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Social Sciences Department

IU East announces High School Speech Tournament Results

IU East announces High School Speech Tournament Results

IU East announces High School Speech Tournament Results Indiana University East hosted its Annual High School Speech Tournament on December 1. Warren Central High School was the team sweepstakes champion, the second year in a row for the team to win the overall competition at IU East. Warren Central was followed by Cathedral in second; Noblesville in third; Southport in fourth; and Connersville in fifth. There were 249 students from 14 Indiana regional high schools that competed in 14 speech events and one Congress debate event. Sponsors for the 2012 High School Speech Tournament included Summersault, the IU East School of Humanities and Social Sciences, IU East Office of External Affairs, Office of Admissions, and Office of Financial Aid. Area … Continued
Entries for IU East’s High School Speech Tournament due November 26

Entries for IU East’s High School Speech Tournament due November 26

The Indiana University East Annual High School Speech Tournament will be held on Saturday, December 1, 2012, in Whitewater Hall. Registration is from 7:15-8 a.m. and the tournament will end by 3:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The speech tournament is presented by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and is sponsored by Summersault. The tournament will include high school students from surrounding counties. Students will present various speeches in 15 different categories including broadcasting, congress declamation, discussion, dramatic interpretation, humorous interpretation, impromptu, international extemporaneous, memorized duo, original oratory, original performance, poetry interpretation, prose interpretation, scripted duo, and U.S. Extemporaneous. All Indiana High School Forensic Association (IHSFA) rules apply for the tournament. Area coaches, … Continued
Faculty Sabbatical Presentation

Faculty Sabbatical Presentation

Robert Ramsey, associate professor of criminal justice and director of the criminal justice program, will present “Judeo-Christian Foundations of U.S. Criminal Justice Policy: A Journey Through Israel Exploring Historical Connections Between Jewish Law and Criminal Justice Practices” at 4 p.m. on Thursday, November 29, in the Whitewater Hall room 132.
IU East News and Notes

IU East News and Notes

Duane Lundy, assistant professor of psychology, recently had his manuscript entitled “Critiquing the Critics: Statistical Analysis of Music Critics’ Rating Distributions as a Measure of Individual Refinement” selected for publication in Empirical Studies of the Arts, expected to be published in 2012. In the manuscript, Lundy evaluates rating behavior among modern music critics, using a previously compiled database that randomly sampled 352 different critics’ ratings of more than 15,000 albums. He used potential quantitative markers of rating refinement by analyzing frequency distributions of album ratings. Lundy found critics’ ratings as a group to be roughly normally distributed, but individual critics varied widely in rating behavior, as evidenced by both visual inspection of histograms and related statistics, such as skewness, kurtosis, … Continued