Stephanie Cepak The Michigan State University Debate team will begin its 2018-19 competitive season Friday with a tournament in Atlanta, Georgia. This season’s debate topic is, “Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase statutory and/or judicial restrictions on the executive power of the President of the United States in one or more of […]
Two pairs of teams from Michigan State University Debate will compete in the National Debate Tournament, marking the 22nd consecutive season that the university has qualified for competition. “MSU has one of the strongest college track records in qualifying for the National Debate Tournament,” said Debate Head Coach Will Repko. “Our students have worked hard this season […]
The Michigan State University debate team has finished in the top 16 at its second competitive tournament, following another top 16 finish at the Georgia State National Debate Tournament. The latest top-16 finish came Monday at the University of Kentucky tournament, which featured 102 competitive teams from across the country. Overall, seven MSU pairs competed […]
The Michigan State University Debate team finished in the top four out of 78 teams competing at the National Debate Tournament held at Binghamton University March 31-April 4. Tyler Thur, an Honors College senior majoring in international relations, and his teammate, math senior Margaret Strong, defeated teams from Wake Forest University, Harvard University, Weber State University, Rutgers […]
The Michigan State University Debate Team won the Kentucky Round Robin – an elite event in which only nine of the top teams in the country compete. Honors College and international relations senior Tyler Thur and mathematics senior Margaret Strong went 7-1 in their debates, defeating teams from the University of Michigan, Harvard University, the University of […]
Stephanie Cepak IOWA CITY, Iowa — The Michigan State University Debate team finished in the Elite Eight of the National Debate Tournament held at the University of Iowa April 3-6. Tyler Thur, an Honors College junior majoring in international relations, and his teammate math junior Margaret Strong, defeated teams from Georgetown University, the University of […]
Stephanie Cepak Austin, TEXAS — The Michigan State University Debate team won the Texas Open tournament this week, besting a team from the University of Michigan in the final round. Tyler Thur, an Honors College member and international relations junior, and his partner, math junior Margaret Strong, were the winning MSU team. Thur and Strong […]
Stephanie Cepak MIAMI, Florida & LOS ANGELES, California — The Michigan State University Debate team came out No. 1 in a crowd of nearly 50 teams at the University of Miami debate tournament this week. International relations senior Jack Caporal and international relations senior Quinn Zemel bested teams from Emory University, the University of Michigan, […]
By Stephanie Cepak Bloomington, Indiana — The Michigan State University Debate Team finished in the top 16 at the National Debate Tournament, which ended Monday. MSU was one of six schools in the country to qualify three teams to the national competition. This was the first time since 2008 that MSU qualified three teams. MSU […]
By Stephanie Cepak The Michigan State University Debate Team advanced to the elimination rounds in back-to-back tournaments held in California recently. The debates were held Jan. 3-5 at the University of Southern California and Jan. 7-9 at California State University, Fullerton. At USC, all three, two-person MSU teams advanced to the elimination rounds. Placing 5th at […]
