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Judge
Certification Page |
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What we expect from you and students at the tournament |
Please read this page carefully
Following our tournament rules is very important.
It is the right thing to do to help our tournament run
efficiently.
You can get into trouble and we want to avoid that.
It is needed to help all participants.
We know most of
this stuff is pretty obvious and kind of irritating to read but please read
carefully.
It is important that you be a fair
judge—treating each competitor equally and with full respect.
Follow the rules and guidelines noted on our
ballots.
Show
respect to the students especially when you are judging:
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Turn your cell phones off.
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Don’t look at videos/games/instant
messenger during speeches.
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Don’t be derogatory about arguments that
students are presenting—try, as best as you can, to give each person the chance
to have their case/Interp/speech be heard.
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BE POSITIVE AND SUPPORTIVE.
Show you are impartial about the arguments.
Avoid saying things like “I only vote for the negative on this topic.”
Show you are impartial toward the students.
Avoid having conversations/jokes/etc. that don’t
involve ALL competitors in the round.
Do NOT judge your own kids—in the event you
are given a ballot to judge your own school by mistake, bring the ballot back
to the ballot table.
WHEN YOU DON’T DO THE ABOVE—students get
upset, coaches get upset, and it is not happy. :)
WRITE
OUT YOUR DECISION AND COMMENTS. Yes you can and we encourage oral comments BUT
YOU NEED TO WRITE COMMENTS. Coaches use them to improve, to help their
students, for adaptation, etc. Please—a number of people complained last year
on surveys that judges did not write out comments.
Are you a College Student-Debater? Some of
the high school students have complained that they feel some college judges are
arrogant and dismissive toward the “not good enough” high school debaters.
Please don’t be that kind of college debater. Be helpful and supportive. Impart
your knowledge and treat these competitors with respect.
Treat other
participants—coaches, judges, and students--with respect. It’s common sense and
it is the law.
Don’t make others feel
uncomfortable or harassed with sexualized, mean, racist, sexist, or any kind of
verbal attacks.
Don’t make others feel
uncomfortable with unwanted touching.
Treat students at the
tournament without discrimination based on their race, gender, religious
beliefs, sexuality, or any reason unrelated to their presentation of speeches,
interpretation cuttings, and debate arguments.
If you or one of your
students see or experience a harassment or discrimination problem, please
contact Jim Hanson at hansonjb@whitman.edu
or in Hunter, contact Clare Carson, our Title IX director, at carsonc@whitman.edu, or Dennis Hopwood,
Human Resources Director, at hopwoodt@whitman.edu
You can and should
also contact Security at 509-527-5777 or call 911 if you see or experience
physical assault.
Please talk to them about being courteous, caring
judges. Each year, STUDENTS AND COACHES ARE UPSET because they felt a judge
mistreated them. WORK TO AVOID THAT.
Also, please talk with your kids about the
diversity of judges. Not all judges are stock issues and not all judges like kritiks. Students need to learn to adapt to differing
judges; blaming judges because they didn’t vote on inherency or because they
said the student spoke too quickly is just not what forensics is about. It is
about adapting to the judge.
Complaints
to the tournament about judges are appropriate ONLY IF the judge violates a
rule stated in the tournament invitation NOT if they didn’t vote on inherency
or because they preferred a “performance” over a disadvantage. Examples of
situations where you can register a complaint include:
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They cut your student’s speaking time.
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They harassed your student.
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They forced your student to debate or speak about a topic
not sanctioned by the tournament.
· They made your
student say things you weren’t comfortable with.
· They played computer
games while your student spoke.
NOTE: Decisions are NEVER
overturned by the tournament unless something extremely serious happened and
overturning the decision does not adversely affect the tournament as a whole.
This has occurred once in the past 18 years. Don’t count on it. Instead, we
will remove the offending judge from the tournament and charge the school
hiring that judge a fee.
If
one of your Champ LD or Policy debaters receives a struck judge on the
postings—REPORT IT TO THE BALLOT TABLE IMMEDIATELY. We will fix that.
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PLEASE, NO TALKING IN ACADEMIC
BUILDING HALLWAYS FRIDAY 8AM TO 4PM except in your competition room with the
door closed.
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PLEASE, NO TALKING IN RESIDENCE HALLS AT
ANY TIME except in your competition room.
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Be nice to Whitties.
Obey Staff and Faculty requests to be quiet and to leave an area. Respect
Student Residence Hall Rooms and Lounges.
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Keep areas clean. Toss Trash and
Cleanup Messes.
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Don’t touch equipment, computers,
residence hall fridges, furniture, etc. PLEASE DO NOT MOVE TABLES/CHAIRS TO A
DIFFERENT ROOM.
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Don’t play on campus art including the
horses and other statues.
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Do NOT go into rooms before your round
is scheduled to start if there is a class in there.
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Do NOT setup
“shop” in a room. Use Reid to hang out.
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Sorry, you may not use the Library due
to problems we had at the 2003 tournament.
Many of
Whitman’ Library resources are available on the web. If you really need a book
from the library, students should get their coach get it for them.
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WIRELESS? Choose whitman_wireless,
open your web browser, and Sign on as a Guest.
To avoid overloading the system, try
to connect away from the Reid Ballroom.
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Need a Computer/Printer? Go to Olin
180. Cost is $1.
Printing is 5 cents per page.
· Need
a Photocopier? Go to Staples.
Get to Staples by going east on
Respect the space as you do when you are
a guest in someone else's home.
Please do not eat on the lounge
furniture.
Also, please toss your garbage into the trash cans.
PLEASE DON’T HANG OUT IN THE BOOKSTORE UNLESS YOU ARE PURCHASING ITEMS
Don’t read through
magazines you aren’t going to purchase. Use the bookstore to buy t-shirts,
memorabilia, magazines—not as a hang out.
PLEASE DON’T HANG OUT ON THE SECOND FLOOR OF REID
The second floor is
an office area with people busy working on a variety of projects. Please stay
off the second floor unless you have a round there.
Please
make sure no one takes pillows and blankets from your hotel rooms.
Please
keep your team members quiet in the late evening and early morning—avoid
waking nearby guests.
PLEASE BE ON TIME.
You need to pick up and return your ballot on time per
the schedule. When you don’t, we will charge you/your school.
We will be monitoring unpicked up ballots and
we will post names of judges who did not pick up ballots on time.
PLEASE—LATE JUDGING CAUSES INNUMERABLE PROBLEMS at a tournament of this size.
GIVING ORAL COMMENTS AT THE END OF A
ROUND? You MAY NOT make the students stay beyond the time the round was
scheduled to end.
Doing so subjects you and your school to fines and to the students forfeiting
(they are NOT allowed to say a judge held them as an excuse for being late to a
round).
If your round is
running late—you need to leave your room if a class is scheduled in the room.
Complete the round in the hall, another room, etc.
DEBATE
ELIMS: ANNOUNCE YOUR DECISION AND STATE THE
DEBATERS/TEAM’S FULL NAMES.
Why? To avoid errors. In
2007—two double-flighted rounds got decided the wrong
way when a judge voted for the wrong Mercer Island debaters in two doubleflighted rounds. We caught it in time but we want to
avoid this.
DON’T ORDER BON
APETIT FOOD WITH LESS THAN 20 MINUTES.
You need to order food from Bon Apetit AT LEAST
20 MINUTES before your next round. Otherwise, you may be late because of the
long times they take to get food done especially when it is busy. Eat the
tournament provided food or wait until later.
Turn in your Ballots by the time noted
on the ballot!
Ballot Distribution and Return happen in
the Hunter Foyer (across the street from Reid, the main tournament
headquarters)
NOTE: WE MAY HAVE
ELECTRONIC BALLOTS FOR DEBATE. We’ll notify you if we move to that.
Have you gone over the tournament rules with
your students?
Have you explained to students how to handle
double-entering?
Have you made sure your students are in the
right divisions? REMEMBER WASHINGTON RULES ARE DIFFERENT.
Have you submitted to Whitman your
demonstration that background checks have been completed on coaches and judges
you are bringing to the tournament?
WHEN DO
ELIM POSTINGS COME OUT? SATURDAY MORNING. ALL OF THEM.
WHEN
CAN I ARRIVE ON CAMPUS?
Thursday,
after 4:30pm.
Friday
and Saturday, after 7:30am.
Parking
is too crowded and our facilities are not open prior to that.
JUDGING OBLIGATION: YOU ARE OBLIGATED TO JUDGE ALL ROUNDS OF YOUR
EVENT UNTIL AWARDS.
If you
have competitors still in after awards, you are obligated to continue to judge
after awards.
SIGN-IN
FOR JUDGE CERTIFICATION
Problems? E-mail
Jim Hanson at hansonjb@whitman.edu