Timeslice

Very timely article written by the outspoken John S. Gordon for the New York Times:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122360636585322023.html?mod=special_page_campaign2008_mostpop
p/s: if this is a ’short’ history, I can’t imagine a ‘long’ one. blurghghghgh….

Here is a very interesting website on how we, university debaters, use our rules, procedures and knowledge to evaluate the US Presidential debates between Obama and McCain recently. I personally know a few of the judges and have been judged (interestingly enough) by all of them in few Worlds tournament. They are all fantastic judges [...]

The Global Economic Meltdown. Credit Crunch. God I love this terms.
With all the sh*t floating around in cyberspace, this is the ‘idiots guide to the Global Economic Meltdown’. An easy to read/follow explanation on why the economic disaster we are facing now happened in the first place.
[disclaimer: when explaining the reasons below, I did [...]

Motion: “This house would support the bailing out of its corporations over its people”
Background: This motion was given in the heat of the USD 700 billion bail out plan that the US senate recently just passed. However, if OG wants to take it to the EU’s decision to bail out their banks, it is fine [...]

Salam.
For finals there will be a random draw to select 8 debaters (op/gov and position) for a British Parliamentary debate. You will each prepare INDIVIDUALLY for 15 minutes before the debate. The remainder will be adjudicators; you will judge the debate and give ORAL ADJUDICATION giving me reasons why the team you gave the win [...]

We’ll have a lucky draw to decide 8 debaters (British parliamentary debate) and the rest will be judges. You will prepare individually for 10 minutes for your given position (ie PM, LO, whip, etc) and will be assessed according to matter manner and method. The adjudicators are required to give an oral adjudication after the [...]

Welcome back from eid holidays. As requested by quite a number of you, we’ll be having one last debate class before the finals. The topic of the debate is “THBT websites assisting suicides should be banned”. Here’s a link to an article that may assist in your reasearch.
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article4870553.ece?print=yes&randnum=1223256813515#
See you Wednesday!

Students choose one of the following five topics and come prepared on the day. Please provide the topics to your students in advance:
1. Government-funded scholarships don’t create a truly free educational market.
2. Who has the right to define terrorism?
3. Inter-party defections in parliamentary democracy: are they [...]

Selamat Hari Raya/Eid Mubarak to all readers of this blog. Salams peeps!!