Respondants are misreading the HCASC rules. When CBCI says, "You may participate in either HCASC or CB", they are not saying, "You may not participate in anything else." Judging from the very small number of invitational tournaments that actually license themselves with CBCI, the great majority of competitions are NOT College Bowl(TM) tournaments. We have ACF tournaments and NAQT tournament and TRASH tournaments and a host of non-aligned invitationals. All of them fall outside of the rather narrow rule forcing a HBCU's to choose between HCASC and CB. Now, some of you may say, "But HBCU's ought to be able to participate in both HCASC and CB." You have a right to that opinion. For my part, I don't care. The CBCI product is an anachronism, anyway. Their question style and difficulty level is still mired somewhere in the late 1970's. The issue before the community now is not whether or not segregation exists. It does--whatever the reason. We have already THOROUGHLY debated the issue back in the Spring. NOW it is time to take action. And for tournament directors how much easier can it be? Just stick a 33 stamp on a letter of invitation to some HBCU's in your area. All this hair-splitting and call for legalistic scrutiny is tantamount to rabbinical rantings about the number of angels that can dance on the head of a pin. It really is a dodge that covers up for sloth and fear. I'll leave you with two statements that speak to those root causes: Sloth--Nothing ventured, nothing gained; Fear--CBCI has ALWAYS backed down when schools have challenged those rules that seek to limit the freedom of choice that schools actually have. --Albert Whited
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