Oregon Debate

10/09/2025

Alumni, supporters - we need your help.

The struggle will take time and effort but there are some key, modest, achievable ways you can help this week!

Critical alumni action needed before October 12 to support Oregon Forensics through emails, donations, and team participation before the Provost meeting.

10/01/2025

Another Director's Update about the rising Oregon Forensics Forever movement.

We have momentum and I am confident that together we will succeed.

If you are an alum of Oregon Forensics, look at the 4 small things you can do to help in this effort.

Alumni and students are driving real progress for Oregon Forensics. See recent wins and learn the actions you can take to secure our future.

09/24/2025

This great website provides some updates on the initiatives of the Oregon Forensics Forever movement a variety of ways - large and small - that alumni can help.

See More Alumni Perspectives How You can Help Register Your Support Share Your Perspective on Forensics Join. Like. Follow. Share. STAY IN TOUCH

09/15/2025

If you are an alum of Oregon Forensics - speech, debate, or mock trial - please take a moment to use the form below (Save Oregon Forensics) to add your name to a letter to the President and Provost seeking to preserve forensics for the remainder of this year to afford time to effect a transition to a durable institutional home the forensics program.

https://forms.gle/LGNDM6cYhnwewNV29

If you are not an alum and wish to express your support for Oregon Forensics, please add your name to this petition:

https://forms.gle/WCX5Kn7dXPEGrKHP8

Without any prior notice or consultation with the Director of Forensics, or students in Oregon Forensics, or student government leaders who annually fund competition and instructional and travel support, or alumni, or donors, or affected communities such as high school speech and debate students and...

09/14/2025

Reminder: A second Zoom meeting tonight at 7:00pm PST to rally support for Oregon Forensics.

Topic: Save Oregon Forensics 2
Time: Sep 14, 2025 07:00 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/92693850341

There are a variety of actionable steps that supporters, especially alumni, can take that are discussed in this meeting. I will begin with a brief overview of the current situation and describe some of the organized efforts we are making to save Oregon Forensics. Other members of the Alumni Action Team will then walk through a variety of the specific ways that supporters can assist in the effort.
It is important that we organize our collective efforts for maximizing our chances of success. Working together we will find a way.

At the end of the session we will answer questions.

Hope to see you this evening!

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08/23/2024

06/13/2015

The University of Oregon Ducks men and women are the 2015 NCAA Track and Field Champions. For the men it is a second consecutive championship.

Essentially Oregon overwhelmed by scoring points everywhere.

This is a very big deal.

Oregon women have locked up NCAA title

02/13/2015

You should come to the Oregon Global Debate Institute!

We are hosting a 1-2 week camp at the University of Oregon for every type of high school debate and individual events.

Students will have a chance to fully experience the university, living in the dorms, eating in the cafeteria, and using all campus educational facilities.

There will be learning labs at various levels for Parliamentary Debate, Policy Debate, Lincoln Douglas Debate, Public Forum Debate, and Individual Events.

The camp will be run and staffed by college competitors and coaches from across the country. You can expect no more than six students for each staff member.

Check us out: http://blogs.uoregon.edu/ogdi/

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11/18/2014

The Alexanders are Great!
The Oregon Debate team of Alex Erwig and Alex Payne dominate at Linfield. 1st and 4th speaker, and first place!

11/19/2013

Last week we lost an extraordinary member of the Oregon Forensics family, Megan Gaffney.

We invite all members of the forensics community to attend an event to honor Megan in her Honors College home on Wednesday, November 20th, in Chapman Hall 301, from 4:00pm to 6:00pm on the campus of the University of Oregon in Eugene. Megan was a student in the Honors College and this event is hosted by the Clark Honors College Student Association.

Megan was a great student, an exceptional debater and teammate, and a person who shared her love of learning and of debate with hundreds of people over the years.

Megan was a fierce competitor who came to Oregon as an accomplished debater who continued to work tirelessly to improve her abilities. She enjoyed incredible success and was a key part of some of the most successful teams in program history.

Everyone who knew Megan appreciates that despite her considerable competitive successes this is not what truly motivated her to participate in debate or to share her love of the activity. If she felt someone was mistaken or their argument lacking, she was not reticent to say so, but as only the first of many steps of discussion and argument and teaching and learning, leading to a better understanding.

Megan was a leader on the Oregon team, helping recruit new members and inspiring others to succeed through her example and her teaching. Our team is immeasurably stronger for her efforts.

Megan was also a national leader committed to making debate a better home for everyone, especially for women, through her work with the Women’s Debate Institute and in her tireless efforts to help address inequities in forensics. Our community is much better, and becoming better still, because of efforts she helped lead.

Everyone who loves debate will miss Megan but we will, for years to come, reap the benefits of her efforts and our good fortune to know her.

University of Oregon Forensics is making a donation in Megan's name to the Women's Debate Institute. We encourage others moved by Megan’s passing to make their own donations to WDI in her memory.

Those of us in Megan's debate family have her mother, father, brother and the rest of her family in our thoughts and prayers.

Please join us this Wednesday in Eugene to celebrate the life of a remarkable person.

Oregon Forensics

03/30/2013

Oregon concludes the debate season with an outstanding performance at the NPDA national tournament, earning 7th in tournament sweepstakes. All duck teams reached elimination rounds: two triple-octafinalists (Fetherston/Van Winkle & Payne/Wu), a double-octafinalist (Erwig/Miller), and a tremendous quarterfinal finish (Bergus/Gaffney).

Special congratulations to graduating seniors James Miller and Katie Bergus whose leadership has inspired and guided another generation of Oregon Debate excellence. We thank these two brilliant students for their years of friendship and wish them bright future as they go on to change world!

Go Ducks!

03/22/2013

Oregon Debate teams impressively finish 6th and 32nd at the National Parliamentary Tournament of Excellence!