From jba at jbapple.com Tue Dec 1 11:39:31 2009 From: jba at jbapple.com (Jim Apple) Date: Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:39:31 -0000 Subject: [eDebate] Cal Swing rounds for sale Message-ID: <27c593d70912010939hb75e365ve0cfdc1614ddeda0@mail.gmail.com> I have rounds for sale at the Cal Swing tournaments Jan 3-9, 2010. I will also need housing for the evenings before early-morning rounds, but I am not too proud to sleep on a floor. Cheers, Jim Apple P.S. This is me: http://commweb.fullerton.edu/jbruschke/web/ShowJudgeInfo.aspx?PrefJudge=7733 From jbruschke at fullerton.edu Wed Dec 2 09:22:48 2009 From: jbruschke at fullerton.edu (jbruschke at fullerton.edu) Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:22:48 -0000 Subject: [eDebate] Tournament invitation hosted by UMass-Amherst Message-ID: Name:The University of Massachusetts-Amherst Debate Tou Starts:2/12/2009 Ends:2/14/2009 Hosted by: UMass-Amherst Contact: Jillian Marty Address: John Hird, Office 314, Department of Political Science, Thompson Tower, 200 Hicks Way, UMass- Amherst, Amherst MA 01002 Phone: On-line entry allowed: True AFA Open tournament (open to non-AFA members): True Divisions Offered: Open with 6 prelims, expected to clear to: Not specified JV with 6 prelims, expected to clear to: Not specified Novice with 6 prelims, expected to clear to: Not specified Other details are available at: http://www.debateresults.com This tournament may be offered in conjunction with an individual events tournament. If so, you will be notified by a separate email. From jbruschke at fullerton.edu Wed Dec 2 11:08:41 2009 From: jbruschke at fullerton.edu (jbruschke at fullerton.edu) Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 17:08:41 -0000 Subject: [eDebate] Tournament invitation hosted by Michigan State Univ. Message-ID: <5634B2CDF96C4C9D99959B967559484D@AD.FULLERTON.EDU> Name:Freshmen-Sophomore Nationals Starts:3/6/2010 Ends:3/8/2010 Hosted by: Michigan State Univ. Contact: Greta Stahl Address: 10 Linton Hall, East Lansing MI 48824 Phone: 517-281-1244 On-line entry allowed: True AFA Open tournament (open to non-AFA members): True Divisions Offered: Open with 7 prelims, expected to clear to: Octos Other details are available at: http://www.debateresults.com This tournament may be offered in conjunction with an individual events tournament. If so, you will be notified by a separate email. From jbruschke at fullerton.edu Wed Dec 2 12:52:04 2009 From: jbruschke at fullerton.edu (jbruschke at fullerton.edu) Date: Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:52:04 -0000 Subject: [eDebate] Tournament invitation hosted by UMass-Amherst Message-ID: <83C8B0782D54446AAB78A07E52165354@AD.FULLERTON.EDU> Name:The University of Massachusetts-Amherst Debate Tou Starts:2/12/2010 Ends:2/14/2010 Hosted by: UMass-Amherst Contact: Jillian Marty Address: John Hird, Office 314, Department of Political Science, Thompson Tower, 200 Hicks Way, UMass- Amherst, Amherst MA 01002 Phone: On-line entry allowed: True AFA Open tournament (open to non-AFA members): True Divisions Offered: Open with 6 prelims, expected to clear to: Not specified JV with 6 prelims, expected to clear to: Not specified Novice with 6 prelims, expected to clear to: Not specified Other details are available at: http://www.debateresults.com This tournament may be offered in conjunction with an individual events tournament. If so, you will be notified by a separate email. From alfred.snider at uvm.edu Thu Dec 3 17:46:28 2009 From: alfred.snider at uvm.edu (Alfred C Snider) Date: Thu, 03 Dec 2009 23:46:28 -0000 Subject: [eDebate] COME TO THE EAST - Ithaca College 30-31 January 2010 Message-ID: <4B184DAD.1080404@uvm.edu> In the USA the East is growing in both size and quality, and we invite everyone to come and be a part of it. The Ithaca College tournament will be a great opportunity for that. It will feature both WUDC and USA policy debating formats. I will be the Chief Adjudicator and the Convener Scott Thompson [pthomson at ITHACA.EDU] plans for great hospitality and very nice venues. The important thing to many out of area folks is that the East will be there! Come and find out about us and see that we are trying our best to debate up to a world standard. The invitation can be found at: http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/usu/Invites/Entries/2009/12/3_Ithaca_College.html Let me know if you have any questions or if I can assist you. We welcome experienced judges from wherever! Let us know how we can assist you. While there will be policy debate (jv and novice) do not let that deter you if you are a WUDC type. Come and see how we live together in peace and, somewhat, mutual respect. We echo LA police baton magnet Rodney King (who recently graduated from a rehab center), when we wonder "Why can't we all just get along?" Perhaps it cannot yet be true of nation states, but it just might be possible among debate formats. If you have policy teams of the JV and novice variety who cannot go to the NYC Varsity Round Robin that weekend, send them to Ithaca! Do not be deterred by the WUDC crowd, they may or may not have all the faults of your policy colleagues. AND, they don't have to cut updates at night and make interesting pals at the bar. Space may become limited, so please register as soon as possible. Please feel free to email me with your preliminary plans. Best wishes, and see you in Ithaca! Alfred Charles Snider AKA Tuna -- Alfred C. Snider aka Tuna Edwin Lawrence Professor of Forensics University of Vermont Huber House, 475 Main Street, UVM, Burlington, VT 05405 USA Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/ Global Debate Blog http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com Debate Central http://debate.uvm.edu 802-656-0097 office telephone 802-656-4275 office fax From blain at unt.edu Fri Dec 4 15:47:59 2009 From: blain at unt.edu (Lain, Brian) Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 21:47:59 -0000 Subject: [eDebate] Job Posting- Dallas UDA Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting. Please distribute. Executive Director Job Description Overview The Dallas Urban Debate Alliance will hire a new Executive Director to assume office in the summer of 2010. The Dallas Urban Debate Alliance (Dallas UDA) is part of the National Association for Urban Debate Leagues (NAUDL). The Alliance is seeking an individual with an appreciation for the educational value of competitive debating, a strong organizational skills set, experience as a competitor or coach in policy debate, an ability to effectively advocate for the Alliance in a large urban school bureaucracy, and a good sense of humor. The Dallas UDA has grown significantly in the first few years of its existence and Alliance teams have competed successfully in the Chase Urban Debate National Championship and in local and regional tournaments outside of the UDL. The Alliance's current director is leaving the post after three successful years in order to attend law school. The Alliance is governed by an Advisory Board comprised of former high school and college debaters, attorneys, business executives, and educators, all of whom are deeply committed to the success of the league. Qualifications: * B.A. degree or higher. * Strong interpersonal skills, negotiation skills, and ability to work collaboratively. * Excellent written and oral communications skills. * Experience in urban education - non-profit, administrative, or classroom - is a plus. * Experience in current high school or college policy debate is a strong plus. * Maturity, judgment, and communication necessary to effectively work with, train, and support urban educators. * Willingness to work evenings/weekends - total working hours will be 40-50, but hours will not always be "9 to 5." * High degree of determination, innovation, initiative, and persistence. * Skills necessary to run debate tournaments, trainings, and site visits to high schools. * Administrative and organizational skills necessary to attend to the business needs of an educational nonprofit organization. * A demonstrated record of performing high-caliber work independent of daily supervision. * Willingness and ability to be trained in the NAUDL model for urban debate leagues and capacity for adapting said model to local needs, under the direction of the Dallas Advisory Board. * Ownership of a vehicle or willingness to ride public transportation to high schools and other sites. Job Description: The Dallas Urban Debate League Executive Director will be the principal programmatic and administrative agent of the Dallas Urban Debate Alliance, acting under the direction of the Dallas Advisory Board. The primary responsibilities of the Executive Director are to (a) train and support the Dallas UDA coaches, (b) maintain and increase participation levels at member schools, (c) seed new programs at high schools not yet participating in the Dallas UDA, (d) administer all Dallas UDA events professionally and efficiently, (e) track program inputs and outputs, (f) assist the Advisory Board in preparing for meetings and meeting all business needs of the organization, and (g) execute the Dallas UDA Advisory Board's policies, goals, and directives in running the Dallas UDA on a day to day basis. The Dallas UDL Executive Director will: * Serve as the chief administrator of the Dallas Urban Debate Alliance. The Executive Director will be primarily responsible for effecting two core programmatic objectives: significantly increasing student participation in the league each year, and significantly strengthening the relationship between the Dallas Independent School District and the Dallas Urban Debate Alliance. * Serve as liaison between the Dallas Advisory Board and all of the following: (i) Dallas UDA coaches, (ii) NAUDL in Chicago, (iii) DISD personnel (including high school principals), (iv) key donors (including prospective donors), and (v) outside vendors and contractors who provide needed services to the Dallas UDA, such as public accountants, PR consultants, caterers, and printers. * Plan, coordinate, staff and implement coach, student, and judge training workshops. * Promote and effect high attendance at trainings, and track participation of students and Alliance coaches. * Regularly visit individual schools, providing necessary training and support to both students and coaches. * Provide on-going training, assistance, and support to UDA Coaches through phone, email, and in-person meetings. * Establish operational procedures for UDA Tournaments: Announcements, Registration, Tab Room, Judge Table, Awards Ceremony, etc. * Schedule, promote, arrange, and direct six Dallas UDA tournaments annually. * Chaperone Dallas UDA qualifiers to the Chase Urban Debate National Championship, typically held in April of each year, in Chicago. * Regularly report to and work cooperatively with the Dallas Independent School District (DISD); meet by phone or in-person with appropriate DISD Administrators, as needed. * Negotiate the annual Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the DISD - in close coordination with the Dallas Advisory Board. * Implement (and improve) the organization's public relations strategy. Publicize our successes, with the goal of permanently "planting" the Dallas UDA into the Dallas community, so that all individuals whose cooperation we need in order to succeed - e.g., DISD administrators, donors, coaches, principals, students, and their parents - feel rewarded for supporting us. * Coordinate, improve, and regularly update the Dallas UDA web page. * Represent the Dallas UDA Advisory Board at community, school system, development, business, and civic meetings and events. * Plan and coordinate the annual Dallas UDA Awards Dinner, typically held in conjunction with the annual Dallas City Championship tournament. * Keep the records necessary to track, monitor, and assess the programming inputs - i.e., student participants, teacher involvement, contact/training hours, debate programming - and outputs - i.e., graduation rates, college matriculation, grade-point average, standardized test scores, attendance, specific performance assessments, etc. * Report regularly to, meet with, and take direction from the Dallas Urban Debate Alliance Advisory Board. * Maintain all financial records of the Dallas UDL, make regular financial reports to the Board. * Handle compliance with third party officials, so that nonprofit status and any needed certifications are kept up. Additional Information Compensation will be commensurate with experience. Candidates must currently live in, or be willing to relocate to, the Dallas area. Candidates who pass an initial screening process will be interviewed in person by the Dallas UDA Advisory Board, with support from the NAUDL. It is the policy of the Dallas UDA Advisory Board to provide employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, creed, national origin, age, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender (sex) as required by law. Submit one copy of your CV and a cover letter by January 19, 2010 to both: Craig Budner Chair Dallas UDA Advisory Board 1717 Main Street, Suite 2800 Dallas, TX 75201 Craig.Budner at klgates.com Scott Deatherage Executive Director NAUDL 332 S. Michigan Ave., Suite 500 Chicago, IL 60604 scott at urbandebate.org Please be sure to send your application materials to both of these individuals. Applica?tions may be emailed or mailed, but not faxed. Please do not phone regarding this position. Questions may be sent to Craig.Budner at klgates.com. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.ndtceda.com/pipermail/edebate/attachments/20091204/9ba2d320/attachment.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Dallas Job Posting.doc Type: application/msword Size: 29696 bytes Desc: Dallas Job Posting.doc Url : http://www.ndtceda.com/pipermail/edebate/attachments/20091204/9ba2d320/attachment.doc From alfred.snider at uvm.edu Sun Dec 6 23:41:00 2009 From: alfred.snider at uvm.edu (Alfred C Snider) Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2009 05:41:00 -0000 Subject: [eDebate] Cape Cod Results 2009 Message-ID: <4B1C9553.4010202@uvm.edu> Just got in and I am TIRED. Great tournament providing excellent opportunities for younger debaters, and I thought that they really took advantage of those opportunities. Thanks to Lisa Heller Boragine for being host, convener and thinking of all the motions (an excellent group). Thanks to everyone, I will put in more tomorrow, but for now. Full tab is at http://debate.uvm.edu/usudc/capecod2009/ CAPE COD MOTIONS Rd 1 TH would require decency standards for government funded art. Rd 2 TH believes College football does more harm than good for higher education. Rd 3 TH would let print newspapers die. Rd 4 TH would legalize Internet gambling. Rd 5 TH would make post-traumatic stress treatment mandatory for returning veterans. Rd 6 TH would withdraw USA & NATO militaries from Afghanistan. SF TH believes parents convicted of child abuse should be sterilized. F TH believes religion should be taken out of politics. SEMIFINALS Williams 1P ADVANCES St John?s PP 1O Vermont SB 2P Bard SI 2O ADVANCES St John?s FH 1P Bard CS 1O ADVANCES Vermont AG 2P Vermont EM 2O ADVANCES FINALS Williams 1P Bard CS 1O FIRST Bard SI 2P Vermont EM 2O SECOND -- Alfred C. Snider aka Tuna Edwin Lawrence Professor of Forensics University of Vermont Huber House, 475 Main Street, UVM, Burlington, VT 05405 USA Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/ Global Debate Blog http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com Debate Central http://debate.uvm.edu 802-656-0097 office telephone 802-656-4275 office fax From alfred.snider at uvm.edu Sun Dec 20 12:42:55 2009 From: alfred.snider at uvm.edu (Alfred C Snider) Date: Sun, 20 Dec 2009 18:42:55 -0000 Subject: [eDebate] edebate solution In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <4B2E7024.2030009@uvm.edu> I agree with Jason. I find the forums confusing and time consuming. I want to survey all, not just certain categories. Tuna edebate-request at ndtceda.com wrote: > Send eDebate mailing list submissions to > edebate at www.ndtceda.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http://www.ndtceda.com/mailman/listinfo/edebate > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > edebate-request at www.ndtceda.com > > You can reach the person managing the list at > edebate-owner at www.ndtceda.com > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of eDebate digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Edebate solution: Yahoogroups! (Jason Jarvis) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 20:52:41 -0500 > From: Jason Jarvis > Subject: [eDebate] Edebate solution: Yahoogroups! > To: edebate > Message-ID: > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > > > Honestly, > > I have not understood any of the "problems" with edebate. Its really easy to set up a listserv on Yahoo or Google. Messages are automatically archived and the main job of a moderator is eliminating bouncing addresses which takes almost no time. > > I'm not sure what Phil is or is not doing, but even a luddite like me can set up a Yahoogroup. Personally, I think the message boards are not so useful b/c they are more time consuming. Its much easier (imho) to delete irrelevant messages. What is all the drama about? > > > cheers, > > > Jason Jarvis > > PHD Candidate > Dept. of Communication > Georgia State University > Atlanta, GA > > > > > > > Date: Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:28:34 -0500 > From: antonucci23 at gmail.com > To: edebate at ndtceda.com > Subject: [eDebate] edebate's estate > > Let me echo Scott's thanks to Phil. I think, in both this and other projects, you've advanced the community's interest tirelessly. > > I think you should do precisely what you want to do. If you feel that maintaining the listserv is rewarding, you should do that. If you feel that it's a pain, you should pull the plug - or let it fall into disrepair. It isn't doing any harm, but the effort involved in making it fast again might be prohibitive. > > > I have one small concern. What about the archives? It seems that measures should be taken for executing e-debate's estate. Will they be maintained at the current location? Is that costing you? I'm sure that hosting is available at any number of places. > > -- Alfred C. Snider aka Tuna Edwin Lawrence Professor of Forensics University of Vermont Huber House, 475 Main Street, UVM, Burlington, VT 05405 USA Lawrence Debate Union http://debate.uvm.edu/debateblog/LDU/ Global Debate Blog http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com Debate Central http://debate.uvm.edu 802-656-0097 office telephone 802-656-4275 office fax From akelsie at gmail.com Wed Dec 30 09:18:33 2009 From: akelsie at gmail.com (Amber Kelsie) Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:18:33 -0000 Subject: [eDebate] Cal Swing Rounds for Sale Message-ID: <59a0c94f0912300718g272466bdl6fba47ae77a59c46@mail.gmail.com> Cal Swing Rounds for Sale, please email me if interested. From commftownnielson at aol.com Thu Dec 31 14:52:18 2009 From: commftownnielson at aol.com (commftownnielson at aol.com) Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 20:52:18 -0000 Subject: [eDebate] CSUF Novice Hybrid Needed for Cal Part 2 Message-ID: <8CC58723D1F905B-4B90-9549@webmail-d063.sysops.aol.com> Hi Everyone, I have a novice debate who's partner can't make it. We will be at the 2nd half of the Cal swing. If you have an extra novice, then let me know. He has a couple of tournaments under his belt and is very agreeable. Thanks, Toni -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.ndtceda.com/pipermail/edebate/attachments/20091231/a0a754ec/attachment.htm