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primer.htm Debate is designed as a series of speeches alternating between affirmative and negative (with the exception of the 2NC and the INR, which are two negative speeches in a row-- this is called the negative block). Since policy debate resolutions are ordinarily worded in a very broad fashion, it is now generally held acceptable for the affirmative to isolate a specific example of the resolution in order to narrow discussion. Policy debate resolutions are usually very broad in that they do not specify particular actions for the agent (remember, this is usually the Federal government or the United States). rutlandhs.k12.vt.us /schools/rhs/activities/Debate/primer.htm   (12494 words)

DEBATE/FORENSIC EVENTS A policy debate team consists of two debaters except at four-speaker tournaments where each four-speaker team consists of two debaters who debate affirmative and two debaters who debate negative. Policy debaters must prepare to support and/or oppose a resolution that is selected annually by a nationwide vote. Debaters research the topic and prepare both affirmative and negative arguments because--at most tournaments--they must be prepared to debate both sides. www.usd261.com /campus/debate/events.html   (1282 words)

NAUDL Policy Debate Overview Debate teams must be prepared to debate either the affirmative or the negative side of the resolution. The Urban Debate Network chose policy debate as its format because it is generally understood by debate educators to be the most rigorous format of debate. In the 2002/03 school year, the national high school debate topic is "Resolved: that the United States federal government should substantially increase public health services for mental health care in the United States." All high schools, including all UDL schools, who compete in policy debate use this same topic all year long. www.urbandebate.org /impact_policydebate   (811 words)

Policy Debate The team gathers evidence to debate this topic for both the affirmative and negative sides. You will also see the judge that has been assigned to judge your round. First, a topic is assigned during the summer and this is the topic that is debated throughout the debate season. www.polsci.wvu.edu /polsci/debate/policy.htm   (197 words)

Articles - Debate Policy Debate is a style of debating where two teams of two debaters advocate or oppose a plan derived from a resolution that usually calls for a change in policy by the government. Debates consist of eight speeches, four affirmative and four negative, with each debater giving two speeches, one constructive (eight or nine minutes) in which new arguments may be raised and one rebuttal (four, five, or six minutes) in which new evidence, but no new arguments, may be raised. In comparison to parliamentary debate, policy debate relies more on researched evidence and tends to have a larger sphere of what is considered legitimate argument, including counterplans, critical theory, and debate about the theoretical standards of the activity itself. www.efireplaces.net /articles/Debate   (2367 words)

1897-1898 Whitman Speech and Debate Team In December, the team traveled to the University of Idaho to debate “Resolved: That the Hispano-American War has been a general benefit to the United States.” Whitties Robert Oleson, William Worthington, and William Proctor debated on the affirmative and won 2-1. Seth Davies, a debater the previous year who was forced to leave school due to ill health, died on February 27 from consumption. During a second tournament at Pullman, Whitman debated “Resolved: That it is a benefit to the United States to hold outlying colonies.” Mr. www.whitman.edu /rhetoric/history/1898.htm   (1756 words)

1898-1899 Whitman Speech and Debate Team William Worthington, Ross Brattain, and Elmer Brown won, and debated affirmative on the topic "Resolved: that England is justified in her course of action towards the Boers." Whitman was victorious. (e) General Rhetoricals—At least one essay, oration or debate must be prepared and handed in for criticism during each semester at least one oration, declamation or debate must be committed to memory, rehearsed privately and publicly delivered by members of all classes, during each semester. The second joint debate between the Athenaeum  and Phrenakosmian societies takes place in the College chapel  on some  near future date. www.whitman.edu /rhetoric/history/1899.htm   (1742 words)

Building Cathedrals The time format for Lincoln-Douglas debate is 6-3-7-3-4-6-3: a six-minute affirmative constructive, a three-minute questioning period, a seven minute negative constructive, another three-minute questioning period, a four-minute affirmative rebuttal, a six-minute negative rebuttal, and finally a three-minute affirmative rebuttal. Unlike most modern political debates, which are really modified press conferences, the original Lincoln versus Douglas debates used direct clash and confrontation, and focused on winning the support of the audience they were addressing. The focus of the debate is on values and not on policies, as in cross examination debate. www.angelfire.com /wa2/buildingcathedrals/lddebate.html   (471 words)

Policy debate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Policy debate is a form of speech competition in which teams of two debaters debate whether or not a specific policy action should be enacted. High school policy debate is sponsored by the National Forensic League, the National Catholic Forensic League, the National Christian Forensics and Communication Association, or one of the regional speech organizations. Collegiate debates are generally competed under the guidelines of the National Debate Tournament (NDT), the Cross Examination Debate Association (CEDA), and the National Educational Debate Association (NEDA). en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Policy_Debate   (3958 words)

CPD: 1976 Debate Transcript This is what it takes to have a sound foreign policy strong at home, strong defense, permanent commitments, not betray the principles of our country, and involve the American people and the Congress in the shaping of our foreign policy. The secretary of state has made better than fifty speeches all over the United States explaining American foreign policy. The United States foreign policy under this administration has been one of progress and success. www.debates.org /pages/trans76b.html   (3958 words)

Debate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Debates consist of eight speeches, four affirmative and four negative, with each debater giving two speeches, one constructive (eight or nine minutes) in which new arguments may be raised and one rebuttal (four, five, or six minutes) in which new evidence, but no new arguments, may be raised. In comparison to parliamentary debate, policy debate relies more on researched evidence and tends to have a larger sphere of what is considered legitimate argument, including counterplans, critical theory, and debate about the theoretical standards of the activity itself. Debate is a common process in deliberative bodies such as parliaments, legislative assemblies, and meetings of all sorts. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Debate   (2586 words)

Malaysian New Economic Policy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Malaysian New Economic Policy (NEP or DEB for Dasar Ekonomi Baru in Malay) was an ambitious, though controversial, socio-economic restructuring affirmative action program launched by the Malaysian government in 1971 under then Prime Minister Tun Abdul Razak. The NEP's success — or lack of it — is a subject of heated debate; although the NEP targeted a 30% share of the economy for the Bumiputra (indigenous people, mostly the Malays), such a figure has never been reached according to official government statistics. Although the NEP was hailed in some quarters as having reduced the socioeconomic disparity between the Chinese minority and Malay majority, others accused it of having reduced non-Malays to the status of second-class citizens. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Malaysian_New_Economic_Policy   (2370 words)

270_fall00 Practical experience in debating: One proposition of policy will be selected by students for use in class debates, and each student will debate both the affirmative and the negative sides of the proposition. Each team scheduled to debate the negative in Round I should come prepared to refute arguments advanced by the affirmative. The file must contain at least 50 items of evidence from research on the class topic and be distributed as follows: 25 from at least 8 different sources on the affirmative side of the proposition and 25 from at least 8 different sources on the negative side. web.utk.edu /~spchcomm/270cook.html   (2370 words)

Argumentation: Professor Evergreen Keefer and the War on Terror Address the negative’s off-case attacks, which may include topicality, countercriteria, and value objections or, in the case of a quasi-policy debate may include counter-plan and disadvantages. The second negative constructive must respond to the second affirmative’s answers to the argument, reestablish the initial first negative claims, and add to or magnify, if possible, the negative argument. It is the responsibility of the first negative constructive speaker to present the negative arguments to be developed throughout the debate. www.nyu.edu /classes/keefer/argue1.html   (2370 words)

Uncommon Knowledge: 2004-2005 Season But the debate over affirmative action has generally ignored such action as practiced by other countries around the world. Guest: Thomas Sowell, Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy, Hoover Institution; Author, Affirmative Action around the World: An Empirical Study. In the United States, affirmative action policies, first implemented to address the historical grievances of black Americans, have long been controversial. www.uncommonknowledge.org /900   (2370 words)

Bake sale cooks up controversy on campus - The Statesman - Campus News Affirmative action has been a hot topic of debate in the nation since a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling stated that a University of Michigan law school policy giving race a role in its admissions process does not violate the U.S. Constitution. The sale was intended to criticize the effects of affirmative action, organizers said. Witt said affirmative action was a necessary movement in the '60s because racial discrimination did exist. www.utahstatesman.com /news/2003/12/05/CampusNews/Bake.Sale.Cooks.Up.Controversy.shtml   (1409 words)

TheIndyChannel.com - Education - Anti-Affirmative Action Bake Sale Hits Nerve At IU BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Cookie sales were dead at an anti-affirmative action bake sale at Indiana University Wednesday, though the debate it sparked was anything but. The Texas school stopped that sale, citing school policy banning events that disrupt normal university operations. The event was similar to a Southern Methodist University bake sale that attracted national media coverage in September. www.theindychannel.com /education/2614773/detail.html   (423 words)

Kritik: Just the facts... Kritiks are more commonly used by the negative to attack the assumptions the affirmative makes, but can be used by the affirmative to show a change in assumptions from the status quo (The existing state of affairs). If a policy action was for the United States to send humanitarian assistance to Africa, a possible kritikal argument would be a kritik of Statism (additional info and facts about Statism); that is, the affirmative uses the centralized state in their plan, and the centralized state should be rejected. Thus, the negative would argue for the judge to reject the affirmative plan. www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/kr/kritik.htm   (130 words)

Proposition 209 The proposal by University of California Regent Ward Connerly is considered an extension of Proposition 209, his successful anti-affirmative action measure, and could once again inject heated debate over race into a gubernatorial election. In the 1995-96 academic year, women were 35.8 percent of UC's hires, but in the 1999-2000 academic year, after the passage of Proposition 209 and a UC Regents resolution ending the use of affirmative action, 25.1 percent of faculty hires were women. Monday, November 3, 1997: In a long-awaited move, the Supreme Court refuses to hear an appeal case on Proposition 209 and lets the decisions of the lower courts stand, which means that the prohibition on affirmative action in California has been upheld. aad.english.ucsb.edu /pages/Prop-209.html   (130 words)

news_detail.php?news_id=167&category_id=46& Hargrave Military Academy’s policy debate team of Cadets Colin Nutter and Miguel Faria are invited to attend the 2004 Grand National Catholic Forensic League Tournament. Policy debate concerns current national and international issues and contestants debate the same resolution throughout the year. The affirmative side finds a reason, plan, and benefit for change while the negative side finds reasons not to do the affirmative plan and to defend the current system. www.hargrave.edu /news/news_detail.php?news_id=167&category_id=46&   (173 words)

Logical Fallacies and the Art of Debate The term red herring is sometimes used loosely to refer to any kind of diversionary tactic, such as presenting relatively unimportant arguments that will use up the other debaters' speaking time and distract them from more important issues. The fallacy comes in when other aspects of the proposed solution (such as whether it is possible, how much it costs, who else might be harmed by adopting the policy) are ignored or responded to only with more impassioned pleas. Therefore, we need affirmative action." Obviously, there is at least one missing step in this argument, because the wrongness of racism does not imply a need for affirmative action without some additional support (such as, "Racism is common," "Affirmative action would reduce racism," "There are no superior alternatives to affirmative action," etc.). www.csun.edu /~dgw61315/fallacies.html   (173 words)

Victory Briefs Daily Your source for debate news, culture, and commentary For a kritik to compete it must so contradict the affirmative that it is a reason to vote against the plan and cannot coexist with the plan. You are merely forcing the kritik to pass the same tests any other traditional negative position must pass in order to defeat the affirmative. So, mechanically, how does an artful affirmative accomplish this? www.victorybriefs.net /webs/daily/archives/003118.html   (1816 words)

Commentary Magazine - Collision Course by Hugh Davis Graham A year later, President Lyndon Johnson, at the signing ceremony for another new law, the Immigration and Nationality Act, declared that its liberalization of existing policy was "not revolutionary." Both men, writes Hugh Davis Graham in his new book, turned out to be "profoundly wrong" in their expectations. ...To be sure, a few important points about affirmative action go undiscussed here-most egregiously, Graham seems unaware that because of their high level of academic achievement, Asian-Americans long ago ceased to be included in affirmative-action admissions policies and are actually discriminated against-but the book's candor on the subject is refreshing... During the Senate floor debate on the Civil-Rights Act of 1964, Hubert Humphrey memorably defended the legislation against the charge that it would lead to racial preferences. www.commentarymagazine.com /Summaries/V114I1P70-1.htm   (1816 words)

Forensic Awards for 2000-2001 Derrick Dennis and Andrew Watson First Alternate in Policy Debate Sherman, Derrick Dennis and Andrew Watson in Policy Debate, Michael January 24 Region 5AA Policy Atlanta, Ga Affirmative Team Derrick Dennis and Andrew Watson www.gradyhighschool.org /debate2001.html   (1816 words)

Posted to Edebate on Sept 25, 1998, Michael Korcok [mmk1913@GARNET Although the counterplan is ubiquitous in contemporary college team policy debate, it still coexists uneasily with traditional debate theory at the high school level, and it is nearly nonexistent in debate fora such as Lincoln-Douglas Debate and Parliamentary Debate. Although much discussion about permutations was occasioned by "Rethinking Counterplans", that discussion has, in my view, merely served to amend Kaplow's formulation of permutations as "a combination of the essence of both proposals" to the formulation of permutations as a combination of the entire affirmative proposal and one or more parts of the counterplan. A clearer and more cogent theory of the counterplan can be developed through a model of argumentation that incorporates both modern methods of policy evaluation and the contemporary iml.umkc.edu /comm/html/debate/library/korcok1.html   (2704 words)

Christopher Edley, Jr. "Affirmative action debate: should race-based affirmative action be abandoned as a national policy?" by Dinesh D'Souza and Christopher Edley, Jr. Edley's thesis is that affirmative action laws are essential to the cause of social justice in this country. Edley's address will be held on September 2, 1999 at 8:00 pm in www.plattsburgh.edu /acadvp/libinfo/library/edley.html   (2704 words)

Kritik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia A kritik can either be deployed by the negative team to challenge the affirmative advocacy or by the affirmative team to indict the status quo or the negative advocacy. Regardless of the affirmative being read, a team may run the same kritik all year. Kritiks, (and their odd germanic spelling) were developed by Bill Shanahan's teams at University of Texas in the late 1980's out of an existing "single-citizen" argumentation paradigm which called for the judge to vote a single citizen's conscience rather than adopting the role of the federal government. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Kritik   (858 words)

MyInKy: News For policy debate, Moers and Claybourn had to debate both the affirmative and negative sides and provide concrete evidence to support their arguments. Moers, a junior, and Claybourn, a senior, both of North High School, won first place in policy debate at the Indiana State Debate Tournament at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis. Moers and Claybourn defeated last year's state champions from Chesterton High School in Chesterton, Ind., in the semifinal round and then defeated debaters from Penn High School in Mishawaka, Ind., in the final round. www.joshclaybourn.com /debate.html   (1157 words)

Victory Briefs Policy: Whatever Happened to the Counterplan? The good counterplan debater doesn't debate his alternate policy as an excuse for a disad: she or he shifts the entire substance of the debate to the counterplan, and buries the affirmative in multiple net benefits and carded answers to the other team's flimsy attempts to articulate solvency deficits. Even so, in the words of one of my high school teammates, the counterplan is only present in those rounds so that the judge can reasonably set aside any 'moral qualms' about not dealing with the harms of the affirmative while in actuality voting for a substantial risk of nuclear war. In my unabashedly biased opinion, a good plan inclusive counterplan out of left field is the best strategy you could hope for. www.victorybriefs.net /webs/VBP/archives/003116.html   (756 words)

People For the American Way - Raising a New Right-Wing Generation: Dinesh D'Souza Loury, in his review of the book, notes that AEI marketed it extensively in business circles, that "Republican staffers on Capitol Hill are said to have eagerly anticipated how the book might move the affirmative action debate in the 'right direction,'" and that D'Souza was generously supported for the book's duration by the Olin Foundation. He is also a regular contributor to the Heritage Foundation's Policy Review and was its managing editor from 1985 through 1987. Hardly a member of the radical left, a description generally applied to D'Souza critics, Woodson called D'Souza "the Mark Fuhrman of public policy," referring to a racist policeman in the O.J. Simpson case. www.pfaw.org /pfaw/general/default.aspx?oid=2070   (758 words)

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