{"id":11775,"date":"2012-11-16T14:13:40","date_gmt":"2012-11-17T00:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=11775"},"modified":"2021-01-26T09:56:50","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T19:56:50","slug":"manoa-debate-team-scores-at-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/11\/16\/manoa-debate-team-scores-at-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"M\u0101noa debate team scores at tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Pictured in photo, left to right: Kyle Dahlin, Jon Cham, Megan Wharton, Ryan Delaney, Samira Fatemi, Sterling Higa and Ian Ross.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Members of the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Mānoa<\/a> Debate Team placed at the U.S. Universities Invitational WUDC<\/abbr> “Worlds” debate tournament at Claremont McKenna College, the largest debate union in the country.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> Mānoa sent three teams to compete in the tournament. Facing off against 56 teams from 18 major universities such as USC<\/abbr>, UCLA<\/abbr> and Cornell, the team of Samira Fatemi<\/strong> (engineering) and Jonathan Cham<\/strong> (political science) came in 11th place, just missing the semi-finals by a few speaker points. Mānoa team captain Kyle Dahlin<\/strong> (mathematics) and his partner, Ryan Delaney<\/strong> (communicology), finished in 17th place. The rookie team of Sterling Higa<\/strong> (communicology) and Ian Ross<\/strong> (economics), competing in their first intercollegiate tournament, finished at 36th place.<\/p>\n

The team from UH<\/abbr> Mānoa beat teams from Claremont, Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Pacific University, UCLA<\/abbr>, Texas and Alaska.<\/p>\n

UH<\/abbr> Mānoa has competed at Oxford, Yale, Willamette, Istanbul, Botswana, and in numerous other tournaments. They run the largest inter-collegiate debate tournament in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and will co-host the Pan Pacific Championship with HPU<\/abbr> in February 2013.<\/p>\n

“Financial support for the team is our biggest struggle,”said team Director Robert Boller<\/strong> of the Communicology Department<\/a>. “We are currently seeking corporate sponsorship for the program from law firms and businesses in exchange for offering organizations interns or perhaps hosting workshops on speaking and persuasion.”<\/p>\n

To read more about the debate team’s future schedule, read the UH<\/abbr> Mānoa news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Debate teams from UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa scored well among major programs at the US<\/abbr> Universities WUDC<\/abbr> “Worlds” debate tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-11775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t