Debate




 * 1) **project title slide**
 * 2) **my credentials**
 * 3) **taylor’s creds**
 * 4) **TS AA into**
 * 5) **1st major point (proximity and location)**
 * 6) **Zack’s AA into**
 * 7) **ZH’s counter same point with my first major point (proximity and location)**
 * 8) **ZH goes into nature of residents(maturity and age).**
 * 9) **TS counters nature of residents.**
 * 10) **ZH time for response.**
 * 11) **TS time for response.**
 * 12) **Audience questions.**
 * 1) **Audience questions.**

**Zack-** I have lived on the campus of OA since 2003. More than half that time I have lived in Davis Hall. I have a strong attachment to the dorm, my marriage started there and my family started there. I often wonder how different my life might have been had I been a Lind Hall resident. .. and I want you to understand that when I criticize Davis Hall it pains me, but that I do it with the knowledge of first hand experience.

**TS- credentials**

**Intro proper-** Taylor- AA- and first main point

ZH- AA- There are two kinds of city residents. Those who cross the street or take the long way home to avoid unpleasantness.. and those who take the straight path even though it may force them to brush elbows with the unseemly, the different, the dispossessed. I could avoid it, but I walk through davis Hall every day... and sure it may be something of a “bad neighborhood” but I have never been one to go the “long way” because I’m afraid to face the unpleasant realities of life. Unpleasant realities that one is more likely to encounter in Davis Hall than Lind. Counter to TS: Davis Hall is centrally located in many ways as TS indicated, but for its residents its self-sustaining nature has an **ugly underbelly that is necessary to explore: Davites stay in the dorm to the exclusion of experiencing the outside world. At times in Davis you feel like you’re in some backwoods holler in western kentucky where “folks don’t get out too much”. I’ve regularly seen Davis Hall students go from dinner on Saturday to dinner on Sunday without setting foot outside its confines.**

**Lind’s Location promotes more adventurous students**

**Lind Hall’s lack of a dining hall makes this insular scenario unlikely, but the sense of adventurousness of a typical Lindy goes beyond the DH.**

**Lind’s location, closer to downtown westbrook and rt. 1 makes it easier for its residents to go explore life outside their dorm and outside 1393 BPR.**

**Indeed, a recent survey of the Term 3 check out log book found that 66% of off campus trips were undertaken by Lindys. Confident young men going out into the community as ambassadors of the school and models of the spirit of adventure.** **Similarly, in terms of Weekend travel, Lind dorm masters frequently comment on how many of their students leave for the weekend, comfortable and confident in venturing beyond the walls of their dorm.**

**This outgoing spirit is a reflection of a dorm that nurtures confidence in its residents but encourages the broadening of their horizons.**

TS: - counter nature of residents:

**Zack- Explanation:** o **Older student population (17.8/17.1) = more confident and mature** o **Ice cream sandwiches and newswatch** o **.** o **More functional individuals**

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**GKC Explanation**

**Response:**

**Zack** o

**Prep notes:** **- nature of residents: Age and maturity: avergae close to 18, with the average davite being nearly a full year younger. What’s a year? well,. It’s enough to distinguish between young men who can drive and can’t, who can vote for their leaders and cannot**

**How does that year of maturity anifest at Oxofrd interms of the two dorms?** ** 1. ****there are subtle indicators, like the fact that less cartoons are watched in the lounge in Lind, or.. less candy wrappers lying around lind lounge than davis.** ** 2. ** **There are also very obvious signs having to do with consistent positive behavior, taking responsibility and general self control. If you have trouble in these areas (as a younger, developing teenager might) then you tend to wind up with detention at Oxford. You’ll hear all kinds of justification from the Davites for their detention (“he’s just decided to give it to me”, “i only got it cause i don’t care”, “mr. Lasota hates me”..).. but these justifications tend to point out their deficits in maturity.** ** 3. ****when surveyed about which dorm tends to earn more detention Mr. LaSota responded “Davis Hall! by a mile.. it’s not even close”.**

**the older and more mature students of Lind hall certainly earn a little detention now and then, but they generally take their lumps, learn from it and move on. (like grown ups)**

**Closing** · **Dorm atmosphere: faculty children with knives versus puss the cat.** · **Ice cream story**

**Prep notes:** o **Older student population (17.8/17.1) = more confident and mature** o **Ice cream sandwiches and newswatch** o **.** o **More functional individuals** o **Detention- “Davis is through the roof higher than Lind”.** o **Superior location** o **Convenient that it is near sL,.. but look.. does not create problem smokers,.. there are more of them in davis (4:3)** -

**We left a lot out- an important part of the process** **-Were experts ourselves**

**Pasted from RD of explanation** o you Davis Hall v (geoff’s big issues: type of kid, more confident and feel with that and focus on location-). Respond v More vibrant, healthier atmosphere from younger more positive kids tinges their whole experience at oxford.- .
 * Shelter:
 * Location: **proximity to dining hall**, gym and athletic fields, better view from more rooms. Geoff focuses on rec hall and it as a social hub and place to relax- i counter with gym, courts, WR and athletics fields and importance of exercise to help relax and build community.
 * Looking at SOTT to talk about how more positive environment of davis leads to better community and better community members.
 * Ambiance and intangibles:
 * students. younger kids are more social and positive, more open and accepting (research this)
 * more lindy’s hang in davis than vice versa creating a more diverse atmosphere and.. why is that?dinner and breakfast are 2 reasons,.. but what else.
 * famous davis alums?
 * kids understand origin of the dorm’s name (straw poll again).. lends itself to feeling more like a home.
 * get mrs. zell and coach as **experts** on student preference over time (risky)- the historical view.
 * History of student preference: many kids over the years have moved to davis, but how many have moved to lind (straw poll for BA) (risky) (by choice). mike w did too. nate resisted move.
 * Bulletin boards and pressure on them (dinner announcements)- weak
 * Discussing how knowing about phil d and history of dorm enriches community feel of the place.
 * Pancake dinners, movies in lounge.- out of that sense of community comes davis champions of the community – jamie stone and gaming night and humans versus zombies.
 * Pancake dinners, movies in lounge.- out of that sense of community comes davis champions of the community – jamie stone and gaming night and humans versus zombies.

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