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3 December 2006

St Andrews win Cork IV

St Andrews (Tony Murphy & Jason Vit) won the Cork IV 2006

In the final they defeated, UCD (Ciaran Lawlor & Mags Carter), TCD (David Boughton & pCiaran Denny) and Cambridge (Bob Nimo & Ranald Clouston)

Best Speaker on the Tab was Ciaran Lawlor

Best Speaker in the final was David Boughton

Motions (as set by Derek Lande a DCA at this year's Worlds so I know people will be interested)
Round 1: TTHW reintroduce hard labour in prisons
Round 2: TTHW give artists a percentage of the resale value of their work
Round 3: TTHB soccor teams should have a minimum number of homegrown players.
Round 4: TTHW hold drug dealers responsible for the crimes of their drug users.
Round 5: TTHW ban all private security and mercenary companies.
Semi Final: TTHW end the war on drugs in South America
Final: TTHW legalise Prostitution.

Sydney Mini Results 2006

Here are the University of Sydney 2006 BP Intervarsity (Sydney Mini)results.

Winner: Elizabeth Sheargold, Amit Golder (Melbourne/Monash Hybrid)
Runnners Up: Toby Halligan, James Robertson (ANU)
Dave Cramsie, Andrew Chapman (CIT)
Timothy Jeffrie, Fiona Prowse (Monash)

Best Speaker: Phil Senior.

1. This house would ban political parties that advocate the legalisation ofpaedophilia
2. This house supports the abolition of all agricultural subsidies bydeveloped nations.
3. This house would prosecute citizens who act as human shields in enemynations.
4. This house supports the right of adopted children to know the identityof their biological parents.
5. This house supports racial profiling
6. This house supports the militarisation of Japan.

QF: This house would have an "open door policy" for guestworkers
SF: "this house believes the US should seek Iran's assistance inIraq"

GF: Either or "this house would allow the testing of experimental treatments on patients with terminal illnesses".

14th All Asians Website

The website for the 14thAll Asians has been completed.

You can access the website here: http://asians2007.cau.ac.kr/registration/.