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ANNOUNCEMENTS:
Congrats to our new Member at Large, Matthew Cole!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
Monday, Feb. 20th (11am-7pm) - Tab Program Testing: Come help us try to break the new MIT tab program. Stop by any time throughout the day.
March 16th-17th - MIT Tournament - Sign-ups for judging and housing coming soon.
Refer to the Schedule Page for a complete list of events!
NEW MEMBERS:
Interested in joining the debate team? Check out our FAQ and stop by and see us at one of our meetings or practice rounds. (All Dates and locations on the Schedule Page). Also, make sure you are on our mailing list (debate@mit.edu). If you have any other questions, please contact exec at debate-request@mit.edu. We look forward to meeting you!
MEETINGS:
Admin Meetings and Practice Rounds are Tuesday at 8pm in 50-306 (Walker).
Training sessions are Thursdays from 6-8pm
DONATIONS:
RESULTS:
Congrats to Nevin Daniel for getting 10th Novice Speaker at the North American Debating Championships!
ABOUT US:
We hold weekly meetings on Tuesdays at 8pm on the third floor of Walker, on the river side (50-306). On most weekends, we attend tournaments at various other colleges in the Northeast, occasionally flying out to schools like Stanford. We even go abroad, to such tournaments as the Worlds University Debating Championship, the North American Championships, and the Oxford and Cambridge Intervarsities. In 2010 Worlds was held in Botswana and NorthAms was held at Fordham in NYC.
The benefits of joining the debate team include learning and practicing efficient and persuasive public speaking, discussing any and every topic you can think of, all-expenses paid trips to other schools, meeting fantastic people from said schools, running the MIT tournament, etc.etc. The downside is spending various Friday nights and Saturdays away from the MIT campus (but hey, that can be a benefit also).
To join, just come to a meeting! For more information about how membership works, see the FAQ. We will also have a booth at the Activities Midway so stop by to say hi!
You may also contact our 2011-2012 exec board, or any of us individually, at the following e-mail addresses:
| President: | Julia Boortz | jboortz@mit.edu | ||
| VP of Finance: | Joseph Lynch | jolynch@mit.edu | ||
| VP of Tournaments: | Shireen Rudina | srudina@mit.edu | ||
| VP of Membership: | Wennie Wang | wwwennie@mit.edu | ||
| Member at Large: | Matthew Cole | mcole@mit.edu | ||
| Webmasters: | Joseph Lynch & Julia Boortz | jolynch@mit.edu, jboortz@mit.edu | ||
| Exec Board: | debate-request@mit.edu |