2009 NFA-LD Debate Cooperative Evidence Set

The 2009 NFA-LD Debate Cooperative Evidence Set is available for download. You can download the file at:

http://ww2.lafayette.edu/~forensics/2009 NFA-LD Debate Cooperative Evidence Set.pdf

Last year, I heard a few complaints that the camp evidence was still being relied on late into the season. My advice is to not let that happen this year. This year’s topic is several orders of magnitude larger than last year’s topic and the camp evidence will be useful for practice debates and a jumping off point. The camp evidence is by no means useful as a comprehensive approach to the topic. It is my hope that the evidence set provides a strong example to the community on how to assemble evidence, blocks and arguments to assist you and your team in the basics of research and argument. Enjoy!

NOTE: The file is intentionally locked to prevent cut/copy/paste functionality. You may view the evidence and print it, but that’s it. Please do not send requests for the .doc version of the evidence, they will be ignored.

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Thanks!!! John’s work and effort to increase the participation in NFA-LD
has been tremendous and I’m sure I say thank you from everyone for
posting this evidence. It will be very helpful =)

Things tend to get lost in translation and “selectively remembered” – at best – when the tournament competition begins, so I want to say this quickly, unequiovacally, and far all the world to see.

The people – and each and every one of them – who prepared the “2009 NFA-LD Debate Cooperative Evidence Set” have performed an INCREDIBLY-COMPETENT, HIGHLY-EDUCATIONAL, AND PURELY BENEFICIENT act for everyone in the NFA-LD community. I cannot praise them too highly for the contribution that they have, so professionally and altruistically, made to this activity.

BRAVO!!! :)

That said, this evidence is, a “Camp File.” As a “Camp File” it is, at least IMHO, only the first single step in the long journey that will culminate in April of 2010.

In other words, if I am the critic/judge, woe betide any debater (especially the ones that I coach) if they use these materials as a final product in a round. (And if anyone hears a Glendale
merely reading one of these cases or briefs, please LMK immediately.)

A GREAT foundation has been laid – but (again, just MHO) it is up to each individual program, each individual coach, and each individual debater to build his/her own work of art upon that foundation.

The NFA-LD Debate Cooperative has launched us skyward and allowed us to reach escape velocity; each of us is now charged with charting a course to the stars of his/her choice.

Thanks again, NFA-LD Debate Cooperative. We who are about to die – from downloading and researching – salute you! ;)

… College debater… [omitted from previous post by edit malfunction).

“WHAT I’M DOING FOR THE REST OF THE SUMMER”
by Little Mikey Miller
Professor Perry’s Class
2009-2010

I am reviewing, page-by-page, the Camp File from the NFA-LD Debate Cooperative 2009. Specifically, I am running each and every controversial claim through the “SEARCH” feature on http://www.factcheck.org/

Try it. It can do you no harm; and it might do you some good!

Thank you.

P.S. And this is a good site for Parli Debaters, too… assuming, that is, they want to argue reality every once and a while.

Thanks for the file, but why the lock/protection on it? It took me all of four minutes to convert it to .doc format over the web so it’s not really much of a deterrent against copying.

just like a bike lock it keeps honest people honest… and those who don’t think about converting it, too, lol.

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