2022-2023 Season

3rd Annual SASIS Fall 2022

  • Date: September 29th
  • Debaters/Propositions
    • Senior Aubrey Moorman: There should be a safe space for racists.
    • Senior Lexi Hill: Human euthanasia should be legalized.
    • Sophomore Lorelei Becktel: Assault weapons should be banned.
    • Senior Romel Thurman: Safe spaces should be abolished.
    • Freshman Clark Barrett: All psychedelic drugs should be legalized for recreational use.
    • Junior Thalia Guettler: Vasectomies should be mandatory for adult males.
  • Results
    • 1st place: Lexi Hill
    • 2nd place: Thalia Guettler
    • 3rd place: Romel Thurman

Vanderbilt Democracy Dialogues on Democracy and Elections at Vanderbilt 2022

  • Date: Friday October 14 – Saturday October 15
  • Format: Policy Proposal (present and defend)
  • Theme: Fixing our democracy and election issues
  • Debaters: Seniors Romel Thurman and Lexi Hill (third years), junior Franco Bippus (first year) and sophomore Lorelei Becktel (second year)
  • Results
    • Top 4 out of 10 teams

St. Ignatius Dialogues & Jesuit Cup Tournaments at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) 2022

  • Date: Friday October 28 – Sunday October 30
  • Format: Venn Diagrams
  • Theme: Healing Justice (focusing on homelessness, spirituality and formerly incarcerated)
  • Debaters: Junior Thalia Guettler and freshman Trent Mora
  • Results / Awards:
    • Mora’s team won the championship in the Jesuit Cup
    • Guettler’s team was a Jesuit Cup finalist
    • Guettler received third overall speaker 

Social Justice Fall Championships at GWU 2022

  • Date: Saturday November 12 – Sunday November 13
  • Format: Public Forum
  • Proposition: The worker cooperative model is preferable to the traditional firm model in the United States to promote a more equitable economy.
  • Debaters: Seniors Aubrey Moorman and Lexi Hill and sophomore Lorelei Becktel
  • Results / Awards:
    • The team won a semifinalist award
    • Lorelei received first place novice speaker and fifth place overall speaker

GU vs Howard Intercollegiate Exhibition 2023

  • Date: Thursday, February 2nd
  • Format: Public Forum
  • Proposition: The worker cooperative model is preferable to the traditional firm model in the United States to promote a more equitable economy.
  • Debaters: Seniors Aubrey Moorman and Lexi Hill and sophomore Lorelei Becktel against Nadrat Amos, Julian Garcia-Szyszka and Brielle Mitchell
  • Results: Won

Social Justice Debates National Championships at Morehouse 2023

  • Date: Friday February 10 – Sunday February 12
  • Format: Public Forum
  • Proposition: The worker cooperative model is preferable to the traditional firm model in the United States to promote a more equitable economy.
  • Debaters: Seniors Aubrey Moorman and Lexi Hill (third years) and sophomore Lorelei Becktel (second year)
  • Results / Awards:
    • Placed fourth seed in the tournament
    • The team won a semifinalist award
    • Lorelei received first place novice speaker and second place overall speaker

British Parliament Novice Nationals at the University of Rochester 2023

  • Date: Friday, February 17 – Sunday, February 19
  • Format: British Parliament
  • Debaters: Senior Lexi Hill with sophomore Lorelei Becktel // Sophomore Aubrie Bauer with freshman Clark Barrett
  • Results / Awards:
    • GU-Becktel/Hill advanced to finals out of 46 teams.

GU and USNA Intercollegiate Exhibition 2023

  • Date: Thursday, April 20
  • Format: Public Forum
  • Proposition: It is in the public’s best interest that Deaf people should be allowed to serve in the U.S. military.
  • Debaters: Freshman Trent Mora (first year) debating the affirmative with USNA senior Jason Santiago and senior Lexi Hill (third year) debating the negative with USNA junior Roy Choi
  • Results: Hill/Choi, debating the negative, won.

2021-2022 Season

2nd Annual Stories and Speeches in Sign (SASIS) Fall 2021

  • Date: Thursday, November 18
  • Debaters/Propositions:
    • Sophomore Daniel Miers: Anti-homeless structures should be banned.
    • Senior LaToya Plummer: Critical Race Theory (CRT) education should be mandatory in K-12 public schools.
    • Junior Aubrey Moorman: Convicted felons should be allowed to vote in prison.
    • Sophomore Sam Marchese-Ragona: Humans should colonize space.
    • Freshman Lorelei Becktel: The death penalty should be abolished in the United States.
    • Junior Romel Thurman: Performance-enhancing drugs in sports should be legalized.
    • Sophomore Charlie Spiers: Non-political federal agencies should relocate outside of D.C.
    • Junior Lexi Hill: The two-term limit for U.S. presidents should be repealed.
    • Freshman Najmo Jama: Standardized testing for college admissions should be abolished.
  • Results:
    • 1st place: Aubrey Moorman
    • 2nd place: Lexi Hill
    • 3rd place: LaToya Plummer

Social Justice Debates National Championships at Morehouse 2022

  • Date: Friday March 25 – Sunday March 27 2022
  • Format: Public Forum
  • Proposition: The adoption of a mandatory racial desegregation policy for K-12 public schools is desirable.
  • Debaters: Juniors Aubrey Moorman and Lexi Hill
  • Results / Awards
    • The team won a quarterfinalist award
    • Aubrey received 1st place novice speaker / 1st place overall speaker
    • Lexi received 3rd place novice speaker / 10th place overall speaker

2020-2021 Season

1st Annual Stories and Speeches in Sign (SASIS) Spring 2021

  • Date: March 3rd, 2021
  • Debaters/Propositions
    • Sophomore Lexi Hill: The COVID vaccine should be compulsory in the United States.
    • Freshman Claudia Smistek: Americans should be patriotic.
    • Sophomore Julie Ann Shoeman: Earth is not a globe.
    • Sophomore Romel Thurman: Deaf people should be allowed to serve in the US military.
    • Junior Joseph Palagano: The United States federal minimum wage should be raised.
    • Sophomore Aubrey Moorman: Reparations should be made to descendants of enslaved Americans.
    • Freshman Thalia Guettler: People with a felony conviction on their record should be allowed to vote.

GU vs GWU Intercollegiate Exhibition 2021

  • Date: Wednesday April 21
  • Format: Public Forum
  • Proposition: It is in the best interest of the country to grant statehood to Washington DC.
  • Debaters: Sophomore Lexi Hill and freshman Thalia Guettler against junior Shawky Darwish and sophomore Rush Patel
  • Results: Won

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