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Show THE CAMPUS Forensics team picks up speed • • • 1n compet1t1ons By JIM ROBINSON · CAMPUS EDITOR Strong performances to close 1997 have given the SUU forensics squad good momentum for winter quarter. The SUU squad picked up third place in overall team sweepstakes at the December Arizona Forensic Fiesta Swing, one of the nation's largest tournaments. The two-tournament "Swing" includes tournaments administered by Glendale Community College and Arizona State University. Thirty-eight colleges and universities competed at Glendale, and 58 were entered at ASU. Schools from 22 states were represented at the meets. First place Northern Arizona University and second place University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire finished ahead of SUU in the team sweepstakes. Sweepstakes standings were determined by combining results by individual event and debate competitors for both portions of the swing. Kristen Kemerer, a senior from Salt Lake City, was the top scorer in individual sweepstakes competition at Glendale. She placed first in impromptu speaking, second in informative speaking, third in extemporaneous, third in persuasive speaking, and third in dramatic duo at Glendale. Her dramatic duo partner is Karla Bassett, a junior from Cody, Wyo. Kemerer also placed third in both extemporaneous and informative speaking at ASU. The team of Sara Herrmann, a senior from Keams, and Luke Stricker, a junior from New Haven, Conn., took second place in team debate at ASU. Herrmann also won second debate speaker honors at ASU, and Stricker placed sixth in open poetry at Glendale. Other squad members earning points were Stacie Stapley, a sophomore from St. George, top debate speaker at ASU, Samantha Stillman, a freshman from Richfield, third in junior poetry at ASU, and sophomore Heather Smith of Sandy, fourth in Lincoln-Douglas debate at ASU. Senate tables security measures Lack of research, money concerns leads to vote deJay The Student Senate voted last night to table majors and minors put together their portfolios for graduate school, " said Durcan . a bill that would allocate funds for campus security equipment. The bill, SBOl 2-97, called "With approximately 300 English majors attending SUU, The Ymbsittendra Journal for $5000 to be used for purchasing security will provide an phones for the campus. advantageous stepping Many of the senators stone for students were concerned about voting on the bill at the looking to go on t o meeting without further graduate school." Durcan w ent on to investigat ion. say the journal will also "The tiµiing of the bill benefit more than just was all wrong. It was the last week of the quarter the writers. "The and we were all busy journals are passed out with finals, then we had at the English labs, to the English 101 a long vacation, and there is a large amount students and the of money involved," said Convocation speakers." The money, Durcan Sen. Dave Adams (Science). The bill was said, will be used to publish 30Q copies of tabled for a period of one the book, nearly six week and will be voted on at next Tuesday's times the number meeting. :i published last year and Two new bills were ~ allow the departmen t g to make the book look proposed at last night's t: more professional than meeting. The first, last year's edition. SB013-98, called for $500 to be allocated to the ~ SB014-97, sponsored j by Senator Michon Ott language and literature department for the ;;J (BTC), proposed that publication of the i $500 be allocated to the Ymbsittendra fournal. Sen. Brook Madsen Waukeenyan Fund. - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - The money would go Sen. Jennifer Durcan (ALH) said The Ymbsittendra fournal is a to travel costs and uniforms, said Ott, as well as other needed expenses. "The team has been collection of the best and most outstanding working hard all year, doing a number of fund literary works from SUV students during the raisers and participating in campus events," school year. If passed, this will be the second year the department has published the Ott said. The m oney proposed by the bill will match the $500 already in the Waukeenyan journal. "The Yrob sittendra fournal helps English Item Fund. 5 SUU professor involved in helping Russian reforms feelings and are not, Ropers said, helping the economy grow. In fact, he said, these companies are making the economy worse. Fast-food By BRANDON RHODES chains like McDonald's and tobacco companies are making enormous profits. For JOURNAL STAFF WRITER those who believe Russia should become more western-oriented mimicking western culture is a necessity. "Russians have distorted the image of America," For many professors, helping students achieve their goals is a difficult but rewarding venture. However, Associate Professor Ropers said. The result is a rapid decline in the of Social Science Richard Ropers has set out to overall health of its citizens. "The life expectancy has made a continuous drop help an entire nation. over the past several years," Ropers said. "In 1993, During the past several years, Ropers has been deaths exceeded births by nearly 800,000. Also, t he traveling to Russia and its neighboring countries, rate of alcohol consumption has increased from 8.5 giving presentations on the social changes that liters per capita to 14.5 liters." have developed in the former U.S.S.R. Ropers was initially asked to help at a These are the kinds of tough issues Ropers and Chasnik have been facing. Some of th eir solutions university in Gorki (Nizhny-Novgorod) in 1996. One of the professors had seen video about Utah may sound familiar. "I've been sending over copies of the D.A.R.E. featuring SUU and called requesting aid. program to help educate studen ts on the effects of Together with his colleague, Eugeny l. Chasnik, Ropers has been making significant ~-!\!ii drug and alcohol abuse," said Ropers. Ropers has also been giving lectures at various contributions to these troubled countries, ones universities and has written an extensive report that have seen major increases in the use of narcotics and alcohol. titled, "Social Changes, Disorganization, and the "Because of the abrupt collapse of the Soviet Rise in the Use of Narcotic Substances," which is being published in a Russian magazine. Union, social changes have disrupted many Ropers and Chasnik are also attempting to dimensions of Russian life and h ave put many a.;.___:;__...;:.....;......;...__:..._,::;__;__ _ ......;.:;__:___ ~;;;;;;;;::;...;..__;:.:.;.....:;;.....;;....J introduce more positive American companies to the people in a state of disorganization. his Richard Ropers, shown here during one of his many trips Lo Russian economy, such as computer companies. disorganization has deepened serious social, health and drug abuse problems," Ropers said. Russia, has been lecturing about the issues involved with the They have been contacting major computer One of the biggest concerns, according to changes that have been happening in the region since the companies in hopes of finding one whose interests collapse of the Soviet Union. could be represented in Russia. Ropers, is two distinctly different views on how Russia should evolve as a new nation. . - - - -- - - -- - -- - -- -- - - - -- - - - Ropers will also be making another trip to Some say the country should continue to live up to its traditions; others feel numerous parts of Russia to help with a temperance movement. "We need to lend our expertise to provide posi tive products and be a positive role Russia should strive to be more like other western nations, said the SUU faculty model for their society and economy," Ropers said. member. Maj or American companies have been capitalizing on the latter |