On Saturday and Sunday, September 19-20, 2015, the Bard Debate Union hosted the second annual Bard College Invitational Debate Tournament, an inter-collegiate debate tournament, to which we will welcomed over 250 visitors (students, faculty, and staff) to campus. Participating institutions include: The Bard High School Early Colleges in Cleveland and …
On Friday, September 18 , the Bard Debate Union at Eastern New York Correctional Facility – now in its third year of operation thanks to the hard work BPI Faculty Fellow and Director of Debate, David Register – had a Public-Style Debate against the Harvard College Debating Union on the …
It is only one week into the semester but the Bard Debate Union is well underway toward a phenomenal year. After an info session and workshop during L&T, we got to a quick start with our first meeting of the semester on Aug 31, 2015. We barely fit into the …
On Saturday, May 9, 2015, 14 members of the Bard Debate Union gathered at coaches Ruth and David’s house to celebrate another great year together. We congratulated our 6 graduating seniors – Anna Daniszewski, Isabel Filkins, Shaya French, Stephanie Presch, Hanze Song, and Jesse Verven – and heard short speeches …
This past week, ten members of the Bard Debate Union travelled to Anchorage, Alaska for the US Universities Debating Championship, held at the University of Alaska. It took us nearly 32 hours to get to Anchorage as we found ourselves stranded in Denver, CO on Thursday night, but we made …
On the weekend of March 28-29, 2015, eight members of the Bard Debate Union, together with coaches Ruth and David, headed to Hamilton, NY for the Colgate Open. We had never had the chance to attend this tournament in the past due to its often being scheduled during our Spring …
On Wednesday, 4 March 2015, the Bard Debate Union hosted a public debate on the topic, “Resolved: hate speech should be criminalized.” The questions that motivated our debate are: should there be limits to the freedom of speech? Or should the freedom of speech be protected at all costs, even …
On Friday, 27 February 2015, the Bard Debate Union hosted the 4th Annual Middle and High School Debate Tournament at Bard. We welcomed nearly 100 students and teachers from the Bard High School Early Colleges in Manhattan, Newark, Queens, and Cleveland, from the Red Hook and Rhinebeck High Schools, and …
It was a bit of a rocky (and by “rocky” we mean “snowy”) start to the Spring 2015 semester for the Bard Debate Union. For three weeks in a row, we faced blizzards and snow-storms on Monday nights preventing us from holding our weekly meetings. But finally in early February …
On Friday, December 12, members of the Bard Debate Union gathered at coaches Ruth and David’s house to celebrate a wonderful Fall 2014 semester. There was delicious food, funny board games, a toasty fire, and a sparkling apple cider toast to celebrate a semester of great debates as well as …
