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Show The Dixie Sun Page 2 February 25, 1997 News Editor: Missy Evans Forensics Tournament in S. California SUN NEWS SERVICES Dixie College Forensics Squad returned this weekend from another successful trip to Southern California with a 2nd place sweepstakes win at the Cerritos College Speech Tournament. For the second tournament in a row, Dixie's Parliamentary Debate team ended up in the finals. However, this week it was Stacy Cahoon and Nate Gause that won second place in that event. Out of the 17 teams competing, Dixie place a two teams in the quarter finals with Toni Nielson and Jed Stout as the other Parliamentary debate team. "Well, Southern California certainly knows who Dixie is now," com DROP-I- N mented Michael Woodward, Dixie College's director of Forensics, "After our last tournament's excellence showing, some of the coaches asked me if we were coming down to this tournament. I think that they were anxious to try us again. One of the coaches stated to me that we had two very fine parli teams. I guess we proved that again." "Not only did we do well in debate," stated Eric Young," Dixie's forensics coach, "but we had three of the top four speakers in the event. Nielson, for the second tournament in a row was the top Parli speaker, with 115 points. Cahoon was second with 108 points and Nate Gause was fourth with 107 points. Jed Stout was twelfth out of a field of 34 speakers." Nielson and Cahoon broke into the finals of Impromptu speaking as well. Cahoon was top speaker going into the finals of that event. Nielson came away with a first place win and Cahoon took third. Wade Beatty was successful in Dramatic Interpretation by breaking into the finals of that event and coming away with an award as well. Dixie College Forensics Squad is gearing up for the Region III Phi Rho Pi finals Feb. 28 thru March 1, at the College of Eastern Utah. Dixie's final competition will be held at the national tournament in St. Paul, Minn, the second week of April. New Computers Installed By JEREMY RAMPTON THE DIXIE SUN In room 111, in the McDonald Building, 24 brand-necomputers have been installed The estimated cost was about $50,000, The new computers are supposed to eliminate the problem of students saved files getting erased ordered by the Dean of Technology, Gary Koevea The computers are Gateway 2000's, all installed with Windows '95. The computers were replaced in room 111 for classes only, not personal use. George Jantzen, English Composition Chair, said, "The old computers were replaced because many times students would save files, and the machines would shut off (instead of save)." According to Jantzen, the older computers were malfunctioning like this because they were so old The new computers are supposed to eliminate the problem of students saved files getting erased. Besides Windows '95, the primary application on the computer was Word Perfect, for word processing. Rob Snow, Lane dark, and the technology crew installed the computers. In the computer classroom there are 10 classes a week, and approximately 240 students that will be affected Jantzen thought that the computers installed were average, and they will suit the purpose of word processing very welL Free Tutoring for any Dixie College Student Come see us in the Browning Building, Room 105 |
