As Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama fight over Oregon, Pennsylvania and the other states with upcoming primary elections, the Iraq war is currently a hot-button issue.
At 7:30 p.m. in Room 182 of the Lillis Business Complex, the University’s Intercollegiate Forensics and the Irish National Champion debaters from University College Dublin will debate whether the “United States’ Occupation of Iraq Benefits the Iraqi People.”
Currently on a North American tour, debaters from Ireland previously competed at the University in March 2005. The debate is sponsored by the UO Cultural Forum and Concerned Faculty for Peace and Justice.
University graduate student Aaron Donaldson, the director of Intercollegiate Forensics, said the University’s debaters rarely get to compete in front of a home crowd, which he thinks is exciting for everyone.
“It is an opportunity for students here at UO to see their peers who make up the third best debate program in the nation take on the champs from Ireland who are always not only insightful, but largely entertaining,” Donaldson wrote in an e-mail.
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