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UM Debaters Achieve Milestone, Advance to Elimination Rounds

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Julia Lynch and Zachary Homeijer from the UM Debate Team achieved a milestone by advancing into the elimination rounds in a national level varsity policy debate tournament at the University of Mary Washington in Fredericksburg, Virginia on Oct. 12-14. “Advancing into the elimination rounds was…

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Leading Through Debate

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Of the many qualities that make a person a leader, Dewayne (DJ) Washington, a senior at the University of Miami, possesses all of them. Washington comes from Raleigh, NC, with a passion for football and numbers. While in high school, he wanted to combine his two…

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Debate Team Goes to Prison

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Toastmasters International is a non-profit educational organization that teaches public speaking and leadership skills through a worldwide network of clubs. There are more than 16,000 chapters of Toastmasters worldwide. One of the most unique chapters is in the Oregon State Penitentiary in Salem, Oregon. Since…

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Debating in English When it’s your Second Language

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A language barrier can prevent someone from understanding you in the simplest of situations leaving you frustrated, anxious, and sometimes even ready to give up. For Melody Li, a sophomore who moved to the U.S. from China to pursue a bachelor’s in Marine Science and…

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UM Debate Hosts Rwandan Debate Team

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Twenty-three years after experiencing a brutal civil war which, in a period of 100 days, took the lives of a million innocent people to Genocide, the nation of Rwanda is a new country, rebuilding itself with a remarkable story of overcoming its past. In order…

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#4 UM Debate Team Travels West

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The UM Debate Team traveled west this weekend, with the British Parliamentary Team competing at Denver University, and the Policy Team competing at The University of Nevada at Las Vegas. The Parliamentary team finished out of the award rounds, but competed well against outstanding competition…

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