2:58 p.m.
Constructive Points
1) The 2008 North American Championships to be held at Carleton
2) Your New Executive for 2007-2008
3) National High School Seminar held in Ottawa
4) Graduating Members
5) End of The Year
1) On March 24th at the CUSID AGM, The Carleton University Debating Society
beat The McGill Debating Union on a vote of 15-8 for the rights to host the
2008 North American Championships. The tournament will be hosted at Carleton
University on the weekend of January 25th-27th. This will be the largest
tournament Carleton has ever hosted and will feature the top teams from
across both Canada and the United States. Planning for the tournament will
be beginning over the summer and we strongly encourage all members of CUDS
to become involved in planning activities. Please check CUSIDnet and the
website for more details as the become available.
2) After an epic 5 and a half hour AGM, your new CUDS executive is as
follows:
President: Adam Coombs
VP Administration: Jordan E. Charbonneau
VP Communication: Andrew Lawrence
VP External: Blair Stein
VP French: Alexander Grinton (aka:Grinton)
VP Internal: Garnett Genuis
Xerxes TD: Alex Bourbonniere
North-Ams 2008 TcoD's: Blair Stein and Andrew Lawrence
Tournament Selection Committee: Ian Freeman, Jordan Charbonneau, Andrew
Lawrence, Adam Coombs and the Novice Rep
Novice Rep and Equity Officer will be chosen at the start of the 2007-2008
school year. For any concerns regarding forum moderation please contact
exec(a)carletondebate.org.
3) CUDS will be involved in hosting the 2007 High School National
Debate Seminar, a prestigious national debate event happening in Ottawa from
April 26-28 as per the following schedule:
http://www.csdf-fcde.ca/english/national_seminar/spring_seminar_schedule.php
We really need people to help out on those days, in whatever way you can.
No experience with debate is necessary, and you will have the opportunity to
watch some of the best high school debaters in the country in action. If
you are interested in helping for all or part of that time, please contact
Garnett Genuis, the Chief Adjudicator at ggenuis(a)gmail.com.
4) The debating year is closing, and along with the end of debating comes
the end of university. CUDS has several graduating members this year, and we
would like to thank them for the contributions that they made to the club.
All will be missed and we wish them luck in their endeavors beyond debating.
1) Padraic Ryan: Padraic has been involved in CUDS for four years and for
his time here has served as our Vice President Fundraising, Vice President
External and our resident lumberjack impersonator. Padraic also became the
first CUDS member to serve as CUSID president. In regards to debating
results, Padraic placed 107th at 2003 Winter Carnival but has since gone
onto break at Worlds, North-Ams, Nationals, BP Champs, Yale IV and Hart
House Invitational. He became the first CUDS member to win a tournament by
winning The Winter Carnival Invitational this year. He was also the top
Canadian speaker at 2007 UBC Worlds, Yale IV and the top speaker at SoDales
2007. Padraic intends to take a year off but will return to the CUSID world
to be the CA for RMC Leger and Equity Officer for Carleton North-Ams 2008.
He also will still be on CUSIDnet to express his disdain for professional
sports.
2) Mike Powell: Mike will be leaving Carleton (he says he really is this
time) after 7 years. In his time here Mike has served as Vice President
Debate, CUDS President (twice) and Resident Old Guy. Mike was a member of
the first Carleton team to break at a title tournament with his
quarter-final appearance at Dalhousie Nats in 2003. Mike also broke at the
Father Roger Guindon Cup at U of O and SolDales Invitational and has the
proud distinction of being one or two places off of winning speaker hardware
at many tournaments. Beyond that, Mike has helped Carleton debaters to run
incredible tournaments, become better debaters, prep cases and generally
enjoy their time here at CUDS. Finally, Mike was the tournament director for
Carleton Nats 2006 and organized what was generally considered to be the
best National Championships ever. He now leaves Carleton for the large and
scary real world and will be sorely missed by the club. However Mike will be
returning to be our tabs director for Carleton North-ams 2008 and will
continue to rack up his record number of posts on CUSIDnet.
3) Josh Prowse: Josh is CUDS' resident dirty hippy and fan of co-operative
games. While at CUDS Josh served as Vice President Communications and
Secretary Treasurer. He has also disappeared for long stretches of time to
go on Katimavik, work and travel the world. Josh debated at 2007 UBC Worlds
and was one of four Carleton speakers to place in the top 20 at the 2006
Father Roger Guindon Cup at U of O. Josh also was the Tournament Director
for the 2007 Lord Dorchester Cup which was the largest invitational in CUDS
history and went off without a hitch. He is also responsible for what will
hopefully become a new CUSID tradition, that being RFDs for open rounds.
Josh is departing Carleton for the real world and will be back in Ottawa at
some point... we just don't know when.
4) Mark Rubenstein: Mark is the resident UN Society mole within CUDS. Mark
has served as chair of the Carleton North-Ams 2008 bid committee,
Co-volunteer coordinator for Carleton Nats, the equity officer for the 2007
Lord Dorchester Cup and VP Beard. He was also the first CUDS member to judge
at Worlds and debated at multiple tournaments in his short two years with
us. Mark is off to either grad school or law school next year and will be
debating wherever he goes to school meaning he will be back to debate at
Carleton North-Ams 2008.
5) Many thanks for everyone that came out throughout the year and
contributed to CUDS. While meetings are officially over, many of the
residents of Ottawa have expressed a desire to keep debating over the
summer. If you want to keep debating and are staying in Ottawa, please
contact them on the CUSIDnet forums. Once again, a big thanks to everyone
that came out this year, and we look forward to seeing everyone next year.
We will be sending out information about next year's debating when the new
school year comes around.
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