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News bucket: Speaker on sexual orientation and gender to present at Boise State
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Stephanie Carnahan, an expert on issues facing lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals will speak at 6 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, in the Jordan Ballroom in the Boise State Student Union Building. The presentation, sponsored by Boise State Student Union and Activities, is titled “Who Are You Calling a Queer? — How to make your department more sensitive to LGBT issues.”
Carnahan, who has a master’s degree in student affairs from Indiana University, has worked in higher education as a resident director, area coordinator, assistant director and director for LGBT support services. She teaches LGBT-issue courses at the University of Oregon and speaks at LGBT conferences regionally and nationally.
The presentation is free and anyone may attend. For further information, call 426-1590.
Boise State to host national debate tournament
The best debaters and competitive speakers in the nation will be coming to Boise State for the 2001 Pi Kappa Delta National Convention and Tournament March 28-31. About 70 collegiate forensics teams will be represented, translating to well over 700 individual competitors. Boise State director of forensics, Marty Most, said hosting the biennial conference not only focuses national attention on the university and its successful competitive team, but in a sense is also a payback to the greater forensics community.
“We go to lots of tournaments every year, and this is a way to pay back all those folks for the hospitality they’ve shown us,” Most said.
Pi Kappa Delta is the national speech and debate honorary society. The Pi Kappa Delta tournament is the oldest collegiate forensics tournament in the United States, according to Most. First held in Ripon, Wis., in 1916, the event tends to draw the best and brightest competitors from participating schools. That makes it probably the toughest and largest tournament the Boise State team faces over a two-year period.
Preparing for the event has taken months of planning and about $10,000 — donated largely by the Idaho Epsilon chapter of Pi Kappa Delta at Boise State. More than 100 classrooms across the campus have been earmarked for competitors. Student Union services such as the downstairs food court, the Boise State Bookstore and the recreation center will all be made available to conference attendees.
Despite the planning, Most said it’s been well worth the two-year effort to prepare for the tournament. “I am excited to be able to do this here,” he said. “And it’s an outstanding opportunity for the students, too. The event’s showcase appearance makes it perfect for community members who enjoy listening to public speaking to come down and check things out.”
But Boise State competitors won’t have much time to stop and chat with supporters. Almost 16 students have left the team since the beginning of the school year, due to scheduling and other conflicts, Most said, leaving the Talking Broncos with only nine students. Even so, the team is second in its conference in parliamentary debate and fifth overall. Nationally, they rank 12th out of more than 300 institutions.
Arbiter Staff