The Trojan Debate Squad (TDS), USC's first chartered student organization, is devoted to teaching argumentation and analytic thinking skills to students through academic debate. The TDS is one of the nation's leading collegiate debate programs and focuses on competitive policy debate, research on the digital transition in debate and expanding debate in Los Angeles public schools.
Registration for the Spring 2012 Trojan Web Debates is now open! Click HERE to access entry forms, rules, and FAQs.
A complete list of Week 2 Debates, and round by round and overall results from Week 1 for the Spring 2012 Trojan Web Debates are now available on the tournament website. http://www.
Reminder for Trojan Web Debates competitors - your Proposition Rebuttal speeches are due tonight by 11:59 PM PST! Please be sure to post on time! To see a complete list of debates in progress, click HERE. TIP: This is a long list, so if you're looking for a particular competitor/debate, you can load the list and then press "CTRL+F" to search the list.
The Trojan Web Debates begin today! Proposition speeches should be posted by 11:59 PM Monday, 4/2. E-mails have been sent to all competitors with instructions on how to post videos, the tournament schedule, debate formats and other important information.
Nearly 80 years after Wiley College students traveled to Los Angeles to debate their peers from USC, the roles were reversed, but the result was the same. A standing-room only crowd of approximately 700 people was captivated by a debate of the necessity of civil disobedience.
Just finished a fantastic first day at Wiley. Terrific opening banquet at the Ethical Student Leadership Conference after a great campus tour.
Fantastic first day in Marshall. We will share pictures throughout the next few days.
The Trojan Debate Squad is in Marshall, Texas to take part in an exhibition with Wiley College to celebrate the ground-breaking 1935 debate made famous in 'The Great Debaters. '.