练习模拟辩论有助于高年级学生shryas rajagopal（左）和grace kessler为4月4日至8日在埃默里大学亚特兰大校区举行的锦标赛做准备。 全国辩论赛（ndt）将于4月4日至8日在埃默里大学亚特兰大分校举行第78届年度比赛。 ndt将受到巴克利论坛的欢迎，巴克利论坛是该大学在全国排名的校际公共政策辩论项目，该项目也曾在2003年和2012年举办过该锦标赛。 今年将有78支队伍参加比赛，这是比赛规则允许的最大人数。 这两人组的学生都是全国顶尖的辩手，他们将代表46所高校参赛。 埃默里将派出三支队伍，每组最多。 这两支队伍分别是前辈格雷斯·凯斯勒和史雷亚斯·拉贾戈帕尔；大四学生henry mitchell和小三学生bella piekut；一年级学生daniel gallagher和大三学生margaret hecht。 “我们非常高兴，也非常荣幸能够主办今年的全国辩论赛，”校园生活中巴克利论坛的辩论主管mikaelamalsin说。 “被委托参加全国最负盛名的锦标赛反映了大学辩论界对我们的辩论项目和记忆的尊重。 马尔辛是2010年埃默里班的巴克利论坛校友，在乔治敦大学担任辩论主任后，他回到了埃默里。 早些时候，除了在埃默里大学的教练辩论外，她还在威克森林大学和乔治亚大学执教，分别获得了硕士学位和博士学位。 2021年，她被任命为巴克利论坛辩论总监。 在过去的1996年、2000年和2007年三年里，巴克利论坛获得了锦标赛的最高荣誉，今年将参加比赛。 在该锦标赛77年的历史上，二十多所学校获得了ndt冠军，其中只有五所其他学校获得了更多的冠军。 今天，巴克利论坛被公认为美国最成功的校际辩论项目之一，在50多年的时间里，它已经成功地参加了数百场比赛。 在马尔辛的领导下，巴克利论坛继续其培养优秀辩手和赢得比赛的传统。 2023-24赛季，埃默里从三大辩论赛中夺得冠军：富兰克林r。 维克森林大学的雪莉经典赛、加州州立大学长滩分校的凯瑟琳·克拉西奇和德克萨斯大学奥斯汀分校的德克萨斯长角经典赛。 本季，emory的项目在交叉考试辩论协会中排名第一，在大学代表队中排名第一的是美国辩论协会，这两个组织都是促进校际政策辩论的杰出组织。 自1967年以来，巴克利论坛已经获得了六项美国辩论协会冠军、三项全国辩论锦标赛冠军、两项交叉询问辩论协会冠军，三项科普兰奖得主、九项一年级全国新手冠军和八项锦标赛顶级演讲人奖。 大学辩论的悠久历史虽然全国辩论锦标赛的起源可以追溯到1947年，当时它是由美国西点军校建立的，但巴克利论坛的起源可以进一步追溯到1837年，也就是埃默里成立的第二年。 马尔辛说：“近两个世纪以来，辩论一直是我们大学文化的重要组成部分，因为phi-gamma文学协会开始在埃默里的第一个校园里辩论佐治亚州牛津的时事。”。 她补充道：“巴克利论坛延续了这一传统，作为一个遗产纪念项目，通过世界上一些最有才华的学生辩手和辩论工作人员的辛勤工作和奉献精神，该项目取得了非凡的成功。 ”。
practicing mock debates helps seniors shreyas rajagopal (left) and grace kessler prepare for the tournament, set for april 4-8 on emory’s atlanta campus.the national debate tournament (ndt) will return to emory’s atlanta campus for its 78th annual competition, april 4-8. the ndt will be welcomed back by barkley forum, the university’s nationally ranked intercollegiate public policy debate program, which also hosted the tournament in 2003 and 2012.this year, 78 teams will compete, the maximum number allowed by tournament rules. the students on these two-person teams are among the nation’s top competitive debaters and will represent 46 colleges and universities.emory will field three teams, the maximum per school. the teams are seniors grace kessler and shreyas rajagopal; senior henry mitchell and junior bella piekut; and first-year student daniel gallagher and junior margaret hecht.“we’re absolutely delighted and profoundly honored to host this year’s national debate tournament,” says mikaela malsin, director of debate for the barkley forum within campus life. “being entrusted with the nation’s most prestigious tournament reflects the esteem in which the college debate community holds emory and our debate program.”a barkley forum alum from emory’s class of 2010, malsin returned to emory after serving as director of debate at georgetown university. earlier, in addition to coaching debate at emory, she coached at wake forest university and the university of georgia, where she earned a master’s degree and phd, respectively. in 2021, she was named barkley forum’s director of debate. tradition of excellingbarkley forum will compete this year after taking home the tournament’s top honors three years in the past 1996, 2000 and 2007. only five other institutions have won more ndt championships among the more than two dozen schools that have claimed the title in the tournament’s 77-year history.today, the barkley forum is recognized as one of the nation’s most successful intercollegiate debate programs, having competed successfully in hundreds of tournaments over more than 50 years.under malsin’s leadership, barkley forum carries on its tradition of training outstanding debaters and winning tournaments.the 2023-24 season saw emory bring home championships from three major debate tournaments: the franklin r. shirley classic at wake forest university, kathryn klassic at california state university-long beach and texas longhorn classic at the university of texas-austin.this season, emory’s program is ranked number one overall by the cross examination debate association and number one in varsity by the american debate association, two preeminent organizations promoting intercollegiate policy debate.since 1967, barkley forum has claimed six american debate association titles, three national debate tournament titles, two cross examination debate association titles, three copeland award winners, nine first-year novice nationals titles and eight top speaker awards at championship tournaments.long history of collegiate debatewhile the national debate tournament’s roots reach back to 1947 when it was established by the united states military academy at west point, barkley forum’s origins stretch back even further to 1837, the year after emory was founded.“debate has been a vital part of our university culture for nearly two centuries, since the phi gamma literary society began debating current events in oxford, georgia, on emory’s first campus,” says malsin.she adds, “the barkley forum carries on that tradition as a legacy emory program that has achieved extraordinary success through the hard work and dedication of some of the most talented student debaters and debate staff in the world.”.
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