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Optlmlt Staff
TJie;ACU forensics team placed third
overall in a tournament last weekend
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mondOkla. The team competed against 47
colleges and universities including
U)e University of Texas in Austin and
Baylor University in Waco said
Joseph Cardot assistant professor of
human communication and director
of forensics.
Ten ACU students competed in the
tournament said Cardot. The team
competed in CEDA or value debate;
NDT or policy debate; and in-
dividual events he said.
The CEDA debate team of Randy
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team wins
Moody senior ministry and
evangelism and human com-
munication major from Phoenix
Ariz. and Jeff Peterson junior
biblical languages major from
Houston won five of its six
preliminary debates advanced to
quarterfinals and placed fourth In the
event said CardoL
The CEDA debate team of Matt
Ritchie sophomore human com-
munication major from Cisco and
Sheila Prickctt sophomore
psychology major from otsco won
four of Its six preliminary debates
advanced to quarterfinals and also
pla ccd fourth he said.
The NDT debate team of David
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and Carol Blankenship freshman
generic special education major from
Edmond Ofcla. won three of its six
preliminary debates and missed the
quarterfinals by speaker points said
CardoL
Moody placed first in oratory
speaking after competing against 70
contestants said Cardot.
Peterson also competed in oratory
speaking and placed third he said.
The forensics team placed fourth in
debate fifth in individual events and
third in the overall competition said
Cardot
The team will compete again this
weekend in the Texas Intercollegiate
Forensics Association state' tour
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ACU will be represented by 10
students divided into three debates
teams and 23 Individual event entries
he said.
Although the official national and
state forensics team ratings have not
been announced Cardot believes the
ACU team is ranked high.
"We should be in the top 20
nationally" said Cardot. "We arc
probably in the top two three at the
most in the state."
The state rankings will be decided
at the competition this weekend ho
said. ACU won the tournament twice
last year he said.
"I believe we can win this tour-
nament but you can never tell" said
Cardot. "If we do we will be No. 1 in
the state again."
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Policy to change
for graduation
Students may lack up to acven
hours and still walk through
graduation ceremonies fn May said
Dr. C. G. Gray vice president for
academic affairs
The policy was changed after
hearing many complaints from
students said Robert Pittman
Student Association president. He
said "this b your student association
working for you."
Students were not supposed to be
able to graduate 6r even walk
through the ceremony until they had
completed all of their hours begin-
ning this year said Pittman senior
psychology major from Fort Worth.
However the SA met with the
dcan3 and expressed some of the
complaints they had heard. He said
that many students did not feel they
Hunter to serve on
CASE committee
ByJOHNNAFRtDDElL
Optimist Staff
Dr. Robert D. Hunter vice president
of the university was appointed to
serve on the Council for Ad-
vancement and Support of Education
Governance Committee by James L.
Fisher president of CASE.
Hunter served on the board of
trustees of CASE until the summer of
1964. CASE is an organization made
up of more than 3000 public and
private Institutions of higher lear-
ning said Hunter. He said CASE tries
to enhance public understanding of
higher education's value to our
society.
The Governance Committee will
meet for the first time on Tuesday In
Washington D.C. at the Georgetown
Hotel said Hunter. The members of
the committee will meet at 12:15 for a
luncheon that will conclude no later
than 4 :30 p.m. he said.
The Governance Committee will be
meeting to discuss Uic future role of
CASE in higher education said
Hunter. The committee will decide
how CASE should be governed and
how membership should be decided
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had been given fair warning. The
policy will only be In effect for uentow
graduating this May.
Gray said the policy chango will not
affect business majcrs. He said the
business department decided that
students could not graduate until all
required classes were completed last
year and this year the samo policy
will be In effect.
Students who want to walk through
the ceremony In May will have to
enroll In their final classes cither In g
Maymester or the first summer
session said Gray. They will also
have to deposit their tuition money In
advance as a guarantee that they will
finish the required classes.
Students must petition through the
dean of their college to graduate
lacking hours.
hestld.
The committee Is composed of past
and present board members. The
committee will meet three times a
year said Hunter. The next meeting
will be March 17-19 during the CASE
board of trustees meeting at the
Washington Annual Assembly said
Hunter.
The chairman of the commltee Is II.
Sargeant Whlttler Jr. vice president
for development for St. Lawrence
University Uiiuon n.i. tmiu
Hunter. Other mcbers of the com- (M
mition nre Gnrv Evans vice
president for development at Ren-
sselaer Polytechnic Institute Troy
N.V. and Barbara Petura director of
the news bureau at the University of
Oregon in Eugene.
Gwinn Scott director of
devclopcmcnt at The Baldwin School
Bryn Mwr Pcnn. and M. Frederic
Volkmann director of public
relations at Washington University
St. Louis MO arc also on the com-
mittee. The staff liaison is Virginia
Carter Smith vice president of CASE
and the administrative support b )
Lora Silsbce administrative V
assistant of CASE said Hunter.
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