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Media Advisory: MBA Students Stage Mock Democratic Candidate Debate

Release Date: Apr 16, 2008

Media Advisory: Tepper School MBAs Conduct Mock Democratic Candidate Primary Debate

Event:

MBA students from the Tepper School of Business conduct mock Democratic Candidate Primary Debate.  Two teams of three students each will adopt the positions of Democratic candidates Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. 

The teams will each address three questions, with three minutes allowed for each answer.  Each team is then allowed one minute to rebut.  The questions will be drawn from the debate audience in the categories of Defense, Economy (including Tax Policies and Financial Bailout), and Immigration.

The audience will be polled before and after the debate to determine whether opinions were affected by the answers.

When:

5:30 to 6:30 p.m., Thursday, April 17

Where:

Mellon Auditorium, the Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University