Lane Comm unity College
Eugene, Oregon

• Child sexual abuse
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February 19, 1988
Vol. 23 No. 17

• Electronic
Artistry '88
page 12

"The.written word passeth on the torch of wisdom"

Pres. Turner
addresses budget

The best things in life are free

by Robert Ward

TORCH Associate Editor

LCC Pres. Richard Turner told an all-staff
meeting on Feb. 18 that the college has a
balanced budget for the 1987-88 school year.
However, he told the crowd of over 350
employees that without a successful tax base
election in May, the college may face budget
shortfalls in 1988-89.
Dick Hillier, vice president for Administrative Services, stated that current projections show LCC will need $939,000 in added
revenue to keep services at the current level for
1988-89.
He said that LCC will not receive any increased state funding for the 1988-89 fiscal
year. The legislature has already budgeted FTE
money through next year, he said, and that
amount is limited.
The only guaranteed raise in funds would
come from local sources, said Hillier, since the
college can raise its tax base six percent a year
by Oregon law. But he said this wouldn't come
close to meeting the projected deficit.
A rise in the tax base could help, said Hillier,
depending on the amount asked for. But, he
said, "it must be a sellable plan to the public."
Turner said "a new tax base is the brightest
hope'' for the college and that he would like to
raise $50,000 to pass it.
But one faculty member questioned whether
he, personally, could support the college since
the faculty has been working without a contract
for eight months. The same man wondered how
he could be asked to help when the college
doesn't bargain in good faith.
Turner responded by saying that, "LCC has
a Board of Education second to none and will
not let the faculty end up with a bad deal.''
Another faculty member told Turner; "Settle

by Diana Feldman
for the TORCH

To promote safe sex practices, the LCC Student
Health Services passed out free condoms to the first
100 people who showed up at the information booth
stationed in the cafeteria on Thursday, Feb. 18.
The condoms and AIDS prevention brochures
were donated by the Lane County Health Department.

Sandra Ing, coordinator of Student Health Services said the condoms were donated, '' as part of an
educational program to get people to use condoms in
order to help prevent AIDS and other sexually
transmitted diseases.'' Ing suggested the festive colors -- red, blue, green, and yellow -- were to send a
message saying, "It's an okay thing to use them. Using condoms doesn't have to be so serious . . .
although (AIDS prevention) is pretty serious.''

see Turner, page 7

Dr. Belcher cooks
Secllrity blocks information
up a grand prize
Are students the subject of
Security files, and how can
they find out? Who gets to see
these reports, and how long
does the college keep them?
In addition, students and
college employees are subject
to crimes on campus which
can include vandalism, car
theft, and sexual assault. How
often do these crimes occur?
What can members of the college community do to protect
themselves?

feature by Bob Wolfe
for the TORCH

LCC Security Manager Paul
Chase has denied the TORCH
access to public documents
kept by his office.
The documents in question
are Crime Reports, which, according to the college's
Business Operations Manual
(BOM), are to be completed
"For all cases involving a
suspected crime or felony."
The Security Office keeps
two other types of reports
besides Crime Reports: Daily
Logs and College Complaint
Reports. Only the Crime
Reports are considered public
information under Oregon
law.

photo by Michael Primrose

These reports are of particular interest to students.

Reports show LCC security
cases.

Crime Reports
The recent impasse occurred
when the TORCH officially
requested information on the
types and numbers of crimes
that have occurred on campus.
While the newspaper requested statistics from Chase,
the reply came from his super-

see Security, page 11

by David Monje

TORCH Entertainment Editor

The second annual Celebrity Cookoff sponsored by the Lane
County Chapter of the American Red Cross was a success both
for the taste buds and the pocketbook.
The event raised $2,800 to help the Red Cross provide its
many serivces.
Below is a list of the winners, including LCC Vice President of
Instruction Jacquelyn Belcher whose "Baba Au Rhum" dessert
recipe won her the grand prize.
• Jacquelyn Belcher, grand prize for "Baba Au Rhum"
• Hugh and Sue Prichard, best first course for "Writers Block
•
Minestrone"
• Rick and Stephanie Cleveland, best side dish for "Brazilian
Sauce Over Rice''
• Bernard Dobroski, best entree for "Crepes With Salmon and
Hazelnuts''
• Peter Defazio and Myrnie Daut, best ethnic dish for "Pasta
Marco Polo"
• Anne Jaeger, best dessert "Million Dollar Cake"
. • Sisters Monica Heeran and Aileen Trainor, most entertainmg chefs for preparing "Oriental Turkey Stir-Fry"
• Cynthia Wooten, best presentation for displaying ''My
Favorite Cold Weather Supper''

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EDITORIAL

Former students can help

Alumni: Solution to LCC's fundraising dilemma?

commentary by
Robert Ward

TORCH Associate Editor

After the Feb. 17 LCC
Board of Education meeting,
it's plain to see that LCC
needs to increase its scholarship money.
LCC currently budgets
$26,136 for scholarships from
the general fund. Six full-time
tuition scholarships go to the
ASLCC cabinet, seven go to
graduates of the High School
Completion Program, and one
each to a graduating senior at
the 23 area high schools.
Other community colleges
in the state allocate much
more money from their
general fund than LCC does.
Chemeketa allocates $51,000,
Umpqua allocates $44,000,
Mt. Hood allocates $119,000
and Clackamas an amazing

$128,000.

Lane is the only one of these
colleges that does not offer
athletic or performing arts
scholarships. And according
to the Health and Physical
Education department and the
Performing Arts department,
Lane is losing students to these
schools from a lack of scholarship support.

because of a lack of financial
support from the college.
Wilken talked about how
Lane has lost a couple of excellent coaches the last few
years due to frustration and
burnout because of fundraising burdens.
It is ridiculous to expect
people to coach and teach all
day, and sometimes into the
night, and then have to fundraise on top of that.
The solution is not to divide
up LCC's current scholarship
fund, but to INCREASE it.
Proposing extra dollars from
the general fund has never

made it through the budget
process in the past, and with
the current fiscal crunch, it
can be assumed that it won't
happen in the near future.
What LCC needs to do is
start an alumni association.
There have to be people in
the community who have
benefited from the college during the past three years, and
who would be willing to
donate time and money for
scholarships.

What's a better marketing
tool than an alumni association? It might take time to
make initial contacts, but the
effort would be well worth it.
Private sources are willing
to give to the college, as
witnessed by developer Wayne
Shields' $500,000 donation to
the LCC Foundation.

I don't know why LCC,
with its reputation, does not
have an alumni association.
Former students, whether

There is also the $120,000
settlement from the Ashlane
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I know former students who
would donate time to help
with an effort to raise additional scholarship funds.
The college would have to
donate
facilities
and
telephones, etc. But that is a
small price to pay for involvement. An alumni association
could not only address fundraising needs, but also serve as
a link to the community.
I believe most students who
received scholarships from the
college would be willing to
donate time, if not money, for
the college's fundraising activities.

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LETTERS

To The Editor:
Recently, as many of you
might know, the Coast Guard
announced the elimination of
summertime fisheries and law
enforcement activities on the
Coquille and Rogue River entrances. The closures were part
of $105 million in Coast
Guard cutbacks mandated by
Congress and the Reagan administration. I voted against
the cutbacks. I will oppose
future cutbacks. I ran for
Congress with the pledge to
cut the fat from the federal
budget, not the muscle.
The Coast Guard has a well
deserved reputation for efficiency and effectiveness. In
many ways, it is the lifeblood
of Oregon's coastal communities. It keeps our coastal
waters safe, it protects our
resources, it maintains much
of our coastal infrastructure,
and it prevents our coasts
from becoming a haven for
drug smugglers.
I have fo question the intelligence of administrative
and congressional action

which threatens the safety of Commander of the U.S. Coast
thousands of recreational and Guard, to press the Coast
commercial boat owners. I Guard to consult local comhave to question the sincerity mu ni ti es before making
of certain political leaders service-related cuts, and to
who, on the one hand, gravely develop strategies to prevent
espouse an anti-drug commit- future reductions. In addition,
ment while, on the other hand, I am working with Rep.
cut our best means of curtail- Walter Jones, Chairman of
ing drug trafficking.
the Merchant Marine and
These Coast Guard cut- Fisheries Committee, to
backs are yet another example pressure the Dept. of
of a woefully inadequate Transportation to forestall the
budget process. Initially, both current reductions.
If you have any comment
the House and the Senc;ite approved full funding for the about this or any other issue,
Coast Guard. Then~ in the please write me at 1729
middle of the night, $105 Longworth HOB, Washingmillion was ripped from Coast ton, DC 20515.
Guard's budget by a congressional conference committee Peter Defazio
which had little knowledge of Member of Congress
Coast Guard operations. In
the end, the cut was contained
in the 2,000 page budget How many hours?
resolution, which was
presented to Congress one To the Editor:
hour before we were to vote on
Re: NLP (TORCH 2/5/88)
it. This is not a responsible -- Could 12,000 hours be a
way to run our government.
typo? Has Instructor Klobas
I will continue to fight for a put 12,000 hours into NLP
fully operational and effective research and practice?
Coast Guard. I have arranged
Putting aside for the moa meeting with Admiral Yost, ment any consideration of his

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The TORCH

February 19, 1988

ment is there than scholarships
for students?

Neither athletic coaches nor
instructors from any department should have to spend extra, unpaid hours to raise
money for programs they
already give so much effort to.
However, if Lane is losing
students to other schools
because of a lack of scholarships, then something has to
be done quickly. But not at the
expense of the status quo.

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At the recent board
meeting, Women's Track
Coach/Instructor Lyndell
Wilken and Athletic Director /Baseball Coach Bob
Foster explained how much
extra time athletic coaches at
LCC spend on fundraising

Keep Oregon's muscle

they're graduates_ student
government members, or
athletes, are the college's biggest testimonial.

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needs to eat, sleep, or recreate
and not including his
teaching -- and not counting
days
off,
weekends,
sicknesses, or vacations -- just
using the raw number 12,000
and assuming John Klobas is
NLPing 365 days a year, this
translates into:
• 3 .28 hours per day over 1O
years.
• 6.57 hours per day over 5
years.
• 10.95 hours per day over 3
years.
• 16.43 hours per day over 2
years.
• 32.87 hours per day over 1
year.
If John Klobas has indeed
been NLPing for 12,000
hours, then his $15,000 investment figures in at a bargain
rate of $1.25 an hour.
M. Fillmore
1600 Rhododendron Dr.
Florence
EDITOR'S NOTE: Thank
you for noticing our error.
Klobas has been c'NLPing"
for 1,200 hours, not 12,000,
which works out to a rate of
$12.50 per hour.

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Change Aid for Low-income Students

Congress should reduce the soaring cost of student-loan
defaults by dramatically changing the way the federal
government helps low-income students pay for college, a
group representing colleges and lenders said last week.
The group, consisting of college lobbyists, lenders, and
state loan-agency officials, recommends that the government give grants instead of loans to low-income students
because, it said, such students are the most likely to
default. The change would cost the government between $3
billion and $7 billion a year. The cost of loans would
decrease by a similar amount.
The recommendations also call for small changes in the
way colleges and handlers administer the Guaranteed Student Loan Program.
Rep. E. Thomas Coleman (R-MO), a member of House
Postsecondary Education Subcommittee, sharply criticized
the proposal. He said the idea costs too much and doesn't
address the role that colleges should play in reducing loan
defaults.
Rep. Pat Williams (D-MT) defended the report saying
that increasing the money for Pell Grants, which go to lowincome students, is a good idea. He said he would submit
the group's recommendations to members of the Budget
Committee, of which he is also a member. The committee
is in charge of proposing spending priorities for the
government.
Because Congress has not allocated enough money for
grants in the past several years to keep up with inflation or
increases in college costs, low-income students must borrow significant amounts, the group said. As a result, the
student-loan defaults have risen dramatically because lowincome students are more likely to fail to repay.
The report recommends that Congress reduce defaults
by increasing the maximum grant that low-income students
could receive during their freshman and sophomore years
to $4,700 per student. The current maximum is $2,200.
Bennent Says Public Losing Faith
Education Secretary William Bennent said the American
public is losing faith in colleges and universities because
faculty members are eliminating classic works from the
curriculum and replacing them with "nonsense" promoted
by "trendy lightweights."
Bennent said that higher education now stands at a
crossroads; that higher education may soon face a day of
reckoning. He said the American people are beginning to
wonder whether the emperor -- higher education -- has any
clothes.
In his remarks, the Secretary cited a Wall Street Journal
article which quoted faculty members at prestigious
universities saying they have put aside m~_ny classic works
in favor of more contemporary texts written by women
and blacks.
The Journal article contended that faculty members objected to traditional texts because many were written by
"white, male northeasterners" and were used to oppress
women and members of ethnic minorities.
Bennent claims faculty members promoting a movement
away from the traditional texts are contending that they
were inspired by "serious thinkers such as Karl Marx."
But the Secretary, who taught philosophy at several
universities, said they "look like they spring from Groucho
Marx -- in collaboration with Daffy Duck"

No action on scholarships

L CC Board suspends IAP

by Robert Ward

TORCH Associate Editor

About 50 people attended the LCC Board of
Education meeting on Feb. 17 to listen to proposals of suspending the Insurance Adjusters
Program (IAP) and reallocating Board scholarship money.
The college originally proposed to terminate
the IAP, according to a memo from Vice President of Instruction Jacquelyn Belcher. Changing the request to suspension of the program
allows the Business Department head to investigate the feasibility of future insurance
courses, according to the memo.
Irv Carlisle, instructo: in the IAP, said the
program costs the college $53,000, contradicting Belcher's claim in her memo that it cost
$84,000.
Carlisle said the college would only be saving

gram open. One student noted that it was one
of only three such programs in the country.
LCC Pres. Richard Turner said the college
was faced with hard budget decisions based on
fiscal needs. He said the reductions had to cut •
into the muscle and bone of the college.
Board member Martin Lewis cast the only no
vote in the recommendation to eliminate the
program stating that ''the advantage of the program fits into the culture of the community.''
In another item, Jack Carter, vice president
for Student Services, presented a proposal to
redistribute board scholarship funds.
LCC currently has a $26,133 scholarship
fund, according to data supplied by Carter. The
college offers 36 full-time tuition scholarships
worth $242 a term. They are given to six
students in student government, to seven

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ASLCC president Jeff Moisan appeals to the board not to cut full-tuition scholarships.
students graduating from the High School
$10,000 if the two instructors in the program reCompletion program, and one to a graduate of
school.
the
at
teaching
mained
each of the 23 area high schools.
makbudget,
The IAP has a $750 instruction
ing it one of the least expensive programs on
Under Carter's proposal, scholarship awards
campus, according to Carlisle.
would drop from $242 full-tuition scholarships
a term to $100 a term, but would increase in
He also said that students in the IAP, betnumber by giving 36 scholarships to the
ween 50-60 at its peak, take 38 credit hours in
Athletic Department and 21 to the Performing
other departments, thereby helping overall FTE
Arts Department.
at the college.
But • according to Belcher's memo, 55
The college currently does not offer scholarstudents have graduated from the program durships out of the college's general fund budget to
ing the past five years.
those two departments. LCC athletic coaches
must fundraise on their own to generate
Various students, insurance employees, and
Insurance Adjusters Advisory Committee
see Board, page 4
members spoke in favor of keeping the pro-

LCCho nors
vocational educators
LCC honored National Vocational Week by awarding it's
1988 outstanding educators at a ceremony Feb. 17. Pictured are
Shirley Hewitt, an LCC DTC business instructor; Annen Bacon,
a computer laboratory coordinator; Karen Volker, an LCC advocate and committee member for the last 10 years; Cliff Huffman, a member of the Industrial Maintenance Advisory Committee; and Ron Sherriffs, a member of the Television and
Radio Broadcasting Advisory Committee.
photo by Michael Saker

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February 19, 1988

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LCC Career Placem ent Service near reality

ing, when she hopes to initiate workshops to help
assisted both Work-Study students and others find
students develop job search skills, interview
CWE postions or part-time work.
techniques, and resume preparation.
But Campillo-Adams sought a central and
'' All these services are provided at no charge to
separate location that would allow for an integra- ,
students of LCC," says Campillo-Adams, exthe
tion of existing services, and expansion of new serher hope that many of the students will
pressing
vices.
feel free to come and use them.
Acknowledging that over 40 percent of the
Because of the great demand from students for
departments on campus already work to place
resume assistance, on her own time Campillotheir graduates in career fields, she says, "We
Adams has written a book, "Designing an Effecdon't intend to take over what they are already dotive Resume,'' which is on sale for $5 in the LCC
ing. Rather, we would be a central contact for
Bookstore. Once the student has read the book
employers, and for students to seek out job opporshe is welcome to request additional assistance
he/
tunities."
in writing a resume, says Campillo-Adams.
A staff member of Student Employment Service
Within a few weeks the department hopes to
will write out an employer's job order and notify
post information around campus publicizing Stuthe correlating department. "We would then predent Employment Services.
screen (those students selected by the department)
and refer (the students) for an interview," she
Capilla-Adams invites those interested in more
adds.
information to come in (Forum 311) or call
746-2217.
Campillo-Adams is looking forward to this spr-

by Roxanne K. Smith
For The TORCH

When the LCC Student Employment Service
moved into new offices last week in Forum 311
and 312, the coordinator said plans for an LCC
Graduate Placement Service will soon become
reality.
Coordinator of Student Employment Service
Joan Campillo-Adams says she anticipates that
her staff will soon be able to advertise the expanded service to potential advertisers and to
graduates. The office expects to open "credential
files" for graduates who register for the service, so
that when they want a possible employer to receive
a resume, letters of recommendation, and other
certification, the office can promptly mail the
material.
Struggling with inadequate space in its previous,
second floor Center Building location inside the
Financial Aid Office, the Job Placement Office

Board,

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scholarship money for athletes.
Lyndell Wilken, track/cross country coach
and PE instructor, stated that she was
''increasingly concerned with the difficulty to
recruit student-athletes in our area." She said
that LCC cannot offer "packages" as good as
other schools, and thereby loses potential
recruits.
She said that LCC coaches spend too much
time fundraising, and that takes away from
time spent for coaching and instruction duties.
LCC has lost two good coaches in recent
years, said Wilken, due to a "high frustration
level and burnout" resulting from the pressures
of fundraising.
Dick Reid, Performing Arts department
head, said his department ''badly needs
scholarships.'' He said he has noticed a
"perceptable decline in quality of performances" in performing arts because of a lack
of scholarships. The money is needed to attract
"role models" who will spark other performers
on, and to help recruit.
ASLCC President Jeff Moisan attacked the
proposal saying that cabinet members of student government work long, hard hours looking out for the interests of the total student
body. He said the full-tuition scholarships help
attract qualified students.
Carter said it wasn't his idea of a good proposal, but it was a means of expanding the
scholarship program without an increase in
funds. He said increases in the scholarship fund
have been proposed in the past but haven't
made it through the budget process.

The LCC Board of Education, during a prior
executive meeting, decided not to accept a compromise by Eugene attorney Edward Heid for a
contract settlement with the LCC Education
Association. The LCCEA will meet on Feb. 19
to decide whether or not to accept the proposal.
But it won't matter since both sides must
agree on the decision. According to the public
meeting bargaining law, mediation by an outside party is the next step in the process.

photo by Russ Sherrell

Lyndell Wilken states her case for athletic
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danger of procrastination,''
says Fish. ''The students need
to take into consideration that
by studying on their own"
they are responsible for
finishing the amount of work
needed for their credits.
The MRC also offers
students "course direction."
She says the center isn't
competing with counselors,
but is answering the basic
question students often ask,
"What math do I need to get
into a university."
"We advise them that it's
not so much what they need to
get into a university, but what
they will need to get out of the
U of O'' or any other university, says Fish.
On the main campus, the
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by Julie Crist

TORCH Editor

Paul Ottman

photo by Don Jones

Juergen Steger, a West German civil service worker, and
Paul Ottmar, a disabled German student, test-drove some
of LCC' s specialized computer equipment for the disabled
on Feb. 12. Equipment, Ottmar pointed out, that would
cost four times as much in West Germany.
Mobility International, an international organization
for the disabled which is headquartered in Eugene sponsored the three week visit. Ottmar and Steger each contributed $900 to their expenses. They stayed with the family of ASLCC members Heidi and Barbara Von
Ravensburg during their visit.
Steger reads and records books for the blind as part of
his job. He also works with a disabled group of students,
and will present them with a report of his visit when he
returns.
Ottmar is studying sociology at Gesamthochschule
Kassel university. He says his college in Kassie only has one
computer for the disabled. "It speaks German with an
American accent. Sometimes it makes me tired to try to
listen to it.''
He says that most West German universities are unwilling to direct money toward disabled equipment because of
the cost.
"I think that when there's only one disabled student,
there should be equipment for them. We have the same
rights."

The disabled rights group to which Ottmar belongs is
pioneering the field of disabled rights for West Germans,
but is meeting with West German government resistance,
he says.
The government photographs demonstrators at disabled
rights rallys and files them in a·book for employers to look
.
through.
"Often when you don't get a job, you don't know if
that's why you didn't get it," says Ottmar.
He plans to return to the University of California at
Berkley in the fall to complete an 8 month practicum in
disabled social work.

Juergen Steger

Dun ne and Han sen recall Fulbright experiences
by Kristin Warr

For The TORCH

Visits abroad by two LCC
recipients of prestigious
Fulbright scholarships gave
both a deeper appreciation of
students here, while enabling
them to provide local students
a more varied, richer educational experience.
The instructors, Susan
Dunne and Britta Hansen,
spent time beginning in 1986 in
Western European countries.
Dunne was in Italy for a summer, while Hansen resided a
full year in Germany. Details
of their visits were described in
a TORCH article last fall.

photo by Michael Saker

Britta Hansen

Now, with the passage of
time providing perspective,
Dunne and Hansen are both
enthusiastic in their comparison of LCC students to
their European counterparts.
Moreover, they feel their experiences enable students here
to gain insights which would
have been unavailable without
the knowledge and contacts
gained through the Fulbright
awards.
''The whole scene just made
me appreciate a number of
things that I have here,"
Hansen said in comparing
students in Germany with

those at LCC.
Hansen says she's learned to
appreciate "walking into a
classroom and not ever having
any discipline problems. If
they do arise here, they are
quickly taken care of with a
little bit of sarcasm, and that's
the end."
Hansen described discipline
problems with her classes in
Germany as "constant, absolutely constant,'' with
students as old as college
freshmen.
"Getting their attention was
like getting blood out of cabbages," Hansen complained.
"But students are here who
want to be here. Even though I
teach required classes, the attitude is very much more
cooperative and very much
more enthuiastic about learning.''
Dunne, whose Italian visit
concentrated on studies of
contemporary Italian society,
believes her experience opened
worldwide doors. "To be
awarded a Fulbright is one of
the most prestigious scholarships in the country. It's
wonderful to be able to get
something like that as a com-

Fulbright is that she is now
able to contact international
film professionals for interviews, and she can then pass
on the information she gets to
her LCC classroom.

munity college teacher,
because it's an acknowledgement that what we do is important."
Her contact in Italy allowed
Dunne to invite University of

While in Italy, Dunne inter-

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filmaker Liliana Cavani. She
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Union shops around
by Mike Carney
for the TORCH

So far, 50 LCC classified
employees are requesting a
vote to choose between their
union's current mediation
representative - the Oregon
Federation of Teachers (OFT)
- and the Associatio11 for Certified Employees (ACE).
Oregon law requires that
one-third of the 320 members
of Lane Community College
Federation
Employee's
(LCCEF) sign petitions which
will force a vote on who will
bargain for the classified
employees. By law, the
signature gathering must take
place between now and
February 24, when classified
staff labor negotiations with
LCC begin.
ACE circulated cards for
the requests to be submitted
on after a member of LCCEF
contacted ACE representative

Sandy Bushek and expressed
interest in learning about the
ACE benefits.
"We got a call from a
member and responded to it.
We were told about lack of access, poor phone response,
and lack of training for
grievance personnel in relation
to OFT." said Bushek.
At least one LCCEF
member, Cherrill Hemminger,
says that she was not properly
represented by OFT president
Jane Howard in two seperate
grievance proceedings.
"On the contrary," says
LCCEF president Sandy
Young. ''We have gotten so
much from OFT. OFT president Jane Howard backed us
all the way during the last
round of job-cuts. Things
turned out a lot better for us
because Jane was there. All
but one member of the LCCEF Executive Board support
OFT."

Dr. discusses drugs
Summer came to the LCC campus early last week as
temperatures rose to nearly 60 degrees.

A place for cictiins to go
by Trena Gravem
For The TORCH

"One out of four females under 18 experiences childhood sexual abuse,'' claims
Program Director Kate Barry of the
Women's Awareness Center. And the
Center wants to offer the support of a
discussion group.
However, scheduled morning meetings
this term drew too few people. The center
will offer the group sessions again next
quarter if enough people express an interest
by then, says Barry. She adds that
Women's Center Coordinator Isetta
Hunter and two University of Oregon
students will conduct the meetings.
Hunter explains it's best to begin such
discussions on a one-to-one basis, and then
move into a group where the survivor of

photo by Russ Sherrell

"One out of four females under 18 experiences childhood sexual abuse.''
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February 19, 1988

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sexual abuse will see she is not alone in her
experience.
The meetings will encourage open discussion, since ''talking is the helpful thing,''
says Hunter, with the objective being the
development of "good relationships."
Barry describes a process of recovery
that involves remembering the incident(s),
talking about them, sorting through the
resulting emotions (anger, hatred, fear,
etc.), unloading the sense of guilt by placing the blame where it belongs -- on the
perpetrator -- and resolving destructive
feelings by "letting them go."
The perpetrator of the crisis is often a
family member or a close friend of the
family, says Barry, and is most commonly
a girl's father. She says that "the vast majority of perpetrators are male, whether or
not the child is female or male."
She says the cause of the problem lies in
the fact that men have power over women
and children, and that some men abuse this
power. Hunter adds that "in the feminist
view," men "universally" see women and
children as possessions.
They say that justice is seldom possible,
and forgiveness as a factor in the recovery
process is "not something you advise,"
since it is a ''personal decision'' for the survivor.
Barry and Hunter express agreement that
the problem is plain to see, and that open
discussion about sexuality has improved.
But they say that the solution is elusive,
and will emerge, hopefully, from creative
dialogue between the survivors of
childhood sexual abuse and supportive,
non-judgemental friends.
Interested persons should call the LCC
Women's Awareness Center, extension
2353. The Center is open from 8 a.m. to 5
p.m., Monday through Friday.

by Diana Feldman
for the TORCH

LCC's part-time physician
Dr. Michael Weinstein will
speak on ''Identifying
Substance Abuse and
Resources for Help,'' next Friday morning Feb. 26.
Originally scheduling the
speech for faculty only,
Weinstein, working in conjunction with LCC's Student
Health Services Coordinator
photo by Michael Saker
Sandra Ing, has opened the
speech to the public.
Dr. Michael Weinstein
Weinstein works at the LCC
facility for eight hours each week, and is the Medical Director of
White Bird Medical Clinic, 341 E. 12th Street, Eugene.
Weinstein says the educational level of the substance abuse information campaigns, such as the "Just Say 'NO' " slogan, is
aimed at children up to 15 years old, "and that's where the
education has to occur.
''However, issues addressed to college-age people need to be
more persqnal than a poster.''
He says his speech, scheduled for the Board of Education
Room in the Administration Building for 8:30 a.m. will be informal, and medically-oriented. "I'm going to talk a little about
what drugs are around -- and what data we have to say what
drugs are around; about some treatment issues, and treatment
availability," says Weinstein.
He will also outline the underlying "personality type" that
gets involved with illicit drugs, and the general personality
characteristics and effects of the drugs themselves.
Weinstein says his advice for a student's self-evaluation of
substance use is, "If you think you're doing too much, you
are.'' And if the majority of a person's friends are regularly doing drugs, that person is in trouble and "should seek some help
from Student Health Services here on campus, or White Bird.''
LCC Health Clinic Director Sandra Ing says that the federal
government requires colleges receiving financial aid monies to
provide students and staff members with a prevention program
for substance abuse.
"This is a new program and there are no guidelines, so the
federal government is interested in schools making a good faith
effort," says Ing. "We're networking with other community
colleges to see what works. One aspect of this program will be
Dr. Weinstein's talk. It will be on the order of an educational
outreach.''
Ing says LCC has no money to hire a coordinator for a drug
abuse program at this time, or the resources for treatment.
"That's pretty specialized. But what we can do is make sure people who identify the need for treatment have some sort of contact on campus to help them make that transition.''
Ing also says she is attempting to refine ways ''to strengthen
some of the support for people who are in the recovery period
when they come back to campus or are enrolled and on campus.
After going through a recovery program you need support that
reinforces that new behavior. This is where Dr. Weinstein's talk
fits in, getting people more informed.''

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the contract and you would be
amazed at what the faculty
would do.''
In another item at the
meeting, Executive Dean
Larry Warford explained the
college's marketing plan.
The college is embarking on
its first multi-media campaign,
he said. According to Warford, two television commercials are finished and will soon
be airing on local stations.
They emphasize that the best
reason for coming to Lane is
the quality of the instructors,
he stated.
Warford said the college
will also advertise on LTD
buses and on the radio.
Another aspect of the plan
concerns using newspaper ads
to maximize enrollments for
certain programs, he stated.
And finally, Warford said that
videos, shown in area high
schools to promote LCC, have
been improved to be more
competitive with those made
by other schools.

Scho"larship
changes
proposed
by Gary Jones
for the TORCH

Jack Carter, vice-president
for Student Services, was asked by the Board of Education
to lead a task force that will
study proposed changes in the
current scholarship system.

by Craig Olson
For The TORCH

The LCC Science Department will offer Medical
Botany this spring to enhance
students' appreciatic:m of
plants and their current and
historical medicinal uses.

Some common plants in
Oregon -- like the perriwinkle,
dandelion, and foxglove -.contain medicinal properties,
says the instructor, biologist
Jay Marston.
In Medical Botany, Marston
will introduce students to

several classes of plant life,
own
its
with
each
physiologically active drugs -often used by the pharmacological industry, and
sometimes used as folk
remedies. ''Teaching the student to be aware of the environment is the primary goal

of the class,'' states Marston.
The course will be made up
of lectures, in-class discussions, labs, field work, and
slide presentations, says
Marston, who believes he must
make the class as ''visual'' as
possible.

Springfever strikes early

The current system allows
for 36 full tuition scholarships, each valued at $242 per
term ($726 a year) ·per recipient. The proposal would expand the number of recipients
to 87, but reduce the total
dollar amount a scholarship
student may receive to ($100
per term, $300 yearly), instead
of the present $726.
Carter says the proposal has
several purposes and several
benefits. "We want to attract
students into areas which have
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away, the 1988 edition of the LCC baseball
team has been hard at work since Fall Term.
Last year the Titans suffered their first losing
season under Head Coach Bob Foster, going
9-15 in league and 16-24 overall.
"It's a hitter's league," says Foster, a coach
at Lane since 1979. ''The best ERA in the
league last year was only 2. 76."
Lane's team ERA last year was an
astronomical 5 .26, which accounted for a large
part of last season's woes.
On the bright side, Foster welcomes back
three of last season's best offensive players.
Third baseman Al Pratt led the team in hitting
with a .354 average. Charlie Keady played first
base and hit .327, and Mike Parker, who anchored the outfield, hit .275. All figure prominently in the Titan's 1988 plans.

Foster looks for Linn-Benton and Mt. Hood
• to be the teams to beat. They finished first and
second respectively last year, with LCC in
third.
The league consists of Lane, Linn-Benton,
Clackamas, Mt. Hood, and Clark CC, which is
located in Vancouver, Wa. The first two teams
in the five team league make the playoffs.
The first Titan home game is March 29, when
they face the Linfield J. V. team. League play
starts April 2 when Linn-Benton visits Eugene.
All league games are double-headers, and the
season culminates with the NWAACC championships May 26-30 in Longview Wa.
As with other sports at Lane, baseball
receives no financial help from the college and
must raise funds on its own, says Foster, who is
also the Athletic Director at LCC.
To raise money for the bas.eball team this
year, Foster will sponsor the "Little Titan
Camp,'' April 23 and 24, which is an instructional camp for grade school age children.

by Marilyn King

For The TORCH

The LCC Athletic Department's Outdoor Pursuits Program is growing, according to
George Gyorgyfalvy and
Dwane Miller, LCC Physical
Education teachers.
The three classes Miller and
Gyorgyfalvy teach this quarter
are Winter Survival, CrossCountry Skiing, and Downhill
Skiing. They both say the
classes are meant to be educational, and are timeconsuming, but are popular
because they are enjoyable.
Both instructors stress fundamental skills and safety. For
the Cross-Country and Winter
Survival classes, Miller spends
two classes a week discussing
the methods for outdoor
winter survival in almost any
situation. He covers such
topics as proper clothing,
shelter, and use of the map
and compass.
Gyorgyfalvy, in one twohour orientation on Downhill

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Skiing, covers safety and proper clothing, among other
things. The majority of learning, though, is on the slopes.
One five-week session of the
Downhill Skiing class includes
five full days of skiing -- a
total of 30 hours. Add to that
the bus rides there and back,
and Gyorgyfalvy estimates his
students put in 55 hours of
time for only one PE credit.
But he believes his students are
dedicated to the sport.
Miller estimates that in each
of his classes students put in 30
hours of time outdoors.
Besides the instructional
classes, Miller takes each class
on two trips in order to put
their knowledge to use. His
students now receive 2 PE
credits.
While Miller takes care of
the transportation, he says the
students have to take care of
plans for clothing, food, and
equipment.
Gyorgyfalvy says that
besides clothing, he has

everything prepared for his
students. A fee of $100 per
student pays for transportation and lift-tickets. The college provides free equipment
for those students without
their own, he says. The fee
may seem high, but both
Gyorgyfalvy and his students
believe it is the best price in
town. Gyorgyfalvy just wishes
LCC had more buses to take
more students.
Miller and Gyorgyfalvy
both noted that their students
make new friends as well as
learn a new sport. The
students, too, enjoy the group
setting. They have many different reasons for joining the
classes, from being talked into
it, to polishing up their skills,
or even as an excuse to take a
day off from work.
The students all agree,
though, that the class is worth
every penny and every hour
spent. "It's the best deal we
found," says Barbara Baker,
student.

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This spring students will be able to earn
coaching certificates in specialized sports
through a new program offered by the LCC
Physical Education Department.
Seeing the local demand for qualified
coaches five years ago the LCC PE Department began to develop the coaching program,
according to Athletic Director Bob Foster. He
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Schools, Eugene Parks and Recreation Department, and other agencies routinely seek out
qualified coaches in specialized services.
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All-time leading scorer

Jones leads LCC

by Patrick Bryan

TORCH Sports Editor

College in Monmouth and at a
school in Idaho," said Jones,
who added that, "I'd like to
stay close to Eugene, if possible."

This season has seen the
Lady Titans drop from a contender early in the year to
fighting to stay out of the
The Titans, who started the
cellar at the end. But the
season with 15 players, saw
Titans dumped playoff bound
their ranks reduced to just
Linn-Benton CC Feb. 17 at
seven by the time they played
home, 66-63.
• Chemeketa. In that game,
The win ended a two game Coach Loos saw his entire
losing streak for Lane, who starting five foul out, leaving
lost to Clackamas at home Feb just Angela Englert and
12, 58-42, and then was beaten Laynette Prom, who had been
by Chemeketa in Salem 63-54. out with the flu and hadn't
played at all, to finish. "It was
Against Linn-Benton, Lane embarrasing, said Prom, peotrailed I 0-0 to start the game, ple in the stands were laughing
fought their way back to their heads off."
within two at the half, 40-38,
Against LBCC, though,
only to fall behind again by as
much as 11 points twice in the Lane showed that they were
second half. But Sheryl Jones' not going to simply go through
3 pointer gave LCC the lead the motions and get the season
for good at 61-60 with only over with. When they were
3:38 to play.
down by 11 in the second half
were still fighting over
they
Jones, who ended a great
balls and scrambling,
loose
career at Lane as the all-time and their · perseverance paid
leading scorer with 663 points,
off with a hard earned victory.
hopes to continue her basketball career at a four year LANE-(54)- Werner 21, Jones
18, Thompson 9, Looney 4,
school. "I've had some feelers
out at Western Oregon State Englert 2, Altman, Prom

Sheryl Jones leads the break in her final game for LCC, Feb. 17.
CHEMEKETA-(63)- Lively

18, Philpot 14, Phillips 9,
Emery 8, Girt 6, Kergil 2,
Hudgins 2, Miller 4,
LANE-(42) Looney 11, Jones
11, Thompson 9, Englert 5,
Altman 4, Werner 2, Prom,
CLACKAMAS-(58) Sinn 13,
Jones 10, Hewlett 8, Hughes
6, Greenough 5, Schlegelmilch
4, Brison 3, White 2, Fischer
2, Butsch,
LANE-(66)- Werner 16,
Looney 14, Jones 13, Thompson 13, Altman 8, Englert 2,
Prom,
LINN-BENTON-(63)- Keister
22, Kundert 18, Turner 11,
Kennedy 6, Billings 6,

Lane men finish season in sty l,e
Dave Fleissner, Jeff Thomas,
and Don Brent, who seems a
shoe-in for team MVP.
The Titan's could have easily packed it in against LBCC
after being eliminated from
playoff contention after their
losses to Clackamas and
Chemeketa. But being cheered
on by what was easily the most
vocal crowd of the year seemed to fire Lane up, and at the
end Coach Bates had all five
sophomores in the game.
Although the crowd was
screaming for Lane to go for
the 100 mark, it is doubtful
that any of LCC' s fans left
disappointed.

Don Brent zeros in against LBCC in the season finale Feb. 17.
by Patrick Bryan

TORCH Sports Editor

The 1987-88 men's basketball team finished the season
with a flourish against LinnBenton Feb. 18, pulling away
in the second half to drop the
Roadrunners 97-82.
Led by Don Brent's 30
points, the Titans ended a
disappointing season on an up
note, finishing 6-8 in league
and 12-14 overall.
Lane had lost two straight
before dropping LBCC. On
Feb. 12, defending NW AACC
champion Clackamas CC
visited Eugene and beat the
Titans 74-53. Brent, who's

silky jumper will be sorely
missed next year, topped LCC
scorers with 19. Dusty Auxier
and Harold Michaud added
nine each.
Lane traveled to Salem the
next night to face the
Chemeketa Chiefs, who had
beaten Lane easily early in the
season, and at the half it was
all even at 37. But the Chiefs
made 22 of 35 free throws and
forced Lane into 25 turnovers
to come away with a 76-69
win. Once again Don Brent led
all scorers with 31 points.
°The win against LinnBenton was the final game for
five Titan sophomores, Tony
BroadQus,. Steve Courtney,

LANE-(53)- Brent 19, Auxier
9, Michaud 9, Broadous 8,
Fleissner 4, Branch 2,
Surmeier 2, Courtney,
Thomas, McCloud
CLACKAMAS-(74)- Kiser 17,
Hoffman 16, Pyatt 14, Harris
11, Stein 6, Hartley 4, Nichols
2, Rainforth 2, Flemmer 2,
LANE-(69)- Brent 31,
Michaud 20, Broadous 7,
Fleissner 5, Auxier 4, Branch
2, Courtney, Surmeier,
CHEMEKETA-(76)- Bell 25,
Hamel 14, Briscoe 10, Nash 9,
Robertson 9, Buerk 5, Blair 4,
Hall
30,
LANE-(97)-Brent
Michaud 13, Branch 11, Auxier 10, Fleissner 8, Courtney 8,
Surmeier 4, Thomas 2, McCloud
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GOINGS ON
Friday
19

Theatre
Tera Nova Theatre will present
"King Mob," an experimental revue
with original music, beginning Friday,
Feb. 19, at 1236 Kincaid, on the U of
0 campus. "King Mob" was a winner
in the Red Octopus Theatre new plays
competition. Performances of the play
continue on Feb. 20, 26, and 27 at 8:00
p.m. Tickets are $5 general and $3.50
students, and are available at The
Literary Lion and Shirts West in the
Fifth Street Market.

Art exhibit
Patrick Curtis' most recent paintings are on display at the Collier
House, 1170 E. 13th Ave. Hours are
Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. ·- 3
p.m .
"Traditional Artists of Borneo and
Sulawesi" exhibit of photographs and
textiles of these Pacific islands are on
display in the lobby of the U of 0
Museum of Natural History. Open
noon - 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday.

Master drawings by Otto Wagner,
Viennese architect during the turn of
the century, are on dispay at the U of
0 Museum of Art. The drawings are
on tour around the US, which marks
the first time they have been seen outside Vienna. They make their only
Northwest stop at the U of 0 .

Music

Black History Month lecture by
former U of O law dean Derrick Bell.
He will speak on "Blacks as Victims
and Heroes of the Constitution,'' at
2:30 p.m. in the Alumni Lounge of
Gerlinger Hall on the U of O campus.

Monday
22

Lecture
Solar Seminar on alternative energy
technologies will be the subject of a
talk by Pliny Fisk III, of Austin, TX.
He will discuss bioregionalism and
biotechnologies to work on an international scale. The talk begins at 9 a.m.
in Room 283 of Lawrence Hall, on the
U of O campus.

Sunday
21

with freejor~all show
by David Monje

TORCH Entertainment Editor

Eugene's newest art gallery/studio space, the
Warehouse Artists Studios/Gallery, 385 Lawrence, is staging a non-juried exhibition " . . . Pretty to the Profane,"
Feb. 27 and 28.
The free-for-all style exhibition is open to all artists in all
mediums.
The gallery, located in the newly remodeled Warehouse
Artists Studios, has been formed to provide an outlet for
emerging artists to gather and show their work, hold
classes, or add a one-person show to their resumes.
Artwork for the show will be accepted on Saturday, Feb.
27, from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. There is a limit of three works
per artist, and all work must be ready to hang, including
sculptures which must have their own pedestals or supports.
Entry fees for the show are: $1 for works 16" by 20"
and smaller; $2 for works over 16" by 20"; and $3 for all
sculptures, with all proceeds going to the improvement of
the Warehouse Artists Gallery.
Due to limited space, artwork will be accepted on a firstcome first-served basis.
Participating artists are asked to pick up their work between 8 p.m. and 10:30 p.m. on Sunday. Other times can be
arranged if needed.
The opening reception for the show will begin at 7 p.m.
Saturday. Refreshments will be provided.

CAMPU S

MINISTRY
Lent Begins
Ash Wednesda y, Feb. 17
Daily Lenten Mass
12 noon
P.E. 231
Center 242

February 19, 1988

U of O Faculty Artists Concert
will feature early music specialist Joan
Benson, clavicord, at 4 p.m. in the U
of O Museum of Modern Art. Tickets
are $4 general, $1 students and
seniors, and free to U of O students
and children under 12.

Lecture

Community Cable Television (Ch.
34) will broadcast Electronic Artistry
'88 on Thursday, September 25, 1988,
from 7:30-9:30 p.m. EA '87 was video
produced by Ann Darland and cohosted by Rico Perez, both LCC
students last year.

New gallery opens

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Music
U of O Faculty Artists Series Concert will feature soprano Anne
Tedards, at 8 p.m. in Beall Concert
Hall, 961 E. 18th Ave. Tickets are $4
general, $1 students and seniors, and
free for U of O students and children
under 12.

Wednesday
24
Kids Night Out hosts free family
movies and juice refreshments for
children every Wednesday in the basement of the First Christian Church,
1166 Oak St., starting at 6:30 p.m.
Parents must bring their children to
give written permission. Pick-up time
is 8:30 p.m.

ASLCC Budget
by J. Piper
For The TORCH

The ASLCC learned this
month that is has over $37,000
in unbudgeted funds.
In a Feb. 5 emergency session, the senate discussed its
fiscal status with LCC budget
analyst Carol Beckley. She explained that, out of the
ASLCC's $134,000 budget,
,the sum $11,000 had been
estimated last year to be the
probable carry-over for this
year.
The ASLCC currently
budgets about $97,000 a year
in student body fees. Beckley
emphasized, however, that the
funds were, for the most part,
unspent carry-over monies
from previous years, and that
if the senate spent them all
during this college year, next
year's senate would likely have
no carry-over funds available
whatsoever.
The ASLCC will take up the
issue at a future meeting.
Other issues discussed at the
Feb. 5 meeting were the possible designation of LCC as a
nuclear free zone, the ratification of $34 in ASLCC funds
for the literary magazine,
Denali, and an allocation of
$540 to send ASLCC Pres.
Jeff Moisan to the 19th Annual Conference of the US
Student Association on Feb.
26-29 in Washington, DC.
The meeting, the Senate's
third this year, was held to
compensate for a meeting
which was cancelled due to the
illness and resultant absence of
most of the senators and officers. It was held from 1-3
p.m. in the Board Room of the
Administration Bldg.

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suffered because they've lost talented students," and "we want
to redistribute the scholarships to allow a broader base, for
which it's my hope, will be a foundation for further expansion."
Carter states ''we've proposed plans for years contingent
upon the budgeting process; they've never survived. This year
we're trying an additional approach."
Bob Foster, coach of the baseball team, stated "It's about
time. lt makes it difficult to recruit talented students if you don't
have anything to offer.''
Foster thinks the proposed system will have many benefits,
such as relieving fundraising loads from coaches, attracting
some quality players from the area, and promoting a positive
college image.
But Jeff Moisan, president of ASLCC, staunchly opposes the
proposed system stating, ''the ASLCC should not be lumped into the general system. We are the most cost-efficient marketing
device the college has.''
Six ASLCC cabinet officers currently receive yearly fulltuition scholarships, and all would experience reduced scholarships under Carter's plan. Moisan states, "these students provide a service; they work long, hard hours and don't earn a
salary. How much would it cost for the college to pay someone
for what these people do? A lot."
Foster states ''this new scholarship system will help retain
talented students from this area and alleviate some of the fundraising activities by the coaches. It's getting harder to raise
funds because of the poor economy and the tax levies that keep
getting proposed. It's bad public relations for a coach to go out
begging for money. We've lost quality coaches to burnout from
the long hours involved with this job. Some coaches are here
from eight in the morning until 10 at night." Speaking
figuratively he said, "we get payed about a nickel an hour for all
the work we do."

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March 8th - sign up in the Intramurals
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March 11th - sign up in the lntramurals office.

WOMEN - I want to teach you simple
car maintenance to empower you. Nan
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NEED A PHOTOGRAPHER? Weddings, etc - Call Mike 344-2094 or
leave message in Photo Editor's Box
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6-9 p.m. PE IOI. More info: Dave
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Look it up.
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visor, Director of Campus Services Paul Colvin.
Colvin acknowledged in an
interview last month that his
office could glean statistics
from the existing security files,
but he said that instead ''We
rely on the sheriff's office to
meet such requests."
He explained that such an
effort would require employee
time to search through the files
and compile information.
Chase, however, disagrees
that the information should be
available to the public. "I
won't give access to our files,"
he asserted several times during a Feb. 5 interview.
Yet the Lane County
Sheriff's Department has supplied the Torch with a printout
of all crime reports filed by or
from LCC since January,
1985. Over 285 seperate
reports are listed. Statistics
compiled from the printout
will be made public in a future
TORCH story.
Chase said if a crime involves college property or personnel, the Security Office
files the Crime Report at the
request of a department. If the
crime victim is a student, the
Security Office will contact the
proper law enforcement agency if requested, he added.
The Security Office provides Crime Reports to the
Eugene and Springfield police,
the Lane County Sheriff, and
the Oregon State Police, according to college policy,
Chase noted.
In denying the TORCH access to Crime Reports, both
Colvin and Chase also cited
the difficulty of separating
Crime Reports from confidential College Complaint
Reports -- material apparently

maintained together.
Crime Patterns
Apparently, information
demonstrating trends or patterns in campus criminal activity is not available.
"We don't keep statistics on
crime here at LCC,'' stated
Colvin.
Chase responded similarly:
"I've been here since 1969,
and I keep a mental record'' of
increases and decreases in
types of crime.
But when questioned directly as to whether he has ever
compiled written information
on crime statistics at LCC,
Chase replied, "No comment."
Access to
Public Records
If such statistics do exist,
they would be defined as
"public information" under
Oregon Revised Statutes
192.001 to 192.5, and
therefore available to the
public upon request.
Similarly, according to LCC
policy (BOM, page 317), any
request for such public records
should be handled in a ''timely
and courteous" way, with
'' delays and runarounds
carefully avoided.''
The college policy and
Oregon law allow LCC to
assess a fee to reimburse the
college for staff time needed to
conduct such searches in
response to legitimate public
requests.
But Chase says he is reluctant to release the Crime
Reports themselves because
''We (the Security Office) like
to keep a low profile.'' He
says a criminal's lack of information is a form of security.
If reports or summary
statistics were made public, he

maintains, then crirpinals
would be able to identify
possible weaknesses in security
operations, and possible times
and situations when students
and staff may be vulnerable.
He says a result could be the
need for a high-profile (larger,
more visible) security
presence, which, he warns,
could take money away from
instructional programs.
Daily Logs and
Complaint Reports
Besides crime reports, the
Security Office routinely
records information through
College Complaint Reports,
and the Daily Log.
Security officers complete a
College Complaint Report for
all incidents other than those
resulting in a Crime Report,
according to the BOM.
One use of this form is to
document alleged offenses or
infractions involving students.
If the Security Office determines a student has violated
school policy, ''the Security
Office will file a complaint
under the Student Conduct
Code process,'' says Chase.
In this situation, the Security Office makes copies of the
report for Vice President for
Student Services Jack Carter,
as well as for the security files.
Carter says that if a student
is the subject of such a report,
the student will be informed.
The vice president says he
destroys his copies after he has
taken necessary administrative
action.
Finally, Security officers
record detailed accounts of
"their activities and locations" in a Daily Log, states
Chase. A typical Log entry
might note the presence of a
suspicious vehicle driving

around campus at night with
its lights off, he says.
Who Sees
Complaint Reports?
But public access to the
reports is barred.
"Only security officers,
myself, and my supervisor"
are allowed to see the forms,
says Chase. Some administrators, such as Carter,
may receive the reports as
well, but "staff, faculty,
parents, and employers have
no access," he states.
However, Chase admits he
has kept on file all Complaint
Reports generated during his
19-year at LCC. "I don't
recall sending any to the archives,'' (the repository for
college records).
And he claims that because
the
forms
are
filed
chronologically, and not by
student name, it is not possible

to locate reports on individual
students.
Chase considers the system
fair. It allows the college to
reprimand or fine a student
for what might be a first-time
offense, without creating a
permanent record, he says.
Some questions, however,
remain unanswered. If the
College Complaint Forms are
inaccessable, why are they
kept on file? Why does the college not track crime statistics
in an effort to stem cycles or
trends? How does the LCC
Security operation compare to
that of other Oregon Community Colleges in terms of
visiblility and willingness to
share information with
students and staff? These
questions and more will be examined in future TORCH
stories.

CRATER
LAKE
LODGE
&

OREGON
CAVES
Representatives will be
on the Lane Community
College Campus on Monday, February 22, 1988 interviewing for summer
seasonal resort positions.
Contact the Student
Employment Service for
application and interview
appointment. "An Equal
Opportunity Employer.''
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ENTERTAIN MENT

Electron ic Artistry '88 : Day of music, dance, and workshops
by David Monje

TORCH Entertainment Editor

The LCC Performing Arts
•department will present Electronic Artistry '88, its second
annual concert highlighting
musicians, dancers, and visual
effects integrating electronic
technology and art, on Friday,
Feb. 26 at 8:00 p.m. in the
LCC Main Theatre.
"Electronic Artistry '88

provides a unique opportunity
for LCC to showcase the
talents of guest clinicians and
performers in the field of electronic music,'' says Edward
McManus, head of LCC's
Electronic Music Program and
coordinator of the event.
In addition to the concert,
four workshops covering the
various musical applications
of electronic technology will

be held during the day.
The principle guest artist for
the day will be Andy WiddersEllis, who will premier original
compositions for an upcoming
album of his upbeat, jazz influenced music.
Widder-Ellis is best known
as a Chapman Stick virtuoso
and :t\4:IDI synthesizer expert.
The Chapman Stick is an instrument which combines the
frets and string of a guitar
with the two-handed playing
technique of the piano.
Also in the Electronic Artistry '88 concert, LCC Performing Arts instructors Jim
Greenwood, Barbara Myrick,
Marybeth Wilde, Owen
Bjerke, and Larry Clabby will
combine their talents with
LCC students Chris Owen,
Arie Marshall, Jude King, Bill
Limbocker, and Al Ross on
original compositions.
Barbara Myrick will perform her arrangement of
Claude DeBussy's "Claire de
Lune,'' together with dance
improvisations by Mary
Seereiter.
Richard Harris, LCC's
scenic and lighting designer
and theatre instructor, and
Skip Hubbard, the department's technical director, will
create the scenery, lighting,
and special effects for the concert.
The workshops scheduled
for Friday will focus on some
of the latest trends in electronic music.

Andy Widders-Ellis performs on Chapman Stick.

• Andy Widders-Ellis will
teach the first clinic, "The
Home • Music Studio," from
9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. He
will discuss the many choices
available to musicians who
plan to assemble their own
music studios.

• Don Latarski, Eugene jazz
artist, will host "The MIDI
Guitarist,'' demonsrating how
guitar players c·a n use MIDI
synthesizers without touching
their keys. He will discuss the
advantages and disadvantages
of various types of MIDI
guitar technologies.
• A no-host luncheon will
take place from noon to 1:00
p.m.
• The last workshop is ''The
Roland Corporation's MultiTechnology Seminar,'' in
which a representative from
Roland will demonstrate the

latest equipment in the Roland
line.
• Widders-Ellis second
clinic, "Advanced MIDI Sequencing," will foll wow the
luncheon from 1:00 to 2:00
p.m. The workshop will include a demonstration of the
sequencing techniques he uses
in his own studio.
Tickets for the concert are
$8, and $15 for the concert
and the workshops. Tickets
are available from the LCC
box office, and may be
ordered in advance by calling
726-2202.

Widders-E llis to be
guest artistfor concert
by Lynne Swift
For the TORCH

Andy Widders-Ellis will be the featured guest artist for LCC's
Electronic Artistry '88 concert. This 36-year-old is a virtuoso on
the Chapman Stick Touchboard, an instrument so new that only
a handful of musicians in the world perform on it.
The Stick was invented and built by Emmett Chapman, a Los
Angeles area musician, with whom Widders-Ellis has studied.
For the Feb. 26 LCC concert, Widders-Ellis will combine the
vitality of live performance with the special effects of electronically crafted sound using synthesizers, digital samplers, and
percussion instruments. He has stored commands in his MacIntosh computer. But on stage he'll weave the rich double guitar
sound of the Stick through the electronic orchestral accompaniment.
The music has an oppulent quality, falling somewhere between jazz and New Age music and drawing from reggae, calypso, rock, and the music of Africa. "I like groove . . . I love any
kind of music where rhythm is celebrated, music that has roots.
That music has survived, it has the patina of usage. . . " he
says.
Widders-Ellis believes that perfoming his music is essential to
his work as a composer. "I find it imperative to have people
hear what I play. I derive the most pleasure from being a musician from those times I make a major breakthrough. If it happens when I'm in a performance that's even better. The feedback from an audience steers my music,'' he says.

Assemb"/ages combine elements offantasy and reality
by David Monje

TORCH Entertainment Editor

Artist Randy Wassell will display variations on the traditional
shadow box in the LCC Art Gallery Feb. 22 through March 11.
Wassell will display boxes made from painted hardwoods
which contain collages of images clipped from magazines,
posters, postcards and other symbolic images.
His images combine elements of fantasy and reality, using
"images that are designed to transport the viewer to another
world,'' he says.
Wassell has been a professor of art at Colorado State University since 1967. He recieved his bachelors and masters degrees
from Illinois State University in art and sculpture.
His numerous international exhibitions include: The International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition; a Purchase Award from
the Ball State National Drawing and Small Sculpture Exhibition;
Botta D' Arte Mostra lnternazionale, Rome, Italy; Museum
D' Art Contemporani, Elvissa, Spain; The Arts Foundation,
Haarlem, Holland; Zentrum Bildende Kunst, Oberthal, Germany; and the Societa Ddla Belle Arti, Florence, Italy.
The LCC Art Gallery is located on the ground floor of the
Math and Arts Building, next to the Performing Arts Building.
Gallery hours are Monday through Thursday, 8 a.m. to 9:30
p.m., and Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

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February 19, 1988

The TORCH

Tropic of Capricorn, Wood, paper, acrylic, enamel, 12 1/2" w x 8" h x 3" d, 1987. By
Randy Wassell.