Archive for the 'umkc' Category
Feb
1
All Eyes on DKC
February 1, 2012 | Leave a Comment
DEBATE-Kansas City (DKC) has garnered considerable media attention in recent days. Tuesday’s public debate co-sponsored the Kansas City Star, Competing Futures: a debate over Kansas City Schools, had everyone from Mayor Sly James to National Public Radio’s Scott Simon tweeting about dynamic DKC debaters making compelling arguments. The event was attended by 175 guests that [...]
Jan
19
DKC and KC Star to Host: Competing Futures: a debate over KC schools
January 19, 2012 | Leave a Comment
DEBATE-Kansas City (DKC) is proud to be co-sponsoring a public debate over the future of Kansas City, Mo. schools with the Kansas City Star on January 31st at 7:30 p.m. on the campus of UMKC. The debate will feature three DKC alumni each arguing for a different entity (current community board, mayor or state) to control Kansas [...]
May
12
DKC Awards Night
May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment
DEBATE-Kansas City hosted its 12th annual Awards Night Celebration at the Kauffman Conference Center. The event was generously sponsored by the University of Missouri Kansas City. Students, coaches and volunteers from across the city gathered to celebrate a tremendous season of debate and academic achievement. The keynote speaker was Marcus Leach, who spoke of the transformative power of debate [...]
Jun
17
DEBATE-Kansas City on Walt Bodine Show
June 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment
DEBATE-Kansas City’s Director, Gabe Cook, and Director of Debate at UMKC Matt Vega appeared with Tim Sheaff (Board member National Forensics League) on The Walt Bodine Show Wednesday to discuss debate in general and the National Forensics League’s (NFL) National Tournament being held in Kansas City. More than 5,000 students, coaches, and parents are in town [...]
Mar
24
Summer Camp Scholarship Application 2010
March 24, 2010 | Leave a Comment
DKC students, summer is still months away, but you can never plan your vacation time too soon. If you love debate and want to get better you should consider attending summer debate camp. DKC has a great relationship with UMKC Summer Debate Institute and each year we raise funds to provide camp scholarships for DKC [...]
Mar
1
City Championship Results
March 1, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Congratulations to all the awesome students of DEBATE-Kansas City. Below you will find a full set of results from the City Championship. More stories and articles about the Championship will be forthcoming but we wanted to share the results of the tournament as quickly as possible. Also check out page five of the KC Star! [...]
Mar
5
E-Roos Covers UMKC-DKC Connection in Tolson Video
March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment
UMKC’S online alumni news publication, E-Roos, released a story about the Fox Sports “Americans in Focus” piece on Melvin B. Tolson that featured three DKC alumni currently debating for UMKC along with DKC Director Gabe Cook. See the e-roos story below: The Video (click here) is about Melvin B. Tolson, a Kansas City native, who [...]
