by Cameron Bertron | Feb 4, 2016 | Technique, Thinking Strategically, Top Drills
From the moment you walk into a debate round you are communicating with everyone in the room. Everything you do matters, your dress, your posture, your expression, and especially your body language. Because even before the first line of your first speech the judge has...
by Cameron Bertron | Oct 19, 2015 | Debate Blog, NCFCA Resolutions, Research
What is tax court? It sounds super boring, why should you spend 5 minutes reading about it? Well Tax Court is a federal court which receives far less attention than the rest of our court system. And like all sectors of the resolution which receive little attention it...
by Cameron Bertron | Oct 12, 2015 | Debate Blog, LD, Stoa
What practical value is there in liberal arts? Is there an inverse relationship between STEM subjects and liberal arts? What consequences are there for a nation which turns its back on liberal arts? These are a few of the questions tackled by Dr. Donald Morrill...
by Cameron Bertron | Aug 28, 2015 | Debate Blog, LD, NCFCA Resolutions
Picture 4 billion people. An almost impossible number for our brains to process, but try it anyway. Imagine you had orders to pick out one specific face from this crowd but you don’t have a clear picture of that face, only a few clues. Impossible of course, and yet...
by Cameron Bertron | Aug 12, 2015 | Debate Blog, Parliamentary, Stoa, Strategy
“Interesting claims about history, government, economics, politics, and culture are often introduced in parliamentary debates… There are other, less obvious, factual inaccuracies in many debates. Many debaters claim to represent the factual world (at least the...
