A CUSID General Meeting will be held at the North American Debating Championships at Queen’s University on January 31. This will not be a full General Meeting and will, rather, deal with pressing issues that must be dealt with prior to Nationals.
Proxy’s must be submitted before January 28. Refer to http://community.cusid.ca/viewtopic.php?t=2309 for more information.
The CUSID Executive, with the kind cooperation of the Concordia University Debating Society, will be hosting an open Women’s forum during lunch on Saturday of the North American Women’s Debating Open at Concordia this weekend. This will be an open “brainstorming” session that will simply be an open forum for anyone to voice their views on relevant issues concerning the role that gender plays in the success and perception of debaters. The comments and suggestions made will be compiled and presented both on CUSIDnet as well as at the next General Meeting of CUSID.
To facilitate those who may not be comfortable with voicing such concerns in a public forum, there will be two methods to get your concerns aired confidentially. First there will be an open comment box at Concordia where you may write down your thoughts to have them read aloud at the forum. Second, especially for those who are not going to be in attendance at the Women’s Tournament, you may make a confidential submission with this page (http://www.cusid.ca/special.php?page=womensforum). Comments can be submitted in this way for the next few weeks beyond the Women’s Forum to be included in the submission to the CUSID General Meeting.
Four Canadian teams have qualified for the Octo-Finals at the World Universities Debating Championships in Singapore. The four teams, out of 32 finalists, are Konrad Koncewicz and James ‘Ren’ Renihan (McGill), Jamie Furniss and Erik Eastaugh (Ottawa), Gaurav Toshniwal and Theo McLauchlin (McGill), and Kevin Massie and Mike Saposnik (Queen’s).
CUSID congratulates our Canadian representatives and wishes them luck in the final rounds.
FULL BREAK AT WUDC
1) Sydney A
2) Middle Temple
3) Lincolns Inn
4) Singapore Institute of Management (SIM) A
5) ANU C
6) Inner Temple
7) Bristol A
8) Auckland A
9) Oxford B
10) Cambridge A
11) McGill A
12) Oxford E
13) Ottawa Law
14) NYU A
15) Oxford D
16) UCD Law Society A
17) Ateneo De Manila C
18) ANU A
19) TCD B
20) Macquarie B
21) Oxford A
22) Cambridge C
23) Monash B
24) UCD L & H B
25) UWA A
26) Cape Town A
27) Yale A
28) McGill B
29) Queen’s B
30) UNSW A
31) Oxford C
32) Grays Inn
(Thanks to Ethel Tungohan on CUSIDnet for the information)
CANADIAN UNIVERSITY SOCIETY FOR INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATE
Central Meeting: November 25, 2003
McMaster University
1. Call to Order
Meeting called to order by Emma Lowman, Chair at 2:30pm.
2. Roll Call and Voting Rights
Present
Emma Lowman, CUSID Central Vice-President
Wayne Chu, Executive Director
Carleton University
Concordia University
McGill University
McMaster University
Queen’s University
University of Guelph
University of Ottawa
University of Toronto, Hart House
University of Toronto, Trinity College
University of Waterloo (Full Directed Proxy)
University of Western Ontario
University of Western Ontario, Huron College (Proxy to Western)
University of Western Ontario, King’s College (Proxy to Western)
Wilfred Laurier University
York University
Motion to allow Leger Chief Adjudicator, motioned by Queen’s seconded by Western.
MOTION PASSED
2. Central VP Report
3. Address from CA
3. Call for bids for Central Novice Championship
Western bids for Central Novice
Questions
Ottawa:           People who didn’t fill their time were not penalized
UWO:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Reinforce at judge briefing to emphasize filling your time
Mac:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Contingency plan for venues denying novices?
UWO:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Rare exceptional circumstance.
Mac:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Make sure that things are paper
4. Call for bids for Leger Cup
Motion to table to Nationals by McGill, seconded by Laurier
5. Call for nominations for Central Vice President
Queen’s University, seconded by McGill University, nominates Aron Seal.
University of Western Ontario, seconded by Carleton University, nominates Mona Afrouz.
Presentations
Mona Afrouz
Aron Seal
Guelph:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Speak briefly on small schools and better judges coming out to tournaments.
Aron:               Reflected in platform – experience allows him to provide whatever help is needed. Promoting HS tournaments helps clubs develop. Regarding judges, we should give discounts to experienced judges.
Mona:             With experience as TD with novice, knows issues. Encourage schools to come to novice first and help clubs run tournaments and then work on establishing. Regarding judges, encouragement of big schools, discounts, create list of alumni and use it.
McMaster:Â Â Â Â Â Â Regarding underage policies, how much jurisdiction do you actually have to enforce tournaments that are not sanctioned?
Aron:               The by-law is only with respect to title tournaments. With non-sanctioned tournaments, CUSID has no direct say, but by promoting discussion, we will have more ideas to use.
Mona:             Encouragement is the key. Requirement is not good because some clubs simply can’t do it. Otherwise, will hinder bids.
McGill:            What role the VP central will play in BP debate? Where do you see CUSID Central with BP.
Aron:               The issues have been discussed at length and have been dealt with ie. National BP Championships. CUSID exec should analyze and listen to clubs. By promoting discussion, clubs can better understand other clubs decisions and can make their own decisions.
Mona:             VP Central is only a liaison between National exec and members. Listen the concerns and express those concerns to National Exec. If Central wants more BP, convey that. Communication more successful that way.
York:Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Innovations on Central Canadian Championships?
Aron:               Depends on the school that hosts Leger. VP Central should be resource and has to be involved or is available if the host decides to help.
Mona:             Lack of fundraising and judging pool is problem is why there are no bids. If we improve these issues, more bids will result.
Aron Seal will be the CUSID VP Central for 2003 – 2004.
6. New Business
No new business.
7. Adjournment
Meeting adjourned at 3:10pm.
Over the weekend, the CUSID Atlantic and Central Canadian Championships were held, with the regional meetings occurring as well.
CUSID is proud to announce the new VP Atlantic, Patrick LeGay from Acadia University, and the new VP Central, Aron Seal, from Queen’s University. We thank the outgoing vice-presidents, Emma Lowman from McMaster University and Gavin Magrath from Dalhousie University for their hard work and commitment.
Users may view the minutes from the Central Meeting here.