D. Novice IPDA (Sat) Event Prompts
IPDA Rd 1 A 9:30 - B 10am Central Strike BSSB 105
Speaker 1
FLIGHT A
The USFG should ban the use and development of large language models (LLMs).
Music streaming services do more harm than good.
Deficit spending does more harm than good.
The USFG should pass a policy for universal healthcare.
The State of California should make a substantial investment in its public transportation infrastructure.
Speaker 2
FLIGHT B
Large language models (LLMs) do more harm than good.
Movie streaming services do more harm than good.
Austerity measures are preferable to deficit spending.
The USFG should pass a policy for universal basic income.
The State of California should make a substantial investment towards the completion of the California High-Speed Rail.
IPDA Rd 2 A 11:30 - B 12pm Central Strike BSSB 105
Speaker 1
FLIGHT A
The USFG should institute a federal jobs guarantee.
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) does more harm than good.
The State of California should reverse its decision to halt prescribed burns.
Online speech censorship does more harm than good.
GDP is a poor measure of economic health.
Speaker 2
FLIGHT B
A federal jobs guarantee would do more harm than good.
The USFG should abolish the Immigration and Customs.
The State of California should significantly increase its afforestation efforts.
Speech censorship on college campuses does more harm than good.
Government intervention in markets does more harm than good.
IPDA Rd 3 A 1:30 - B 2pm Central Strike BSSB 105
Speaker 1
FLIGHT A
The Belt and Road Initiative does more harm than good.
The USFG should substantially increase its financial investment in the global south.
The USFG should halt the sale of TikTok to American investors.
Pop culture has a greater impact on youth than formal education.
LA is better than NYC.
Speaker 2
FLIGHT B
The United States should support the Belt and Road initiative.
The USFG should substantially increase its investment in domestic manufacturing.
The sale of TikTok’s American operations to American investors does more good than harm.
The USFG should apply significant restrictions on youth activity on social media.
LA is better than the Bay Area.
IPDA Rd 4 A 3:30 - B 4pm Central Strike BSSB 105
Speaker 1
FLIGHT A
The USFG should end all aid to the state of Israel.
The USFG should ban the sale of commercial firearms.
School voucher programs do more harm than good.
Progressives are the future of the democratic party.
Cancel culture does more good than harm.
Speaker 2
FLIGHT B
The USFG should end its arms sales to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Congress should vote to repeal the 2nd amendment.
The State of California should substantially increase its funding for public universities.
The Democratic Party is a failed political project.
Cancel culture is necessary in modern public discourse.
IPDA Elim 1 5:55pm Central Strike BSSB 105
Speaker 1
The USFG should create a national department of the arts.
The “Penal exception clause” does more harm than good.
The UN should send peacekeepers to the Gaza strip.
Political violence is justifiable in cases of political repression.
Reformism is preferable to revolution.
IPDA Elim 2 7:30 pm Central Strike BSSB 105
Speaker 1
The UN should take action to resolve the civil war in Myanmar.
The USFG should require social media companies to remove harmful or false content more aggressively.
The USFG should significantly increase taxes on tech companies.
National security concerns like domestic terror and mass shootings justify increased.
Gig economy workers should be classified as employees rather than independent contractors.