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Readers of The Crimson should know that Professor Kenneth Rogoff, a particular target of the e-mails, has handled this matter with consummate professionalism, consulting the university administration at every stage. The e-mail from Professor Rogoff quoted in the Crimson story used text suggested to him by GSAS administrators. Deans Michael Smith and Allan Brandt have expressed their strong support in a recent letter to Professor Rogoff, which states “the allegations about your conduct, described in the article and the mounting mass emails, were without any substance” and concludes...
...didn’t know much about debate until about a month ago. This probably explains why I asked debaters silly questions that they all answered very patiently. Questions like, How do you guys prepare for a debate? How do the freshmen look this year? Who are your biggest rivals? What first sparked your interest in debate...
...Debate Council, was founded in 1892. This was the year the Johnson County War erupted between small farmers and large ranchers in Wyoming, and the year Homer Plessy sat in the wrong seat on a train and prompted a landmark Supreme Court case. These are things that debaters might know because they can never tell when their opponents will bring up the way mass media affected rebellions in the West, or why the Supreme Court isn’t a reliable source for expanding nuclear disarmament...
Such long-range attacks don’t materialize out of spontaneous witticism. Geoff described the summer of background reading, learning everything there is to know about the nuclear issue, and then as school got closer, beginning to zero in on specific arguments, searching for large quotes from obscure magazines, piecing the quotes together to make the case, then organizing them in files and sharing them among the team...
Perkins: [Pauses. Looks at me. It really wasn’t a good question and he and I both know it.] The Emory Switch was something that was invented before you and your roommate were born. It refers to the fact that...Apparently, way back when, debaters from Emory used to switch the order of their speeches and bash their opponents first. It did, however, get Perkins talking about how the Harvard team isn’t really characterized by any single approach to argument. This is in contrast to teams like the inner city Baltimore college that talks about...