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Tuesday, December 8, 1998
THE MAROON TIGER
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Debate team puts on strong showing at regional tourney
In only its third forensics
tournament of the year, the
Morehouse debate team more
than held its own against
better-funded debate
programs.
Five of the seven students
won speaker awards and three
of the four teams advanced to
the quarterfinal-rounds, in the
annual competition held at
Vanderbilt University
November 6.
"It's important to realize
that we compete with teams
that have much greater
financial and staffing
resources than Morehouse -
and we still win," said Joseph
Patterson, a sophomore
political science major, who is
a junior-varsity debater for the
school.
"Emory University, for
example, pays research
assistants and offers
scholarships where we
research our own cases and
participate for the love of the
activity," Patterson said.
A novice debater and
sophomore English major,
Howard Franklin, won first
place speaker in his division.
His partner, Dashene Cooper,
also placed inside the top ten.
The speaker awards were
derived from individual
rounds between teams from
nineteen schools in the
Southeast region. The
resolution of the policy debate
for the 1998-99 school year is
"Amending Title VII of the
Civil Rights Act of 1964."
Professor Broderick
McGrady is the acting coach of
the team for the semester.
However, team captain Deon
Garner is the real driving force
behind the squad, organizing
meetings, scheduling trips,
and staying in constant contact
with the schools in the region.
"The only way, in my
mind, that we can compete
with the likes of large
programs is to have a strong
commitment," said Garner, a
senior philosophy and
Spanish double major. "It is
my hope that the
administration will realize the
team is serious about debate
and will be more supportive,
financially and morally, in its
endeavors,"
The two-man teams
regularly face debaters from
the Universities of Michigan,
Miami, Alabama, Louisiana,
Tennessee Tech, Emory and
others. On average,
Morehouse attends seven
tournaments per year.
The debaters' majors are
wide-ranging, including
business management,
English, political science and
philosophy. Almost half are
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pre-law students, and they
expect the exercises in logic
and reasoning to augment
their future careers in law.
Morehouse plans to host
a historically Black college
tournament in the spring, as
done in the past. With this,
they hope to generate more
high school interest in the
activity and encourage more
HBCU's to join the current
division.
Left to right, top to bottom: Derek McPhatter, Joseph Patterson,
Dashene Cooper, Toby Sanders and Darius Wilkins, Howard
Franklin, Deon Garner
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