in. They tired us
out,'' said Murock, explaining the momentum swing.
Western Oregon opened
the second half by outscoring
Lane, 12-2, to take the lead,
35-34. "They (the Titans)
were real tired. We wanted
to start the second half
strong, but didn't,"
lamented Lane Assistant
Coach Camee Pupke.
Western Oregon's Sarah
Olerud scored 10 of her 18
points during the first five
minutes of the second haH,
forcing Lane Coach Dave
Loos to call for a time-out.
Lane emerged with a new
defensive strategy. It stopped ''fronting'' the taller
Olerud and began playing
with a Lane defender on her
hip. Olerud managed only a
single basket the remainder
Page8 The TORCH

of the game.
However, the Titans were
unable to put the game out of
Western Oregon's reach until the final buzzer, despite
having a four point lead and
the ball with only one minute
Western
remaining.
desperation
Oregon's
defense forced a turnover
with 42 seconds, which led to
a Western Oregon basket,
cutting the Lane lead to two.

couldn't get the running
game going."
But the Titans came out
running in the second half,
grabbing a quick six point
lead which grew to nine as
Clackamas never truely
threatened to make a run at
the Titans.
Graham had 20 rebounds,
and Hosier added 14 as the
Titans improved to 6-3 in
league play, and 13-9 overall.
The Titans have now won
five of their last six games.
The final regular season
home game for the Titans is
Saturday, Feb. 7, at 6 p.m.,
against Chemeketa.

every drill, and no one
stands in lines during practice."
The Titans are forced . to
recruit staff members and
baseball players for scrimmages during practice.
Playing against the taller,
stronger men in practice has
improved the Titan rebounding, according to center
Maryanne Graham.
A large part of the Titans
success can be attributed to
the camaraderie generated
by having such a small team.
When explaining why she
works so hard, wing Sheryl
Jones replied, "I don't want
to let the others down. We
can't afford anyone having
an 'off' night."
only
team·, s
The
sophomore, Nicki Essman,
agrees that this team is
especially close. ''There are
no cliques on this team.
There aren't enough of us to
divide us ."

Coach Pupke gives the
women credit for being selfmotivated. "The know we
can't afford to bench
anyone."
Coach Loos does his part to
keep motivation high by
making practices interesting.
Rarely do the Titans engage
in mindless conditioning
drills.
Instead, Loos incorporates
mini competitions and conscored in double figures.
tests into virtually every drill.
Lane was also out-shot at
Theresa Hosier, one of the
the charity stripe, Clackamas
more enthusiastic Titans,
made 24 of 28 free throws,
could not imagi_ne herself
compared to Lanes 17 of 23.
wanting to avoid practice.
Before the league game
Clackamas led by 12 points
with five minutes hitting 13 • with Umpqua, point guard
Cara Murock discussed the
of 15 free throws to pull away
from the Titans.
team's outlook, ''We are just
The Titans will play against . beginning to play as a unit. I
think we'll make the playChmemketa on Saturday,
offs."
Feb. 7, at 8 p.m., at home.

Lane out-shot by Clackamas
by Val Brown

TORCH Sports Editor

The LCC men's basketball
team lost to Clackamas,
61-84, in league action
Wednesday, Feb. 4.
Ron Schaffeld scored 17,
Tony Broadus added 10 and
both Pat Bodine and Steve
Courtney scored 8. But the ,.
Titans could not hold off the
Clackamas scoring attack, as
all five Clackamas starters

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Team effort sparks Titan victory
our first half,'' says LCC
Coach Dale Bates. "We held
them to 31 on defense and
we had a lot of intensity, we
really got into the ballgame.

by Sonny Starr

for the Editor

Sparked by a great team
performance in the first half,
the Lane men held off

Safety tips for hoop fans
by Val Brown

TORCH Sports Editor

Being a spectator at a Titan home basketball game
can be relaxing, exciting, and dangerous, if you aren't
careful where you sit.
Last Saturday, I went to the game, not as a
reporter, but as a student of LCC interested in watching some live basketball.
What promised to be a relaxing but rousing good
time turned into a disastrous evening.
To ensure that this never happens to you, try my
most recently-learned tip: Beware of potentially
dangerous other people.
This shouldn't be too hard to do, since so few LCC
students support their teams these days that you
should be able to keep an eye on just about everyone.
But there are two groups in particular to be aware of.
• First, be sure to sit behind the family with the little two-year-old who is cranky because he missed his
nap. I failed to do so and nearly took a second shower
-- in Seven-Up ice water.
• Second, watch out for those older spectators! I
thought I was in for it when that youngster got
wound up, but I found that my touble really began
when a group of oldsters, all Portland Panther supporters, honed in on my space.
I should have moved.
These people had never heard of quiet pride, nor
tact for that matter.
There was one woman who must have been a
grandmother, judging from her enthusiasm and lack
of basketball knowledge.
She would cheer for her grandsons, (and as my
luck would have it, Portland had twins on its team)
even when one of them just strutted around the floor.
One thing that would subdue her was Todd Doll's
jumpshot. But eventually Doll's jumper didn't even
contain her, and she began to screech whenever the
ball was passed to him.
Whenever the referees blew a whistle on a Portland
player, she would exclaim, "Aw, he just wants to
play!''
Thank the high heavens that the Titans led through
most of the second half, because she actually began
leaping in the air as the Panthe s made an attempted
come back.
Despite the wild woman and the near-shower, I
had a fair time ''relaxing'' and supporting the Titans.
But the next time I go to a home game, I'll pick my
fellow spectators more carefully. Because next time,
I don't want to spend more time watching the spectators than I spend watching the game.

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Ron Schaffeld battles for two
Panthers.
Portland Community College, 85-76, in league action
on Saturday, Jan. 31. •
Lane led PCC 46-31 at
halftime, but committed turnovers that allowed the Panthers to cut the lead by six
points.
"I was really pleased with

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That was a really good feeling and really good to see the
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But, Bates concedes,
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year with the inability to play
40 minutes, and it caught us
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well and we got in trouble.''
In the second half,
Portland came at LCC with a
pressure defense, but Lane
managed to hold on. Good
performances by Todd Doll,
who scored 27 points and
pulled down four rebounds,
Ron Schaffeld with 21 points
and six rebounds, and Jeff
Thomas with 8 points, held
off PCC.
''Thomas, a non-starter for
us in the past, contributed
well for us. He went 4 for
4, "says Bates.
The win lifts Lane's league
record to 5-5 and 12-10
overall. Bates says that if the
Titans win three of their next
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Commission (OLCC) and
LCC are joining forces to
fight drunk driving.

by Melody Adams

others, thereby permitting greater incidence of transmission
from hand-to-hand contact.
Unlike colds, the flu or influenza is easily spread by sneezing and coughing. An acute virul infection of the respiratory
tact, the symptoms of influenza include chills, high fever,
sore throat, headache, abdominal pain, hoarseness, cough,
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pneumonia, sinus infections and ear infections, can develop.
While there are vaccines available which help the body
become immune to the virus, once the flu is contracted there
is no specific treatment other than to treat its symptoms and
try to prevent complications.
The University researchers say that good ventilation and
vigilant personal hygiene are the most important factors in
preventing people from catching and spreading colds and flu.
Among their recommendations:
Wash your hands frequently with soap and water, and inbetween times keep your hands from your nose and eyes;
Use disposable facial tissues rather than cloth handkerchiefs;
Clean contaminated household objects such as dishes and
the telephone.
If you do catch a cold or the flu remember to get plenty of
rest, drink plenty of fluids-which soothe the throat, help
relieve nasal congestion by speeding the passage of nasal
mucous and prevent dehydration from fevers-and don't
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under 18 should not be givin aspirin because of an association
with Reye' s syndrome, a rare but potentially fatal condition
that affects the brain and liver. Instead, give acetaminophen
in proper dosage for age.

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The Oregon Liquor Control

The program consists of
one eight-hour workshop
taught by John del Nero,
who worked Los Angeles
County Sheriff's Department
but is now retired. The program will stress the ability to
identify and deal with intoxicated customers, and the
legal aspects for the seller or
serv¢r.
"It's not always easy to tell
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• Response to the program
has been good, says Mitchell.
The school has received
several hundred phone call
queries about the program
dates -and times.

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contained a statemenr at- rant article could create frictributed to interim Vice Presi- tion between faculty and addent for Administrative Ser- ministration, and create a
vices Paul Colvin placing negative image of LCC in the
partial blame for this year's community. However, Colprojected $200,000 budget vin denies making many of
overrun on last year's the statements in the article.
negotiated 3.8 percent faculBut he explained that the
ty pay raise.
unanticipated expense
The shortfall has prompted associated with the pay raise,
an administrative request for along with declining interest
all departments to reserve rates, increased liability infive percent of this year's surance rates, and lowered
budget to assure an adequate enrollment were responsible
reserve fund for next year. for the shortage.
Faculty members Ruth
Several facutly members
voiced concern that the er- • Albrecht and Susan Dunne

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The college's Social
Science Department has
scheduled the first Alcohol
Server Education Program
(ASEP) workshop Feb. 3 at
the Downtown Center. Ron
Mitchell, department chair
and program coordinator,
says that ASEP is in response
to the law which went into
effect Jan. 1, requiring all
persons who sell or serve
alcohol to pass ASEP in order
to obtain new or renewed
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suggested that a retraction be
requested from the RegisterGuard, and Warford announced that a meeting with
reporter •James Thalman
would be held to clear up the
issue.
(The meeting was held on
campus Feb. 2. "We focused
on the fact that the reason for
the shortfall was not entirely
due to the faculty pay raise,
and asked Jim Thalman what
we could do to provide more
accurate information,'' Warford told the TORCH. The·
college did not request a
retraction or space for a
rebuttal, he said.)
On other topics, both
Belcher and Warford agreed
with some faculty members
that the college needs to invest more money in
marketing. The college is
spending about $3,000 on
television ads this quarter,
Belcher revealed.
Language Arts Instructor
Mike Rose promoted faculty
cooperation in the upcoming
LCC levy election, and the
decision by the State Board
of Higher Education to
change Oregon universities
to a semester system was
briefly discussed.
February 6, 1987

DAVID - I love you! (And to all you
snoops out there who read this just
as regularly as David does: I know
this one was a little boring! Find
your OWN excitement!) Love, Kelli
SUBMIT! Poetry, Prose and artwork
to DENALI MAGAZINE. Deadline
Feb. 6, 1987. Leave in TORCH office.
DGB,I'm still your fan.
DENALI MAGAZINE coffee hour.
Informal, casual poetic conversation! Center Building, fourth floor
479, noon to 1 p.m. Mondays.
M.R.: WE'LL see. J.C.
PAUL R. - I love you! C. Drako.
SENOR VERDE: come for fiesta muy
grande tonight, bring nothing but
your smile. Amor!
TO SEAMOAN; the ocean groans,
la-la la-la. A word: kibbitzing.
Hello, Tonya.
TERI - I DRIXORAL you with all
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Love, Mitch.
OBOE TIM - be my Valentine?
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Commies together! - Piccolo.
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HOST A "Creative Circle"
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More info. call Patti 342-6014.
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WANTED: TYPESETTER for the
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Call ext. 2657.
WANT QUALITY mechanic to do
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Trade only. Nan 461-2528, message.
TRADE: DO you have a single bed to
trade for my double bed? Phone
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EARN CAREER-RELATED work experience, college credit. Paid positions usually. LCC's Cooperative
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WANTED: SPACE to rent to store
old V2 ton P. U. Must be protected
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Monda}:, Feb. 9
WISTEC Orientation
Volunteers intei:ested in helping
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on January 31 in the Career Information Center. Hours will be from 9
a.m. 3:30 •p.m: A $10 fee will be
_charged to cover lunch • and
materials.
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Winter Term
Denali Submissions
Denali is accepting submissions
for its Winter Term literary arts
magazine. Examples of material
published: poetry, drawings, short
fiction, photography, and prints of
other art media such as sculpture
and woven works. Denali focuses on
LCC submissions, but also accepts
work from the community. Deadline
for this term is February 6. For further information, contact Editor
Regan Lee, 747-4501, ext. 2830, at
Center 479.
Winter Term
Career Information
The Career Information Center's
hours of operation for winter term
are: Mondays and Tuesdays 8 a.m.
to 8 p.m.; Wednesday, Thursday,
Friday 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturday mornings 9 a.m. to noon (from
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Sunday Feb. 8
Valentine's Day Truffle Trot
The Sixth Annual Valentine's Day
Truffle Trot welcomes all runners,
walkers, joggers, and wheelchair entrants. The.- benefit sace· ·for the
Association for Retarded Citizens of
Lane County is scheduled for Feb. 8.
It is sponsored by the Euphoria

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CUSTOM BUILT pickup canopy,
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70 SUZUKI SOOT with fairing. Very
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Chocolate Company.
A two-mile run will begin at 1
p.m., and a four-mile run at 1:45
. p.m. Both start and finish at Alton
Baker Park, in Eugene.
Registration is at Euphoria
Chocolate Company, 6 West 17th
Ave. If received by 1/31 registration
will be $9, and by 2/7 will be $10. No
registration the day of the race.
T-shirts are guaranteed on the race
day to the first 900 entrants. A drawing for truffles and other prizes will
be held.
Sunday Feb. 8
Human Rights Films
The Eugene Chapter of Amnesty
International will present two films
regarding human rights at 7:30 p.m.
in Lawrence Hall, UofO; $2 donation
asked.
Films are: Your Neighbor's Son: The
Making of a Torturer, and The Colors of
Hope, narrated by Meryl Streep. For
Information call Shan Titus,
683-1873, or 747-4501 ext. 2688.
Sunday Feb. 15
Asian Celebration
Asian foods, craft demonstrations,
art work, and colorful performing
groups representing the Asian communities of Eugene and Springfield,
will present t~e second annual Asian
Celebration on Sunday, February 15
at the Lane County Fairgrounds.
The event be_gins c!~ 11:30 a.m. and
continues until 7 p:m., with hourly
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Deliveries throughout the area . .

SONY XM700A car stereo amp, great
shape. New, $200, sell $125. Phil,
689-1533.
INVACARE
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wheelchair used two months, $500.
Walker, $50. Cold weather jumpsuit,
$35. 688-4483.
4 MAG WHEELS with trac-action
Concorde tires. Fit VW Bug. Lots of
tread, $225 or offer. 747-3446.
1907 WALTERS UPRIGHT antique
piano, $800 or best offer. Also 1900
books. 747-0732.

Admission is $2 for adults and $1
for children 12 and under.
Proceeds go toward funding Asian
cultural awareness programs for the
community.
For more information, call
344-3096.
Everyday
Student Activities
The Student Activities office will
post a Daily Student Activities
Calendar at 8 a.m. in the Cafeteria,
(West entrance), the Student
Resource Center, and near the North
elevator on the fourth floor, Center.
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a Valentines Ad
for $1
your message will include
color and 25 or fewer. Friday, Monday, .and
Tuesday in Center _Bldg.
Lobby from 11 a.m. to 1

p.m.

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on ·T uesdays to serve evening
students.
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Evening Newletter
Attention evening students: LCC
has a special information newsletter
for YOU! It's full of campus services
available here in the evening. Pick
up · your copy at the Counseling
counter or the Student Resource
Center in the Center Building.

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located at 5055 Mahala
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The charge is $1 . 25 per
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and a rich learning experience for your child .
If interested contact
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Crater Lake Lodge
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representatives will be
on LCC campus on Tuesday February 17, 1987,
interviewing for summer
seasonal resort positions.
Contact the LCC Student
Employment Service for
an application and interview appointment.
"An Equal Opportunity Employer"

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Tasaday people:fac torfiction?
by Melody Adams

for the TORCH

Are the Tasaday people really "stone age"
survivors, or are they a hoax on anthropologists and the naive?
A film by Oregon-born journalist John
Nance, showing at LCC Wednesday, Feb. 11,
~ddresses the question.
: The Tasaday made worldwide headlines in
the early seventies as a group of less than 100
people reportedly isolated from modern
society in the forest-locked highlands of Mindanao, one of the· islands of the Phillipines.
Some anthropologists assessed them -as
'' stone age'' in terms of technical development. The Tasaday gather food for subsistence, live in caves, aRd use stone tools.
However, ABC-TV's "20/20'' program called them ''The Tribe That Never Was,'' claiming that they were promoted as a stone age
tribe as part of an elaborate hoax by a
Phillipine governme_n t official who attempted
to win fame and fortune.

But according to formt:!r Associated Press
reporter and photographer Nance, "I believe
the Tasaday are real. That is based on my
own, first-hand experiences, the findings of
other witnesses, and analysis of scientific and
photographic data."
LCC anthropology instructor Ingrid Gram
agrees. "From all the data I have seen on the
Tasaday, I believe they are a genuine Stone
Age discovery.''
The Feb. 11 film and program, which is free
to the public, will focus on anthropol0gical
observations of the Tasaday, the psychology
of their lives, and the philosophy of their
stone age existence as compared to the standards of modern life.
The Tasaday presentation begins at 2 p.m.
in Forum 308. Free to the public, it is sponsored by the Oregon Committee for the
Humanities, and the Friends of the LCC
Library. Those wishing more information
may contact Gram, in the Social Science
Department, or Kathleen Wiederhold, the
LCC Reference Librarian.

The LCC Art Department Gallery hosts James Richard
Clark's Works On Paper through Feb. 20.

Irons flawless, DeNiro mesmerizing in Mission
by Robert Wolfe

TORCH Lead Reporter

The Mission is a movie with
mind-boggling scenery, topnotch cinematography, and
big-name actors. Winner of
the Palme d'Or award for
best film at Cannes in 1986, it
is a must-see production.
Its story is set in mid-1700s

Large numbers of native
Guarani Indians are being
killed or pressed into slavery
to make way for this European conquest.

Jesuit priests come to the
area and establish missions
deep in the jungle, instructing the Indians in religion,

When the territory of '' the
miss.ion'' changes hands
from Spain to Portugal, a
political decision is made to
drive out the Jesuits and
leave the Guarani helpless.

The movie opens with
shots of Argentina's spectacular Iguazu Falls, which is

who establishes a mission at
the top of the falls, and gains
the trust and love of the
Guarani.

the rest of the m9vie, is
dramatic, and De Niro' s
mesmerizing presence easily
commands these scenes.

Robert DeNiro is the slave
trader Rodrigo Mendoza,
who kills his brother over a
woman, then finds redemption with Father Gabriel by
helping the people he once
sold for money.

Equally as dramatic is the
social message contained in
this story. The natives of
these beautiful jungles are.
killed and exploited to make
way for the expansion of
white people, tragic acts
which occur in South
America to this day.

When Father Gabriel is
ordered to disband the mission and leave with his
priests, the two make the
decision to stay and defend
the Indians, Father Gabriel
with his faith, and Mendoza
with his sword.

Slave trader Robert DeNiro· achieves spiritual renewal with .the help of Jesuit priest
Jeremy Irons.
Spain and Portugal, when music, and agriculture, and
the main setting for the film.
the two countries were com- working to prevent the slave
Jeremy Irons plays .Father
peting for the same territory. trade.
Gabriel, a courageous priest,

Caknd ar

Through Feb.20
James Richard Clark will
display his Works On Paper at
the LCC Art Department
Gallery. Hours are 8 a.m. to
10 p.m., Monday-Thursday,
8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Friday.

February6
The Surf Trio, playing surf
and garage music, and the
Fugitives, playing rhythm
and blues and rock-and-roll,
will perform at 9:30 p.m. at
the W.O.W. Hall.
Page 12 The TORCH

Februaryl0
The Oregon Wind Ensemble, directed by Wayne-Bennet, will give a free concert at
8 p.m. in UofO's Beall Concert Hall.
February 12
Sandy Bradley and the
Small Wonder String Band
will perform traditional folk
music at 8 p.m., at Condon
School Auditorium, 18th and
Agate. Presented by the
Oregon Folklore Society and
the Eugene Folklore Society.

While Irons turns in a
flawless, high quality performance, DeNiro is by far the
dominant actor in the film.
When Mendoza decides to
redeem himself, Gabriel
gives him a pennance of
literally carrying the bttrden
of his past, a huge bundle of
armor and rusted weapons.
Mendoza drags this bad
memory around until at last
an Indian cuts the rope
which ties Mendoza to his
past, and he is freed by- those
he oppressed.
The symbolism here, as in

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In the final scenes, the
soldiers mindless killing of
these gentle people will have
an impact on those with the
awareness to comprehend it.
The movie has been
criticized
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ponderous and slow in
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