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 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 also offered her experience to the judging pool.

In the novice bracket, Yale HT's Aaron Hakim and David Trinh overtook Stanford HP's Nicholas Hernandez and Emma Pierson on a 4-1 in the novice final round on a 4-1 decision, debating the resolution, "This house would remove veto power from permanent members of the UN Security Council." The top novice speaker was Yale's Robert Colonel.

In the varsity bracket, eight teams broke to quarterfinals. The final round pitted MIT's Adam Goldstein and Peter McKee against Yale's Alyssa Bilinski and Kate Falkenstein. They debated whether a large donor to a hypothetical liberal arts college ought to have the power to censor objectionable religious art. On a 4-3 decision, the judging panel gave the round to Yale's Alyssa Blinski and Kate Falkenstein. The top varsity speaker was Yale's Grant May.