| Summary: | THE CONCORDIAN • January 15, 1988 • Page 3 Seminars to women and by Kyrsten Erickson staff writer "Preparing for Tomorrow: A Focus on Women" is a public workshop to be held at Concordia January 14-16. The three-day event includes a lecture, classroom presentations on liberal arts-skills and vocational choices and a panel presentation on "What I Wish I Had Know When I Graduated." Also scheduled is an evening of celebra-tion and musical entertainment and individual sessions conducted by Concordia alumni, allowing students an opportunity to network with alumni and explore strengths and limitations of various vocations. Minneapolis author and business consultant .tenet O. Hagberg will speak on "How Men and Women View Power Differently" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday. January 14 in the Knut-son Center Centrum. The lecture will include interesting thoughts on men and women in the business world, compare their different views concerning jobs and relationshps. A panel discussion on "What I Wish I Had Known When I Graduated" will be held at 4:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 15 in the Knutson Center Centrum, followed by enter-tainment and celebration services at 7:30 p.m. Entertainment will include scenes from the play "Quilters" and live entertainment from Concordia alumni musicians, Sandy Williamson and Rhoda Anderson. Workshops conducted by 20 Con-cordia alumni will be presented con-currently Saturday, Jan. 16 at 9 and 10 a.m. Topics will include career and lifestyle issues, career choices, handling discrimina-tion in the workplace, marriage and family, money management, transi-tion issues, wellness, graduate school and women in the church. "1 will guess that we'll not provide answers, we'll just stimulate conver-sation," said Esther Allen, one of six committee members who organized the workshop. "I hope that it will stimulate conversation between students and teachers, as well." Allen noted several goals of the provide for men alike workshop, but emphasized the im-portance of students to begin think-ing about their own goals. "We'd like to get students think-ing about questions they may not have thought about in terms of their own lifestyles," she said. Other goals mentioned were to help familiarize students with the different possibilities of vocations, to offer op-portunities for students to network and set up social and work contacts, and to provide some female role models. "We want to acquaint students with the advantages of a liberal arts education and encourage them to look into their futures," Allen said. "We hope to challenge students to think about whether they want to go on to further schooling." Allen feels the workshop will help students prepare for the transition from college to a full-time career. "Some of the problems graduates have when they move to larger areas may be a shock to them," she said. "We want to aid students in their adaptation to these newer com-munities." Allen stressed that the workshop issues are not restricted to women, but will many times involve men. "I think in the discussions on Saturday, issues will come up that are not identified," Allen said. "We want to emphasize that all of this is open to male students too." Dual careers with marriage and family is just one of the issues Allen feels both men and women dealwith extensively. "It's the same question we dealt with 30 years ago," she said. The discussion on wellness also will consider the many roles males and females play in society. "Where you get the energy for your job, serving the community, children, exercise and eating right," is very important to every man and woman today, Allen said. Allen has confidence that the workshop will be a success, but keeps in mind that the turnout will determine if they do it again. "We just hope the students will take advantage of this opportunity, because it's all planned with them in mind." said Allen. Forensics Speech and debate travel nationwide and place high in three tournaments by Barb Pavicic staff writer Concordia forensicators started early second semester — with a strong showing at three tour-naments within the first week. While two members of the speech team traveled the "Red River Swing" which included two tournaments, the four-member debate squad traveled to Miami University of Ohio in Oxford, Ohio, Jan. 7-10. Shane Miller, a sophomore and Val Marsh, a freshman, competed in the "Savage Classic" at Southeastern State College in Durant, Okla. Jan. 6-7 for their first tournament. Competing against schools such as Cornell University, the University of Mississippi, the University of Alabama and the University of Texas at Arlington, Miller was a finalist in both after-dinner speaking and impromptu speaking. Marsh was in the semi-finals of poetry. The second tournament of their swing was the "Lone Star Invita-tional" held at the University of Texas at Arlington, "Jan. 8-9. Out of 13 schools at this tournament, Con-cordia placed fifth overall with the smallest squad at the tournament. Miller placed third in impromptu and second in extemporaneous speaking. He has now qualified for the National Individual Events Tournament in extemporaneous speaking. Marsh placed second in dramatic interpretation and sixth in poetry. Due to the distance traveled for these tournaments only two or three people could be entered. Selection was based on overall team standing including previous rankings, number of events that were ready to com-pete, and interest and overall con-tribution to the speech team. In both tournaments Miller competed in five events and Marsh in three events. "It was nice to be able to compete against new faces." said Miller. "It was good to watch how com-petitors in other parts of the coun-try differ in style and technique," said Marsh. The debate team also had a suc-cessful return from the three-day tournament in Ohio. The team of Bob Groven and Cort Sylvester earned a quarter finalist award out of the 22 teams competing at the tournament. New speech tournament "Talk of the Tundra" at by Barb Pavicic staff writer The Concordia forensic team and Speak-Up, the new speech program of the SCTA department will host "Talk of the Tundra," a college-level speech tournament Friday and Saturday. Jan. 22-23. For the past 44 years Concordia has hosted the W.E. Lillo Speech and Debate Tournament, a high school forensic tournamnet. "Talk of the Tundra is the first college speech tournament we've hosted since 1977," said Hank Tkachuk, chairperson of the SCTA department. Speech teams from a five-state area are expected to attend, in-cluding some of the nation's best. Schools of all sizes, public and private will attend, as there are no competition divisions in forensics. "Some of the best competition in the country is in this region," said Bill Wallace, tournament director. "This will be a good tournament competitively." x Eleven speech events will be scheduled in three general categories — interpretive, public ad-dress and limited preparation. Inter-pretive events involve reading and interpreting a section of a literary work. The events include prose, poetry, drama and dramatic duo. Public address events — original speeches usually on a current issue, written by the student — are after-dinner speaking, communication analysis, informative and persuasive will be the Concordia speaking. Limited preparation events,. impromptu and extem-poraneous speaking, allow only a minimal amount of time to prepare the speech. Students and others who arc in-terested in or curious about com-petitive speech activities are invited to observe. 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