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Show Reputation Established bySUSC Debaters The forensics team at Southern Utah State College has more firmly established its reputation as a forensics power following a victorious three-tournament swing through southern California. "We've won either first or second place at each of our last six tournaments," SUSC forensics coach M. L. Smith said. "We took second at the University of New Mexico, a double sweepstakes at Fullerton and sweepstakes again at the Air Force Academy," he explained. "In our most recent con-tests-the California Swing-we Swing-we took second place at both UCLA and at the University of Southern California and won top points at Fullerton in a 'no-sweepstakes' tournament. Smith attributes his team's success to "full squad effort." "We take out a group of students and they all contribute to our win," he said. "We're establishing ourselves as a forensics power, Southern Utah State is a recognized and respected name in forensics competition." At the University of Southern California SUSC debater Allen Burch finished as one of the 10 top speakers in debate competition. He and his partner Jerri Price contributed to SUSC's second place win along with the efforts of several other SUSC teams. Smith noted that the team of Kim DeAdder and Annette Chilinski finished with an impressive three-win record in their first time out. In the same tournament Chris Kerecman took third place in extemporaneous speaking and Kayron Madson took third in ex-postory ex-postory speaking. Another SUSC veteran, Appel Tuxhorn, was a finalist in oration. The SUSC squad next competed at tournaments atr UCLA and at Fullerton College, with the majority of the squad concentrating its efforts at the larger school. At UCLA, the debate team of Price and Allen took second place in junior division, with Price coming in third in total number of speaker points. Chris Kerecman, a strong squad member in both individual events and debate, won second place in speaker points for senior division debate. SUSC also collected valuable points towards its second place win through the efforts of Craig LeDuc and Tracy Ashman who won third place in CEDA competition. com-petition. The T-Birds also did well in individual events with Ashman taking third in oratory and Tuxhorn third in expository speaking. In the same contest Madson and LeDuc were finalists in expository speaking and communative analysis, respectively. Only two SUSC teams competed at Fullerton, but the team efforts netted them high points in the contest Smith said. The team of Vickie Green and Chris Lathrop finished with a third place win in Junior division debate, with other points . being contributed by the freshman team of Tove Horton and Karen Reeves. "SUSC did very well in total number of speaker points in this tournament," Smith said, "with Green coming in second and Lathrop third in junior division competition." The Fullerton contest, Smith explained, was one strictly for debate. No competition was held in individual events. "We're are looking forward for-ward to our future competition," com-petition," Smith said, "having defeated teams from such powerful forensics foren-sics schools as USC, UCLA, Brigham Young University, University of Arizona, University of Wyoming and Loyola." |