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Guilford Will Host N.C. Senate Debate
Adam Lerner
Staff Writer
Guilford College will host the
Senatorial debate between Re
publican Elizabeth Dole and
Democrat Erskine Bowles on
Saturday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m.
The debate is ex
pected to be conten
tious based on the com
ments made by both
campaigns.
"I think [Erskine
Bowles] has
mischaracterized
[Elizabeth Dole's] posi
tions on several issues,"
said Mary Brown
Brewer, the Dole
campaign's Communica
tions Director.
The Bowles campaign has a
different view on the election. "We
believe that [more] voters will
[support Erskine Bowles] as they
become more familiar with [Dole's]
positions on the issues," Bowles
campaign Press Secretary Susan
Lagana said.
The Raleigh-based North
Community Senate Corner
Hi to all of Guilford from your friendly neighborhood community senate. The
Senate has been real busy the past couple of weeks settling in to its role of being a
student representative body relaying student questions and concerns to the admin
istration and bringing about positive change. Senate meetings are conducted in a
very Quaker manner with basic values such as moment of silence to commence and
end meetings and consensus as the way of approving proposals.
Senate represented the student body at a recent board of trustees meeting
where we brought out the student side on important campus issues like security,
parking and other general campus issues. Also recently Senate steering committee
has approved the proposals of the Muslim Club and the Fancy Feet Dance Club, two
exciting new clubs that with steering committee approval will now be up for approval
by senate this Wednesday.
The Community and Concerns committee which deals with student interest is
Carolina Association of Broadcast
ers (NCAB) will sponsor the de
bate. Guilford College's Bryan Dis
tinguished Visiting Professorship
will underwrite the event.
Planned renovations to Dana
Auditorium are being sped up in
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for the Eastern Music Festival be
fore starting up again in Septem
ber.
Accommodations for the
press also have to be arranged.
Guilford is contracting with' Time
Warner Telecom to get 48 extra
phone lines for the media. The
Littleton, Colo, based company
gave the college a special rate be-
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order to
ready the
building
before the
debate.
The reno
vations be
gan in Feb
ruary, but
were put
on hiatus
during the
summer
cause they already provide Internet
access for Guilford.
"[The preparations] have
been incredibly smooth," IT&S Di
rector Leah Kraus said.
"This is something that
several people on campus have
been working on for quite some
time," she said. .We didn't want
to [promote it] until it was time to
be promoted."
Some students on cam
pus believe the debate was planned
to happen during Fall Break so that
there would be no protests by stu
dents. However, Ty Buckner, Direc
tor of College Relations said that
the NCAB chose the date.
"We were told [by the
NCAB],' [Oct. 19] was the desirable
date. Was Dana clear?'" he said.
There are currently ef
forts to have members of both cam
paigns participate in an event es
pecially for Guilford students that
would occur before Fall Break.
"This debate would not
happen without the NCAB," Direc
tor of College Relations Ty Buckner
said.
sues such as Caf food, a coffeehouse in the basement of Mary Hobbs and the
possibility of providing students with an option of different meals plans is going to
host a forum pretty soon to evaluate student input on such issues. Different senate
committees are also taking active part on various committees on campus to voice
the student interest, and make sure students are properly represented in areas.
The senate members are attending a retreat sometime next month with Kent
Chabotar and further discussing Senate and its role as a major governing student
body at Guilford. We encourage all of you to attend senate meetings held every
Wed. at 6:30 p.m. in Boren Lounge and help the senate help you.
Karim Moloo.
Academic Affairs Committee Chair,
The Guilford College Community Senate.
In addition to over two
dozen commercial stations
throughout North Carolina, UNC-TV
will televise the debate statewide.
C-Span may also be nationally tele
vising the debate live or tape de
layed.
The de
bate at Guilford will
have the broadest
coverage of any
debate event in
North Carolina.
Bowles and
Dole won their re
spective primaries
Sept. 10 and now
will compete in a
general election to
decide who will re
place Senator Jesse
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Helms (R-NC), who is retiring after
five terms in the U.S. Senate.
By far, this campaign has
the highest-profile candidates of all
elections taking place this year.
Dole sought the Republi
can presidential nomination in
2000 and has held positions in the
administrations of five former presi
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dents. She served as President
Ronald Reagan's Secretary of
Transportation, and President
George H.W. Bush's Secretary of La
bor.
Dole's husband, Bob, was a
senator from Kansas from 1968
until 1996 when he
won the Republi
can nomination for
president, but lost
the general elec
tion to Bill Clinton.
Bowles
served as Chief of
Staff for two years
during the second
term of the Clinton
Administration. He
also served as
Deputy Chief of
Staff and was the
head of the Small Business Admin
istration during the Clinton presi
dency as well.
Bowles is the son of the late
Hargrove "Skipper" Bowles, who
served in the North Carolina House
and Senate and ran for governor
in 1972.