Friday, August 17, 2007

Debate: Policy Debate Demonstration from World Debate Institute - Another



From the World Debate Institute at the University of Vermont, comes this lengthy debate.

WDI website is at
http://debate.uvm.edu/wdi/

WDI blogsite is at
http://worlddebateinstitute.blogspot.com


This policy debate is on the topic:
Resolved: that the United States Federal Government should increase its constructive engagement with the government of one or more of: Afghanistan, Iran, Lebanon, the Palestinian Authority, and Syria, and it should include offering them a security guarantee(s) and/or a substantial increase in foreign assistance.

The debate featured four outstanding debaters, Doowan Chung of Wake Forest, Brian Rubiae of Texas-Dallas, Kyle Zarazan of Kansas State and Liz Lauzon of Richmond. This was the first demonstration debate of the two-week program.

Dr. Kevin Kuswa of Richmond leads a discussion after the debate.

In case you do not know, American policy debate takes place at high speed and utilizes a lot of quoted evidence read into the debate. The audio quality of these files is good enough to hear the voices very well.

There are two parts, get both, right click to download these large files, best viewed through iTunes:
http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/watch/wdi07cpoldemo1a.m4v
http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/watch/wdi07cpoldemo1b.m4v

To see our newest video files with the most recent on on top, go to:
http://www.uvm.edu/~debate/watch/?M=D

1 comment:

  1. Somehow America is indebted to these paises.En its fight against terrorism and let them leave materials in addition to human losses. Hunger and many things should be of concern.

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