Dartmouth Forensic Union

Dartmouth Forensic Union

The Dartmouth Forensic Union or DFU (pronEng|ˈduːf) is the policy debate team of Dartmouth College, and is considered one of the strongest debate teams in the United States.cite news |url=http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2003041801020 |title=Debaters take second at nationals |last=Kimmitt |first=Robert |date=2003-04-18 |accessdate=2006-11-29 |work=The Dartmouth]

Dartmouth has won six National Debate Tournaments, most recently in 1993. At the NDT, Dartmouth has had five second place teams and eleven semi-finalist teams. Dartmouth has had at least one first round qualifier (a team in the top 16 nationally) to the NDT for 25 years running.

Ken Strange, the head coach since 1980, was named Coach of the Decade for the 1980s,cite news |url=http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=1995040701050 |title=Coach Strange leads team |last=Rose |first=Karen |date=1995-04-07 |accessdate=2006-11-29 |work=The Dartmouth] and awarded the prestigious George Ziegemueller Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2000.cite news |url=http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2001101601020 |title=Debate team off to great start |first=Charles |last=Gardner |work=The Dartmouth |date=2001-10-16 |accessdate=2006-11-29]

Dartmouth also hosts the Dartmouth Debate Institute (DDI)cite news |url=http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2006072001050 |title=Debaters garner college experience |first=Carolyn |last=Kylstra |work=The Dartmouth |date=2006-07-20 |accessdate=2006-11-29] and Dartmouth Debate Workshop (DDW) (formerly the Dartmouth Juniors Workshop (DJW)), both of which are summer programs for high school policy debaters.

References


*cite news |title=Forensic Union takes third place |url=http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=2001050801030 |last=Gardner |first=Charles |work=The Dartmouth| date=2001-05-08 |accessdate=2006-11-06
*cite news |url=http://www.thedartmouth.com/article.php?aid=1995021701070 |title=Debate team wins Dixie Classic |last=Posey |first=Michael |work=The Dartmouth |date=1995-02-17 |accessdate=2006-11-29

External links

* [http://debate.dartmouth.edu/index.php Dartmouth Forensic Union]
* [http://ddw.wikispaces.com Dartmouth Debate Workshop]
* [http://ddi.wikispaces.com Dartmouth Debate Institute]


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