Lent Term- Week 4
Hi everyone,
Week 4 has arrived... Here are the updates for the second half of this week:
- LSE Open 2013
- RAG Valentine's Day Cup
- Experienced Training
The LSE Open is the society's flagship event and attracts teams from the UK, Netherlands, Australia and Romania, among others. This year, the LSE Open is taking place on 16 and 17 February. If you are keen to be a part of this event, there are several opportunities available. You can either judge, volunteer as a helper or offer to host international teams. It is ideal that judges have some prior debating experience; if you do not but are keen to judge, we will assign you to rooms with more experienced chair judges who can guide you along. Helpers will be responsible for ushering teams to the right locations, collecting ballots and running any miscellaneous errands on the day. Being a part of this event is an excellent way of contributing back to the society and getting involved in a highly prestigious debating tournament. There are also great daily socials, including karaoke, to look forward to! Please email the convenors at lseopen2013@gmail.com to register your interest.
In addition, we are looking for people willing to host international teams by providing them with accommodation (aka 'crash'). Most participants who require crash will arrive on the 15th, the evening of our first social. If anyone is keen to host these teams, please register your interest here: http://www.lsedebate.org/2013/01/lse-open-crash.html Other societies have frequently hosted our debaters in the past, so we seek to extend the same generosity to them and ask for your help in doing so. All crash hosts will be invited to the nightly socials and entered into a raffle where the lucky winner will receive a great prize from our convenors.
2. RAG Valentine's Day Cup
Back by popular demand, the RAG Valentine's Day Cup is the perfect chance for you to pair up with that special someone and show them how much you care (by evenly distributing your substantive points and maybe even sharing a rebuttal or two). Either bring your current significant other or allow us to pair you up with a highly compatible potential mate (based on our *almost* perfect matchmaking algorithm). No prior debating experience is necessary and you can bring your non-member friends along! Registration costs £5 per team and all proceeds will go to charity.
This exciting event will be taking place on Tuesday (12 Feb) at 6:30pm in CLM3.07. Participants can expect quirky motions based on the themes of romance, relationships and matters of the heart! The winners stand to walk away with attractive prizes. To sign-up, please do so at the bottom of this page: http://www.lsedebate.org/p/sign-ups.html
3. Experienced training
Experienced training will proceed as usual this week on Thursday at 6:30pm in CLM1.01. Vinny will be talking about privatisation vs. nationalisation. There will be a practice debate and quick visit to the pub after this. We welcome everyone!
Feel as confused about the Public vs Private debate as this fellow does?
Come along to training to have all your questions answered by Vinny!
