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they put those interviews into a
performance piece.
“Those were our classes.” said
Ginger Legon, who plays several
characters in the performance. One
of the roles she takes on is Mikki
Jordan, a girl who has dealt with
eating disorders and bulimia. She
said each cast member plays about
five different characters.
Quick Fix never changes any
one’s words, Legon said, and what
the audience hears are the actual
words used by the person who
was interviewed.
Dr. Richard Keeling, a national
leader in health issues on college
campuses, saw a Quick Fix per
formance in New York. Keeling
and InnerView Theatre, a non
profit performance group found
ed by faculty, staff and students
at the Tisch School took the
show around the nation, accord
ing to Lee LaTour, the EMU’s
marketing director.
LaTour said as the show moves
to different venues, more inter
views are conducted to find out
what addictions are most prevalent
in that specific community.
“It’s about people’s stories,” La
Tour said.
The cast members arrived at the
University on Sunday and have
begun interviewing University
students and faculty members for
material to use in their perform
ance. He said students are usually
willing to speak with him about
their addictions.
He said once.students find out
Quick Fix is not a way to bust
them, they open up to him. Koenig
said anonymity is very much re
spected, though audiences might
recognize friends or family mem
bers in the characters.
Though Quick Fix has some
times been viewed as a media
tor between students and facul
ty, Koenig said they act as more
of a “catalyst for discussion.”
He said the discussions that
happen after the troupe leaves
is the most positive outcome of
the performance.
“Administration sees it from one
point of view; students see it from
another point of view,” Legon said.
She said communication can be
difficult between the two sides.
“There’s more than two sides to
every coin,” Koenig added.
Koenig said the troupe expends
a lot of energy breaking down pre
conceived notions of what the
performance is about and con
vincing people they are not there
to preach at them. He emphasized
that Quick Fix is not about stop
ping addictions or judging
whether an addiction is right or
wrong. He said the program serves
as a way of making people con
scious of addictive behaviors.
“There’s no moral to the story,”
Koenig said. “This is not an ‘After
school Special’ — this is real life.”
Legon said the cast is playing
various types of people with vari
ous types of addictions.
“It has a fast-paced, upbeat
structure,” Legon said, adding that
she hopes audiences will become
more compassionate toward those
with addictions and less set in
their own ways.
“Storytelling is so powerful,”
Legon said.
The show will also feature a
segment where cast members
confess their own addictive be
haviors, she said.
“There’s no characters, no cos
tumes — raw, in the moment,”
Legon said.
LaTour said Quick Fix is de
signed to capture culture, and
then reflect that culture back to
the audience.
Quick Fix “gives all varying
views of addictive behavior for all
ranges of people,” LaTour said.
She said the program isn’t about
assigning blame; the audiences
choose where to lay the responsi
bility for addictive behavior.
“We all share addictive behav
ior,” she said. “Some are perfectly
OK, some are not.”
LaTour said there are no easy an
swers and no solutions.
“Quick Fix’s job is not to give a
quick fix,” she said. “Their job is to
provoke discussion.”
E-maii reporter Jen West
at jenwest@dailyemerald.com.
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Dr. Richard P. Keeling , a leading
authority on health care issues for
young adults, helped create the
Quick Fix team, which has been
traveling to universities and col
leges across the country for the past
two years.
Quick Fix team members have
been corresponding with Universi
ty of Oregon professors and stu
dents for the past two weeks, and
they have also established a “liai
son team” —a group of 14 Univer
sity students who will inform the
team about issues on campus. The
team is meant to be a diverse sam
ple of the student body, and their
level of involvement in campus ac
tivities varies, Latour said.
“We are the heart of the campus.
Our job is to tell the Quick Fix team
what really happens here from the
student perspective rather than the
administrative,” liaison team coor
dinator Mitra Anoushiravani said.
“Truth be told, we all have different
ideas about what’s goes on, but we
give them the general idea.”
The Quick Fix team will be spon
soring 14 workshops at various lo
cations throughout campus, which
will include both theatrical per
formances and interaction exercis
es with students. Each workshop
will be different and tailored to the
group involved.
“This is a revolutionary ap
proach to addiction. It is not like
the ‘Just Say No’ campaign that our
generation has grown up with,”
Anoushiravani said. “They are pre
senting a true, honest and real in
terpretation of these issues.”
The University’s Substance
Abuse Prevention Program is look
ing to learn new preventive tech
niques from its Quick Fix work
shop today.
“This program can help generate
a conversation about addiction to
integrate into the fabric of our cam
pus,” Associate Director of Student
Life Sheryl Eyster said.
To acquire a greater understand
ing of the issues on this campus,
the Quick Fix team has been living
in student residences. The men
from the team are staying in the
resident halls, while the women
are staying in the Sigma Kappa
sorority house.
The team has also been talking
to drivers from Project Saferide
and the Designated Driver Shut
tle, as well as interviewing ran
domly selected individuals to
discover the prevalent issues on
this campus.
On Wednesday and Thursday,
the Quick Fix team will present a fi
nal theater performance to show
what they have learned from stu
dents, faculty and administration
during their four-day stay. Many of
the student interviews conducted
earlier in the week will be included
in the final performance.
The Quick Fix team will also be
leaving behind some type of stu
dent installation, which could take
the form of an art piece or a video,
as a reminder to students about the
discussion. The student installa
tion is meant to help foster an hon
est, open dialogue among stu
dents, faculty, administrators and
the community.
“The creation will depend
on what the people want and
what the Quick Fix team sees
is happening on our campus,”
Latour said. “It will touch
everyone differently.”
E-mail reporter Danielle Gillespie
atdaniellegillespie@dailyemerald.com.
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the false ID, the card will be confiscat
ed and turned into the Department of
Public Safety, and from there back to
the card office. At on-campus facili
ties, the policy seems to vary from de
partment to department.
Anyone caught using a card
that isn’t theirs at the Student
Recreation Center can have the
card confiscated and the owner of
the card can lose Rec Center privi
leges for a week.
The only change from last year’s
policy to this year’s has been to the
students’ advantage. Should the
person have a physical education
class in the Rec Center, privileges
are only revoked at certain times so
the person can still attend class.
“We just want to protect our fa
cility to be sure the people that are
supposed to be here are the ones
using it,” assistant director of oper
ations Molly Kennedy said.
While there are random checks for
student and faculty cards, most of
those checks are of people who
swipe their cards incorrectly at the
entrance. But a team of employees of
less than 75 can hardly match the
more than 4,000 weekly guests to the
Rec Center, some of whom will do
whatever it takes to get in, she said.
“Some people steal cards,” she said.
“Others use their roommates’ cards.”
The policy was made simple,
that, “No card means no admission
— no exceptions,” Rec Center facil
ities manager Jessica Geraci said.
After the first offense, misused
cards are turned into the card of
fice. Second-time offenders are
handled on an individual basis and
referred to student conduct.
The policy is similar in the EMU
computer lab. While this term has
brought the addition of a card scan
ner, the policy of “no card, no ad
mission” remains unchanged.
“We got this scanner because it
is the most effective way to check
our database for who is a current
student,” lab assistant Nikki
LeFevre said.
While students without a card
can go to the card office to obtain a
temporary copy this term, the tem
porary card is only good for one
day instead of the whole quarter as
it was in the past, said LeFevre. As
in other departments, if a student is
caught with an invalid card, the
student will be turned away and
sent to the card office.
It seems no matter where you go
on campus, the conclusion about
ID cards is the same.
“No ID,” Kennedy said, “means
no entry.”
E-mail reporter Robin Weber
at robinweber@dailyemerald.com.
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