Archive for June, 2007
Rules
For a refresher here are a copy of the NFA-LD Rules from (http://cas.bethel.edu/dept/comm/nfa/ldrules.html)
NFA Lincoln-Douglas Debate is a one-person, persuasive, policy debate on traditional stock issues. It is a communication event, by which we mean the philosophy of the activity is consistent with that which governs other individual events. Competitors in NFA Lincoln-Douglas will be evaluated [...]
2000 CEDA Topic Paper on Greater Horn of Africa
Annaleigh Curtis (Washburn) gave me the heads up on this link:
CEDA Topic Paper
It’s the Africa Resolution Paper: The Greater Horn of Africa from 2000. A great read, and although somewhat dated, should give you some background on this part of a couple of resolutions.
Thanks Annaleigh!
Topicality
While we don’t know what the resolution will be until August 1, we can start working on some topicality/understanding the topic areas.
here are some key words regardless of the topic:
United States Federal Government (Topics A,B,C,D, E)
substantially (Topics A,B,C,D,E), “substantially increase” (Topics A,B,C,E), “substantially alter” (Topic D)
increase (Topics A,B,C,E)
alter (Topic D)
assistance (Topics A,B)
Greater Horn of Africa [...]
Possible 2007-2008 Resolutions
Here are the 5 resolutions that were voted on for next year:
A. RESOLVED: That the United States Federal Government should substantially increase assistance to the Greater Horn of Africa in one of the following areas: economic development, human rights protection, or public health.
B. RESOLVED: That the United States Federal Government should [...]
