Help Write Resolutions!

SANTA MONICA, Cali. — You can help brainstorm, suggest, write, and discuss potential Lincoln-Douglas debate resolutions on the VBD Discussion Forums.

Please use the conventions that have started. Start each post with the title of “Topic Area: ___.” Under each of these Topic Areas we can start coming up with wording. This is your opportunity to be involved with the process. Although I hope this forum will be an ongoing discussion, Dan Meyers has reminded me that all suggestions must be to the NFL by May 15.

CLICK HERE TO PROCEED TO THE RESOLUTION DISCUSSION

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2008 TOC Video: Run-off Round

SANTA MONICA, Cali. — Today, VBD Original Videos features a round between Mountain View’s Daniel Garber on the affirmative and Walt Whitman’s Caroline Sherrard on the negative.

This was a run-off round at this year’s Tournament of Champions. The decision was a 3-0 for the affirmative; the judges were Mike Bietz, Tim Hogan, and Liz Scoggin.

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Chris Theis Wins the TOC

Greenhill Wins Third Policy TOC Title;
North Allegheny Wins PF; Nova Takes Congress

LEXINGTON, Ky. — This year’s Tournament of Champions concluded with an intense final round between Apple Valley High School’s Chris Theis and the Kinkaid School’s Becca Traber.

Chris Castillo, Wesley Craven, Jon Cruz, Dave McGinnis, Adam Nelson, Liz Scoggin, and Aaron Timmons adjudicated. On a 6-1 decision — Craven dissented — Chris took home the title for Apple Valley. He is the fourth Apple Valley debater to reach finals and the first to win. Congratulations to both debaters!

Chris is only the second junior in history to win the TOC in Lincoln-Douglas debate. (more…)

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Picturing the TOC, Picturing the Northeast Championships

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Forty-eight images from the Tournament of Champions and fifteen images from the Northeast Championships make up the most recent update to the VBD Photo Gallery.

If you have pictures from the TOC, the Northeast Championships, or any other tournaments that you’d like to include in our Photo Gallery, please submit them with captions! (Yes, adding captions to the new photo gallery is my next big project.)

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HOW TO STAND OUT IN THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS GAME

SPONSORED POST — Earlier in April, on VBD, happy seniors detailed the colleges that they will be attending in the fall. Congratulations to them all! The list was filled with many elite schools. The question for you juniors, who are now “on deck” and for you sophomores, who are becoming more engaged in the college admissions process is this: Where will YOU get in?

The New York Times recently reported that for this cycle, Harvard offered admission to just 7.1 percent of 27,462 applicants. Yale accepted only 8.3 percent of seniors who applied. Other schools with low admit rates included: Columbia College 8.7 percent, Brown and Dartmouth 13 percent, and Bowdoin and Georgetown at 18 percent. Given the level of competition at the nation’s most elite and other top 100 colleges, what can you do to stand out from the crowd? (more…)

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