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Topic papers

Thaughts about the topic papers:

Rights/Racism etc.

I think this is an excellent topic area if the wording allows the discourse
  to be over the most effective means of confronting civil rights/racism/
  sexism/heterosexism.  I would loathe being negative on a topic that simply
  said, for example, racism is bad etc.  The more explicitly the topic
  centers on resistance methods the more debatable it becomes.

Proliferation

I think it is an excellent topic area suffering from a critical deficit -
  The lack of an inherent staus quo.  The status quo has multiple anti-
  proliferation stances, counterproliferation stances, and diplomatic
  efforts to stop proliferation....these missives also change all the time.
  I think a better method of getting to the core of this same issue is a topic
  that ratifies a current multilateral treaty under consideration by the
  Senate.  The status quo is that the treaty is not ratified.  Clear ground
  division occurs because the treaties are specific, well-known, and
  the affirmative must ratify one (the wording could specify treaties
  dealing with weapons of mass-destruction - CWC, Start 2-3, the BWC, the CTBT,
  the Fissile Materials Ban etc.  Although this seems too limiting the
  literature on each of these is HUGE and the literature on the impacts of the
  treaties is evn larger but the ground division would be clear and generic
  ground would be created.  In addition, the topic specific literaturewould
  make procedural debates deep and meaningful.... I may actually research this
  one out and try to get it on the "L" for consideration if time allows.

Content Restrictions

A good topic area....We have debated it multiple times in different ways.
   Still good division of ground and good generic ground.

Southeast Asia

An excellent topic paper....Its been posted several times and I have little
   to add to its exhaustive scope.

InfoTech

I wrote about the reasons I do not like this area last year, the year before
that etc.  It is imprecise and vague.....the ground is not devided very well..
the topic could easily be bi-directional etc.....

Space

Have not seen the paper....I do not know....Berube seems to think it would
be a great topic.

Josh

Joshua B. Hoe
Asst. Dir. Forensics
Arizona State University
e-mail:IFJXH@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU
(602) 965-5578
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