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Student Certification |
Please read this page carefully and then move on to the next page (link
at the bottom of the page).
Following our tournament rules is critical or we lose the ability to host
our tournament and you can be expelled from the tournament.
I
know most of this stuff is pretty obvious and kind of irritating to read but I
hope it will prevent any misunderstandings.
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PLEASE—Keep the noise level
down in the halls of the buildings.
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NO TALKING IN
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NO TALKING IN RESIDENCE HALLS AT ANY TIME except in
your competition room.
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Toss Trash and Cleanup Messes.
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Don’t touch equipment, computers, residence hall
fridges, furniture, etc.
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Don’t play on campus art including the horses and
other statues.
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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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Please keep your voices down—especially in the
morning!
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Before flushing toilets in Jewett Hall—Please loudly knock on the wall. That way, people won’t be
scalded by hot water.
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Do NOT go into rooms before your round is scheduled to
start if there is a class in there.
· 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.
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COMPUTER USE: Use the Wireless Network or go to Olin
180. YOU CANNOT USE THE REGULAR COMPUTER LABS.
Computers with full internet
connection are available in Olin 180 for use for $1. Printing is 5 cents per
page.
FOR PHOTOCOPYING, GO TO STAPLES. Get to Staples by going east on
Many of Whitman’ Library resources are available on the web. If you really need
a book from the library, have your coach get it for you.
WIRELESS? Only 20 computers can be connected
to the wireless at one time. Please try to connect away from the Reid Ballroom.
There are Ethernet connections that you can plug into in
the Reid Ballroom.
To sign in to the wireless, just open your web browser and
select Sign on as a Guest.
Respect the space
as you do when you are a guest in someone else's home.
Please do not block
hallways or stand in front of entrances to offices, meeting spaces, and/or
restrooms.
Help out! Pick up and dispose of papers and other garbage items
in a trashcan.
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 do
not take pillows and blankets from your hotel room.
Keep it quiet in
the late evening and early morning—you will wake nearby guests.
BE ON
TIME.
Judges are required
to turn in their ballots on time. As a result, if you are late, you will be out
of luck. You will lose with zero speaker points.
Also,
leave your rounds on time. YOU ARE REQUIRED TO TELL THE JUDGE that you MUST
leave for your next round so you don’t get forfeited. Do NOT allow judges to hold you for
oral decisions/commentary if you will be late.
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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.
DON’T ORDER BON APETIT
FOOD WITH LESS THAN 20 MINUTES.
You MUST 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.
You are
strongly encouraged to adapt to your judges. In debate, some judges will be lay
judges, some will be stock issues, some will be counterplan-disadvantage, some will be kritik and performance judges. THE TOURNAMENT
IS NOT RESPONSIBLE for judges that you don’t like nor for judges that did not
vote the way you want. YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE for
adapting.
Complaints
about judges are appropriate ONLY IF the judge violates a rule stated in the
tournament invitation. Examples include:
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They cut your speaking time.
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They harassed you.
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They forced you to debate or speak about a topic not sanctioned by the
tournament.
· They made you say things you weren’t
comfortable with.
· They played computer games while you
spoke.
NOTE: Decisions are NEVER
overturned by the tournament unless something extremely serious happened. This
has occurred once in the past 15 years (where a judge verbally assaulted a
student during the debate). 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 you
are in Champ LD or Policy and you receive a struck judge on the postings—REPORT
IT TO THE BALLOT TABLE IMMEDIATELY. We will fix that.
CLICK HERE
TO COMPLETE YOUR CERTIFICATION
Problems? E-mail
Jim Hanson at hansonjb@whitman.edu