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Archive for December, 2004



(Un)Stable Subjects?

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Interviews category

Anyone who has witnessed Adwait Parker run a food sovereignty aff or a K of the stable subject, or read a whimsical post-tournament commentary or heard an interpretative reading of seventh grade test answers by Jake Gelfand, knows that there’s something special about Team Schreiber.
The St. Mark’s champion and his coach have some thoughts […]

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Sources for Speeches

Posted by Jesse Nathan in the Extemp Estuary category

This month we need to turn our attention to the actual content of your extemp speeches: I’ve received several questions regarding the magazines or books one ought to read, or the sources one ought to seek. I think this will provide us with an excellent opportunity to explore sources and the information within them. […]

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2004 in Review: The Season’s Midway Point

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate category

With the year 2005 just over a day away, we find ourselves at the midway point of the season.
Three of the nation’s largest and most prestigious tournaments have already occurred: the Greenhill Fall Classic (closed out by California’s Hirsh Jain and Fabien Thayamballi), the St. Mark’s Heart of Texas Invitational (won by New York’s […]

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2004-05 Tournament Info: Churchill

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Lincoln-Douglas Debate category

Kandi King and Brian Eanes, head coaches at Churchill High School, have released the invitation and registration information for the Churchill Classic, to be held on January 21 and 22, 2005.
The tournament features five preliminary rounds championship debate and four in novice debate as well as two preliminary rounds in all IEs (including Duet […]

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VB Photos: Scenes from the Tour

Posted by Jon Cruz in the The Tour 2004 category

Jay Bhatnagar, Bonan Zhou, Kunal Raygor, and Vinitha Rangarajan
The first of multiple updates featuring images from the VBI Tour has made its way into VB Photos. Photographs taken by Diane Cheng, Jon Cruz, and Aracelis Biel give us a peek at the VBI Tour in San Jose and New York.
Stay tuned tomorrow for images from […]

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Coming Soon: Sitting Down with Schreiber

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Site News category

J. Gelfand and A. Parker
The long-promised, much-awaited, never-completed Jake Gelfand and Adwait Parker interview is finally being completed tonight and tomorrow. Look for it on VBD in the coming days!
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In Memoriam: Susan Sontag (1933-2004)

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Obituaries category

Social critic and author Susan Sontag, a lifelong human rights activist and one of America’s foremost public intellectuals, died on today at the age age 71 after a battle with leukemia.
Sontag had a wide variety of interests that included “everything from ballet to photography to popularizing of the works of such authors such as […]

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