Wednesday, September 9, 1981
daily nebraskan
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Speech team training takes time
ByTimSchaffert
Potential benefits are great for members of UNL's for
ensic program, director Jack Kay said. This year more
than 70 sutdents make up the debate and individual
speaking teams which competes on a national level.
There is intense interaction between students and fac
ulty members involved, something rarely found in a typi
cal college class room, he said. That interaction often
leads to a professor's more personal, and therefore more
convincing recommendation of a graduating student.
Most students who become involved in the program
want to sharpen their analytical skills Kay said. With the
exception of a few logic courses, there are no classes that
specifically teach analysis, he said. The program helps stu
dents become more critical thinkers, he said.
Although the group provides especially good training
for pre-law majors who make up about a quarter of the
team, students from a wide variety of other colleges parti
cipate. Time spent by team members varies, he said. A mini
mum of about eight hours a week is required, but students
who are more committed to the team spend as much as 20
hours every week preparing for events, he said.
For the 36 regional tournaments, a topic selection
committee picks one subject to be debated throughout
the season. This year's topic is "Curtailing the power of la
bor unions."
The UNL team normally enters five two-man teams
in the regional tournaments. Each team debates both
affirmatively and negatively on the given subject. After
preliminary rounds, judged by team coaches, 16 teams are
selected to compete in final rounds, from which the win
ners are chosen.
Several public debates are held locally during the sea
son. Unlike the regional tournaments, they provide a
variety of topics for debate. Some topics might include
Reagan's economic affect on social programs; Vietnam
veterans or the dangers of DNA research. This year there
seems to be a trend towards the scientific questions, such
as DNA research, Kay said.
In addition to the team competition, there are nine
categories of individual speaking events. In these events
students are free to choose and develop their own topics.
Over 650 colleges and universities compete in forensic
tournaments throughout the country. The UNL team was
ranked sixth last year out of the 220 schools in its divi
sion. Kay credited the high number of outstanding indivi
duals for the team's success.
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