Tournament: Ohio Valley | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: -
I advocate that resources such as, but not limited to, experts and DNA testing will be made more accessible to defendants at the tradeoff of public defenders.

Tournament: NSD Camp Topic | Round: 2 | Opponent: All | Judge: All
Housing discrimination is empirically proven—racism by real estate companies deny minority families mortgages and steer them toward disadvantaged, racialized areas
Orfield ’12 Myron Orfield, Director of University of Minnesota School of Law, “America’s Racially Diverse Suburbs: Opportunities and Challenges,” Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity
Discriminatory practices give minority families fewer housing choices and reduce their ability to leverage themselves
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including the highest (households with incomes greater than $157,000).   

Text: The US Federal Government should substantially increase investment in fair housing enforcement for black Americans through the Fair Housing Initiatives Program.
US Department of Housing ’13 clarifies “What is the Fair Housing Initiatives Program (FHIP)?” http://portal.hud.gov/hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/fair_housing_equal_opp/partners/FHIP/fhip
Fair housing organizations and other non-profits that receive funding through the Fair Housing
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enforcement and compliance activities. No funds are available currently for this program. 

Integrated communities have huge potential, but need to beat back challenges—housing isolation and racialized schools are barriers to racially diverse suburbs
Orfield ’12 Myron Orfield, Director of University of Minnesota School of Law, “America’s Racially Diverse Suburbs: Opportunities and Challenges,” Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity
Yet, while integrated suburbs represent great hope, they face serious challenges to their
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and the future opportunity and prosperity of a multi-racial metropolitan America.

Housing programs are reparations
Darity Darity, William A., Jr. "The Economics of Reparations." (n.d.): n. pag. 2005. Web. http://cas.umkc.edu/econ/economics/faculty/Forstater/688/Reading/Black20Political20Economy/EconomicsReparations.pdf.
Econmics also lads us to contemplate a reparations program taking a number of forms,
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can always avoid the debate by choosing to debate under the AC interpretation. 

Diverse suburbs reduce economic disparities and create a more sustainable environment—solves city pollution and reduces dependency on automobiles
Orfield ’12 Myron Orfield, Director of University of Minnesota School of Law, “America’s Racially Diverse Suburbs: Opportunities and Challenges,” Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity
Diverse suburbs recommend themselves in many other ways as well. In general, they
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political participation and limiting the risks associated with dominance by a single party.  

Local efficiency at the levels of metropolitan cities is key to solve warming—emissions, urban sprawl, and energy generation
Biello ’13 David Biello, Associate editor at Scientific American, environmental journalist, “Can Cities Solve Climate Change?” Scientific American, http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cities-as-solutions-to-climate-change/, 10/9/13
To begin to mitigate the pollution causing climate change, cities around the world need
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right size for dealing with some of the most serious problems we're facing."

And it’s try or die—warming releases methane from the tundra causing extinction – the brink is now
Atcheson (John, former Department of Energy senior policy analyst and geologist, has held a variety of policy positions in several federal government agencies “Ticking Time Bomb,” December 15, 2004)
The Arctic Council's recent report on the effects of global warming in the far north
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Once it starts, it's likely to play out all the way.

To break the cycle of segregation we must deal with the school and neighborhood problem jointly.
Orfield 09
(Myron Orfield Director of the University of Minnesota Institute on race and poverty. http://www.law.umn.edu/uploads/ec/fd/ecfdc6101486f404170847f46b03a083/1-Comprehensive-Strategy-to-Integrate-Twin-Cities-Schools-and-Neighborhoods.pdf)
The time is ripe for new approaches to integration in the Twin Cities. Past
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of the primary actors thus agree that the time to act is now.

Education is key to allowing black Americans to maximize their potential in science, technology, engineering, and math
Washington ’11 Jesse Washington, writer at Huffington Post, journalist on race and ethnicity for Associated Press, “STEM Education And Jobs: Declining Numbers Of Blacks Seen In Math, Science,” Huffington Post, 10/13/11
Black people are 12 percent of the U.S. population and 11 percent
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have in STEM," she says, "the more innovations you'll get."

STEM innovation and potential are key to cyber security and economic competitiveness
Swanson and Kelly ’14 Brian Kelly and William Swanson, editor and chief content officer of U.S. News and World Report; chairman of Raytheon Company, US News, “STEM Proficiency: A Key Driver of Innovation, Economic Growth and National Security,” 4/23/14
STEM is also an under appreciated, and troubling, component of the U.
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market. We’ll be refining that and other data for next year’s edition.

Cyber-attacks on infrastructure rising
The Hill 12- (Jennifer Martinez, “Companies see spike in cyberattacks on critical infrastructure systems”, The Hill, 7/3/12, http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/236089-companies-report-spike-in-cyber-attacks)//JY
Companies that operate critical infrastructure systems have reported a sharp rise in cybersecurity incidents over
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emergency response team for industrial control systems, known as ICS-CERT. 

Cyber attacks cause extinction through nuclear war
Fritz 2009 Jason Fritz, Researcher for International Commission on Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament, former Army officer and consultant, and has a master of international relations at Bond University, "Hacking Nuclear Command and Control," International Commission On Nuclear Nonproliferation And Disarmament, http://icnnd.org/Documents/Jason_Fritz_Hacking_NC2.pdf
This paper will analyse the threat of cyber terrorism in regard to nuclear weapons.
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its own, without the need for compromising command and control centres directly.

Key to dream of equal opportunity—solves racial disparities in economy and education. Also, solves race relations in the mainstream
Orfield ’12 Myron Orfield, Director of University of Minnesota School of Law, “America’s Racially Diverse Suburbs: Opportunities and Challenges,” Institute on Metropolitan Opportunity
In the new multi-racial America, diverse suburbs now represent the best hope
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tendency to choose more lucrative occupations in which minorities are historically underrepresented.20

Affordable housing is the critical key to the reduction of segregation
Orfield 09 (Myron Orfield Director of the University of Minnesota Institute on race and poverty. http://www.law.umn.edu/uploads/ec/fd/ecfdc6101486f404170847f46b03a083/1-Comprehensive-Strategy-to-Integrate-Twin-Cities-Schools-and-Neighborhoods.pdf)
The placement of affordable housing is a critical part of neighborhood segregation. Concentrating affordable
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integrative fashion), then segregation in the region’s schools could be greatly reduced.

The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing:

Empirical truths support what might otherwise not be rational action
Sinnot-Armstrong 1
As fact is a reason when it has rational force in the sense that it
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rational is what makes this fact a reason to get your cavity filled. 

Consequentialism is the only way to understand reasons.
Sinott-Armstrong 2
All of this leads to necessary enabler consequentialism or NEC. NEC claims that all
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will cause harm more ensure a failure to prevent harm or to promote good

Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 1 | Opponent: Westwood JD | Judge: Adam Hoffman
I advocate that resources such as, but not limited to, experts and DNA testing will be made more accessible to defendants at the tradeoff of public defenders.

Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 4 | Opponent: Desert Vista BS | Judge: Samantha Hom
I advocate for Derrida's interpretation of Levinasian ethics.

Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 5 | Opponent: Scarsdale CB | Judge: Jerry Chen
Same advocacy as round 1

Tournament: Glenbrooks | Round: 7 | Opponent: Mountain Pointe EH | Judge: Ben Clancy
Same advocacy as round 4