[eDebate] "performance" debate hits the media

[Ross K. Smith]

Oh, OK. I saw the chair dance vs. literature at W Ga.

So, NU brought "new lit" to the table. Did the Fort change it up, too, 
or did they stick with critiquing the Tango like they did at W. Ga.?

On 12/12/2006 2:01 PM, Josh Hoe wrote:

> Well actually, in finals of Baylor NU did read Strangelove against Fort 
> Hays.....Probably a juxtopsition of two different debates.  I judged 
> that Baylor final.
>  
> Josh
> 
>  
> On 12/12/06, *Ross K. Smith* <smithr at wfu.edu <mailto:smithr at wfu.edu>> 
> wrote:
> 
>     It was Gravity's Rainbow, not Strangelove, by the way. The error is not
>     surprising since what NU was reading was never an issue.
> 
>     On 12/12/2006 1:54 PM, Josh Hoe wrote:
> 
>      > A funny aside,
>      >
>      >
>      > Would most of you have predicted that I was one of the judges in the
>      > following two rounds mentioned in the article:
>      >
>      > 1. A similar Cinderella story unfolded at Fullerton, where Bruschke,
>      > Warner's former classmate, had assumed the helm. Bruschke
>     stumbled onto
>      > performance debating in 1997, when his team faced top-ranked Emory
>      > University at a tournament. Arguing the topic of how to deal with
>      > unexploded mines in Vietnam, a Fullerton debater unexpectedly
>      > transformed a discourse on Jean-Paul Sartre and personal
>     responsibility
>      > into a story about how she was molested as a child. "I had no
>     idea what
>      > she was doing," Bruschke said, but somehow she tied it all back to
>      > mines. The audience was stunned. Fullerton advanced to the final
>     four,
>      > and Bruschke realized the power of personal narratives.
>      >
>      >
>      > 2. Another contest pitted a Fort Hays student dancing with a chair
>      > against a Northwestern team reading the script of "Dr.
>     Strangelove." The
>      > topic was federal control of Native American land.
>      > "It was a wild debate," Shanahan said. "Strangelove" prevailed.
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > Josh
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      >
>      > On 12/12/06, *Ross K. Smith* <smithr at wfu.edu
>     <mailto:smithr at wfu.edu> <mailto:smithr at wfu.edu <mailto:smithr at wfu.edu>>>
>      > wrote:
>      >
>      >     in the LA Times:
>      >    
>     http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-debate12dec12,0,2804352,full.story?coll=la-home-headlines
>      >
>      >     and is picked up in the blogosphere:
>      >    
>     http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_12/010378.php
>      >
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>      >     Wake Forest University
>      >
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