Eugene sees largest protest in recent memory, businesses looted Unrest – On May 29, a peaceful demonstration began at the Federal Courthouse to protest the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis Police officer on May 25. It moved to the intersection of 7th and Washington Ave. where a myriad of dumpsters, construction equipment, picnic…
Our nation is heading in the right direction but is it enough? What the hell? It’s April 1. Happy Fool’s Day? No. I weep as I write this while watching CNN’s Chris Cuomo — himself infected with Covid-19 — interview the late Dr. Frank Gabrin’s now-widowed husband Arnold Vargas and friend Debra Vaselech Lyons on…
Our nation is heading in the right direction but is it enough? What the hell? It’s April 1. Happy Fool’s Day? No. I weep as I write this while watching CNN’s Chris Cuomo — himself infected with Covid-19 — interview the late Dr. Frank Gabrin’s now-widowed husband Arnold Vargas and friend Debra Vaselech Lyons on…
Two months into the new decade and Oregon’s Department of Education has provided the state with great news: high school graduation rates increased, topping-off at 83.7 percent for students who graduated in four years. As Oregon Public Broadcasting quantified, this equates to “an increase of 600 students in the Class of 2019 who received a…
New street names honor Eugene’s past On Nov. 26, Eugene Mayor Lucy Vinis unveiled the three street names chosen for the new Downtown Riverfront. Picked from a narrowed down list of over 1,000 suggested names, the three winners were announced at 10:45 a.m. at the future site of the Downtown Riverfront. The three winners: Annie…
Whether on Lane Community College’s main campus or elsewhere, there is a multitude of resources in the case that someone is overwhelmed by emotion and needs someone to talk to or they are suffering suicidal thoughts. On the main campus is the LCC Counseling Center where drop-in counseling is available in Building 1, Room 103,…
INTRODUCTION On October 12, the Center Building was dedicated to Lane Community College’s first President and founder and renamed the Dr. Dale. P. Parnell Center Building for Learning and Student Success. Just a few months later, the next big thing to hit LCC struck: the unprecedented late-February snowstorm. It was catastrophic enough to down a…
State halts permits for new cannabis growers Oregon has too much cannabis. One-million pounds too much of it to be exact. Or to put that hard-to-picture figure into perspective, enough of it has been produced just in the last two years that, if stopped immediately, the supply can last the state for another six years…
Blenders to close after Spring Term Blenders, the only coffee shop at Lane Community College, will be leaving after June 30 as part of the outsourcing of the school’s Food Services, currently run by David Ferris, which have seen declining profits over the years. However, as part of Food Service, Blenders has its own story…
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…
