Soccer sweeps:
Women’s squad scores a pair of
1-0 victories/See page 14
RFK Jr. visits;
Environmental activist will speak
in Kenan/See page 7
October 31, 2002
Volume LIV, Number 9
Serving UNC Wilmington since 1948
Bowles, Dole in Senate race
Taya Owens
Staff Writer
The Nov. 5 election will be a
criticaf voting day because the
Democratic and Republican par
ties will be fighting for control of
the Senate. North Carolina is a
very important state in determin
ing this outcome.
Long term Senator Jesse
Helms is retiring and there is an
intense bid for his seat. Since
January 1973, Helms has occu
pied one of the two seats in the
U.S. Senate. Six other N.C. sena
tors have served with him.
During the primary elections,
Elizabeth Dole overwhelmingly
captured the Republican nomina
tion, winning about 80 percent of
the vote. Many members of her
party, such as President Bush and
Helms have heavily endorsed her
campaign. No stranger to politics.
Dole is trying her hand again after
having led a small campaign for
presidency in the 2000 election.
She has not held an elected office.
Bowles
Dole
but her government experiences
include U.S. Secretary of
Transportation (1981-83) and
U.S. Secretary of Labor (1989-
91).
She sites her priorities as eco
nomic growth, improvement of
public education and affordable
healthcare. She supports the
voucher system stating “the feder
al government accounts for only 6
percent of the money in our
schools, but 50 percent of the reg
ulations.” The only method of
restoring greatness to the public
school system occurs on the local
level, Dole said.
She plans to stimulate North
Where do Bowles and Dole stand?
residents
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Supports CA Prop 187 to ban
According to Issues 2002, Dole and Bowles can only be compared on a few
Issues as Bowles does not have a lengthy record of public service. Sean Haugh
has no record of public service or any.history to compare.
Carolina’s economy “by cut
ting taxes, reducing the bur
den of regulations on busi
ness and ensuring strict
enforcement of our trade
laws to support our manu
facturing base,” namely the
textile industry.
Erskine Bowles won the
Democratic primary with 44
percent of the vote. Despite
the competition during the pri
maries, his opponents backed him
immediately following his pri
mary win. Former governor Jim
Hunt has also endorsed him.
Previously an investment banker,
Bowles is a millionaire from
Charlotte who was once a White
House chief of staff under Bill
Clinton, earning a salary of one
dollar a year, according to his
resume.
Despite his ties to the Clinton
Administration, Bowles said he is
not a politician. He instead said
his motivation is from current
events such as Sept 11. “This is
no time for any American to be
sitting on the sidelines,” he said.
Bowles opposes school vouch
ers believing the money ought to
be kept in the public school sys
tem. A new economic stimulus
plan is among his issues, as well
as spending money to protect our
environment.
Concerning Iraq and other
countries in the Middle East,
Dole supports the efforts made by
President Bush to ensure national
security. Dole said, “America can
achieve peace through strength.”
See Senate Race, page 2
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Protestors reflect on war’s past at the Vietnam Memorial.
Group protests in DC
KIARA JONES
Staff writer
More than 250,000 people
gathered in Washington D.C.
Saturday to protest a potential war
with Iraq. About 15 UNCW stu
dents attended the demonstration,
which was one of many anti-war
marches that have been held from
Maine to Berlin.
The dissenters may be speak
ing out against government poli
cies, but they are still allowed
under the law to form peaceable
gatherings to voice their griev
ances.
“As U.S. citizens, the protest
ers have all the rights and respon
sibilities that any U.S. citizen has;
they are using their right to assem
ble and the freedom of speech,”
said Mark Boren, visiting lecturer
in the English Department and
author of “Student Resistance: A
History of the Unruly Subject.”
Jessica Drysdale, a 21-year-old
student at UNCW who attended
the Washington demonstration,
said freedom of speech is a right
that everyone should exercise.
“This is a free country. It’s sad
that the opinion that we should not
go to war is so sparsely spread,”
Drysdale said. The fact that there
has not been a war in a long time
seems to have lessened people’s
understanding of the magnitude of
See Protest, page 3
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