CUSID congratulates Monica Ferris (University of British Columbia) for her election as the new Vice-President, Western Region for the 2005-2006 season, and Julieta Chan (Hart House, University of Toronto) for her appointment as the interim Executive Director.

Monica was elected in an online by-election held 6-13 May and replaces Nick Fowler (University of Alberta), who resigned the position 12 April. She will serve until the next CUSID West election to be held at a regional meeting in Spring 2006.

Julieta assumes her position in the absence of an ED on the current sitting executive, succeeding Nicholas Tam (University of Alberta). A formal by-election for the position will be held at the Fall General Meeting.

Please be advised that Ombuds Committee applications are now open, with a deadline of Wednesday, 25 May. See this CUSIDnet thread for details.

CUSID congratulates the team of Erik Eastaugh and Jamie Furniss from the University of Ottawa for placing first at the World Universities Debating Championship, making them the third Canadian team to do so in the event’s 25-year history.

This year’s 312-team WUDC, hosted by Multimedia University in Malaysia, was the largest in the event’s history. Two other Canadian teams made the break: Hart House B (Joanna Nairn and Michael Kotrly) proceeded to the Grand Final, where they faced Ottawa Law, Oxford D and Cambridge A; Alberta A (Stephanie Wanke and Alex Ragan) appeared in octo-finals.

CUSID is also proud to announce that the University of British Columbia has won the bid to host the 2007 World Championship, and wishes the tournament organizers the best of luck as the championship returns to Canada for the first time since 2002.

CUSID congratulates Emily Cohen and Omar Fairclough from York University for winning the CUSID National Championships on March 21, 2004. Their win was a split decision over Rahool Agarwal and Joanna Langille from Hart House.

Congratulations also goes to Guy-Phillipe Allen Bouchard and Philippe Boisvert from McGill University for winning the Comp?titions nationales fran?aises SUCDI a week previous. They defeated Damien Cote and Ben Piper from Carleton University on a unanimous decision.

Also taking place at the National Championships at McGill University were the CUSID Executive elections. Joining the regional vice-presidents, who continue their terms, are:

President
Erik Eastaugh (University of Ottawa)

Treasurer
Alex Campbell (McGill University)

Executive Director
Nicholas Tam (University of Alberta)

Directeur du d?bat de langue fran?aise
Philippe Boisevert (McGill University)

The new executive will take office on April 21.

We congratulate the 2003/2004 National Champions and wish good luck to the incoming executives.

As of March 26, 2004 @ 7:5pm EST, CUSIDnet is back online at http://www.cusid.ca/community. The old address of http://community.cusid.ca is now forwarded to the the main CUSID site. This may or may not change.

CUSID.ca and CUSIDnet is now being hosted by Tera-Byte, based in Edmonton. I would like to thank all those who offered proposals for hosting CUSIDnet. Although we didn’t go with your proposals, we do very much appreciate your offers.

In the coming days there still may be some hiccups as I further configure the server. I will be in contact with the 2004/2005 ED, Nick Tam, about ongoing issues with the new services.

Thank you for your patience.

We are in the process of changing the servers on which CUSID.ca and CUSIDnet are located. For the next few days, the sites may be temporarily unavailable for periods of time.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

Guelph Novice

Schedule

Friday, March 26
3:00 – Registration
6:00 – Briefings
6:45 – Pairings
7:00 – Round I
7:45 – Public Speaking I
10:00 – Party at the Keg

Saturday, March 27
8:15 – Make-up Round
9:20 – Breakfast
9:45 – Pairings (Round II)
10:00 – Round II
11:00 – Public Speaking II
11:45 – Pairings (Round III)
12:00 – Round III
1:00 – Lunch
1:45 – Pairings (Round IV)
2:00 – Round IV
3:00 – Public Speaking III
3:45 – Pairings (Round V)
4:00 – Round V (Hidden Quarters)
6:45 – Dinner (Semi-Final break announcement, Public Speaking break)

Sunday, March 28
10:00 – Breakfast
10:30 – Semi-Finals
11:30 – Pairings: Finals
11:45 – Finals
12:45 – Lunch
1:15 – Awards

If you have any questions, comments or concerns, feel free to email shawkins@uoguelph.ca.