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Pacific Northwest Bell
Forensics activity
helps calm jitters
By JANE LEHMAN
Of the Emerald
Ever had one of those feelings
when the level of activity of moths
in your stomach is equalled only
by the violent spasms of your legs
and hands? And all of this uncal
led for energy is due to getting up
before a group of people and talk
ing?
Dale Buckley, student director
of the forensics program, believes
the only way around this obstacle
is through it. He recommends join
ing the University's forensic squad
as one way to overcome the fear
of speaking before groups. But he
has plenty of arguments in favor of
such a move.
"Surveys of deans of law
schools show that they prefer a
forensics type of preparation. And
the head of the National Educa
tion Association has come out in
favor of requiring high school and
college students to learn to get up
in front of people," says Buckley.
And just what is it that will make
you a silver-tongued orator of ad
vanced standing in law school,
and light years ahead of soon-to
be-enlightened school systems?
The forensics program here con
sists of intercollegiate speaking
competition throughout the
Northwest. As such, students
prepare speeches of an informa
tive, persuasive or dramatically in
terpretive nature, or else enter into
debates.
People can become involved in
forensics by taking a two-credit
class through the speech depart
ment, which consists of participat
ing in the competition. Or they can
simply show up at the weekly
meetings of the squad Tuesdays
at 3:30 p.. in EMU 336.
"It doesn’t demand experi
ence,” says Buckley. ‘‘It requires
nothing more than curiosity and
putting in the effort to prepare a
speech." Of course, there is that
final detail of presenting the
speech during tournaments,
which occur nearly every
weekend.
If people are interested in
careers similar to law or are into
current events, Buckley recom
mends going out for debate, ex
temporaneous or impromptu
speaking. Extempt speaking con
sists of a half-hour prepatory
period at the tournament to an
swer a question given you on a cur
rent issue. The speech lasts about
five minutes. Impromptu involves
speaking off the top of your head
on a similar kind of question.
Then there is the Cross Exami
nation Debate Association or
CEDA-style of debate. This is a
more theoretical approach to de
bate which involves "proving that
the resolution does or does not
take place," says Buckley.
People who are more interested
in a creative vein or in organizing
thoughts may want to consider
dramatic interp, expository speak
ing or oratories. Oratory is a per
suasive, eight minute, memorized
speech. Expository is similar but is
of an informative nature using vis
ual aids to demonstrate some as
pect of the topic. Dramatic interp
consists of two or more cuttings
from plays or prose centered
around a theme.
According to Buckley, the uni
versity has "traditionally always
had a strong team.” He adds,
"we are winning more per tour
nament than before, but we don’t
go to as high of caliber of tourna
ments because we can’t afford it."
One obvious benefit of foren
sics competition is traveling
throughout the Northwest to com
pete. "This is one instance where
you can combine that type of
pleasure with real business," says
Buckley. Last year the squad co
vered a total of 12,000 miles,
which explains why the majority of
their budget funded by the Inci
dental Fee Committee is allocated
for travel expenses.
However, Buckley warns that a
lot of the glamour is lost when you
consider that “you're in competi
tion from eight in the morning until
late at night."
The squad is also involved in a
community service activity, known
as the symposium. They send out
panels of speakers to discuss cur
rent events before local organiza
tions and schools. They also de
monstrate various speeches to
junior and high school classes.
So, if you turn into a quivering
mass of jelly at the prospect of
getting up before a sea of faces
with your words of wisdom, give
Buckley a call at extension 4210
or 344-0704. Just maybe you’ll
have something to tell the world.
Cemetery wasn't always peaceful
Some felt it a nuisance
By JOCK HATFIELD
Of the Emerald
A pair of students stroll hand
in-hand down a grassy lane. Bugs
tizz, and daisies carry messages
from grateful dead. The woman
accidently walks over Mrs. Ellen
Kirby and laughs. The couple
moves off, looking for a soft spot.
Most University students take
the Pioneer Cemetery for granted.
Somehow, it seems only natural
for a bunch of people to be lying
around dead between the library
and McArthur Court. But over the
last 20 years, the cemetery’s pre
sence on campus has been far
from assured.
In 1956, the University pur
chased rights to the cemetery
from the Odd Fellows Ciub, which
had been running the cemetery
since 1872. “Four times the Uni
versity tried to condemn the
cemetery as a public nuisance,”
recalls John Quiner, a member of
the Pioneer Cemetery Lot Owners
Association. "But not once did a
resident of this cemetery ever dis
turb the University.”
In 1969 the University attemp
ted to take over four sections of
the cemetery for a performing arts
center and parking lot. But the
families of cemetery residents and
plot owners, who still legally
owned their plots, contested the
move and temporarily won their
point. Three other times the Uni
versity made similar bids, and
after a fight that reached the Su
preme Court, the University won
only the right to act as cemetery
Authority, sending in death certifi
cates for new cemetery residents.
Decreasing enrollment has
caused a slack in the demand for
space, and the University now
plans to let the cemetery rest in
peace. “We have no plans at pre
sent,” says W.N. McLaughlin, di
rector of University Business Af
fairs. “As long as the cemetery is
kept up, it's fine. But right now it’s
being kept up by a volunteer crew
of plot owners.”
Today the cemetery stretches
out over 16 acres of shady, weed
infested land, and houses the
last-ditch marble and granite at
tempts of 4,000persons to make a
name for themselves. The ceme
tery is officially designated as
"non-perpetual” because there is
no general upkeep. Only the old
and deadicated, about seven
every year, are still buried on the
grounds.
“I'm going to be buried with my
parents right over there," says
Quiner, seemingly pointing to
ward a bunch of students studying
in the library. “Right at the end of
this row.”
A $7 yearly fee paid by lot own
ers allows the Lot Owners Associ
ation to run a mower down the
rows twice a year. But at present
most of the upkeep is carried on
by volunteer lot owners.
Quiner, a wrinkled man of about
60, volunteers much of his time to
the weeding and restoring of
grave sites. “If I stayed home I
would only be working in my gar
den anyway, he says, moving
among the tombstones. Quiner
walks to an obscure portion of the
cemetery and pushes back a
sticky weed. “Here it is,” he says.
“She was the first child to be bom
in Eugene." Edith B. Clinton,
1856-1929, the tombstone reads
in faded rock. “See that red stone
over there in the Pennington lot?
Red granite,” he says pointing.
“We were in the army together.”
Quiner recalls with horror the
death of a graveyard in Reno.
“They said they were going to
move it,” says Quiner. “But I went
there to watch. They had beauti
ful, large stones, and were bull
dozing them all into a comer. The
stones that were left over they put
flat out on the desert, on a small
square of land. No one goes near
it.” Quiner feels the danger of
such a happening at the Pioneer
Cemetery is past, at least tem
porarily.
Ruth Holmes, another member
of the lot owner’s association, ag
rees. “The cemetery is ecologi
cally desirable," she says.
“Botany classes go out there to
study, and other classes go out to
do land surveys.”
Coin collectors find the cemet
ery a prime hunting ground. “Guys
bring their girlfriends out here and
make love, and I guess the motion
jars the coins loose from their
pockets,” explains one collector.
“Personally I can't see doing it on
top of both the girl and a corpse.”
Yet everything is not coming up
roses at the cemetery. “See the
Civil War monument?” says
Quiner, indicating a 12-foot-high,
eight-ton statue of a Civil War sol
dier. “They tried to push it over
with a jeep.” Other tombstones
have been painted with metallic
green paint. The monument of L
Allen used to have a 200-pound
ball nestled in its apex. That was
before someone painted it black
with an “8” and then stole it en
tirely. “I can’t understand it,” says
Quiner.
Last month 40to 60tombstones
were tipped over in one night.
Others have been destroyed with
a sledge hammer. One student, a
woman named Nancy, has fol
lowed the progress of the Hulin
graves. She indicates a hunk of
cement attached to the Hulin
Monument.
“That thing has been all over
campus,” she says. “I’ve found it
in all parts of the cemetery, and
once I found it while jogging by
McArthur court. They finally
cemented it on.”
Other students choose to lie
peacefully on the graves and
relax, as did one unidentified stu
dent asleep on top of the dead Mr.
Bond. Still others prefer simply to
walk down the weed-choked
paths past occasional rusty gates
and tombs, under the Jefferson
pines and over the corpses that
make 14) the cemetery.
Across the street McArthur
Court proclaims “ Buy your football
tickets early.” Move past the
graves of-Defoe and Renfro, past
broken-off stubs of stones, and
plastic flowers in plastic bowfs, to
the cement squares that cover the
tomb of Straub.
Lie down on the soft grassy spot
on top of Ira L. Campbell. The sky
is blue. Bugs tizz. Daisies stick
out. Bur Ira makes you nervous.
Photo by Erich Boekefrietde
Church bells ring in the distance.
“Ding, dong, ding, dong....ding,
dong, ding, dong: Bong, Bong,
Bong."
“The lot owners are maintaining
the cemetery right now,” says
Quiner, retracing his steps
through the weeds. “But we re
getting old. We re dying off.”.
Outdoor Program answers call of the wild
Lane County is full of recreational oppor
tunities.
There are more than 150 parks and
campgrounds in Lane County; hiking trails
through sand dunes, hills, valleys and
mountains; thousands of wildflowers and
several hundred species of birds; covered
bridges; natural and man-made lakes; fish
ing streams and kayakable rivers.
Going out into the wild areas of the
northwest is just one of the activities of the
University’s Outdoor Program. Without
much bureaucratic planning, students de
cide where they want to go, when they want
to go, find other students who want to go to
the same area, and go for a day or weeks.
Participation in the Outdoor Program is
spontaneous and unstructured. The Out
door Program office in the Erb Memorial
Union is a place for people to meet, use the
Jeff Elphinston Memorial Library (outdoor
recreation publications) arid check the Trip
Board and activity sheets to find out poten
tial weekend trips.
The student-initiated trips are not limited
to Oregon. In the past few years, students
have hiked in the Tetons of Wyoming,
rafted Idaho's wild Salmon River, and
helped dean up Mt. McKinley in Alaska.
The Outdoor Program received a national
award for its efforts in deaning debris along
the once-pristine Salmon River.
Every year the Outdoor Program spon
sors ski touring week. Skiers swap equip
merit, ski equipment and safety is demon
strated, and the EMU ballroom is turned
into Nordic headquarters for a week.
The Outdoor Program office is located
around the comer from the Outdoor Re
source Center, a clothing equipment store
and rental for outdoor recreational supplies.
The office is open all day and most of the
night, except on weekends.
What type of hiking trails are around?
More than 50 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail
is located in eastern Lane County. Although
parts are inaccessible to hikers due to early
snows, they offer the cross-country skiers
plenty of opportunities.
For the new hikers from Florida, there are
a variety of trails from the one-mile trail to
the Summit of Spencer Butte just south of
Eugene on Willamette Boulevard to the
Hell's Half Acre trail east of Oakridge near
Twin Creek.
For low-elevation solitude and old
growth timber stands there is the French
Creek area, currently under consideration
for addition to the national wilderness sys
tem.
Maps of Lane County campgrounds are
on file in the Outdoor Program office and
Eire also available from the Lane County
parks and open space department. Other
agencies with local offices that offer recrea
tional maps include the Willamette National
Forest, the Eugene district office of the
Bureau of Land Management and the state
highway division.