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Show Reach out rounds Debaters do well There were 85 colleges and universities entered in the I.E. nationals. From 60-80 students competed in each area of competition. "The majority of students on SUSC's forensic squad debate and individual events-are events-are freshmen and sophomores and most of them will return to SUSC next fall," Mrs. Piatt said. "In individual events alone, we plan to have a dozen specialists." The American Forensic Association sponsored I.E. nationals will be held next year in Minnesota, the year after at Weber State College. Five Southern Utah State College students reached the out rounds in forensic competition at the National Individual Events Tournament held recently at Towson State University, Towson, Md. The SUSC rankings included a third place win in prose by freshman Philip Shelburne, a 1980 graduate of Rancho High School, Las Vegas, who gave a cutting from Stephen King's "Last Rung on the Ladder." The SUSC theater arts major qualified for the national I.E. contest in four events. Shelburne was also a quarter-finalist in duo interp with Tracy Ashman, Ash-man, a SUSC sophomore communications major who graduated in 1979 from Timpview High School, Provo. Nancy Adams, a sophomore psychology major from Cedar City, finished competition in the national contest as a semi-finalist in oratory and a quarter-finalist in expository speaking. The Cedar High School graduate qualified for the nationals last year in poetry. Chris Kerecman, a junior communications-political communications-political science major from Orem, finished competition as a semi-finalist semi-finalist in extemporaneous ex-temporaneous speaking. Kerecman, Utah's Truman Scholar for 1980-81, 1980-81, was a semi-finalist last year, same category, in national competition. Also representing SUSC at the I.E. nationals was quarter-finalist quarter-finalist Jackie Clegg, a freshman communications com-munications major from Orem, who competed in impromptu speaking. "SUSC finished the nationals with placings in six categories," said Sage L. Piatt, I.E. coach. "Last year we had one student, Chris Kerecman, Kerec-man, finish in the out rounds." ''SUSC was represented in every category of individual events except after-dinner after-dinner speaking," said SUSC Forensic Coach M.L. Smith. "Last year we earned three slots at the : nationals, this year fifteen, and we feel that our students represented SUSC exceptionally well." Bradley University, Peoria, 111., won sweepstakes honors at the Towson State contest; The Illinois school had 55 slots entered, reaching the out rounds in 18 of them. "While many of the larger schools had a larger group of entrants, SUSC did very well on a percentage basis with six of 15 slots making it to the out rounds," Smith said. "Utah was represented at the contest with students from Weber State College. Brigham Young University. I li e University of Utah and SUSC. Starnes Irom Weber came in third in individual sweepstakes." |