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RUDU Finishes 20th at Nationals, Closes Second-Best Year Ever
The Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) closed the year with a solid performance at Nationals, with top team Chris Bergman & Ashley Novak finishing 20th and missing the elimination rounds by an...
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RUDU Closes Year with Senior Banquet
The Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) held its first annual Senior Banquet Tuesday night to honor those graduating from the club and celebrate a year of incredible growth and accomplishment. The...
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Debate Union Hires Chris Baia as Assistant Debate Coach
The Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) has doubled its professional staff this month with the official hiring of Christopher Baia as Assistant Debate Coach. He was chosen from a competitive field...
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Novice Retreats to Host, Train New Rutgers Debaters
The Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) is holding two official Novice Retreats in the next month prior to the opening of classes to prepare incoming new members for the rigors of the debate season....
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First Section of 2012 Recruits Graduate to Novices
The Executive Board, Coaches, and some additional leaders of the Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) spent the last three days in various classrooms of Rutgers’ School of Communication and...
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RUDU Completes Novice Retreat, Second Section Graduates
The Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) wrapped up its two Novice Retreats for summer 2012 on Labor Day at the School of Communication and Information (SC&I). While this group was smaller than...
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RUDU Makes Hopkins Novice Final to Open Year
The Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) took a school record thirteen teams to the Johns Hopkins University debate tournament this past weekend, the first of the 2012-2013 season. The novices, newly...
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Final Awards and Rankings for 2011-2012
With the upcoming start of a new season, we are taking the opportunity to archive last year’s accomplishments for posterity in this post. The AWARDS tab above will feature this year’s awards from now...
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Rutgers Finishes 5th at W&M, Novice Finals Again, Ranked 11th in Country
The Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) sent four teams to William & Mary’s tournament this weekend and all of them came away with winning records. The second-year duo of Kurt Falk & Alex...
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Record Four Rutgers Varsity Teams Break, Leonard/Uzumcu Win Pitt Novice Division
The Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) broke more varsity teams in one weekend than ever before with four varsity teams advancing to elimination rounds across two tournaments. The previous record...
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Rutgers Takes Top Seed, Top Speaker at Swarthmore Novice
The Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) put up a stellar in-rounds performance at Swarthmore Novice this past weekend, featuring the team of Sean Leonard and Sahil Bambulkar winning all five...
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Rutgers 3rd at Harvard, Novak Now 3rd-Ranked Speaker in Country
The Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) posted its most successful weekend of the season so far at the largest tournament of the year. Ashley Novak & Gordon Morrisette broke to octofinals and...
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Rutgers 2nd at Maryland, Three More Teams in Top 10, Jumps to 6th in Nation
The Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) jumped to sixth in the overall national rankings on the American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) circuit after its best tournament of the year so far....
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Debate-Watch Party Tonight to Feature Insight, Analysis, Food
This article was written by Robb Crocker of the School of Communication and Information and was originally posted on the SC&I website. With undecided voters and swing states hanging in the balance,...
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Rutgers Visits Point Pleasant Borough HS for Two Exhibition Debates
The Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) sent two teams to demonstrate parliamentary debate for Point Pleasant Borough High School in Point Pleasant, New Jersey earlier today. The debates were...
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Rutgers 2nd at UMBC, has 3 Teams in National Top 15
The Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) brought the hurricane early to the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) with its third straight final round appearance at that school’s tournament....
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Rutgers 4th at AU Pro-Ams, Surges to 4th in Nation
The Rutgers contingent at AU Pro-Ams gathers after a fourth consecutive appearance in semifinals for the weekly team picture. Left to right: Henry Phipps, Chris Baia, Riti Khamgonkar, Deepta Janardhan,...
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RUDU 8th at GW, APDA Break Streak at 8 Weekends
Rutgers celebrates breaking to varsity quarters every weekend after the first this year. This time, in a hallway at GW. Left to right: Chris Baia, Kai Rau, Quinn Maingi, Deepta Janardhan, Ashley Novak,...
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Candidate Statements Due Tuesday, November 20th
Chris Bergman, President of the Debate Union for the last year and a half, is looking for new leaders to run RUDU. If you’re considering running for the Executive Board of the Rutgers University Debate...
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This Holiday Season, Remember RUDU!
The Rutgers University Debate Union (RUDU) is launching an online giving campaign to help fund their ongoing efforts to make Rutgers one of the top debate programs in the nation. By clicking the link...
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