Debate - BP Strikes in Essential Services

Debate - BP Strikes in Essential Services from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

Cornell University Debate Tournament, 15 February 2009.

Quarterfinal debate.

Motion: This House would ban strikes in essential services.

3 VERMONT CN CO ADVANCES
14 VERMONT LA OG
6 CAL STATE SB KM OO ADVANCES
11 ST JOHNS MC CG
JUDGES: ZHANG, STITELER, PIKE

Alfred Snider
Lawrence Debate Union
University of Vermontg
debate.uvm.edu/

Debate - BP Holocaust Denial

Debate - BP Holocaust Denial from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.


Cornell University Debate Tournament 15 February 2009.

Semifinal round.

Motion: This House would criminalize Holocaust denial.

VERMONT CN ADVANCES
CAL STATE SB KM ADVANCES
ST JOHN’S PB
COLGATE SC
JUDGES: FIGGINS, SHAO, LANGONE

Alfred Snider
Lawrence Debate Union
University of Vermont
debate.uvm.edu

Debate - BP USA Obligation on Drug Cartel Violence

Debate - BP USA Obligation on Drug Violence in Mexico from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

Final round of Cornell Debate Tournament, 15 February 2009.

THBT the USA has an obligation to combat drug cartel violence in Mexico.

Teams:
Opening Government - Colgate
Closing Government - California State University San Bernadino [first]
Opening Opposition - Bard
Closing Opposition - Vermont [second]

Alfred Snider
Lawrence Debate Union
University of Vermont
debate.uvm.edu

Google Video (old) and Vimeo (new)

Google Video has announced that it will soon stop accepting new video uploads. This is a sad thing for this website because we have been using Google Video pretty exclusively and it has worked very well. I understand, however, that they will suspend this free offering, so we will have to switch.

After reviewing many video upload services we have decided to go with Vimeo. while not quite as fast in the uploading department and while it does not offer as many full-screen options, it seems to be a good substitute.

Vimeo seems to convert everything into a Flash video so that when it plays it does so smoothly and with high quality even in a lower bandwidth situation.

Let us know if you have any problems with the new Vimeo videos.

Debate - BP Publicly Fund Elections

Thanks to Steve Llano for this.

http://progymna.blogspot.com/2009/02/should-elections-be-publicly-funded.html

Here's a debate from last Friday's scrimmage between The King's College, Manhattan and St. John's University, Queens. The motion is This House would publicly fund all election campaigns.

Watch First Debate in Virtual Reality

Here is the video from the debate on 4 February 2009 held in Second Life, a virtual reality.

The motion: This House would abolish faculty tenure at colleges and universities.

Proposition: From St John's University, Tim & Don
Opposition: From University of Vermont, Tuna & Jacob

The chair was Peter Mesarec of Slovenia.

Thanks to Steve Llano of St. John's University for organizing this event.

Debating in Second Life

Academic Debate Held in Second Life 4 February 2009 from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

Check it out!

More to come in this vitual medium.

Debate - Asian Format - Thailand Migrant Rights

Debate-Asian format - Thailand Migrant Rights from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

Finals between Assumption vs. Thammasat at 175th Anniversary of USA-Thai Relations Debate Tournament. January 2009 Bangkok.

decision is 6-1 for the government.

Debate - Asian Format - American Pop Culture

Thai-American Friendship Debate - American Pop Culture from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

The University of Vermont as proposition team and the Thai Debate All Stars are opposition. This House believes that American Pop Culture does more harm than good. January 2009 in Bangkok.
Vermont: Sam Natale, Allison Hamlin, Lucas Caress
Thailand: LP The Debating Monk, Pat from Thammasat, TJ Senamngern.
Sponsored by the USA Embassy and the Thai Commission on Higher Education.

Comments by USA Ambassador Eric John are below:


Thai-USA Friendship Debate - US Ambasador's Comments from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

Debate - BP DNA Database

Here's one of the semifinal debates from U.Mass. Amherst this past weekend. The motion was This house would establish a DNA database of all citizens for the purposes of criminal investigation (or something close to that).

here are the teams involved:
OG - St. John's University
OO - Cornell University
CG - University of Vermont
CO - St. John's University

Debate - BP Against Embedding Journalists

This is the final round from the U Mass - Amherst Tournament held last weekend (this debate happened Feb. 1 2009). The motion is: this House would legislate against embedded journalism.

The teams are:
OG - RIT
OO - Cornell
CG - Hobart & William Smith
CO - St. John's University

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).