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Bellaire Debaters successful at NFL Nationals
The National Forensic League hosted the National Speech & Debate Tournament June 18-22, 2007 in
Wichita, Kansas. Bellaire Debaters were quite successful during the tournament. Muthu Alagappan,
junior, advanced to round 10 of United States Extemp and Sesenu Woldemariam, freshman,
advanced to finals of Student Congress. Woldemariam missed out on the final ballot by just one point.
Mr. Russell Rach was presented his 2nd Diamond Award for coaching and Mr. Jay Stubbs received
his 4th Diamond Award. Pictures from the tournament can be seen by clicking on this link.
Tournament season resumes in September with next year's NFL Nationals being hosted in Las Vegas
Nevada in June 2007.
Bellaire Debate co-hosts NCFL Nationals
On Memorial Day weekend over 4,500 students,
coaches and judges came to Houston to parti-
cipate in the 56th annual NCFL Grand National
Speech & Debate tournament. Bellaire High
School hosted Cross Examination Debate,Oral
Interpretation of Literature, and Oral Decla-
mation. Lamar High School,Pin Oak Middle
School, and Pershing Middle School hosted the
other events offered in the tournament. Thanks
goes out to our students and parents who played
very important roles in making the tournament successful. Additional thanks go out to members of
administration, plant operations and area debate coaches for their signficant contributions. NCFL is
one of two national speech & debate tournaments to be hosted each year. This is the first time ever
for HISD schools to host one of the national tournaments. Next year the NCFL Grand National
Tournament will be hosted in Appleton, Wisconsin.
2007-2008 Bellaire Debate Officers
Satish Vemuri President
Xinxin Wang Vice President
Hyungjoo Han Secretary
Steven Maheshwary Treasurer
Sailesh Prabhu Publicity Director
Zexing Meng Press Release
Seth Romo Social Coordinator
Qianning Zhang Historian
Jenny Fan & Jacob Uzman CX Research Captains
Andrew Garbarino & Shubha Soman CX Novice Captains
Muthu Alagappan & Karthik Prasad Lincoln Douglas Captains
Bellaire advances to NFL Nationals
Four members of the Bellaire Debate squad advanced
to the Lincoln Life National Forensic League National
Speech and Debate tournament. Satish Vemuri and
Xinxin Wang qualified in cross examination debate,
Muthu Alagappan qualified in United States extemp
and Sesenu Woldemariam qualified in Student
Congress. The tournament will be held in Wichita,
Kansas in June.
Bellaire finishes second in nation in NPPF
Juniors Chris Fan, Jenny Fan, Satish Vemuri and sophomore Shanna Chu competed in the final round
of the National Public Policy Forum in New York City. Bellaire defeated Henry Clay HS from
Lexington, Kentucky in the semifinal round. The win in semifinals advanced the team to the final
round against the defending champion Alexander Dreyfoos School of the Arts from West Palm
Beach, Florida.
The law firm of Bickel & Brewer and New York University announced a 4-3 decision in the final
round in favor of Dreyfoos. The NPPF is the only national contest that gives high school students
the opportunity to participate in written and oral debates on issues of public policy. Schools compete
in written debates over a six month period before the final four schools emerge to compete in an oral
debate competition at NYU. This is the third consecutive year Bellaire has advanced to the final four
at NYU and the first year the team has advanced to the final round. The two schools debated the
following topic in the final round Resolved: The United States federal government should establish a
policy substantially increasing the number of persons serving in one of the following national service
programs: Peace Corps or Armed Forces. To view the articles from HISD and the Houston
Chronicle click the links.
2 Advance to UIL State
Karthik Prasad and Muthu Alagappan advanced from the regional
competition held at Alief Taylor High School to attend the Univer-
sity Interscholastic League State Tournament. Karthik advanced
in Lincoln Douglas Debate and Muthu advanced in Perseausive
Speaking. The state tournament will be held on the campus of
the University of Texas.
97th Annual UIL CX State Tournament Results
The University Interscholastic League (UIL) held its 97th annual
CX State Debate Tournament on the campus of the University
of Texas March 16-17. Shubha Soman & Jenny Fan (pictured
left) had a record of 4-0 in the preliminary rounds of the
tournament and advanced to the octofinal round. This was
Soman & Fan's first trip to the UIL State tournament.
Congratulations.
Bellaire Advances to Bickel Brewer Final Four
Satish Vemuri, Chris Fan, Jenny Fan, Shubha Soman and Shanna Chu
successfully defeated Kamehameha High School from Hawaii in the
quarterfinal round. This is the third consecutive year that Bellaire has
advanced to the Final Four. Henry Clay High School from Kentucky,
Glenbrook North High School from Illinois and last years defending
champion Alexander W. Dreyfoos High School from Florida will join
Bellaire in the Final Four April 20-22 at New York University in New
York City.
TFA State Tournament results March 1-3
CCX CCX Speaker Awards
Arnav Chakravarty/Xinxin Wang octofinals Arnav Chakravarty 11th place
Xinxin Wang 18th place
CLD CLD Speaker Awards
Karthik Prasad double octofinals Karthik Prasad 19th place
Thomas Lei double octofinals
Student Congress
Grace Sun semifinals House
Essay Eden semifinals Senate
Lamar HS tournament results February 9-10
CCX CLD
Muthu Alagappan/Vijay Kasschau 1st place Kevin Shen 1st place
Brendan Fradkin/Scott Lin 2nd place Matt Hodge double octos
James Harrison double octos
HoBin Lim double octos
Jun Chen double octos
Anderson HS tournament results February 2-3
CLD
Karthik Prasad quarterfinals
Alief Taylor HS tournament results February 2-3
CCX CLD
Brendan Fradkin/Scott Lin quarterfinals Rohini Sigireddi double octos
Charles Chen double octos
Eisenhower HS tournament results January 26-27
2nd place overall sweepstakes
CCX CLD
Andrew Garbarino/Nick Garbarino 2nd Place Matthew Hodge quarterfinals
David Chan/Vijay Kasschau semifinals Louise Lu octofinals
Zexing Meng/Yi Zhang quarterfinals Dennis Qian octofinals
Michael Feng/Tom Zhang octofinals Sesesnu Woldemariam octofinals
Ruyi Yao/Judy Sun octofinals
NLD
Aryam Andom semifinals
Laurence Nguyen octofinals
Hui Yu octofinals
Tanya Chen octofinals
Bickel Brewer team advances to national quarterfinals
Bellaire debaters defeated students from Maize High School (Kansas) in the sweet 16 round of the
Bickel & Brewer National Public Policy Forum contest. The sweet 16 round involved Bellaire on the
affirmative and Maize on the negative exchanging papers several times before judges rendered their
decision. On a 3-0 decision Bellaire advances to the quarterfinals where they will face Kamehameha
High School from Hawaii. The winner of the quarterfinal round will earn a trip to New York City in
April to compete for the Bickel & Brewer Cup. For more information concerning the contest you can
visit the Bickel & Brewer National Public Policy Forum website. Congratulations.
Aldine HS tournament results January 19-20
CCX CLD
Brendan Fradkin/Scott Lin quarterfinals Dennis Qian 2nd place
Liang Gu/Kai Zhang quarterfinals Sylvia Sun semifinals
Rohini Sigireddi octofinals
Tony Deng octofinals
Katy HS tournament results January 12-13
CCX CLD
Jenny Fan.Shubha Soman 2nd place Josh Rozner double octofinals
Danila Kabotyanski/Chian Lin semifinals Austin Grogin double octofinals
Shanna Chu/Kim Zhou semifinals Matt Hodge double octofinals
Arnav Chakravarty/Xinxin Wang quarterfinals Sesenu Woldemariam double octofinals
NLD
Louise Lu quarterfinals
Ashley Duan octofinals
Westfield HS tournament results January 5-6
4th place overall sweepstakes
CCX CLD
Jenny Fan/Shubha Soman octofinals Thomas Lei quarterfinals
Xinxin Wang/Shanna Chu octofinals Sesenu Woldemariam quarterfinals
Kaylor Wright octofinals
NCX Austin Grogin double octofinals
Yousup Lee/Billy Hu quarterfinals Karthik Prasad double octofinals
Kai Zhang/Liang Gu quarterfinals Steven Maheshwary double octofinals
Celina Aldape 6th place US Extemp NLD
Annie Kuntz 4th place Poetry Louise Lu 1st place
Ruiji Jiang quarterfinals
Clear Lake HS tournament results December 8-9
CCX NLD
Danila Kabotyanski/Chian Lin quarterfinals Tony Deng octofinals
Scott Lin/Zexing Meng quarterfinals
NCX
Yuanzhuo Wang/Luyang Zheng 3rd place
Xiaoyu Wang/David Codron 3rd place
CCX Speaker Awards
Danila Kabotyanski 3rd place
Bay City HS tournament results December 1-2
CCX CLD
Danila Kabotyanski/Chian Lin quarterfinals James Harrison 2nd place
Sesenu Woldemariam 3rd place
NCX
Yousup Lee/Billy Hu 3rd place NLD
Tanya Chen 3rd place
Javier Vazquez-Trejo quarterfinals
Jenny Kim quarterfinals
Louise Lu quarterfinals
Patrick Lu octofinals
Yixin Xia octofinals
Ashley Duan octofinals
Ruiji Jiang octofinals
Scarborough HS tournament results November 17-18
1st place Debate Sweepstakes
CCX CLD
William Hong/Christine Lu 3rd place Muthu Alagappan 3rd place
Essay Eden/Herbie Wei 3rd place Thomas Lei quarterfinals
Max Curry/Kevin Sego quarterfinals Dennis Qian octofinals
Jenny Fan/Shubha Soman quarterfinals HoBin Lim octofinals
Steven Maheshwary octofinals
NCX Sesenu Woldemariam double octofinals
Michelle Atkins/Kate Bleakley closed out finals Josh Rozner double octofinals
Ruobing He/Sharon Sun closed out finals Sailesh Prabhu double octofinals
Jimmy Moon/Tom Zhang closed out finals Wen Zhang double octofinals
Judy Sun/Ruyi Yao closed out finals Austin Grogin double octofinals
Tong Li/Luyang Zheng closed out finals
Millie Chen/Qi Fu closed out finals NLD
Liang Gu/Kai Zheng closed out finals Ruiji Jiang 2nd place
Henry Han/Joshua Chang closed out finals Jenny Kim 3rd place
Janie Qin quarterfinals
CCX Speaker Awards Louise Lu double octofinals
Vijay Kasschau 2nd place
CLD Speaker Awards
NCX Speaker Awards Sesenu Woldemariam 1st place
Sharon Sun 1st place Thomas Lei 3rd place
Kate Bleakley 2nd place
Michelle Atkins 3rd place NLD Speaker Awards
Louise Lu 1st place
Muthu Alagappan 1st place Foreign Extemp Rachel Freeman 3rd place Poetry
Gustavo Herrera 3rd place Student Congress Austin Grogin 7th place Poetry
Austin Grogin 3rd place Prose Annie Kuntz 8th place Dramatic Interp
Klein HS tournament results November 10-11
CCX CLD
Brendan Fradkin/Xinxin Wang quarterfinals Sailesh Prabhu quarterfinals
Essay Eden/ Herbie Wei quarterfinals Daniel Gwen octofinals
Justin Sun octofinals
NCX
Jimmy Moon/Terrence Liu closed out finals NLD
Mengwei Ni/Sharon Sun closed out finals Tony Deng octofinals
Alex Hu/ Billy Hu closed out finals Jenny Kim octofinals
Erik Nelson octofinals
CCX Speaker awards
Brendan Fradkin 2nd place Student Congress
Xinxin Wang 3rd place Grace Sun 3rd place
NCX Speaker awards
Alex Hu 1st place
Jimmy Moon 2nd place
Terrence Liu 3rd place
Little Cypress-Mauriceville tournament results November 10-11
CX
Thomas Zhang/Michael Feng 2nd place
Kate Bleakley/Michelle Atkins 4th place
Bickel Brewer team advanced to Sweet 16 for third consecutive year
Congratulations to Daniel Petkevich, Jenny, Fan, Zachary Garber, Shanna Chu, Satish Vemuri and
Chris Fan for leading Bellaire into the elimination rounds of the Bickel-Brewer National Public Policy
Forum contest for the third year in a row. Their research paper was chosen as one of the top sixteen
papers in the nation and was chosen as the best case from the Southwest Region. Exactly 100
schools participated in the initial round of the contest sponsored by the Bickel & Brewer Law Firm
and New York University. The team will now compete in the round of 16 with the elite eight schools
announced January 10, 2007. For more information concerning the contest you can visit the Bickel
& Brewer National Public Policy Forum website.
The National Forensic League hosted the National Speech & Debate Tournament June 18-22, 2007 in
Wichita, Kansas. Bellaire Debaters were quite successful during the tournament. Muthu Alagappan,
junior, advanced to round 10 of United States Extemp and Sesenu Woldemariam, freshman,
advanced to finals of Student Congress. Woldemariam missed out on the final ballot by just one point.
Mr. Russell Rach was presented his 2nd Diamond Award for coaching and Mr. Jay Stubbs received
his 4th Diamond Award. Pictures from the tournament can be seen by clicking on this link.
Tournament season resumes in September with next year's NFL Nationals being hosted in Las Vegas
Nevada in June 2007.
Bellaire Debate co-hosts NCFL Nationals
On Memorial Day weekend over 4,500 students,
coaches and judges came to Houston to parti-
cipate in the 56th annual NCFL Grand National
Speech & Debate tournament. Bellaire High
School hosted Cross Examination Debate,Oral
Interpretation of Literature, and Oral Decla-
mation. Lamar High School,Pin Oak Middle
School, and Pershing Middle School hosted the
other events offered in the tournament. Thanks
goes out to our students and parents who played
very important roles in making the tournament successful. Additional thanks go out to members of
administration, plant operations and area debate coaches for their signficant contributions. NCFL is
one of two national speech & debate tournaments to be hosted each year. This is the first time ever
for HISD schools to host one of the national tournaments. Next year the NCFL Grand National
Tournament will be hosted in Appleton, Wisconsin.
2007-2008 Bellaire Debate Officers
Satish Vemuri President
Xinxin Wang Vice President
Hyungjoo Han Secretary
Steven Maheshwary Treasurer
Sailesh Prabhu Publicity Director
Zexing Meng Press Release
Seth Romo Social Coordinator
Qianning Zhang Historian
Jenny Fan & Jacob Uzman CX Research Captains
Andrew Garbarino & Shubha Soman CX Novice Captains
Muthu Alagappan & Karthik Prasad Lincoln Douglas Captains
Bellaire advances to NFL Nationals
Four members of the Bellaire Debate squad advanced
to the Lincoln Life National Forensic League National
Speech and Debate tournament. Satish Vemuri and
Xinxin Wang qualified in cross examination debate,
Muthu Alagappan qualified in United States extemp
and Sesenu Woldemariam qualified in Student
Congress. The tournament will be held in Wichita,
Kansas in June.
Bellaire finishes second in nation in NPPF
Juniors Chris Fan, Jenny Fan, Satish Vemuri and sophomore Shanna Chu competed in the final round
of the National Public Policy Forum in New York City. Bellaire defeated Henry Clay HS from
Lexington, Kentucky in the semifinal round. The win in semifinals advanced the team to the final
round against the defending champion Alexander Dreyfoos School of the Arts from West Palm
Beach, Florida.
The law firm of Bickel & Brewer and New York University announced a 4-3 decision in the final
round in favor of Dreyfoos. The NPPF is the only national contest that gives high school students
the opportunity to participate in written and oral debates on issues of public policy. Schools compete
in written debates over a six month period before the final four schools emerge to compete in an oral
debate competition at NYU. This is the third consecutive year Bellaire has advanced to the final four
at NYU and the first year the team has advanced to the final round. The two schools debated the
following topic in the final round Resolved: The United States federal government should establish a
policy substantially increasing the number of persons serving in one of the following national service
programs: Peace Corps or Armed Forces. To view the articles from HISD and the Houston
Chronicle click the links.
2 Advance to UIL State
Karthik Prasad and Muthu Alagappan advanced from the regional
competition held at Alief Taylor High School to attend the Univer-
sity Interscholastic League State Tournament. Karthik advanced
in Lincoln Douglas Debate and Muthu advanced in Perseausive
Speaking. The state tournament will be held on the campus of
the University of Texas.
97th Annual UIL CX State Tournament Results
The University Interscholastic League (UIL) held its 97th annual
CX State Debate Tournament on the campus of the University
of Texas March 16-17. Shubha Soman & Jenny Fan (pictured
left) had a record of 4-0 in the preliminary rounds of the
tournament and advanced to the octofinal round. This was
Soman & Fan's first trip to the UIL State tournament.
Congratulations.
Bellaire Advances to Bickel Brewer Final Four
Satish Vemuri, Chris Fan, Jenny Fan, Shubha Soman and Shanna Chu
successfully defeated Kamehameha High School from Hawaii in the
quarterfinal round. This is the third consecutive year that Bellaire has
advanced to the Final Four. Henry Clay High School from Kentucky,
Glenbrook North High School from Illinois and last years defending
champion Alexander W. Dreyfoos High School from Florida will join
Bellaire in the Final Four April 20-22 at New York University in New
York City.
TFA State Tournament results March 1-3
CCX CCX Speaker Awards
Arnav Chakravarty/Xinxin Wang octofinals Arnav Chakravarty 11th place
Xinxin Wang 18th place
CLD CLD Speaker Awards
Karthik Prasad double octofinals Karthik Prasad 19th place
Thomas Lei double octofinals
Student Congress
Grace Sun semifinals House
Essay Eden semifinals Senate
Lamar HS tournament results February 9-10
CCX CLD
Muthu Alagappan/Vijay Kasschau 1st place Kevin Shen 1st place
Brendan Fradkin/Scott Lin 2nd place Matt Hodge double octos
James Harrison double octos
HoBin Lim double octos
Jun Chen double octos
Anderson HS tournament results February 2-3
CLD
Karthik Prasad quarterfinals
Alief Taylor HS tournament results February 2-3
CCX CLD
Brendan Fradkin/Scott Lin quarterfinals Rohini Sigireddi double octos
Charles Chen double octos
Eisenhower HS tournament results January 26-27
2nd place overall sweepstakes
CCX CLD
Andrew Garbarino/Nick Garbarino 2nd Place Matthew Hodge quarterfinals
David Chan/Vijay Kasschau semifinals Louise Lu octofinals
Zexing Meng/Yi Zhang quarterfinals Dennis Qian octofinals
Michael Feng/Tom Zhang octofinals Sesesnu Woldemariam octofinals
Ruyi Yao/Judy Sun octofinals
NLD
Aryam Andom semifinals
Laurence Nguyen octofinals
Hui Yu octofinals
Tanya Chen octofinals
Bickel Brewer team advances to national quarterfinals
Bellaire debaters defeated students from Maize High School (Kansas) in the sweet 16 round of the
Bickel & Brewer National Public Policy Forum contest. The sweet 16 round involved Bellaire on the
affirmative and Maize on the negative exchanging papers several times before judges rendered their
decision. On a 3-0 decision Bellaire advances to the quarterfinals where they will face Kamehameha
High School from Hawaii. The winner of the quarterfinal round will earn a trip to New York City in
April to compete for the Bickel & Brewer Cup. For more information concerning the contest you can
visit the Bickel & Brewer National Public Policy Forum website. Congratulations.
Aldine HS tournament results January 19-20
CCX CLD
Brendan Fradkin/Scott Lin quarterfinals Dennis Qian 2nd place
Liang Gu/Kai Zhang quarterfinals Sylvia Sun semifinals
Rohini Sigireddi octofinals
Tony Deng octofinals
Katy HS tournament results January 12-13
CCX CLD
Jenny Fan.Shubha Soman 2nd place Josh Rozner double octofinals
Danila Kabotyanski/Chian Lin semifinals Austin Grogin double octofinals
Shanna Chu/Kim Zhou semifinals Matt Hodge double octofinals
Arnav Chakravarty/Xinxin Wang quarterfinals Sesenu Woldemariam double octofinals
NLD
Louise Lu quarterfinals
Ashley Duan octofinals
Westfield HS tournament results January 5-6
4th place overall sweepstakes
CCX CLD
Jenny Fan/Shubha Soman octofinals Thomas Lei quarterfinals
Xinxin Wang/Shanna Chu octofinals Sesenu Woldemariam quarterfinals
Kaylor Wright octofinals
NCX Austin Grogin double octofinals
Yousup Lee/Billy Hu quarterfinals Karthik Prasad double octofinals
Kai Zhang/Liang Gu quarterfinals Steven Maheshwary double octofinals
Celina Aldape 6th place US Extemp NLD
Annie Kuntz 4th place Poetry Louise Lu 1st place
Ruiji Jiang quarterfinals
Clear Lake HS tournament results December 8-9
CCX NLD
Danila Kabotyanski/Chian Lin quarterfinals Tony Deng octofinals
Scott Lin/Zexing Meng quarterfinals
NCX
Yuanzhuo Wang/Luyang Zheng 3rd place
Xiaoyu Wang/David Codron 3rd place
CCX Speaker Awards
Danila Kabotyanski 3rd place
Bay City HS tournament results December 1-2
CCX CLD
Danila Kabotyanski/Chian Lin quarterfinals James Harrison 2nd place
Sesenu Woldemariam 3rd place
NCX
Yousup Lee/Billy Hu 3rd place NLD
Tanya Chen 3rd place
Javier Vazquez-Trejo quarterfinals
Jenny Kim quarterfinals
Louise Lu quarterfinals
Patrick Lu octofinals
Yixin Xia octofinals
Ashley Duan octofinals
Ruiji Jiang octofinals
Scarborough HS tournament results November 17-18
1st place Debate Sweepstakes
CCX CLD
William Hong/Christine Lu 3rd place Muthu Alagappan 3rd place
Essay Eden/Herbie Wei 3rd place Thomas Lei quarterfinals
Max Curry/Kevin Sego quarterfinals Dennis Qian octofinals
Jenny Fan/Shubha Soman quarterfinals HoBin Lim octofinals
Steven Maheshwary octofinals
NCX Sesenu Woldemariam double octofinals
Michelle Atkins/Kate Bleakley closed out finals Josh Rozner double octofinals
Ruobing He/Sharon Sun closed out finals Sailesh Prabhu double octofinals
Jimmy Moon/Tom Zhang closed out finals Wen Zhang double octofinals
Judy Sun/Ruyi Yao closed out finals Austin Grogin double octofinals
Tong Li/Luyang Zheng closed out finals
Millie Chen/Qi Fu closed out finals NLD
Liang Gu/Kai Zheng closed out finals Ruiji Jiang 2nd place
Henry Han/Joshua Chang closed out finals Jenny Kim 3rd place
Janie Qin quarterfinals
CCX Speaker Awards Louise Lu double octofinals
Vijay Kasschau 2nd place
CLD Speaker Awards
NCX Speaker Awards Sesenu Woldemariam 1st place
Sharon Sun 1st place Thomas Lei 3rd place
Kate Bleakley 2nd place
Michelle Atkins 3rd place NLD Speaker Awards
Louise Lu 1st place
Muthu Alagappan 1st place Foreign Extemp Rachel Freeman 3rd place Poetry
Gustavo Herrera 3rd place Student Congress Austin Grogin 7th place Poetry
Austin Grogin 3rd place Prose Annie Kuntz 8th place Dramatic Interp
Klein HS tournament results November 10-11
CCX CLD
Brendan Fradkin/Xinxin Wang quarterfinals Sailesh Prabhu quarterfinals
Essay Eden/ Herbie Wei quarterfinals Daniel Gwen octofinals
Justin Sun octofinals
NCX
Jimmy Moon/Terrence Liu closed out finals NLD
Mengwei Ni/Sharon Sun closed out finals Tony Deng octofinals
Alex Hu/ Billy Hu closed out finals Jenny Kim octofinals
Erik Nelson octofinals
CCX Speaker awards
Brendan Fradkin 2nd place Student Congress
Xinxin Wang 3rd place Grace Sun 3rd place
NCX Speaker awards
Alex Hu 1st place
Jimmy Moon 2nd place
Terrence Liu 3rd place
Little Cypress-Mauriceville tournament results November 10-11
CX
Thomas Zhang/Michael Feng 2nd place
Kate Bleakley/Michelle Atkins 4th place
Bickel Brewer team advanced to Sweet 16 for third consecutive year
Congratulations to Daniel Petkevich, Jenny, Fan, Zachary Garber, Shanna Chu, Satish Vemuri and
Chris Fan for leading Bellaire into the elimination rounds of the Bickel-Brewer National Public Policy
Forum contest for the third year in a row. Their research paper was chosen as one of the top sixteen
papers in the nation and was chosen as the best case from the Southwest Region. Exactly 100
schools participated in the initial round of the contest sponsored by the Bickel & Brewer Law Firm
and New York University. The team will now compete in the round of 16 with the elite eight schools
announced January 10, 2007. For more information concerning the contest you can visit the Bickel
& Brewer National Public Policy Forum website.
