D. Novice IPDA Event Prompts

Round 1 IPDA 12:30 (Draw at 12 in HU 109)

  1. Speaker 1


     

    1.   The US should pass a law guaranteeing universal basic income.

    2.   Sales taxes are preferable to income taxes.

    3.   Free trade does more harm than good.

    4.   The US should eliminate the penny.

    5.   Minimum wage laws are necessary to a fair economy.

Round 2 IPDA 1:45 (Draw at 1:15 in HU 109/110)

  1. Speaker 1


    Round 2

     

    1.   The US federal government should increase funding for K-12 art education.

    2.   Remixes are better than originals.

    3.   The United States should provide reparations from slavery.

    4.   Destruction of cultural antiquities is a crime against humanity.

    5.   Graffiti art should not be a crime.

Round 3 IPDA 3:00 (Draw at 2:30 in HU 109)

  1. Speaker 1


    Round 3

     

    1.   Bioweapons are worse than nuclear weapons.

    2.   Teachers should be allowed to carry concealed weapons.

    3.   The US Federal Government should increase development of space based weapons.

    4.   Repeal the 2nd Amendment.

    5.   A world with no weapons would be worse than a world where everyone is armed.

Round 4 IPDA 4:15 (Draw at 3:45 in HU 109/110)

  1. Speaker 1


    Round 4

     

    1.   Primates should be granted limited human rights.

    2.   The Americans with Disabilities Act should be amended to allow animals other than dogs and miniature horses to qualify as service animals.

    3.   Pit Bull bans are morally justified.

    4.   Marine World (6 Flags Discovery Kingdom) does more harm than good.

    5.   The US should outlaw factory farming.

Bronze Round IPDA 5:45

  1. Speaker 1


    1.    The United States should end its use of economic sanctions.

     

    2.    Frozen Russian assets should be used to rebuild Ukraine.

     

    3.    It’s time to tie India to the West.

     

    4.    China is building a Belt and Road to nowhere.

     

    5.    Gulf states are preferable to European states as mediators of peace.

     

Gold Round IPDA 7:00

  1. Speaker 1


    Gold / Silver Round

     

    1.    The United States federal government should repeal “Ag-gag” laws.

    2.    The United States federal government should ban the production of genetically modified organisms in the United States.

    3.    Go vegetarian!

    4.    Cloned meat is the food of the future.

    5.    The quality of a diet is more important than the affordability of a diet.