辩论一项兼具思维与表达艺术的活动。所谓“不辩不明”，辩论不在于上场时的面红耳赤，而在于在辩论的过程中，双方的观点得到程度的展现，通过一次次的立论和驳斥，让观众和辩手可以离真理更近一步辩论，让思想不断被建筑，让真理愈来愈分明。

2017.03.10. 我校辩论社接受上海美国学校浦东校区(SASPD)邀请，进行了一场辩论友谊赛。我校辩论社的钱劲帆和朱浩辰作为辩手而郑元元则是以裁判的身份被邀请参加比赛。另外还有10名高一年级的同学在夏天老师的带领下观看整场比赛, 同时给高二年级的学长和学姐带来了一定的鼓励。

Opening ceremony

站在舞台左边的四个女孩儿，正是这次辩论赛的负责人。整场开幕式不是很复杂，但一定少不了她们的精心策划和反复排练。

一段简短的视频中汇集了不同学校的优秀辩手们用自己的语言概括了自己的经历和对这次辩题的一些见解，一些有趣的答案把大家逗得哈哈大笑，紧张的氛围也不复存在了。

Guest Speaker

“在遇到自己中意的事情，是选择退却，转向又或是勇往直前?”一个问题直接敲打进学子们的心房。Mike Hauge，这个在上海居住了5年从挪威移民的外教，以开放演讲的方式，以自己曾祖父，为梦想漂洋过海却贫穷一辈子，但仍然咬牙坚持送自己五个孩子上学为例子，为我们带来了一场精彩的Public Speaking。幽默又不失风度，恰到好处的笑点，使得他的演讲趣味性十足，让人会想要一直听下去。也同样告诉了我们一个深刻的道理，我们可以做任何事情，但我们无法做所有事情，挑选于其中，走下去!

 

Debate time

The topic followed the Spring NSDA regionals resolution of: “Resolved: On balance, legal barriers to immigration are more harmful than beneficial to society.”

在这个高手云集的地方，两位学长在两场比赛都遇上了很强劲的对手，都是来自SASPX的学生，双方的水平更是在伯仲之间不分上下。

 

自信地迎接劲敌，在比赛后收获的比赛经验和友谊，无疑是辩手们参赛后最开心的事情。

What did you learn?

“I planned to be the debater initially, but for some reasons I had the chance to be the co-judge this interschool debate in SASPD, which was so amazing! I have never experienced debates from the perspective of judges, who require so much work and efforts. As an (amateur) judge, I have to listen carefully about every single word in the debates, then write them down and make some comments. Indeed, by doing this, I started to think about how an impressive debater should be like; I even listed several points of how to impress the judges. Anyway, though this interschool debate made me almost exhausted, I really enjoyed listening to these awesome debates: clear and creative constructive, intensifying crossfire and lucid rebuttal!”

-Stacie Zheng

“When I saw the warm debate running on the stage, I worshiped the both teams'competitors. Their terrific speeches helped them argue their theses well, they were confronted an opportunities to have a extemporaneous battle with each other. So all of them needed to be responsive, they were able to make a appealing and even a invulnerable retort in such a short time. How amazing they are!”

-Alex Guan

New term of debate is now open for all! This semester, we got a lot more friends and teachers and supporters on our back, we are no longer fighting for glory on our own!! This year, we have all the senior grade one students to encourage our four debaters, we have Mr.Fisher and Mr. Oakley as our academic supervisors and we also have our beloved debate coach Josh to help us throughout this tough yet fantastic preparation for the NSDA tournament.

The inter-school debate in SASPD on last Friday was our first “tournament” about the immigration topic. Stacie as the official judge has brought massive ballot paper about different contentions from many outstanding debaters in SAS, which is the most competitive international school in Shanghai. While our two adroit contestants Steven and Eric both presented solid evidences as well as lucid logos in the debates.SISU debate club members and all the debaters are learning and thriving through every tournament that they have been through just like this one! It is not important that none of us are decent native speakers who can articulate well comparing to other debaters, but value is that we devote ourselves for what we love and keep going further.

Thanks to all the staffs, teachers and students!

See you guys on May 20st in the NSDA tournament.

文字| 管岑昀 邹喆 郑元元 朱浩辰

编辑&美工|吴怡宁