THE DEBATE UNION

THE CLAREMONT COLLEGES DEBATE UNION (CCDU), a 5-C program centered at Claremont McKenna College; it is among the largest and most successful college debating societies in the nation. The Debate Union offers three major debate and communication programs – intercollegiate competitive debating, public/professional communication training and events, and educational outreach. Programming is national and international. Students may participate in any or all programming.

Any undergraduate of the Claremont Colleges is eligible to participate in sponsored activities. No previous experienced is required – generally, about half of CCDU members have no prior speech or debate training. There is substantial staff and peer training available for all CCDU members.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, many, although not all, 2022-23 events will be conducted online.

DSC00361INTERCOLLEGIATE COMPETITION

The CCDU participates in national and international debate competition in the World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) format, also known as the British Parliamentary (BP) debate format. It is the most popular and among the more rigorous college debate models extant. The CCDU attends 25 or more tournaments in this format each year. CCDU teams have won 5 national championships (varied formats) and placed second five times, ranked in the nation’s top ten in 24 of the past 29 years, and received many, many hundreds of team and individual awards at major national and international competitions. Students have won major awards at US national debate championships in the BP format, including first place in 2010 and second place in 2008. The CCDU established the BP US national debate championship, now the largest college championship debate event.

In addition to WUDC events, the Debate Union attends specialized competitions in select other formats, including Social Justice Debates, Lafayette Debates, International Humanitarian Law Debates, Society of Professional Journalists Debates, and Public Debate Program Debates. In 2022-23, the CCDU will participate in 8-10 tournaments in these additional formats.

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The Debate Union has an unparalleled historical commitment promoting public debate and discussion on matters of controversy and concern. The CCDU sponsors scores of campus and community events each year, including debates, lectures, discussion panels, academic conferences, town hall meetings, broadcast productions, advocacy training seminars, international student/faculty exchanges, poetry slams, and other national and international community, interscholastic, and intercollegiate events. The Debate Union has designed and moderated candidate electoral discussions and debates in Southern California communities and provided training and support for campus public policy debates. The CCDU has received national awards from debate organizations and non-profit groups for its public debate and discussion activities. Student papers have been accepted for argumentation, education, democracy promotion, development studies, neuroscience, mathematics, security studies, and political science conferences in Asia, Europe, and the United States. Students have participated in public events, academic conferences, and workshops in Croatia, Slovakia, Korea, the United Kingdom, Uganda, China, Slovenia, Italy, Turkey, Nigeria, Germany, the Czech Republic, Tanzania, Hungary, Qatar, Peru, Russia, and the US. The CCDU held a 2016 Conference on Nuclear Policy and a 2022 Conference on Electoral Reform. The Debate Union will host a Conference on Conflict and International Law in Spring 2023.
Among other 2022-23 events, the Debate Union will sponsor public affairs podcasts, a lecture series on legal practice and theory, a deliberative book club, an intra-collegiate public debate series – the Pentagonal Debates, and multiple civic/social engagement projects, including several connected to November 2022 elections.

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EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH

The Debate Union has extensive outreach programming and sponsors one of the nation’s largest class and contest debate and public speaking training programs for secondary school students – the Public Debate Program. Hundreds of thousands of middle and high school students, primarily representing socially and economically marginalized communities, receive instructional resources and participate in class and contest programs each year. The program operates throughout the US and in 39 other countries. College students produce text and video curricular materials, conduct educational research, direct instructional seminars for secondary school teachers and students, manage tournament operations, and judge at competitions. Public Debate Program development and event partners have included Asante Africa Foundation, English-Speaking Union of the United States, Tulane University Service Learning, NASA, and the Forum for African Women Educationalists. The Public Debate Program US middle school national debate championship is now the largest debate tournament competition in the country. In Summer 2022, the CCDU initiated and expanded PDP operations in South Africa, Uganda, and Ethiopia to reach more than 35,000 secondary school teachers and students.

The CCDU supports additional educational outreach initiatives in the US and abroad, including leadership communication, photojournalism, healthy eating, and civic engagement projects. In 2022-23, the CCDU will launch a series of new events for students interested in extra-curricular activities directly promoting academic and career success.

Summer/Fall 2022 Contact
All listed times on this site are Pacific Time.
All meetings are for CCDU members only.

Zoom contact for all meetings:
Topic: CCDU Meetings – Summer/Fall 2022
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8736737540?pwd=UGVyUlRrYjVxL2dCVEZuWm9nNWllQT09
Meeting ID: 873 673 7540
Passcode: CCDU2021

Social Justice Debates Topic 2022-23

This year’s topic for Social Justice Debates is TBD.

Come meet new and returning members of the Debate Union!

There will be a dessert reception and opportunity to meet other members, find prospective debate partners, learn about tournament, public/professional communication opportunities, and outreach events from John Meany and CCDU interns.

The event will be held this week – Saturday, September 10, 1:00-3:00 PM, at The HUB CMC.

Debate research for all members of the Debate Union is scheduled for Fridays, 12-2 PM. The Bauer classroom for the session will be announced the week of September 12.

幸运飞行艇官方开奖历史记录 BP Debate Instruction, September 5 – Fall Break

These instructional sessions are for those participating in the British Parliamentary (BP) format. Events will start promptly. More events will be added in mid-September.

Attend any single topic-based session that fits your schedule. Experienced debaters interested in outreach training can attend and model the presentation for teacher and other groups.

SEPTEMBER

Monday, 5 (online)
6-6:30 PM Intro to the CCDU
6:30-7 PM BP Demonstration Debate

Tuesday, 6 (in-person, Bauer 36)
4:30-5:20 PM Intro to BP (Format, Conventions, Team Roles, Note Taking, Judging)

Friday, 9 (online)
3-3:40 PM Counterplanning
3:45-4:30 PM Critiquing

Sunday, 11 (online)
1-1:30 PM BP Speaker Roles
1:30-2 PM ARESR and Thematic Introductions
2-2:40 PM Topic Categorization and Analysis
2:45-3:30 PM Constructing a Case

Tuesday, 13 (in-person, Bauer 36)
4:30-5 PM ARESR and Thematic Introductions
5-5:40 PM Counterplanning

Saturday, 17 (online)
12-12:30 PM Intro to the CCDU
12:40-1:30 PM Introduction to BP (Format, Conventions, Team Roles, Note Taking, Judging)
1:30-2 PM ARESR and Thematic Introductions
2:00-2:45 PM Constructing a Case

Tuesday, 20 (in-person, Bauer 36)
4:30-5 PM ARESR and Thematic Introductions
5-5:40 PM Critiquing

Friday, 23 (in-person, Bauer TBD)
12-12:50 PM Introduction to BP (Format, Conventions, Team Roles, Note Taking, Judging)
1-1:30 PM BP Speaker Roles
1:30-2 PM ARESR and Thematic Introductions

Sunday, 24 (online)
1-1:50 PM Intro to SJD Debates (Format, Conventions, Research, Note Taking, Judging)
2-2:40 PM Topic Categorization and Analysis
2:45-3:30 PM Constructing a Case
3:30-4 PM Advanced Public Speaking for Debating

Tuesday, 27 (in-person, Bauer 36)
5-5:30 PM Advanced Public Speaking for Debating

Wednesday, 28 (online)
6:30-8 PM PDP Judge Certification

Friday, 30 (in-person, Bauer TBD)
12-12:25PM ARESR and Thematic Introductions
12:30-1 PM Best Practices for Rebuttals (Whip) Speakers
1-1:30 PM Counterplanning
1:30-2 PM Critiquing

OCTOBER

Monday, 3 (online)
6-6:50 PM Generic Argumentation

Wednesday, 5 (in-person, Bauer TBD)
6:30-6:55 PM Intro to the CCDU
7-7:50 PM Introduction to BP (Format, Conventions, Team Roles, Note Taking, Judging)

Monday, 10 (in-person, Bauer 36)
6:00-7:15 PM PDP Outreach Training

BP Practice Debates, Fall 2022

If you have not already done so, please reserve your slot for weekly debate practice in the British Parliamentary format for Fall 2022. You must arrive on time and be available for the full 1:45 slot to register for a debate. This is your weekly practice time for the semester, so be thoughtful when selecting a date/time.

Initial practices are scheduled for Tuesdays, 6-7:45 PM and Wednesdays, 4:30-6:15 PM.

Please reserve with an email to a CCDU intern, Maya Kurkhill or Audrey Strevey,

Thank you to members of the Debate Union and CCDU alumni for their outstanding instruction and administrative work during this summer’s Claremont Debate and Leadership Communication Institutes (CDLI). This year, due ro pandemic and new curricular development, there were 2 national institute sessions, a summer tournament for US debaters, and workshops and curricular support for new initiatives for tens of thousands of students and teachers in South Africa and Uganda.  scheduled from June-September, for secondary school teachers and students. Programming included multiple teacher workshops, a debate sessions for middle school students, an academic conference on electoral reform for high school students, a summer debate championship for middle school students, and leadership communication training, including extemporaneous speaking, interviewing, roundtable discussion, multimedia presentation, resume and essay writing, and college application preparation for high school students.

CCDU members and alums from CMC, Scripps, Pomona, and Pitzer participated in Summer 2022 and included active CCDU members Maya Kurkhill (CMC ’23), Benjamin Brady (POM ’25), Cameron Quijada (SCR ’25), Devanshi Guglani (CMC ’25), Grayson Shaw (POM ’25), Louis Layman (CMC ’26), Sterling Drummond (PTZ ’25), as well as former members Nicole Pilar (PTZ ’13) and Ella Henry (CMC ’20). In addition, the summer sessions relied on the exceptional work of Katie Na, friend of the CCDU for many years and a former participant in the Debate Union’s international high school programming, USF ’22, and co-president of the Public Debate President.

 

Congratulations to many CCDU members for exceptional performances in intercollegiate debate events in 2021-22. This note recognizes select team awards; teams and individuals won many more awards in competition last year.

In BP format competitions, students were team award winners at the US National Debate Championship, hosted by Hobart and William Smith Colleges (octofinalist), Western States Debate Championship, hosted by the University of Denver, (first place, semifinalist), Novice National Debate Championship, hosted by Cornell University (quarterfinalist) Seattle University (second place, finalist, quarterfinalist), Linfield College (second place,  finalist, top novice team), Lewis and Clark College (first place), Vanderbilt University (first place, quarterfinalist, quarterfinalist), Duke University (second place), and the University of Utah (first place).

In Social Justice and related format tournaments, the team of Audrey Strevey and Grayson Shaw placed second at the SJD Winter Championship hosted by the University of Rochester and also placed second at the Lafayette Debate Championship, sponsored by George Washington University and the French Embassy to the United States.

IMPROVE VISUAL DISPLAYS OF QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION

Edward Tufte, The Cognitive Style of PowerPoint: Pitching Out Corrupts Within
(2nd Edition, 32-page pamphlet, $7, paperback, Amazon.com)

 

Edward Tufte, Visual and Statistical Thinking: Displays of Evidence for Making Decisions
(32-page pamphlet, $7, paperback, Amazon.com)

Additional review and information on Tufte

Edward Tufte is an expert in the field of information design. A professor emeritus of political science, statistics, computer science, and art at Yale University, his texts offer a pointed criticism of popular methods of graphic illustrations (e.g., PowerPoint), as well as establish techniques for the effective use of statistical and related design. These texts will introduce readers to sophisticated approaches to data illustrations and design thinking.

Laurian Vega, ‘Tufte is Dead; Long Live Tufte’
https://medium.com/the-ux-book-club/tufte-is-dead-long-live-tufte-21f830a0cfa8

Ann Jennings, ‘Jennings on Tufte, Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative’
https://networks.h-net.org/node/13784/reviews/13991/jennings-tufte-visual-explanations-images-and-quantities-evidence-and


DEVELOP CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS AND PREPARE FOR IMPROMPTU ARGUMENTATION

Roland Barthes, Mythologies
(New edition, $10, paperback, Amazon.com)

Additional review and information on Barthes and Mythologies

Roland Barthes, French social and literary critic, influenced the development of semiotics, structuralism, literary theory, communication, and post-structuralism. He taught philosophy and social/cultural criticism at a number of French universities. Barthes emphasized the active role of the reader in the ‘production’ of a text – as he noted in Image–Music–Text in 1977, “the death of the author is the birth of the reader.”

Andrew Robinson, ‘An A to Z of Theory Roland Barthes’s Mythologies: A Critical Theory of Myths’
https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-barthes-2/

Marco Roth, ‘Roland Barthes: Myths We Don’t Outgrow’
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/roland-barthes-myths-we-dont-outgrow?source=search_google_dsa_paid&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI7e_E3NzA6gIV1RitBh2n5gn7EAMYASAAEgLADfD_BwE

Michael Robbins, ‘Revisiting Roland Barthes’ Mythologies’
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/books/ct-prj-0310-mythologies-roland-barthes-20130308-story.html


LEARN TO ANALYZE AND IMPROVE NON-FICTION WRITING

John McPhee, Draft No. 4 – On the Writing Process
($10, paperback, Amazon.com)

Additional review and information on McPhee

John McPhee, professor of journalism at Princeton University, is an author of more than 25 books and scores of essays (he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker for more than five decades), as well as a pioneer of creative non-fiction. A 4-time nominee and 1999 winner for the Pulitzer Prize in General Non-fiction, his books include a wide range of subjects, from travel and biography to the environment, aeronautics, and sports. Draft No. 4 features McPhee’s analysis of the writing process.

Sam Anderson, ‘The Mind of John McPhee’
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/28/magazine/the-mind-of-john-mcphee.html

Tyler Malone, ‘John McPhee: Seven Ways of Looking at a Writer’
https://lithub.com/john-mcphee-seven-ways-of-looking-at-a-writer/

 

TO JOIN!

Send an email to John Meany, Director of Forensics, john.meany@cmc.edu indicating interest. Please use “Join the CCDU” as the email subject heading.

Complete the member forms located at https://ccdu2020.wufoo.com/forms/kahhoad02i65m3/.

Done. You are in. Welcome!

USE THE BELOW LINK FOR ALL FALL 2021 CCDU MEETINGS FOR NEW AND RETURNING STUDENTS, INCLUDING ORIENTATIONS, INTRODUCTIONS TO FORMATS, ARGUMENTATION AND RESEARCH WORKSHOPS, CERTIFICATION SESSIONS, AND DEBATE PRACTICES.

ALL MEETINGS ARE LISTED AS PACIFIC TIME AND ARE FOR CCDU STAFF, MEMBERS, AND INVITED GUESTS ONLY.

Zoom Link:
Topic: CCDU Meetings – Summer/Fall 2021
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/8736737540?pwd=UGVyUlRrYjVxL2dCVEZuWm9nNWllQT09
Meeting ID: 873 673 7540
Passcode: CCDU2021

There are regularly scheduled training sessions for intercollegiate debating in the British Parliamentary, Social Justice/Lafayette/International Humanitarian Law/Society of Professional Journalists, and Public Debate Program formats, professional communication events support including conference and presentation programming, FirstReporters!, and Civics in Action programs, and national and international educational debate outreach in the Public Debate Program and World Schools formats. National and international opportunities are scheduled throughout the year, including summer and break events. The Debate Union pays all major costs of participation.

Debate Union Office – Bauer South 21, CMC
John Meany, Director of Forensics, Office Hours – Tu/Wed, 12-2 PM, in-person and online, by appointment
         

New to the Debate Union? What to Do Next!

For those new to the Debate Union and after attending an orientation/information session, here are some recommendations about how to get involved. Programming, including training, is rolling and there will be additional opportunities for training. Most upcoming events are not yet scheduled by other institutions and will be announced the first week of September.

Please complete roster information for the fall term. Here is the link:
https://ccdu2020.wufoo.com/forms/kahhoad02i65m3/.

Interested in Intercollegiate Debating?

Attend the format introductions for British Parliamentary (BP) debating and/or Social Justice Debate formats.

Attend a weekly practice. CCDU interns will contact members to schedule your semester practice time. In general, you will select a Tuesday or Wednesday evening time for practice. A practice is 2 hours for a debate and feedback.

Attend CCDU argumentation/instruction and research sessions, Scheduled periodically and repeated several times during a 2-week period. Sessions focus on speaker responsibilities, argumentation, case writing, public speaking for debate, counterplanning, critiquing, topic interpretation and categorization, and more…

Register to participate at debate tournaments. One may do so as an individual, with a team partner, or as a judge (training will provided and BP judges do not have to be highly experienced – can be new to the format).

Interested in Professional Communication Events?

Register to participate as a moderator or debate participant for one or more upcoming events There will be a training for moderators, as well as preparation sessions and practice for those participating in events beginning in mid-September.

Interested in Educational Outreach?

Attend a PDP judge certification session and tabulation administrator/tournament director session. Certified judges are eligible to judge at Public Debate Program competitions.

 

Select Intercollegiate Tournaments

2020 US National Championship (re-scheduled to October 2021)

Congratulations to Helena Ong and Naomi Tilles for their outstanding performance at the 2020 National USWUDC Championship, sponsored this year by Hobart and William Smith Colleges, October 2-5, 2020. They were octafinalists at the tournament, ranking among many of the finest debaters in the world.

This year’s US Universities Debate Championship is the 2020 national tournament, suspended since April 2020 due to the pandemic. The tournament permits national and international undergraduate teams to compete. In addition, graduating seniors unable to compete at the Spring 2020 championship retained eligibility to attend this year’s event. More than 200 teams participated. Three Claremont teams attended the 2020 championship – Helena Ong and Naomi Tilles, Kristen Lu and Jessy Nesbit, and John Cho and Adarsh Srinivasan.

The US championship in the British Parliamentary format was established by the Claremont Colleges Debate Union and first hosted by CMC in 2005. The Debate Union held the first 3 championships before John Meany convinced schools to have a bid system for site selection and move the tournament to a new region annually. The Debate Union has placed in the top ten at the USUDC on a half dozen occasions, including first place and second place finishes.

Lewis and Clark Tournament

Congratulations to Sara Abassi and Kristen Lu for their outstanding performance at the Lewis and Clark Debate and Speech Invitational Tournament, October 9-11, 2020. They placed second at the tournament. This year’s Lewis and Clark event is one of the largest invitational tournaments in the country, with more than 77 colleges/universities from 27 states attending. Two Claremont teams entered the event – Sara Abassi and Kristen Lu and Justin Shen and Michele Tang.

University of Vermont

Congratulations to Jessy Nesbit and Maya Kurkhill for their exceptional performance at the University of Vermont Debate Tournament, November 6-8, 2020. They placed fifth at the tournament, losing in the semifinal round of debates. In addition to their team award, they both placed among the top individual speakers at the competition – Jessy was the 8th place speaker and Maya was 16th. This year’s University of Vermont event is one of the largest BP invitational tournaments in the country, with more than 90 teams representing 48 colleges/universities from more than 10 countries (Philippines, India, Belorussia, China, Jamaica, Canada, Palestine, Peru, Nepal, Pakistan) and 15 states attending (including highly competitive teams from Bates, Yale, Middlebury, Cornell, UCLA, and Wesleyan).

Social Justice Debates Western Championship Tournament

Congratulations to Michelle Ramirez for her outstanding individual performance at the Social Justice Debates Western US Championship Tournament, sponsored online by George Washington University, November 14-15, 2020. Michelle placed fifth at the tournament. The Claremont teams, Michelle Ramirez and Jasmine Perales and Trevor Christensen and Adarsh Srinivasan each missed a team award by a single decision in the preliminary debates. This year’s Social Justice Debates Western States Championship was one of the largest invitational tournaments of its format ever held in the country. It is the last Social Justice Debates competition before the national championship, which will be sponsored by Morehouse College on January 16-17, 2021. This year’s SJD topic is Social Justice Movements should make police abolition their top priority.

Seattle University

Congratulations to everyone for their extraordinary performances at the Seattle University Debate Tournament, December 5-6, 2020. Michele Tang and Justin Shen placed second at the tournament, losing in the final round. Adarsh Srinivasan and Nati Azmera finished fifth, losing in the semi-final round. In addition to their team awards, all four students placed among the top individual speakers at the competition – Adarsh was the 6th place speaker, Michele and Justin tied at 11th place, and Nati finished 19th. Michelle Ramirez and Jasmine Perales debated well, missing elimination rounds based on the result of their final preliminary debate. This year’s Seattle University event was the largest BP invitational tournament in the western states, with teams representing 14 states and 5 countries in attendance, including highly competitive teams from Cornell, UCLA, Columbia, Yale, British Columbia, Grinnell, and Wesleyan.

University of Utah

Congratulations to Michelle Tang and Justin Shen for their terrific performance at the University of Utah Debate Tournament, January 16-17, 2021, the opening competition of Spring 2021. Michele and Justin were the top novice team (first year in BP debating) at the competition and were semi-finalists in the open division at the tournament. In addition to their team awards, Justin was the 2nd place speaker and Michele was 3rd.

Select Professional Events

DebateWatches

The Debate Union sponsored DebateWatches, including an election debate observation and subsequent town hall discussion. The discussions included evaluation of the moderator, issue agenda, and candidate performances. Separate DebateWatches were held for college, high school, and middle school audiences. Members of the Debate Union moderated discussions. The CCDU sponsored 12 debates for presidential and vice-presidential debates, as well as the debate between candidates for the US Senate from Georgia, from October-December. The Claremont Colleges Debate Union has sponsored DebateWatches for the last 5 presidential election cycles.

Public Showcase Debates

The CCDU held a series of public showcase debates, featuring opportunities for audiences to engage the debaters during a question and comment period in the middle of the debate, through heckling and Zoom reactions, and with an audience vote on the debate outcome. CCDU members moderated and debated in all events. The Debate Union held debates on the following topics – Abolish the Electoral College, The US should adopt compulsory voting for its general election, Presidential candidates should be required to play Jeopary!, Does unionization do more good than harm?, The minimum wage should be set at $15, and Trump’s second impeachment did more harm than good.  

Lecture

The Debate Union, in collaboration with the Scripps Pre-law Society and the Claremont Journal of Law and Public Policy, hosted a lecture on legal education and public interest law, featuring LA County Superior Court Judge Mark Windham. This was the opening of a series of presentations on legal practice and issues, which will continue in 2021-22.

Select Debate Outreach

Thank you to all current and former members of the Debate Union for their extraordinary volunteer support for the Middle School and High School Public Debate Program (PDP), the CCDU’s proprietary debate outreach initiatives. In addition to volunteering as tab staff and judges at events, Maya Kurkhill serves as national co-president of the High School Public Debate Program and Kimberlin Huang and Naomi Tilles have managed major online events and trained others as tabulation staff. Hundreds of thousands of PDP teachers and staff participate in class and competitive programming in more than 30 countries annually.

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