The

March 31, 1989

Eugene, Oregon

Lane Community College

\bl. 24 No. 20

Focus shifts for Dislocate d Worker Program
by Michael Omogrosso
TORCH Staff Writer

photo by Michael Saker

Lynn Swift helps Daniel Johnson work on his resume. Johnson recently graduated from the
Dislocated Worker Program and is "available for work." The wall behind them is covered with
pictures of the program's successful participants.

Change is in the air for the Dislocated Worker Program, says
Lynn Swift, a counselor for the Training and Development
Department at LCC.
The 6-year-old Dislocated Worker Program will change next
fall to accommodate a policy shift concerning the kind of
employment development programs the Department of Labor
will fund. A new piece of federal funding legislation, the
Economic Dislocation and Worker Adjustment Assistance Act,
is focusing spending on programs geared toward long term
retraining of the unemployed.
The Southern Willamette Private Industry Council will coordinate the federal funds as it has in the past -- contracting with
LCC to facilitate the program -- but this time will operate job
placement itself.
Although the Dislocated Worker Program trained some participants in new skills -- like computer literacy -- to improve
their employability, its main thrust for the over 1700 laid-off
Lane County workers on unemployment was to help them assess
job skills they had already, learn how to apply for jobs, and get
them back into the work force as soon as possible. This function
met former federal guidelines but not the new ones.
So, next fall a revamped Dislocated Worker Program will
focus on long-term retraining of unemployed workers.
"In some cases this may mean a 180-degree shift in careers,"
says Swift.
Although it is a more extensive program for each individual,
says Swift, fewer people will be helped this year.
see Worker, page 5

Budget cuts may be the result of multiple factors
Commentary by
John T. Orrigo
TORCH Staff Writer

In January, a model of
LCC's financial situation indicated a shortfall in the
budget of $840,000 for the
1988-89 fiscal year, and a continued shortfall for 1989-90.
LCC Pres. Jack Carter
targeted $1 million in budget
cuts for next year, making
more reductions than needed
in order to soften the impact
for the year after.
Carter's plan called for
reductions in the Office of Instruction to total $850,000.
Vice President for Instruction
Jacquelyn Belcher' s first plans
call for reduced management
costs $104,774; reduced
classified employee costs of
$71,694; part time faculty cuts
of $343,988; full time faculty
reductions of $152,682; and
materials and supplies at
$17,367.
In addition, the Office of
Student Services may cut over
$50,000.
In Administrative Services,
$80,000.
And in the President's Office, $25,000.
With higher enrollment, the
financial future seems brighter
now, and LCC might end up
only cutting approximately
$500,000 total. However, if

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Local Taxes
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A.
only $500,000 is reduced next
year, substantial cuts will have
to be made the year after.
''This trend has hit us the
last number of years,'' says
Richard Hillier, vice president
for Administrative Services.
"We still have a payroll that
exceeds our revenue, so until
we get our payroll size down,
comparable to revenue, we are
going to be continually in this
situation. We have to either
generate more revenue or we
have to eliminate staff."
And LCC has been in an
uproar concerning the proposed budget cuts for next year.
Too many people are directing
the blame at different sources
-- toward the lack of local support and of state funding.
Regretfully there is no one
supporting factor to blame.

Forward Trend
So where is the revenue
shortage?
If we compare the current
funding to that of a number of
years ago, we can see that
there is in fact an increasing
trend in local support. The
percentage of total revenue
coming from local taxes has
risen from 35 to 44 percent. At
the same time, state funding
has decreased from 40 to 28
percent of total funding. Income from tuition and fees has
increased about 4 percent -from 17 percent of the college's revenue to 21 percent -even though students increased 8. 5 percent last year.
So, LCC isn't suffering
from a lack of local support:
Rather, property owners and
renters are only able to pay
LCC so much of their budget.

B.

Estimated Values

The increase over the past
several years shows that the
community has definitely
given its fair share.
The state allocates funds according to the total FTEs (Full
Time Equivalent students) that
the community college serves.
LCC has shown a significant
increase in the total number of
part time students and a
decrease in full time students.
As a kind of compensation,
the state created a '' funding
floor'' so that the college
would not lose more than a
percentage of income even
though it may lose a drastic
number of full time students.
For example, if LCC lost 8
percent of its FTEs, it would
only lose 5 percent of the
dollars from the previous year
under the current formula.

This is very helpful. The college can't blame the state for
not providing more money
when LCC is not serving
enough FTEs.
Regardless of the number of
part time students, LCC still
has to provide the support to
assist them -- administering
financial aid, counseling, the
student health clinic, and
other student services.
Here is the problem: The
college has income that is not
substantial enough to support
all of the current full time and
part time employees. It is not a
question of not having enough
or having too many, it is
rather a question of not having
the revenues to allow LCC to
keep as many people on
board.
At the same time, LCC
needs to spend less than it
seeBudget, page 4

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TORCH Editor

Celebrating choice. On April 9 people all over the nation will
participate in a "March for Women's Lives" to celebrate
women's rights to make their own choices.
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The point is not that abortion is right or wrong. The point is
that women have the right to choose what they do with their own
bodies. This freedom of choice is something we should all
celebrate.
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EXCEPTIONAL, OUT- Nutrition study, irradiated
Think about motorcyclists in Oregon. They no longer have the
ST ANDING, and . willing to
wheat was fed to malnourishright to make a choice based on preference. Now they are mangive his students a QUALITY
ed Indian children. The
dated to wear helmets when they ride their bikes -- req_uired bf a
EDUCATION. He cares
children developed blood
law that was passed by the voting public, made up mostly of
polyploids, a condition
about his students! We need
people who do not ride motorcycles. They have lost their right of
associated with leukemia and
him.
choice.
characterized by extra sets of
It seems that we are entering an era in which people are losing
chromosomes. The results of
Sue Katrina Sandahl
their rights to make their own decisions. More state and county
this study were also repeated
LCC student
measures appear on our ballots every election. These measures
with rats and monkeys.
are often aimed at our personal freedom. Fortunately these
In other studies, laboratory
To the Board (2)
measures are usually voted down.
animals fed irradiated foods
To the Board Members:
It is not the government's job to take away our rights. The
developed increased rates of
I think it ought to be
government was created to serve and protect the people of
U.S.
testicualr tumors, kidney ·
brought to the Board's attenIt makes laws that protect the rights of its citizens.
nation.
this
damage, abnormal blood cells,
tion that the students are in an
fewer
breakage,
chromosomal
In 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Roe v. Wade that
uproar concerning these
offspring, and a higher overall
state laws outlawing abortion are unconstitutional.
budget cuts.
mortality.
It seems to me that no matDespite many politicians' efforts to overturn this decision, the
Aflatoxins, a very potent
ter what administration does
majority of the population, 57-40 percent (Harris Poll, Jan.
carcinogen, has been found in
the students will be upset.
1989), still agrees with the ruling.
quantities in irradiated
greater
was
Lane
ago
A few years
So on April 9 women nationwide will gather in their
foods.
rated one of the top five
and in Washington, D.C., to celebrate their inhometowns
natural
the
kills
Irradiation
schools in the nation for havto control their reproductive lives.
rights
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bacteria
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of
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celebration
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Lane
see
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point
spores, so our food will be
of personal freedom. Let's keep our freedom as individuals and
downward spiral and admore susceptible to botulism.
celebrate Sunday, April 9 at 3 p.m. at the U of 0.
ministration looking like the
There is a major loss in
bad guys.
nutrients from irradiating
•Suggested solution: I sugfoods, which is compounded if
gest that we set up a
food is cooked.
the
democratic system. I suggest
kills the
Irradiation
that a voting booth be set up
food to
cause
that
bacterias
so that the students can vote in
or vote out their teachers. We smell bad. Without them, we
are the ones who pay our won't know when our food is
EDITOR: Alice C . Wheeler
teachers' salaries. We need to spoiled.
EDITORIAL CARTOONIST:
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them to support SB 452 to ban
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Michael Primrose
Sue Katrina Sandahl
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To the Board (1)
To the Board Members:
Enclosed you will find my
letter which is dated to Jack
Carter on March 6, 1989. Also
enclosed are my petitions.
Sue Katrina Sandahl
LCC student

to Mr. Carter
Dear Mr. Carter:
I thought I should write you
this letter to let you know that
LCC is making a big mistake.
Next term, instructor David
Leung in the Social Science
department has been assigned
to teach only one class (PSY
203) and it's on a Saturday.
The students need David for
their teacher. David isn't just
an ordinary teacher. David is
The
EXCEPTIONAL.
students need quality education and they can get this from
him. David is the kind of
teacher who is always there for
his students.
He encourages his students
to make special appointments
to come to him at his
downtown business office on
Willamette Street if they have
questions in psychology. He
also has office hours posted at
Lane so students can come see
him. David will also schedule
special appointments for
students who can't come see
him during his regular office
hours. He also lets his students
call him on the telephone if
they need his help in
psychology.
The students are very upset
about what is happening.
Some are taking PSY 201 and
want to continue taking classes
from David. Others are in
PSY 202 and want to continue
with him. Others who have
had him for PSY 201, PSY
202, and PSY 203 know he's
an excellent teacher.
The students don't want to
give up David. The students
don't want a part-time teacher
coming in and teaching classes
that David could be assigned
to.
As I have stated earlier in
this letter, David Leung who is
a psychology teacher in the

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To the Editor:
Food irradiation is not the
technological answer to our
food preservation problems.
The safety concerns far
outweigh any future benefits.
Oregon and other states are
proposing and passing legislation to ban irradiated foods.
The food is irradiated by exposing it to radioactive waste
from nuclear power and
weapons plants. When the
food is irradiated, the gamma
rays cause the food to undergo
molecular changes. New compounds, known as Unique
Radiolytic Products, are formed and many are considered to
be carcinogenic.

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Recycling foam

Michael Saker

To the Editor:
Recently, the Council for
Solid Waste Solutions (Dart
Craft Container, AMOCO
Oil, and Dow Chemical) and
McDonald's have touted the
feasibility and benefits of
recycling Styrofoam. At first
glance this may sound like a
great idea, although upon
closer examination many questions arise concerning the
practicality of such a project.
First off, who will pay for
collecting Styrofoam containers from businesses and
roadsides? Who will pay to
clean this material, as well as

STAFF WRITERS: Michael Omogrosso, Dorothy Wilmes-Corkery, John Piper, Jodie
Palmer, Bob Parker, John Orrigo, Tom Nash. Don Standeford, Diana Feldman
PRODUCTION STAFF:
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Gerry Getty
PHOTOGRAPHERS:
Bryan Wesel, Sean Elliot

see Letters, page 3

Pete Peterson

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stote it, process it, and ship it
to markets that presently do
not exist?
All of this is of course
dependent upon the development of viable and sound
markets that have a continual
demand for Styrofoam waste.
Such strong market conditions
may be a product of wishful
thinking when one considers
that the present poor market
for newsprint, · a long
established and usually profitable recyclable material, has
some Eastern U.S. governments paying up to $25 per ton
simply to remove the
newsprint for recycling.
The point that I'd like to
make here is that if Styrofoam
is to be recycled here in Lane
County, the taxpayers may be
held responsible for footing
the bill if the Styrofoam industry turns away from funding the project. It is obvious
that a Styrofoam recycling
project cannot be selfsupporting, and will have to be
funded from other sources.
Our local wood and paper
products industries, who are
losing markets and jobs to
out-of-state manufacturers of
plastic cups and bags, are contributing by means of their
profits and payrolls to the
fund which supports local
government. Essentially, all of
us may be asked to subsidize a
plastics/chemical industry
venture to manufacture plastic
timbers, yo-yos, and the like
from recycled foam. If such a
demand for these items exists,
why not save a whole lot of
energy, labor, and trouble by
making these products directly
from raw materials?
If Styrofoam producers and
distributors are so supportive
of recycling efforts, which is a
smoke screen to protect their
industry, then they should be
the ones responsible to pay for
the ongoing collection, processing, and shipping to
guaranteed markets in demand
of their product.
If they don't (No, Virginia,
there isn't a Santa Claus) then
it can be expected that the taxpayers of Lane County, and
any other governments that
fall prey to such deceptive
ploys, will be asked to pick up
the tab.
The Board of Directors and
staff of BRING Recycling
urge the Lane County Board
of Commissioners, Eugene
and Springfi eld City Councilors, and others to support a
Sty rofoam reduction ordinance based on Portland' s
sensible and newly adopted
plan.
Leslie Weinstein
President
BRING Recycling

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Care for All
To the Editor:
The Democratic Party of
Lane County unanimously endorses SB 390, the Health
Care For All Act, currently
pending in the Oregon state
legislature and strongly recommends its quick passage by
members of the Oregon State
Senate and House.
We endorse this bill
because:
--all Oregonians should have
access to affordable, quality
health insurance.
--the cost of providing health
care to the medically indigent
should no longer be the exclusive responsibility of
employers who now purchase
84 percent of all health insurance in this state.
--employers who currently
cannot afford health insurance
should have access to
reasonably priced health insurance for their employees.
--Oregon's health care system
should focus more attention
on prevention.
--spirally health insurance
premiums attributed to uncompensated care costs must
be stopped.
SB 390 would guarantee
universal access to health care
for all Oregonians by 1993. It
includes provisions for
statewide health care costcontainment. It would create
an insurance pool which
would provide reasonably
priced insurance for uninsured
Oregonians and the businesses
that employ them.
The need for this legislation
can hardly be overstated. At
present, there are over 415,000
Oregonians without any health
insurance coverage. Of this
group, 75 percent are
employed in the workforce or

are dependents of uninsured
parents. Children living in
poverty account for 113,000 of
those ininsured.
The facts are compelling for
consideration of SB 390. We,
the Democratic Party of Lane
County, strongly argue for its
passage in the Oregon State
House and Senate.
Sam F. Adams, Chair
Lane County Democratic Party

Undoing error
To the Editor:
In the last issue of the
TORCH I wrote an article
concerning what was learned
in the "Undoing Racism"
workshop run by Eugene
Clergy and Laity Concerned.
In my haste and carelessness
during the writing of this article I completely omitted the
fact that this workshop was
brought to LCC through the
cooperative efforts of the
Multi-Cultural Center and the
ASLCC.
I would like to extend my
apologies to both of these
organizations for my forgetfulness. The MCC and
ASLCC are to be commended
for presenting members of the
LCC community with an opportunity to learn about where
we all fit into the problem of
racism and how we can begin
to do something about it.
Again I salute these two
campus organizations and
their many efforts to make
LCC a great place to get an
education.
Robert Parker
LCC student

Book passage this spring
Travel in the "realms of gold" and
discover the fascinating Romantics,
the eminent Victorians, and the
innovative moderns.

Atheism diseased
To the Editor:
In a recent article (Letters to
the Editor, TORCH, Feb. 10,
1989), someone defended
atheism by using the wonders
and great discoveries of
science to back up their argument. I agree that atheism is a
religion that desperately needs
someone to defend it.

sky in one second and even
blessing it with the light to
reach the earth the next second. If God created the earth
•with a history He certainly is
capable of creating a universe
with a history. It does say in
Genesis that he created the
stars for our light; in fact, the
star, may be just an illusion
created by God to give history
to the universe.

It is interesting that a
''massive spinning star'' exists
• and one teaspoon full of it
would weigh hundreds of
thousands of tons. And the
fact that some scientific
theories were backed up by the
discovery of Supernova 1987 A
is enlightening. Scientists have
"estimated" that the light
from the explosion took
170,000 years to reach the
earth. Maybe or maybe not.
Perhaps the same God who
created the first two humans,
Adam and Eve, fully grown, is
capable of putting a star in the

Are devout atheists so overwhelmed by the fact that God
created such a complex
universe that they would use
His own handiwork to prove
he never existed? Does an admirer of art buy a painting and
study it in an attempt to prove
the artist never lived? "Theist
claims and actions of religious
tyrants determined to force
their unverifiable doctrines on
mankind?" Or is it "Critiques
of God" intent upon pushing
the diseased religion of
atheism upon our children.
Don Standeford
Eugene

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CAMPUS CALENDAR
MONDAY APRIL 3

* Tax Help Every Monday and Wednesday,
Center Building, 2nd Floor.
* ASLCC Senate meeting, 4-6 pm, in the
Boardroom.
* Disabled Advisory Club, 2-3 pm, Cen. 420
Open to all students.
* Slide -Lecture by Mr. John Grillo, a Boston
artist and Professor of Art at the University
of Massachusetts, 1 pm in Forum 308. A
reception will follow the presentation in the
Art Dept. Gallery at 3 pm.

TUESDAY APRIL 4
*Disabled Student Services and the Women's
Center will be showing a documentary on
4 disabled women and their careers. The
video titled "The impossible takes a little
longer"will be screened at the following
times; Tuesday 10-1 lam in Cen. 213
2:30-3:30 in Cen. 420
4- 5pm in Cen. 420
Wednesday 10-1 lam Cen. 420
2-3 pm Cen. 420

WEDNESDAY APRIL 5

Survey of English Literature
Two sessions:
11-12 MWF, Seq. 494, M&A 244
with Sharon Thomas
11:30 -1 UH, Seq. 495, Apr 212
with Susan Swan

*ASLCC presents "Month O' De' Blues"
this week featuring: Pete Christi. in the
cafeteria from 11 :30am-1 :30pm.
*Peace Week is coming May 1-Sth. Peace
Week committee meetings Wednesdays at
4pm in Cen. 480.

THURSDAY APRIL 6
*International Coffee Hour in the Multicultural Center, 1-3pm, Cen. 409.

1621 E. 19th.

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Speech members
head out of state

KLCC does it again

by Jessica Schabtach
TORC H New s Edito r

Two LCC Forensics Team
members are hitting the road
this term to compete in North
Dakota and California, and
the team itself is basking in the
glory of two terms of successful competitions and
preparing to host its own.
Fall term the team received
second place among community colleges in the Northwest
Forensics Conference, and
team members Cheryl Jacob
and Jeannie Williams won a
total of three trophies at Clark
College's Penguin Invitational
Tournament. ''What is
remarkable about these
students' performance," says
Barbara Breaden, LCC speech
instructor, "is that both were
brand new competitors (fall)
term, never having entered
speech competition before.''

photo by Michael Saker

Chuck Johnson, Robin L. Breath, and Pete LaNelle were among the 100 volunteers who aided
KLCC in its Spring Radiothon. The station met its spring goal, netting over $65,000 in community donations.

Budget,

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receives. Look at the revenue
side of the budget then match .
the expenditures which show
that salaries and fringe
benefits equal 75 percent of
the total budget and is increasing between 4 and 5 percent.
There has been a substantial
amount of advertising to in-

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FTEs,
Lane's
crease
everything from television to
visits to local high schools by
LCC Pres. Carter_ Since a
large part of the budget
depends on FTE, perhaps the
college should consider an increase in part-time tuition.
This would actually make it
more economical for students
to attend full time.
There are no definite plans
to increase tuition for next
year, although it has been
discussed.
At this time Carter is look-

ing at different budget reduction proposals from the
Budget Review Committee,
and is still waiting for final information from Budget Committee Hearings to be held on:
Monday, April 10, 3:30-6 p.m.
in PE 205; on Tuesday, April
11, 3:30-6 p.m. in the Board
Room; Thursday, April 13,
3:30-6 p.m. in PE 205. These
meetings are for Office of Instruction budget cuts. The
college-wide budget committee
meeting, which is open to the
public, will meet Wed. April
19.

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receive for the injury. Also, if your doctor takes
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The team's success story
continued winter term, with·
LCC student Veasna Chan
Yun winning first place in persuasive speaking at the District
Qualifier for the National Individual Events Tournament

for his speech on the trade imbalance between the U.S. and
Japan. He will leave April 7 to
compete in the national competition at North Dakota State
University, Breaden says.
Cheryl Jacob will also be
competing out of state this
term, travelling to Concord,
Cal. on April 2 to a forensics
honor fraternity competition.
The whole team will travel
to Clackamas Community
College for the Tom McCall
Invitational this May, as well
as to the state Capitol in April
for the Oregon Intercollegiate
Oratorical Association competition.
But there's action on the
home front this term, too-Breaden says LCC is hosting
the Northwest Forensic Conference Community College
Championships April 28-29.
She says it's a "fairly small"
tournament, with only 10
schools competing.
Breaden invites interested
students to consider joining
the team, and notes that experience in public speaking is
not necessary.

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Sex and Fear

by John F. Piper
TORCH Staff Writer

The nineties are nearly upon us, and along with the late
eighties they promise to be an era in which Sigmund Freud
would feel right at home.
Sexual repression is making a comeback in Western
Civilization.
Once again, monogamy is in, as is virginity. One might
say that the Sexual Revolution, such as it may have been,
has come screeching to a shuddering halt.
If one wished, one might deny the reality of the situation: the Sexual Revolution has crashed, burned, and been
wrecked beyond repair. In this new and frightening age,
sex can kill.
The Revolution is dead, as are thousands for whom the
news came too late_ And those of us who have so far,
through luck or prudence, managed to survive will carry
scenes and tales of horror with us the re5t of our lives.
Men gave it to their wives. Women gave it to their
children. People were persecuted for their sexual
preferences by homophobics who saw the protection of
public health as a good excuse. The Reagan administration
demonstrated a stunning lack of concern until it was far
too late for far too many.
Another incurable disease, stupidity, always endemic in
the religious fanatic community, seems to have been made
even more virulent than usual by the emergence of AIDS
into the mainstream.
When the religious right found that AIDS has no particular concern with its victims' sexual preferences, it was
forced to re-evaluate its stance that AIDS was God's way
of correcting homosexuality.
By that time, the public had started to take fewer sexual
risks. Monogamy and celibacy were becoming more and
more popular. The religious fringe issued the smug proclamation that this represented a return to ''traditional
morality.''
The majority of people who have changed their sexual
habits recently have done so only in order to minimize their
chances of contracting AIDS. Can behavior motivated
solely by the instinct for self-preservation be considered
moral in any real sense of the word?
At this point, the panic seems to be ebbing and nobody's
being blamed. But it's a long way from being over yet.
Welcome to the Plague Years.

Students to don mouse ears

Lighten up

by David Larson
for the TORCH

Walt Disney World has offered jobs to 17 LCC students
for this summer and fall.
The Feb. 24 day-long interviews with 64 students resulted
in 54 separate interviews -- the
largest number of interviews
ever conducted in one day, according to one of the two
visiting Walt Disney World
college program representatives, Katherine Kirk. She
said it was also one of the first
West Coast recruiting efforts
for the Florida-based theme
park operation.
The Cooperative Work Experience Department began
negotiating the recruiting visit
with Walt Disney World last
summer. In the summer and
fall of 1988 Department Chair
Bob Way conducted two
meetings with company planners in Orlando, and one
theme park spokesperson
visited Lane in October to
describe the company's operations philosophy, work standards, and college student
recruitment procedures.
Most of those interviewed
were LCC students, although
some came from as far away
as Mount Hood Community
College and Portland State
University, and as nearby as
the U of 0. Walt Disney
World offered a total of nine
summer and 12 fall positions.
Six of of the summer and 11 of
the fall jobs were offered to
LCC students.
According to Lynn Wolters,
administrative assistant to the

photo by Michael Saker

Lori Gilbraith reads a Newsweek article on Disney MGM
Studios, the Disney World attraction at which she will be working in Orlando, Fla.

Cooperative Work Experience
Program, the job titles are attractions hostess, studio attractions hostess, lifeguard
hostess, outdoor food host,
culinary assistant, resort food
and beverage host and hostess,
fast food host, merchandise
host and. hostess, housekeeping hostess, and resort merchandise hostess.
Walter says LCC' s Lori
Galbraith was offered "one of
the premium jobs" -- studio
attractions hostess.
Galbraith, a theater major,
admits her goal was to work
with Disney MGM Studios.
She says that she ''went into
the interview with the intent of

getting this particular job,''
having read books about the
company and prepared her
portfolio.
The new employees must
pay their own transporation
costs to and from Orlando,
rent rooms in the Disney
World condominium, and buy
their own food. However,
transportaion to and from
their living quarters is free,
and they will be paid by the
hour and can earn college
CWE credit for their experience.
The CWE Department anticipates another recruiting
visitation next fall for anticipated positions of the spring of 1990.

Nursing and Dental programs'
application deadlines approach
by Nanci Lenz
fo r th e TORCH

Application deadlines for
LCC's Nursing and Dental
Hygiene programs are just
around the corner. According
to current admission packets,
the latest possible dates to apply for the two programs are
April 21 and May 12 respectively.
The current LCC course
catalog lists prerequisites for
application as a high school
diploma or an equivalent (such
as a GED), a passing score on
basic reading and arithmetic
tests, and completion of all application forms.
According to the catalog,
applicants must also attend a
Program Exploration Session
designed to illustrate the different facets of the program
and help prospective students
decide on a particular field.
An additional requirement
for dental hygiene applicants
is either one year of high
school chemistry or one term
of college-level chemistry, successfully completed within the
past five years.
After having determined
which applicants meet standard requirements, both pro-

grams admit students by what
the department refers to as the
''Point System Selection Process."
The point system, says Nursing Program Head Marie
Wiles, is based on several factors, including outside work
experience in the field.
According to current pamphlets, applicants also earn
points by completing college
courses such as sociology,
writing, anatomy /physiology,
basic speech, and nutrition.
All courses must be completed
with a grade of "C" or above
to be considered for points.
Wiles adds that the completion of a separate health occupations program, such as
the Certified Nurse's Aid or
Medical Assistant programs,
will enable individuals to earn
points.
"First of all," says Wiles,
''nobody ever earns all 31
points possible'' for the nursing program. The program
''usually accepts around 80
students each year, and the applicants with the highest
number of points are selected
first until all 80 seats are filled." An applicant must earn a
minimum of five points to be
considered for evaluation, ac-

cording to Wiles.
The Dental Hygiene Program works the same way,
reports department coordinator Sharon Hagan. According to department records,
the average yearly enrollment
for the dental hygiene program is 22. The admission
packet for this program states
that the maximum points
possible is 40. The minimum is
also five points.
Those who are chosen for
the programs are notified
within one month of the
deadline date. According to
application forms, nursing
program applicants for the
1989-90 school year will
receive notice by May 26, dental hygiene students by June
16, via the U.S. Postal Service.
If a person does not qualify
for a program, Wiles has some
suggestions.
"There are counselors here
on campus that can suggest
some courses that take care of
some point requirements,'' she
says. Jack Shadwick is the
counselor assigned to the
·Health Occupations Department.
Wiles also suggests checking
into some volunteer programs
in the field.

New lights have been installed on the exterior of the Center
Building due to complaints about poor nighttime lighting.

Worker,

from page, _ _ _ __

A new program, the Career
Network Workshop, will do
what the Dislocated Worker
Program used to do and
potentially assist more people
than before.
Because the Career Network
Workshop, unlike the
Dislocated Worker Program,
relies on fees paid by participants rather than federal
funds, it can be offered to the
public.
In a two week workshop,
participants evaluate how they
feel about current or former
jobs and what kind of work
skills they possess. With this
information, then, they deter-

mine where in the labor pool
they want to be and if they
need new or improved job
skills to get there. Methods for
approaching prospective
employeers are also taught.
Ongoing weekly networking
meetings let participants share
information with others and
help keep morale up until they
become employed.
A free informational
meeting on the Career Network Workshops will be held
Monday, April 3, from 5:30
p.m. to 6:30 p.m. For more information call the LCC Training and Development Department at 726-2223.

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LCC track teams open Region.4 season at home
Wilken confident of women's victory

·:competition 'thin' for men's meet
by Paul Morgan

by Paul Morgan

TORCH Sports Editor

TORCH Spons Editor

The "competition is going to be thin" for this weekend's
men's track meet at LCC, says Track Head Coach Kevin
Meyers, but it will be much needed practice for the Titans as
they kick off the 1989 Region 4 season.
"We have about as many athletes as the other teams combined," says Meyers.
But numbers aside, ''they have some good vaulters and some
good sprinters," says Meyers, "so there will be a few competitive relays."
The Titans are hoping to use this meet to tune their engines for
the Region season. The meet, which starts at 11 a.m.,is the only
one being held at LCC this year.
Meyers feels his team is strongest in the middle and long
distances and hurdles. The Titans might also be successful in
the sprints, but Meyers must also use his hurdlers as sprinters.
At the Beaver Relays in Sacramento, Calif., Meyers says,
"We qualified for the conference meet in the 4 X 400 meter
relays, which is pretty good for this time of year.''

There is no lack of diversity on the 1989
women's track team as they open the Region 4
season Saturday, April 1 at LCC.
Treasure Valley C.C., Linn-Benton C.C., and
Umpqua C.C. will take on the Titans at 11 a.m.
on the LCC track.
"We've got something in everything," says
Head Coach Lindell Wilken.
Although the Titans have only 15. athletes,
Wilken says, "We:;e got some people that can
do a lot of events.
.
LCC has three hel?tathlete~: Ehsha Holt, Sandy Church, and Misty ':\Thite, who can cover
"many events" for the Titans.
Rona Richards and Amy Brune will compete
in the jumps for LCC, says Wilken. "The jumps
are probably our strongest point," she adds.

Tamara Anderson is returning in the sprints
after setting the school record in the 200 meters
last year with a time of 24.9 seconds. Brune will
be backing her up, says Wilken.
The Titans will be "very good" in the long
hurdles this year, said Wilken.
Short hurdles are the main problem for the
Titans this year. "We've got people that can hurdie but we don't know how well yet ... because
it's not their specialty."
The middle and long distances are shakey for
LCC, but one bright spot is Jennifer Huff, who
won the cross country Regional meet last fall.
The throws will be covered by athletes with a
mix of experience and youth.
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The Titans have_ a new assistant coach this
year. ~a~ We~t will take over the men's and
women s Jumprng programs.

Baseball team to play Clark
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The LCC baseball team will
open the 1989 NW AACC
league season against Clark
Community College Saturday,
April 1 at LCC.
The Titans are 3-3 after a
team trip to California March
19-25.
Although Head Coach Bob
Foster hasn't had a chance to
scout Clark yet, he has his
line-up set for the 1 p.m .
game.
Foster is going with
Sophomore Randy Pratt as his
starting pitcher. Pratt is 0-1
after his only game against
San Mateo C.C.
.. (Pratt) wasn't very
sharp," Foster said of the San
Mateo game, "but the field
wasn't in great condition."

photo by Michael Primrose

Front Row (left to right): Bill Zola, Eric Sinclair, Steve Riley )
Shon Wood, Mark Nored, Todd Cantamessa. Middle Row (left
to right): Head Coach Bob Foster, Lewis Wright, Tim Cecil,
Derek Wormdahl, Judd Feldman, Jeff McKibben, Eric Gentry,
Mark Cook, Steve Langlers, Coach Steve Wolf. Back Row (left
to Right): Coach Bill Schanblin, Fred Zent, Todd Smith, Brian
Cavener, Randy Pratt, Greg Valencia, Kaveh Rouzpay, Neil
Williamson.
"He'll be fine," added valuable pitcher last year, so
Foster. "He was our most
I'm not worried."

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March 31: A poetry reading
featuring LCC English instructor Peter Jensen with
Vickie Nelson and Harriet
Wilson will be held in the
Eugene Hilton Studio A at 8
p.m. The reading is sponsored
by the Lane Literary Guild.
Two "global
April 2:
citizens,'' Moira Timms and
Alan Stein, are sponsoring an
evening for people interested
in unity and world peace from
7 to 10 p.m. at the Unitarian
Church, 40th and Donald. The
evening, presented by international peace/networking
organization Global Family,
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diplomacy work with the
Soviet Union and a group proexplores
that
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experience of connection."
Contact Moira Timms,
344-3504, or Alan Stein,
342-8348, for more information.
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Tree City USA Award
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from the U of O campus to 8th
and Oak at 3 p.m. The march
coincides with a national
march in Washington, D.C.
Marchers are asked to bring
friends, where white as did the
suffragists, and to participate
in a post-march rally.
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seniors in 1989-90. Applications are available in the LCC
Women's Center, ext. 2353, or
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686-4439.
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Section 8 Voucher and Certificate applications from
families, senior citizens, and
disabled adults for 1-, 2-, and
3-bedroom families by mail
only March 25 through April
9. Applications may be picked
up at 177 Day Island Road ,
Eugene, or by calling
687-3755.
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Zone 3 seat of the LCC Board
of Education in the March 28
elections. Riggs replaces
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For reservations please call
345-7089.
April 6, 8: Author Peter Marin
will present a public talk and
discussion on the social consequences of homelessness in the
U.S. on Thursday, April 6, in
the Gerlinger Lounge on the U
of O campus at 7:30 p.m. On
April 8 a Community Forum
on Homelessness will be held
at 10 a.m. at Harris Hall, Lane
County Courthouse (8th and
Oak).
April 7 is the last day to order
roses to be delivered on April
14 by the Soroptimist International of Eugene. Proceeds
will go to the support of
Women's Resource and
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Vampire chronicle continues

Art
display
and
lecture
by
John
Grillo

by John T. Orrigo
TORCH Staff Writer

In her new novel Queen of the Damned Anne
Rice has truly shown us a side of the vampire
that Hollywood has failed to do. The reader is
not terrified, only curious.
Rice's erratic vampire world was first
chronicled in Interview with a Vampire, a story
of three vampires who live together in New
Orleans, and The Vampire Lestat, a struggle
between a vampire and his quest for the
answers to his own immortality.
Queen of the Damned continues where The
Vampire Lestat left off. But now immortal is
pitted against immortal in a mutually destructive struggle within vampiredom.
The conflict takes the reader through the
most mysterious cities in the world -- Paris,
New Orleans, and San Francisco -- using the
metaphor of a vampire's immortality to explore
the themes of loss and pain.
The book has a strange intimacy that gives

Nationally renowned Boston artist and University of
Massachusetts art professor John Grillo currently has works on
display in the LCC Art Department Gallery. He is shown here
with his piece Tango. Grillo will also conduct a slide-lecture,
open to the public and sponsored by the ASLCC, on Monday,
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