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Show U debators do well in 'Top of Rockies' , , ( C i CEDAR CITY -"We're a full fledged squad now, successfully competing in all levels of forensic competition including top-flight senior division debate," said Southern Utah State College forensic coach M. L. Smith following recent Thunderbird success at the Top of the Rockies Debate Swing. Held at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, and the University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, 64 teams from 50 colleges and universities competed in the tournament. tour-nament. "This was an upper level championship tournament, one held strictly for senior division debaters," Smith said. "Some of the best teams in the country were there, representing such well-known well-known debate schools as Loyola, University of Utah, Sacramento State, Baylor, Emporia and the from the University of Utah. "A total of 301 speaker points were needed to break into the out-rounds, so the SUSC team missed breaking into the finals by only two points," Smith said. "This is the first year ! that Lathrop and Romero have debated as a team," Smith said. "They both lost partners to LDS missions this summer, and are working very well together." A third SUSC team, Jackie Clegg and Alan Gustafson, finished the tournament with an equal win-loss record. Clegg is a sophomore com-munica com-munica tions-political science major from Orem; Gustafson a SUSC freshman and Bingham High School graduate. "For a freshman-sophomore freshman-sophomore team, Clegg and Gustafson are doing an excellent job," Smith said. SUSC senior debaters will compete this weekend at a tournament at Kansas State College, Emporia. Air Force Academy." If SUSC's success in the tournament is an indication in-dication of things to come, Smith said, the college could break into the ranks of the 20 best national teams. SUSC's Chris Kerec-man, Kerec-man, a senior from Orem, and Jerry Lynn Price, a junior from West Jordan, finished with the best T-Bird record. The veteran team made it to the quarter-finals in Laramie, finally losing to a team from the University of Kansas. In Greeley, the duo lost in octa-finals to a team from Gonzaga University, Univer-sity, Spokane, Wash. "We should have had the win that round," Smith said. "We made a mistake, Gonzaga capitalized on it for the win, then went on to lose their next match up." Kerecman, Utah's 1980 Truman Scholar, is a political science-communications science-communications major. He barely missed going to senior debate nationals last year. Price is a communications major, a Bingham High School graduate who plans to attend law school. Christopher Lathrop, a senior communications major from Orem, and Jerome Romero, a sophomore business major from West Jordan, also did well for SUSC. They made it to the octa-finals octa-finals in Laramie, losing to a team from Loyola which went on to win the tournament. In Greeley, Lathrop and Romero finished preliminary rounds with a 4-2 record and 299 points. They were tied for 17th place with a team "The Best of Times," SUSC's 1981-82 homecoming celebration, will be Nov. 1-7. Working to make it a success are homecoming committee members (front row, left to right) Don Hulet; Laurel Thur-ston; Thur-ston; Cheri Trejo, chairwoman; Laura Chaussee; Pauline Bulloch, advisor; Valarie Carroll; (middle row) Avece Higbee; Dave Brown; Mont Forsyth; Robin Murdock; Joyce Humpherys; Ann Bottema; Cathy Beacham; (back row) April Evans; Keven Cutler; Tim Reese; and Belle Daughterly. |