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Allegations on campus Vernon Scott Copy Editor Dominating the discussion at the Wednesday, May 6 student government was a topic not on the agenda. Comments and complaints were expressed regarding several incidents racism on main campus.

Lane student Rudwan Dawod said that Student Resource Center Director Brittney Healy was racist toward him. "She's claiming I was threatening her, and I wanted her to prove that,” he said. “I was very offended.”

Healy was not present at the meeting to give a response.

The next speaker, Lane student Johanis Tadeo, said that he had spoken to student government previously on this subject. “This is a serious issue for students of color out here,” he said. “Being called threatening, being profiled, being seen as these types of criminals.”

He said that student government should be culturally aware, adding that problems continue to happen even though students pay thousands of dollars to the college.

Tadeo said that students are disrespected, profiled and called criminals, adding that the current student government staff spread rumors about those in question. "The student government ... is not speaking for the students and not helping the students … there’s a problem … wake up and stand for us," he said.

Both speakers were informed that their statements would be included in the minutes and posted online.

Multicultural Program Coordinator Manuel Mejia said "students of color are complaining about this." Senator Charles Stewart asked that the formation of a committee to deal with discrimination be put on the agenda for next week’s meeting.

Tadeo spoke again, saying that students have been systematically pushed out. “This really does hurt students and it destroys students," he said. Some students have dropped out because of it, he added.

Campus Community Director Mariana Paredones recommended that the issue be taken to the Board of Education, who are "not a very diverse group of people," she said. "They’re not very aware of student life because they’re not students."

"This is a serious issue and no one is taking action," Paredones said. "A lot of people just get apologies over and over again.”

Several speakers named Public Safety officers as discriminating against students of color.

Business from the agenda included the second reading for a funds request to pay for meals and travel to the upcoming Oregon Student Equal Rights Alliance Symposium at Linn-Benton Community College. Senators approved the request 3-0-1.

Elections committee chair Robert Schumacher explained election rules prohibiting candidates or campaigners from providing voting venues at their campaign tables or via devices under their control. The see ASLCC, page 8

Accident simulation teaches valuable skills

Photos supplied by J.L. Harris

A helicopter landed on Lane’s main campus on Thursday, April 30, as part of an inter-agency training exercise. A staged car crash, involving students, volunteers and local emergency response professionals, was set up in parking lot N. This was the first event of this type hosted by Lane. After completion of the exercise, participants took a closer look at the helicopter and spoke to the pilot, nurse and paramedic about their jobs. Lane County Sheriff Reserve Sergeant Alen Bahret, who is also an IT programme analyst at Lane, said participants enjoyed the experience. Involved were people from the EMT/Paramedic Program, Public Safety, the Campus Community Emergency Response Team.

Lane County Sheriff’s Office Regional Reserve Academy, Search and Rescue and Police Agency Reserves.

Native people remembered and respected

Chayne Thomas Reporter "This building has a story. If you listen close enough you will hear it." Educator and peace advocate David West was talking about the Longhouse as he kicked off of the annual Lane Peace symposium on April 30 with a prayer.

More than 250 people gathered to hear keynote speakers Suzan Harjo and Dennis Martinez talk about justice through repatriation and ecological sustainability.

Harjo, a Cheyenne/Muscogee, spoke about the return of ancestral remains and sacred lands, highlighting the ongoing struggles of American Indians.

American Indians are being denied constitutional rights she said, adding that they have been battling for years trying to repatriate land, sacred religious sites and even human remains.

Harjo talked about roadside attractions where people show off the mummies of her people's ancestors. This isn't a new fad she said.

In fact, Harjo claimed, that there have been reports for hundreds of years about post-burial exhumations, sometimes explicitly carried out by the United States government right after a burial ceremony.

American Indians have recovered over one-million acres of land with her help she said. “It sounds simple and doable and it is, if only [our opponents] didn't come from the same educational system as the rest of America,” Harjo said.

She went on to explain how general misinformation taught to people about American Indians seriously hurts and dampens repatriation efforts.

Harjo spoke about the establishment of

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Top: President of the Morningstar Institute Suzan Shown Harjo speaks with Peace Symposium attendees at the Lane Longhouse after Harjo’s speech. Below: Founder and Co-Chair of the Indigenous Peoples’ Restoration Network Dennis Martinez speaks Thursday, April 30, at the Lane Longhouse.

the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. She loves that the museum can teach people about American Indians.

A smile crossed her face as she remembered the opening ceremony — an eagle soaring overhead and a pond full of ducks.

“How wonderful, something in Washington that wasn't planned," she said, closing with an appeal to end racial stereotyping in athletics.

Writer and advocate for American Indians Dennis Martinez continued the theme of repatriation, extending it to include not just objects, but nature. He mentioned the various plants and trees of the Willamette Valley that are not protected, including “the oak tree [that] is the tree of life."

Martinez called for a better understanding of language, to bridge communication between Traditional Environmental Knowledge and western science. He said that humans are the “apex-omnivore," the keystone species of earth. Our influence, therefore, is not only top-down, but bottom-up as well, he said.

“It isn't just a social justice issue, it is an environmental issue,” Martinez said. He talked about how people with TEK see nature differently than western scientists. "It is a landscape of stories,” he said.

Indigenous people shape an American landscape that includes greater biodiversity and surplus he said. One of the methods he supports is prescribed fires combined with the planting of dry, native grasses in forests.

This, and other methods, lead to abundance in nature, he said.

Martinez finished by outlining land ethics, which he said includes regulation, taking minimum sustainable yields, creating greater biodiversity and respecting natural law. He emphasized the importance of communication in reaching these goals.

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OPINION

Too many losers Time to change the American culture

Penny Scott Editor-in-Chief

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he cards are stacked against what's left of middle class America, and for the working class it's even worse. With many of the former joining the ranks of the latter, or joining the ranks of the unemployed, the squeeze is on for people in large enough numbers to signal that America is in trouble.

At the Oregon State Legislature Ways and Means hearing in Springfield on April 23, hundreds of people gathered to hear one person after another step up to the podium to tell their story of lack and hardship. They were begging the legislators for funding for different programs, and many expressed the humiliation they felt at having to beg.

Everywhere I go these days I meet people who are struggling to get ahead. Some are working two or three low paying jobs just to stay afloat, and others are looking for work — any work. Many are students going deeper and deeper into student loan debt, knowing they might not be able to find jobs in their chosen fields when they graduate.

This situation has been going on for a long time.

"The politicians and the media behave as if the poor don’t exist.

But with jobs still absurdly scarce and the bottom falling out of the middle class, the poor are becoming an ever more significant and

increasingly desperate segment of the population," wrote columnist Bob Herbert on Jan. 7, 2011 in an article for the New York Times titled "Misery with Plenty of Company."

The theme of Herbert's commentary continued the following month.

"More and more Americans are being left behind in an economy that is being divided ever more starkly between the haves and the have-nots," wrote Herbert a month later on Feb. 7, 2011 in "A Terrible Divide" for the Times.

So what's changed in the few years since these articles were written? There's a financial recovery going on, but not for those on the wrong side of the divide.

"The twenty-first century has not been kind to the middle class in America," says Herbert in his 2014 book, "Losing Our Way: An Intimate Portrait of a Troubled America."

"Millions of hardworking men and women who had believed they were solidly anchored economically found themselves cast into a financial abyss struggling with joblessness, home foreclosures and personal bankruptcy," Herbert writes.

Countless young people, college students and graduates included, are in bleak circumstances and their hopes for a better future are tenuous. The same is true for Americans of all ages.

Baby-boomers make up much of the shrinking middle class, many of whom jumped around from job to job, from career to career, which is not a sound path

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to security in old age. Plenty were doing well enough, considering — but 2008 changed that. Millions, caught unawares, lost most of what they had.

Hardship cascaded through every American state, with some states being hit worse than others. While traveling the country researching the book, Herbert commented that he saw things he'd not seen in America before. "The Great Recession and its dismal aftermath showed unmistakably that a great change had come over the country."

Initiative and hard work are no longer reliable indicators of success in America. At least not for those attempting to play the upward mobility game. Personally, I

think that the days of individuals succeeding within hierarchical structures are over. And if that is true, we need different structures and different attitudes about success.

There's something to be said for embracing stoicism, which says that the wise learn to live in harmony with reality. It might be time to redefine what the pursuit of happiness really means. Happiness does not equal progressing upward and the acquisition of stuff, unless people decide that it does.

America might be ripe for transforming into an entirely different culture, one that embraces thrift, sustainability, creativity and community. There are signs of this in cities across the country,

and Eugene is one of those cities.

Something more may be needed, however, such as silent withdrawal from anything that does not serve the common good.

I know of many individuals doing just this. However, when people in large numbers withdraw, it could create a shift across the country.

"All of the great movements in America — from abolition to civil rights, to the labor and women's movements and the fight for gay rights — all were led by citizens fed up with an intolerable status quo," writes Herbert in his book.

"That is how societies change. That is how America can, should, and — with proper commitment and cooperative spirit — will change."

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OPINION guest column

A slip of the tongue or just plain truth?

Wallace, not Truman, should have succeeded FDR

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ascism. That single word has had immense influence on American political life and on world history since it was openly explored by a sitting vice-president 70 years ago. It cost Henry Wallace, Franklin Roosevelt's vice-president from 1940 to 1944, his chance to become president when Roosevelt died early in his fourth term.

Wallace's published views on fascism sent panic through the minds of corporate leaders of the nation, so they made sure he was in no position to succeed FDR. When Roosevelt gained an unprecedented fourth term in 1944, his health was failing. He was sapped George Beres of strength from having led Now retired, became the country out of the Great manager of the University Depression and from having of Oregon Speakers Bureau guided it to the verge of vicafter years as Sports tory in World War II. Information Director.

Corporate backers of both parties knew his chances for surviving in office another four years were remote.

They wanted to guard against his successor holding strong liberal views like those Wallace held.

Sure enough, in the fourth month of

his fourth term, Roosevelt died. Inheriting the presidency was Harry Truman, a little known senator from Missouri whom FDR had reluctantly accepted as Wallace's replacement. The power-brokers chose him because he was conservative and they knew they could control him.

Most of the public had been elated by Roosevelt gaining a fourth term, but was also in denial about the state of his health.

While political insiders from both major parties saw the president's growing terminal illness, the public did not see the signs of his physical degeneration — because there was no television at that time.

Press photos did not reveal it — while Roosevelt's radio voice continued as positive and reassuring as it was when it inspired the country to overcome the depression and the uncertain early years of World War II. Wallace had a long public service record, including productive years as Secretary of Agriculture. He fully supported Roosevelt's liberalism and went even further — as seen in his public statement about the growth of fascism in the US during an interview with the New York Times. It gave his detractors the ammunition they needed to replace him.

I remember a World War II slogan that suggested how Wallace's newspaper re-

sponse made him a target: "A slip of the lip can sink a ship." Some believe such a slip sank his candidacy. Perhaps. But to his lasting credit, Wallace chose to speak his truth even if it jeopardized him.

When asked by the Times if fascism — which we were fighting in Europe against the Germans — could develop in the US, his direct answer was "Yes, it already is in subtle ways." That moment of honesty was exploited by his enemies, as described in his diary, "The Price of Vision," published in 1973.

He had trouble within his own party, whose conservative wing was pro-business and segregationist. The absence of its support led to the biggest blunder of Roosevelt's extensive term in office, allowing Wallace to be erased from the 1944 ticket.

His foes ignored the American Heritage Dictionary definition: Fascism is a system of government that exercises a dictatorship by the extreme right through the merging of state and business leadership together with belligerent nationalism.

I believe we see those characteristics developing in our nation today, which leads to the question: how different would the nation have become had Wallace been the one to inherit the presidency after FDR died?

guest viewpoint: Kathleen Walters, instructor of Computer Information Technology

The future of health information technology and informatics

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he Computer Information Technology department at Lane offers educational opportunities and career possibilities in the ever-growing field of healthcare technology.

Technology is part of the healthcare world, for clinicians, administrators and patients. In recent years there have been many changes in healthcare technology; in fact, the industry has been accused by some of being reluctant to embrace the digital age.

This is not necessarily the case when it comes to computerization of medical technology, such as diagnostic and treatment procedures. Where computerization of information is concerned, health care lags far behind other industries.

All healthcare professionals will definitely use technology. Those who work as health information technology professionals have chosen to become a lifelong learners staying abreast of emerging technologies in all positions they will hold throughout their careers.

Health informatics is the management of automated health information, in particular.

In short, health informatics is the techno-

logical side of managing health information—the design, development, structure, implementation, integration, and management of the technical aspects of electronic record-keeping or electronic (medical) health records (EHR/EMR).

Health information management pertains to both paper and automated capture, retrieval, storage and use of health information. The journey through a great deal of resistance to giving up paper records to the electronic health record system has not been an easily travelled one.

Implementing and maintaining an electronic record is expensive. However, patient safety, higher quality medical care, point of care documentation, faster results of diagnostic tests and the ability to share information with other care providers who have access to clinical decision support is beginning to outweigh the resistance.

Federal government incentives for EHRs began in 2011 and healthcare providers who hold out, thinking the EHR will go away, will be penalized for not doing so, starting this year.

Colleges and universities now include coverage of EHR in their health informatics, health information management, health

records technology, and healthcare administration programs. IT professionals in healthcare settings work closely with healthcare professionals to ensure that standards are met and information is available, private and secure.

Current understanding of what an EHR is, has evolved as technology, system capabilities, and health care information needs have grown. The term EHR describes not only a computerized version of a medical record, but rather an entire system. It documents the services, information gathered to make decisions about health care, and the ability to share that information with other providers.

In most healthcare organizations, the introduction of computers in practices often was associated with payment for services or the billing and patient accounts functions.

This is no longer the case.

Next EHR steps include practice management (workflow design), accounting, administrative features, systems analysis design, project management, linking diagnostic testing laboratory systems, hospital information systems, pharmacology databases, evidence based practice databases and national, regional and state programs

supporting the implementation of EHR systems in health care provider settings.

The challenges ahead will continue to become evident through a discussion of the status of EHR implementation in practice settings and the hurdles that still must be overcome before coordinated systems are common in the United States and internationally.

Electronic systems involve changes at every level by everyone who works or interacts with the industry. The cost of new or updated systems is another challenge.

However, the vision of a fully functioning system, with its potential for improving the quality of care and eventually reducing costs, provides the motivation to keep moving in that direction.

Imagine traveling anywhere in the world with the knowledge that, no matter what injury or sickness you encounter, health care providers will have access to your health care data. The information could be shared via an international network of secure health information or via data that you carry on a tamper-proof microprocessor, inserted into a smart card similar to a credit card, or on a computer chip implanted in your body.

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Art & Entertainment Theatre Review

Angels

leave

Lane André Casey / The Torch

Prior Walter, played by David Arnold reaches up to the angel, played by Felix Monet in the closing scene of “Angels in America” in the Lane Ragozzino Performance Hall.

Curtain comes down on powerful production forced by public opinion.

Haimbach commented that he is proud of the quality of work done by the actors, who were mostly Lane students.

"It used to be that there were as many community members Tony Kushner's award winning play "Angels in America" as students on stage," he said. "Now we are focusing our closed its season at Lane Community College on May 3. efforts on giving our current students the opportunity to The powerful and controversial play focuses on the AIDS have major roles." crisis of the 1980s. Already an admirer of this work, I atI was thrown when Lane student Marly Gross appeared tended with eager anticipation and was not disappointed. playing an older male doctor. Initially, this posed two credThe production was professional and innovative. "I'm ibility stretches. Later, when other male characters appeared very proud of the way the production on stage, played by females, it became came across," Brian Haimbach, Lane part of the play's unique flavor, but did not disguise the fact that casting Theater Faculty Lead and producer of The cast and crew "Angels in America" said. "It was visuactors for certain parts had proven did justice to this ally stunning thanks to Tim Rogers of difficult. masterful play when Oakhill School. His projections gave Jon Sims gave a convincing perthe show a level of sophistication I as the conflicted Joe Porter. they brought it to life formance was hoping for."

"It was an absolutely incredible exat Lane.

To support what was happening perience," Sims said." I have never on stage, backdrops kept changing, grown so much from one show. The experiences I've had while working including one of the earth revolving, one of Doris Day singing and dancing and one of a city on it are something I will take with me through the rest of my career." hall of justice.

Eugene actor David Helvey played politically ruthless The cast and crew did justice to this masterful play when they brought it to life at Lane.

Roy Cohn well and to the hilt. However, it seemed as though A play is more than a script, set design, lighting, sound, he was playing Al Pacino, who starred in the movie, rather costumes, makeup and acting. These elements and the than a unique version of Cohn from his own experience. serious subject matter, combined with the vision of the I think the play would have been better served if he had forgotten all about Pacino. producer, made this the impressive show that it was.

Haimbach chose to screen a video titled "The Failure Aaron Smart, who played the roles of Mr. Lies and Prior to Act: The Reagan Administration's Deliberate Failure to 1, presented his characters with appropriate low-key chaAddress the Aids Epidemic," which I found moving and a risma. "It was a real pleasure to work on a show that's so fitting beginning to the show. important," Smart said. "It's a great feeling whenever you The film provided information on the rising death toll can do what you love and be motivated by something greater from AIDS in the United States in the 1980s. Five years than yourself." after the disease was named, it had claimed 20,000 lives, At the end an angel entered from above, stealing an according to the video. Reagan, it states, acted only when already great show.

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Aaron Smart plays the role of Mr. Lies in “Angels in America” in the Lane Ragozzino Performance Hall.

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Art & Entertainment

Jazz ensemble wins magazine award The Lane Jazz Ensemble was named a winner in the 38th annual DownBeat Magazine Student Music Awards. This is the first year community colleges have been included as a category and the Lane Jazz Ensemble won the large ensemble competition.

The magazine, established in Chicago in 1934 is dedicated to "jazz, blues and

beyond." The competition recognizes middle school, high school and college students for their hard work and musical abilities.

Judges are professional musicians and educators. Entries are judged based on musicianship, creativity, improvisation, technique, sound quality and balance, excitement and authority.

Under the direction of Paul Krueger, the Lane Jazz Ensemble members rehearse throughout the year and perform for audiences several times each term. The ensemble will be in concert Friday, June 5, at 7:30pm in the Ragozzino Performance Hall on Lane’s main campus.

Information supplied by Lane administration and redacted for content by The Torch.

Social Science mural celebrated

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Jared Yakel plays the saxophone along with the Oregon Jazz Ensemble in the Oregon Jazz Festival at the LCC Ragozzino Performance Hall on Friday, Jan 23.

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Graphic design instructor Tom Madison informs a gathering of approximately 30 people on Tuesday, May 5, as to how the Social Science Department mural was created. The mural is on the fourth floor of the Center Building.

Student dance performance Equine gets in on the show

The Lane Community College Dance Program is presenting the 2015 edition of The Works Student Dance Concert in the Ragozzino Performance Hall on Lane’s main campus.

The concert provides an opportunity for emerging Lane choreographers to explore their creativity and artistic visions. The show will include a duet between Jessica Ealy and her horse Faith. Their performance will be on the grass in front of the performance hall.

Choreographers include: Denae Ben Goodwin Brocksmith Enissa Harris Chelsey Courtney Snow Buystedt Elana Sutton Eviana Dan Button Will Jessica Ealy Traver Woodard Chris Foucht

Show information: May 14-16 at 7:30 p.m.

Tickets are $5.00 general admission.

Advance tickets are available online at www.lanecc.edu/tickets.

They can also be purchased at the door on the night of the show.

Proceeds help support scholarships for Lane dance students.

Michael Brinkerhoff / Eugene commercial photographer and former LCC student

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Puzzles

Crossword Puzzle

Sudoku Fill in the grid so that every row, column and 3x3 box contains the numbers 1 through 9

note: there is only one valid solution to each puzzle

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News

Accessibility for all Disability exhibit comes to Lane Chayne Thomas Reporter On May 4, The Center for Accessibility Resources, formerly known as Disability Resources, hosted a reception for an exhibit on the history of disability.

The exhibit, created by Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services, shows the history of disability through the ages. Beginning with ancient times, the panels of the exhibit portray the varying moral, medical and social viewpoints on disability, replete with commentary, images and famous quotes.

Early Greek and Roman philosophers, quoted in the first panel, viewed bodily perfection as a human ideal. As proponents of infanticide for those born with any visible defect, they stand in stark contrast to

modern viewpoints. The exhibit explores everything from the words of Jesus and the impact of religion on disabled people, to eugenics and Nazi experiments during World War II. The exhibit also explores the roles that modern activism, such as the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy telethons and the Deaf President Now movement at Gallaudet University, have played in creating a more accepting modern world.

One of the slides captures a key to the issue of accessibility, stating that 80 percent of people will be disabled at some point in their lives.

Understanding and acknowledging that disabled people are a majority, not a minority, is a major shift in modern public perception.

Terrie Minner, director of CAR, hosted the exhibit along with Cathie Reschke, a CAR accommodation specialist.

“It’s the perfect timing to host this display," Minner said, explaining that modern philosophical changes towards disability

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The exhibit on disability in Building 10 was created by Alaska’s Department of Health and Social Services, and shows the history of disability through the ages. have encouraged schools to make education more accessible than ever before.

She said that LCC is moving toward a “universal design in the classroom” through education. Reschke agreed.

After closing at Lane on May 6, the display moved to the University of Oregon

Willamette Hall Atrium on Thursday, May 7.

The complete exhibit is available to view online at the Alaska state government’s Disability and Special Education webpage at: http://dhss.alaska.gov/gcdse/Pages/history/ html_maincontent_overview.aspx

Dalai Lama translator speaks on compassion The Lane Community College Peace Center and the Palmo Center for Peace and Education are hosting a talk by Geshe Thupten Jinpa, Ph.D., the longtime English translator for the Dalai Lama. The talk is titled “Fearlessness and Compassion: Cultivating the Courage to Transform Our Lives and Our World."

Jinpa’s work furthers people's understanding of the power

of compassion for others and for their own well-being. He will address questions such as: Can compassion be cultivated? Can compassion lead to being taken advantage of, or compromising our ambitions?

Jinpa will be sharing practical skills for developing compassion and sharing stories of transformation resulting from cultivating compassion. He will share his own experience

and lessons learned from living in, and moving from, a monastery in India to fatherhood in Montreal.

Sunday, May 10, 3:30 p.m. — 5:30 p.m.

Ragozzino Hall, Building 6, LCC main campus.

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Multicultural Program Coordinator Manuel Mejia

ASLCC: Racism allegations continued from page 1 purpose is to prevent undue influence on voters by candidates or their staff.

Without mentioning specifics, Schumacher announced that certain actions by both presidential slates were very alarming to the Elections Committee. “We are asking all candidates and members of campaigns to cease the unethical and unprofessional actions … that have been going on and make sure that we have a clean, honest campaign,” he said.

If a member of the Elections Committee witnesses a cam-

paign violation, the violator’s candidacy can be immediately invalidated, Schumacher said. He suggested a group forum for presidential candidates where students could pose questions for discussion.

Sustainability Coordinator Daniel Pollock asked for volunteers to staff the trash audit scheduled for Thursday, May 14 from noon to 5:00 p.m.

Pre s i d e nt Ma l i s a Ratthasing nominated Senator James Wessgert for ASLCC Treasurer. Wessgert spoke about his qualifications, and he was approved 4-0-1 after a short discussion.

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Lane pitcher Shane Quarterley delivers a pitch to the plate while a Linn-Benton base runner leads off during the first game of a double header against NWAC South Division rivals Linn-Benton Community College at Lane on April 25. The Titans beat the Roadrunners in both games, 13-3 in the first and 1-0 in the second. The Titans’ record stands at 25-14 as they head into their final two games of the season. The Titans will play Mt. Hood Community College in Greshman, Ore on Saturday, May 8 and will play at home against the same team on Sunday, May 9 at 2:00pm for their final game of the regular season.

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