Lynn Debate Takes Home Hardware At SEU’s First 2020 Tournament On Saturday Feb. 8 and Sunday Feb. 9, the Lynn University Speech and Debate Team travelled to Lakeland to compete in the Southeastern University (SEU) 2020 Fire Debates. The team collectively exceeded expectations, brought home multiple awards and trophies and set the bar high for…
Senior Excels in Sports, Speech and Debate Chris Cohen recently became a certified baseball scout, but his certification is just the tip of the iceberg in his long list of accomplishments in the world of sports. Throughout his time at Lynn, Cohen has participated in many sports management internships while captaining Lynn’s speech team and…
Debate Team Represents Lynn at Yale From Oct. 25–27, Lynn’s Director of Forensics Dr. Eric Hamm and Assistant Director of Forensics Professor Kathryn Hamm traveled to New Haven, Connecticut with four members of the Lynn University Speech and Debate Team to compete at the team’s first-ever Ivy League tournament: the Yale IV 2019. The British…
Lynn Student and Alum Present at Academic Conference On Friday Oct. 11, Brendan Donahue and Will Conway presented their research paper, titled “To [B] or not to [B]: a Derridean Analysis of Ironic Emoji Signifiers in Memetic Messaging”, at the Semiotic Society of America’s 44th annual conference in Portland, Oregon. Donahue, Conway and professor Eric…
Debate Team Wins First Tournament of the Season On Saturday Sept. 28, the Lynn University speech and debate team hosted and won the first National Parlimentary Debate Association (NPDA) style tournament of the academic year in south Florida: the Lynn Gold Coast Debates. Brendan Donahue, Lynn debate team treasurer, and his partner went undefeated for…
Recently, Arkansas passed a law allowing guns at football games and basketball games starting in 2018, causing national uproar. Certainly, this could affect countless colleges. Once one college passes such a bill, there might be others that follow in the same footsteps. “I think it sounds good,” said Julia Gordon, junior. “People will be able…
Recently, a new debate has heated up within the NBA on the issue of whether or not teams should be resting their best players for entire games on end. The 82 game NBA season can take quite a toll on even the best of professional athletes. To help combat regular wear and tear from the…
The debate over gun control in the United States recently received more fuel from an already heated fire, when rumors of a potential law that seeks to allow individuals to carry concealed weapons on college campuses surfaced. In the United States, there are currently three types of gun carrying laws that states maintain for colleges…
Gwen Ifill, co-anchor of PBS’ “NewsHour” with Judy Woodruff and a veteran journalist who moderated two vice presidential debates, died Monday of cancer, the network said. She was 61.
Heavy hearts deep within the chests of millions across the nation froze with an unsuspected chill on the night of Tuesday, Nov. 8 – formally named the 56th Election Day in this democracy’ history.