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Abortion panels don’t budge
BY KATHERINE EVANS
AND SHARI FELD
STAFF WRITERS
The key speakers of the abortion
issues debates Wednesday night
wouldn’t compromise on presenta
tion details forcing students to
decide which side of the issue they
wanted to hear.
The main disagreement con
cerned anti-abortion speaker Scott
Klusendorf’s plan to show a video
of abortion procedures.
The issue proved to be such
a source of contention that
Klusendorf, director of bioethics
for Christian advocacy group Stand
to Reason, and the Rev. Katherine
Ragsdale, an Episcopal priest
from Massachusetts who serves on
national boards for several abortion
rights groups such as the Religious
Coalition for Reproductive Choice,
spoke in two different rooms.
The speeches, both sponsored
by the Carolina Women’s Center,
occurred about a 15-minute walk
apart, with the anti-abortion event
in Murphey Hall and the abortion
rights speech in Carrington Hall.
Ragsdale said during her speech
that such presentations that project
“things that look like babies” serve
to trump reason with emotion.
“I refiise to lend my presence to
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map,” he said.
Beadle, who studied at Boston
University and was a performer
with the Boston Pops before enter
ing the managerial realm, also
spoke about fostering cooperation
between the EDA and the campus.
“I’m thrilled at the prospect of
working here, and this place is just
ripe with opportunity. It needs a
leader and entrepreneur with an arts
background. That’s what I believe.”
Now that the final candidate has
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the process will include meeting
with various departments and poli
cymakers to hammer out changes
and to set priorities for resource
allocation and administrative
responses.
“The need here is to really try to
get some function in place so this
isn’t going to creep along the way it
has and get worse,” Wegner said. “I
think we’re going to be able to come
up with a fair amount of good work;
it’s just a matter of coordinating.”.
She said that there is more to be
done at various council meetings
and that another report will be
presented next spring.
“My hope is to hear some of the
good ideas that are around cam-
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25 percent this year alone.
“In the buyout environment we
will see continued consolidation of
farms,” Brown said. “We will see a
number of small farms transition
ing to other businesses. A lot of
the smaller farmers in particular
are older farmers who were kind
of waiting and hoping for this buy
out, which will help them with their
retirement.”
While the state’s small tobacco
farms largely will disappear over the
next several years, Britt Cobb, the
state’s agricultural commissioner,
said the money will be a godsend to
farmers and quota holders.
“It’s going to give farmers an
option to continue growing tobacco
or get out,” he said.
Areas of the state with econo
mies based on small farms are
going to get a much-needed infu
sion of money, Cobb added.
“I think what you’re going to see
in three years, good farmers are
going to have plenty of options for
their tobacco,” he said. “There may
be a small farm that has a quota of
30,000 pounds. In the past, that’s
all he could grow. Now, they’ll
be able to grow as much as they
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sensationalist pictures,” she said.
Klusendorf said that he acknowl
edges that some activists inappropri
ately use abortion images, but that
using truthful pictures is not intel
lectually dishonest or manipulative.
He added that abortion is a reality,
similar to a war, that cannot be fully
understood without pictures.
He showed a 95-second video
about abortion but warned view
ers of the graphic content. Many in
the audience put their hands over
their mouths in horror while others
turned their heads away.
In the lecture hall on the oppo
site side of campus, Ragsdale
defended the political right of a
woman to choose, saying that this
right is something as fundamental
and definite as the rights to life, lib
erty and the pursuit of happiness.
Klusendorf also argued for the
natural rights guaranteed in the
U.S. Constitution —but on behalf
on the unborn child. “The fetus is
a human being that deserves rights
under the law,” he said.
To Klusendorf, this subject
reverts to his central question:
“What is the unborn?” He said that
life begins at conception.
Ragsdale emphasized that the
heart of the issue is whether women
have the right to control their own
visited campus, the EDA selection
committee can turn its attention to
making a decision.
After Beadle’s visit, Executive
Associate Provost Steve Allred, also
a member of committee, said the
group will meet Friday to debate.
“All (candidates) bring certain
specific strengths and have differ
ent backgrounds,” Allred said.
“It will be difficult to choose,
because all are well-qualified in
their own way.”
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pus,” Wegner said. “We need to
have a better monitoring system to
track what goes on with faculty to
see what they’re thinking.”
Kalleberg said he hopes to see
the efforts result in a lasting effect
on the issue of faculty retention.
“I really think the issue here is so
important, and the people behind it
are so committed, that this will have
a lasting effect and will lead to some
changes in howwe do things,”
Wegner said she is eager tp hear
input from all areas of campus and
encourages individuals to reply.
“The whole notion is to make it
possible for everyone to weigh in if
they have suggestions,” she said.
“We’ve only just begun.”
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want.”
Brown said the amount of money
farmers will get under the buyout
legislation, $9.6 billion in total, is
generous. Tobacco growers and
quota holders are slated to receive
the money over the next decade.
Farmers, now free of the quota
system, will be able to grow as
much tobacco as they want, wher
ever they want.
But they’ll have to sell it at world
market prices. This means U.S. farm
ers will be competing with growers
from other nations, such as Brazil,
who typically can sell for less.
“You could take a philosophical
viewpoint and say the small farms
... are going to receive this income
coming from the buyout which
gives them the opportunity to exit
from tobacco production and enter
into something else,” said Guido van
der Hoeven, an extension specialist
at N.C. State. “What we don’t know
for certain is what’s going to happen
to domestic production.”
To ensure a market for their
crop, farmers who choose to con
tinue growing tobacco will have
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destinies. She said the argument
about when a fetus becomes a per
son is an attempt to distract the
public from the fact that a woman
is a person.
“Medicine says it becomes a
pregnancy at implantation, but no
one can say when it becomes a per
son,” Ragsdale said.
She also claimed that the major
ity of the religious community in
the United States overwhelmingly
supports abortion rights. Ragsdale
responded to anti-abortion rights
claims by noting that the Bible
never says abortion is wrong.
“The Bible is not a medical text
book,” Ragsdale said. “A psalm is not
a scientific treatise, it is a poem.”
Klusendorf said he liked to argue
his case based on science and phi
losophy, not religion.
Members of the Carolina
Students For Life said they were
pleased with the turnout.
“It was an amazing success,”
said Stephanie Evans, president of
CSFL. “I think we made some end
roads in opening up dialogue about
the issue. I think the pro-choicers
see that we can come to the table
and discuss the issue rationally.”
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DIVERSITY
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with UNC’s actions to encourage
critical thinking, responsible analy
sis and informed dialogue among
members of a diverse community.
Members wanted to know how
UNC can assure that its climate
is welcoming, inclusive and sup
portive for all faculty, staff and
students.
Once the committee agreed on
the five broad research questions,
attention shifted to the core values
that will direct its campaign.
After a half-hour of debate, the
committee decided each core value
derives from and pertains to UNC’s
role as an educational institution.
One core value maintained that
UNC has an obligation to serve
the community while promoting
equality, justice and diversity.
Members of the task force also
said UNC should seek to enhance
diversity in student admissions
and in employment of faculty and
staff.
Task force members said UNC
must foster cross-cultural interac
tions and learning in an environ
ment where all feel welcomed.
“We are an educational institu
tion dedicated to education,” Daye
said. “Diversity enhances what we
are dedicated to.”
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to enter into contracts with large
tobacco companies, such as Philip
Morris or RJ Reynolds.
Bill Phelps, spokesman for
Philip Morris, said his company
buys about half the flue-cured
tobacco grown in the state. Eighty
percent of the state’s tobacco crop
now is under contract.
But Philip Morris hasn’t drawn
up a contract in North Carolina
in the past few years, and Phelps
couldn’t speculate on future con
tracting.
“Quite honestly, some of the
small producers were going to be
out of business regardless,” van der
Hoezen said. “I think there’s going
to be, definitely, some uncertainty as
to where are (farmers) going to fit”
Van der Hoezen said one option
might be for some farmers to transi
tion into specialty crops, such as cut
flowers or medicinal herbs. “But the
question is, ‘How many cut-flower
operations are going to be economi
cally viable in North Carolina?’”
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Students seek swing votes in Fla.
Bush fans campaign in panhandle
BY ERIN ZUREICK
STAFF WRITER
Eight members of UNC’s
Students for Bush will leave for
the Florida panhandle tonight to
go door-to-door and encourage
citizens to vote for the president.
Those traveling emphasized the
importance of Florida’s electoral
votes this year and said they are
excited to campaign in the swing
state.
“We’ll be knocking on doors for
the president in Republican dis
tricts,” said Matt Vail, president of
Students for Bush.
“The goal is to turn out the
vote to counter strong turnouts in
Democrat districts.”
The students said they want to
help ensure that the race in Florida
is not as close this year as it was in
the 2000 election, when the state
was decided by a difference of 537
votes and became a lightning rod
for controversy during numerous
recounts.
The latest Rasmussen Reports
presidential tracking poll, released
Wednesday, shows Bush leading
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 2004
in Florida with 48 percent of the
vote.
But the Democratic challenger,
Sen. John Kerry, trails by only 1
percentage point, well within the
survey’s margin of error.
“Florida is a swing state, and
it is important for Republicans to
vote if we want to win this elec
tion,” said Curt White, a member of
Students for Bush who will venture
to Florida.
Vail attended the Republican
National Convention in New York
in September and said he was
able to arrange the trip through
contacts he met at a convention
party.
The students will drive to
Panama City, Fla., spend the week
end campaigning and return to
campus Sunday afternoon.
The Bush/Cheney campaign is
providing both housing and food
free of charge for the group of UNC
students.
“The election will swing in
Florida this year, and while losses
will occur, we hope to offset this by
turning out a strong Republican
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White said he already has cam
paigned for the Bush/Cheney tick
et through Pit sits and phone calls
at the Orange County Republican
Party headquarters.
He said he looks forward to his
chance to make a difference.
“If people in Florida see how
far we came voluntarily, voting
may weigh more heavily on them,”
White said.
Sophomore Matt Bowles, who
also will make the trip, already has
campaigned for Bush by calling
registered Republicans and unde
cided voters.
“Florida is a crucial state, and I
wanted to take the opportunity to
campaign for the man I believe will
make the better president,” Bowles
said.
He underscored the impor
tance that college students can
have during the last days of the
campaign.
“Having enough impact to get
out voters is the most important
goal of a campaign worker,” he
said.
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