Last year Northwest won third place and the year before we won second place. Then on November 4th, two Northwest students will debate the British national team on campus. The British national debating team is traveling across the nation for a series of public debates with American College students and have agreed to challenge Northwest College to a match on world trade. One British debater is from Oxford University and the other is from Glasgow University. Debating Championships the last two years.
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For more information about this debate, read this linked article . The first week of January 2000, four Northwest students will take on the toughest intellectual competition on the planet at the World Universities Debating Championships in Sydney, Australia. More than three hundred English speaking teams from all over the globe will gather in Sydney for five days of debates on international affairs and current events. Topics are assigned twenty minutes before each round and debaters must be prepared to argue both sides of any issue. Paul Nystrom, James Stewart, Sveta Zlatareva and Camile DeBlasi will represent the college.