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Eric Devaux '13 and Catherine Djang '13 pose for a photo after winning the 2010 intramural Novice Tournament. (Credit: Joseph Kibe)
Novice Brooks Quimby Debaters faced off against one another today in the team's annual intramural Novice Tournament. Six novice teams competed in three preliminary rounds, and the top two teams advanced to a final round. This year's final round between first-years Spencer Collet '13 and Ben Smith '13, and Catherine Djang '13 and Eric Devaux '13 centered on a proposal by Collet and Smith to televise the executions of prisoners given the death sentence. A seven-member judging panel awarded the final round to Djang and Devaux. Djang was also the tournament's top speaker.
After three rounds of balloting, the team elected first-year Catherine Djang '13 as its Equity Officer for the remainder of the 2009-2010 school year. Djang was one of five candidates nominated to take on the position vacated by junior Alison Vingiano '11 who is spending the semester abroad. The team's Equity Officer is charged with addressing any equity violations on the team, and helps to oversee the team's community outreach. The position on the officer board is a fairly recent addition, now in its third year.
The Brooks Quimby Debate Council held its annual APDA debate tournament last weekend. All told, 36 teams traveled to Lewiston, Maine for the team's tournament from schools across the country. In addition, former Brooks Quimby Debate debaters Geoff Shaughnessy '09, Daniel Berman '08 and Brendan Jarboe '08 returned to help judge the teams in competition. The team was also grateful to former coach Andrea Curtis, who offered her experience to the judging panel as well.
Continuing a long standing tradition, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council welcomed a team from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia for a public debate as a part of Bates College's celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Drawing on the role of religion in the 20th century Civil Rights movement, the debate was centered on the resolution, "This house believes that religion is a necessary element of a just social change."
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