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I am happy to see that Bear and the Love Child are no longer trying to
electronically disembowel each other. Re: the issue of case lists: is it
possible to simply have folks who go off to tournaments list cases they have
heard? The issue of attaching names is fairly inconsequential to me. It seems
to me that CEDA-L is simply accomplishing something we all might be doing by
phone in any event. I'm with Murphy, let's vote! As to Love Child's plea for
reasons to prefer CEDA to NDT: We may have to separate the sociological/
from the pedagogical or the theoretical. If I may, I find it to be a major
benefit that CEDA does not release topics until September. We all need some
down time and the pressure of releasing the NDT topic in July is, I think,
an extraordinary burden. I also find the use of two topics to be of a major
benefit to my students who show up in January or December; these folks are not
six months behind in research and they can have the possibility of a
reasonably successful semester of debate. Neither of these two advantages
are really intrinsic to CEDA. Rather, they are merely matters of sociology.
>From a pedagogical perspective, I would MUCH rather be coaching policy debate.
It is far easier for novices without high school experience to pick up and
offers a far more concrete decision calculus than most non-policy topics.
This may be heretical for me to admit, but the fact that I can drive to
ten or twelve CEDA tournaments within six hours sure makes a difference when
it comes to figuring out how to spend my budget. Again, I know, not intrinsic.
I'll be interested to here the discussion on this.
Nick Burnett'
PS: Invites for CEDA Nats were mailed Thursday, entry deadline is 3/1!
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