Re: CEDA-AFA - What is it all about?

[allan louden <louden@wfu.edu>]

The other effect, Tuna mentions, more individuals joining AFA seems to be 
positive.  It provides debate a collective that can 
promote/represent/encourage debate (the reasons, in part, for AFA 
anyway).  Fragmentation may have educational and competitive advantages 
(obviously they do) but the collective also has power in certain 
situations.  It would give AFA more leverage with SCA for example, 
potentially at least.  Also provides resources (Tuna is right that it 
might mean more memberships for AFA) for publications, promotion of 
research, and promotion of professionalization (e.g., Tenure documents, 
etc.).  These types of benefits are somewhat abstract for debaters (and 
prob. of little immediate impact) but as educators, should be of concern 
to the coaches.  Many, or even most, of the coaches in CEDA already 
participate in AFA.  I wonder about the future generations and the need 
to get young coaches involved in more than the next rd. or the latest 
theory blip.  Let the debate continue.

Allan Louden, Dir. of Debate
Wake Forest University
Box 7347, Reynolda Station
Winston-Salem, NC  27109

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References:

• CEDA-AFA - What is it all about?
• From: asnider@moose.uvm.edu (Alfred C. Snider)

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