BENEFITS

• Become a better speaker, performer, debater, listener, researcher, critical thinker, and leader.

• Make friends from across the university.

• Express yourself.

• Practice thinking and speaking under pressure.

• Learn about current affairs and enduring issues.

• Access professional coaching.

• Represent Wisconsin in intercollegiate competitions.

• Travel to competitions.

• Inclusion on official roster.

• Right to wear official apparel. JOIN honors.ls.wisc.edu/speechanddebate/#join

• Badgers of all class standings, majors, programs, departments, schools, and colleges may join.

• Exchange, visiting, special, graduate, and professional students may also join.

• No membership fees.

• Beginners welcome.

Being involved in Speech and Debate goes to the heart of the mission of a university: education, broadening one’s horizons, knowledge, exploration, the enjoyment of exchanges with others, competitive spirit with an ethical perspective, improving practical public-speaking skills, combining playful performance with an investment in fact-finding and the truth, contributing to a team as an individual. It is my pleasure and privilege to serve as Faculty Advisor to Wisconsin Speech and Debate.