2005-2006: Another Excellent Season for Bard Debate
Bard College Debate is very excited to have completed another excellent season. After last year's great successes as a first year program, we had a lot to live up to, but we exceeded our own expectations! This season we travelled 16 debaters to 12 different tournaments, hosted our own tournament at Bard, brought home our first championship trophy among numerous other team and speaker awards including both 1st and 4th speaker awards at Novice/JV Nationals! We concluded the season with an outstanding performance at CEDA Nationals, at which Nathan Sweed and Ravenna Wilson went 5-3 and were double-octafinalists, and novice team, Cassie Cornell and Rushaine McKenzie pulled off an impressive 4-4 record!
The debate topic for 2005-2006 was: US Foreign Policy With CHINA
In college policy debate, we debate the same resolution all year. This year we debate the following resolution:
Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase diplomatic and economic pressure on the People's Republic of China in one or more of the following areas: trade, human rights, weapons nonproliferation, Taiwan.
The Team:
back row: Lisa Dratch, Litta Naukushu (captain), Noah Weston, Ravenna Wilson, Angelina Fox
middle row: Nathan Sweed, David Duckler, Reanna Blackford, Neesha Fakir, Travis Rubury
front row: Cassie Cornell, Ruth Zisman (director), Stephen Davis (asst coach), Rushaine McKenzie
not present: Kelly DeToy, Brad Powles, Beverley Annan
Nathan Sweed Named #1 Speaker at JV Nationals! Ravenna Wilson Named #4!
Bard Debater, Nathan Sweed, was named top JV debater (out of nearly 200 JV debaters) in the entire country at Novice/JV Nationals at West Virginia University March 3-5, 2006. His partner, Ravenna Wilson, was named 4th speaker. The team went 5-2 in the preliminary debates and made it all the way to Quarterfinals! Congratulations to Nathan and Ravenna for their wonderful performance at Novice/JV Nationals!
Novice, Cassie Cornell, named #18 speaker at Novice Nationals!
Novice, Cassie Cornell, won the 18th speaker award (out of nearly 150 Novice debaters) at Novice/JV Nationals at West Virginia University March 3-5, 2006. Congratulations Cassie on a wonderful first year of debate!
Novice Team, Neesha Fakir and Travis Rubury, win SUNY Binghamton tournament and win #1 and #7 speaker awards!
Neesha Fakir and Travis Rubury went undefeated at the SUNY Binghamton Debate Tournament, February 11-12, 2006, and then went on to win Quarterfinals, Semifinals, and Finals! Neesha was also named top speaker in the Novice division, and Travis was named #7. Congratulations to Neesha and Travis on this awesome performance!
If you are interested in learning more about Bard Debate, please contact:
Ruth Zisman- Director of Debate
W: 845-758-6822 ext. 6144
C: 610-574-7646
Annandale House 107
zisman@bard.edu
Or stop by our weekly meeting:
Wednesdays at 8:00PM in the Campus Center Red Room
Or stop by Ruth's office anytime - Annandale House 107
From the Director, Ruth Zisman, THANK YOU EVERYBODY who has made Bard Debate both possible and amazingly wonderful!