Cross Examination Debate Association newsletter

Thanks to everyone who agreed to stand for election. There was an impressive list of graduate and undergraduate students who wanted to serve on the topic committee. 43 schools voted (listed below). Congrats to Jason Sigalos (Emory) and Colin McElhinny (Georgetown) for their election to the topic committee.

List of Schools voting

Just a reminder. Ballots are due by midnight (central), tonight, April 22.
The original information is below.
Jeff

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The ballot for the graduate and undergraduate representatives to the topic committee is now available.
2014-2015 CEDA membership is required for your vote to count. Membership fees can be paid online at: http://www.cedadebate.org/store.

Ballots are due by midnight (central), April 22, 2015. Winners will be announced by the end of the week.

The ballot for the graduate and undergraduate representatives to the topic committee is now available.
2014-2015 CEDA membership is required for your vote to count. Membership fees can be paid online at: http://www.cedadebate.org/store.

Ballots are due by midnight (central), April 22, 2015. Winners will be announced by the end of the week.

The ballot is online at: http://www.cedadebate.org/2015TC

Vote for one each:

A few quick announcements.

CONTACTS.

If you have a team/judge change, or if you are delayed, please contact Paul Mabrey. 540-746-8815.
If you have a logistics/facilities issue, please contact Jeff Jarman. 316-644-0213.

THURSDAY (All events @ Marriott)

2pm - Ceda Executive Council Meeting - Topeka Room
5:30p - 7:30p. Registration. Salon F.
8:00p. Awards. Salon A-E.

ON CAMPUS LOGISTICS

Two quick items.

First, please review the CEDA points standings available on tabroom.com. https://www.tabroom.com/index/results/ndt_ceda_points.mhtml. Report any inaccuracies by Tuesday, March 17.

Just a quick update on the plans for PR at this year's CEDA Nationals.

We have a class of communication students who will be producing a lot of material, including press releases prior to the tournament, press releases during the tournament (for awards and results), feature stories on the tournament and some award recipients and participants, and broadcast packages promoting the tournament.

If you will attend BUT do not want to be included, please let me know.

The Wichita Marriott is the host for the event. Please, stay at the Marriott.
Let me know if you have a problem or need assistance.

Book online:  http://www.marriott.com/meeting-event-hotels/group-corporate-travel/grou...

Or, call direct:  316-651-0333.  The name on the block is Cross Examination Debate Association

The ballot is now available at: http://www.cedadebate.org/winter2014ballot.

The ballot is due by midnight (central), December 16, 2014.

CEDA membership is required to vote (current or 2013-2014).

You will need an account on the main CEDA site in order to access the ballot. In addition, the account must be marked as eligible to vote. Please let me know if you need an account set up so you can vote. Those receiving this email have accounts that are eligible to vote.

Allison Harper, Beth Schueler and Paul Mabrey have created a college policy debate survey to better understand demographics of the college policy debate community and attitudes toward contemporary college policy debate practices. The survey is targeted for current or former college policy debaters, coaches, graduate students and alumni. The link is below. Please consider taking the survey and sharing with others to complete the survey. The survey should take only 10-15 minutes. If you have any questions, please contact Paul Mabrey.

Resolution 1 (US Legalize Core) has been selected for the 2014-2015 season. 75 schools voted. The final count was 47 first-place votes. All four amendments passed. A full breakdown of the votes and the list of schools that voted is below.

Amendment 1 (novice definition) passes 58-13.
Amendment 2 (JV eligibility, prior rounds) passes 57-11.
Amendment 3 (JV eligibility, jv nats) passes 54-16.
Amendment 4 (CEDA host fee) passes 67-4.

The initial count of first-place votes was: