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Strategies for Recruitment

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Off the Flow category

How does your team go about recruiting new members? What strategies and methods work best? Have you ever attempted recruiting methods that didn’t pan out?

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Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Off the Flow category

LOS ANGELES, CA - Wow, were there a lot of annoying people on the flight I took over this morning. What’s the biggest nightmare you have ever had on a flight?

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Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Community, Lincoln-Douglas Debate, Off the Flow, Theorizing LD Theory category

Having just posted my interview with Anjan Choudhury, and given that I’m in varying stages of completing a number of interviews — including, among others, ones with Josh Anderson, Eric Barnes, Tommy Clancy, Caitlin Halpern, Stephen Hess and Prashant Rai, Douglas Jeffers, and Cyndy Woodhouse — I’ve had more than a few opportunities to think […]

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Summertime: Philosophizing

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Off the Flow category

Watching “Descent, Part I,” a rather good episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, I was reminded of a fantastic scene in which Lt. Commander Data plays poker with the holodeck likenesses of Sir Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and Stephen Hawking. (Dr. Hawking remains the only person ever to play himself on any incarnation of […]

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What Makes the Best?

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Community, Off the Flow category

So to borrow a page from Michelin Massey, I’d like to ask our readers to look over the rounds they’ve watched or competed in and tell us to whom you would give the following titles (any or all of them): Best AC, Best NC/1NR, Best 1AR, Best 2NR, Best 2AR, Best Cross-Examination, and Best Conceptual Debater. How did these debaters make these speeches “the best” you had seen, regardless of the career performance of the debater?

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Goalsettting

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Off the Flow category

What are three goals you have for next season?

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The One Habit

Posted by Jon Cruz in the Off the Flow category

Judges are often quick to point out annoying habits possessed by debaters. If you had the opportunity to direct the community to collectively rid itself of one in-round habit, what would it be? Why?

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