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0 - Contact Info
Tournament: any | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any Hi, I'm Emma Blum. You can contact me at eblum2019@bwscampus.com or Facebook message me.
1/6/17
0 - IMPORTANT NOTE FOR USC
Tournament: READ THIS | Round: Finals | Opponent: READ THIS | Judge: READ THIS I will not be reading PICs out of specific types or methods of constitutionally protected speech against affs that are not parametricized at the USC tournament.
Examples of pics I can't read: Only restrict hate speech Only restrict revenge porn Only restrict journalist speech
Examples I can still read: Word PICs Process PICs Agent PICs
(I may change the wording of this before the tournament)
2/27/17
1 - Framework
Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 6 | Opponent: BASIS EK | Judge: Lucy Korsakov A. Interpretation: the aff must defend and can only garner offense from the desirability of the hypothetical enactment of a topical policy enacted by the resolution’s actors. B. Violation C. Standards
Limits
2/19/17
1 - May Not Garner Offense Through Discussion
Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: Triples | Opponent: Loyola NT | Judge: multiple A. Interpretation- Debaters introducing a role of the ballot of x can only garner offense through the efficacy of their advocacy or method, and cannot get offense from initiating or participating in a discussion. B. Violation C. Standards
Reciprocity 2. Strat Skew
2/19/17
1 - T - Any
Tournament: CPS | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harker EM | Judge: Neil Tagare
Interpretation – The Cambridge Dictionary defines any: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/grammar/british-grammar/quantifiers/any We use any before nouns to refer to indefinite or unknown quantities or an unlimited entity: Did you bring any bread? Mr Jacobson refused to answer any questions. If I were able to travel back to any place and time in history, I would go to ancient China. Any as a determiner has two forms: a strong form and a weak form. The forms have different meanings. Weak form any: indefinite quantities We use any for indefinite quantities in questions and negative sentences. We use some in affirmative sentences: Have you got any eggs? I haven’t got any eggs. I’ve got some eggs. Not: I’ve got any eggs. We use weak form any only with uncountable nouns or with plural nouns: talking about fuel for the car Do I need to get any petrol? (+ uncountable noun) There aren’t any clean knives. They’re all in the dishwasher. (+ plural noun) Any is a determiner in the context of the resolution – it specifies the scope of constitutionally protected speech we shouldn’t prohibit. Thus the aff is required to defend that all constitutionally protected speech must be allowed on college campus – and cannot specify to any finite quality / specific speech restriction to overturn.
B. Violation –
C. Standards –
Field Context 2. Limits 3. Ground
12/18/16
Decadence DA
Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 6 | Opponent: BASIS Silicon Valley EK | Judge: Lucy Korsakov Decadence DA
The call to win based on oppressed identity makes performance appear as legitimate evidence, foreclosing contestable politics. Gordon (Lewis Gordon—professor at philosophy, African and Judiac Studies at University of Connecticut Storrs—2006 (Disciplinary Decadence: Living Thought in Trying Times, p 28-29)) A striking feature ... of perennial truths.
Decadence allows the colonization of methods and thinking, and destroys the possibility of a decolonized ethics of the oppressed to overturn – turns case and undermines solvency. Gordon 2 (Lewis Gordon—professor of philosophy, African and Judiac Studies at the University of Connecticut—2014 (“Disciplinary Decadence and the Decolonization of Knowledge,” Africa Development 39.1: 81-92, 88).) The first is ... a similar fate.
2/5/17
EcoPess K
Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough GK | Judge: John Overing See open source.
2/5/17
Endowments DA
Tournament: Golden Desert | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough MC | Judge: Abbey Chapman Endowments Endowments are high now but dropping rapidly - protests are alienating alumni donors, who are of older generations Hartocollis 8/4 – Anemona Hartocollis, writer for NYT: August 4, 2016("College Students Protest, Alumni's Fondness Fades and Checks Shrink" New York Times Available at http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/05/us/college-protests-alumni-donations.html?_r=0 Accessed on 12/15/16)IG Scott MacConnell cherishes the memory of his years at Amherst College, where he discovered AND , said there was no evidence the drop was connected to campus protests.
Endowment funds are key to US competitiveness – ensures college quality Leigh '14 Steven R. Leigh (dean of CU-Boulder's College of Arts and Sciences), "Endowments and the future of higher education," UColorado Boulder, March 2014 AZ These broad trends point directly to the need for CU-Boulder's College of Arts AND affirm the importance of higher education and enduringly preserve its viability and vitality.
Innovation solves great power war Taylor 4 – Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mark, "The Politics of Technological Change: International Relations versus Domestic Institutions," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 4/1/2004, http://www.scribd.com/doc/46554792/Taylor) RGP I. Introduction Technological innovation is of central importance to the study of international relations AND , and war, international systems would not exist in the first place.
2/5/17
Hate Speech DA
Tournament: CPS | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harker EM | Judge: Neil Tagare See open source.
12/18/16
Hate Speech PIC
Tournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mountain View AR | Judge: Matt Conrad See open source.
12/18/16
Hate Speech Reps K
Tournament: CPS | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harker EM | Judge: Neil Tagare See open source.
12/18/16
Holocaust K
Tournament: UPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Sunset AB | Judge: Tessie Lamourea See open source.
1/6/17
Kant NC
Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker EM | Judge: Akhil Gandra I negate Ought is defined as moral obligation so the value is morality. The metaethic is practical reason- only practical reason solves the issue of normative regress. David Velleman, 2006, ‘Self to Self’, Cambridge Unviersity Press, pg 18-19 As we have...act for reasons. Practical reasons must be true of and for every agent since the only relevant feature is reason and not contingent circumstance. Thus the standard is protecting freedom. Metaethical standards outweigh: they determine what counts as a warrant for a standard Also prefer frameworks that are comprehensive and ground the wrongness of our intuitions I advocate for the status quo. Speech can be coercive Varden, Helga. 2010 "A Kantian Conception of Free Speech." Freedom of Expression in a Diverse World Thus speech must...speech going on. Hate speech is coercive – it imposes major long term psychological impacts on its victims Delgado 82, Delgado, Richard (University of Alabama School of Law), “Words that Wound: A Tort Action for Racial Insults, Epithets, and Name-Calling”. Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Vol. 17, p. 133, 1982; Seattle University School of Law Research Paper. https://ssrn.com/abstract=2000918 In addition to...accept those judgements. Studies show hate speech imposes wide-ranging psychological harms on its victim Jay 9, Timothy Jay (Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts). “Do Offensive Words Harm People?” Psychology, Public Policy, and Law, 2009, Vol. 15, No. 2, 81–101. https://www.mcla.edu/Assets/uploads/MCLA/import/www.mcla.edu/Undergraduate/uploads/textWidget/ Harms experienced by...directed toward them. Hindering a hindrance is justified. Arthur Ripstein Professor of Philosophy, 2009, ‘Force and Freedom’, Harvard University Press p72 That is, unlike...of equal freedom.
2/19/17
Metaphors K
Tournament: UPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Sunset AB | Judge: Tessie Lamourea See open source.
1/6/17
Patriot Act Advantage CP
Tournament: Berkeley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker EM | Judge: Akhil Gandra A. Counter Plan Text: The United States Federal Government should repeal the Patriot Act – that’s key to increase free speech and foster progressive criticism of the status quo on campuses. Kister is my solvency advocate Chad Kister; http://www.repealthepatriotact.org/ The US Patriot Act...done under it. B. Competition: The CP competes through net benefits C. Solvency: It’s key to increase free speech and foster progressive criticism of the status quo on campuses. Macdonald 03 Morgan MacDonald, Patriot Act stifles dissent on campus, Baltimore Sun. . Morgan MacDonald is a junior at the Johns Hopkins University and co-chair of the American Civil Liberties Union's National Board Youth Affairs Committee. 11/24/03, http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2003-11-24/news/0311240117_1_student-groups-student-information-college-campusesAlpha As a college...not be allowed.
2/19/17
Spikes K
Tournament: CPS | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mountain View AR | Judge: Matt Conrad See open source.
12/18/16
Victim Blaming K
Tournament: VBT | Round: 2 | Opponent: Flintridge Sacred Heart ER | Judge: Rebecca Kuang See open source.
