The Bard Debate Union is thrilled to be beginning its 10th debate season and to have welcomed so many promising new debaters to our first meeting of the year. With nearly 30 students in attendance things are looking good for the Bard Debate Union. And that is good because we …
Bard policy debaters, Anna Daniszewski ’15 and Max Taylor-Milner ’15, both attended the Arizona Debate Institute this summer (July 29-Aug 11, 2013). The Arizona Debate Institute is the largest college policy debate summer institute in the country and involves 11 grueling days of lectures, skill work, drills, practice debates, and …
On Friday, May 10, members of the Bard Debate Union gathered together one last time to celebrate the end to another successful year. It was a bittersweet night as we bid farewell to 5 graduating seniors–Ian Busher, Sam Jaffe Goldstein, Michael Luxemburg, Saim Saeed, and Lenny Simon. So we gathered …
The Bard Debate Union decided to debate the issue of marriage equality in our final public debate of the year. But this was no right vs. left wing debate. Rather this was a debate about the debate that is going on WITHIN the gay rights movement – a debate about …
Four members of the Bard Worlds team (Lee Gensler, Ian Busher, Shaya French, and Hanze Song) traveled with coach, David Register, to La Verne University in Los Angeles this weekend to compete at the elite US Universities Debating Championships. This is the largest BP tournament in the United States each …
The Bard policy debate team called the 2012-2013 season to a close at CEDA Nationals 2013 (“the people’s tournament,” as many call it) at Idaho State University this past weekend. The team sent four debaters–Michael Luxemburg, Sam Jaffe Goldstein, Max Taylor-Milner, and Anna Daniszewski–along with coaches, Ruth and David, to …
On Friday, March 1, 2013, the Bard Debate Union together with the Center for Civic Engagement hosted the Second Annual Middle and High School Debate Tournament at Bard College. This year the tournament doubled in size from last year as the team welcomed 80 middle and high school students to …
The Bard Debate Union headed to the Northeast Regional Championships and NDT Qualifier at Western Connecticut State University in full force this weekend. 15 students attended the tournament. And while we did not come home with any awards, there was much success all around. Policy team of Sam Jaffe Goldstein …
The Bard Debate Union was named tournament champion at the Adelphi Debate Tournament in Garden City, New York this weekend (February 16-17). Five students attended the tournament with four debating and one judging. Junior, Lee Gensler, and Senior, Ian Busher, knew they were going to make a run for it …
The Bard Worlds Debate Team had a great weekend (Feb 3-4) at the Kings College Debate Tournament in the Financial District of Manhattan. Eight students attended the tournament with coach, David Register. Ian Busher ’13 and Lee Gensler ’14 were the 7th seed at the tournament and semi-finalists, finishing out …
