75 Responses to “Field Report: Yale”

1. Matt
   Posted from: 24.161.65.27
   
   September 22nd, 2007 16:58
   1

   Should be fun.

2. Fisch
   Posted from: 69.120.236.168
   
   September 22nd, 2007 17:46
   2

   Ditto. The Trifecta prevails!

3. Steph Ramones
   Posted from: 74.9.53.154
   
   September 22nd, 2007 18:14
   3

   Great field should be fun to judge

4. Rebar Niemi
   Posted from: 66.233.57.238
   
   September 22nd, 2007 19:10
   4

   EMBRACE POST-VACUITY.

5. Zisook
   Posted from: 24.15.67.15
   
   September 22nd, 2007 19:14
   5

   I fully encourage people from VBI to win the tourney. Preferably my labmates. That is all.

6. JP Gooderham
   Posted from: 72.95.254.25
   
   September 22nd, 2007 19:16
   6

   Good luck fellow Tourvillains.

7. ?
   Posted from: 96.225.81.169
   
   September 22nd, 2007 19:21
   7

   Why are the people that are “on waitlist” listed in the field if they are “on waitlist” does thi smean they are practically in or?

8. Matt
   Posted from: 24.161.65.27
   
   September 22nd, 2007 19:31
   8

   Those who run the swt rawls k will win.

9. huh?
   Posted from: 68.173.1.0
   
   September 22nd, 2007 19:39
   9

   what does the swt mean?

10. Akshay Agashe
    Posted from: 24.151.21.99
    
    September 22nd, 2007 19:47
    10

    swt means swt, as in swt k

11. Matt
    Posted from: 24.161.65.27
    
    September 22nd, 2007 20:06
    11

    if you do not understand swt, well, i wish you good luck. i would feel terrible should you hit the swt rawls k. lol and that was excellent clarification akshay, thanks

12. Sachin
    Posted from: 24.46.207.84
    
    September 22nd, 2007 20:32
    12

    indeed those who run the swt rawls k will win, since it killed at the NDF camp tournament, so i feel very bad for anyone who has to hit it

13. Huan
    Posted from: 24.44.176.121
    
    September 22nd, 2007 20:42
    13

    EVERYONE BEWARE….ITS HOMECOMING AT BYRAM AND WE PLAY FOR KEEPS.
    GO BYRAM WE HAVE THE FUNK

14. Catherine
    Posted from: 75.134.128.240
    
    September 22nd, 2007 20:54
    14

    hmm. well it looks like a lot of people from NDF are attending…and i’d like to wish them all the luck…even though they don’t even need it. Eric, and Matt: come on guys. i wanna hear that you’ve brought your ‘A’ game. lol.

15. CK
    Posted from: 74.36.137.22
    
    September 22nd, 2007 21:01
    15

    swt= SUPER… WARRIOR… TACTICS… yeah.

    Also, Scarsdale will close out octas.

16. Matt
    Posted from: 24.161.65.27
    
    September 22nd, 2007 21:07
    16

    Yo actually Christian, i was discussing that with a teammate today. i was like you watch scarsdale close out quarters son. and now you said it. either way…I DONT WANT TO WAIT

17. Jon Cruz
    Posted from: 66.108.84.93
    
    September 22nd, 2007 21:22
    17

    Why is Salman Syed on the waitlist as an independent when the rest of Niskayuna is competing as a team?

18. Salman Syed
    Posted from: 74.70.112.133
    
    September 22nd, 2007 21:44
    18

    I think my team disowned me

19. Sohail
    Posted from: 74.70.112.133
    
    September 22nd, 2007 21:47
    19

    Varsity spot I suppose

20. Rebar Niemi
    Posted from: 66.233.57.238
    
    September 22nd, 2007 22:11
    20

    PREPOSTONTOLOGICAL SCARSDALIAN DOMINANCE IS INEVITABLE IN THE PREDICTABLE FUTUREPAST.

21. Tyler
    Posted from: 75.134.133.52
    
    September 22nd, 2007 23:38
    21

    Good luck to THE IMPACT and THE EXPANDO. win it for ndf.
    Also good luck to Shadman and Henry reping the Babb/Conrad lab.

22. Jordan G
    Posted from: 75.73.214.91
    
    September 23rd, 2007 01:19
    22

    Deepa + Anuj + AZhao + Sunder = {people I want to do well}

23. .
    Posted from: 68.173.1.0
    
    September 23rd, 2007 07:29
    23

    So whats the idea of the swt rawls k? what does it argue

24. wade
    Posted from: 68.209.198.15
    
    September 23rd, 2007 10:19
    24

    good luck jake, ravi, deepa, shadman, scarsdale, and anyone else im forgetting about

25. Ben Holguin
    Posted from: 75.73.219.166
    
    September 23rd, 2007 10:41
    25

    yay jake nebel yay

26. freezy
    Posted from: 68.117.54.66
    
    September 23rd, 2007 10:56
    26

    …hmm. good luck NDF people. specifying would take forever and be boring.

27. Matt
    Posted from: 24.161.65.27
    
    September 23rd, 2007 11:02
    27

    If you do not know what the swt rawls K is…let me just say you will know once you see the cover page :]

28. adrian
    Posted from: 24.5.180.172
    
    September 23rd, 2007 11:46
    28

    good luck to kevin, glen, ethan, and anyone else that i forgot.

    …oh and nixxi.

29. bob
    Posted from: 88.208.235.52
    
    September 23rd, 2007 12:51
    29

    good luck all!

    and matt, don’t be mean to the swt kid… someone just tell him/her. i would but i haven’t hit it yet

    bob

30. Matt
    Posted from: 24.161.65.27
    
    September 23rd, 2007 13:47
    30

    hey bob. i dont know who you are. but if you are being serious…seriously stop lol cause you dint understand. no offense or anything.

31. Rebar Niemi
    Posted from: 66.233.57.238
    
    September 23rd, 2007 14:29
    31

    the community is a dormant monstrosity, an object at rest.

32. adhar srivastava
    Posted from: 80.68.53.217
    
    September 23rd, 2007 15:58
    32

    damrosch is now a senior? wowzers

    aka…watch out

33. anon
    Posted from: 72.93.80.175
    
    September 23rd, 2007 17:00
    33

    anyone know what the deal is with the waitlist? i.e. is it clearing up or what

34. wade
    Posted from: 68.209.198.15
    
    September 23rd, 2007 17:21
    34

    p.s. good luck niskayuna

35. waitlisted
    Posted from: 64.12.116.76
    
    September 23rd, 2007 17:40
    35

    any information about the waitlist would be appreciated

36. Sohail
    Posted from: 74.70.112.133
    
    September 23rd, 2007 18:16
    36

    Does anyone who will be judging at Yale?

37. CK
    Posted from: 74.36.137.22
    
    September 23rd, 2007 18:35
    37

    Excerpt from swt K: “If one examines social realism, one is faced with a choice: either reject neodeconstructive theory or conclude that consensus comes from communication.”

    Believe me, you DONT want to hit it. Everybody in top lab from NDF has it.

    Oh, and Matt… FOR MY LIFE TO BE OVER

38. Matt
    Posted from: 24.161.65.27
    
    September 23rd, 2007 18:56
    38

    lmao. Christian. you are god. well, almost. that post was perfect.

39. Rebar Niemi
    Posted from: 66.233.57.238
    
    September 23rd, 2007 19:32
    39

    SOCIAL REALISM IMPLIES NO SUCH CHOICE. I CALL BULLSHIT.

    SCHLAG COUNTERS:

    The myth of the subject-object metaphor is the projection of some place either in the subject or the structure of things, that is outside social inscription. But there is no point beyond social inscription, no law separate from politics, no knowledge separate from power, no reason separate from imagination, no things underneath more words, and no free subjects separate from social language. The myth of presence is the treachery of self-denial as we filter our perception and communication about social life through the official metaphors of validity.

40. CK
    Posted from: 74.36.137.22
    
    September 23rd, 2007 20:08
    40

    I REFUSE TO CLARIFY MY TERMINOLOGY.

    Rebar, the swt k already preempted that response. Along with every other possible response. Ever.

41. Rebar Niemi
    Posted from: 66.233.57.238
    
    September 23rd, 2007 21:08
    41

    I YAM DISGUSTED.

    ‘Putting it differently, Derrida argues that, “a decision that didn’t go through the ordeal of the undecidable would not be a free decision,” it would only be the mechanistic application of a general rule. If a position is a pure mechanistic re-statement the re-stater denies oneself as a source of meaning independent of a general rule, which is structurally its own claim to universal iteration, but a human discursive act is inscribed with a position of meaning-creation. A person who did violence to himself – who denied himself as a source of meaning – would simply fall silent and be without positionality, but one who does function within discourse re-decides independently whether or not to apply a rule or repeat a claim. Independent perspective and meaning creation are the essences of individuality; personhood is positionality.’ Parrish continues:
    ‘The point, as Richard Beardsworth (one of Derrida’s most noteworthy commentators) explains, is that “a decision is always needed because there is no natural status to language, and that given this irreducibility of a decision, there are different kinds of decisions – those that recognize their legislative and executive force and those which hide it under some claim to naturality qua ‘theory’ or ‘objective science’.” In the first case the person recognizes and embraces its status as a creator of meaning, but in the second case (and as a preview of my discussion of Nietzsche) the person more closely resembles Nietzsche’s scientific ascetic who, while still a person and thus a creator, denies his nature and instead claims to discover fact. But in either event, [regardless] a person “is always…a legislator and policeman,” a creator and subsequent enforcer of its creations of meaning and value. So for Derrida, any discursive positioning is the outcome of an ordeal of the undecidable that is itself necessary because there is no objective, transparently discoverable truth. Rather, persons exist as the choosers, the creators, of discursive positionality (meaning; value).’

42. Karlyn
    Posted from: 69.253.230.13
    
    September 23rd, 2007 21:50
    42

    hey tom/tim/christian/bernice/emily/nikita/matt/whoever i’m forgetting…

    lend me the swt k for yale. i plan on going 6-0. that’ll make it a definite.

    actually, no one will win the tournament. they’re just gonna have to give up, cause the only people left will be those with the swt k, and you cant vote against someone who even has it in their posession. no decisions will be made once you guys start hitting each other in outrounds.

43. Akshay Agashe
    Posted from: 64.251.53.81
    
    September 24th, 2007 07:11
    43

    “lmao. Christian. you are god. well, almost. that post was perfect. ”

    TRUTH

    “whoever i’m forgetting”–

    that would be me :(

44. CK
    Posted from: 74.36.137.22
    
    September 24th, 2007 13:08
    44

    ownt.

    But KJ I’m sorry, but it requires knowledge that only Chetan/Matt/Ali can give out. I have no idea how to explain how to run it, I just know how to. Also, the rhetoric is so dense there is no way you could run it by Yale. =)

    Rebar, we specifically preempt those 2 cards. srsly.

    SWT K WILL DOMINATE ALL

45. jkling
    Posted from: 205.188.116.76
    
    September 24th, 2007 14:07
    45

    hahaha Craven/Clancy $hit spread cases would tear up any other cases on this topic… Wish they would have posted them on the google group

46. Paul Tyger
    Posted from: 69.151.219.61
    
    September 24th, 2007 14:20
    46

    good luck jake, matt, and vineet.

47. Fisch
    Posted from: 69.120.236.168
    
    September 24th, 2007 15:16
    47

    I can attest to the greatness of the swt k. (corny flashback music)

    It was this past summer at NDF. After debating for a year plus two weeks of camp, I thought I was ready to take on anything. I walked into the room, only to see Matt Thomas sitting across from me. I hadn’t realized I was facing him when I looked at the schematic. I didn’t say anything- he was too busy flipping through papers. The round started with me reading my aff (the way rounds generally start.) After I was done, I felt pretty good. However, Matt told the judge that he didn’t need cross-ex after I was done. I was extremely confused. What was going on? Matt stood up and took out a huge case- probably about 8 pages or so. All I could see was the cover page, which was scary as hell. He started reading incredibly fast, but I could understand everything he said. Suddenly, every limb in my body felt like it was on fire. I fell down to the ground, writhing in pain. I don’t remember clearly what happened after that. I awoke in a hospital room. To this day, I’m missing my right foot, a reminder of how powerful the swt k is. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!

48. Fisch
    Posted from: 69.120.236.168
    
    September 24th, 2007 15:52
    48

    By the way- what’s with all the spamming on VBD?

49. Karlyn
    Posted from: 69.253.230.13
    
    September 24th, 2007 16:24
    49

    sorry akshay!!!!!!

    christian, i would say that hurts, but i know it’s the truth…

    my mind is not able to comprehend the wonders of the swt k.

50. Matt
    Posted from: 24.161.65.27
    
    September 24th, 2007 17:37
    50

    Fisch. You have just replaced Christian as god. Sorry Christian.

51. Nicole
    Posted from: 71.88.35.102
    
    September 24th, 2007 17:46
    51

    hahah truthhh
    there will be major swt k ownage at yale

52. Rebar Niemi
    Posted from: 66.233.57.238
    
    September 24th, 2007 18:50
    52

    still not buying it. still disgusted.

    final volley:

    This view of the state as an institutional monolith is fostered by the notion of sovereignty, which calls up the image of the monarch, presiding majestically over his kingdom. Sovereignty emphasizes the singularity of the state, its monopoly of authority, its unity of command and its capacity to speak with one voice. Thus, France wills, Iran demands, China intends, New Zealand promises and the Soviet Union insists. One all too easily conjures up the picture of a single-minded and purposeful state that decides exactly what it wants to achieve, adopts coherent policies intelligently adapted to its objectives, knows what it is doing, does what it intends and always has its act together. This view of the state is reinforced by political scientists’ emphasis upon the concept of policy and upon the thesis that governments derive policy from calculations of national interest. We thus take it for granted that states act internationally in accordance with rationality conceived and consciously constructed schemes of action, and we implicitly refuse to consider the possibility that alternatives to policy-directed behavior may have importance – alternatives such as random, reactive, instinctual, habitual and conformist behaviour. Our rationalistic assumption that states do what they have planned to do tends to inhibit the discovery that states sometimes do what they feel compelled to do, or what they have the opportunity to do, or what they have usually done, or what other states are doing, or whatever the line of least resistance would seem to suggest.
    Academic preoccupation with the making of policy is accompanied by academic neglect of the execution of policy. We seem to assume that once the state has calculated its interest and contrived a policy to further that interest, the carrying out of policy is the virtually automatic result of the routine functioning of the bureaucratic mechanism of the state. I am inclined to call this the Genesis theory of public administration, taking as my text the passage: ‘And God said, Let there be light; and there was light’. I suspect that in the realm of government, policy execution rarely follows so promptly and inexorably from policy statement. Alternatively, one may dub it the Pooh-Bah/Ko-Ko theory, honouring those denizens of William S. Gilbert’s Japan who took the position that when the Mikado ordered that something be done it was as good as done and might as well be declared to have been done.

53. bietz
    Posted from: 76.170.34.41
    
    September 24th, 2007 19:23
    53

    “desperation is a tender trap / it gets you every time”

54. Fisch
    Posted from: 69.120.236.168
    
    September 24th, 2007 19:37
    54

    YOU WILL LOSE YOUR LIMBS REBAR!!!!!

55. Matt
    Posted from: 24.161.65.27
    
    September 24th, 2007 19:56
    55

    His limbs will be the least of his worries.

56. Rebar Niemi
    Posted from: 66.233.57.238
    
    September 24th, 2007 19:56
    56

    GOD HATH PRESERVED MYNE BODY IN ORDER TO BRING KNOWLEDGZ TO THE MASSES.

    mike bietz poetically dissed me.

57. bietz
    Posted from: 76.170.34.41
    
    September 24th, 2007 20:03
    57

    you’re so vain / i bet you thought that post was about you.

58. CK
    Posted from: 74.36.137.22
    
    September 24th, 2007 20:06
    58

    The reason Rebar’s responses are all preempted is because we have an AT: Rebar built in.

    I can attest to the foot loss of Fisch. That round was epic. (Well, the NC was. The 1AR never happened)

59. Matt
    Posted from: 24.161.65.27
    
    September 24th, 2007 20:09
    59

    The 1AR never happened. Did everyone hear that? YEAAAA>! .
    I like the song lyrics by the way. I may sing them at Yale

60. Rebar Niemi
    Posted from: 66.233.57.238
    
    September 24th, 2007 20:11
    60

    an AT: Rebar would be like a random number generator.

    once again, i kneel before the crown prince (and admin) of the holy realm of VBD: Bietz

61. Adam Drucker
    Posted from: 68.196.121.18
    
    September 24th, 2007 20:33
    61

    DOLPH HEG. CLOSE OUT IN OCTAS EVEN WITHOUT 16 PEOPLE.

62. gabe
    Posted from: 146.115.112.5
    
    September 24th, 2007 21:21
    62

    In between bursts of predictable irony, the swt K indulges in rhetorically complex bursts of linguistic simplicity, punctuated by explorations of infinitely recursive ends based deontological anti-ethics.

63. gabe
    Posted from: 146.115.112.5
    
    September 24th, 2007 21:33
    63

    Judging: Lexington is bringing:
    Evan Seitchik (First Year Out, debated 3 years for lexington, qualled to TOC as a senior, did not attend),
    Garth Goldwater (First Year Out, 2 years of policy, one of LD, one of Public Forum for lexington. Won PFD TOC as a senior)

    Who else is getting brought?

    SIDE NOTE: i heard peter petraro isn’t judging this year…is this true? if so, who’s involved with millburn?

64. jkling
    Posted from: 205.188.116.76
    
    September 24th, 2007 21:39
    64

    Petraro is judging for great neck south

65. Fisch
    Posted from: 69.120.236.168
    
    September 25th, 2007 02:54
    65

    Byram is bringing… COACH DIANE STEIKER!!!!! WOOHOO!

66. Karlyn
    Posted from: 69.253.230.13
    
    September 25th, 2007 16:02
    66

    update: lisa kapp (from perkiomen valley) is off the waitlist. she’ll be there.

67. john lewis
    Posted from: 70.112.179.91
    
    September 25th, 2007 17:36
    67

    go vicki!

68. Matt
    Posted from: 24.161.65.27
    
    September 25th, 2007 19:47
    68

    YES!. STEIKER

69. Gauri
    Posted from: 75.72.54.79
    
    September 25th, 2007 20:27
    69

    Good luck to Marc, Usha, Sabrina, and Vicki!

70. Matt
    Posted from: 24.161.65.27
    
    September 26th, 2007 17:05
    70

    Post 70. Comes after 69. what irony.

71. Steph Ramones
    Posted from: 168.122.241.5
    
    September 26th, 2007 17:48
    71

    I’ll be judging for Braddock. Joy…

72. Matt
    Posted from: 24.161.65.27
    
    September 26th, 2007 21:03
    72

    STEIKER STEIKER STEIKER!

73. Gavin
    Posted from: 221.221.19.222
    
    September 26th, 2007 23:29
    73

    Good luck Newtown—and Mill lab represent!

74. PA
    Posted from: 204.186.151.4
    
    September 27th, 2007 15:59
    74

    I have a feeling someone from PA is going to win! PA RULES!

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