2002-2003 Results and Info

In Q&A Form with Thorn Chen '03

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Hey, I'm the stuy novice director this year. Whats up, its cool that you're 
doing this alumni stuff. Ok, heres our info.


>
>Here's what I'd like to get from you:
>- the policy debate topic for this year

Resolved: the united states federal government should substantially increase 
public health services for mental health care in the united states.

>- the names of the policy seniors and juniors

seniors

thorn chen, christina cheung, michelle chu, isaac glovinsky

Juniors
cory ackerman, charlotte stewart-sloan

>- where the seniors plan to go to college

Thorn- Dartmouth
Christina-Georgetown
Michelle-Columbia
Isaac- Mcgill

>- some general information on the frosh/sophomore group, i.e. how many?

The JVers are very rare and not so good.

There are about 10 active novices on the team, 2-3 freshman, most of the 
sophmores

>are they any good?

two kids who are really promising.

>- the highlights of the records of the A and B teams, i.e. best 5-6 
>tournaments.


A team (Thorn and christina) (actually i debated with someone else at some 
of these tournaments. We didnt really have a static team that much)- Emory- 
4-2 doubles, Harvard 5-3 (With charlotte), Lexington 4-2 doubles(with 
michelle), Yale 4-2 Quarters, States (2002) 2-2 finals, CFLs 4-1 (10-5 
ballots) double(with cory)s.


B team (Charlotte and michelle)- Yale 4-1 quarters, Emory 3-3, NFA 3-2, 
Blake 3-2 doubles (charlotte and cory)

>- the records of the 2 or 3 most successful juniors on the policy team,

Cory ackerman- Blake 3-2 doubles, Bergenfield 3-2 quarters, Yale 2-3, CFLs 
4-1 doubles, Villiger 3-2
Charlotte Stewart-sloan- Yale 4-1 quarters, Nfa 3-2, Villiger 2-3, Blake 3-2 
doubles, Emory 3-3, Harvard 5-3, Districts 2-2, Grands 5-3(ballots), CFLs 
5-10



>where they plan to go to institute this summer, and (if they agree to 
>provide it) their contact information.

i havent contacted them for info yet but: Charlotte is going to DDI, Cory is 
waitlisted for DDI and might be going to UTNIF



>- a general sense for the nation's top 4-5 policy teams, and a sense 
>for the success of our main, traditional Northeast rivals like Bronx, 
>Edgemont, Lakeland, Lexington, Georgetown Day, Ridgewood.

nation
Colleyville HaM, CPS AB, Greenhill AH, GDS GL, GBN FZ are all doing equally 
as well at tournaments

Northeast: Bronx has pretty good juniors who got a bid at harvard, but 
otherwise didn't do extremely well, Edgemont has Arpit Garg who is a good 
senior but otherwise their team next year won't be that good but they have 
novices that went 5-3 at harvard, Lakeland is falling through- they don't 
have a national level team, Lex didn't send anyone to the TOCs this year but 
they have promising juniors, GDS was awesome this year and they won 
Greenhill, went 7-0 at TOCs and other big exploits. they're almost 
unbeatable on the neg. Ridgewood doesnt really exist. Bergenfield in NJ has 
a pretty good senior team that had 4 bids. j


>- the names and contact information for this year's policy captain, 
>next year's policy captain, next year's president and VP for the 
>overall team.

Policy capitan will be Charlotte Stweart sloan

as for the rest of the team, ms shienman is trying out something new and not 
creating official positions but delegating responsibilities


>- an explanation for why a UDL team went to NFLs over Stuy last year or 
>the year before and some details about it.

We hit the bronx A team while down 1 in round 6 and lost. The UDL team got a 
free ride due to the tab room's random drawings. This team consistently beat 
us (juniors) last year both at districts then in finals of states

thanks for being interested in us.
-Thorn
>

Hey, our year could have been better but we had several issues with 
travelling to TOC bid tournaments that limited our debating.


>A couple of other small questions for you to clarify:
>-Who were the Stuy A and B teams at the NFL Districts tournament? Did 
>anybody qualify for the NFL?

Thorn and christina, Charlotte and Michelle were at NFLs

stuy A(Thorn/Christina) qualified for NFLs

>-Am I right that Charlotte was on the B-team for most of the year, and 
>that Cory debated at one tournament with you on the A-team and at one 
>tournament with the B-team? She was debating as the C team at other 
>tournaments?

we didn't really have a static A/B/C team structure this year and we debated 
at several tournaments based on who could go.


>-Who's the team captain? (I'm familiar with strange team policies over 
>the years.)

christina cheung


>-Who got that Stuy A prize last year? Where did they go to school?
christina and I were juniors last year and since we didnt have any seniors 
we were the defacto A team.

>


>Thanks Thorn!
>
>Amol
>

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