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  • This house, as Veronica, would accept the offer.

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    Veronica is a typical "nerd" in a big American high school. Veronica and her two best friends spend their time working hard at school, pursuing geeky extracurriculars (chess, Math Olympiad, debate...), and getting constantly bullied by the school's popular kids. One day, after saving the Prom Queen from being run over by a bus, she offers Veronica to join the popular group, as long as long as she cuts off her friends and quits her geeky extracurriculars.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · U-19 Quarterfinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house prefers the integrated model to the specialty model

    Infoslide

    There are two ways that governments can consider disadvantage in policy- making. The "integrated model" incorporates disadvantage as an inherent consideration in policy-making (e.g. all new policies made in the education department must consider implications for rural students). The "specialty model" involves having a distinct division that specifically engages with policy for disadvantaged groups (e.g. the education department has a division that directly and separately addresses helping rural areas).

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · U-19 Semifinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house regrets the dominant narrative that 'a friend in need is a friend indeed'

    Infoslide

    The phrase "a friend in need is a friend indeed" means that a true friend is someone who helps you when you are in trouble, rather than abandoning you.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · U-19 Quarterfinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house believes that feminist movements should engage directly in electoral politics (e.g. endorsing and campaigning on behalf of specific political candidates, forming feminist political parties and wings of political parties, donating to political campaigns, etc.).

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · U-19 Finals · 2025-11-10

  • This house regrets the rise of the 24 hours news cycle

    Infoslide

    News used to be reported and updated more infrequently twice-daily broadcasts by news networks. The 24-hour news cycle is the 24-hour investigation and reporting of news.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-10

  • In rapidly-developing megacities, This house prefers the "chaotic warm approach" in urban planning as opposed to Le Corbusier’s approach

    Infoslide

    A megacity is defined as a very large urban area, usually a metropolis, consisting of a main city supported by several satellite cities. Le Corbusier's concept of urban planning envisions polished infrastructures (wide roads, clear sidewalks, spacious public facilities etc.) within cities with well-defined sectors (clear separation of residential and commercial areas). A 'chaotic warm' approach is a city that looks “messy” from up above but feels 'warm' to its inhabitants: for example the presence of urban villages, city alleyways scattered with street food hawkers and hole-in-the-wall establishments. For the purpose of this debate, both approaches would also aim for cleanliness, relative law and order and security albeit in different ways of delivering/implementing them.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Quarterfinals · 2025-11-10

  • This House prefers a world in which oracles exist.

    Infoslide

    An oracle is someone capable of providing prophecies. These prophecies are expressed vaguely, in poems or riddles, but they are always accurate. Oracles cannot choose what they prophesy about and only see very limited parts of the future—fixed points that cannot be changed. Oracles are rare: only a few hundred exist at the same time, distributed proportionally to the population around the world.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-10

  • This house supports the growing role of private equity in online content creation

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    Private equity refers to a class of businesses which buy and invest in private companies (companies which are not publically listed on stock exchanges). In recent years an increasing percentage of Youtube channels have been purchased by private equity firms including CocoMelon, Veritasium, and Game Theory. The nature of these contracts is often undisclosed, but typically involves the private equity firm keeping on the original creators as part owners or employees who are paid a fixed salary or percentage of revenue.

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-11-08

  • This house believes that the Democrats should fight dirty (e.g. rezoning electoral districts in their favour, frequent filibustering, initiating politicised investigations against opponents, etc.)

    Cambridge Intervarsity 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-08

  • In partnerships without equal affection, this house would prefer to be the more loving one in a relationship

    Infoslide

    A pegged currency is one in which the exchange rate between two currencies is fixed to a set rate (ex. the Danish krone (DKK) is pegged to the euro at a central rate of 746.038 kroner per 100 euro, with a 'fluctuation band' of +/- 2.25 per cent). A government maintains a peg by buying and selling foreign reserves to ensure a set price. A floating exchange rate is one in which the relative exchange rate of currencies is determined entirely by the supply and demand of the currency on the open foreign exchange market. The Canadian dollar was previously pegged to the US dollar from 1962 to 1970

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-08

  • This House Believes That states with predominantly Muslim populations should embrace Islamic modernism over Islamic secularism.

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    Islamic modernism refers to a movement which attempts to syncretize the Islamic faith with values typically associated with western modernity, including but not lmited to democracy, civil rights, and equality. It is described by scholar Mustafa Akyol as an effort to re-read Islam's fundamental sources--the Qur'an and the Sunna--by placing them in their historical context, and then reasssessing them in the light of the modern context. It is contrasted with Islamic secularism, which argues that Islamic influences on political and legal systems should be removed in favor of a separation of religion and state.

    USC Mini 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-08

  • This house supports the rise of educational flexibility in K-12 education

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    Educational flexibility refers to the adaptability and openness of educational institutions and their practices. This may involve reducing the emphasis on exams, minimizing lecture hours, increasing project-based learning, and individual learning plans.

    USC Mini 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-08

  • This House, as the Jewish American student, Would join the encampment.

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    The UCLA Gaza Solidarity Encampment was a pro-Palestine protest established on campus lasting from April 25th to May 2nd, 2024 as part of a nationwide student movement calling for divestment of university funds from Israel due to their actions in Gaza. It drew significant attention after violent clashes between protesters, counterprotesters, and police led to injuries and numerous arrests. You are a Jewish-American UCLA student with progressive politics coming from a middle-class background in Los Angeles. You are on campus during the time of the encampment.

    USC Mini 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-08

  • This house opposes linguistic nationalism

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    Linguistic nationalism is the belief that language is central to a nation's identity. This can be seen in the existence of national languages, historical programs of linguistic assimilation (eg. the French government making active efforts to eliminate Breton and Occitan language), and the differentiation of mutually intelligible languages on political grounds (splitting of Serbo-Croat into Serbian and Croatian, splitting of Hindustani into Urdu and Hindi)

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Grand Final · 2025-11-08