Bobcat bludgeoned at Oak Hill School adjacent to LCC On Oct. 16, a bobcat had made its way into Oak Hill School near Lane Community College as reported by local news station KMTR. The bobcat was discovered in the principal’s office when a parent drew attention to it. The cat was locked into the room…
Portland-based theater troupe performs biopic The life story of Judge Xiomara Torres was interwoven with Salvadoran folklore in the performance of “Judge Torres” on Nov. 5 at the Ragozzino Performance Hall. The stage’s backdrop was vibrantly colored and highly stylized. “This mural is painted in the style of Fernando Llort,” said Elizabeth Muñoz Robles, the…
Master Carver Tom Lindskog shows Halloween spirit by carving two huge pumpkins. On the final weekend of October, a timely tradition of pumpkin carving was carried out by Eugene’s own master carver, Tom Lindskog, at the 5th Street Market. This year he carved two pumpkins in two days. The first on Saturday was 600+ lb…
The teachers union undergoes contract discussions The Lane Community College Education Association – which represents faculty – is pushing for new, improved contracts. Faculty members are currently under an expired contract as of June 30. Faculty have yet to receive any cost of living increases according to Adrienne Mitchell, LCCEA president. “So, we have a…
Loneliness is a Monster The 22 filmmaking teams at the seventh annual 72-Hour Horror Film Competition submitted pieces ranging from riveting to comical to somewhere in between. The Jury Award of $1,134 went to the film “Unwind,” produced by an all-female team from the University of Oregon Film Club. “Unwind” was produced by Colleen Quinn,…
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…
Editor-in-Chief, 2018-2019 Tacked up on the wall of my newsroom office is a printed copy of the first edition of The Liberator, the anti-slavery newspaper written and published by the famed abolitionist and my personal hero William Lloyd Garrison. In his so-called “Inaugural Editorial,” Garrison wrote: “I am aware that many object to the severity…
Editor-in-Chief, 2019-2020 As a reporter, a full-time worker and full-time student I had to push myself this year to handle more responsibilities than I have ever had before. I spent my first 24 years of life essentially coasting. I was never one to blaze my own path or pioneer innovative ideas. I always took the…
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…
