There's no other campus activity that can compare to the success of UMKC debate.

UMKC competes not only against KU, Missouri State, some of the local schools that are bigger than UMKC, but we also compete against the Ivies [Ivy League schools]. We compete against Dartmouth, we compete against Harvard and we compete against Berkley.

[Gordon and Culp] have one of the best winning records in the nation right now. They have been to five debate tournaments so far this season and have won three of them, and finished third at the other and fourth at the other.