{"id":281,"date":"2013-03-19T10:51:27","date_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:51:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/speech-team\/?p=281"},"modified":"2013-03-19T10:51:27","modified_gmt":"2013-03-19T14:51:27","slug":"national-forensics-honorary-charters-butler-chapter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/speech-team\/2013\/03\/19\/national-forensics-honorary-charters-butler-chapter\/","title":{"rendered":"National Forensics Honorary Charters Butler Chapter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pi Kappa Delta, a national honorary society for intercollegiate forensic programs, has chartered the Butler Speech and Debate Team as its new IN Zeta chapter.<\/p>\n

Members Marcus Harvey, Ciara Williams, Maggie Smith, and Jeremy Washington, and faculty advisor Janis Crawford represented the team when Butler was inducted during the Pi Kappa Delta (PKD) National Conference Tournament last week in St. Louis. Alumni Lauren Lupkowski ’12 and Greg Moser \u201807 also attended as judges at the society\u2019s 100th anniversary tournament.<\/p>\n

Crawford, who is director of forensics in the College of Communication, was nominated and elected as Governor of PKD\u2019s Heartland Province. For the next two years, she\u2019ll oversee communication, leadership, and growth of the province, which includes 22 school chapters in six states.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am very excited about the opportunity and national visibility that this position will bring to Butler University,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

PKD is a division of the National Communication Association (NCA). Crawford said that she has already proposed that NCA convene a panel to examine the role of the PKD governors and how they can help expand and develop the organization\u2019s six provinces.<\/p>\n

\u201cPKD is committed to \u2018Persuasion, Beautiful and Just,\u2019 and, as such, we will be focusing on education and service for our students,\u201d she said. She expects the panel to be approved for action in 2014.<\/p>\n

\"speech<\/a>Butler will work with the University of Indianapolis and IUPUI to co-host Pi Kappa Delta\u2019s national tournament in Indianapolis in March 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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