7 SCHOOLS, 17 TEAMS, OPEN DIVISION ONLY

PARTICIPATING SCHOOLS:

• Bethany Lutheran College, Mankato, MN (BLC)
• Carleton College, Northfield, MN (CRL)
• Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA (GRN)
• Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN (GAC)
• Minnesota State University, Mankato, MN (MSU)
• South Dakota State University, Brookings, SD (SDS)
• University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN (UMN)

Preliminary Rounds:

• 3 wins / 0 losses
  • GAC SK (Henry Stockman - Alex Knewtson
  • GAC PL (Justin Paul - Betsy Langowski)
  • BLC MB (Nina Maksymenko - Casey Barnes)
• 2 wins / 1 loss
  • BLC DG (David Buchs - Beth Gullixson)
  • BLC DH (Jesse DeDeyne - Nick Halvorson)
  • CRL HJ (Hope Harvey - Jim Kiner)
  • CRL SL (David Schraub - Jereym Lyon)
  • UMN CJ (Zikiria Chaudhary - Rachel Jamison)
• 1 win / 2 losses
  • BLC OB (John Ohlendodrf -Lisa Buchs)
  • CRL DM (Broderick Dressen - Michael Martin)
  • CRL KS (Bob Keating - Anna Sallstrom)
  • GRN AW (Salman Abbasi - Brian Wermcrantz)
  • MSU RA ( Matt Rueyter - Grant Anderson)
  • SDS RL (Aaron rahlfs - Rachel Lewis)
  • UMN WM (David Watson - Tom Meyer)
  • UMN DK (Andy Delain - Kelly Kubacki)
• 0 wins / 3 losses
  • BLC GL ( Jessica Gehrke - Brandon Londgren)

Bronze Round:

• GAC SK (opp) def CRL HJ 2-0
• BLC MB (gov) def UMN CJ 2-0
• GAC PL (opp) def BLC DH 2-1
• BLC BG (gov) def CRL SL 2-1

Gold Round:

• BLC BG (gov) def GAC SK 3-0
• BLC MB (opp) def GAC PL 2-1

INDIVIDUAL SPEAKERS (top 15 of 34):

• 1. David Buchs - Bethany Lutheran - 85.5
• tie 2. Alex Knewtson - Gustavus Adolphus - 85
• tie 2. Jeremy Lyon - Carleton - 85
• 4. Casey Barnes - Bethany Lutheran - 84 (58)
• 5. Jim Kiner - Carleton - 84 (57)
• 6. Aaron Rahlfs - South Dakota State - 82.5
• tie 7. Henry Stokman - Gustavus Adolphus - 82
• tie 7. Nina Maksymenko - Bethany Lutheran - 82
• tie 9. Jesse DeDeyne - Bethany Lutheran - 81
• tie 9. David Watson - Minnesota - 81
• tie 9. Matt Rueyter - Minnesota State - 81
• tie 12. Rachel Jamison - Minnesota - 80
• tie 12. Bob Keating - Carleton - 80
• tie 12. Michael Martin - Carleton - 80
• 15. Beth Gullixson - Bethany Lutheran - 79.5

TOPICS:

Round 2: This House believes ideology outweighs concrete numbers.

Round 3: (Case) Tom is a high school English Literature teacher who is passionate about educations and his students. During his 10 years on the job, he has become very passionate about having students learn the right way and is very vocal against Cliff Notes and other "commentary" style publications. He forbids the use of such books in his class because he tells his students it inhibits them from reading other quality material. Jason, a very bright, but sometimes cocky sophomore, writes a paper on Shakespeare's Macbeth. In the paper Jason actually cites a source as being from the CliffNotes version of the story. All the citations are correctly done and it is obvious Jason did not try to "hide" his use of the publications. A lot of the paper sounds very similar to how it is presented in the CliffNotes version, but Jason also cited several notable scholars on Shakespeare and has several quotations from the script itself. The paper is well written, but knowing Jason is a natural leader in the class, Tom is worried that by giving Jason a good grade he will encourage other students to use CliffNotes. Without the CliffNotes citation, the paper would be given one of the highest grades in the class, but Tom's policy of no CliffNotes has been challenged.

In this case, the Government team must support the statement: Tom should lower the grade of Jason's paper.

Bronze: This House would require the ".xxx" Internet domain code on certain websites.

Gold: This House believes cell phones do more harm than good.