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Submitted by Irene McGrath: TC meeting Bangkok 1st session: Friday 8th August 2014 Future tournaments Beth James (chair) Brief review of Executive over past year • Hayah and Irina are not here. No idea about Alex de Jager • Main job this year to coordinate with TJ and Directors. Plus consolidating long-promised rule changes - got moved aside by Thailand vote. • Working groups suspended pro tem. Happy to hear comments on how best to re-invigorate these and how best to engage with nations between tournaments. • Round of applause requested for Executive. Roger: everyone should email any questions / suggestions. Stuttgart bid for 2016. Morocco representative said they would be interested. Chair - a bit late as we're going to vote on it now! Later perhaps. Chris Sanchez / Jana Gilke Checked with Ramadan, UEFA and Euro Olympics - no clashes. Stuttgart is 'largest village in world' - trams, walk. Nice place, lots of villages round about, Heidelberg, v green city. Support from ...

http://www.keprtv.com/news/local/College-students-and-inmates-team-up-for-formal-debate-284829611.html?tab=video&c=y College students and inmates team up for formal debate By Gina Lazara Published: Dec 4, 2014 at 6:23 PM PST WALLA WALLA, Wash. -- College students got a chance to interact with hardened inmates at the Pen today. Those inmates included a man locked up for crimes you may remember right here in the Tri-Cities. KEPR learned how he's trying to turn his life around, through events like these. Kevin Kafiyev is getting ready for his turn to take the podium. He is arguing on behalf of a person's right to anonymity on the internet. It's a topic assigned for a debate between college students and inmates. Kevin is one of the convicts. "I'm here for a crime I committed back in 2009," said Kafiyev. You may remember Kevin and his brother held up the Kennewick Carmike Theatre and burglarized the JC Penney's at the mall a few years ago. Both men went to...

Michael McLoone  Milwaukee Vincent students Na' Quoya Willison (left) and Solomon Demby talk as Tarif Garrett (far right) prepares for a debate before the city finals of the Milwaukee Debate League earlier this month at the Wells Fargo Building in Milwaukee. http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/urban-high-schoolers-find-work-on-debate-team-is-difficult-but-rewarding-b99411482z1-286626451.html Urban high schoolers find work on debate team is difficult but rewarding By Erin Richards of the Journal Sentinel Dec. 22, 2014 Michael McLoone - Teressa Shaw gestures as she gives her speech during the Milwaukee Debate League city finals earlier this month. Milwaukee Debate League continues to thrive When Teressa Shaw stands to make an argument, watch out. The Rufus King High School senior speaks loud and fast, and gesticulates a lot, when she wants to change federal policy — in this case at a debate competition where she argued for more government funding for ocean fisheries. That ki...

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/local/broward/fl-broward-debate-classes-20141222-story.html Broward schools make the case for debate classes Carline Jean, Sun Sentinel By Scott Travis Debate classes expand in effort to teach students to analyze material and think critically. Broward offers debate in all 34 traditional high schools and added them this year in 13 middle schools. Broward County students are arguing more in class these days, and school district officials say there's no debate that's a good thing. Carline Jean, Sun Sentinel The district has made a case for debate programs, offering them in all 34 traditional high schools -- up from 12 in 2012 – and adding them this year in 13 middle schools. Officials plan to eventually expand it into all district middle schools and some elementary school teachers have expressed interest in bringing it to even younger students. Debate supporters argue it teaches students to analyze material and think critically. Research shows debate s...

Unfortunate and Unexpected Changes to Subsidy Offers Made to Scholarship Recipients Hi all, There has been a series of unfortunate events that has unfolded in the last week that has regretfully forced the Scholarship team to amend the scholarship conditions to 38 of our 60 scholarship recipients. The Scholarship team has been operating under a MYR 100,000 grant from the Malaysian Convention & Exhibition Bureau to bring 60 scholars to Malaysia. Based on that financial capacity and based on the invoice issued by our travel agency on the travel costs involved, the team has offered cost-sharing scholarship agreements which included full flight subsidies to most of the scholars involved. In the past few months, the team has struggled with government bureaucracy in disbursing those funds for the purposes of flight purchases for our scholars. As our team realised that we could not afford to delay the purchases any longer, we negotiated a credit agreement with the travel agency using MIDP...

Debate team tops national rankings Wed, 12/17/2014 LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas debate team finished first in the country for the fall semester in the National Debate Tournament Varsity Rankings. The rankings are based on points earned by schools at all tournaments during the fall. The top-10 debate teams are as follows: 1. University of Kansas (370 points) 2. Wake Forest University (329 points) 3. Liberty University (321) 4. George Mason University (287 points) 5. University of Oklahoma (285 points) 6. University of California-Berkeley (268 points) 7. University of Michigan (253 points) 8. Emory University (249 points) 9. Michigan State University (244 points) 10. Binghamton University (241 points). Members of the KU debate team competed at 11 tournaments during the first semester, including tournaments at Georgia State University, Harvard University, Wake Forest University, Weber State University and UNLV. KU teams qualified for the elimina...

WSU debate team to report findings on predatory towing MONDAY , DECEMBER 15, 2014 - 3:41 PM "A car gets towed from the Ogden City Plaza in August. Mitch Shaw OGDEN — Ogden City will pass legislation in 2015 to combat what they call “non-consensual” towing and they’ve recruited Weber State University ’s debate team to help them craft a law. Earlier this year, the team was asked by the city to conduct comprehensive research on options for city regulations regarding non-consensual, or predatory towing. On Tuesday, the team will present its findings to members of the city administration and council during a special council work session. Brittany Griffin, communications specialist for the city council staff, said the team will present several viewpoints related to the topic, then the council will discuss and consider policy options on the matter during subsequent meetings. “We don’t currently have any ordinance on predatory towing, but we’ve had a lot of complaints from residents on t...

Dear WSDC community, On behalf of the Co-Conveners and Co-Chief Adjudicators of WSDC 2015, I am pleased to announce the launch of Newsletter #1 for WSDC 2015. The Co-Conveners, Mark Gabriel and Evelyn Woels, have included important information about the registration process for teams. Nations planning to participate in the tournament should read that section carefully. The Co-Chief Adjudicators of WSDC 2015, Tracey Lee and Vernie Oliveiro, have also included with this newsletter their first update. Please read the update for information on how you may apply to be a member of the Chief Adjudication Panel or to attend WSDC 2015 as an independent adjudicator. Nations should also note that the co-CAs are asking each country to have at least one adjudicator attached to their delegation register for the tournament by February 9th. Please see the CAs' Update for more information. The Co-Convenors, the Co-CAs, and the organizing committee in Singapore wish all happy holidays! Best wishes,...

Having trouble viewing this email? Click here THE GREAT DEBATERS NEWSLETTER! THE NEW YORK CITY DEBATE LEAGUE "Be Great! Be a Great Debater!" LAST TOURNAMENT OF 2014!  NYC HIGH SCHOOL DEBATE TOURNAMENT #2 RESULTS!   This week we celebrate our last Tournament of 2014!!!!  Yesterday,  December 13th, we hosted our second high school tournament of the year with 87 high school debate teams, 156 debaters, and 76 debate judges! Shout outs to all high schools participating - All City Leadership, Benjamin Banneker, Bronx Collaborative Studies, Brooklyn Technical HS, Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, DeWitt Clinton, Health Professions, High School for Law, Advocacy and Community Justice, Institute for Collaborative Education, KIPP, Lakeland, Maspeth, Mott Hall Bronx, Queens HS for the Sciences, Science, T...