Summer Reading List

Seawolf Debate

Summer Reading List

Must-reads

Gross, Michael L. Moral Dilemmas of Modern War: Torture, Assassination, and Blackmail in an Age of Asymmetric Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010.

Sandel, Michael J. Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.

Zakaria, Fareed. The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad. New York: W.W. Norton &, 2003.

More Reading

George, Robert P. The Clash of Orthodoxies: Law, Religion, and Morality in Crisis. Wilmington, DE: ISI, 2001.

Walzer, Michael. Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. [New York]: Basic, 1992.

Annotated Motions Working Groups

Annotated Motions Working Groups
Group A	Group B	Group C
Amie Stanley	Amy Parrent	Andrew Kerosky
Brett Frazer	Brittany Bennett	Drew Cason
Hannah Foreman	Emily Barker	Jon Stinson
Libby Smelker	Kelsey Waldorf	Kenneth Moss
Matt Ostrander	Matt Fox	Matt Stinson
Zac Johnson	Mya Dale	Nathanael Jenkins
Wiley Cason	Nye Smith	Sarah Carpenter
		Nicole Eldred

CFD Recruiting Table - click to englarge

Recruiting Table Hours - Click to englarge

Give thanks for research!

Below are notes from last night's discussion of briefs/motions for the remainder of the semester:

Annotated Motions

For Friday, Nov. 18, all debaters not traveling to CUSID BP this weekend should bring two motions that they would set if they were CAs at a tournament this weekend. Shawn will lead collection/discussion/refinement of those on Friday morning and leave the list for me.

On Monday, when I return, I'll create a new annotated motions document and open it to all of you to claim your motions. You should then find at least one analytic, pro and con article for the one or two motions for which you're responsible. You should complete this before Sunday, Nov. 27.

Examples of motions and articles in the annotated motions format may be found in the "Readings" section of seawolfdebate.info.


Philippines / South East Asia research

The senior debaters will be responsible for developing brief topics related to motions they anticipate may be used at worlds in the traditional national/regional round. Those topics are due to me by Sunday, Nov. 27.

I'll refine that list and pass it along to Shawn for brief assignments to be distributed on Tuesday, Nov. 29. All those not going to Australia should take responsibility for one of those brief topics. Those briefs are due on Dec. 13.


Remember that there is no practice on either Tuesday (11/22) or Friday (11/25) of the holiday week. Have a happy Thanksgiving and best of luck to all of us at our final tournaments before Worlds!

Practice 10/14 - Justified in killing Al Awlaki

Hart House motions, maybe . . .

If I were the CA at Hart House, I'd write a motion like . . .

1. THW occupy Wall Street.
2. THW sanction China for manipulating its currency.
3. THW stop the use and development of nuclear power.
4. THW require fingerprinting with applications for social services.
5. THW place sanctions on nations that participate in prisoner swaps with terrorist nations.
6. THB immigration is harming EU stability.
7. THW ban the opening carrying of handguns.
8. THW cut all ties to Pakistan.
9. THW substantially increase aid to the Africa Union.
10. THW abolish credit ratings for sovereign debt.
11. THW support unionization in developing nations.
12. The West should curb its efforts to promote democracy.
13. THW support Turkey's membership in the EU.
14. THS the Eurasian Union.
15. THW end immunity for US soldiers in Iraq.
16. THW give the EU central bank complete fiscal control of all countries in the Eurozone until the EU submits a plan to deal with sovereign debt issues.
17. THB an international organization should regulate the sale of credit default swaps.
18. THW abolish the targeted killing of civilians.
19. TH regrets the Arab Spring.
20. THB that Egypt should lift the state of emergency before the elections.
21. THW . . . Egypt . . . Coptic Christian Church.
22. THW implement the Buffet rule.
23. The US should reinstate aid to Palestine.
24. THW reject the expansion of the Euro bailout fund.
25. THW believe Serbian Kosovars to have the right of secession.
26. THS inquiring of students' parents' immigration status in public schools.
27. THS a divided Afghanistan.