Photo courtesy of Oregon Worker Relief at WorkerRelief.org Union partners with LULAC to support students and families facing campus-adjacent arrests By Jess Farrell The Oregon Education Association (OEA) launched emergency Know-Your-Rights safety training in Oregon City, Eugene and Bend after reports that ICE agents carried out arrest sweeps near Oregon school campuses during pick-up and…
LCC students share contrasting views on the TikTok controversy. By Kat Tabor In a whirlwind series of events, TikTok faced a U.S. ban that lasted only 14 hours. During the ban, Lane Community College students were among the users attempting to access the app who were greeted with a message: “Sorry, TikTok isn’t available right…
On Saturday at Island Park about 100 people gathered in all shades of orange to honor victims of gun violence and advocate for change. The Wear Orange movement honors lives lost to gun violence and the first Friday in June is National Gun Violence Awareness Day. State Senators James Manning and Floyd Prozanski spoke to…
Lane Community College Title IX coordinator Daniel Brown has condemned the US House passing the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. In an emailed response to The Torch, Brown stated that it is “very unlikely” that this bill could become law and called the bill “political showmanship, likely in response to the Biden…
On Thursday, April 20, 2023 the US House of Representatives passed H.R 734, The Protection of Women and Girls Act, on strict party lines. This bill rewrites Title IX to require that athletes participate in the sport that matches their biological sex, proven through their reproductive sex organs. Not a single Democrat voted in favor…
The Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government had their third hearing on March 30 to try and prove collusion between the Biden administration and social media companies in censoring conservative voices. This hearing was examining the Missouri v Biden civil case which was filed by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana in…
Representative Val Hoyle addressed issues regarding the Coos Bay Port, child care, job training, housing, and more on March 16, 2023 to a City Club meeting in Springfield, Oregon. She came to discuss the Port of Coos Bay and her continued work in trying to fund that port when their requested $1.25 billion grant was…
On March 3, 1970 Simon and Garfunkel’s Bridge Over Troubled Water was at the top of the charts, Barbra Streisand was making them laugh in Funny Girl, and LCC was charging senior citizens $6 per term and building a new science building. The article describes it as being between the Air Frame Building and the…
The new Republican House majority followed through on their promise to hold Twitter executives accountable for their role in the suppression of The New York Post article about Hunter Biden’s laptop. Their goal for this roughly six-hour hearing was to prove government interference and pressure to remove posts from Twitter. They succeeded in that goal. …
On Tuesday, Jan. 31, the Board of Trustees at New College in Florida voted to fire President Patricia Okker and replaced her with former Florida GOP house speaker Richard Corcoran. Governor Ron DeSantis had earlier replaced some of the board members with his own people. DeSantis has been on a rampage with his new laws,…
