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room floor.
Kristen Kinkel described her
brother’s formative years as “aver
age,” and their family as a normal,
loving unit.
“Only with hindsight do I truly
see the signs of someone who was
in desperate need of help, differ
ent help than any of us knew how
to give,’’she said.
She said she had advised her
brother to “tune-out” the painful
testimony of victims during his
sentencing, but that he adamant
ly replied, “No, I owe it to them to
listen.”
Next the Kinkels’ neighbors,
Bob and Donna Wagner were
called, respectively, to discuss
their impressions of Kinkel and
his personality.
Bob Wagner said he’d known
Kinkel all his life and that he often
helped him and his wife by doing
odd jobs around their house. Both
witnesses said news of the shoot
ings was a shock to them, and in
consistent with what they believe
the boy they knew was capable of
doing.
“It didn’t fit,” Bob Wagner said.
“I couldn’t believe it,” Donna
Wagner testified, “absolutely
couldn’t believe it.”
Before the hearing’s midday
break, the defense team presented
Jean Bishop, Jane Brolsma and
Sandra Wilson, three teachers
who knew Kinkel as a young boy
in school. Bishop facilitated a
Montessori class he attended 13
years ago and Brolsma and Wilson
were Kinkel’s first-grade teachers
in Wilsonville. Kinkel repeated
the first grade at the request of his
parents.
The entire afternoon session
was dedicated to the testimony of
Dr. Orin Bolstad, a clinical child
psychologist who spent more than
32 hours with Kinkel over six dif
ferent evaluation meetings.
Through analysis of what Bol
stad called “a pretty standard bat
tery of tests,” including personali
ty, psychological and IQ
assessments and the Rorschach
ink-blot test, the witness conclud
ed he was 95 percent confident
that Kinkel suffers from a serious
mental illness.
“A more specific diagnosis, it’s
clear to me he has a psychotic dis
order,” he said.
Because diagnosing adoles
cents is “tricky” according to the
psychologist, definitively labeling
Kinkel schizophrenic or other
wise would be difficult, he said,
especially as the diseases’ onset
typically hits at age 25.
Bolstad did offer, however, that
as Kinkel scored exceedingly high
for paranoia, persecution com
plex, hypersensitivity to criticism,
suicidal tendencies and anti-so
cial behavior, he was a youngster
“that differs greatly from your av
erage teenager.”
In their sessions, Kinkel told the
psychologist that he’d experi
enced auditory hallucinations, or
voices in his head since the time
he was 12 years old. He said he
never told anyone else about these
experiences prior to May of last
year out of fear or shame he would
be found mentally ill.
When asked if he believed the
defendant would be a danger to
society should he ever be released
from prison, Bolstad was prudent
with his reply.
“It would be irresponsible to
make a prediction 25 to 30 years
hence on whether he could be re
leased," he said. “But there are
positive indicators that he could
improve with anti-psychotic
drugs.”
The sentencing hearing is ex
pected to continue into the mid
dle of next week.
Emerald reporter StefanieKnowIton contributed to
this report.
Calendar
Thursday, Nov. 4
Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgen
der Alliance open house. Every
one welcome. 4:30 p.m. to 6:30
p.m.
Family Therapy Lecture: Psy
chology professor emeritus
Robert Weiss discusses “New
Lights on the Dark Side of Mar
riage ” to launch a series of
monthly talks through April 2000
sponsored by the College of Edu
cation's Marriage and Family
Therapy Program. Noon. Ball
room, Downtown Athletic Club,
999 Willamette St. Series: $69
general, $49 students. Single talk
$15. For information, call 684
7246.
Festival of the Millennium ’99:
Robert Kyr directs “Festival of the
Millennium: Music for the New
Century...and Beyond!” The
three-week festival celebrates
music of the 20th century with
performances by University fac
ulty and guest artists. School of
Music building, 961E. 18th Ave.
For schedule, cost and other in
formation, browse musicl.uore
gon.edu or call 346-5678.
Cressman Lecture: Award-win
ning author and Native American
scholar Tsianina Lomawaima
discusses “Education By Indians
vs. Education For Indians: Native
Responses to Boarding Schools.”
7 p.m. Room 175, Knight Law
Center, 1515 Agate St. Free. For
information, browse the Oregon
Humanities Center at
darkwing.uoregon.edu/~hu
manctr/. Free public reception
follows at the University Muse
um of Natural History, 1680 E.
15th Ave., where the current ex
hibit is “They Sacrificed for Our
Survival: The Indian Boarding
School Experience.”
Savage Lecture: Adm. Stansfield
Turner, former director of the
Central Intelligence Agency, dis
cusses “The U.S. and Europe
During and After the Cold War. ”
7:30 p.m. Heritage Hall, Bower
man Family Building, 1580 E.
15th Ave. Free. For information,
call 346-1521. Reception follows.
News brief
Gov. Kitztiaberasks
students to vote
Gov. Kitzhaber asked student
leaders for a favor on Wednes
day.
Speaking to the board of the
Oregon Students Association,
Kitzhaber appealed to the 30 rep
resentatives from Oregon’s col
leges and universities to encour
age their fellow students to vote.
“It’s absolutely essential that
this group vote in the next elec
tion,” Kitzhaber said.
Kitzhaber is asking for support
for two measures on the Novem
ber 2000 ballot dealing with K-12
funding. “These things usually
turn on the 18-24 vote,” he
added.
Kathleen Workman, non-tradi
tional student advocate for the
ASUO, was on hand to appeal for
child care grants. Workman, who
is a parent, told the governor that
the 250 child care grants offered
by the state do not help the ap
proximately 650 students on the
waiting list for such a grant.
“I will graduate before my
name comes up,” Workman said.
ASUO State Affairs Coordina
tor Matt Swanson supported
Workman and her position.
“The issue is important be
cause we don’t want any student
to be forced to choose between
getting an education and taking
care of a child.”
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