| Show Got A Then You're By LYNE CROCKETT I've often wondered what people who have never debated think of those who they think we're all a bunch of egg-heads who are out to prove we have brains or maybe they think we do it because it makes a good excuse for missing school and getting a paid vacation in the These are just the not the real DEBATE can get in your blood just like or reading murder I guess it's the thrill of I don't think that a summit meeting could be taken much more My partner and I go into our first round It helps if we can find the building and room easily and arrive before the judge and our This gives us time to get set up and look organized and We usually write of and our names on the blackboard so that maybe the opposition will be so impressed that they will get scared and won't be able to debate THEN WE try to be friendly to the so that we can get an initial and he will be impressed with if not our just as we are making the other team walks They look us and we look them Names are tossed back and forth and the appraisal goes Underneath it I'm usually thinking something shoes are dirty and her slip I certainly hope mine If they're all I can hope for is a crooked tie or a 5 o'clock It helps my for my debaters are usually impeccably This means we have to out-debate which is competition is on for Medically my adrenalin starts to all my saliva dries and my brain start hitting on all eight Now it's my turn to I get lay all the facts before the summarize the tear their case and sit down only hoping that the judge has enough intelligence to see that this is the only way to look at IT'S all If the other team is from they'll walk over to us and shake our hands and be effusive about how good a debate it Ten minutes we're debating the opposite side of the proposition with the same On the other side of the is the fun we have after it is all Not that the debating isn't It's fun just like tracking a wounded man-eating tiger is fun or like reeling in a sword-fish is pure I'VE ALWAYS thought that traveling is the most fun there a team is really wins and works instead of getting a cookie as a they might get a trip to Arizona in December it's the weekend before but who cares about grades debaters get their studies done early in the quarter just like everyone And for there are side trips to or All in anyone who has ever debated will tell you that it is one of the most competitive sports in Instead of using or we use brains and But the outcome is always the victory and elation or defeat and the accompanying I think that I'd rather take up intercollegiate it's less trying on the but I don't really think it would be half the even if I could |
