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Journalist Micheal Kroll, who has written about prisons for the Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times, will speak on "The Media and the Perception of Crime" at 7:15 p.m., Thursday, in 150 Geology. Two workshops on sexual assault and community programs for alternatives to sexual assault will be led by Quaker Minister Faye Honey Knoop in the Forum Room of the EMU from 2-4 p.m. on Oct. 20 and 21. Kathryn Burkhart, author of "Women in Prison," will direct two workshops on that subject Oct. 20, from 10:30 a.m.-noon in EMU Room 167 and from 2-4 p.m. in EMU Room 110. The conference costs $50 for professionals, $17.50 for students and the unemployed, and $35 for all others. Other options include paying per event and obtaining full and partial scholarships that are based on a person's ability to pay. For information call 344-4015. Sponsors of the conference in clude the Black Student Union, the Campus Interfaith Ministry, the Minority Law Students Union and the ASUO. Host of speakers slated for Minority Law Day The law school's minority stu dent association and the state bar affirmative action committee are co-hosting Minority Law Day at the University Saturday. The Minority Law Day is the only one of its kind in the nation. Minoru Yasui, a University law school graduate of 1939, will talk about his experiences as a Japanese American citizen during World War II when he challenged the curfew law and faced nine months in solitary confinement in the Multnomah County Jail. Yasui, the national chair of the Japanese American Citizen's League Committee on Redress, reopened the case last February. Jose Mata, director of Oregon State Bar Affirmative Action pro gram, will talk about law school entrance exams and preparing for law school with Susan Lysek of the learning resource center. A Willamette University law pro fessor and a representative of the University's Minority Law School Association will discuss the law school experience and the job market. Derrick Bell, dean of the Univer sity law school, and Ernie Estes, from the state public defender's office for the Oregon State Bar Af firmative Action Committee, will give the opening remarks. Following Yasui's speech at 1:30 p.m. in the law school, a panel of attorneys from Portland and Lane County as well as the University will discuss minorities and the law. Oregon's Minority Law School Students Association is a "support group for minorities," says Peggy Nagae, law school professor. The group works with recruitment, ad missions, tutoring and organizing speakers, she says. Russ Aoki, se cond year law student, is the chair. The event is free. Registration begins at 9:45 a m., Saturday. Forensics starts strongly . The University Forensics team began its competitive season on a strong note this weekend when it attended the Whitman College tour nament, the first major regional competition of the year. The team managed to place about 85 percent of its attending members into final rounds "which is excellent considering that there were some TOO competitors," says David Sterns, individual events director. Patty Martin took home a first place trophy in junior poetry while Michael lee captured third place in senior poetry and was also a finalist in senior prose. Carla Williams placed third in |unior prose, David Giles took third place in novice interpretation, David Long captured third in junior ex temporaneous speaking, and Daryle Koroluk placed third in novice ex temporaneous speaking. Finalists were Sean Smith in senior Prose, Lisa Berquist in junior poetry, Vicki Handy in novice interpretation. Rich Gray in senior persua sion, and Mike Sustrom in junior impromptu. Sistrom also was fifth in speaker debate. Cash For Textbooks Mon. - Fri. Sritith Family Bookstore 768 E. 13th 1 Block From Campus 345-1651 WpHiwkHav Ortnhpr IQ 1QA*1