Newcomers told to pay for their trophy!

[DaveAnt420 at aol.com]

In a message dated 09/06/2001 8:48:20 AM Mountain Daylight Time, 
djfrostyg at hotmail.com writes:

<< I noticed this in the CEDA Nats booklet as well. I think I can shed some 
 light on this. Middlebury and Vermont are listed as attending the the 1988 
 CEDA Nartionals. I'm pretty sure neither attended. They both sent in entries 
 but didn't attend. i believe it was the first attempt of Middlebury to join 
 policy debate, but it never happened. >>

Being at CEDA Nats doesn't determine whether a program is a "Newcomer". 
Several newcomer awards have gone to programs that were not in attendance at 
CEDA Nats.

Bear