1986-1987
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The Faculty No picture available at this time. Sean O'Rourke, Acting Director of
Forensics
Bob Withycombe,
Director of Forensics (on sabbatical) |
Whitman News
A. Robert Skotheim was the college
president.
B. Total student fees were $11,680.
C. Donald Sherwood donated $1.8 million to the school as the
Annual Fund broke $1 million and the Campaign for Whitman was ahead of
schedule. The Olin Foundation also awarded Whitman $1. 8
million for an addition to the
D. The Phi Delta Theta House was
closed.
E. Skotheim did not ban CIA
recruiters from campus despite major protests.
F. Dean Foster held a forum on the sexual harassment policy
after the policy was severely criticized.
G. The philosophy department received a letter form the
American Philosophical Association stating that the department was the best
undergraduate philosophy department in the nation, only to later discover that
it was a hoax.
Speech Courses
Courses remain the same.
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 110. Fundamentals of Speech, 3 hours. (description changes; 11 and 12 are focus more on delivery
and articulation)
SPEECH 221, 222. Principles and Practice of Forensics, 1
hours (individual events), 2 hours (debate).
SPEECH 270. Argumentation and Persuasion, 3
hours.
SPEECH 370. Seminar: Western Rhetorical Thinking, 3 hours.
World News
A. Nicaragua dominated the foreign policy news.
B. Elie Wiesel won the Nobel Peace
Prize.
C. Drug abuse was a hot domestic topic.
D. President Reagan’s civil rights record was criticized.
E. “Platoon” did well at the box office.
Team Awards
A. The team participated in an Oxford-style debate during
Homecoming Weekend.
B. The debate topic was “Resolved: That improved relations
with the Soviet Union are a more important objective for the
C. Sean O’Rourke was the director of forensics.
D. Intercollegiate season
1.
a. Thomas Felt and Kevin Connolly had a 3-3
record in debate.
b. Drummond Kahn and Erik Highberg had a 1-5 debate record.
c. Joel Nixon and Tony Markey had a 0-6
debate record.
2.
a. Carla Widdell
and John Lange broke to quarterfinals with a 3-3 record.
b. Highberg and Kahn had a 2-4
record.
c. Felt and Connolly earned a 3-3 record.
d. Novice debaters Antilla and Browers broke to quarterfinals with a 4-2 record.
e. John Moe and Jennifer Russell were both
finalists in poetry and prose.
f. Nixon was a finalist in dramatic interpretation.
g. Connolly and Russell were finalists in extemporaneous
speaking.
h. Kahn was first in championship impromptu speaking and
third in championship extemporaneous speaking.
i. Highberg was
third in extemporaneous speaking