11 February 2003
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News
from Vermont Debate AKA The Voice of Edwin is the weekly newsletter
of the Edwin Lawrence Debate Union at the University of Vermont, an
endowed co-curricular program which trains students in debating and
sponsors national competition and community events. The newsletter is
published every Tuesday during the school year and infrequently at other
times. Alfred C. Snider is the Director. 802-656-0097 voice, 802-238-8345
mobile, 802-656-4275 fax, asnider@zoo.uvm.edu
email, and http://debate.uvm.edu/ldu.html
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The LDU sent two teams out to Seattle and then on to Bellingham and Western Washington University for the 2003 Koma Kulshan debates (named after the mountain above Bellingham's original name). There was a 20 team policy tournament along with a 108 team parliamentary tournament. Steve Woods, former LDU coach and now Director at WWU, had invited coach Snider to come and tab the tournament and had purchased him a ticket. The teams got off to a 4-0 start on Friday and then stumbled a bit on Saturday as Brian Cole and Jennifer Knops finished 3-3, losing their break round, while Jillian Marty and Sheila Limprevil finished 2-4. The competition was really excellent and the hospitality was outstanding. The team got to see the beauty of the area as well as the beauty of the campus.
WWU has borrowed a
number of things from the LDU, including a newsletter and public debates.
WWU has some innovative projects that the LDU may copy, including a monthly
"Let's Talk" session where the debate team hosts an open forum about
a hot issue, and has become very successful. They also serve as expert assistance
and support for community groups and NGOs interested in developing their communication
and public presentation skills.
News articles are now available for the recent Internet debate against Marist College, one with a story and transcripts (http://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/iccdebate0203.pdf) and another about the technology, written by Maxwell Schnurer, LDU alumni (http://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/schnurerinternetdeb0203.pdf).
Interviews and news articles about coach Snider's trip to Serbia and Slovenia are now available. From Serbia we have the interview from Politika (http://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/politikainterview0103.pdf) , and from Slovenia the interviews with Mladina (http://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/mladina0103.pdf ) and one in Delos (http://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/delo article0103.pdf ) and then another in Delos (http://debate.uvm.edu/dcpdf/Delo20103.pdf ).
TOPIC AND TRAVEL2002-2003 topic:
Resolved that the United States Federal Government should ratify or accede
to, and implement, one or more of the following: The Comprehensive Nuclear
Test Ban Treaty; The Kyoto Protocol; The Rome Statute on the International
Criminal Court; The Second Optional Protocol to the International Covenant
on Civil and Political Rights aiming at the Abolition of the Death Penalty;
The treaty between the United States of America and the Russian federation
on Strategic Offensive Reductions, if not ratified by the United States.
UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS
I IS NEXT!
Marty & Limprevil, Hill & Langsweirdt, Varela & Kern
SPECIFIC TRAVEL INFO NEXT WEEK!
LDU travel schedule
for Spring, 2003:
21-23 Kansas, 2/28-3/2 East Regionals/D8 at UVM
March, 14-16 Towson, 20-24 CEDA Nationals, AZ
April, 3-7 NDT, GA
RESEARCH THIS WEEKJillian Marty
is our research director.
THE RESEARCH LIST IS POSTED IN THE OFFICE! ALL ARGUMENTS MUST BE FINISHED
BY FRIDAY EVENING!
FROM THE SQUAD MEETING
FLASHPOINT
TELEVISION SHOW
SQUAD
MEETING |
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WINS |
LOSSES |
% |
PREVIOUS |
232 |
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46.1% |
WESTERN WASHINGTON |
5 |
7 |
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NEW TOTAL |
237 |
278 |
46.0% |
UVM DEBATE IS CURRENTLY #12
IN THE CEDA NATIONAL SWEEPSTAKES FOR 2002-2003
UVM Debate was #9 in both major national polls for debate in the USA for the
2001-2002 season.
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