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debate report f2015
SMU debate report fall semester 2015 Voth page !1 SMU Debate finishes strong on 2015 December 11, 2015 report Coming off major awards such as top speaker in the nation for novice policy debate and third in the nation at the Madison Cup in spring of this year. SMU debate continued with a strong fall semester performance supported by the Meadows School of the Arts, the Provost office, and Dedman College of Humanities and Sciences. Here are the major events and accomplishments for fall 2015: SMU hosted the Rwandan national debate team on campus during the centennial of SMU. SMU debated the team on this year’s policy debate topic with regard to whether the US should reduce its military presence in the Greater Horn of Africa. Jaden Warren finished second place and top speaker overall at the TCU International Parliamentary debate tournament. Jaden won first place in IPDA competition in Washington state. Jaden is currently the #4 speaker world-wide in this type of debate. SMU’s novice team of Katie Snyder and Noshin Kuraishi won first place in the novice division at the KCCC tournament— defeating 2015 national champions University of Northern Iowa. The team was the top seed at the University of Central Oklahoma tournament and took second overall in that competition. Kuraishi finished as the #40 novice speaker in the nation. Snyder is presently the #57 speaker in the nation. Kuraishi and Ryan were the #25 team in the nation for novice debate. They are the #1 novice team in the region. Muteranymi Nintunze and Aabid Shivji advanced to the quarterfinals of the KCCC varsity debate tournament. The pair also completed a 4-4 record at Wake Forest University in the varsity division. It was the first time in more than 10 years for SMU to compete at the most competitive fall policy debate tournament in the nation. Muteranymi is in the top 25% speakers in the nation in varsity policy debate among more than 600 college speakers. SMU hosted approximately 50 students and community members to debate possible changes to the open carry gun policy being reviewed by SMU. Students voted 22-21 for debate president Halley Hovey-Murray over SMU debate report fall semester 2015 Voth page !2 Noshin Kuraishi. Halley defended allowing conceal carry weapons on campus at SMU. In November the American Forensics Association— the governing academic body for speech and debate activity selected director Ben Voth’s book— The Rhetoric of Genocide: Death as a Text for the Daniel Roher Award. The competitive award notes the top piece of scholarship in forensics for the year. The book argues that debate plays a central role in the abolition of genocide in the 21st century. Dr. Voth’s expertise was utilized in more than 100 major news media articles this fall regarding the Presidential primary debates here in the United States. Outlets included Agency France Press, the Washington Post and the Rush Limbaugh radio show. Dr. Voth also appeared on local Dallas television news shows to help analyze the debates. SMU debaters completed more than 50 rounds of debate. Debates are typically two hours long. This was the best competitive results for SMU in a fall semester in more than 10 years. SMU debater Joseph Reyes serves as a principal administrator for the Dallas Urban Debate Alliance. That program reaches hundreds of DISD students in junior high and high school with debate tournament activity. Dozens of students from the COMM 4323 Forensics class provide 100 hours of debate judging to those students and provide positive educational motivation to the larger curriculum of DISD. Debaters were coached by Ben Voth, Ross Sloan, Caress Russell, Beth Hopp, Tyler Murray (alumni) and Brian Gonzaba. Contact director Ben Voth for further details and information: [email protected] Internet links: http://www.smudailycampus.com/news/smu-debate-faces-success-in-uco-debate-tournament https://www.smu.edu/Meadows/NewsAndEvents/News/2015/151202-DebateOnCampusCarry https://www.smu.edu/Meadows/NewsAndEvents/News/2015/151111-WinningestSemester https://www.smu.edu/Meadows/NewsAndEvents/News/2015/151006-DebateTournament https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/08/06/how-in-the-world-do-you-debate-donaldtrump-heres-what-the-experts-prescribe/