Two New Middle Schools receive winning records
By Margarita Morales
Published December 20, 2011
NEWARK, NJ - Nearly 120 teams competed at the Jersey Urban Debate League's second middle school tournament at West Side High School on Dec. 17, 2011. The winter tournament featured new schools Oliver Street and McKinley Elementary. Luis Munoz Marin Elementary also entered their first debate tournament of the season with a new coach.
American History blows away competition at Ridge Tournament
By Margarita Morales
Published December 20, 2011
NEWARK, NJ - The Jersey Urban Debate League participated in the annual two-day long Ridge High School tournament from Dec. 9-10. Six northeast states participated in the regional competition featuring policy, public forum, and congressional debate. Novice policy debate had 31 teams and the open division had 37 teams.
Two new schools join JUDL
By Margarita Morales
Published December 7, 2011
NEWARK, NJ - Two new schools joined the Jersey Urban Debate League family on Oct. 22 at the second high school tournament of the season at Technology High School. Orange High School re-joined the league with a group of policy debaters and North Star Academy had a pool of public forum debaters.
This was the first tournament Orange has participated in since the 2007-2008 school year. The new coach, Jean Jackson, said that she choose to bring back the team.
First JUDL Middle School Tournament
Success!
By Hong Mei Pang
Published December 5, 2011
NEWARK, NJ - One hundred ninety eight middle school students gathered early on Saturday morning on December 3, 2011, in the Science High School cafeteria for the first JUDL Middle School Tournament of the 2011-2012 season. The impressive turnout at this tournament opened the season for JUDL Middle School League strong, with students in the 4th- 8th grades grappling with the challenging topic of whether the "United States Federal Government should develop technology for Solar-Based Satellite Power" (SBSP).
JUDL helps Rutgers University run first college debate tournament, hosts high school round robin
By Margarita Morales
Published November 28, 2011
NEWARK, NJ - The Jersey Urban Debate League assisted Rutgers University first college debate tournament from Nov. 18-20. JUDL alumni judged and high school debaters helped keep the tournament running smoothly along with Rutgers University debaters. Director Brent Farrand also made an appearance and helped run tab.
Between debaters, judges, and runners, Rutgers held over 200 people in 3 divisions of debate (open, junior varsity, and novice). Schools from New York, Connecticut, New York City, New Jersey, West Virginia, and Washington D.C. participcated including New York University, Columbia University, and Monmouth University.
Two teams clear to double octos at Big Bronx
Margarita Morales
Published October 24, 2011
NEWARK, NJ - Twelve Newark policy debate teams competed in the annual New York City Invitational debate tournament named "Big Bronx" from Oct. 14-16. The three-day national tournament brought over 1100 students who competed in Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, and Public Forum, as well as, six speech events.
Quamir Johnson and Jazir Beckford from American History and Sean Hammond and Sierra Underdue from University High School cleared to double octos. Both teams won their double octo rounds but lost in octofinals. American History lost to Alpharetta High School in GA, and University lost to St. Vincent de Paul HS in CA.
Newark Debaters Open Season with Regional Power
By Brent Farrand
Published October 3, 2011
NEWARK, NJ - Newark debaters have moved quickly to make their mark in the Northeast region during the first month of the 2011-2012 marking one of three quickest starts in the 33 year storied history of Newark's debate program. During the weekend of September 23-26, Brick City's debaters powered their way through a field of 30 teams from five states - New Jersey, New York, Massachusetts, North Carolina and New Hampshire. Of the 8 teams that qualified for quarterfinals, four were from Newark. University HS was seeded 1st (5-0 prelim record), American History was seeded 2nd (5-0 prelim). Newark Science cleared two teams seeded 7th and 8th, both with 3-2 prelim records. The remaining four quarterfinal teams were Bronx Law, McDowell HS (NC), Nashau HS (NH), and Lexington HS (MS)
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