Note: Bethel Park Invitational

Upper St. Clair, Pennsylvania – In preparation for the Bethel Park Invitational, Upper St. Clair desperately needs judges. As explained at the Friday team meeting, please make every effort to bring parents/siblings to the Bethel Park tournament (preferably for both Saturday and Sunday).

Peggy Ann Madden Invitational

North Hills, Pennsylvania – The Upper St. Clair team started off the February season with North Hill’s Peggy Ann Madden Speech and Debate Invitational.

Jalpa Patel advanced to the final round, and also took 3rd place.

2008 Baldwin Invitational

Baldwin, Pennsylvania - The Panthers put on their first strong showing of 2008 at Baldwin’s annual tournament. On January 12th, the team took awards in:

Lincoln-Douglas Debate: JP Gooderham – 3rd Place

Duo Interpretation of Literature – 3rd Place

Public Forum Debate – 6th Place

Debate Information Meeting Thursday

On Thursday, September 27th, all interested debaters are asked to attend a practice focused on introducing newcomers to the different debate activities.

 There will be a Public Forum practice round as well as information on Lincoln-Douglas Debate.

Please Join Google Groups

For the 2007-2008 season, the Upper St. Clair Forensics team will not post news/information to Google Groups, as opposed to Yahoo! Groups in past years.

 While the move will provide many unique opportunities to communicate between team members, few have joined the group so far. If you have not, please head now to http://groups.google.com/group/uscforensics and join (which is easy and painless).

 Moreover, the Group can currently be accessed from school computers, so feel free to use this service responsibly (and encourage friends to do so).

New Officers Added

After the move of elected Publicity Director Adi Kumar to Georgia, the spot has now been filled. The PD(s) this season will be the three-headed team of Noah (Debate Captain), Chelsea (Speech Captain), and Mohit (Extemp Captain).

Poster Making/Team Building Tomorrow

In preparation for the upcoming “Freshmen Rush” on Wednesday, all members of the team are asked to attend a short poster making session after school Friday (September 7th).

 The meeting place will be in room 232 again, but will likely spread out. All members are encouraged to attend and help out.  

Upper St. Clair Forensics Finds Coach

Thank you Ben Edwards and Mr. Dan Holzer for finding the team a coach for the 2007-2008 season.

 As found in the Yahoo! Group, Mr. (Herr) Platts from Ft. Couch will be the new coach for USC. Moreover, Mr. Platts has experience coaching under Mr. Savarese.

 I urge you to check out Ben’s message to the group.

Summer Meeting: Monday @ 1

The summer team meeting for the 2007-2008 season has officially been scheduled. All former participants and recruits are encouraged to attend, as work should be done during that time.

Forensicators are to meet at 1 PM on Monday at the Upper St. Clair Library.

Future debaters are especially encouraged to attend, as I will try to do a short information sessions before golf tryouts.

September-October Resolutions Released

The September/October resolution for Lincoln-Douglas Debate is:Resolved: A just society ought not use the death penalty as a form of punishment.

The September resolution for Public Forum debate is:

Resolved: That the Fairness Doctrine should be reinstated.