WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT

[uuuno@nywork2.undp.org (Unitarian Universalist UN Office)]

When I've stated before that current coaches and competitors do not "OWN" 
this activity and that we are merely custodians to insure its survival 
and spread to as many schools as possible, this is what I meant.  While 
we read some evidence, they didn't really care if the Harrison '95 card 
was from last week or if the FIAT abuse claim would've been justified.  
They wanted to see American Debate, UNDERSTAND American debate and 
appreciate what it offers.  We did not lie.  They were told that most 
debate rounds take place at rates upwords of 250 words a minute to allow 
maximum use of the extensive research and topic analysis of the 
competitors.  But we went SLOW, explained the roles of speeches and 
SHARED what makes debate and speech special with them.

If you don't recognize why, in the long-term, that's the most important 
part of what we do, then your hard work, great research, weekend after 
weekend of travel and lots of school dollars are being wasted.  It's that 
simple.

Thanks for reading.


Peace & Justice,


Will


VOTE FOR INFO-TECH!!  It opens markets and funding to CEDA that mean more 
to the long term vision than ten wonderful TRADE debates on Mexico.  WB

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