Debate NCFL Nationals

jonri
Tue, 18 Mar 2014 03:47:30 +0000

I’m not quite sure what you mean by Yale’s “incredibly strong forensics program.” Yale has a parli(amentary) debate team and a mock trial team. Historically both have been quite strong.Yale has been “club of the year” for APDA (a parli league) many times. Membership on both is strictly limited. (You “sound” as if you’ll make it,but you do have to try out.) It also has a Model UN group and, of course, the YPU. But Yale doesn’t have a “forensics program” in the same sense as colleges that offer speech courses or have teams with faculty advisers. It’s strictly extracurricular.

Moreover, each of the above operates separately from the others–at least as far as I know–so there’s no co-ordinated “program.”