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Tuesday, October 23, 1990 / University Daily Kansan
Debaters forfeit case to catch plane
Two on team reach finals, give up possible first place finish
Kansan staff writer
Jeremy Phillips and Chris Baron had to give up first place to catch a plane.
Phillips, Lawrence junior, and Baron, Lawrence sophomore, two members of one of the teams on the KU debate squad, placed second in the Motor City Classic Debate Tournament during the weekend at Wayne County Community College in Detroit.
Phillips and Baron earned a spot in the final round in the senior policy debate division and were scheduled to compete against the University of Louisville team. However, they had to forfeit the debate and leave to catch a plane returning to Kansas City.
"I thought we had a pretty good chance to win." Baron said.
Phillips said he thought he and Baron could have won first place because they had won the coin toss that would allow them to debate the
case of their choice.
After four tournaments this semester, the KU debate squad has won 19 team and individual awards.
"We did well last year with a young squad," he said. "We are going to get better as the year goes on."
Robert Rowland, debate coach,
said that although the majority of
squad members were young, the
squad had done well this semester.
The 10 person squad includes four
freshmen and three sophomores.
Rowland said that KU had one of the best debate teams in the nation.
"KU has sent more teams to nationals than any other school," he said. KU's rivals are Harvard, and Yale, both universities and Dartmouth College.
The debate team has won four national tournaments since 1954. Rowland won one of them in 1976 when he was a junior at KU.
There are two kinds of debate tournaments - policy and value.
For policy debates, the National
Debate Tournament, one of the biggest in the nation, proposes one resolution each year for teams nationwide to debate. This year's resolution is that the United States will trade policy toward Asian countries.
For value debates, the Cross Examination Debate Association proposes one resolution each semester. This semester's resolution requires debate teams to argue about art censorship.
Since KU debate squad members received the resolutions, they have spent hundreds of hours researching their arguments, Rowland said.
For policy decisions, the veterinarian
Philips said that he spent about 40 hours a week on debate research but that he enjoyed participating in debate because it was challenging.
Baron said he learned not only how to research, but also about the debate topics.
Baron and Phillips both said they planned to attend law school
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