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• 08.16.10
  NFL Releases September Topics
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  The September-October 2010 Lincoln Douglas Debate topic is: Resolved: States ought not possess nuclear weapons. The September 2010 Public Forum Debate topic is: Resolved: Allowing deep water offshore oil drilling is in the best interest of the United States.
  
  
• 08.11.10
  Marquette University HS seeks Director of Debate
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  Marquette University High School seeks candidates for the position of Director of Debate. This individual promotes enrollment and retention of students in a comprehensive, nationally competitive interscholastic debate program including managing all aspects of the day-to-day coaching of students in Policy, Lincoln-Douglas, and Public Forum debate. Marquette University High School has a distinguished history of success in academic debate and the administration is committed to supporting a competitive program. Specific duties include: 1. Recruits, retains, and evaluates members of the debate team. 2. Registers, manages, coaches, mentors, and evaluates students. 3. Travels with students and manages all logistics related to student ...
  
  
• 07.22.10
  Whitefish Bay Seeks Assistant Coach
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  Whitefish Bay High School is seeking to hire an Assistant Forensics Coach for the 2010-11 season. Responsibilities of the position include assisting in all aspects of a High School forensics program including recruiting, team travel, hosting a tournament, and mentoring/coaching. Forensics background preferred, but no experience necessary. You do not have to be a teacher. College students are strongly encouraged to apply. Pay is competitive and includes a coaching salary and judge pay. Whitefish Bay High School is a premier Southeastern Wisconsin high school in suburban Milwaukee County with 950 students. Team affiliations include WFCA, NCFL, and NFL. We’re 7 minutes from UWM, ...
  
  
• 06.01.10
  2010 Omaha NCFL
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  A great weekend was had for all at the efficiently run National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament over Memorial Day weekend in beautiful Omaha, with several Wisconsin teams returning home with inspirations for next year and much success. Below is a running list of individual results, gathered together from what I know. Feel free to leave additions or corrections in the comments. Archdiocese of Milwaukee: Isaiah Grady, Bradley Tech – Octofinalist in Oral Interpretation of Literature Alexis Wilkinson, Nicolet – Octofinalist in Original Oratory Jake Tully, Brookfield East – Semi-finalist in Dramatic Performance Gabby Termühlen, Brookfield East – Octofinalist in Oratorial Declamation Jennifer Vosters, Brookfield East – Octofinalist ...
  
  
• 05.13.10
  Thursday Thing to Read: Give Youth a Voice
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  The National Forensic League has unveiled a new resource for speech and debate teams called Give Youth a Voice. The new website is a free resource to NFL members and is targeted at helping schools raise funds for their program. The site offers teams a way for teams to list their funding needs and to share that information with potential donors. The website also offers donors a way to make a tax-deductible donation to the team. Give Youth a Voice also offers some simple campaign tools, including the ability to set a goal, display efforts towards that fund raising goal graphically, ...
  
  
• 05.12.10
  WFCA Extemp Questions
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  Need to practice for the Extemp TOC/NFL/CFL Nationals? Then we have the solution for you! Here are the questions from the 2010 WFCA State Tournament. Happy practicing! Round 1 1. What can be done to effectively combat Mexican drug cartels? 2. What should be done to ensure that banks are not too big to fail? 3. Did the Citizens United decision kill Stare Decisis? 4. How can democrats prevent massive losses in the 2010 midterm elections? 5. Will crumbling nuclear infrastructure collapse the credibility of America’s deterrent? 6. Is Obama bullying Israel? 7. What, if anything, can be done to remedy US-Iranian tensions? 8. Is it time for the ...
  
  
• 05.11.10
  Brookfield East Screening “Speak Easy” Documentary
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  Brookfield East is screening the Wisconsin premiere of the documentary Speak Easy. Speak Easy unearths the “little known world of Forensics” (their words, not ours). The film follows four high school (Duo) teams from four different states for one full year, culminating at the National Tournament in Las Vegas (in 2008). (This is not the similarly named documentary about Toastmasters competitions.) {Slight spoiler, one team is from James Logan. Another is from Eagan. Perennial final round contenders… so you know it’s going to be good.} The screening is scheduled for this Thursday, May 13, 2010 at 7:oo pm. The ...
  
  
• 05.10.10
  Monday Meditation: Eliminating the December PF Topic
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  At the Spring WDCA Business meeting, there was an interesting discussion that we decided to continue online. The idea centered around the possibility of departing with the NFL’s December topic and substituting our own “Wisconsin” topic. Currently, the December PF topic receives a limited consideration in Wisconsin. Students debate the December topic for only two weekends – the weekend before the Wisconsin State Debate Tournament and the weekend of the Wisconsin State Debate Tournament. In the past there have been less than optimal December topics that seem to undercut the momentum/importance of the Wisconsin State Debate Tournament. The NBA’s dress ...
  
  
• 05.06.10
  Thursday Thing to Read: Preserving Debate
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  Wisconsin has been losing debate programs over the last several years. Many young coaches who were excepted to be the next generation of coaches have since moved on from the activity. Established coaches have also left, leaving many programs without the dedicated and qualified people that they need to ensure their program’s health. Sensing that this problem has become widespread and beyond the help of the governing organizations, I wrote the following letter to Wisconsin’s Governor, Senators, Congressional Representatives, and state Senators and Representatives that serve on education related committees: Read on below the break. Honorable «Title»: Few people have difficulty seeing ...
  
  
• 05.06.10
  WFCA State Results
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  A generous soul has sent us the WFCA results. (Seriously, how is it only one WFCA coach is capable of sharing results with WFD? Weren’t there at least 70 other coaches who also received a results packet?) Anyway, the results are here in PDF form: Full WFCA State Results Congratulations to the individual category winners. And special congratulations to James Madison Memorial on winning their seventh WFCA championship. They now have tied Appleton East with the most number of state team championships. They have also tied the Chicago Bulls in Repeating the Threepeat (’02, ’03, ’04 and ’08, `09, `10). The Bulls ...
  
  

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