Volunteering for WoodSongs strikes chord with Transylvania students
Transy students spend their Monday evenings at the Lyric Theatre and Cultural Arts Center helping produce the show, which airs on 537 radio stations across the globe.
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The Crossroads of Ideas
Speech and Debate To the average person in 2017, the word “debate” may conjure up groans and eye rolls. Whether it’s politicians hurling insults back and forth, or sports analysts on TV yelling over top of each other, it’s no secret the state of debate in popular culture doesn’t quite harken back to the days of Lincoln and Douglas. But if you want to see debate in its purest form, a group of Transylvania students has been making a splash on the national scene for years. The Transylvania speech and debate team is coached by writing, rhetoric and communication professor Gary Deaton and is in the midst of a remarkable run of success in regional, state and national tournaments. Transy participates in seven or eight speech and debate competitions per year. Speech events include prepared speeches, limited preparation speeches and interpretation. On the debate side, Transy competes in National Parliamentary Debate Association (two-on-two) and International Parliamentary Debate Association (one-on-one). While the team has had success in just about every event you could imagine, it’s the limited preparation events where the students really shine. During the draw, they are assigned a topic, and after 15 or 30 minutes of preparation, they give a presentation or debate another team. They are judged in preliminary rounds, and then the top teams are seeded and move on to the elimination rounds. Transy has had a team in the top 10 or elimination rounds just
Transylvania’s Alpha Theta chapter of Kappa Alpha Order wins national award
LEXINGTON, Ky.—Transylvania University’s Alpha Theta chapter of Kappa Alpha Order (KA) is a recipient of the order’s highest honor, the George C. Marshall Award for Chapter Excellence for the 2008-09 academic year. The award is given to up to three KA chapters in the nation, honoring the chapters with outstanding performances in every category including scholarship, member education, chapter growth and development, philanthropy, risk management, ritual, chapter finances, campus activities, campus leadership and communications. This is the second time the Alpha Theta chapter has won the award. “Winning the George C. Marshall Award is a tremendous honor,” said senior John Paul Coyle, president during the 2008-09 year. “It would not have been possible without the help of so many dedicated officers, motivated and active members and the help of our alumni, advisers and the National Office. We hope to build off of the award and are looking forward to another great year next year.” To receive the Marshall Award, the Alpha Theta chapter raised their overall GPA to second-highest on campus, above the fraternity average and the average for all men, and had the highest GPA among Kappa Alpha chapters in Kentucky. The fraternity held a fund-raising walk from Frankfort to campus to benefit the Muscular Dystrophy Association. The fraternity members volunteered over 1,700 hours of service and raised $7,300 for various philanthropies. The Alpha Theta chapter was also awarded the Samuel Z. Ammen Award, which recognized accomplishments in
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