What a sad morning. What Tuna and Matt said. Matt was a great inspiration.
Bureaucratically, I assume the process would be an Amendment to the CEDA By-Laws or Constitution which could be voted on at CEDA Nats if it got done very soon. Could someone in the know (Jeff?) please clarify? One suggestion: I would hope that Dave Steinberg would have the honor of formally proposing that amendment.--Neil --Neil Berch West Virginia University ----- Original Message ----- From: matt stannard<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Alfred Snider<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; Steinberg, David L<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ; [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 11:11 AM Subject: Re: [CEDA-L] [eDebate] Matt Grindy We've lost one of the nicest people in debate, hands down. Any such award in his honor would be more than appropriate. mjs > Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 10:57:58 -0500 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [eDebate] [CEDA-L] Matt Grindy > > I am proposing an award in Matt's name to honor the squad that promotes > novice debate the most each year. > > I don't care if it is CEDA or who, but we need to do this. > > Please join with me and others to make this happen. Let's get going. > > Check this out, from the news story: > > /But being in pain, on medication and overcome with emotion didn't > diminish his awareness that he had a bully pulpit, and he seized the > opportunity. > > "If I can make a shameless plug in these times of university financial > troubles, my departing wish is debate, particularly policy debate, be > preserved," he said. "I don't have the energy to talk about it, but it > made me the person I am."/ > > Tuna > > -- > Alfred C. Snider aka Tuna > Edwin Lawrence Professor of Forensics > University of Vermont > Huber House, 475 Main Street, UVM, Burlington, VT 05405 USA > Global Debate Blog http://globaldebateblog.blogspot.com > Debate Central http://debate.uvm.edu > World Debate Institute http://debate.uvm.edu/wdi/ > World Debate Institute Blog http://worlddebateinstitute.blogspot.com > 802-656-0097 office telephone > 802-656-4275 office fax > > _______________________________________________ > eDebate mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.ndtceda.com/mailman/listinfo/edebate ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Need to know the score, the latest news, or you need your Hotmail®-get your "fix". Check it out.<http://www.msnmobilefix.com/Default.aspx> _______________________________________________ CEDA-L mailing list [email protected] http://www.ndtceda.com/mailman/listinfo/ceda-l
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