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The Finish Line
Trick or Treat
As adults, some are
beginning to rememberthe terrors of their
childhood.
LCC cross country teams
finish their first season by
hosting a meet at Lane.
Opinions and traditions tend to vary
about the holiday of
ghosts and goblins .
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Lane Community College
4000 E. 30th Ave., Eugene, Oregon 97405
October 29, 1993
Volume 29, Issue 6
State trims grants
Collin English
staff writer
As a result of a reorganization
of State Need Grant Awards, 21
percent of LCC students on financial aid will receive $36 less per
tenn starting this winter.
Jim Beyer, of the Oregon
Scholarship Commission, says
Measure 5 funding cuts forced the
reshuffle of Need Grant Award
allocations to some four-year
schools.
"All students are awarded on
the same basis" explains Beyer,
but since tuition demands are
higher at institutions such as Reed
College, UO and Lewis & Clark,
students at those schools get the
"lion's share" of the grant monies.
The impact of state financial
aid cuts on students are minor
compared to proposed 1994-95
budget cuts, say college administrators. Together, the cuts paint a
cold picture for LCC's future.
If Measure 1- the sales tax passes in November, it will ease
some of the financial burdens
facing Oregon colleges, says an
Oregon Community College Association memo released in September.
But Linda DeWitt, interim director of Financial Aid, says even
if the sales tax passes, she believes
it won't replace all revenue lost to
Measure 5.
Neither does Marie Matsen,
administrative assistant to LCC
President Jerry Moskus. She says
the sales tax would make up most,
but not all, of the projected shortfall.
"It doesn't give back the funds
we need to maintain current services," says Matsen.
Students should expect some
discussion about tuition in the
coming year, says Matsen. "Our
financial position is serious."
Electronic music program
Music class is first step
to instructor's dream
Jake Harris
staff writer
A new class focusing on "high
tech" music notation techniques
may be offered next spring and
provide the foundation for a new
comprehensive commercial music program.
Performing Arts music instructor Dan Sachs will teach
music notation using new software which he says will teach
students virtually everything they
need to publish music.
Sachs says the "Finale" software allows a student to compose
on a keyboard, see the notes on a
screen and print the complete
score.
He hopes that his class - in
conjunction with music instructor Ed McManus' electronic
music classes - will start the
college on the road to a full scale
commercial music studio.
"There's a great deal of interest in the current trends of music
technology," says McManus.
"We've seen that evidenced in
tenn after term of waiting lists in
the electronic music courses offered here, which are a part of an
innovative and model program in
community colleges."
Sachs says that a comprehensive commercial music program
would include music arranging,
perfonning, recording, producing, directing, audio engineering,
managing and marketing.
It could happen, Sachs says, if
the college starts with the most
profitable part of the program,
and builds it a class at a time,
hiring more specialized staff as
the demand increases.
Sachs says the Performing Arts
Department submitted a proposal
to Campus Services to finish the
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Photo by Laurie Ewing
Kyle Morgan explores a pumpkin patch as Dustin Houghton {behind) ,
Echo Gulley {beside) and teacher Erika Romine {behind Dustin) look on.
Children In LCC's Childcare Cooperative traveled to Lone Pine Farms
this week for some Halloween fun.
Student council okays ID system
Keri Trask
associate editor
The student council approved
the purchase of a new photo ID
equipment, renewed a Women's
Center account and filled an empty
senate seat at its Oct 24, meeting.
The photo ID system, from Abbot and Lind Inc., will use video
imaging technology to replace ttaditional cameras and film.
The Student Activities Depart-
ment purchased the new ID system
and2,000cardblanks with $11,628
approved by the senate.
Currently, students pay approximately $6,000 for film each
year, says Student Activities Director Barb Delansky. At that rate, the
system will pay for itself in two
years.
Women 'sCentercoordinata'Jill
Bradley asked student council to
renew the center's student emergency fund. Last year the Women's
Center received $2,000 from stu-
dent council for grants or loans to
needy students. The Women's
Center used the money last year,
said Bradley, but is now running
low.
Lane freshman Aaron Anderson w~ratified as a senate member
and will be sworn in at the beginning of the Nov. 1 meeting.
In other student council news,
ASLCC Cultural Director Jeanette
Nadeau received $347 to attend a
community college celebrations
conference in Ashland.
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Sheet metal student
takes first in nation
Christian Hill
staff writer
Jeff Burgin, an LCC sheet metal
student, received a first place prize
in the 21st Annual Sheet Metal
Apprenticeship Contest, last May
in Minneapolis, Minn.
Eighty people took part in the
competition, 20 participants from
each of the four years of sheet
metal apprenticeships. Burgin
received $1,600 in prize money
and plans to compete in the competition this year as a fourth year
apprentice.
Burgin, a welding graduate and
currently in his fourth year of the
five year sheet metal apprenticeship, won both the local and state
contests, which took place at LCC
in January and March respectively.
"I couldn't have been happier
for him," says Industrial Technology DepartmentChainnan Carl
Horstrup.
Burgin is the first apprentice
from the local area to win the
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October 29, 1993
national competition in 10 years,
said Horstrup.
Over two days Burgin completed a written exam, created a
blueprint, took a blueprint reading
test and went through a shop test.
"It was a really comprehensive
test," said Burgin.
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Afterwards, his first place prize
was announced at a large banquet
where Burgin was able to meet
many union leaders.
Burgin had competed twice
before in the local and regional
contest, placing second in the
regionals each time. This year, he
placed first in the regionals and
was therefore able to qualify for
nationals. Burgin travelled to
Minneapolis with his wife, Robin,
and their newborn baby. Between
periods of studying, they toured
the city and were even able to
catch a Minnesota Twins baseball
game.
The trip was stressful, says
Burgin, "but it was also a lot of
fun."
Hosticka to give candid
speech Friday at Lane •
William Boise
staff writer
House speaker Carl Hosticka
will be at LCC on Friday Oct. 29
to speak to an American Government class.
During the past legislative session, Hosticka announced that he
will not seek another term in office. Political Science instructor
Steve Candee believes this fact
will allow for a lively and informative talk about the legislative
process.
"Since he is not going to run he
has nobody that he has to cater to,"
says Candee. "He can be as honest as he wants - and it's that
kind of honesty I'm seeking for
my class."
Over the past five years Candee
has built a network of political
speakers for his Political Science
classes.
Notable speakers form the past
include Secretary of State Phil
Keisling, former State Senator
Grattan Kerans, Lane County
District Court Judge Lauren Holland and Rep. Peter DeFazio.
Although Candee usually lines
up a speaker in four to six weeks,
getting Gov. Barbara Roberts here
last year took 18 months.
Candee attributes the success
of his speakers program to the
synergy created by his participation in the cooperative education
program.
"I bring speakers into class, I
place students in political science
and pre-law internships and the
curricular foundation is established in class so everything feeds
off everything else."
Hosticka will give his talk in
Center 402 form 2:00 to 2:50 pm
and the public is invited to attend.
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Matthew L. Deets
OSPIRG representative Joelle cacciatore collects Information from
student Elizabeth Demers for OSPIRG's transportation survey. The
student activist group surveyed students this week, and may continue
next week. The survey - part of a "curb your car" campaign - Is
designed to gather lnfromatlon about student commuting habits.
cacciatore says the Information wlll be used to plan the local campaign.
Cycle program recognized for safety
Keri Trask
associate editor
LCC' s Motorcycle Rider
Course was recently awarded the
Motorcycle Safety Foundation
Community Program Achievement Award for its "Team Oregon" Motorcycle Safety efforts.
The Lane program received
its award for offering active, successful motorcycle programs for
the past 16 years. Team Oregon
also received the MSF 1992 State
Award of Merit.
Don Metzler, Motorcycle
Rider Course program coordinator, says, ''The program benefits
MUSIC
Lane by providing rider education and making the public aware
of sharing the road with motorcycles.••
Lane offers two programs - a
motorcycle riding course and an
experienced rider course.
"A variety of people take the
courses," says Metzler, "they have
a good gender balance and people
of all ages like them."
The beginning course teaching basic riding skills meets two Thursdays for 3 1/2
hours and two weekend sessions
of four and five hours each. Of
the 16 hours, seven are spent in
the classroom and nine in the
parking lot above the Auto Tech-
nology Building practicing riding
motorcycles.
The advanced class - teaching advanced turning and breaking, and crash avoidance - is a
one day, eight hour course.
DMV waives the motorcycle
skills test for people who take the
course.
Lane provides motorcycles,
helmets and workbooks for the
classes. These classes are offered
once each month- between Feb.
andNov. Thenextbeginningclass
will start Nov. 11 and costs $45.
Metzler says, "Even though
we have helmets, rider education
is the number one way to prevent
accidents."
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Performing Arts Building adding a dance studio downstairs,
containing an entire commercial
recording studio, a music classroom and instructors' offices
upstairs.
Campus Service Director Paul
Colvin received the proposal but
says it is now a standing request
for facilities improvement with
many other such requests. No
construction money has been
available for at least 13 years,
says Colvin, and predicting future
funding is as shaky as predicting
the weather.
Space is lacking, agrees Dick
Reid, head of thePerfonning Arts
Department, and so are funds for
expanding the curriculum at this
time. But he doesn't mind his
instructors having dreams and
goals.
Sachs says he isn't into pushing the college, but he thinks the
opportunity is here and he's ready
to do his part.
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Painters spent much of last week adding salmon
pink hlghllghts to the Administration Bulldlng.
Rumors abounded about campus: Are they color
coding all the bulldlngs? Or Is the decor to match
Food Services new addition, chef Ray's salmon
burgers? Or did someone Just fixate on a bottle of
pepto blsmolâ„¢?
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Brown Bag Talks explore women's issues
coordinator for the Women's
for the TORCH
Center who organizes the
Brown Bag Talks, says Brown
The Woman's Awareness Bags don't appeal only to
Center kicked off fall term women.
with the first of three "Brown
Two other topics planned
Bag Talks" sessions.
are for this term: "Mothers and
The topic Thursday, Oct. the Religious Right" - Linda
28, was "Sex, Power and the Kintz, a UO professor, will
Workplace." Kate Barry, the present information on the indirector of the Women's Pro- volvement of women in the
gram, showed a video and lead "traditional family values"
a discussion on sexual ha- politics of the religious right;
and a "Breast Cancer Awarerassment on the job.
Brown Bag Talks are infor- ness Panel."
The breast cancer session,
mal luncheon gatherings
says, should be of inRaney
sponsored by the Woman's
everyone. Men are
to
terest
boardthe
in
Program. Held
room of the Administration especially encouraged to atBuilding, the luncheons tend.
showcase films, women poets,
"Breast cancer is a real isartists and other professionals sue, it's epidemic," Raney
in the community. They deal says. "This Brown Bag would
with mainstream issues of be a good way for men to hear
current interest to women, but about, and talk about it, in a
real open fashion."
are not exclusive to women.
Patsy Raney, the resource
Topics for the Brown Bags
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are typically the collective
brainstorms of the Women's
Awareness Center staff, but
recently the Black Student
Union staff proposed a session it would like to present in
February on black women to
coincide with Black History
Month.
And, Raney will travel to
Cuba to visit with the Federation of Cuban Women over
winter break, and plans to return with a slide presentation
of her trip to share at a Brown
Bag session next term.
Raney welcomes anyone at
Lane or in the community to
speak up if they feel they have
something to share at a Brown
Bag that would interest others.
"It helps us keep out finger
on the pulse of what is of interest, and what people want
more information about and
want to talk about," Raney
says.
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ASLCC Activ ities
• There is now a Senate seat
available. If you are interested,
stop by the student governm ent
office and grab an application.
• CONGRATULATIONS to
Aaron Anderson for filling one
of the empty Senate seats. We
are looking forwarq to working
with you.
• Lane Dance Theater was ratified as a club
• A reminder to all last year's
clubs. You must be ratified every
year to keep your club status.
• Tickets are now available in the
book store for the Science and
Technology lecture series at the
Hult Center. An ASLCC subsidy
has marked the tickets down to
$5.25 each. Howard Rheingold
will be the next speaker on Nov.
13th at 8 pm. and will survey the
revolutio nary technology of
computer generated artificial
worlds and how it promise and
threatens to transform business
and society.
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Arts & Entertainment
October 29, 1993
Weekend Report
LCC (400 E. 30th Ave.)
--Reception begins Friday Oct. 29, 7:30-9:30 p.m.
Art Gallery presents "Laminations and Grace," New Paintings and
pastels by Robert Devine. The display will run through November 12,
with a lecture by Devine on Nov. 2, at 10 a.m. in the Art Gallery. The
show is dedicated to the late Sydney Rust, a personal friend of Devine.
Devine has shown his work throughout Oregon since the early 1980s,
and taught drawing at the U of O between 1988 and 1990. The LCC Art
Department is open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Admission is free.
Making a Scene
--Oct. 29 and 30
Doors open at 8 p.m., tickets are $4 at the Lane Box Office. LCC
Performing Arts Department presents "Making a Scene." The intimate
Blue Door Theatre in the Performing Arts Building on the main campus
will feature scenes from five well know plays: "A Weekend Near
Madison," "Private wars," "Bent," "The Woolgathering," and
Shakespear's "The Taming of the Shrew." Tickets may be held at the
door by calling 726-2202 between noon and 4 p.m.
WOW HALL (291 W. 8th-Eugene)
Costume Ball
--Oct. 29
A hip happenin' Halloween Costume Ball with the sound of Boogie
Patrol Express, Three Day Blow, and Phantazmagoria Lights. Prizes
will be awarded for the best costume. Doors open at 9 p.m. Tickets are
$5 in advance and $6 at the door. Show begins at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are
available at Compact disc World, EMU Main Desk, Happy Trails,
House of Records, and the WOW HALL.
Psychedelic Sounds
--Nov. 3
The Community Center of Performing Arts hosts the psychedelic
sound of Sky Cries Mary with special guests Onomatopia, a dreamy,
groovy band with an off-beat sound. Tickets are $6 in advance and $7
at the door. Show begins at 8:300 p.m. Tickets are available at Compact
Disc World, EMU Main Desk, Happy Trails, House of Records, and the
WOW HALL.
Funlc
--Nov. 4
Thursday, Nov. 4, the WOW HALL presents the reggae and Caribbean music of Unshakable Race and Jumbalassy. Unshakable Race is
a funky, rock rooted, reggae band from Eugene that is known for its
high energy performances.
Jumbalassy is an eight piece band from Washington that blends its
own creative style with exotic musical traditions from the Caribbean.
Tickets are $5 in advance and $6 at the door. Doors open at 8 p.m.
and tickets are available at Balladeer Music, Compact Disc World,
EMU Main Desk, Happy Trails, House of Records and the WOW
HALL.
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Bonnie Plant and Bob Friedman (center) rehearse a scene from the Oregon Trail play,
"That Pioneer Road," which opens Nov. S. The costumed emigrants to their left and right
are actually life-size photo sculptures created by LCC Media Arts Instructor David Joyce
and several photography students.
'That Pioneer Road' leads to LCC
LCC's Performing Arts Department will present a true Lane
County story about the Oregon
Trail when it opens ''That Pioneer
Road" in the LCC Performance
Hall, Friday, Nov. 5.
The stage play - which uses
hundreds of slides, special sound
effects, and 22 life-size photo
sculptures - recounts the documented story of 1,000 emigrants
who attempted to take a shortcut
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adult non-students, but $6 for area
students.
"That Pioneer Road" was written by Pete Peterson, an LCC
journalism instructor, whose published a book on the same lost
wagon train episode. Performing
Arts Department instructor Jim
McCarty directs the production.
Le Guin featured reader at arts benefit
Jake Harris
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from the established Oregon Trail
in 1853. TheydepartedFortBoise,
crossed the Oregon desert and
climbed the east side of the Cascades in search of a new route
which they thought Lane County
settlers had blazed for them.
The production is scheduled
for Nov. 5-6, 12-13, and 19-20,
with curtain time at 8 p.m. The
Performing Arts Department has
also added a 10 a.m. performance
Ursula K. Le Guin - author
of 19 novels, eight juvenile novels, five books of poetry, numerous stories, lectures and a screen
play-will read from her work in
Eugene next week.
Le Guin will be the featured
reader at "Voices of Place," an
annual program that benefits the
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book signing in the lobby after
the reading, says Darnell
Mandelblatt, community relations director for the Lane Arts
Council.
Mandelblatt says the event will
introduce Le Guin, an important
Northwest writer, to the Lane
County community.
The writer set a standard in the
science fiction field, says Doug
Bloomer, clerk at Escape Books,
"because she took the fact that
science fiction could be written
in a literary vein, and explores all
the themes that we try to grapple
with."
Her work has feminist connotations, says Bloomer, because
she explores power relationships
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Le Guin received the National
Book Award, the Nebula Award
and the Hugo Award for her writing excellence. She is co-editor
of the newly released "Norton
Book of Science Fiction, 19601990," for.which she penned the
introduction and selected 67 stories.
Among her works, Le Guin
authored "The Dispossessed," the
Earthsea books and "The Left
Hand of Darkness," for which
she won both the Hugo and
Nebula Awards.
"The Left Hand of Darkness"
explores the culture, history,
folklore and religion of the inhabitants of the planet Winter who are sexually neutral except
during brief periods when they
mutate temporarily and unexpectedly into one sex or the other
to procreate.
Bloomer says Le Guin' s
Earthsea books - a fantasy series set in a world where magic
works - are her best sellers. Le
Guin recently published a fourth
Earthsea novel, renewing interest in the series.
The "Voices of Place"'' authors
series began four years ago with
author Barry Lopez reading from
his book, "Fox and Weasel," to
benefit the Lane Arts Council,
says Mandelblatt.
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"When my father shaved at
night, I'd be afraid," says Jessica,
"because he would abuse me on
the nights he shaved."
Jessica, now in her 30s, says
her adoptive father molested her
regularly from the time she was 4
years old until she left home after
college.
Though she
never forgot the
abuse, Jessica
didn't remember actual rape
- until much
later.
Wrinkling
her brow, she
says she may
have blocked
out the memory
of intercourse
because she
was often unconscious when
itoccurred. "He
would put a pillow over my
head until I
passed out," she
says.
Some abuse survivors like
Jessica remember much of what
occurred; others may remember
nothing at all, say abuse survivors and therapists.
"Itis not uncommon for people
to be unaware of abuse from their
childhoods," explains Eugene
•psychotherapist Ronna Friend.
Abuse survivors enter therapy
with a "cluster of symptoms" of
psychological trauma - nightmares, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, headaches and
stomach pains - but may not
recall the events that account for
the symptoms, says Friend.
Therapists can sometimes assist survivors retrieve these repressed memories.
But some critics counter that
such "recovered memories" are
often fantasies manufactured by
suggestible patients to please
therapists seeking evidence of
childhood abuse to explain every
problem.
The debate rages on - in support groups, and on the pages of
The New Yorker and McCalls. Is
recovery of "hidden memories"
an effective therapeutic tool for
treating distraught adults, or an
easy concept that therapists "sell"
to vulnerable patients?
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unearth abuse memories are
women; over half are in their 30s,
most enter therapy with symptoms of Post Traumatic Stress
Disorder.
"Children who are traumatized
lose their safety," says Joan Shey
weekend."
"I thought I'd get fixed in a , director of Voices of Oregon, a
counseling and support service
weekend," she recalls.
Instead, memories of her for sexual abuse survivors in Eumother sexu- gene. "These children do develop
ally abusing PTSD, either as children or as
her when she adults-20, 30 or 40 years down
nine the line."
was
Although war veterans are
months old
came flooding adults with more sophisticated
back at the end coping skills, Shey explains, long
of the week- term trauma from an abusive
end. Within a home leaves the same kinds of
week after the scars that war veterans carry with
workshop she them, she says.
But not always, says Loren
recalled her
father abusing Pankratz, Ph.D., professor of
her also, while psychiatry and medical psycholher mother ogy at Oregon Health Sciences
UniversityandFMSFadvisor.He
watched.
With the specializes in "factitious (conhelp of a trived) disorders of PTSD."
therapist, adult Pankratz documents patients sufpatients like fering from PTSD who haven't
Cat remember seen combat-some who were
childhood never in Vietnam.
"For all sorts of reasons paabuse. They
may eventually accuse parents of tients don't tell the truth to their
awful crimes. Often families are doctor or therapist," says
convulsed by charges levelled on Pankratz. While the patient may
the basis of memories that have be quite sincere, and the therapist
lain dormant for decades.
Some accused parents and
psychologicalresearchers charge
that many of these memories are
not memories at all, but are fantasies resulting from overzealous
therapists who hint at incidents to
suggestible, sometimes hypnotized, patients. In fact, Pamela
Freyd, an accused parent, began
the False Memory Syndrome
Foundation (FMSF) in Philadelphia, Penn., with a group of other
accused parents. They collect information on recovered memories and advocate for a growing
number of parents who say they
have been falsely accused.
"We're concerned only with
those cases where there are no
memories" before therapy, says
Freyd.
"We can't tell the truth or falsity of any particular story," says
Freyd. "We document the stories
and look for patterns."
With nearly 4,000 calls, from
parents whose children claim to
have recovered memories of
abuse, some patterns are emerging, states Freyd. The majority
went to a weekend "Inner Child
Workshop."
Depressed, isolated, unable to
develop healthy relationships, Cat
hoped to find answers at the
workshop she described as "facilitated intensive therapy for a
"The debate rages
on - in support
groups, on the pages
of The New Yorker
and McCalls. Is
recovery of 'hidden
memories' an
effective tool for
treating distraught
adults, or an easy
concept that
therapists 'sell' to
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dedicated to helping people who
have been abused, "problems with
the dyadic (intense two-way) relationship of doctor-patient can
arise," Pankratz states.
But many therapists and abuse
survivors say that questioning the
validity of hidden memories victimizes the survivor again.
"This work can be really damaging," objects psychotherapist
Friend, citing the cultural bias
that denies the reality of women's
experience. "Denial of the reality
of the memories can lead to
retraumatization," she cautions.
Cat says she panicked when
she remembered her abuse. She
called the therapist who led the
Inner Child Retreat and through
her, Cat got in touch with Voices
of Oregon.
At Voices she joined a support
group of other survivors. "The
group gave a normalcy to my
life," she says. "I used to compare
myself against 'normal people';
now I feel normal because I know
what happened to me."
Cat says her parents, brother
and sister deny that she was
abused, so she cut them out of her
life years ago.
Some parents aren't so lucky.
Adults with new memories of
abuse are taking their parents and
relatives to court, suing for damages - and winning. Over 20
states have changed their statutes
of limitations to allow trauma
victims to take perpetrators to
court after they remember abuse.
According to Freyd, over 300
of the parents who have called
FMSF are being tried for child
abuse.Mostabusesurvivorsseek
civil damages because the evidence needed to convict in criminal court is hard to find after 20 or
30 years.
But Pankratz cautions against
confrontations or legal action
based on recovered memories.
"People don't understand that
memory traces can be easily confused," he says. "What we bring
up in our memory can seem
vaguely real, but are just wrong."
The decision to go to court
should be carefully weighed, believes Friend. "I have no doubt
that something has happened to
the people I see," she says, "I'm
lucky - as a therapist, I don't
have to establish 'truth,"' in any
absolute or legal sense.
Cat is still sorting out what has
happened to her.
Now, three years later, she still
gets memories.
"I had to walk through the
pain - through the memories,"
she says, looking down, and nervously smoothing her skirt, "I'll
be recovering for the rest of my
life."
Costume contests around town
Saturday, October 30
• William Boise
staff writer
Blood drips and screams fill
the air. A heinous zombie links
arms with Elvira and proceeds to
skank across the dance floor.
A nightmare?
No, it' s a scene from one of the
many costume contests being held
around town this Halloween
weekend.
If you miss the costume contest
in the LCC cafeteria at noon on
Friday, Oct. 29, there will still be
time to get bedecked and go out
for a scream.
Some of the weekend's highlights include:
• An Elvira look-alike contest
at the Mill Camp Restaurant in
Springfield.
• A free Sunday costume contest and concert featuring Doors
cover band Wild Child at the Mill
Camp.
Friday, October 29
WOW Hall
Costumes encouraged, but no
contest or prizes.
Band: Friday - Boogie Patrol
Express, Saturday - Renegade
Streets, Sunday - Stone Bisket and
ZangaZanga
Friday - $5-6 at door, Saturday
$8, Sunday - $5-6 at door. All
ages welcome
Red Lion in Springfield and
Eugene
"Monster mash bash"
Raffle drawing for trip to the
Bahamas, prizes for best costumes.
DJ dance in springfield and
karaoke singing in Eugene.
No cover, 21 and over
Red Lion in Springfield and
Eugene
"Monster mash bash"
Raffle drawing for trip to the
Bahamas, prizes for best costumes.
DJ dance in springfield and
karaoke singing in Eugene.
No cover, 21 and over
Swingers, 535 Main St.,
Springfield
Costume Contest Prizes: lst$100, 2nd - $50, 3rd - $25. Both
nights.
Diamond Eye will play
$2 cover, 21 and over
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The Embers, 1811 Highway
Prizes: Yes. TBA.
The Billy McCoy Trio will
play.
No cover, 21 and over
Good Times, 375 E. 7th, Eugene
Prizes for the contest are 1st $50, 2nd - $20 gift certificate,
plus cd's and T-shirts.
Unshakable Race will play
$5 cover, 21 and over
Eugene Hilton Ballroom
Prizes: Best costume 1st $100.00, 2nd - one night for two
on the coast, 3rd - concert tickets
for two.
Starting at 8:30 The Dopple
Gang, Etouffee and The Sun Dogs
will play
$11.00 at the door, 21 and over
prizes, cd's and tee shirt giveaways all night.
There will be a DJ dance
$3.00 after 8:00, 21 and over
Holiday Inn, 255 Coburg Rd.
1st - $ 100.00, 2nd - Room for
two on new years eve and free
champaigne, 3rd - bottle of champagne
$ 3.00 ind $ 5.00 couples, 21
and over
The Factory, 4740 Main St.
Springfield
Door Prizes - No costume
contest, but costumes encouraged
The Valley Boys will play at
9:00
$ 3.50 cover, 21 and over
Sunday, October 31
Swingers , 535 Main St.,
Springfield
lst-$100, 2nd-$50, 3rd-$25.
Mister Wizard will play
$2 cover, 21 and over
Red Lion in Springfieldand
Eugene
"Monster mash bash"
Raffle drawing for trip to the
Bahamas, prizes for best
costurneswill be awarded.
DJ dance in springfield and
karaoke singing in Eugene.
No cover charge, 21 and over
Mill Camp, 215 Q St. Springfield
Prizes: Costume, best overall
andElviralookalike-lst$ 100.00,
Mill Camp, 215 Q St. Spring- 2nd - $50.00, 3rd - $25.00, also
field
prizes, cd's and tee shirt givePrizes: Costume, best overall aways all night.
andElviralookalike-lst$100.00,
There will be a DJ dance
2nd - $50.00, 3rd - $25.00, also
$3.00 after 8:00, 21 and over
Ghost haunts Heceta House at Devil's Elbow
Keri Trask
associate editor
It was a dark and stormy night.
Heceta House caretakers Harry and
Anne Tammen were safely asleep in
their bed when a strange noise in the
attic awakened them.
They lay in bed wondering whoor what- it could possibly be. They
whispered, trying to determine what
could possibly be causing it. Soon
they decided something was being
swept up somewhere, perhaps glass.
They decided it was probably noise
from the storm and went back to
sleep.
Early the next morning their
painter arrived. He began work immediately.
On his was to the attic he remem- began reporting ghosfiy manifestabered he should inform the Tammens tions a few years after the Tammens
of the window he had accidentally arrival. Painters~ students, workmen
broken the previous day. He checked and guests began to relate strange
the replacement window for leaks, occurrences. These ranged from
strange noises - squeaky floor
and noticed the broken glass had
boards, high winds in whistling
been swept into a neat pile. He chimneys - and a high pitched
thanked the Tammens for sweeping scream - heard by the Tammens
up the glass, but they knew nothing and two guests during a card partyof the broken window.
to cupboard doors being discovered
The events in this story, and many • open - they were closed the night
others, occurred in LCC' s Heceta before - and sightings of a greyHouse located at Devil's Elbow. haired elderly woman dressed in an
Many believe that this old light- 1890s style gown.
house keeper's home - which the
The Tammens believed these sigcollege leases from the federal gov- nals were more than natural pheernment - is not only a historic nomena, so they attempted to consite, but is also a "ghost house."
tact a ghost.
In 1973 the Tamrnens, past city
In a Ouija Board session, the
residents, moved into the Heceta Tammens learned that their visitor
House. Visitors of the HecetaHouse was narnedRue,although some claim
that Rue is not her name, but a reference to a child's accidental overdose of rue - an herbal medicine.
Others say that rue signifies how the
ghost feels (rueful) about some horrid mistake. Some just think that the
Tamrnens were drinking while operating the Ouija Board.
Believers in Rue have advanced
many theories to explain her presence. .
For example:
• The Jenny DeRoy theory favored by Anne Tammen - posits
that DeRoy, an early-century feminist from Oregon, who greatly enjoyed breaking decorating rules and
watching Halley's cornet from the
lighthouse roof, is there to "improve"
the house. She will do so at the cost
of possessing the caretaker's body,
if necessary, says Anne Tammen.
• The Dead Baby Theory-state
that a child's grave, now overgrow
with vegetation, is located som~
where between house and lighthouse
and Rue is the child, or perhaps th
child's mother.
• The Time Fold Theory - fa
vored by Harry Tammen -:- SUB
gests that Rue is living her regulal
daily life and that we see her throng
a time fold. Like the theory depicte
in "Peggy Sue Got Married."
• The Annie Hansen and Jenn
Avery Theory - presented b
Siuslaw News reporter Carol~
Stockton - claims that two wome
- . Hansen and Avery - whos
photographs resemble description
of Rue, lived in the house during th
time frame appropriate for the dresi
Rue has not yet presented a theor
of her own.
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Halloween Customs and Their Origins
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meant to frighten away spirits
eager to possess the living. The
Celts believed that fairies
wandered through the land
during the Halloween season
and stole beautiful human
children. Mothers "uglified"
their children by dressing them
in rags to protect them from the
fairies.In the British Isles during the 18th century groups of
merrymakers roamed the
countryside dressed masks and
costumes of the opposite sex
and played tricks on their
neighbors. These pranks were
blamed on the "spirits."
Jack-O-Lanterns: Supposedly comes from an Irish
tale about a stingy man named
Jack. Excluded Trom heaven
for his immoral deeds and
barred from hell for playing
jokes on the devil, the legend
says he was condemned to wallc
the earth with his lantern until
Judgement Day.
During Halloween, Celtic
people ~allowed out turnips,
carved hideous faces on them
and placed candles inside.
These illuminated turnips were
then used as lanterns to be carried at Halloween celebrations.
Trick or Treat: One
theory says the custom came
from the English tradition of
"soul-caking." On All Saints'
Day, Englishmen went from
house to house begging for soul
cakes. The beggars promised
to say extra prayers for the
dead relatives of those who
donated the cakes. The custom
of trick or treating also resembles an Irish Halloween
practice in which groups of
peasants would go house to
house asking for money and
demanding that they prepare
fatted calves and black sheep
for the festival. Those who
asked for the donations promised prosperity to liberal givers and issued threats to the
stingy.
Bobbing for Apples: Romans were the first to bob for
apples at their Halloween ceremonial feasts. They did this
to honor their goddess of fruit,
Pomona. Later the custom became part of the games of
fortune telling that were
prevalent during Halloween
Sue Ferguson, director of
ASLCC Child Care Co-Op, once
came to work as a milk carton.
Queen Bananita Sluginski,
alias Sarah LaMaster, LCC grants
coordinator, dressed up one year
as a lava flow.
"Adults in Eugene are very
much into Halloween," says Barbara Poznanovic, an employee of
Chazpro's, a Eugene make-up and
accessories shop. She says Halloween is the store's biggest time
of the year.
Dorothy Setera, owner of ABC
Costumes in Springfield, says her
business booms around Halloween. The store rents costumes for
$10 to $45 per day plus a $20
deposit. Setera says flappers, cancan outfits and prison suits are the
most popular.
For a majority of Americans,
Halloween has become an opportunity to dress up, have a party and
a chance for kids to stock up on
candy. But amidst the revelry there
are those who see a more serious
side to the holiday.
Some see sinister and unhealthy
implications behind the children's
games of ghosts and goblins.
Ancient Roots
Most historians agree Halloween originated among the Celtic
people of northern Europe. Originally called the Feast of Samhain,
(pronounced Sow-un) the celebration marked the start of the
winter season and the new year.
The Celtic year ended on Oct. 31,
the eve of Samhain ("summer's
end"), and at this time the priests
celebrated a festival honoring both
the sun god and the lord of the
dead. The people brought their
cattle back from the upland fields
into the warmth of the lowland
home pastures. Because it was
next to impossible to keep an entire herd alive for the winter, the
Celts kept the strongest cattle alive
for breeding, blest the rest, and
butchered them.
To celebrate the harvest of the
past year and to remember the
dead who had died that year they
held a festival. Each village held
its own Samhain feast and people
ate their fill of the harvest goodies.
Celtic priests and leaders
known as Druids ordered the
people to put out their hearth fires
and to build a huge sacred bonfire.
Later each family would relight
.their own hearth from this bonfire .
The Celts believed that during
this time the veil between the living and dead was thin-that departed spirits could visit the liv-
ing. But the bonfire could ward
off any evil spirits that might be
roaming the area.
They also believed that fairies
roamed the land and would steal
beautiful human children. To protect their children , mothers "uglified" them by dirtying their faces
and dressing them in rags.
Church Influence
During the Middle Ages the
church tried to destroy the paganism associated with the Samhain
festival by incorporating Oct. 31
into the Christian calendar as All
Hallow' s Eve. The idea was to use
the day to honor the numerous
saints of the church. In the eighth
century Pope Gregory III mo.ved
the feast to November to remove
the last connections with paganism.
Toappease the pagans who had
difficulty relinquishing their rituals, the church allowed some of
the remnants of Samhain to become intertwined with church
worship. Mumming (actors performing in disguises) became
popular. Englishmen practiced the
custom ofbegging for sweet cakes
or "soul cakes" (square buns with
currants) on All Saints' Day in
remembrance of the dead. Those
begging promised extra prayers
for the dead relatives of the donors.
Although historians disagree,
many say that Irish and Scottish
immigrants introduced the observance of Halloween to America,
but it was not until the massive
immigration of the Irish during
the potato famine (1845-1846) that
Halloween became a national
event.
Linda Danielson, an LCC English instructor who teaches folklore and myth, says one of the
ways that predominantly Christian cultures pass on stories and
customs that may have once been
serious beliefs and religious ritual
practices is to trivialize them and
turen them into social and recreational customs.
Danielson says, because
Christianity embraces dualismthe doctrine of two opposing eternal principles, one good, one evil
- most Christians identify anything outside their faith as the
enemy. For this reason many
Christians link Satanists and
witches together in a casual way
as "tools of the devil."
New Pagans
But not everyone agrees that
witches are the evil and sinister
creatures that most people think
they are.
"Witches are actually rather
ordinary folks, not a wiggly nose
among us," writes Dana Corby, a
Seattle witch. "Witchcraft, also
called Wicca, is a modem revival
of the pre-Christian religions of
Western Europe. We are Pagans:
that is we see divinity in Nature
rather than in a transcendent spiritual realm or omnipotent .being.
We speak of our deity as the
'Goddess' or 'Mother Nature."'
Vandimir, a Eugene resident,
who heads the local branch of an
international group called Ordo
Templi Orientis (OTO}, practices
hermetic ceremonial magic.
He says witches usually celebrate Halloween in one of two
ways - through a solemn ceremony remembering the dead or
in a more jubilant festival.
The solemn ceremony is held
late at night. Participants bring
mementos or pictures of someone
who has passed into the other
world in the past year.
Vandimir says modem day
Wiccans are Goddess worshippers
who see the Goddess in three
forms, the virgin, the mother and
the wise old woman or the Hag.
The Hag, he says ,embodies all
the aspects of the Goddess and it
is this form that they celebrate on
Halloween.
"It's a nature based religion. I
have never seen any blood sacrifices. Witches do more healing
than hexing," says Vandimir.
Christian Concerns
Dr. Marc Royer, senior pastor
of Lighthouse Temple in Eugene,
doesn't agree that the practice of
witchcraft is harmless.
He says Lighthouse Temple
provides a Harvest party for children because parishioners believe
it is an unsafe practice to send
children out with bags to receive
candy from strangers, "and because we stand against the origin
of 'All Hallows Eve. Halloween
honors the occult and we prefer
people not honor the occult."
He says he is not "putting
down" people who practice
witchcraft for their moral beliefs,
but he is "putting down the principle behind their practices."
Royer says research shows
there are many levels of witchcraft and he claims mid-level
witchcraft involves satanic practices.
"I am against it because it is a
degeneration of a positive Christian climate in a community. What
happens through Satanism is not
healthy."
Norman Fox, principal of Garden Way Christian Academy, a
Eugene private school says his
school does not celebrate Halloween.
"Wehavereason totakeitmore
seriously than in the past. There's
so much preoccupation in our society today with death and suiTurn to TRICK page 11
Opinion
8TheTorch
Editorial,
Life imitates art- to death
problems than their 1~ talented fellows.
Redfield, a professor of psychiatry at
editor
John Hopkins Univ. School of Medicine
quoted in the New Yode Times, says
A boy in New Yorlc ignites his trailer
studies show artists are 10 to 30 times more
house, killing his infant sister, after
likely to suffer from manic-depressive
watching an M1V "Beavis and Butthead"
illness or crippling depression than the
episode about playing with matches.
general population.
In New Yorlc and California one
Another psychiatrist, Arnold Ludwig of
teenager dies and two others are critically
the Univ. of Kentucky Medical Centf2',
injured after they imitate a scene in the
says poets suffer from severe depression 13
Disney film, '"The Program." In the scene, times more often than the general populateenagezs test their courage by lying in the tion.
middle of a road at night as traffic passes
Toe image of the tortured artist is not
on either side of them.
without its critics, however. In his 1958
In California, James Buquet, a 19-year- book, "The Neurotic Distortion of the
-old student, ttnns in a story to his creative
Creative Process," Lawrence Kubie argued
writing instructor describing a grisly
that the concept of the "tortured artist" was
random killing from the killer's point-ofa myth at best
view. Then Buquet takes a shotgun to a
If artists really are, as a class, depressive
fitness club and shoots four strangers to
and self-destructive, shouldn't their output
death before twning the gun on himself.
be closely scrutinized? But isn't the appeal
In response to news coverage, Disney
of artistic expression that it can move us announced last week that it is voluntarily
stir our emotions and inspire us to act on
censoring the street scene in "The Proour feelings? And doesn't this quality give
gram." And M1V responded by moving .
the artist power to influence our acts,
"Beavis and Butthead" to a later time slot
possibly to our detriment?
and changing some of its content News of
The National Socialists thought so. In
these tragedies have fueled Senator Paul
Germany during the 1930s, the ruling Nazis
Simon's campaign for congressional
allowed only a limited range of artistic
regulation of 'IV and movie content
expression, outlawing "decadent" art.
But the irrational destructiveness of
Anyone who's seen Leni Riefenstahl's
these cases raises more troubling questions 1934 masterpiece, "Triumph of the Will"
about violence, creativity and the media
has seen an artist create an inspiring tribute
than many critics acknowledge.
to evil.
While the first two cases involve the
Evil is the problem here. If artists'
now-familiar problem of "copy-cat"
visions were all positive and life affinning,
behavior - remember Russian roulette
we wouldn't care if their work moved us to
suicides after "The Deer Hunter"? action. But, in this age of situational ethics
Buquet's suicidal rampage adds another
and individualism raised to the level of
dimension.
metaphysical icon, evil confronts us
Put simply, is there a socially destruceverywhere.
tive element of the artistic process itself?
Evil is not a great force, as depicted in
Should we protect ourselves by censoring
movies or horror novels. Evil is mediocre
artistic expression that falls outside the pale by nature. Political theorist Hannah Arendt
oonns?
remarked on this quality in Nazi war
The question is not new. Plato considcriminals. "I was just following orders,"
ered artists undesirable elements and
they said
planned to exclude them from participation
After Arendt, psychologist Stanley
in his republic.
Milgram showed that the same mediocrity
And, a book recently released by Dr.
exists in American college students.
Kay Redfield Jamison, concludes that
artists experience more psychological
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Examining the 'militant' OCA agenda
BC Mills
A&E editor
The OCA is using the exploitation of
fear to manipulate the people of Oregon
to bring the evolution of the human race
back into the closet and hide from the
. diverse realities of the world.
With biblical rhetoric, misinterpretations, and misleading allegations based
upon its homophobic notion that homosexuals pose a "threat to society," the
OCA has shown that it will stop at
nothing to shadow over any group who
will not conform to its limited viewpoint.
Under article 2 of the OCA's Statement of Principles, "We affirm that the
foremost among God-given human rights
is the right of every individual to live
their life as they choose ... ," but then
under the same article the statement is
spoiled by the sour addition of, "within
the boundaries of that which is right and
just, free from unwarranted interference."
But who is to determine what is
"right" or "just"? An extreme, militant,
right wing, "religious" group; or the
people of Oregon?
The OCA does not represent the
goodness of Oregon, any more than I can
speak for all homosexuals. Rather the
OCA is spewing forth hate, working on
fears and insecurities, corrupting people
with its venomous rhetoric.
The OCA describes the homosexual
movement as "militant," and now Lon
Mabon is calling OCA members,
"warriors" in what he calls "The Noble
Battle."
So Lon rallies up his "warriors" for
donations to launch the next attack on
freedom. So who's acting militant?
The OCA is attempting to branch out
beyond Washington and Idaho-where it
has already made its presence knowninto Montana, Nevada and Utah. It is
presently preparing to launch another
anti-gay movement for 1994 and an antiabortion measure shortly after.
The OCA is great at raising money
and has created a recognizable force, but
there is nothing noble about its cause. So
what does this group want?
The OCA has stated from the beginning that it wants "no special rights" on
the basis of sexual orientation.
But then organizations like Citizens
United Against Discrimination, Citizens
United-C-PAC, claim that homosexuals
are not after special rights. Being able to
live without being verbally or physically
attacked, for the world to wake up and
affirm that this is a natural state of being,
is not a special right.
I have seen gay friends lose their jobs,
receive threats over the phone, by mail,
I've been verbally harassed and ridiculed
on the streets. For the first few weeks of
this term I was personally victimized
with a daily, "Hey, Faggot," as I walked
from my car to class-near the
Apprentiship Building. There have been,
and will continue to be other comments
on campus, but they are starting to die
down.
I have stopped being angry and have
become empowered to do something to
educate these people because my anger
will do no good and I know that I will
survive this. The comments are nothing
like the physical bashings I have received
in the past, because of my minor differences in sexual orientation. Is wanting
these types of incidents to stop a special
right? I think not.
Homosexuals are simply seeking the
rights defined in the Constitution, the
same Constitution the OCA claims to
hold dear, the right to life liberty and the
pursuit of happiness, none of which are
special rights. ,
So what is the OCA after?
It would seem after this summer's
passing of House Bill 3500, an attempt
by the house to create a "no special
rights" policy on the basis of sexual
orientation, the OCA would finally be
happy.
But the OCA is not satisfied with the
bill and targeted 14 representatives who
supported the bill for recall.
Among those targeted in this recall
effort are seven republicans, and seven
democrats. some represent communities
that have a history of supporting the
OCA at the polls, like Lee Beyer, DSpringfield, and, Sam Dominy, DCottage Grove. Jim Edmunson, DEugene, the author of HB 3500, and Dell
Parks, R-Merrill, who rallied it through
the House Judiciary Committee. They are
also among the OCA' s recall efforts.
House Bill 3500 covers three basic
issues in the struggle for fairness for all
Oregonians.
1.) HB 3500 makes it clear that there
shall be "no special rights," the OCAs
own words, for any citizen or class of
citizens in -Oregon based on sexual
orientation.
2.) HB 3500-does not void civil rights
ordinances that have been passed to
include sexual orientation and does not
prevent other communities from enacting
similar civil rights protection. This is
because there is considered to be nothing
special about a guarantee of equal
protection under the law for a category of
citizens subjected to discrimination.
3.) HB 3500 casts doubt on the
legality of further referenda because it
declares all anti-gay rights laws null and
void. These recently passed amendments
are unenforceable and are now classified
as "advisory amendments."
So once again I wonder what the OCA
is truly after. What does its ideal world
look like and how can they possibly think
it can stop reality. The only thing the
OCA has successfully shown is that it
doesn't want to fight against "special
rights." It simply wants to fight.
Though the militant OCA has created
divisiveness among Oregonians, I must
thank them somewhat. If it were not for
the OCA, people would most likely not.
be discussing this important issue to
such a degree.
Furthermore, if it were not for the
OCA, the gay. lesbian, and bisexual
community would not be so politically
active. Gays, lesbians, and bisexuals are
coming out of their closets because of the
OCA.
I know for myself that the OCA is one
of the main reasons I have become so
involved within the gay community and
the OCA has made my "out " experience
most rewarding - a fulfilling part of my
life. The OCA has made me grateful for
being gay and it has inadvertently given
us all - gay and straight - a united
purpose: to stop hate and to strive for
peace.
Through its attempts to destroy and
divide, the OCA has drawn the homosexual community closer and it is
becoming a strong force of goodness, and
for that I say "thank you."
But this- highly organized, radical
group must be stopped. If we allow the
OCA to continue on its warpath to
"righteousness," to stop progress and
evolution, we will all be casualties of its
not so "Noble Cause."
This group is dangerous and threatens
the natural order of life.
If the OCA would say what it really
wants instead of hiding its true self in the
closet it would at least earn some respect,
because so many self respecting people
know how difficult it is to come out and
proudly say what they really are.
What it means to be a student in the '90s
Jim Cooper
the eastern voice
Although the practical affairs of life
should never be set aside as unimportant,
when we begin to educate ourselves, we
learn that such things are not ends in
themselves. We satisfy our daily needs
so that we can then move beyond them to
what is truly important. We do not feed
ourselves merely to stay alive, but to
accomplish that which makes our lives
more than materially successful.
This is why we are here as students.
This is what our colleges and universities
are for. Not merely to learn a vocation
and to find our places in the work force,
but to learn who we are and what our
lives can be. In this way we may
contribute to the work of those who have
come before us, and have left their hopes
and aspirations behind them.
These institutions of higher education
are set apart from the world of everyday
support, it is consumer demand which is
affairs for good reason. Within the walls
of academia, the hustle and bustle, which beginning to shape the curricular agenda.
Because our schools are losing their
too often distract us from worthier
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sovereignty to the consumer, it is the
pursuits, can be temporarily held at bay.
Here we are given the opportunity to turn student who is now dictating what the
ourselves toward that which, historically, colleges main concerns will be. Our
institutions are no longer a sanctuary for
few have had the opportunity to enjoy.
scholarly pursuits where people can
And yet today, in a world which is
disentangle themselves from trivial and
managing to provide us all with greater
mundane affairs. Instead, we find that as
luxuries and leisure, more of us are
the students begin to shape policy with
finding the necessary time and resources
their dollars, they bring with them their
to enjoy such an opportunity. So much
natural concern for more practical
so, that it sometimes appears as if the
matters. Unknowingly, they begin to blur
roles of our colleges have changed in
order that they may find themselves more the necessary boundaries between the
academic and practical worlds.
acceptabl~ to this larger audience.
Ironically, it now falls more and more
Much like commercial television, our
upon our shoulders as students to shape
institutions of higher education are
the character of our colleges and universlowly having to lower their standards in
sities. And so, we must keep in mind the
order that they may provide for a more
words of William Channing, concerning
diverse student population. And in this
why we educate ourselves. We educate
market place, where the student is the
ourselves not only to make our lives
consumer, and colleges and universities
compete for our patronage and financial • easier, ~bµt so we can appreciate what it
means to be human. We must take with
us into our studies a sincerity and
appreciation for what we are doing.
Because if we concentrate solely upon
the fires that keep our bodies warm and
comfortable, the flames that ignite our
hearts and minds may perish without our
even noticing.
It is imperative that we accept the
responsibility that comes with truly
being a student The choice of whether
such a noble human tradition will
continue to be cultivated lies before us
all. We must accept the change of this
legacy of human scholarship by attempting to recognize what we are doing here.
By educating ourselves, we learn not
only to make better "shoes, nails and
pins," but we learn what it means to be a
part of the greatest of all human ventures. We must learn what it truly means
to be students.
Jim Cooper is Production &Jitor at The Eastern
Voice, of Eastern Oregon State Lollege. This story.is
used with permission.
October 29, 1993
sports
Cross country ends first season
10 The Torch
complete since the hiring of Head
CoachBradJoens. Lastyear,LCC
runners raced on an individual
basis.
Sophomore John Mackay led
the Titans with a third place finish
in the men's 8,000-meter race.
Mackay crossed the finish line in
26:34.
Sophomore Ryan Schulenberg
and freshman Craig Thomson were
the next Titan harriers to finish the
8-K contest. Schulenberg came in
at 28: 11 and Thomson clocked in
at 28:41.
Donald Smalley
sports editor
Lane• s cross country team
ended a promising opening season
by hosting the Lane Open Cross
Country Meet on Oct. 23.
Top ranked programs from the
University of Portland and the
University of Oregon, as well as
independent runners, competed
with Lane in this annual event
This is the first cross country
season that Lane has been able to
Freshman Ian Young finished
in 21st place with the timeof30:55
and fellow freshman Samuel Chen
came in at 26th place with a time of
35:27.
Ron Marsh, who was not affiliated with a team, won the race in
26:02.
"I'm really satisfied by the way
this year went," Joens says." The
runners know now what it takes to
be successful on the college level."
Cross country runners will
compete in spring track, scheduled to begin practice Feb. 4.
commentary
Incredible baseball season ends
ries and then had to stop abruptly in
Seattlewhen his elbow gave out
Brett announced in September
that this would be his last year.
Unlike Ryan, Brett spent his 20year career with the same team. A
few yearsago,hesaid thathe wanted
to finish his playing days just like he
started them - by grounding out to
second and hustling 90 feet to first
base. Well, I think his career ended
accordingly. The first baseman,
whose career batting average is
over.300, singled to center in his last
at-bat
This season saw an end of an era
that lasted for 24 years.
This was the last year of the two
divisional setup in each league.
Baseball will change to three divisions and expand the playoffs. In its
last year, we saw one of the greatest
pennant races occur in the NL West,
since its inception in 1969.
The Atlanta Braves and the San
Francisco Giants battled the whole
season. They both refused to fade
away at the end, so the race came
down to which team would win the
most games.
Trailing the Giants by 10 1/2
games in July, Atlanta acquired
power hitting first baseman Fred
McGriff and the Braves went on a
rampage, winning 55 games in the
secondhalf tofinallyedgetheGiants
out on the last day of the season.
This year also featured some
other memorable moments by single
Donald Smalley
sports editor
Ghost haunts LCC mound
Pitcher Tony Purcell of Lane Community
College's club fall baseball team displays a
spectral style as he demonstrates his pltch1ng motion against the University of
Oregon's Club baseball team Oct. 27 on the
LCC fields. The motion was captured with a
double exposure using a tripod.
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he cranked a three-run homer giving
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consecutive World Series title.
That homer was the last magical
moment in a season that had more
than its share of amazing and wierd
moments.
The 1993 season began tragically with the deaths of Cleveland
Indian pitchers Steve Olin and Tim
Crews in an alcohol involved boating accident Their teammate Bob
Ojeda was seriously injured in the
occident,butsurvivedandcameoock
to pitch for the Indians.
This past year saw the Florida
Marlins and Colorado Rockies play
their first season ever. Since they
drafted off of existing rosters, the
teruns had two of the best first-year
records and neither of them finished
last
The year also saw two great
players bow out of the game on their
ownterms:NolanRyanoftheTexas
Rangers, and George Brett of the
Kansas City Royals.
Ryan announced last winter that
his career, which would span 26
seasons, would end in 1993. It's too
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Some of them included:
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first-year manager Tony Perez only
after a month of play.
• Dave Winfield, a native of the
Minnesota area, smacking his
3,000th base hit of his career while
playing for the Minnesota Twins.
• Marie Whiten of the St. Louis
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• A fly ball hitting Texas Ranger
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then going over the rightfield fence
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• Ken Griffey Jr. of the Seattle
Mariners hitting a homerun in eight
consecutive games, tying a Major
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• AndresGalarragaoftheRockies
and John Olerud of the Blue Jays
came close to hitting .400 for the
first time since Ted Williams.
Galarraga finished the season by
hitting .378 and Olerud ended at the
.363 mark.
• Jim Abbott of the New York
Yankees, who was born with one
hand, pitching a no-hitter.
•Boston Red Sox Mo Vaughn
visiting Jason Leader, who is suffering from cancer. During their visit,
Vaughn promised Leader that he
would hit a homerun for him, a la
Babe Ruth. Like Ruth, Vaughn delivered, blasting a mammoth shot
overthecenterfieldfenceinAnaheim
Stadium. When the BoSox returned
from their road trip, Leader got to
throw out theceremonial first pitch
to Vaughn.
• The Cleveland Indians playing
their last game in Cleveland
Muncipal Stadium after over 70
years in that space. The Indians left
the stadium just like they entered it,
with a loss.
• Barry Bonds leading the Giants
toaneardivision title. San Francisco
improved by 31 games from a year
ago with the addition ofBonds. The
Giantleftfielderwill be a shoe-in for
the National League MVP award.
• The Blue Jays and Phillies
combining to break a World Series
record for runs scored in one game.
Toronto won the slugfest that was
called Game four, 15-14.
In spite of the off-field troubles
baseball currently experiences no commissioner money problems,
no collective revenue sharing, the
game remains great 1994 will be a
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is not a significant rise in crime
dwing this time. Most of the incidents people report involve teens
harassing younger children or
stealing their candy.
"Our real concern centers
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Another concern during the witchcraft or cult rituals, but he
Halloween season is animal abuse. says, "we just have the rule so we
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and Donna Albro will begin at
10:40 a.m. Boe's teleconference will include information
on building, nurturing and sustaining a network. To make
seating reservations contact
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Commisions of the Guatemalan Refugees in Mexico and
the refugee women's group,
will give a talk in the EMU Fir
Room of the UO at 7:30 p.m.
on Nov. 3. The talk, sponsored
by the Committee in Solidarity
with the Central American
People will cover women's organizing and education in the
refugee settlements, and issues
concerning refugees being returned to Guatemala. Admission is free.
NASA Meeting
UO Outdoor Program
Mushroom Show
The Oregon Indian Coalition
on post-secondary Education
is holding its personnel meeting Nov. 1, at 10a.m.inPE205
and an open forum from 1:30
to 3 p.m. The coalition's hopes
to cooperatively plan, develop,
implement and evaluate post
secondary level programs to
increase the recruitment, retention and graduation of Native American students.
"Masters of Stone," a sport
climbing video, will be shown
at 12:30 Nov. 3, in the basement of the EMU at UO. Admission is free.
The Mount Pisgah Arboretum will host its annual Fall
Festival and Mushroom Show
on Oct. 31, from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. The festival display hundreds of mushrooms and has
expens, such as David Arora,
author of "Mushrooms
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truffle authority, on hand to
identify mushrooms visitors
would like to take. Suggested
donation is $2 per person or $5
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p.m. on Oct. 30.
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Tim Lillebo, of the Oregon
Natural Resources Committee,
will give a lecture and present
slides on the endangered old
growth of the Ponderosa Pine
forest from east of the Cascades in EMU 37 at the UO on
Nov. 3. The lecture will include images of the east side
forests and inform people what
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Bowing to a researcher's
authority, students in Milgram' s
experiment administered shocks
they knew could be lethal to other
student subjects. The experiment
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actors to play the shock victims.
The moral vacuum that these
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doubts and gave a firm measure
for human conduct Pope John
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are absolute values in the order of
the universe, and intrinsic evils.
The intrinsic evils include, "all
that offends the dignity of man,
such as sub-human living
conditions, arbitrary imprisonmeni deportation, slavery,
prostitution, commerce in women
and children, degrading working
conditions that reduce workers to
mere tools...."
If anything expresses mediocrity, "Beavis and Butthead" is ii
along with popular movies and
- judging from excerpts in
newspapers - Buquet's story.
So, should Buquet's writing
teocher have turned him over to
the authorities for writing such a
disturbing story? Should writers
and producers of TV shows and
movies submit their works to
review commi~ for approval?
The answer to these questions
hinges on the value we place on
continuedfrompage4
The following year, Oregon time it supports the Lane Arts
poet William Stafford read to a Council, says Mandelblatt. Lane
full house and last year Terry Arts Council is a non-profit orgaTempest Williams also appeared nization that supports all the arts
before a sell-out crowd.
in Lane County.
The sponsors sell a broadside
"Voices of Place" is spon- a large poster-like sheet that sored by the Lane Arts Councombines work by the featured cil and the University of Orwriter with graphic images - at egon Bookstore. The $10 tickeach year's event, says ets are on sale at Hult Center
Mandelblatt
outlets. The event starts at 7:30
The event was designed to p.m. in the Soreng Theater in
honor regional writers at the same the Hult Center.
EMPORIUM
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Keeping Secrets
continued from page 8
• Fund raising for the TALN center
• Come order your
products in the TALN
center, IND 207
• Deadline is
November 17 Order
Now! Avoid the
Rush
Management Program and investigate alternative methods
of garbage disposal and recycling. Individuals interested in
becoming mem hers of the
committee need to turn in applications by 5 p.m. on Nov. 4,
in the Board of Commissioners' Office - located in the
Public Service Building at 125
East 8th Ave. For additional
infonnation call 687-4207.
The Women's Information
Network is sponsoring a seminar entitled "What You Don't
Say Can Hurt You: Keeping
Secrets and Your Health" by
Dale
G. Larson, Ph.D. Nov. 1
Board Position
from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the EuThe Lane County Board of gene Hilton - Playwrights
Commissioners is looking for Hall. The seminar will cover
citizens interested in serving the impact of secrecy on peron an advisory committee. The sonal health, what people recommittee
will
make port as their biggest secrets,
reccomendations to the Board managing secrets in the real
of Commissioners concerning world and organizational
administrative policies, legis- problems caused by secrecy.
lation, long-range planning, fi- For further infonnation call
nancing of the County's waste 686-7272. Admission is free.
Le Guin
HOLIDAY
October 29, 1993
5th St. Public Market
Over 30 barrels of wrapped candies
- Great for those Halloween Parties
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Lots of Halloween novelty candies and gift items
free ex~ion.
The Torch supports the
"constitutive" theory of free
speech. This theory says free
speech is not a luxury in a
democracy that can be discarded
when it becomes troublesome.
Rather, free speech is a factor that
constitutes a democracy. In other
words, free speech doesn't exist
to make democrocy easier
(though it does); democracy
exists to facilitate free speech.
Legal scholar Ronald
Dworlcin, writes that in a just
political society, government will
"treat all its adult members,
except those who are incompetent, as responsible moral agents.
That requirement has two
dimensions. Firsi morally
responsible people insist on
making up their own minds about
what is good or bad in life or in
politics, or what is true and false
in matters of justice and faith.
Government insults its citizens,
and deni~ their moral responsibility, when it decrees that they
cannot be trusted to hear opinions
that might persuade them to
dangerous or offensive convictions.
"Once convinced of the
rightness of their beliefs, concerned moral citizens, motivated
by civic responsibility, will
attempt to inform their fellow
citizens of the correctness of the
views that they hold."
Reason - cultivated common
sense - should be our guide.
Many credible studi~ tell us that
what we put into our minds
affects our thoughts, feelings and
actions.
Reason tells us to choose what
we read, watch and listen to with
care. And to select what our
children read, watch and listen to
with care, as we help them
cultivate their common sense.