Southwestern College - Moundbuilder Yearbook (Winfield, KS)

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SC Debate Team - Winning Is A Habit By Pete Allegre Top: Slew: Halley, Don McKinney, Marilyn Taylor and Ron Gore. Bottom: Hailey, McKinney and Gore proudly display a few of the many trophies they have won at various tournaments this year. Debate has a special history at Southwestern College. The first intercollegiate debate tour- nament was held on this cam- pus in 1924, and Southwestern is a charter member of Pi Delta Kappa, the national debate fra- ternity. Debate teams from here have a tradition of excel- lence that is being carried on by recent teams. The past five years the SC squad has been rated among the top 20 debate teams from colleges with an enrollment of below 2000 stu- dents. This rating is based on the results of over 480 tourna- ments each year that involve over 630 schools. This year's debate squad has continued the success that Southwestern teams have enjoyed in the past. Debating on the topic, rltResolved: that the federal government should provide a program of compre- hensive medical care for all U.S. citizens, the squad has taken two first place trophies, two third place finishes, a fourth, three speakers, tro- phies, and a coach's award in its first six meets. The tournaments that the squad had attended at this writing were those at Garden City Junior College, Northern Oklahoma State College, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, Northwest Missouri State College, Oklahoma Chris- tian College, and Wichita State University. it was at Omaha that the two first place trophies and the coach's award were won; at Oklahoma Christian three speakers' trophies, as well as a fourth place finish, were won. How does a team stay on top year after year? The answer is simple, according to debate coach Jan Schuetz: ltBy recruiting competent peo- ple? She added that alumni contributions to an ample scholarship fur'fd 'make this task easier. Ms. Schuetz was asked about the role a schoolls reputation plays in the judging of performance. HI really think it does tplay a part; if the judges hate you, they'll give you a loss; if they like you, theylll give you the benefit of the doubt, was her off-hand comment about the subjective aspect of debate-judging. She was also asked about the sauadiadissmltne. HTheV disci-

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pline themselves - theytre a highly motivated group. The members of this highly motivated squad are divided into two divisions, junior and senior, the difference being that debaters can compete in the junior division during their first tour semesters of competi- tion, after which they move up to senior division. The senior division is composed of seniors Wendell Barker from Hutchin- son and Steve Hailey from Denver, and juniors Cathy Gra- ber from Newton, Don McKinney from Goldwater, and Julie Rhodes from Winfield. Because there are five mem- bers in the senior division, there are not specific assign- ments concerning which mem- bers are paired as debate part- ners. Therefore, there is no llDynamic Duo'i upon which to lavish the praise for this year's successes; the entire squad must share the credit. The junior division is com- prised of junior Marilyn Taylor from Winfield, sophomore Ron Gore from Larned, and fresh- men Joann Palmieri trom Patc- hogue, N.Y., and Greg White from Winfield. Other tournaments for the Builders include the 42nd annual Southwestern Debate Tournament thosted by the squad on Dec. 1-2t involving approximately 20 colleges trom 5 states. Both team and indi- vidual events such as oratory, poetry interpretation, and extemporaneous speaking were contested at the tourna- ment. On Dec. 8-9 the squad traveled to Northwestern Oklahoma State College for the event there, and on Jan. 8-11 participated in the Laredo International Debate Tourna- ment at Laredo, Texas, a nationwide invitational tourna- ment Open to only the top squads from throughout the nation. - One of the highlights of the second semester of competi- tion will come on March 26-30, when the squad will compete in the events at the National Biennial Convention of Pi Kappa Delta, Southwestern has been invited to compete in a special oratory at the Nationals in commemoration of the 60th anniversary of PKD. This invita- tion was extended to SC on the basis that it is one of the seven colleges to sign Pi Kappa Deltais founding docu- ment that still have a PKD chapters tThree other Kansas schools are among the seven remaining charter members: Ottawa University, College of Emporia, and Kansas Wesleyan CollegeJ Hey-Kllan in the last issue of Abraxas was an article written by our illustrious features editor I guess the thing to do around here, especially up at the Hill, is to see how well you can knock down the fraternities. Now I have the pleasure of answering that article. First of all, in case somebody gets the foreign notion that l'm against features editors, let me assure you that some of my very best friends are McGuires. itWhy do these 3 Frats feel so put- upon? Even Sue admitted and I quote, iiTrue, theyive been getting more flack from the administration than the other campus-centered social and service groups. General George would like to know why? The article then goes on and states, ttBut who has been having all the advantages for years, especially as far as housing conditions are con- cerned. What advantages? Name me one. Granted, living in Shriwise is a lot more com- fortable than Reid or Broad- hurst. But you see Sue, you didn't do your homework. Instead of rushing into your .superticial article you should have done some research first You would have found out that