Tag: debate

  • Teaching Debate From The Wrong Book

    It’s late and I should have gone home a while ago. I did plan on going straight home but it’s just too tempting to go talk and have a drink with my fantastic colleague and a brilliant graduate student (and former student of her’s). We are talking about strategy, for the most part. How to…

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  • The Irish Times Debate in New York

    Irish Times clock on the new building at Townsend Street, Dublin. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) This is our second time hosting the Irish Times debate champions in New York. We were very pleased that the NPDA and the Times chose us as the anchor point for the start of this tour. The debate we had was…

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  • Championship Debates from the Northeastern US

    Here they are all together for your viewing pleasure, the elimination debates from the recent Northeastern Universities Debating Championships (NEUDC). Semifinals Finals There is a quarterfinal video, but for whatever reason, it always has an error or some problem when I upload it. It will eventually appear on this post, so keep an eye out…

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  • The Threat of Debating

    Image via Wikipedia This picture is a rare treat from Zemanta, the software I use that helps me make these posts look (supposedly) more professional. But in the end usually the images and links suggested are not appropriate, or I just don’t like them. But this one is quite good. Here we see the perfect…

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  • The Weeekend, Reflection

    No tournament for me this weekend, so a bit of time to reflect on teaching and work on scholarship. As a full time faculty member, debate teaching is just one part of my job. Teaching and research are the other 2/3rds of it. Anyway, here is a great quote about teaching that I recently found…

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  • Cornell IV Videos

    Here are two videos I took while at the Cornell IV. I was running around a lot and didn’t make as many as I normally do. But here are 2. I have been experimenting with AudioBoo as well and wonder if anyone else is using it for debates. This might be a better (read: faster,…

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  • Romancing the Novice

    What does it mean to be a novice? According to the US, for the most part, it means being in your first year of University level debating. That’s the definition that Cornell University is going with in their first ever WUDC USA Novice National Championship tournament. For years, back when there was just policy debate…

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  • The Last Adelphi Report #4

    Forgot to publish this one yesterday!  It highlights ROBOT debating.

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  • Adelphi Brown & Gold Debates Video update #3

    Round 3: This House would prefer a world without national sports teams.

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  • LIVE it’s Adelphi Round 2

    Round 1: This House believes that politicians should be forced to publicly defend significant campaign contributions. Round 2: This House believes that feminism has succeeded. More debates to come. Here is some between round action. Related articles Top 127 donors gave $16.8 million last year (timesunion.com) Now You Can Own Rick Santorum’s Sweater Vest…For A $100 Campaign…

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