History
Our team was founded in the early 1980s. Below is a listing of our historic accomplishments in the American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) circuit as well as a listing of the presidents of our team from 1996 to 2010.
APDA President
- 2001-2002 Jeff Williams
APDA Speaker of the Year
- 1994 Thanos Basdekis
APDA Teams of the Year
- 1995 Arlo Devlin-Brown and Dan Stein
- 1994 Thanos Basdekis and Arlo Devlin-Brown
- 1993 Thanos Basdekis and Morty Dubin
- 1989 Andrew Cohen and Rob Kaplan
APDA National Champions
- 1999 Carissa Byrne and John Castelly
- 1993 Thanos Basdekis and Morty Dubin
Past Presidents of Columbia Debate (The Parliamentary Debate Society of Columbia University)
- 2009-2010 Dhruv Vasishtha, CC ’11
- 2007-2009 David Yin, CC ’09
- 2005-2007 Josh Morrison, CC ’07
- 2004-2005 Jon Blitzer, CC’07
- 2003-2004 Todd Berzon, CC ’05
- 2002-2003 Evan Mayo-Wilson, CC ’03
- 2001-2002 Harry Layman, CC ’02
- 2000-2001 Daniel Lee, CC ’01
- 1999-2000 Jeff Williams, CC ’02
- 1998-1999 Jess Wendover, CC ’99
- 1997-1998 Matt Schwartz, CC ’99
- 1996-1997 Sanoj Stephen, CC ’97
