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University Daily Kansan
Friday April 10. 1959
Debaters Ready For West Point
The KU debate team will face its toughest competition of the year when it enters the West Point Debate Tournament April 22 to 25.
Ray Nichols, Lawrence junior,
and Don Bowen, Salina senior, won
a place in the West Point finals by
placing second in the West Point
district tournament in Lincoln,
Neb. last weekend.
The debate preliminaries are conducted on a selective basis. The country is divided into several districts and a district committee composed of debate coaches is in each.
"The West Point debate is usually considered to be the one big national tournament. It is hard to get into and even harder to win, since the teams which participate are considered to be the best in the country." Nichols said.
The coaches review the records of all debate teams in their district and select the ten best teams to participate in the West Point District Tournaments.
The national tournament has eight preliminary rounds from which the top 16 teams participate in four final "sudden death" rounds of debate.
The five best teams from the district tournaments then go to the national tournament.
The topic for the debate is "Resolved: That the Further Development of Nuclear Weapons Should Be Prohibited by International Agreement."
Each team will alternate between affirmative and negative positions of the topic from one round to the next.
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national West Point tournament for the last 11 years and was the national winner in 1954. Nichols and Kenneth Irby, a 1958 graduate, were undefeated in the West Point district competition, and placed fifth in the national tournament last year.
"It's naturally pleasing to be going to the tournament, but it's frightening in a way to think of the terrific responsibility. Both Don and I have had the West Point tournament in the back of our minds all year and have been working toward it." Nichols said.
"We not only have the best teams of the country to work against, but the tension is tremendous. There is so much at stake for the debater, and then, too, you never know who your next opponents will be until just before your next debate.
Nichols described the debate as the most difficult the KU teams participate in.
"Fortunately, I always seem to do my best work under pressure," he added.
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