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The Oxford Union was never financially secure and had a significant level of historic debt associated with the erection of its buildings. Following a particularly bad period in the 1970s, the Union buildings were sold to OLDUT (the Oxford Literary and Debating Union Trust), and the Oxford Union Society was granted a licence to occupy the building.
The Oxford Union debating chamber. The King and Country Debate was a debate on 9 February 1933 at the Oxford Union Society. The motion presented, "That this House will under no circumstances fight for its King and country", passed with 275 votes for the motion and 153 against it. [1] The motion would later be named the Oxford Oath or the Oxford ...
The North American Debating Championship is one of the two official university debate championships of North America.It is sanctioned by the national university debating associations in the United States and Canada, the American Parliamentary Debate Association and the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate.
The Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID generally) is the national organization which governs all English language competitive university debating and public speaking in Canada. [1] It sanctions several official annual tournaments and represents Canadian debating domestically and abroad.
Notably, it engaged in a debate with Oxford University in 1923, marking Oxford's first debate in the United States. [1] The BQDC has achieved success in some of the world's most important debate tournaments. The team has reached the final round of the World Universities Debating Championships twice. Zoë Seaman-Grant and Matt Davis reached ...
On 27 May, an opposing faction of 100 Oxford lecturers and staff published their own letter, declaring: “We believe that trans students should not be made to debate their existence.
Several British and other universities have debating societies called The Union or a variation on that. These include: Oxford Union; Cambridge Union Society; University of St Andrews Union Debating Society; Durham Union Society; University of Limerick Debating Union; Manchester Debating Union
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