<p>anyone know anything about the debate team?</p>
<p>my friend's on the team. he says it's ok. they don't travel and the team is small, but the people are ok. and there are debate parties. ha</p>
<p>Doesn't UCLA consistently win the national debate tournaments? :rolleyes:</p>
<p>who cares :rolleyes:</p>
<p>it's really hard to get into.</p>
<p>UCLA has an inactive policy team that does nothing. They also have a parli and NFA LD team. But no, they don’t win nationals frequently. That would be UC Berkeley, which has an amazing debate team.</p>
<p>I went to one parli practice, utterly lost interest. There are better things to do with your time. As a geek, I say those are some ****ing dorks.</p>
<p>UCLAboi, you might want to reserve your judgement. Do people just assume that people from the Parli team, like me, wont read this?</p>
<p>Policy team currently doesn’t exist, however, we have a growing Parlia team under a new coach who has been entirely successful in the national circuit during his academic career.</p>
<p>Spring Champs is this weekend and we’re confident for great success.</p>
<p>How could one go on to activate the inactive policy debate team? I’ve debated in high school for two years and have been admitted to UCLA for the fall of 2011. Is there any possibility of getting in touch with the “right” people to get a team started/funded? I’m sure UCLA would have an AMAZING policy team.</p>
<p>CA1–UCLA had a very active and successful policy debate team many years ago. Indeed, it won the NDT in 1971, and placed 3rd in 1969. It was also extremely successful in CEDA, winning at least 6 national championships, if memory serves. Unfortunately, it lost funding from the University, and has never recovered. Which, as an alum and member of the team during its peak, very much saddens me. Of course, given what has happened in the world of policy debate, I am not sure it is a great loss. The emphasis seems on talking at an incomprehensible rate to audiences of very few people. In my era, we wore suits and ties, and at major tournaments, in semis and finals, the audiences were often in the hundreds.</p>
<p>Goood question;)</p>
<p>^Yup at least in high school spreading (speaking really fast) was the norm.
I wish UCLA had a policy debate team though. Way more fun than mock trial</p>