The following is a repost of an edebate post from Gordon Mitchell, Director of UPitt’s William Pitt Debating Union. It is one of the most comprehensive and useful posts on ethics and evidence I have seen to date. I believe this will be a big issue in the coming years in debate and getting ahead [...]
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I remember joking around with people I went to college with that I wanted to start my own charter high school where all of the curriculum matter revolved around the high school debate topic for the year. It would be the perfect way to solve the competition between homework and debate research – they would [...]
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Saturday at CEDA Nationals we held a drop-in informational discussion on current issues in debate, including but not limited to the discrimination and sexual harassment policies for the CEDA National Tournament and beyond. The Sexual Harassment Officers (SHOs) for this year are myself (Sue Peterson) and ML Sandoz from Vanderbilt. For those [...]
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An interesting and challenging question was posed over at SoCal-LD.net on the Teleology of Debate. I have struggled with this in my own coaching, not only in debate but also in IEs. After all, everything we do in forensics is highly formulaic and not necessarily what works best in the “real world”. But, I think [...]
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