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Club Chronicle                                  Mock


        Trial,   Close-Up to agenda


                                        tem.   One  of  the  performance
         By Angie Gutschewski
         "Hear ye, Hear ye."  Some RHS   judges  had  them  winning  by  ten
      students  were  put  in  a  court-like   oints, the  other  had them  losing
      situation  for  the  first  time.  They   yone.  The main judge sided with
      didn't  commit  a  crime they  were   Burke, the team they were compet­
      participating in a Mock Trial.     ing  against,  so  Burke  won,  said
         It was the first time any Ralston   Stavropoulos.
      students had participatea in Mock      Tne  members  of  Mock  Trial
      Trial  a  club  affliated  with  Club   recieved  help from  a  real  lawyer,
      Chronicle.  "It was very, very  real­  Bill Riley.  Riley told us how to ask
       istic," Angela Stavropoulos, sopho­  questions and a lot of other things,
       more, who participated said.  The   said  Stavropoulos.  It was a  lot of
       members or Club Chronicle spent   hard  work  but,"it  was  worth  it,"
       about a  month  preparing for their   because  we  learned  a  lot  about
       case before they competed against   pursuing a law career ,said Stavro­
       other  area  schools.  Club  Chron­  poulos.
       icle members were assigned to be      For  the  first  time,  four  Club
       the  defense,  Stavropoulos  said.   Chronicle  members  also  partici­
       Linda Ash, senior and Club Chron­  pated in a group called Close-Up.
       icle president, said  they played the   These  four  members  attended
       roles of witnesses and  attorneys.  seminars  in  Washington  D.C. the
          Their case was a  real  case that   week of April  7,said Ash.
       actually took place in aMetro-area   Club Chronicle also participated
       school.  In the case a girl  had died   in  many  Social  Sciences-related
       in gym class.  The girls best friend   activities.   According  to  Bev
       had accidentally hit her in the head   Johnson,  club  sponsor,  the  club
       with a golf club which caused her   "offers  a  diversity  of  options."
       to die.  Our group tried to prove it   Johnson said that the students par­
       wasn'tthe schools fault, said Stavro­  ticipated  in  activities  that  inter­
       poulos.                           ested  them.  For  this  reason,"the
          There were three judges at the   membership varies with projects,"
       competition. Two judged perform­  Ash  said.   Other  activities  they
       ance and one was the main judge.   participated in were National His­
       They were  scored  on  a  point sys­  tory Day, Stock Market Came, and
                                         Mock United  Nations.
             Nebraska,  Minnesota,  North
            Carolina and  Wisconsin Close
            Up students  raised  money all
              year so they could travel to
          Washington,  D.C. April 8-15 for
                  an on-location study of
             America's government.  The
             four  RHS  Close  Up  members
               included  Linda Ash,  Carlos
              Castillo, Jason  Jokerst,  Kent
                Fleming and Sponsor  Bev
                               Johnson.

          CLUB  CHRONICLE
          Front  Row:  Sponsor  Bev
          Johnson,  Vice  President  Beatrice
          Smith,  President Linda Ash,
          Secretary  Stephanie  Searson,
          Lynn  Mattes  Row 2:  Kent
          Fleming, Jason Jokerst,  Sally
          MacNeill, Michelle Mikkelson,
          Michelle Fritz  Back  Row.  Susan
           Richardson,  Laura Meents,  Brad
           Dowd





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