{"id":19250,"date":"2022-12-13T10:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T15:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/?p=19250&preview=true&preview_id=19250"},"modified":"2023-07-26T14:19:03","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T18:19:03","slug":"earlham-students-leave-mark-in-first-year-competing-at-nations-largest-arabic-debate-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earlham.edu\/news-events\/earlham-students-leave-mark-in-first-year-competing-at-nations-largest-arabic-debate-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Earlham students leave mark in first year competing at nation’s largest Arabic debate competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A team from Earlham College students went toe-to-toe with students from some of the largest and most prestigious universities from around the nation at the U.S. Universities Arabic Debating Championship at Stanford University held earlier this fall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Earlham team participated in four debates, taking home best speaker individual awards in three of them. It was the first time that Earlham had sent a team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe were definitely underdogs\u2014one of the only private liberal arts colleges there,\u201d said junior Ihsan Alaeddin. He suspects that the other teams didn\u2019t expect much of them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n