Word: hspds
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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...
...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 of the thousands of competitors (and their coaches and judges) at a work-fest the HSPDS does not attend...
Either way, Kedem said that he wished HSPDS had the money to send “anyone who’d like to go” to debate tournaments...
...also indicated that she feels HSPDS is unnecessarily relegated to HDC in the context of the competition...