November 30, 2012

The Proposition: This Assembly Believes Hydrofracking Does More Harm Than Good

For the Affirmative

For the Negative

Paul Gallay

President, Hudson Riverkeeper

Tim Whitesell

Supervisor, Town of Binghamton; President, New York Association of Towns

Robert Howarth

Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB), College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Cornell University

Ed Hinchey

Professional Geologist and Independent Consultant

April 26, 2012

This Assembly Believes Religion Is Hurting Our Politics

For the Affirmative

For the Negative

Tim Byrnes
Professor of Political Science, Colgate University
Author, Catholic Bishops in American Politics
Panelist, WCNY’s "The Ivory Tower Half Hour"

Susan Thistlethwaite
Professor of Theology and former President, Chicago Theological Seminary
Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
Author, Dreaming of Eden: American Religion and Politics in a Wired World
Weekly "On Faith" columnist, The Washington Post

Ken Klukowski
Director, Center for Religious Liberty, Family Research Council
Senior Fellow, American Civil Rights Union
Co-author, The Blueprint: Obama’s Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency

Lawrence Mead
Professor of Political Science, New York University
Former visiting professor, Princeton University and Harvard University
Author, Expanding Work Programs for Poor Men and The New Paternalism: Supervisory Approaches to Poverty

Inaugural Debate: February 1, 2012

Proposition: This Assembly Would Increase Taxes on the Wealthy

https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/campbell/programs/Past_Debates/

For the Affirmative	For the Negative
Leonard Burman Moynihan Chair of Public Affairs at the Maxwell School; former director of the Tax Policy Center. Jennifer Hamlin-Navias United Church of Christ and Unitarian-Universalist minister, Associate Minister of Religious Education at May Memorial Unitarian-Universalist Church. Eliot Spitzer Former Governor and Attorney General of the State of New York.	John DeFrancisco New York State Senator for the 50th District and Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. Kevin Hassett Director of Economic Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and columnist for the National Review; former Senior Economist for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors. Deborah Warner Vice President for Public Policy, CenterState Corporation for Economic Opportunity.