Abbie and Bailee Break

Abbie and Bailee are in double-octos!

UPDATE: Abbie and Bailee hit each other in doubles, so the winner of that debate will be Bailee as higher seed. This means that Bailee will debate in Ocots with a bid to the Tournament of Champions on the line.

Andy.

Round 6 @ Valley

Round 6 -- Bailee is up 4-1 going into round 6, Abbie, Hannah, and Courtney are all 3-2 and need to win this round to break.

Hockaday SV vs. Bailee
Alex vs. Bettendorf KB
Hannah vs. Colleyville Heritage KA
Iowa City West vs. Abbie
Tyler vs. Lynbrook AK
Courtney vs. New Trier BM

Round 5 @ Valley

Things just keep rolling along...round 5:

Bailee vs. Hopkins KJ
New Trier BM vs. Tyler
Westside AA vs. Alexandra
Edina LX vs. Courtney
Rocky Mountain MM vs. Hannah
Abbie vs. Edina JG

Round 4 @ Valley

Alex vs. Apple Valley ST
Courtney vs. Millard West SP
Bailee vs. Lake Highland Prep JT
Blake School JS vs. Tyler
Spanish River HN vs. Abbie
Lynbrook CK vs. Hannah

Round 3 @ Valley

It's a great day here in Des Moines!  The sun is up, we've been to the hotel breakfast bar, and...we've got pairings for round 3:

Hannah vs Edina LX
St. Louis Park ES vs. Bailee
St. Louis Park CT vs. Courtney
Apple Valley RG vs. Alex
Tyler vs. Alburquerque Academy DL
Abbie vs. Iowa City West MS

Round 2 @ Valley

Round 2 looks like this:

Courtney vs. Hopkins KA
Abbie vs. Okoboji BN
Okoboji LF vs. Hannah
Rocky Mountain MM vs. Alex
Tyler vs. Edina DM
Bailee vs. Lake Highland Prep MS

Round 1 @ Valley

Here are the Lakeville pairings for round one at Valley:

Hannah vs. New Trier KR
Alex vs. SLP KT
Brookfield East MS vs. Courtney
Rosemount DJ vs. Abbie
Hopkins CD vs. Bailee
SLP MG vs. Tyler

My Departure

To Every Member of the Lakeville High School Debate Team:

In my last official posting here, I just wanted to express what an honor and a privilege it has been to work with all of you this past month-and-a-half. For your boundless enthusiasm and effort in striving to become better debaters, you have my eternal respect and I hope you will persist in preserving what makes your team so strong and so special: your mutual respect for one another.

Indeed, you really are more than just a "team" -- you are one big family, win or lose, and I can't put into words how much I both envy and admire that.

I've also learned a great deal from all of you in terms of what it takes and what it means to be a debate coach--lessons I will always carry with me as I continue my work in the world of high school LD debate as a coach, judge, and briefs-author. And I hope you've learned a little bit from me too during my tenure, from the importance of thinking about LD resolutions in "principled" terms to the value of explaining the "big picture" to judges in debate rounds.

That said, I wish all of you the best of luck throughout the remainder of the debate season, and I look forward to seeing all of you on the circuit both as a debate judge and as a friend.

And if you ever find yourself looking for me (or my thoughts on the topic), here's where I'll be:

http://www.trinitybriefs.com/weblog

All the best,

Mahesha Subbaraman

Novice Results from Coon Rapids

The novice debaters traveled to Coon Rapids on Sept 26th for their first-ever real rounds of debate. Below are Blue Ribbon (3-0) and Red Ribbon (2-1) award winners:

Lakeville North:
Alexandra Nelson 3-0
Alex Dahm 3-0
Jesse VonWald 3-0
Anna Berg 3-0
Brianna Lauer 2-1
Catherine Eichmann 2-1
Sara Starita 2-1
Taylor Ehlis 2-1
Steven Elliott 2-1

Lakeville South:
Carissa VanSlooten 3-0
Michelle Bradley 3-0
Sarah Lund 3-0
Shawn Nelson 2-1
Chris Elwood 2-1
Kori Fideler 2-1
Rob Luebbert 2-1
Jeff Burros 2-1

Oct 7 @ Jefferson

Bloomington Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson High School
Saturday, October 7th

Contact Andy Charrier at 651.387.8305 or send email to charrier@gmail.com if you have questions.

Important Times:
We will have the entire team meet at the UPPER doors to Lakeville North -- bus leaves at 7:15AM.

Registration 7:00 – 8 AM
Rd1A - 8:30
Rd1B - 9:15
Rd2A - 10:15
Rd2B - 11:00
Rd3A - 12:15
Rd3B - 1:00
Rd4A - 2:00
Rd4B - 2:45
Awards will be at 4 PM -- we should be home about 5PM and will drop-off at North

Other:
Have 3 pre-flows for each side.

Bring plenty to eat. Pack a lunch and snacks, it's a team tradition.

Parents are welcome to watch and Jefferson is an easy drive from Lakeville.

Lakeville North Varsity:
Lindsay Kubina
Mikayla Mehle
Alexandra Fernandez
Karen Zhou
Tyler Traub
Courtney Erickson
Tom Caruso
Elisabeth White

Lakeville North JV:
Luke Gunderson
Kelsey Meyer
Jessica Kanuit
Bryant Au
Stephanie Hallgren

Lakeville North Novice:
Cody Lebeau
Alexandra Nelson
Molly Makarchuk
Alex Dahm
Brianna Lauer
Catherine Eichmann
Jess VonWald
Sara Starita
Nicona Bryan
Taylor Ehlis
Steven Elliott
Anna Berg

Lakeville South Varsity:
Andrew Lau
Mike Berger
Abbie Gudmundson
Hannah Ames
Bailee Rasmussen
Emily Julik
Christian Keil
Julie Schmidt
Tim Jennings

Lakeville South JV:
Kelsey Buehrer
Joe Julik
Kati Nylund
Sam Ronneberg

Lakeville South Novice:
Kyle Knapp
Nicole Carroll
Rob Luebbert
Abbie Barrett
Shawn Nelson
Carissa VanSlooten
Chris Elwood
Michelle Bradley
Kori Fideler
Andrea Lopez
Sarah Lund
Dustin Max
Kailey Benson
Jeff Burros

Practice Plan

What a great week we've just finished!  Our novice debaters ran through a simulated tournament, experienced debaters went back to work, etc.  These 2 weeks of north-south homecoming are so hard on everybody in terms of sleep. Get some rest, stay current on your homework. 

Be safe and make good choices during this season of many events and activities.  Drive safely, stay chemical free, and look out for the well-being of yourself and your friends.  Your captains (Tyler, Lindsay, Bailee, Hannah) and seniors (Emily, Andrew, Abbie, Alexandra) are all good role models to follow -- if you have doubt about what's the right choice, check in with them.

Bring all of your debate materials to practice this week.  Experienced debaters need to bring a 1AR from a debate they lost or otherwise felt like they were in big trouble.  Steph and Luke -- you two will have a practice round tomorrow so that Steph can get an affirmative.

Here is some scoop on what's happening this week:

Monday -- Practice @ North

Tuesday -- Coon Rapids TNT for Novice
http://debate194.net/2006/09/sept-26-coon-rapids.html

Wednesday -- Practice @ North

Thursday -- Practice @ South only for 6 people going to Valley; everybody else has the night off.  Rest up for homecoming.

Friday -- Valley crew ships out for Des Moines; no work session. North homecoming!
http://debate194.net/2006/09/sept-29-valley.html

Sept 29 @ Valley

West Des Moines Valley
Valley Southwoods Campus
Sept 29th to Oct 1st

Call Andy Charrier at 651.387.8305 or email to charrier@gmail.com if you have questions

Important Times:
Depart at 8:15AM from the parking lot next to the shop/garage that's near the District Office. We will hit the road home Sunday as soon as we are eliminated.

Coach:
Andy Charrier

Tournament Schedule:
Friday, September 30th
5:00-6:45 pm ROUND 1
7:00-8:45 pm ROUND 2

Saturday, September 30th
8:00 a.m. PAIRINGS
9:00-10:45 am ROUND 3
11:30-1:00 ROUND 4
1:00-2:00 pm LUNCH
2:00-3:45 pm ROUND 5
4:30-6:15 pm ROUND 6
6:45-7:45 pm DOUBLES
8:15-9:00 pm OCTOS

Sunday, October 1st
Marriott
8:30-10:15 am QUARTERS
11:00-12:45 SEMIS
2:00-3:30 pm FINALS

Hotel Information:
We are staying at the Hawthorn Suites.
6905 Lake Drive
West Des Moines , Iowa 50266
Phone - (515) 223-0000
Fax - (515) 294-0099

North Debaters:
Courtney Erickson
Tyler Traub
Alexandra Fernandez

North Judge:
Peter Zhou

South Debaters:
Abbie Gudmudson
Bailee Rasmussen
Hannah Ames

South Judge:
Liz Vieira

Sept 26 @ Coon Rapids

Coon Rapids Tuesday Night Tournament
Coon Rapids High School
Tuesday, September 26th

If you have questions, contact Andy Charrier at 651.387.8305 or email to charrier@gmail.com

Important Times:
Lakeville North -- bus leaves at 1:45PM.
North students are released from class at 1:30PM to change. You will meet the bus at the LOWER doors, near the commons.

Lakeville South -- bus leaves at 2:00PM.
South students will be relased from class at 1:45PM. You will meet the bus at the upper-side door.

You ought to return to Lakeville between 7-8PM. The bus will drop students off at both high schools.

Things to Know:
You can bring your clothing to school. South students can bring it to the Activities Office and Ms. Christoffer or Mr. Strader will tell you where to put it. North students can store clothing in the Teacher Center across the hallway from room 126.

Bring food to eat. Pack something to snack on after school and then something else for a meal at the tournament. Most of the time these TNT events do not have any food available.

Do your homework when you can. You don't want to start it all at 8PM at night. Bring it along and do some on the bus and while you have down time at the tournament.

Prepare 3 pre-flows for each side.

Coaches in Charge:
Mr. Steve Kinsella
Mr. Ken Juskowiak

North Debaters:
Alexandra Nelson
Molly Makarchuk
Alex Dahm
Brianna Lauer
Catherine Eichmann
Jesse VonWald
Sara Starita
Nicona Bryan
Taylor Ehlis
Steven Elliott
Anna Berg
Kyle Knapp

North Judges:
Lindsay Kubina
Jessica Kanuit
Steph Hallgren
Tyler Traub
Luke Gunderson
Tom Caruso
Kelsey Meyer
Pat Arnold

South Debaters:
Shawn Nelson
Carissa VanSlooten
Chris Elwood
Michelle Bradley
Kori Fideler
Andrea Lopez
Sarah Lund
Dustin Max
Kailey Benson
Jeff Burros
Abbie Barrett

South Judges:
Mike Berger
Hannah Ames
Julie Schmidt
Jackie Caston

Novices at South Part 2

Congrats to our novice debaters for surviving the our intra-squad tournament. Awards for this event are not based on wins and losses, but rather are given to debaters who demonstrate outstanding debate skills.

Michelle -- fluency, organization, effort
Abbie -- evidence, rebuttal, fluency, cx
Jeff -- effort
Jessie -- cx
Sara St. -- fluency, case writing
Steven -- cx (2), case writing
Taylor -- evidence, case writing
Alex -- case writing (2), rebuttal, fluency
Molly -- effort, fluency
Kori -- organization, cx
Shawn -- effort (3), case writing
Andrea -- fluency, cx
Kailey -- evidence, organization, effort
Chris -- case writing, evidence, rebuttal
Sara Sn. -- case writing (2), cx
Alexandra -- rebuttal (2), case writing, fluency
Brianna -- fluency, rebuttal
Catherine -- rebuttal, fluency, cx
Anna -- cx, organization, evidence
Nicona -- cx
Dustin -- evidence (3)
Carissa -- case writing, fluency, cx
Sarah L -- evidence, cx, case writing

Thanks should also go to the experienced Lakeville team members who worked as judges.

Novices at South Part 1

9AM this morning...we started real practice rounds for the novices. Yay! Everybody was at South, dressed and tournament ready.

Saturday Novice Tournament at South

Here is a quick summary of what's happening tomorrow at South:

1. It's practice. It's set up like a tournament you can learn to
read a schedule go to room, be timed, etc. But, it's practice. No
meltdowns. :)

2. Wear you debate competition clothing.

3. Bring a snack.

4. Be at South no later than 9AM. We'll start by welcoming and
teaching people how to warm up. We will start Round 1 at 9:30 and
just run through 4 debates -- you should have 2 affirmative and 2
negative.

5. Experienced debaters -- you do NOT need to dress up, but do bring
your timers, paper, pens, etc.

For those of you who were at Math last night, just know that the goal
of this is to give you a chance to practice what you've been learning.
Everybody has a "first" tournament. You have all been working very
hard with Kenny and Steve, you will all do well.

Debunking Assumptions on the Topic...

That's what I'm doing over at the Trinity Briefs Weblog:

http://www.trinitybriefs.com/weblog

So, check it out.

Next 3 Weeks of Practice

Goal for novice debate is to get people ready for their first debate
experience, to learn how a debate actually looks/works, how to read a
schedule, etc. Go novices!!!

Goal for experienced debate is to continue growing the weighing skill,
better rebuttal strategy, word economy, and, most importantly, seeing
the WHOLE debate rather than just one argument at a time.

Without going into great detail, I wanted to share where I think we
are going the next 3 weeks:

This week:
Wednesday (9/20) -- introduce idea of seeing "big picture" and
challenging assumptions, etc.
Thursday (9/21) -- help for debaters in small groups, working on
rebuttal skills -- word economy, order, strategy, etc.
Friday (9/22) NO work session
Saturday (9/23) -- steve, kenny, and i will have novices hold a
practice tournament at South; I can work with the Valley-bound kids
for a while

Next week:
Monday (9/25) -- practice
Tuesday (9/26) -- novice tournament at Coon Rapids
Wednesday (9/27) -- practice
Thursday (9/28) -- practice
Fri, Sat, Sunday (9/29-10/1) - Des Moines Valley

Following week:
Monday (10/2) -- practice (Valley debaters have the day off)
Tues (10/3) -- novice tournament at South
Wed (10/4) -- practice
Thurs (10/5) -- practice
Friday (10/6) -- work session at South
Saturday (10/7) -- Bloomington Jefferson tournament

Yale Results

The result packets from Yale are available for download:

• Varsity
• Junior Varsity

Yale Photos 2006

Christian in JV Quarters

Christian won his octos round 3-0, Pat drops 1-2.

I had to run to judge a round myself, so I don't know the opponent
yet...but perhaps I will find out.

Good luck!

JV Octos Pairings

Pairings for this morning:

Lakeville South CK vs. Stuyvesant JD
Lakeville North PA vs. Independent Pyzik ZP

Octos are scheduled to start at 9:30AM.

We will post results as soon as we know them.

On to Octos

Christian and Pat win their doubles rounds...meaning that they are in octos starting at 9AM tomorrow.

Yay!

JV Double-Octos

Karen, Pat, and Christian all clear to doubles.

Pat vs. Millburn JH
Christian vs. Collegiate CG
Karen vs. Stuyvesant

Good luck!

Here is a complete listing of the JV Double-octos:

Chaminade PM vs. Newtown JT (Oyen, Martucci, Meltzer)
Collegiate CG vs. Lakeville South CK (Bill Koren, Baraz, Mui)
Hunter AB vs. Wester AC (Ortega, Rothstein, Coleman)
Independent Pyzik ZP vs. Stuyvesant TS (Gadek, Liu, Stearns)
Lake Highland BG vs. Regis PM (Kuman, Gillespie, Martin)
Lakeville North PA vs. Millburn JH (Navi, D’Sa, Cata)
Lexington JL vs. Scarsdale RF (Ng, Maina, Josh Stein)
Millburn MK vs. Regis CR (Kaluzza, Roth, Trella)
Millburn TM vs. Regis LM (Sprecher G., George, Clowes)
Randolph AR vs. Albuquerque IE (Blaine, Sheffield, Williams)
Regis CK vs. Newtown CD (Presenti, Rawlinson, Gilles)
Scarsdale KH vs. Shenendehowa KP (Tam, Lucciarelli P., Sunder)
Scarsdale MM vs. Regis RA (Zhou G., Welch, Mowrey)
Stuyvesant GS vs. Millburn GB (Hayes, Baker, Dallara)
Stuyvesant JD vs. Lakeville North KZ (Wilson, Fleming, Rubenstein)
Westhill NM vs. Unionville EB (Murphy, Zhou Peter, Gaeta)

Varsity Yale Photo

JV photo coming...once I can herd them all into the same place.















The weather today is much improved -- about 80 and sunny.

Elim rounds start later tonight.

Yale = Wet

Yesterday had one consistent variable: Rain. Pouring rain. "Singing in the Rain" kind of rain.

Everywhere we went yesterday, it rained, and by the end of the night everybody on the team was damp/wet. We debated pretty late, went out to eat, and rounds today don't start at the crack of dawn, so everybody on the team will have a chance to regroup. The forecast today holds more rain for us, but it's supposed to be drier by this afternoon.

We don't really have any meaningful results for our debaters. I'd say about 50% of judges have disclosed, so we're are little in the dark in that regard.

Today JV debaters have 2 more rounds and then double-ocots. Varsity debaters have 3 more rounds before doubles in the evening. It's going to be a long-ish day.

I'll try to get some photos.

Andy.

We've Landed!

Thanks to Verizon Broadband, I can give you this update from the bus:

We had an uneventful flight into Newark. A 2-3 hour bus ride is now in progress and then we'll be in New Haven. All is well.

Andy.

Novice Practice Tournament

We will have more details next week, but we will be having a practice tournament at South on Saturday, Sept 23rd at 9AM (should be done about 1PM).

This isn't a "tournament" as much as it is a chance for novices to have practice debates will real live judges. We will make it all as real as possible so that you are familiar with how tournaments work, but the goal here isn't to pick a champion or anything like that -- although we will surely have prizes of kind. Your judges will be the experienced debaters.

We do want to you to wear your competition clothing so that you gain some confidence and comfort wearing your good outfits.

Next Two Weeks of Practice

Here is a quick outline of what the next couple weeks of the debate calendar will look like:

Monday, Sept 18 - NO practice
Wed, Sept 20 - practice @ North
Thurs, Sept 21 - practice @ South
Friday, Sept 22 - work time @ South (novices welcome)
Saturday, Sept 23 - novice practice tournament @ South 9AM

Monday, Sept 25 - practice @ North
Wed, Sept 27 - practice @ North
Thurs, Sept 28 - practice @ South
Friday, Sept 29 - NO work session

Yay for Pond Planting

Monday Speech Rounds

Here is how it will work (thanks Abbie and Alex for this idea). If we start these at 5:30 we can be done by 6PM.

* You'll go in a room with a judge and 3-4 opponents.
* You will flip a coin -- heads = aff, tails = neg.
* Read case, everybody else flows.
* At the conclusion, judge will set a timer for 3 minutes when the judge will write a critique and everybody else will write answers to your case; you will give flow to the speaker to help with writing frontlines.
* Everbody who wins the "1" will have their name put in for a good prize drawing.

Katie's Pod
Bailee
Mikayla
Emily
Alex
Elisabeth

Peter's Pod
Luke
Lindsay
Kelsey B
Jessica
Pat

Liz's Pod
Joe
Julie
Kati
Samantha

Kayte's Pod
Sam
Tyler
Tim
Hannah
Steph

Mahesha's Pod
Jackie
Tom
Christian
Kelsey M
Bryant

Andy's Pod
Andrew
Abbie
Courtney
Mike
Karen

Thursday Practice Rounds

When you are not practicing, remember, someone somewhere is practicing, and when you meet her, she will win.

At Wednesday's practice at 6:45, you will find your opponent and you will disclose your case by reading your AC or NC to your opponent. This will make for more competetive practice rounds.

Courtney vs. Andrew
Pat vs. Abbie
Christian vs. Jackie
Tom vs. Karen
Sam vs. Kelsey
Kati vs. Julie
Samantha vs. Joe
Tyler vs. Hannah (flip or otherwise agree)
Bailee vs. Emily
Lindsay vs. Mikayla
Elisabeth vs. Alex
Kelsey B v Luke
Mike B vs. Jessica
Tim vs. Steph
Bryant - volunteering

Wednesday Practice Rounds

Practice like you play, train like you fight.

In other words, we expect 100% competition level effort for these practice rounds. Debate these rounds with the same intensity you expect of yourself this weekend or whenever you have your first round of the season.

At Monday's practice at 6:45, you will find your opponent and you will disclose your case by reading your AC or NC to your opponent. This will make for more competetive practice rounds.

Be pre-flowed and ready to debate at 5:30PM.

Luke vs. Bryant
Joe vs. Kati
Emily vs. Tyler
Kelsey M vs. Samantha
Hannah vs. Courtney
Alexandra etc. vs. Pat
Jessica vs. Christian
Abbie vs. Tom
Sam vs. Tim
Mikayla vs. Bailee
Andrew vs. Lindsay
Jackie vs. Elisabeth
Julie vs. Kelsey B
Karen vs. Mike
Steph - standby

Early Blocking Help

If anybody would like some help with blocking, Peter and Liz will be
in the IMC of North at 4:30PM on Monday. So, if you are caught up on
your homework and going to Yale, this would be a good opportunity for
some extra prep work.

Andy.

Kenny's Krushers

Hey everyone.

I am just writing to give you a heads up on the plan for next week and
some info for all of you "Southers" commuting over to North on Wed.
For everyone at South there is a shuttle bus (bus 35) that leaves
McGuire at 2:37, heads straight to South H.S. and from there goes to
North. Be outside where the bus will pick you up at around 2:40 if
you can.

See you all Wed. and if you haven't sent me your case yet please do
ASAP. You all need to have your neg cases done by next week because
we are switching sides.

Have a great weekend!

Kenny

Prepping for Yale

 

Novices Writing Cases

 

Books are DUE!

From: Abbie Gudmundson
Date: Sep 3, 2006 5:33 PM
Subject: [Lakeville Debate] books are DUE!
To: Debate Team

As Courtney mentioned before, the books are due soon. In fact,
they're due on Tuesday. So if you borrowed a book, bring it to
practice on Tuesday. I'd say it's fair enough to make the forgetful
pay their fines... -Abbie

Yale Tournament Info

Tournament: Yale Invitational Tournament [website] [weather]
Location: Linsly Chittenden Hall, Yale University
New Haven, CT [campus map]
Date: Sept 15-17, 2006


Coaches:
Andy Charrier (651.387.8305)
Liz Vieira
Peter Zhou (meeting us at EWR)
Kenneth J. Juskowiak
Steven R. Kinsella

Judges:
Pat Kaluza
Aaron Mowrey

Lakeville North Varsity:
Courtney Erickson
Tyler Traub
Alexandra Fernandez
Lindsay Kubina
Mikayla Mehle

Lakeville North JV:
Tom Caruso
Pat Arnold
Karen Zhou
Jessica Kanuit
Luke Gunderson

Lakeville South Varsity:
Bailee Rasmussen
Hannah Ames
Abbie Gudmudson
Mike Berger
Emily Julik

Lakeville South JV:
Jackie Caston
Tim Jennings
Christian Keil
Andrew Lau
Julie Schmidt

Tournament Format:
The Lincoln-Douglas tournament will follow the September/October 2006 NFL LD resolution. Both L-D divisions will follow the 6-3-7-3-4-6-3 format. Debaters will have 5 minutes of prep time. Ties will be broken based on record, adjusted points, total points, double-adjusted points, judge variance, opponents' record, and flip of a coin, in that order. The break will be to double-octafinals.Yale quarterfinalists in Varsity receive a bid to the Tournament of Champions.

Friday, September 15, 2006
1:30-3:30PM: Debate Registration
3:45 Opening Assembly
4:00 LD Round 1
6:00 LD Round 2
8:30 LD Round 3

Saturday, September 16, 2006
9:00 Varsity LD Round 4
11:00 JV LD Round 4
1:00 Varsity LD Round 5
3:00 JV LD Round 5
5:00 Varsity LD Round 6
7:00 LD Double-Octas

Sunday, September 17, 2006
9:30 LD Octafinals
11:00 LD Quarterfinals
12:30 LD Semifinals
2:00 LD Finals
3:30 Awards


What to Bring:
Pack enough debate clothing to last 3 days.

Print enough pre-flows so that you could debate 6 rounds on each side.

Ladies, bring a pair of comfortable walking shoes that you can wear around campus, then you can slip on dress shoes when you get to the building in which you'll debate.

Bring money for food. Hotel does not have breakfast deal. Pack snacks in your baggage. I have no idea of the concession situation at the tournament.

Conduct:
You are ambassadors of Lakeville. When we travel, you represent not only yourself, but your school, family and community. Be polite, responsible, classy, and professional for the entire trip. All of the MSHSL rules apply.

Travel Plan:We are flying non-stop from Minneapolis to Newark and then chartering a bus for the transfer to New Haven. Our return flight is Newark to Minneapolis, with a layover in Detroit. Our hotel is within walking distance of the campus. [flight status]

NW1090 from MSP to EWR departing MSP at 7:05AM; arrive EWR at 10:37AM

NW649 from EWR to DTW departing EWR at 7:46PM; arrive DTW at 9:44PM
NW767 from DTW to MSP departing DTW at 10:29PM; arrive MSP at 11:10PM

Charter bus company is Connecticut Limo [website].

Hotel is The Colony at Yale [website].

Departure:
5:30AM on Friday is the time you need to be at the airport -- We will check in at the NWA Group Counter which is located below the baggage level. When you get to the airport, go to the baggage level and enter through door 4; go down the escalator and you'll be in the area where you'll find me. We will meet at 5:30AM to check in as a group, then proceed to security and our gate. To be clear, 5:30AM means you are standing there, ready to check in at 5:30AM, not driving up Cedar at 5:30AM.

On the advice our the NWA group travel desk, we should be at the airport at 5:30AM (if you think that's bad...ask Peter about our flight time to Wake Forest 3 years ago). The group desk will most likely be closed and we'll all go upstairs to check-in, but the group desk also thought they might be there and would open up knowing we were coming...so we'll just see.

Return:
Plan to call for a ride when we touch-down in Minneapolis. Pick-up place will be door #1 on the upper level.

Baggage:
You can check two bags. Bags must have a ID.

The new security rules strictly limit what you can carry on the plane. Your laptop is OK, but really nothing that is a liquid or gel. [prohibited items list]

Homework:
My tip for homework is to NOT bring full copies of your books -- way too heavy to carry around. Instead, photocopy the pages you need for the weekend. This is much, much easier to manage. Travel is not an excuse for skipping homework.

Questions:
If you or your parents have questions, please ask them to contact me by phone or drop an email to charrier@gmail.com -- thanks!

Claimed Articles for Cutting

If you have not read your email, this won't make much sense...but here is the list:

A1 - Bryant
A3 - Luke
A5 - Emily J
A8 - Andrew
A9 - Kelsey M
A10 - Julie
A11 - Samantha
A13 - Jackie
A14 - Elisabeth
A15 - Tim
A19 - Christian
A20 - Karen
A21 - Tom

B3 - Bailee
B4 - Kubs
B5 - Pat
B6 - Mikayla
B13 - Mike
B14 - Courtney Ann (first claimer, oh yeah)
B15 - Tyler
B16 - Amsey
B19 - Abbie
B32 - Alexandra etc.
B37 - Abbie (yay for Abbie taking 2 articles!)
B42 - Alexandra (joining the ranks of the 2 article people, keep it up!)