<p>The past two years I've been at Cal I've dedicated my time and energy to studying and getting good grades but not much else. As an incoming Junior, I've come to the realization that I want to do "more". By "more" I mean become more involved in community outreach and other organizations where I'm able meet different types of people and have a good time at the same time. If anyone has any input or recommendations, please post them. Thanks.</p>
<p>cal debate team</p>
<p>Rotoract :)</p>
<p>I agree; Join Rotaract!</p>
<p>What are your interests?
You can narrow some down from here: [Student</a> Affairs](<a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/osl/studentgroups/public/index.asp]Student”>http://students.berkeley.edu/osl/studentgroups/public/index.asp)</p>
<p>Peace Corps club</p>
<p>There’s a formal debate team at Cal? Or is it just informal? I was a debater in high school and it’s my dream to participate here at Cal…</p>
<p>redzune: cal has one of the strongest debate teams in the country</p>
<p>can you direct me to how I can get involved?</p>
<p>This page is a bit outdated but there is some info here: </p>
<p>[Speech</a> and Debate](<a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/osl/studentorganizations.asp?id=1070]Speech”>http://students.berkeley.edu/osl/studentorganizations.asp?id=1070)</p>
<p>You could contact the co-directors or you can wait until Calapalooza. I’m sure they’ll have a booth up.</p>
<p>See that’s just it. I tried contacting them as a freshman, they never responded. And in the last 2 years, they haven’t had a booth up at Calapalooza.</p>
<p>They must be obscure or not recruiting…</p>
<p>Redzune- I get what u mean. I’ve found the student org site to be pretty uninformative and when I emailed the president of one club he never responded. The other club has a really short “about” but doesn’t even list what times they meet etc. I started another thread about this and people just told me to wait till calapalooza…</p>
<p>Yeah, so there’s this alleged Cal Debate Team, but nobody knows how to join, who to contact, and where they meet? And they don’t ever have a booth up at Calapalooza? Sounds like a hoax to me.</p>
<p>I just did another google search and found this.</p>
<p>[Student</a> Affairs](<a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/osl/studentgroups/public/index.asp?todo=getgroupinfo&SGID=14857]Student”>http://students.berkeley.edu/osl/studentgroups/public/index.asp?todo=getgroupinfo&SGID=14857)</p>
<p>Apparently they meet in front of Dwinelle on Tuesdays/Thursdays at 7pm. You could try emailing them. There is an email address on the above link.</p>
<p>that’s the parlimentary debate team though</p>
<p>I tried emailing them a long time ago too. No response.</p>
<p>you should consider joining Noteworthy.</p>