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Debate team dominates competition

Ellis Becker January 11, 2017

The debate team earned multiple bids to the Tournament of Champions, continuing its season of multiple wins. So far this season, the Harvard-Westlake team has more Tournament of Champions bids for Lincoln-Douglas...

Debaters prepare for their round on nuclear energy. Credit: Printed with permission of Mike Bietz

Debate team leads national standings

Anthony Weinraub October 5, 2016

Debaters started off the season with wins at multiple national competitions. Thirteen students attended the Greenhill Fall Classic from Sept. 15 to Sept. 18. Evan Engel '17, Connor Engel '17, Jake Davidson...

Debate coach Scott Phillips. Credit: Ryan Kim/Chronicle

Scott Phillips: Debate

Ryan Kim August 31, 2016

Scott Phillips has joined the debate team coaching staff this year, working specifically with high schoolers on the team. Phillips will coach students after school at practices and travel with the team...

Debate coach Travis Fife. Credit: Sam Ko/Chronicle

Travis Fife: Debate

August 31, 2016

Travis Fife is coaching the debate team full time and is teaching middle school debate classes this year. Fife debated himself starting at the end of his sophomore year and continued through the last two...

Octavia Tyagi 19 delivers a speech during a practice World Schools debate before her classmates. Printed with permission of Mike Bietz.

Debaters attend summer program

Anthony Weinraub August 30, 2016

The upper school campus hosted the second annual debate.LA summer camp from June 20 to July 29. The program is an intensive speech and debate workshop meant to help hone debaters’ skills before the competitive...

Stop apologizing

Stop apologizing

Liz Yount May 25, 2016

This year, I have made a conscious effort to stop apologizing. Not for accidentally bumping into people in the halls, but rather for my opinions and actions. In Amy Poehler’s book “Yes Please,”...

Liz Yount ’17 (right) debates in the quarterfinals round of the Harvard World Schools tournament in Boston. The school sent one team of four students and one team of three students to participate in the world schools style tournament. Printed with permission of Mike Bietz

Debaters travel to national championships

Sabrina de Brito April 27, 2016

Five qualified Harvard-Westlake debaters will be attending the 45th Annual Tournament of Champions in Kentucky April 30-May 2. "All of our success this season, and even at our postseason championship tournaments,...

School hosts public debate tournament

Sabrina de Brito February 10, 2016

The upper school debate team hosted a public debate on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 18 in Rugby Auditorium. Members of Team USA, the national debate team, argued about whether or not identity politics...

Team to debate identity

Team to debate identity

Sabrina de Brito January 13, 2016

The upper school debate team will host a public debate with Team USA on Martin Luther King Jr. Day Jan. 18. During the debate, participants will debate "identity, protest and the future of the struggle...

Debate team competes in writing forum

Sabrina de Brito November 23, 2015

The Harvard-Westlake International Public Policy Forum Debate Team was selected from teams across the world to compete in the 15th annual International Public Policy Forum. The team members are captain...

Liz Yount ’17 speaks during a World Schools debate at the Greenhill Fall Classic as teammates Aidan Luscinski ’17 and Alec Winshel ’16 listen. The team took second place at the tournament.

Debate season starts with success

Sabrina de Brito October 7, 2015

Cameron Cohen ’16 won first place overall at the Greenhill Fall Classic in Dallas Sept. 19-21 a week after he and Nick Steele ’16 closed out the Loyola Invitational as co-champions. This was the first...

Junior named to national debate team

Sabrina de Brito September 14, 2015

Liz Yount '17 was named to the 2015-2016 USA Debate team on Tuesday and is looking forward to the upcoming season, she said. Nine high school students from across the country made the team after enduring...

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