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The University of Georgia Debate Union recently placed 2nd in the Crowe-Warken intercollegiate debate tournament, held annually at the United States Naval Academy.  The Crowe-Warken debates featured 100 individual debate teams from across the East Coast and Midwest, including teams from Boston College, Northwestern University, Georgetown University, Vanderbilt University, the University of Florida, the University of Minnesota, and both the…

Information about the 2015 Georgia Debate Institutes has now been posted!  We will be offering a 2 week policy camp, a 3 week policy camp, and a one week public forum camp.   Dates of the camp run from June 14 until July 4.  More details can be found at georgiadebateinstitutes.org or here.    

Friends and Colleagues,  The University of Georgia Debate Union is pleased to invite you to the Sixteenth Annual Bulldog Debates that will be held in Athens, Georgia, on February 27th through March 1st, 2015. We wish to make this year’s Bulldog Debates an enjoyable and educational experience. Last year, our tournament drew 100 teams from the Southeast. We are a TOC Qualifier in policy debate at the Semi-Final level.  There will be six…

The team of Amy Feinberg (Canton, GA; public relations and international affairs) and Tucker Boyce (Alpharetta, GA; economics) recently won the Liberty University debate tournament in Lynchburg, Virginia.   They defeated teams from Florida, West Georgia, Wake Forest, and Georgetown on their way to the championship. More details about their performance can be found here. Go Dawgs! 

The Georgia Debate Union earned a highly-contested victory in our recent public debate versus the Oxford's Union Society.  Featuring debaters Chetan Hebbale and Eilidh Geddes and assistant coach Logan Gramzinski, the Georgia Debate Union defended the national security benefits of U.S. drone strikes.   Additional coverage of the event - and of our history debating Oxford - can be found in coverage from the Athens Banner Herald. Go Dawgs…

UGA was recently ranked in the top 20 public universities by US News and World Reports. In its annual rankings, UGA joins UC-Berkeley, University of Michigan, University of Texas, and University of Florida in the top 20.   The full rankings can be found here. Go Dawgs!

The pre-camp evidence packet for the two-week policy debate labs at the GDI are now available.   Go to this website, find the "evidence/lectures" link on the left side of the screen, and click.   The packet includes the outer continental shelf aff and neg, the Heidegger critique, the midterms DA (Dems Good, Dems Bad), economic growth good/bad, and a comprehensive impact defense file.   Feel free to peruse - we're proud of the work…

The official start to the 2014 Georgia Debate Institutes begins tomorrow afternoon as kids from around Georgia and around the country - from New Mexico to Maryland, from Illinois to Florida - come to Athens to register for the 2 week policy camp. The two labs at the camp are the Gibson/Malsin lab and the Grellinger/Watson lab.  Over the two week period, the kids will work on developing their debate skills through the combination of targeted…

Here's a great article about the powerful educational benefits of debate from a fellow debater and debate coach! 

On April 22, the Georgia Debate Union hosted its second annual Richard B. Russell Scholars debate featuring the four recipients of the debate team's most prestigeous debate scholarship.   This year's debate focused on whether the president's war powers authority to use targeted killing against terrorists should be restricted.  The affirmative team was represented by Robert Galerstein, sophomore from Dunwoody HS, GA, and Maggie Davis,…