| 01/24/2013 | Tournament: Pitt Round Robin | Round: 2 | Opponent: Georgetown EM | Judge: Jarrod Atchison Round 2: Vs. Georgetown EM, with Jarrod Atchison as the Judge 1NC Positions: UDL personal story, Warming disproportionately affects people of color, rethink location of speaking about climate change, debating is high speed mental masturbation, the game is white, debate trains liars, RoB - performatively and methodologically engages in scholarship on climate change, we affirm 1) include social location, 2) traditional intellectuals. 3) use organic intellectualism: a - must be a member of aggrieved community, b - speak on behalf of community, c - create a counter hegemonic discourse. 2NC Extended Args: RoB - who best engages in best form of scholarship on Climate Change, stylistic DA's - their approach to debate is flippant to those most affected by climate change, they exclude this discussion from debate. Accessibility of debate is prerequisite to deliberation. Debate has become elitist, demographic changes, debate itself reflects racism. 1NR Args:Perm fails to incorporate the three tiered process in the 1NC, they are not engaging or are not able to engage us in this debate round because they deny social location 2NR Strat: the aff is behind on the RoB, the aff's exclusion of minorities from debate turns their deliberation arguments, advocates will not become trained to engage in the political process. Round 4: Vs. Wake HQ, with Ricky Garner as the Judge 1NC Positions:Three tier methodology as seen above. 1NC On Case Args: 2NC Extended Args: New 2NC Impacts or Args: 1NR Args: 2NR Strat:Three tier methodology Round 6: Vs. Michigan AP, with Heather Walters as the Judge 1NC Positions: Quare Theory PIC of plan based on style/methodology 2NC Extended Args: Performace/style/form important, PIC New 2NC Impacts or Args: 1NR Args:Perm is impossible 2NR Strat: Selectivity matters, PIC |
| 01/26/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Emporia Citations Denial is even worse than colorblindness. Concerns about climate change and global warming that omit discussion of race and racism reinforce white privilege. This is not a mere link of omission, but a form of racist marginalizing that undermines survival. Tim Wise 10, “With Friends Like These, Who needs Blenn Beck? Racism and white Privilege on the Liberal Left” They say that we are the ones destroying debate by the opposite is the case – jargon, high-tech speed, and incomprehensibility are the real crisis. Emricialy, this has eroded support for debate and mae it inaccessible and non-useful for many. Without addressing this cris, all their fainess-related disads to our frameowkr are non-unique. Debate is bleeding-out now, stepping outside of staztus quo practice isd a necessary condition tofor debate to keep existing. Fine 13 “Qatar Conference on Scholastic Debate Examines Activity’s Role in Empowerment” No tag Faching and deChant 2001 We must evaluate issue from the standpoint of the oppressed to discover effective strategies for resistance Cook 1990 Beyond Critical Legal Studies |
| 01/27/2013 | Tournament: | Round: | Opponent: | Judge: Our performance is part of a theory in the flesh that emphasizes the diversity within and between our communities, but still recognizes the power in the speech of bodies materially conditioned by systems of power. By summoning enactment of their theories it in their bodies and through vernacular traditons, people of color can use their bodies as weapons to disrupt power Johnson 2k6 Johnson 2k6 (Patrick E. Professor of African American studies and performance studies at Northwestern Univsity, "Quare Studies or (almost) everything I know about Queer Studies I learned from my grandmother" in Black Queer Studies: A Critical Anthology" Blackness is subversive nad disrupts policy as usual. We are a positive articulation of the new policy maker. We disid w/policymaking, the english language, and this pace to permanently enact change Johnsonson 2k6 2 Our performance is important and empowering for quare bodies being reflective in the way we relate to the in reflective ways that subvert dominant systems of meaning. |
| 02/10/2013 | Tournament: Northwestern | Round: 8 | Opponent: Harvard HT | Judge: Hester The 'shell' changes a bit from round to round but this is the outline of the argument. See Emporia CW for several supportive pieces of evidence we read in the block (Wise, Cambell, fasching and dechant, etc. This is the most recent interpretation that we've read. A. Interpretation – The affirmative must have a grounded increase in energy production that is tied to and dependent on the bodies and voices of the speakers. Grounded activism acknowledges that being able to speak in this space makes all speech political. B. Violation – the affirmative does not actually increase energy production – there merely present a plan for how the USFG might increase energy production. C. Vote negative – a. Presumption – the affirmative does nothing. b. Limits – There are an infinite amount of potential plans and policy proposals c. Predictability – The USFG is inherently unpredictable body politics are not. d. Education - i. Topic specific education – aff interpretation encourages bad debate including condotionality, plan inclusive counter-plans, international fiat, process pics and a host of other bad debates. ii. Activism good – plan focus debate requires that we invest our advocacy in bureaucratic institutions as opposed to individuals. e. Fairness – i. Ground – aff interpretation destroys our disadvantage ground based on individual action and forces us to defend USFG inaction – they make it impossible to be negative. ii. Marginalized voices D/A – requiring a discussion of USFG policy instead of individual action marginalizes participants whose views are excluded These are all voting issues for obvious reasons. |
| 03/29/2013 | Tournament: CEDA | Round: Semis | Opponent: | Judge: The 1AC participates in the forward marching project modernity, which maintains the fantasy that any policy act by the USFG can be innocent. The Affirmative is grounded in colonialism and ecological destruction. André Lepecki, Assistant Professor at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University, 2006. (Exhausting Dance: Performance and the politics of movement) Sloterdijk’s philosophy outlines a critique of …performance challenges colonialism and its new guises. The alternative is to dance against the fantasy of modernity! André Lepecki, Assistant Professor at the Department of Performance Studies at New York University, 2006. (Exhausting Dance: Performance and the politics of movement) What characterizes this mode or … against the fixity of what is dominant in the social order” (1998: 10). |
| 03/29/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 3 | Opponent: Oklahoma LM | Judge: Argument was essentially that reducing to a text and trying to be within a resolution is badVine Deloria Jr. 1999 For this Land An old Indian saying captures the radical… sincere but unreflective liberal community. Dwight Conquergood 2002 Performance Studies: Interventions and Radical Research, The Drama Review 46,2 (T174) Summer 2002 pp 145-147 According to Michel de Certeau… systematic exclusion. In Belize, for Fasching and deChant (Darrell and Dell, "Comparative Religious Ethics: A Narrative Approach" Pg 42-43 |
| 03/31/2013 | Tournament: NDT | Round: 8 | Opponent: MSU HR | Judge: Same cards as were previously on the wiki (they said they read the same K/cards every round): Fasching and DeChant Wise Russel Campbell Henze And: The only people who benefit from the advancements of medicine are the rich Lower 2003 (Gerry M.D.; Capitalism and the Crisis in Medical Ethics; http://www.thefourreasons.org/Lower/CrisisMedicalEthics.htm; kdf) The western medical marketing managers took over and American medicine was capitalized under the old notion of "one ill, one pill, one bill." … community comprised of healers. Van Potter, the Father of Bioethics, pretty much knew all of this 30 years ago. What medical bioethicists have been doing since, under that label, is simply not bioethics at all. It is Bush's right wing religion and crony capitalism as usual. Racism must be confronted before we can examine the flaws of the medical system Kressin et al 2008(Nancy R. Kressin, PhD (bio), Kristal L. Raymond, MPH (bio) and Meredith Manze, MPH); Perceptions of Race/Ethnicity-Based Discrimination: A Review of Measures and Evaluation of Their Usefulness for the Health Care Setting; Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved Volume 19, Number 3, August 2008; kdf) Widespread racial/ethnic disparities in the quality of health care received, … critical review of existing measures and evaluation of their characteristics and gaps will be useful for guiding future researchers in their choice of measures to examine the provider contribution to racial/ethnic disparities in health care. |