Re: SOUR GRAPES - TOPIC AREA

[rutledSC@oa.ptloma.edu]

> TO THE TOPIC COMMITTEE: Don't screw over schools without access to 
> legal libraries and Lexis access.  Do your best to cut out cases 
> which are legalese trivialities.
> Do your best to exclude small cases involving a single species on 
> some obscure riverbank.  Since few colleagues vote on topicality 
> anymore and since subtopicality, counter-warrants and intrinsicness 
> arguments have basically been banned by the debating community, we 
> are unable to teach debating when we are always looking for another 
> card.  Many of us run open programs and encourage sutdents without 
> experience to debate.  We need to teach them to debate not just how 
> to research.
> 

Great advice, let's hope it is heeded.  This topic has the potential for 
being very user friendly for the new or less experienced debaters in that 
it could grapple with large, diametrically opposed ideologies based 
on and fueled by major case examples or it could turn into an ugly little 
slice of novice hell if it is allowed to implode into a never ending 
series of new, minute, previously unheard of cases of the week requiring 
direct on point evidentiary refutation.  



Skip Rutledge
Director of Forensics
Point Loma Nazarene College
3900 Lomaland Drive
San Diego, CA 
92106
(619)221-2391
Internet: rutledSC@ptloma.edu

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• SOUR GRAPES - TOPIC AREA
• From: "David M. Berube" <BERUBE@garnet.cla.sc.edu>

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