公开辩论系列
太阳城网赌平台 was founded in 1863 and Dean Father Robert Fulton, S.J.1868年,美国成立了一个辩论协会. In the early years, interested students gathered to argue the issues of the day. 根据这些会议记录, the first topic debated was "Is the art of printing productive of more good than evil?"
随着时间的推移, 辩论社不断发展壮大, in 1890, the students voted to name their society in honor of Father Fulton. In 1895, another consequential event occurred when 太阳城网赌平台 hosted Georgetown University in the first debate between two Jesuit college. In 1898, the Society invited the Forum from neighboring Harvard University to the Heights for a public debate attended by a large crowd in College Hall. Oddly enough, the topic for both of these early debates was taxation. 100多年后, the Society still engages in debate with Georgetown and Harvard and federal tax policy remains an issue of controversy.
在整个20世纪20年代和30年代, the Fultonians engaged in public debates with regional rivals (such as Harvard and Holy Cross) and traveling teams (from Oxford and Cambridge). After World War II, intercollegiate debate changed with a new emphasis on tournament debating. 而不是两个学院之间的辩论, a host school would invite teams from a number of colleges to engage in a series of round-robin debates over two or three days. At the end of the tournament, one team was declared the champion.
从50年代中期开始, the 富尔顿辩论协会 began to travel to tournaments involving teams from colleges in New England. 到60年代初, the Fultonians were traveling to tournaments across the country and regularly qualifying to attend the prestigious National Debate Tournament. 太阳城网赌平台 first qualified to attend the NDT in 1962 and has been represented at the tournament by thirty-eight teams over the decades that followed.
同时协会的关注点也转移到了校园之外, the Fulton Prize Debate remained an annual campus tradition each spring. 为了向太阳城网赌平台社区伸出援手, the Society inaugurated a new public debate series during the 2008-2009 Academic Year. This format also allows the Fultonians to focus on their oratory, a unique opportunity as tournament debating generally privileges argumentation over eloquence.
The format for the public debates was altered from the tournament format so that the entire debate could be completed in less than one hour. 符合这个限度, the time limits for the four constructive speeches were reduced to 6 minutes. Because the interaction which occurs during the cross-examination periods is frequently the most entertaining part of the debate for the audience, the time limits for the four cross-examination periods were increased from the standard 3 minutes to 4 minutes. 在建设性的演讲之后, the debate stops for 5 minutes to allow members of the audience to ask questions to the debaters. To conclude the debate, each side gives a four minute rebuttal speech. 赢家是由房子的划分来决定的.
2008 - 2009年的辩论
10月28日, 2008–"Resolved: That Senator Barack Obama should be elected the next President of the United States."
11月18日, 2008–"Resolved: The Massachusetts legislature should repeal the ballot initiative, 命题2, which calls for decriminalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana."
February 24, 2009–"Resolved: That fleeting expletives are protected speech under the First Amendment."
3月19日, 2009–"Resolved: That college football should adopt a playoff system for determining the national champion."
二零零九年四月十五日(第117届富尔顿奖辩论)–"Resolved: Congress should repeal the Federal Uniform Drinking Age Act."
2009 - 2010年的辩论
October 22, 2009–"Resolved: That any health care reform should include a public option."
11月10日, 2009–"Resolved: Don't ask don't tell is good military policy and should be upheld, 不取消了.(太阳城网赌平台诉. 麻省理工学院, 波士顿豆子罐辩论的一部分, 波士顿大学主办.)
11月16日, 2009–"Resolved: That the United States should allow openly gay men and women to serve in our military."
February 18, 2010–"Resolved: That Congress should enact the Fair Elections Now Act."
March 23, 2010–"Resolved: That the National Football League's overtime rule should be changed."
2010年4月14日 第118届富尔顿奖辩论)–"Resolved: That the Second Amendment right to bear arms should be incorporated against the states by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment."
2010 - 2011年的辩论
2010年9月17日——“吃肉合乎道德吗??(富尔顿人诉. 善待动物协会)
10月27日, 2010–"Resolved: That the Supreme Court should uphold California's law banning the sale of violent video games to minors."
11月30日, 2010–"Resolved: The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) should be replaced by a sixteen team playoff."
February 17, 2011–"Resolved: That Wikileaks promotes the national interest of the United States."
2011年5月3日 第119届富尔顿奖辩论)–"Resolved: The United States should abandon the use of military force to support humanitarian intervention in the Middle East."
2011 - 2012年的辩论
10月19日, 2011–"Resolved: That the United States should expand federal loans for clean energy technologies."
November 14, 2011–"Resolved: The Capital punishment should be abolished in the United States."
12月6日, 2011–"Resolved: The United States should reduce the size of its nuclear arsenal to 1000 weapons."
2012年3月20日——“社交媒体是社会的积极力量吗??"
2012年4月18日——“如果奥巴马总统再次当选?"
2012年5月5日 120年度富尔顿奖辩论)–Resolved: That the United States Supreme Court should strike down the Stolen Valor Act of 2005."
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