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...
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...
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 Veronica 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...
Women’s basketball
Titans score 101 against Panthers
Freshman guard Danielle Schmidt proved she isn’t your ordinary reserve player for Titans’ head coach Greg Sheley. Schmidt scored 18 of her game-high 20 points in the second half, to help the Titans win their third straight Southern Region game 101-47 over the struggling Portland Panthers on Jan. 28. It was the most points the...
Sportscaster dials in career
It would honestly be great to make him (Michael Konowitz) the voice of the Titans. -Brett Ellison, Lane Director of Student Recreation and Athletics Michael Konowitz had two strokes between the ages of 1 and 3. “I very vaguely remember the second one happening. That honestly might be my earliest memory,” Konowitz says of...
Dr. Hat
Patients with chronic illness need insurance
I’m a 25-year-old first-year journalism student at LCC. But I’m also a Crohn’s disease patient who receives crucial infusions of a drug that prevents inflammation every six to seven weeks at the Oregon Clinic in Portland. Crohn’s disease is expensive and time-consuming, both mentally and physically. Without health insurance, these infusions would cost anywhere from...
Cookin’ up a future
Shelbie Rife fashions a business from her culinary education
Sixteen months ago, LCC student Shelbie Rife found a future in cupcakes. As you enter her North Eugene home, you’re instantly met with Michael Jackson blaring in the kitchen from her iPad. Shelbie is in the kitchen, making red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. The smell lingers in the kitchen, where she is smiling...
Titans bounce back, win 71-68 over rival Cougars
Titans Head Coach Greg Sheley said it best. “Not necessarily the most pretty game by either team,” Sheley said after defeating the Clackamas Cougars 71-68 Saturday night. “Both teams played really hard.” Sheley and his team walked off Titan Court all smiles as they improved to 13-4 and 3-1 in the Southern Region, while the...
Titan men fall in conference opener
Yikes! The Lane Titans rolled into Gresham with a chip on its shoulder, having lost 63-60 last Monday, to the College of the Redwoods, and then were toppled by the much taller Mt. Hood Saints 104-76 Saturday night to start Southern Region action. The Saints are considered the...
BSU to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day
By Jon Fuccillo Features Editor LCC’s Black Student Union is gearing up for a variety of events recognizing Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day. On Sunday, Jan. 15 the BSU will attend the annual Honoring Our New Ethnic Youth Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration dinner and festivities. The event is being held at The...
Make the most of LCC’s health resources
By Jon Fuccillo/The Torch jonfuccillo@lcctorch.com Searching for health care and medical resources on campus? Search no further. According to LCC’s Health Clinic mission, it provides, “affordable, accessible, efficient, evidence-based health care to students and employees.” Whew. Sign me up! Wait. What’s the catch here for students? When signing up for credit classes on campus, each...
Meet me at the roller derby
Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer By Jon Fuccillo/The Torch jonfuccillo@lcctorch.com Not long ago, Christopher Wright thought he had a shot at playing basketball for LCC. He didn’t even get to tryout. But the experience encouraged the 34-year-old graphic design major to pursue the non-traditional sport of roller derby. Wright, a full-time student, has also...
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