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Transformation of Champions

By Sierra Maciorowski “In an era where our public leaders seem incapable of understanding each other's perspectives and points of view,” said Head of School Janet Durgin, “in debate, you are forced to really dig into views that are often different from your own.” Most debaters have strong opinions on [...]

By | December 26th, 2014|0 Comments

Spreading the Rhetoric: Youth Debate Camp

By Elizabeth Kolling As freshmen, juniors Jack Greenberg and Liam Kolling walked into their very first debate practice, oblivious to the significance of their steps and unknowing of a predestined fate as students of public speaking and argumentative verbalism. Fast-forward two years and these two individuals stand in the front [...]

By | December 26th, 2014|0 Comments

A Forensics Finale

By Sierra Maciorowski “Add a layer of chaos,” said forensics coach Brandon Spars, “and that’s what you get at state.” With the forensics season finally finished, and the banquet coming up on May 20th, the quali­fications-necessary state tournament officially ended the year for five So­noma Academy competitors. Unfortunately, although a [...]

By | June 2nd, 2014|0 Comments

Speech and Debate: The Gift of Gab

By Jake Lawson Speech and Debate. After reading that, you probably already don’t want to read this article, so if you read this sentence and/or plan to read the rest of this article, you’re pretty cool. Speech and Debate are fun and they’re not what you think! Okay, so I’m [...]

By | December 10th, 2013|0 Comments

The great debate: is dance a sport?

Although you may not see dancers in helmets tackling each other, they are certainly athletes.

By | March 2nd, 2012|6 Comments

A Passion for Debate

By Anna Griffin The SVHS debate team has been very successful this year in tournaments, in places such as USC and locations across California, Laynie Stephens and Kara Flageolett qualified for Nationals in June, at their latest tournament, and Luz Lopez and Lani Frazier won an alternate slot in the [...]

By | April 6th, 2011|0 Comments