by Zack Voell | Dec 20, 2010 | Coaching
At long last, Holiday break has arrived. Along with it comes the ability to sleep whenever we want to, forget about homework and tests, and…snow (unless you live in Hawaii :-/ ). Debate, however, will unfortunately intrude into you’re relaxing break and you should...
by Nathanael Yellis | Dec 16, 2010 | Coaching, Strategy
“Nathanael, no numbers!” It was my first year in business school, early in the first semester. I was so excited about my newfound Excel and math skills. In every class discussion, I tried to present my numbers and an innovative formula. In every class. In...
by Isaiah McPeak | Dec 15, 2010 | Example Rounds, Briefs, and Case Studies, From Advanced to National-Class, Strategy
I talk about burdens and create metadebate to weigh competing arguments. When you are in a debate round, especially one where facts are in dispute (policy) or unverifiable (parli), or you just happen to be at the short end of the argument stick, it is time to debate...
by Anthony Severin | Dec 14, 2010 | Strategy
One of the first football games I can remember watching was the 1999 AFC championship between the Jacksonville Jaguars and the Tennessee Titans. The Jaguars were up 14-0 at halftime– looking good so far. Their defense had stepped up and the offense gotten a...
by Zack Voell | Dec 7, 2010 | Uncategorized
“For us in Russia communism is a dead dog. For many people in the West, it is still a living lion.” – Alexander Solzhenitsyn Solzhenitsyn’s words tell us a lot about US-Russo relations and the attitude of the West toward Russia, as a whole. For much of most...
