Manila WIll Bid for WUDC - Website Launched

From Dino De Leon:

To the World Debating Community,

We are happy to announce the launching of the bid website of De La Salle Worlds!

We have been working hard for this bid for the last three years. As DLSU is celebrating its 100 years of existence as an academic institution in School Year 2011-2012, we will be very happy to host everyone in Manila.

Should you have questions, feel free to e-mail me. Please forward this e-mail to your own regional mailing lists. :-)

Thank you very much and we hope to see you in Manila for De La Salle Worlds 2012!

Dino de Leon

Convenor, De La Salle Worlds

Vice Chair, United Asian Debate Union
+639155406181

Claretiano. Lasalliano. Filipino.

Silence, Travel, Cambridge and IDAS

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I move from North America to Europe today and tomorrow.

Look for motions and some results from Cambridge here on GLOBAL DEBATE this weekend.

International Debate Academy Slovenia starts Saturday night, and news will be coming from there. Every bed is full and the tournament the weekend after this in Ljubljana is looking to be even bigger. There are a few spots left in the tournament. If you are interested, see http://debate.uvm.edu/idas.html or email bojana.skrt@siol.net.

CIDD Seeks Hosts For Japan Debate Tour of the USA

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From Kevin Minch:

The Committee for International Discussion and Debate of the National Communication Association

Announces a tour of the United States by the Japanese National Debating Team

Approximate dates: Mid February through March

If you are interested in hosting the Japanese debaters, please contact the tour director by no later than December 18, 2009!

Kevin Minch
kminch@truman.edu
The Truman Institute
Baldwin Hall 110
Truman State University
Kirksville, MO 63501
660-785-5677

Fee: The fee for hosting the Japanese team is $800.00. Hosts also provide, at minimum, lodging, meals, and local transportation.

How to Bid: To place a bid to host the team, please send the following information:
· School or organization name:
· Contact name and address: (must include summer contact information)
· Telephone and email: (fall and summer)
· Desired dates-please include several dates, in your order of preference: (also include dates that are out of the question)
· Local airport: (if there is more than one option, please indicate this.)
· Other schools that might share the stop:

Suggestions for Prospective Hosts:
· Include the debate in conjunction with special on-campus or community event.
· Find other schools in the area who are also interested in hosting (each school will still pay the hosting fee-but each school partnering in a regional schedule will receive a $100 discount. The big benefit is that it potentially allows you to share hosting costs and makes scheduling easier and sites more attractive).

Please contact the tour director with any questions or ideas pertaining to this year's tour.

Hart House Bids for WUDC 2012

From Monica Ferris:

See our website at www.harthouse2012.com

Some highlights:

- A five-star hotel giving us a MASSIVE discount on all of their rooms, and letting us have complete run of the hotel.

- Tournament accreditation which doubles as a transit pass, which means ALL of your transit during the tournament (not just to and from the rounds) will be free.

- A hotel which has donated their ballrooms and conference rooms for all the outrounds as well as Worlds Council. This means you can go to octos in your pyjamas!

- Our Chief Adjudicator is Jason Rogers, a WUDC quarter-finalist, WUDC finals adjudicator, Nationals CA, North Ams CA, and all-around brilliant judge. Jason has CONSIDERABLE adjudication experience and is an all-round cool cat.

- A very deep internal judging pool featuring dozens of WUDC break adjudicators and debaters, as well as the financial support to fly out judges as needed.

- VERY significant institutional and financial support from the University of Toronto.

- A cosmopolitan city that can be seen at ANY budget, big or small.

- We will get you lots of boozahol and fun. A previous Canadian Worlds lied to you about fun being illegal. I can assure you that it isn't. At Hart House Worlds IT WILL NOT SUCK TO BE YOU!

- Maple cookies!

If you'd rather not post a link, no problem, but we sure would appreciate it! :)

Monica Ferris
External Communications Director
Hart House 2012 Bid Committee
external.relations@harthouse2012.com

West Conn Finals - Vermont Wins

The final round was on the motion - This House would make the use of unmanned military attack vehicles a war crime.

OG St. John's SJ
OO Cornell LC
CG Vermont DH
CG Rochester KL

Jeff Cedarfield of Cape Cod, David Gruber of Bard and Wynn Wilcox of Western Connecticut were the judges.

The winner is - Vermont, Tom Dionesotes & Allison Hamlin

Second place is - Rochester KL


Great tournament, thanks to West Conn.

West Conn Finals & Semifinal Results

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SEMIFINALS

This House believes that developed nations should not hire technically skilled professionals from the developing world.

Room 107
OG Bard GK
OO Vermont DH ADVANCES
CG Vermont LG
CO St John’s SJ ADVANCES
Nelson, Boragine, Clancy

Room 117
OG Cornell BH
OO Cornell LC ADVANCES
CG St John’s FB
CO Rochester KL ADVANCES
Boyle, Cedarfield, Klein

FINALS

This House would make the use of unmanned military attack vehicles a war crime.

Room 114
OG St John’s SJ
OO Cornell LC
CG Vermont DH
CO Rochester KL
Cedarfield, Gruber, Wilcox

West Conn Semifinals

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Results from quarterfinals, pairings for semifinals.

QUARTERFINALS

This House would force airline passengers to pay carbon-offset fees.

Room 108

OG Bard GS ADVANCES

OO Cornell EX

CG St John's SJ ADVANCES

CO Vermont GB

Boragine, Latucca, Merkle, Dodge, Hoffman

Room 110

OG Rochester ST

OO Vermont FG

CG Vermont DH ADVANCES

CO Vermont LG ADVANCES

Llano, Nelson, Pace, Borock, Takman

Room 107

OG Cornell LC ADVANCES

OO St John's BQ

CG St John's FB ADVANCES

CO Rochester BG

Boyle, Clancy, Waller

Room 117

OG Cornell BH ADVANCES

OO King's OP

CG St John's CB

CO Rochester KL ADVANCES

Cedarfield, Lewis, Klein, Kuo, Garber

SEMIFINALS

This House believes that developed nations should not hire technically skilled professionals from the developing world.

Room 107

OG Bard GK

OO Vermont DH

CG Vermont LG

CO St John’s SJ

Nelson, Boragine, Clancy

Room 117

OG Cornell BH

OO Cornell LC

CG St John’s FB

CO Rochester KL

Boyle, Cedarfield, Klein

West Conn Quarterfinals

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WUDC Tournament

ROUND SIX:

This House believes that foreign governments should not buy farmland in developing nations.

QUARTERFINALS:

This House would force airline passengers to pay carbon-offset fees.

Room 108

OG Bard GS

OO Cornell EX

CG St John's SJ

CO Vermont GB

Boragine, Latucca, Merkle, Dodge, Hoffman

Room 110

OG Rochester ST

OO Vermont FG

CG Vermont DH

CO Vermont LG

Llano, Nelson, Pace, Borock, Takman

Room 107

OG Cornell LC

OO St John's BQ

CG St John's FB

CO Rochester BG

Boyle, Clancy, Waller

Room 117

OG Cornell BH

OO King's OP

CG St John's CB

CO Rochester KL

Cedarfield, Lewis, Klein, Kuo, Garber

POLICY DEBATE:

Get all the results online at

http://commweb.fullerton.edu/jbruschke/web/WarmRoom.aspx?ID=43

Yale WIns Oxford, Americans Perform Well

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Giles Robertson reports:

The finalists were ULU B, ULU A, Yale A and Cambridge G, and the winner, in a unanimous decision, was Yale A.

He has sent along the full tab, which can be found at:
http://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/2009_oxford_fulltab.xls

Americans were the top three speakers and had eight of the top twenty.

TOP 20 SPEAKERS

Speaker Name	Team Name
Adam Goldstein	MIT A
Grant May	YALE A
Steven Kryger	YALE A
Doug Cochran	CAMBRIDGE G
Ali Dewji	ULU A
Bill Magnuson	MIT A
Mhairi Murdoch	CAMBRIDGE G
Dan May	PRINCETON A
Zayn Siddique	PRINCETON A
Max Kasriel	ULU B
Mary Nugent	CAMBRIDGE E
Alexander Campbell	STANFORD A
Harish Nataranjan	CAMBRIDGE A
Anish Mitra	STANFORD A
Fred Cowell	ULU A
George Trotter	HART HOUSE B
Monica Ferris	HART HOUSE A
Ruth Faller	TCD PHIL A
James Prior	ULU B
Gregg O’Neill	TCD PHIL A

West Conn Rounds 4 & 5 Motions

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ROUND FOUR:

This House would ban the political wings of terrorist organizations.

ROUND FIVE:

This House believes that the US & NATO should significantly lower their military presence in Afghanistan.

Round 6 is tomorrow (Sunday) followed by quarterfinals, semifinals and finals. We finished five rounds ahead of schedule today thanks to the cooperation of everyone.

Hugill Tournament Results

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From Chris Jones:

Sharon Ohayon, chief adjudicator for Hugill (Western Canada's longest-running BP tournament) asked me to pass along some results and motions from the debate last weekend.

Winners

Alaska - Income Tax (Ikey Gialopsos & Amie Stanley)

Finalists

U of A - States Avenue (Emily Cliff & Iain Ireland)
Alaska - Electric Company (Michael Imeson & James Kilcup)
U of A - Oriental Avenue (Robert Lees-Miller & Ian Burch)

Semifinalists

U of S - Pacific Avenue (Dylan Hardy & Garrett Richards)
UBC - B&O Railroad (Evan Choate & Danielle Pelletier)
Alaska - Water Works (Colin Haughey & Drew Cason)
U of C - Ventnor Avenue (Kelci Wilford & Bhuvana Sankar)

Resolutions

Finals: THBT, in the future, clones should not be awarded the same rights as humans.

Semi: THBT Saudi Arabia should cancel the Hajj in light of swine flu

R5: THW condition the award of major international sporting events upon the legalization of prostitution for the duration of the events.
R4: THBT the UK should withdraw from the EU.
R3: THW deny communion to politicians that support abortion.
R2: THW allow evidence obtained from entrapment to be admissible in court.
R1: THBT Custody hearings should not take a child's biological parentage into account.

Final Panel Judges
Sharon Ohayon
Roman Kotovych
Sean Lee
Elyn Achtymichuk
Siobhan Kirkland
Sheida Kayat
Joanna Reeder

Semi-final Judges
Sharon Ohayon
Steve Johnson
Roman Kotovych
Sean Lee
Elyn Achtymichuk
Mary McPhail
Sheida Kayat
Joanna Reeder
Janna Robblee
Matthew Schmeiser

Oxford IV Round Six & ESL Semis Motions

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From our correspondent Filip Dobranic:

Round Six:
This House would not allow universities to license societies that identify themselves based on race, gender, nationality or sexuality.

ESL Semifinal Motion:
This House would actively teach schoolchildren that they should be faithful to their partners.

Good luck to Ljubljana Maja Cimerman and Filip Dobranic in ESL semifinals.

West Conn Round Three Motion

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This house believes that all punitive damages in private lawsuits should be paid to the government.

Pop Culture Embraces Debate - "Community"

From http://popwatch.ew.com/2009/11/13/community-recap-debate/

Nov 13 2009 09:20 AM ET

'Community' recap: And it was good.

by John Young

Categories: About Last Night, Community, Fall TV 2009, TV Recap

Just like that, Community was back in tip-top form, delivering one of its sharpest episodes thus far. So much for last week’s moldy sandwich! Yesterday’s show, “Debate 109,” should become a rubric of what the series needs to do each week to succeed. This episode limited the exposure of Britta, who is appealing so long as she’s kept to the sideline. It introduced a new and deliciously memorable character in the form of Jeremy Simmons, the wheelchair-bound champion debater who quotes German poets while weeping. And it stayed true to its main characters, even while deliberately reminding us of how stereotypical they are. Adding the tantalizing possibility of a Jeff-Annie romance just made the whole enchilada that much yummier. And hot.

For this Friday the 13th, let’s recap the 13 best lines from last night’s episode, in chronological order… go!

1. “This is wrinkling my brain,” Troy says while watching Abed’s seemingly prophetic film. Then the actor who’s playing Troy in Abed’s film says, “This is wrinkling my brain,” to which the real-life Troy responds, with increased alarm, “That’s wrinkling my brain!”

2. Professor Whitman (the always appreciated John Michael Higgins) tries to convince Jeff to join the school’s debate team: “I am offering you an opportunity to spend the night drinking from the cup of life, rather than romancing your nether regions in front of the E! channel.” Yet another sly reference to Joel McHale’s other gig.

3. Dean Pelton: “The best compliment our sports program gets is that our basketball team is really gay.”

4. Troy while watching another one of Abed’s films: “Why am I crying? Was I accidentally listening to ‘Come Sail Away’ by Styx again?” Troy is rapidly becoming the funniest character on Community for me.

5. Pierce: “Jeff, I think your shirt’s trying to get out of your pants.”

6. Professor Whitman: “By Zeus, what sort of jackassery is this? We’re in the middle of a championship debate!”

7. Not a quote, but the Annie-lets-her-hair-down-and-magically-transforms-into-an-even-more-adorable-young-woman scene must be mentioned. Between Community and Mad Men, Alison Brie is having quite an exemplary year, and she could be on the verge of stardom much sooner than anyone anticipated.

8. “I will not be pitied,” Pierce exclaims before stepping into a drum and falling into a cornucopia of instruments. Epic fail.

9. Jeff arguing for the inherent evilness of the human species: “I would respond: ‘There is none righteous. No, not one.’ Now, I realize Mr. Simmons’ quote was from the great Franz Wickmayer. Mine was just from a simple desert handyman… named Jesus.” By the way, is Franz Wickmayer an actual German poet? Am I misspelling the guy’s name? A part of me thinks the show’s writers used that name specifically because they were amused by the idea of people struggling to Google it.

10. During the debating montage, Jeff mentions Abu Ghraib as an example of mankind’s evilness. Simmons’ rebuttal: “Apu from The Simpsons.”

11. Another one of Jeff’s arguments on the behalf on mankind’s depravity: “Ketchup is a vegetable!”

12. The slo-mo shot of Simmons ejecting himself out of his wheelchair and gracefully floating through the air, arms outstretched while bracing himself to be caught by Jeff… well, that’s an image you don’t see every day.

13. Annie: “He was horny, so he dropped him. Man…is…evil!”

So, PopWatchers, are you with me? A significant upgrade over last week’s episode, right? Where do you guys fall on the show’s philosophical debate: Is man good or evil? And raise your hand if you’re in favor of an Annie-Jeff relationship.

West Conn Rounds 1 & 2 Motions; Policy Debate Online as Well

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48 WUDC teams take the field in Danbury, Connecticut this morning in the WUDC division. Meanwhile, follow the huge policy debate tournament (120 teams) with live results at http://commweb.fullerton.edu/jbruschke/web/WarmRoom.aspx?ID=43.

ROUND ONE:

This House would amend the US Constitution to allow the president a line-item veto.

ROUND TWO:

This house believes that the US should impose sanctions on Israel if they do not withdraw all settlements from the West Bank.