<<Why can't current events be part of an academic tournament? Isn't it just as important to know what's going on in the world today in an academic setting as it is to know what happened 200 or 2000 years ago? I agree that there is a considerable amount of trash (i.e. sports and music, etc.) in NAQT packets, that maybe is excessive, but I see nothing wrong with current events as academic knowledge. >> I definitely agree with this. I think that the distaste for current events expressed by some purists is rooted in the fact that current events has never been written well, and certain teams and organizations continue to pass off questions about "trash that happened recently" as current events. If more people learn to limit CE to important, memorable events in American and world politics rather than stuffing it with business, crime, and trash questions, perhaps we could have a happy medium. Part of the way to do this is to tone down the CE distribution to no more than 2 or 3 questions per match, simply because there aren't enough answerable, academically solid current events to write more than that when the distribution is multiplied by a whole year's worth of packets. Another helpful behavior is to be strict about the academic nature of CE and move all trash questions to trash, all questions on recent studies of penguin behavior to general knowledge, and all questions on crimes-of-the-week to oblivion. --M.W. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your site http://webhosting.yahoo.com
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