Debate team shows promise

Despite some impressive performances, the Los Medanos Debate team was eliminated after six rounds of competition at the Kevin Twohy Memorial Collegiate Speech and Debate Tournament hosted at Diablo Valley College last weekend. LMC had a total of two open teams and three novice teams.

Collin Brown and Tatiana Lajerza held an impressive three-win streak Friday afternoon. Brown exclaimed, “I’m juiced, this is supposed to be one of the better teams,” just before debating and winning, on the third topic, NSA does more harm than good.

Unfortunately, Brown and Lejarza were eliminated Saturday afternoon after losing two debates, ending with an even score of 3:3.

Chad Henry and Harsh Joshi ended with a score of 1:5. This was their very first taste of debate and Joshi admitted, “It’s very challenging, but I’m having a good time.”

Henry chimed in declaring that “I’m getting better, first debate so I’m still learning.”

Joshua Noriega and Evan Mullicane as an open team argued the claim that the United States supports globalization. The opposition countered that the interpretation of globalization was also influenced by Western ideology and racism because the affirmative wanted to impose their ideas on ethnic cultures. Noriega quickly and comically conceded that they, Noriega and Mullicane, are racist — for purposes of the debate — and used the statement to support the claim that globalization is needed to help develop tolerance to other ideologies.

LMC had a total of two open teams and three novice teams. The open team’s scores were 2:4 and 3:3 and the three novice teams reached 1:5, 2:4 and 3:3. Scoring is calculated either by persuading the judge that your argument is the best or by catching the opposing team on technicalities.

Although LMC was eliminated from the tournament Assistant Professor of Communication, Kasey Gardner, who coaches the team, looked at the bright side.

“There is a huge silver lining to this because we need to watch the experienced teams so that we can emulate them,” he said. “It’s encouraging that we are getting better with each tournament we are attending this year.  We have a young team with a lot of potential. We need to do our homework before Pacific.”

The debate team’s next tournament will be at University of Pacific Nov. 2 and 3.

If you are interested in finding out more information on the debate team contact Kasey Gardner at [email protected] or go to one of their meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Room CO-101 at 2:30 p.m.

Despite some impressive performances, the Los Medanos Debate team was eliminated after six rounds of competition at the Kevin Twohy Memorial Collegiate Speech and Debate Tournament hosted at Diablo Valley College last weekend. LMC had a total of two open teams and three novice teams.

Collin Brown and Tatiana Lajerza held an impressive three-win streak Friday afternoon. Brown exclaimed, “I’m juiced, this is supposed to be one of the better teams,” just before debating and winning, on the third topic, NSA does more harm than good.

Unfortunately, Brown and Lejarza were eliminated Saturday afternoon after losing two debates, ending with an even score of 3:3.

Chad Henry and Harsh Joshi ended with a score of 1:5. This was their very first taste of debate and Joshi admitted, “It’s very challenging, but I’m having a good time.”

Henry chimed in declaring that “I’m getting better, first debate so I’m still learning.”

Joshua Noriega and Evan Mullicane as an open team argued the claim that the United States supports globalization. The opposition countered that the interpretation of globalization was also influenced by Western ideology and racism because the affirmative wanted to impose their ideas on ethnic cultures. Noriega quickly and comically conceded that they, Noriega and Mullicane, are racist — for purposes of the debate — and used the statement to support the claim that globalization is needed to help develop tolerance to other ideologies.

LMC had a total of two open teams and three novice teams. The open team’s scores were 2:4 and 3:3 and the three novice teams reached 1:5, 2:4 and 3:3. Scoring is calculated either by persuading the judge that your argument is the best or by catching the opposing team on technicalities.

Although LMC was eliminated from the tournament Assistant Professor of Communication, Kasey Gardner, who coaches the team, looked at the bright side.

“There is a huge silver lining to this because we need to watch the experienced teams so that we can emulate them,” he said. “It’s encouraging that we are getting better with each tournament we are attending this year.  We have a young team with a lot of potential. We need to do our homework before Pacific.”

The debate team’s next tournament will be at University of Pacific Nov. 2 and 3.

If you are interested in finding out more information on the debate team contact Kasey Gardner at [email protected] or go to one of their meetings on Tuesdays and Thursdays in Room CO-101 at 2:30 p.m.