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Pop quiz, hotshot: It’s Friday morning, and you’re tasked with covering back-to-back Public Safety calls on campus: a car accident, a possible drug overdose and a fight. What do you do? What … do … you … do? If you know the answer, you might be qualified to be next year’s editor-in-chief of The Torch....
Lane’s Lessons Learned
Strategic thinking can propel you forward
If you’re anything like me, and most of the college students I know, you’re a little afraid of your future. As you consider your career options, the concept of carving a life for yourself out of your chosen major can seem intimidating. The end-goal of a college education for most of us is a career,...
Everyone loses when few cast votes
Questions swirl around the LCC campus regarding the ASLCC elections held April 30 to May 3. Once again, student voter turnout was inappropriately low. So low, in fact, that the total votes cast for any one of the student government positions was a scant 371, or put another way, 3.3 percent of students enrolled this...
Play Review
A well of inspiration
The 2012 edition of “Spring Inspirations” showcases the Student Productions Association’s sophistication in a far-from-sophomoric series of 10-minute scenes written, directed and acted entirely by students. As a critic, this is an interesting experience because I actually took instructor Patrick Torelle’s Writing for Theatre course, in which playwrights reared the scripts for the show and...
Inform your vote
Election season is broiling in Lane County, with ASLCC elections ending tonight, May 3, at 11:59 p.m. and ballots for the primaries in mailboxes everywhere. With all of the issues to decide on and all of the candidates vying for our votes, it can be difficult to know which box to check. The Torch staff...
Tuition may increase $10 Board of Ed to vote on raising tuition to $91
CORRECTION In the May 3 report “Tuition may increase $10,” ASLCC Treasurer Tracy Weimer was said to have abstained from voting for a tuition increase at the College Finance and Budget Development Subcommittee meeting. Both ASLCC President Mario Parker-Milligan and Weimer voted to approve the increase. The Torch regrets the error. The college finance...
We did the math. Did ASLCC?
Last week, ASLCC adorned its office with this sign: “Want higher tuition?” Members of the ASLCC have spoken out vehemently against the $3 to $5 per-credit tuition increase proposed by the college’s budget committee. Nearly in the same breath, ASLCC requested the board approve a ballot measure raising the student activity fee by $2.35, which...
Tuition increase on the table
The increase could yield up to $2.25 million
After continuing a $3 per credit tuition surcharge and raising it another $2 per credit earlier this year, the college is looking to raise tuition again after state funding projections fell $5.8 million short of the needs for next school year. At the April 18 budget committee meeting, administrators discussed possible resolutions for the shortfall,...
Tuition increase a necessary evil
Earlier this school year, LCC’s Board of Education voted to raise next year’s tuition from $84 a credit to $86 a credit, mainly to cover increased costs. But now, LCC officials say they must increase next year’s tuition yet again, by another $2 to $5 per credit. Officials project next year’s enrollment will remain stagnant....
Lane’s Lessons Learned
Open-door community colleges serve a central purpose
The heart of a community college is in its opportunity. I’ve met a lot of people through working and studying at LCC, and the one unifying element of all of them is ambition. Whether it’s a returning student who worked in retail for years before aiming at a better job, a mother of five finding...
Work experience increases
post-grad employment
School feels burdensome at times, but a degree often opens up career opportunities in the work force. LCC has a wide range of students from all different ages and backgrounds working towards a common goal: receiving a degree and finding a career. What makes LCC a stepping stone for your future? LCC already provides plenty...
Hey, Sallie Mae, can you spare some change?
More than 300 college students sat, stood, marched and picketed while chanting “Sallie Mae, you can’t hide/we can see your greedy side.” They were arm in arm, backing each other up even as the threat of arrests heated the Washington, D.C., streets in front of loan distributor Sallie Mae’s corporate office. Thirty-six of them, including...
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