2011 Camp Center

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The Fayette County High School debate team has wrapped up their first semester of competitions which included ten competitions all around Georgia

Thirty-five members of the Meyers Speech and Debate Team recently traveled to Wallenpaupack High School in Hawley to compet

Chetan Hertzig has been involved in Lincoln-Douglas debate for more than a decade. In 2009, he founded a debate team at Harrison High School in New York, where he teaches global studies and AP U.S. government.

Public Forum Debate Coach, Eagan High School

Shawn Tuteja debated on the national circuit in Lincoln-Douglas debate at The Altamont School in Birmingham, AL. He was the Champion of the St. Mark's Heart of Texas Invitational (2010),

The Georgetown policy debate team’s ninth-place national ranking marks a return to heights last seen in the late 1970s, with much of the program’s success owed to Richard Day (SFS ’14)

Not only have the two students thrived, they've also become accomplished debaters who just competed in the National Association for Urban Debate League's tournament in New York City.

In a non-descript and inexplicably hot classroom at Wayne State University, two pairs from different Detroit schools are set to debate.

President Obama has come out in favor of a freeze on all non-security “discretionary” domestic spending – “That's bureaucratese for capping everything but defense, homeland security, veterans, international affairs and entitlements (for example, Medicare and welfare), with no adjustments for inflation"(LAT), a decision he plans to make a focus of the State of the Union address.

New York Times

If you thought state budgets were in bad shape last year, just wait: 2010 promises to be brutal for lawmakers -- many facing re-election -- as they scramble to find enough money to keep their states running without raising taxes.

Tax collections continue to sputter. Federal stimulus dollars are about to dry up. Rainy day funds have been tapped. And demand for services -- like Medicaid, food stamps and unemployment benefits -- is soaring.

Shouldn’t dispair – the global quality of life is improving

The Age (Melbourne, Australia),m January 1, 2010, p. 1 

The past year also set back efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals agreed in 2000, with the target date only five years away. Yet, as with climate change, the world cannot afford to indulge in despair, the natural partner of defeat. Nor is despair entirely justified. Until last year, the Millennium Goals' hope of a

Detroit Free Press

When you think debate team you think of the intellectuals, the straight-A students.

But some students at the Life Skills Metropolitan charter school in Detroit are proving you can add "former potential dropout" to that description.

Star Local News

The FMHS Speech/Debate Team competed at the Princeton Classic, hosted by Princeton University December 4-6.  Senior Amy Chen won first place in Extemporaneous Speaking.  Senior Scott Hancox and Sophomore Alessandro Pauri cae in sixth and seventh in that event respectively.  Sophomore Clancy Taylor was a finalist in Legislative Debate while Junior Kevin Alacantar and Sophomore Rahul Gaikwad advanced to the semi-final round.   In Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Sophomore Chase Hamilton was awarded 10th place speaker.  The team as a whole secured 10th place in the team sweepstakes at one of the top national high school tournaments in the country.

Denver Post

The Baker Hostetler Debate Classic is a razor-sharp competition featuring students from Denver Public Schools who thrive on uncertainty and go for the kill.

On the afternoon before the debate, students from Martin Luther King Jr. Early College gathered for their last practice in the school library.

"I've never had a debate that was easy, where I knew I would win," said Danny Nguyen, a junior. "They're all pretty much intense."

We have a new three part lecture series on the Nietzsche kritik. The lectures are authored by Ralph Paone, 2009 NDT quarterfinalist and leader of the Nietzsche lab at the UT camp.

Part 1 -- Introduction to Nietzsche

Part 2 -- Nietzsche on the Negative

Part 3 -- Answering Nietzsche

The lectures can be purchased individually and are included with our Master & Lecture subscriptions.

As first reported on Cross-X.com

Prelim packet

Octas

(1) Bronx EM d. (16) Lexington KS (Amrit Kanesa-Thasen & Ayan Sanyal)
(2) Carrollton DG d. (15) La Salle BT (Jim Benischeck & Josh Thorn)
(3) MBA HM d. (14) CPS CM (Chloe Coughlin-Schulte & Justin Mardjuki)
(4) CPS PY d. (13) Head Royce MW (Takumi Murayama & Alex Werner)
(5) Edgemont CJ d. (12) Menlo-Atherton MR (Annabelle Marcovici & Patrick Reed)
(6) McDonogh BR d. (11) Baltimore City SV (William Stokes & Nicholas Vail)
(7) Cathedral Prep MW d. (10) MBA VW (Matt Vanek & Wesley Wilson)
(9) Lexington EV d. (8) Bishop Guertin DS (Katie DiTullio & Christian Steckler)geor

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Baccalaureate School

Erika Tanner & Shira Almeleh

Baltimore City

Stokes & Vail

Neustadt & Trotne

Our Rhetoric of Poverty Kritik has been substantially expanded. It is available here.  Answers are available here.