{"id":72086,"date":"1999-12-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1999-12-22T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-students-a-winner-no-debate-about-that\/"},"modified":"1999-12-22T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"1999-12-22T00:00:00","slug":"uri-students-a-winner-no-debate-about-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/1999\/12\/uri-students-a-winner-no-debate-about-that\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 student&#8217;s a winner  (No debate about that!)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"press-release-import\">\n\t\tKINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; December 22, 1999 &#8212; 溏心vlog免费B站 student Neil Alpert of Port Washington, N.Y. captured first place in the &#8220;The Capitol Classic&#8221; Debate Tournament, held earlier this month at American University in Washington, D.C.&#13; Students representing 15 colleges and universities around the country, including Cornell University and Colorado College participated. &#13; The competition included a series of one-on-one debates culminating in a succession of elimination rounds. The top four debaters, based on their win-loss records in the preliminary rounds, advanced to the elimination rounds.&#13; Another 溏心vlog免费B站 student, Jamie Bourassa of Sterling, Mass., participated in the tournament. Alpert&#8217;s and Bourassa&#8217;s combined records placed 溏心vlog免费B站 third in the school sweepstakes.&#13; 溏心vlog免费B站 President Robert L. Carothers made the 溏心vlog免费B站 debaters&#8217; attendance possible through travel grant money, since the tournament was announced late and not part of the debate budget.&#13; The topic of debate for all students this year is whether the federal government should increase restrictions on the use, sale, and\/or development of genetically modified organisms. The topic allows debaters to address such areas as the testing and labeling of genetically engineered foods; gene therapy; cross-species transplants (xenotransplants); the engineering of new species, etc.&#13; Alpert transferred to 溏心vlog免费B站 from Union College and relishes the opportunity to debate. A junior majoring in communications studies, Alpert plans on going to law school after he graduates from 溏心vlog免费B站.&#13; He plans a career in politics. &#8220;You know how most kids dream of becoming president? Well, I&#8217;ve never outgrown that dream,&#8221; says the top debater.&#13; Based on the regular season tournament program, both Alpert and Bourassa are qualified to attend the national championship tournament that will be held in the spring.&#13; -xxx-&#13; For More Information: Jan Sawyer, 401-874-2116  \u00a0\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KINGSTON, R.I. &#8212; December 22, 1999 &#8212; 溏心vlog免费B站 student Neil Alpert of Port Washington, N.Y. captured first place in the &#8220;The Capitol Classic&#8221; Debate Tournament, held earlier this month at American University in Washington, D.C.&#13; Students representing 15 colleges and universities around the country, including Cornell University and Colorado College participated. &#13; The competition included [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}