Declamation Exercise for Friday, 1/29

Here's the video I'd like each of you to watch in preparation for next week's declamation exercise. Some tips:

1. Check the assignments below to know what your role in the debate will be.
   
2. Take your role seriously. If you're speaking, you should flow the round meticulously, watch it several times and attempt to capture both the substance and expression of the arguments.
3. Following the round, the adjudication panel will engage in a (fly-on-the-wall) deliberation to rank the teams. Obviously there is no video of the actual deliberation that occurred, but we do know the outcome. I'm not going to hold the adjudication panel to that outcome; they may judge the round that happened. Following their deliberation, we'll discuss the exercise.
4. Be ready to go at 9:30 next Friday.

PM: Akis
LO: Amy
DPM: Brett
DLO: Sarah
MP: Jonathon
MO: Colin
PW: Wiley
OW: Drew

Chair: James
Panelists: Michael, Christy, Faith, Mila & Mya

Debate - WUDC - Finals 2010 Turkey - Media Should Show Horrors of War from Alfred Snider on Vimeo.

Cabin Fever Recruitment

Recruitment for the 2010 Cabin Fever Debates is much slower than I would like. At present, we have only 14 teams registered, though we do seem to be attracting many more individuals this year than in years past.

It's time for you to make an extraordinary personal effort to increase our registration.

By Sunday, January 25th, I want each of you to post a comment to this blog that identifies 2 teams you personally recruited. If each of you recruits 2 teams, we'll easily meet our goal of 36 teams.

The following people are those regularly traveling with the competitive team and/or those who have received scholarships for this semester. You, particularly, have an obligation to recruit CFD participants:

Faith Caparas
Colin Haughey
James Kilcup
Michael Imeson
Michaela Hernandez
Amy Parrent
Jonathan Sanchez
Amie Stanley
Akis Gialopsos
Sarah Carpenter
Brett Frazer
Mya Dale
Christy Strong
Drew Cason

Let me be clear: at this point in the run-up to the CFDs, it's not enough merely to talk with your friends or classmates about the tournament. To meet my expectations for this assignment, you must produce a complete, registered team that is entered in the tournament. Find your friend a partner. Make them sit down with you and register. Offer to help them at all levels of their participation.

Only when their registration hits Shawn's master spreadsheet of teams entered will your contribution count.

If you are having trouble finding a partner for a potential recruit, you have two options:

1. Ask Shawn for a list of singletons who have already registered to see if you know anybody. If you do, hook them up with your potential recruit.

2. Encourage your potential recruit to post a request for a partner on the CFD Facebook page's Wall. We're trying to direct singletons to use that space to find other individuals seeking partners.

Remember how valuable this tournament is for our team's public relations, for those who benefit from participating and for promoting critical discourse on topics of importance to us all. These outcomes are realized only if we get people involved--and that depends on you.