The 2008 Gonzaga Debate Institute: Faculty

Tenured Faculty

Glen Frappier, Gonzaga University

Matt Moore, University of Missouri

Toni Neilson, CSU Fullerton

Steve Pointer, Gonzaga University

James Roland, Emory University

Jason Russell, University of Oklahoma

Adam Symonds, Arizona State University

Senior Faculty

Adrienne Brovero, Mary Washington University

Jeff Buntin, Gonzaga University

Steve Clemmons, St. Vincent De Paul HS

Izak Dunn, Gonzaga University

Wally Eastwood, Boise State University

Malcolm Gordon, UMKC

Mike Hester, University of West Georgia

Sarah Holbrook, University of West Georgia

JP Lacy, Wake Forest University

Sam Maurer, Emporia State University

Cate Morrison, University of Pittsburgh

Ron Stevenson, Wayne State University

Cameron Ward, Fullerton Union HS

Associate Faculty

Kathy Bowen, Cal Berkeley

Mike Burshteyn, Cal Berkeley

James Brockway, Cal Berkeley

Abe Corrigan, Gonzaga University

James Joseph, Gonzaga University

Mima Lazarevic, University of Southern Cal

Geoff Lundeen, University of West Georgia

Leah Moczulski, Gonzaga University

Jaipaul Rheki, Cal Berkeley

 

 

 

Glen Frappier, Director of Debate and Senior Lecturer in th Communication Arts Department at Gonzaga University.  Glen debated and coached for Southern Illinois University during the mid 90's where he and his partner won the 1996 CEDA National Championship Tournament. After leaving SIU Glen became the DoF at Gonzaga University in 1998.  Glen has directed the GDI since 1999 and teaches classes in the Communication Arts Department. Glen holds a BS in Political Science and an MA in Communication Studies, both from SIU.

 

 

 

Matt Moore, University of Missouri. Matt is a PhD candidate in Political Science with a focus on international relations. Matt holds a B.S. in Political Science and an M.A. in Communication Studies from Southern Illinois University. He has coached for Augustana College, the University of Central Oklahoma, and Southern Illinois University. Matt was a successful debater at Southern Illinois where he cleared at every national tournament he attended. Matt has taught at the GDI since 1999.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Steve Pointer, Assistant Director of Debate, Gonzaga University.  Pointer made the most of his intercollegiate debating experience and successfully competed at Whitman, Lewis and Clark, and UMKC.  He earned a bachelors degree at Portland State and recently returned from the private sector to coach debate at Gonzaga University.  Pointer has taught at GDI since 2002. 

 

 

Adrienne Brovero, Debate Coach at Mary Washington University. Adrienne debated for Wake Forest in the early 90s, winning multiple national tournaments and reaching the semi finals of the National Debate Tournament twice. She and her partner were also awarded the prestigious Rex Copeland Award as the top-ranked team during the regular season. Since then, Adrienne has coached at Wake, Michigan, Northwestern, Richmond, and is now the debate coach at the University of Mary Washington. As a coach, her teams have won nearly every tournament on the national circuit, including four National Debate Tournament championships. Adrienne has taught at summer debate institutes since 1990, including the Fast Track and the Policy Project at Wake Forest, the Michigan National Debate Institute, and Northwestern’s Coon Hardy and Zarefsky Scholars programs. 

 

 

 

 

 

James Roland, Assistant Coach, Emory University.  James debated for Southern Illinois University and holds a masters degree from Georgia State University.  James is a long time coach at Emory University where his teams list of accomplishments are too numerous to list here.  In addition to his coaching duties for Emory, James is also heavily involved in community debate projects including the Urban Debate Leagues. James has won the "Best Lecturer"  at the GDI for 6 of the previous 8 years.  James has taught at GDI since 1999.

 

 

 

Jason Russell, Assistant Coach, University of Oklahoma.  Jason is currently a PhD candidate in the Communications Department at OU and one of the top college coaches and judges in the nation.  He has coached at Central Oklahoma, Michigan State, Gonzaga, and most recently at the University of Oklahoma.  Jason coached Oklahoma to tournament victories at Harvard, Wake Forest, Northwestern, CEDA Nationals, as well as earning the 2nd overall first round bid to the NDT.  His institute experience includes 6 years on the GDI faculty as well as teaching experience at Dartmouth and Michigan State. 

 

 

Jeff Buntin, Assistant Coach, Gonzaga University.  Jeff is a recent graduate of Whitman College where he enjoyed an outstanding career.  Jeff has joined the Gonzaga University coaching staff while he prepares to attend graduate school.  A card cutting machine. If you want to cut a lot of evidence this is the guy you want to learn from.

 

 

Wally Eastwood, Boise State University.  Wally Eastwood grew up in the great Pacific Northwest and debated for Centenial High School. His partner and he were the first team from Idaho to qualify for the TOC and he was Top Speaker at multiple tournaments including Gonzaga, Alta and Berkeley. He debated at the University of Georgia and University of West Georgia were he competed in the elimination rounds of every major collegiate tournament including the Kentucky Round Robin, CEDA Nationals and the NDT. He has coached for multiple high schools and the University of Georgia were he earned his Bachelor's Degree in Political Science. He is currently finishing his Master's Degree at Boise State University. This will be Wallace's 5th year at the GDI.   
 

 

 

Mike Hester, Director of Debate, University of West Georgia.  Dr. Michael Hester is the Associate Dean of the Honors College at the 
University of West Georgia. He has been the director of UWG Debate 
since 1995. In those 13 years, his teams have won two national 
championships (2000 and 2001 CEDA Nats), one National  Runner-Up (1999 
CEDA Nats), one National Semifinalist (2002 NDT), and two National 
Quarterfinalists (1998 and 2001 NDT), as well as seven NDT 1st 

Round-At-Large bids, and teams in the octafinals or better of CEDA 
Nationals and/or the NDT in 12 of those years. He was the first co
ach 
to have an all-female team win a national championship and the only 
coach to ever have an African-American national champion. Known for 
argumentative innovation under his guidance, UWG was the first team to 
win a national championship final round on a kritik argument, the 
first team in modern debate history to run the gendered language K, as 
well not-so innocent bystander to the infamous WGLF. On a personal 
note, Michael is a Capricorn, and enjoys long walks on the beach and 
puppies. His turn-offs include bad breath and agent-specification 
arguments.

 

 

Sarah Holbrook, Assistant Director of Debate, University of West Georgia.  Sarah is a two time CEDA National Champion and former NDT first round debater.  Sarah has taught at numerous debate institutes including Stanford, Berkeley, Texas, and Emory amongh others. She has coached high school at many nationally prominent schools and is current coaching at UWG.  Sarah is returning to GDI after an extended sabbatical.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sam Maurer, Director of Debate, Emporia State University.  Sam enjoyed a successful debate career at Emporia State.  He pursued his graduate work at Wake Forest University and coached at Gonzaga before returning home to Kansas to once again coach at Emporia. Sam has taught at GDI since 2006.

 

Cate Morrison, Phd Candidate, University of Pittsburgh.  Cate enjoyed a
successful career debating for James Madison University. She spent 3 years
as a coach at Pitt and now is the assistant director of the William Pitt
Debating Union's public debate team while also writing her dissertation
and completing her PhD.  Cate returns for fourth year teaching at GDI.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ron Stevenson, Director of Debate, Wayne State University.  Ron recently finished his PhD at Wayne State University and is currently coaching and lecturing at Wayne. Ron has coached teams to victories and late out round appearances at numerous tournaments including the University of Kentucky and the NDT.

 

 

 

Toni Nielson, Assistant Director of the CSU Fullerton speech and debate team. She specializes in critique and performance work. From feminism and Foucault to hip hop and guerrilla theater, Toni has worked on a variety of different debate approaches. Teams from Fullerton have consistently cleared at National Debate tournaments. Toni also works with the Southern California Urban Debate League and currently coaches at La Quinta High School.  Toni has taught at numerous institutes including GDI and Stanford.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cameron Ward, Coach, Fullerton Union High School.  Cameron is an alum of CSU Fullerton. He was an NDT Quarterfinalist, a CEDA Semifinalist and a first round debater. Cameron has taught at GDIsince 2003

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Abe Corrigan, Gonzaga University.  Abe is a graduate of Glenbrook South HS where he was a TOC finalist in 2006.  In his first year in college debate Abe has advanced to elimination rounds at Pepperdine, Cal, Whitman, NW CEDA Champs, and CEDA Nationals as well as advancing to Semi Finals of the Pre Season Freshman Nationals at The University of Kentucky.

 

 

Izak Dunn, Assistant Coach and Graduate student, Gonzaga University.  Izak was a first round debater and coach for Idaho State University. He has brought his particular brand of crazy to Gonzaga where he will pursue his gradute degree in Philosophy. Izak has taught at GDI since 2006.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Malcolm Gordon,  University of Missouri Kansas City. Malgor is a 4 time NDT elimination round participant, culminating in an NDT finals appearance in 2007.  He was a top 15 speaker at CEDA nationals twice, and was top speaker at CEDA nationals 2007.  He also received a first round at large bid to the NDT in 2007.  He has a lot of experience in both policy and critical arguments.  Many of you may know Malgor from the infamous video of him 'dancing against capitalism' found here http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6080837669562911582

This is Malcolm's third year at the GDI

 

 

Mima Lazarevic, University of Southern California.  Mima was a TOC finalist at Glenbrook South HS and currently debates at the University of Southern Cal.  Mima is also on the faculty at the Cal Debate Institute. This is her first year on the GDI faculty.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Geoff Lundeen, University of West Georgia.  Geoff has had a successful college career debating for both Michigan State University and the University of West Georgia.  He has also coached many excellent teams at both the college and high school level.  Teams Geoff has worked with include NDT champions, numerous TOC elim. participants, and Michigan state champions.  He has taught at numerous summer workshops since 1998; this will be Geoff’s second year at the GDI.

 

JP Lacy, Debate Coach, Wake Forest University. JP has been coaching college debate since 1992. Among his accomplishments, he has coached the finalists of the 2006 NDT, coached the winners of the 1999 CEDA nationals, coaches the 2008 NDT Champions and coached 8 first round at large bids to the NDT in the last 8 years. Known for his attention to fundamentals and strategy, JP brings 15 years of institute experience to the GDI.

Here, he wonders how he’ll get that one last piece of luggage on the plane…

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jaipaul Rheki, University of California Berkeley. Jaipaul debated for St. Francis in high school and is currently competing for Cal.  Jaipaul has been very involved in the high school community as a coach, judge, and instructor at the Cal Debate Institute. This will be Jaipauls first year teaching at GDI.

 

James Brockway, University of California - Berkeley. A 2006 graduate
 from Georgetown Day HS, James was among the very best high school
debaters in the nation winning multiple national level tournaments
including Saint Mark's, Harvard and the Harvard Round Robin. As a
sophomore at Cal, he has cleared and received speaker awards at multiple
national tournaments including Gonzaga, Kentucky, USC, and the Cal
Invitational Debates.  This will be his second year at the GDI.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

James Joseph, Gonzaga University. James is a graduate of St. Augustine HS in San Diego and a sophomore majoring in International Relations at Gonzaga University. In his first year in college debate James has advanced to elimination rounds at Pepperdine, Cal, Whitman,  NW CEDA Champs, and CEDA Nationals as well as advancing to Semi Finals of the Pre Season Freshman Nationals at The University of Kentucky.  

 

 

Mike Burshteyn, Michael has eight years of debating and researching experience in High School and College debate. Nationally, he has placed first at the Tournament of Champions ('03) and second in National Debate Tournament rankings ('06). As a debater, Michael has won several tournaments including Harvard, Kentucky, Texas, Fullerton, and the Dartmouth Round Robin. Mike won the 2008 Copeland Award presented each year to the top team in the NDT first round rankings. While teaching lab at Gonzaga, UC Berkeley, Stanford, Kentucky, and Michigan, Michael has helped many talented debaters improve their research and argument skills. 

 

 

 

 

Leah Moczulski, Gonzaga University. As a freshman at Gonzaga Leah has been in outrounds of numerous tournaments including Cal Berkeley, NW CEDA Champs, and Freshman/Sophomore Nationals.  Leah was a semi finalist at the 2007 TOC as a debater for The Woodlands HS in Texas. Leah also coaches for Gulliver Prep.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kathy Bowen, University of California-Berkeley. Kathy was a TOC quarter-finalist as a senior at Gulliver Preparatory and is currently a successful freshman debater at Cal. This year she has cleared at multiple national-level tournaments, including Gonzaga, USC and Pepperdine.
 

 

 

 

Adam Symonds, Debate Coach, Arizona State University.   In previous stops at California State University at Fullerton and the University of Southern California, he has coached teams to the semifinals of CEDA nationals and the Quarterfinals of theNDT. Adam and his partner won the 1999 CEDA Nationals Tournament while debating for Whitman College. This will be his 9th GDI.  He is the known to possess the only complete collection of GDI t-shirts in the world. He will wear them all during GDI.
 

 

 

Steve Clemmons, Debate Coach, St. Vincent DePaul HS. Steve serves as the Director of Debate at St Vincent De Paul High School in Petaluma, CA. In addition to this appointment, he serves as a debate coach at University of Santa Clara (CA). In his spare time when not working with debate, he is a U.S. History Teacher and the Defensive Coordinator for the Junior Varsity Football team and scout for the Varsity.
 Previously, he served as debate and congress coach at Leland High School (CA), debate coach at Macalester College (MN), Lincoln-Douglas debate coach at New Trier High School (IL), Director of Debate at Loyola-Marymount University (CA), debate coach at Weber State University (UT), Chairperson of the Speech Department and Director of Forensics at the Convent of the Sacred Heart Preparatory School (CA). In the past five years, he has coached one of most successful Lincoln-Douglas debaters in the country, one of the best policy debate teams in California, and a national champion in Student Congress.
Steve
remains one of the most celebrated collegiate parliamentary, value, and policy debaters in recent memory. He was the U.S. National Parliamentary Debate Champion in 1995, culminating a dominating season in which he was virtually undefeated. As a value debater, he won the 1990 National Collegiate Lincoln-Douglas Debate Tournament as well as top-speaker honors, was named to the 1992 CEDA All-American Squad, and advanced to late elimination rounds or won many major national circuit and regional CEDA tournaments, with several elimination appearances and speaker awards at CEDA Nationals. As a policy debater, he twice qualified to the NDT and was a top twenty speaker there. He was the national policy debate champion at DSR-TKA nationals in 1994. Mr. Clemmons is a popular seminar and institute instructor in both policy and Lincoln-Douglas debate where he has earned high teaching effectiveness ratings at such noted institutes as  University of Texas at Austin, Berkeley, Loyola-Marymount, Cal Berkeley, VBI, National Debate Forum and Stanford.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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