Marlborough Ohr Neg
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| College Prep | 1 | Immaculate Heart JL | Alexandra Mork |
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| College Prep | 3 | Monta Vista KR | David Kilpatrick |
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| College Prep | 5 | Harker AV | Danielle Dosch |
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| Golden Desert | 1 | Eden Prairie AG | Kassie Coln |
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| Golden Desert | 4 | Peninsula WW | Pranav Vijayan |
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| Golden Desert | 6 | West Des Moines Valley AM | Ashley Nguyen |
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| Harvard Westlake | 1 | Harker RT | Ari Davidson |
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| Harvard Westlake | 5 | Isidore Newman EE | Truman Le |
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| Harvard Westlake | 4 | Harker SS | Tej Gedela |
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| Meadows LD Scrimmage 2 | 2 | Harvard-Westlake LT | Chris Sims |
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| Meadows LD Scrimmage 3 | 2 | Harvard Westlake PJ | Leah Clark-Villanueva |
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| Meadows LD Scrimmage 3 | 4 | Harvard Westlake AD | Olivia Northcutt-Wyly |
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| Peninsula | 2 | St Agnes EH | Anish Ramireddy |
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| Peninsula | 4 | Harvard Westlake AW | Madeleine Conrad-Mogin |
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| Peninsula | 5 | Lexington AR | Claudia Ribera |
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| USC Trojan Invitational | 2 | Harvard Westlake LD | David Dosch |
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| USC Trojan Invitational | 3 | Mission San Jose AD | Derek Hillgoss |
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| USC Trojan Invitational | 5 | Harvard Westlake AD | Jonathan Meza |
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| UW Western Series | 1 | Logan DK | Molly Martin |
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| UW Western Series | 3 | Wyoming Virtual JC | Amadea Datel |
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| UW Western Series | 6 | Athenian JZ | Alec Hickner |
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| UW Western Series | Quarters | Mount Vernon TK | Kristiana Baez, Amadea Datel, Alex Berry |
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| Western JV Championships | 1 | Harvard Westlake PI | Trupti Gowda |
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| Western JV Championships | 3 | Harvard Westlake NW | Wei Chen |
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| Tournament | Round | Report |
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| College Prep | 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Alexandra Mork 1AC China |
| College Prep | 3 | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: David Kilpatrick AC- Asteroid Mining Russia-US-China |
| College Prep | 5 | Opponent: Harker AV | Judge: Danielle Dosch AC-Mining |
| Golden Desert | 1 | Opponent: Eden Prairie AG | Judge: Kassie Coln AC- US AFF |
| Golden Desert | 4 | Opponent: Peninsula WW | Judge: Pranav Vijayan AC- Corporate Colonialism |
| Golden Desert | 6 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley AM | Judge: Ashley Nguyen AC- Locke Kant FW |
| Harvard Westlake | 1 | Opponent: Harker RT | Judge: Ari Davidson AC-Asteroid Mining Multilateralism |
| Harvard Westlake | 5 | Opponent: Isidore Newman EE | Judge: Truman Le AC-PTD |
| Harvard Westlake | 4 | Opponent: Harker SS | Judge: Tej Gedela AC-Asteroid Mining |
| Meadows LD Scrimmage 2 | 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake LT | Judge: Chris Sims AC- COVID |
| Meadows LD Scrimmage 3 | 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake PJ | Judge: Leah Clark-Villanueva AC- income inequality |
| Meadows LD Scrimmage 3 | 4 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AD | Judge: Olivia Northcutt-Wyly AC-Income Inequality |
| Peninsula | 2 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Anish Ramireddy AC- Megaconstellations |
| Peninsula | 4 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AW | Judge: Madeleine Conrad-Mogin AC- Cap |
| Peninsula | 5 | Opponent: Lexington AR | Judge: Claudia Ribera AC- Testimonies |
| USC Trojan Invitational | 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake LD | Judge: David Dosch AC-Income Inequality Adv Shutdown Adv |
| USC Trojan Invitational | 3 | Opponent: Mission San Jose AD | Judge: Derek Hillgoss AC-Monopsony Income Inequality |
| USC Trojan Invitational | 5 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AD | Judge: Jonathan Meza AC-Income Inequality Civil War Solvency |
| UW Western Series | 1 | Opponent: Logan DK | Judge: Molly Martin AC- Environment Space Debris Capitalism |
| UW Western Series | 3 | Opponent: Wyoming Virtual JC | Judge: Amadea Datel AC- PTD |
| UW Western Series | 6 | Opponent: Athenian JZ | Judge: Alec Hickner AC- Structural Violence FW Debris Space Tourism |
| UW Western Series | Quarters | Opponent: Mount Vernon TK | Judge: Kristiana Baez, Amadea Datel, Alex Berry AC- Structural Violence Colonialism Militarization |
| Western JV Championships | 1 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake PI | Judge: Trupti Gowda AC- Fem IR |
| Western JV Championships | 3 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake NW | Judge: Wei Chen AC- Cap |
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Cites
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JF - Asteroid Mining DATournament: College Prep | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Alexandra Mork Private sector is key to asteroid mining—governments aren’t investing in space innovation. Sandipep 18Sandipep Deb, 2018, Mint, Space: The next frontier for capitalism, https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/NPClPMlOIIAbnwToBO0QiO/Space-the-next-frontier-for-capitalism.html AND reason why the next stage of the capitalist’s progress will be any different. Space regulation scares investors away and spills over to other space activities.The non-appropriation principle undermines space tourism. Freeland 5Steven Freeland (BCom, LLB, LLM, University of New South Wales; Senior Lecturer in International Law, University of Western Sydney, Australia; and a member of the Paris-based International Institute of Space Law). "Up, Up and … Back: The Emergence of Space Tourism and Its Impact on the International Law of Outer Space." Chicago Journal of International Law: Vol. 6: No. 1, Article 4. 2005. JDN. https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1269andcontext=cjil AND the experiments undertaken by Mark Shuttleworth when he was onboard the ISS.46 Asteroid mining can happen with private sector innovation and is key to solve a laundry list of impacts—climate change, economic decline and asteroid collisions. Taylor 19Chris Taylor ~journalist~, 19 - ("How asteroid mining will save the Earth — and mint trillionaires," Mashable, 2019, accessed 12-13-2021, https://mashable.com/feature/asteroid-mining-space-economy)//ML AND , Mark Watney from The Martian, those potatoes would probably kill you.) Warming causes extinction.Bill McKibben 19, Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities; Foreign Policy named him to their inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers. "This Is How Human Extinction Could Play Out." Rolling Stone. 4-9-2019. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/bill-mckibben-falter-climate-change-817310/ AND with rising and falling temperatures, reaching a maximum during the warmest periods." | 12/18/21 |
JF - Climate Change DATournament: College Prep | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Alexandra Mork AND our solar system, Americans decided to embrace socialism back here on Earth? Continued private space development is the only way to make sustainable energy feasible – empirics prove. Autry 19: AND and lifeless worlds is clearly preferable to the continued degradation of the Earth. Warming causes extinction – outweighs all aff impacts AND , there’s no excuse to stop fighting for a world that sustains life. | 12/18/21 |
JF - Japan ProliferationTournament: College Prep | Round: 3 | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: David Kilpatrick AND , it would be most unfortunate if American actions were to precipitate one. Japan will develop offensive strike---nuclear war AND strike capabilities could ultimately worsen the regional security environment rather than improve it. | 12/18/21 |
JF - Russian AppeasmentTournament: College Prep | Round: 3 | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: David Kilpatrick AND If he wanted a pliant ally in America, he has abjectly failed. Appeasing Russia shreds the NPT and causes nuke prolif – extinction AND line with the logic of the world’s nonproliferation regime with regard to Ukraine. | 12/18/21 |
JF - T AppropriationTournament: College Prep | Round: 3 | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: David Kilpatrick Appropriation is a generic indefinite singular. Cohen 01 AND me such a room? Don’t you know a room is¶ square? Their plan violates. Rules readings are always generalized – specific instances are not consistent. Cohen 01 AND , it suddenly changes¶ direction, for example to avoid hitting something. That outweighs—only our evidence speaks to how indefinite singulars are interpreted in the context of normative statements like the resolution. This means throw out aff counter-interpretations that are purely descriptive Vote neg: 1 Precision –any deviation justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution. 2 Limits—specifying a type of appropriation offers huge explosion in the topic since space is, quite literally, infinite. Drop the debater to preserve fairness and education – use competing interps –reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation Hypothetical neg abuse doesn’t justify aff abuse, and theory checks cheaty CPs No RVIs—it’s their burden to be topical. | 12/18/21 |
JF - T Appropriation V2Tournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harker SS | Judge: Tej Gedela T appropriationInterpretation: Appropriation is permanently taking property for exclusive use. Gorove 69:Stephen Gorove, Interpreting Article II of the Outer Space Treaty, 37 Fordham L. Rev. 349 (1969). Available at: https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/flr/vol37/iss3/2 AND with intention of keeping for one's own exclusive use would amount to appropriation. Violation: the non-Appropriation principle does not apply to resource extraction. International consensus and rejection of the Moon Treaty support the distinction between sovereign ownership and resource extractionWrench 19 ~John, JD Candidate at Case Western, BA from Pace University~ "Non-Appropriation, No Problem: The Outer Space Treaty Is Ready for Asteroid Mining," Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, Vol. 51 Issue 1, https://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2546andcontext=jil, 2019 RE AND of property rights in resources extracted from that land, is nothing new. Vote neg – two impacts:Limits. Expanding the topic to anything that involves merely launching something into the atmosphere expands the topic into numerous new tech areas which undermines core neg prep.Topic literature. Our definition has intent to define and exclude in the context of the OST, which is the core of all topic research and the only predictable source.Drop the debater to preserve fairness and education – use competing interps – reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation. No RVIs – they don’t get to win for following the rules. | 1/16/22 |
JF - T NebelTournament: College Prep | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart JL | Judge: Alexandra Mork NC – T NebelNC – T Nebel GovernmentInterpretation—the aff may not defend a subset of government.Government is a generic indefinite singular. Cohen 01Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), "On the Generic Use of Indefinite Singulars," Journal of Semantics 18:3, 2001 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/188590876.pdf AND me such a room? Don’t you know a room is¶ square? Their plan violates. Rules readings are always generalized – specific instances are not consistent. Cohen 01Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), "On the Generic Use of Indefinite Singulars," Journal of Semantics 18:3, 2001 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/188590876.pdf AND , it suddenly changes¶ direction, for example to avoid hitting something. That outweighs—only our evidence speaks to how indefinite singulars are interpreted in the context of normative statements like the resolution. This means throw out aff counter-interpretations that are purely descriptiveVote neg:1~ Precision –any deviation justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution.2~ Limits—specifying a type of appropriation offers huge explosion in the topic since space is, quite literally, infinite.Drop the debater to preserve fairness and education – use competing interps –reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentationHypothetical neg abuse doesn’t justify aff abuse, and theory checks cheaty CPsNo RVIs—it’s their burden to be topical. | 12/18/21 |
JF - US PICTournament: College Prep | Round: 3 | Opponent: Monta Vista KR | Judge: David Kilpatrick Chinese investments are catching up and the US needs private companies to maintain space dominance – Chinese space dominance risks extinction. Autry and Kwast 19: AND conflict while securing a better economic future for the nation and the world. | 12/18/21 |
JF- Asteroid Mining DA v2Tournament: UW Western Series | Round: 1 | Opponent: Logan DK | Judge: Molly Martin The private sector is essential for asteroid mining – competition is key and government development is not effective, efficient, or cheap enough. Thiessen 21:Marc Thiessen, 6-1, 21, Washington Post, Opinion: SpaceX’s success is one small step for man, one giant leap for capitalism, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/01/spacexs-success-is-one-small-step-man-one-giant-leap-capitalism/ AND our solar system, Americans decided to embrace socialism back here on Earth? Taking away property rights scares investors away and spills over to other space activities. Freeland 05Steven Freeland (BCom, LLB, LLM, University of New South Wales; Senior Lecturer in International Law, University of Western Sydney, Australia; and a member of the Paris-based International Institute of Space Law). "Up, Up and … Back: The Emergence of Space Tourism and Its Impact on the International Law of Outer Space." Chicago Journal of International Law: Vol. 6: No. 1, Article 4. 2005. JDN. https://chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1269andcontext=cjil AND the experiments undertaken by Mark Shuttleworth when he was onboard the ISS.46 Asteroid mining can happen with private sector innovation and is key to solve a laundry list of impacts—climate change, economic decline and asteroid collisions. Taylor 19Chris Taylor ~journalist, was senior news writer for Time.com, San Francisco bureau chief for Time magazine~, 19 - ("How asteroid mining will save the Earth — and mint trillionaires," Mashable, 2019, accessed 12-13-2021, https://mashable.com/feature/asteroid-mining-space-economy)//ML AND , Mark Watney from The Martian, those potatoes would probably kill you.) Warming causes extinction.Bill McKibben 19, Schumann Distinguished Scholar at Middlebury College; fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; holds honorary degrees from 18 colleges and universities; Foreign Policy named him to their inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers. "This Is How Human Extinction Could Play Out." Rolling Stone. 4-9-2019. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/bill-mckibben-falter-climate-change-817310/ AND with rising and falling temperatures, reaching a maximum during the warmest periods." An asteroid collision would ensure extinction – would fundamentally alter the biosphere, don’t underestimate its risk. Hudson 19Wesley Hudson ’19, news reporter for Express, "Asteroid alert: NASA warning as kilometre long space rock set to skim Earth at 25,000mph", 8/28/19, Express, https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1170826/asteroid-news-NASA-latest-space-rock-asteroid-1998-HL1-earth-danger-apocalypse AND if we want any hope of surviving the inevitable existential global extinction event. | 2/11/22 |
JF- Debris DATournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harker RT | Judge: Ari Davidson Debris DAIt’s now or never to clean up debris- only private companies are actually making an effort.Nitin Sreedhar, 21 - ("The race to clean up outer space," Mintlounge, 16-01-2021, 10-10-2021https:lifestyle.livemint.com/news/big-story/the-race-to-clean-up-outer-space-111610719274127.html)AW AND clean up space for future exploration will have to be a sustained one. Under I-L, it is appropriation for private entities to remove space junk, means the aff severely limits private junk capture ability.Ramin Skibba, 21 - ("The US Space Force Wants to Clean Up Junk in Orbit," Wired11-17-2021, 1-2-2022https:www.wired.com/story/the-us-space-force-wants-to-clean-up-junk-in-orbit/)AW AND see if the private sector can deal with the problem on its own. Space debris will inevitably set off a chain of collisions.Chelsea MuñOz-Patchen, 19 - ("Regulating the Space Commons: Treating Space Debris as Abandoned Property in Violation of the Outer Space Treaty," University of Chicago, 2019, 12-6-2021, https://cjil.uchicago.edu/publication/regulating-space-commons-treating-space-debris-abandoned-property-violation-outer-space)//AW AND away, meaning that there is still time to develop a solution.52 Laundry list of impacts.George Dvorsky, 15 - ("What Would Happen If All Our Satellites Were Suddenly Destroyed?," 6-4-2015, 12-10-2021https:gizmodo.com/what-would-happen-if-all-our-satellites-were-suddenly-d-1709006681)AW AND your internet connection goes out at the office, imagine losing that plus your | 1/15/22 |
JF- Extinction FWTournament: UW Western Series | Round: 6 | Opponent: Athenian JZ | Judge: Alec Hickner FWRiskprobability x magnitude — we never made a claim that probability is irrelevant but rather that impacts of higher risk is influenced by magnitude should be given comparatively greater weight — making decisions based on a unilateral focus on probability first distorts risk calculus and ensures miscalculated policies==== Extinction is unique insofar as it is the termination of all life on the planet — its a lexical prerequisite to evaluating other impacts because we need to be alive in order to have any chance of remedying forms of structural violence which means if you agree with their framing you vote neg in order to ensure that there is a world left to improveExtinction comes first – it’s the worst of all evilsBaum and Barrett 18 - Seth D. Baum and Anthony M. Barrett, Global Catastrophic Risk Institute. 2018. "Global Catastrophes: The Most Extreme Risks." Risk in Extreme Environments: Preparing, Avoiding, Mitigating, and Managing, edited by Vicki Bier, Routledge, pp. 174–184. AND for reducing GCR, or a high degree of priority for GCR reduction efforts | 2/12/22 |
JF- Legal Trust CPTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harker RT | Judge: Ari Davidson Legal Trust CPTEXT: The Outer Space Treaty ought to be amended to establish an international legal trust system governing outer space. The Legal trust would include private property rights and would ensure the sustainable development as well as the equitable distribution of space resources. | 1/15/22 |
JF- PTD CPTournament: UW Western Series | Round: 3 | Opponent: Wyoming Virtual JC | Judge: Amadea Datel 1States ought to apply the public trust doctrine to outer space while allowing limited private property rights through a system of tradeable development credits. | 2/11/22 |
JF- SBSP PICTournament: UW Western Series | Round: 1 | Opponent: Logan DK | Judge: Molly Martin The appropriation of outer space is unjust except for space-based solar power projects.SSP is viable and requires privatization.Oberhaus 21 ~DANIEL OBERHAUS, "Space Solar Power: An Extraterrestrial Energy Resource For The U.S.," Innovation Frontier Project, August 18, 2021. https://innovationfrontier.org/space-solar-power-an-extraterrestrial-energy-resource-for-the-u-s/~~ CT AND and increasingly vulnerable to natural and human-made disasters on the ground. SSP solves warming. In the short term provides cheap, renewable, and flexible baseload power for on and off-world applications. It’s also key to transition heavy industry to space.Oberhaus 21 ~DANIEL OBERHAUS, "Space Solar Power: An Extraterrestrial Energy Resource For The U.S.," Innovation Frontier Project, August 18, 2021. https://innovationfrontier.org/space-solar-power-an-extraterrestrial-energy-resource-for-the-u-s/~~ CT AND part of its national security, domestic energy, and space exploration strategies. Cooperation over SBSP acts as an olive branch that moderates aggressive Chinese behavior and prevents miscalculation from a space arms race.Peter Loftus 19—-Lieutenant Loftus is assigned to the 75th Fighter Squadron at Moody AFB, Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, where he studied Political Science and Chinese, and a master’s degree in China Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, "Counter and Cooperate: How Space Can Be Used to Advance US–China Cooperation While Curbing Beijing’s Terrestrial Excesses," Air and Space Power Journal, Spring 2019, https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/ASPJ/journals/Volume-33'Issue-1/SEA-Loftus.pdf AND swallow but would foster greater openness while also mitigating the militarization of space. | 2/11/22 |
JF- Salvage CPTournament: Harvard Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Harker RT | Judge: Ari Davidson Salvage law CPCP: Apply the maritime law of salvage to space debris.Salter ’16 - Alexander William Salter ~Assistant Professor of Economics, Rawls College of Business, Texas Tech University~, "SPACE DEBRIS: A LAW AND ECONOMICS ANALYSIS OF THE ORBITAL COMMONS," 19 STAN. TECH. L. REV. 221 (2016). https://www-cdn.law.stanford.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/19-2-2-salter-final'0.pdf AT AND for any accidents caused by removal operations that damage other nations’ space objects. | 1/15/22 |
JF- Starlink Democracy DATournament: Peninsula | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Anish Ramireddy Democracy DAStarlink is key to global internet access.John Koetsier ~{journalist, analyst, author, and speaker~}, 20 - ("Elon Musk’s 42,000 StarLink Satellites Could Just Save The World," Forbes, 1-9-2020, https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2020/01/09/elon-musks-42000-starlink-satellites-could-just-save-the-world/?sh=85866264c2cd)//marlborough-wr/ AND to continue launching that many every two weeks through the rest of 2020. Free internet is crucial to the promotion of democracy. Pirannejad 17:Ali Pirannejad ~{Department of Public Administration, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran; Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands, ~}, 17 - ("Can the internet promote democracy? A cross-country study based on dynamic panel data models," Taylor andamp; Francis, 4-1-2017, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02681102.2017.1289889?journalCode=titd20)//marlborough-wr/ AND period. In the end, some ideas for further research are presented. Democracy Promotion is key to prevent great power war – we’re on the brink.Gat 11 (Azar- the Ezer Weizman Professor of National Security at Tel Aviv University, 2011, "The Changing Character of War," in The Changing Character of War, ed. Hew Strachan and Sibylle Scheipers, p. 30-32) AND , they may vary less than seemed likely only a short while ago. | 1/22/22 |
JF- T LEOTournament: Peninsula | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Agnes EH | Judge: Anish Ramireddy T LEOInterpretation: LEO ends before outer space begins according to science and the Karman line is not an objective way to measure the beginning of outer space.Sabine Stanley, 20 - ("Low Earth Orbit: Troposphere and Stratosphere," Great Courses Daily, 7-9-2020, 1-16-2022https:www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/low-earth-orbit-troposphere-and-stratosphere/)AW AND this 2000-kilometer-high zone before space characteristics dominate the environment. Violation: space debris only happens in the LEO.Kelly Whitt, 21 - ("Kessler syndrome in real life? ISS astronauts shelter from debris," EarthSky, 11-15-2021, 1-16-2022https:earthsky.org/human-world/kessler-syndrome-colliding-satellites/)AW Vote neg – two impacts:They massively expand topic limits by allowing an aff that takes place anywhere in Earth’s atmosphere. That means that affs about weather balloons, missiles, school rocket projects, or airspace owned by governments could all be potential affs. Don’t let them say that they only expand it by a few thousand kilometers- our atmosphere is where most testing and air activities happen. There are more launches within our atmosphere than outside of it, so they more than double the topic prep burden.Topic literature- our evidence is from a scientific source meant to clarify specifically whether or not the LEO is space from a scientific basis. Prefer it to semantic. It’s better for education because it forces the debaters to look at the substance behind the topic .Drop the debater to preserve fairness and education – use competing interps – reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation. No RVIs – they don’t get to win for following the rules. | 1/22/22 |
JF- T Truth TestingTournament: Peninsula | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AW | Judge: Madeleine Conrad-Mogin TInterp: "Unjust" is defined by Oxford Languages:"Unjust" (n.d.) Retrieved Jan. 22, 2022. Google.com – Definitions from Oxford Langauges ND This entails that the affirmative must advocate a topical change in the status quo.Violation: They don’t defend a course of action.1. Justice is normative. To say that something is unjust entails that it ought to be stopped or redressed. The aff advocacy is a meaningless abstraction unless it defends a course of action.2. Truth testing is awful.A) It turns an urgent public policy question into an esoteric question of philosophical labels, which kills real world decision-making skills – i.e. without a plan there is no counterplan or disad ground;B) It turns negating into an endless quest for counterwarrants, which make the debate irresolvable because we don’t know how many counterwarrants justify a neg ballot, and kills clash because the discussion is about assessing the salience of extreme examples rather than engaging with a competing advocacies.C) It kills precision by forcing both sides to defend sweeping generalizations that no responsible scholar would ever defend without qualification. Plans require more rigorous scholarship.Don’t let them say that the resolution has no actor or verb. Their advocacy only needs to entail the resolution to be topical. Proving that a plan baring the private appropriation of outer space by private entities produces the most just world proves the resolution true. They get to choose which actor would best accomplish this objective because a plan with any actor might entail the resolution.Don’t let them say the interp is unpredictable – the Aff read a plan in virtually every round at College Prep and Harvard-Westlake. | 1/23/22 |
JF- Util FWTournament: Peninsula | Round: 5 | Opponent: Lexington AR | Judge: Claudia Ribera FrameworkThe standard is consistency with utilitarianismNo intent-foresight distinction – If we foresee a consequence, then it becomes part of our deliberation which makes it intrinsic to our action since we intend it to happen.Preventing extinction is the most ethical outcomeBostrom 13 (Nick, Professor at Oxford University, Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School, Director, Future of Humanity Institute, Director, Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology University of Oxford, "Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority", Global Policy Volume 4, Issue 1, February 2013 AKONG) AND stronger moral reason to prevent catastrophes that would kill the entire human population. Collapses to util: Maximizing utility is the only way to affirm equal and unconditional human dignity.Cummiskey ’90 - David Cummiskey. ~Associate Philosophy Professor at Bates College~.Kantian Consequentialism. Ethics, Vol. 100, No. 3. 1990. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2381810. AND equal consideration suggests that one may have to sacrifice some to save many. | 1/23/22 |
ND - Econ DATournament: Meadows LD Scrimmage 3 | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake PJ | Judge: Leah Clark-Villanueva The economy is steadily recovering now, but is fragile. Strikes hurt critical core industries that is necessary for economic growth McElroy, 2019, Strikes Hurt Everybody.Wards Auto Industry News, October 25, https://www.wardsauto.com/ideaxchange/strikes-hurt-everybody Strikes cause widespread economic harm AND not fair to the innocent bystanders who will never regain what they lost. Economic downturns devastate people’s lives. AND members, including children, and will have consequences for years to come. Economic crisis is the most likely cause of great power conflict AND to the United States’ freedom of action if such events ever do materialize. Economic decline in an interconnected world collapses the global economy, results in multiple scenarios for war. AND (such as conflict or starvation) could cause great death and suffering. | 11/13/21 |
ND - PRO Act CPTournament: Meadows LD Scrimmage 3 | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake PJ | Judge: Leah Clark-Villanueva PRO Act CP CP text: the US ought to pass the PRO act. The problem with worker organization isn’t the right to strike- it’s companies taking deliberate anti-union action. Means the aff can never solve. AND the right to come together and have a real voice in their workplace. The PRO act solves way better than the aff by making it easier for workers to unionize. AND The PRO Act would take a major step forward in closing that gap. | 11/13/21 |
ND - Pro-Union CPTournament: USC Trojan Invitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: Mission San Jose AD | Judge: Derek Hillgoss Pro-Union CPStrengthening unions solves the whole aff. Lafer and Loustanau ‘20Gordon Lafer ~political economist and is a Professor at the University of Oregon’s Labor Education and Research Center~ and Lola Loustaunau ~assistant research fellow at the Labor Education and Research Center, University of Oregon, Eugene~. 7-23-2020, "Fear at work: An inside account of how employers threaten, intimidate, and harass workers to stop them from exercising their right to collective bargaining," Economic Policy Institute, https://www.epi.org/publication/fear-at-work-how-employers-scare-workers-out-of-unionizing/ accessed 11/3/2021marlborough jh AND by starting to restore balance and effective democratic standards in federal labor law. | 12/12/21 |
ND- Pandemic PICTournament: USC Trojan Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake LD | Judge: David Dosch Pandemic PICPlan Text: A just government ought to recognize the right of workers to strike except for healthcare workers responding to pandemics.Nurse strikes devastate hospitalsWright 10 Sarah H. Wright July 2010 "Evidence on the Effects of Nurses' Strikes" https://www.nber.org/digest/jul10/evidence-effects-nurses-strikes (Researcher at National Bureau of Economic Research) AND nursing were more likely to fare worse in the presence of nurses' strikes. Hospitals are the critical internal link for pandemic preparedness.Thobaity 20, Abdullelah, and Farhan Alshammari. "Nurses on the frontline against the COVID-19 pandemic: an Integrative review." Dubai Medical Journal 3.3 (2020): 87-92. (Associate Professor of Nursing at Taif University) AND disaster, responsible people will do all but the impossible to save lives. Healthcare workers are key to saving millions of lives during COVID-19 through treatment and administering vaccinesGarrett Ilg, 21 - ("Celebrating Healthcare Workers and the Technology that Empowers Them," Oracle APAC, 4-7-2021, https://www.oracle.com/apac/news/announcement/blog/celebrating-healthcare-workers-technology-2021-04-05.html?source=:so:ch:or:awr::::)/AK AND populations of entire nations as COVID-19 vaccines become more widely available. New Pandemics are deadlier and faster are coming – COVID is just the beginningFuture pandemics cause extinctionEleftherios P. Diamandis 21 (works for the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada; Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. "The Mother of All Battles: Viruses vs. Humans. Can Humans Avoid Extinction in 50-100 Years? 4/13/21 https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202104.0397/v1 AND will trigger preventative measures that could reverse or delay the projected adverse outcomes. | 12/11/21 |
ND- Police Unions PICTournament: USC Trojan Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake LD | Judge: David Dosch Police Unions PICCP Text: A just government should abolish police unions and recognize the unconditional right of all other workers to strike.The aff makes police collective bargaining worse and gives more power to police unions.Andrew Grim, 20 Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is at work on a dissertation on anti-police brutality activism in post-WWII Newark AND the police to leverage public fear of crime to extract concessions from municipalities. Police unions use collective bargaining to reinforce systems of racism and violence. Clark ‘19Paul F. Clark ~School Director and Professor of Labor and Employment Relations, Penn State~, 10-10-2019, "Why police unions are not part of the American labor movement," Conversation, https://theconversation.com/why-police-unions-are-not-part-of-the-american-labor-movement-142538 accessed 10/20/2021 marlborough jh AND self-interests, often to the detriment of the nation at large. Police backed by unions are more violent than non-unionized police. Ingraham ’20.Christopher Ingraham ~Reporter~ 20. ("Police Unions and Police Misconduct: What the Research Says About the Connection," Washington Post, 6-10-2020, 10-27-2021 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/06/10/police-unions-violence-research-george-floyd/)//AW AND use of force against the nonwhite population," he recently said on Twitter. | 12/11/21 |
ND- UBI CPTournament: USC Trojan Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard Westlake LD | Judge: David Dosch UBI CPCP Text: A just government ought to provide universal basic incomeStriking can’t solve layoffs when the employer doesn’t need their workers anymore – UBI would give workers a cushion to survive unemployment AND increase their ability to strike by providing a strike fundTascha Shahriari-Parsa, 21 ~Tascha Shahriari-Parsa is a student at Harvard Law School.~ ("Why Universal Basic Income is a Labor Issue," OnLabor, 4-30-2021, https://onlabor.org/why-universal-basic-income-is-a-labor-issue/)//va AND to save more of their bargaining leverage for everything else that matters. ¶ A Universal Basic Income solves poverty. Wright 17Erik Olin Wright, American analytical Marxist sociologist, author, and educator 2-14-2017, "Can the universal basic income solve global inequalities?," UNESCO Inclusive Policy Lab, https://en.unesco.org/inclusivepolicylab/news/can-universal-basic-income-solve-global-inequalities/ JRG AND the administrative capacity to extract taxes and the political will to do so. | 12/11/21 |
ND- Work KTournament: USC Trojan Invitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: Mission San Jose AD | Judge: Derek Hillgoss Work KThe aff’s refusal to work is not a refusal of work – their endorsement of striking reinforces the belief that withholding labor puts people in a position of power AND centers political organizing and resistance to capitalism around identifying oneself first and foremost as a worker. This reduces humans to labor capital, which causes work-dependency and inhibits alternatives.Hoffmann, 20 (Maja, "Resolving the ‘jobs-environment-dilemma’? The case for critiques of work in sustainability research. Taylor and Francis, 4-1-2020, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23251042.2020.1790718)//usc-br/ AND present-day unsustainability and should accordingly be dealt with in sustainability research. Work necessitates material throughput and waste that destroys the environment, even when the jobs are ‘green’Hoffmann, 20 (Maja, "Resolving the ‘jobs-environment-dilemma’? The case for critiques of work in sustainability research. Taylor and Francis, 4-1-2020, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23251042.2020.1790718)//usc-br/ AND production has grown far beyond sustainable limits (Haberl et al. 2009). Unions are intrinsically invested in labor being good – they don’t strike to get rid of work; they strike to get people back to work. Lundström 14:Lundström, Ragnar; Räthzel, Nora; Uzzell, David ~{Uzell is Professor (Emeritus) of Environmental Psychology at the University of Surrey with a BA Geography from the University of Liverpool, a PhD Psychology from the University of Surrey, and a MSc in Social Psychology from London School of Economics and Political Science, University of London. Lundstrom is Associate professor at Department of Sociology at Umea University. Rathzel is an Affiliated as professor emerita at Department of Sociology at Umea University.~}, 14 - ("Disconnected spaces: introducing environmental perspectives into the trade union agenda top-down and bottom-up," Taylor and Francis, 12-11-2014, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23251042.2015.1041212?scroll=topandamp;needAccess=true)//marlborough-wr/ AND in the bush’ – even if the bird in the hand becomes elusive. The alternative is rejecting the affirmative to embrace postwork – it questions the centrality of work and ontological attachments to productivity to enable emancipatory transformation of society to an ecologically sustainable form.Your ballot symbolizes an answer to the question of whether work can be used as the solution to social ills. The plan doesn’t "happen," and you are conditioned to valorize work – vote neg to interrogate these ideological assumptions.Hoffmann, 20 (Maja, "Resolving the ‘jobs-environment-dilemma’? The case for critiques of work in sustainability research. Taylor and Francis, 4-1-2020, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/23251042.2020.1790718)//usc-br/ AND productivism for their own sake is more sustainable and desirable for the future. | 12/12/21 |
SO - COVID CPTournament: Meadows LD Scrimmage 2 | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake LT | Judge: Chris Sims NC Covid Funding CP Counterplan: High-income country governments, backed by the United States, should provide all necessary funding to purchase COVID-19 vaccines developed by drug companies at any reasonable cost and distribute them as requested world-wide. AND patent bargain in favor of generous but well-focused direct government support. | 11/13/21 |
SO - Innovation DATournament: Meadows LD Scrimmage 2 | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake LT | Judge: Chris Sims Patents are key to helping innovation COVID has kept patents and innovation strong, but continued protection is key to innovation by incentivizing biomedical research – it’s also crucial to preventing counterfeit medicines, economic collapse, and fatal diseases, which independently turns case. Macdole and Ezell 4-29: This sets a precedent that spills over to all future diseases – Hopkins 21: AND who advises drugmakers. “Other than that, this is largely symbolic.” Bioterror causes extinction-~--quick innovation key AND could save huge numbers of lives, scientists working at his foundation believe. | 11/13/21 |
SSP PICTournament: Golden Desert | Round: 4 | Opponent: Peninsula WW | Judge: Pranav Vijayan SSP PICThe appropriation of outer space by private entities except for space-based solar power projects is unjust.SSP is viable and requires privatization.Oberhaus 21 ~DANIEL OBERHAUS, "Space Solar Power: An Extraterrestrial Energy Resource For The U.S.," Innovation Frontier Project, August 18, 2021. https://innovationfrontier.org/space-solar-power-an-extraterrestrial-energy-resource-for-the-u-s/~~ CT AND and increasingly vulnerable to natural and human-made disasters on the ground. SSP solves warming. In the short term provides cheap, renewable, and flexible baseload power for on and off-world applications. It’s also key to transition heavy industry to space.Oberhaus 21 ~DANIEL OBERHAUS, "Space Solar Power: An Extraterrestrial Energy Resource For The U.S.," Innovation Frontier Project, August 18, 2021. https://innovationfrontier.org/space-solar-power-an-extraterrestrial-energy-resource-for-the-u-s/~~ CT AND part of its national security, domestic energy, and space exploration strategies. Cooperation over SBSP acts as an olive branch that moderates aggressive Chinese behavior and prevents miscalculation from a space arms race.Peter Loftus 19—-Lieutenant Loftus is assigned to the 75th Fighter Squadron at Moody AFB, Georgia. He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Massachusetts, where he studied Political Science and Chinese, and a master’s degree in China Studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, "Counter and Cooperate: How Space Can Be Used to Advance US–China Cooperation While Curbing Beijing’s Terrestrial Excesses," Air and Space Power Journal, Spring 2019, https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/ASPJ/journals/Volume-33'Issue-1/SEA-Loftus.pdf AND promote bilateral cooperation and to play a role the formation of new international regimes | 2/6/22 |
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