NORPDA NEWS
NORPDA News is a parody news publication, named after the NORthern Parliamentary Debate Association. MIT debater Patrick Nichols created the newspaper, and produced several issues during the 2001 - 2002 APDA season. In spring of 2005, BU debaters Dennis Reardon and Nick Mindicino resurrected the paper, and they released a total of three editions. Dennis, as a dino in 2007, later made another issue, and BU's Alex Taubes and Ryan Menezes took over the newspaper the following year.
The first modern NORPDA News came during BU's 2005 tournament.
Yale's 2005 tournament saw another release from APDA's finest news source. The main topic of this edition was the APDA executive board elections.
In the summer of 2005, NORPDA News was back, this time with a more literary style than ever. Find out where APDA's recent graduates have gone, and the conquests of Jon Marcus, just to name a few of the articles.
Following a semester of poor management under Jackson Taylor, Dennis produced a new edition of NORPDA news, this one detailing the democrats' success in the APDA midterm elections and the '72 Dolphins' fears about Chilton and Wansley's undefeated season.
At Nats 2008, Alex Taubes and Ryan Menezes released a new edition of NORPA News, this one reporting on congressional developments, a new MIT Tab program and some surprising tournament wins.
NORPDA came out at Nats 2009. The largest edition to date covered many of the year's controversial issues, including worries about executive power, tournament corruption and the financial crisis.
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