Debate: Club Update

Hi everyone, Hope everyone's school has started off magnificently - a few upcoming issues and events that should be brought to your attention: 1) Selection for the World University Debating Championship in Dublin, Ireland Interested in going to Ireland this Christmas? Selection for WUDC 2006 in Dublin, Ireland will be taking place on Friday, September 23rd at the club meeting. If you are interested in attending WUDC 2006, please inform the executive of your intentions via email (exec(a)carletondebate.org) or by posting on CUSIDnet. Criteria for selection of the two debaters that will be send to World's will be based 50% on previous university debating scores and 50% on a debate-off. For more information on the selection process, check out http://www.carletondebate.org/wudc_tsp. Also, if you're interested in news straight from Ireland, the WUDC 2006 website is http://www.pgcareerswudc.com. 2) Elections for Vice-president External and Novice Representative The election for the position of Vice-president External (VPX) will take place during the club meeting on Wednesday, September 21st. Novices take note: the election for Novice Representative will be taking place shortly after the Sherbrooke novice tournament of September 30th - October 2nd. 3) Novice Registration For all novices that are interested in becoming full members of the Carleton University Debating Society, registration will be taking place as of today either at a) meetings, b) through an email to the VPX (vpx(a)carletondebate.org), or c) via CUSIDnet. The $5.00 registration fee if required by CUSA, but honestly, can you think of a better way to spend five bucks than registering for CUDS? 4) CUSIDnet CUSIDnet, as is well known to our veteran debaters, is simply amazing. Where else can you debate arcane, intelligent, thoughtful, and/or not-so-thoughtful ideas with arcane, intelligent, thoughtful, and/or not-so-thoughtful people? Good for airing out everything from case building ideas to personal beefs to commentary of societal trends, CUSIDnet is a great place to get involved in the debating community. To sign up, check out http://www.carletondebate.org/cusidnet for instructions, and send us an email (vpcom(a)carletondebate.org) with your request to access the Carleton forum along with your selected login name. That's all for now - hope to see you at the upcoming meetings! Cheers, Dan Meester VP Communications, CUDS