Speech and Debate Squad selected

Twelve students from British universities have been selected to be members of the ESU Speech and Debate Squad for 2006-7. The Squad carries out teaching tours for ESUs around the world, supporting the ESU's global work in persuasive spoken English.
Alex Just (Oxford) and Fred Cowell (City) will visit Mauritius in March; Tara Mounce (Oxford), Nye Brewer (City), George Molyneaux (Oxford) and Colletta Smith (Durham) will visit Hong Kong in September; Nick Sloboda (City), Ali Cormack (Durham), Hannah Klein (Bristol) and James Dray (Oxford) will visit Japan in October. This year's British National Debate Team, who will tour the US between September and December as part of an exchange that has been running since 1922, are Gavin Illsley (Oxford) and Fraser Campbell (City).
The ESU has already sent teaching support to Lebanon this year, and future overseas Centre work in 2006 will include Russia, Chile, Serbia and Malaysia.

posted by James Probert @ 1:48 PM | 1 comments  

The Dartmouth House Debating Society convened for its first Members' Debate on Wednesday 1 March. The controversial motion was "This House condemns the outing of gay politicians" and the speakers included Aneurin Brewer and James Dray in proposition and Hannah Klein and Usman Ahmed in opposition. Each of the debaters have taken part in a range of ESU programmes and events. Aneurin participated in the ESU's prestigious US Debate Tour in 2004, James Dray coached and judged at the ESU's Great Shakespeare Debate, and Hannah and Usman were both finalists of the England Championships of the John Smith Memorial Mace.

The motion was put to a vote at the end of the evening and was carried by a narrow margin of 1 vote. For more information about the society please contact Vivienne Thomson at vivienne_thomson@esu.org.

posted by Harold Raitt @ 10:18 AM | 0 comments