OSU Debate Club
Description
The Oklahoma State University Debate Club (OSUDC) is a campus organization open to all students that is dedicated to promoting reasonable and formal verbal discourse. OSUDC encourages open-minded discussions over all ranges of topics and issues. The organization wants to help improve our members’ ability to articulate and speak, as well as pioneer their individual beliefs and thoughts for all to hear.
Our weekly activities consist of meetings that create a welcome and open environment to discuss various issues. These meetings are not intended to be heavily structured; they are intended to give anyone an opportunity to speak their mind on a subject. However, we do have other projects that we are interested in sponsoring to help fulfill our goals as a club.
One way we seek to accomplish this mission is through involvement in debate competitions. Debate competitions allow those involved an opportunity to understand and defend a certain perspective in addition to learning about opposing perspectives and how to address them. These competitions also necessitate knowing how to formulate points so that judges and opponents comprehend what is being said. As such, debate competitions develop skills that are highly pertinent to our mission at OSUDC. There are costs associated with involvement in competition (mainly costs to participate and travel costs). We hope that through your support, we can not only raise funds for this competition, but also for any future competitions we wish to hold.
Another way we hope to approach our goals is through on-campus debate events. These can provide opportunities for people to gain knowledge of differing viewpoints and help people think critically about certain topics. In addition, these would also provide a model for civil discourse that could help enhance productive conversations on campus and beyond. Like with debate competitions, we seek your support to help enable us to sponsor these events.
These are some, but not necessarily the only ways we hope to expand OSUDC's reach. We would love to see you donate to help support us in OSUDC's mission! Thank you!
$25
Hospitality - A Stepping Stone
While providing food at meetings isn't part of our club's mission on its own, it can provide an initial attendance incentive to people who may then decide they want to become members! As such, a donation here can help grow our club by providing a "stepping stone" for creating interest.
$35
Competitive Debate
We are fielding a competitive debate team! This will help us with the expenses associated with attending events.
$50
On-Campus Debate Events
This will help us get more students involved through sponsorship of formalized on-campus debate events.
$200
Clever-Sounding Arguments
One fact is worth far more than 200 clever-sounding arguments; $200, on the other hand, is worth a lot! It is part of our mission to focus on educating our members to prioritize honest discussion over what they might want to say in the heat of the moment.