Article on SCOTUS rulings

Interesting article on the week's Supreme Court rulings from the Economist.  Plus you'll learn what 'paternalism' is.

Article here!

NJFL Nationals Report

Public Forum Debate

Olivia Cardenas & Erin Sheena - Octofinalists

Alex Hoyal & Vishnu Narayana - Octofinalists

Consolation PF Debate

Travis Craig & Lyle Derden - 2nd

Michael Hoyal & Maddie Muhlherr - Semifinalists

Declamation

Abby Eastman - Quarterfinalist

Impromptu Speaking

Lekha Sunder - 1st

Andrew Hollenberg - Semifinalist

Congress

Erin Sheena - Finalist (8th)

Miguel Covarrubias - Finalist (9th)

Andrew Hollenberg - Finalist (18th)

Marcos Coronado - Finalist - (24th)

Extemporaneous Speaking

Lekha Sunder - 2nd

Olivia Cardenas - Semifinalist

Bowen Song - Quarterfinalist

Will Acheampong - Quarterfinalist

Prose

Dikla Taylor - Quartefinalist

Storytelling

Ally Sun - Semifinalist

Nikki Goldin - Quarterfinalist

Stephanie Sonik - Quarterfinalist

Public Forum Speaker Awards

Olivia Cardenas - 1st

Maddie Muhlherr - 2nd

Lyle Derden - 5th

Erin Sheena - 9th

Congratulations to the team on a strong showing at an incredibly tough and rigorous tournament!

Extemp and Impromptu Areas for Nationals

Extemporaneous Speaking Topics –
Round 1: American Health: Medicare, Medicaid, and the Affordable Care Act
Round 2: Asian Powers: China, India, Japan, and the Koreas
Round 3: Science, Technology, and the Environment
First Elim. Round: The Middle East
Second Elim. Round: President Obama’s Second Term
Third Elim. (if needed): The U.S. Budget

Impromptu Prompt Types –
Round 1: Quotations
Round 2: African Proverbs
Round 3: Physical Activities and Exercise
Quarterfinals: Weather and Seasons
Semifinals: Quotations
Finals: Famous Civil Rights Figures

LD Nationals Topic

Resolved: Oppressive government is more desirable than no government.

Good topic...

PF Nationals Topic

Resolved: The benefits of American drone strikes against foreign targets outweigh the harms.

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Debate 2013-2014

All students wishing to be in 7th or 8th grade debate for 2013-2014 need to answer these questions on a sheet of paper (typed or hand-written).

1. What have you learned/gained from debate this year?
2. What are your goals for next year?
3. What do you have to offer our team? (leadership, character qualities, talents, brag about yourself!)
4. Would you rather be in a debate class or interp. class?

UH-Spring reports

1st Place Sweepstakes

Extemp	Senior Prose	Religious Text
Olivia Cardenas - 1st	Maddie Muehlherr - 1st	Stephanie Oyolu - 3rd
Bowen Song - 2nd	Adele Lauzon - 5th
Lekha Sunder - 3rd	Maggie Hill - 6th
Larry Zhang - 4th
Alex Hoyal - 5th
Junior Prose	TV Commercial - English	TV Commercial Spanish
Maddie Fertak - 6th	Zibi Gugala - 1st	Mariel Alquisira-Morales - 2nd
	Athene DelVecchio - 4th	Miguel Covarrubias - 4th
	Nikki Goldin - 6th
Oratory	Duet Improv	Senior Impromptu Speaking
Lekha Sunder - 2nd	Tran & Hyun Han - 2nd	Sam Frank - 2nd
Rukmini Kalamangalam - 3rd	Lu & Oyolu - 3rd	Lekha Sunder - 4th
Abby Eastman - 5th	Tabibzadegan & Ho - 6th	Olivia Cardenas - 5th
Vega Shah - 6th		Robert Brown - 6th
Jeong Hyun Han - 7th
Junior Impromptu Speaking	Senior Poetry	Junior Poetry
Zuhayr Ali - 1st	Maddie Muehlherr - 1st	Sara Frank - 3rd
Georgy Thayill - 3rd
Joseph Dowdall - 4th
Joseph Donowho - 6th
Dramatic	Humorous	Declamation
Amy Yao - 3rd	Armon Tabibzadegan - 1st	Lekha Sunder - 2nd
Katherine Powers - 6th	Nikki Goldin - 2nd	Rukmini Kalamangalam - 3rd
	Larry Zhang - 5th	Abby Eastman - 4th
	Athene DelVecchio - 6th	Amy Yao - 6th
	Jeong Woo Han - 7th
Storytelling	Duet Acting	Congressional Debate
Alisa Lu - 1st	Nyquist & Sun - 1st	Olivia Cardenas - 1st
Stephanie Sonik - 3rd	Buks & Mattingly - 5th	Will Acheampong - 2nd
Athene DelVecchio - 5th		Miguel Covarrubias - 3rd
		Lekha Sunder - 4th
Group Improv		Curtis Yao - 5th
Nyquist, Sun & Goldin - 1st		Erin Sheena - 6th
Morris, Lauzon & Cardenas - 2nd		Marcos Coronado - Finalist
Shah, Oyolu, Lu, DelVecchio - 6th		Devon Watson - Finalist
Group Lip-Sync
Shah, Collymore, Dunn, Lu & Goldin - 6th
Lincoln-Douglas
Stephanie Oyolu - Quarterfinalist
Public Forum
Maddie Muehllher & Vishnu Narayana - Semifinalist Individual Sweepstakes Maddie Muehlherr - 3rd place