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Randolph-Macon College’s
Franklin Debating Society will host the 11th Annual Wash-Frank Cup Collegiate Debates on Tuesday, April 19, 2011.
This event brings four colleges together for a series of audience-friendly debates on an interesting topic. This year’s topic is:
Be It Resolved That the United States Should Significantly Revise its Nuclear Energy Policies. This exciting event, in which the audience is encouraged to speak up, combines the substance of public policy debate with the oratorical flair of parliamentary-style debate.
Debating the topic will be The College of William & Mary, The University of Mary Washington, Davidson College, and the R-MC duo of
Robert Thomas ’11 and
Jessee Perry ’11.
Debates will take place in the Washington and Franklin Rooms of Washington-Franklin Hall at 4:15 p.m. and at 5:30 p.m; the final debate will begin at 8:00 p.m. in the Washington Room.
Ted Sheckels, the A.G. Ingram Professor of English, coaches the R-MC Franklin Debating Society students. Sheckels is a
communication studies and
English professor and the director of speaking for the
Higgins Academic Center. He is assisted by part-time communication studies instructor John Mingus.
The event, sponsored by the law firm of Williams Mullen, is free and open to the public.