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Titan forward signs with Marauders All-Oregon Academic Team picks Titans

University of Mary takes Mahaffie after injury Oregon Community College Association selects 2014 members

Jarrid Denney Sports editor

Tori Mahaffie, a Lane bas-ketball standout who saw her season end early with a knee injury, has signed a national letter of intent to play basket-ball at the University of Mary, a Division II four-year univer-sity in Bismarck, N.D.

Mahaffie, a sophomore, earned Second Team All-NWAACC Southern Region honors for the Titans during the 2013-14 season and was named to the NWAACC All-Star Team.

She averaged 10.2 points, 6.6 rebounds and 1.7 steals per game, and was sixth in the conference with 1.5 blocks per game. She was the Titans’ second-leading re-bounder and third-leading scorer before suffering a torn ACL in a Feb. 17 game.

“That was one of my big-gest fears, because I hadn’t really thought of other plans for next year,” Mahaffie said. “I was just lucky enough

that University of Mary had watched me play beforehand and still recruited me. They were not at all concerned with the injury.”

Mahaffie will join a Ma-rauders team that finished sixth in the Northern Sun In-tercollegiate Conference last season with a 14-8 record.

“I think it shows a lot of character on their part to stick with her through the injury, and I think she’s re-warded them by really re-habbing hard,” Lane head coach Greg Sheley said. “She’s excited to go there. It’s going to be great.”

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Lane students elect next government

chris Piepgrass Reporter

A mother of two studying business and a father seeking a new career in computer science will represent Lane on the All-Oregon Academic Team.

The Oregon Communi-ty College Association has ap-pointed Audrey Barney of Fall Creek and Sean Baker of Eu-gene to represent Lane on the team, the organization an-nounced April 22.

Two students from each Phi Theta Kappa chapter are given the award each year, and only members of the honor society can apply for the scholarship. Being chosen for the academ-ic team does not guarantee the students will receive the schol-arship due to stiff competition.

“They’ll be honored at grad-uation. The President of Lane will introduce them as the Lane All-Oregon Academic Team members,” Lida Herburger, Student Success Program man-ager, said.

Halfway through her en-

rollment, Barney made the de-cision to change her major to Business Administration. Bar-ney, a 51-year-old mother of two, has attended Lane for four years and will graduate this June with a 3.98 GPA.

“Raising kids and at the same time going to school and work is a big juggle,” Barney said. “I started going to school to inspire my children to go to college. I wanted to normalize the idea for my kids.”

After graduation, she hopes to do administrative work in the office of nonprofit organiza-

tions such as Goodwill or The Arc.

“I think they have honorable missions,” Barney said. “It’s nice to know that your work is for a greater cause.”

Barney treats Lane like she would organizations such as these. She is motivated by the sense of community she has helped create on campus.

“I’ve created study groups, sometimes before the class even started. It’s so much better to go through the course with a group of people,” Barney said. There’s no point in isolating yourself.”

She served as PTK vice pres-ident in the past. Barney also held a work-study position in the academic and student af-fairs office.

“I would love to be able to just work at the college,” Bar-ney said. “I know all of (Lane’s) policies and procedures.”

Baker, a 41-year-old father with two daughters, has been a member of PTK for a year and maintains a 3.5 GPA. He

Sean hanson Managing editor

Nearly 600 Lane students elect-ed Michael Weed as their next pres-ident, filled their senate, and ap-proved ballot measures to increase

the activity fee and continue funding a student advocacy group during a four-day election last week.

Weed shared a ticket with vice president-elect Malisa Ratthasing. Together, they defeated presidential candidate Francisco “Kiko” Gomez

and vice presidential candidate Ben Buchanan by winning 73.3 percent of the 540 votes cast in the executive race. Gomez and Buchanan earned 23 percent of the votes, and write-in candidates snagged the remaining 3.7 percent.

By tighter margins, only half of the 598 respondents approved one measure which will increase the per-term student activity fee by $4 to benefit ASLCC Legal Services. Approximately 65 percent of voters

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Current Lane student body president Paul Zito stands over the shoulder of newly-elected student body president Michael Weed during a work session in the ASLCC office on May 5.EUGENE JOHNSON / THE TORCH

Audrey Barney

Tori Mahaffie

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POINT-COUNTERPOINT

Lane’s parents, students and staff currently cope with many struggles, including passing classes, juggling jobs and finding time to be with their families outside of school.

This is why we at The Torch were sur-prised when the administration’s recent budget proposal for next school year included cutting $100,000 from the Early Childhood Development Center. The proposed cuts reduce classrooms from four to three, maintains two vacancies in the center and cuts down on part-time classified staffing.

The Board of Education is trying to remove $12.6 million from the college’s budget, which is no simple task. How-ever, of the many cuts in the budget proposal, we find this one to be short-sighted.

The proposal cuts from a program in need of more support, not less. Craig Taylor, director of Lane’s Institutional Research, Assessment and Planning estimated that as of Spring 2011, 29 percent of Lane students were parents or expecting children. The development center is currently licensed to care for 99 children.

The development center provides key services to some of those most in need on campus, as childcare is not afford-able, especially in Oregon. According to a November 2013 report from child care advocacy group Child Care Aware of America, Oregon is the least affordable state in the country to purchase child-care, for two-parent or single-mother families.

Currently, tuition for a full-time stu-dent is $1,116. The base cost of childcare at Lane runs as high as $2,288 per term. A student with a child pays over three times as much to attend school — and that’s before factoring in housing, food, books and fees.

With the median income for a single mom in Oregon at just under $22,000, a child care bill could easily gobble up nearly two-thirds of her income. Some of this cost can be subsidized at Lane through grants available to Pell Grant

recipients. However, need is clearly sub-stantial and the grants do not provide for all parents.

An April 17 report in The Torch de-scribed students’ challenges as parents on Lane’s campus. These learners and providers were forced to make difficult decisions about child care from term-to-term — especially parents of older chil-dren — as they cannot receive child care through the development center. Addi-tionally, a feature in this issue highlights the two students with the highest GPA on campus, both of whom are parents.

The answer to this problem is simple, despite the difficult budget climate.

The Board of Education needs to stand up for students in need and maintain the current investment in the Early Child-

hood Development Center.Even with reduced enrollment ex-

pected next year, student need remains substantial and varied. If the current needs of students with children be-tween ages 2 and 5 is met, invest money into a program to provide childcare for older children and provide services to students in dire need, especially single-mothers.

We are not asking for growth. We are not asking for increased investment.

What we are asking for is a continued commitment to Lane’s most vulnerable students and their children, and on-going support for students with some of the greatest needs of all. Doing so means maintaining the college’s ideals, even during the hardest of times.

Should people exercise with CrossFit routines?

child care cuts should be avoided

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CrossFit is a new form of conditioning that is rising in popularity and sparking controversy across the U.S.


Depending on who you ask, CrossFit is either a killer workout, or a workout that could give you a killer injury.

Those who are dedicated to the sport see it as a life-style more so than a form of exercise. Its popularity has skyrocketed over the past 10 years, and there are over 7,000 affiliated CrossFit boxes open around the world, a mind-boggling number when compared to the mere 15 that were open in 2005.

Recently, the sport has been under heavy criticism,

and many are questioning its safety and practicality.

I’ve been involved with CrossFit for almost a year now and have never expe-rienced an injury (with the exception of a few calluses and bruises). I spend more time stretching and recover-ing most days than I do actu-ally working out, and any-time I have ever complained that I was sore or felt like a workout was doing more harm than good, the trainer supervising the workout would make an adjustment or simply advise me to stop for the day and rest.

Alyssa Sutton editor-in-chief

Last summer, I went from training non-stop for 5K runs to lying on my cement porch at 1 a.m. under a sliding glass door. Apparently, if the top of glass doors aren’t screwed into the runners, they fall off the track when opened.

It may have been the dumb-est way to acquire a concus-sion, but it led my doctor and my coach to ban me from any sort of training. Finally back on the trail, I started training with a four-mile run. When we finished, my running part-ner gave me a half-glare, half-

laugh. We had maintained a 7:40 pace for the entire run, when the goal had been to maintain an easy 8:45 and keep it conversational. We left the trail, joking that I should get a concussion more often.

However, back on the track the next day, when I was figur-ing out how long it would take me to get to a garbage can in case I needed to vomit, my coach disapprovingly pointed out that I had pushed myself too far.

Whether we run, lift or play a sport, we all like to push past our limits. We like the sense of competition that gets us there.

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approved a measure to continue funding Oregon Student Public Interest Group, which receives $3 of the $50.30-per-term student activity fee.

More than half of 513 voters elected senatorial candidates Emily Aguilera, Sarah Pishioneri, Jenni-fer McCarrick, Felicia Dickinson and Robert Schum-acher. The remaining winners — Nicole Rund, Brandi Hoskins, Caleb Miller, Sofie Crandall and Christian Mello — each received at least 40 percent of the votes.

Mello edged out his closest opponent, Wesley Al-len, by only one vote. Allen, Trevor Moore, Scott Compton and Esau Gavett could still fill seats on the ASLCC Senate if one or more of the winners de-cline their positions.

“Me and Malisa are really adamant about follow-ing up what this administration has done,” Weed said. “We tried to put on a lot of successful events to get students engaged with student government. … We want to go with that. We want to move for-ward with that.”

Current student government President Paul Zito said he was pleased voters elected Weed, who was instrumental in launching the Rainy Day Food Pan-try, which Zito said was the greatest success of his presidency.

He urged incoming leaders to realize their pet projects will change from inception to completion.

For example, Zito said, student leaders faced a minor clash with Lane staff over appropriating space for the pantry, and the process by which students could shop at the pantry differed from his initial vision for the project.

“Your projects oftentimes become subject to the social thinktank,” Zito said.

Weed and his staff will appoint a treasurer and multicultural programs coordinator, two positions that were previously elected.

This year, student elections moved from myLane to OrgSync, and the number of respon-dents doubled. The polls were open from April 28 through May 1. Fewer than 1 percent of Lane stu-dents voted in last year’s elections.

Weed and Gomez faced controversies during their race to the top.

Through the crowdfunding website gofundme.com, Weed began asking for donations as early as Feb. 25, but student government bylaws prohibit-ed candidates from “campaigning” before April 14. As he was asking for donations — not votes — the Elections Committee ruled on April 23 that his fundraising activities did not violate campaign rules.

Meanwhile, Gomez walked out of the April 23 student senate meeting twice and admitted to us-ing his senatorial position to influence the elec-tions, mere hours after he jumped onto a cafeteria table during lunchtime and attempted to address students.

That night, Gomez said he had untreated anger management issues, but would persist in his bid for the presidency because no candidate should run unopposed, even though Gomez felt that he was at a severe disadvantage to Weed’s campaign.

“I’m running against a machine,” he said on April 23.

The candidates on a third ticket, Clinton Fear and Kathy Renfrowand, left the race before elec-tions began.

(Former News Editor J. Wolfgang Wool and former reporter Taya Alami contributed to this report.)

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graduates in December with an associates degree in Computer Network Operations and Electrical Technology.

“I’ve got a beautiful wife and two daughters. We get to babysit our grandchildren,” Baker said. “To be able to keep that up and care for them after I get out of school is a big motivation.”

Before he enrolled at Lane, Baker worked in TV and radio antenna maintenance. When the technol-ogy turned digital it virtually eliminated Baker’s work and he decided to pursue higher education.

“I needed a better education to proceed. I didn’t want to go back to bartending,” Baker said.

During his first work-study job with Applied Sci-entific Instrumentation, Baker built and repaired electronic lab equipment from scratch.

“I spent a lot of time soldering. I got really good at it,” Baker said.

An opening for a technician at the Lane Work-force Development Department piqued Baker’s in-terest and he jumped on the opportunity.

“This is exactly what I want to do. I put my head into a computer and figure out what’s going on,” Baker said.

After graduating from Lane, Baker would like to move on to the University of Oregon to pursue his education in computer science and networking.

PTK is the oldest community college honor soci-ety in the country. The society provides scholarship, leadership and community service opportunities for its students. The All-Oregon Academic Team is one of those scholarships.

Eligibility is dependent on a student's cumulative GPA. Students must have a GPA of 3.25 on all Lane and high school coursework and maintain at least a 3.0 to be in good standing.

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Lane’s hopes of capturing an NWAACC Southern Re-gion title are on life support after dropping three of four games over the weekend.

The Titans entered the week in first place, but were swept in a May 2 home dou-bleheader versus Mount Hood Community College, and the next day lost 7-8 in a nailbiting opener versus the Chemeketa Community Col-lege Storm.

With a record of 13-10 in Southern Region play, the Ti-tans now find themselves in second place behind the Clark Community College Penguins (17-7) and tied with the South-western Oregon Community College Lakers (13-10).

“I think we’ve been incon-sistent,” Lane head coach Josh

Blunt said. “I don’t know if it’s because we take for grant-ed the moment that’s been given to us, or we just think we’re better than other teams. But there’s not a lot of differ-ence between top and bottom in our conference.”

In the first game versus Mount Hood, Saints’ clean-up hitter Eddie Jones blasted a two-run, opposite-field home-run off of Lane starting pitch-er Jared Priestly in the first in-ning. That was all the offense Mount Hood needed.

Lane evened the game by scoring a run in the fourth and fifth innings, but the Saints shut the door on a Titans’ comeback by answering with two more runs later in the game to secure a 4-2 win.

Lane sophomores Eric Long and Jarren Goddard each went 1-for-4 with an RBI for Lane, and Long picked up two sto-

len bases.Jake Dahlberg pitched a

complete game for the Saints and struck out three Titans to earn his fifth win of the sea-son.

In the second game, the Saints picked up two quick runs in the first inning on a bases-clearing triple by short-stop Cole Hamilton, and held the lead for the rest of the game.

The Titans tacked on a run of their own when sophomore designated hitter Konner Red-dick drove Long home with a single to right field, but that was the only offense the Titans would produce.

In the bottom of the sixth, Lane saw its best opportunity to break even. The Titans load-ed the bases with the heart of their batting order due to come up.

But Long and sophomore

second baseman Blake Mon-tague each failed to reach base, and the Titans ended the inning scoreless.

Reddick relieved Titans starting pitcher Eric Ruaro and struck out two batters to hold the Saints in check in the seventh.

Sophomore centerfielder Spencer Smith reached base on an error to lead off the in-ning, and Goddard followed with a single. Reddick bunted both runners over, and sopho-more outfielder Darin Nelson followed by driving in Smith on a groundout to shortstop.

With the tying run on third, shortstop Tucker Campbell hit a laser back to Saints pitch-er Michael McCall, who easily flipped the ball over to first to end the game.

Freshman outfielder Forrest Garcia went 3-for-3 and tri-pled for the Titans, and Red-

dick was 2-for-3 with an RBI.The next day the Titans

took on the Storm in Salem, but the result wasn’t any more positive. Six unearned runs and three errors by Lane cum-mulated into an 8-7 Game 1 loss.

Nelson went 3-for-5, scored twice and stole three bases for the Titans.

In the nightcap versus Chemeketa, the Titans end-ed their weekend on a posi-tive note. They committed on-ly one error and surrendered just two walks and picked up a 4-3 win to end a three-game losing streak.

Freshman Travis Boggs pitched 3.2 innings and struck out two batters to earn the win for Lane. Long and Reddick each had two hits and scored a run. Reddick now leads the Titans in hitting with a .342 average.

Batting Average Strikeouts

rBI’s ErA

homeruns Wins

1. Konner Reddick — .342 2. Jarren Goddard — .3413. Forrest Garcia — .308

1. Jeff Hardy — 542. Jackson Bertsch — 243. Jared Priestly — 23

1. Jarren Goddard — 272. Darin Nelson — 193. Spencer Smith — 163. Eric Long — 16

1. Travis Kelly — 0.422. Jeff Hardy — 2.703. Eric Ruaro — 2.78

1. Jarren Goddard — 4 2. Kyle Beam — 23. Kyle Watson —13. Darin Nelson —1

1. Jeff Hardy — 52. Jackson Bertsch — 42. Travis Boggs — 4

Lane falls to secondSeven games remain as Titans trail Clark Community College

Sophomore pitcher Beau Uealand threw a scoreless inning in relief in Game 1 of a double-header against Mount Hood Community College May 2.

Lane sophomore infielder Blake Montague hits a single against Mount Hood Commu-nity College May 2 in Eugene.

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Lane track and field com-peted in the last meet of the regular season at the May 2 Oregon State University High Performance Meet, and now have their eyes set on the NWAACC Southern Region Championships.

The Titans’ men have brought home the previous 10 Southern Region titles, while the women have claimed nine of the past 10. This year, both teams are in the mix to add to the school’s trophy case. How-ever, the battle for the men’s title could be much closer than in recent years.

Clackamas Communi-ty College has four athletes who own the top spot in the conference in their respective events and 19 ranked in the top five. Lane has 26 athletes ranked in the top five, while six Titans’ men are at the top of the form chart in individu-al events.

Several Lane ath-letes are dealing with inju-ries, and Lane head coach Grady O’Connor said that his main focus is on keeping his athletes healthy for the NWAACC Championships, even if it means sacrificing points at regionals.

“We aren’t going to have everybody compete in two or three events like we will at NWAACCs,” O’Connor said. “It’s team track and field; we want to defend the title and win the team championship, but we’re not going to do it at the cost of people’s fitness.”

Freshman Rohan Cain had a breakout meet for the Ti-tans at OSU. He finished sev-enth in the 400-meter dash in a time of 48.73 seconds and eighth in the 200-meters in 22.1 seconds. Both marks were lifetime bests for Cain.

O’Connor said that Cain and sophmores Diego Gonza-les were both “a little banged up after the meet” and injuries will limit their participation at regionals.

“The meet was great but we had a few setbacks,” O’Connor said. “So we’re in scramble mode and hopeful-ly those guys will be back for (the NWAACC champion-ships). But for now, we’re two bodies lighter for regionals.”

Freshman Jonathan and Da-vid Cornish both ran season-bests in the men’s 5,000-me-ter race, with times of 15:24.89 and 15:28, respectively. Jon-athan Cornish now owns the second-fastest 5,000-me-ter time in the conference this

season, while David Cornish owns the fourth-fastest.

The highlight of the meet for the Titans came in the women’s 5,000 meter run, where three Lane runners set season bests and two ran life-time best times.

Freshman Nicole Maur-mann finished third with a time of 18:10.28. She was fol-lowed by freshman Katy Pot-ter in fourth at 18:16.8 and freshman Alli Cross in fifth at 18:18.01.

“The distance girls all ran well and they ran together,” O’Connor said. “Huge PR’s for all of them. The 5K was just a great tune-up for them.”

Maurmann, Potter and Cross now own the second-, third- and fourth-fastest 5,000-meter times in the con-ference. Community Colleges of Spokane sophomore Jessica Mildes, who recently signed with Gonzaga University, owns the top time at 16:47.

Lane sophomore Madi-son Seaman set an NWAACC leading mark in the discus with a throw of 149'10" and finished seventh. Sophomore Kristin Clark finished sixth in the long jump with a season best leap of 17'07".

The Southern Region Championships will be held in Gresham on May 10, and the NWAACC championships will take place in Spokane, Wash. on May 19 and 20.

Titans seek region championshipLane men will battle Clackamas for 11th consecutive

title, women favored to win fifth straight

Seven games remain as Titans trail Clark Community College

Freshman Nicole Maurmann ran a 4:56.31 in the women’s 1,500-meter relay at the March 22 Oregon Pre-view at Hayward field. Maurmann is second in the conference in both the 1,500- and 5,000-meter runs.


Lane freshman David Cornish takes the baton from his brother Jonathan to begin the third leg of the men’s 4x400-meter relay at the April 24 Titan Twilight. Jonathan Cornish is second in the conference in the 5,000-meter run and David Cornish ranks fourth.


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PRO: Respect your boundaries for a safe workoutCONTINeD FROM P. 2

CON: Company brags about danger of training CONTINeD FROM P. 2

POINT-COUNTERPOINT

Never at any point have I felt like I was pushing past my limits during a workout, or that a trainer was encouraging me to do something that wasn’t in my best interest.

CrossFit doesn’t have a safety problem. Rather, a small number of people who partici-pate in the sport have a severe common sense problem.

It’s easy to criticize the morons on YouTube attempting to do an overhead squat with a barbell while standing on a medicine ball (yes, this does ex-ist, and it’s hilarious). However, they have nothing in common with those who use CrossFit

as a smart and healthy way to train.

Yes, there are plenty of people in the CrossFit world who end up injured as a result of over-training, poor mechan-ics or just flat-out stupidity. However, the same can be said for any sport.

If a football player leads with his head every time he makes a tackle, he’s going to end up concussed. If a baseball pitcher continually throws with bad form, he’s going to injure his elbow. If a runner doesn’t listen to her body and tries to run through the pain, she will end up injured.

A study done at the All Wales Trauma and Orthopaedic Training Program found that injury rates among CrossFit athletes are similar to those for other exercise forms such as Olympic weightlifting, power-lifting and gymnastics — and that CrossFit injury rates are lower than sports such as rugby.

Is there a good chance you could suffer a minor injury from CrossFit training? Abso-lutely. The same study found that 73.5 percent of those who participate in the sport do. This number is also comparable to minor injury rates of Olympic

lifting and powerlifting.However, the study also

found that only 7 percent of participants suffer injuries that require surgical repair, a rate lower than that of competitive contact sports.

So what do these injuries rates show us? That the world is, overall, a dangerous place, and that if you partake in any form of physical exercise, the chances are pretty good that you’re going to end up getting hurt sooner or later, whether it be a minor or major injury.

However, statistics prove that CrossFit isn’t any more dangerous than any other form

of popular exercise. It’s only as dangerous as you make it.

I always thought the most fascinating thing about the cries against CrossFit is that the crit-ics make it sound as if CrossFit itself is literally inflicting inju-ries upon innocent bystanders, and that they are helpless to stop it.

At the end of the day, each person is responsible for what they do in the gym, whether it’s at a CrossFit box, an Internation-al Fitness or the home gym they set up in their garage. Use com-mon sense. If something doesn’t feel right during a workout, don’t do it. It’s as simple as that.

But when does it become too much?

Like running or any other athletic pursuit, CrossFit, a “constantly varied, high-inten-sity, functional movement,” has a sense of competition. However, this community might be taking it too far by pushing both athletes and amateurs alike to a physical breaking point.

"If you find the notion of falling off the rings and breaking your neck so foreign to you, then we don't want you in our ranks. (CrossFit) can kill you. I've always been completely honest about that,” CrossFit founder Greg Glass-

man told The New York Times.According to a 2013 study

published by The Journal of Strength and Conditioning, 16 percent of 54 participants of a 10-week CrossFit program dropped out due to “injuries and overuse.” That’s an alarm-ing number for one type of “sport.” These injuries vary from recoverable injuries like sore joints and skeletal mis-alignment, to more permanent injuries like tendonitis, torn rotator cuffs and slipped disks.

CrossFit faced scalding reports in the health section of publications such as Outside Magazine, Huffpost, Women’s Health and the Examiner. They

also faced the blame for caus-ing rhabdomyolysis among participants. Rhabdomyolysis is the breakdown of muscle fi-bers that leads to the release of muscle fiber contents, or myo-globin, into the bloodstream. Myoglobin is harmful to the kidneys and often causes per-manent damage. Currently six cases of rhabdomyolysis have been reported among partici-pants of CrossFit.

One of CrossFit’s unofficial mascots depicts an extremely fit clown attached to a dialy-sis machine, with his kidney ripped out on the floor in a pool of blood. Sad part is, CrossFit created the cartoon

not to scare people away from CrossFit, but instead to inform members that it is possible to get hurt to this extreme when participating in the condition-ing they provide.

But hey, like Glassman said, at least they’re being honest.

This is not to say that the only reason for injuries is CrossFit (I did get hit by a sliding glass door.) Regardless of the conditioning you choose or the type of athlete you are, there is always the chance of a serious injury.

What concerns me is that CrossFit is providing the pub-lic with unsupervised work-outs, no gym required. Partici-

pants can use what they have in their garage to complete the workout. This is concerning because, already faced with a dangerous form of condition-ing, participants can now train without a certified coach to point out bad form, or remind them to take a break.

It’s possible to get injured regardless of whether you are standing in one spot, playing a sport or participating in a form of conditioning. I prefer to play it safe by working with a certified coach or trainer, who is interested in my health and physical safety over one that is perfectly fine with his form of conditioning killing me.

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As spring welcomes back the blossoms and warm breeze, Karlie Schwartzwald has brought the Chess Club back to Lane.

The Associated Students of Lane Community Col-

lege Senate ratifi ed the Chess Club on April 2. Schwartz-wald is a second-year math-ematics student. Hoping to introducing chess to more students around campus, Schwartzwald harbored the passion for chess club in Win-ter 2014.

“I love chess,” Schwartz-

wald said, “and I want to have a chance to play with students on campus.”

The club currently has no chess sets. Schwartzwald has been cutting out paper to substitute with real chess sets. The Chess Club is wait-ing to receive $100 from the Student Government, the

amount ratifi ed clubs get each term.

Despite a lack of chess-boards, 20 students have al-ready signed up in the Chess Club, and approximately 10 students attended the fi rst two meetings.

“We welcome everyone

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The Lane Board of Edu-cation fi elded 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 ho-rizon.

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 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 will likely adopt one of the two proposals, one from administration and an-other 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 President Rebekah Ellis said the effect this could have on enrollment would be devas-tating.

“I just wanted to make sure that everyone is aware … what (a tuition hike) means for me as a student. The choices that I make on a day-to-day basis over my personal health versus my education, what I can afford and what I can't afford — any increase in tuition is just ba-sically asking me for money that I don't have,” Ellis said at the meeting.

With their proposal, admin-istrators sought to close the $12 million gap without in-creasing 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 con-sidered closing the Cottage

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Liz Gibb helps Michelle Nordella with her robe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Ragozzino Hall on April 19.CHRIS PIEPGRASS / THE TORCH

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Lane instructors raised scholarship funds while show-casing their creativity and a va-riety of skills at Piano Mania in Ragozzino Hall on May 6.

The night began with five grand piano players pounding out Wolfgang Mozart’s “Over-ture” from The Marriage of Fi-garo, arranged by Piano Mania Coordinator Barbara Myrick.

“What better way to start this unique concert than with Mozart’s sparkling overture?” Myrick said. The introductory piece was conducted by sym-phony instructor Hisao Wata-nabe, who wore an 18th-century suit, complete with a powdered wig, as Mozart would have.

After the ensemble left the stage, a crew emerged to re-arrange the pianos for the up-coming duet. Second-year Lane music student Cassidee Fos-back helped as a stagehand.

James McConkey, Ragozzi-no Hall stage manager, used tape to mark how pianos would be arranged during each set. “We just had to roll the pianos to their blocked positions,” Fosback said.

After the introduction, two pianos remained. Genevieve Mason, a part-time instructor at Lane and UO graduate from France, performed “Andante and Variations, Op. 46” for two pianos by Robert Schumann with Myrick. The piece was originally composed in 1843.

Trills ran back and forth be-tween the two like a conversation.

“The piece grabbed me with its emotional contrasts and sub-tle dissonances,” Myrick said.

The staff then rotated, perform-ing variations of solos and du-ets of their choosing. Sandy Hold-er and Vicki Brabham started the transition with a few jazz tunes. At one point, Brabham feigned a few kicks to the piano as she played. Like a jukebox skipping, she re-peated the first ending of her tune until the final kick fixed the prob-lem, bringing her improvisation to its conclusion.

“I played around with it and tried to create a mood. I play from a lead sheet, which is just the melody and the chords,” Brabham said. “I just impro-vised and threw in things that I was thinking of.”

As the concert resumed after

a short intermission. More pi-anos were gradually returned to the stage until all five were present for the finale.

Seth Mulvihill conduct-ed his arrangement of Wag-ner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” adorned in Nordic attire, com-plete with helmet and staff.

The concert finale conclud-ed with ”Stars and Stripes For-ever,” composed by John Phil-ip Sousa, arranged by Myrick and conducted by Lane instruc-tor Ron Bertucci. At its climax, Myrick was handed a flute and a trombone that was lit-erally constructed for Bertuc-ci. Red, white and blue lights added to the showmanship as they played, while some audi-ence members waved minia-ture American flags.

Myrick concluded by thank-ing the audience, her col-leagues and all those involved in the event.

McConkey attributes a por-tion of the concert’s turnout to successful advertising through social media.

“We put three videos up on Lane’s social media and got more than 1,250 hits in a three day period,” he said.

“It was a good crowd,” Lane instructor Larry Clabby said. “It makes it easier to perform when you have an enthusiastic audi-ence. It’s like you're connecting; there’s a give-and-take.”

The revenue from all con-certs held on Ragozzino's stage are used to provide scholar-ships for the performers’ area of study.

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Media arts student Rainer An-derson, who prefers to be called RB, said his life was shattered when he found out he had can-cer. He uses writing and art to express what it’s been like start-ing over again.

Anderson got a chance to ex-press himself in the Big C exhib-it in the 4x4 Gallery's introduc-tory show in Building 17. It con-tains both media, and is domi-nated by black writing of all siz-es. Included is a faculty segment called "Life Landscapes."

"I thought it would be great if I could speak and write myself into existence," Anderson said.

Displayed at the Big C exhibit are paintings, photography and

other works of art by media arts faculty and students whose lives have been touched by cancer.

The exhibit began as a faculty project last fall. The contributors were media arts instructors Te-resa Hughes, Jeri Mrazek, Mer-edith Keene-Wilson and Richard Lennox. The project began as a community service to increase awareness of breast cancer.

However, the show kept changing and growing into some-thing else. They soon realized that, either directly or indirect-ly, cancer touches most people's lives. So they decided to open the exhibit up to students.

While the project moved through different phases, cancer continued to touch the lives of the contributors.

"I had a friend who was giv-

en two months to live while this was going on," Hughes said. "Sometimes I thought 'I don't want to do this anymore,' then good things happened, and we were off again."

According to research con-

ducted by the American Cancer Society, an estimated 585,720 peo-ple are expected to die from can-cer in the United States in 2014.

Hughes, Mrazek and Keene-Wilson decided to participate in a twenty year American Cancer

Society study. However, the fo-cus of their involvement is ex-pressed through art and the cre-ation of opportunities for their students to do the same.

"Several students said ‘I had no idea I was hanging onto this issue,’" Keene-Wilson said. Re-sponses to the exhibit have been mostly favorable. Howev-er, some students have found the topic confronting and have shielded their eyes upon seeing the artwork. Some of the post-ers around campus have been torn down as well.

"I'm impressed by the re-sponse to the call to artists,” Jan Halvorsen, media arts instruc-tor said. "Every piece is interest-ing and has a story. As I look at the work, I'm thinking 'I want to know more about this.'"

Faculty delivers epic performance

Art exhibit tackles difficult subject

Concert wows with five grand pianos and Viking costume

Faculty and students express how cancer touched their lives

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Lane staff rehearse “Ride of the Valkyries” by Richard Wagner in Ragozzino Performance Hall May 5.

Rainer Anderson examines his piece "Shattered" which he entered in the Big C Exhibit in the 4x4 Gallery in Building 17 May 1.

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Dance Northwest celebrated National Dance Week at Lane last Saturday, May 3 by gath-ering regional dance groups to perform at their 9th annual Down 4 It event in the Ragozzi-no Performance Hall.

The event raised money for the Lane Dance Foundation, which helps serious dancers pay for tuition and attend na-tional and international confer-ences and events.

Anita Sanford, co-found-er, director and Lane dance in-structor of 14 years, estab-lished the group with Kim Ely in 2005.

“We had a group of danc-ers, and then we just bonded through our passion for dance and decided to take it to the stage,” Sanford said.

The group produced Sat-urday’s event and invited guest companies from Eugene, Springfield and Prineville. The performing ensembles includ-ed: Dance Northwest, D2, Sixx, High Desert Dance Arts, Got-ta Dance Tap Company, ZAPP, Urban Pulse and The Pres-tige Sr., Work Dance Company, Flex and Pointe Performance Group, King’s Krew, and the Lance Dance Company.

The auditorium was nearly full as the first group of danc-ers took the stage. The audi-ence’s excitement was audi-ble with hoots and hollers; dur-ing the show a few dancers echoed back through the dark-ness, encouraging the energy. The event had a blend of hip

hop, modern, jazz, tap and bur-lesque. The costumes ranged from sneakers with stocking caps to tiaras with tulling.

“I like the formations, and the duet was stunning!” Lane dance student Angela Chan said. She gestured a thumbs up for the choreography.

The duet mentioned was performed by hip hop group D2, entitled “I Got a Dollah” featuring dancers Megan Panos and Nicco PeBenito.

The event was to benefit the Lane Dance Foundation which has touched the lives of many local dancers, including current members of Dance Northwest, through its scholarship fund.

Gina Knox, Northwest Dance member, found her

passion for dance at age 17 through a ballet class and was hooked. Knox initially started her dance career at Lane when she met dance director Bonnie Simoa.

Knox was then offered a tal-ent grant from the Lane Dance Foundation bringing the event full circle for her. Knox has been dancing in the group for about a year and calls it much more than a dance company.

“In this company the amount of collaboration and community is incredible ... we’re like family. They would do anything for me and I would do anything for them,” Knox said.

Gina Evans, Dance North-west member for three years,

started her dance career at Lane before transferring to the UO.

“I love Lane. Coming to Lane first was one of the best decisions ever,” Evans said.

The lights went up for in-termission and people stood to stretch. After a few minutes, circus-themed characters filled the hall from all sides. A mer-maid sat on stage along with the ringmaster as a bearded woman, mime and other char-acters streamed in from the lob-by entrances.

The audience held its energy throughout the second act with more hollering and shout-outs, and the performers reciprocat-ed.

Cole Brown, Dance North-

west member since August 2013, met Sanford by taking her Hip Hop course at Lane. Brown has been inspired by the group’s strong bond and Sanford’s passion for the art of dance.

“I love her artistic abili-ty and she pushes us to be-come artists, not just dancers,” Brown said.

The company will celebrate a decade of shows in 2015. San-ford is already thinking about next year, but was trying to hold off at least until Monday, after wrapping up this year’s show.

Dance Northwest’s next per-formance will be at Lane for the Eugene Dance Factory’s re-cital, Saturday, May 31.

Concert raises funds for dance foundation Nine Oregon troupes perform on Ragozzino stage

Dance Northwest showcases in front of a packed Ragozzino Performance Hall May 3 during the Down 4 It performance. The show consisted of nine different Oregon dance companies.

Urban Pulse and The Prestige dance groups warm up in the hallway outside of the mainstage before their performances in Down 4 It in Ragozzino Performance Hall May 3.

Anita Sanford, founder of Dance Northwest, greeted guests at the Down 4 It show.

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