For Immediate Release – Lawton, OK, July 9, 2004
Cameron to welcome more than 500 teenagers
for 30th annual speech/debate/broadcast camp
Cameron University is finalizing plans to welcome more than 500 participants for its 30th annual SpeechDebate-Broadcast Camp for high school and junior high students that begins this weekend.
The camp, to be held on the main Lawton campus, will be made up of two sessions, July 11-16 and July
18-23. By late this week, 540 students, teachers and staff had registered for the camp, representing 125
schools in Arkansas, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Oklahoma, Texas and Utah.
“Our event is one of the larger speech and debate camps in the country,” said Tony Allison, chair of CU’s
communication department and coordinator of the camp. “With the exception of the broadcast division,
most students come to prepare for upcoming speech tournament competition and to learn new debate,
public speaking and acting skills.”
Participants include a staff of 102 teachers, professors and speech and debate champions from the most
successful high school and college programs in Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas and Missouri.
The first camp session, which begins this weekend, will cover beginning and advanced individual events,
beginning and intermediate Lincoln-Douglas value debate and television news broadcasting.
The second session, which begins a week later, will cover beginning, intermediate and advanced crossexamination policy debate and beginning, intermediate and advanced Lincoln-Douglas value debate.
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The individual events division – the largest division of the camp – will showcase some of last year's state
winners, who will demonstrate all types of individual speaking events. Campers can watch the
demonstrations, which will be critiqued by staff.
Cross-examination campers will work on next year's national high school topic, debating if the U.S. should
establish a foreign policy substantially increasing its support of United Nations peacekeeping operations.
Lincoln-Douglas participants will work on value-debate topics in three different divisions. They will debate
whether random testing of student athletes for illegal drug use is justified, whether a just government
should value the redistribution of wealth over property rights, and whether individual claims of privacy
should be valued above competing claims of societal welfare.
The broadcast division of the camp offer several activities, including television news, TV commercials and
behind-the-camera activities common to a broadcast facility.
Each session will end with competitions among the campers in the various debate divisions, while
broadcast students will participate in a showcase of their video productions for the week.
Camp slots are still available for high school and junior high students. For more information, contact the
camp office at 580/581-2249 or visit Cameron’s website at www.cameron.edu/.
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Editors and Broadcasters: For details, contact CU Government & Community Relations at 580.581.2211.
The following is a list of participating schools, sorted by state:
Arkansas: Fort Smith Southside and North Little Rock-Cabot.
Kansas: Coffeyville Field Kindley, Ellinwood, Garden City, Hoisington, McPherson, Moundridge, Newton and Wichita Campus.
Louisiana: Alexandria.
Missouri: Branson, Cedar Hill Northwest, Houston, Jackson, Kansas City Central, Liberty, Springfield Hillcrest, St. Louis Parkway North and
Willow Springs.
Oklahoma: Altus, Alva, Ardmore, Broken Arrow, Cache, Checotah, Cheyenne, Claremore, Claremore Sequoyah, Comanche, Cordell, Dickson,
Duncan, Durant, Fairview, Geronimo, Lawton Christian, Lawton Eisenhower, Lawton MacArthur, Latta, Lone Grove, Mannford,
Marietta, Marietta, McLoud, Miami, Mounds, Muldrow, Norman, Norman North, Nowata, OKC Bishop McGuinness, OKC NW
Classen, Oologah, Pawhuska, Putnam City, Putnam City North, Sand Springs Charles Page, Sapulpa, Shawnee, Stillwater,
Talihina, Tulsa Arts & Sciences, Tulsa Bishop Kelley, Tulsa B.T. Washington, Tulsa Metro Christian, Verdigris and Wilburton.
Texas: Angleton, Arlington Summit, Aubrey, Bridgeport, Dallas Bryan Adams, Burleson, Carroll Southlake, Cisco, Cleburne, Columbia, Cotulla,
Crawford, Crowley, Daingerfield, Dalhart, Denison, Diboll, Duncanville, El Paso Ysleta, Ennis, Harker Heights, Haskell, Houston
Strake Jesuit, Irion County-Mertzon, Irving Ranchview, Joshua, Lindale, Megargel, Merkel, Midlothian, Mount Vernon, New
Braunfels, North Lamar-Paris, Palestine, Paradise, Plano Clark Plano East Sr., Poteet-Mesquite, Princeton, Red Oak, Rockwall,
Royse City, Seymour, Shelbyville, Springtown, Stephenville, Sulphur Springs, Texas City, The Colony, Waco Vanguard, Wichita
Falls City View, Wichita Falls Hirschi, Wichita Falls Rider and Whitesboro.
Utah: Smithfield Sky View.