Academic Competition Newsletter Vol. VI issue 1 editors: Eric Owens and Gaius Stern Aug./Sept. 1999 Welcome to the sixth year of the Academic Competition Newsletter. The primary mission of the newsletter is to spread information about QB to new players and schools. To get a free subscription (or drop it), just write the editors and ask to be (un)subscribed. When posting questions or gripes, however, please write only to the editors and not to the entire subscription list. The newsletter will endeavor to report fully on all QB events for teams West of the Mississippi or of interest to those teams, continuing the earlier policy to extend coverage towards the Midwest. As always, subscribers are encouraged to write the newsletter editors with columns, tournament invitations, opinions, corrections, and especially tournament results. Readers will notice that ACN continues at Volume VI issue 1 where the old newsletter left off. We changed the name to reflect a neutral standing in the world of academic competition. Eric Owens Gaius Stern etowens_at_... gaius_at_... ------------------------- This issue contains The change in CBI policy regarding HCASC schools News of a college Certamen game FALL 1999 CALENDAR Upcoming buzzer purchase opportunity Info on where to get buzzers ------------------------- COLLEGE BOWL TO PERMIT BLACK COLLEGES TO PLAY QUIZBOWL INVITATIONALS On 18 August 1999, CBI announced a change in their policies to permit the historically black colleges to decide for themselves whether to attend other quizbowl competitions such as invitationals or even rival academic competition organizations. Previously, the players from historically black colleges who attended non-CBI licensed events forfeited their right to compete in the Honda-sponsored competition. The top teams at Honda Bowl receive considerable financial scholarship prizes, so this effected a considerable bar to circuit participation. The official statement runs as follows: "Effective with the 1999-2000 season, each Historically Black College and University (HBCU) participating in the HCASC program is permitted to make its own decision as to its HCASC varsity team members' participation in non-CBCI licensed invitational tournaments." The newsletter editors congratulate CBI on this overdue change in policy and wish to extend a warm welcome to all the historically black colleges with the hopes of increased participation everywhere. ADDITIONAL COLLEGE ACADEMIC COMPETITION: CERTAMEN If you go to <a href=http://comp.uark.edu/~etasigma/certamen.html target=new>http://comp.uark.edu/~etasigma/certamen.html</a> one can find that in 1997 Arkansas won the ESPh (Epsilon Sigma Phi) Certamen contest. I bet those players would make valuable additions to a college quizbowl club. From the above cited website: "A team made up of four Classics majors from the University of Arkansas won the "Certamen" at the annual national convention of Eta Sigma Phi, the Classical Studies undergraduate honors society. The "Certamen" is a College-Bowl-type competition that tests student knowledge of Greek and Latin culture, literature, language, art, philosophy, and history. Fifteen teams competed in the event." The U of A student team includes undergraduate Classical Studies majors Brandon Bolinger, Matthew Harrington, Maggie Smith, and Megan Tynan. FALL 1999 QUIZBOWL INVITATIONAL CALENDAR Sep 25 Illinois Oct 2 UM-Rolla Oct 9 Oklahoma Oct 16 UMKC, Iowa Oct 23 Wichita St, Illinois Oct 30 Berkeley WIT, Minnesota Nov 6 TRASH Regionals, UCSB High School Bowl Nov 13 Caltech Technophobia NAQT conference at Caltech, Illinois, Iowa St, Texas Nov 20 Washington-St Louis Dec 4 UC Berkeley Certamen -- HS Latin Bowl Jan 8 UCSB Jrbird College tournament: Walter Capps Memorial Jan 15 UC-Irvine HS compet
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