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• Posted Yale Team Takes Top Honors at Brooks Quimby Tournament to News
  The Brooks Quimby Debate Council held its annual APDA debate tournament last weekend. All told, 36 teams traveled to Lewiston, Maine for the team's tournament from schools across the country. In addition, former Brooks Quimby Debate debaters Geoff Shaughnessy '09, Daniel Berman '08 and Brendan Jarboe '08 returned to help judge the teams in competition. The team was also grateful to former coach Andrea Curtis, who offered her experience to the judging panel as well.
• Posted Djang Elected as New Equity Officer to News
  After three rounds of balloting, the team elected first-year Catherine Djang '13 as its Equity Officer for the remainder of the 2009-2010 school year. Djang was one of five candidates nominated to take on the position vacated by junior Alison Vingiano '11 who is spending the semester abroad. The team's Equity Officer is charged with addressing any equity violations on the team, and helps to oversee the team's community outreach. The position on the officer board is a fairly recent addition, now in its third year.
• Posted Djang and Devaux Tops in 2010 Novice Tournament to News
  Novice Brooks Quimby Debaters faced off against one another today in the team's annual intramural Novice Tournament. Six novice teams competed in three preliminary rounds, and the top two teams advanced to a final round. This year's final round between first-years Spencer Collet '13 and Ben Smith '13, and Catherine Djang '13 and Eric Devaux '13 centered on a proposal by Collet and Smith to televise the executions of prisoners given the death sentence. A seven-member judging panel awarded the final round to Djang and Devaux. Djang was also the tournament's top speaker.
• Posted MLK Debate: Does religion fuel social justice? to News
  Continuing a long standing tradition, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council welcomed a team from Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia for a public debate as a part of Bates College's celebration of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. Drawing on the role of religion in the 20th century Civil Rights movement, the debate was centered on the resolution, "This house believes that religion is a necessary element of a just social change."
• Posted Strong Showing at 2010 Worlds to News
  To cap off a successful start of the debating season, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council sent three teams and two judges to the 2010 Worlds Debating Championship in Turkey from December 27, 2009 to January 4, 2010. Colin Etnire '12 and Ian Mahmud '12 fared best among the three Brooks Quimby teams at the competition, finishing in a break room in the last round of the tournament but falling short.
• Posted Bates and Yale Face Off in Annual Debate to News
  Bates College and the Brooks Quimby Debate Council welcomed Yale University debaters Grant May, Steven Kryger and Josh Kalla for the Brooks Quimby Debate Council's annual Bates-Yale debate. Many members of the Bates community filled the College Chapel to watch Brooks Quimby debaters Ariela Silberstein, Rachel Kurzius and Matthew Marienthal face the team from Yale. They debated the resolution, "This house would create Spanish-language schools in California."
• Posted Back for the 2009-2010 School Year to News
  The Brooks Quimby Debate Council is off to a strong start for the 2009-2010 academic year. Already, we've sent teams to Smith College, Boston University and the University of Vermont, where two of our teams made it to the final round, and one took first place at the tournament.
• Posted Elections for 2009-2010 Officers to News
  The Brooks Quimby Debate Council held elections on Monday to choose its officers for the 2009-2010 school year. Matthew Marienthal '10 was elected the Council's President. He has previously served as the team's Director of Novice Affairs and as the team's Convener of Public Debates.
• Posted 2009 Awards and Banquet to News
  Celebrating the end of a successful year on the debate circuit, the Brooks Quimby Debate Council paused on Sunday evening to celebrate success and toast the future. Director of Novice Affairs, Jared Levy '09 gave his farewell address, as did the Council's President Geoffery Shaughnessy '09, in an impromptu speech.
• Posted 2009 Constitutional Amendments to News
  As a part of the team's annual constitutional review process, the team ultimately made only small revisions, clarifying several grammatical and semantic problems with the document. Several more substantive amendments failed.
• Posted Two in a Row: Brooks Quimby Novices Top at MIT to News
  Just a week after becoming the first place novice team at Stanford University's debate tournament, the team of Ian Mahmud and Colin Etnire took first again at MIT. The pair beat a hybrid novice team from Harvard University and Brown University in a unanimous 5-0 decision to become the top novices at the MIT tournament.
• Posted Novices Top Team at Stanford Tournament to News
  The Brooks Quimby Debate Council sent five teams to Stanford University's annual APDA debate tournament in sunny Stanford, California. The team of Etnire and Mahmud defeated one of Yale University's top novice teams to take first place in the novice bracket at Stanford.
• Posted Brooks Quimby Launches a New Website to POI Online
  The Brooks Quimby Debate Council has brought its website into the 21st century at batesdebate.org. The new website adds a number of new features to improve communication between the Brooks Quimby Debate Council, the Bates Community and Brooks Quimby Alumni, including commenting and up-to-the minute team news.
• Posted Novices Compete in Intramural Tournament to News
  Brooks Quimby novice debaters competed in an intramural tournament Saturday. Novice teams Colin Etnire and Mikey Pasek, and Mircea Lupu and Andrew Wong made it to the final round.
• Posted Brooks Quimby Holds Annual MLK Day Debate to News
  With students from Morehouse College, the Brooks Quimby debaters held a public debate Monday, debating whether or not the United States should contract private corporations to own and operate prisons.
• Posted Shaughnessy & Silberstein Take 16th at Cambridge IV to News
  Brooks Quimby debaters Geoff Shaughnessy '09 and Ariela Silberstein '10 took 16th at the prestigious Cambridge IV debate tournament at Cambridge University in Cambridge, England. Among the 10 American teams competing at the Cambridge IV tournament, Shaughnessy & Silberstein ranked 2nd. Matthew Marienthal '10 and Jared Levy '09, and Rachel Kurzius '10 and David Kelly '09 also represented the Team, placing 25th and 27th respectively.
• Posted Bates & Brooks Quimby Host High School Tournament to News
  The Brooks Quimby Debate Council and Bates College welcomed high school students from across the state of Maine to the Team's annual Speech & Debate Tournament for high school students. Tournament directors Walter Garcia '11 and Molly Nelson '11 coordinated the tournament in concert with the Maine Forensics Association.