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THE SEAHAWK/NaVEMBER 2, 2DDD 3 BriefI Nader supporters may sway election New assistant director of alumni relations appointed Tom Lament, Jr. was recently named assistant director for alumni relations. He will work with the Young Alumni Pro gram and chapter development and ad vise the Ambassadors student organiza tion. Lamont earned his bachelors degree in speech communication for UNC Wilmington in 1980 and a master’s de gree in radio/television from the Univer sity of Mississippi in 1982. A past chair of the UNCW Alumni Association, Lamont was involved in the establish ment of the Betty Jo Welch Scholarship. Prior to joining UNCW, Lamont was the Civic Club development officer for the Boys and Girls Homes of North Carolina, Inc. in Lake Waccamaw. A long-time resident of Wilmington, he has worked extensively in radio and televi sion in the area. Participants needed for UNCW college bowl team A competition will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18 in the Warwick Center Ballroom to select UNC Wilmington's varsity team to participate in the College Bowl 2000-2001 sched uled for April 27-29. Organized by the Association of Col lege Unions, the College Bowl is a game of academic knowledge and quick recall. Teams of four players compete to score points by asking questions from a vari ety of topics including hterature, science, geology, arts, sports, popular culture and current events. The UNCW team will compete in the regional championship Feb. 16-21 at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville. Fif teen regional champions and a wild-card team will then be sent to compete in the national tournament. Interested students should contact Sarah Yackly at 962-3811. Chancellor’s Hours set for November 7 and 20 Chancellor Leutze will hold student hours between 11 a.m. and noon next Tuesday, and again on Monday, Nov. 20 firom 9 a.m. to 10 a.m. Leutze's office is located at Alder man Hall room 110. Student hours at his office are open to all students for any reason. For more information, call 962- 3030. Chris Rdbers Cdrrespdndent According to New Hanover County Board of Elections Director Len Chambee, a write-in vote for Ralph Nader will not mean anything on the North Carolina ballot. How ever, Nader supporters stand to have a significant impact on the upcom ing election because many of them remain undecided about how they will vote next Tuesday. The Green party of North Caro lina missed their deadline to get Nader on the ballot by submitting a petition with 500 signatures. Nader is on the ballot in 44 other states. In North Carolina the choices for president are Republican George W. Bush, Democrat A1 Gore, Reform Party candidate Pat Buchanan, Lib ertarian Harry Browne and Social ist write-in candidate David McReynolds. Traditionally, third party move ments have failed in the process of getting a candidate elected to a high office. Exceptions include Minne sota Governor Jesse Ventura who ran on the Reform party ticket and H. Ross Perot who started the Re form party for the presidential elec tion of 1992. Perot received 19% of the vote in 1992, which is the larg est margin for any third party, but the Reform party has seen a signifi cant decline in support since then. Buchanan, who switched from the Republican to the Reform party to obtain a nomination, is expected to garner only about 1% of the vote in next week’s election. The Green party has become a more viable option in the 2000 cam paign. The Green Party needs 5% of the national popular vote in order to be eligible for matching funds in the 2004 presidential election. Polls show that Nader has the support of 5% or more of the vote in half a dozen states, including California, which has 54 electoral votes. Most Nader supporters remain optimistic that the Green party will make enough of a showing to re ceive funding in the next election. “[Nader supporters] are abso lutely still going to write his name in,” UNC Wilmington senior Chris Register said. Recent polls have shown that some Nader voters are starting to switch over to the other two major candidates near the closing days of the election, and both the Republi can and Democratic parties are mak ing a vie for those votes. In a recent ABC News poll 13% of Bush voters said the may change their minds be fore election day, 16% of Gore vot ers said they may change and 56% of Nader voters said they may change. Political analysts have speculated that since Nader is more liberal than either of the major party candi dates, his supporters would otherwise vote Democratic, implying that a vote for Nader takes a vote away from Gore. ■ According to Asso- ciated Press reports, the Republican Leadership Council recently bought TV ads featuring Nader in states where votes for him will benefit Bush. Ralph Nader The ad uses clips of Nader criticizing Gore during a speech at the Na tional Press Club on last Wednesday. Nader was equally critical of Bush in the same speech. At a press confer ence at Rutgers Law School last Tuesday, Nader was asked about the republican ads. “This why we’re against soft money in candidates’ campaigns. These ads are a soft money maneuver,” Nader said. “There is nothing that can be done about it legally. 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