The Ateneo de Manila University has gained this 12 months’s World Universities Debating Championship (WUDC) held in Madrid, Spain, bringing the Philippines its first feat for the worldwide debating match.
The debating staff from Ateneo, represented by BS Applied Mathematics college students David Africa and Toby Leung, bested others from Bulgaria’s Sofia University, Isreal’s Tel Aviv University, and Princeton University within the United States in the course of the grand finals.
They debated over the philosophical perception Ubuntu “that asserts that people’s identities should be shaped by, and their obligations should primarily owed to, their communities.”
The Ateneo staff additionally beat different worldwide establishments in the course of the 9 elimination rounds, and different break rounds.
In a Facebook put up, Loyola Schools Vice President Maria Luz Vilches congratulated the Ateneo Debate Society, significantly Africa and Leung, for successful the WUDC 2023.
“A great way to start the New Year!” She mentioned.
This 12 months’s WUDC was performed from December 27, 2022 to January 4, 2023. Last 12 months’s champions got here from the BRAC University in Bangladesh.
Hundreds of groups representing universities everywhere in the world be part of the annual debating match which makes use of the British Parliamentary debate format. — LA, GMA Integrated News
