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Re: Registrar certification

While I agree with the heart of Bennett's post below, there is one 
assumption that is not necessarily true--that about DOF's 
circumventing the guidelines.  Certainly that has happened, and it 
saddens me that a small number of members of my profession have in 
the past intentionally violated rules such as eligibility, but the 
most publicized example in recent years comes from a program with NO 
person in a faculty or staff "director of forensics" position.  

I have a great deal of respect and sympathy for student-run or alumni-
run programs.  I'd rather see them than no program at all to benefit 
students.  The vast majority of such programs play by the rules.  But 
there are dangers inherent when there is no one officially "in 
charge" of a program who is accountable to the college/university in 
any significant way.  Just a thought.

Terry
SUU

> Date sent:      Thu, 20 Mar 1997 16:47:05 -0600
> Send reply to:  strange@andria.lacollege.edu
> From:           Bennett Strange <strange@andria.lacollege.edu>
> To:             Issues concerning CEDA Debate  <CEDA-L@cornell.edu>
> Subject:        Registrar certification

> In recent postings, the argument has been raised regarding non-students
> participating in at CEDA nats and the remedy of having all participates
> certified by their institutions.  Someone posted the note that the rule is
> needed.
> 
> I submit that this is a sorry commentary on the state of intercollegiate
> debating when DOFs would attempt to circumvent well founded guidelines by a
> practice such as entering non-students in any tournaments.  Is winning so
> dear that we have no ethics?  Have we stooped so low that academic debating
> has lost the academic thrust?
> 
> It is impossible to codify enough rules to anticipate all of the violations
> that a creative mind can conceive.  What we need is some good old fashioned
> soul searching rather than trying to lock the doors.
> Bennett Strange
> 1502 Florence Street
> Mansfield, LA 71052
> 
>
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