Debate

Intelligence Squared US: Ration End of Life Care

Sun, 12 May 2013 23:00:00 +0000

Airs Sunday, May 12 at 6 p.m. Just because we can extend life, should we? The U.S. is expected to spend $2.8 trillion on health care in 2012. Medicare alone will cost taxpayers $590 billion, with over 25% going toward patients in their last year of life. If health care is a scarce resource, limited by its availability and our ability to pay for it, should government step in to ration care, deciding whose life is worth saving? In other words, how much is an extra month of life worth? The debaters are Dr. Art Kellermann, Peter Singer, Sally Pipes, and Ken Connor.

Wiley College student returns to Africa to forge partnerships

Kate Archer Kent — Tue, 01 May 2012 13:26:54 +0000

Wiley College senior Chad Mossman of Houston is preparing for a three-week mission trip to Nairobi, Kenya. He's developing an internship that will create more connections between non-governmental organizations in rural Kenya and Wiley, a historically black college in Marshall, Texas.

Wiley College debaters remake history

Kate Archer Kent — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 14:40:45 +0000

Wiley College will host University of Southern California in an exhibition debate, 77 years after the two teams sparred in a segregated America with Wiley pulling out a victory.

The debate is Jan. 27, at 7 p.m., at Wiley's Julius S. Scott Sr. Chapel.