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Re: Merger

Finally:
To the extent that Parliamentary debate will expand and remove many of
the financially pressed schools from the CEDA circuit what we have left in the
Northwest are the same schools who hung on to NDT until its bitter dying
gasps in the Northwest debating CEDA.  (Gonzo, Western, L&C, Whitman,
Oregon, UPS, PLU, Willamette).  What we will be left with are tiny pools
of CEDA teams and large pools of Parly teams, until only the wealthiest of
the Northwest schools can compete nationally.  This is what happened to
NDT in the early `80s, and if you listened to the self-satisfied simpering
of the coaches from terrible programs who are so happy with the success
they are getting for doing no coaching at all, you would realize that
in the Northwest Parly is going to be HUGE.
My goal, then, is to try to sustain a reasonable level of the best form of
debate in the Northwest.  I have concluded that CEDA as an individual
massive entity propelling debate in the Northwest is through.  We must
move on to NDT  and Parly together as the only possible combination of
events.  CEDA is now doing what NDT did, in both good ways and bad.  Since
the two are identical in all ways but the names of the schools who
participate, we must rebel from our emotional attachments and move back to
NDT.
THIS IS NOT A SLAP AT CEDA PEOPLE, WHOM I HAVE THE HIGHEST REGARD FOR.  I
THINK CEDA COULD HAVE SUCCEEDED.  WITH THIS TOPIC, CEDA HAS GIVEN UP THE
ONLY MORAL FORCE SURROUNDING ITS CONTINUED EXISTENCE, VALUES DEBATE.  WE
DON'T DO THAT ANYMORE, SO LETS MOVE ON.
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