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Show i J Forensics team places first in the nation Each year the debate community honors 20 outstanding individuals for achievements including an outstanding debate career, personal achievements and service to the debate community and theirown community. Heidi Ander- by Leona Christensen editor ' The College of Eastern Utah's forensics team was rewarded with deafening applause and a standing ovation at the CEDA National Debate Tournaments awards ceremony held at the University of California at Long Beach March 28-- 3 1. son, who led the team to victory as this years team captain, was recognized as Debate a member of the her with that honor shared She Team. partner, Dan Dilsaver, who was named Debate to the Academic team, which uses the same criteria but an . It was the most satisfying moment of my coaching career thus far," said Matt Stannard. It was fantastic. I was very proud of our team. an includes academic performance. CEU has reason to celebrate. The team is the most successful two-yeschool in debate history. For the second year in a row, the team ranks miles ahead of any two-yeschool placing first among community colleges as wcllas the 15twoandfour-yea- r schools ' in the Rocky Mountain Region. To achieve this honor, the team beat powerhouses such as the Air Force Acad- Anderson and Dilsaver competed with juniors and seniors to gamer this honor. The success of the team has resulted emy, Weber State University and the process of awarding scholarships for next year. For the first time in ar in scholarship offers for all sophomore team members who now have the option of attending the University of Miami, WSU, NW Louisiana State, University of Texas at El Paso, SUU, Conzaga University or U of SC . ar Southern Utah University. We beat all those schools in head to head competition. We have not wormed our way into this position. We have done it by taking our lumps," he said. One of the crowning achievements at the tournament was advancing three teams into elimination rounds. CEU is the first community college in history to clear teams at the four-year 12 CEUs forensics coaches are now in Stannards memory, applicants exceed Dan Di leaver, Cameron Alcott, Soma of the forensic students competing this past year included back Liz Heidi Anderson, Aaron Muranaka, Chris Solbes, Jennifer Sorensen, Paddock, Trade Forgie, Sara Herrmann, Danny Van Gasan. Seated: Bryan Allred and Coach Matt Stannard. (L-R- The CEDA National Tournament. and Dan teams of Heidi Anderson Dilsaver, Yari Mitchell and Kelli Serano and freshman team Aaron Muranaka and Shercka Kelley broke seconds and damage to your ears leads to the eardrum. Inside the middle ear p by Greg Frandsen guest viewpoint are millions of hairlike cells that help to process the sounds we hear. The sound As I parked in the main parking lot during the last week of winter quarter, 1 became pressure level is intensified, much like ter pressure is created in plumbing, as the painfully aware of the loud of a fellow student's car speakers. When sound travels through the hearing cannel. Loud sounds can destroy the hairlike cells boom-brxrmi- ng I asked why he had his music turned up so loud, the student simply replied, "Sounds great, don't it." A few days later, during a discussion with my son, I discovered that is "cool" and "people can hear wa- and cause hearing loss or total deafness. The damage is irreversible. Once your hearing is gone, it is gone forever. Here are a few tips that will help to reduce hearing loss: into rounds to mate this achievement possible. The list of teams CEU defeated to compete in elimination rounds reads like a Whos Who of CEDA debate Wear ear plugs or another form of hear- ing protection when near loud noise. Turn the volume down on your car or truck stereo. If you friend can hear the music in your headphones, while you are wearing them, its too loud. Get a hearing checkup every two or three years. Your hearing may be one of your most preciousassetsthroughoulyourlife. When you take good care of your hearing, you can listen to outstanding music and other great sounds with littleeffort fora very long time. ): champions including the Universities of California at Berkeley and Los Angeles, DePaul University, the United States Military Academy and Kansas State University. Unaprofessors the number of available scholarships, enabling Coaches Stannard and Dean Gundlach to be very selective in offering awards. The team has a long waitAccording to Stannard, the top applicants on the waiting list are just as qualified as those who received awarded scholarships. ing list for scholarships. (Continued from page 2) terrorist scenario will result in hundreds of huge reptiles overrunning our beautiful campus, with the Unaboner himself riding shotgun on a brontosaurus. Then come the demands... The list goes on and on, and in fact were all probably a bunch of lousy terrorists. A few names stand out (David Kardaliss name sounds amazingly like David Koresh, and someone told me Mary Bowers is from Waco), but caution should be exercised with all CEU faculty. In fact, the only people missing from the list were Rich McCormick, who. is obviously much too busy to be a terrorist, and Curtis and Carrie Icard, whose recent addition to their family forced the abandonand relegated them to the ranks of the ment of their Kent State normal. After all, theyve got their own little terrorist on their hands. neo-radicali- the music better" when the volume is turned up as loud as possible. I started thinking alxxit the damage that people can do to their hearing because it is "axil" or "sounds great." , Imagine dropping a stone into a body of water. The stone strikes the surface which causes a splash mid ripples to form. The ripples travel to the water's edge and back again. This "ripple effect" happens with Re-Ent- ry, many things. Ocean waves, earthquake waves, even sound waves react in the same manner. Now imagine the kind of damage that the force of those waves smashing into your car could cause. Russell Wilson, CEU music department instructor, talked with me about loud sound in confined areas. "If you listen to a loud stereo in a truck or a car, its those guys that you can feel as they go booming by, the sound pressure level is really strong. They figure it only takes no more than about 2 1 minutes to cause permanent hearing damage. You cun imagine what those kids arc ' doing to their hearing." The car canal is shaped like a funnel that CEUs Health and Wallnasa Fair waa held Tuesday in the BDAC with 54 booths featuring area businesses representing health and wellness. They included the Hair Hut, Love Home Care, Alpine Wellness Center, Southeastern Utah Health District, CEU Dr. Recreation, Active Martinez, Body Perfect, Planned Parenthood, Project People, Smiths, United Way, Phi Beta Lambda, Woodward's Home Care Specialists, Family Services, Four Comers Mental Health, Enrich International, Dr. Cook, Animal Hospital, Whitmore Oxygen, Med Arrow, Head Start, Interwest Medical, CEU Nursing, Carbon Chiropratic, Golden Rock Cafe and Days Inn, Castle Country Home Health, Castle Country Care, Walton Books, Sandy Home Health, Dr. Thomas, Castleview Physical Therapy, Castleview Hospital, Healing Hands, Ambulance Service, Highway Patrol and National Guard. Participants In the Health Fair ahow the latest maaaage technlqueaJPhoto by Bryan Barnard |