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Contrary to the portrayal in the article “Debate Tourney Highlights Inequality,” (News, Feb. 19) both the Harvard Debate Council (HDC) and the Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society (HSPDS) are compensated fairly for their roles at the Harvard National Invitational Forensics Tournament...
...HSPDS is generously compensated given its proportional contribution to the tournament. The HDC may “profit far more” but they also do far more of the work needed to run the tournament...
Coaches and members of the HDC work for months to prepare for the tournament. The article reports only that they are the tournament’s “organizer.” It fails to mention any of the arduous tasks that goes into “organizing” a tournament consisting of 3,000 high school competitors and 400 judges. Rest assured that in the days leading up to and during the tournament, these tasks frequently require around-the-clock attention. For example, on the Friday preceding competition, the policy team coordinates the arrival and registration...
...also indicated that she feels HSPDS is unnecessarily relegated to HDC in the context of the competition...
...We’re living kind of large,” said HDC member Todd D. Fine ’03. “We’re flying across the country for competitions, staying in hotels, kind of like one of the sports teams, but without the direct oversight...