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ONEONTA, N.Y. -- The
poetry slam team from the SUNY College at Oneonta finished fourth
nationally in the 2008 Association of College Unions Poetry Slam tournament
in Albuquerque, New Mexico, last week at the four-day competition involving
26 teams and hosted by the University of New Mexico.
The SUNY-Oneonta team has reached the final stage of the competition
three times in the past seven years, finishing second in 2005 and fourth in
2003. This year's competition was won by the University of New Mexico.
Second place went to the University of Pennsylvania and third to the
University of Wisconsin--Madison.
Robb Thibault, Director of the Hunt College Union at SUNY-Oneonta, is one
of the founders and the former coordinator of the Poetry Slam Program of the
Association of College Unions International. More information about the
SUNY-Oneonta team is available from Thibault at (607) 436-3013.
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