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LANE COMMUNITY COLLEGE’S INDEPENDENT, STUDENT-RUN NEWSPAPER 1.9.14 VOL. 50, NO. 9 Laura Newman A&E Editor December’s freak snow- storm added to the winter va- cation of most Lane students. It gave many the opportunity to study more for delayed finals, drink cocoa and play in the winter wonderland. However, there were some devastating results for many of the events planned the week before finals. The Shakespeare Showcase, a 23-year-old acting medley put on by Lane students in the Blue Door Theater, was cancelled for the first time in its history. Director Judith “Sparky” Roberts, who teaches the Acting Shakespeare course, has invited her students to participate in the winter term showcase. The only problem is if the Shakespearean acting class doesn’t fill this term, there will not be a showcase to perform in. Roberts is counting on the Student Productions Asso- ciation’s April staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to give the community its Shake- speare fix. Additionally, the Native American Students Associa- tion cancelled its annual pow- wow. NASA faculty adviser Drew Viles said the powwow was cancelled for safety rea- sons. Some participants were travelling from as far as South Dakota for this event. Some preparations for this event will be carried over to next year’s powwow. “The biggest loss was the time and effort of many ... fac- ulty who had been working on projects such as making elder baskets, wrapping cedar and gathering up stuffed animals (for the children’s dance),” Viles responded via email. “Some of it won’t be wasted effort.” Cancelling the event disap- pointed some, but also came at a financial cost. “Because the event was cancelled so close to the time of scheduled happening, I am sure that there was a financial cost. For example, the pow- wow would have included a free salmon dinner,” Viles said. “Food was all bought and the salmon was thawed out. Everything was ready to go. And then the powwow was canceled.” There aren’t any plans to reschedule these events. Snowstorm leaves SPA, NASA in the cold Organizations have no plans to reschedule activities Mohammed Alkhadher Senior Reporter Lane moved one step closer to requiring every employee to attend cultural competency training when the Board of Education on Jan. 8 discussed, for the first time, a policy pro- posed by Lane President Mary Spilde. In December, the board set a 30-day deadline for a task force to propose a policy for training college employees to be conscious of cultural differences, after growing impatient with the progress made by the college’s Diversity Council. The council did not provide a policy by the deadline, so the board began considering Spilde’s proposal. Staff and faculty spoke for and against the imple- mentation of the policy. “My fear is that the Board of Education will act arbitrarily without hearing all sides of an issue based on unexamined assump- tions,” Roger Gamblin, a classified employee, wrote in a letter distributed during the meeting. “All parties seem to want to get this behind us as soon as possible, but I strongly rec- ommend against the Board of Education ‘imposing’ any policy because that will only extend the issue and probably end up mak- ing it public and embarrass us all.” Board member Bob Ack- erman proposed an amend- ment to next month’s agenda and requested the Diversity Council’s policies be reviewed by the board. Board members Dr. Gary LeClair and Pat Albright said they disapproved of the consensus system. “Any organization that leads by consensus is a flawed system,” Albright said. Faculty union Presi- dent Jim Salt said he’s not a fan of the consen- sus system, but he still defended it. “I think it makes us work through the issues and come up with some- thing everyone can live Center Building facelift begins The Center Building is surrounded by rubble after the first phase of its $35 million renovation, demolishing the existing exterior walk- ways, began Dec. 16. The concrete stair system on the building’s west side will be replaced with an inside stairwell. Project Manager Todd Smith said plans for the new Center Build- ing will include a new Titan Store, a remodeled cafeteria, more tutoring centers, private study rooms and computer labs. The reno- vations were designed to provide more natural light and improve traffic flow around the campus. ALYSSA LESLIE / THE TORCH Board eyes Spilde plan Diversity training talks set for Feb. 5 CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 “My fear is that the Board of Education will act arbitrarily without hearing all sides of an issue.” Roger Gamblin classified employee

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L A N E C O M M U N I T Y C O L L E G E ’ S I N D E P E N D E N T, S T U D E N T- R U N N E W S PA P E R

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Laura NewmanA&E Editor

December’s freak snow-storm added to the winter va-cation of most Lane students. It gave many the opportunity to study more for delayed fi nals, drink cocoa and play in the winter wonderland. However, there were some devastating results for many of the events planned the week before fi nals.

The Shakespeare Showcase, a 23-year-old acting medley put on by Lane students in the Blue Door Theater, was cancelled for the fi rst time in

its history. Director Judith “Sparky”

Roberts, who teaches the Acting Shakespeare course, has invited her students to participate in the winter term showcase. The only problem is if the Shakespearean acting class doesn’t fi ll this term, there will not be a showcase to perform in.

Roberts is counting on the Student Productions Asso-ciation’s April staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream to give the community its Shake-speare fi x.

Additionally, the Native American Students Associa-

tion cancelled its annual pow-wow.

NASA faculty adviser Drew Viles said the powwow was cancelled for safety rea-sons. Some participants were travelling from as far as South Dakota for this event.

Some preparations for this event will be carried over to next year’s powwow.

“The biggest loss was the time and effort of many ... fac-ulty who had been working on projects such as making elder baskets, wrapping cedar and gathering up stuffed animals (for the children’s dance),” Viles responded via

email. “Some of it won’t be wasted effort.”

Cancelling the event disap-pointed some, but also came at a fi nancial cost.

“Because the event was cancelled so close to the time of scheduled happening, I am sure that there was a fi nancial cost. For example, the pow-wow would have included a free salmon dinner,” Viles said. “Food was all bought and the salmon was thawed out. Everything was ready to go. And then the powwow was canceled.”

There aren’t any plans to reschedule these events.

Snowstorm leaves SPA, NASA in the coldOrganizations have no plans to reschedule activities

Mohammed AlkhadherSenior Reporter

Lane moved one step closer to requiring every employee to attend cultural competency training when the Board of Education on Jan. 8 discussed, for the fi rst time, a policy pro-posed by Lane President Mary Spilde.

In December, the board set a 30-day deadline for a task force to propose a policy for training college employees to be conscious of cultural differences, after growing impatient with the progress made by the college’s Diversity Council.

The council did not provide a policy by the deadline, so the board began considering Spilde’s proposal.

Staff and faculty spoke for and against the imple-mentation of the policy.

“My fear is that the Board of Education will act arbitrarily without hearing all sides of an issue based on unexamined assump-tions,” Roger Gamblin, a classifi ed employee, wrote in a letter distributed during the meeting. “All parties seem to want to get this behind us as soon as possible, but I strongly rec-ommend against the Board of Education ‘imposing’ any policy because that will only extend the issue and probably end up mak-ing it public and embarrass us all.”

Board member Bob Ack-erman proposed an amend-ment to next month’s agenda and requested the Diversity Council’s policies be reviewed by the board.

Board members Dr. Gary LeClair and Pat Albright said they disapproved of the consensus system.

“Any organization that leads by consensus is a fl awed system,” Albright said.

Faculty union Presi-dent Jim Salt said he’s not a fan of the consen-sus system, but he still defended it.

“I think it makes us work through the issues and come up with some-thing everyone can live

Center Building facelift beginsThe Center Building is surrounded by rubble after the fi rst phase of its $35 million renovation, demolishing the existing exterior walk-ways, began dec. 16. the concrete stair system on the building’s west side will be replaced with an inside stairwell.

Project Manager Todd Smith said plans for the new Center Build-ing will include a new titan store, a remodeled cafeteria, more tutoring centers, private study rooms and computer labs. The reno-vations were designed to provide more natural light and improve traffi c fl ow around the campus.

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“My fear is that the Board of Education will act arbitrarily without hearing all sides of an issue.”

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Commentary by Jarrid Denney Sports Editor

New college sports scandals crop up all too often.

Whether it be a recruiting violation, a coach quitting on his team for a better job or an athlete being arrested, when media coverage focuses on the actions of college athletes off the field, it tends to be negative.

Over winter break, Lane basketball player Gage Ostanik proved that every once in a while, a college athlete can make waves in his or her community for the right reasons.

On Dec. 13, Lane men’s head bas-ketball coach Bruce Chavka received an email from Ann Christiansen, an ASPIRE coordinator at North Eugene High School.

Ann explained that earlier that eve-ning, she and her husband, Alan, had been driving on the Beltline Highway when their left rear tire blew out as they approached the River Road exit in West Eugene.

“We pulled over to the side of the overpass as cars were speeding by us. My husband got out to fix the tire when along came Gage,” Ann wrote. “He pulled his big white truck out in front of us, got out and walked back to ask us if we needed help.”

Alan said he would never turn down someone wanting to help, and Ostanik

offered to back his truck up behind the couple’s car, so they would be protected from traffic.

“My husband said he never even thought about it until Gage spoke it,” Ann wrote. “He said, ‘I could have been killed trying to change this tire with no covering.’”

Alan and Ostanik fixed the tire and afterwards the couple thanked him and acknowledged how rare it is that anyone would stop and help.

Ostanik told them that if he hadn’t stopped, his coach would be mad at him.

“We both laughed and asked, ‘Your coach?’” Ann wrote. “He said ‘Yes, I play basketball at Lane.”

It was at that point that the couple decided that they needed to inform Chavka of Ostanik’s act of kindness.

“In the past, I’ve gotten sketchy emails about guys maybe not doing what they were supposed to or acting up. I’ve gotten the ones that are not very favorable,” Chavka said. “When I read Ann’s email, I actually read it twice because it was so special. That’s just who Gage is. He has a heart of gold and he’s a really good guy.”

It’s refreshing to hear about a college athlete who is having a positive influ-ence on Lane County as a community, because so often, that is not the case.

Most University of Oregon football fans are familiar with the legal troubles

of former Duck stars like Colt Lyerla, Cliff Harris and Jeremiah Masoli. The coverage of their problems could lead a fan to believe that theirs is standard behavior for college athletes.

This is simply not the case.For the past several years, the Lane

men and women’s basketball, baseball and women’s soccer teams have all volunteered at the Whitaker Free Com-munity Thanksgiving Dinner.

Samantha Schoene, Lane’s starting goalkeeper for the past two seasons, coached the Eugene Metro Fútbol Club under-10 girls team during the fall.

Derrick Malone and Tony Washing-ton, two Duck football players who were named to the All-Pac 12 honorable mention team honors during the 2013 season, have spent time helping out at the Eastside Faith Center in Eugene, working with fourth graders in the youth ministry.

College athletes are idolized by the fans who pay money to watch them; they are role models.

Because of this, their mistakes are thrown out in public for everybody to see, and that is perfectly understandable.

However instead of only criticizing the athletes who make ugly mistakes, we should also acknowledge athletes who go above and beyond. Athletes who go about their business the right way and find a way to make a positive impact on their community.

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It would be easy to blame student apathy, but we know better. Lane is a hub of activity for students from across the spectrum doing incredible things. Last term, multiple student groups came together to found Lane’s food pantry, in an attempt to address the real need of hungry students on our campus. Lane’s student government worked diligently with several of the interest groups here on campus to forge a new Cultural Competency policy that will hopefully provide a safe and open environment for Lane students and employees alike.

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We get lunch the same places everyone else does here. We overhear students questioning the new construc-tion at the Center Building, the very construction we covered on the front page of our last issue. Does that imply disinterest on the part of students, or a message we didn’t broadcast over the right channels?

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Dec. 6 at 7:41 p.m.Public Safety asked three unidentified people to stop tobogganing and leave campus.

Dec. 19 at 9:20 a.m.Public Safety issued a citation to an unidentified man who was masturbating at the campus LTD station.

Dec. 24 at 8:54 p.m.Public Safety received a complaint from an unidentified man regarding a Public Safety patrol car. The man said he’d been intimidated by the patrol vehicle behind him. The officer informed his shift adviser.

Dec. 26 at 1:48 p.m.Public Safety found an unattended green Honda Civic with the “ignition punched” and radio missing in Lot E of Lane’s main campus.

Laura Newman A&E Editor

KLCC will celebrate 46 years on the air and 12 years of beer when its 12th-annual Micro-brew Festival begins Feb. 7.

The festival, at the Lane Events Center in Eugene, is a fundraiser for the Lane-affili-ated public radio station, with a homebrew competition and more than 150 craft beers.

“KLCC is NPR. We broad-cast the NPR newsmagazine’s morning edition ‘All Things Considered,’ its weekend edi-tion, and within those pro-grams, we have local material, local content,” KLCC General Manager John Stark said, “such as reports from the state capital and throughout the Northwest. So, it is a combination of local, regional, national and interna-tional news.”

Within the last decade, KLCC has drifted more into reporting or “storytelling,” pro-duction director Don Hein said, with less time devoted to music.

“The majority of our listeners have been into the NPR pro-gramming that we do. We are an NPR affiliate with a significant music identity,“ Hein said.

KLCC transmitted from Lane before it moved downtown in 2008, reducing its visibility among students. The only arti-fact that remains on campus is a vacant RV parked in Lot L.

“The name of that RV is ‘Elsie.’ It is a mobile studio, and it is used to broadcast from events,” Stark said, such as the Oregon Country Fair.

“I don’t think a lot of stu-dents know that we have a radio station,” said Maranda Burrell, a Lane work-study stu-dent who has served as KLCC’s music librarian since July 2013.

Burrell works nine hours weekly, completing inventory of new music and organizing the extensive library for the station.

“I am currently filling the only work-study posi-tion. Next term, the position will open up. I don’t do any broadcasting. It’s a lot of data entry. But you still get to work in the environment and see how a radio station functions. It’s a really good place to be. I really enjoyed working here,” Burrell said.

KLCC offers many musi-cal programs, generally in the evening, that include hours

dedicated to jazz, folk, world music, blues — even the Grate-ful Dead, in a program titled Dead Air.

“We are a community service of Lane Community College so we broadcast to people throughout Oregon,” Stark said. “And we have some students integrated throughout the entire operation behind the scenes. Yes, we do have students who are on the air as reporters.”

Stark said there are opportu-nities for students at the station, whether through volunteer, internship or work-study.

“We have students from Lane as well as University of Oregon who participate at the station,” he said. “A student would contact the program director or the news director and ask them to consider their working at the station, their interning at the station, their volunteering at the station.”

However, before a student jumps at this opportunity, some skill sets are necessary for this type of work.

“We need pretty advanced journalistic skills. We can do internships and we can do work study, but it takes a fair amount of skill to be able to do that,”

Hein said. “We welcome people but recognize that most people need to take that journalistic writing class. We’re not an entry-level radio station.”

Microbrew Festival organiz-ers say they need volunteers

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all focused on this during this process, then I think we would have accomplished it in a more timely manner.”

“The system we have currently is not effective,” said Elizabeth Andrade, the executive assistant to Lane’s president, who served on the council until Dec. 16. “At this time it’s hard to have such an expensive governance system that is not working.”

Andrade was removed from the council by Bob Baldwin, president of Lane’s classified employee union, who accused her in an email of adopting “an approach of

negativity and public dispar-agement towards” the faculty union, as well as using her position to advance her own “personal agenda.”

More details were unavail-able at press time.

“This feels like a tremen-dous abuse of power,” An-drade said at the meeting. “It feels like a witch-hunt.”

The board suggested amend-ments that will take place in the second reading of the draft at its Feb. 5 meeting.

“This is happening,” said board member Matt Keat-ing. “If you have anything to amend or to add, do so in the next 30 days.”

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sPorts editorJARRID DENNEYSpORTS

Jarrid DenneySports Editor

At this point in the season, the Lane women’s basketball team is the most prolifi c offense in the Northwest Athletic Asso-ciation of Community Colleges.

They lead the conference with an average of 85.65 points per game, nearly fi ve points better than Big Bend Com-munity College, the second-highest-scoring offense.

They also lead the confer-ence in free throws made, total assists, total rebounds and total blocks, and are second in three-point fi eld goals made.

Freshman Shelby Snook leads the Titans’ offense so far. She is third in the NWAACC in scoring, averaging 19.65 points per game on 46 percent shooting. She is also fi fth in as-sists with 5.18 per game.

“I think our offense is really built off of things that I am able to contribute to the team,” Snook said. “If I can’t get a basket, then I look for team-mates, and that’s when I get my assists.”

Freshman Gabby Heehn leads the conference in three-point fi eld goals made, with 54, while freshman Niki Dun-can is second, with 48.

On Jan. 4, the Titans opened up South Region play at Clackamas Community Col-lege, in a rematch of last year’s NWAACC championship.

The top-ranked Cougars shot 12-of-32 from the three-point line on their way to an 82-64 victory to improve their season record to 12-2.

“This is their gym. We knew they were going to shoot well,” Titans head coach Greg Sheley said after the loss. “We knew they were going to take away the three for us and we were going to have to drive to the basket and make layups, and we couldn’t do that.”

The Titans are now 13-4 and ranked fourth after a non-con-ference schedule that featured three of the NWAACC’s top eight teams.

“Experience-wise, we grew a lot with all of the tourna-ments over winter break,”

sophomore Brandy Blackburn said. “The younger play-ers had a chance to see a lot of different teams in the NWAACC.”

Although they have plenty of time to play catchup to the Cougars, they will most likely need to beat them when they meet again at Lane on Feb. 1, if they are to claim another South Region title.

The Titans started off their winter break by winning the Red Raider Invitational Tour-nament in Lakewood, Wash. They were crowned tourna-ment champions after defeat-ing the Cougars in a 76-70 overtime victory on Dec. 13.

Freshman Marikah Wright led Lane with 25 points and nine rebounds. Sophomore Tori Mahaffi e contributed 11 points, 12 rebounds and four assists.

Sheley said the differ-ence between the Titans’ two matchups with the Cougars lies in his team’s three-point shooting. The Titans went 9-of-22 from three-point range in the fi rst meeting, as opposed to 4-of-15 in the second.

From there, the Titans headed to Bellevue, Wash., for a three-day tournament. They went 2-1, picking up wins over Whatcom Community College and Bel-

levue Community College.Duncan and Snook each broke

the 30-point mark during the tournament, Snook versus What-com and Duncan versus Bellevue.

A week later, at the Cheme-keta Holiday Tournament in Salem, Lane claimed an 83-80 victory over Highline Commu-nity College on Dec. 28, as well

as a 124-84 win over Treasure Valley Community College on Dec. 30.

However, on the tourna-ment’s second day, the Ti-tans suffered a 93-75 loss to Wenatchee Valley Community College, which currently sits outside the top 10 in the power rankings.

Jarrid DenneySports Editor

After a December full of success and struggle, the Lane men’s bas-ketball team owns a record of seven wins and eight losses.

The Titans began their winter break by fi nishing third at the Dale J. Bates Tournament, a three-day tour-nament at Lane Community College fom Dec. 13 to Dec. 15.

After an 83-74 victory over New Hope Christian College on the tour-nament’s fi rst day, the Titans squared off against the Southwestern Oregon Community College Lakers, current-ly ranked fourth in the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges.

The Titans took a 41-40 lead into halftime and were carried by sophomore Alex Sattley, who hit four three-pointers in the fi rst half and fi nished with a game-high 29 points.

However, they could not hold off the Lakers, who went 16-21 from the free-throw line in the second half to put away the game.

The Titans were forced to settle for a spot in the tournament’s consola-tion championship versus Lower Columbia Community College.

Sattley once again led the Titans with 25 points and six rebounds, and

sophomores Alec Breazeale and Zach Kirschbaum each added 15 points to help Lane to a 73-61 victory and third-place fi nish.

“I think we really improved on being mentally focused,” Sattley said after the tournament.

On Dec. 20, the Titans hit the road for the Everett Crossover Tourna-ment in Everett, Wash.

Lane began the tournament with a 98-95 overtime victory over the Ever-ett Community College Trojans.

Kirschbaum led the Titans with a season-high 34 points and 17 rebounds, while shooting 10-of-11 from the free throw line.

“They weren’t too big of a team so I just used my advantage the best way I could,” Kirschbaum said.

The next day, the Titans knocked off the fi fth-ranked Community Col-leges of Spokane Sasquatch.

Kirschbaum fi lled up the stat book for the Titans, scoring 19 points while also chipping in eight re-bounds, two steals, two assists and two blocks. Freshman Dale Baker added 10 points and fi ve rebounds.

The Titans’ winning streak came to an end when they met the top ranked Clark Community College Penguins in the tournament champi-onship, and were handed a crushing 87-59 loss.

The next week wasn’t any easier for the Titans. They traveled to Weed, Calif., where they suffered three consecutive losses to Sacra-mento City College, College of the Siskiyous and Butte College.

“The California trip was a deal where I just think we didn’t have enough time off,” Chavka said. “We went up to Everett and played well, but then three days off after that just isn’t enough.”

On Jan. 4, the Titans opened up regional play with a 79-67 loss on the road against the Clackamas Commu-nity College Cougars.

The Cougars hit 11 three-pointers, fi ve of them coming from sophomore guard Spencer Bankofi er, and were able to limit Sattley, Lane’s leading scorer, to just fi ve points.

Chavka said the Cougars did a great job of keying in on Sattley and Kirschbaum and it seemed like their goal was to limit both of their scoring.

“Every time I would catch the ball in the second half, they would send another player over to double me, which made it diffi cult to score,” Kirschbaum said.

Sattley is averaging 18.42 points per game and Kirschbaum is averag-ing 17.08 — the duo has combined to score 42.6 percent of Lanes’ points this season.

Lane freshman shelby snook broke the school scoring record with 44 points against the Umpqua Community College Riverhawks in a Jan. 8 game. the titans won 94-93 at home.

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Center for Meeting & Learning, Main Campus, Bldg 19, Room 100

8:30 - 9:00 Registration Welcome, Event Overview9:00 - 2:30 College Goal Oregon Meet with financial aid

professionals who will help you complete the online FAFSA. Bring your 2012 Tax Returns and 2013 financial records.

9:00 - 10:30 Scholarship Workshop 1 “Be a Competitive Applicant!” Learn

resources and strategies for finding college scholarships plus how to write quality essays and applications.

11:00 - 12:30 Scholarship Workshop 2 “Finding funds for Oregon Students” Learn how to apply for Oregon Student Access

Commission scholarships.12:45 - 2:15 Sesión Informativa acerca de becas y

ayuda financiera.

Lane students register with CRN 33916Community members call 541-463-6100,

go to lanecc.augusoft.net or register the day of event.

Team returns home to play Linn-Benton Roadrunners on Jan. 15

Lane leads conference in points per game, rebounds

Lane freshman guard Shelby Snook set an single scoring record in the Titans’ Jan. 8 victory against the Umpqua Community College Riverhawks. Lane won 94-93.

WITH 44 POINTS,BREAKING