Issue II
After twenty five hours of travel, it is difficult to look back and remember all the good times that we had in Thailand. But as debaters with a keen mind for argumentation, Thailand certainly made a good case for being one of the best tournaments and fondest memories from our Brooks Quimby Debate career thus far. Below is a list of our top five moments and experiences at this year's Worlds Debating Championship at Assumption University in Bangkok, Thailand:
It's been a busy school year for Brooks Quimby. The team has debated at Oxford and Cambridge, traveled to Bangkok for world championships, hosted tournaments for both APDA and Maine high schools, engaged in public debates with students from Yale and Morehouse, run an in-house novice tournament, debated with alumni in New York and met with some real success on the American circuit at Dartmouth and NYU.
On January 21st, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council revived the noble tradition of hosting a public debate in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day with several students from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia. The historical connection between Bates and...
In November of this school year, Bates continued its long-standing tradition of sending several teams to compete at Cambridge University's Inter-Varsity Debate Tournament. The trip consisted entirely of Brook's Quimby's stellar class of 2011, sending teams Alicia Orkisz and Rachel Kurzius, and Ariela Silberstein and Maddy Kilbride. Nicky DeFrancis also travelled as an adjudicator.
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The Brooks Quimby Debate Council will be teaming up with the Lewiston-Auburn public libraries to support their communitywide program "The Big Read."
Though the debate team maintains a strong presence on campus, the average Bates student does not seem to know all that much about it. One reason we run public debates is as much to raise awareness of our existence as it is to show off our skills. That said, I have been simply blown away by the reaction to our recent public debate with Yale that preceded our APDA tournament.
On the evening of Saturday the 19th of January, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council closed the books on its second and final tournament of the season. As we look back on our High School and APDA tournaments with a mixture of pride and nostalgia, we cannot but celebrate our great success.