Lecture - BP Winning from First Government

A lecture by Debbie Newman, England World Schools coach and former president of the Cambridge Union, given at the World Debate Institute 2008.

World Debate Institute College Policy Final Round

The final round was won on a 3-0 decision:

[AFF] Zac Hartkopp (JCCC) & Derek Ziegler (Kansas State) defeat [NEG] Ben Dabiri(Oklahoma) & Jen Cox (Oklahoma).

Resolved: that the United States Federal Government should substantially reduce its agricultural support, at least eliminating nearly all of the domestic subsidies, for biofuels, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, corn, cotton, dairy, fisheries, rice, soybeans, sugar and/or wheat.

Part One



Part Two

Debate - Policy - WDI Scholars Debate on Farm Subsidies

Featuring Lauren Sabino of Wake Forest and Brian Rubiae of Texas-Dallas on the affirmative, against Dylan Quigley of Kansas and Nick Watts of Oklahoma on the negative. The debate was about ending agricultural subsidies to CAFOs (concentrated animal feeding operations). Part 3 contains comments from Kansas State's Justin Green. Negative win.








Comments by Justin Green of Kansas State

Lecture - Short Intro to Argument & Refutation

A short and practical lecture on building arguments, supporting them and then refuting them, delivered by Alfred Snider at the 2008 World Universities Debating workshop at the World Debate Institute.

Debate - BP Allow Organ Sales

Demonstration debate held at the World Debate Institute Summer 2008 college WUDC camp beginning. This House would legalize the sale of organs by individual citizens. The debaters include trainers, students, experienced debaters and inexperienced debaters.

1st government ANONYMOUS & Alfred Snider

2nd government Nicol Colston & Jarrad Baker

1st opposition Jacob Klein & Mandy Frank

2nd opposition Steve Llano & Debbie Newman

No vote was taken.

Debate - BP Security Cameras in City Centers

The super-intensive five-day WUDC training workshop held at the World Debate Institute at the University of Vermont concluded on Friday. After eight rounds of debate during the week the scores were totaled and the top four teams were invited to a grand final round, and twenty attendees agreed to judge.

The four teams were: 1st government Emily Barkdoll & Ethan Backus of Vermont, 2nd government Joshua Miller & Mandy Frank of Vermont, 1st opposition Lee Richmond & Garret Valdez of Tennessee Tech, 2nd opposition ANONYMOUS & Scott Crespo of Cornell. After totalling the ranks, it was Joshua Miller & Mandy Frank of Vermont with 53 points, and the next closest was Lee Richmond & Garrett Valdez of Tennessee Tech with 25.

The motion was: This House would put security cameras in the public places of city centers.

Lecture - Public Speaking, Debbie Newman

Presented by Debbie Newman, famous UK debater, at the World Debate Institute Summer 2008 college session. Includes her drill exercises that go with it.

Lecture - Debating Free Market Issues

Rhydian Morgan lectures at the World Schools Debate workshop at the 2008 World Debate Institute. Time is 1:18.

Lecture - Tips About Refutation

A collection of (hopefully) useful tips about refutation. Givn by Alfred Snider at the 2008 World Debate Institute World Schools Debate workshop.

Lecture - Debating Issues about Indigenous People

Lecture delivered by Jackie Massey of the University of Oklahoma at the 2008 World Debate Institute at the University of Vermont.

Or try http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2189011839681668798

Lecture - Points of Information

Rhydian Morgan lectures at the World Schools Debate workshop held at the World Debate Institute at the University of Vermont in 2008.

If there are problems, try
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6828920609634356487

Lecture - Basic Argumentation

Rhydian Morgan delivers this lecture at the 2008 World Debate Institute at the University of Vermont. This lecture was given to the World Schools Debate Workshop.

Lecture - Debating Nuclear Energy

A lecture by Alfred Snider at the 2008 World Schools Debate workshop at the World Debate Institute. This is a background and argument lecture for what has become a very popular topic for debate.

Lecture - Types of Arguments

Lecture by Alfred Snider at the 2008 World Schools Debating workshop at the World Debate Institute being held at the University of Vermont. Deals with the nature and criticism of inductive, deductive and causal arguments.

Lecture - Introduction to Debate Research

A lecture at the 2008 World Debate Institute, World Schools Debate Workshop. Alfred Snider of the University of Vermont is the speaker.

If you have problems, try
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2691194823456612683

CEDA 08 Final - Towson vs. Kansas

Web address is
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5390665162595544147

Controversial as Towson refuses to affirm the resolution.

National Public Policy Forum 2008 Semifinal #1

Now available in a number of forms. Colleyville Heritage and Wellington high schools face off.

The Google Video version is above.
Also at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5649446103255757923

A larger podcast version is now available at
http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/watch/nppfsemi12008.m4v

The event was webcast by GLOBAL DEBATE as well as DEBATE CENTRAL.

Thanks to NYU, Bickell & Brewer and everyone who worked on this project, especially NYU President John Sexton, Bickell & Brewer Foundation head Kit Sawers, as well as Travis Carter for working on PR.

Check out details about th con test at http://nppf.net

National Public Policy Forum 2008 Semifinal #2

Now available in a number of forms.

The Google Video version is above.
Also at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2084877870091656105

A larger podcast version is now available at
http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/watch/nppfsemi22008.m4v

The event was webcast by GLOBAL DEBATE as well as DEBATE CENTRAL.

Thanks to NYU, Bickell & Brewer and everyone who worked on this project, especially NYU President John Sexton, Bickell & Brewer Foundation head Kit Sawers, as well as Travis Carter for working on PR.

Check out details about th con test at http://nppf.net

National Public Policy Forum Final Round Video

Now available in a number of forms.

The Google Video version is above.
Also at http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1101809263141196716

A larger podcast version is now available at
http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/watch/nppffinal2008.m4v

The event was webcast by GLOBAL DEBATE as well as DEBATE CENTRAL.

Thanks to NYU, Bickell & Brewer and everyone who worked on this project, especially NYU President John Sexton, Bickell & Brewer Foundation head Kit Sawers, as well as Travis Carter for working on PR.

Check out details about th con test at http://nppf.net

See Webcast from NFL Nationals

The National Forensic League in the USA (http://www.nflonline.org/AboutNFL.AboutNFL), Debate Central (http://debate.uvm.edu), Global Debate and the World Debate Institute at the University of Vermont have announced that on Friday March 20 2008 the entire day's events will be available as web video on the Internet.

"This is an exciting way for parents, supporters at home and the entire world to see the excellence of our students," said Scott Wunn, NFL Executive Director. "We want to thank Dr. Snider for his support on this project."

"We are proud to have this opportunity," said Alfred Snider, "and it is a pleasure to bring our technical expertise to this event. NFL partnerships like this have been going on now for almost ten years and we are very proud of the trust they put in us in these matters."

WATCH NFL FRIDAY LIVE ON THE INTERNET

GO TO

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LIVE FROM THE COX PAVILION AT UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA AT LAS VEGAS
FRIDAY JUNE 20 2008

8:30 AM
US EXTEMP FINALS

10 AM
INTERNATIONAL EXTEMP FINALS

11:30 AM
POLICY DEBATE FINALS

1:30 PM
PUBLIC FORUM DEBATE FINALS

2:30 PM
LINCOLN DOUGLAS DEBATE FINALS

3:30 PM
ORIGINAL ORATORY FINALS

5:30 PM
AWARDS PROGRAM

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Daylight saving time: +1 hour
Current time zone offset: UTC/GMT -7 hours
Time zone abbreviation: PDT - Pacific Daylight Time

FROM http://www.nflonline.org/AboutNFL.AboutNFL

About the NFL

The National Forensic League is the nation's oldest and largest debate and speech honor society. Since our founding in 1925, we have enrolled over 1 million members in all 50 states.

The National Forensic League believes that all students should be empowered to become effective communicators, ethical individuals, critical thinkers, and leaders in a democratic society. We exist to promote secondary school speech and debate activities and interscholastic competition as a means to develop a student's lifelong skills and values and to increase the public's awareness of the value of speech, debate, and communication education.

The NFL Mission

The National Forensic League Honor Society promotes secondary school speech and debate activities and interscholastic competition as a means to develop a student’s lifelong skills and values, as well as the public’s awareness of the value of speech, debate, and communication education.

As an organization, the National Forensic League embraces diversity, interconnection, and visionary leadership. We empower students to become effective communicators, ethical individuals, critical thinkers, and leaders in a democratic society.

The NFL Vision

The organization serves as the central agent for coordination and facilitation of

• heightened public awareness of the value of speech communication skills,
• development of educational initiatives for student and teacher training,
• excellence in interscholastic competition, and
• the promotion of honor society ideals.