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| Jack Howe | 2 | Opponent: Christopher Columbus AM | Judge: Anish Ramireddy 1AC - Rawls |
| Jack Howe | 3 | Opponent: Portola AS | Judge: Vanessa Nguyen 1AC - US COVID |
| Jack Howe | 6 | Opponent: Honor VD | Judge: Sam Larson 1AC - IP |
| Jack Howe | Doubles | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake KD | Judge: Koh, Ryan, Nguyen, Vanessa, Wimmer, Jan 1AC - COVID |
| Kentucky | 4 | Opponent: Durham JH | Judge: Trey Roark 1AC - Cap |
| Kentucky | 5 | Opponent: Westwood WY | Judge: Ritenour, Amelia 1AC - Stock |
| Kentucky | 1 | Opponent: Woodrow Wilson CO | Judge: Ki Radcliffe 1AC - Innovation Access |
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SO - 3 of 4 CPTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 2 | Opponent: Christopher Columbus AM | Judge: Anish Ramireddy Counterplan: At least three-quarters of WTO member nations, excluding the United States, should extend Medical IP TRIP waivers, to all 36 member nations on the UN's recognized list of Lesser developed countries.Entirely solves while avoiding politicsSiripurapu 21 Anshu Siripurapu covers economics, energy, and geopolitics, BA in political economy from the University of Southern California. "The Debate Over a Patent Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines: What to Know." Council on Foreign Relations, May 26, 2021, www.cfr.org/in-brief/debate-over-patent-waiver-covid-19-vaccines-what-know. | 9/18/21 |
SO - Cap K V1Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 6 | Opponent: Honor VD | Judge: Sam Larson Regulating intellectual property participates in a scarcity logic that re-affirms a broader market ownership over information – that consolidates neoliberal control through a shift to private protections, even if the individual act of the aff is goodSoderberg 1 ~Johan, BA from Falmouth College of the Arts. "Copyleft vs Copyright: A Marxist Critique" https://firstmonday.org/article/view/938/860~~** The aff's analytic reduces the nuance of class differences and collapses the racial cap complexities to a settler/indigenous binary which fractures solidarityBhandar and Ziadah 16 Brenna BHANDAR, senior lecturer @ SOAS, AND Rafeef ZIADAH, postdoc @ SOAS, 2016 "Acts and Omissions: Framing Settler Colonialism in Palestine Studies," Jadaliyya, January 14, 2016 Capitalism is quickly reaching its ecological, structural, and psychological limits and causes near-term extinction – laundry list.Robinson 16 (William, Professor of sociology, global studies and Latin American studies at the University of California at Santa Barbara. His most recent book is Global Capitalism and the Crisis of Humanity. | "Sadistic Capitalism: Six Urgent Matters for Humanity in Global Crisis" in Truth-out, April 12, 2016. http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/35596-sadistic-capitalism-six-urgent-matters-for-humanity-in-global-crisis )tbrooks The alternative is to engage in anticapitalism, an act of radical resistance grounded in grassroots movements. Anticapitalism does not represent an unattainable utopia but challenges common myths about capitalism as a whole. Also solves for the Aff – anticapitalism is a prereq to rhetorical decolonizationRogers 14 (Chris Rogers, author, Capitalism and Its Alternatives: A Critical Introduction, Zed Books, 2014. ProQuest Ebook Central, https://ebookcentral-proquest-com.proxy.lib.umich.edu/lib/umichigan/detail.action?docID=1758713.) AM The role of the judge and ballot is to endorse the better debater – it's the most objective and anything else is arbitrary and self-serving and is poor scholarship in a competitive space. | 9/19/21 |
SO - FIGS CP V1Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake KD | Judge: Koh, Ryan, Nguyen, Vanessa, Wimmer, Jan CP: France, Germany, Sweden, and Italy should:substantially increase COVID vaccine production to meet the global demand Global donations and increased domestic production solveYamey 21 ~Gavin, Directs the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. "Rich Countries Should Tithe Their Vaccines" https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00470-9~~ | 9/20/21 |
SO - Infrastructure CP V1Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Woodrow Wilson CO | Judge: Ki Radcliffe ====Disease specific funding causes budget imbalances and inequity in treatment. Using that funding to improve primary health care is key to non-HIV diseases and pandemics.==== | 9/18/21 |
SO - Innovation DA V1Tournament: Kentucky | Round: 1 | Opponent: Woodrow Wilson CO | Judge: Ki Radcliffe Innovation DAPharmaceutical innovation is accelerating now – new medicines are substantially better than existing treatments.Wills and Lipkus, PhD, 20 – Todd J. Wills ~Managing Director @ Chemical Abstracts Service, MBA from THE Ohio State University~ and Alan H. Lipkus ~Senior Data Analyst @ Chemical Abstracts Service, PhD Physical Chemistry from the University of Rochester~, "Structural Approach to Assessing the Innovativeness of New Drugs Finds Accelerating Rate of Innovation," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Vol. 11, 2020, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.0c00319 C.VC The biopharmaceutical industry is uniquely reliant on IP protections – undermining them would kill innovation by making an already expensive process completely unfeasible.Kristina M. Lybecker, PhD, 17 ~PhD Economics, Associate Professor of Economics @ Colorado College~, "Intellectual Property Rights Protection and the Biopharmaceutical Industry: How Canada Measures Up," Fraser Institute, January 2017, https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/intellectual-property-rights-protection-and-the20biopharmaceutical-industry.pdf C.VC Pharmaceutical innovation is key to protecting against future pandemics, bioterrorism, and antibiotic resistance.Marjanovic and Fejiao '20 Marjanovic, Sonja, and Carolina Feijao. Sonja Marjanovic, Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitive biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon. "Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement." (2020). ~Quality Control~ Bioterrorism and future pandemics cause extinction.Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, CBRN Expert @ British Army, 20 ~Director @ DBG Defense, Consultant on CBRN and Biosecurity~, "Biosecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: The Urgent Action Needed," Combatting Terrorism Center Sentinel, November/December 2020, Volume 13, Issue 11, https://ctc.usma.edu/biosecurity-in-the-wake-of-covid-19-the-urgent-action-needed/ C.VC | 9/18/21 |
SO - Innovation DA V2Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 2 | Opponent: Christopher Columbus AM | Judge: Anish Ramireddy Pharmaceutical innovation is accelerating now – new medicines are substantially better than existing treatments.Wills and Lipkus, PhD, 20 – Todd J. Wills ~Managing Director @ Chemical Abstracts Service, MBA from THE Ohio State University~ and Alan H. Lipkus ~Senior Data Analyst @ Chemical Abstracts Service, PhD Physical Chemistry from the University of Rochester~, "Structural Approach to Assessing the Innovativeness of New Drugs Finds Accelerating Rate of Innovation," ACS Medicinal Chemistry Letters, Vol. 11, 2020, https://pubs.acs.org/doi/pdf/10.1021/acsmedchemlett.0c00319 C.VC The biopharmaceutical industry is uniquely reliant on IP protections – undermining them would kill innovation by making an already expensive process completely unfeasible.Kristina M. Lybecker, PhD, 17 ~PhD Economics, Associate Professor of Economics @ Colorado College~, "Intellectual Property Rights Protection and the Biopharmaceutical Industry: How Canada Measures Up," Fraser Institute, January 2017, https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/intellectual-property-rights-protection-and-the20biopharmaceutical-industry.pdf C.VC Pharmaceutical innovation is key to protecting against future pandemics, bioterrorism, and antibiotic resistance.Marjanovic and Fejiao '20 Marjanovic, Sonja, and Carolina Feijao. Sonja Marjanovic, Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitive biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon. "Pharmaceutical Innovation for Infectious Disease Management: From Troubleshooting to Sustainable Models of Engagement." (2020). ~Quality Control~ Bioterrorism and future pandemics cause extinction.Hamish De Bretton-Gordon, CBRN Expert @ British Army, 20 ~Director @ DBG Defense, Consultant on CBRN and Biosecurity~, "Biosecurity in the Wake of COVID-19: The Urgent Action Needed," Combatting Terrorism Center Sentinel, November/December 2020, Volume 13, Issue 11, https://ctc.usma.edu/biosecurity-in-the-wake-of-covid-19-the-urgent-action-needed/ C.VC | 9/18/21 |
SO - Politix DA V1Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 2 | Opponent: Christopher Columbus AM | Judge: Anish Ramireddy Drug price reform coming now – fight is ramping up but Biden has the opportunityCancryn 9/9 Cancryn, Adam. Adam Cancryn is a health care reporter for POLITICO Pro, graduate of Washington and Lee University."Biden admin backs direct government drug price negotiations." POLITICO, 9 Sept. 2021, www.politico.com/news/2021/09/09/biden-drug-price-negotiations-510828. Biden's PC is key to wrangle democrats and counter pharma lobbyingJohnson 8/12 Johnson, Jake, writer for Alternet . "Joe Biden throws support behind bold reforms to slash drug prices." Alternet, August 12, 2021, www.alternet.org/2021/08/biden-medicare-negotiate-prices. WTO waiver takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU alliesBhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden's talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. Drug price controls massively reduce healthcare costs across the board – even assuming conservative modelsGamba 6/9 Gamba, Tyler. Author at the AJMC. "Adoption of the Lower Drug Costs Now Act May Lead to Billions in Savings." AJMC, 9 June 2021, www.ajmc.com/view/adoption-of-the-lower-drug-costs-now-act-may-lead-to-billions-in-savings. Collapses the economyHowrigon, 16 — Ron Howrigon, M.S. in Economics with a focus on Health Economics from North Carolina State University, President and Founder of Fulcrum Strategies, 18 Years of Experience in Healthcare, 12-30-2016, "Flatlining: How Healthcare Could Kill the U.S. Economy," Greenbranch Publishing, 1st Edition, Accessed via Minnesota Libraries, Date Accessed: 8-10 Economic decline causes nuclear warTønnesson, 15 — Stein Tønnesson, Leader of East Asia Peace program at Uppsala University, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo, "Deterrence, Interdependence and Sino–US Peace" International Area Studies Review, Review Essay, Volume 18, Issue 3, Pages 297-311, SAGE Journals, Minnesota Libraries, Date Accessed: 8-4 | 9/18/21 |
SO - Security K V1Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 3 | Opponent: Portola AS | Judge: Vanessa Nguyen Disease securitization and Health development strategies reinforce state imperialism and control, which justifies totalitarian control and preemptive conflictMacPhail 2009 (Theresa, medical anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley "The Politics of Bird Flu: The Battle over Viral Samples and China's Role in Global Public Health," Journal of language and politics, 8:3, 2009) Hegemony invokes a permanent state of emergency that justifies our paranoid neurosis—the idea we need to deter invisible threats creates self-fulfilling prophecies makes war inevitableZizek 5—prof, Sociology, University of Ljubljana (Slavoj, Give Iranian Nukes a Chance, http://www.lacan.com/zizekiranian.htm) China threat discourse reduces the world to calculative strategy. Behaviors, histories, and possibilities that don't fit into the affirmative's worldview of stability and certainty are labeled threatening.Chengxin PAN IR @ Australian Nat'l '4 "The China Threat' in American Self-Imagination: The Discursive Construction of Other as Power Politics" Alternatives 29 p. 314-315 Their fixation on national interests and apocalyptic scenarios justifies endless violence, totalitarianism, and nuclear war—the alternative is to vote neg to endorse the 1AC without their securitizing representationsAhmed 12 Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed is Executive Director of the Institute for Policy Research and Development (IPRD), an independent think tank focused on the study of violent conflict, he has taught at the Department of International Relations, University of Sussex "The international relations of crisis and the crisis of international relations: from the securitisation of scarcity to the militarisation of society" Global Change, Peace and Security Volume 23, Issue 3, 2011 Taylor Francis Our interpretation is that the judge should be an intellectual evaluating the methodology of the 1ac—-if we win the foundations of the aff are suspect we should win irrespective of hypothetical enactment – only the alternative investigates the methodology behind securitized logicReasons to Prefer:1. Epistemology comes first – we must think before we act – all of their truth claims are predicated off of a position of privilege and dominance which shapes their understanding of the world and discourse – because all actions depend on our understanding it must be correct for other actions to be considered correct2. Fiat is utopian – when the debate round is over, their aff won't be passed in the real world – but how they frame their impact spills over and affects their view of the world, which means their exaggerated impacts obscure the systemic inequalities present in the status quoAnd there's a double bind – either the aff's impacts are true and extinction is inevitable because fiat isn't real or their impacts are constructed, which means you should vote neg on presumptions on | 9/18/21 |
SO - T FWTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 6 | Opponent: Honor VD | Judge: Sam Larson Interp: The affirmative must only garner offense off of the consequences of hypothetical policy implementation of the resolution: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines. To clarify, affs cannot be extra-T.Violation:1~ Garnering offense from form implies their speech act is an advocacy. CX proves and hold the line – at best, they're Extra-T which still links to our predictability offense.2~ The 2nd card pretty clearly indicts debate and the entirety of the 1AC is about rhetoric NOT consequences. If I read a DA, they'd claim performative offense.3~ The aff affirms rhetorical decolonization within member states – the topic pretty clearly doesn't say anything about decolVote neg—1~ Predictable limits – not affirming the resolution makes debate impossible because they get to affirm anything – literally thousands of aff. Their interp incentivizes affirming uncontestable statements like "2+24" or "racism bad" and the lack of a stable mechanism means they can always de-link from the few responsive generics. ==== 2~ Strategy skew – the aff is incentivized to solve any disad if they can go beyond a topical action3~ TVAs: There's a bio colonialism aff– affirm ending IP that derives medicines from indigenous knowledge.It's okay if this doesn't solve their offense—the disads to the TVA are neg ground. This teaches debaters to work within imperfect situations for marginal gains, and forces them to refine their arguments round to round which hijacks their survival arguments.T is drop the debater and competing interps—The round has been irreparably skewed—I had to read T in order to engage the aff and that altered allocation on other issues which means you risk making the incorrect decision on substance especially if they don't read a counter interp for debateIt's an indict of their advocacy—they don't defend topical action so if I win T their entire advocacy goes away and you have to default negNo RVIs – you don't win on being topical | 9/19/21 |
SO - T Member Nations V1Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 3 | Opponent: Portola AS | Judge: Vanessa Nguyen Interp and violation: "The member nations" denotes all member nations in the WTO. The aff may not defend a subset of WTO member nations ought to reduce IP protections for medicines.Sharvy 80 ~Richard Sharvy, philosopher. "A More General Theory of Definite Descriptions on JSTOR," The Philosophical Review, Vol. 89, No. 4, Oct. 1980, accessed 8-22-2021, https://www.jstor.org/stable/2184738~~ HWIC Semantic tests determine whether statements are generic or existential –Leslie and Lerner 16 ~Sarah-Jane Leslie (Ph.D., Princeton, 2007) is the dean of the Graduate School and Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy. She has previously served as the vice dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, director of the Program in Linguistics, and founding director of the Program in Cognitive Science at Princeton University. She is also affiliated faculty in the Department of Psychology, the University Center for Human Values, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy~, and Adam Lerner, Ph.D, Postgraduate Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University, 4-24-2016, accessed 9-4-2021, "Generic Generalizations (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)," https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/generics/~~ HWIC The resolution is generic: 1~ "nations ought to reduce IPP for medicines" doesn't imply political bodies ought to b/c there might not be an obligation for terrorist groups or the UN 2~ "nations generally ought to reduce IPP for medicines" doesn't substantially change the meaningViolation: They Spec US1~ Semantics outweigh:A~ Topicality is a constitutive rule of the activity and a basic aff burden, they agreed to debate the topic when they came to the tournamentB~ Jurisdiction — you can't vote affirmative if they haven't affirmed2~ Limits:A~ Quantitative – there are over 22k affs accounting for combinations of countries, exploded by "reduce" not implying complete elimination and "medicines" allowing specificationB~ Qualitative – they take away generic turns like WTO bad and functionally jettison "WTO" from the topic, which shifts away from the core topic lit of the WTO as an institutions3~ TVA solves – read the aff as advantage – most authors advocate for a change in WTO policy or TRIPS4~ No PICs offense – potential neg abuse doesn't justify aff abuse because that would permit infinite 1AC abuse5~ DTD – it's functionally the same as it's their entire aff, No RVIs – illogical and leads to theory chill, Cis only reasonability takes the debate out of the debater's hands | 9/18/21 |
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