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17 November 1998

Debating Tournament More than sixty debaters come to

By RANDY MACDONALD

On the weekend No- vember 1, teams of debaters from across Atlantic Canada came to UPEI for the Atlantic Debating Tournament, an an- nual event bringing together members of all of the univer- sity debating societies in east- ern Canada.

In all, 32 teams from 8 Atlantic Canadian universities ~the University of New Bruns- wick, Atlantic Baptist Univer- sity (Moncton), Acadia Uni- versity, Mount Allison Univer- sity, Dalhousie University, St. Francis Xavier University, Uni- versity College of Cape Breton, and Memorial University of Newfoundland — attended the tournament.

The turnout was ap- proximately double that ex- pected by the organizers of the

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By process of elimina- tion, the number of teams was gradually reduced to two — Memorial’s Team “C”, and Dalhousie’s Team “B.”

The final debate be- tween these teams took place at Memorial Hall, in the Con- federation Centre of the Arts. Dalhousie “B” — the “govern- ment” team — made a case proposing limiting advertise- ments for birth control pills in magazines oriented towards the pre-teen market. After a hard-fought debate, Memorial “C” came out on top, and won the first prize position.

Chris Bentley, Physics major and head of the UPEI Debating Society, said that this year’s debating tournament

was a great success.

“This was the first time that we put it on ina long time, and we did really well at it,” he said.

The reaction of off-Is- land debaters to the first UPEI- hosted tournament of the school year was also quite positive.

“This year’s tournament was well-organized — it was really good,” said John Scanlon, a debater from Acadia.

The Atlantic Debating Tournament is only the first of two debating tournaments that will be hosted by the UPEI Debating Society.

In March, UPEI debat- ers will host a second tourna- ment: the fourth Lucy Maud Montgomery Invitational.

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