The CU Mock Trial team recruits new members at the beginning of every academic year through a tryout process. We encourage anyone who is interested to try out, regardless of experience or skill.
We welcome all CU-Boulder students regardless of age, those with high school mock trial experience and those without, and students from all majors.
New applicants should plan to attend an informational meeting about the club and complete a short tryout to join the team. Our 2011 information session will be held on Thursday, September 1st from 5:30 to 6:30 pm in Hellems 199.
We are excited for another great year of Mock Trial here at CU. Tryouts are coming up in a few weeks — scheduled for September 12th and 13th.
You can sign up for your tryout time here. Be sure to hit file and save after you enter your information in the Google Doc.
Tryouts will be done individually and will last approximately 10-15 minutes each; you can tryout as a witness or as a lawyer. The formats are slightly different.
All of the documents for tryouts, including a tryout sheet containing all of the information on this page, can be found at the bottom of the page.
WITNESS
Please choose from ONE of the affidavits, finding the witness you can best portray. Read through the witness statement and do your best to memorize the information in it. We will put you on “the stand” and question you as if you are a witness in a real case. The questions will be relatively straightforward, but we encourage you to create a real character with your witness (costumes, accents, etc. are encouraged).
Witness options: Lee Thompson, Pat Goodson, OR Terry Martinez. These are witnesses from an old high school case. The Problem (what the case is about) has also been included just to give you a background.
LAWYER
There are TWO parts to your tryout (you must complete both parts):
1) Please come up with a 2 – 3 minute argument surrounding any issue you feel passionate about. EXAMPLE: Why is peanut butter better than jelly? What is your stance on the Obama Health Care Plan? Is it good or bad? These can be humorous or serious. The most important point is to take a deliberate stance, one way or the other.
2) Next we will give you a topic during your tryout—we will keep these simple. EXAMPLE: What is the best flavor of ice cream? What is the most useful electronic device? You will have 60 seconds to come up with a 2 minute persuasive argument. With this impromptu portion of your tryout, we care less about your answer to the question and more about how persuasive/passionate you are. Convince us you are right!
EVERYONE
We will end all tryouts with a general question/answer session, just to get to know all of you a little better.
If you have any questions, please email CU Mock Trial at comocktrial@gmail.com.
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