The King's Debate Society

08/21/2018

Is this just a fancy way of arguing? Would my philosophy professor approve? Find out the answer to these questions and more Monday Night, 6PM.

12/03/2017

Hello everyone! Just a reminder our Christmas Party is on Tuesday at 6:15pm in RM. 628. Please come and join us for our last meeting together this year!

08/24/2017

"In any fairly large and talkative community such as a university there is always the danger that those who think alike should gravitate together into coteries where they will henceforth encounter opposition only in the emasculated form of rumour that the outsiders say thus and thus. The absent are easily refuted, complacent dogmatism thrives, and differences of opinion are embittered by group hostility. Each group hears not the best but the worst, that the other group can say." C.S. Lewis on "The Founding of the Oxford Socratic Club"

Debate can be part of the solution. Meet new people. Challenge your ideas. Debate.

05/22/2017

The King's Debate Society has a strong finish to a great year and welcomes a new exec team.

The King’s Debate Society exists to train students to advocate truth in the marketplace of ideas. They completed an engaging year including sending competitors to the National Championship and electing a new executive team.

02/01/2017

The King’s Debate Society exists to train students to effectively advocate truth in the marketplace of ideas.

This year, we will be awarding six students a Debate Society scholarship. Accepted students will earn $2,000 per academic year for every year that they participate as a member of the Debate Society. The deadline for application submission is March 1st. Winners will be announced by March 14th.

The King’s Debate Society Scholarship The King’s Debate Society exists to train students to effectively advocate truth in the marketplace of ideas. This year, we will be awarding six students a Debate Society scholarship. Accepted students will earn $2,000 per academic year for every year that they…

01/26/2017

https://www.tkc.edu/stories/kings-debate-travels-netherlands/

During winter break, Audrey Cooper (‘18) and Grayson Logue (‘18) traveled to the Netherlands, home of tulip festivals, canal skating, and the International Court of Justice, to compete at the World Universities Debating Championship hosted at the Hague.

01/22/2017

The morning after the historic 2016 presidential election, King’s debaters Audrey Cooper (‘18) and Grayson Logue (‘18) and coach Josiah Peterson found themselves learning the news from fellow passengers debarking the plane at London’s Gatwick Airport. This was the first year that King’s debate was a...

11/21/2016

KDS attended it's tenth tournament at the University of Vermont last month, and sent a team to the quarterfinal debate round! Read the report here:

https://www.tkc.edu/stories/kings-debate-continues-successful-record-vermont-tournament/

A group of 13 students from the King’s Debate Society spent the weekend in Burlington, Vermont, debating topics ranging from the trade-off between worker protection laws and economic growth, to mandatory paternity leave, to Israeli settlement policies. This was the Society’s tenth tournament at the…

10/26/2016

https://www.tkc.edu/stories/largest-group-kings-debate-society-history-competes-canada/

The King’s Debate Society traveled to Canada last weekend with the largest group in KDS history to attend an international tournament, for the Hart House I.V. hosted by the University of Toronto. The group was comprised of nine students, four of whom are first-year debaters, and coach Josiah Peterso...

10/14/2016

Six novice debaters competed at the HWS tournament in Geneva, NY at the beginning of October. Check out their take on collegiate debate culture, how to learn from "failure", the quality of the competition, and more!

https://www.tkc.edu/stories/novice-teams-kings-debate-compete-hws-tournament/

Novice debaters Bernadette Berdychowski (‘20), Iain Coston (‘19), Haley Davidson (‘20), Annabelle Ford (‘20), Lauren Marchand (‘18),and Abel Tirado (‘20) represented the King’s Debate Society this weekend at the Hobart and William Smith tournament in Geneva, NY. They were also accompanied by KDS pre...

09/30/2016

Eighteen students attended the first tournament of the year with KDS -- check out the story here:

https://www.tkc.edu/stories/kings-debate-society-returns-season-opener/

04/06/2016

https://www.tkc.edu/stories/kings-debate-travels-pan-american-tournament/

The King’s Debate Society is branching into new fields of competition, attending the Pan-American University Debating Championship for the first time.