Recent Topics
Spring 2011
- BIR: Eating disorders are a life choice.
RS Camille Fischer - BIR: Fundamentalism leads to bad governments.
RS Connor Land - BIR: Wikileaks is damaging to America.
RS Archie Japaridze
Fall 2010
- BIR: Sometimes its better to be somebody else.
RS Henry James - BIR: Without government there is no morality.
RS Chelsea Wagenbrenner - BIR: Humans are not the best adapted animals on this earth.
RS David Douds - BIR: Abortion should require the consent of both parents.
RS: Rebecca Arnall - BIR: The idea of the American dream has proved detrimental to our society.
RS: Will Broach - BIR: Humanity appears to be neither benign nor hostile, mainly indifferent.
RS: Kevin O’Brien - BIR: Intellectual property laws should stop protecting music.
RS: Connor Land - BIR: The name of senator Richard B. Russell should not be removed from any public building.
RS: Doug Hennefent - BIR: The “ground zero mosque” should not be built.
RS: Jack Slagle - BIR: Deception nullifies consent.
RS Casey Sharp - BIR: Governments have the right to control the flow of data over the internet.
RS Phillip Brettshneider. - BIR: The university should make the use of academic performance enhancing drugs an honor code violation.
RS Doug Hennefent
Spring 2010
- BIR: All current and former state representatives who supported segregation should not be honored.
RS Nikita Richardson - BIR: The students at the University of Georgia should support a tuition increase in order to maintain the integrity of our degrees.
RS Sarah Burr - BIR: Fast food should be banned from public school lunchrooms.
RS Paul Scanlon - BIR: It is better to have an enemy.
RS Daniel Brettschneider - BIR: The Department of Homeland Security and Department of State, along with the cooperation of the Haitian government and USAID, should transport all medical victims with major injuries to Miami and Fort Lauderdale where their injuries can be treated and then will be granted Temporary Protected Status for 18 months following hospital discharge.
RS AIESEC - BIR: Spanish should be given the same importance as English in American schools.
RS Hannah Rose Johnson - BIR: The phrase “I love you” fails linguistically.
RS Randall Bourquinn - BIR: Keep them on life support until the heart stops beating.
RS Casey Sharp - BIR: U.S. society is just as tribal as Afghan society.
RS Hogai Nassery - BIR: The American peopel face a greater threat from home-grown terrorists than any from overseas.
RS Scott Wells - BIR: Imagination is more important than knowledge.
RS Susana Baker - BIR: All criminal fines should be income-proportional.
RS Doug Hennenfent - BIR: The United States should pass the following amendment:
“Congress shall not have the power to accumulate debt in any form, except when Congress has declared war. In the event that there is debt, Congress shall not have the power to enact any new non-military spending until all debts have been paid in full. Furthermore, Congress shall be required to run a budget surplus not less than 10% of all the total budget until all debts have been repaid.”
RS John Henry Theiss - BIR: The United States can only allow male suffrage in Afghanistan.
RS Chelsea Wagenbrenner - BIR: The loss of the Democrat supermajority will be good for this country.
RS, John Mays - BIR: There are unforgivable acts.
RS, Douglass Hennenfent - BIR: The purpose of American education should be to prepare children for their roles in society.
RS, Sarah Trites - BIR: The Native American Indians were treated fairly by the United States of America .
Respectfully submitted Erich Hein - BIR: Beauty, truth, or justice.
RS, Hannah Rose Johnson - BIR: This America is not worth fighting for.
RS, James Shepherd
Fall 2007
- BIR: Home schooling in the United States should be banned.
RS, Daniel Brettschneider - BIR: The American porn industry is not at fault for the societal ills attributed to it.
RS, Hannah Johnson - BIR: The official policy of the Demosthenian Literary Society should be that all women must raise the toilet seat after use.
RS, David Kirby - BIR: Forced word camps for foundation fellows.
RS, Steven Etheridge - BIR: The first amendment has done more harm than good.
RS, Josh D. Weiss - BIR: Marketable licenses for children should be instituted.
RS, Chris Hansen - BIR: The US should implement a mandatory two year service period for citizens ages 18-26.
RS, Caroline Crawford - BIR: ________ should be the new uniform of the president of the society.
RS, Daniel Brettschneider - BIR: Dog fighting should be legalized nationwide.
RS, Zak Voudo - BIR: The US should give citizenship to all illegal aliens without serious criminal records.
RS, Casey Sharp
Spring 2007
- BIR: The state of Israel should not exist.
RS, Casey Sharp - BIR: All federal funding for developing contraceptives and birth control should be reserved for men until non-surgical, non-barrier methods have been developed for male sexual empowerment.
RS, Kevin O’Brien - BIR: Greed is good.
RS, Daniel Brettschneider - BIR: The motion picture rating system is not keeping young children away from inappropriate material and should be abolished.
RS, Patrick Williams - BIR: The Red Cross is a bigoted organization.
RS, Ryan Webber - BIR: ___________ should be the new national anthem.
RS, Zak Voudo - BIR: Demosthenian Hall is the world’s largest bong.
RS, Casey Sharp - BIR: The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is—and should be—dead.
RS, Jordan Myers - BIR: ____________ should be made into a national holiday.
RS, Stephen Bond Dowell III - BIR: The University of Georgia should continue to allow student organizations that discriminate on the basis of religion to register as such.
RS, Amanda Bates - BIR: Conservationism is a futile, pointless effort.
RS, Daniel Brettschneider - BIR: Corporations and governments should not use RFID chips.
RS, Samiron Dutta - BIR: The DLS will create a subcommittee under Programs to explore the crawlspace under the Hall.
BFR: This committee will also produce a time capsule under the Hall for future Demosthenians.
RS, Casey Sharp - BIR: Campaign contributions by private citizens to Presidential campaigns should not be limited, but should be blinded so that the campaigns do not know who contributions come from.
RS, M. Stephen Darsie - BIR: The U.S. Constitution should be amended to negate the 2nd Amendment.
RS, Zak Voudo - BIR: All federal laws should be written in rhyming verse, as if it’s worth making a law, it’s worth writing a poem about it.
RS, Kevin O’Brien - BIR: Censor this, bitch.
RS, M. Stephen Darsie - BIR: Hate crime legislation should be repealed.
RS, Josh D. Weiss - BIR: The Demosthenian Literary Society should not steal others’ food, and should use a system of stickers and sharpies for food labeling.
RS, Connie Barnett - BIR: It is the divine right of the United States to conquer and civilize the entire middle east.
RS, Daniel Brettschneider - BIR: SGA should continue to operate.
RS, Matt Suber - BIR: People do not treat each other better now than in times past.
RS, Casey Sharp - BIR: The dialectic is an immoral method of persuasion.
RS, Daniel Brettschneider - BIR: The troop surge in Iraq should be supported.
RS, Matt Addison - BIR: Knowledge without wisdom and logic is the most dangerous force in the universe.
RS, Stephen B. Dowell III - BIR: Nations representing a majority of the world’s population and a majority of the world’s income should mandate a 20-hour workweek and compensatory increase in minimum wage.
RS, Chris Hansen - BIR: All cars should come equipped with missiles and missile buttons.
RS, Rory Weeks - BIR: The United States provides the correct model for human existence.
RS, Matt Addison - BIR: Embryonic stem cell research is ethical and should be federally funded.
RS, Tulsi Patel - BIR: Forced immunization is moral.
RS, John Henry Theiss - BIR: Germany’s Holocaust denial laws are an encroachment on individual freedom of speech.
RS, John Henry Theiss - BIR: Those deemed likely to reoffend should remain under civil confinement after the conclusion of their prison terms.
RS, Mr. Furr - BIR: Women should not be socially mandated to remove the hair from their legs.
RS, Ms Bell - BIR: Wii is the most fun you can legally have.
RS, Matt Addison - BIR: The U.S. hegemony is dead. Long live the Chinese Empire.
RS, Chris Hansen - BIR: Obama? Osama?
RS, John Henry Theiss - BIR: I don’t know what I’m talking about and neither do you.
RS, Casey Sharp - BIR: Bitches are better than hoes.
RS, Kevin Frisch - BIR: To provide funding for underfunded international programs, the United Nations should set up a casino in international waters where countries can make bets on the outcome of wars.
RS, Kevin O’Brien - BIR: The United States of America swings the biggest phallus on the international scene, and that it will stick said phallus into any international orifice.
RS, Tom Beusse - BIR: Americans have a dangerous and perverse sense of death.
RS, Blake Miller - BIR: Intrasociety dating should be shunned and the Society should not endorse such endeavors.
RS, Josh D. Weiss - BIR: The US should expand its overseas military presence until no place is more than 500 miles from US troops.
RS, Daniel Brettschneider - BIR: Intelligence is no longer an evolutionary advantage.
RS, Patrick Williams - BIR: The media is entirely responsible for the growing perception that the country is a dangerous place.
RS, Gillian Herschman - BIR: The United States should replace “In God We Trust” will “Bigger, Faster and More Destructive.” Be it further resolved: the United States should replace the bald eagle with the automatic grenade launcher.
RS, Kevin O’Brien - BIR: Several states should be commended for their commitment to the ideals of the founding fathers.
RS, Matt Addison - BIR: Humans should be barcoded.
RS, Zak Voudo - BIR: Two test times from a professor for when a student has more than two tests in a given week.
RS, Josh P. Weiss
Fall 2006
- BIR: The greatest for of political activism is conscientious electoral objection.
RS, Daniel Brettschneider. - BIR: George Allen should be awarded a Brickheap for running an inept campaign that cost his party control of the US Senate. Be it further resolved that the Secretary shall write Mr. Allen a letter informing him of his honor.
RS, David Ballard - BIR: Dueling should return to the US.
RS, Zak Vaudo - BIR: The State of Georgia should abolish the HOPE Scholarship program.
RS, Casey Sharp - BIR: It is always better to choose the devil you don’t know than the devil you do.
RS Blake Miller. - BIR: It is in fact the size of the boat.
RS, Matt Addison.
BIR: ________________ is the best superpower.
RS Matt Williamson - BIR: There is no such thing as a selfless act.
RS Josh P. Weiss - BIR, The DLS should finance Stephen Dowell in his quest to destroy the other Classics/Mathematics majors.
RS, The One, Stephen B. Dowell III - BIR, If time travel to 1909 was possible, I would not kill Hitler.
RS, Josh P. Weiss - BIR, Georgia should recognize and encourage sustainable agriculture.
RS Matt Williamson - BIR, George W. Bush should dismiss Donald Rumsfeld.
RS Michael Darsie - BIR: Torture is justified in modern warfare.
RS, Brian McGuire - BIR: Israel should continue to pursue terrorists using military means.
RS, Matt Addison - BIR: the President of the United States must believe in God.
RS, Ashley Wilkinson - BIR: Sherman’s march was ultimately good for Georgia.
RS, Chris Chiego - BIR: President Bush and the Harlem Globetrotters should visit North Korea before the end of 2007.
RS, Sam Steinberg - BIR: The world would be better off if Islam ceased to exist.
RS, David Ballard
Spring 2006
- BIR: If you’ve got it, flaunt it.
RS, Chris Chiego - BIR, Firearms safety should be a mandatory part of the curriculum in American public schools, and should give students the opportunity to shoot a gun under supervision.
RS, Patrick Williams - BIR, That Religious instruction be made a mandatory part of education in the United States,
RS, Gilbert Head - BIR, Any person who has been on welfare for over twelve months shall have their right to vote suspended.
RS, John Henry Theiss - BIR, Traditional fairy tails are harmful to children.
RS Connie Gail Barnett - BIR, The U.S. Should support child labor in other countries, RS, Matthew Williamson
- BIR, It is morally wrong to solicit sexual favors from your partner.
RS, Emily Crawford - BIR, Above all else, humans are born to fail.
RS, Bill Richards, Esquire. - BIR, The United States should bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities.
RS, Ashley A. Wilkinson - BIR, The United States congress should mandate that judges give similar sentences to offenders convicted of similar offenses.
Respectfully, J. Matthew Williamson. - BIR, sports are the most unifying factor at American Universities.
RS, Sammy Steinberg - BIR, The University of Georgia should ban all Greek organizations from campus.
RS, Matt Addison - BIR, there should be no legal obstacles against a free agent selling himself into slavery.
RS, Chris Hansen - BIR, devices such as Ipods and cell phones are destroying normal social skills.
RS, Chris Chiego - BIR, Corporal punishment of children is immoral.
RS, Jack Cohoon
BIR, Rugged Individualism is Ruining America.
RS, Mary Webb-Pyrdum - BIR, Every major Newspaper in the United States should reprint the controversial “Danish Cartoons.”
RS David Ballard - BIR, Without clear rivals, an empire is destined to fall.
RS, Stephen Dowell - BIR, Hate crimes should not have greater punishments than other crimes.
RS, Ashley Wilkinson - BIR, The use of Eminate Domain should be banned in the United States.
RS, Steven Moulds - BIR, The death of Lewis Fish is his own fault with the only exception of the retrograded drinking laws, that encourage underage individuals to drink as an act of excessive rebellion, that should be changed.
RS, Jody Ballew - BIR, If it were free and feasible, we should strive to de-gender our children so they may gender themselves.
RS, Maciej Misztal - BIR, The new medicare/medicaid prescription drug plans should have never happened.
RS, Erin C. Koval - BIR, Any person, having served seven or more years of combat duty in the armed services, should never have to pay the federal income tax again.
RS, Micheal Darsie - BIR, American high schools should eliminate foreign language requirements for diplomas.
RS, Blake Miller - BIR, Money is the means to happiness.
RS, Joshua P. Weiss - BIR, The US Senate should move to proportional party representation.
RS, Chris Hansen - BIR, Due to China’s poor human rights record, China should be stripped of the 2008 Olympics.
RS, John Henry Theiss
Fall 2005
- BIR, The US Govt. should fund and license private day care agencies to provide child care twenty four seven to any parent who wants it for their children.
RS, Maciej Misztal - BIR, being a Christian shall be made a crime punishable by death.
RS, John Henry Theiss - BIR, The United States should immediately withdraw all military personnel from Iraq.
RS, Chris Chiego - BIR: Who we are as a society should determine what actions we take on moral issues, and not right and wrong.
RS, Matthew Williamson - BIR: The government should create tougher alcohol laws.
RS, Steven Moulds - BIR: The CIA should be disbanded.
RS, Brian McGuire - BIR: The U.S. should repeal the tax exempt status of churches and other houses of worship.
RS, Brian McGuire - BIR: The University of Georgia should allow student organizations to participate in regulated hazing.
RS, Sara Ellen Brown - BIR: Due to the growing extremism of both parties, the Democrats and Republicans are a disgrace to our American Republic.
RS,. John Henry Theiss - BIR: Women should be accepted for full combat duty
RS, John Elliot - BIR: Deviance is good for Society.
RS, Sherrie Hines - BIR: The policies of Ronald Reagan have undermined the wellbeing of the American People.
RS, Josh D. Weiss - BIR: There should be no restrictions on the procurement of stem cells.
RS, Kushbou Shah - BIR: George W. Bush shall receive the Brickheap Award and the secretary shall write a letter informing him of this honor, for his inaction regarding hurricane Katrina.
RS, Jacob R. Martinson - BIR: The University of Georgia should discontinue its women’s studies major.
R.S. Sarah Brown - BIR: The U. S. Armed Forces should practice nation-building starting with the neighborhoods in the U.S. that need it most.
RS, Maciej Misztal - BIR: Those people who cannot provide economically for their livelihood should receive no welfare, handouts (governmental or otherwise), or monetary help in any form.
RS, Darren Earl - BIR: It is acceptable for a U.S. President to allow for his citizens to be attacked.
RS, Steven Moulds - BIR: _____________ is what is wrong with America.
RS, Josh Weiss - BIR: Congress should grant full statehood to Washington D.C.
RS, Stephen Dowell
Spring 2005
- BIR: America should adopt a monarchy.
RS, Matt Addison - BIR: The primary purpose of public education in the United States should be the promotion of skepticism and critical thought.
RS, Brian McGuire - BIR: The state governments of Texas, New Mexico, and California should support, and when necessary and proper authorize, the formation of militias for the purpose of guarding the boarder with Mexico.
R.S., John Henry Theiss - BIR: The desecration of the American flag should be illegal.
RS, John Elliott - BIR: Whereas if one does not believe in a higher power, their life can have no true meaning.
RS, Josh Weiss - BIR: The U.S. should have declared war on the USSR after WWII.
R.S. John Henry Theiss - BIR: Society has become too permissive of certain speech in the name of tolerance.
RS, Matt Addison - BIR: Every person must realize that by accepting and subscribing to the body image promoted by the media, they are in part responsible for causing body image issues for the people that surround them, and therefore must take action as individuals to create a healthier body image in society.
RS, Alan Duffy - BIR: Journalists should truely (sic) be held to report truth and honesty in the news and not mere rhetoric and bias.
RS, Bobby Wesley - BIR: Libertarianism is a blight on society.
RS, Matt Addison - BIR: It takes a madman like Saddam Hussein to preserve stability in the Middle East.
Respectfully Submitted, Emily E. Crawford - BIR: Addiction is the opposite of personal freedom.
Respectfully Submitted, Emily E. Crawford - BIR: Morality springs not from religion, but religion from morality.
Respectfully, S. Cheong Choi - Whereas women’s studies programs have misrepresented women’s choices,
BIR they have destroyed the spirit of feminism.
RS, Jennifer Skrmetti - BIR: It should be politically correct to honor confederate leaders/soldiers.
RS, Steven Moulds - BIR: Native Americans should have their separate nation status revoked.
R.S. Chris Burkhart - BIR: SGA is a necessary good on campus.
RS, Steven Moulds - BIR: The war on terror is irrelevant.
RS, David Smith - BIR: Minds cause people.
Respectfully submitted, Nathan Williams. - BIR: The Cobb County disclaimer which reads, “This textbook contains material on evolution. Evolution is a theory, not a fact, regarding the origin of living things. This material should be approached with an open mind, studied carefully and critically examined”, is an affront to scientific thought, and such affronts should not be allowed in schools that clame (sic) to teach children science.
R.S. John Henry Theiss - BIR: You have the right to oppress yourself.
Respectfully submitted, John Elliot. - BIR: Society should not criticize stereotyped girls for pursuing their comparative advantage.
Respectfully submitted, Alan Duffy - BIR: Social mobility is disappearing in America.
RS, James Shanahan - BIR: The government of the United States is justified in violating claims of individual rights when national security is threatened.
RS, David Ballard