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Taya Alami Reporter

Student leaders have passed a resolution outlin-ing a stance in opposition to the labor union representing Lane faculty, which has de-manded the right to remove any students from the class-room.

The union has been locked in an ongoing labor negotia-tion with the college for the past 11 months, and class-room safety procedures have recently become a topic of dis-cussion in the negotiations, according to student govern-ment President Paul Zito.

The student government’s resolution against the so-called “bargaining chip” was drafted and ratified by the Senate during its April 16 meeting.

The written resolution out-lined student support for the current process.

In its current form, the code of conduct stipulates that anyone affiliated with the college may file charges against any student for mis-conduct. Staff should prepare charges in writing and direct their charges to the executive dean of student affairs within 90 days of the incident.

All charges shall be pre-sented to the accused stu-dent in written form. Within five to 15 days of the student receiving a written copy of their charges, the students are granted a private hearing.

A judicial adviser may conduct an investigation to determine the merit of the charges and determine if the charges can be disposed of

J. Wolfgang Wool news editor

After a series of emotion-al outbursts on Wednesday, presidential candidate Fran-cisco “Kiko” Gomez said he has untreated anger manage-

ment issues, in a late-night in-terview with The Torch.

Gomez said he will con-tinue to run for president be-cause he does not believe his opponent — or any candidate — should run unopposed. If

Taya Alami Reporter

The Lane Board of Educa-tion will meet April 28 to de-cide how to weather a project-ed potential shortfall of be-tween $8.5 million and $12.6 million for the next school year that could cause the col-lege to raise tuition, cut facul-ty and/or reduce programs.

The board ratifies institu-tional policies and approves the school’s budget. It’s com-prised of publicly elected vol-unteers, and typically meets once a month.

Supporters of the labor union representing Lane fac-ulty said they plan to assem-ble in the cafeteria prior to 5 p.m. and march to the meet-ing in Building 3 wearing red. The faculty union is locked in a collective bargaining nego-tiation that has dragged out over the past 11 months.

Lane Vice President of College Services Brian Kel-ly briefed board members on financial documents at the March 12 board meeting that outline the potential short-falls.

Lane administrators said they expect enrollment at the college to decline by any-where between 7 percent and 12 percent for the next school year. Because tuition contrib-utes about a third of the rev-enue to Lane’s $100.7 million budget, enrollment declines can create large shortfalls. One of the potential strategies the college may use to cover costs is a tuition hike.

Lane students will pay $2 more per credit beginning summer term, bringing tuition to $95 per credit next year, af-ter board members passed an inflationary increase.

The motion passed at the Dec. 3 board meeting 4-1, with Board Chairwoman Rosie Pry-or abstaining from the vote because she pays the full-time tuition as a Lane student. Board member Robert Acker-man cast the single dissenting vote.

At the March 12 meeting, board chairwoman Rosie Pry-or asked all of her colleagues, aside from an absent Sharon Stiles, what they thought of a potential tuition increase.

“I would like to say for the record, and to my colleagues, that I am not anxious to look at tuition increases because I just don’t think that when demand is declining you raise

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ASLCC passes resolution on faculty safety proposal

Candidate ragequits meeting

Senators oppose revised classroom safety rules

Finalized enrollment numbers on table for April 28 meeting

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Special meeting called to discuss budget, cuts

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Presidential candidate Francisco "Kiko" Gomez attempts to rally support in the Center Building cafeteria on April 23.

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GUEST COMMENTARY

Last year, fewer than 1 percent of eli-gible Lane students voted in the student government general election. That’s a dis-turbingly low turnout, even for a campus with a historically apathetic student body. What’s more disturbing? That the Associ-ated Students of Lane Community College is complicating the voting process.

The polls open April 28, and, barring any last-minute changes to the elections process, the student government plans to add an additional step to the two-step process by which students used to vote. Students used to cast ballots through myLane, by logging in and clicking a link that said “answer a survey.”

This year, student leaders want us to vote through OrgSync, a Texas-based corporation that provides a one-stop web portal for student governments and organizations. Lane students can log on to its website, orgsync.com, and after they enter their L-numbers and passwords, they can view student government meet-ings records, check the hours for the Rainy Day Food Pantry, and browse a handful of student clubs and unions.

The goal, to improve students’ access to the wide variety of student-funded activities, is sound — so sound, you might have glossed over the part about the third-party website having your L-number and password. Whenever your informa-tion is duplicated, the number of places from which hackers can steal your data is duplicated too.

OrgSync makes much of its security measures in a detailed pitch aimed at col-leges looking to procure its services, but the company representatives dance around an appalling admission: Its website uses OpenSSL, the same security protocol that made headlines when Google’s security team discovered the Heartbleed exploit, a flaw that, from December 2011 to April 7, enabled hackers to steal users’ data.

A search for “Heartbleed” on OrgSync’s

website yields no results. A similar Google search reveals a post on the University of Louisville’s OrgSync blog, in which students and advisers are urged to change their OrgSync passwords.

You should take that advice. Immediately.While it’s unlikely any hacker would go

to the trouble of dropping you from your classes, the damage one could do with that information is substantial, especially if you use the same password across multiple websites.

The switch to OrgSync has other, albeit less troubling, implications. By moving the general election out of the Lane informa-tion technology department — to Texas, of all places — student government has

surrendered the guarantee that the results can’t be tampered with, diminishing our ability to detect any vote-tampering and reducing the likelihood that we’d have any recourse if they were.

This is an election, the winners of which will control more than $150,000 in revenue from the $50.30-per-term student activity fee. With the move to OrgSync, it has all the integrity of a Facebook poll.

Nonetheless, OrgSync already has your L-number and password. You might as well vote. And, while we’re not endorsing candidates this year, we suggest you vote for the candidates who promise to take governance seriously and return the elec-tions to myLane.

In the April 10 edition of The Torch, there was a guest commentary written by a handful of Lane faculty mem-bers. In the commentary there was a lot of talk about respect — or, to be precise, a lack of respect. I am not pretending to know what the issues are in this bargaining process, nor do I want to discuss them. What I do want to talk about is respect.

As a classified staff mem-ber, and a college employee for close to 24 years, I’ve seen good bargaining times and bad ones. I’ve seen the clas-sified staff settle for less than we are probably worth, but we did it for the good of the college. In 2005 and 2006, I watched other classified work-ers be told that their jobs were being cut, gone. We lost three positions in my department, we haven’t replaced them yet and we picked up the extra

duties and went on serving students. The faculty lost posi-tions in those years also. Some of those positions have been replaced, in my department, as early as last year.

So here we are again in 2014 with another budget crisis. Some of us are wonder-ing, is it going to be as bad as it was in 2005-2006? The Lane Community College Educa-tion Association's signs are out. You see them on the road coming into Lane, on office doors, bulletin boards and walls. What, you may ask, does this have to do with re-spect? Everything. The signs could mislead one to assume that the faculty is the sole reason students are successful and achieving their academic goals. One sign reads “student success starts with faculty suc-cess.”

Let’s take a journey of stu-dents starting their successful

education at Lane:•They apply for financial aid

if they need it. Paperwork is eventually reviewed, and money is awarded by classi-fied staff.

•They apply to the college, perhaps getting a little help with that process, and the application is processed by classified staff.

•They take a placement test to see what classes they should take. The test is administered, scored and explained by classified staff.

•They see their academic advisor or a faculty coun-selor. Yes, possibly their first interaction with a faculty member. But before they sit down with the counselor, the classified staff working a front desk checked them in.

•They register for classes built by classified staff. Per-haps they get a prerequisite cleared by classified staff.

They get help registering by classified staff or a peer mentor.

•They buy their books from the Titan Store, staffed en-tirely by classified staff.

•They have countless more interactions with classified staff until, finally, they come to the first day of classes and sit in classrooms to begin their education with a fac-ulty member.

So does student success start with faculty success? I think not. It starts with all of us here at the college wanting students to be successful. So when I see that sign and other similar ones, I don’t feel re-spected for the work I do and the success I contribute to our students. Remember: It takes a village.

rodney Browncounseling Department

Students' success includes classified staff

ASLcc should ditch orgSync

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nWAACC's use of wood bats are costing student athletes more money while conference batting averages lag behind regions using metal bats

*According to Josh Blunt, Lane head baseball coach.

**Based on Demarini Voodoo, the nation’s top-selling bat.

***Leagues include Western Junior College Athletic Conference, Maryland Junior College Athletic Association, Midwest Athletic Conferences, Iowa Community College Athletic Conference, Orange Empire Conference

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LETTER TO THE EDITOR

Jarrid Denney Sports editor

Baseball is a game known for its traditions.

Whether it’s ballpark food, rain-delay antics or curtain calls after home runs, baseball is celebrated as much for will-ingness to never change as it is for the competition itself.

However, one long-stand-ing tradition that needs to be eliminated altogether is the use of wooden baseball bats at the collegiate level.

Several years ago, the National Collegiate Athlet-ics Association stepped away from traditional aluminum bats, mainly to eliminate the violent reaction of the ball bouncing off of a metal bat.

This became a safety issue after an increasing number of pitchers have suffered injuries from line drives that arrived at speeds as high as 105 mph.

However, instead of switching to strictly wood bats, the NCAA instituted a rule which declared that all metal baseball bats must per-form like wooden ones. Each bat must pass a test in order to be considered legal for use in an NCAA game.

The rule essentially negates the advantage and danger of using aluminum bats, but also avoids the use of wood bats, which, as recently as 2008, were shattering at a rate of almost one bat per game at the major league level, which is costly.

While collegiate baseball’s best players have adapted and adjusted to the rules in order to create a safer game, several smaller college leagues through-out the country have switched to only wood bats.

One of those conferences is the Northwest Athletic As-sociation of Community Col-

leges, to which Lane belongs.According to former

NWAACC Executive Director Dick McClain, the conference switched to wood bats in the early 1990s, when it became apparent that the NCAA may do the same.

There are several issues with using wood bats, especially at the small college level.

At Lane, as with many junior colleges, players are re-sponsible for buying much of their own equipment, includ-ing bats.

The average wood baseball bat costs between $90 and $110. Lane head coach Josh Blunt said his players usually go through five or six bats each season, per player.

Five bats at $100 apiece, with 13 position players on Lane's roster, equals approxi-mately $6,500 each year.

Wood bats also limit the po-tential of hitters when they are

being scouted by larger schools.While an NWAACC player

is stuck using a wood bat that provides less pop, a player from almost any other con-ference in America has the advantage of using a metal bat to help boost their power stats.

Even though the new NCAA-approved bats perform similarly to wood bats, that doesn't mean they don’t still provide an advantage.

According to Alan Nathan, a physics professor at Uni-versity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and member of the NCAA Baseball Research panel, metal bats are easier to swing and allow the batter more bat control.

“While a batter might not hit the ball harder with a met-al bat, he might make good contact more often,” Nathan said in a 2011 interview with Medill Reports.

According to McClain, the

NWAACC prides itself on be-ing one of the few conferences who have stuck with wood bats for this long. He said he doesn’t see them switching to aluminum anytime soon.

For now, several Lane players have embraced using wood bats and found a way to avoid the steep cost.

Lane first baseman Jarren Goddard said he uses bats from a company called Baum, a company that makes its bats out of composite wood and is known for making durable bats. Goddard said he pays about $150 for a Baum bat and has never broken one.

Fellow Titan Colby Rice said he would choose wood instead of aluminum even if he were given the choice.

“I prefer wood definitely,” Rice said “I love feeling the ball more when I hit, and when I do hit, I feel more ac-complished using wood.”

How does the fear of hav-ing no process for removing a student from class, with no refund for the credits or chance for an appeal, make a classroom safe? I will directly say that it does not.

If I have to worry that one single person can eject me from class, that makes me afraid to enroll in classes at all. I should

not have to be afraid that if I don’t fit the professor’s view of safety, I won’t be allowed to finish or attend the class.

The financial risk to me and other students is drastic. Therefore, it does not belong in the hands of any single person, professor or not. There are governance councils that have representation of students,

faculty, classified, managers and administrators that create policy for the college. Those are the places classroom safety should be addressed.

Why are the faculty union leadership removing students from a policy debate that will directly affect students’ rights here on campus? This class-room safety issue belongs in

the governance system where it can be addressed in a man-ner that does not have to do with dollars in a paycheck and instead be developed by a body designed to deal with these sorts of issues.

I trust Lane Community College Education Association members are not getting all the information about this issue, as

they should be, or this would never have made it onto the bargaining table.

Please, instructors, be sure to help students have their voices heard and look into the process that already exists to ensure classroom safety.

Paul zito President, ASLcc

Going against the grain

ASLCC president opposes safety proposal

WooD Average of 5-6 bats used per season*

one bat used, usually over multiple seasons

NWAAcc cumulative season batting average as of April 23

cumulative season batting average as of April 23 from five community college

leagues using metal bats***

$100 per bat*

$200 per bat**

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.295

Estimated $6,500 spent on bats by Lane athletes

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J. Wolfgang Wool news editor

After years of electing lead-ers via their myLane accounts, students might have to reg-ister for a different, more pri-vate network when the polls open April 28.

Members of Lane’s admin-istration have been pushing students and faculty members to use the network services of the private technology firm OrgSync.

OrgSync connects students “to organizations, programs, and departments” in a pri-vate online community, ac-cording to the organization’s website.

In order to be eligible to vote, potential voters must be Lane students enrolled in at least one credit on the main campus. It’s unclear wheth-er OrgSync has the capability to verify whether students on-ly attend classes online or at a satellite campus.

The student government constitution and bylaws stipu-late that only students who at-tend classes on the main cam-pus are eligible to vote in the election, because only those students pay the student ac-tivity fee that funds the stu-dent government.

Elections on myLane have experienced problems in the past. During last year’s elec-tions, the numbered order in which ballot measures ap-peared was different in the voters pamphlet and on the myLane ballot.

“From what I have been told (OrgSync) has a good sys-tem for this,” Ellis said. “It’s looking like it will be a lot eas-ier than the way that we have done it with myLane before.”

The ASLCC bylaws require that elections use myLane. ASLCC President Paul Zi-to said elections will still use myLane as the primary ave-nue for the votes, with a link

to the ballot, but will use Org-Sync to tally them.

ASLCC adviser Barb Delansky, who is organizing OrgSync for the vote, said it will improve voter turnout be-cause the system’s more us-er-friendly, but students will have to log in with their L-numbers and passwords.

If voters have to set up an OrgSync account before vot-ing, Zito said it may impact turnout.

Ellis said the student gov-ernment is using OrgSync be-cause the system is more con-gruent with the voting pro-cess. Both the administrators and voters have had issues using myLane in the past, she said.

To register for OrgSync, students must enter their L-number and passwords, and cannot use a different user-name and password from their myLane password.

OrgSync was started in 2007 by a group of students at University of Texas at Austin. The private network is writ-ten on the same kind of open script that was vulnerable to Heartbleed, an exploit that compromised approximate-ly 60 percent of the Internet in the last two years.

According to develop-ers working for Google, most firms have fixed the security problems since they were first publicized in early April.

Historically, the student government general elec-tion sees a low voter turnout. Fewer than 1 percent of Lane students voted in last year’s ASLCC general election, but students still managed to elect a full government and pass four ballot measures before the polls closed.

“It’s a bummer more peo-ple don’t turn out,” Zito said. “But (voting is) the way it should be, regardless.”

(Reporter Taya Alami contrib-uted to this report.)

J. Wolfgang Wool news editor

Lane’s student government Elections Committee created of-ficial definition of campaign-ing, after The Torch ran an arti-cle about presidential candidate Michael Weed’s fundraising at-tempts eight weeks before the official campaign period.

Weed and his running mate, Malisa Ratthasing, created a page on crowdfunding web-site gofundme.com on Feb. 25. On the page, Weed described why he was running and asked for donations to help his cam-paign.

According to student gov-ernment bylaws, no campaign-ing can happen outside of a designated one to three week window. The Elections Com-mittee scheduled campaigning to begin April 14.

What qualifies as campaign-

ing was not defined in either the student government by-laws nor the documentation the Elections Committee provided the candidates.

Weed claimed this was not pre-campaigning because he did not ask for votes.

The Elections Committee de-fined authorized pre-campaign work to include “fundraising and the development of cam-paign material and content.”

Campaigning is defined as “actively encouraging students to vote a particular way on any specific ballot measure/referen-dum or for any particular can-didate.”

Student government Vice President Rebekah Ellis, who chairs the Elections Committee, said the committee created this definition in advance of any offi-cial complaints so the committee would have a prepared stance.

Gender, Sexuality and Di-

versity Advocate Max Jensen, who sits on the Elections Com-mittee, said the official defi-nition matches with previous policies.

In order to run a good pres-idential campaign, you need to prepare for it, he said. Can-didates have announced their plans to run in the past prior to campaigning.

After reading the definition released by the Elections Com-mittee, Ratthasing said she sup-ports their interpretation.

Ratthasing said she believes that as long as candidates act with discretion and seek to raise funds off campus, it will not have an impact on the elec-torate.

“It makes sense. I mean, how could you start a cam-paign without having the funds or means to do it before the campaign season?” Ratthasing said.

Elections Committee defines campaigning

Elections gets new look, website

Group takes stance on fundraising controversy

Voters in the student election must use OrgSync services

Candidates prepare for electionsJ. Wolfgang Wool news editor

Lane students will elect a student government and con-sider two ballot measures in the Associated Students of Lane Community College general election, between April 28 and May 1.

Candidates for president and vice president share a tick-et. In that contest, voters will

elect Francisco “Kiko” Gomez and Ben Buchanan or Michael Weed and Malisa Ratthasing.

A third ticket was an-nounced when campaigning began April 14, but candidates Clinton Fear and Kathy Ren-frow withdrew last week.

Renfrow said their with-drawal was primarily Fear’s decision. They both believe that Weed and Ratthasing would better serve the school

and did not want to risk pull-ing votes from them.

The president will earn a $500 monthly stipend and a 12-credit tuition waiver, and the vice president will earn a $450 stipend and a 12-credit waiver.

Fourteen candidates are vying for 10 ASLCC Senate seats: Emily Aguilera, Wesley Allen, Scott Compton, Sofie Crandall, Felicia Dickinson, Esau Gavett, Brandi Hoskins,

Jennifer McCarrick, Christian Mello, Caleb Miller, Trevor Moore, Sarah Pishioneri, Nicole Rund and Robert Schumacher.

Senators receive a $200 sti-pend and a three-credit waiver.

No one applied for the four available Student Finance Board seats. Next year’s stu-dent government will appoint students to the board.

Students will consider two ballot measures, one to keep

funding the Oregon Student Public Interest Research Group, by renewing the $3 from the stu-dent activity fee revenue. Stu-dents will also decide whether to add a $4 increase to the student activity fee to pay for legal ser-vices Lane retains for students.

Legal services are currently a line item in the student gov-ernment's budget.

(Managing Editor Sean Han-son contributed to this report.)

Faculty bargaining team meets in

center Building

After spending the morning in mediation with representatives of Lane's administration and a state mediator, members of the faculty union bargaining team met with other faculty members in the cafeteria during a lunch break April 23. They gave an update in preparation for the Monday, April 28 Board of Education meeting where the college's budget will be discussed.

EUGENE JOHNSON / THE TORCH

Polls open April 28 to May 1 on OrgSync

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LEGAL SERVICES BALLOT MEASUREStudent government is proposing that students on

Lane’s main campus fund legal services with a increase to the student activity fee.

Legal services currently represents approximately 44% of ASLCC's projected 2013-14 budget of $258,000.

Potential increase to

student activity fee

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ASLCC Student Body

Taya Alami Reporter

Less than one week from the start date of the Associated Students of Lane Community College general election, stu-dent leaders are hoping that the largest line item burdening their budget can be funded by an increase in student fees.

Students will be voting on an $4 increase to the student activity fee to fund legal services, which is currently paid for out of the student government budget.

The student activity fee funds various student activities on campus, including ASLCC, clubs, athletics, advocacy groups and The Torch. Students taking at least one credit pay $50.30 per term into the student activity fee fund. The student government receives $7.44 per term from the fee.

Approximately 44 percent of the student government’s pro-jected budget for this year is predesignated for legal servic-es. The retainer for one attor-ney is $80,000 per year, while his legal secretary earns $19,658 in salary from ASLCC funds in addition to $15,000 in benefits.

Although student activity fee revenue has decreased for the student school year, legal servic-es expenses remained the same.

The student government’s operational budget for the current school year, is pro-jected to be approximate-ly $258,000, based on esti-mations on enrollment. The group’s revenue could poten-tially end up being less origi-

nally projected. The actual enrollment total

for spring term for the school year won’t be finalized until the college’s budget officers present it to the Board of Edu-cation April 28.

Fewer students attending class, or less attending class in-person, correlates to a decrease in student activity fee revenue — although not as closely or as directly as tuition revenue does.

Some students are simply cutting their course loads as a means to cut costs, according to student government trea-surer Zach Wais.

During a discussion con-cerning a funds request dur-ing the April 10 Senate meet-ing, Wais said he was hoping to take the $80,000 line item out of the student govern-ment’s budget, but he wasn’t sure if it would happen.

“I think it would have a bet-ter chance a passing if it was lower,” Wais said, adding that the $4 increase is the largest fee increase students have seen.

“It’s one of those things that we’ve been volunteering to pay for years now,” he said, re-ferring to the costs of provid-ing an attorney for students.

Wais said the attorney is a necessary cost, but with de-clining enrollment, he said it will become more difficult for the student government to maintain the services it pro-vides to students.

“It will actually be sav-ings,” Wais said of the po-tential $115,000 in freed over-head. “It won’t just be spent.”

Student leaders propose $4 activity fee increase

Ballot measure aims to free ASLCC funds

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BOARD: College budget on agendaCONTINeD FROM P. 1

internally by way of mutual consent of the parties. If the charges against a student can’t be disposed of through mutual consent, the judicial adviser may later serve in the same manner as the judicial body.

A recent proposal from the union representing Lane fac-ulty read that faculty mem-bers have the right to perma-nently remove students from their class for what they inter-pret as disruptive, threaten-ing or otherwise inappropri-ate behavior.

In the proposal put forth by the union representing the faculty, students may be re-turned to the class upon a successful appeal to a review committee.

“(We) understand that this is a very sensitive issue and could be easily misinterpret-ed, but it is a question of hav-ing authority to protect the classroom,” Jim Salt, president of Lane Community College Education Association said. “The administration has not been supportive (of) the facul-

ty when students get extreme-ly violent.”

Salt said that under admin-istration’s current rules, a stu-dent can always come back to the next class following their dismissal from a classroom for disruptive behavior. Salt said a student is allowed to return to class, “regardless of how egre-gious or threatening the be-havior.”

According to the college’s online policy and procedure system, faculty members can-not remove a student from their courses unless they con-tinue their inappropriate be-havior in class.

Some faculty members have not found safety and comfort in their classrooms, blaming the administration’s inefficient work, according to Salt and LCCEA Vice Presi-dent Sheila Broderick.

Zito, however, said due process is already in place in the current code of conduct, and taking away a student’s due process won’t make a classroom any safer.

According to Zito, if an in-

structor isn’t already aware of the tools that are already at their disposal, “that’s on the teacher.”

“They should understand how the college works and not be taking it to the bargaining table,” Zito said. “They have no business changing a pro-cess that works for students in a positive way.”

Having classroom safety on the bargaining table makes Zito uncomfortable, he said, because any potential change in collective bargaining ne-gotiations would impact stu-dents — a group unrepresent-ed at the collective bargaining table.

Students who find them-selves barred from a class may still be liable to repay that course’s portion of the stu-dent’s financial aid disburse-ment, Zito said.

The Senate passed Zito’s resolution unanimously.

“Due process creates a safe classroom — not a teacher’s unilateral authority to remove someone from that space,” Zi-to said.

your prices,” Pryor said in March.

At $95 per credit, the col-lege is getting dangerously close to $100 tuition, Acker-man said.

“It bothers me philosophi-cally that we have all of these people coming in here want-ing a raise in their contract, and that’s not reality-based. This is silly to be doing this,”

board member Gary LeClair said in March. “We should, if anything, be saying we’ll keep salaries where they are so we won’t reduce people.”

Brian Kelly, Lane’s vice president of college services, said approximately 85 per-cent of Lane’s budget is spent on staff, and those costs are projected to increase.

Lane is projecting a $16

million contribution into its employee health care this school year — a significant increase from the college’s $11 million contribution dur-ing the the 2007-08 school year, according to numbers produced in January.

The board’s April 28 meet-ing will convene at 5 p.m. in the the Building 3 board-room.

Gomez withdraws, Michael Weed would win the presiden-cy by default.

Gomez told the senate he felt pressured and at a se-vere disadvantage to Weed’s campaign. Of the 14 senatori-al candidates on the ballot, 11 have endorsed Weed — a dis-advantage that, Gomez told The Torch, is contributing to his stress.

“I’m running against a ma-chine,” Gomez said.

April 23 began with Gomez jumping onto a cafeteria table at lunch in an attempt to ad-dress students. The day end-ed with him walking out of the student government sen-ate meeting twice, and admit-ting to using his senatorial po-sition to try and influence the elections.

At lunchtime, Gomez used

his hands as a megaphone to bark an impromptu stump speech at students, who large-ly ignored him.

At 6:30 p.m., Gomez abruptly left the senate meet-ing during a discussion on by-law changes. He returned to address the senate again, com-plaining about problems in his own campaign.

Student government Pres-ident Paul Zito asked Gomez if he was holding up delibera-tions because of a vested inter-est in the turnout of the vote.

“That’s exactly what’s go-ing on,” Gomez replied.

“You can’t use your posi-tion (as) ASLCC to advocate for your campaign. You can’t,” Zito said.

Gomez told the senate he felt pressured and at a severe disadvantage to Weed’s cam-

paign. He stormed out again.Rebekah Ellis, chairwom-

an of the Associated Students of Lane Community College Elections Committee, said af-ter the senate meeting that the committee would have to dis-cuss Gomez’s actions and de-cide what steps, if any, to take next.

At the April 2 ASLCC Sen-ate meeting, Gomez threw a pen at a fellow senator during a heated discussion. Gomez said he would resign, but later changed his mind.

A year ago, Gomez was re-ceiving treatment for anger management, but has since stopped, he said.

“I am failing to meet my re-sponsibilities to the student body,” Gomez said. “I’m not holding myself accountable to certain things.”

STUDENT GOVERNMENT

SOURCES: ASLCC 2013-14 Projected Budget, 2014 ASLCC Spring Elections Voter Guide

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Records are made to be bro-ken. On day two of the Oregon Relays at Hayward Field, the Lane womens 4x400 meter re-lay team shattered the school record, which had stood for 17 years.

The relay team consist-ing of freshman Kristen Dunn and sophomores Jahzelle Am-bus, Jalen Timms and Macau-lay Wilson, broke the former school record of 3:52.5, with a time of 3:49.9. This secured the Titans second-place, with first going to Wichita State Univer-sity. Timms started the Titans off by running a 56.9-second first leg to help her team break the record, which has stood since the 1997 season. Lane head coach Grady O’Connor is glad his relay team could break the record they’ve had their eyes on all season.

“It’s a special group,” O’Connor said. “We’ve had that record as a goal all season. We came close last week at

Chico Calif. We knew we had the footspeed. We just had to eliminate our mistakes. It was an awesome feeling for our team to achieve that goal.”

Not to be outdone, the men’s 4x100 relay team was looking to enter the winner’s circle. A strong team effort from freshman Colton Thur-man, Rohan Cain, Jesse Goodi-er and sophomore Dylan Ham-ming, and clinched victory for the Titans in a time of 42.6 sec-onds. The time is the third-fast-est run by an NWAACC team this season.

The men’s 4x400 relay team also saw success at Hayward Field. Cain gave the Titans a strong second leg, putting the Titans slightly ahead of Clack-amas Community College heading into the anchor leg, which sophomore Diego Gon-zales ran. Gonzales was caught by Clackamas’ star anchor, sophomore Zach Rial. Gonza-les still delivered a strong fin-ish in the Bowerman curve to give the Titans fourth-place, with a time of 3:20.98.

“We’re getting better,” O’Connor said. “We have a young group this season who are still unproven, but we took four seconds off our time from Chico and I’m very hap-py with our weekly improve-ment.”

The women’s 4x100 relay team also had a strong perfor-mance on day two. This event took place before the record-breaking 4x400 meter perfor-mance. This time it was Ambus who ran the strong anchor leg, leading her team to a second-place finish in 48.48 seconds.

On the first day of the re-lays history was made as well. The meet began with the high jump, which meant another chance for Titan freshman Da-kari Hightower to break his personal record of 7'1", which he set at at the Lane preview on March 14 while competing unattached.

Hightower claimed third place at the relays with a leap of 7'0.25". Although it was short of his season best, it was good enough for Hightower to

break the school record of 7', in just his second meet in a Ti-tan’s uniform. The old record, held by Kelly Graham has stood since 1976.

After a personal best time of 25.63 seconds April 12 in the women’s 200-meter run at the Chico Twilight Invita-tional, Ambus exploded out of the blocks to blow her person-al best out of the water. Ambus finished in a time of 25.17 sec-onds, earning ninth-place in a highly competitive field that saw Oregon freshman Ashante Horsley take first with a time of 24.28 seconds.

Freshman David Cornish was also looking to improve his personal best in the men’s 1,500 meter. At the Chico Invi-tational, Cornish set a new per-sonal record of 4:09.74. At Hay-ward field, Cornish broke his personal record with 4:09.23, giving him ninth-place overall.

Titans’ sophomore Luke McKay set another personal re-cord, this one in the pole vault. McKay vaulted 15'7", clearing his season best by more than

a foot. McKay tied with fellow Titans’ sophomore Zach Olive-ra for ninth place.

In the long jump on day one, the Titans were given a strong performance from soph-omore Kara Hallock. Hal-lock jumped a total distance of 18'01.5", which saw her take fourth-place honors. Hal-lock’s mark could’ve been im-proved, but she passed on her final jump of the day. Hallock, the Titans’ top heptathlete, al-so competed in the 100-meter hurdles, finishing fourth with a time of 14.75 seconds, miss-ing her personal best by milli-seconds.

After breaking so many re-cords this past week, the Titans look ahead to the Titan Twi-light on April 24.

“At the Titan Twilight, since it’s a home meet, we’ll have the opportunity to manage some of our athletes better. It’ll be good for our athletes to take a deep breath and get sharp-ened up for the NWAACC championships,” O’Connor said.

history at haywardPHOTOS BY ALYSSA SUTTON / THE TORCH

Sophomore Jalen Timms prepares to take off from the blocks for the women’s 4x400 relay on April 19. The team consisting of Timms, freshman Kristin Dunn and sophomores Jahzelle Ambus and Macaulay Wilson finished second with a time of 3:49.49, breaking a 17-year-old school record by more than three seconds.

Lane’s highly touted 4x400-meter relay team dismantles a long standing school record

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Jarrid Denney Sports editor

While athletes who qual-ified for the Oregon Relays competed at Hayward Field over the weekend, 22 other Lane men and women com-peted at the Cougar Open in Oregon City on April 19.

The meet featured five NWAACC schools, including Lane. It gave athletes who didn’t meet the marks nec-essary to qualify for the Or-egon Relays a chance to stay sharp and also compete in events outside their normal repertoire.

Freshman Justin Angove claimed the Titans’ only vic-tory of the meet. He finished first in the 400-meter inter-mediate hurdles in a time of 56.24 seconds, blowing away the competition by over five

seconds.On both the men’s and

women’s sides, the Titans were represented strongly in all throwing events.

Freshman Tanner East-erlick finished third in the hammer toss and fifth in the discus, while freshman Me-gan White placed third in both the discus and hammer, as well as fifth in the shot-put.

Freshman Nicole Mau-rmann claimed a second place finish for Lane in the 800-meter run, finishing in a time of 2:26.81.

Freshman Tenaya Smith cleared 4'11.75" in the high jump which qualifies for the NWAACC championships this season.

Editor’s note:Tenaya Smith is The Torch

staff web editor.

history at hayward Titans tune up at Cougar Open

PHOTOS BY ALYSSA SUTTON / THE TORCH

Sophomore Macaulay Wilson ran the second leg of the women’s 4x400 relay on April 19.

Sophomore Jahzelle Ambus ran the third leg of the 4x400 in the women’s relay on April 19.

Sophomore Jahzelle Ambus passes the baton to freshman anchor Kristin Dunn during the women’s 4x400 relay on April 19.

Lane prepares for upcoming Titan Twilight

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Jarrid Denney Sports editor

Sometimes, home field ad-vantage means absolutely nothing.

After a bizarre weekend in which they split a four-game series with the Clark Com-munity College Penguins, the Titans managed to emerge in sole possession of first place in the NWAACC Southern Region.

Lane lost two home games on April 18, but bounced back the next day when they trav-eled two hours to Vancouver, Wash., and stole two games back from the Penguins.

“It was so weird to be beat-en so badly Friday at our own place and then do the same to them over there the next day,” Lane head coach Josh Blunt said. “It was so vital to at least split Saturday to at least keep ourselves in contention.”

Lane entered the game with an 8-3 record in South-ern Region play and trailed

the Southwestern Oregon Community College Lakers by one game before Friday’s first pitch.

However, it was a disaster from the start in game 1.

The Penguins loaded the bases with no outs in the top of the second inning and scored two runs on a squeeze bunt that sophomore first baseman Jarren Goddard misplayed.

Two more Penguin runs scored in the fifth inning end-ing sophomore starting pitch-er Jared Priestley’s day, and inevitably, the Titans’ hope of taking the first game. Priest-ly finished the game with eight earned runs on nine hits in five innings of work.

“He was a little bit up today, and we just didn’t play very good catch on top of it,” Blunt said.

Freshman catcher Kyle Beam scored the Titans’ only run of the game in the bottom of the fifth when he launched a solo home run to left-center field, his first of the season.

Penguin ace Travis Eckert earned the win in Clark’s 10-1 trouncing of the Titans. Eck-ert threw a complete game and struck out three while surren-dering 10 hits.

“He’s the best guy we’ve faced this year by far,” Blunt said.

Lane sophomore Eric Ruaro got the start on the mound for the Titans in the second game.

The righthander was solid over six innings, surrendering four runs while giving up five hits and one walk.

After trailing all game, the Titans saw the opportunity to claim a dramatic comeback with their last three outs in the bottom of the seventh.

Three consecutive Titans drew walks to load the bases, putting all the pressure back on the Penguins.

Montague then struck out looking on a late-breaking curveball, bringing up Smith, the Titans’ second-leading hitter.

Smith grounded to Clark

second baseman David Mason, who turned a quick double play, with the throw narrow-ly beating out Smith at first to end the game, giving the Pen-guins a 4-1 win and completing their sweep of the day.

“The way they played today, they’re as good as anybody I’ve seen all year,” Blunt said. “They played our style of game today. They put all the pressure on us.”

The next day was a com-pletely different story.Blunt deployed two of his more tal-ented arms to start each game in sophomore Jeff Hardy and freshman Jackson Bertsche, and both came through with strong outings.

Hardy threw 5.1 scoreless in-nings and allowed only four hits in the Titans 13-1 beat down of the Penguins in Game 1.

All nine Titans starters reached base at least once, and Montague and Goddard led the way for Lane.

Montague was 3-for-5 and scored twice, and Goddard

went 2-for-4 with three RBIs.In Game 2, Bertsche came

through with a breakout per-formance in his strongest showing of the year.

He held the Penguins to just one run and two hits in five in-nings of work and struck out four batters.

“Being able to throw him on the back end of a four-game series, the odds are pret-ty good if he pitches like that.” Blunt said.

Lane freshman Forrest Gar-cia led the Titans on offense. He drove in two runs and went 2-for-3, shooting his average up to .288 for the season.

Lane now sits at 10-4 in regional play and find them-selves in sole possession of first place, despite their tumultuous start to the weekend.

Lane will take on the second-place Lakers in a four-game home and away series next week, with the first two games set for April 25 in Co-os Bay, and the second two in Eugene on April 26.

Tale of two days

The Tigard connection

PHOTOS BY EUGENE JOHNSON / THE TORCH

Lane sophomore Priestley throws a breaking-ball in the fifth inning April 18.

Lane sophomore Darin Nelson attempts to break up a double play against Clark Community College on April 18 in Eugene. The Titans lost to the Penguins 10-1.

Lane freshman Forrest Garcia knocks a double to center field April 18.

Titans vault into first place after splitting series with Penguins

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Two years ago, it would have been hard to imagine Spencer Smith and Tucker Campbell playing college base-ball at the same school.

Now, they’re not only on the same team, but they are two key pieces of a Lane squad that is on the verge of returning to the playoffs for the first time since 2011.

Smith, a center fielder, and Campbell, the Titans’ starting shortstop, are two of the top bats in the Titans’ lineup. Smith is second on the team in batting average and leads in stolen bas-es, while Campbell is tied for second in RBIs and doubles.

They shined on the defen-sive end as well. Smith has played nearly error-free de-fense in the outfield, while Campbell is one of the top defensive shortstops in the con-ference according to Lane head coach Josh Blunt.

“Both of those two have a really similar style of play that stands out,” Blunt said “They play hard all the time. They help other players all the time. Just watching them run on and off the field, they have an en-ergy to their game. They’re coaches on the field.”

Although they are corner-stones of a team full of soph-omores who are hungry for a regional title, both Smith and Campbell took unconventional paths to arrive at this point.

Both players attended Ti-gard High School in Tigard and

helped lead the Tigers to a sec-ond-round appearance in the 2012 6A Oregon School Activi-ties Association playoffs during Smith’s senior and Campbell’s junior years.

Campbell’s grandfather, Tom Campbell, coached them during their entire high school careers, and helped instill the same disciplined style of base-ball that is obvious while watching them play today.

“We really focus on our de-fense, both infield and out-field,” Campbell said. “And al-so baserunning. You don’t al-ways have the luxury of having a great offensive team, but you can always run the bases well. So our emphasis has been bas-erunning and bunting the ball and just executing on things that you have control over.“

Until Smith’s junior sea-

son, he played second base and combined with Campbell to form the middle of the Tigers’ infield.

While Smith says they were a solid double play duo, Camp-bell jokes that wasn’t the case.

“I was,” Campbell said. “I had to kind of make up for him.”

It wasn’t until his senior year that Smith made the move to center field, after impressing Tom Campbell one day while running down fly balls during batting practice.

“After talking to another coach, we said ‘lets take a look at him in the outfield,’” Camp-bell said. “He went in and he looked like he had played there his entire life. He transitioned almost instantly to the outfield and he just got better and better from that point on”

After his senior season, Tom Campbell, who had a good re-lationship with former Titans head coach Dean Styles, en-couraged Smith to attend Lane. Although he was recruited by Styles, Smith played his fresh-man year under Blunt after Styles accepted a job as pitch-ing coach at the University of Oregon.

During the 2012 season, Smith was one of the Titans’ top players. He was second on the team in hits and runs scored, and was selected to the NWAACC Southern Region All-Star team.

However, during the 2012-13 school year, Smith chose to du-al-enroll at Lane and UO, and ended up sitting out the 2013 baseball season in order to fo-cus on academics and clear up enrollment issues.

While some would have seen a season away from the game as a setback, Smith, who still practiced and traveled with the team, found a way to use it to his advantage.

“I actually feel like it was kind of a blessing in disguise,” Smith said. “I was able to take a year and really develop some of the aspects of my game that I hadn’t been able to before. It definitely heightened my ap-preciation for the game.”

Blunt said Smith is one of the few players he’s seen who used their year off wisely.

“As good of a leader as he was, he got to be a better lead-er,” Blunt said. “I thought the difference between him playing and not playing was the differ-

ence in us not making the play-offs.”

While Smith spent the 2013 season on the sideline, Camp-bell was enrolled at Linfield College in McMinnville, where he played one year for the Wildcats.

Although he saw little play-ing time there, Campbell gained valuable experience playing for a Wildcats team that was crowned Division III national champions.

“Every day at practice was really competitive,” Campbell said. “It was almost game-like every single day at practice and it was something that was real-ly cool to be a part of.”

Campbell said that midway through the season he knew that he wanted to transfer to a larger school where he would have the opportunity for more playing time.

He had considered Lane af-ter high school and knew that with the Titans he would have a chance to improve his skills and increase his chances of moving on to the next level.

He was comfortable switch-ing cities because he had a lot of friends already living in Eu-gene, but admitted that Smith being on the team helped ease the transition to Lane.

“Playing in college with him was something I was al-ways very interested in, but I didn’t think it would happen,” Campbell said. “He was always one of my favorite guys to play with, and that’s another reason that I came to Lane. Because I knew he was going to be here.”

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Sophomores Spencer Smith and Tucker Campbell.

EUGENE JOHNSON / THE TORCH

(Left) Tucker Campbell, sophomore, has been a defensive leader for the Titans this season after his transfer from Linfield College.

(Above) Sophomore center-fielder Spencer Smith is leading the Titans in stolen bases and is second in hits and RBIs after sitting out last season.

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Healthy food, music and advice on sustainability were the main ingredients of the Earth Fair held in Building 5 on April 22. The Lane Sus-tainability Committee brought different focus groups on campus to bring people to-gether in the community and to develop stronger communi-ty awareness of sustainability.

The event was to celebrate Earth Day, an annual world-wide initiative in support of environmental protection. The Earth day Network has been organizing Earth Day events globally since 1970.

Different groups handed out pamphlets, and spoke to students and visitors about water conservation, energy management, watershed sus-tainability, home and self-

protection, and different community sustainability ini-tiatives.

Eugene resident Muhiyiern Moye, offered to sing and play the drum at the fair. He said his mission is to help in-troduce people to the idea of placing people and the envi-ronment over profit.

“It’s possible to have a sus-tainable environment where everything and everyone is thriving,” Moye said.

Lane second-year culi-nary arts student Lemuel Wil-son served healthy four-bean soup with turnips, carrots, onions, tomatoes and other vegetables to an appreciative crowd lining up for servings and second helpings.

“Everything in the soup you could find in your backyard,” Wilson said. “I just love the looks on people’s faces when I give them a bowl of hot soup.

To me, it’s just priceless.”Being around people who

are enjoying themselves and being able to contribute to their enjoyment is why Wil-son wants to be a chef. Seeing people smile when they taste dishes he creates is where he gets much of his job satisfac-tion.

“It’s not about the mon-ey. It’s about people,” Wilson said.

The event was well-orga-nized and a great success, said Patty Hine, sustainability committee member and coor-dinator of the Lane co-op and intern program.

Musicians took turns enter-taining students and visitors as they mingled among differ-ent vendors.

Organizers reported being pleased with the turnout and plan to hold a similar event next year.chris Piepgrass

Reporter

Part-time Lane instructor Johnnie Mazzocco screened her first feature-length film, Found Objects, at Lane on April 15. According to the closing slide of the film it is “dedicated to the women of the world who create, and especially to the ones who don’t.” The Torch sat down with Mazzocco, who had cre-ated five short films previous-ly, to discuss her accomplish-ment.

The Torch: Had you worked with the actors be-fore?

Mazzocco: No, I felt real-ly thankful to find these peo-ple. When I cast them, I was fortunate to find people who really embodied what I was af-ter. I gave them a really elabo-rate back story on each charac-ter and let that percolate dur-ing the early summer. That was the bulk of my directing. We didn’t rehearse anything.

Q: When did filming start?A: It started in September.

We did 12 straight days in the motel. It was a very smooth production. The house-burning scene was planned months in advance.

Q: Did you just stay by a police scanner and wait for a fire nearby or did you burn the house yourself?

A: No, the fire department has a program in which they burn houses for the purpos-es of training. It was McK-enzie Fire and Rescue that helped me with that. I was in touch with them way in ad-vance to make sure it would be safe. They said we could

start out as close as we want-ed, but I think they knew the heat would keep us back.

Q: What was your inspira-tion for making this film?

A: In grad school, I got really interested in social sys-tems and institutions and how that shapes who we are — es-pecially the nuclear family. I became very fascinated with being a creative woman and raising a family and what that means. I think unrealized cre-ative impulse is very destruc-tive to an individual. It comes out of us in other ways when it’s stifled. I think it makes us physically ill, mentally ill and spiritually ill, and that projects on to the people around us. I also think the op-posite is true. I think that if we have a healthy creative outlet, then we can heal the people around us.

Q: Are you going to submit this film to any festivals?

A: I’ve been thinking about it. Moondance is one for sure. There’s another one in Lon-don called Raindance. I have this feeling that European au-diences will like it, so I’m re-ally going to explore the inter-national festivals.

Q: How many short films did you make before you moved on to the feature-length film?

A: I have made about five short films. They’re in a box somewhere and they might not ever come out.

Q: Do you have any other work coming?

A: I’m starting some begin-ning phases of the next film and also a web series. I’m get-ting ready to say goodbye to this project and these charac-ters.

Instructor produces film

Students and visitors enjoy Lane Earth Fair

FRIDAY    SATURDAYAPRIL  25    26  2014

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JOHN PERKINS author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

JON SYMES Outreach Director of Pachamama Alliance’s Awakening the Dreamer Training.

GOOD SHIELD AGUILAR A Turtle Island Native devoted to speaking up for the last wild bu�alo.

KAITLIN SOPOCI-BELKNAP Executive Director of Move to Amend.

MONICA BEEMER Organizer for the 2014 Northwest Social Forum.

Symposium will be live streamed at http://www.lanecc.edu/it/media/live-streaming. FOR INFORMATION & REGISTRATION FOR THIS FREE EVENT GO TO: lanecc.edu/peacecenter

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Q & A

Johnnie Mozzocco fields questions after a screening of her feature- length film Found Objects in Building 17.

Mazzocco touring with full-length feature

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Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream opened at Rag-azinno Performance Hall on April 18.

In the play, Duke Theseus of Athens is approached with a complaint by Egeus. His daugh-ter Hermia refuses to marry De-metrius, the man her father has arranged for her. When the Duke mandates her marriage, Hermia and her true love Ly-sander elope to the forest, where the majority of the play is set. Demetrius, fighting for his right to Hermia, pursues them, and Helena, in love with Demetrius, follows.

Within the forest the fairy king Oberon, played by Tad Merrell, the fairy queen Titania, played by Michelle Norella, and the mischievous Puck, played by Naomi Todd, complicate the love triangle even more with their magic.

This is Lane instructor Judith “Sparky” Roberts’ second time directing A Midsummer Night’s Dream and her 11th Shakespeare play as a director.

“The play is a phantasm, wide open for interpretation. While we honor the countless original interpretations of the last 450 years, our own presen-tation is highlighted by the par-ticular skills of our actors,” Rob-erts said.

Lane student and stage man-ager, Jonathan Edwards, said Kaitlynn Baugh, originally cast as Helena, has been replaced af-ter she was injured.

“There was a mishap back-stage. It was a big letdown, es-pecially because she put so much work into it,” University of Oregon student, Clay John-son said.

Baugh ran into a protruding prop and suffered a mild con-cussion. Lane student Melanie Moser had just days to prepare for her Ragazinno Hall debut as Helena.

“She came in and knocked it out,” Johnson said.

Johnson, who played the part of Lysander, has acted in a vari-ety of Shakespeare plays under Roberts’ direction.

“I’ve been in upwards of 20 Shakespeare showcases. All right, 20 might be an exaggera-tion, probably 15,” Johnson said. “I’ve worked with Sparky ex-tensively.”

The cast had nothing but good things to say about their director.

This was the second time Will Jeanniton has played The-seus, the first being in the Shakespeare showcase.

“She’s a visionary,” Lane stu-dent Jeanniton said.

“I was really expecting noth-ing less than excellence and (Sparky) didn’t disappoint. It’s a beautiful show,” he said.

Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream opens

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24 Take Back the Night March6 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.Begins at Erb Memorial Union at University of Oregon and ends at Titan Court

A Midsummer Night’s DreamRagozzino Performance Hall in Building 6 7:30 p.m.$10 for general admission and $5 for students

Saturday

26A Midsummer Night’s DreamRagozzino Performance Hall in Building 62 p.m.$10 for general admission and $5 for students

Adrenaline Film Festival ScreeningsPrince Lucien Campbell Hall, Room 180, at UO9:30 p.m.

Tuesday

29Blood DriveApril 29 to May 1 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.Center Building

Native craft Night6 p.m.Longhouse

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Nick Bottom, played by Robert Newcomer, argues for every role in Pyramus and Thisbe, A Midsummer Night’s Dream’s play within a play, on April 19.

Clay Johnson as Lysander and Radhika Stein’s as Hermia discuss their elopement in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Ragozzino Hall, April 19.

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Approximately 20 stu-dents gathered in a circle around visiting storyteller Tinh Mahoney in the Long-house on April 18 while he sang songs, played guitar and told stories. Mahoney was invited to speak to the students as part of the Sto-rytelling Model for Social Justice through the Arts.

From his fearful childhood in war-torn South Vietnam emerged Mahoney's personal mission to enjoy life and help others do the same. Fight-ing and killing was going on all around Mahoney when he was young. He lived in con-stant fear.

“We thought we were go-ing to die,” Mahoney said.

Mahoney uses music and storytelling to convey his mes-sage of peace, harmony and having a positive attitude. He

said he loves both Vietnam and America and focuses on the best in each country.

"I love the beauty, nature, family traditions and culture of Vietnam," Mahoney said. "America is great. It's a place of opportunity where, if you want to do something, you can just do it. It's not like that in Vietnam."

Mahoney's award-winning documentary 7,500 Miles to Redemption is a collaboration between him and inmates at Oregon State Penitentiary to build a school in Vietnam.

The inmates were inspired to have an opportunity to make a difference in anoth-er part of the world while be-hind bars, one of them said in the documentary.

Mahoney teaches Viet-namese children English us-ing American songs. He is the founder of the Village School Foundation, a nonprofit orga-nization that builds schools

and gives scholarships and private health care to needy children and their families in Vietnam.

"No matter where you are or what the situation, there will be problems," Mahoney said. "But you've always got a choice how you want to look at it, and that’s what I teach the kids.”

He said that more than 70 percent of the population in Vietnam was born after the war, and that it's time to move on.

“It's not about war any-more,“ Mahoney said. “It’s about ordinary people.”

Lane international admis-sions adviser Colby Sheldon, who attended the event, said that while in Southest Asia in 2012, she was surprised to dis-cover 27 is the median age in Vietnam.

“It’s still part of the culture in Vietnam to have a lot of fear and have a lot of shame,” Mahoney said. “But it’s slow-

ly changing, and I like to be a part of that. There’s a whole new generation now.”

Even though there’s a new generation in Vietnam there are a lot of customs that people have to follow, Mahoney said.

“It can be confusing at times because I’m not a true Vietnamese,” Mahoney said. "I left when I was younger. So I am American-Vietnamese, which is not the same.”

Lane students Malisa Rat-thasing, from Laos, and Hanh Nguyen, from Vietnam, said they came to see Mahoney to learn more about their South-east Asian heritage.

“I grew up in America, so this is home. We are a melting pot of many cultures, so it’s very different here,” Ratthas-ing said.

Both students agree that the diversity they see in America means there’s a re-duced focus on family heri-

tage and tradition. Nguyen, who has been in America for almost three years, plans to return to Vietnam at the end of her schooling.

“We are more family-based in Vietnam. There’s genera-tion after generation of Viet-namese, so we pay a lot more attention to tradition,” Nguy-en said. "Here, it’s not that people don’t care about tradi-tion. It’s just so diverse with so many cultures, it makes it different.”

Mahoney has traveled and lived in many parts of America, and he said the diversity is very noticeable. No matter where people are or what their differences may be, life is about getting along with each other.

“We pay a lot of atten-tion to things that are not im-portant. Life is about mak-ing choices,” Mahoney said. “Laugh and have fun and en-joy one another.”

vietnamese storyteller promotes peaceTinh Mahoney plays guitar, sings songs and tells stories for Lane students April 18 in the Longhouse.

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Surrounded by killing in childhood, Mahoney teaches lessons about positivity