January 15, 1988
Vol. 23 No. 12

Lane
Community
College

Decision rushed

Semesters criticized

not aware, the state economic
developer was not aware, community colleges were not
aware, and legislators were not
aware" that a decision was
made so quickly.
House Bill 2695, introduced
during the 1987 legislative session, contained language requiring the State Board to remain on the quarter system.
According to VanLeeuwen,
''The bill got mired in committee" and never made it to the
floor.
The economic consequences
in converting may be overwhelming, says VanLeeuwen.
"Starting classes in late
August or early September
would interfere with seasonal
jobs for students and staff,
such as those in the
agricultural fields, for example, and firefighting.''
VanLeeuwan says those opposed to conversion are the
Oregon Student Lobby, the
University of Oregon faculty,
and various other members of
higher education. She urged
those opposed to the decision
to write letters to the members
of the State Board of Higher
Education protesting their
decision.

by Robert Ward

TORCH Associate Editor

Rennaisance RooD1 cuts schedule
by Julie Crist

TORCH Editor

The Renaissance Room is now open only
two days a week.
Formerly open Monday through Thursday, the student-run gourmet restaurant is
now open on Tuesday and Thursday from
11:30-1:30 p.m. for lunch.

Convinced that the conversion to semesters is a
"complex and complicated
process which needs much
more consideration," State
Rep. Liz VanLeeuwen, Dist.
37, appealed to the Oregon
State Board of Higher Education to curtail all semester conversion preparations until
June 30, 1989. She said the
• Board's decision to convert to
semesters will have far
reaching effects on students
and Oregon's economy.
VanLeeuwen, in a telephone
interview with the TORCH,
said, "The Board . . . admitted that it ... did not have any
information" on the ramifications of converting.
VanLeeuwen submitted a
written request to the Board's
committee on instruction,
research and public service at
the Dec. 19 Board meeting.
Joining her in the request to
suspend conversion activity
were Representatives Lonnie
Roberts, Mary Alice Ford,
and Peg Jolin.
The Linn County legislator
stated that ''the governor was

cliang~ aid disabled

"It's because of class schedule changes .
. and declining enrollment," says Willie
Kealoha, Food Service Program instructor
and coordinator.
Renaissance Room baked goods will now
also be sold only on Tuesdays and
Thursdays. Special dinners scheduled for
theater nights will not change.

by Aliee-WJteeler< ·• •

. . TORCH Staff Wdtet

,,ASLC€ Senators~ Preside~t Turner and oth~rs spent a
day in a wheelchair last terrn)to experience for them&elves
access~bility . problems the disabled ~fee on our campus.'
The A.SLCC declared last November Disabled Student
~ware~e~~ ¥<>nth Jo identify areas of the college that need
improvement.
According to llirectot of Campus Services Paul Colvin.t
$Ople <!~~~~~~h~ve .b~11inspired by the awareness project.
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Factfinding is underway
by Robert Ward

TORCH Associate Editor

After almost a year of negotiations, the college and the faculty union still cannot agree on
a new faculty contract. The old contract expired July 1, 1987, but continues to be binding
until a new one is accepted.
Issues on the bargaining table include instructor workload, retrenchment, insurance,
and salaries.
The union proposes a five percent salary increase retroactive to July 1, 1987 and a four
percent cost of living raise for the 1988-'89 contract year.
The college proposes to freeze salaries at the
'86-87 level and has not made a proposal for the
following year. President Turner, management,
and classified staff all received salary increases
last year.
Representing the college in the negotiations is

Lon Mills. Representing the union is Jack
Hunter.
Under state collective bargaining laws, when
two parties cannot reach agreement on a contract, both sides present their view to an independent arbitrator.
On Tuesday, January 12, an all-day factfinding session brought representatives from the
college and the union together to present proposals for a new contract to an independent arbitrator, Ted Hide.
Hide listened to both sides present their
views. He says his job is to "come up with a
decision based on arguments and data
presented by each side.'' He has 30 days to issue
a nonbinding judgement on what he believes is
a fair and reasonable settlement.
Both parties have five days to accept or reject
any part of the arbitrator's decision, after
which it becomes public.
Neither the college nor the union is bound by
any decision he renders.

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FORUMS & LETTERS

Settle contract d~pute
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forum by Jeff Moisan
ASLCC President

What is a contract? Webster's defines a contract as a "binding
agreement between two or more persons or parties" or "a
writing made by the parties to evidence the terms and conditions
of a contract.''
An interesting situation exists at LCC right now concerning
our faculty and its job contract. The faculty's contract expired
last July first, so the faculty is currently working under the same
terms of the old contract. When a new contract is agreed upon,
any changes made will be retroactive to July 1, 1987.
Why has the faculty been working without a contract for over
six months? Well, it seems the administration and the faculty
have reached an impasse over certain terms in the contract.
Without going into too much detail, here are the highlights of
the disagreements: 1) There has been no response to the faculty's proposal on workload. 2) The college is proposing no increase on faculty's salaries. 3) The college proposes a ceiling on
insurance premium payments. 4) There is a disagreement on
retrenchment. 5) There is an issue about the number of people
the president can appoint to the committee that determines if a
faculty member is eligible for leave..
I would like to make a brief comment on one item of disagreement -- the college's proposal to decline a faculty salary increase.
While I agree that LCC is experiencing financial hardships, it
does seem a bit hypocritical to give a raise to the president and
. management and then say we have no money for teachers. Having studied economics, I know that without cost of living adjustments, and with inflation, the same amount of money buys
less.
,The college has called in an independent arbitrator to help settle the differences that have developed. After all the facts are
pr~sented to the arbitrator, he is given 30 days to submit a pro-.
posal which hopefully is fair to both sides. Both sides have the
option to reject the arbitrator's decision. If either side rejects,
and a compromise cannot be struck, then the teachers have the
option to strike. After recently experiencing the implications of
the 4-J teacher's strike, I don't need to tell you what effect this
would have on LCC.
In an address to the Board of Education on Dec. 9, LCC
Education Association President George Alvergue had this to
say about the contract situation and the faculty's effort to help
market LCC: "I must tell you that the frustration is beginning to
give way to a general deterioration of morale on this campus. If
this continues, all of the efforts to promote marketing of the college among the faculty have been wasted."
If this is allowed to continue further to the point of a strike,
the victims will be students, among others. I would like to encourage both sides to come to an agreement as soon as possible,
because when LCC is pushing so hard to show a positive image
in the community and pass a May 17 tax base election, we cannot afford to let this situation destroy all that we have worked
for.

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Call to freedom
To the Editor:
Now that we have 1987, the
bicentennial year of the United
States Constitution, behind us
we must not forget the call
that we all have to that document that guards our freedom.
Some of the leaders of our
country know the importance
of guarding the Constitution. I
was recently reading an article
in which former Secretary of

son, challenged us all to study
that very document. He encouraged Americans to seek
out honest leaders and to
become more involved in the
civic and political affairs of
our great nation. ''We must
become involved in civic affairs ... " he said. "As citizens
of this republic we can not do
our duty and be idle spectators.''
We must not forget that if
we don't safeguard our
see Letters, page 7

Look what they've done to registration, Ma!
by Julie Crist

TORCH Editor

I am being dragged into the age of computers kicking and
screaming.
I am reminded of this at registration each term, when I get
to live the joy of being rejected, hung-up-on, and negated
from existence by an omnipotent, Columbia School of Broadcasting voice emanating from a wad of wires. All of this occurs over the phone, "for my convenience."
I was overwhelmed by the convenience of this process last
term. After 10 aborted phone calls in 3 days, I conveniently
ended up walking down the hill to the grocery store at 10 p.m.
in the rain to register for my classes.
And convenience once again reared its ugly head when I
had to make (God forbid!) a schedule change.
I went to school to enlist the help of one of the legion of
red-shirted Student Service Associates in my battle. After
three unsuccessful hours, I decided that it was time to find the
person/ s responsible for this computerized chaos and point
out the error of their ways. I asked my red-shirted liason
where I could find such a person.
"Well, there isn't a person," she replied.
"Yes, but I just need to talk to someone who can correct
my schedule on the computer,'' I said.
"Yeah, I know, but there aren't any people who can do
that," she answered. "It's all done by the computer."
As all of my fantasies of two or three people cheerfully sitting by phones, waiting to smooth out registration glitches
crumbled, abject fear set in. I realized that it's finally happenPage 2

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ing. Computers are taking over. And computers don't care.
I look back on the faces behind last year's registration
tables with fondness. They cared. They looked at me and
spoke. They fixed my problems and told me what line to go
to. I could pay my bills, have my ID card made and stamped,
talk to counselors and meet old friends, all under one roof.
The actual process never took me more than 10 minutes to
complete, and when I was done, I felt like school had really
started.
I've been told that a major reason for the computer silliness
is that it costs less. For whom? It costs students $1 for this
new and improved frustration.
Another reason, I'm told, is the advantage of never having
to leave your home 'to register. This must explain why the
bank of phones that is installed in the Center Building each
term for student registration is usually occupied -- with a
15-30 minute waiting period.
I suppose it also explains why the TORCH office phone is
constantly occupied with TORCH staff trying to "get
through" during registration. If some students find coming
out to school once for registration so tragically inconvenient,
how on earth will they suffer through the ordeal of attending
classes?
Let's assume for a minute that the person who persuaded
LCC to accept this process wasn't a computer salesperson.
Let's assume that he or she really did have the students' best
interest at heart. To that person I want to say, "No, thanks.
I'd rather be confounded in camaraderie than killed with convenience.''

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TdRCh
EDITOR: Julie Crist
ASSOC/A TE EDlTOR:
Robert Ward
ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR:
David Monje
SPORTS EDITOR: Pat Bryan
PHOTO EDlTOR: Mike Primrose
ASSISTANT PHOTO EDITOR:
Russ Sherrell
STAFF WRITERS: Denise Abrams, Brian
Frishman, Craig Smith, Alice Wheeler, Bob
Walter
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Don Jones, Sean Elliot
PRODUCTION MANAGER:
Kimberly Buchanan
ASSISTANT PRODUCTION MANAGER:
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PRODUCTION: Kerry Wade, Denise
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EDITORIAL CARTOONIST:
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COMPUTER GRAPHICS:
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DISTRIBUTION: Rhonda Lanier
TYPESETTING: Jaylene Sheridan, Russ
Briles, Cheryl Southmayd
AMANUENSES: Alice Wheeler, Penny
Whalen
ADVERTISING ADVISER:
Jan Brown
PRODUCTION ADVISER:
Dorothy Wearne
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Pete Peterson
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newspaper published on Fridays, September
through May. 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 identified with a
special byline.
"Forums" are essays contributed by
TORCH readers and are aimed at broad
issues facing members of the community.
They should be limited to 750 words.
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compiled by_Robert Ward

TORCH Associate Editor

Enrollment Up For Community Colleges

Community College ~nrollment in Oregon in 1986-1987
increased for the first time in six years, according to Community College Commissioner Mike Holland.
The equivalent of 51,642 full-time students attended
community colleges, a three percent increase from the
previous year.
Fall term enrollment in 1987 at the 16 colleges is one percent higher than a year ago, and continued growth is expected because the economy is improved and the number
of high school graduates has increased.
However, the major reason for the turnaround was a
• literacy campaign which attracted thousands of Oregonians to basic skill classes at community college campuses.
The number of adults taking basic skill classes jumped in
Oregon 26 percent, from 22,660 to 28,520 compared to six
percent nationwide.
Holland said that television, while often seen as the
villian of education, was a hero in the campaign. ABC.and
PBS sponsored the national PLUS (Project Literacy US)
campaign, while the effort in Oregon was led by stations
KATU-TV and KOAP-TV.
Holland said the two stations volunteered people and
money to make things happen. "While television sent the
message, community colleges delivered the education. Fortunately, our community college system gave us a readymade organization to provide services,'' he explained.
Donna Lane, state director of adult education, coordinated the literary campaign.
Counties Petition For Services

The Oregon State Board of Education last week approved studies to determine the feasibility of expanding community college services in Jackson and Curry counties.
Residents petitioned the two counties asking for the services. The petition from Jackson County requested the formation of a community college district, while the petition
from Curry County asked for the formation of a community college service district.
Oregon has 13 community colleges and three community
college service districts. Service distdcts must contract •
with community colleges and they may not purchase property.
After the feasibility studies are held the board will hold
hearings in the counties before deciding whether to approve elections. If elections are approved, the state
Legislative Emergency Board must allocate money to hold
them. If elections are successful, programs could begin as
early as July of 1989.
At the same meeting the OSBE agreed to ask the State
Board of Higher Education not to move ahead on its proposed foreign language requirements until the two boards
• meet to discuss how those requirements might affect
schools and community colleges.

Believes in one to one approach

Questions raised in King shooting
book review by Robert Ward

TORCH Associate Editor

In the 1960s Pres. Lyndon
Johnson referred to him as
that '' goddamned nigger
preacher," Assistant F. B .I.
Director Cartha De Loach
called him a ''vicious liar,''
and Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W
Va) called him a "rabble
rouser.''
Are they talking about
public enemy number one? A
foreign spy? No, their comments were directed at Martin
Luther King Jr.
In 1977, Mark Lane and
Dick Gregory coauthored a
book titled Code Name
"Zorro" -- The Murder of
Martin Luther King Jr. Zorro
is the code name the FBI gave
to King.
The book, while exploring
the FBI' s relentless harrassment of King, also casts extreme doubt on the validity of
James Earl Ray's guilty plea in
the killing of King.
Lane is an attorney who investigated and wrote about the
assasination of Pres. John
Kennedy in Rush to Judgement. Gregory is a comedian,
activist, author, and he~lth
food proprietor.
In the book Gregory
describes his personal experiences with King. He relates
the civil rights marches, the
time in jail, and the personal
friendship with King which
made them perhaps the two
black activists of the 60s.
Lane reveals his unrelenting
investigation into the truth
behind the assasination. He attempts to answer questions the
FBI didn't dare ask, such as:
Why was King's police protection removed the day of his
assassination? Why was Ed
Redditt, a black Memphis
police detective, removed
from his security position
across from the Loraine Motel
an hour before King's
murder? Why was Floyd
Newsum, a black firefighter
working in the station by the
Loraine Hotel, reassigned to
another station even though it
left the station one man short

Con1n1unications Director appointed

by David Monje

TORCH Entertainment Editor

The ASLCC appointed Dan
LaMarche their new communications director in
December. He fills the vacancy left by Robert Wolfe, who
resigned from the position for
personal reasons.
LaMarche is familiar with
student government from his
experience as an ASLCC
senator during the '86-87
school year.
The communications director is responsible for the
publicity of the ASLCC. He
also serves on the 15 member
Media Commission, composed of LCC students and faculty, that appoints the editors of
the TORCH, and Denali
magazine.
Along with his regular
duties as communications

director, LaMarche hopes to
work on the problem of student apathy at LCC. ''The
way I look at it, anybody

Dan LaMarche

who's alive has a vested interest in making life on this
planet better. When people are
so apathetic about civil rights,
environmental issues, and
things like that, I think it's
self-destructive," he says.

LaMarche hopes to use the
bulletin boards, reader
boards, and other publicity
mediums, including the
TORCH, to build an interest
in student government at
LCC. He believes, however,
that the most effective way of
developing interest in student
government issues is by approaching people·on a one-toone basis, which he hopes to
do as much as possible.
Other items on LaMarche' s
agenda include rebuilding the
reputation and influence of
the ASLCC. ''The student
government has lost a lot of
the power it used to have,''
says LaMarche.
LaMarche has been a student at LCC for the past three
and a half years. He moved to
Eugene from Tucson, AZ, in
1984.

and techniqually inoperable? lines. Ray says his last job was
. Why did the FBI, with a per- to buy a high-powered deer risonal vendetta against King, fle and meet Raoul at the
conduct the investigation of Loraine Motel. While he was
his murder? Why did it take enroute, he heard on the news
the FBI 25 minutes after the • that the police were looking
news of King's shooting to for a white male, driving a
send men to the scene?
white mustang, (same year as
Lane's revelations send his) as a suspect in the
chills through the spine. J. shooting of King!
Edgar Hoover's FBI took exThe FBI never bothered to
treme measures to discredit look for the mysterious Raoul.
King and portray him as a
The book's other star
communist lackey.
"witness" is Arthur MurThrough testimony from taugh, an FBI agent for twenty
two main characters, James years who retired early
Earl Ray and FBI agent Ar- because he was fed up with J.
thur Murtaugh, Lane reaches Edgar Hoover and his policies.
the conclusion that if the FBI
In 1976 Murtaugh testified
were to answer the above ques- before the House Select Comtions, it would leave no choice mittee on Intelligence that the
but to indict itself.
FBI did everything in its power
When Ray pleaded guilty to to discredit King. Murtaugh
the murder of King almost a said it went as far as to try and
year after it happened, he dissuade the Pope from
made it clear in court, to the meeting with King, and tried
judge, that he believed there to dissuade a major university
was a conspiracy to assassinate (not named) from presenting
King. But neither his lawyer, King with a doctorate degree.
nor the Tennesee attorney Murtaugh explains how the
general, nor the judge asked FBI conveyed to university ofhim what he meant by the ficials that they were about to
remark.
release an expose on King
After his arrest Ray was which would prove that he was
kept in solitary confinement a communist agent.
24 hours a day with a bright
Murtaugh exposes the FBI
light on. After a couple of he knew as a bumbling
weeks of this, he says he assemblage of intimidated
became confused and allowed defectives whose only purpose
his lawyer to convince him he in life was to appease their
would get the electric chair if god, J. Edgar Hoover.
he refused to cooperate. Ray
Ray certainly was no saint.
pleaded guilty because he But an important question rebelieved he was an unknowing mains unanswered. Why
participant in the murder. "I would Ray want to kill King?
was just a patsy'', Ray says.
What would he gain?
Mark Lane interviewed Ray
This is not just a book for
for many hours at Brushy
buffs. It is a
assassination
Mountain Penitentiary in
of how a law
documentation
1976. Lane paints Ray as an
can be
agency
enforcement
articulate, intelligent man. In
interest.
of
conflict
of
guilty
their discussions, Ray ilIt is ridiculous nowadays to
luminates a bizarre tale of how
he ended up at the Loraine think that a man -- whom the
US has honored with a namotel on April 4, 1968.
Ray claims he was working tional holiday -- would be
for a man he knew only as harassed so thoroughly by the
Raoul. Ray says he performed FBI as King was.
The book may be checked
odd jobs for Raoul, such as
transporting tires across state out from the LCC library.

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January 15, 1988

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Interview: LCC Board member, Bill Manley
by Craig Smith

TORCH Staff Writer

Or people who have raised
families or have been injured
on the job, who are entering
the work force from a different perspective -- many of
these people would benefit
from the counseling, training,

Editor's note: This is the third
in a series of TORCH interviews with members of the
LCC Board of Education.
Board members are elected by
LCC district voters and serve
four-year terms on a voluntary
basis.
This week the TORCH
publishes a condensed
transcript of a conversation
with Bill Manley, now serving
his fourth year as an LCC
Board member. He has been in
the cookie business for over
seven years and currently owns
the Cookie Cottage downtown
on Oak Street.
Manley has served on the
faculty of the U of O; and 20
years ago as an instructor in
the Science Department of
LCC.
TORCH: What are your feelings concerning access to
education, especially to LCC?
MANLEY: Finance plays a
. part in gaining access to college, but even with money
(students might experience) ...
other barriers that do not
allow for direct access.
' My goal would be to
diminish as many of those barriers as possible -- for example
-- for those who didn't have ·
the grades for a prestigous institution; those wanting to stay and atmosphere of another
at home or not wanting to year or two of college. That
check into a regimented higher could really help them.
So, my goal is to retain ...
education program because
they don't know what they the open door policy.
We want to retain the qualiwant to do; or for those who
want to check out several dif- ty while at the same time keepferent careers fields. These ing our services as inexpensive
students can do these things at as possible.
There's no value to us to
the community college, then
transfer and become more raise tuition just to raise
money. We really try as a
selective.

board to spend money as wisely as possible, but there's a
point when you have got to
pay the bills. Some of that
(revenue) has to come from
the students' pockets, and
some can come from - other

photo by Michael Saker

peoples' pockets, too. Recently the community has not been
very receptive.
TORCH: So does a change
need to occur financially for
LCC?
MANLEY: I'm hoping we'll
get a new tax base in the spring. I'm not very optimistic
about that. I just think the
community has been beaten up
so badly with our depression

and with so many people taking wage-<mts, they are not
about to increase their property taxes.
If we can't (pass a new tax
base) then I think we'll have to
learn to live within the budgets
that we have.
TORCH: Do you see a need
for better public relations with
the community and LCC?
MANLEY: Very definitely.
Particularly -- from the recent
history -- I think that the more
recent problems that the
school has faced have raised
somewhat of a question in the
eyes of the community.
Back 20 years, ago the community was so supportive of
the college because the community had an expectation
level of the college. . . It was
filling a need that wasn't filled
before.
Now, I think through
natural evolvement, the
crusaders of the original
generation are not here. . . .
People expect us to be here,
but we' re not getting the
recognition we deserve. We're
serving more people, but it's
just not news anymore ....
If there was one goal I
wanted to accomplish when I
became a board member it was
to return the excitement that
the community once had in
LCC.
... I sense the lack of dedication; the lack of the romance
of working here. To too many
people it's become a job. If it's
just a job, then we will lose the
enthusiasm, the charisma this
college once had. Maybe we've
lost it. But it's my goal for the
community to recapture the
spirit of LCC and be proud of
it, the staff included.

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TORCH: What are some of
your ideas on accomplishing
this?
MANLEY: There are so many
facets of it. • I get very
frustrated with the collective
bargaining process for one
thing, because, in my opinion,
that is an adversarial role.
TORCH: So what you're concerned about is the image?
MANLEY: Excactly right.
Both internally and externally.
And just one facet of it is
staff relations. Instead of
bickering, I wish people could
see that we are all on the same
side of the fence .... But some
of the games we have to play,
collective bargaining being one
example, really cause some
things that are hard to overcome ....
To the outside community,
it looks like a family that
fights on the inside ...
TORCH: Some people say
there is an inherent conflict
between the goals of the college administration, and the
employees -- between those
who control the finances, and
those who are operating under
that control.
MANLEY: I understand that.
I also believe that . . . people
tend to second-guess the decisions -of any person above
them.
Kids question parents.
Parents question their bosses.
Bosses question the government. You always nitpick the
next level.
I understand the differences
in perspective between administration and faculty. They
each have different factors in
making decisions.

see Manley, page 6

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Titans begin "league play with a split
U01pqua drops LCC

Branch hits 18
to lead men

by Patrick Bryan

TORCH Sports Editor

The LCC men's basketball team
managed to stay close to the Umpqua CC
squad for a half, but in the end fell to the
Timbermen Saturday night in Roseburg
83-63.
With five players scoring in double
figures the UCC team began pulling away
early in the second half. Using a rugged
inside game the Timbermen controlled the
boards on both ends.
Lane's leading scorer, Don Brent, was
ineffective most of the night and left the
game early in the second half with a
sprained ankle. With no one able to pick
up the slack for the Titans things quickly
got out of hand with Umpqua's Steve
Hutchinson and Donald Bolston
dominating things underneath and guard
Anthony Steward controlling the tempo.
When the Titans were able to get their
offense working they usually only had one
chance to score before the UCC team
cleared the boards and started the fast
break, which more often than not ended
with an easy Umpqua bucket.
Umpqua's Chris Patoine led both
teams with 20 points. Tony Broadous and
Harold Michaud scored 15 and 13 points
respectively for Lane.
Lane - Broadous 15, Michaud 13, Auxier
8, Branch 4, Fliessner 6, Surmeier 7,
Courtney 4, Brent 6
UCC - Patoine 20, Hutchinson 16, Roach
13, Stewart 10, Cook 2, Leonard 5, Sigsby
2, Bolston 15, Gray

by Patrick Bryan

TORCH Sports Editor

Titan guard Tony Broadus' last second
heroics led the LCC men's basketball
team to a 72-69 victory in their Northwest
Athletic Association of Community Colleges opener over Southwestern Oregon
CC Lakers on Jan 6.
Broadous, who missed a short jumper
with only :25 left in the game, rebounded
his errant shot and calmly sunk what turned out to be the game winner six seconds
later.
Harrison Branch led the Titan scoring
with 18 points in a game that saw Lane
leading by four at the half, 42-38.
The Titans led almost the whole second
half but crucial turnovers, a problem for
LCC all year, kept SWOCC close enough
to make for the wild finish.
The Titans' Don Brent finished with 17
points and Freshman Harold Michaud
contributed 13.
Lane - Fleissner 7, Broadous 8, Michaud
13, Branch 18, Courtney 4, Surmeier 5,
Brent 17
SWOCC - Green 10, Richard 14, Hilliard
4, Jennings 2, Mitchell 9, Clay 16,
Thompson 14

LCC's Tony Broadous celebrates with teammate Jeff Thomas after 72-69
victory over Umpqua.

LCC ·w omen take.

Next for the

two out of three
by Patrick Bryan
TORCH Sports Editor

The LCC women's basketball team won their
NW AACC league opener Jan.
6 against Southwestern
Oregon CC, 65-61, and then
ran smack into preseason
favorite Umpqua CC and
came out on the short end of a
79-46 decision.
Terri Gortler's 16 points led
the Titans against the Lakers
and her tough inside play gave
Lane a much needed boost.
Sheryl Jones and Tanya
Thompson each contributed
14 points to help Lane to the
win.
The Titans traveled to
Roseburg on Jan. 9 to play
Umpqua CC and quickly
found out what life in the upper echelons of their league is
all about. The Timberwomen
jumped all over Lane early,
leading 22-5 just nine minutes
into the game.
From there things just got
worse, and a glum Coach Loos
said afterwords "we stunk".
The Titans had trouble all
night with Umpqua's Kristy
Frady, a 6'1" freshman from
nearby Winston. Frady
dominated play underneath
and the Titans were never in
the game.
Things got a little better
when Lane visited Monmouth

on Jan. 11 to play the Western
Oregon State College JV' s and
came away with a 49-44 nonconference win. The victory
evened the Titan's record at
8-8. Once again Terri Gortler
led the way with 15 points and
guard Tracy Looney chipped
in 10 to give Lane some much
needed momentum for their
next league game, Jan. 15 in
Gresham, against Mt. Hood
CC.

Titans ....
graphic by Carol Neal

Jan. 15 at Mt. Hood CC
Jan. 16 PCC at Lane

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the Central Presbyterian Church, 1475
Ferry St.

Friday

15

Music

Commemoration

John Cale and Chris Spedding will
perform at the Community Center for
the Performing Arts, WOW Hall, 8th
and Lincoln. Cale, from London, is
the founder of the Velvet
Underground, and a well known
rocker whose work runs the gamut
"from the raocous to the classical."
Spedding is known as a diverse rock
performer. Doors open at 9:00 p.m.,
show starts at 9:30. Admission is $8
day of the show, $7 advance at EMU
Main Desk, Balladeer Music, House
of Records, Record Garden, Cat's
Meow, Happy Trails (in Corvalis) and
the WOW office.

ASLCC hosts the Rev. Ralph Abernathy, who will soeak in honor of the
late Martin Luther King at the Hult
Center's Soreng Theater. A poetry
reading by Dr. Ed Coleman and
gospel music by Inspirational Sounds
will follow Abernathy's speech. The
free event will begin at 8:00. Tickets
are available at LCC and the Hult
Center.
HONEY (Honoring Our Ethnic
Youth) will host a family event with
Eugene Pastor Jon Pierce and the
spiritual music group Glow Love
Angelic Band. A birthday cake for the
late Martin Luther King will be served.
Musical performances by Shakubuku
and Possitive Force are planned. The
event is co-sponsored by the Eugene
Anti-Apartheid Coalition. The event
begins at 5:00 p.m. at Condon School,
1787 Agate St.

Cole Porter Review will be a benefit
for the Carper House, a support home
for poeple with AIDS and ARC. Brian
Swingle, Allison Coles, Lynne Brown,
and Paul Mack will sing. Joylene
McFarland will play piano. The concert is at the Unitarian Curch, 40th
and Donald. Tickets are $10.

Music

Film

Chamber Music by Joan Benson,
fortepiano, and Susan Schwarts,
-violin, will be performed at Beal Concert Hall, 961 E. 18th Avenue. Admission is $4 general, $2 students and
seniors, and free for U of O students
and children under 12.

The Untouchables, starring Brian
Costner and Robert DeNiro, will show
at 7:00 and 9:30 p.m. at 180 PLC,
14th and Kincaid, on the U of O campus. Cost is $2.50.
The Yellow Submarine Beatles
classic animated film will show at 7 :00
p.m. and 9:00 p.m. in 150 Geology,
13th and University, on the U of 0
campus. $2 admission.

Hole in the Ocean and Etouffee will
perform at the Community Center for
the Performing Arts WOW Hall, 8th
and Lincoln. Hole in the Ocean is
known for its psychadelic rock mingled with ethnic sounds. Etouffee is a
four piece electric Cajun band. The
concert is a benefit for Rebeckah, and
her son Shiviah. Doors open at
9:00p.m., and the show starts at 9:30.
Tickets are $4.

Workshop
Symbolic Painted Constructions:
insired by John Lily's exhibition of
three-dimensional "paintings,''
children will create their own
monuments representing favorite
places and experiences. The workshop
for 5-8 year olds will be 10:00-noon;
9-12 year olds from 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Cost is $7 for non-members, $5 for
members.

Film
Eating Raoul, a dark comedy cult
classic, shows at 9:00 and 11:00 p.m.
in 150 Geology, 13th and University,
on the U of O campus. Admission is
$2.

Sunday
17

Place of Weeping, an underground
South African film, and Two Rivers, a
poet's view of apartheid, will be
shown in 180 PLC, 14th and Kincaid,
on the U of O campus. Show times for
both movies are 6:45 and 9:45 p.m.
Admission is $3 general, $2 students,
and $1 children.

Dance
Veslo Community Folk Dancers will
perform international folk dances.
Classes for beginners, intermidiate,
and advanced dancers will be given
simultaneously from 7:00-8:00 p.m.
There will be a request dance following, from 8:00-10:00 p.m. The event
takes place at the Westmoreland Community Center, 1545 W. 22nd. Cost is
$2.

Saturday
16
Commemoration

Film

The Ministerial Association hosts
the Rev. Colin Jones of South Africa,
who will speak in honor of the late
Martin Luther King. An original cantata performance of King's I Have a
Dream speech, composed by Eugenean Jon Sutton, will follow. The
event will take place at 7:30 p.m. at_

The Conformist, Bernardo Bertolucci's classic film about Itally durring Mussolini's reign, will show at
7:00 p.m. in 180 PLC, 13th and
University, on the U of O campus. $2
admission.

see Goings On, page 8

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Self Support classes increase
by Roxanne Smith

TORCH Staff Writer

A dramatic increase of Self-Support classes
appeared in LCC's Winter Schedule.
Having initially introduced 12 Self-Support
classes in the Fall Term of 1987, the Office of
Instruction increased the student-funded classes
by 74 in just one term.
Self-Support classes are taught only if
enough students register to "support" the instructor's salary. Because of the tentative status
of these classes, most are taught by noncontracted, part-time faculty.
The Self-Support concept contradicts the
school policy of allowing students who pay for
12 credit hours to take an additional number of
credit hours free of charge. Now, if the extra
classes a full-time student wants to study include Self-Support classes, the student pays an
extra $22 per credit hour.
Vice President of Instruction Jacquelyn
Belcher indicated at an English Department
faculty meeting on Oct. 21 that her reason for
instituting this program was to provide a service
-- more available classes -- without putting a
major strain on the school budget.
Early this week, ·attempts were made to speak

Manley,

from page4 _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __

. . . I would wager to say
that if most of the people who
were objecting to what we had
to do were on our side of the
table (during budget reductions), they would make the
same kinds of decisions we
had to make.
TORCH: . . . What has been
learned from last spring's
budget problems?
MANLEY: I think there are a
lot of dynamics in this last
(budget) that I hope will never
occur again.
It was the first time we had
to be so drastic in our cuts.
The cuts should have been occurring over a number of years
instead of being all gunny
sacked in one year.
TORCH: So was the primary
problem this "process" of
bureaucratic decision-making,
or the conflict and lack of
communication between the
Turner adminstration and the
faculty?
MANLEY: Well, I think you
just hit on the two major componets.
It was an either-or thing.
Both came into play. The staff
brought some perceptions on
how the administration
operated into the budget
preparation process that really
scared people. In some
respects, that became the issue
rather than the lack of finan-

cial resources.
TORCH: What has the LCC
board done to help insure this
doesn't occur again?
MANLEY: I don't think
we've made new policies . . .
but we understand the importance of better process. We
have insisted on that process
working. I'm not sure to this
day that the whole process was
that bad.
I'm sure there were some
decisions made by management that could have been
processed better. Every decision that was made was not
necessarily the best decision ..
maybe they acted too quickly
or without enough information. There were so many decisions to be made. . . .
TORCH: But the main complaint was the administration
didn't listen to enough, or to
any input before making those
decisions ....
MANLEY: And that's a mixed report.
There were a lot of verbal
people who said that. There
were some other people who
said the exact opposite -- but
those other people were probably not as verbal and had
more to lose if they spoke out.
If you are a faculty member
in a department and there is a
iot of negative information go-

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ing around, it's pretty hard for •
one person to stand up and say
"that's not right," because
they have to work with those
collegues. So many of those
people didn't speak out as
much as they could have, or
maybe should have.
TORCH: Could you emphathize with any of the faculty grievences?
MANLEY: Certainly. This
was a terrible situation for
everybody.
It's their (faculty union)
prerogative to make sure decisions are made properly.
TORCH: Realistically speaking, is LCC just going to have
to make do with less, even in
the long term?
MANLEY: Even if we get the
tax base that's not going to
solve all of our problems.
We will never, probably,
regain what we lost. So we are
going to have to do better with
very low increases in revenues
if, at all.
I don't know what it is going to take for a revival. If the
community were to become
really healthy and people's
wages weren't being cut, then
they would be more willing to
part with some property tax
dollars.
I think it's going to be a
struggle ....

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with Belcher and her two assistants on this
issue, but they were unavailable.
Some faculty have questioned whether there
are better alternatives.
George Alvergue, LCC social science instructor, and faculty union president, feels a
reassessment of the budget is in order.
"I believe it is a matter of priorities, and that
a reallocation of resources is needed within the
budget."
According to Alvergue we ''need to bite the
bullet and get full-time students in here'' so that
LCC will be eligible to receive more state funding. He adds that when one full-time student
might be required to pay excess tuition, and
another may not, a question of inequality
arises. Thus, it promotes an unfavorable impression of the school.
"I have heard a lot of concern, from faculty
as well as students, that the Self-Support classes
would take over,'' states Jeff Moisan, president
of ASLCC.
Moisan says students have been confused
over whether these classes are actually
necessary, and the inequality it renders unto the
full-time student having to enroll in one of
these types of classes.

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SRC reorganizes recycling program
by Doug Naish
For the TORCH

Curtis Grant, the Student Resource Center's
new recycling coordinator, is reorganizing its
program
He is addressing the problems that led to a
failure to recycle any paper for the month of
October.
According to SRC Director Dagny Brown,
most recycling delays are due to spending time
separating four different types of paper; white,
colored, newsprint, and computer ·print. The
SRC staff plans on placing labels on the barrels
identifying the type of paper it will hold.
Recyclers must also remove garbage thrown into the containers.

Brown says this year's staff does not include
any persons from a year ago. Grant adds that
only two or three people help with the recycling
effort.
The SRC's plan is to make one drop a month
for the rest of the school year, states Brown.
The program brings in $40 to $80 a month in
profit. This year $189 has ·been raised by paper
recycling in three separate drops.
The staff is painting all of the paper barrels
blue with a white diagonal stripe around them.
The eye-catching design will make the drums
easily recognizable as recycling barrels and not
trash cans. Six of the new barrels are going to
be placed in the southeast section of the
cafeteria.

McMillan passes away
by Julie Crist

TORCH Editor

Math Lab assistant William
McMillan died January 8 at
the age of 69.
McMillan was a volunteer
assistant in the Math Lab in
December, 1985. He was hired
as a permanent, part-time
employee at the beginning of
this term.
His wife, Mary, is a
Cataloging Aide in the Learning Resource Center.

"He really enjoyed working
with the students," says
Marianne Lindbloom, Math
Department secretary. She
adds that McMillan donated
several extra hours of his personal time to assist students or
to help out in the lab.
"He set up a time to help
nursing students totally on his
own -- no pay or anything,''
says Lindbloom.
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them, not necessarily by war,
but from within. The actions
of a corrupt few can threaten
the very fiber of our country.
The same fiber that many
Americans have laid their lives
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January 15, 1988

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ENTERTAINMENT

Cream of the crop for 1987 may be Broadcast N-ews
by David Monje

Aaron Altman (played by
Albert Brooks) is the opposite
of Tom. He's a witty, experienced journalist who,
despite his best efforts, totally
lacks the on-camera poise of
Tom.

TORCH Entertainment Editor

If you want to see a highen erg y, hilarious, and
sometimes bittersweet romantic comedy, '' Broadcast
News" is the one.

All three characters are
believable and delightful.
They are so caught up in the
racetrack world of network
news that they almost let their·
lives slip by unnoticed.

The movie, ostensibly about
the fast-paced, often volatile
world of TV network news,
was written and directed by
James Brooks, whose most recent film was "Terms of
Endearment.'' Brooks also
created the Ted Baxter
character on ''The Mary Tyler
Moore Show''.
Although Brooks accurately
portrays the tension and chaos
of the TV newsroom -- a scene
in the editing booth is particularly hair-raising -- it's the
people, not the setting, who
make the movie roll.
Brooks focuses on three
main characters whose lives
are inextricably involved in
their work.

Goings On,
Ravel's Tzigane, and Beethoven's
Romance in G major are the featured
works to be performed by Holly Stern,
violin, and Linda Barker, piano, at the
First Congregational Church, 23rd
and Harris. The event is free, donations will be accepted.

Monday
18

Photography show
Ibraheem Wahab is exhibiting
photographs, drawings, and prints, in
Gallery 141, at the U of 0. The opening reception will be at 7:00 p.m. in
the gallery. The show is free.

Music
The Seldom Scene will perform at
the Community Center for the Performing Arts, WOW Hall, 8th and Lincoln. Cash Box magazine describes the
band as "America's best bluegrass
band." Doors open at 9:00 p.m.,
show starts at 9:30. Admission is $8
day of the show, $7 advance at the
usual outlets.
Oregon String Quartet will perform
works by Beethoven, Dohnanyi, and
Hayden at Beall Concert Hall, 961 E.
18th, on the U of O campus. Tickets
are $4 general, $1 students, and free to
U of O students and children under
12.

Workshop
Pottery Class, teaching the techniques of coiling, pinching, and slabwork, in the making of Valentine
mugs will be offered Jan. 20 from
7:00-8:30 p.m. at the Sheldon Community center. Preregistration is required by today. Cost for the class is
$8. 687-5312.

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Wednesday
20
Theatre
My Favorite Wife, and People Will

Talk, two Cary Grant films, will show

at 7:00 p.m. in 150 Geology, 13th and
University, on the U of O campus.
Admission is $2.

Kids' events
Kids Night Out hosts family movies
and juice refreshments for children
every Wednesday in the basement of
the First Christian Church, 1166 Oak
St. Parents must bring their children
and give written permission. Pick-up
time is 8:30 p.m.

Meetings
American Peace Test will hold a
meeting for those interested in forming affinity groups for the March
Nevada action. The meeting will be at
the Growers Market, 454 Willamette,
from 7:00-10:00 p.m.

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Dance

Eugene Folk Dancers offer lessons
in folk dancing at the Campell Center,
155 High Street. Beginners' lessons are
at 7:00 p.m., with program and request dancing from 8:00-10:30 p.m.
Everyone is welcome to attend, admission is 50 cents.

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January 15, 1988

On top of this twisted love
triangle, the network they all
work for is making massive
financial cut-backs, laying off
and transferring workers left
and right.

"Broadcast News" is both a
behind the scenes expose of a
TV network news bureau in
Washington DC, and a
believable, thoroughly entertaining, romantic comedy.

Mail art
show to
opensoon
by David Monje

TORCH Entertainment Editor

It's time for all you artists to
get out the postage stamps and
envelopes... the New Zone
Gallery in Eugene is hosting a
mail art exhibition.
"Mail art," for this show, is
anything sent through the US
mail that has to do with the
theme of the exhibition:
animals in art. Artwork may
be anything from oversized
post cards to three dimensional packages to whatever
anyone can think of within the
size limit, a maximum of 8
1/2" X 11 ".
Mail art has become a
nation-wide ineans of communication between artists,

There are many ways
to acknowledge it ...
one lasts a lifetime.
Your College
Class Ringfrom Balfour!

Select yours at:

LCC Center Bldg. lobby
Jan. - 19 & 20

Balfour.
E-446C/Printed in U.S.A.

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New Zone Gallery by Jan. 29
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anarchy,'' said Walsh, refering to the final appearance of
the exhibition.
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Tuesday
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American folk music will be performed at the United Lutheran
Church, 2230 Washington,at 8:00
p.m. Ed Soule presents the program.

As the sexual tension builds
between Jane and Tom, Aaron
realizes too late that he is in
love with Jane, his best friend.

Holly Hunter plays Jane
Craig so well that there is
already Oscar talk among the
critics. William Hurt's excellent performance brings to
life the character of Tom
Grunick. And Albert Brooks
is lively as Aaron Altman,
contributing to the emotional
honesty of the movie.

The plot unfolds when,
despite her better judgement,
Jane discovers she has fallen in
love with Tom, who lavishes
her with attention.
Holly Hunter, William Hurt and Albert Brooks in Broadcast
News."
Jane Craig (played by Holly
Tom Grunick (played by
Hunter) is a quick-thinking,
William
Hurt)
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a
power-walking,
and
charismatic, rising young news
sometimes neurotic, young
anchor who willingly admits
producer who's so in control
he's mostly a pretty face, and
she even plans her crying
actually knows nothing about
spells.
journalism.

The emotional realism of
the movie reaches a climactic
high at this point. With lives,
jobs, and hearts overlapping,
these three characters truly
come to life on the screen.
Aaron realizes he isn't cut
out to be a news anchor, and
quits. Jane becomes outraged
at Tom's lack of ethics over
his treatment of a news story,
so she dumps him. And Tom
gets promoted.

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