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26 January 2010

UL Debating Union Open 2010

Hello everyone

The UL Open takes place on the 12th-13th of March and registration is now open! The CA team is made up of Alex Ward, Sean Butler and Conor Kelly.

We invite you to five rounds, a break to semis and grand final in the beautiful Daghda centre. There will be two fantastic socials with unhealthy amounts of free alcohol followed by a house party on the Saturday with yes you've guessed it even more free alcohol.

We also promise to feed you much more than strictly necessary, twice on Friday and a full Irish breakfast, lunch and formal dinner on the Saturday.

We have a limited amount of crash places - priority will be given to UK and international teams, after that it's a case of first come first serve. Please apply early to avoid disappointment

Registration is €65 per team for Irish teams, €30 for UK teams and free for international teams. There is no registration fee for judges.

Please click on the link below to register now!
http://www.skynet.ie/~debates/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=49%3Aulopenreg2010&catid=38&Itemid=57

Mairead De Faoite
IV Convenor,
UL Debating Union

World Schools AGM

All,


The WSDC Ltd. charity's AGM will be held in Qatar at 9am on 16 February 2009, prior to the annual Council meeting. In this regard, please visit the schoolsdebate blog to find the following:

1. The notice of the Charity AGM doc and the notice of the Council meeting including the agendas.
2. The Directors' report for your consideration (including Annexes A, B and C)
3. A call for nominees for the position of Director for 2010-2013

Please note that each nation sending a team to Worlds in Qatar is eligible for membership of WSDC Ltd. The Directors will shortly confirm acceptance of those countries which have applied for membership since Athens and are participating in Qatar.

In the event that your country has corporate membership or has applied for corporate membership of WSDC, the governing documents require that you confirm the name of your authorised representative to the AGM in writing prior to the meeting. Please do this by sending an email message to the Director's nominated chair for the charity's AGM in Qatar, Asher Weill at debasher@netvision.net.il

Best,

Andrea Coomber
Chair, Board of Directors
WSDC Ltd.

25 January 2010

Some Recent Results: Qatar and India.

Carnegie Mellon Qatar 2010 won the Qatar Universities Debate League defeating Weil Cornell Medical College in the Final.  Best Speaker was Patrick Steinhagen from Carnegie Mellon University and 2nd Best Speaker was Hayder Almazraqchi from Weil Cornell Medical College

The motions were
THBT The US should not be increasing the numbers of troops in Afghanistan
THBT Qatar should host the World Cup 2022
THBT Immigrants should be allowed full citizenship in Qatar
THBT Google should not cooperate with the Chinese government's censorship


Meanwhile in India the University of Colombo (from Sri Lanka) won the 5th annual National Law School Parliamentary Debate