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From: c50p-az@dorothy.Berkeley.EDU (E. Stephen Mack)
Newsgroups: talk.politics.misc
Subject: Re: Time to get out of the UN
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Date: Thu, 2-Oct-86 09:02:16 EDT
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With this U.N. posting, almost all recent high school and college debate
topics are under current discussion in talk.politics.misc, which
I find very amusing.

So, why not add the current Fall '8 semester college CEDA
(Cross-Examination Debate Association) topic to our list of
subjects?  The current CEDA topic is:

   "Resolved that improved relations with the Soviet Union are a more
   important objective for the U.S. than increased military preparedness."

I think it's a very interesting topic, worthy of discussion.  I _am_
currently debating this semester; if there is interest, I will post
current arguments and thinking on this topic.  (If there is interest,
I can also talk about current college and high school debate standards,
common practices and criteria.)



[For those who are at all remotely intrigued, the topics now under discussion
in talk.politics.misc relate to the following high school or college topics:

Employment -- from a high school topic two years ago: "Resolved that
the federal government should provide employment to all employable U.S.
citizens living in poverty."

Terrorism -- from the Fall '85 college CEDA topic: "Resolved that government
restrictions on coverage of terrorist activities by U.S. media is justified."

U.N. -- from the Spring of '86 college CEDA topic: "Resolved the membership
in the United Nations is no longer beneficial to the U.S."]

Drugs -- a topic from high school Lincoln-Douglas debate about a semester
         ago, but the wording escapes me.

Censorship -- ditto, from '84

Seat Belt Laws -- from a consumer safety topic in high school in '80.

Plus some other ones I'm forgetting.  Any debators out there who can
help me out?]

      [e. stephen]

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