Two Debaters Invade McCarthy Territory, Lose to Marquette U.

Two members of the College Debate Council ventured into the home territory of Senator Joseph R. McCarthy last week and argued unsuccessfully that Congressional investigations of Communism should be stopped.

Debaters from Marquette University, the Senator's alma mater, defended the negative of the topic, "Resolved, That investigation of subversives be restricted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation," and won a two to one verdict over the College team. Judges for the event, which was hold in Milwaukee, were two high school debate coaches and a columnist from the strongly pro-McCarthy Milwaukee Sentinel.

The newspaperman voted in favor of the Marquette team, while the two other judges were split.

Robert M. O'Neill '56, who represented the Debate Council at Milwaukee along with Cliff F. Thompson '56, said the Marquette team "refused to recognize any evils in the present system of Congressional investigations."

Arguing for Marquette in the debate were George and Campion Kearsten, whose father, Charles R. Kearsten, is Republican Congressman from Wisconsin's fifth district, a McCarthy stronghold.