Stories about "Brooks Quimby Debate Council"
Debate team takes on Oxford, Cambridge, the Worlds
Wednesday, December 22, 2004 1:30 pm
"It has been a fantastic year," said debate coach Bryan Brito. "Once again Bates debaters won the novice tournament, and we have trophied at virtually every tournament we have attended."
Brooks Quimby Debate Council hosts high school tournament
Monday, December 6, 2004 3:41 pm
For the second consecutive year, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council hosted an all-day forensics tournament Saturday, Dec. 4, for approximately 260 Maine high school students. A scheduled tournament for the 2004-05 season of the Maine Forensics Association, the judged competition featured events in speech, Lincoln-Douglas debate and Student Congress. The MFA promotes the development of articulate leadership among secondary students throughout the state.
Debater places first at novice parliamentary debate championships
Tuesday, September 28, 2004 10:25 am
Led by first-year student Brendan Jarboe of Acton, Mass., Bates College debaters swept the 2004 American Parliamentary Debate Association's Novice Championships, held Sept. 24 and 25 at Boston University. The tournament is organized specifically for debaters competing for the first time at the collegiate level.
Bates bests Bowdoin in President's Cup debate
Saturday, May 8, 2004 11:32 am
A team of three Bates College debaters defeated their Bowdoin College counterparts in a May 3 "President's Cup" debate held in Chase Hall. The two sides faced each other over the resolution "The United States should withdraw all military forces from Iraq after the June 30 turnover of military power."
Bates debaters tackle political diversity
Wednesday, March 31, 2004 10:43 am
The Office of College Advancement will sponsor an April 1 debate by the Brooks Quimby Debate Society on the issue of campus political diversity. The question to be debated reads: "Do Liberal Arts Institutions Inappropriately Marginalize the Right?"
Qualified for nationals, Bates debaters host Oxford, Harvard and Yale
Friday, March 5, 2004 11:12 am
Oxford, Harvard and Yale universities will be among 10 institutions visiting Bates March 11-13 for an international tournament hosted by the college's Brooks Quimby Debate Council. As part of the gathering, a trio of Bates debaters will square off against three members of the Oxford team, on a topic to be announced, at 8 p.m. Thursday, March 11, in Skelton Lounge, Chase Hall, 56 Campus Avenue.
Symposium celebrates 100 years of "The Souls of Black Folks"
Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:23 am
In a symposium Friday and Saturday, Oct. 10-11, faculty and guests from as far away as Germany will use music, drama and scholarly presentations to mark the 100th anniversary of a milestone in African American thought.
King Day events commemorate Haitian revolution bicentennial
Wednesday, January 22, 2003 2:50 pm
Noted scholar Alex Dupuy, professor of sociology and Latin American studies at Wesleyan College, is the keynote speaker for the 2004 Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances. Classes at the college are canceled and special programming is scheduled throughout the day with an emphasis on the theme "The Haitian Revolution: The Bicentennial and Its Legacy."
King Day events feature prominent activist and filmmaker
Wednesday, January 8, 2003 3:07 pm
Award-winning filmmaker Joanne Grant, a writer and veteran civil rights activist of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, is the keynote speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances.
King Day events feature prominent activist and filmmaker
Saturday, December 21, 2002 2:47 pm
Award-winning filmmaker Joanne Grant, a writer and veteran civil rights activist of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, is the keynote speaker for the Martin Luther King Jr. Day observances at Bates College.