Congratulations to the 2012-2013 Mary Perna Scholarship recipients: Marielle Slagel and Ciara Williams!
They are very thankful to be the recipients for the next academic year.
Butler University Speech and Debate team is excited to announce the addition of a full-time Director of Debate-Dr. Casey Kelly! Dr. Kelly will be instrumental in growing the debate side of the Speech and Debate Team. He plans on starting with Parliamentary Debate and then seeing what the students want. We are excited to have him here.
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The speech and debate team traveled to Kansas City over break to compete at the National Comprehensive Tournament established by Pi Kappa Delta. We will be initiated into this organization next year at the 100th anniversary in St. Louis. Senior, … Continue reading
The Speech and Debate Team had a great State tournament! We placed third as a school in the first ever State Parliamentary Debate Tournament and Matt Miller placed 6th overall. We placed 7th at the Individual Events State tournament on Saturday with Varsity and Novices giving their best efforts. The tournament was held here at Butler.
Senior, Lauren Lupkowski won the Indiana State Individual Events Scholarship award for her communication’s paper in the 8th Annual ISIET Scholarly Paper Competition. She received $100 for this award.
We are preparing to go to the Pi Kappa Delta National tournament in Kansas City during Spring Break.
Butler University hosted the BullDog Battle on January 21. There were 19 schools from all over the Midwest who braved the slick January roads and attended the tournament. Ohio University took first place. We gave much loved stuffed Bulldogs as trophies. The tournament ran on time and everyone had a great time!
The speech and debate team travelled to Marietta College in Ohio this past weekend. Senior, Matt Miller and Junior Andrew Wray took second place in parliamentary debate with Matt Miller taking first place and Andrew Wray taking second place overall in the first annual O’Donnell Parliamentary Debate tournament. Andrew Wray took second place in Editorial Impromptu, Senior Lauren Lupkowski took fourth in Rhetorical Criticism, Molly Kordas took sixth in Dramatic Interpretation and Miller and Wray took fifth in Duo on Saturday at the Individual Events half of the tournament. There were 12 schools in attendance from 4 different states.
Lauren Lupkowski placed 4th at Purdue University in Rhetorical Criticism this past weekend. There were 18 schhols in attendance. Schools travelled from as far away as Texas for this tournament! Maggie Smith and Ciara Williams tried out Parliamentary Debate and discovered that they enjoyed it. Marcus Harvey had a great time in Dramamtic Interp and Impromptu.
The team travels to Marietta College in Ohio On November 4 and 5, 2011. Good Luck team!
Two students travelled to Berea College in Kentucky to compete this past weekend. Lauren Lupkowski did a great job and took 6th in Communication Analysis (Rhet Crit). We met many new people and some old friends.
We are hosting our third annual Parliamentary Debate Workshop on Friday, Sept. 9. There will be 6 schools in attendance from Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio. We will be debating environmental topics in honor of the Earth Project on campus. There will be an exhibition debate in Jordan hall 141 at 7pm that is free and open to the public. Hope to see you there!
We had our first meeting of the year last night! We havd about 15 people show up! Yeah Team! We are planning for our Parliamentary Debate Workshop on September 9. See you there
