1989 Convocations Week Program February 6 - 11 North Idaho College
Beyond Darkness: a human resr>onse
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. Robert Kennedy All events are free and open to the public and wlll be held In the Communication-Arts Auditorium.
February 6 10am
Monday
Competition: Why We All Lose In Our Race To Win
Alfie Kohn
Alfie Kohn, author of No Contest: The Case Against Competition
Surprising as it may seem, the phrase 'healthy competition' is actually a contradiction in terms. The real alternative to being Number One is not being Number Two but being able to dispense with such rankings altogether. Alfie Kohn Alfie Kohn is a scholar, teacher and journalist and is a leading critic of America's obsession with competition. His writings on the subject include the book No Contest: The Case Against Competition (Houghton Mifflin), which received the 1987 National Psychology Award, as well as articles in Psychology Today, The Atlantic, Worl<ing Mother, The Rotarian, New Age Journal, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune and the San Francisco Chronicle. Educated at Brown University and the University of Chicago, Kohn lives in Cambridge, Mass. and is currently working on his next book, tentatively titled Beyond Selfishness: The Brighter Side of Human Nature.
12 pm to 3 pm
Rape: An Act Of Hate
Movie, shown continuously
FBI statistics show that a woman is raped every seven minutes in the United States. These are reported rapes; probably ten times as many rapes go unreported. Rape is not a pretty subject and this is not a pretty film. Hosted by Veronica Hamel, the film seeks to determine why people rape and to help potential victims, women and men, regardless of age, appearance, economic or education status, protect themselve-s. This Emmy Award winning film examines the history and mythology of rape, explains who are its most likely victims and contains interviews with experts in the fields of media, law enforcement and sociology.
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Incest: The Not Talked About Abuse
Michael Manz M.D.
Recent scientific research sug~ests that presently as many as 40 million people, about one in six Americans, may have been sexually victimized as children. Incest is not limited to the rich or poor, the cities or the countryside; it's everywhere, including the Inland Northwest. Chief of the Psychiatric Center for Children and Adolescents at Spokane's Sacred Heart Medical Center, Or. Michael Manz has a distinguished career primarily dedicated to children's mental and emotional health. In addition to his staff duties and a private practice in child and family psychiatry, Dr. Manz serves as chairperson for "Children in Need of Protection,• a sub-committee of the Governor's Commission on Children.
12pm
Gorbachev's Russia & Release from the USSR
Matvei Finkel
Matvei Finkel was born in 1948 in Moscow, USSR. The former metallurgist lived there until he emigrated to the United States in September 1987, following a ten-year struggle with the KGB and Soviet authorities to leave the Soviet Union to join his American wife and daughter. Now living in Spokane, Finkel recently completed an entertaining series of columns for the Spokesman Review and Chronicle about his new life in America and published his first book, Journey to Freedom: From the Soviet Empire to the Inland Empire.
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February 8 The Long Road To Nowhere: A Bag Lady's Experience
9am
Buelah Lund
From being a Spokane area farmwife to a Washington D.C. bag lady is no ordinary career move, but Buelah Lund voluntaril{ made this unusual odessy to see what the life of the homeless was really like. For six weeks in 1986, this mother o four and foster mother of many, tromped the streets of the nation's capital, living out of a bag and sleeping on benches. Her story was covered by the national media and helped illuminate the horror of a life on the streets and brought attention to the recent billion dollar bill for the homeless passed by Congress.
1 pm
The Social Impact of TV
Marvin Smith, EWU
Marvin Smith is currently an associate professor of radio and television at Eastern Washington University, following 11 years on the faculty at The University of Arizona in Tucson. While in Arizona, he directed the Southwest Creative Film Center and served as executive director for numerous animated children's films and formed policy recommendations on the role of public radio and television for children. A graduate of Trinity University in San Antonio, Tex., and the University of Austin, Mr. Smith has produced and/or written more than 250 TV programs and is the author of Radio, Television,
Cable: a Telecommunications Approach.
February 9 11 am
Thursday
A Twenty Year Old's Soldier's View of the Vicious Heart A veteran's memories of liberation of a WW II concentration camp
Ray Stone Mayor of Coeur d'Alene
Known best as Coeur d 'Alene's mayor, Ray Stone holds bachelor's and master's degrees from Whitworth College in US history, counseling and educational philosophy and is a former NIC dean. Mr. Stone also served in the US Army from February 1942 to January 1946, during which he was a parachute infantryman in the 82nd Airborne Division. He participated in three combat campaigns in the European theater as a scout in an intelligence and reconnaissance platoon and helped liberate a concentration camp, for which he received the Eisenhower Liberation Award in the spring of 1988.
My Father, My Son
1pm
Film
This is a true present day story of a father and son who both served in Vietnam. The father was a commander, the son was a platoon leader. The father gave orders for Agent Orange's use and the son and his platoon, following orders, were in the thick of its use. This MGM made-for-television movie addresses the two as they wrestle with their relationships as the son lies dying of cancer, a cancer attributed to Agent Orange.
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Holocaust collection of photographs, borrowed from Temple Beth Shalom, Spokane C-A Auditorium foyer
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F-jriday February 10 11 am
Those Who Are Not Rich and Famous
Susan Sheehan
Ms. Sheehan writes for the New Yorker and is the winner of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction for her book Is There No Place On Earth For Me? This respected book presents a detailed history of a long term mental patient as she experiences 45 different treatment settings in 17 years. She is the recipient of the prestigious National Mental Health Association Award, and she has spoken throughout the country about the issues raised in this book. Her other works include Ten Vietnamese, A Welfare Mother, A Prison and a Prisoner. Ms. Sheehan will talk about how she goes about reporting on "non-celebrities," those who live in welfare slums, prisons, mental institutions and why she prefers their stories to the paparazzi's beat.
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• Acknowledgements • Auditorium Staff Katie Mans, Mike Ward, Justin Van Eaton, Jimmy Michaels
• Autumn Alexander Public Relations
Joe Jonas & Commercial Art students for the artwork and Convocations poster production
• Instructional Media Services Mike J. Miller, Tom Lyons, Ann Scollard, Darrin Cheney, and RATV 298 Students
• Associated Students of North Idaho College & Student Services for thler financial support of Convocations
• Special Assistants Richard (Duke) Snyder, Tony Stewart, David Cohen, and the Law Enforcement Program
• Convocations Committee NIis Rosdahl, Joe Jonas, Tim Rarick, and Jeananne Mitchell
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