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MSU Debate Welcomes New Assistant Coach
Jasmine Stidham has joined MSU Debate as an Assistant Debate Coach after coaching at Dartmouth College for five years.
At the collegiate level, Stidham helped coach Dartmouth to win the 2021 Copeland Award and the National Debate Tournament two years in...

MSU Debate Storms into Sweet 16 of National Championship
By Carly Watson
Michigan State University Debate made a run to the Sweet 16 of the 77th National Debate Tournament (NDT) last weekend.
Piper Meloche, a social relations and policy senior in the Honors College, and Nate Glancy, an economics senior, bested teams from...

Meet Glen Scully, ADA’s JV Debater of the Year
By Wajeeha Kamal
Glen Scully, a computer science freshman, was named Junior Varsity Debater of the Year by the American Debate Association at the National Championship Tournament on March 5.
Scully, a native of Bakersfield, California, attended Stockdale High School, and got started...

MSU Debate Team Qualifies Three Teams to the National Debate Tournament
By Carly Watson
EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State University Debate has qualified three teams to the 77th annual National Debate Tournament (NDT).
Nate Glancy, an economics senior, and Piper Meloche, a social relations and policy senior in the Honors College, qualified as the top-seeded team...

Two MSU Debate Teams Reach Top 32 at Texas Open Tournament
By Carly Watson
Michigan State University Debate had two teams reach the top 32 at the Texas Open Tournament hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. The Texas Open Tournament had 161 entries across three divisions.
Joanna Gusis, a political theory and constitutional democracy...

MSU Debate Finds Big Wins in Busy Weekend
By Carly Watson
Michigan State University Debate competed at two different tournaments last weekend – an invitation-only tournament hosted by Rutgers University-Newark and the Hoosier Invitational hosted by Indiana University.
At the Hoosier Invitational, MSU Debate reached the semifinals in the Junior Varsity (JV)...