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Page 4/The Battalion/Tuesday, December 3, 1985 A&M debate \&£^L begins preparin^&M ayearinadvancf By MARK Ref. By KELLI THOMERSON Reporter The chilly weather puts some Christmas spirit into the hearts of Aggies. Lambda Sigma member Sheri Steele (right) sells Wes Wil liams (center) and Steve Ash a Christmas tree. Lambda Sigma will be selling the trees all this Commons. Photo by GREG BAILEY week in front of Sbisa Dining Hall and the If most students think they spend too much time in the library studying, they need to think again. Members of the Texas A&M De bate l earn spend an average of 20 hours every week researching and preparing for tournaments, says Wayne Kraemer, the team’s coach. “Preparation is over the entire year," Kraemer says. “At the end of the summer we get a debate topic that is selected by the debate coaches all across the nation, and we’ll research that topic all year long.” The topic is announced in April and tournaments start in September. The team debates on two different resolutions or areas, the National De bate Tournament and the Cross- Examination Debate Association, Kraemer says. The NDT resolution involves any thing that requires a course of action, a policy, he says. CEDA is an off shoot of the NDT topic and deals with values instead of policy. The debate focuses on the over- lying values of the resolution instead of policies, Kraemer says. I he CEDA resolution is for people who don’t have as much time to do research as the people on NDT do, he says. There are five two-man teams on each resolution. Each team first re searches and writes arguments on the chosen topic. “Part of the research involves writ ing an affirmative case, which means we have to go out and research a problem area within the confines of the resolution,” Kraemer says. “We then offer a workable solution for that problem and the advantages that stem from specific solution. i'he apartheid ... . . ... Mica is a growing A. tin begmmngoliiit^ leaI . 0 ^ ndlh f ^foriKul.u l ex.IS prepare ourselves forthefalj number one natneni. world today. Ki aemer says the firsttoun j for Norman M >S alwavs hard l>ecausenoot« ents Against, what the other teams willu^ issue has bec< .11 gumeni. Afterward, ihtlTjEverybody agn learns the different affir j^ not ev e r y bo d which are being used acrossM on says Muraya lion, so it can prepare foriktf Muraya, 24, of sa V s - feme involved wit "It's kind of an ongoing,! Apartheid last Mi oriented process," Kraemer tation was forme' Dc b.iu tournaments o)^B e a PP ears lo da\ s I bcie .ue lour pr<l*ed young m. r()unclsancl then the pinver iridB^^ 1 ' ()VC ^ 01 stage in each touriumenrlit^'g >>‘-’1'^^ i” »i "You go against teams compassion same record f rom the prelimriW® people of Kraemei savs. “Thalgoesonl w Wch Muraya is i omuls, .md du n ihetopthinliiM^ one neglect isi hosen to go into the single ln J us l*ee in Soutfi don round and on i" the tin; U P dose the depat Debaters can enter an' affairs,” Muraya tin (•<• levels when they join, htBlf we condon “The novice division is lonneverbe able to 1< "ho Im\c h.ul noculleger\|ejKtlieeve and m.i whatsoever," Kraemer sass applying the D< one year, you go up to thentv penclence to hun sion, the junior or juniorvarsi: man Doctrine to sion, and that’s for peopleuti:or! Christianity a two vears experience in thetdfor all mankind. "Past that is the open orserK He says the pe sion, and that’s for anybodition feel Amenci wants to debate.” mistakes in fore Kraemer savs debaiersi i don’t want to se< die lit st two levels after they I* "I think the L eligiable foi die nexi level, countries claim ti I be team also operatesdtlH is their oppi A &- M Forum, an audit Muraya says. parti( ipation debate. .The people c Debut< cxpei k ih r i.inbttis'asking for hel future jobs, Kt anner says, beor tea< lies i ese.iK liing. re,isoimp A Q_ A A v\0( I V I Astronomy club offers B-CS chance to see come By JUI Stal By JO BETH MURPHY Repot ter The Texas A&M Association of Amateur Ast ronomers will have tele scopes set up in a local park Friday and Saturday to give the community an opportunity to see I falley’s Comet. Halley’s Comet is seen only every 76.09 years because it takes the comet that long to orbit the sun. Darrin I .ewer, a co-founder ol (he association, says it hopes to have at least lom telescopes set up at South- wood Parkat 1601 Rock Pi ait ie Road in College Station. He says more tele scopes might be available if the Uni versity’s physics department is able to loan them to the group. The eight-and 10-inch telescopes will be set up 1 t om 7 p.m. to midnight on the youth soccer fields. There is no charge to look through the telescopes or to get into the park, but there will be a donation box. Con tributions will be used for equipment upkeep and repair and to fix up a dark-sky observing site, Lewer says. He says the telescopes and the knowledge of the association's mem bers are being provided f or commun ity awareness. “Basically, one of our f unctions is to help die community become aware of astronomy and astronomy events,” Lewer says. He says that members of the asso ciation include people from the com munity as well as A&M students. 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