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Native American Student Association relaunches powwow after three-year hiatus
Nicholas Lutze Reporter After two years, the Native American Student Association has brought back their Powwow to Lane Community College. With every beat of the drums from the Bad Soul Singers, attendees felt the heartbeat of the families, community and art that the Native American community carries with them throughout their lives. Though the NASA Powwow has been on a hiatus since 2016, NASA director Lori Tapahonso had spent months with her team, co-Chairs Eric Reynolds and Matthew Murdock, bringing together vendors from different areas across the Pacific Northwest. They also received a boost by asking KRVM DJ Nick Sixkiller, who promoted the event on his weekly radio show, “Indian Time.” The NASA Powwow is “a way for American Indians to come together from continued on page 6
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Jeremy Barney journeyed from North Burns, Oregon to attend Lane’s first Powwow since 2016. The April 6 event was attended by nearly 300 visitors.
Saturday Market celebrates 50 years The history behind Eugene’s favorite open-air marketplace
Selina Scott / photojournalist
A Saturday market attendee samples coconut mango organic artisan cheese from Fern’s Edge Goat Dairy. Owners Shari Reyna and Fred Warner have been making organic cheese since the 1970s.
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Audrey Scully Reporter Saturday Market encompasses the spirit of Eugene. On April 6, the Eugene Saturday Market kicked off its 50th season. It all started with one woman, Lotte Streisinger. Inspired by fond childhood memories of European markets, and later inspirations from market plazas she saw in Central America led her to the vision of a Saturday marketplace in Eugene. The very first Saturday Market was held on a rainy day in May 1970. At its debut, it continued on page 4
‘California dreaming’
Titans look to change their fortunes against conference foes
Titans triumphant in 1500m, 5000m and triple jump events in Chico
Trayse Riggle Reporter This season has seen many ups and downs for the Titan baseball team. Throughout the start of the season, many games were cancelled due to bad weather. Now, 24 games into the season they are at the 50 percent mark with a record of 12-12. They started the season winning three of their first four matchups
David Galbreath Reporter Chico State held their ninth annual Twilight Invitational and Distance Carnival April 5-6. Lane student athletes placed well in a variety of different meets. By the end of the weekend, the men’s team finished in fifth place and the women’s team in sixth place.
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James Croxton Reporter There are major changes coming to Lane Community College in the near future that will be affecting day-to-day student life. To start, on April 1, the Board of Education voted—with only Rosie Pryor in opposition—for a $4.50 per-credit-hour tuition increase. Considering that LCC was already the most expensive community college per-credit-hour in the state of Oregon, this news has been met with criticism from the students, whom it will most directly affect. Ana Weaver, a first year engineering student, said, “I understand that they are needing money for various things, but I also feel that the money that they do have is not being used effectively.” It was also said that “since a lot of people, especially those who come to a community college as opposed to a four-year university, are struggling financially anyway, afterall, that’s why a lot of people are here.” Not liking, or even knowing, where student fees and tuition dollars go is a common position many LCC students are in. Among those students is Bradley Jenkins who started studying psychology this year, but plans to stay for a couple more at least. He said that “we pay more [than other colleges], and so I want to see where the money is going,” adding that “it’s kind of getting thrown up in the air for the administration to catch, but I want to see it actually getting used for our benefit.” In regards to tuition dollars being used to benefit students, Judah Robinson, a third-term music technology student, said “I was looking at what financial aid is covering and why I was $56 short, and it was just a bunch of random tacked-on [fees] that I have no use for.” He further explained by saying that “I’m not using the transportation fee for the bus pass—I drive here from Salem—and I don’t use the health clinic.” Long-term student, Katie Kreklau, who has been studying elementary education at LCC for two years, expressed understanding, but still showed discontent. “I’m not keen on [the tuition increase], but I know that there’s a lot of bills to pay and not as many students are attending school, so that makes it a little harder to keep up with everything, so I understand it, but it definitely does make it harder as a student to attend,” Kreklau said. Also among the changes coming to LCC is the outsourcing, or “localsourcing,” of continued on page 8
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David Galbreath Reporter Lane Transit District has signed a $2.8 million contract with a California-based electronic fare collection agency in efforts to modernize their systems. To move toward a new era of payment options for riders, LTD will pay for the services of Delerrok Inc. The contract will use Delerrok’s equipment and payment services for a six-year period. The new system is scheduled to be implemented by Aug. 1. LTD hopes to make boarding city busses faster and easier for the users, allowing them to simply scan a card or cell phone at a bus terminal before boarding. This would get rid of the old ID pass system allowing anyone use their cell phone or a Touchpass to board. This electronic system will be storing and collecting data on the passengers as to where they are being picked up and dropped off. LTD expressed that the data will be used to find faults in their current model so they can improve their efficiency. LTD says the data will be 100 percent anonymous, protecting all users’ identity. University of Oregon and Lane Community College have a group pass with the bus system and will also have access to the data collected by LTD. Students will eventually be provided touch passes instead of ID cards. The renovations will provide new features, such as parental controls. With the new touch passes, parents will be able to add funds to accounts remotely and monitor the use of the account. Another feature LTD hopes to add is called “capping.” Instead of buying a month-long bus pass, users will pay for the bus until they meet the monthly cap. Once the cap has been met the users’ account will not have to pay for the rest of the month. The old payment styles will not vanish overnight,
however, they will slowly be phased out of the system over a couple of months, or as seen fit by LTD. They hope to switch over to the new systems efficiently, even if it means taking more time.
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Clearer skies ahead? beating Big Bend, Spokane, and Edmonds. Following the 3-1 start, the Titans lost their next six games. During the losing streak, the Titans faced Lower Columbia, who sit at second in the NWAC West with a record of 20-7. They also matched up against Bellevue, ranked third in the NWAC North with a record of 18-10. Lane managed to sneak a win out of their four games versus Bellevue. After playing Bellevue, the Titans headed to Coos Bay to brawl with SW Oregon. Lane needed a momentum boost in the wake of their 1-7 run. Lane beat SW Oregon both times. Lane went on to win their next six games, beating Clackamas and Chemeketa. They then locked horns with Linn-Benton, which didn’t end in the same fashion. Linn-Benton swept the Titans and remained undefeated in conference play. Lane looks to end the ups and downs as they next encounter Chemeketa on April 17, who they beat twice earlier in the season. The Titans are the third-ranked team in the NWAC South division. They sit with a 6-4 conference record having only lost to Linn-Benton in conference play. On April 26, they match up with the number two team in the NWAC South, Mt Hood–a team that they have not yet faced this season.
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Thousands of locals came out on April 6 to kick off the 50th anniversary of Eugene Saturday Market. Since the 1970s, the market has moved to three different locations and now has over 800 active vendors. Customers peruse products ranging from artisan organic goat cheese to local artists’ paintings and crafts.
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insurance and marketing. expertise to make it happen. With that assistance, in 1979, the Farmer’s Market made its debut across the way from the Saturday Market, coincidentally in the same location where the last Farmer’s Market was held 64 years prior. They have been together ever since, offering a wide variety of fresh vegetables and produce to the community. The market had survived though the help of rotating volunteers that first summer. Late into their first year they developed a board of directors, comprised of five of its most active market organizers. Today the board has nine active members. As the market expanded, the Board Of Directors was now dealing with the County
Commissioners instead of the City Council. The Market was required to incorporate, and retain liability insurance. These factors affected vendor’s fees as well. At its inception, each vendor was charged a dollar for their booth space, which went down to fifty cents that first summer when attendance was down. Today members pay an annual membership fee of $50. While a lot has changed over the years, there is still a lot that remains the same. Quality goods and wares, international dining, performance arts and entertainment. The Saturday Market strongly adheres to its loose rules. All hand craft vendors are welcomed without a jury process to approve their work, on the principle tradition that
everything being sold at the market is made, grown or gathered by the person selling it, or a direct family member. According to the market website, “Buyers start to come around 10 a.m., and from then on throughout the day the market is alive with activity: browsing, buying, selling, trading, exchanging information, meeting friends, eating lunch, listening to and playing music. All these and more activities are going on simultaneously. Children and older people alike enjoy the selling and visiting at the Market.”
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Catering for the hungry Culinary students showcase their talent, raise money for local food bank
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Lane Community College culinary student Rebekah Glenn dishes up thinly sliced radishes in a vanilla-infused rum sauce. Glenn was one of two chosen to represent the culinary program at Chef’s Night Out after winning the Mike West Overall Best Bite Award.
David Galbreath Reporter The Hult Center hosted over 50 restaurants, breweries and wineries to fund money for Food for Lane County, on April 8. Mike West, a local restaurateur, founded Chef ’s Night Out in 1991 and has helped raise over $2.13 million to feed the hungry in Lane County. West founded local eatery treasures, such as the Fisherman’s Market and Bill and Tim’s BBQ, in his 51 years of life. In his passing in 2011 the West family created the “Mike West Overall Best Bite Award” in honor of his memory. The award is given to a student at Lane Community College enrolled in the Culinary Arts and Hospitality Management Program, with a $2,000 cash prize. This year the West family awarded Kathleen Noll and Rebekah Glenn, each earning $2,000 with the award. Tickets for admission were $75 for general admission or $95 for an hour of early access to all the treats and sweets without a large crowd. The money was all to benefit Food
for Lane County. Over the past 29 years, Chef ’s Night Out has raised funds to be able to supply over 6.4 million meals for the less fortunate in the lane community. The participants were quickly accommodated with a few bites of chocolate-covered strawberries or light and flaky gourmet pizza dishes. Their plates came equipped with cup holders for the many varieties of brew and wine samples. The lobby was turned into a three story medley of fine foods, fun dishes and quality drinks. The crowds were easy to guide in the early hour but quickly became packed shoulder to shoulder. Lines to get food nearly became a feeding frenzy to grab the chef ’s specials on silver platters. The first table attendees passed by was LCC’s Culinary and Hospitality programs’. They brought three separate dishes to the event. The first was a crowd favorite of maple glazed black pepper bacon dipped in dark chocolate spread. Second was marbled cubes of coffee latte gelee. The third was sliced radishes from the learning garden with rum vanilla sauce. These flavors were not designed to only be scrumptious but also to bring awareness to the ingredients. Each of the three dishes included the ingredients chocolate, coffee and vanilla, which are threatened to go extinct by climate change. The group of LCC students brought the school an award for best overall presentation and hospitality.
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Putting the ‘wow’ in ‘powwow’ different tribes,” Sixkiller said, his warm, radio-seasoned voice booming through the speakers. As Sixkiller announced the Grand Entrance, he explained the purpose of the procession’s dances and chants. Young and old alike walked around Titan Coliseum with beautiful regalia topped with headdresses covered in hawk feathers and beads while non-natives watched from the stands. After the Grand Entrance, non-natives were invited to step onto the floor and join the Powwow. The first powwows began sometime in the 1880s as a way to unite Great Plains tribes struggling against the United States government’s westward expansion. By the early 20th century, powwows had spread to tribes around the Great Lakes and in the Rocky Mountains, but as increasing numbers of indigenous people were forced onto reservations and assimilated into American culture, powwows became one of the last remaining public displays of indigenous culture.
Since these beginnings, powwows–like the one hosted by at LCC or the Mother’s Day Powwow at the University of Oregon– have become grand displays of native joy and cultural pride. LCC’s powwow is billed as “one of the largest in the Northwest” by NASA, but still pales in comparison to the annual Gathering of Nations in New Mexico, where over 700 indigenous tribes from all over North America come together for a weekend of music, dancing and feasting. NASA at Lane Community College assists any American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Indigenous peoples in maintaining cultural values while pursuing their educational goals. They meet monthly in the Longhouse at LCC’s main campus throughout the academic year and post regular updates on their website.
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Elder members lead the first dance during Grand Entry at the NASA-hosted Powwow at Lane Community College that's back from a two-year hiatus. The events went on to include dances for children and a community meal held in the Longhouse.
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'California dreaming' The weather forecast was questionable before the weekend, but the rain only fell in the morning and left the Californian track and fields relatively dry by the start of the meets. Lane’s women’s team placed sixth out of 20 and was able to take first place in a few competitions.
Clair Ebert ran in the 1500 meter and took home first place with a time of 5:02.6, 1.4 seconds ahead of second place. In the pole vault event there was a four-way tie for second place at a height of 3.36 meters, only to be surpassed by the Titan’s own Delaney Fields earning first place with a mark of
3.51 meters. Two others on the women’s team were able to place in the top three in their events over the weekend. Isabella Garcia placed second in the 400-meter hurdles with a time of 1:05.41, and Riley Oval earned third place in the javelin event with a mark of 37.99 meters. The Men’s team finished fifth overall, out of 21 teams, just a
single team point behind Oregon Tech, with a score of 62.5. Andy Muha finished the 5000meter race with a time of 14:59.78 putting him in first place with a nine second margin. Jacob Williams had a dominant performance in the long jump putting him in first with a mark of 7.03 meters. The third Titan to take first place was Jonah Tactay. Tactay took fourth in the
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high jump and tied for first in the triple jump. Tying with Humboldt State, Tactay jumped 14.22 meters, just half a meter past second place. Lane’s success at the Chico State Invitational is nothing new. The events have been taking place annually since 2011 and Lane athletes has been leaving their mark on the record boards. In 2013, Shaneesa Applegate had a distance of 5.83 meters in the long jump which would be matched by Hillary King from San Francisco State in 2015. Also in 2013, long jumper Kara Hallock had a distance of 5.66 meters placing her at fifth on the all-time record board for the invitational. Another all-time record holder, Brandon Nash, competed in the 2013 season as well and holds the record in the men’s high jump at 2.08 meters.
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One flower at a time LCC aims for beefriendly certification to fight declining insect population
Audrey Scully Reporter By virtue of Lane Community College’s core value of sustainability, students and staff gathered April 5 for a bee and pollinator-friendly planting event on campus, planting in four different locations. The project was coordinated by Luis Maggiori, project coordinator for LCC’s Institute For Sustainable Practices. LCC began efforts in 2018 to become certified as a Bee Campus in the state of Oregon through the Xerce's Society and Bee City USA, and are currently in the active application process. A large topic of conversation in recent years has been the decline of native bee populations. There are approximately 20,000 species of bees worldwide, 4,000 species in America alone. One in four wild bee species in the U.S. is at risk of extinction, according to the United Nations Environment Programme. This threatens more than just the bees. “Insects are an integral part of our ecosystem. Globally, insects including pollinators are
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in steady rate of decline. Many to a number of factors: the loss could be a factor in the overall animals depend on insects as their of habitat, global climate change, loss of habitat for native bees. food source, not having this food neonicotinoid pesticides, accord- Native bees are exactly that, bees source available that are native can cause the to a specific death of some area or region. birds, reptiles, Domestic bees amphibians and typically refer fish. Food proto bees that are duction relies domesticated in significantly the sense that on the presthey live in ence of pollinahives managed Luis Maggiori, LCC Institute For Sustainable Practices by beekeepers. tors as well as wild plants and “There are trees,” Maggiori said. ing to Yale School of Forestry several ways in which managed The decline in the American & E nv i ron m e nt a l Stu d i e s . bees could affect wild bees includbee population can be attributed Additionally, domesticated bees ing through competition over finite
“At [LCC] we emphasize placebased learning and recognize the essential nature of understanding and caring for our bioregion and its interconnected ecosystems,”
resources such as nectar, pollen or nesting habitat,” Dr. Rachel E. Mallinger, an entomologist at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, wrote in an article. “Competition could still have negative effects if wild bees are forced to forage on less nutritious plants, spend more time searching for flowers that are unoccupied or whose resources have not yet been depleted, or forage further from their nests.” “At Lane Community College we emphasize place-based learning and recognize the essential nature of understanding and caring for our bioregion and its interconnected ecosystems,” Maggiori said. “We hope to foster an understanding that native bees and other native insects are more efficient pollinators than domestic bees and that a diversity of wild bee and other insect species provides a greater chance of recovery from disease, extreme weather, and climate change. We also hope to foster an understanding that because growing healthy food depends upon pollinators, conservation of native species will play an important role in food security in the future.” The pollinator-friendly plants and blooms set today will protect and nurture wild bees and other native insects by providing a diversity of pollinator habitat patches and pollinator pathways or corridors, with a diversity of bloom times so that pollinators can always find appropriate food. It could aid in improving local ecosystems affected by a changing climate.
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Students respond to tuition increase, outsourcing Food Services after several years of losing money. While this has been voted on, it is unsure who, or what, will take its place. This is concerning to students. “When I do [use food services], it’s nice to have as a backup, it’s nice to know that there’s a coffee shop in here that I can go in and get coffee, or get lunch if I need to eat something. Food services are essential,” Judah Robinson said. Further exemplifying that Food Services are essential, Katie Kreklau said “that definitely makes it a lot harder for me because I travel a half hour everyday to school and there are days that I forget my lunch like so not having that on campus to stop in between
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classes would make it extremely hard.” These changes to LCC, and their subsequent effects on students, have been met with sharp criticism from the Associated Students of Lane Community College Student Government. At the April 1 Board meeting, the student government held a “Tuition Freeze” event where members of
the student government and other LCC students participated by wearing winter clothes and voicing their discontent with a tuition increase. Looking toward the future, ASLCCSG President Nick Keough and Vice President Amadeo Rehbein-Verhoeven stand firm with the students of LCC and the need to hold tuition costs where they are and try to keep food options available on campus. ASLCCSG President Keough said “all of the people who are making these decisions are out of touch with the real student experience and it shows in their decisions.” This is a sentiment shared by many who have already voiced their feelings on what’s
happening at recent Board of Education meetings—including himself. He continued by saying “luckily, four out of seven of the Board members are up for election on May 21. If Board members can’t support students in their decisions, students won’t support Board members at the polls. Be warned.”
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“ We pay more [than other college], and so I want to see where it’s going. It’s kind of getting thrown up in the air for the administration to catch, but I want to see it actually getting used for our benefit.”
“My very first impression [about the tuition increase] is just, like, ‘oh, it happening again?' I was looking at what financial aid is covering and why I was $56 short, and it was just a bunch of little random tacked-on charges [fees] that I have no use for. And so I feel like raising it after adding everything on - like i’m not using the transportation fee for the bus pass - I drive here from Salem, so I don’t use the bus pass. I don’t use the health clinic. And so adding that much nonrefundable or mandatory [charges] is relatively significant for a college student. First off, I feel that the instructors should be able to choose what material they use. When I do [use food services], it’s nice to have as a backup, its nice to know that there’s a coffee shop in here that I can go in and get coffee, or get lunch if I need to eat something. Food services are essential"
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“Not big on corporatization (Services) I understand that they are needing money for various things, but I also feel that the money that they do have is not being used effectively. So I think that there is probably a better solution out there than just raising tuition, since a lot of people, especially those who come to a community college, as opposed to a four-year university, are struggling financially anyway. That’s why a lot of people are here! It’s just not the best approach.”
“I feel the exact same way. From what I’ve seen actually, this campus doesn’t even look too great. The campus, itself, it almost looks like it’s in shambles, where when I enter into a university they have a nicer campus and a lot more programs But that’s a university and I would think that if the budget were higher, maybe, it would go towards that side of things. But I don’t know what they really want to do with the budget. Have they announced what they are going to do with it? Why not instead of raising the price of tuition, they just raise the price of [food service products]?"
KATIE KREKLAU Elementary Education “I’m not keen on [the tuition increase], but I know that there’s a lot of bills to pay and not as many students are attending school, so that makes it a little harder to keep up with everything, so I understand it, but it definitely does make it harder as a student to attend. NO FOOD - that definitely makes it a lot harder for me because I travel a half hour everyday to school and there are days that I forget my lunch like so not having that on campus to stop in between classes would make it extremely hard."
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