Archive for July, 2007
2007-2008 Topic Announced!
You heard it here first! The new topic is out: From an email to IE-L this evening: “According to the procedure adopted for the selection of the NFA Lincoln Douglas Debate topic area and the debate resolution, the selected debate resolution should be announced on August 1st. It gives me great pleasure to annouce that [...]
HS Topic Paper
As some of you probably have realized both the High School Policy topic and the College NFA-LD topic will both center around Africa. This is a great boon to those starting NFA-LD because there will be tons of debate stuff floating around the internet for the HS policy community that we can use for nfa-ld. [...]
Again – check out this blog
I’ve recommended this blog earlier on the site and will do so again. Thomas P.M. Barnett :: Weblog is a definite read next year for NFA-LD. This summer he has had a few posts regarding Africa and I think it’ll be great for the negative side mainly – a different way of thinking about Africa. [...]
The Code of the Debater Textbook
Alfred “Tuna” Snider from the University of Vermont runs the amazing website Debate World. Part of the site includes the The Code of the Debater a textbook for novice and intermediate policy debaters. Most if not all of the book would apply to learning NFA-LD. Here are some shortcuts to good chapters: Main index page [...]
Interesting Article on Africa
Might include some good neg evidence… not sure about the source Click here Meanwhile in Arusha, Tanzania, at the Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED) conference, a group of the continent’s intellectual elite issued a very different plea: stop flooding Africa with aid. Since 1984, an assortment of Silicon Valley billionaires, child prodigies, ex-presidents, artistic geniuses, mad [...]
