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Lane Peace Symposium keynote speaker and best-selling author John Perkins said he risked his life when he wrote about the powerful people and organizations that "control the planet's natural re-sources."

Perkins speaks to groups all over the world about how cor-porations and governments manipulate the markets and people. His central objective, however, is to bring people to-gether in peace.

Perkins told the crowd of approximately 200 people gathered in the Longhouse that we live in an economy based on killing that's a to-tal failure. It's time to shape-shift from a death economy in-to a life economy with whole new systems that honor life, he said.

"We are in the midst of the greatest revolution in the his-tory of the world," Perkins said passionately. "You were born into this revolution because you have a role to play."

His speech was met with a standing ovation.

It took Perkins more than 20 years to finish writing his highly controversial best-sell-ing book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Disturb-ing world events and tens of thousands of people dying ev-ery day from starvation com-pelled him to keep writing, while death threats and bribes stopped him.

His inner conflict ended when in 2004 the book was fi-nally published.

In the book, Perkins de-scribes economic hitmen as “highly paid professionals” who use “fraudulent financial reports, rigged elections, pay-offs, extortion, sex and mur-der” to cheat countries around the globe out of trillions of dol-lars. He claims that “They fun-nel money from the World Bank, the U.S. Agency for In-ternational Development (US-AID), and other foreign ‘aid’ organizations into the coffers

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The Lane Board of Edu-cation fielded two plans this week to balance the budget

against a projected $12.6 mil-lion shortfall and an estimated 12 percent drop in enrollment as other cuts loom on the hori-zon.

Each of those plans calls for

drastic measures: shuttering the Cottage Grove campus, re-ducing the subsidies offered to Lane students who pay for on-site childcare, increasing per-credit tuition by $3, and/or passing on the card-swipe fees assessed at the Titan Store and cafeteria to customers.

Citizens, faculty members and student leaders offered hours of testimony as specta-tors strained to listen from the foyer during the April 28 spe-cial session.

After the testimony and the proposals, the board voted 6-1

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Author: 'Revolution in progress'

Lane President Mary Spilde speaks during the Board of Education’s April 28 special session. The college is considering measures to balance next year’s budget against a $12 million deficit.

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People are waking up to the injustices and corruption throughout the world, said speakers at last week’s Peace Symposium, addressing is-sues that ranged from cruel-ty and homelessness to social justice.

Two main themes recurred throughout the symposium. The first is awakening to in-justice, especially in the Unit-ed States. The second: peace and justice are not only possi-ble, but a right of all sentient beings.

“There is a very noticeable rising of national and interna-tional movements in response to this moment in history that we live in where there is a

growing social and econom-ic and ecological crisis," said Kaitlin Sopoci-Belknap, na-tional director of Move to Amend.

The 2014 Lane Peace Sym-posium attracted approxi-mately 400 people on its first day.

In an address by Mary Spilde, she said Lane discov-ered what it cares about when it decided to create the Peace Center. This served to empha-size Lane’s commitment to being a local driver of change.

Among the more popular topics was Yellowstone’s buf-falo.

The remaining 3,400 buf-falo that live in Yellowstone National Park are in dan-ger, according to Good Shield

Attendence reaches 400during first day

Board directs Spilde, administration to deliver more information on budget cuts

Jarrid Denney Sports Editor

For at least another week, Lane stands atop the most competitive region in the con-ference.

The Titans took two of three games from the Southwestern Oregon Community College Lakers over the weekend to in-crease their record to 12-6.

They hold a narrow half game lead over the Clark Com-munity College Penguins (13-7) while the Lakers sit in sec-ond place at 12-7.

The Titans, Penguins and Lakers are the only teams in the region with winning records and will battle for the two avail-able playoff spots over the last half of regional play.

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Sophomore catcher Colby Rice was called safe at third base after an overthrown ball in a 2-1 win over the Clackamas Community College Cougars on April 29.

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This week, both the administra-tion and the college Budget and Finance Subcommittee revealed separate propos-als to address the $12 million deficit. The committee’s proposal, which would close the Cottage Grove campus to save Lane approximately $440,544, is alarming. It's the equivalent of using a cleaver instead of a scalpel.

The subcommittee is unlikely to have such a relatively faraway campus’ best interests in mind. More importantly, the idea goes against Lane’s ideals.

Student leaders have little at stake in the proposal, as they do not receive activity fee revenue from students who only attend the Cottage Grove branch. As such, they are not technically mem-bers of the Associated Students of Lane Community College.

Faculty union President Jim Salt said that he hopes many of the part-time instructors at Cottage Grove could be reassigned to the main campus or other postings, but this does little to alleviate the additional burden that would fall upon the students who count on those services.

Who’s going to stand up for Cottage Grove students?

Of the city’s residents, 19.2 percent live below the poverty line, according to the U.S. Census Bureau — higher than the state and national average.

Attending Lane’s main campus would add an additional $50.30-per-term charge to Cottage Grove students’ bills through the student activity fee, which provides services that are much less accessible for commuting students because of time constraints.

The campus represents opportuni-ties, which include a GED program and remote classes, for students in Cottage Grove and adjacent communities. Requir-ing a commute to Lane’s campus would burden students in southern Lane County.

This could be the difference between feasibility and impracticality for students who are disadvantaged by distance, income or both.

Lane President Mary Spilde said the administration considered closing the Cottage Grove campus early in the bud-geting process, but rejected the measure. We believe the administration was cor-rect in that decision.

Early estimates conclude that Cot-tage Grove needs funding equivalent to a $1.50 tuition increase, if estimates of next year’s enrollment decline are accurate.

As such, The Torch also supports mea-sures to keep the Cottage Grove campus open, whether through a tuition increase, budget cut, staff reallocation or combina-tion of methods.

Any tuition increase which student

government backs should include the preservation of the Cottage Grove cam-pus.

A minor budget adjustment can sustain one of Lane’s small but vital programs that reaches disadvantaged students who are paramount to the col-lege’s mission and better prepare the college for the future.

Lane champions serving the under-served, helping the disadvantaged and educating as many people as possible, even if they don’t provide the greatest return-on-investment to the college.

The Board should maintain their ide-als, even when state funding is distant and those in need are far away.

Recent items in The Torch presented an inaccurate view of the tentative classroom safety agreement between the Lane Community College Education Association and the administration.

The LCCEA openly brought the issue to the table because a pre-bargaining survey identi-fied classroom safety as the number one non-economic concern of faculty.

Although most faculty don't have to contend with egregious or threatening student behav-ior, such problems do occur, and they can be devastating to learning conditions and the well-being of faculty and students. In too many cases in recent years the current

response from the administra-tion proved to be inadequate, and not because faculty lack an understanding of how behav-ior problems are handled. The agreement addresses these issues and meets the concerns of both parties while balancing the rights of students.

Contrary to some opinions, the agreement does not allow faculty to permanently remove a student from class indiscrim-inately. Faculty members, by college policy, currently have the right to remove a disrup-tive or inappropriate student for only one day, but under the new agreement, they may, in extreme cases, request that the Academic and Student Affairs office permanently remove

the student. The ASA will cite the student in a timely man-ner, prohibiting the individual from returning to the class-room until the administration completes an investigation.

If the administration and the faculty member disagree on whether the student may return to class, the Classroom Conduct Review Committee, comprised equally of students appointed by the ASLCC, ad-ministrators and faculty, shall make a determination.

The student retains the right to appeal the commit-tee’s decision as defined in the student conduct code.

The agreement developed by the LCCEA and the admin-istration protects the learning

environments of students, faculty and staff by establish-ing a responsive system of due process that includes account-ability for all parties involved.

Provided the administra-tion responds quickly and effectively to classroom safety problems, students who ad-here to the student conduct code are better protected under the new agreement.

LCCEA Action Team Lee Imonen, chairmanJane BenjaminJay FrasierMarisa HastieChristina HowardPolina KroikJim O’BrienTamara PinkasMichael Skupsky Ken Zimmerman

Faculty seeks to clarify safety clause

Board should spare Cottage Grove campus

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CORRECTION: In the April 17 edition of the torch we inaccurately stated that the faculty safety proposal had been leaked. the torch regrets this error.

CLARIFICATION: In the April 24 edition of the torch we wrote in the story “Elections gets new look, website” that students might have to register for a

different, more private network, while in our editorial we stated that voters in fact did not have to register. To clarify, voters do not have to register; they must

only enter their L-numbers and passwords. the torch apologizes for the confusion.

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of huge corporations and the pockets of a few wealthy fam-ilies who control the planet's natural resources.”

It’s “a game as old as em-pire, but one that has taken on new and terrifying dimensions during this time of globaliza-tion,” Perkins writes. “I should know; I was an EHM."

Perkins is not without his critics. Sebastian Mallaby of The Washington Post wrote "this man is a frothing conspiracy theorist, a vainglorious peddler of nonsense, and yet his book, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, is a runaway bestseller."

The indigenous tribes of South America taught Perkins what's possible for humanity. He lived with them for three years in the 1960s, and has reg-ularly spent time with them ever since. Indigenous people are community-minded, Per-kins said. They see that if one person is suffering, then the whole tribe is suffering.

People aren't inherently self-ish; predatory capitalism has infected the consciousness of people, but that is changing, he said.

"In 2005, right after the book came out, I would hear stu-dents say that all they want-ed was money and power. I don't hear that anymore," Per-kins said. "They want to have children, and they want to use their degrees to make a better world for their kids."

Symposium attendee Paul Spindel, from Portland, said he was raised to believe that success was about bigger and more.

"Now I do what I love. I'm making much less money, but I'm happier," Spindel said.

People are becoming much more aware, Perkins said.

"They are waking up to the fact that we're being screwed," Perkins said. "There's a real awakening happening, espe-

cially among young people."Perkins sees the corporate

oligarchy as a dark tidal wave. He said it's a much larger feu-dalism than we had during the Middle Ages.

"There are very few lords in the castles now, and they are calling the shots all over the world," Perkins said. "On the other side, there's this wave of light coming in. We've got these two waves coming to-gether and some of the people in the dark wave would easily go into the light wave if they thought they could still keep their jobs and their reputations and whatever else it is that drives them."

Perkins sees the U.S. as the linchpin in the global situa-tion. He said Americans have the power to usher in a new economy.

"Less than 5 percent of the world's population lives in the United States and consumes 30 percent of the world's re-sources, while half the world is starving or on the verge of starvation," Perkins said.

Consumers who want cheap gasoline and who look the other way if that means de-stroying a rainforest are par-ticipating in the "death econ-omy," Perkins said. The same holds true for consumers who want inexpensive clothes, but look the other way if that means slaves in Indonesian sweatshops have to make

them.Perkins said we need to cre-

ate a "life economy" founded in services and practices that help people. He maintains that capitalism isn't inherently bad. It's the distorted version we've become accustomed to that has given capitalism a bad name.

We can have a full-employ-ment prosperous economy fo-cused on creating life, getting rid of pollution, helping starv-ing people feed themselves and creating new technologies, he said. There is tremendous opportunity at this time for growth and for a better world.

"We've got amazing tech-nology today," Perkins said. "We're able to fly to the moon, we've cured a lot of terri-ble diseases, we've got amaz-ing music and art, and for the first time in history, we've got the technology to communi-cate with each other across the planet instantaneously."

Perkins said our means of economic development are de-stroying us. He urged the au-dience to stop buying from corporations that employ un-fair practices and enslave peo-ple. He added that writing to them stating why is an impor-tant part of the strategy.

Perkins said it's very impor-tant to recognize that corpo-rations are made up of people who are often confused about what's happening and that, to a large degree, they take their directions from the people.

"It's up to we the people," Perkins said.

During an interview at the symposium, Perkins offered to become a member of the fac-ulty at Lane Community Col-lege.

"Being around young peo-ple is important," Perkins said. "I'd love to teach here for a se-mester. If there are time con-straints, then perhaps a week-long class might work."

Aguilar, a speaker at the Peace Symposium. When the buf-falo wander out of the park, they are subjected to massive hazing and firepower, Aguilar said.

The reason? They are eating grass.

Aguilar showed video foot-age of buffalo being hazed and killed. According to Aguilar, the reason cited by authorities for the attacks is because the buffalo transmit a livestock dis-ease called brucellosis.

"This isn't something that has ever happened," Aguilar said. "The real reason is that the buffalo eat grass meant for cows."

The Buffalo Field Campaign 2013-2014 newsletter cites,

"The Montana Department of Livestock, Montana Fish, Wild-life & Parks; National Park Service; U.S. Forest Service; and USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service” as being responsible for hazing hundreds of buffalo this spring using horses, ATVs and a heli-copter.

In a statement from the Peace Symposium, committee attendees were invited “to en-gage in honest conversations about oppression, power, cul-tural paradigms, diversity and privilege." The reason for such honesty, the committee states, is "these conversations are necessary components of building and expanding cul-tural competency and foster-ing peace."

Lane's Peace Center has been hosting Peace Sympo-siums since 2007.

"It's been a wonderful event," Stan Taylor, chair of Lane Peace Center and Facul-ty Instructor said. "The ASLCC and the Council of Clubs made the event possible."

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to suspend laundry service in the 2014-15 school year, a measure that will save the col-lege $257,300, just 2 percent of the shortfall. The college pro-vides laundry service for sev-eral departments, including athletics and culinary arts, as well as outside institutions.

The board may adopt one of the two proposals, one from ad-ministration and another from the college Budget and Finance Subcommittee, in June.

A $3 per-credit tuition hike would net Lane almost $1 mil-lion in additional revenue, but student government Vice Pres-ident Rebekah Ellis said the ef-fect this could have on enroll-ment would be devastating.

“I just wanted to make sure that everyone is aware of ... the choices that I make on a day-to-day basis over my person-al health versus my education, what I can afford and what I can't afford — any increase in tuition is just basically ask-ing me for money that I don't have,” Ellis said at the meeting.

With their proposal, ad-ministrators sought to close the $12 million gap without increasing tuition.

The Budget and Finance Subcommittee crafted its com-promise proposal around a $3 tuition increase and the clo-sure of the Cottage Grove campus, which would save Lane an estimated $440,544.

The administration consid-ered closing the Cottage Grove campus, but initially passed on the idea, Lane President Mary Spilde said after the meeting.

“I don’t know what criteria the Finance and Budget Sub-committee used to put Cottage Grove on the list. We’ll take their proposal under advise-ment,” Spilde said. “We’ll need to carefully look at the option.”

In an April 26 email to fac-ulty members, faculty union President Jim Salt suggested a “mere $5 tuition rate hike” would prevent the college from cutting $1.6 million from programs.

According to each of the proposals, the college would

save as much as $4.6 million — more than one-third of the shortfall — by leaving facul-ty vacancies unfilled and re-assigning instructors, but the compromise provides a more conservative estimate of $3.7 million.

Each plan also calls for the elimination and reassignment of part-time faculty, to save Lane approximately $2.8 million.

Salt and student govern-ment President Paul Zito sit on the committee, tasked with consolidating propos-als from several different fac-tions at Lane.

The student government sought to balance the budget without increasing tuition, but Zito said he entered negotia-tions willing to consider the $3 bump as a bargaining chip.

At the April 30 student government meeting, the sen-ate voted to cap any tuition increase at $1.88 per credit.

“We agreed to the increase in bargaining and stand by it. The compromise is already in place,” Salt said. “How it will look still needs to be worked out, but it’s another sacrifice.”

Both plans would increase the revenue the privately owned Titan Store must con-tribute to the college’s budget, from $300,000 to $500,000. The two plans would also increase the enrollment cap on classes, which might net the college an additional $1.5 million.

Zito and student govern-ment Treasurer Zach Wais said that’s the smartest mea-sure in either proposal.

Each plan would require the college to delay the pur-chase of instructional tech-nology and capital improve-ments to save an additional $1 million; withhold the trans-fer of $500,000 in financial aid funds to match federal contri-butions; and return $500,000 or more from the internation-al program’s net income to the general fund.

(A&C Editor Penny Scott and Production Manager Byron Hughey contributed to this re-port.)

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Shield Aguilar

Lane student government President Paul Zito addresses the Board of Education at the April 28 special session.

EUGENE JOHNSON / THE TORCH

“We are in the midst of the greatest revolution

in the history of the world. You were born into this revolution because you have a

role to play.”

John Perkins

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Back-to-back championships Jarrid Denney Sports Editor

It wasn’t the way he had hoped to win it, but on April 29, Dylan Hamming con-quered the NWAACC decath-lon championship for the sec-ond consecutive year.

Hamming scored 6,788 points, easily besting Seth Buck of Clackamas Communi-ty College, who finished sec-ond with 6,523. Hamming’s ef-fort was enough to earn him fourth place on Lane’s all-time record board.

However, if things had gone as he had planned, Hamming would have been compet-ing for first place with Colton Thurman, his friend and fel-low Titan. Thurman was forced to withdraw from the competition after suffering a hamstring injury last week.

“All year we were hang-ing out all the time, just wait-ing for this day,” Hamming said. “And then Thursday he goes and tweaks his hammy. That was a huge letdown, but I knew that I had to just do my best.”

Thurman, who owned the top decathlon score in the NWAACC prior to the meet, would have been considered a slight favorite over Hamming had he competed.

“It’s extremely disappoint-ing, considering last year I was unable to compete too,” Thur-man said. “But this year I’ll be ready for (the NWAACC championships), and last year I wasn’t.”

Hamming trailed Brandon Brockelsby of Olympic Col-lege by just a single point after the first day’s events. He took

command of the meet by beat-ing both Brockelsby and Buck in the first four events of Day 2.

By the competition’s last event, the 1,500-meter race, Hamming had separated him-self from his competitors and held a 211-point lead over Buck. He ran a 4:47.69 and placed second in the 1,500, as-suring his victory and his place in school history.

“At the end of Day 1, be-ing ahead of Seth, who I knew going in would be my stron-gest competition, and know-

ing what events I had left for Day 2, I knew I was in a good spot,” he said.

Titans freshman Trey Lar-son finished fourth in the de-cathlon in only his second time competing in the event.

Larson said he had never considered competing in the decathlon in high school and only did so once he started practicing with Lane in the fall.

“It’s actually not terrible,” Larson said. “Everybody al-ways talks about how bad it is, but coming into it, the worst thing is the 1,500 and that’s all

mental.” Hamming now sits in ex-

clusive company. He is just the third Titan to ever win back-to-back decathlons.

“He is obviously very ath-letic, but it’s his mental tough-ness that’s most impressive … It’s almost like he can will things to happen and that’s why he (sets a PR) in almost ev-ery contest,” Lane head coach Grady O’Connor said. “Last year, he came out of nowhere to beat Seth Buck, and this year, he just took control and didn’t give anybody a chance.”

Dylan Hamming defends his title in the NWAACC decathlon

Lane sophomore Dylan Hamming claimed his second consecutive NWAACC Decathlon Championship on April 29 at Lane Community College.EUGENE JOHNSON / THE TORCH

MEN’S DECAThLON

Points 100 LJ SP HJ 400 Day 1 Score

110H DT PV JT 1500

1 Dylan Hamming Lane CC

6788 11.08 20’10.75” 40’08.75” 5’08.75” 49.97 3543 16.09 113'07” 13’11” 177’03” 4:47.69

2 Seth Buck Clackamas CC

6523 11.65 20'10.5” 41’08” 6’02.75” 51.22 3509 16.23 110’05” 12’11” 164’05” 4:56.71

3 Jayson Brocklesby Olympic College

6294 11.23 20’05.25” 34’00.25” 6’4” 49.26 3544 17.14 105’06” 10’07.5” 143’11” 4:34.12

4 Tre Larson Lane CC

5823 11.52 19’08.25” 34’05.5” 5’07.75” 52.81 3101 16.59 94’01” 10’11.5” 177’01” 5:05.87

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Jarrid Denney Sports Editor

This year’s heptathlon was a bittersweet event for Kara Hallock.

The Titans sophomore scored 4,785 points, exceeding her personal best in the event by over 100 points. Her per-formance also launched her into Lane’s record books.

Hallock's score shattered the school heptathlon record, which had stood since 2004, when MacKenzie Winkle scored 4,698 points.

However, her record-set-ting performance was only good enough to earn her sec-ond place for the day.

Hallock finished second to Clackamas sophomore Eliza-beth Venzon, who scored 4,905 points to earn her second con-secutive heptathlon title.

“I think Liz would not be where she’s at if not for Kara and vise versa,” head coach Grady O’Connor said. “Just

having a rival there, where they know if they stum-ble the other one is going to take advantage, is huge. Nei-ther one of them really blink-ed or stumbled, and they both came out as champions in my book.”

Hallock, who also finished second last year, led Venzon at the end of day one, but lost ground in the javelin throw where she scored just 371 points compared to Venzon’s 639.

“I definitely knew that was going to be the point where she caught up, so I just tried to do everything I could in the other events,” Hallock said. “I give her a lot of credit. She worked hard. She’s a good competitor.”

Although she was hoping for a first-place finish, Hal-lock, who has already signed a letter of intent to compete at Oregon State University next year, has reason to be opti-mistic about the upcoming

NWAACC championships.“It was a good experience.

I can build off of this,” Hal-lock said. “(Finishing second) is pretty hard, but I still have more work to do.”

She is currently ranked sec-ond in the conference in the 100-meter hurdles and long jump, and is tied for third in the high jump, while also

ranking fifth in the 400-meter intermediate hurdles.

Lane freshman Mackenzie Folkerts finished sixth in the heptathlon with 3,849 points in her second time competing in the event.

“It was good,” Folkerts said. “I didn’t do so hot in long jump and javelin, so I have a lot of room for improvement, and I’ll

definitely be a strong contender for next year.”

The Titans will count on Folkerts in both the high jump and triple jump when it comes time for this year’s championships. She set a per-sonal best of 5'5" in the high jump during the heptathlon, which ties her for third in the conference with Hallock.

Record and heartbreakDylan Hamming defends his title in the NWAACC decathlon

Lane sophomore Kara Hallock broke the Lane heptathlon record with a score 4,785 at the April 29 NWAACC Heptathlon Champion-ship held at Lane Community College. Hallock finished second to Elizabeth Venzon of Clackamas Community College.

Titans freshman McKenzie Folkerts finishes the 1,500-meter run while Lane sophomore Kara Hallock looks on at the NWAACC Heptathlon Championship at Lane Community College on April 29.

EUGENE JOHNSON / THE TORCHEUGENE JOHNSON / THE TORCH

Kara Hallock finishes second in heptathlon championship despite breaking school record

WOMEN’S hEPTAThLON

Points 100H HJ SP 200 Day 1 Score

LJ JT 800

1 Elizabeth VenzonClackamas CC

4905 15.86 5’07.25” 32’06.5” 26.23 2866 17’09” 126’05” 2:27.38

2 Kara HallockLane CC

4785 14.74 5’05” 32’00” 26.54 2935 18’09.25” 80’00” 2:28.35

3 Kendra HammSpokane CC

4259 16.13 5’01.25” 27’01.25” 26.01 2599 17.01.5” 84’05” 2:34.00

6 Mackenzie FolkertsLane CC

3849 16.50 5’05” 27’01.25” 27.83 2509 15’06” 58’02” 2:36.94

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Former prep star leaps into Lane record booksJackson Dietel Reporter

A blue Lane Community College track jump suit cov-ers Lane freshman high jumper Dakarai Hightower’s 6’4” slen-der frame. With jet black curly hair, and a little bit of stubble on his chin, Hightower has the looks of a typical young man. But he is anything but typical when he’s in the high jump pit. As soon as Hightower takes a couple of deep breaths, he’s off running towards history.

In the past two weeks, he has broken and re-broken the Lane high jump record. He first did so at Hayward Field on April 18, when he cleared 7'0.25" and then topped his own record at the April 24 Ti-tan twilight with a leap of 7'1.5." Kelly Graham’s record

leap of 7'00.5 had stood since 1976, but Hightower toppled it in just his second meet.

“Dakarai is a phenome-nal talent. He has huge expec-tations every time he steps on the track. We’re really trying to work on his mental focus,” head coach Grady O’Connor said.

Hightower was born and raised in Tacoma, Wash. It was there that he discov-ered his love of sports — one in particular.

“I played basketball and football growing up for fun, but I’ve always been a one- sport athlete,” Hightower said. “I figured if I was going to do one sport I might as well try and be the best.”

Hightower’s drive to be the best began at the mid-dle school level. There, he

first watched his older broth-er Martese Hightower, who was competing on the track and field team at Bellarmine Preparatory School.

“When I was in middle school, I originally wanted to play baseball,” Hightow-er said. “When I watched Mar-tese run, it made me want to try track.”

Hightower’s first introduc-tion to high jump came at an unexpected time: during his freshman year of high school at Curtis Senior.

“I was just hanging out on the infield before one of Mar-tese’s track meets, waiting for him to come out, when all of a sudden one of my friends dared me to go jump six feet,” he said.

It was a moment that would change the way Hightower

looked at sports.“I wasn’t even in track

apparell. I had on basket-ball shorts, and Air Jordans, and then I just cleared six feet like ait was nothing,” Hightower said.

From that moment on, Hightower began to take track and field seriously. He was new to the sport, but be-gan to show steady improve-ment. During his junior season, he jumped 6’4 and finished 10th at state.

In his first event of his se-nior year at Clover Park, Wash. ,Hightower made a jump that would become a turning point in his career.

“They almost cancelled the high jump. The weather was awful,” Hightower said. “It was cold and the high jump pit was flooded.”

Despite the tough condi-tions, Hightower persevered and jumped 6’10”, easily high enough to give him the victory.

“Clover was really where I realized I could jump at the next level. To jump 6’10 in those conditions really gave me a ton of confidence moving forward,” Hightower said.

Hightower improved throughout the remainder of the season, winning all of his events with the exception of the BorderDuel Track Clas-sic, an end of the year meet be-tween Oregon and Washing-ton's top athletes.

However, it was in the summer after his senior year, that his jumping ability real-ly soared. Hightower set the highest mark in the nation for a high school jumper and won the Junior Olympic Nation-

Dakarai Hightower breaks Lane’s high jump record twice in two weeks

Lane freshman Dakarai Hightower broke the school record in the high jump, set by Kelly Graham in 1976, by jumping 7'0.25" at the Oregon Relays on April 17. He went on to break his own record by jumping 7'1.5" on zApril 24 during the Titan Twilight.

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Former prep star leaps into Lane record booksals, in Baltimore Md. with a leap of 7'3".

Hightower doesn’t remem-ber much about the jump itself, but he’ll never forget the at-mosphere inside Morgan State University’s Hughes Stadium.

“Baltimore was actually my second attempt at 7'3", and the entire stadium was clapping,” Hightower said. “The stadi-um was in an uproar. They ac-tually had to hold off the 200- meters until I was finished. That’s definitely a moment I’ll never forget.”

After the Junior Olympics, Hightower made the decision to take a year off from school in 2013 to give himself a break.

“I did an indoor season with the University of Washington unattached,” Hightower said. “I also did a couple of meets at Hayward Field and some local

meets around Tacoma.”The year off allowed High-

tower the time to see what be-ing a collegiate high jumper was like. Specifically, he was able to compare the ability of jumping indoors versus jump-ing outdoors.

“It really depends on where you go,” Hightower said. “The East Coast is a lot different than jumping at (University of Washington). At UW, it really caters to guys who are power jumpers. I like to use my speed more, but it was a great expe-rience to compare the differ-ences between the two in that year off.”

After the year off, High-tower still had to decide where to compete with his collegiate eligibility. A recommendation from his good friend Jemiel Lowery, who was a sprinter at

Lane for two years, first turned Hightower in the Titans’ direc-tion. After several team work-outs, Hightower felt like his decision had been made.

“I really liked the team envi-ronment and the overall coach-ing staff,” Hightower said. “It almost felt like I was back home. I felt welcome here.”

Dakarai Hightower is a man with an easy smile and ap-proachable personality. Wheth-er he pursues high jump pro-fessionally or not, his future looks bright, but the humble man isn’t about to get ahead of himself.

“I’ve put all my eggs in this basket,” Hightower said. “I haven’t thought about my future much. I want to go to a Division I school lat-er on. But right now I’m just focusing on the present.”

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Lane freshman Dakarai Hightower reacts afer his third failed attempt at passing a jump of 7'1" during the March 22 Oregon preview at Hayward Field

Head coach Grady O’Connor offers tips to freshmen Dakarai Hight-ower and Kaelen Byrum along with sophomore Cody Cowdin.

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The disarray relay Jarrid Denney Sports Editor

The April 24 Titan Twilight featured everything you could ask for in a track meet.

At Lane’s annual meet, fans witnessed numerous person-al bests broken, a school record for the second time in less than a week, and a chaotic 4x400-me-ter relay that featured five differ-ent Titan crews competing for bragging rights.

With four Titans’ men's teams entered in the long re-lay, and just one women's team, Lane head coach Grady O’Connor decided to com-bine the two relays, as they were the last two events of the meet.

The decision led to plen-ty of excitement and friend-ly trash talk between the Titans athletes.

“Oh yeah, we were def-initely talking,” freshman Weston Petewon said. “I told Neal (Larson) that I was going to crush him when we ran our leg. Man, he pulled away, but it was all good.”

Coaches were on hand to record splits, but there were

no official times taken from the relay.

Several minutes before the relay began, four athletes from the UO Running Club walked over to the starting line and said they wanted to compete as well.

They were allowed to run, but did not have a ba-ton. Instead, they used a water bottle.

“The climate was right for it, so we didn’t have a prob-lem with it,” O’Connor said. “It was fun.”

Although the evening end-ed on a lighthearted note, the Titans were all business on the track prior to the closing relay.

Freshman Dakarai High-tower broke his own school high jump record with a leap of 7'1.5", just six days after he shattered Kelly Graham’s school record, set in 1976.

In the horizontal jumps, Lane sophomore Alex Sat-tley won the triple jump with a final mark of 45'00.5" and placed third in the long jump. Sattley is currently ranked second in the NWAACC for the triple jump.

Sophomore Jalen Timms

turned out solid performances in both the 100- and 200-meter dashes. She now ranks in the top four in the conference in three different sprint events, as well as first in the 400-me-ter intermediate hurdles.

Sophomores Leah Wilson and Madison Seaman finished first and second in the ham-mer toss, respectively, and both set season personal bests. Seaman also won the shot put and discus, with Wilson plac-

ing second in the shot. Lane’s pole vaulters

placed two athletes in the top three on the men’s side and swept the podium in the women’s event.

Despite finishing first in the men’s vault, Lane sophomore Zach Olivera said he wasn’t happy with his performance.

“I was hoping to at least come out here and get 16'6". I’ve been jumping 17 feet in practice,” Olivera said. “Men-

tally, I just need to figure it out when I get on the runway in meets, because obviously in warmups and practice, I have the right mindset.”

The Titans will return to ac-tion when athletes who meet qualifying marks will travel to Corvallis for the OSU High Performance Meet. Non-qual-ifying athletes will travel to Forest Grove for the Pacific Twilight, a two-day meet from May 2 to May 3.

Spontaneous final race tops off successful mid-week meet for the Titans

Lane sophomore Alex Sattley placed first in the triple jump with a leap of 45'00.5" during the April 24 Titan Twilight meet.

Lane freshman Coleman Byrum hands the baton off to freshman Justin Angove during the 4x400 meter relay at the Titan Twilight on April 24.

Sophomore Sean Mcgetrick finished first in the 110-meter hurdles at the Titan Twilight on April 24. Mcgetrick ran a time of 14.82 seconds.

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“I think it’s going to come down to pitching depth, and literally, I think the region will be decided by one play,” Lane head coach Josh Blunt said.

Lane fell to the Lakers in a 3-2 nail-biting loss on April 25 at Coos Bay, and then played a sec-ond game that was suspended in the middle of the 12th inning due to darkness. The game will be resumed and completed on a later date that is yet to be an-nounced.

Sophomore Jared Priest-ly gave a solid performance on the mound for the Titans in the first game. He tossed six innings and, despite not striking out a batter, kept the Titans in conten-tion by surrendering only three runs.

Freshman Travis Kelly threw two scoreless innings after re-lieving Priestly and struck out two Lakers.

The next day in Eugene, sophomore Jeff Hardy shut down the Lakers with an eight-strikeout performance.

Hardy put in seven innings of work and surrendered just one run in a 2-1 Titan victory.

“That was huge,” freshman catcher Kyle Beam said. “He definitely set the stage for Game 2 as well. He just threw lights out, a lot of strikes. We couldn’t have asked for a better perfor-

mance.” The Lakers jumped to a quick

start in Game 2, scoring two runs in the first inning.

However, the Titans bounced back with three runs of their own in the bottom of the first, due in part to the struggles of Lakers starting pitcher Mitchell Daughtery.

Daugherty walked two bat-ters and allowed two hits and two runs in one inning be-fore Laker coach John Coo-per decided he had seen enough and pulled Daughtery from the game.

Lane tacked on anoth-er run in the second, but then struggled through an ugly third inning.

Freshman Jackson Bertsche was pulled midway through the third after allowing four runs in the inning, and it appeared the Lakers had taken control of the game.

However, Beam leveled the score with a two-run hom-er over the left field scoreboard in the bottom half of the third. Beam, who is now hitting .263, has two homers in his last four games after struggling at the plate early in the season.

“I’m just starting to see the ball better,” Beam said. “I have guys in the lineup who are pro-tecting me, and it’s easier to hit

with them on base.”The next inning, Lak-

er left fielder Cedric Zumwalt launched a deep fly to right field and broke into a home run trot, thinking the hit would clear the fence. But the ball bounced off the top of the rightfield wall and Zumwalt was thrown out at second, ending the inning and deflating a Lakers rally.

Lane took control of the game for good in the fourth in-ning, when sophomore Darin Nelson drove home two Titans,

giving Lane an 8-6 lead that it would not surrender.

The Titans scored a run in all seven innings on their way to a 13-6 drubbing of the Lakers to complete a sweep of the double-header.

This week, the Titans will start the second half of their re-gional schedule with a home doubleheader with the Mount Hood Saints (8-9) on May 2, and the following day they will travel to Salem to take on the Chemeketa Storm (6-11).

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Sophomore third baseman Eric Long smashes a triple in a 13-6 win over the Clackamas Community College Cougars on April 26.

Sophomore first baseman Jarren Goddard avoids a tag from Clackamas shortstop Alejandro Barajas in a 13-6 win over the Cougars on April 26.

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RBIs by Lane first baseman Jarren Goddard; 10th in the NWAACC

Times that Lane outfielder Spencer Smith has been hit by a pitch this season; most in the NWAACC

Run allowed by Titan relief pitchers Travis Boggs, Shane Quarterly and Travis Kelly

Innings that Boggs, Quarterly and Kelly pitched this season

Strikeouts by Titan pitcher Jeff Hardy; the fourth most in the NWAACC

Sacrifice hits by Lane this season, third most in the NWAACC

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In an effort to raise money for Lane music program schol-arships, Lane instructor Barba-ra Myrick has brought Piano Mania back to the stage.

Everything from classical to jazz to contemporary mu-sic will be played on grand pi-anos by solo instructors and ensembles alike. They will be performing in Ragozzino Hall in order to raise funds for stu-dents in Lane’s music depart-ment on May 6. These ensem-bles will range from duets to quintets.

The show is expected to start with a bang with all five of Lane’s grand pianos on stage playing at once. The show will then play through a series of solos. After intermis-sion pianos will return to the stage, culminating in a fina-le when all five pianos will be played simultaneously once again.

“The money we make from all of our concerts, faculty and student, goes into an individ-ual scholarship program,” Myrick said. “We require our majors to take private lessons here. This money helps those out that have a problem with that. The amount of money we get depends on the audience, so the more people that come, the better.”

Music classes on campus require the pianos on a dai-ly basis. Everytime the fac-ulty rehearses, they have to move the pianos from separate rooms into the centrally locat-ed bandroom on the first floor of Building 6, under Ragozzi-no Hall. After rehearsal pia-nos, must be put back so class-es can use them the following day.

“The three piano pieces and the five piano pieces we really have only started a few weeks ago. We put them together very fast because we can't get five pianos together very of-ten,” Myrick said.

Faculty members helped bring the performance togeth-

er. Rick Canter is one of them. He has donated his time, fre-quently tuning the pianos for the performance.

“That's huge. It's a lot of work. He's an unsung hero in our book because its awful if they're not in tune,” Myrick said.

Faculty in collaboration with James McConkey will set the stage so each piano will be facing the audience, display-ing the intricacies of the more complex pieces.

Myrick and the music de-partment established rules ear-ly to maximize the concert’s entertainment level.

“Pianists, especially ac-companists, get used to being in the background. They al-ways have to wear black and be unobtrusive,” Myrick said. We have rules for this concert. One is be prepared, the other is dress to the nines and the third is have fun. You’re going to see some things in this concert that you wouldn't normally see in a piano concert.”

Seth Mulvihill, a music the-ory and songwriting instruc-tor at Lane, also contribut-ed by rearranging "Ride of the Valkyries" for five pianos.

“We don't have as ma-ny opportunities to play to-gether as much as we would like, because we all have our own things we’re doing in the community,” Mulvihill said. “We’re all friends. We just don't get to play together.

éowyn Miller, a sophomore music major at Lane, will be attending Piano Mania. She is eager to see her teachers play. “The communication between them will be really cool to see,” she said. “They’re all re-ally amazing musicians.”

Miller anticipates being in-spired by faculty performing.

“I think it will really im-press students and really in-spire us to keep up the good work. It doesnt matter how gifted you are; it matters how hard you work and how much you love music,” Miller said. “That’s what keeps you go-ing.”

Modern 'maniacs' honor masters

Marimba band advocates for orphans at Cozmic

Instructors demonstrate professional piano skills

Eddie Leech Reporter

The warm, resonant and sometimes loud sounds of an 11-piece marimba band filled the air at Cozmic Tuesday April 22, and for a very good cause. The proceeds from its extensive touring contribute to the tuition and expenses neces-sary for sending orphaned African students to universities around the world.

In the audience were a group of Lane students from the Music in World Cultures class taught by Joshua Hum-phrey.

The Maru-a-Pula Marimba Band show was one of sev-eral “out-of-class listening experiences” recommended by Humphrey. Hearing and seeing music from different cultures in a “live” setting and chatting with the players after the show always generates a deeper, more emotional connection than simply hearing a CD or

viewing a YouTube clip. At a small venue like Cozmic, you can actually meet people from across the globe and gain a better sense of their lives. In this setting, music can definitely be a true learning experience.

The band consists of stu-dents from the Maru-a-Pula high school, located in Botswa-na, which currently has 20 or-phans among its 600 students. The school’s goal is to have 40 such students by 2016.

In Botswana, one in five children are orphaned either by war or AIDS, so this project has a significantly positive impact on the lives of many students. The school also funds the project from its tuition fees, as well as from a variety of contributors both local and international. Maru-a-Pula stu-dents have graduated from top universities such as Columbia, Princeton, Williams, Stan-ford, MIT and Oxford, where they’ve placed two Rhodes scholars.

If you’ve never been to a marimba band performance, I highly recommend put-ting it on your list of musical experiences not to be missed. The sound produced by these mostly wooden instruments is rich and mellow, covering a wide dynamic range. The vari-ous marimbas are of different sizes producing everything from high notes to bass notes, chords and single note melody lines, which combine to create the different parts of each song. Marimba bands are like a giant piano played by several people.

The student musicians were obviously having loads of fun during their high-spirited and enthusiastic performance. As this atmosphere spread throughout the sizable crowd at Cozmic, their highly rhyth-mic sound made it virtually impossible not to dance. And by the way, the Lane contingent certainly made its presence felt on the dancefloor! This was a fine night for all concerned.

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New club provides animeFilm group works closely with GSA

Courtney M. Springer Reporter

Speed Racer, Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball Z, Cowboy Bebop — all of these titles are Japanese animation. And if you already knew that, you might belong to the Anime & Manga Club. The group is new to Lane and brings people together once a week to vote, view and discuss various anime series.

“We tend to be very fun-lov-ing, and I accept everyone’s level of anime watching,” Bran-don Schmidt, the club’s pres-ident and founder, said. The group extends an invitation to the occasional viewer or rou-tine streamer. A group of ap-proximately 20 people attended last Friday’s meeting with visi-ble enthusiasm.

The club came togeth-er in January at the urging of Schmidt’s friends. He es-tablished the club and sched-uled its meetings for Fridays.The members use the first few meetings of each term to com-pile a list of titles for the group to watch. Once the master list is completed, members vote to decide which series will be watched each week.

Last week, members vot-ed and watched four episodes of Princess Jellyfish, a tale about a girl who is fascinated by jel-lyfish, which leads her to form new friendships. To write any more would break Schmidt’s strictest rule: no spoilers. Var-ious themes are chosen each week and are different through-out the term.

The club boasts multifac-eted members, many of them artists. During the Friday, April 25 viewing, a few people pulled out their art work while they watched, which includ-ed someone with a large sketch pad and another with a plastic

bag of colorful clays. On April 23, the club had a ta-

bling event where several mem-bers were in costume, includ-ing Morgana Tyndall, one of the club’s two vice presidents. Tyn-dall was dressed as a tan-and-white flying squirrel creature.

“It’s comfortable, but it gets warm,” Tyndall said.

On the table were two lap-tops playing anime, along with manga novels and art from sev-eral members. Monica Lopez, the group’s secretary, displayed a card game the club created.

“Artists from within the group illustrated the cards,” Lopez said.

Group members created the images and character informa-tion for the entire deck of cards.The group has also been ap-proached to design a poster for the Lane Spring Carnival and the Student Nurses’ Associa-tion.

Along with being art-cen-tric, the club also works close-ly with the Gender and Sexuali-ty Alliance due to the content of some anime. Several students belong to both the GSA and the Anime & Manga Club.

“In this animation, there are a lot of GSA-type referenc-es, like in Princess Jellyfish you have a guy who dresses like a girl,” Schmidt said. “We’re very open-minded here.”

The anime club will be back for fall term with a few series preemptively on the view list.

Schmidt has been inspired to expand into cosplay, short for “costume play,” where peo-ple can dress up as favorite characters inspired by anime, manga and other sources to role-play.

Schmidt plans to reach out to cosplay groups in the com-munity and the Lane Culinary Club with meetings to be held at Titan Court.

Police block traffic as hundreds of people marched from the University of Oregon campus to Lane Community College's downtown campus as part of the April 24 Take Back the Night, an annual rally to encourage victims to report sexual assault to police.

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Safety advocates march through Eugene

Lane multimedia program veterans appear at Adrenaline Film Project

Jesse McCullough represents Lane’s film team in his role as “the apparition” in Cinema Pacific’s Adrenaline Film Project April 25.

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Anime & Manga Club president Brandon Schmidt stands at their table in the cafeteria to try and recruit new members on April 22.

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Beer breaks language barrier Chris Piepgrass Reporter

Lane’s English as a Second Lan-guage Advisory Board collaborat-ed with Pints for a Cause at the Ninkasi Tasting Room on April 24.

Ninkasi’s tradition of commu-nity service leads them to hold fundraisers like this every Mon-day and Thursday night.

“Ninkasi has an online appli-cation. I applied for it and I think it was within 48 hours that they gave us a few possible dates,” Lane ESL instructor Annick Todd said. “The process was very smooth.”

Lane’s ESL committee is com-prised of community members from all over Lane County. Some of these committee members are for-mer students of the ESL program.

At an advisory board meeting a member mentioned doing a fun-draiser and Ninkasi’s Pints for a Cause came up.

The ESL program earned $1 for every pint sold at the Tasting Room from noon until 10 p.m.

“In the past we haven't had a lot of money for scholarships, so we’re trying to change that,” Todd said.

Hundreds of guests danced on Ninkasi’s patio as Nancy Wood, an ESL instructional special-

ist, laid down vocals over the ac-companiment of Paul Safar. Sa-far hashed out chord progressions on the keyboard and provided the vocal harmonies for the duration of the two-hour set.

The duet also returned for an encore at the end of the night.

In exchange for donations of any size, raffle tickets were award-ed to attendees — the prizes for which were donated by communi-ty and advisory board members.

“Last week somebody donat-ed a seven-night stay at a five-star hotel in Cabo San Lucas,“ Todd said.

Other prizes included two tick-ets to the NCAA Track Champion-ship at Hayward Field from June 11 to June 14, a class at Lane, a professional photo shoot, a certifi-cate for a healing session at Exqui-site Healing in Eugene and a one-month LTD bus pass.

When their names were called, none of the drawing winners were

present to receive their prize. “I have their contact informa-

tion. We told them they didn’t need to be present to win,“ Todd said.

ESL is a noncredit class offered to students who need to communi-cate better with future instructors.

After increasing their fluency, students have the option to enroll in credit classes. This fundrais-er gave Lane the ability to present scholarships to students who can't afford the class.

Teofora Wences is a former Lane student and recipient of the scholarship. When she first en-rolled at Lane, she spoke little English.

“I believe in the power of the scholarship in this community,” Wences said. “It’s a good program for people that really want to succeed.”

While she networked, program dean Cathy Lindsley helped su-pervise the event.

“We have served resident ESL

students since the ‘70s,” Lindsley said. “One class for one term is $47. Some students don't have the money to pay.”

The ESL Advisory Board al-so partners with eScript, a nation-wide corporation that mediates the donation of a percentage of purchases at select locations. The benefits are awarded to an organi-zation of the donor's choice.

“Every time you shop any-where that is a partner, they give a certain percentage to the ESL scholarship fund, “ Todd said.

The ESL Advisory board has been working to increase the number of eScript members asso-ciated with ESL. Last year, 16 peo-ple were registered as contribu-tors. Since then, the number has gone up to 47, bringing the pro-gram closer to its goal of 100.

Students are also encouraged to help their classmates by volun-teering.

“We have people that are ei-ther work-study or learn-and-earn students that come in and help in classes. Our students really want to know what it’s like to live here and talk to native speakers,” Lind-sley said. “There are different kinds of English, and that’s what we try to help them learn.”

The ESL program accepts dona-tions through the college website.

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Nancy Wood, Lane English as a Second Language instructional specialist, sings for guests at the Pints For a Cause fundraiser held at Ninkasi Tasting Room on April 26.

Ninkasi hosts fundraiser for English as a Second Language students

“Our students really want to know what it's like to live here and talk to native speakers.”

Cathy Lindsleyprogram dean, English as a Second Language

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