{"id":33706,"date":"2004-03-05T11:12:41","date_gmt":"2004-03-05T15:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=33706"},"modified":"2015-03-27T11:54:29","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T15:54:29","slug":"qualified-for-nationals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2004\/03\/05\/qualified-for-nationals\/","title":{"rendered":"Qualified for nationals, Bates debaters host Oxford, Harvard and Yale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/03\/debateb1453.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"269\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2004\/03\/debateb1453.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignleft\" alt=\"debateb1453\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oxford, Harvard and Yale universities will be among 10 institutions visiting Bates March 11-13 for an international tournament hosted by the college&#8217;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. The public is invited to attend the Bates-Oxford debate, co-sponsored by the Brooks Quimby Debate Council and the Department of Rhetoric, free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Debate has enjoyed a long and illustrious history at Bates, which was the first American college to debate in Europe at Oxford University in 1921. &#8220;This event is simply a celebration of an 80-year relationship and sense of competitiveness that just keeps getting stronger and stronger,&#8221; says team captain, senior Ryan Shepard, of Norway.<\/p>\n<p>Describing his team&#8217;s performance at the recent Bowdoin College-hosted parliamentary debate tournament, Bates debate coach Bryan Brito said, &#8220;We pretty much cleaned house in hardware.&#8221; Novice debaters Ryan Creighton &#8217;07 and Mike Neville-O&#8217;Neill &#8217;07 placed second overall in the tournament, qualifying a third Bates team for the American Parliamentary Debate Association&#8217;s National Championship Tournament April 9-11 at Swarthmore College.<\/p>\n<p>At Bowdoin, veteran Bates debaters Drew Jarboe &#8217;05 placed third in the varsity speaker category, followed by Shepard &#8217;04 (sixth), Adrienne Maxwell &#8217;06 (seventh) and Chris Laconi &#8217;05 (10). Bates varsity teams peppered the top-10-spots, led by novices Crieghton and O&#8217;Neill, who broke into the final varsity round. Laconi and Jarboe placed fifth, Maxwell and Case Pfitzner &#8217;07 placed sixth and Katie Celeste &#8217;06 teamed with Mike Metzger &#8217;06 for eighth place.<\/p>\n<p>Bates placed five debaters in the top-10-ladder for the novice speakers, including Maxwell (second), Creighton (fourth), Vaibhav Bajpai &#8217;07 (fifth), Stacey Layton &#8217;05 (sixth) and Pfitzner (seventh). Placing first in the novice team category (on their way to varsity finals), Creighton and O&#8217;Neill were joined by their novice teammates Maxwell and Pfitzner in second place, Rakhshan Zahid &#8217;07 and Fabio Periera &#8217;07 in third and Ryan Nbulsi &#8217;05 and Layton in fifth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxford, Harvard and Yale universities will be among 10 institutions visiting Bates March 11-13 for an international tournament hosted by the college&#8217;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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[39],"tags":[1847],"class_list":["post-33706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-event-highlights","tag-brooks-quimby-debate-council"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33706","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=33706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90763,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33706\/revisions\/90763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}