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Come learn more about the Bard Debate Union and Bard’s various civic engagement initiatives at the Center for Civic Engagement Open House. Thursday, September 1, 6:30pm, Campus Center MPR

The Bard Debate Union held its first debate meeting of the year on August 29th and despite the fact that Bard students had just survived their first day of classes (and hurricane Irene), over 30 students attended the meeting! We discussed how the team works, our tournament schedule for the …

Bard students seem more eager than ever to discuss and debate the most pertinent current events of the day, as over 20 first-year students attended our debate information session and workshop on Friday afternoon (Aug 19)! After a great discussion about the mechanics of debate and some brainstorming about various …

Senior Bard debater, Zach Israel, will be representing Bard College (in spirit) when he competes at the “European Universities Debating Championship 2011” (Euros, for short) this coming week. The tournament will be held at the National University of Ireland (Galway, Ireland) from August 7-12. The Euros tournament is an elite …

Bard College hosted a 5K run as a fundraiser for a new, local non-profit, on May 1, 2011. The “Bard 5K Run for the Red Hook Education Foundation” is a benefit run to support the Red Hook Education Foundation which is a  non-profit organization that is connected to the Community …

Marxist Political Economy: A Lecture by David Madden This is  a Marxist approach to issues of political economy generally, the nature of formal freedom in capitalist society, and various Marxist responses to the financial crisis.

“The United States Has a Responsibility to Protect People under Threat from Their Own Governments from Mass Atrocities”

This was an extremely competitive tournament that the top ranked debate schools and teams in the world attended.  There was over 200 teams at the tournament and two of the Bard teams came close to breaking into the finals rounds.

As novice debaters Lee Gensler and Armaan Alkazi qualified for and competed in the open quarterfinals.   Lee Gensler placed 2nd in overall novice speaker points and Armaan Alkazi placed 5th in overall novice speaker points.