Hats Off
Fox prepares to pass the torch
Alan K. Fox, the longtime sports editor of The Torch, is leaving to pursue other opportunities in the world of sports reporting. Fox has paved the way and created excellence at The Torch in the sports section for the past three years. It has been a pleasure to get to know him, work alongside him...
GSA bakes up naughty treats for
t-shirt funds
Gender Sexuality Alliance raises $165
The Gender Sexuality Alliance, formerly known as e XYZ Club, had its second Naughty Bake Sale after the success of last year’s fundraiser. Students sold their baked goods on Feb. 14 and Feb. 15. baked goods included Rice Krispie Treats® encrusted with penis-shaped candies, cupcakes frosted with fondant carved to resemble vaginas and other provocative pastries. Charging between $1.50 and $3 for each of the...
Outside the Box
A world of caution for concertgoers
It’s difficult to force yourself to shell out $20 for a new pair of shoes sometimes, but it’s not nearly as unfathomable when your favorite band comes to town. More often than not, bigger-name concerts in Eugene are kind of like meteor showers. They’re rare and you have to see them when they hit. After...
Dancing for their future
Dancers take the stage to raise money for scholarships
A new LCC performance, Collaborations, will showcase the efforts of students and faculty of LCC’s dance department, along with other community dancers. Collaborations will be hosted in the Ragozzino Performance Hall from Feb. 23 to 25 at 7:30 p.m. “We are expecting as many as (1,300) to 1,400 over the three-day show,” said event publicist John...
Men’s basketball
Titans fall to SWOCC in contentious battle
After a heated halftime exchange in which Laker fans were ejected, Titans took a loss The Titans took a serious blow beyond an 80-77 loss when racial slurs erupted in a dispute between players and fans during their Feb. 15 game against the Southwestern Oregon Lakers. For the second time in two weeks, things,...
Women’s Basketball Titans beat lakers with 46-point lead
Lane heads to fourth Championship in a decade By Lindsey Kidwell The Titans secured a playoff berth Feb. 11 with a victory against the Chemeketa Storm, 80-71. And for the second time in two weeks, the Lakers ran into a buzz saw when facing the ex- plosive Titan offense. On Feb. 13, Lane walked off...
The Fox Trot
Three-year journey comes to end
As cliché as it may sound — all good things must come to an end. I have been The Torch’s sports editor since the spring term of 2010, but I have decided to move on and pursue my journalistic career through another avenue. Before my tenure at The Torch, the paper lacked a sports section...
Men’s Basketball
Brothers bounce between sports
When basketball players and brothers Tyler and Alex Coleman touch the court for the Titans, you can see them automatically click as if they had been playing the game they love together forever. Yet that isn’t the case. Tyler (5’11’,’ 170 pounds), who is 25, attended Eugene’s Marist HighSchool and graduated in 2004, where he...
Women’s Basketball
Twin talents take court for Titans
Twin sisters Jordan and Kersey Wilcox always dreamed they’d go to college together. When LCC came calling with athletic scholarships, they knew they’d found their new home in Eugene. What sets these twin sisters apart from the rest is their love and friendship for one another. Even at 19, they argue as sisters do, but...
Democracy will not work without you
LCC student apathy is reflected by the college’s completion rate — the lowest among Oregon’s community colleges, at 7 percent — but the apa- thy is reflected in the voter turnout rate, as well. Last year, only 555 students of more than 10,000 students enrolled at LCC voted in the Senate election. ASLCC represents students...
KLCC brews successful festival More than 6,000 attend two-day Microbrew Festival
KLCC hosted a night of music and breweries both local and not so local at its annual Microbrew Festival on Feb. 10 and 11. The festival featured 57 breweries, setting a new record for the Microbrew Festival. All proceeds for the event went to KLCC and while the total hasn’t come in yet, KLCC Marketing...
Communication director appointed
The senate also considered a $10,000 funds request for MEChA and ratified the Sustainability Club
by Jon Fuccillo, Joe Hannan and Jennifer Hernandez ASLCC appointed Anayeli Jimenez as communications director, ratified a new Sustainability Club and discussed the possibility of a $10,000 funds request for a car show during its Feb. 15 meeting, President Mario Parker-Milligan and Vice President Jenny Lor said four or five students applied for the position...
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into ‘Dylanology’
After 51 years, musician Bob Dylan
reels in new listeners
Textbooks cost too much
In Thailand, LCC nursing students learn the value of respecting other cultures in medicine.
Organizers hope the event will raise awareness of the clubs at LCC.