Hey friends,
3 months later, and your Ramblin’ Reddy-Raider, Big Dog Ethan is back with another substantial and fun interview.
Christian Gay will run for Chair of The Rutherford County Democratic Party on March 18th.
A recent graduate of Middle Tennessee State University’s Political Science program, Gay aims to be the chair of The Rutherford County Democratic Party, and—based on what he says in this interview—he holds this aim quite steady, with a strong intent to encourage grassroots organizing and reach out to the massive student population here in Murfreesboro, TN for their support. Check the interview to hear our thoughts on his bid for the spot, as well as Christian’s experience at a recent counterprotest against a Proud Boys gathering in the city.
Novice Double Octofinalist of Univ. of Arkansas’s 2023 Southern Forensics Championship
MTSU’s Debate Team ventured to the University of Arkansas, whose team hosted the 2023 Southern Forensics Championship Tournament—consisting of TIPDA, IPDA, and Individual Event competitions that drew in 29 colleges from around the region.
The Blue Raiders returned overall victorious, with Communications Coordinator Elliot Certain emerging from the Junior Varsity IPDA bracket as its champion, and Team Captain Joey Mego holding only one loss throughout the IPDA competition as Varsity bracket’s Runner-Up.
Your very own Big Dog Ethan scored a personal record of 4 wins and 2 losses in the Novice IPDA bracket of 78 competitors, making it to the first round of finals before losing right then and there. This earned me a Novice Double Octofinalist award, but as always, the greatest gift I’ve received from the tournament is all the new friends I got to meet.
I also competed in the Persuasive Speaking category for Individual Events with a 10-minute speech crammed full of reflections on the current state of mainstream and independent news media. Unfortunately, some more changes need to be made to the presentation, and more time needs to be dedicated to memorizing the speech, as I performed quite poorly in both rounds. Once I get that ready, I’ll be sure to share a recording of that on here. (I won’t normally do this in the future, but this speech deals with many of the topics I talk about on here.)
As always, thanks to my teammates at MTSU for being the awesome folks that they are, thanks to the University of Arkansas’s Debate Team for hosting…
…and no thanks to the Henderson State University administrators (like this guy or these guys) who helped ensure that their students can’t participate in such a fun academic event any longer.
I guess this is the part where I should note the obvious: The views stated on The Kennel are not necessarily that of MTSU or its debate team, as this is just a thing I do in my free time.
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