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10 November 2005

E-mail from Dublin

E-mail from Dublin

Hello all,

We need all institutions registered for the P&G Careers WUDC to indicate their dietary requirements on the registration system by Sunday 20th November. We will be placing our orders that Monday. Those of you who have not specified your needs (eg, kosher, halal, vegetarian, vegan) may well not be provided with the appropriate food if you do not register. We cannot delay any longer in making our orders, so book now to avoid disappointment.

On the matter of accommodation requirements, we will be putting together rooming lists quite soon. We need you to indicate your accommodation needs by Wednesday 16th. This means that under other requirements you tell us if you need extra nights (we will give two nights before and three after at a rate of EUR 35 per person per night), a single room (again, EUR 35 pppn),have a preferred sharing partner, have someone you can't share with, etc., etc., etc.

I look forward to seeing you all in Dublin,

Regards,

John Harvey,
Deputy Convenor,
P&G Careers WUDC,
Hosted by the Literary & Historical Society,
University College Dublin
.

8 November 2005

Hart House IV Results

Results from the Hart House British Parliamentary Invitational (Oct. 21-23, 2005)

Winners: McGill (Jason Rogers & R Jesse McWaters III) over Yale on a 4-3 decision

Final: THW Abolish Aboriginal Status

1st Prop: Yale (Ben Eidelson & Rory Gillis)
1st Opp: Queens (Laura Kusisto & Adam Lazier)
2nd Prop: McGill (Mark Bigney & Paul-Erik Veel)
2nd Opp: McGill (Jason Rogers & R Jesse McWaters III)

Finalist Panel: Joanna Nairn, Erik Eastaugh, Kevin Massie, Ren, Michael Kotrly, Gaurav Toshniwal, Rahool Agarwal

Top Speaker on the Tab: Rory Gillis (Yale)

Newcastle IV Tab

Winners: Durham B

Final:
1st Prop Durham A
1st Opp Bates A
2nd Prop Oxford A
2nd Opp Durham B

Final Motion:
When it comes to AIDS prevention is better than cure

7 November 2005

e-mail from Ian Lising

e-mail from Ian Lising, Chairman of the World Debating Council.

Dear All,

I hope this email finds you in great health and spirits. With one month to go before we get to see each other once again in Dublin, I wanted to email everybody and give you an initial report of what will be discussed at Council this year. To that end, I have attached the initial agenda for the pre-Council meeting on 28 December 2005 and the formal Council meeting on 1 January 2006.

1. WORLDS 2005 MINUTES

Thank you for your kind patience on this matter. I have been repeatedly assured by Mr. Sarfaraz Ahmed (World Council Secretary) that the minutes are soon to be completed. I trust that he will be able to release this at his earliest convenience.

2. WORLDS 2006

I wanted to take this time to thank the UCD team led by Ciaran Lawlor. If the job that Philip, John and Pamela have done so far is an indicator of things to come, then we certainly have a great Worlds to look forward to.

3. WORLDS 2007

I had the great pleasure of joining Amanda Wolthuizen and Jeremy Brier in Vancouver to help out with the CUSID BP tournament. Teddy Harrison and Kevin Massie have done wonderful things in preparation for their event and I am sure that you will all enjoy the fruits of their labor.

4. WORLDS 2008

Okay, here's the bad news. After 3 months of working with 3 potential bidders, the last remaining one officially pulled out this weekend. So as it stands now, Worlds 2008 is in peril.

I am hereby commissioning the Worlds Regional reps (IONA, Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa and the Americas) to begin a hard feasibility search for potential hosts within their spheres of influence.

Let's be realistic. Worlds has become a complicated and difficult undertaking. But at the end of the day, it is a week-long debating tournament. The goal is not to outdo the previous year (which UCD & UBC seem to make extremely difficult), but to run an efficient and accessible event for us to all experience.

I know that realistically, the lead time for this is relatively short but then again, this is as much time as I have been given.

Thanks very much for your kind attention. I look forward to receiving word from the potential bidders.

Cheers,
Ian

Agenda for World Council 2006 Dublin, Ireland

Preliminary Council Meeting 12.28.2005

Distribution of Meeting Minutes from Council meeting of Worlds 2005
- Roll Call
- Delegate Names
- Voting status

Institution review
- N-1 Review

Speaker Review
- 4 year rule
- ESL participants

Distribution of 2008 Bid Materials

Council Meeting 01.01.2006

Roll Call
- Delegate Names
- Voting status

Worlds 2005 Minutes
- Vote to accept minutes

MMU Report & Accounts
- MMU Rep to report on Tournament
- MMU Rep to present final accounts

UCD Report & Accounts
- UCD Rep to report on Tournament
- UCD Rep to present initial accounts

UBC (Worlds 2007) Bid Defense
- Bid Defense Presentation
- Questions from council members
- Vote to Confirm UBC as 2007 hosts

Bids for Worlds 2008
- X & Y present bids (order to be determined by coin toss)
- Questions from Council Members
- Vote on hosts for Worlds 2008

Lunch Break

Discussion on Single University-Multiple Debate Union/Societies, Multiple Colleges-Single Debate Union/Societies

Discussion on Adjudicator Caps

Committee Reports
- Chair
- Registrar
- Secretary
- Women�s Officer
- Equity Officer
- Regional Reports

Constitution Review
- English as a Foreign Language Championship

Other Business

2007 World Executive Committee Elections

END

13th All Asians Registration

Registration for the 13th All Asians organised by University Putra Malaysia is now open.

Register early to be eligible for the Early Bird Special which will last only for 3 weeks. For more info abot this exciting tourney to be held by the beach at Langkawi Island (Duty free Island) please visit the official website at www.asians2006.org

6 November 2005

UCD IV: 2005 Vice-Presidents Cup

Winners: Kings Inn (Morgan Shelley & Barry Glynn)

Finalists:
UCC Philosoph (Diarmuid Early & Tony Murphy)
Trinity Hist (David Boughton & Chris Kissane)
Trinity Hist (Hanna Murphy & Rachel ?)

Motions:
Rd 1: TTHWS the imposition by the legislature of a ten year mandatory minimum sentence for sex crimes
Rd 2: TTHW exempt developing countries from international laws on intellectual property.
Rd 3: TTHB Israel should preemtively strike iran.
Rd 4: TTHW give social welfare in the form of vouchers.
Rd 5: TTHW ban hunting.
Semi: TTHW not allow David Irving speak on campus.
Final: TTHW take clinically obese children into care

Note: Apologies to the UCD organising committee. I promised I would judge at the IV but on Saturday morning another commitment arose.

Durham IV Results

Winners: Bates College A (Ryan Creighton & Michael Neville-O'Neill)

Best Speaker on tab was spilt between John Stewart and Ryan Creighton

The Final:

1st Prop: Bates College A (Ryan Creighton & Michael Neville-O'Neill)

1st Opp: St Andrews A (John Stewart & Jason Vit)

2nd Prop: Bristol (Ed McRandal & Toby Eley)

2nd Opp: Middle Temple (Jax Renton & Fred Cowell)

The Final Panel: Bob Nimmo, Erin O’Brien, Alex Deane, Sani Mohd-Ismail, Colletta Smith