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This Sunday, our members Jeroen and Patrick partic

This Sunday, our members Jeroen and Patrick participated in the Southampton Pro-am tournament and they managed to break to the gold final! 😁🔥 Moreover, Harmen broke as a judge and winged the diamond final 👏UDS hoogh! 💚

Last saturday UDS made the national NOS journaal!

Last saturday UDS made the national NOS journaal! 🎉 During our election debate a NOS camera crew shot some clips for a portrait of D66 candidate @hinddekker, which was aired during the evening news📺! This also meant that we were able to see our very own @rinshylkema
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Photo📸: @pjent3r

Op 25 februari organiseren UDS en SSR NU van 16:00

Op 25 februari organiseren UDS en SSR NU van 16:00-18:00 een online debat met kandidaat-kamerleden gericht op studentenonderwerpen als huisvesting, onderwijs en duurzaamheid. Je kunt dit online bijwonen, om op 17 maart een goede keuze te kunnen maken! 😁

Before the holidays we started introducing our dif

Before the holidays we started introducing our different committees and now the new year🎆 has started, we will resume our introduction round.
And where better to start than with our Utrecht Online Open Committee! This weekend they are organizing the first ever edition of our own online tournament!🎉

The committee consists of Harmen de Jong (Chairman, 24) who for a change won’t be competing for the break this weekend, Abdulfatah Abdulkadir (secretary, 21) who studies cultural antropology and UCU student Friso Scheepstra (Treasurer, 21).

We hope everything goes as planned and we will be able to look back on a successful first edition!🤩

After introducing our lovely board members, it is

After introducing our lovely board members, it is now time to introduce our committees! Every week, we will highlight one of them. First up: the social committee!

The social committee will be bringing you all our social activities this year. They have already organized a successfull movie night and are responsible for this Thursday's online game night! It consists of chairman Jeroen (history, 21 years old), secretary Silke (political science, 23), treasurer Gijs (business economics, 20) and Stefan (lecturer economics, 25). We are looking forward to what they've got in store for us and we hope you are too! 🤩

Also: don't forget to take part in the social committee's crazy🤪 88, you have till Thursday to send in your challenges!

Yesterday, at Amsterdam Online Open, Harmen and Ri

Yesterday, at Amsterdam Online Open, Harmen and Rins managed to break to the ESL (English second language) semi-finals!! Congrats both with this fantastic achievement! 🎉

While Harmen has developed himself into a serial breaker over the past months, this was Rins his first time breaking at a major tournament, while he also managed to speak his first 80!

That many more successfull tournaments may come! 🤩

A few weeks ago, we held our internal tournament.

A few weeks ago, we held our internal tournament. One of our newest members, Jeroen, wrote a small piece about his experience! Check out our facebook to see what he wrote! 😉

Tonight, our last (but certainly not least) board

Tonight, our last (but certainly not least) board member will be introduced! Give it up for Patrick! 💚
Hi I’m Patrick and this year I’ll be the Chairman of UDS! I study Constitutional and Administrative Law at the UU and I have been debating for two years now, I have been active up to varying degrees through this period, but now I'm here full time! 😉
My favourite UDS night would probably be one of the drunk debate nights. People who don't debate often have this image of debating as being slightly boring or a bit stiff. These nights excellently show that this image is just not true. Debating doesn’t have to be that serious and being part of a debating society is just as much about having fun at social activities as about pure debating! 🥳🍻
In my spare time I like listening to music, reading or doing sports and I’m also active for the youth organisation of the political party PvdA.🌹
For this year I’m very much looking forward to our lustrum activities as well as hosting the Dutch Nationals! See you all soon 💚

After the celebration of our 25th birthday yesterd

After the celebration of our 25th birthday yesterday, we'll introduce another board member now! 🤩
Hi, I'm Michelle and I'm this year's secretary! 📥 I study English Language and Culture and I'm doing the minors International Relations and Literature in Conflict. 📜 I have only been debating since January but I'm enjoying it a lot. 😍 I think my favourite night at UDS would be the internal tournament a few weeks ago, I had a lot of fun seeing everyone again and debating with both old and new members. I felt giddy for days afterwards because I loved it so much. 🥰 Then, to tell you more about me; I love reading, being with friends, binging Grey's Anatomy while knitting my 7th scarf (of the year) and calligraphy! 😅 I look forward to going to a good party again the most, I just wanna dance my ass off again. 💃🏼 So, as soon as that is possible, or even before then, I hope to see you there!💚💚💚

🎉🎉🎉Utrecht Debating Society 25 years!🎉

🎉🎉🎉Utrecht Debating Society 25 years!🎉🎉🎉

Today it is exactly 25 years ago that UDS was founded. During these 25 years many awesome memories have been made, great friendships have been forged and lots and lots of debates have been held! Many generations of debaters have enjoyed being part of UDS, being part of the debating family that we have come to be and everything that comes with it. Whether they purely came for the debating or also for our socials and the company of other debating enthousiasts. During the past 25 years UDS has developed into, and still is, the place to be if you want to debate in Utrecht and hopefully it will be for many more years!

As true and loyal UDS members we opened this day with singing the UDS song in commemoration of this special event, eventhough we can’t meet in person right now. And of course, we would have loved to be celebrating our lustrum in the normal fashion right now, but unfortunately due to the current circumstances this was no option. Therefore you can expect us to be honouring this milestone in UDS history during the rest of the year, as far as it is possible again. Because 25 years, a quarter of a century, of debating memories, is absolutely worth celebrating! Therefore hereby some photos of some of the events that have taken place in our history, some in our recent past, and some much longer ago!

That the next 25 years may be even better than the last ones! UDS hoogh!!🎉💚🎉⚪🎉

This week, we’ll introduce our next board member

This week, we’ll introduce our next board member! Silke 💚
Hey everyone! My name is Silke and I have the honor of being the vice-chair of this lovely society this year. 🥰 I’m currently doing a pre-master in political science. 🧐 I started debating a year and a half ago and I’m still enjoying it just as much! 😍 My favorite evening on UDS are always the drunk debate nights. But I also adore the themed-debate nights, in particular last years Christmas-debate! 🎅🏼 When I'm not debating, I'm probably reading articles on politics, watching How I Met Your Mother or eating pizza. 🍕 The debating achievement of which I’m most proud, is my recent first break as a ProAM team on Astana Open! 🤩 I’m looking forward to organizing themed debate nights this year, fun socials and meeting all awesome new members! For as far as Covid allows us of course. See you soon! 💚💚💚

Tonight, our second board member will introduce hi

Tonight, our second board member will introduce himself! 🤩
Hi, I’m Rins and I’m your treasurer this year! 🤑 I study Governance at the UU. 📖 My most favourite debate night at UDS would be the Themed Christmas night.🎅🏼We all wore fun (ugly) Christmas sweaters, the board brought chocolate milk with whipped cream and we also had some great Christmas snacks!🎄 The motions were also great, we even debated about invading the North Pole (which I could tell you more about on a regular evening). 😉 I play the trombone and I’m incredibly interested in American Politics, so you can also ask me anything about that! 🇺🇸 To top it all off… I look forward to the first physical tournament I can go to (hopefully in the near future) and also to the Lustrum activities this year!! 😍🔜

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