Public Debate - Gaza Incursion

This public debate was held 22 January 2009 at the University of Vermont. Sponsored by the Lawrence Debate Union, the debate took place in the WUDC format.

The motion was: This House believes that the Israeli military incursion into the Gaza strip was justified.

Proposition team:
Danielle Goldschneider, senior debate
Taylor Lalemand, senior debater
Joshua Miller, senior debater
Jan Feldman, professor of political science

Opposition team:
Sam Natale, sophomore debater
John Voight, professor of mathematics
Tom Dionesotes, sophomore debater
Allison Hamlin, sophomore debater

A large podcast video is located at:
http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/watch/pubdebgazauvm0109.M4V

A medium-sized podcast is at:
http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/watch/pubdebgazauvm0109/pubdebgazauvm0109-desktop.m4v

A smaller .mov file is at:
http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/watch/pubdebgazauvm0109.MOV

WUDC EFL Final

This House would prohibit all private health care.

English as a foreign language winners:
Vilnius A (Aiste Dumbryte & Eugenija Golubova)

Other teams:
Zagreb Law A
Zagred Law B
Bucharest A

Thanks to Steve Llano of St John's University for the video.

WUDC Finals 2009 - Ban Abortion at all Stages of Pregnancy

This House would ban abortion at all stages of pregnancy

University College Cork, Ireland, January 2009
Held in Cork City Hall Auditorium

Finalists:
1G Monash B (Ravi Dutta & Victor Finkel)
1O Oxford A (James Dray & Will Jones)
2G Harvard A (Cormac Early & Lewis Bollard)
2O Oxford C (Jonathan Leader-Maynard & Alex Worsnip)

After many votes, it was Oxford A 5-4, and rumor has it that Harvard was second.

WUDC Semifinals - Subsidize Private Home Ownership

This House believes governments should subsidize private home ownership.

Vic Wellington A 1G
Oxford C 2G advances
Harvard A 1O advances
Quensland A 2O

WUDC Quarterfinals - ICC Prosecute Crimes Against Democracy Room 3

TH believes that the ICC should prosecute crimes against the democratic process.

Monash B 2O Advances
Manchester A 2G Advances
Princeton A 1G
TCD Phil B 1O

WUDC Quarterfinals - ICC Prosecute Crimes Against Democracy Room 4

TH believes that the ICC should prosecute crimes against the democratic process.

UCD L&H A 1O
Nottingham A 2G
Oxford A Advances
Oxford B Advances

WUDC Octafinals - Arm Militias against Taliban - Room 1

Seattle A
Helsinki A advances
Victoria Wellington A advances
Auckland A

This House would arm militias to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan.

WUDC Octafinals - Arm Militias against Taliban - Room 4

Monash A
UCD L&H B advances
Brandeis A
Nottingham A advances

This House would arm militias to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Debate - BP Testing is the Enemy of Learning

Public debate held at the 2008 Intl Conference in Argumentation, Rhetoric, Debate and Critical Pedogogy, held in April in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Debaters included; Sam Nelson (Cornell), Alex Just (Oxford), Alfred Snider (Vermont), Omar Salahuddin bin Abdullah (Multi Media University), Candace Williams (Claremont), Manolis Polychronides (Athens), Sam Greenland (Sydney), Anna Kerr (Ljubljana).