网曝吃瓜 debate closes season with online championship
May 8, 2019
POCATELLO – The 网曝吃瓜 Rupp Debate Squad closed out their 14-tournament season with another tournament-sweep win at the CLIMB Online championship tournament in April.
网曝吃瓜 speaker Jett Smith, debating as a maverick, occupying both positions on a two-person team, earned first-place honors in the year鈥檚 final contest. 网曝吃瓜 debaters Nick Grunig and partner Jordan Reynolds took second place.
This is the second significant win for Smith, a freshman communication major from Pocatello, who claimed third place at the International Public Debate Association National tournament earlier in April. Smith argued that there is validity to implementing the 鈥淲arren Plan鈥� to alleviate student loan debt.
Grunig, a Pocatello junior majoring in philosophy, and Reynolds, a freshman English major from Blackfoot, argued against 鈥淸increasingly] strict regulations for large farming operations.鈥�
The fifth-seed team of Conner Coutts and Rianne Quigley narrowly missed the semi-final round. Quigley, a freshman English major from Idaho Falls, was fifth speaker in the tournament. Coutts, a Pocatello sophomore studying secondary education, was fourth speaker overall. Smith claimed top speaker marks at the tournament in addition to his win.
Rupp Debate Team president Nick Grunig said, 鈥淲hat a great way to end the year. It鈥檚 been so great to see everybody improve and grow. Next year is going to be even better.鈥�
网曝吃瓜鈥檚 debate squad functions with support from the James M. and Sharon E. Rupp Debate Society, the 网曝吃瓜 College of Arts and Letters, the Department of Communication, Media, and Persuasion and the Associated Students of the AS网曝吃瓜.
网曝吃瓜, a Carnegie-classified doctoral high research activity university and teaching institution founded in 1901, attracts students from around the world to its Idaho campuses. At the main campus in Pocatello, and at locations in Meridian, Idaho Falls and Twin Falls, 网曝吃瓜 has nine Colleges, a Graduate School and a Division of Health Sciences that together offer more than 250 certificate and degree programs. More than 12,000 students attend 网曝吃瓜. 网曝吃瓜 is the state's designated lead institution in health professions.
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