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
 

On the Air, March 25 edition

Winter is giving us one last smack in the face, just so we know who's boss. But not even that will stand between us and the microphones at WFTR for our biweekly Radio Forum! Coach James Taafel, Ben Schoonover, Jon Pederson, Paige Hollis, Maddi Orem, and Team Captain Micah Peregrino braved the blizzard and made it to the studio. Internet integrity, government surveillance, and other items of interest were thoroughly discussed. Here's the link to the podcast: https://archive.org/details/20140325RMA

All of our WFTR broadcasts are archived at the team blog, http://rmadebate.blogspot.com
 

On the Air, March 11, 2014

What should we do, or can we do, about the Ukraine and Crimea? In the first half hour of the R-MA Speech and Debate Team's Radio Forum, Ben Schoonover, Jon Pedersen and Micah Peregrino discussed the foreign policy implications while coach J...ames Taafel and host Doug Pratt tried to work in "Crimea river." In the second segment the New York mayor's overt attack on successful charter schools was discussed in the general atmosphere of the school choice debate and the reaction against Common Core. In spite of suffering through the current SAT tests, our group is not impressed with the coming changes to the SAT. Hear it all on our podcast (link below) and listen to us again on Tuesday March 25 at 6 pm on good old faithful WFTR.

https://archive.org/details/20140311RMA