Tuesday, March 12, 1996
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Debaters train for nationals
Junior varsity wins in Johnson County
By Adam Darby
Kansari Correspondent
The University of Kansas debate team won the Junior Varsity National Tournament last weekend at Johnson County Community College.
Hajir Ardebili, Overland Park sophomore, and John Fawcett, Lawrence freshman, beat a team from Baylor University in the final round on Sunday, giving the KU team the national junior varsity title and a 7-1 record for the tournament.
The tournament is open to all debaters in their first or second year of competition.
Ardebilli's usual partner, Drew France, Sioux City, Iowa, is a junior, and was not eligible for the tournament, so the team of Ardebilli and Fawcett was formed, though the two had never debated together.
"Drew is too old, 'Ardebill said," He has too much experience to be allowed into one of these tournaments. So it was kind of a last-minute, thrown-together kind of situation. But it worked out really well."
Ardebili was named top speaker of the tournament. The speaker rankings are developed from a 30 point scale rating the speaker's clarity and showmanship.
Ardebili and France will be one of two teams from the University to make the trip to Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, N.C., on March 27 for the National Debate
Tournament.
The other KU team will be Patty Keller, Lakewood, Colo., freshman, and Ian Wilbur, Northbrook, Ill., freshman.
Kelly McDonald, assistant debate coach, said the KU team's biggest success at the tournament in recent years was in 1994, when it reached the semifinals but was defeated by Harvard University.
"It's kind of like the NCAA tournament, only not quite as exciting," Ardelli said.
But Ardebili is confident the KU debaters will be ready for the debaters' version of March Madness.
He said he usually spent about 40 hours a week preparing for tournaments. He planned on spending more time preparing for the national tournament.
Boy cashes in on stolen bird
Kansan staff report
A 16-year-old Lawrence boy discovered the meaning of the old proverb, "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," when he was detained for allegedly stealing his mother's friend's cockatiel Friday.
The boy allegedly took the white cockatiel, valued at $60, between 11:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. from his mother's residence, where the bird was being kept for a friend.
He then sold the bird to Animal House, 2201 W. 25th St., for $20, Lawrence police reported.
When the mother discovered the bird was missing, she called police and told them to speak with her son.
Reportedly, the boy had sold the bird because he needed money.
The boy was found highly intoxicated at a friend's house and was detained for theft, liquor-law violation and child in need of care, Lawrence police reported.
He was released in his mother's custody.
The boy's mother bought the bird back from the pet store on Friday for $20 and returned it to the owner.
Graduate schools get national notice
Kansan staff report
Two graduate programs at the University of Kansas have hit near the top of the charts in the March 18 issue of U.S. News and World Report.
The School of Education's special education program ranked second in the nation out of 191 schools while the department of geology's paleontology program placed fourth in the country. Graduate programs at the School of Journalism and the University of Kansas Medical Center made the top 20.
The special education program, was beaten out for the top spot by Vanderbilt University.
Nancy Peterson, head of the department of special education, said the ranking reflected an outstanding faculty in research, teaching and service.
Larry Martin, Natural History Museum curator, said the secret of the paleontology program's success was the balance between research and education.
"Research is a thinking process, and you don't think about something unless you have to explain it to someone," Martin said. "Teaching helps us do research because we have to defend it to people who are indoctrinated into it."
The School of Social Welfare's master of social work program ranked 18th in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report's home page. However, the ranking was from the previous year. U.S. News and World Report said it would not have new rankings for social work programs this year.
Wake Up Little Susie:
Pregnancy and Power
Before Roe v. Wade
A Collaborate Installation
An Exhibit by Lisa Link
WARNINGS
An Exhibit by Lisa Link A poster series about women's struggle for reproductive rights.
Ricki Solinger, author of the book, Wake Up Little Susie will speak at KU on March 12.
March 4-21,1996
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