Debate Union Marches To Victories
April 14, 2017
The URDU kicked off the month of March by celebrating National Speech Education Day, where we gave out decorated bottle caps for a suggested donation to Leaping Boundaries, and organization our team is working with this year that works with high school debaters in Bangladesh. Thanks to Bri Terrell for making this event happen, and to everyone who tabled!
Continue ReadingURDU Heats Up In February
March 6, 2017
We have lots to report from a busy February! This past month saw URDU debaters winning top speaker awards, debating in elimination rounds, and generally having big successes in all experience levels of both of our formats of debate. For three weekends in a row, from Ithaca, NY to Washington, D.C. we had some amazing debates and brought home some trophies too!
Continue ReadingBusy Winter Break For UR Debate Union
January 23, 2017
This winter the debate union traveled thousands of miles to compete at THREE debate tournaments! Two teams traveled to Los Angeles, California to compete at USC and CSU-Fullerton, and another team and student judge traveled to the World Universities Debating Championship in The Hague, Netherlands. We learned a lot and had a lot of fun at each.
Continue ReadingUR Debate Hosts East High School Fall Championship
December 10, 2016
This Monday the URDU will host debaters from East High School for its Fall Championship tournament. URDU members will debate alongside East High students on several different topics throughout the day.
Continue ReadingVictory For URDU In The Green Mountains
November 1, 2016
Over this past weekend the URDU won big at the Huber Debates hosted by the Lawrence Debate Union at the University of Vermont, one of only three tournaments that hosts competitions in both of our formats all year. In a field of over eighty teams in worlds and twenty teams in policy we had huge success in both formats, proving we are a versatile, skilled squad!
Continue ReadingDebate Pair Finish As Finalists At HWS Tourney
October 5, 2016
This past weekend the URDU brought a bus full of debaters – many of them brand new to debate – and everyone benefited from what was a re-vamped Hobart and William Smith Colleges tournament.
Continue ReadingURDU Has JV Champions At Rutgers
October 3, 2016
This past weekend the debate union took one team to compete in each division of the Rutgers-Newark debate tournament. Novices Melissa Kagaju and Anthony Pericolo learned the new format and got some experience with the new year’s topic, while Open debaters Cedric Bonsol and Tobi Abubakare tested out some new arguments that they hope to develop as the year goes on. The big victory happened in the Junior Varsity division, with Brianna Terrell and Ben Morbeck finishing as tournament champions.
Continue ReadingUR Debate Kicks Off Season With Two Big Events
September 12, 2016
We’ve started off the year strong with lots of practice and tons of new debaters ready to try out this great activity. Now we’re preparing for two big events this and next week:
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