Sample Extemp Topics

August 24, 2003

1. Direct Democracy: Mobocracy or democracy in its purest form?

2. Will the proposed settlement for the victims of Pan Am 103 mend Libya's relations with the rest of the world?

3. Will Jacques Chirac's popularity be hurt by France's slow reaction to the deaths due to the summer's heat?

4.  E-mail Worms: Is Microsoft's poor security practices to blame?

5. Does the attack on the U.N. Headquarters in Baghdad show the need for additional troops in Iraq?

6.  Will the Congressional inquiry into the Northeast blackouts be able to avoid excessive partisanship?

7.  Is the nation's economic woes harming George W Bush's re-election effort?