17 September 2002
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Four varsity teams (pictured above) were debating at the same time this weekend, while others worked on research assignments in the office. The offices were buzzing with activity all weekend long as students used their free days to prepare for the beginning of the 2002-03 debate season. The season kicks off in Atlanta as two teams (Owusu-Limprevil and Meany-Marty) will attend a tournament at Georgia State University along with over 120 other teams. Helen Morgan and Justin Parmett will be attending as coaches and judges. The new season is always filled with suspense, with questions like, "Did we read the topic right?" "Will our arguments apply?" and the ever popular "What will they say against our case?" After the tournament and a comprehensive argument scouting opportunity it provides these questions will be answered, but for now it is preparation in a vacuum.
The Georgia State posse leaves the offices Friday at 6:30 AM, with Brian and Tuna helping with transportation. On their return, after 10:06 PM Monday, Brian and Rob will provide airport pickup.
<=== Novices in training
The novices are in full swing and training sessions have been well attended. The topic seems to be interesting and attracting students, al;ways a good thing. Although tentative at first the new debaters are now largely paired up in teams and ready for their first practice debates this weekend. In fact, there is an unusually large number of debaters, both experienced and inexperienced, who want to take the first opportunity for competition, and that will be the tournament the weekend after this at the University of Rochester.
Teams asking to be
entered at Rochester include:
Open division: Cole & Hill, Meany & Marty, Langsweirdt & Knops,
Limprevil-Owusu, Bryce Hellmuth.
Novice division: Balas & Suyarkulova, Welch & Reimer, Velez &
Varela, Vaillancourt & O'Connor, Rounds & Melander, and hopefully
Mukherjee & Gillespie.
Coaches: Lockwood, Parmett, Morgan, Sweeney, McDonald, Hoag, and Snider.
The rest of the new debaters will open at the UVM tournament on October 12-13, 2002. There are five teams from the Fundamentals of Debate class that will be joining the competition in October. UVM debate now has 17 teams in operation and hopes to keep that number or grow the squad.
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.
LDU preliminary travel
schedule:
September, 20-23 Georgia State, 28-29 Rochester;
October, 12-13 Vermont, 19-20 Cap Cities, 26-28 Harvard
November, 1-3 West Point , 8-10 Central Oklahoma, 15-17 Wake Forest, 16-17
Binghamton, 23-24 Columbia
January, TBA UMKC, TBA William Jewell, TBA Belgrade (Yugoslavia) Open
February, 1-2 Cornell, 7-9 Western
Washington, 14-16 Kansas, 21-23 East Regionals/D8
March, 28-02 Towson, 20-24 CEDA Nationals, AZ
April, 3-7 NDT, GA
May, TBA Tercer Torneo Hispanoamericano de Debate
RESEARCH THIS WEEKJillian Marty
is our research director.
RESEARCH ASSIGNMENTS DUE THURSDAY BY 5 PM - PRINTED FOR ALL!
ASSIGNMENTS POSTED IN THE OFFICE, NO LONGER IN THE NEWSLETTER (SORRY TO OUR
OPPONENTS WHO LOOK FOR THEM)
FROM THE SQUAD MEETING
EVENTS OF NOTE
FLASHPOINT
TELEVISION SHOW
SQUAD
MEETING |
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WINS |
LOSSES |
% |
2001-2002 SEASON |
438 |
393 |
52.7 |
2002-2003 SEASON |
0 |
0 |
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TOTAL |
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UVM Debate was #9 in both major national polls for debate in the USA for the 2001-2002 season.
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