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Chris Stone, a senior from Derby, presents an argument while Patrick Kennedy, a junior from Leawood, goes through information in their fifth-round debate against Wake Forest University. Stone and Kenedyn's performance Sunday qualified them for the elimination round of the NBT.
At least one KU debate team has made it through six rounds and qualified for the elimination round at the National Debate Tournament.
TOURMENT
STANDINGS
The tournament is on the verge of the first elimination round.
In order to be permitted into the elimination round a team needs to win at least five debates. Thus far there have been six rounds of preliminary
debates out of the total eight; even if a team doesn't make it to the elimination round it will still debate in rounds seven and eight.
The team of Patrick Kennedy, a junior from Leawood, and Christopher Stone, a senior from Derby, is now 5-1. The pair won Sunday night's debate against Michigan State, leaving them in a solid spot.
Mathew Peterson, a senior from Wichita, and Mark Wilkins, a sophomore from
Topeka, lost their sixth round against Trinity, leaving them out of the elimination round with 2-4.
And the third team of Dylan Quigley, a senior from Wichita, and Sean Kennedy, a junior from Leawood, lost Sunday night's last debate versus West Georgia. They are currently 3-3 and still have a chance in rounds seven and eight to qualify.
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ly noticeable as he makes sure to remain speaking while he inhales. Typically, debaters are capable of speaking between 300 and 500 words per minute.
His opponents sit across the classroom frantically employing a distinct style of note taking known as "flowing" in order to trace Stone's arguments. The opposing team must keep up with Stones' speed.
While this takes place, Patrick Kennedy, a junior from Leawood and Stone's teammate, sits among the immeasurable amount of papers sprawled across their workspace, putting together and organizing the next shift in the debate.
Kennedy and Stone, as well as the other KU debate squads and coaches, have been preparing relentlessly for this moment — finally competing at the annual National Debate Tournament held at the University of California-Berkeley. The topic: nuclear weapons.
But it took a lot for them to get to where they are today.
Located in Bailey Hall, the debate room has been the team's home since June, when it first began scrutinizing the topic. The squad, which is more like a dysfunctional family than two-member teams, is forever compiling the evidence.
Evidence is gathered into units called "cards" in order to summarize the author's argument, making it easier for the debater to express the information concisely. Cards
can be as simple as a few sentences or as long as two pages or more.
The teams work to compile evidence and arguments for about 40 hours each week. But as the national tournament approaches, that time increases to more than 50 hours in one week.
The research won't stop.
Since September, the squad has been traveling about once a month to compete in smaller tournaments. Throughout those months the cards have not stopped being
the cars have cut; arguments evolve and the tubs begin to multiply.
"The work you did at the beginning of the year is good but it only provides a base at which you have
"Don't repeat what you hear. It's all top secret."
to build," said Dylan Quigley, a senior from Wichita. "One of the things we do for the NDT is prepare lots of new arguments, different ways to affirm the resolution."
Coming up with new affirmatives is referred to as "breaking new" affirmatives, which is done in order to counteract the negative arguments. Breaking new affirmatives, however, comes at a risk. Because the material is new, there is a chance the team could present the argument unsuccessfully or fail to realize an effective argument against it.
All three duos are extremely familiarized with the subject matter and, naturally, so are all the other schools that have qualified — but the KU teams are very aware of that.
MICK SOUDERS Debate coach
On the first days of NDT, while the teams unloaded all of their bins, some debaters discussed some tactical plans of attack for the upcoming rounds with Mick Souders, a graduate student from Washington and one of the team's coaches.
"Don't repeat what you hear."
Souders said. "It's all top secret."
debating.
So top secret, in fact, that the team has managed to create codes for their arguments and has chosen not to stay at the tournament hotel to allow them to be free to talk about the upcoming days of
The teams gage the opposing squads' strengths and weaknesses and prepare their arguments accordingly. It's all about strategy and these teams make sure to know their competitors and the style and manner in which they argue.
The rhythm of all the aspects of the tournament is just like the rhythm of their mile-a-minute speeches — the teams must stay on their toes to be prepared for whatever comes their way.
Edited by Becky Howlett
Skyter Reid / The Daily California Chris Stone and Patrick Kennedy confer in code about their initiatives. The KU debate squad stayed in a different hotel than their competitors, allowing the squad to discuss its arguments without the fear of being overheard.
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POLITICS
Health care bill ushers in financial aid reform
BY JIM KUHNHENN Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Riding the coattails of a historic health care vote, the House on Sunday also passed a broad reorganization of college aid that affects millions of students and moves President Barack Obama closer to winning yet another of his top domestic policies.
The bill rewrites a four-decades-old student loan program, eliminating its reliance on private lenders and uses the savings to direct $36 billion in new spending to Pell Grants for students in financial need.
In the biggest piece of education legislation since No Child Left Behind nine years ago, the bill would also provide more than $4 billion to historically black colleges and community colleges.
The bill was paired with the expedited health care bill, a marriage of convenience that helped the prospects of each measure. That combined measure passed 220-211.
"We are pairing this historic health reform with another opportunity that cannot be missed the chance to make the single largest investment in college affordability ever at no cost to the taxpayers," said Rep. George Miller, D-Calif.
The Senate will take up the bill next week under the same expedited rules used for health care legislation. That means the Senate can pass the education measure by a simple majority, virtually guaranteeing its success despite qualms from some Democrats and opposition from Republicans.
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