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Show The Tfumderbird Monday, Apr if 30, 1984 Page 3 SUSC forensics team is home after national tourney success by Fletcher Matson The SUSC forensics program finished its 1984 season with strong showings at several national competitions during the last two months. SUSC sent two teams to the Senior National Debate Tournament in Knoxville, Tenn. Scott Price and Kent Tasso qualified for the octofinals but lost to Northwestern University. Vince Meldrum and Mike Chidester did not garner enough judges ballots to qualify. In the national contest for the Cross Examination Debate Association, Meldrum and Mike Olsen cleared octofinals before falling to Brigham Young University. Forensics Director M.L. Smith was extremely pleased with all the squads performances. Our goal was to maintain breaking into final rounds for the prestige of SUSC. We beat some very good teams getting there. We earned some national respect and prestige. Its been a real group effort, Smith said. Smith also credits much of the debate programs success to the coaching of John DeBross. SUSC took fifth place overall in the National Individual Events Tournament held at Kansas State University. Smith says this showing is a major achievement for such a young program SUSC has competed in the tournament for only four years. This is a real tribute to Sage Platts coaching abilities, when many other institutions have been competing in the same contests for 30 or 40 years, and its a tremendous tribute to the talented students in our forensic program, he said. Individual rankings include Marie Chanley, 10th place in impromptu and 12th in extemporaneous speaking; Randall Hickman, 15th in dramatic interpretation; and Tiya Coleman, fifth, Kevin Lewis, seventh, and Kristin Catherall, 11th, in poetry. Lewis also took fifth in informative speaking. Four SUSC teams qualified for the quarterfinals in dramatic duo. Hickman and Coleman finished in 13th place; Hickman and Catherall placed 14th, and Pat Posada and Theresa Schriver took 15th. Help for tenants arrives by Ralph Schriock SUSCs forensics department has long enjoyed a reputation for excellence, not only in Utah but across the nation. Again this year students competing in debate and individual events proved the justice of that reputation. Department head M.L. Smith gives much of the credit to his assistants, John DeBross and Sage Platt. Pictured here are a few of the students who took honors this year. They are (I to r) Kevin Lewis, Theresa Schriver, Kristen Catherall, Sharon Bullock, Sonya Smith, Tiya Coleman, and (back row) Randy Hickman and Kevin Astly. recounts his life Code-talke- r Laird by Lisa Sai-Pa- SUSCs new Tenant Association must still get past the paper stage but once thats done, Acting Director Mitch Connell wants to get things square with Cedar City landlords. Still needed are some fairly competent people to staff the organization and serve as liasions between apartment managers and students, Connell said. The Tenants Association becomes operational when we have a landlords brunch, he told the ASSUSC Executive s Council. We want to establish a working relationship with the local landlords, and its important they dont view us as adversaries. Were walking a fine line of authority, he cautioned. We could be sued by any one of these landlords. Students will begin to feel the effects of the association next year. Because the new executive council is using the remainder of the old councils budget, Connell said, Were having a problem right now in funding. A large sum of money is needed to organize, and to print a student handbook. The handbook, scheduled for completion in June, spells out the legal rights and restrictions student renters face. Connell, student affairs director, is also eyeing fall quarter seminars where lawyers can counsel the more than 1,000 students living Connell said the organization is in phase two, and once a staff is in place, mediation procedures can be outlined. I want all our procedures approved through the administration and by a lawyer, he added. At 76, Carl Gorman is one of the few people whose life embodies a people and a culture. As the guest lecturer for Convocations during Indian History week, Carl Gorman spoke about his career m the Marine Corps as one of the 29 in World War II and original Navajo code-talkeabout his careers and interests after the war. Walking with a cane, Gorman could be seen about campus as he also spoke at several of Thursdays functions for Indian History week and shared his views with students. Not only a famous Marine veteran, Gorman is n as an artist, teacher, philosopher, spokesman and lecturer for the Navajo people. As one of the original Gorman was sent to San Diego, California, to help develop and learn the neccessary skills. The recruits had to have a command of spoken and written Navajo and English before they were allowed to become well-know- code-talker- code-talker- s. When I enlisted in the Marines, the (known), code-talke- rs I I didnt know would be making history. If I had would have brought a pen, quipped Gorman. When the Navajo were recruited, they were told they would be assigned special duty. I thought that meant office work in a blue uniform. Special duty. ..they never told us that we would use our language and be put with the troops on the front line. SUSC will buy on credit SUSC will soon be buying some needld instructional equipment on credit. Thp Utah State Legislature recently approved an experimental buying plan for the state schools, according to Prove st Terry Alger. The new buying plan vill allow schools to pay for equip nent in installments. Institutions will b ; able to spread payments over sever; years, instead of paying the total price nt the time of the purchase. Wre just now able to buy equipmen 1 Gorman relates that he was one sick Marine He said he in when he served over-sea- s was flown to a hospital in Pearl Harbor where he was given clean pajamas and a nice, clean white Gee! I thought, I finally bed. I was real happy died. I think Im in heaven, its so clean and white. I went to sleep and when I woke up and found out it was a hospital and not heaven, I was real upset. Gorman said the code-talkewere so important to the military in the Pacific, that when the Fourth Marine Division advanced on Iwo Jima, headquarters ordered the Marines to shoot any of if they should be captured by the the code-talkedidnt know that Japanese. We (the at the time. Gorman, who is vice president of the Navajo s Association, saicthe Marine Corps did give him his greatest incentive to achieve. I was nothing before I joined the Marines, he said. I had no goals. I would go to dances all the time and that was my life. In the Marines, I had a sergeant on the ship who would talk to me and ask me questions. He would say, Whats your future, what are your goals after you get out? I said I had no goals. He said, Tell me about your religion. I didnt know anything about my religion. He said, Tell me about your culture, I knew nothing and said I didnt know. Gorman said that incident taught him to take pride in his roots and his culture. the way people have been able to buy their cars for years, said Alger. Alger says the college plans to implement the new buying procedure school year. during the 1984-8Installment buying will greatly enhance the expansion of college departments and programs hampered by inadequate 5 equipment budgets, he said. Possible purchases range from robotics in Industrial Ed to microcomputers just basic instructional equipment, he said. Voter code-talker- Code-Talker- sign-u-p The ASSUSC Executive Council will put up booths on campus next week to push one message: voting means power. The voter registration drive on campus is part of a statewide effort by college studei't body leaders to turn students into a political force. A council of Utah student body presidents kicked off the drive at a news conference April 18 at the University of Utah. By registering more students, the ' is urged strength of our lobbying force in the State Legislature is increasing, said ASSUSC President Scott Price. This is the single most important step a student can take this year in gaining a voice in the State Legislature, he said. Kim Kelly and Stuart Riley are chairing the registration drive on campus. They are seeking volunteers to man the booths, which will be in front of the library and the student center May 3 through 9. |