[eDebate] Fwd: Re: NDT Worker Rule- 80%???--Cross one more off the list- Nick Denissen

[Matt Cormack]

--- Nicholas Denissen <nad11 at case.edu> wrote:


> From: "Nicholas Denissen" <nad11 at case.edu>

> To: <mattedebate at yahoo.com>

> Subject: Re: [eDebate] NDT Worker Rule- 80% of the

> schools would benefit???--Cross one more off the

> list

> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:47:42 -0400

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> I don't think have posting privileges-if you could

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> I think matt's count is more accurate and I'd like

> to remove Case Western

> from the list of beneficiaries

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> While schools that rely on graduate assistant

> coaching can be negatively

> affected, I think very small budget schools can also

> be hurt.  We not only

> are not associated with any graduate comm.

> Department, our coach is not an

> employee of the school and volunteers to run the

> program in addition to

> another job.  He has little time to cut ev

> pre-tournament.  

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> The NDT provides us with a unique situation that

> allows us to be more

> competitive than we would otherwise be.  Because it

> is such an important

> event we are able to get local high school coaches,

> former debaters and

> alumni to come back and travel with us.  We would

> have been in violation of

> the rule had it been in effect this year.  This

> doesn't happen at any other

> tournament because those tournaments don't have the

> cachet of the NDT.  This

> unique opportunity for us to attract

> non-undergraduate helpers, intersects

> with the great job the scouts do making the case

> list publicly available so

> quickly.  We are able to make large strides in

> making up for a year of

> having no one researching but the undergrad

> debaters.  Non-undergrads come

> help cause it's the NDT and its kind of a big deal,

> they do a lot of work

> cause of the caselist allows them to do more cards

> per worker than they

> could do by themselves.

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> I support efforts to curb the resource disparity

> that exists in debate, if

> this rule was in effect all year long, we may be

> helped by it (though I

> don't support this), but having it only be in effect

> at the NDT, the only

> tournament we can actually GET people to come help

> us out at, doesn't do so

> much for me.  We would only violate the rule once

> the whole year, and that

> would be the only tournament the rule applied to,

> the NDT. 

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> Nick Denissen

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> Case Western

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> As usual, doesn't reflect opinions of Case or the

> rest of the team, just me

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