Its Official - The new 2011-2012 Debate Topic is here.

Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following: Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen.


This should be fun. 

2011-2012 Debate Topic to be released tomorrow - 7/15/11

We'll post it up here as soon as its out.

New Debate Trophy Case located in Telecom Building

The FSU Debate Team got a new trophy case (which is located in the Telecom Building - where WFSS is).  As of right now, it defnitely has too much vacant real estate, but luckily we can get back to work on that soon.  In the meantime, here it is -

Debate Topic Wordings - Which one do you prefer?

The debate topic area had already been determined earlier this summer (democracy assistance in North Africa and the Middle East), but now the topic wordings that will be chosen from have been finalized.  One of these finalists will end up being the 2011-2012 Collegiate Policy Debate Topic.  With that being said, the difference between the topics is which countries we will include as countries we would attempt to assist with their "democracy". 

So, which one do you prefer?  Leave a comment and tell us why!

1. Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following: Egypt, Iran, Libya, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza, Tunisia.

2. Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following: Bahrain, Egypt, Iran, Libya, Syria.

3. Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following: Egypt, Iran, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, Yemen.

4. Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following: Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Tunisia, Yemen.

5. Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following: Egypt, Morocco, Syria, the West Bank and Gaza, Yemen.

6. Resolved: The United States Federal Government should substantially increase its democracy assistance for one or more of the following: Bahrain, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Syria, Tunisia.

New FSU Bronco Debate Team Logo, Motto, and Bracelets

Here is the new team logo.

Here is the new team motto (it means victory favors preparation).

Here are the new team bracelets.



More about the upcoming debate topic...........

As previously mentioned, the upcoming debate topic area (the exact wording of the topic won't be known for a while now) is democracy promotion in the Middle East and Northern Africa.  Here is a link to the topic area paper that inspired this choice.  If you want to debate this coming year, this would be a good place to start building your knowledge base:

Democracy Promotion in MENA (Middle East North Africa)

and here is the link to an older democracy promotion topic area paper that could also have useful info:

Older Democracy Promotion Paper

2011-2012 Debate Topic Area has been selected.............

The debate topic area for the upcoming debate season is:

The USFG should increase democracy assistance to the Middle East and North Africa.

While this will probably not be the final wording of the topic, it now gives us an area to research.  Actually, this could be the wording, who knows.  Either way, I have a lot to learn about democracy assistance, the Middle East, and North Africa.  So does anyone who wants to debate next year.