Bard College Invitational Debate Tournament is a Huge Success!!! (Sept 19-20, 2015)

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 …

Bard Debate Union at Eastern Correctional Facility Beats Harvard!!!! (Sept 18, 2015)

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 …

Bard Debate Union celebrates another great year (May 9, 2015)

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 …

US Universities Championship at the University of Alaska (Apr 11-13, 2015)

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 …

Public Debate on Hate Speech draws large crowd and generates important discussion (Mar 4, 2015)

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 …

4th Annual Middle/High School Debate Tournament at Bard – AMAZING! (Feb 27, 2015)

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 …

A Snowy but Awesome start to the Spring 2015 Semester! (Feb 23, 2015)

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 …

Bard Debate Union celebrates Great Semester at Holiday Party! (Dec 12, 2014)

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 …