The Mountaineer

Issue date: 4/30/08 Section: News

Media Credit: Michelle Liptak On April 1, the Evening with Forensics included a Reader's Theater performance with Kiran Alvi, Omid Rahnama and Jesse Atwal.

National champions from Mt. SAC's Forensics team delivered speeches in their "Evening with Forensics" event that featured everything from contemporary issues to unpredictable topics such as climate crisis, scientology, underwater logging, the dumbest generation, the appendix, and martyrs.
"We collect literature, they can use poetry, essays, cereal boxes, and anything they want to perform," forensics coach of 11 years, Liesel Reinhart, said. "They will use different writers and characters."
"Evening with Forensics" started promptly Tues., April 1 at 7 p.m. in bldg. 28A and 28B, room 103 inside the lecture hall. The hosts of the event were the forensics coaches, which included Casey Garcia and Anne Fleischer. Almost every speech was presented by one individual, except for the last piece that was delivered by three students for the Reader's Theater.
Travis Cottom who spoke about the discovery of a new "green eyed monster" gave the first speech.
"Society has a moral obligation to the ecological age," Cottom said. "We have not lived up to it for the last couple of years."
He also suggested that society needs to take on global warming by using a bar of soap instead of liquid soap or unplug any appliance that is not in use. During his speech he kept the audience of more than 70 people excited by allowing his hands to coincide with his talking as well as imitating Kermit the Frog from Jim Henson's "The Muppets."
The next speech opened up with another student from the team, Jennifer Salcedo yelling, "…it all began 75 million years ago." Then she turned around to face the audience. Salcedo's speech dealt with concepts of scientology and critical thinking.
"Education teaches students to be critical thinkers," Salcedo said. "Fate can be a beautiful thing, but by scrutiny of secrecy, we set aside critical thinking and spiritual enlightening."
She later acted as a woman in labor and said that noises made by a woman during labor would traumatize the baby. She also discussed a question on a personality test that one must take in order to qualify as a candidate for scientology and said that no group contracts more money than they do.

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