Yale vs. Princeton in Debate, 2018

Debaters from Yale will meet their foes from Princeton at the 22nd annual Westchester Debate Competition in White Plains at the German International School on Friday, Oct. 26 at 7 p.m.              .

The competition will also include area high school teams, who will compete after the Yale-Princeton affair. Once again it is sponsored by YWAA and Princeton's Westchester alumni club. 

Yale gets a chance to defend its Westchester title after having defeated the Princeton group at Ardsley High School in 2017.   Blind Brook won the high school debate last year. Princeton defeated Yale at Ardsley in 2016. Yale took the title in 2015 in Armonk.

High school teams this year will include those from Blind Brook, Hackley, Harrison and Horace Greeley.

The competition, the prizes for which are funded in part from the William Nightingale '53 Debate Fund, includes topics in current events, politics and history.  Teams spar by delivering arguments in favor of or against the issue or question presented.

Ardsley has hosted the event in recent years, but this year's event moves to the German School. Byram Hills, the Hackley School, the Masters School and Blind Brook have also hosted the debate in the past decade.  

Yale and Princeton once again headline the night.  In other years, Yale's team has competed against squads from Brown and Harvard.  After the college students compete, they help coach the high school teams before they present. 

Nightingale and Dana Sands '83, YWAA board member, are Yale coordinators of the event. Martin Sklar is the Princeton coordinator.

For more about the history and tradition of the debate program, sponsored by YWAA, click YWAA-Debate.

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