Author: Steve

  • OWU Round 6

    This House would ban home schooling. Would this motion make sense in Europe? Just curious.

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  • OWU Round 5

    Good Morning! Big news last night that the Internet domain overlords decided to approve .xxx domains for porn websites. I wonder if my traffic would increase. Progymnasmata.xxx anyone? Round 5: This House believes that recent regime changes in Tunisia and Egypt will cause more harm than good.

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  • OWU Round 4

    This House believes that China should end its one-child policy.

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  • OWU Round 2

    This House believes that now is the time to abandon nuclear power.

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  • OWU Round 1

    This House would lower the voting age to 16. Here is President Jones of Ohio Wesleyan welcoming the debaters to campus this morning.

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  • Ohio Wesleyan Tournament

    Image via Wikipedia Greetings from Delaware, Ohio and the first Ohio Wesleyan debate tournament – at least of the modern era of debating. I am pleased to be here. Looks like there will be about 20 teams in the tab, which might sound low. But you must remember this is a part of the country…

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  • Eliminated Debaters as Adjudicators?

    In the Northeastern US we are having a bit of trouble, in my opinion, with judge diversity in elimination debates. I think that an important element of a good debate regimen is having to persuade a wide and varied group of people as opposed to having the convenience of targeting your arguments for specific types of people…

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  • Threats to the Bookstore, Antilogoi

    Image via Wikipedia Been spending the week in Texas, where I grew up, with my Mom who just got out of the hospital after having surgery. It’s been a good visit, except there are a few things that we usually do that we couldn’t because of her health. One of the best things is going…

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  • Portland State University Videos

    <p>Debate – WUDC – Is EcoTerrorism Legitimate – Portland State University – March 2011 – Show Debate from Steven Taylor on Vimeo.</p> Here’s a public debate on ecoterrorism from Portland State. I like the idea of having public debates when a tournament starts. Sort of sets the mood, or at least is a reason for…

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  • Vienna IV Motions so far

    Image via Wikipedia 1. THW ban all extremist parties. 2. THW return cultural goods to the countries of their origin. 3. THB that the depiction of women in the music industry harms their standing in society. 4. THW dissolve NATO 5. Given a passenger in a car with a driver too intoxicated to drive, THBT…

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