For the first time in more than two years, the University of La Verne debate team traveled to the East Coast to compete in the Harvard University Speech and Debate Championship last weekend.
ULV pride was in the air at Biola University on Saturday, Sept. 16, as the Debate Team led the annual demonstration debate organized by the South Coast Pacific Forensics Association (SCPFA).
Lights, music, dancers and fashion. No, it is not a night club-it was "Delusions of Grandeur," a fashion show presented by sophomore Jamie Bigornia and junior Ivan Matsumoto.
Finishing the year with another trophy to add to its rapidly growing collection, the University of La Verne Debate Squad’s first team of freshman Shannon Beets and sophomore Scott Mac Kay converted the National Debate Championship into a landmark by becoming the highest-ranked parliamentary debate team in California and the first team in ULV history to qualify into the octa (eighth round) finals in a competition of this magnitude.