New Staff. The Georgia Debate Union is pleased to welcome Casey Harrigan as the Debate Coach at the University of Georgia. Casey completed his B.A. in International Relations from Michigan State University in 2006. While at Michigan State, Casey earned two first round bids to the National Debate Tournament (NDT) and won the 2006 NDT. Casey recently completed his M.A. in Communications Studies at Wake Forest University, where he coached the 2008 NDT champions. In addition to his coaching duties, Casey will be a member of the faculty in the Department of Speech Communication.
The 2008-2009 Resolution. Resolved: that the United States Federal Government should substantially reduce its agricultural support, at least eliminating nearly all of the domestic subsidies, for biofuels, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, corn, cotton, dairy, fisheries, rice, soybeans, sugar and/or wheat.
At the end of 2007-2008 season, Georgia Magazine included a feature article on the Georgia Debate Union titled "Fighting Words." An HTML version of the article is available from Georgia Magazine. You can also click here to read a PDF version of the article.
In 2006-2007 Intercollegiate Debate Season the University of Georgia debate team won the prestigious Copeland Award, given to the best team in the U.S. during the course of the season. Read more about the team's unprecedented success.
The program is supported in part by targeted financial contributions from University alumni. Currently, Georgia debaters receive scholarship support from the Brent Clark and Augustus Turnbull accounts ( view scholarships ). Given the evolving pattern of state government economic support for the University, we will become increasingly dependent on support from those who debated for the program in earlier times.
If you are interested in contributing to the Georgia Debate Union, please click here. In the past, interested alumni have established scholarship funds for undergraduate scholarships. For smaller contributions, you can target your contributions to the general debate scholarship fund (acct. no. 50-S9470). Please let us know if you have made a recent contribution or pledge to Georgia Debate. On occasion, notice of contributions can take some time before they cross my desk.
The Georgia Debate Union is supported by the Department of Speech Communication and The Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs
