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VBT 2012: Lincoln-Douglas Results Packet
The results packets are now available for the Victory Briefs Tournament 2012.
VBT2012-LD Packet
VBT2012-LD Elim Results
VBT2012-LD Side Report
Stanford Seeks Hired Judges
Hello HS Judging Community,
The Stanford Debate Society is seeking judges for its upcoming High School Invitational from February 11-13, 2012 in Palo Alto, CA. We can use judges in all categories, but are highly interested in hiring for Varsity Policy & Lincoln Douglas debate. We will pay up to $25/round ($15/one flight) for your services.
Certain highly preferred judges may be contracted for the entire tournament and offered a package deal including housing/transportation. Feel free to inquire if you believe you are one of these people.
Please contact Brian Manuel (brian.manuel@stanforddebate.com) if you are interested in judging, as soon as possible.
For complete information, please read our invitation located at www.snfi.org
Thank you and we look forward to you joining us at Stanford!!
Brian Manuel
Director of Policy Debate
Stanford Debate Society
Stanford University
Northwest Round Robin Field Report
From Jeff Gans, Director of the Northwest Round Robin:
I’m pleased to announce the field for the fourth Northwest Round Robin, which will be held this Sunday at Eastside Catholic. The NWRR aims to bring together the best debaters and judges in the region for a relaxing, fun, and challenging event that offers lots of practice and feedback.
LD features two judges per round voting independently with extensive oral critiques every round and a midday workshop on Theory in LD. There are six rounds breaking to finals.
LINCOLN-DOUGLAS DEBATE
Bainbridge High School (WA) — Alex Teiche
Bainbridge High School (WA) — Haley Brandt-Erichsen
Eastside Catholic High School (WA) — Derek Holliday
Gig Harbor High School (WA) — Austin Ballard
Harvard-Westlake (CA) – Adam Bennett
Harvard-Westlake (CA) – Aneri Amin
Tahoma High School (WA) — Connor Durkin
Wenatchee High School (WA) — Colton SmithCongress features a three-hour preliminary session and a three-hour “Scenario” session. This year’s scenario will concern Israeli/Irani relations.
CONGRESSIONAL DEBATE
Eastside Catholic High School – John Holt
Eastside Catholic High School – Kyle Hendrix
Glacier Peak High School (WA) – Dan Miller
Kamiak High School (WA) – Aiden Skogheim
Newport High School (WA) – Frankie Orrico
Newport High School (WA) – John Adler
Ridgefield High School (WA) – Tyler Bieber
Thomas Jefferson High School (WA) – Ed Choi
Thomas Jefferson High School (WA) – Jina YiCongratulations to all the NWRR participants!
The Boundaries of Justice
The overarching concern in the idea of justice is the need to have just relations with others—and even to have appropriate sentiments about others; and what motivates the search is the diagnosis of injustice in ongoing arrangements. In some cases, this might demand the need to change an existing boundary of sovereignty—a concern that motivated Hume’s staunchly anti-colonial position. (He once remarked, “Oh! How I long to see America and the East Indies revolted totally & finally.”) Or it might relate to the Humean recognition that as we expand trade and other relations with foreign countries, our sentiments as well as our reasoning have to take note of the recognition that “the boundaries of justice still grow larger,” without the necessity to place all the people involved in our conception of justice within the confines of one sovereign state.
Amartya Sen, in The National Review, “The Boundaries of Justice.”
Scalar Consequentialism and Constructed Permissibility
Is it plausible that some non-optimal level of good will is “adequate” to avoid blameworthiness? How might the details of this go — have theorists of blame said much about this?
