Forensics team anticipates a big year
By Jolayne Houtz
Of the Emerald
The University Forensics team placed
first among 19 teams at its initial tourna
ment of the year, says Greg Miller, cap
tain of the team.
They also beat the team who won the
district competition last year; the
University came in second last year.
“We weren’t near as ready as we could
have been, but the people who took it up
really worked hard — 1 think we’ll take
district this year,” says Miller, who is in
his fourth year as team captain.
Most of the team’s competition is with
private schools in the Northwest, Miller
adds.
He estimates, however, that the
University team is in the top 2 percent
nationally.
“When I got here four years ago, the
team was good, but now I think we’re
one of the top teams in the nation,”
Miller says.
“It’s a good bunch of people —
everyone is willing to give in for the sake
of the team. All of our good people are
returning,” Miller says. Only one person
from the team graduated last year, he
adds.
This does create some problems con
cerning size. Miller says.
The team has about 65 members, 40-45
of whom are active, Miller says, which
makes the University team one of the
biggest in the nation.
“It costs a lot to travel people, and it
takes a lot of work to get all those people
organized and make that commitment to
winning,” Miller says.
The team generally competes in 15 to
17 tournaments a year, which occa
sionally have teams from more than 60
schools participating.
The team’s next tournament is Oct.
25-27 in Boise, Idaho. On Oct. 23, two
debators from Oxford University will
challenge interested team members.
Each term, debate teams of two people
are given one specific topic to discuss at
each tournament. This term’s topic is
’’The Method of Conducting Presidential
Elections is Detrimental to Democracy.”
“After about four tournaments, the
arguments (for the topic) are all the
same, but the people who win are the
people who-put mdre time and effort into
their argument,” Miller says.
Winning individuals and teams con
tribute to the total number of wins and
losses accumulated by the team, and the
teams with the most wins go on to the
preliminaries and finally the elimination
rounds.
At the first debate of the year, team
members Mark Nallia placed first in var
sity extemporaneous speaking; Rich
Gray placed second in varsity oral inter
pretation and varsity informative; Bruce
Stensland placed third in junior varsity
persuasive; Greg Miller placed second in
varsity communication analysis, and
Molly Maudlin placed third in varsity
informative.
Among the debating teams, Alec Boyd
and Mike Sistrom placed fifth in junior
varsity debate; Dave Long and Rick
Peacor placed second in varsity debate,
and Greg Miller and Mark Nallia placed
third in varsity debate.
et al.
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