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In the open debate event, Zweier The SJSU Forensics Team finished and his teammate Avesta Sabetian strong at its second tournament and took second place, Zweier took first received second place out of the four for the overall speaker, Swanson took year universities for the Sweepstake second for overall speaker and Sabe- Award. tian took fifth for overall speaker. The tournament was Friday and Gallagher was a finalist in open Saturday and was held at Santa Rosa extemporaneous. Junior College. Gallagher gave a speech about About 12 other colleges attended passing Proposition 34 to eliminate the tournament including San Fran- the death penalty. cisco State University, which re- “It’s a controversial issue that has ceived first place in the Sweepstake good evidence for and against it,” Award, UC Berkeley, Diablo Valley Gallagher said. “I was able to give ar- College and Butte College. ticulation with strong evidence for The Sweepstake Award is cumula- my stance which made it an enjoy- tive of all the points each teammate able speech to give.” received in his or her events to gauge Swanson received second place in which school scored the highest over- the open extemporaneous event and all. Sabetian received third. “I think it’s a reflection of how “Because it’s the first time I’m hard we’ve been working,” said senior competing in the higher up level English major Katrina Swanson. “I’m making it to finals is very exciting,” really proud of the team.” said Sabetian, a senior industrial en- Every member of the SJSU Foren- gineering major. sics Team who attended the event re- In the open impromptu event, ceived at least one award. Swanson took first and Zweier took “The team did very well overall,” second place out of twelve competi- said Matt Zweier, fifth year com- tors. munication studies student. “Most “I typically don’t make it past people were nervous going into their preliminary rounds in impromptu events and not sure how they would speaking,” Zweier said. “So to make it do, but they ended up winning in a past that and to get second was really wide variety of categories.” big for me.” Both Swanson and Zweier have Zweier spoke about the impor- been team members for three years. tance of communications studies The teammates competed in for bettering the world and Swanson many different events including spoke about about how people aren’t debate, impromptu speaking, com- doing enough for the environment. munications analysis, prose, duo, po- “We need to do a better job of tak- etry, extemporaneous speaking and ing care of the earth and I got to tie in the after-dinner speech. a lot of examples that I care about,” Chantel Steburg and Katelin Zwe- Swanson said. ifel-Korzuchin, who joined the team Swanson also received first place this semester, received first place in in the open communication analysis the novice duo event. event. “We’ve been working really hard Her speech focused on how peo- on the piece, and I feel like it paid ple have been making fun of Hilary off,” said Steburg, a senior commu- Clinton because she doesn’t wear any nications studies. makeup. Zweifel-Korzuchin also received Her point was that women don’t fourth place for top speaker in the have to dress nicely in order to be novice parliamentary debate event. great. “I was really shocked,” said Zwe- “I’ve been working really hard on ifel-Korzuchin, a sophomore adver- the communication analysis,” Swan- tising major. “I wasn’t expecting to son said. “This is the first time I’ve place at all, especially not in the top gotten a good placing on that.” four.” Swanson said the team is improv- Ryan Gallagher received fourth ing and she is looking forward to the place in novice prose. next tournament. Gallagher is a junior business “There will be more schools at the management major and has been on next tournament, so we’ll see a bigger the team for two years. challenge,” Swanson said. “We’ve got David Jaques received third place our work cut out for us, but I think out of about 30 people in the novice we have high hopes after coming impromptu event. away from this tournament so suc- Jaques is a senior radio, television cessfully.” Students watch as a Fire Pixie performer breathes fire at SJSU Fire on the Fountain Festival at Tower Lawn and film major and has been on the Celeste Lodge is a Spartan Daily on Thursday. Photo by Basil Sar / Contributing Photographer team since last semester. staff writer. Follow her on Twitter SEE PHOTO STORY ON PAGE 6 This was Onofre Galvez’s first @celestelodge. CULTURE Student Union plays host for Indian festival at ‘Raas Garba’ By Thyra Phan The dresses come in rich, earthy colors @ThyraPhan and adorned with lavish sequins. These are paired with an array of gold and silver Dressed in shades of crimson and blue bangles on the wrists and chunky earrings ghagra choli and kurta pajamas, more and necklaces. than 150 people danced, clapped and A kurta is a long tunic worn by men, banged sticks in celebration of the god- which is paired with pants called pajamas, dess, Durga, at “Raas Garba” Saturday he said. night, hosted by the Indian Student Orga- “Red is a prominent color and sym- nization. bolic for the goddess,” Kylas said. “Yellow Raas garba is a style of dance that origi- symbolizes turmeric, which is used when nated in Gujarat, India, which involves the you do a prayer to god.” clapping of hands (garba) and the banging “This cultural celebration means I get of sticks (sticks), according to Vineet Ko- to meet other Indian people, and we get thari, alumni adviser for the Indian Stu- to celebrate and worship our gods,” said dent Organization. freshman Jinal Ahir. Ghagra choli is a traditional Indian She said the style of garba danc- dress worn by women, consisting of a ing is simple and involves a lot of arm scarf, top and long skirt, according to Attendees dance raas garba, a style of dance that originated in Gujarat, India Saturday at the Student Sandeep Kylas, vice president of ISO. SEE RAAS GARBA ON PAGE 2 Union Barrett Ballroom. Photo by Basil Sar / Contributing Photographer Page 2 | Spartan Daily NEWS Monday, October 15, 2012 Raas Garba: Attendess enjoy night of culture and tradition FROM PAGE 1 tion of the N avaratri festival movement such as clapping differs greatly in the United and snapping. States than in India. The band, Dr. Sharvari “We try to make it similar Dixit and Troupe, played a by following the same routine medley of “traditional, folk of dancing,” she said, “But it’s Indian music,” according to more intense in India because Kothari, with a steady beat on it lasts more than a week.” two drums and four melodic At SJSU, the celebration voices. lasts one night, for about five Dancers sashayed and hours, but she said the length swayed their arms as they of celebration for Indians may formed a large circle in the vary, depending on their loca- Barrett Ballroom at the Stu- tion in the United States. dent Union. In India, the N avaratri According to Shruti Sheth, festival is celebrated for nine an attendee, dancing in a cir- nights, according to Kothari. cle symbolizes the battle be- “We celebrate each night tween good or evil. for the goddess, Durga,” he “The goddess is in the cen- said. “She has nine different ter, and everyone dances in a forms, and each form is dedi- circle,” she said. “We all syn- cated for each night.” chronize and move forward in “Although my family is circles.” not here with me tonight, raas As a sign of respect, danc- garba brings people together,” ers are required to remove Panchal said. “The people here their shoes. believe in the same thing you Men and women dance in a circle around one another at the Student Union Barrett Ballroom Saturday to celebrate the Navaratri festival. “Whenever we go to tem- do.” The Indian Student organization hosted the event. Photo by Basil Sar / Contributing Photographer ples or people’s houses, the Ahir said the celebra- wick represent the god Agni, may choose to fast, according feast is consumed. Accord- “I feel like I’m in India, and first thing we do is take off tions begin and end in puja, according to Kothari. to Kothari. ing to Ahir, some of the foods I’m dancing with my friends,” our shoes,” Ahir said. “Our or prayer, and everyone sur- A rongoli – a design made “People eat once a day, and served are kitri, rice with dif- said Sheth.