Debate Competition [Photo/Cen Zhinan]
The negative side illustrates his points [Photo/Cen Zhinan]
The POI of third debater of the positive side [Photo/Cen Zhinan]
On the evening of April 18, the college debate final was held by HZAU’s student union and school debate team. After fierce preliminary competition, four teams entered the final competition(from College of Life Science and Technology, College of Humanities & Social Sciences, College of Public Administration and College of Animal Sciences & Technology).
In the competition for third-place, the team from College of Public Administration and the team from the College of Animal Sciences & Technology debated on the topic “technological development is saving art”. During the argument presenting process, the positive side illustrated that technology is saving art from dual plights: the difficulties in preserving art carriers and realizing value for art. However, the negative side, which focuses on current technological development, proposed its core ideas that technological development is damaging the diversity of art and they thought that fragmented entertainment caused by technological development is hindering audience’s understanding and acceptance. In the rebutting session, both teams argued about the impact of diversified media on art. The questioning period made the first half of the competition reach a climax where the positive side invited the negative side to evaluate their on-spot painting and then rebutted their argument that fragmentation kept the audience away from perceiving and evaluating art. This ingenious inquiry received a burst of applause on the scene.
In the competition for the champion, the team from College of Humanities & Social Sciences and the team from College of Life Science and Technology debated on the topic “humankind remains the owner of themselves as civilization advances”. The first debater of the positive side illustrated their ideas from three aspects: the reduction of natural limit, the liberation of spirit and thoughts and the progress of democracy and politics, while the negative team argued that the concept of master is gradually deconstructed from the aspect of objective ability and subjective willingness. In the rebutting session, both sides defended their argument from multiple aspects, which ranges from the criteria for judging “master” to the comparison of civilization trends and from the comparison of limitations on mankind to the discussion of unconscious control. In the concluding session, the negative side reiterated their idea that modern people internalize social norms without realizing them. The positive side, however, summarized the main points of both two sides while raising questions on the doubts again.
Finally, the College of Humanities & Social Sciences won the champion, the team from the College of Life Sciences and Technology the runner-up and the team from the College of Public Administration the third place. Xiong Yu from the College of Humanities & Social Sciences and Zhu FangYi from the College of Public Administration were awarded the title of “the Best Debater”, and Weng Xiaohui from the College of Animal Sciences & Technology won the title of “the Best Debater of All Rounds”.
Source: http://news.hzau.edu.cn/2021/0420/59955.shtml
Translated by: Yu Qiuxu
Supervised by: Wang Xiaoyan
