First WFTR Show of the school year!

We're back, with new and old Debaters and the same familiar attitude. For some unknown reason, WFTR-AM has allowed us to perpetrate this live panel discussion once again. The schedule this year is every other Tuesday night, at 6 pm.

This week Coach James Taafel was joined by new Team Captain John Pederson, members Maddi Orem, John Camarella, and Ben Schoonover, and newbies Tia Johnston and Natalie Pendie. We beat several topics to death including the current sort-of war in the Middle East.

https://archive.org/details/20140923RMA

WFTR has hosted the RMA Debate Team for over 12 years now. Most of those programs are archived and can be found by searching from any of the podcast links here. I'm trying to gather them up into some semblance of order. Meanwhile, if you want to get in on a little pre-show banter and show prep, feel free to join our page on Facebook, https://www.facebook.com/pages/RMA-Debate/275670899259

 

Pictures from the 2014 Wrap Show

We finished on a strong note, with two alumni special guests! Valerie Pratt '11 and Jackson McGraw '12 were debate champions as a team and separately. Val had five first places, and Jackson went to Nationals his senior year. They discuss college, and then our current crew takes over. Graduating Team Captain Micah Peregrino is headed for George Washington University. John Pedersen, Madeline Orem and John  Camarella will be back in the fall.

Last radio show of the school year

The last R-MA Speech and Debate Team Radio Forum of the school year was a little more violent than usual, since we would up talking about violence in Thailand, Ukraine, and the American Southwest. You never know what to expect from this group. Graduating Senior Micah Peregrino was joined on the panel by stalwarts Jonathan Pederson (now on his way to Nationals), Madeleine Oram and John Camarella and team coach James Taafel. Our special guests were Jackson McGraw, R-MA class of 2013 fresh from his first year studying chemical engineering at Ohio University, and Valerie Pratt, R-MA Class of 2011, fresh from graduating from Messiah College with a degree in Politics and International Relations! As usual the discussion was lively right up to (and a little past) time to go. It's been a great year, and we hope you will all come out to the Senior Parade on Friday and watch the class of 2014 graduate. We'll fire it up again in September. https://archive.org/details/20140520RMA

The Supremes and College

We started off dissecting the Supreme Court's decision that racial quotas are no longer required by law in college admissions. And since our studio crew had two Seniors, we spent most of the rest of the time discussing the peculiarities of the college admissions process and the future of higher education! Join Coach Taafel, Jon Pedersen, Debbie Kim and Micah Peregrino in this edition of the R-MA Speech and Debate Team's Radio Forum!

There are two more shows left in the year. The next one will be Thursday May 8 rather than the usual Tuesday due to a schedule conflict. Then we wrap up the school year with a very special edition of the show on Tuesday May 20! Don't miss it. https://archive.org/details/20140425RMA