Communication Studies

University of Miami School of Communication is hosting the third annual ACC Debate Championship Tournament April 1-2, 2017. As part of the ACC Academic Consortium, the ACC Debate Championship Tournament sets the 15 member schools of the ACC against each other in a fierce academic debate. This year’s topic is Resolved, that the United States Electoral College should be abolished. University of Miami was encouraged to submit a bid to host this year’s ACCAC debate tournament by David G. Brown, ACCAC coordinator and Wake Forest provost emeritus. David Steinberg, senior [...]

From November 11-13, members of the University of Miami Debate Team were in Pennsylvania for the American Debate Association Fall Championship Tournament hosted by Clarion University. The team of Julia Lynch and Adam Kozloski took first place in the Novice Division. In semifinals, Lynch and Kozloski defeated the United States Naval Academy and then faced the University of Minnesota in finals to win the tournament. Aside from winning first place in the Novice Division, Lynch was also named the top individual speaker in the tournament. The UM team of Tiffany [...]

On Tuesday, September 20, for the second consecutive year, UM Debate hosted iDebate Rwanda in a public debate on the motion, Aid to Africa Does More Harm Than Good. Rwanda is a country in East Africa known for only one thing; the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi people. In the space of 100 days, one million innocent people died for the sole reason of being born Tutsis. And, when all of this was happening, the world turned its back on Rwanda because Rwanda was not a place of strategic interest. [...]

On September 18-21, the UM Debate Team traveled to Atlanta, Georgia to compete in the season opening intercollegiate debate tournament hosted by George State University. One-hundred-and-sixty-seven two-person teams representing 37 universities competed across three divisions in the tournament. In the Junior Varsity Division, the team of Anna Shah and Ted Appel won four of six preliminary debates to advance into the round of 16. There, they defeated a team from Liberty University to advance into the quarterfinals, where they lost the decision to another Liberty team. Shah is a senior [...]

On Tuesday, Sept. 20, UM Debate hosts iDebate Rwanda at the School of Communication, CIB 3053 Shoma Hall, at 7 p.m. They will be debating the motion “Aid to Africa is Doing More Harm Than Good.”  22 years after the Rwandan genocide, the country has transformed. It is now known for hope and peace and as a model of development. Through this transformation, the country has learned about reconciliation, healing, identity and the importance of speaking up. With this in mind, iDebate Rwanda has organized the 2016 iDebate Rwanda USA [...]