{"id":10462,"date":"2015-04-28T14:21:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-28T19:21:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=10462"},"modified":"2024-07-02T16:07:23","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T16:07:23","slug":"accdebate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=10462","title":{"rendered":"UNC team places third overall in ACC Debate Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_10463\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10463\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2015\/04\/Lundberg_ChristianandstudentsACCdebate-team.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-10463 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/21\/2024\/07\/Lundberg_ChristianandstudentsACCdebate-team-300x170.jpg\" alt=\"From left, Christian Lundberg, Katelyn Hill and Ryan McCarthy.\" width=\"300\" height=\"170\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-10463\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From left, Christian Lundberg, Katelyn Hill and Ryan McCarthy. (Click on photo to make it larger).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The newly created debate team of first-year student Katelyn Hill and sophomore Ryan McCarthy placed third overall in the April 10-12 ACC Debate Tournament championship. They also placed second in the coastal division, all under the guidance of <a href=\"http:\/\/comm.unc.edu\/faculty-and-staff\/faculty\/christian-o-lundberg\/\">Christian Lundberg,<\/a> associate professor of communication studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<p>Hill and McCarthy were recruited from Lundberg\u2019s First-Year Seminar, \u201cThink, Speak, Argue\u201d to form a team for the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament was revived this year after a long hiatus and was hosted by Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem at the university\u2019s Graylyn International Conference Center. Student teams debated the topic: \u201cStudent athletes should receive monetary compensation for participating in athletic competitions.\u201d ACC officials also attended the event.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a huge deal for our rookie team which was competing against substantially more experienced competitors,\u201d Lundberg said. \u201cWe really had a great showing, outpacing a number of very good teams. And to top it off, we beat Duke in the final debate.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly created debate team of first-year student Katelyn Hill and sophomore Ryan McCarthy placed third overall in the April 10-12 ACC Debate Tournament championship. They also placed second in the coastal division, all under the guidance of Christian Lundberg, associate professor of communication studies in the College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-undergraduate-education"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47238,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10462\/revisions\/47238"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}