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01.31.10AT: Patriarchy is the root cause of war
The 3NR, Uncategorized Comments OffCarrie Crenshaw PhD, Former President of CEDA Perspectives In Controversy: Selected Articles from Contemporary Argumentation and Debate 2002 p. 119-126 Feminism is not dead. It is alive and well in intercollegiate debate. Increasingly, students rely on feminist authors to inform their analysis of resolutions. While I applaud these initial efforts to explore feminist thought, I am concerned that such arguments only exemplify the general absence of sound causal reasoning in debate rounds. Poor causal reasoning results from a debate practice that privileges empirical proof over rhetorical proof, fostering ignorance of the subject matter being debated. To illustrate my point, I claim ...
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01.31.10Appleton East Forensic Tournament Results
Uncategorized, Wisconsin Forensics Daily Comments OffAppleton East Forensic Tournament January 30th, 2010 Large Team Results 334 – Appleton East 325 – James Madison Memorial 292 – Brookfield East 258 – Sheboygan South 245 – Kaukauna 188 – Whitefish Bay 167 – Muskego 157 – Hartford Union 141 – Sheboygan North 129 – Bradley Tech 101 – Neenah 98 – Notre Dame Academy 83 – St Mary Central 76 – Hortonville Small Team Results 10.3 – 8 entries – Marquette University HS 9.38 – 8 entries – Appleton North 8.36 – 11 entries – Rufus King 8.2 – 5 entries – ...
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01.29.10Anonymity, highways and gimcracks
Coachean Life Comments OffTo further answer Ryan, I guess when you boil it down I’m just not comfortable calling people out in public for being unprofessional. The endlessness of this issue of team ineptitude has led me mostly to believe that it can’t be stopped, but it can be punished, and that’s what I will do. Punishing people by naming them here doesn’t seem very harsh; people pay me good money to mention them here, and doing so for free is against my policy. I mean, you don’t think I talk about O’C all the time for nothing, do you? As for CP ...
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01.29.10VBD Weekend Coverage: January 29-31, 2010
Victory Briefs Daily Comments OffNEW YORK, N.Y. — VBD is providing reports from… Barkley Forum (Emory) — Dale Lauder McCall Exhibition: Walt Whitman’s Perry Green defeated Saint Louis Park’s Catherine Tarsney on a 3-0 decision. (Tony Figliola, Bruce Miller, Wayne Tang, and Lisa Willoughby are this year’s new key coaches.) The Joust (Grady) — Rankings were determined by ballot count. Altamont’s Shawn Tuteja placed first; Montgomery’s Charles Cardinal placed second.
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01.29.10Debate Coach Grades Obama Speech
Global Debate Comments OffImage via WikipediaFrom http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100129/NEWS/1290321/-1/NEWSMAP State of Obama rhetoric assessedBy CAPE COD TIMESJanuary 29, 2010 2:00 AMLisa Heller Boragine teaches speech and communication classes at Cape Cod Community College and Bridgewater State College. She is the debate team coach at Cape Cod Community College and was a member of the debate
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01.29.10Debate Coach Grades Obama Speech
Global Debate Comments OffImage via WikipediaFrom http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100129/NEWS/1290321/-1/NEWSMAP State of Obama rhetoric assessedBy CAPE COD TIMESJanuary 29, 2010 2:00 AMLisa Heller Boragine teaches speech and communication classes at Cape Cod Community College and Bridgewater State College. She is the debate team coach at Cape Cod Community College and was a member of the debate
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01.28.10Naming names, listing names, and wondering if, in Bangkok, it’s the iPad Thai
Coachean Life Comments OffRyan wants us to name names, to let the world at large know who the debate miscreants are. But I think that is mildly illegal and/or immoral, at the very least. My first amendment rights do not extend to pointing the finger at, say, O’C, and saying that I have positive evidence that he’s a poopy-head. He could easily take umbrage at the accusation. And it wouldn’t solve anything. (He is not one of my problem people, of course; I’m simply using him as an example of the inherent right of protection against slander. The fact that I’m even including ...
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01.28.10Wasting Prep Time 1-28-2010
PFDebate Blog Comments OffA Modest Proposal: Let Corporations Vote An interesting response to Citizens United vs. Federal Elections Commission. Economists’ Rap Battle Gains Cred From Ke$ha’s Nod A rap battle between Friedrich von Hayek and John Maynard Keynes. Was College Really Worth It? Hmm. 10 Best Songs About Libraries and Librarians Who thought that there were even 10 songs about libraries and librarians? Intellectual Boys by Coco Love Alcorn How can you not like a song that mentions mentions debate and Noam Chomsky? BookBook A neat way to cloak your MacBook. Don’t leave your laptop unattended! Paying Zero For Public Services An interesting solution to petty corruption in India.
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01.28.10Last of the Flo-hicans: the death of tabula rasa judging-Part 2- about the cult of evidence
The 3NR, Uncategorized Comments OffI don’t know that analytics have ever been particularly prominent in the time that I’ve been involved in debate, but they have definitely moved from the endangered species act to extinct. One of the reasons for this is that many judges don’t seem to be giving weight to reasonable analytics- like say sever perms are a vi… Just kidding. But this is related to Part 1 about judge intervention because I believe that many judges are inserting themselves into the debate and making the argument “evidence trumps analytics” when that argument is not made by the team on the side of ...
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01.28.10Register for Harvard-Westlake
Victory Briefs Daily Comments OffLOS ANGELES, Calif - Registration is now open for the Tedd Woods II, an LD-only Tournament of Champions Qualifying debate tournament at the finals level. You can register at: Tabroom.com. You can view the invitation after the jump. Dear friends - Registration is now open for the Tedd Woods II, hosted by The Harvard-Westlake Debating Team. The tournament will be LD only. We are offering 1 division of LD, but will have separate elimination rounds for first-year debaters. You can register at: Tabroom.com Schedule: * We will accelerate the schedule when we can. Food will be provided, so ...
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