Speech and Debate team place second in tournament

By JULIA LIN Editor in Chief

Minnesota State University’s Speech and Debate team had an eventful weekend taking home second place overall — only 40 points behind the University of Minnesota in the Minnesota Collegiate Forensics Association tournament.

The last time MSU placed this close to the U of M was back in 2013 when the current director of Speech and Debate Katie Brunner was a grad student at MSU.

“It’s a battle every year between the three bigger schools so to take second place is even a bigger deal than I think the people on the team realize,” said Katie Brunner, director of Speech and Debate.

marketed,” she said. “With police brutality and just how we portray and present Black people, it’s always attached with trauma and negative things that are going on.”

Local high school teacher Melissa Lowell attended the conference to “bring more Black joy” into her classroom, where

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