Re: Mexico

[griffith@spider.lloyd.com (Jason @ Los Rios)]

>On a related note, I think that the topic should be centered if not on
>one country then either on Central or South America but not Latin
>America as a whole which would include, depending on your definition
>as many as 25 countries which would make the research burden on
>smaller schools nearly impossible.  The more countries there are
>available, the more squirrels we will see.  For a better semester
>of "debate", I think the topic should be limited.

Coming from a 'small school,'  I would partially agree that some
definitions of "latin america," are extremely broad, vague and often
conflicting.  However, I would like to make a plea to the topic committee
to keep away from isolating one country in this region as an example of the
whole.  I would say that if limitation is going to occur that the best way
to limit the topic is to isolate a region, i.e. central america +
carribean, or south america + latin american pacific islands, instead of
isolating the topic to a country such as mexico which is not at all
exemplary of the whole region.  Although it may lengthen the topic, it may
be a possibility to pull random countries out of latin america in order to
get an exemplary pool from which cases could be constructed.  They do it in
NDT, why not here?  Also, as john meany commented while in the no topic
discussion earlier this summer, debaters will rise to the occasion.  Even
though the topic could be extremely broad and would *allow* for the
proliferation of squirrels, I think last semester allowed for the same
thing, and yet most large schools opted to run LoS, overfishing, magnussen
act, and other fairly non-squirley (sp?) cases.  And plus, don't the large
schools usually end up scaring smaller schools away from running squirrels
because of their unending resources?  Maybe i'm wrong.  I just figure, the
more cases, the larger topic area, the more educational value of the
semester.  That's what I like, and I definately believe that a semester of
Zedillo would be counterproductive to the utmost education a topic can
yield.

thanks for your time,


  jason griffith
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Hey, check the above out!  It's new...kinda fun.

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