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Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

The tossup is on a work of art by Abraham Bosse which was an etching, and the end product of the etching was to create frontispieces. As you say yourself, the etching couldn't have appeared on a book cover at the time. I think the fact that some publishers choose to reprint facsimiles of that etchin...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

First, there seemed to be a lot of unforgiving answerlines relative to past years. The examples that come to mind are[...] the tossup on the frontispiece of Leviathan (which is often published as the cover of Leviathan). It's funny that you post this, because something that involves you happened at...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Do we know at this point what the list of schools with active teams who could actually host a 50 (or 60)-team national championship in 2 buildings with access to a major airport is?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Was it not feasible to send the TDs to MIT a couple days early and do some scouting on Thursday and spend Friday either trying to reorganize the rooms or else, if things were good, have a slightly more relaxed planning day with some free time to chill before the deluge? I played 2009 nats and coache...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Large hunks of the plays quizbowl has decided are "in Sanskrit" are actually in Prakrit (including all of the dialogue spoken by Shakuntala).

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Functioning on my phone has led to comedy, get rid of this post please.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I would bet good money I don't have that this is the first time most readers of this thread have actually thought anything about this, and when they go to their next tournament they will realize how aesthetically displeasing the status quo is, and will be presented with the choice to dig in their he...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I am proudly unapologetic about being willing to air my own fixations to the world and believe in my heart that a community of well educated adults can execute this basic interaction in a more civilized fashion.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Right now, when teams shake hands at the end of quizbowl games, it is mostly a shitshow where people are throwing their hands into a massive disorganized pile-on of players. This reeks of quizbowl. It would be better if teams stayed in the order they were sitting, faced each other, stood in lines, a...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Don't let threads like this, which is about one of the first kinds of things I suspect new people gravitate towards, be the way we discuss nationals.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

David wasn't a member at the time, but around 2010 when PACE was having a serious crisis under a president that a number of the most active members had good reason not to trust, one of the biggest problems was that PACE had a very large number of members who had zero involvement anymore (and some wh...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

What I find interesting is how many of the problems above boil down to an incredibly simple life lesson that sounds so stupid as to be almost stunning that I feel like writing it, but which once I really internalized it I saw all kinds of adults fail to understand or live up to this very simple idea...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Aria, do you think that you probably would have drifted away from quizbowl due to the inherent structure of the game compared to your interests/skillset, or do you think you could have gone either way on it and the behaviors you mentioned above helped convince you that you should do something else?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

One time I invited another college team to eat dinner at the Heidelberg after I directed an MU event, and there was one player who was very plugged into the forums on the team, while the teammates very much weren't. I proceeded to have this incredibly awkward conversation where I kept having to stee...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I don't disagree that Mike is probably as good a candidate as any on the current board staff, and that 1/3rd of the board staff being nonmale is a significant improvement over quizbowl at large, but doesn't that still say something damning that quizbowl's leadership is still so far from gender balan...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Seems like asking more women to be forum moderators and then not having men behave as the driving forces behind these fora would be a start? Like why is Mike Cheyne a moderator of a "women in quizbowl" forum?

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Boystown, the neighborhood I lived in in Chicago, is uncontroversially a "gay neighborhood," so much so that the sociology book "There Goes the Gayborhood" talks about it. There's nothing bizarre about referring to it that way, and I'm glad to be argued with on actual merit, but ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

As they should, and regularly do.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

From another eminent luminary.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

an anonymous board staffer and quizbowl luminary, in my fb messenger wrote:I'm sad your good thread is being polluted by two of the three worst canadian posters

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Few people I've met in quizbowl have a more tiresome internet presence than you. yeah I really hate it when Aayush makes broad statements about how other people should groom themselves If your haircut cost $20 in a "hip urban centre", it does not look good. Baby steps here with quizbowler...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

"Your hat probably looks stupid and is probably getting people to make fun of you, especially if it is a fedora or that thing the chimneysweeps wear in Mary Poppins . This is my favorite kind of hat. Although it's ostensibly a source of ridicule, what other kinds of hats are acceptable for bus...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Yeah I won't get between Eric and Aayush duking it out, but my series of questions were basically a rhetorical device to convey that, if you're legitimately deviating from norms for a reason, whatever reason that is, then idgaf about if you wear lipstick to get a reaction, and that the actual proble...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I love how Marnold helps prove the point I'm about to make, which is that all the people in this thread saying that I have given eminently sensible advice have all been able to advance their academic, professional and/or romantic lives to quite high levels, because they understand the value of basic...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

p-vs-vp wrote:If your haircut cost $20 in a "hip urban centre", it does not look good.

Baby steps here with quizbowlers.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

And I'm glad to say I had a solid haircut in that photo.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Few people I've met in quizbowl have a more tiresome internet presence than you.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Also, slightly moving away from the aesthetic aspects Charlie is talking about, there's no better link to professionalism than some attempts at solid grooming. Like, let's be honest--at a lot of college tournaments, you get both players and staffers who look like they just crawled out of bed five m...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

For the record, standards of dress/personal appearance have been considered fair game before in quizbowl discussion ( part 1 , part 2 , there might be other posts), I don't think this is that much of a stretch from that. EDIT: Also, Charlie is right, for most people. Nobody is going to flagellate y...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

And if someone is going to bring up the defense of "but gender roles," I want you to be honest with yourself. Are you straight? Are you identified as a man? Are you adopting a fashion to intentionally be provocative? Are you wearing your hair in such a way that it says something about your...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Because I shouldn't have to explain the basic ways that maintaining your hair is a sign of maturity and will help you in all manner of non-quizbowl arenas. In fact, quizbowl is one of the least important places of your life to worry about hair, and if you get in the habit of doing things like lookin...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Lots of people don't ever realize how sloppy they actually look to the rest of the world, and I certainly don't mind being the person who lets them know what other people are thinking. If somebody has drifted through life not considering their adult fashion choices, and suddenly thinks "oh, huh...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

What's even better is looking presentable in such a way that you immediately find people in public looking at you and thinking "good for that guy, he takes care of himself and is not a slob." If you are consciously ignoring gender, then good for you, you know the rules and are breaking the...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

A request to discuss hats was made in private. Your hat probably looks stupid and is probably getting people to make fun of you, especially if it is a fedora or that thing the chimneysweeps wear in Mary Poppins. Hats, much like moustaches and most facial hair, long hair, unusual hair, etc. are somet...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

I think baldness requires admitting that you are balding and not trying to cling to your old haircut ways. Short hair and shaved hair usually are smart solutions, but consult your barber.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

In the past 3 times I have found myself in the ICT meeting room, the single most consistent kneejerk reaction I have every time I observed the chaos around me was to go "Jesus, somebody should get a barber out here." When you live in hip urban centers (especially in gay neighborhoods), and...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Shortly after the 2017 HSNCT, we became aware that some of the comments on the Periscope video of the finals were completely unacceptable. (This is why we have deleted the Periscope video, and will be switching to a different live-streaming solution for future NAQT events.) NAQT does not know who p...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

A lot of very good points are made in this post. I think it unfair to say that high schoolers are no longer in your peer group the minute you are in college. A lot of my very close friends from quiz bowl are high schoolers and I don't think there is a problem with that. But I guess I also have the ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Do you know what is always absurdly inappropriate and will help make quizbowl a worse place? Being an adult in college or beyond who gets online and makes fun of the talents and/or appearance of high schoolers, especially ones who you actually do know in person. The nature of quizbowl's online commu...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Pro-tip: hop on Amazon Prime and buy new copies of Dover thrift books since they're the same price as the crappy paperbacks you find at the book store but they're not crappy, they're new. Also, their selection has some really unusual stuff in the mix.

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Also, I find it amusing that the practice of open high school teams is clearly what led Naveed to mistakenly grind this axe in the wrong thread and pose a (slight) risk to a perfectly legitimate closed team. If it were standard practice for all teams to be closed, and all pseudonymous teams to simpl...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

My only possible addendum worth discussing is to bring up the practice (which is infinitely more widespread through much of the high school circuit) of finding out that some team dropped an hour before the tournament and then making a call for extra players who are at the tournament to come together...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

High school teams can and should be allowed to play the regular closed college tournaments for which they are eligible, but if they want to play up a level, they need to be mature enough to be able to play by the same rules as everyone else, which means if you can't convince your school's teammates ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Hey, is it possible to make it an official board policy for admins to delete those apparently endless "hey what high school team was playing under a pseudonym at this tournament?" posts in all the cases where teams are playing under a pseudonym to protect themselves? I'm a paranoid person ...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Of course I don't think this means we shouldn't keep thinking creatively about solutions to this problem - it is, after all, unfortunate that some isolated negative effects occur like UK having to turn a team away. But, it's just a fact that the overwhelming majority of quizbowl tournaments througho...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Thank you for your responses Jeff and Jonah. I think that hearing that NAQT is getting rid of the clock for sectionals mixed with saying that NAQT is looking into a way to electronically distribute packets for previous, but not active, sets is so much positive news that I'm a little surprised to see...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Thank you for doing this, it is really fantastic to see that the most important quizbowl organization is willing to listen to community input and be willing to embrace change if they think it's for the better. Thank you for being such a positive force in the world, even if it's just for this niche e...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

Hey everybody, I am a former student and current staff member at The Walden School's Young Musicians Program. This is a camp for musicians aged 9-18 (including seniors who just graduated) who spend 5 weeks at a boarding school in rural Dublin, New Hampshire. It is the only camp in America which is d...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

There is essentially no situation where it is in Columbia's (or any program's) long-term self-interest to pay to fly whole teams of inexperienced freshmen to play the hardest tournament of the academic year. It is both a phenomenal waste of money and an incredibly risky recruitment practice, given t...

Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN)

[Then why doesn't this happen now? I am skeptical that this would be a thing in the future. Also, I looked at 2013-2017 recently and none of those ICTs had a B team as the obvious worst team in the field. Splitting teams hasn't upset the balance that much. I did say there are maybe 24 good A teams ...

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