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"Aristotle in New Orleans"
Bringing Debate to Middle School Students in New Orleans

After a successful fall semester, Professor Ryan McBride and students in English 365 are partnering again with local middle-schools and getting young children interested in the art of debate. "Aristotle in New Orleans," is a partnership between Tulane University, the International Debate Education Association (IDEA) and three New Orleans area middle schools in which Tulane students coach debate programs targeted toward 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. Divided between Sophie B. Wright Charter, Lafayette Academy and Banneker Elementary, the program "combines community partnership, service-learning, new media, and ancient dialectical practices for the development of our intellectual and moral virtues." 

The program was recently featured on WWNO. Click here to listen.

The program has expanded its work and will now host two tournaments this semester rather than one. The first was held March 6, 2010 at Sophie B. Wright and featured in the Times Picauyne.

The second will take place in April 24, 2010 on Tulane's campus.

Online Articles

March 9, 2010  The New Wave
New Wave Staff  - Film Festival Targets Human Rights - Focusing on the global and local aspects of human trafficking, Tulane students in a political science class have organized a Human Rights Film Festival today through Thursday (March 9–11) on the uptown campus. 

March 9, 2010  The New Wave 
New Wave Staff  - National Service Award for Tulane - Tulane University is the sole New Orleans-area university, and one of only 115 schools nationwide, to be named to the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction. The honor is the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.

March 3, 2010  The New Wave
Carol J. Schlueter  - Students' Designs Solve Real-world Challenges - David Rice watched carefully on Saturday (Feb. 27) as teams of his biomedical engineering students proudly debuted the devices they have built to assist New Orleanians with disabilities. "The big deal is working not so much for a class grade, but for real people who need help," he says.

February 24, 2010  The New Wave
Carol J. Schlueter  - Second Line Makes the Grade - A service-learning project that was part of a Tulane communication and American studies class took students into the New Orleans community to record oral histories of the Prince of Wales Social Aid and Pleasure Club. Now their work, accompanied by photographs, has been published on a new website for the award-winning public radio program, "American Routes."

February 21, 2010  The Chronicle of Higher Education
Katherine Mangan  - 'Service Learning' Becomes the New Standard at Tulane U. -Tulane University students have been reveling during Mardi Gras and enjoying jazz in the French Quarter for more than a century.

February 18, 2010  The New Wave
Arthur Nead  - Rescuing the Dogs of the Ninth Ward - The abandoned pit bull puppy was hairless, starved and bleeding. Tulane law student Kelly Gaus found the suffering animal as she was walking her own dogs around her Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans.

January 28, 2010  The New Wave
Mary Ann Travis  - Newcomb Institute Leader Dedicated to Women's Education - The first thing to do is build on the legacy of Newcomb College, says Sally Kenney. Kenney officially became the first permanent executive director of the Newcomb College Institute on Jan. 1.

January 6, 2010  The New York Times
Stephanie Strom  - Does Service Learning Really Help? - Betty Medina Lichtenstein used to dread the beginning of the school year, when students from colleges and universities around Holyoke, Mass., would descend on her tiny community organization, Enlace de Familias.

January 5, 2010  The New Wave
New Wave Staff  - Making a Difference - D. J. Dietze, a junior majoring in political economy at Tulane, will make a motivational speech for 6th and 7th graders at Lafayette Academy on South Carrollton Avenue on Thursday (Jan. 7).

December 31, 2009 The Times Picayune
Tina Soong - Registration to begin for Chinese academy - The Academy of Chinese Studies will hold its spring semester registration on Jan. 10 from 2 to 5 p.m. at Newcomb Hall, Tulane University, 1175 Broadway St., New Orleans.

December 26, 2009 OpEdNews.com Joan Brunwasser - Tulane Gives Back - Chatting with Vincent Ilustre of the Center for Public Service - I first met Vincent Ilustre in November. I was down in New Orleans on a volunteer trip. He spoke to our group one evening and I was fascinated by the program he runs at Tulane. Welcome to OpEdNews, Vincent. Please describe where you work on campus and what your office does.

December 14, 2009 Youth Media Reporter
Liz Dunnebacke and Vicki Mayer - Youth Media in the Aftermath of Disaster - Media coverage of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath showed myriad representations of suffering and loss. While heartrending, images of destruction were often de-contextualized, and journalists from the national media and documenters who popped in for some coverage often misunderstood New Orleans' complex urban experience.

December 2, 2009  The New Wave
Alicia Duplessis Jasmin - Students Research Female Mardi Gras Indians - Cherice Harrison-Nelson and her mother, Herreast Harrison, are using the cultural traditions of Mardi Gras Indians to educate young people about the roles of women in society. This semester, the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women welcomed them to work with Tulane students on a documentary about the contributions of female Mardi Gras Indians.

November 19, 2009  The New Wave
Alicia Duplessis Jasmin - Students Coach Young Debaters - Tulane students enrolled in the service-learning course "Aristotle in New Orleans" are coaching debate teams at three New Orleans middle schools. By using the rhetorical and dialectical methods of Aristotle and other ancient theorists, the university students are teaching the younger students how to debate. Watch this video of their debate preparation.

October 14, 2009  The New Wave
Alicia Duplessis Jasmin - Students Dig New Orleans - Archaeological mysteries that intrigued the likes of a real British archaeologist, Howard Carter, who discovered King Tut's tomb in Egypt, and the fictional adventurer, Indiana Jones, who chased the raiders of a lost ark, are being explored by Tulane students in the TIDES course "Loot, Plunder and Pillage: Ethics in Archaeology and the Art Markets."

October 2, 2009  The New Wave
Brandon Meginley - Students Probe City's Irish Past - New Orleans has a rich and diverse history. The stately Cabildo speaks to its Spanish past. Streets with French names abound. Creole and Cajun foods show up on menus across the city. And the Irish, well, they have their Channel.

September 22, 2009  The New Wave
New Wave Staff  - Cowen Receives Prestigious Carnegie Award - The national spotlight is shining once again on Tulane University, its president and the civic engagement programs that have been a major focus of its students and faculty members since Hurricane Katrina.

September 14, 2009  The New Wave
Mary Cross  - Let's Talk about Sex - Getting teens to talk is never a challenge. Getting teens to talk about sex is a completely different story. Tulane University's Upward Bound program, New Orleans theater company Junebug Productions and the Institute of Women and Ethnic Studies recently teamed up to encourage open discussion about healthy relationships and HIV/AIDS in a creative writing and theater course for high school students.

September 3, 2009  The New Wave
Carol J. Schlueter  - Students in Prime Time Spot - Talk about prime time — when Tulane football debuts on national television this Friday (Sept. 4), Charles Gaspard's New Orleans family will have double the excitement. Not only will the junior wide receiver be on the field for the Green Wave, he also will be in a television commercial about Tulane that airs on ESPN during the game.

September 2, 2009  The New Wave
Mary Cross  -  Students Make it Right - By 8 a.m. on Saturday (Aug. 29), a sea of blue- and green-clad students poured into the Lavin-Bernick Center on the uptown campus, anticipating their day of service for the 19th Annual Outreach Tulane. On the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the event drew approximately 1,000 Tulane students who volunteered at locations throughout the New Orleans area.

August 16, 2009  The Star online
Sarah Chew  - Fruitful partnership - IT was an interesting exchange of sorts, research expertise for real life internship experience. Ten students from Tulane University's (Tulane) School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, New Orleans in the United States (US), came to Malaysia for a month to help out in community projects, thanks to a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Universiti Malaya (UM) and Tulane to facilitate student exchange and internships.

August 11, 2009  The New Wave
News Splash - Community Partners  The Tulane Center for Public Service and the Innovative Learning Center have joined forces to create the Center for Public Service Information System, an online forum that brings public service agencies and university faculty and students together.

July 28, 2009  The New Wave
Fran Simon  - Year of Service Opens New Vistas - When Stephanie O'Brien moved to New Orleans from New England last November, she had signed on for a one-year stint as an AmeriCorps VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America) member. She had never been to New Orleans. Now O'Brien says she can't imagine leaving the Crescent City when her service ends.

 

 

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