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In International Extemp, Daniel Drane of Des Moines Roosevelt won his first state championship, defeating Maxwell Fenton of Dowling Catholic High School by four ranks. Drane’s win marks the ninth straight win for Des Moines Roosevelt in the category. Josh Kinyon of Bettendorf High School placed third.
In United States Extemp, Jacob Thompson of Des Moines Roosevelt defeated teammate Regan Copple by four ranks to claim his first state championship. This is Des Moines Roosevelt’s seventh consecutive USX victory. Nicholas Adam Johnston of Clarke Columbus High School took third.
Aside from Drane and Thompson, none of the other finalists had pre-qualified to this year’s Extemp TOC at Northwestern University. As a result, Iowa qualified eleven new extempers as TOC rules stipulate that all state finalists automatically qualify for the tournament. Those who qualified to the TOC by virtue of making the final round of their respective extemporaneous speaking category are indicated in italics below.
Here are the results of the Iowa Forensic League All-Iowa Finals (Click here for tab sheet):
Two of the top five extempers in this year’s National Points Race won state championships at last week’s Florida Forensic League State Championship Tournament. In International Extemp, Noah Wexler of Nova Senior High School, who is ranked fifth in the country, achieved an eight-rank victory over Andrew Langford of Lake Highland Preparatory School. This is Wexler’s first state championship and it is the first time that a Nova extemper has won the International Extemp category in seven years. Nova had four of the six finalists in the category, with Sanjay Supan finishing third, Adele Stock finishing fourth, and Eleanor Bock finishing sixth.
Kari Janhsen of South Anchorage High School became the first extemper to successfully defend a state championship when she won her second consecutive state title in International Extemp at the Alaska High School Activities Association State Tournament, held two weeks ago at East Anchorage High School. Jahnsen’s teammate Jack Sezauer took second place and AJ Tsang of Eagle River High School took third.
Last Thursday, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on a party-line vote decided to reclassify broadband as a telecommunications service. This allows the FCC to impose more regulations on broadband Internet providers as if they were a public utility. The FCC intervened due to concerns that Internet Service Providers (ISPs) will discriminate against network traffic, speeding up some Internet sites that would be willing to pay them a special fee, while reducing the speeds of other sites that either refused to pay or were in competition with other operations of the ISP. This so-called “net neutrality,” which treats all Internet data the same, has become a highly charged political issue, with conservatives warning that the FCC’s decision will stifle innovation and liberals championing the FCC’s decision as a victory for consumer interests.
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