Clemson University Debaters win National Title

The Clemson University debate team, in its first year of organization and competition, has won the National Educational Debate Association National Championship. The team competed against 80 students on 10 teams in the contest at Clemson University earlier this month. The Tiger debaters also won the overall team sweepstakes and several first-place individual awards at a National Educational Debate Association tournament in October 2012 in Indiana. The Clemson team will compete next in April in California in a national British parley-type debating championship, with plans to attend the World Universities Debating Championship in December in India.