Recent Exercises

  • Tournaments are it?

    What else can a debate club do besides tournaments? In the history of US debating, debate was a pipeline to academia. There was scarcely a faculty member who…

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  • American Debate Sediment 1: Student Judging

    There are several issues standing in the way of the creation of an American national circuit of WUDC debating. All of them are quite serious issues, and they…

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  • On Recording and Posting as Many Debates as we can

    In transit to the US National Open at the Claremont colleges, a tournament that expressly forbids the recording of any of the debates in any form, even with…

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  • Public Debate: Arab Spring

    <iframe src=”http://player.vimeo.com/video/29840075?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0″ width=”400″ height=”300″ frameborder=”0″ webkitAllowFullScreen allowFullScreen></iframe><p><a href=”http://vimeo.com/29840075″>Public Debate: Arab Spring demonstrates American Youth have a lot to learn from Arabic Youth</a> from <a href=”http://vimeo.com/user1253612″>Steve Llano</a> on <a…

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  • A Debate Coaching Prime Directive

    Image via Wikipedia There’s another one coming up. Another of these “debates” for Republican candidates seeking the U.S. Presidency. And I know my media department at my University…

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  • Storefront Debate

    Image via Wikipedia Watched a documentary about the life of Bruce Lee last week, it still haunts me. Not for any of the clear reasons it should –…

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