{"id":2326,"date":"2009-02-27T14:58:30","date_gmt":"2009-02-27T19:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/batesviews.net\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2017-11-03T14:28:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T18:28:51","slug":"debate-tourney-canceled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2009\/02\/27\/debate-tourney-canceled\/","title":{"rendered":"Debate tourney canceled; Yale debate postponed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/02\/72shaughnessy9584.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"274\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2009\/02\/72shaughnessy9584-400x274.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Bates debater Geoff Shaughnessy \u00e2\u0080\u009909 of Hanover, N.H., poses in the Brooks Quimby Debate Council&#039;s storied practice room on the second floor of Pettigrew Hall. The trophy bowl he holds is a first place award for Bates from a tournament held at MIT in 1981, five years before Shaughnessy&#039;s birth. The croquet mallet he holds sometimes substitutes for a gavel during team practices. The traditional mallets have disappeared.\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Due to unforeseen circumstances, the following tournament has been canceled, and the Bates-Yale debate has been postponed with a new date and time to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0Brooks Quimby Debate Counci<a href=\"http:\/\/abacus.bates.edu\/people\/orgs\/debate\/history.html\">l<\/a> hosts an American Parliamentary Debate Association Tournament at Bates College on Friday, Feb. 27, and Saturday, Feb. 28.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>As tournament host, the Bates team won&#8217;t debate in this competition.To keep the squad limber, however, Bates team members will debate the Yale University team at 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, in Chase Hall Lounge, 56 Campus Ave.<\/p>\n<p>They will debate the issue, &#8220;This House believes that the United States should end the ban on media coverage of U.S. soldiers&#8217; bodies returning home.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The match is open to the public free of charge. Audience members are encouraged to participate with cheers, jeers, questions, comments and floor speeches.<\/p>\n<p>The Yale squad is currently the top debating team in the United States, while Bates is the sixth-ranked U.S. team, says Bates debater Alison Vingiano, a sophomore from Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y. Coached by director of debate Jan Hovden, Bates debaters are sophomore Nate Sweet of Sharon, Mass.; senior Jared Levy of Ardmore, Pa.; and senior Geoff Shaughnessy of Hanover, N.H.<\/p>\n<p>The Yale debaters will include junior Grant May, who is ranked as the seventh-best speaker by the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.apdaweb.org\/schedule\">American Parliamentary Debate Association<\/a>. The two other Yale debaters will be announced.<br \/>\nVingiano predicts &#8220;an exciting, competitive exchange between two of the country\u2019s top debating teams.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Bates vs. Yale match precedes the debate tournament. Competing university and college teams take part in five preliminary rounds beginning 5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 27, and continuing through Saturday, Feb. 28. The final round, open to the public at no charge, will begin at about 4:30 p.m. Saturday in a location to be announced, followed by an awards ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the debate, please contact Alison Vingiano at avingian@bates.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to unforeseen circumstances, the following tournament has been canceled, and the Bates-Yale debate has been postponed with a new date and time to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","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":"","_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":[224],"tags":[1847,10934],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-society-culture","tag-brooks-quimby-debate-council","tag-yale"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88975,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/88975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}