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Nick Ducote and Robbie Reeves led a lab group at the Four Star Debate camp located in Anwar, Jordan, this summer.

The 2010-2011 CEDA/NDT College Resolution has been announced:

“I am excited to meet House Speaker Pelosi because she is a wonderful role model,” Wunderlich said. “She has shown me that I can be politically assertive and still be a woman.

One of the University of Wyoming's most successful policy debaters, Travis Cram, is the new director of UW's debate team.

Immigration was selected as the controversy area.

For the 2010-2011 season, policy debate at Indiana University will officially return after a long hiatus of 18 years.

Members of Baylor University's nationally ranked debate team recently made a strong showing at the National Debate Tournament, held at the University of California, Berkeley, at the end of March.

After a full year of researching, reciting and rehearsing, debaters from the Cornell Forensics Society are sitting near the top.

The University of Wyoming debate team and the Department of Communication and Journalism will honor four individuals at the second annual Wyoming Debate Hall of Fame induction ceremony Saturday, May 22.

Before each tournament, Sam Crichton, a senior on the Wake Forest debate team, meticulously stocks a half-dozen Rubbermaid tubs with computer printouts

As the 2009-2010 season came to an end, UTSA debaters faced the daunting task of two major national championship tournaments hosted by UC Berkeley, an 11-day spring vacation debate-fest.

KU debaters also rack up an impressive number of victories, including being first in National Debate Tournament appearances, five NDT championships, 14 NDT final fours, 42 consecutive years qualifying for the NDT and number one in NDT varsity rankings in 2006 and 2008.

Over spring break Binghamton University’s debate team finished up their season, ranking second overall in the nation, according to the Cross-Examination Debate Association and the National Debate Tournament.

Quietly, the University of Iowa debate team ranks among the top programs in the country competing alongside Harvard University, Dartmouth University and Northwestern University.

Northwestern students Stephanie Spies and Matt Fisher debated their way to the final round of the National Debate Tournament (NDT) that took place last month at the University of California, Berkeley

Friday, coach Will Repko -- among the nation's top debate coaches -- was to share a podium with Izzo at the basketball dinner as a way of honoring academic champs, too.

For the third time in seven years, a team from Michigan State University has won the National Debate Tournament.

Congratulations to my buddy Will Repko and the Michigan State University debate team for winning it's third National Debate Tournament in the last seven years. Science Blogs

The Missouri State University debate team will send an additional team to the National Debate Tournament from Saturday through Tuesday at the University of California, Berkeley.

In the middle of a debate, the KU squad relies on pure adrenaline. That all changes the moment the judges announce their decision

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In 38 years as a professor at the University of Central Oklahoma, Doug Duke created a legacy of debate teams that brought home enough trophies to fill a room, including two national championships.

BU Pipe Dream

The two Binghamton University students who won their bracket at BU's Regional Debate Tournament went on to win the National Championship Debate Tournament over the weekend.

In the past 3 decades, Bill Southworth has conducted a survey of coaches and judges active throughout the decade.  Here are the results of his poll for the past decade.

Debaters from universities across the Northeast gathered all day Saturday and Sunday to compete in Binghamton University's Regional Debate Tournament.