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debate is sa tisfying when a lot of work has been done to
Deal a specific team and then the strategy and concepts
pay of I. '
"I get a kick out of argumentation" Overing said. "De
bate is a forum for testing ideas and making better argu
ments. fa
After coordinating research, strategy planning and
practice debates during the week and debating together all
weekend for the last two years with the same person, it
may seem a wonder that they can still work together.
"Mike and I are extremely diverse in how we approach
a problem," Sisson said. Because their ideas for strategy
are so different, it sometimes hard to determine whose
side to take without personally attacking the other, he
said.
"The bottom line is, Ed and I both know what the
other's limit is," Overing said. "One or both of us will
back down before the prestige of the other is damaged."
He said he has learned to separate professional arguments
from personal arguments.
"Everybody's got to say something," Overing said,
quoting songwriter Jim Croce. He said there has to be a
justification for a value or belief.
"Just because they have an opposing viewpoint, it
doesn't mean it's wrong, you learn why they have it," he
said.
A winning team is a combination of a coach's expertise
and a debater's motivation, in the opinion of Overing and
Sisson.
"Most of the research and the ideas have to come from
the debater," Sisson said, because it is impossible for the
coach to keep up with all the arguments and ideas that a
debater finds at tournaments and in research.
"However, the coach is in charge of fine tuning your
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ideas and finessing them out," he said. In addition, five
speech graduate students are assistant coaches to Kay.
Overing said a team can have the best coach'in the
world, but unless there is motivation bn the debater's
part, it is of little benefit to have a good coach. He said
success is a matter of who wants to work to win.
"It's a low visibility activity and because it's low
visibility it doesn't receive much support. However with
the skills it teaches it is deserving of more support, moral
and financial," Overing said of the debate program at
UNL.
There were 20 students on this year's team, none of
whom are graduating, Kay said. Sisson, who is planning on
either going on to law school after next year or getting a
job in chemical engineering, said he will debate next year
if his class schedule permits. Overing, a junior economic
geography major, made no comment about next year.
The National Debate Tournament will be the first week
of April in Colorado Springs, Colo.
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