Bushey,+Amy

MIFA Judge Philosophy and Paradigm Information Name: Amy Bushey School: H.H. Dow Position (e.g. Assistant Coach): Head Coach Judging Experience: 10 years Other Affiliations/Preclusions: Provide Preferred Method of Contact (Email/Phone): 989-923-3106 Process Preferences. What do you require debaters to do in a round and how do you view your role as judge (e.g., to reward, to sanction behaviors). 1. Briefly describe your view of proper debate etiquette and how you will evaluate/enforce deviations. I am an educator and believe debate is a school-sponsored educational activity. As such. I believe debaters should be respectful of one another and differences of opinion. No swearing, yelling, or put downs in rounds. Deviations=lower speaker points. 2. Evidence citations (what parts of the evidence do you require to be read aloud) Author, date 3. Reading evidence after the round (under what conditions will you read evidence). Only if asked, only if critical to decision. 4. How do you enforce MIFA violations (e.g. dock speaker points, automatically give a loss, depends on what the debaters say, etc.)? As a member of the MIFA forensic council, I uphold MIFA rules at MIFA tournaments. Violations must be brought up and implicated for abuse in roundvery unlikely I would vote on this. 5. Tag Teaming (one person prompting his/her partner) A). During C/X OK B). During Speeches OK As long as one doesn’t dominate