Speech team gains
national recognition
By Melissa Martin
Of the Emerald
A competing University team — the forensics group — is jumping in
to another successful season after recently being ranked in the top 2
percent of all intercollegiate programs in the United States.
When forensics was the most popular campus activity, it actually
subsidized the athletic department, says director David Frank.
During that time the University program gained a nation-wide
reputation for utilizing a cross-examination method much like the fic
tional attorney Perry Mason.
Today it's called the "Oregon Plan."
"The University of Oregon has a rich tradition of debate," Frank
says.
Frank, who oversees the 20 tournaments his team of 30 to 50
students attend each year calls forensics an "educational activity
dedicated to improving the thinking, writing and speaking skills of col
lege students."
Debater Karin Keutzer, a rhetorics and communications major, says
forensics highlights her academic life and teaches her library research
skills.
Keutzer says researching for a tournament policy debate makes a
competitor "as knowledgeable as a senator. Some people are sending
research to our senators and they like it."
"Forensics made me a more disciplined student," says senior Tom
Birkland, a political science major and pre-law student. The research
and public speaking aspects of forensics also will transfer into
Birkland's future as an attorney, he says.
Dave Sterns is director of the tournament's eight to 10 individual
events, which include persuasive speaking, informative, extem
poraneous, impromtu, and oral interpretation.
One effect of forensics is to make students more relaxed in par
ticipation classes, because, "It forces you into the study routine," Stern
says.
Participating in class is easy compared to tournament competition,
where the "rapid fire" policy debate forces a speaker to "see how many
words he can cram in eight minutes," Birkland says.
This term's value debate topic is the quality of higher education,
and this year's policy debate topic deals with toxic waste. Frank says the
University team has been preparing for three months.
Incest workshop to discuss
referral programs, treatment
Oregon therapists will discuss treatments for incest victims and of
fenders at a workshop to be held in November at the Eugene Hilton, 66
E. 6th.
Sponsored by the University Continuation Center and College of
Human Development and Performance, the Justice Series workshop is
open to professionals, students and the public. Participants will meet in
Composers Hall from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 5.
Dramatically increased reporting of incest during the past five years
has spawned a variety of treatment and referral programs in U.S. com
munities, according to Melodye Dabney, workshop coordinator.
"There is an urgent need to share and develop therapeutic theories
and techniques to assist and treat members of the incestuous family as
well as offenders," Dabney says. "The workshop is designed to do just
that.”
Sessions will focus on treatment for the pre-adolescent treatment
and teen victim, the incest offender, and the mother-daughter
relationship.
Panelists discussing treatment for juveniles include Jonetta Finley,
co-coordinator of Promise Club, a pre-adolescent treatment group in
Lane County, and Nancy Evergreen, therapist at Family Counseling Ser
vices of Eugene.
Rex Newton, private practitioner at New Dimensions in Eugene, and
Annette Selmer, therapist at Lutheran Family Services in Portland, will
talk about programs for treating offenders.
Mary Hennman and Margi Malsch, both of the Lane County Incest
Treatment Program, will focus on incest programs for the mother
daughter relationship.
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