The good folks at the University of Ottawa English Debating Society will be hosting the Father Roger Guindon Cup from October 15 to 17.  The tournament, which will be in British Parliamentary Style, features one of the best judging pools of all the tournaments this year and is a great place to improve your debating skills while facing off against some great opponents.  Best of all, the tournament is local!

If you would like to put your name in for consideration to go to the tournament, e-mail vpdebate@carletondebate.org immediately.

October 29 – 31 will feature the Chancellor’s Cup at Queen’s University in Kingston.  The tournament will be in Canadian Parliamentary style and also has a French language division if you would like to debate in French.

To put your name in for this tournament, contact vpdebate@carletondebate.org by Wednesday, October 13th.

The elections for VP Debate and Novice Representative will occur on Wednesday, October 6 at 6pm.  Only members who have paid the $5 membership fee will be allowed to vote.  You may pay the registration fee at any meeting or contact vpcom@carletondebate.org to make other arrangements.  If you cannot make it to the meeting, you will be allowed to vote by proxy.  Send your proxy vote to our Electoral Officer, Padraic Ryan at vpfund@carletondebate.org and CC to our President, Andrew Christie, at president@carletondebate.org.

Those who would like to run are invited to send a brief statement to vpcom@carletondebate.org by Monday night, which will be e-mailed to the general membership early next week.  You will also be given an opportunity to speak for a few minutes and answer questions before the vote on Wednesday.

Any further questions regarding the election may be directed to Padraic at vpfund@carletondebate.org.

As part of our ongoing commitment to encourage debate at Carleton, we will be hosting a public debate later this fall.  We are currently looking for ideas on what the topic of this debate will be.  If you have a topic idea on a controversial and timely topic, please forward your ideas to vpdebate@carletondebate.org.