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Show 4 I I ; f if v. - . K 4 ' I . , 'r ... . , r h 1, 1 v - A i , I.' J ' I K ft I - y I f v : ; - y :-;jV : '' ' . VV 'j " f if1"" ? !- I , iL ' . . ffia". ' -WW! I- f ; ' Jp$ J life "'!"" iv i kV SUSC students will compete in the National Tournament of Champions March 30- April 1 at UCLA. Individual event competitors include: Front, Chris Kerecman, Orem. (L-!Rback):Cara Thorup, Riverton; Kayron Madson, Payson; Appel Tuxhorn, West Jordan; and Jennifer Riggs, Riverton. Not pictured: pic-tured: Linda Nelson, Ogden. SUSC Debaters invited to Nationals Six members of the Southern Utah State College forensic squad, have been invited to participate in the National Tournament of Champions March 30-April 1 at UCLA it was announced today by debate coach M. L. Smith. "These six students have all qualified in individual events, the first time that SUSC students have been invited to participate in the national I.E. tournament," Smith said. "To qualify, each must have won first, second, or third place in at least two major tournaments this year," he explained. "They have all done so, building impressive records in individual in-dividual events as well as adding greatly to SUSC's overall strength." Only last week the announcement an-nouncement was made that three SUSC debate teams will compete in the Junior National Debate Tournament Tour-nament March 21-25 in Chicago, the first time that studnets from SUSC have been invited to compete in the national debate tournament. tour-nament. "It is a real honor to have Southern Utah State represented in these two prestigious tournaments," Smith said. "SUSC's overall strength this year can be attributed to a hard working, very strong squad effort." One of the six winners in individual events, Chris Kerecman, Orem, will attend at-tend the tournament at Berkeley as a competitor in individual events and will also attend the Northwestern Nor-thwestern University tournament as a member of one of SUSC's three winning debate teams. Kerecman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Kerecman, Kerec-man, 175 East 350 North, Orem. He is a communications com-munications major at SUSC. His I.E. wins have been in extemporaneous and impromptu im-promptu speaking. Three of the students entered in individual events, Cara Thorup, Jennifer Riggs, and Appel Tuxhorn, are all freshmen from Bingham High School. Thorup and Riggs have been consistent winners in oratory and oral in-terprtation in-terprtation of literature, Tuxhorn in oratory. Thorup is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Richard M. Thorup, 1876 West 13400 South, Riverton. She is working towards a composite com-posite major in communication com-munication and theater arts at SUSC. Riggs is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. Vaughn Riggs, 1847 West 13220 South, Riverton. She is a communications composite com-posite major. Tuxhorn is majroing in theater arts at SUSC. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Boyd D. Tuxhorn, 2902 West 9150 South, West Jordan. Kayron Madson, a SUSC sophomore from Payson High School, will enter the tournament in Berkeley as a consistent winner in expository ex-pository and after dinner speaking. The SUSC communications com-munications major is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Raydon Madson, 450 East 200 North, Payson. The oral interpretation of literature and speaking to entertain are the strengths of Linda Nelson, a junior from Ogden. Nelson is a graduate of Ogden High School, a theater arts major at SUSC, and the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Nelson, 4059 South 895 East, Ogden. The six SUSC students have taken top honors at tournaments ' at the ' University of Southern California; Colorado Springs (Pike's Peak Invitational); California State-Northridge; State-Northridge; Arizona State; Long beach State; University of Utah (Greater Salt Lake) ; and at the Mesa Madcap Tournament in Grand Junction, Colo. t |