Talk:Student Congress

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Articles for deletion This article was nominated for deletion on 4 October 2007. The result of the discussion was no consensus/keep.

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[edit] Example

This article ought to be modeled after the Extemporaneous speaking article, which is quite well done.

[edit] Word choice

Because there are so many different venues for Congressional Debate, there are a lot of options for terms synonymous with "debaters" in this article:

  • debaters
  • senators
  • representatives
  • participants
  • students

Also, where I'm from, we don't call speeches Proponency and Opponency, but just old "pro" and "con" or "in affirmation"/"in negation."

Wouldn't it be more encyclopedic to pick one of these terms and use it throughout most of the article? If so, which one?

--Alex S 01:06, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

RE: Word Choice Well first we have to work out not only which local terminology were going to use, but also the difference in terminology between collegiate and high school debates. I suggest the following vocabulary:

  • senators, representatives, students, debaters = PARTICIPANTS
    * this because it does not specify between house and senate     chambers.
  • on sidings of speeches, pro/proponetcy = in (the) affirmation, con/opponetcy = in (the) negation.

The Man 01:15, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] no mention of the constitutions?

each state has it's own parliamentary procedure as laid out by their forensics association constitution, and then theirs the national forensics league constitution. shouldnt there be a mention of them? Rockinbuddy 20:34, 6 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] more input from different states

Since each state seems to have its own system of Student Congress [such as in MN most of it is just debating the bills, vs in ND most of it is knowing Robert's Rules of Order in Parliamentary Procedure] I think one thing the article could do would be to add in a state-by-state area for student congress being as it varies so much —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.207.203.184 (talk) 21:42, 7 October 2007 (UTC)