Thomson Parliamentary Debate

The Georgetown Parliamentary Debate Team is an association of people with a common interest in competitive debate with other universities. The purpose of the Team is to provide an opportunity for its members to learn debating styles and rules, to develop and to practice their skills and techniques with other members of the Team, and compete within the debate league(s) it chooses to participate in. Currently, the Society is a member of, but will not be limited to, the American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA). The Team shall host one tournament each year, preferably in March.

BOARD POSITIONS
The Executive Board Shall:
Retain the power to create and dissolve committees.
Retain the power to enforce the judging requirement.
Promulgate rules
Promote, defend and enforce the purpose, constitution and best interests of the Society.
Attend personally, appoint a substitute to attend, or proxy votes for all meetings in which the APDA body shall be determining tournament dates or electing national officers.
Oversee the Vice Presidents.
Serve as liaison to alumni of the team and manage the listserv of alumni.
Serve as liaison to other Georgetown University clubs and organizations.
Attend allocation board meetings with the Vice President of Finance when additional funding is needed.
Work with the Vice President of Finance to draft the team budget each semester.
Maintain an independent budget record to be verified periodically with the Vice President of Finance.
Fill in all SAC and CSE paperwork or approve any of said paperwork filled out by another Executive Board member, and ensure it is processed properly and timely.
Send official team emails and approve all emails sent by other Executive Board
The Team shall not officially endorse any candidate for an outside elected office for any organization which is an arm of Georgetown University.
MEMBERS
A member’s status shall be determined by his or her activity in the current semester and the previous semester.
Active members shall meet the following requirements:
Attend at least one APDA-sanctioned tournament each semester.
Members who do not meet the requirements for active membership shall be deemed “inactive”, and shall be ineligible to vote and to attend APDA Nationals or any other title tournaments in which the team participates.
Exceptions shall be made for members who are off campus but still enrolled as undergraduate students at Georgetown University at the discretion of the Executive Board.
When attending tournaments at other schools, members shall respect the rules of the host school.
Case ownership
Members will be required to upload cases which have been run at tournaments funded by the Team to the casebook
Members will retain property claim over cases, and those cases will not be run by any other member without explicit permission from the owner prior to each