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Kansas takes first in debate
KU now focused on national competition
BY ERIN BROWN
ebrown@kansan.com
University of Kansas debaters took first place in a debate tournament at Wake Forest University last week.
The Franklin R. Shirley Debate Tournament was held Nov. 20-23 in Winston-Salem, N.C. 142 teams from 61 schools competed.
Sean Kennedy, a junior from
Leawood, and Dylan Quigley, a senior from Wichita, won 12 debates over three days to win the tournament. In the semi-finals, the pair defeated the No.2 team in the country from Harvard University. In the finals, they defeated the Emory University team that finished last year as the top-ranked team in the country.
"The success at Wake Forest was the culmination of a very successful first semester for the Kansas debate team," assistant debate coach Lindsey Shook said in a press release.
Going into the Wake Forest
tournament, the Kansas debate squad was ranked fourth in the country in the coaches poll behind Northwestern, Emory and Harvard. Kennedy and Quigley were the seventh-ranked individual team in the country and Kansas debaters Patrick Kennedy, a junior from Leawood, and Matthew Petersen, a senior from Wichita, were ranked 18th.
Kennedy and Peterson won six debates at the Wake Forest tournament and finished as the 12th seeded team at the tournament.
Melanie Campbell, a sophomore from Lenaea, and Mark Wilkins, a
junior from Topeka, also won six debates and finished as the 13th seed at the tournament.
"While we are incredibly excited about winning the final major tournament of the first semester for the first time since 1999, we will have to work even harder to achieve the goal of winning the final major tournament of the second semester, the National Debate Tournament," debate coach Scott Harris said in a press release.
KU won the National Debate Tournament in 2009.
— Edited by Roshni Oommen
KANSAN FILE PHOTO
Coach Travis Cram, goes over arguments with Dylan Quigley (left) and Sean Kennedy (right) before their eighth-round match at the 2010 National Debate Tournament in March. Quigley and Kennedy won first place at the Franklin R. Shirley Debate Tournament at Wake Forest University last week.
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Arkansas man faces charges after involvement with crash
CRIME
BY SAMANTHA
BY SAMANT
FOSTER
sfoster@kansan.com
The fatality accident occurred at about 3:40 a.m. Tuesday on Highway 24/59 north of Lawrence. Police say a man stole a vehicle from a newspaper delivery driver on Jayhawk Boulevard on the KU campus just before the
An Arkansas man suspected of stealing a vehicle on the KU campus and causing a fatality accident north of Lawrence on Tuesday was formally charged in Douglas County District Court at a hearing Wednesday.
Zachary Tyler Harrison, 23, of Cabot, Ark., faces six felony charges, two misdemeanors and one traffic infraction, according to court records from the Douglas County District Attorney's office.
accident that left one 21-year-old Nebraska man dead and three others hospitalized.
Harrison's next hearing will be held at 2 p.m. today. His bond is set at $175,000.
Cameron Freeman, 21, of Lincoln, Neb., died at KU Hospital Tuesday. Of the three other 21-year-old Lincoln men who were injured in the accident, Casey Kettler and Michael Larsen were treated at Lawrence Memorial Hospital and later released and Fernando Pages is still being treated at KU Hospital, according to hospital records.
Edited by Anna Nordling
Capt. Schuyler Bailey, spokesman for the KU Public Safety Office, said Harrison and the four Nebraska men were not connected to the University.
THE CHARGES ARE
- Involuntary manslaughter while driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs.
- Three counts of aggravated battery for the other three passengers' injuries
- Leaving the scene of an accident involving the death of a person.
- Failure to report an accident to the police.
- Criminal deprivation of property.
- Following another vehicle too closely.
- Failure to report an accident involving unattended property.
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CAMPUS
Anita Herzfeld, a professor and undergraduate director and advisor for the department, said some students would be selected to travel to Washington, D.C. from March 29 to April 2 to participate in the national MOAS in Washington, D.C.
New course mirrors global organization
The Center of Latin American Studies is offering a new spring course where students will assume the responsibilities of the world's oldest regional organization — the Organization of American States (OAS).
"While they get the literature and the culture partly in the Spanish department, here they get to really know something about the politics and something about the traditions," Herzfeld said.
She encouraged students who were getting a degree in Spanish and had an interest in Latin America to pursue the department and consider the course.
OAS consists of the 35 independent states in North and South America and serves somewhat as a United Nations for the Americas, discussing social, political and economic issues.
The Model Organization of American States (MOAS) Seminar will be open to both undergraduate and graduate students. Different professors will speak at each seminar to promote the course's interdisciplinary approach.
Daphne Hiatt, a May 2010 graduate, got to experience the OAS at work in real life as an intern in Washington, D.C. Hiatt will complete her internship Friday.
Hiatt, who was in town over Thanksgiving break, said the three-month internship had flown by. She joined about 70 interns primarily from Latin America and the Caribbean.
She said the model program considered the same current events that the OAS covered each day. The current border dispute between Costa Rica and Nicaragua and issues concerning fossil fuels are topics she expected to receive attention in the future.
It's interesting getting to be a fly on the wall and to see how all the diplomatic and political issues are handled and dealt with".Hiatt said.
- Stephen Montemayor
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