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Re: CEDA-L digest 832

Without accusing anyone of a conspiracy against CEDA it strikes me that 
this post gets to the heart of the matter.  How many CEDA schools 
actually hold high school institutes? which are nationally attended?  
High schoolers will form their opinions based upon what they experience, 
if they are spending their summers at NDT affiliated workshops it doesn't 
seem all that surprising that they are uneducated about CEDA or that 
there is a general perception that NDT is superior to CEDA.  An 
interesting sidenote:  How many summer institutes are actually staffed by 
CEDA debaters/coaches?  I can name three Emory, Vermont, and Stanford 
(Liz Slagle, former Emory debater worked there last summer). Not a whole 
lot in the grand scheme of major national institutes.
jason jarvis 
wake debate




On Wed, 21 Feb 1996, Hey Hey wrote:

> I am also quite interested in what Ross Smith has to say about the poisoning
> of the minds of standout high debaters toward the Cross Examination Debate
> Association.  Mush of this poisoning is taking place at the national high
> school debate workshops sponsored by NDT affliated universities (including
> Wake Forest)......it is one thing to stress the benefits of policy debate on
> the ndt national circuit, but it is another to bias the minds of high school
> students against another debate organization.  And, don't tell me this isn't
> happening....I have tried to recruit too many debaters whose minds have been
> poisoned against CEDA to believe that this is not a major problem.
> 
> Glen Strickland
> Director of Debate
> Emporia State University
> 
> >This is a message to Ross Smith, a person I still hold responsible for a great
> >deal of my knowledge about theory - he is a great coach and a nice guy, I very
> >recently gave the ADI address on the benefits of a merger between NDT and CEDA.
> >I think the gap is rapidly narrowing between NDT and CEDA and that our
> >similarities are quickly outpacing our differences.  However, I am still
> >frequently annoyed by the comments I get from potential recruits and high schoo
> >l people in general about CEDA.  I would like to hear what you think about the
> >"poisoning of the well"  that seems to occur in NDT about CEDA.  Normally I do
> >not engage in this type of questioning (I have clearly stated that I think the
> >whole issue of comparison is silly) but I have rarely encountered as much open
> >hostility from anyone as I have from high school kids the first time they are
> >aware that I am from a CEDA program.... Since you are someone I respect a
> >great deal I wish you would address this question....Josh Hoe - Ros Smith
> >theory lab alum at Wake H.S. Workshop former semi-finalist Wake workshop and
> >former participant in the NDT.....See ya'
> > 
> >Joshua B. Hoe
> >Asst. Dir. Forensics
> >Arizona State University
> >e-mail:IFJXH@ASUVM.INRE.ASU.EDU
> >(602) 965-5578
> >
> >
>
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