I would like to think that the university would be able to solve their budget issues by means other than those taken by the dean of the Clark Honors College. Participating in debate can have an enormous impact on students that take it, myself being a prime example. During the almost two years I participated, I learned skills that have made me more capable and successful over the last twenty years. I would hope that a program that enables the skills useful in so many aspects of life would be venerated and not reduced to a shell of its former self.