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Workshop
Information
Nearly 7,000 students have sharpened their
forensic skills at our Debate Workshops. This comprehensive
one-day program informs debaters on the current debate resolution
through expert speakers, hard-to-find resource materials, and
in-depth discussions. Schools may send as many participants as
they wish. Space is limited, however, and reservations are
taken on a first-come, first-served basis.
Proven Success:
Mackinac Center Debate Workshops equip students and coaches with the
facts and intellectual firepower they need for a season of tough
competition. Past teams have applied new skills and ideas they
learned at the Debate Workshops to capture championships in the
Detroit Public School Debate League and the American Association of
Christian Schools debate competitions.
Registration:
Cost is $5 per participant, lunch included. All debaters will
receive valuable articles, reports, and studies. Each team
will also receive a helpful study guide offering economic-based
affirmative and negative positions on the topic.
Greeting and registration for all seminars begin at 8:30
AM. Sessions begin promptly at 9:00 AM and close by 1:45
PM.
Sponsor:
The Mackinac Center is an independent, nonprofit, research and
educational institute. Through seminars, commentaries, public
lectures, and comprehensive studies, the Center works to advance a
scholarly, free-market perspective on policy issues to improve the
quality of life for all Michigan citizens.
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Locations
LIVONIA
Tuesday, September 18, 2001
Burton Manor,
27777 Schoolcraft Road
JACKSON
Wednesday, September 19, 2001
Commonwealth Commerce Center,
209
E.Washington
GRAND
RAPIDS
Wednesday, September 26, 2001
Eberhard Center,
Grand Valley State
University
MIDLAND
Thursday, September
27, 2001
Valley Plaza Inn,
5221 Bay City Road
View the 'Debate 2001
Workshops' Poster
Click Here for the
Registration Form
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Gregory Rehmke
directs the Foundation for Economic Education's high School
Speech and Debate Program. For over 10 years, Greg has
published resource books, study guides and newsletters for
high school debate students and lectured at debate seminars
and workshops around the country.
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Gary Leff*
is Director of Development for George Mason University's
Institute for Humane Studies and Mercatus Center. He
is a former California state championship debate coach and a
national award winner in collegiate parliamentary debate.
He has written numerous publications on academic debate,
extemporaneous speaking, and major issues of economics and
public policy.
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David Beers*
is a consultant for the Foundation for Economic Education,
where he write extensively on the NFL policy and
Lincoln-Douglas debate topics. As a high school debate
coach, his students repeatedly advanced to high ranks in
state and national competition. David is now a
technical writer in Houston, Texas.
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Doug
Bandow* is a senior fellow with the Cato Institute in
Washington,D.C. He is widely regarded as one of
America’s most incisive observers of current events.
In addition to being a policy author, Bandow lectures
frequently at academic conferences, on college campuses, and
to business groups. He speaks and writes on such diverse
topics as foreign aid, religion, environmental protection,
foreign policy, education, and the drug war.
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Ivan Eland*
is director of defense policy studies at the Cato Institute
in Washington, D.C. He has authored studies on
terrorism, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction
and homeland defense, the military threats facing the United
States, and the cost of NATO expansion. Eland has
analyzed such topics as the affordability of the U.S. Navy,
overseas presence of aircraft carriers, and trends in
alliance burden sharing. |
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Catherine
Martin
Mackinac Center for
Public Policy
Former Programs Director
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Amy Kellogg
Mackinac Center for Public Policy
Workshop Assistant
*Not appearing at all locations
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