Yale Intervarsity 2025

1. Round 1This House Prefers significantly fewer Americans going to collegePractise this motion
2. Round 2This House Regrets the rise in content warningsPractise this motion
3. Round 3This House Supports the increasing prominence of country music in the mainstreamPractise this motion
4. Round 4THBT the EU should impose limits on corporate tax competition between member states.Practise this motion
5. Round 5This House Believes That the lottery-and-fee system for employee-sponsored H-1B visas should be replaced with an auctionPractise this motion
6. QuarterfinalsThis House Believes That the valuation of major AI companies will decrease in the next 2 yearsPractise this motion
7. SemifinalsThis House Believes That the US should impose a full embargo on Venezuela until the opposition assumes power, rather than pursuing military actionPractise this motion
8. Grand FinalTHO pessimistic narratives about American democracyPractise this motion
9. Novice FinalsThis House Believes That professional sports should adopt the athlete control modelPractise this motion

1. Round 1THS social media companies removing spaces and content associated with the incel movementPractise this motion
2. Round 2THBT climate activists should prioritize funding the development of clean technology rather than increasing regulation of the fossil fuel industryPractise this motion
3. Round 3This House Opposes the rise of the SituationshipPractise this motion
4. Round 4THR the rapid expansion of neobanks in the financial sectorPractise this motion
5. Round 5THP metaphorical art over visceral art as a tool for social changePractise this motion
6. Open QuarterfinalsTHW fully privatize Fannie and Freddie (e.g. giving control of them back to private shareholders, removing subsidies, etc.)Practise this motion
7. Open SemifinalsTHBT the US and Canadian government should financially facilitate the buyout of Cobre Panama to transfer ownership of the mine to the Panamanian government (e.g. by providing a loan)Practise this motion
8. Open FinalsTHB it is not in Algernon's interests to take the drugPractise this motion
9. Novice SemifinalsTHP a world where fine dining quality recognition (e.g. Michelin stars, James Beard awards) is evaluated solely on food quality as opposed to a holistic experience.Practise this motion
10. Novice FinalsTHBT college graduates should prioritize their working environment (e.g. types of colleagues, team v individual work, etc.) over the content of their work for their first job after graduation.Practise this motion

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1. Round 1TH as Haiti would file a lawsuit against American gun manufacturers to seek compensation for gun-related crimes.Practise this motion
2. Round 2THBT choice feminism has done more harm than good for the feminist movement.Practise this motion
3. Round 3In the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic (early 2020), THS legislation banning vulture funds from buying sovereign and individual debt.Practise this motion
4. Round 4THBT it is in the interest of religions that believe in an omnibenevolent deity (e.g. Islam, Christianity) to abandon the practice of proposing and using theodicies in order to argue for the plausibility of their God.Practise this motion
5. Round 5THW increase the FDA clinical testing requirements for drugs in which the primary purpose is to change brain chemistry (e.g. Ozempic, Antidepressants)Practise this motion
6. QuarterfinalsTHBT civil rights activists should push to expand municipal liability to include vicarious liability for the unlawful conduct of police officers rather than removing qualified immunity defenses for those officersPractise this motion
7. SemifinalsTHW significantly tax private equity firms with more than 10% of AUM in dry powder.Practise this motion
8. Grand FinalTHW force private universities to reimburse tuition to alumni if they do not make a return on their investment within 10 years after the completion of their final degreePractise this motion
9. Novice SemifinalsTHBT the United States Federal Government should repeal section 230 of the communications decency act and aggressively prosecute online platforms.Practise this motion
10. Novice FinalsTHS a world where "Upload" exists and is widely accessible.Practise this motion

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1. Round 1THBT the Effective Altruist community should prioritize alleviating short-term suffering over longtermismPractise this motion
2. Round 2THBT the majority of rental housing should be communal housingPractise this motion
3. Round 3THS the Chinese government's crackdown on private educationPractise this motion
4. Round 4THP a world in which platonic life partnerships are the primary relationship structure, rather than romantic life partnershipsPractise this motion
5. Round 5THBT the US should legalize the payment of extraterritorial bribesPractise this motion
6. QuarterfinalsTHS women writing emotionally descriptive literature over emotionally prescriptive literaturePractise this motion
7. SemifinalsTHW allow US cities to petition courts to write down their pension obligationsPractise this motion
8. Grand FinalTHBT the US should try to increase the size of its population though immigration to approximately 1 billion people by 2050Practise this motion
9. Novice SemifinalsTHR the increased focus on posting less curated “authentic” content in social media (BeReal, finstas, close friends instagram stories)Practise this motion
10. Novice FinalsTHS a world where universities exclusively focused on professional training. In such a world, the purpose of an undergraduate degree at a research university would be to prepare students for a career in academic research, while a 'technical' university would prepare students for careers in specific technical fieldsPractise this motion
11. ESL FinalsTHBT the environmental movement should advocate for adaptation to the effects of climate change over mitigation of the effects of climate changePractise this motion

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1. Round 1THW create medical bodies with the power to prevent individuals in professional sports from continuing their sporting careers (i.e. due to serious injuries)Practise this motion
2. Round 2THP a world where international trade is regulated by practices and norms developed by merchants rather than agreements developed by governmentsPractise this motion
3. Round 3THP a world where the dominant norm is one of open relationships* *Open relationships refer to relationships in which both partners have liberty to have sex with people outside of the relationship.Practise this motion
4. Round 4THBT Supreme Courts should refrain from practicing judicial review in the early years of emerging constitutional democraciesPractise this motion
5. Round 5THBT the US should establish diplomatic relationships with the Taliban regime in AfghanistanPractise this motion
6. Partial Double QuarterfinalsTHBT India should remove subsidies and protections on farms (i.e. free electricity, employment guarantees, minimum support prices) in favor of massively expanding the manufacturing sectorPractise this motion
7. QuarterfinalsTHP a moral system that perceives morality to stem from duties as opposed to rightsPractise this motion
8. SemifinalsTHBT limiting the negative effects of U.S. monetary policy on foreign economies should become an explicit part of the Federal Reserve’s mandate.Practise this motion
9. Grand FinalTHP a world in which religions follow a Gadol rather than an official supreme leaderPractise this motion
10. ESL FinalsIn parliamentary systems, THBT governments should be formed through a union of parties from conflicting sides of the political spectrumPractise this motion
11. Novice FinalsTHP undergrad programs (BA) that follow the holistic education model to ones that follow the specialisation modelPractise this motion

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1. Round 1THBT it is immoral for the typical Yale undergraduate to work at a hedge fund after collegePractise this motion
2. Round 2THW expel Turkey from NATO.Practise this motion
3. Round 3THBT the environmental movement should oppose any green policy initiatives and candidate platforms that do not also make racial and economic justice a central priority.Practise this motion
4. Round 4In pluralistic societies, TH prefers official recognition of major religions as "public law corporations" to laïcité.Practise this motion
5. Round 5This house believes that emerging markets should de-dollarize their economiesPractise this motion
6. Round 6This House Supports the creation of a Supreme Court of FacebookPractise this motion
7. QuarterfinalsTHBT the left should apply its advocacy for reduced penalization and incarceration to all crimes, including those for which the left presently demands a more forceful policy response (e.g. gun violence, sexual assault, hate crimes)Practise this motion
8. SemifinalsTHR the focus of venture capital on expanding market share over achieving profitability.Practise this motion
9. Grand FinalTHBT 21st century western liberal democracy will fail to defeat the challenge of right-wing populism.Practise this motion
10. Nov FinalTHBT it is preferable to pursue civil rights protections via the legislative process rather than the legal system.Practise this motion

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