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Azle Malinao-Alvarez Emerald
Lindsey Ferguson practices her impromptu speech. Ferguson is a comparative liter
ature major and a member of the University Speech and Debate team.
Debate team
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journalism major, finished fourth
in the persuasive speaking cate
gory and is the first alternate to
attend nationals. Knott placed
sixth in extemporaneous speak
ing and is the second alternate
for nationals.
The 4 5-member team is very
young and learning along the
way. David Frank, director of
forensics education, said the
forensics coaches enforce in
creased communications, organi
zation and research skills. The
team’s progress is also because of
its strong learning community
environment.
“We try to teach ethical advoca
cy,” Frank said. “Which means,
you don’t do everything you can to
win a trophy. We also teach stu
dents how to conduct thorough re
search and to take that thorough
research and present it in a form
that people can understand.”
Assistant coach Nick Lougee
said the team has remained close
despite hours of work together.
“On the whole, the team has
performed at a very high level,”
he said. “They all work well to
gether, and that makes for a
strong team dynamic, internal
work ethic and performance
standards that are competitive
yet cooperative.”
Their dedication and persever
ance has come from months of
work and preparation. Junior
journalism major Tom Suarez,
who qualified for nationals in in
formative speaking and commu
nication analysis, has been giving
his speech on stopping the trend
of medicating children for five
months. Suarez said he feels the
debate team has helped him in
speaking, interactions with peo
ple and especially in writing pa
pers at the University level.
Ford also qualified for the na
tional competition in the persua
sive speaking category. Her topic
is about how cellular phones can
cause cancer. The speech has
been successful because it is a
topic people are familiar with;
however, they don’t necessarily
recognize the health dangers of
cellular phones.
“The big challenge faced when
people are trying to write a
speech is they are trying to speak
about something their audience
will find interesting and impor
tant but they haven’t already seen
on 60 Minutes or read in Time
magazine,” said Rick Peacor, di
rector of intercollegiate forensics.
The team is just wrapping up
competition in a third tourna
ment, the “Heart of America
Tournament,” at Kansas Univer
sity. Two contestants demon
strated the research-intensive
activity known as policy debate.
Policy debaters spent up to eight
hours a day in the library, start
ing back in August, to prepare
for competition during the fall
and winter terms. The results
from this tournament are not yet
announced.
Currently, the team is hosting
the Bower Aly Memorial Foren
sics Tournament in the EMU
Ballroom. Members of the team
are gaining experience in orga
nizing and judging a debate com
petition for approximately 600
high school students.
The forensics team is an ASUO
organization and a part of the
Honors College, but anyone is
welcome to participate in the
program.
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