1982-1983
The Faculty
Bob Withycombe, Director of
Forensics
The team in the 1982-1983 Yearbook.
Whitman News
A.
An overriding concern was
that there were very few women on Whitman’s faculty.
B.
Power shortages left half of
the campus without power intermittently from September 27-30.
C.
The school considered
demolishing the Old Music Building (now the Hunter Conservatory) in order to
build a new music building on the site. However opposition to the plan
prevailed and the New Music Building was designed for an alternate site.
D. Large
beverage price hike at the Sub is attributed to increased syrup costs.
E. Laundry
fees were increased to .75 a wash.
F. Nicholas
Nickleby opened at HJT.
G. Registration
is computerized.
H. Whitman
Soccer team defeats alumni in annual match 5-0.
I. Only
11 of 86 professors at Whitman were women.
J. Whitman
Held their first Ultimate Frisbee tournament.
Speech Courses
The
Seminar on Western Rhetorical Theory was added in the catalogue as a course.
Speech
Department Description: Courses treat public speaking as a liberal art,
proposing that such speaking is not a skill learned by rule but an exercise of
judgment that can be no better than the speaker's understanding of the nature of
the communicative acts.
SPEECH
11. Fundamentals of Speech, 3 hours.
SPEECH
36. Argumentation and Persuasion, 3 hours.
SPEECH
45, 46. Principles and Practice of Forensics, 1 hours (individual events), 2
hours (debate).
SPEECH
51. Seminar:
Western Rhetorical Thinking, 3 hours.
World News
A. Karen Carpenter died in February.
B. The U.S. pursued
a military buildup in the Middle East in order to counter the Soviet threat.
C. November 28 – Representatives from 88
countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward
aspects of free trade.
D.
December 1 – Michael Jackson's #1 album Thriller is released, to become one of the
biggest selling albums of all time in entertainment history.
E.
December 7 – The first U.S. execution by lethal injection is carried out in
Texas.
F.
December 26 – Time Magazine's Man of the Year is given for the first time to a
non-human, the computer.
G.
February 13 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims 1983 "The Year of the
Bible".
H.
March 8 - U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil
empire."
I.
April 18 - The U.S Embassy is bombed in Beirut, killing 241 people.
J.
November 17 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded.
Team Awards
A. In
a joke issue of the Pioneer, the
debate team was reported to have received its own air transportation funded by
Boeing.
B.
Intercollegiate debate season
1.
Gonzaga Tournament
a.
Whitman was first in sweepstakes out of 26 schools.
b. Fifteen of Whitman’s 24 competitors
received recognition and/or awards.
2.
a. Whitman won sweepstakes at both
tournaments.
b. David Bansmer
and Todd Brown, and Steve McConnell and John Watrons
closed out finals of CEDA debate at PLU.
c. Brown and Watrons
won the top two places in senior impromptu speaking.
d. Kevin Loomer
was first in prose at PLU and UPS.
e. Patrick Page was first in expository
speaking at PLU and UPS. Page also won a special plaque honoring the single
most outstanding speaker at both tournaments.
C. By the end of the season, Whitman was
first in the Northwest while second place Gonzaga lagged behind by over 100
points.
D. Whitman won all six Northwest
tournaments, four sweepstakes competitions, took second at CEDA Nationals, and
won fifth at the National Forensics Tournament.
E. Whitman was asked by the Northwest
Forensics Conference to hold the conference’s first college tournament set for
November 1983 (a tournament that Jim Hanson attended in his first year of
college debate).
F. Bansmer, Susan Bonner, John Bunnell, Kevin Gunning, Loomer,
Rob Morea, Page, and Watrons
all attended the National Forensics Tournament in