February Student Congress Topics

Domestic

Universal Health Care
Automobile Fuel Efficiency

International

Gaza
Global Climate Change

Virginia

State University Funding
Farmland Preservation

Economic

Bank Bailouts
NAFTA Reform

TDL 5 will take place Saturday, February 7th, at First Colonial High School. Legislation must be submitted as a comment on this post by midnight Tuesday, February 3rd. If you are new to this process, you can find instructions in an earlier post.

Barkley Forum for High Schools

Two Tidewater Debate League member schools were accepted to the Barkley Forum for High School Debate held January 23rd, 24th, and 25th at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. The Forum accepted only 79 schools this year and Kempsville High School and Frank W. Cox High School were the only schools from Virginia to be admitted. Acceptance is based on each applying debater's total record for the past two seasons and the field is always one of the most competitive, if not the most competitive, of the year.

Both the hybrid Kempsville and Cox team of Adora Parker (Kempsville) and Oliver Brass (Cox) and the Kempsville team of Jade Kreissler and Samuel Ross went 2-4 in preliminary competition and did not advance to elimination rounds.

Frank W. Cox High School

Below are the results for the fourth Tidewater Debate League tournament of the 2008-2009 season held January 17th at Frank W. Cox High School in Virginia Beach.

Novice Lincoln-Douglas

1st Matthew Tiller, Southampton

2nd Jake Todd, Hickory

3rd Eddie Pendergast, Landstown

4th Alex Owens, Landstown

5th Alexis Foxworth, Landstown

Varsity Lincoln-Douglas

1st Edmund Saw, Smithfield

2nd Erin Spivey, Southampton

3rd Maya Sankaran, York

4th Kelsey Butler, Southampton

5th Claire Pickard, Princess Anne

Open Policy

1st Ashley Houze and Becca Wilson, Princess Anne

2nd Wesley Bittner and Cari Rand, Cox

3rd Pete Galanko and Kreshmeh Khosrowani, Cox

4th Oliver Brass and Andrew Peterson, Cox

5th Kristen McCloskey and Mariah Young, Great Bridge

Open Policy Speakers

1st Ashley Houze, Princess Anne

2nd Wes Hagedorn, First Colonial

3rd Matt Gregus, Grassfield

4th Jacob Bosley, Grassfield

5th Cari Rand, Cox

Student Congress and Sweepstakes results were not included in the packet. If you have these results, please include them in a comment on this post.

George Mason University

Several Tidewater Debate League member schools competed at the Patriot Invitational Debate Tournament held January 9th and 10th at George Mason University in Fairfax.

In Lincoln-Douglas debate, Sara Wall of Princess Anne High School advanced to Octafinals, Hannah Chacon of Princess Anne advanced to Semifinals, and Matt DiNardo of Princess Anne took 2nd-place.

In the Novice division of policy debate, the Frank W. Cox High School team of Wesley Bittner and Cari Rand took 1st-place. The Princess Anne High School team of Helen He and Julie Corson took 2nd-place.

In the Junior Varsity division of policy debate, the Princess Anne High School team of Ashley Houze and Becca Wilson advanced to Semifinals.

In the Varsity division of policy debate, the Princess Anne High School team of Matthew Veland and Katherine Williams went 4-2 in preliminary competition and advanced to Quarterfinals where they defeated Pennsbury LS (Pennsylvania) on a 2-1 decision. In Semifinals they dropped to Kempsville PR on a 2-1 decision. The Kempsville High School team of Adora Parker and Samuel Ross went 4-2 in preliminary competition and advanced to Quarterfinals where they defeated LaSalle BT (Pennsylvania) on a 3-0 decision. In Semifinals, they defeated Princess Anne VW on a 2-1 decision. The Frank W. Cox team of Oliver Brass and Andrew Peterson went 5-1 in preliminary competition and advanced to Quarterfinals where they defeated Broad Run MH (Virginia) on a 3-0 decision. In Semifinals they defeated Thomas Jefferson HK (Virginia) on a 2-1 decision. A coaches' decision determined the outcome of the final round between Cox BP and Kempsville PR, with Cox taking 1st-place and Kempsville taking 2nd. Oliver Brass of Cox took 1st-place Varsity speaker and Adora Parker of Kempsville took 2nd-place Varsity speaker.

Please note: we have very few details about the novice policy, JV policy, and L-D events. If you can provide more, please leave them as a comment to this post.

Student Legislators, Please Note

1. Make sure you're adding your comments to the correct post. Many of you have attached your legislation to the "2009-2010 Policy Debate Topic Announced" post instead of the "January Student Congress Topics" post, where it belongs. I have moved those that were added incorrectly, but please be careful to comment on the correct post in the future.

2. This is a moderated site, so your comments will not appear immediately. Please don't resubmit the same legislation over and over because it has yet to appear. It can take up to 24 hours for a comment to appear.

2009-2010 Policy Debate Topic Announced

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States.

January Student Congress Topics

Domestic
Port Security
House of Representative Term Limits

International
US-Sudanese Relations
US-Venezuelan Relations

Virginia
College Savings Plan
Standards of Learning

Economic
Federal Reserve
College Affordability

TDL 4 will take place Saturday, January 17th, at Frank W. Cox High School. Legislation must be submitted as a comment on this post by midnight Tuesday, January 14th. If you are new to this process, you can find instructions in an earlier post.