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The 2014-2015 Extemp Central National Points Race standings have been updated to reflect the results of the Glenbrooks, the first third tier tournament in this year’s National Points Race calendar. To access the standings, you can click on the National Points Race tab on the right of the main page or click here.
The next National Points Race tournament will take place next weekend at the George Mason University Patriot Games in Fairfax, Virginia. This will be a third tier tournament and the winner will receive 100 points. All of the extempers who reach the quarter-finals at event will earn National Points Race points.
The Patriot Games is also a qualifier for the Extemp TOC at Northwestern University (although not for the University of Kentucky Tournament of Champions). All of the quarter-finalists at tournament will earn Extemp TOC legs.
Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania was the site of the thirty-fifth annual Villiger Speech and Debate Tournament, a 2015 Extemporaneous Speaking Tournament of Champions (TOC) qualifier. Josh Wartel of Lake Braddock Secondary School (VA) made a successful defense of his championship, taking three of the five available first place ranks in the final round and winning by a nine rank margin over teammate Ben Tobin. Wartel’s title defense is the first to take place at Villiger since 1987, when Michael Tidd of LaSalle College High School (PA) defended his extemp championship.
Last Thursday President Obama announced that he was taking executive action to resolve part of the nation’s pressing illegal immigration problem. The President’s executive order will allow up to five million illegal immigrants to obtain work permits, thereby allowing them to legally stay and work in the United States for the next three years. This is nearly half of the country’s illegal immigrant population, which is estimated to be more than eleven million people. The President’s defenders argued that executive action had to be taken because Congress has failed to solve the illegal immigration problem over the last several decades, but opponents argued that the order was an abuse of executive power and that it would harm bipartisan cooperation for the next two years on Capitol Hill.
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