The
Eugene, Oregon

Lane Community College

Special Issue Inside

April 7, 1989

Vol. 24 No. 21

A taste of spring

Running the race
against AIDS
An in-depth look at the AIDS virus and how we can
work together to change its course.

Board elections held

Riggs wins seat
by Michael Omogrosso
TORCH Staff Writer

' 'Either you get involved
with the change (that is happening around us), or you are
left wondering 'Why is this
happening to me?' " says
newly-elected LCC Board of
Education member Pat Riggs.
Riggs, a former LCC student, defeated two other candidates in the March 28 election. She is replacing Charlene
Curry for the Springfield Zone
Three seat. Curry did not seek
re-election.
Employed at the Southern
Willamette Private Industry
Council, Riggs administers
tests to the unemployed and
determines if they're ready to
re-enter the work force or need
retraining. She also determines
eligibility for retraining.
She's a union activist who is
also a single mother of two.
She says she found herself required to join the union when
she started work 10 years ago
in employment training for
Lane County. '' As long as I
had to join," she says, "I
decided to be part of the process."
Involvement is central to
Riggs' philosophy.
She first became a union
shop steward, joined the executive board of her union's
local chapter, and was then
elected its president. Riggs is
now the vice president for the
statewide organization of
county chapters of the
American Federation of State,
County, and Municipal
Employees.
Positive changes are taking
place at LCC in an increasingly positive atmosphere -- and
she wants to be involved in
helping the college stay on that
course.
She sees the college trying to
afford everyone the opportunity to be involved in some
very tough decisions that must
be made for the college's
future. "We still have to make
cuts,'' she says. But, by involving those people the cuts

photo by Michael Primrose

Blue skies, sunshine, and flowers helped
lure Tracy Dorris to study on the benches
around the Center Building this past

week. Many students and even some
classes moved outside to take advantage
of the first warm weather this spring.

Pat Riggs

will affect, campus morale will
suffer minimally.
Riggs hopes the next college
president will have good communication skills. "I want
somebody with enough
charisma," she says, "that
when she or he walks into the
legislature, all heads will
turn.''
She wants the new president
to be as enthusiastic as Interim
Pres. Jack Carter, and praises
the job Carter has done to promote a positive outlook for
Lane's future.
An involved citizen already,
Riggs says she wanted to be on
the board because she knew
that as a citizen and a board
member she would be listened
to that much more.
Not only is education increasingly recognized as
necessary to get better, higher
paying jobs, but more people
view it as an essential element
in reducing and preventing
social problems, says Riggs.
"In-and-out convicts are the
ones who are undereducated,''
she says. They often come
from unstable homes. Happy,
healthy, and well educated
parents are better equipped to
earn an adequate income and
provide a stable and nurturing
home life which should reduce
delinquency.
Riggs says as an LCC
board member she intends to
be accessible to the students
and to the community. She
may be reached with concerns,
ideas, or problems at
746-5905.

Student Resource Center
builds new reception desk
by Diana Feldman

U-shaped unit. And everyone is welcome.

TORCH Staff Writer

What's 27 feet long, green and brown, has 20
different faces, and resides in the Center
Building?
Answer: The new Student Resource Center
(SRC) reception desk.
The SRC -- the information dispensing arm
of the ASLCC, located near the library entrance on the second floor of the Center
Building -- is hosting an Open House .on
Wednesday, April 12, from 1 to 4 p.m. to
celebrate the arrival and installation of the

For the last five years the office used an odd
assortment of desks and tables to mark off its
space from the rest of the second floor concourse. But now, says SRC Director Lynn
Johanna-Larsen, the SRC is "more visible,"
and more professional in appearance.
"None of this would have happened without
the combined efforts of Campus Services, the
college administration, and Student Services
working with student government," JohannaLarsen says. The open house is SRC's way of
thanking the people who fostered the project.
The new desk cost $3,000 for materials, but
there was no charge for the labor, although
Johanna-Larsen estimates a likely labor total
near $5,000 had the unit been constructed by an
outside agency. College carpenters, electricians,
and finishers designed and built the project,
making it similar in design to the divider installed two years ago for the Financial Services.
To assure wheelchair accessability, ASLCC
Sen. Chuck Doerr, who uses a wheelchair, gave
advice and checked accessability in the plans
and assembly of the unit.

The new desk at the Student Resource Center
looks professional and has helped spruce up the
lobby of the Center Building.

As a subdivision of the ASLCC, the SRC is a
"central source of campus information for
both students and the public,'' says JohannaLarsen. "It provides a training area for
business, office experience, and people skills."
An added benefit is political and social science
credits and experience. She says many students
go on to participate in student government after
working at the SRC.

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To the Editor:
ASLCC is the victim of
hypocrisy once again. We all
read of (ASLCC President)
John Millet's huffing and puffing about affirmative action
and how it is vital that we have
a senate that represents the
student population.
My question is: If a
democratic and representative
student government are the
goals of John Millet's government, how come he has not
publicly opened ASLCC
Senate positions to all of the
students on this campus?
There has not been any
advertising of open seats or
any evidence of students
choosing their representatives.
What there has been in the last
two terms is four senate seats
filled by people who have been
"classmates" of Mr. Millet.
All of these friends have been
invited to the senate by Mr.
Millet without any open selection process that involved the
rest of the college.
I have no problem with any

senators on the senate, but I
do have a problem with the
selection precess that Mr.
Millet uses to fill our senate.
The problem is that he is leaving himself open to the accusation that he is not building a
senate to represent students,
but to represent his interests.
Robelyn Laverty
LCC student

Religion doubted
To the Editor:
On March 31, 1689, after a
year-long trial, Polish
nobleman
Kazimierz
Lyszczynski was executed in
Warsaw for having written an
atheist treatise, "De nonexistencia Dei'' (The In existence
of God).
Doubting his courage would
allow him to die at the stake in
a style befitting nobility,
Lyszczynski pleaded with the
Polish King Jan Sobiecki that
he be quartered with a
scimitar.
His hand holding the condemned treatise was dipped in

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tar and set on fire, then
severed; he was granted his request and was quartered; his
body was burned, the ashes
placed in a cannon and scattered with an explosive charge.
At the time Poland was one of
the most liberal and cultured
states of Christendom.
This trial, reported in the
then-nascent press of London
and Paris, helped forge the
social consciousness of journalism.
The irrationality and intolerance of theist religions
continues. On Good Friday,
March 24, 1989, two Christian
groups of pilgrims, one
Catholic, the other Protestant,
commemorating the "Way of
the Cross" on Jerusalem's Via
Dolorosa, whose paths cross-·
ed, engaged in a brawl over
"right of way" necessitating
intervention of Israeli police.
Each group evidently was in- ·
capable of assessing the moment as propitious for recitation of a few extra prayers -which ''mumbo-jumbo''
would have allowed the processions to proceed peaceably.
It is increasingly important
for the protection of
democracy and freedom that
newspaper editors reassess the
integrity of their commitment
and meet their responsibilities
without succumbing to community religious pressures.
Bert P. Tryba
Eugene

Cheaters offend
To the Editor:
Recently, during finals, I
observed two students
cheating on their exams.
This particular exam was
what I, an average student,
considered to be a piece of
cake because the instructor announced what exactly would
be on the exam.
My first thought was, "Oh,
well, they're just cheating
themselves out of their education." But the more I thought
about it I've decided that "the
degrees the rest of us earn will
mean less.'' I was particularly
disturbed by the cheating of
see Letters, page 10

Editor's note: The TORCH will no longer run editorials with a
byline. Editorial topics are now chosen and voted on by the student Editorial Board of the paper and express the opinion of the
TORCH.
Lane County's March elections were tabulated last week and
the results announced on Tuesday, March 28. Unfortunately,
these elections were a mockery of the democratic process.
Using mail-in ballots, voters were forced to pay to vote, were
given no voter's pamphlet, and were unable to vote "no" for
candidates running unopposed.
Even though these ballots go directly to our homes, many people still do not punch out the holes and send them back. Perhaps
it is because the return mail envelopes are not returned postage
paid -- some people do not feel they should have to pay to vote,
and justifiably so. It is an unfair form of taxation.
The lack of a voter's pamphlet was quite disturbing. flow can
voters make an educated decision if they are not given the opportunity to read information about the candidates and hear
arguments for or against the different issues being voted on
(besides through the news media)?
Elections such as these encourage an '' armchair attitude'' in
voters, who have become much to casual about the selection of
our representatives.
What is most disturbing in elections, mail-in or ballot box, is
that voters have no choice when voting on candidates who are
running unopposed. In the Soviet Union voters are offered the
option of voting against candidates who do not have an opponent. Why are we not offered this opportunity, so that if a candidate receives more "no" votes than "yeas," he/she does not
automatically win election to office.
If we don't have this option, why are unopposed candidates'
names put on the ballot at all? Is it just a formality?
Statistics do show that mail-in elections draw a larger percentage of votes during smaller elections than do elections that require voters to go to the polls.
But if this is the case, why doesn't the Elections Office publish
a voter's pamphlet and pay the return postage on the ballot
envelope? Don't voters pay enough taxes to cover the price of a
25-cent stamp?
The idea of elections is to get people to make an informed
decision and act on it. So why not improve the system and make
it truly a reflection of what, and whom, the voters want?

Rights being removed
Forum by Velma Hartwig
A couple hundred years
ago, the people of this nation
were subjected to a tyrannical
government riddled with pompous, ·· incompetent, crooked
bureaucrats who were given
almost total control over their
"subjects." Some very wise
men wrote a document to inform the rotten creeps we
wouldn't put up with their injustices any more. The
bureaucrats called on their
troops to "take care of the
rebels." They underestimated
the rage of the people. We got
out our pitchforks and rifles
and ran the skunks out. The
wise men then wrote a document to protect the people of
this new nation from being
subjected to the same ills by
some future government. The
framers of the document felt
English laws dealing with
children were oppressive, unfair and unjust -- so they
deliberately left them out.
When they were finished, they
had a pretty good piece of
work. They sent the document
to the 13 colonies for ratification. Imagine their surprise
when the leaders of the colonies said, "No way! We've
been subjected to searches of
our homes and persons
because someone suspected we
did something wrong, thrown
in jail without charges and
refused a fair trial. We had
our property confiscated, our
weapons taken away and
didn't have the right to speak

our minds. We ain't gonna
sign!" Our forefathers, wise
men they were, amended the
document with the Bill of
Rights to address their concerns. The Constitution was
ratified ·a nd since that time, we
have enjoyed the protection of
the Constitution of the United
States -- guaranteeing
freedom, justice, protection
and safety -- until now. We
Oregonians are having our
rights taken away -- one by
one.
Witness the Children's
Agenda. It has been touted as
the answer to child abuse -when in truth it is a ploy for
the state to gain control of our
children. Sponsors of the
Children's Agenda said, "The
traditional family and its
values are part of the problem,
not the solution. We must intervene with all children.
Roots are a silly American
dream." Children's Services
(CSD) has been given almost
unlimited power, generous
funding and no accountability.
Current
Oregon
legislation -- if passed -- will
force parents to submit to
state-sponsored ''counseling''
and interference, will force
priests, ministers, doctors,
lawyers and psychoanalysts to
reveal confidential information to CSD, and will give the
state control of your children.
(Contact: F.A.l.R., 22498
Highway 20, Eddyville, Ore.
97343.)
see Forums, page 10

Minimum wage increase may hurt employm ent
Commentary by
John ·T. Orrigo
TORC H Staff Writer

The crusade to raise the
minimum wage began as a noble quest. Its goal: To help the
working poor, those struggling
to support a family on a wage
that had not increased in eight
years. Few of life's ironies are
as easily understood as the fact
that raising the minimum wage
can hurt low-income workers.
Some things grow better
with age, but the minimum
wage is not one of them. For
seven years it has languished at
$3.35 an hour, and the purchasing power it provides,
ravaged by inflation, has
dropped steadily: In 1975
dollars, it is worth only $1.55.
The bills introduced in both
the House and the Senate
originally called for the
minimum wage rate to increase to $4.65 over three
years, and then be set equaf to
at least half of the average national hourly wage rate in
subsequent years.
Pres. Bush -- who has proposed a three-stage increase in
the minimum wage to $4.25 an
hour, with an eventual top rate
of 90 cents an hour for new
workers in their first six months of employment -- has said
that he would veto any bill
more generous. Workers hired
to fill jobs that had been
vacated by recent layoffs
could not be paid the training
wage, a provision designed to
prevent abuse of the system.
Bush has insisted that his offer is his last, and he says he
has the strength to sustain a
veto of any minimum wage
legislation he considers unacceptable. But the House sponsors refuse to accommodate
the president, so the
showdown now shifts to the
Senate, where floor debate is
scheduled early next month on
a proposal to raise the hourly
minimum wage. Recently the
House tried to compromise
and said it would only ask for
a raise from $3.35 to $4.55 by
October 1991 and added a provision allowing new entrants in
the job market to be paid a
sub-minimum wage for two
months, but Bush refuses to
yield.
Debate has centered on
Republicans who believe that
too big an increase in the
minimum wage would fuel inflation and force employers
with marginal profits to slash
hundreds of thousands of
jobs. But Democrats dispute
these arguments, claiming that
by failing to increase the
minimum wage for eight years
Congress has forced the working poor to get by on a wage
that has lost nearly 40 percent
of its buying power.
But deciding to avoid any
delay, Oregon Sen. Peg Jolin
approved an increase in the
minimum wage for Oregon.
" Anyone currently living on
minimum wage is living below
the fe deral poverty level. We
want to encourage self-

sufficiency, not dependency
on welfare. The best way to do
this is to pay a living wage to
people who work. This will
save millions of dollars on
welfare, and it will enable
many to be the productive
people they want to be," Jolin
said.
The bill, SB 335, increases
.the Oregon minimum wage in
steps, beginning with a hike to
$3.85 in July 1989, followed
by increases to $4.25 in 1990
and $4.75 in 1991. Beginning
Jan. 1, 1992, the minimum
will be adjusted annually to be
not less than 50 percent of the
average weekly wage. The
Oregon State Senate bill would
not have the training wage
provision. State law takes
precedence over federal law.
Jolin continues, "People
cannot afford to live on
minimum wage. A full-time
job at the current minimum
wage of $3.35 per hour provides $583 a month; the
federal poverty level for a
family of three is $807 .50.
This doesn't take into account
that most minimum wage
workers are allowed to work
only part-time."
Over the past few years 16
states and territories have increased their minimum wage,
not waiting for Congress to
act. California's mm1mum
wage is currently $4.25 per
hour.
Business groups contend
that the increased labor costs
from any hike jeopardize hundreds of thousands of jobs.
There are not as many lowwage jobs now as there used to
be. In today's postindustrial
economy, the majority of
positions require more education and skill than ever before.
A hike in the minimum
wage would eliminate opportunities for people with less
education or who are just
entering the job market. Increasing the minimum wage
hurts those workers who can
least afford it. In addition to
hurting some of the people
who need help most, the
minimum wage helps some

The Incredible Shrinking Paycheck
Would raising the minimum wage help or hurt the wor ki ng poor ?

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Decreasing Employment
An increase in the minimum wage could mean a decrease in available jobs as employers try to
stretch payroll dollars and meet manpower needs.

who especially don't need it.
Many minimum wage earners
are middle and upper class
teenagers, and some are
spouses of bread winners.
The proposed hike would
mean a higher rate of employment, lower real output, and
higher prices, other things held
equal. The increase in
unemployment would be
among lower wage workers,
the group that the minimum
wage law is supposed to help.
The hike also would be
troublesome, coming at a time
in the economic expansion
when other factors such as the
depreciation of the dollar are
accelerating at the rate of inflation.
Increasing the minimum
wage is a misguided social
policy, even if it seems the fair
thing to do.
When the musty rhetoric
clears Capitol Hill, it becomes
obvious that a federal
minimum wage increase is a
mistake.
Whoever wins, the poor
lose.

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Pro-choice takes to streets:
March Sunday to City Hall
by Don Standeford
TORCH Staff Writer

Pro-choice demonstrators -many of them wearing white
clothing as did the suffragettes
in the turn-of-the-century
marches for women's rights -will assemble Sunday, April 9
in support of abortion rights.
Gathering at the University
of Oregon campus at 3 p.m.,
demonstrators will march to
8th and Olive Streets in
Eugene where they will listen
to music and hear speeches
from the pro-choice perspective.
The event is sponsored by
the American Civil Liberties
Union, Planned Parenthood,

the National Abortion Rights
Action League (NARAL) and
U of O Students for Human
Rights.
'' All Americans must stand
up now for their right to control their own reproductive
lives," states the Planned
Parenthood announcement of
the march.
"Every child has a right to
be wanted and anticipated in
advance,'' Planned Parenthood Spokesperson Margo
Schaefer told the TORCH in a
telephone interview March 30.
''Sometimes pregnancy puts
an unwanted strain on a family; it's not an easy choice,"
she said. Although she believes
that every woman should be

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free to make her own choice
on the matter, she does feel
that abortion is not an ideal
method of controlling unwanted pregnancies, and does
not think that women will ever
take it lightly.
The main goal of Planned
Parenthood, she affirmed, is
to "help families plan the loving birth of their children. Being a parent is a great thing
when it is planned.''
On the other side of the national issue, Robbin Stewart, a
representative of Right to
Life, fights to reverse the
legality of abortion, determined by the US Supreme Court
in the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision.
"There are 40 couples
waiting for every unwanted
baby in the United States,"
she stated in a separate interview. As a student of science
and nursing at Lane Community College, Stewart is intent on halting abortion in the
United States through legislation and demonstration. She
says the Right to Life
organization will continue
fight behind the scenes.
The Eugene rally is part of a
nationwide celebration, with
marches being held across the
country and in Washington,
D.C.
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column by John F. Piper
TORCH Staff Writer

I was on drugs the night I thought I discovered a secret,
nuclear missile installation in my hometown
neighborhood.
That was several years ago, and because of the circumstances I usually laugh the whole thing off as the product of a deranged imagination.
It's something I can't afford to wonder about. I don't
want to think that my government would install the Bomb
next door and not tell me about it.
Because the fact is that I love the United States of
America. I've lived here all my life, but I've heard and read
and travelled enough to know that I wouldn't want to live
anywhere else.
We have the steadiest food supply and cleanest water of
any nation in history. We have freedoms unrivaled by
those of any other state that's ever been.
But I also know that the advantages we enjoy are only
impressive relative to what has gone before.
There are powerful branches of our government that
hide their activities from we who support them. We have
no real or immediate access to information about the
operations of the FBI, CIA, Secret Service, Military Intelligence . . .
Of course, these organizations do not yet openly abridge
the constitutional rights of substantial numbers of U.S.
citizens. I assume that if they were doing that, we'd find
out.
I have to assume that, because if they are violating the
rights of U.S. citizens and we don't know about it, we're
doomed beyond hope of reprieve.
But it's a well-documented fact that the covert branches
of our government have little respect for the rights of
foreigners.
They justify that by telling us that they are acting in the
interest of our security.
If they're telling true, if that's what they actually believe
they are doing, then we are enjoying the luxuries available
in this country only by depriving others of vital necessities.
If they're lying, if they are not acting for the safety of
U.S. privilege, then we may be in very real danger -- for
the only other possible motive they could have is the acquisition of power, by any means, over as many people as
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possible.
It was late at night, long ago, and I was under the influence, so today I'm usually able to laugh the whole thing
off.
Usually.
But some nights I wake up in a cold sweat, wondering.

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unnmg
the race
against AIDS

photos by Mike Saker

Slow reaction fuels AIDS epidemic
by Paul Morgan
In 1977, a mysterious
disease transmitted via sex
and blood exchange swept
through Central Africa. It
killed 53 percent of the people it infected.
The Embola virus, as it is
now known, claimed 153
lives, including 39 nurses and
two doctors. The World
Health Organization, with
the help of some American

doctors, thought it had the
outbreak in control within
weeks.
But a similar virus was
beginning to spread rapidly
around the world. The
disease later became known
as acquired immune deficiency syndrome, or AIDS.
Randy Shilts relates this
story in his book And The
Band Played On, a historical
look at the political and

social repercussions of
AIDS.
Shilts theorizes that the
AIDS virus was carried to the
U.S. during the bicentennial
celebration in New York City, July 4, 1976. Thousands
of sailors from all over the
world came to New York to
join the festivities and began
the spread of the virus.
Another theory, in the
book Now What? by Waves

Forest, is that AIDS was
planned.
deliberately
"Despite repeated denials by
the Defense Department officials, allegations persist
that AIDS is a genetically
altered virus which has been
deliberately released to wipe
out homosexuals and/ or
non-whites in the U.S. and
reduce populations in third
world countries.
"The 'discovery' of the

AIDS virus (HTL V3),"
writes Forest, ''was announced by Dr. Robert Gallo
at the National Cancer Institute, which is on the
grounds of Fort Detrick,
Maryland, a primary U.S.
Army biological warfare
research facility. Actually,
the AIDS virus looks more
like a cross between a bovine
leukemia virus and a sheep
see Epidemic, page 6

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April 7, 1989.

Page 5

Coniniunication: the key to safe sex

I

hedaysof
one-night stands
f encounters are
numbered. Sex is now a
matter of life or death and
our society needs to be
educated about the facts so
they can enjoy happy,
satisfying, and responsible
sex lives.
It is becoming harder and
harder not to find yourself
in one of the high risk
categories. Heterosexuals
often believe that because of
their sexual preference they
are safe from AIDS. They
are wrong.

key. No matter how well
educated you are about
sexually transmitted
diseases, that information
will do you no good if you
cannot communicate with
your partner about what
risks each of you may be
facing.
The safe sex guidelines
(page 7) pertain to
everyone, but particularly to
people who are in any of
the high risk groups. People
should be able to talk about
their sexual histories with
their partners; then the
couple can make an
conscious decision about
what risks they are willing
to take together. If you

Since the AIDS virus was
first discovered the number
of heterosexual cases has
continued to grow. Sandra
Ing, director of LCC
Student Health Services
says, "With such a long lag
time (nine years) we don't
even know how many cases
of heterosexual AIDS we
have." It seems likely that
incidents of heterosexual
AIDS will increase
drastically over the next 10
years.
How do we help prevent
the spread of AIDS?
Communication is the

Epidemic

make a decision to be with
someone whose history is
unknown, you are placing
yourself at risk and should
follow all of the safe sex
practices.
People still do not feel
comfortable talking about
sex and their bodies. But
AIDS is slowly changing
that.
Learning to communicate
about your body starts in
early childhood. Historically
it has been the parents'
responsibility to talk to their
children about sex when
they "come of age."
Parents have to explain
about menstruation,

erections, masturbation,
"how babies are made,"
and hopefully about the
importance of birth control.
Many parents find this
difficult and don't always
tell their children as much
as they should.
Now parents have a lot
more responsibility; they
have to explain about a
multitude of STD's and the
life threatening dangers
some of them entail.
Some schools now offer
sex education and Ing says
that Oregon schools are
going to implement an
AIDS curriculum for grades
K-12. But children need
more than classes about

sexuality and AIDS. What
they learn from their
parents will have much
more impact than what they
learn at school.
Parents need to be open
with their children about
sex, so that their children
will be able to communicate
comfortably about it when
they become sexually active.
For adults the reality is
much different. "We have
come full circle. Old
fashioned monogamy is
becoming more in fashion,''
comments Ing. Going to
bed with someone is a life
and death matter, and
people who work with
AIDS patients wonder what
it will take to get people to
modify their behavior. The
more sexual partners you
have the more you put
yourself at risk. It is causing
people to choose more
carefully the kind of people
they want as sexual
partners. The "It won't
happen to me,'' attitude
does not work with AIDS.
You have to assertive and
make sure you're safe by
communicating with your
partners and being
responsible about your sex
life: its the only way to safe
sex.
by Alice C. Wheeler

from pages

visna (brain rot) virus,
cultured in a human cell
culture, than any virus in the
HTL V group."
Forrest asserts that if the
AIDS virus were a natural
virus, it would have
developed much earlier and
"decimated mankind at that
time,'' and that that would
open the door for new life
forms, "assuming that that is
not already the case."
But evolution has not stopped, and it is entirely possible
that viruses could be naturally genetically altered, or even
passed to humans by
monkeys. And if the virus is
(as AIDS was) allowed to
spread, then it may become
stronger and harder to overcome.
The late seventies and early eighties were a time of
homosexual rights action.
Gay people were coming
"out of the closet" in great
numbers and immigrating to
join the major homosexual
populations in San Francisco
and New York City.
Parades, marches and
were
demonstrations
organized to raise awareness
about homosexuality. The
gay communities were
uniting against the prejudices

facing them.
With the homosexual
revolution in full swing,
along with it came a new sexual freedom which was
followed by increasing cases
of venereal disease.
According to Shilts, ''Gay
men made up 80 percent of
the 70,000 annual patient
visits to New York City's VD
clinic."
Although the AIDS virus,
then a strange new disease,
was sweeping through the
homosexual community,
many gay men either chose to
ignore the warnings or never
got the word because there
was little or no funding for
clinics to put out AIDS
literature.
Because the disease was
growing so rapidly in the gay
was
it
community
stereotyped as a homosexual
disease, which added to the
prejudice already oppressing
gay people. That made it
even harder for the physicians and scientists interested
in the disease to get funding
for research.
But these researchers were
rare. The medical community was reluctant to study a
new disease which, at the
outset infected relatively few

people. Governments were
not willing to fund research
on something that might not
even be there.
But the Center for Disease
Control (CDC) reported the
first known AIDS case
through blood transfusion
Dec. 10, 1982. Shilts reports
some
although
that,
members of the Federal Drug
Adminisration were unconvinced that AIDS even existed, the CDC released not
only the report on this case,
but an update on five new
in
AIDS
of
cases
hemophiliacs.
According to Shilts, in the
third week of September,
1984, the AIDS caseload
reached 6,000 in the U.S.
The CDC estimated that the
cost to treat these patients
would be about $1 billion.
Although money was becoming available for research,
there was still no adequate
help for AIDS patients.
On April 21, 1985, the
AIDS caseload surpassed
10,000.
Despite the growing
numbers, the issue had not
been given the kind of
publicity that was needed to
educate the masses, writes
Shilts. But then AIDS sprung

AIDS and delayed studies of
into the limelight when Rock
the disease. Only now, when
Hudson was diagnosed with
the AIDS virus is killing
the disease.
thousands of people every
Americans began to take
year, are the federal and state
notice that AIDS could affect their lives. After many ,governments turning their attention to the problem,
deaths and many more
which has roots deep in the
diagnoses of the disease, it
American society.
took the death of one famous
man to open more eyes to the
Many claim that the
in general and
government
epidemic.
By 1989 the AIDS the Reagan Administration
were
particular
death toll surpassed the in
homophobic. Society's connumber of lives lost in the
War -- over tinued discomfort about sexVietnam
800,000. Within five years uality and sex education
most people will probably allowed the AIDS virus to
know a close friend who has run wild through the U.S.
"People are really uncomAIDS.
Due to the escalating fortable about talking about
numbers of people contrac- sex,'' says Sally Sheklow, exting the virus, and the ecutive director of the
number of undiagnosed Willamette AIDS Council
cases, education about the "But you can't talk about
disease and about safe sex is sexually transmitted disease
needed to ensure that it does without talking about sex."
It's not enough to sit back
not spread further and kill
and study AIDS in hopes of
many more.
During the last decade finding a vaccine, or even
great strides have been made test people to find those who
to educate the masses about are already infected and
AIDS but a languid don't know it. There must be
bureaucracy had allowed the proper, expedient governdisease to reach extreme ment and private funding for
education to ensure that peoepidemic proportions.
of ple can know what the risks
lack
Prejudice,
knowledge, and disbelief had are of of getting AIDS, and
silenced early warnings about how to prevent it.

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Free local testing
an appointment call
687-4041.

A

s AIDS spreads it is
vital that there are
clinics available to people
who want to receive free,
anonymous or confidential
AIDS testing and counseling.
Two places in Eugene
provide free AIDS tests:
White Bird Medical Clinic,
and the Lane County Public
Health Division (LCPHD).
LCPHD provides free,
confidential AIDS testing.
Although files with patients'
names are kept, numbers
are used to label blood
samples going to Portland
for testing.
Testing is available by
appointment every Tuesday
and test counseling is
mandatory. Results take
two weeks and must be
collected in person, not over
the phone or through the
mail.
LCPHD is located at 135
E. 6th Street in Eugene. For

White Bird Medical Clinic
offers free, anonymous
testing every Tuesday with
drop-in hours between 9
and 11 a.m ..
AIDS counselor Jim
Shoemaker says White Bird
doesn't ask for names or
addresses. Each patient is
given a number and all
information is listed under
that number.
He says that people who
come in for testing must
return two weeks later to
get the results, and
counseling is required for
both visits.
Shoemaker says that
blood samples are also sent
to the state lab in Portland.
Patients who test positive
are asked to give another
blood sample for a second
series of tests. He says that
the test is over 99.8 percent
positive in cases of people

whose blood is HIV. False
positive test results have
occurred, but Shoemake
says they are extremely rare
Patients are offered
counseling, information,
referrals to local programs,
and doctors.
Shoemaker comments
that his is a difficult job
with a lot of emotional wea
and tear, but he hopes he is
making a difference. "If
one person has changed
their behavior because of
what I've said then it's well
worth it.''
White Bird is located at
509 E. 13th in Eugene,
phone 484-4800.
People in high risk group
should consider getting a
test; they are free, private,
easy, and could save
someone's life.
Most physicians and
clinics can also arrange for
AIDS testing, but these
services are not free and
may not be confidential.
by Alice C. Wheeler

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Sym ptom s

S

ymptoms of AIDS
an
take
may
average of five years to show
up in victims, says Sally
Sheklow, the executive
director of the Willamette
AIDS Council.
''The average is five years
after infection, but that
average could mean
anything from one second
to 10 years," she said.
The disease can develop
very slowly, making it hard
to detect at the early stages.
''The medical explanation
of the AIDS virus, the way
I understand it," said
Sheklow, "is when the
helper cells (white blood
cells that fight disease) get
infected with the virus their
genetic information is
scrambled. So instead of
putting antibodies out to
fight the disease, the helper
cells put out more of the
virus."
The AIDS virus may
manifest itself in one
symptom, many symptoms,
or none at all, depending on
the type of virus: but there
are certain warning signs.
Keep one thing in mind as
you read this, you could
have any of these symptoms

and still not have AIDS.
One of the earliest signs
of AIDS virus infection,
says Sheklow, is "intense
flu symptoms just after
infection.
"But," she adds, "it is
important to differentiate,"
because one could have the
flu and not have AIDS.
Physical fatigue for no
apparent reason is another
early warning sign of AIDS.
''People who experience it
say that it drains their
strength,'' says Sheklow.
"It comes and goes during
the course of the disease."
Unexplained weight loss
of more than 10 pounds, or
persistent diarrhea may also
be symptoms of AIDS, says
the Willamette AIDS
Council.
Of the early symptoms,
says Sheklow, "the most
common is fatigue. Maybe
because that's the easiest to
talk about."
As the disease develops a
person may experience fever
or night sweats which occur
for many weeks.
"People say it's like being
drenched,'' says Sheklow.
"It's like you just stepped
out of the shower

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A persistant and heavy
cough may also be a
symptom, and a sign of
Pneumocystis carinii, a rare
lung disease which is the
major killer of people with
AIDS, says Sheklow.
The cough is not from
smoking and lasts longer
than a cold or flu cough.
Swollen lymph glands or
lumps either in the neck,
armpits, or groin are a
major symptom of AIDS.

''Some pe(?ple say the lumps
never go down," she says.
"Sometimes people have
that and no other
symptoms," she adds. "It's
just like having marbles
under the skin . . . that
hard."
The first sign of Kaposi's
Sarcoma, a cancer of the
internal organs brought on
by AIDS, are purple, brown
or marroon marks on top or
beneath the skin that
weren't there before. They

can also be found inside the
mouth, nose, anus, or
underneath the eyelids.
''Sometimes these crack
open and ooze,'' says
Sheklow.
Another symptom might
be thrush, a white, thick
coating on the tongue that
can't be scraped off.
The Willamette AIDS
Council suggests that if you
have any of these signs,
check with a doctor.
by Paul Morgan

The TORCH

April 7, 1989

Page 7

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Working with AIDS

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aiistics,

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THE NATION
The total number of AIDS cases in the U.S.
reported to the Center for Disease Control as of
February, 1989, was 88,096. Of these, 86,656 were
adults and adolescents, 1440 were children under 13.
Of these reported AIDS cases 79 ~ 133 were men, 7,523

women,
The total age breakdown is as foUow$:
1,196
Under 5
244
5-12
352
13-19
18,209
20-29
401694
30-39
18,444
40-49
49 and over
8.957
Ethnic breakdown of people with AIDS:
50,462
White
23,518
Black
13,300
Hispanic
517
Asian, Pacific Islander
100
Native American
199
Unknown
Breakdown into transmission groups:
53,317
Homosexual/bisexual males
17,392 ,
IV drug users
(13,469 male, 3,923 female)
6225
Homosexual male IV drug users
845
Hemophiliacs
(822 male, 23 female)
3804
Heterosexuals
(1601 male, 2203 female)
2170
Blood transfusion
(1368 male, 802 female)
2903
Undetermined
(2331 male, 572 female)
Transmission breakdown of children under 13 with
AIDS:
84
Hemophiliacs
1126
Infected by mother
177
Transfusion
53
Undetermined
The United States Surgeon General, C. Everett
Koop, estimates that by the end of 1991 270,000
AIDS cases will have occurred with 179,000 deaths.
THE STATE
As of March 21, 1989, 510 AIDS cases had been
reported, with 307 deaths. As of February, three
AIDS cases in children and adolescents under 19 had
,been reported, two infants infected by their mothers
and one hemophiliac. All three have died.
Of the 510 Oregon cases, 13 were women.
The Oregon AIDS Hotline estimates that
.15-17,000 people in Oregon would test HIV positive
at this time.

THE WORLD
The total number of AIDS cases reported to the
World Health Organization as of February 28 was
141,894, althoug}] it is estimated to be'Jwo to three
times higher. The geographical breakdown of these
cases is as follows:
21 ~189
'Africa
99,752
Americas (N., S.~ and C.)
Eastern Mediterranean
218
19,289
Europe
;Southeast Asia
28
1438
Wes tern Pacifi9
In '1988, the nu.thber of AIDS ca$¢§
100,000
people:
1.2
Africa
2.9
Americas
0.0
Eastern Mediterranean
Europe
0.9
0.0
Southeast Asia
Wes tern Pacific
0.0
by Jessica Schabtach

Page 8

April 7, 1989

The TORCH

says Coleman. "When they
say, 'Ronnie, why aren't I
ednesday, April 5, feeling better ... I don't
Ronnie Coleman, want to die.' When you see
a person many times a week
retired nurse, attended
you develop a closer
the funeral services of a
relationship with the patient
former patient.
and the family; sometimes
How do you treat a
it's devastating to see them
patient who has a disease
die."
which has no vaccine? What
Coleman says that it was
do you say when foreseen
awkward when she first
complications arise that are
started the job and began to
likely to take his or her life
meet the patients, trying to
within a few years?
gain their trust. She
Caring for a person who
conducted interviews with
has a terminal disease is
the patients after they were
undoubtedly hard, but
discharged from the
Coleman, and Sally
hospitals to their homes.
Sheklow, the executive
"It was hard to develop a
director of the Willamette
rapport with the patient
AIDS Council, agree that
during the interview and let
helping people deal with
them realize that I'm there
AIDS is very rewarding.
to help," recalls Coleman.
"I really loved my job,"
Coleman stresses the
recalls Coleman, who was
importance of a good
the IV Coordinator for
support system for a patient
Sacred Heart Home Health
with AIDS. She helped the
Services until June 5, 1988.
families and friends of
"I loved taking care of
patients learn more about
AIDS patients because they
the medical aspect of
were special ... They need
treating AIDS.
some happiness in their
'' I liked teaching some of
lives."
the families to flush IV
Coleman treated AIDS
lines, give morphine for
patients in their homes for
pain, and other things,'' she
about three years. During
says. "It gives me shivers
this time she learned to help
up my spine to see these
the patients deal with the
families learn and do things
slow degeneration of the
because they love the
immune system and the
person."
body under the presence of
"It was even harder when
AIDS. In turn she lived
the patient didn't have a
through the experience with
good support system or
the patients as friends.
lived alone.''
'' I never knew a patient
Coleman says that since
who gave up hope, even to
there were no medicinal
the end," she says. "You
treatments that could
just tell them what's
effectively stop progression
happening and they decide
of the disease she would
how to react.
have the patients try healing
modalities such as
''The hardest part is when
meditation tapes. The tapes
they're really getting sick,''

could help patients use
positive visualization to
combat the fatigue and
mental breakdown that
comes and goes during the
course of the disease.
"Even if it deters the
disease for a while it's
worth it,'' explains
Coleman. "It takes a while
to help some patients,
though, because some are
not open to (the
meditation)."
The morality of AIDS has
also become a concern,
because many people have a
problem dealing with the
subject of sexually
transmitted diseases or
sexual preferences.
'' Some people never knew
their child was gay until
he/she was diagnosed,"
says Coleman. "Sometimes
it's difficult for them."
Sheklow described a
different scenario.
"Suppose a married man
goes out and has an affair
and contracts AIDS. Does
he tell his wife he is HIV
positive?" she asks.
Sheklow fields many calls
at the Council from people
asking questions about
AIDS.
''The kinds of calls we
get are difficult because of
the moral issues," she says.
"So many things come into
play ... but the decision is
life or death."
Sheklow says that
sometimes she becomes
disillusioned about her job,
but through helping people
she helps herself.
"Sometimes the numbers
are depressing, but it feels
gratifying to know I'm
helping someone."
by Paul Morgan

Local programs unite
to help victims
ILLAMETfE AIDS
COUNCIL

The Willamette AIDS
Council provides
informational outreach
programs to the community,
with emphasis on education
and prevention. The Youth
Program is currently in a
developmental stage but will
begin providing outreach
programs at the end of
June, including a
Parent/Teen AIDS
Education Program aimed
at improving
communication between
parents and children. The
program also has a youth
library of AIDS-related

material. The Willamette
AIDS Council is located at
329 W. 13th Ave. Suite D,
Eugene, 345-7089. The
Youth Program is Suite E,
342-2782.
SHANTI IN OREGO

Shanti in Oregon provides
emotional and practical
support services and
counseling for AIDS patients
and their friends and
families. All services are
provided free of charge and
wherever they are needed,
whether in the home, the
hospital, or another care .
facility. Volunteers also
assist with practical needs

such as transportation,
shopping, cooking, and
housework. Shanti is
located at 752 Jefferson St.,
342-5088.
TESTING

White Bird Medical Clinic
and the Lane County Public
Health Division both
provide free, private AIDS
testing and counseling.
Testing is also available
through the Eugene Clinic
and through private practice
physicians.

by Jessica Schabtach

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by Paul Morgan
TORCH Sports Editor

Carlesimo, crew show class
by Paul Morgan
TORCH Sports Editor

For years college basketball fans have seen
the national championship trophy hauled
away by coaches and programs that thrive on ·
big names, big money, and lots of publicity.
But this year there was a shift in the atmosphere at the Final Four in Seattle where a
fresh wind blew to the fans tired of seeing the
Georgetown's and Indiana's push their way to
the top with "high visibility" athletic programs.
A former cellar dweller from the Big East
Conference, Seton Hall, with a charismatic,
positive coach, P .J. Carlesimo, rose to contend with big name Michigan for the title.
In the world of big time college athletics,
where coaches are hired and fired at the wave
of of a booster's hand, it is refreshing to see a
coach pull his program from the depths of
one of the toughest conferences in the nation
to contend for the national title.
Just a few years ago, Carlesimo's program
was toiling at the bottom of the Big East with
an undernourished budget and an arena that
was too small to foster a high profile program. Carilissimo was under fire from
boosters and students who wanted to see him
go.
But the Seton Hall athletic director didn't
budge. He knew that all Carlesimo needed
was the right materials to build a winner.
Last year Carlesimo and the Pirates moved
to a bigger, better stadium, and the team
started rolling. To the suprise of many in the
East, Seton Hall won its last seven games of

the season and made the NCAA tournament.
That was just the begining of the underdog
story.
This year, the Pirates were picked to finish
seventh in the Big East, but constructed a
season that put them in the NCAA tourna:11ent again.
As Seton Hall won game after game
through the tournament, Carlesimo stressed
that each game was just that: a game. This
was no life-or-death situation, he seemed to
say, we're just here to have fun.
Carlesimo's positive outlook -- for he rarely
criticized his players -- brought the Pirates
together as a team. "We got here as a team,"
they said. "We finish as a team."
Michigan point guard Rumeal Robinson
sank two free throws with three seconds left in
the title game to beat Seton Hall 80-79 in
overtime. When the Pirates' final desperation
shot bounced long there were no Seton Hall
players sprawled on the floor in anguish, as
many runners-up have done.
Rather, they were gathered together in a
group hug; as a team. As the Pirates
discorperated the circle, they went to congratulate the Michigan players for an outstanding game.
It was a classy ending to a wonderful game.
Carlesimo and his team showed sportsmanship rarely seen in college athletics, where
winning is everything.
Remember it: the 1989 NCAA National
Championship, where one team won, but
neither lost.

Baseball beats Clark in makeup game ,4-3
by Paul Morgan
TORCH Sports Editor

The Titan Baseball team
opened up the 1989 Northwest
Athletic Association of Community Colleges s~ason with a
4-3 victory over Clark Community College Thursday,
April 6.

LCC starter Randy Pratt
pitched seven innings and
struck out four, gave up three
walks and six hits in his first
game since March 21 .
Right fielder Lewis Wright
lead off the game with a home
run for the Titans and ended
up hitting 2 for 4.

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The LCC track teams
dominated the first Northwest
Athletic Association of Community Colleges meet of the
season Saturday, April 1.
The men's team, who greatly outmatched the field of
Linn-Benton Community College, Umpqua CC, and
Treasure Valley CC, crushed
their opponents by scoring 119
points.
Six Members of the
women's team qualified for
the conference meet enroute to
scoring 78 points.
Men - 400m RELAY - 1. LCC
44.1, 2. Umpqua 45.5, 3.
Linn-Benton 45.45.
1600m
RELAY - 1. LCC number one,
3:37.69.
1500m - 1. Dave
Swift, LCC, 4:13.6. 110m
HIGH HURD LES - 1. Devin
White, LCC, 16.18. 400m - 1.
Eric Spears, Umpqua, 50.56.
400
INTERMEDIATE
HURDLES - 1. Marcus
Anderson, LBCC, 1:00.02.
800m - 1. Dave Swift, LCC,
2:03.40.
100m - 1. Tom
De Long, Treasure Valley,
11.45, 2. Devin White, LCC,
11.47. 200m - Eric Spears,
Umpqua, 23.75, 2. Tom
DeLong, Treasure Valley,
23.98.
5000m - 1. Scott
Hillsborough, LCC, 16:30.24.
TRIPLE JUMP - l. Eric
Spears, LCC, 42'8-3/4".
HIGH JUMP - 1. Shane
Hargatt, Umpqua, 6'3", 2.

Kelly Wechter, LBCC, 6'1".
POLE VAULT - 1. Dave
Christopher, LCC, 15'0".
HAMMER - 1. Steve Oxenford, LCC, 131'2". SHOT
PUT - I. Steve Oxenford,
LCC, 47'0". JA YELIN - 1.
Dave Christopher, LCC,
206'4". DISCUS - 1. Eugene
Edberg, LCC, 134'3".
TEAM - LCC-119, LBCC-37,
UCC-34, TVCC-12.
WOMEN - 5000m - Lisa Moe,
LCC, 20:39.95.
400m
RELAY - 1. LCC 50.7, 2. Umpqua 53. 77, 3. Treasure Valley
57 .60.
400m - 1. Sandy
Church, LCC, 1:02.19, 2.
Verona Richards, LCC,
1 :02.54.
100 HIGH
HURDLES - 1. Alicia Holte,
LCC, 19.09, 2. Tamara
Anderson, LCC, 19.24. 100m
- 1. Denise Allen, Umpqua,
13.99, 2. Amy Brune, LCC,
14.02. 1600m RELAY - LCC
number one, 4:33.37.
LONG JUMP - 1. Verona
Richards, LCC, 16' 8".
JAVELIN - Angie Vachter,
LCC, 129'3". DISCUS - 1.
Tanya Thompson, LCC,
110'7". SHOT PUT - 1. Lynn
Hunter, Umpqua, 36'9-1/2",
2. Garina 0oyevaar, LCC,
36'6".
HIGH JUMP - 1.
Verona Richards, LCC, 5'4".
TRIPLE JUMP - 1. Kristy
Frady, Umpqua, 35'3", 2.
Alicia Holte, LCC, 33'8-1/4".
TEAM - 1. LCC-78, 2.
Umpqua-30, 3. Treasure
Valley-15, 4. LBCC-1.

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26" CONSOLE TV . with re mote: 2
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after 6 p .m .

84 VW QUANTUM S.W . 5 speed. All
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shocks. Engine in excellent condition .
Must see to appreciate. Asking $6995 .
OBO . 741 -2727 .

6-PIECE BEDROOM SET : desk.
dresser . nightstand. cabinet. bookcase .
m irror . W o nd erful condition .
$500.1 OBO . Must see!! 342 -8086. •

1978 1 TON CHEVY van . Rebuilt 400
motor. Body rough . good tires. $1200 .
Pai t trade . 689-5645 .

PARTING OUT FREIGHTLINER . 350
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1982 DODGE 8 PASSENGER van . 6
cyl. 4 speed overdri ve . 16-22 mpg .
Very good condit ion . $4500 .
689-5645 .

PROFESSIONAL . PORTABLE
MASSAGE tabl e. Used six times . $150
or trade for working . upright freezer .
726-6840 .
GOVERNMENT HOMES from $1
(U-repair) . Delinquent tax property .
Repossessions. Call (1) 805-687 -6000
ext. GH -6 150 fol cunent repo list. •
NANCY PARKER . CFI -1 has $20
Discovery flights available. 485-5892 .
NATIVE AMERICAN LIT. Bra nd new
books. 3 , 4 pl ice . $22 valu e for $17 .
Paul . 345 6 777 .
CONN STRUMMER ORGAN 1977 .
good condition . Can delivel . $700
OBO . $1695 new . 342 1595
IBM WH EE L WRITER 3 plofessional
typewrite! . Doubles as palallel printel .
$650 best . Sel ia l to Pal allel P1in tel
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KINGSIZE WATERBED. new mat
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bookcase . 12 dJawe,s. $200 firm
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LITTLE RED TOYOTA tl uck . 58 .000
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$3800 summel . Paul 345 6777 .
V OLKSWAG EN BAJA BUG . Soft
top . 1835 engine. !Jl eat muddeJ !
937 2054 .
$ 1988 0lISS A N TRUCK . low miles.
clean . with ai1 . Small dent fi ont end .
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PUT THE TOP DOWN . '68 MG
Midget : roll bar . new paint. $1500
0B0 . Call 746-9525.
87 SUBARU JUSTY 5 speed . 40 mpg.
warranty . AM / FM cassette . 33k .
$4800 . 726-2441.

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FOUND : Black leather wall et. large
sum of money enclosed . Call and
describe . ask for Daren . 689-5138.

FOR RENT

MISSING : PINK HALF-TOP & black
pants with pink stripe . Call 937 -2420 .

SUBLET APT. ALL SUMMER .
$200 / mo . 2 bedrooms : $100/ mo . 1
bedroom . Call Debbie 345-7635 or
345-0214 .

CASSETTE TAPES FOUND Monday
night in the front parking lot. Call
689-6177 and ask for Keith .

HOUSE FOR RENT • $275 plus
deposit. Large country home. Share
with mature. responsible roommate .
341 -3636 work: 746-3692 home .

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in front of the library Monday. April
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BIBLE STUDY Thursdays l: 15 - 2 :00
p .m . H ealth 105. Sponsored by the
Baptist Student Union .

VIDEO - 4 DISABLED WOMEN and
Careers . April 4 - 5; morning/ afternoon showings. Call ext. 2662 for
times .

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the WOW Hall May 2nd .

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Scouts. 5 hours per month . Great fun .
Call Mark at 345-0926 .

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the teacher's aide.
In discussing the situation
with another student, I was
told of a similar situation.
These students would leave the
room and get answers from someone just outside the room.
My friend was a little more
disturbed than I because her
class was graded on a curve.
I would like to ask those
students out there, "Do you
have any pride in your grades?
And if you did cheat, does
your conscience bother you at
all?"
I have a very clear consciousness that I won't be asked to leave the class or be permanently expelled from college.
Unsigned

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citizens. The goal is to give the
state control of every aspect of
school -- including private and
church schools. The state will
dictate all curriculum in"common
cluding
knowledge'' -- sex-education,
their version of proper
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prices because one of the goals
ll
• t k
of LCDC
- 1s o eep rura an<jowners from living on their
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would be forced to attend pre- .. · ~and. _Ciiy,_ dwellers have been
school and "programs" would •given the false impression they
be mandated for children as are "preserving our natural
young as 6 months. (Contact: resources" when in truth,
Alternate Agenda Committee: LCDC is confiscating our
813 . E. 18th St. McMinnville, land. If allowed to continue,
, even urban landowners will be
Ore. 97128.)
A.fair trial in Juvenile Court subjected to the same
will not exist. . Most rights unr~asonabJe restrictions. This
guaranteed under the Con- is a dangerous situation!
stitution _already ' _'do not app- (Contacti Oregonians in Acly." In . circuit court, current ti on, P. 0. Box 5425,
legislation woulc;l allow state Portland, Ore. 97228.)
"Public input" has become
workers and others with vested
interest in the outcome of the a joke. No? The loggers who
case to either testify for or went to Salem to protest about
videotape tesitmony of a child restrictions on timber sales are
(after careful coaching) in- being threatened with reprisals
stead of having the child because some of them got one
testify himself. Sentencing ~our~s pay. And who was sitlaws are being revised to allow tmg m the State Capitol, slopdou ble-j eopardy in child- ping up money from the taxabuse cases. Justification for payers' trough, urging
this, according to D.A.s and legislators to pass bills to take
CSD workers is, "Just because our rights away? Our so-called
a person is found not guilty "public servants" -- that's
doesn't mean he is innocent." who! But guess what? If you
(Contact: Oregon Family took time off work, paid your
own transportation and
PAC, 753 Park Ave.,
bought your own lunch, you
Lebanon, Ore. 97355.)
were lucky if you got to testify
LCDC members are appointed by the governor, have because most of the ''public
a large staff paid with our testimony'' time went to the
bureaucrats. How's them apmoney and answer to no-one.
ples?
Pressured by special-interest
We can either sit back and
groups -- many of whom are
let our rights be eaten up by
backed by big money
the piranhas or we can do
interests -- they are sponsoring legislation and enacting something about it. Call
(1-800-327-7389) or write
zoning laws so restrictive
small land owners a1 e bein~ (State Capitol, Salem, Ore.
destroyed. Big corporations 97310) your legislators and tell
themyou will not tolerate
and foreign investors will be
able to snap up all rural pro- government control of your
family, confiscation of your
perty at bargain-basement
property, having your rights
stripped away or a bunch of
bureaucrats running your
school. Some of our legislators
IS LOOIONG FOR
DO listen. Let them know how
you feel. If your legislator
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Art Scene
f:CC ART DEPARTMENT GALLERY - Works by nat10nally renowned Boston artist John Grillo continue on
display until April 14 on the first floor of the Math & Arts
Building.
U OF O'S EMU ART GALLERY - Traditional Indian
~rafts are _c<;>£?bined with modern paintings and drawings
m the exh1b1t1on Celebrating Our Cultural Heritage continuing until April 14 in the Erb Memorial Union.
L,f\NE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM - More than
100 his tori~ and contemporary quilts will be on display as
well as dally speakers in the exhibition The Unbroken
Thread, April 8 - 14. The museum is located at 740 West
13th, Eugene.
KE~~.NS ART CENTER - Icons and Idols are on display
until May 14. The gallery is located at 1910 East 15th
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Renaissance Room early birds Bonnie Hamilton-and Hazel Green are waited on by Don Freeman in
LCC's budget priced, high quality restaurant, the Renaiss~nce Room.

Cure for1unch hour blues

Union, from 12 - 1 p.m. on
Thursdays in Room 105 of the
Health Building.
Like many of my friends, I
• International Coffee
have spent a great deal-of time
Hour - Free coffee and hors
in the LCC cafeteria bemoand'oeuvres from 1 - 3 p.m. in
ing what I feel to be overpric-·
the Multicultural Center,
ed, barely adequate food·
Room 409 of the Center
washed down with invariably
Building.
acidic coffee.
• Coffee Tips - The best cofI have also com.plained, to
fee in LCC is at the Deli or the
anyone who would listen,
Rennaissance Room which
about the lack of culinary
both feature Cappuchinos,
Other Food·A ternatives
alternatives to • this · cafeteria
Expressos,
Cafe Latte, and
• The I?eli - Celebrating its
purgatory in the isolated sur.:
Cafe Mocha.
first.
annivei:sery
this
~pring
roundings ·of the LCC camBut the best deal is every
and also· run by the Culinary
pus.
Wednesday
when the Student
But I was wrong about one Arts Program, the Deli is Resource Center offers free
thing at least. There is -a lun- • located next to the Rencoffee all day long on the sechtime alternative to the naissance Room. It features
cond floor of the Center
fresh
sandwj.ches,
past1)es,
cafeteria that features some of
the best food in Eugene at and des·ser.ts ·as well ;is four . Building.
Finally, I find the campus
definitely the best prices -- •the different types of fresh coffee .•
coffee machines surprisingly·
• . Free Lunches - The LCC
Renaissance Room.
fresh and second in quality on-·
Campus Ministry, in conjuncThe Renaissance Room ~
ly to the Deli/Renaissance
tion \\'.ith • the .Episcop,a l
Across from
the ·1 smoking
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R0om coffee. These machines
Chur.ch, o(fers free lu.ncbes 9n
section of the main · cafeteria~ Wednesd.ays ,from 12 - 1 p.in.
(I'V:e seen their insides) actualbehind an oppr'essive looking. in Room 125 of the Center
ly grind coffee beans . for ,each
'
.
• •, i
closed woode1-i' door awaits ·a
~uilding . and, in conjunction · cup. The result is quite pleassmall, candl~lit, tastefuily.
ing aod a bargain at 35 cents.,
witµ .the Baptist Student
decorated restaurant. • It is
,
.
.
open to the •public offering
gourmet cuisine at prices only
slightly above that o'f r. the
cafeteria.
For under $5 you can
receive one of the five full
course entrees or sumptious
daily specials attentively
prepared and served by
students in the Culinary Arts
Program.
Entrees include Snapper
New Orleans-- sauteed snapper covered with a spinach
sour cream sauce and glazed
If you have been injured on the job you may be entitled
with swiss cheese, or Grilled
Beef Sate, with peanut sauce-to WORKERS COMPENSATION BENEFITS. Even if
spicy beef kabobs marinated
you were working part time or under a work-study
in red vinegar and lime.
program, you could still qualify for benefits. Your
Also featured are Chicken
medical bills are paid 100% in full for treatment you
Breast,
dijonais
and
recieve for the injury. Also, if your doctor takes you off
vegetarian
Mexican
work you can qualify for the time loss benefits. The
Chimichangas. All entrees
benefits are 66.6% of your wages. THESE BENEFITS
come with appetizers,
ARE TAX FREE.
"mocktail" (fruit juice made
If you want more information on this or if you need
to appear as a cocktail),
other legal advice contact the office of:
vegetable, and choice of
Robert Guarrasi, Lawyer
desserts.
540 Oak • Suite F • Eugene
Upcoming specials include
Mexican Buffet on April 11
683-6000
and a dinner special on May 4
No Fee For Consultations -- Evening & Weekend Appointments
at 6 p.m.
Renaissance Room hours
are normally 11 :30 a.m. to
1:30 p.m., Tuesday through
Thursday. Due to limited
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of appreciative regular
patrons, reservations are
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Confessions of a Nightingale - Ray Strickly as Tenessee Williams in the Hult Center's
Great American Author Series. 7:30 p.m. April 7 at the Hult. Tickets cost $10 or $15 .
Hannah Senesh - Lori Wilner in the true story of a Jewish heroine in 1930's Europe. 7:30
p.m. April 9 at the Hult. Tickets cost $9.50, $8.50 for students.
Free noon concert of Stop the World I Want to Get Off - The cast of the upcoming LCC
theatre production will perform in the Hult Center Lobby at 12:15 p.m. April 13. Free.
Eugene Symphony Orchestra - Pieces by Brahms, Ravel, and Stephen Paulas of the
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra will be performed with guest artist Miriam Fried on violin at
8 p.m. April 13 at the Hult. Tickets are $7 - $17. Also, a special Saturday encore will be
presented at 2 p.m., April 8 at the Hult. Tickets cost $5, $4 for students. This ends the
1988 - 1989 season for the symphony

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Folk Music Dance - The Eugene Folklore Society sponsors this dance with music provided by Barry Schultz and friends, and calling by Warren Argo. Dance begins at 8 p.m.,
April 8 at Kelly Middle School, 850 Howard. Soft shoes needed for dancing. Cost is $3.50
for EFS members, $4 general.
Run-Rally Against Racism - Run starts at 10 a.m. at Skinner's Butte Park. For info call
687-1407. Rally is at Saturday Market at 2:30 p.m. Free.
Willamalane Historic Walk and Native American Heritage Presentation - This is one of
the bi-monthly programs offered at Springfield's 250 acre Dorris Ranch, 1003 South 2nd
Street. Cost is $2 for adults, $1 for seniors, and 50 cents for children.
WISTEC Fly and Glide - Staff will help children make regular and oversized paper
airplanes on April 8 from 1 - 3 p.m., followed by a "fly-off." WISTEC is located 2300
Centennial Blvd. and admission is $2.75 for adults, $2.25 for students/seniors, and $1.75
for children.
Arboretum Appreciation Day Open House - The Mount Pisgah Arboretum, 34901 Frank
Parrish Road, celebrates Arbor Week and the Arboretum's 16th anniversery with
displays, speakers, and guided nature walks from noon to 4 p.m. on April 9. Free.

photo by Andy Dunn

Veteran blues master
guitarist and harp man Eagle
Park Slim will play in an
ASLCC sponsored free concert in the LCC cafeteria from
noon to 1:30 p.m. on April 12
as part of the Month o• De'
Blues series.
He has played with musi-

cians such as Muddy Waters,
Jimmy Reed, Joe Cocker,
Chuck Berry, Tina Turner,
and George Thorogood.
Originating from the one
and only Eagle Park Illinois,
he now has his base of operations in Eugene, where he says
he has "found a home."

OPPORTUNITI ES/ AUDITIONS
Eugene Celebration Poster Competition - A $1000 prize is offered to the artist who
designs the poster to be used as the official poster of the 1989 celebration. Deadline for
submission is April 29. Call 687-5215 for info.

APRIL
CAMPUS PAPERBACK BESTSELLERS

Performing artists needed for two Eugene events - The city of Eugene is looking for performers for the Summer Parks Conerts (July 19 - Aug. 23) and the Eugene Celebration
(Sept. 29 - Oct. 1). Deadline for submission of audition materials is April 14. Call
687-5303 for info.

I. The Bonfire of the Vanities, by Tom Wolfe (Bantam, $4.95).
2. Trump: The Art of the Deal, by Donald J. Trump with Tony
Scwartz (Warner, $5.95).
3. The Essential Calvin and Hobbes, by Bill Waterson (Andrews &
McMeel, $12.95).
4. The Accidental Tourist,, by Anne Tyler (Berkley, $4.95).
5. Chaos, by James Gleick (Penguin, $8.95).
6. The Tommyknockers, by Stephen King (Signet/NAL, $5.95).
7. Beloved, by Toni Morrison (Plume/NAL, $4.95).
8. The Shell Seekers, by Rosamunde Pilcher (Dell, $4.95).
9. Codependent no More, by Melody Beattie (Hazelden/Harper & Row,
$8.95).
IO. Tales Too Ticklish to Tell, by Berke Breathes (Little, Brown, $7.95).

'New York Stories' bites big apple
by Jessica Schabtach
TORCH News Editor

NEW AND RECOMMENDED .
Battle Cry of Freedom, by James M. McPherson (Ballantine, $14.95).
Chronicle and analysis of the Civil War era.
The Metaconcert, by Julian May (Del Rey, $4.95). Book Two of Intervention. Skillfully weaves archeology, mythology, and imagination.
The Sixties, by Todd Gitlin (Bantam, $12.95). Compelling account of a
supercharged decade. Resurrects a generation in all it glory and tragedy.
Compiled by The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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artist (Nick Nolte) and his
young assistant (Rosanna Arquette).
Neither character is particularly interesting, and the
passion with which they crash
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"Trite" is the only word to
describe Coppola's "Life
Without Zoe.'' Against the
backdrop of extremely
wealthy upper class New
York, Zoe, the daughter of a
flautist and a photojournalist,
spreads wisdom and smiles
like Pollyanna until her
parents return and realize how
utterly wonderful she is.
The sets and costumes are
beautiful, but the story lacks
focus and is annoyingly cute.
"Oedipus Wrecks" is the
high point of the movie -- it's
pure, unadulturated Woody
Allen at his most absurd.
Allen plays a lawyer whose
elderly mother disappears in a
Chinese magic trick -- and
doesn't reappear when she's
supposed to. Allen's relief at
her absence is short-lived,
however; after a week she appears hovering in the sky
above the Chrysler Building.
From that point the lawyer's
life becomes an increasingly
bizarre nightmare.
Unless you're willing to pay
$5 for two hours of boredom
and half an hour of amusement, don't bother seeing New
York Stories -- it will only
shake your confidence in the
talents of these famous directors.