Fydah Marie Sabando

BA Communication and Media Studies 3

BEAT REPORT: Inter-Collegiate Debate (English)
CAS wins Inter-collegiate Debate

CAS wins debate championships. Left picture. Dayanara Buensuceso, Prime minister of DebSoc
and CAS Team gives her whips speech on the last round. Right picture. (from left) Adjudicators Federic
Lois Regencia, Deputy Prime Minister of CAS Reyanne Librado, Prime Minister Gibran Ismael Cordero,
Adjudicator Prof. Elmer Jover and Michael Quintana receiving their awards and certificates.

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The UPV Debate Society in collaboration with the University of the

Philippines Visayas Student Council held an inter-collegiate debate competition at

the UPV CFOS (College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences) Audio-Visual Hall last
Thursday, July 25, 2013.
The debate competition was sponsored by the UPV Debate Society (DebSoc)
this year as part of the week-long celebration of the UPV 66 th Foundation
anniversary.

DebSoc made sure to tap the UPV SC to garner full support and

maximum student participation from the different colleges in the academe. Luckily,
two of the USC representatives, Alpha Cino Sulapas and Jan Christian Saavedra, who
accepted the partnership, were also debaters and allowing them to kick off the
event smoothly. We wanted to foster the debate culture in UPV., Sulapas shared.

Everything just fell into place for the debate championships, just as how
Dayanara Buensuceso, Prime Minister of the Debate Society, would put it. Bringing
together the different colleges to engage in an intellectual debate is one of my orgs
goals. They invited debaters from the College of Management, School of
Technology, College of Fisheries and the College of Arts and Sciences. Two of the
adjudicators invited for the debate competition were alumni of the Debate Circle,
who were Federic Loise Regencia and Michael Ray Quintana while one adjudicator
came from the faculty of the Social Sciences Division, who was Prof. Elmer Jover.
The debate championship comprised of three rounds, the first two rounds for
eliminations. First draw was CAS vs. the Swing Team coming from the Debate Circle
for the College of Fisheries was not represented. The government side won the
motion to ban child labor-driven markets. It was then followed by another draw
having the College of Management and the School of Technology to compete on the
motion to abandon the fight for same sex marriage; and CM garnered the point. It
left the championships for the two premiere home of debaters, CAS and CM. The
intellectual discourse was rattling the walls of the AV Hall. The debaters were mad
enough to squeeze out their mental juices to quench the thirst for intellectual
dialogue. Soon enough, it left the adjudicators quite a while to deliberate the
winner, awarding the team of students who had gone through substantive
discussions to manifest their points.
We feel great that CAS reclaimed the victory after some time. Reyanne
Librado, Deputy Prime Minister of the CAS Team expressed. The team admitted that
there was a lot of pressure felt within as most of the great debaters who just
graduated came from the college they represented. The College of Management
was pretty much consistent in winning the championships for the past two years.
They also felt somehow at par with the winning team for having received the Best
Speaker Award for their team in the person of Ting Purzuelo, a 4 th year BSBA student
and a member of the UPV Debate Circle.
UPV students had set the standards of intellectual dialogue through the
years. Debate competitions like these shelter the students of their potentials as
speakers and expose them to the issues of the society. As UPV celebrates its

foundation anniversary of presence in Iloilo in the theme of building communities,

thus highlighting governance, the debate competition has edged students to lead in
the market of excellence.