Appleby College - Argus Yearbook (Oakville, Ontario Canada)

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Debating If Appleby College is to compete successfully in future inter-school debates, a different approach to de- bating is required. This fact became abundantly clear during the course of this season which saw too few students participating either as debaters or spectators. What is needed at .Appleby? More inspirational leadership from advisors? Probably. But, as well, maybe we would be advised to follow the leader and adopt an approach used by the Trinity College Debating Society. Operating on the principle that stu- dents will do anything to get out of study, they hold their intraschool debates during study every Wednesday evening for juniors and Friday evening for Seniors. By itself, this may not be the solution for the situation at Appleby; however, it does merit con- sideration and possibly even a let ' s- try-it-and-see-what-happens test. As we alluded to above, while this year ' s performance was by no means brilliant, we did have some successes. We received strong individual per- formances from Bill Crosbie and Dave Cannon, enthusiastic support from Richard MacFarlane, Doug McLeod, Chris Robertson and Doug Jennings, and able participation by Robert MacFarlane, Ian Cameron, Dan Peat, Bruce Tate, Mike Jennings, and Mike Zeller. Morrow, Kishino, Polakowski and Dickens were active junior debaters. Look for better things to come.