Recent Exercises

  • HWS Breaking Teams

    Dr. Eric Barnes announces the break 1 Cornell YS 2 UVM AB 3 Colgate TS 4 UVM BS 5 Cornell LD 6 Ohio Weslyan SM 7 Rochester AB…

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  • HWS round 6

    As if yesterday’s superhero motion wasn’t enough, now we have closed adjudication and an information slide! Wild – well anyway … This house would abandon the exclusionary rule.…

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  • Verbal Adjudication of the Tournament

      Download now or listen on posterous VN00005-20101002-2158.amr (75 KB) Here are some comments from our roundtable of debaters at a Geneva Tim Horton’s near the tournament.

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  • HWS round 5

    Even though it’s dark here, I like this picture of storm clouds over the campus. This House believes that a person born with superhuman abilities has the moral…

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  • HWS round 4

    This house would prioritize population growth reduction in allocating international aid.

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  • HWS round 3

    This House would force athletes who have received some number of concussions to retire. Are debaters athletes?

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