New Members Meeting 10/5!

Thanks to everyone who signed up today at club rush!  If you are one of the super sweet members who signed up for more than the candy, (catch that?) there will be a meeting right after school on Wednesday October 5th in room 2002.

We will be doing some basic meet 'n greet stuff to let new members know whats going on, and possibly some sort of fun speech activity or introduction to the CT Debate Association style.  We might even discuss logowear? I know Ryan is excited for his casual cardigans!

Expect an e-mail from me as soon as I put the ~100 emails into the computer.  Thanks everyone!

Bake Sale a Success! And other news...

Thank you everyone who helped with today's bake sale!  It was incredibly well done and we are well on our way towards being able to pay our dues to CDA.

In other news, tomorrow we will be having a practice debate for our Novice Scrimmage on Tuesday.  Doug will have a topic and we are going to split up into groups and go through the entire process step by step.

Finally, for everyone that has not let me know if they are coming to the novice scrimmage on Saturday, please let me know tonight or tomorrow in the meeting at the latest!

P.S. Permission slips are being sent out over email.  I don't need those until Saturday morning, but please get them filled out.  Thanks!

Bake Sale Tuesday 9/27

We will be having our first bake sale of the school year next week!  To all of you who signed up to bring in food, 1) You are awesome, bake sales really help 2) Please bring your food on Tuesday morning to the English department.   Across from Ms. Mac's office is an open space for teachers with a microwave, if you could leave your food next to the microwave - perhaps with a post-it so we know its your food for the debate team - that would be great!

First Meeting of the Year!

Our first meeting of the year will be next Wednesday, 9/14, in Room 2002.  We are going to spend the first few weeks welcoming new members to the team and prepping for the Novice Tournament on 10/1.  The CDA schedule for this entire year is posted.  Ryan and I hope everyone had a great summer and lets get ready for some debate!

Staples Abridged CDA Format

1 Resolution

2 Pro Speakers
2 Con Speakers

1st Pro - 1 min
Cross-Ex - 1:30
1st Con - 1 min
Cross-Ex - 1:30
2nd Pro - 1 min
Cross-Ex - 1:30
2nd Con - 1 min
Cross-Ex - 1:30
Con Closing (1 speaker) - 30 sec
Pro Closing (1 speaker) - 30 sec

Debate Team Cabinet Positions 2011-2012

Today the Staples Debate team held elections for the two president positions, vice president, secretary,treasurer, and public relations officer.

The Executive Board for the 2011-2012 is...

Public relations: Tory Scordato
Secretary: Neloise Egipto
Treasurer (keeper of the war chest): Doug Russ
Vice President: Jacob Meisel
Co-Presidents: Ryan Greenberg and Mark Schwabacher

We bid farewell to current presidents Jeremy Rubel and Emily Harris. They've done an excellent job and put a lot of hard work into the team this year. Thanks for everything!

Osterweiss Tournament Debate Results

Staples did really well at the Osterweiss debate tournament at Yale earlier in April.
Team Jeremy Rubel and Emily Harris were the first place team at the entire event, and Jeremy was the second place speaker!
Highlight of the day: arguing that this house is justified in targeting civilians. Fun stuff!