2018 NDT Finals

Last spring, I neglected to post the news that the Kansas team of Quaram Robinson and Will Katz won the 2018 National Debate Tournament. Rock chalk!

Robinson was also a finalist in 2016. Has any other Kansas debater appeared in two final rounds of NDT?

This is a video of the 2018 final round.

Video: Robert Prentice

This interview with Professor Prentice focuses on how business ethics scandals have affected political campaigning -- much discussion in 2012 about Mitt Romney.



This one is from a conference for alums. "We're all Lance Armstrong."

Gregg Walker, Mediators Beyond Borders

Mediators Beyond Borders on mediation to help address climate change:




And at a conference


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Video: Josh Zive

Kentuckian Dwight Yoakam on coal (from "Paradise"):

Well, the coal company came with the, world’s largest shovel,
They tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Lord, they dug for their coal ‘til the ground was forsaken
And wrote it all down as the, “Progress of man.”

And, “Daddy, won’t you take me back to Muhlenberg County?
Down by the Green River where Paradise lay?”
He said, “I’m sorry my son, but you’re too late in asking
Mr. Peabody’s coal train has hauled it away.”

Josh Zive responds:



Note: Video of Yoakam singing this song can be found here.

Law. Bond Law.

This one is about Credit Applications:

Video: Joel Goldman

Mystery writer and former KU debater Joel Goldman:

Video: Katrina

Ever wonder what happened to people you haven't seen at a reunion?

 

Video: Diana

I found a couple of videos featuring Diana Carlin talking about a conference paper and about presidential debate.

Video: Robin

In this video, Robin Rowland discusses his 2010 book, Reagan at Westminster: Foreshadowing the End of the Cold War (Texas A&M Press).


Here's a 1 minute sample of Rowland making fun of George Will:

 

NDT champs honored: Naismith

This is pretty cool.



As Red Buttons used to say, some of the greatest "never got a dinner."

Yes, it's nearly tournament time. 

2009 NDT Final Round (video!)

I have an audio recording of the 1983 National Debate Tournament final round, but this is much better -- a video of the 2009 NDT final round, won by the Kansas team of Brett Bricker and Nate Johnson.




Has it really been 30 years since that 1983 season?

Video: Kansas Debate at Wake Forest (2010)

Kansas alum Jason Badgett made this film, which clocks in at just under 11 minutes:

 

Most of the film focuses on the performance of a Kansas team, Sean Kennedy and Dylan Quigley, at the 2010 Wake Forest tournament. It includes some footage from rounds as well as interviews. Coach Scott Harris appears too.