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Every college dance team submits a video-taped routine to the NDA each fall. Judges use the tapes to rank all the teams before April’s National tournament. This year, for the first time, CDT was seeded number one, toppling long-time rivals and six-time national champions Towson University. The honor put Towson on edge; CDT’s captains say that after they won, Towson’s coach sent them several nervous e-mails asking about technicalities like their website. It also won Harvard a free ride to Daytona. The NDA covered Harvard?...
...Crimson Dance Team drops to sixth place, the same rank as last year...
Like figure skating, dance is an extremely subjective sport. The National Dance Alliance picks judges to rank teams on technique, staging, difficulty of routine, uniformity of performance, creativity of choreography, and overall audience impression. Whereas choreography and performance are central to the first categories, audience impression incorporates things like dance theme and costuming...
...judge does not score but has a clicker which he or she hits every time any one dancer is off or a mistake happens. The other judges rank teams on a scale of one to ten in each category; the average of all those scores, minus the clicker judge’s deductions, becomes the team’s overall score...
Your article on the Church of England's endorsing the ordination of women as deacons [RELIGION, July 15] characterized this historic order of ministers in negative terms like "lowest rank" and "beneath priests and bishops." Actually, permanent, or perpetual, deacons are an esteemed order and are the "icons" of the servant ministry of the church with an integrity of their own. (The Rt. Rev.) Harry W. Shipps, Bishop Episcopal Diocese of Georgia Savannah Cicadas Singing...