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♪ You are a cinema

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Hello. Welcome to this week's RNN. [br]I'm Eric.

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And I'm Chloe. The debate team is on a roll this year taking three teams to state.

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Here is Mr. Holmes with more details about their success and what it takes to become a successful debater.

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Eric: How is this season going for debate?

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Mr. Holmes: It's going pretty well. We've been to about 10 or 11 tournaments this year.

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Right now we're getting ready for our state tournament for CX Debate which is coming up March 20th and 21st

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and also preparing for another UIL district tournament we have coming up in April.

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It's gone pretty well. We've had a lot of students compete this year.

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We probably have about 20 to 25 active members of the debate team

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and I would say this year has been pretty successful.

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Eric: How do you join debate and what does it take to be successful in it?

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Mr. Holmes: Basically you take the class and you go to competitions.

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It's an expectation as being a member of the class that you go to weekend competitions.

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We have anywhere from like 20 to 15 competitions a year.

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That doesn't really even include the district and state level type events that we go to.

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You really need to be comfortable getting up and talking in front of people.

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You need to be able to think on your feet, come up with arguments,

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be able to support those arguments and be able to ask questions of your opponents

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in a way that would benefit you strategically.

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I think of debate for the most part as kind of a strategy game. It's also a speaking competition

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but it involves a lot of strategy, a lot of thinking,

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and if that's something that students here might enjoy they should probably consider signing up for debate and seeing what it's all about.

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Eric: The art team is expanding their talents by making the school their canvas.

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They'll be painting the stairs by the auditorium making it their new masterpiece.

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Here is Mrs. Botello and students for the reasoning behind it.

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Cici: What is the purpose of painting the stairs?

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Ivan: I guess just to make the school look a lot nicer than just plain old white to support our Rattler colors I guess.

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Jojo.

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Jojo: It makes it look everything better, like we're truly Rattlers.

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Jackie: The background is going to be purple and they haven't decided what they're going to paint over it yet.

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Cici: We're here with Mrs. Botello, the nicest and best art teacher at SMHS.

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Okay, what is the point of painting the murals?

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Mrs. Botello: I teach Painting and Public Arts here at San Marcos High School

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and we don't have a bunch of solid wall space so we decided to go vertical and paint on the stairs.

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Cici: What inspired you to do the murals?

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Mrs. Botello: We're using purple so that's keeping it with the Rattler theme

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and we don't have a final design quite yet.

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Cici: What students are painting them?

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Mrs. Botello: Students in the Painting in Public Arts course

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and a few volunteers.

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Chloe: If you have a story you would like to share on RNN, email us at RattlerNewsNetwork@gmail.com.

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Chloe: Well that's it for this RNN.[br]Eric: Join us next week and have a great day.

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