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Show Utah out of it Debaters make readv for finals --'iVr i,j h HM'-'A i 1 iA i -r ;.. , (ft t L-r..i $ By TIM WEILER Chronicle Staff The National Debate Tournament, being hosted on the University campus this week, narrowed its field of fifty-four debate teams to sixteen finalists last night. The teams competed in eight preliminary rounds on Saturday and Sunday, and teams with a 5-3 record or better qualified for the final rounds. Forty-eight colleges from around the country are represented in this tournament, tour-nament, which is the annual grand championship for intercollegiate debate. The winning schools were UCLA, University of Southern California' California State College at Fullerton Wyoming, Kansas, Michigan, Northwestern, North-western, Oberlin College (Ohio), Emory College (Atlanta), Georgetown, George Washington, Brown University, and Canisius College (Buffalo), and Santa Barbara. USC and Northwestern qualified two teams each. Mike Weiler and Carolyn Young of Utah were entered in the tournament and finished fin-ished with a 4-4 record, one debate short of qualifying for the final rounds. Speaker awards were presented to the . debaters who compiled the greatest total of points in categories of speaking ability. Terry McKnight of Canisius College was the first speaker in the tournament. Ron Palmieri won second place for Southern California, followed by Mike Fernandez of Santa Barbara, and Joe Loveland of University of North Carolina. The speaker awards were given on the basis of points in categories of analysis, organization, evidence, reasoning, refutation, and delivery. The topic of the tournament was, "Resolve: "Re-solve: that greater controls should be imposed im-posed on the gathering and utilization of information about U.S. citizens by government govern-ment agencies." The contest seemed to be about which team could come up with the wildest interpretaton of that topic. USC argued that homosexuality should be legalized, saying that information about homosexuals should no longer be gathered. Brown University debated the marijuana question, saying that information in-formation about marijuana users shouldn't be utilized to convict them. George Washington surprised some teams by arguing that all citizens should mandatorily man-datorily take a cancer check-up or be fined fifteen percent of their income. North Carolina interpeted the topic as information about heroin addicts, saying Participants in the National Debate Tournament, representing 48 colleges, crowded the Union Ballroom foyer Sunday. Sixteen of these teams will enter the octa-finals Monday. that they should be treated rather than imprisoned. Harvard had a novel theory about what the topic meant: they argued that chiropractors shouldn't be licensed and that the licensing was a utilization of information. In addition, other schools were arguing the issues of blood banks, Puerto Rican citizens, venereal disease and anything else that they thought would surprise the opposing negative team. Other awards were of a more unofficial nature. Wayne State College won the contest for greatest amount of researched evidence. They had compiled six double-drawer double-drawer filing cabinets worth of index cards and had to carry it around to the rooms in their own cart. The unofficial congeniality award resulted in a tie tor first place between two USC debaters, Ron Palmieri and his sidekick Brad Ziff. The awards were presented in a banquet for the tournament, held in the Union Panorama Room on Sunday night. Most of the debaters and coaches agreed that the University's hosting of the tournament was on the whole outstanding. The debaters stayed at the Hotel Utah and were served meals in Baliff Hall. A gathering for the coaches and judges was held at Fort Douglas-Hidden Valley Country Club on Friday night. This year was the first time that the National Debate Tournament has been held at a college so far west. Last year, the tournament has hosted at Macalester College and next year is scheduled for the U.S. Naval Academy. Today, the 16 finest debate teams in the nation will start in the octa-final round at 9 a.m., and work down to the number one team in the nation. The debates represent 10 months of research and much more work than it takes to go through school at the same time. All of the debates are free to the public and schedules are available in the Union Auditorium all during the day. |