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EBSTER. perhaps, would have been startled to hear the W co-ed debaters this year! He would have been startled, perhaps, to hear four squads of women debaters upholding the affirmative or the negative side of the Pi Kappa Delta and Delta Sigma Rho debate question: "Resolved, that Congress should be empowered to over-ride by a two-thirds vote decisions of the Supreme Court declaring acts of Congress unconstitutional." He would have been even more startled, perhaps. to see the number of men in the audiences when the women debated such universities and colleges as Penn State College, Bucknell Uni- versity, Ursinus College, Drexel Institute, and the University of Maryland. Debates have been, whenever practical, on the Oregon plan, and many exciting cross-examination situations have arisen. Debates, too, have been non-decision, because a fair evaluation of this pertinent topic, rather than debate strategy, was the aim of the debaters The squads have been comprised of the following women Affirmative: Sally Price and Ethel King. Zaida McKenzie and Virginia Roberts: Negative: ldamae Riley, manager, Miriam Whitfield, Bernice Robbins and Ethel Lauterbach. IDAMAE RILEY Chairman Silberstein. Shank. Price. Riley, Roberts. MacVean 152