{"id":175,"date":"2014-02-28T10:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T10:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/?p=175"},"modified":"2021-02-22T21:52:14","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T21:52:14","slug":"bates-vs-brandeis-public-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/2014\/02\/28\/bates-vs-brandeis-public-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Bates vs. Brandeis Public Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_179\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179\" class=\"    wp-image-179 size-medium\" title=\"The BQDC and Brandeis (Photo Credit: Zuhayr Reaz \u201916)\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/files\/2014\/03\/batesandbrandeis-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/files\/2014\/03\/batesandbrandeis-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/files\/2014\/03\/batesandbrandeis-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The BQDC and Brandeis (Photo Credit: Zuhayr Reaz \u201916).<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium\">The BQDC and Brandeis host an intercollegiate public debate on\u00a0Thursday, Feb. 27\u00a0at the Perter J. Gomes Chapel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">Bates defended the motion: <i>This house believes that feminism is incompatible with capitalism<\/i>.\u00a0 Representing the BQDC were Jack Stewart \u201914 and Taylor Blackburn \u201915, who earlier this season finished as the 21st place team at the World Championships in Chennai, India. \u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small\">On the Brandeis bench were Megan Elsayed \u201914 and Michael Norton \u201916; both Megan and Michael are veteran debaters who have won many awards on the American Parliamentary Circuit.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small\">The debate proved to be a resounding success; many students remarked on the interesting and thought-provoking nature of the motion, in addition to the talent and eloquence of the speakers, who received great praise for their skill in argumentation &#8211; great job everyone!<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BQDC and Brandeis host an intercollegiate public debate on\u00a0Thursday, Feb. 27\u00a0at&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"The BQDC and Brandeis host an intercollegiate public debate on Thursday, Feb. 27 at the Perter J. Gomes Chapel.","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/debate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}