Pepperdine Waves Debate

SWIPE: Join us April 28th at 6 PM in our annual PACER collaborative event as we rethink our responses to bullying.

Get a taste of the new pop culture debate series in this mini-debate with Kendall and Chase on the better Taylor Swift quarantine album.

Every experience in debate is different because there are so many ways to get involved. We’re starting a series called POV to show you what being in debate is like behind-the-scenes! Watch our first episode here! Hannah Kate (aka HK) starts her day early to meet with her team across the world in France. In a usual year, a group of Pepperdine Debaters would be in Paris right about now prepping for their competition, but in the era of Zoom, HK debates from her kitchen in Southern California.

LA Public Library offers an easy-to-use digital book resource for free all you need is your phone number to sign up! These celebrated titles are all available today in ebook and audiobook format. Go to linktr.ee/pepperdinedebate to access the digital library and join us in honoring Black voices in literature.

Amanda Gorman, youngest Inaugural Poet in U.S. history, gave an impressive talk on what the language arts mean to her and what they can mean to you. Gorman details the importance of using your voice and shares how she uses hers in the TED talk Using your voice is a political choice (linktr.ee/pepperdinedebate). But the truth is no one's ever told my story in the way I would tell it as the daughter of black writers, who were descended from freedom fighters, who broke their chains and changed the world. - Amanda Gorman, quoted from Using your voice is a political choice

Come learn more about us next Wednesday (2/17) at 3:30 PM Pacific! Zoom link at linktr.ee/pepperdinedebate. We’re open to all students who are willing to join. You don’t need any experience. Come as you are and leave a better speaker, debater, and advocate with a supportive debate family. You get to travel, learn, and grow with the best teammates. You can take the skills you’ve mastered and teach them to otherson campus or at local elementary schools in Los Angeles. Pepperdine Debate impacts me in so many ways, the most important being community and incredible friends. - Chase, Class of 2022