The Bard Policy Debate team headed to Monmouth, New Jersey this weekend for the first tournament of the Spring 2013 semester. Four students attended with coach, David Register. And despite being a little bit rusty from a long break, the team of Sam Jaffe-Goldstein and Anna Daniszewski pulled through and …
On 28 November 2012, the Bard Debate Union hosted its third and final public debate of the Fall 2012 semester. With the US Presidential Election in early November, this has been a busy semester for the Bard Debate Union with countless election-related events on campus. It was precisely in response …
On the weekend of November 2-4, 2012 the Bard Debate Union traveled to Burlington, Vermont for the 2012 Huber Debates. As a group of 20 people (5 worlds teams, 2 policy teams, 3 student judges, and 3 coaches) this was officially the largest Bard contingent ever to attend a debate …
On Friday, October 12th the Bard Debate Union together with the Center for Civic Engagement hosted two exciting events as part of Bard’s Family Weekend programming: First, a faculty roundtable on the state of presidential debates today (with Jonathan Becker, Walter Russell Mead, David O’Connell, and Ruth Zisman; moderated by …
The Bard Debate Union began the 2012-2013 season with a BANG this past weekend at the University of Rochester Debate Tournament. 17 students traveled with coaches, Ruth Zisman and David Register, to compete at the tournament. And compete we did! In the end, the team brought home 6 total awards! …
In conjunction with the upcoming Hannah Arendt Center Annual Conference (Sept 21-22, Does the President Matter?) the Bard Debate Union opened their 2012-2013 public debate series by debating a very timely and important issue. The topic of the debate was “Resolved: The President Doesn’t Matter.” With four students arguing for …
The Bard Debate Union hosted its first weekly meeting of the year last night on Monday, September 3rd at 7:00pm! Not only did we have over 25 people in attendance and not only did our lovely returning debaters bake cookies for the meeting (Thank you, Lee!) but the entire evening …
The Bard Debate Union is getting very excited for the start of a new debate season. We had our annual L&T information session and workshop last night (August 27th) and welcomed over 15 new students to the Bard Debate family. We were thrilled to see how eager they all were …
Nearly all members of the 2011-2012 Bard Debate Union gathered at coach Jennifer Rankin’s home on Friday night, May 11th, to celebrate the conclusion of an incredibly successful year, to bid farewell to our graduating seniors, and reflect on all that we have accomplished together. Indeed, the Bard Debate Union …
Five worlds debaters (Lee Gensler, Armaan Alkazi, Connor Gadek, Shaya French, and Hanze Song) traveled with coach, Jennifer Rankin, to the US Universities Worlds Debate Championship at Willamette University in Salem, Oregon this past weekend (April 13-15, 2012). The team faced much tough competition as schools from all over the …
