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| Bronx | 3 | Holy Cross RS | Neal Kapoor |
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| Harvard | 5 | Stuyvesant PY | Andrew Perez |
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| Harvard | 2 | Pembroke Pines JF | Matt Mandel |
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| Harvard | Doubles | Stuyvesant KF | Panel |
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| Harvard | Triples | Thomas Jefferson SK | Panel |
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| Lexington | 1 | Harrison MW | Kathy Wang |
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| Lexington | 4 | Stuyvesant KL | Devane Murphy |
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| Lexington | Doubles | American Heritage Plantation DM | Panel |
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| Scarsdale | 2 | Needham CN | Chris Talamo |
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| Scarsdale | 3 | Lexington NBa | Parth Ahya |
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| Yale | 5 | Stuyvesant PY | Becca Traber |
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| Yale | 3 | Southlake Carroll SM | Daniel Alessandro |
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| Yale | 3 | Scarsdale ZG | Sam Azbel |
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| Yale | 1 | Lake Highland Prep SS | Paul Zhou |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: All | Round: 1 | Opponent: All | Judge: All Stuff on my teammates' wikis is fair game. | 3/3/17 |
1 - Cap KTournament: Harvard | Round: 5 | Opponent: Stuyvesant PY | Judge: Andrew Perez The politics of identity entrenches neoliberal individualism that is a modern divide and conquer tactic of the elite. We should stop focusing on the symptoms and start focusing on the root cause of exclusion, which is capitalismFelipe, 13 Alex, "Cough Syrup Politics: Fighting Symptoms, Ignoring Root Causes," http://alexfelipe.wordpress.com/2013/04/22/cough-syrup-politics-fighting-symptoms-ignoring-root-causes/, Vitz Stereotypes of Asians are social technologies deployed to stabilize labor relations—the stigmas they describe are just an extension of underlying ideologies of ascriptive differences. Marxist analysis is key to demystify the role of identity within class conflict—voting aff just makes neoliberalism more efficient by embracing difference as such.Reed 2013 – professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania, specializing in race and American politics. He has taught at Yale, Northwestern and the New School for Social Research. An expert on racial and economic inequality, he is a founding member of the Labor Party and a frequent contributor to The Nation (Adolph, New Labor Forum 22.1, "Marx, Race, and Neoliberalism") You have an a priori ethical obligation to reject capitalism because it makes its victims anonymous.Zizek and Daly 04 The alternative is class analysis firstMollow 4 Anna Mollow, "IDENTITY POLITICS ANDDISABILITY STUDIES:A CRITIQUE OF RECENT THEORY" University of Michigan Quarterly Review, 2004 quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?cc=mqr;c=mqr;c=mqrarchive;idno=act2080.0043.218;rgn=main;view=text;xc=1;g=mqrg | 2/19/17 |
1 - SkepTournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Pembroke Pines JF | Judge: Matt Mandel First, linguistic skep – we can never know what a statement means so it is impossible for it to be true.Kripke, Saul A. Wittgenstein on rules and private language: An elementary exposition. Harvard University Press, 1982. CRLS PO | 3/3/17 |
1 - Util FWTournament: Yale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SM | Judge: Daniel Alessandro First, empiricism is key to avoid regressRichards '86 (Robert, "A Defense of Evolutionary Ethics," Biology and Philosophy) bracketed for offensive language Second, phenomenal introspection reliably informs us of pain's badness and pleasure's goodness as an empirical basis for ethicsSinhababu '13 (Sinhababu, Neil, "The epistemic argument for hedonism," 2013) PO Thus, the standard is maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain.Impact framing: extinction first—moral uncertainty necessitates minimizing existential riskBostrom '05 (Nick, professor of philosophy at Oxford~, July 2005, "On our Biggest Problems" http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/44) PO | 10/13/16 |
1 - Util FW V2Tournament: Lexington | Round: Doubles | Opponent: American Heritage Plantation DM | Judge: Panel Empiricism is key to avoid regressRichards '86 (Robert, "A Defense of Evolutionary Ethics," Biology and Philosophy) bracketed for offensive language Moral disagreement means epistemic reliability must be the starting point for ethics.Neil Sinhababu '13 The Epistemic Argument for Hedonism, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, Meta-Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Nietzsche, National University of Singapore That means util—phenomenal introspection is most epistemically reliable.Neil Sinhababu '13 The Epistemic Argument for Hedonism, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, Meta-Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Nietzsche, National University of Singapore Thus, the standard is maximizing pleasure and minimizing pain.Impact framing —- moral uncertainty necessitates minimizing existential riskBostrom '05 (Nick, professor of philosophy at Oxford~, July 2005, "On our Biggest Problems" http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/44) PO | 3/3/17 |
JF - CP - KilljoyTournament: Harvard | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Stuyvesant KF | Judge: Panel Counterplan text: we should refuse to be happy or complicit within systems of oppression, except we should be happy when challenging oppression.It's competitive—"Within" is defined as "inside (something)" by Google Dictionary (https://www.google.com/search?q=within+definitionandoq=within+definitionandaqs=chrome.0.0l6.1967j0j1andsourceid=chromeandie=UTF-8) so the aff defends we shouldn't even be happy when fighting oppression since we're still within oppressive systems.Net benefits:~1~ Violence is inevitable—it's constitutive of metaphysics.~Martin Hagglund (2006): The Necessity of Discrimination Disjoining Derrida and Levinas.~ But hedonism is true—pain is bad and pleasure is good, so we should be happy within oppressive systems.Neil Sinhababu '13 The Epistemic Argument for Hedonism, Associate Professor of Philosophy, National University of Singapore, Meta-Ethics, Philosophy of Action, Nietzsche, National University of Singapore | 3/3/17 |
JF - CP - WisconsinTournament: Lexington | Round: 4 | Opponent: Stuyvesant KL | Judge: Devane Murphy Counterplan text: Public colleges and universities ought not restrict any constitutionally protected speech except for speech regulated under the 1989 University of Wisconsin System speech rule and ought to adopt the 1989 University of Wisconsin System speech rule.U.S. District Court E.D. Wisconsin 91 clarifies ~United States District Court E.D. Wisconsin, a bunch of judges—probably pretty qualified, 10-11-1991, "UWM Post v. Board of Regents of University of Wisconsin", http://cdn.publicinterestnetwork.org/assets/mdGVXR4xIIPFiNRwRkQzyg/SPEECH-CODES-UWM-POST-V-REGENTS.pdf~~ AG Mutually exclusive—the rule's unconstitutional.FIRE n.d. ~FIRE, no date, "State of the Law: Speech Codes", FIRE, https://www.thefire.org/in-court/state-of-the-law-speech-codes/~~ AG brackets in original No chilling—my evidence is specific.Hodulik 90 ~PATRICIA HODULIK; B.A., 1972; J.D., 1976, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Senior System Legal Counsel, University of Wisconsin System Administration;1990-1991; "RACIST SPEECH ON CAMPUS"; Wayne Law Review; https://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?collection=journalsandhandle=hein.journals/waynlr37andtype=Textandid=1450~~ AG | 1/15/17 |
JF - DA - EndowmentsTournament: Harvard | Round: Triples | Opponent: Thomas Jefferson SK | Judge: Panel Endowments fine now but donations drop if all speech is allowed.MacDonald 05 Endowments are key to innovation and US competitiveness.Leigh '14 (Steven, dean of CU-Boulder College of Arts and Sciences, "Endowments and the future of higher education," CU-Boulder, March) OS Loss of U.S. tech leadership causes great power warTaylor 04 ~Mark, Professor of Political Science – Massachusetts Institute of Technology, "The Politics of Technological Change: International Relations versus Domestic Institutions", 4-1, http://www.scribd.com/doc/46554792/Taylor~~ Turns and outweighs the case—high endowments means low financial aid, which prevents minorities from going to collegeFreedman 13 (Josh. 2013. "Why American Colleges Are Becoming A Force For Inequality". The Atlantic. Accessed February 19 2017. https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/why-american-colleges-are-becoming-a-force-for-inequality/275923/) | 3/3/17 |
JF - DA - WarmingTournament: Lexington | Round: 4 | Opponent: Stuyvesant KL | Judge: Devane Murphy Academia is suppressing climate denial now—spills over to government—plan reverses that.Williamson 16 Campuses are restricting climate denial—Colorado proves.Williams 16 Climate skepticism is set to decline despite Trump but greater public skepticism means less political action—Trump cabinet means brink is now.Foran '16 (CLARE FORAN is an associate editor at The Atlantic. "Donald Trump and the Triumph of Climate-Change Denial," The Atlantic, 12/25, https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/donald-trump-climate-change-skeptic-denial/510359/) OS ====Warming causes extinction.==== | 1/15/17 |
JF - NC - KantTournament: Lexington | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harrison MW | Judge: Kathy Wang ====Next, property requires the existence of the general will—rights in the state of nature are provisional, and disputes could only be resolved through unilateral coercion. That means the state is legitimate in coercively enforcing rights claims.==== ====The actor is the state—public colleges and universities are funded and operated by the state.==== Thus, the standard is maintaining a system of equal outer freedom.Contention:~1~ The state should regulate hate speech to promote equal freedom.Varden 10 ~Helga Varden, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies @ U of Illinois, 5-22-2010, Academia.edu, https://www.academia.edu/2006079/A_Kantian_Conception_of_Free_Speech~~ AG ~2~ Seditious speech amounts to having a right to end the omnilateral will, which makes freedom impossible.Varden 10 ~Helga Varden, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies @ U of Illinois, 5-22-2010, Academia.edu, https://www.academia.edu/2006079/A_Kantian_Conception_of_Free_Speech~~ AG Seditious speech is constitutionally protected.Justia n.d. ~Justia, "Seditious Speech and Seditious Libel", http://law.justia.com/constitution/us/amendment-01/41-seditious-speech.html~~ AG | 1/15/17 |
JF - NC - PossibilityTournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Pembroke Pines JF | Judge: Matt Mandel ~1~ Speech includes the act of not speaking.US Courts n.d. ("What Does Free Speech Mean?," http://www.uscourts.gov/about-federal-courts/educational-resources/about-educational-outreach/activity-resources/what-does) OS ~2~ Analytic~3~ Analytic | 3/3/17 |
JF - NC - SpinozaTournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Pembroke Pines JF | Judge: Matt Mandel The GCB exists.~1~ The modal ontological argument—the GCB's existence in a possible world implies necessary existence in our world.Himma (Kenneth Einar Himma, Seattle Pacific University, "Anselm: Ontological Argument for God's Existence," IEP, http://www.iep.utm.edu/ont-arg/~~#H4) OS ~3~ Possibility requires a being that coninstantiates all positive predicates.Chignell (Andrew Chignell, Philosophy Prof at Cornell, one of the foremost scholars on Kant, Kant, Modality, and the Most Real Being, Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 91 (2):157-19, 2009) OS Thus, the standard is consistency with the GCB's will.Negating is the squo—colleges have unconstitutional speech codes.FIRE '17 ~Foundation for Individual Rights in Education. "State of the Law: Speech Codes." 2017. Web. https://www.thefire.org/in-court/state-of-the-law-speech-codes/~~ | 3/3/17 |
JF - T - FrameworkTournament: Harvard | Round: 5 | Opponent: Stuyvesant PY | Judge: Andrew Perez Interpretation—the aff should defend the implementation of a topical advocacy.Dictionary.com (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/college) Violation—Topical debate is good—~1~ Monologue DA~2~ Preparation and clash~3~ Institutional knowledge – refusal to tie their ethical stance to any political process atomizes protest and collapses into self-satisfied, ineffective symbolismDavid Chandler 7, Professor of History, The possibilities of post-territorial political community, Area, Volume 39, Issue 1, pages 116–119 ~4~ Democratic Deliberation—tailoring identity claims to common topics for deliberation is possible and desirable—arguments like topicality don't injure people, but policies do—avoiding democratic engagement means the aff can never actually transform the institutions that produce exclusion in the first placeAmanda Anderson 6, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Humanities and English at Brown University, Spring 2006, "Reply to My Critic(s)," Criticism, Vol. 48, No. 2, p. 281-290 | 2/19/17 |
ND - CP - CincinnatiTournament: Scarsdale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington NBa | Judge: Parth Ahya Counterplan text: the United States federal government ought to adopt the Cincinnati Model of policingSemuels 15 ~Alana Semuels, staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, 5-28-2015, "How Cincinnati Fixed Its Broken Police Department," Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/cincinnati-police-reform/393797/~~ AG The model mitigated crime and police brutalitySemuels 15 ~Alana Semuels, staff writer at The Atlantic. She was previously a national correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, 5-28-2015, "How Cincinnati Fixed Its Broken Police Department," Atlantic, http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/05/cincinnati-police-reform/393797/~~ AG Better community-police relationsRidgeway et al 09 ~Greg Ridgeway, Terry L. Schell, Brian Gifford, Jessica Saunders, Susan Turner, K. Jack Riley, Travis L. Dixon, 2009, "Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati," http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/police/linkservid/63419796-3B7B-4330-AAB78FBCB9F927A9/showMeta/0/~~ AG | 11/12/16 |
ND - DA - CrimeTournament: Scarsdale | Round: 2 | Opponent: Needham CN | Judge: Chris Talamo Lack of immunity would open police up to a flood of litigation that hamgstrings law enforcement.King 16 Decline of active and engaged policing is driving a record spike in crime, caused by police fear of backlashHofstetter 16 Violent crime creates self-reinforcing cycles that doom youth.Reich et al. '02: (Kathleen Reich, M.P.P., Patti L. Culross, M.D., M.P.H., and Richard E. Behrman, M.D. "Children, Youth, and Gun Violence: Analysis and Recommendations." The Future of Children. Children, Youth, and Gun Violence. Volume 12 – Number 2 Summer/Fall 2002FT) | 11/12/16 |
ND - DA - FederalismTournament: Scarsdale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington NBa | Judge: Parth Ahya Rights-based federalism is high now.Manoj Mate '14. (Assistant Professor of Law, Whittier Law School), COLUMBIA HUMAN RIGHTS LAW REVIEW, Winter 2014. Retrieved Apr. 22, 2014 from Lexis/Nexis. QI is key to federalism—it's a key rationale that allows federal courts to avoid usurping the authority of state courts.Putnam and Ferris '92 (Charles T., Senior Assistant Attorney General, New Hampshire and another Charles T., JD, Franklin Pierce Law Center, "Defending a Maligned Defense: The Policy Bases of the Qualified Immunity Defense in Actions Under 42 USC 1983," Bridgeport Law Review, Vol. 12, 1992) OS Federalism is modeled and solves war.Calabresi 95 –Associate Professor at Northwestern University School of Law- (Steven, "Symposium: Reflections On United States V. Lopez: "A Government Of Limited And Enumerated Powers": In Defense Of United States V. Lopez," Michigan Law Review, December 1995, Lexis) | 11/12/16 |
SO - CP - LFTRTournament: Yale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SM | Judge: Daniel Alessandro Countries ought to acquire nuclear power only from Liquid Fluoride Thorium ReactorsLFTRs solve your offenseCooper 15 ~Ryan Cooper 15, 6-18-2015, "Why the U.S. should invest a lot more in nuclear research," The Week, http://theweek.com/articles/561192/why-should-invest-lot-more-nuclear-research~~ AG | 10/13/16 |
SO - CP - SubsidiesTournament: Yale | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep SS | Judge: Paul Zhou Counterplan text: Countries ought to end public subsidies for nuclear power by adopting the Libertarian Party Platform energy policy.Libertarian Party n.d. ("Energy," http://www.dehnbase.org/lpus/library/platform/ene.html) OS | 10/15/16 |
SO - DA - IcebreakersTournament: Yale | Round: 3 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll SM | Judge: Daniel Alessandro Russia and the West are on the path to warAllen 15 ~John Allen 15, 4-22-2015, "Countdown to War: The Coming U.S.-Russia Conflict," National Interest, http://nationalinterest.org/feature/countdown-war-the-coming-us-russia-conflict-12698~~ AG Nuclear icebreakers make emerging arctic trade routes accessibleReterski 14 ~Milosz Reterski 14, 12-11-2014, "Breaking the Ice," Foreign Affairs, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2014-12-11/breaking-ice~~ AG Arctic trade routes create Russia-West trade cooperationKruskal 1/18 ~Joshua Kruskal 16, 1-18-2016, "Arctic Trade Route Presents Opportunity for Russia-West Cooperation," International Policy Digest, http://intpolicydigest.org/2016/01/18/arctic-trade-route-presents-opportunity-for-russia-west-cooperation/~~ AG Trade cooperation prevents warMooney 14 ~Loren Mooney 14, 5-28-2014, "Matthew O. Jackson: Can Trade Prevent War?," Stanford Graduate School of Business, https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/matthew-o-jackson-can-trade-prevent-war~~ AG | 10/13/16 |
SO - DA - WarmingTournament: Yale | Round: 5 | Opponent: Stuyvesant PY | Judge: Becca Traber U.S. emissions low nowMcMahon 6/23 ~Jeff McMahon, contributor at Forbes, "U.S. On Track To Achieve 2030 Emissions Goals In 2016," Forbes Magazine, June 23, 2016, http://www.forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon/2016/06/23/u-s-on-track-to-achieve-2030-emissions-goals-in-2016/~~#fa3d9fa42c8e~~ JW Nuclear is the best solution to climate change—every alternative fails—future tech solves squo shortcomingsCohen 2012 Warming causes extinctionMazo '10 (Jeffrey Mazo – PhD in Paleoclimatology from UCLA, Managing Editor, Survival and Research Fellow for Environmental Security and Science Policy at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London, 3-2010, "Climate Conflict: How global warming threatens security and what to do about it," pg. 122) | 10/11/16 |
SO - K - FoDTournament: Yale | Round: 5 | Opponent: Stuyvesant PY | Judge: Becca Traber Their politicization and fear of nuclear power is a conscious or unconscious refusal to confront death.Pahner '76 (Philip, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Psychiatrist, Joint IAEA/IIASA Research Project, International Atomic Energy Agency, "A Psychological Perspective of the Nuclear Energy Controversy," August, IIASA Research Memorandum, http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/617/1/RM-76-067.pdf) OS This fear is symbolic displacement—it's a palliative scapegoat that allows us to transfer our fears of nuclear war onto separate objects.Pahner '76 (Philip, International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Psychiatrist, Joint IAEA/IIASA Research Project, International Atomic Energy Agency, "A Psychological Perspective of the Nuclear Energy Controversy," August, IIASA Research Memorandum, http://pure.iiasa.ac.at/617/1/RM-76-067.pdf) OS Our fear of the chaotic unknown is self-blackmail, internalized securitization. We have encased ourselves in plastic cellophane to prolong our shelf lives, reducing the body to no more than a diseased object to preserve—what value is there in living if we just do so to maximize survival?Baudrillard 2 ~Jean, v smaht person, Symbolic Exchange and Death, pp. 177-180, Sage Publications~ CRLS PO Turns case—repression of death is the root cause of every violent and oppressive dichotomy.Baudrillard 3 ~Jean, "Symbolic Exchange and Death", pg. 125-126~ CRLS PO The alt is to sacrifice the 1AC to endorse symbolic exchange—embrace death as the only way to destroy the system.Robinson 12 ~Andrew, "The Rise of Capitalism and Exclusion of Death", 2012, http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-baudrillard-2~~ CRLS PO
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SO - NC - LibertarianismTournament: Yale | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep SS | Judge: Paul Zhou The existence of extrinsic goodness requires unconditional human worth—that means we must treat others as ends in themselvesKorsgaard '83 (Christine M., "Two Distinctions in Goodness," The Philosophical Review Vol. 92, No. 2 (Apr., 1983), pp. 169-195, JSTOR) OS Thus, the standard is respecting freedom.Vote neg—the government cannot coercively restrict the rights of private companies to seek the end of nuclear power generation. One can never restrict the ends a subject can set as their means, because to be human is to autonomously set the ends. To treat humanity as an end requires one to respect the legislative right of agents to use their means as they see fit free of domination.Arthur Ripstein 09 ~Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Toronto, and Chair of the Department of Philosophy~, "Force and Freedom", Harvard University Press, pgs 34-35, 2009 Impact calc:There's an intent-foresight distinctionHegel (George Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Philosophy of Right, 1820) | 10/15/16 |
SO - T - CountriesTournament: Bronx | Round: 3 | Opponent: Holy Cross RS | Judge: Neal Kapoor ===="Countries" is a generic bare plural, just like "just governments."==== Violation:Standards:~1~ Precision—three impactsA~ PredictabilityB~ Topicality rule—precision independently outweighsNebel '15 (Jake, "The Priority of Resolutional Semantics," 2/20/15, http://vbriefly.com/2015/02/20/the-priority-of-resolutional-semantics-by-jake-nebel/) C~ Jurisdiction~2~ LimitsAdvocacy skills | 10/15/16 |
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