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Debate Summer Meetings Resume

The Debate Society will be hosting summer practices on Wednesdays at 6PM in Humanities 2-21 at the University of Alberta. Debate will be in British Parliamentary style. We encourage anyone interested in debate or public speaking to come out! 

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Funspeak 2012!

The UADS is once again hosting it’s year-end party!

When: Friday, April 6th
Where: Windsor Park Plaza at 8210 111th Street*
from 6:30pm to 12am.
*The Party Room where this is being held will be accessible via the stairwell on 83rd Ave, west of 111th Street.

Please RSVP via the Facebook Event under the name “FUNSPEAK 2012!” or by emailing Nisha at napatel@ualberta.ca by WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4th! If you have any dietary restrictions, please forward those as well.

We will be providing light refreshments and food, and you are invited to bring your own games, drinks, and smiling faces to this final event!

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Congratulations, and Farewell!

On Wednesday, March 28th, we elected our executive for the upcoming, 105th year of debate. Our AGM was an efficient 45 minutes, where we passed constitutional reform to create a Vice-President Training position, which will be reviewed after next year.

2012-2013 Executive:
President: Nisha Patel
Vice-President Executive: Andrea Diamond
Vice-President Finance: Keith Hill
Vice-President External: Zoe Francis
Vice-President Internal: Daniel Howitt
Vice-President Training: Catherine Fan
Auditor: Kathleen Elhatton-Lake

Thank you to our outgoing executive, Kristen Pue, Robert Lees-Miller, Julia Baum, and Andrew Robertson for another great year!

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Elections THIS Wednesday, March 28th!

This Wednesday, the U of A Debate Society will be electing its new Executive Council. The positions open for election are:

President
Vice-President Executive
Vice-President External
Vice-President Finance
Vice-President Internal

Elections for the Member-at-Large and the Novice Member-At-Large will take place in September, 2012.

UADS members may NOT proxy your votes in, but we will allow you to vote before the meeting from 4pm onwards if you are unable to make the actual meeting at 5pm.

Platforms are on CUSIDnet. You will need to be a University of Alberta forum member to have access, so please create a use and message Kristen Pue for access.

Thanks, and good luck to all candidates running!

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Nationals!

Once again, the UADS represented at the Canadian Parliamentary Debate Championships. Kristen Pue and Catherine Fan broke seventh to Quarter-Finals, with Kristen as 6th place Speaker and Catherine as 2nd place Novice Speaker. Congratulations are also extended to our Public Speech Finalist, Nisha Patel.

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McGoun Cup

Congratulations to all of our participants at the McGoun Cup, hosted by the University of British Columbia. In particular, congratulations go to Iain Ireland and Catherine Fan who broke to semi-finals, with Catherine Fan as the top novice speaker.

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Shumiatcher 2012!

Congratulations to our Finalists, Michael Meiers and Steve Cook; and our Semifinalists, Nels Ecklund and Daniel Hindmarsh. Daniel was second place speaker, with Michael as third place speaker, and Steve as fourth place speaker.

Our Public Speech Finalists were Michael, Nels, and Sarah-Jane Laxdal.

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Edmonton Open

Congratulations go out to our Edmonton Open 2012 Champions, Kathleen Elhatton-Lake and Alisa McMaster! We also send our love to semifinalists Robert Lees-Miller and Zoe Francis; our Top Novice Team, Jennifer McBean and Keith Hill; the Top Novice Speaker, Salma Elmallah; and our Top Speaker, Kathleen.

Michael Nicol-Seto and Kathleen were public speech finalists, but could not defeat Iain Ireland, who was 1st in Public Speech with Nisha Patel taking 2nd.

Thanks to all the volunteers and judges who came out to make this tournament amazing!