Yes, the UTNIF Marathon Division, the one of a kind curriculum that provides students with rigorous work in actual debates from Day 1, takes a lot of preparation on the part of the UTNIF teaching staff. Students in the division are given 3 Affirmatives, each with a different type of Negative strategy that answers it. From the very first day students are immersed in in-depth debates about the topic. Students are always curious about what the Aff's in the Marathon division will be, so we've decided to offer a little preview here. The affs/negs are still in the process of being written, but it looks like one of them will move troops who are stationed in Okinawa at Futenma base, to Guam. There is a lot of controversy in Japan right now because a new base being built in Okinawa to hold the remaining troops there, has had seriously damaging environmental consequences. Another issue is that the people of Okinawa are opposed to the US presence on the island. The advantages will be centered around the environment and US Japan relations based on domestic support from Okinawa.
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