Hart House IV

Greetings from Toronto, where this afternoon the Hart House IV starts. This is my favorite tournament so I expect I will be posting a lot. For now we are just enjoying the city until the debates begin later this afternoon. And of course the Canadian dollar has hit parity with the US dollar just in time for me to change my money.

St. John's Debate Society: WUDC Champions Workshop and Public Debate

Here is a video of a Worlds Debating workshop conducted by Chris Croke and Steve Hind, the current WUDC Champions from Sydney Union. The workshop is one of the best we've done, I think. This was at King's College, Manhattan. 
Secondly, here's a video of a public debate that St. John's Debate Society members put on for the campus in our public debate series.  The motion was: This House supports a nuclear Iran.
Enjoy! I am off to the Hart House tournament this weekend in Toronto, and hopefully will be liveblogging the events there. We'll see how much it's going to cost to run my blackberry up there.

HWS final round

Advancing to the final are:

UVM AB OG
STJ PC OO
Ohio Wesleyan SM CG Cornell Monkey YS CO This House would allow candidates to designate certain promises as legally binding, which, if broken, would trigger automatic recall elections. “I promise no more concussions in our Amish primary schools!”