Recent Exercises

  • Teaching Keeps You Honest

    Image via Wikipedia This week I am teaching my Worlds debate class, and the group I have is pretty impressive. All quite sharp, all very interested, and all…

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  • Stretching the Debate Club Model: Student Lectures

    Always looking for or at ways to stretch the rather 2 dimensional debate club model of practicing, going to tournaments, and practicing some more. One of my goals…

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  • Information Slips

    I wasn’t at Cambridge this past weekend, but from Twitter I could see there were a lot of information slides. Why are information slides becoming so prevalent? What…

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  • Judge Not!

    This past weekend at the Hobart & William Smith Colleges tournament, the round 6 bin room was assigned only one, inexperienced judge. The top rooms, however, were given…

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  • University of Vermont Huber Debate Videos

    Here are a number of debate videos from the UVM Huber Debates held last weekend in Burlington, VT. Quarterfinals: Semifinals: Final Round:

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  • University of Vermont Final Round Video

    there are more videos coming, but let’s start with the final round. Motion: THB that black actors, comedians, musicians, and other public figures should not use the n-word.…

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