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Volume 77 Issue 8
Clinton Pres!
Jennifer Fuller
News Editor
For the first time since the 1976
presidential election, the Demo
crats have taken the White House.
Governor Bill Clinton was
elected president Tuesday by a
landslide vote in the electoral col
lege in a victory marked by a un
usually large voter turnout that
exceeded 100 million.
Clinton won 349 electoral votes
and 43% of the popular vote.
Republican incumbent George
Bush won 83 electoral votes and
38% of the popular vote.
Independent candidate Ross
Perot won no electoral votes and
18% of the popular votes.
Voter registration increased by
over 400,000 and 75% of the 38
million registered voters went to
the polls.
Several explanations have been
suggested for the increased voter
turn-out.
Young voters turned out in large
numbers to vote for the Clinton
Stipends return
Matthew Levy
News Editor
After a lengthy interval in which
stipends were not being paid, Sen
ate has decided to reward the stu
dent leaders of some campus orga
nizations compensation, roughly
the size of last year's reduced sti
pends.
They will be awarded to Senate
and Union executives and the edi
tors of Piper, Quaker and The Guil
fordian, excluding those who are
receiving internship credits.
Senate President Jen Hill ex
plained the period of delay, in
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and Gore , billed as the "new gen
eration" ticket.
Ross Perot provided a th ird-party
option for those uninterested in the
two major parties.
Easier voter registration proce
dures have been put into effect in
many states, including "motor
votor" laws which enable people
to register while getting or renew
ing a driver's license.
In the North Carolina races, Re
publican Lauch Faircloth
replaced Terry Sanford(D)in the
US Senate with 52% of the vote.
Democrat Jim Hunt defeated
James Gardner (R) in the guberna
torial race with 53% of the vote.
In the race for Lt. Governor,
Democrat Dennis Wicker defeated
Art Pope(R) with 54%.
In the Congressional races:
•Steve Neal (D) defeated Richard
Burr (R) with 53%.
•Howard Coble (R) defeated Robin
Hood (D) with 71%.
•Melvin Watt (D) defeated Bar
bara Washington (R) with 72%.
which Senate assessed the program
while concentrating on other is
sues, such as the keg policy.
"We had looked at stipends ear
lier and had a meeting with [Guil
ford Business Manager] Dick Coe
just to make sure that last year's
really worked and to see if we
could improve it."
The program underwent c hanges
last year, and Senate discussed the
merits of each possibility.
"Last year they had a system,
and they cut them back. Mine was
cut from SIOO to S4O. What we
hadn't decided until recently was
whether we should increase them
as they were before, or to have
them remain the same as last year.
"We decided to keep them small
because we are still paying the
yearbook debt. Most likely they
will be paid once a semester in
stead of monthly, unless someone
approaches us with reasons why
they should be paid more often."
The stipends were introduced
by the 1990-91 Senate under Vance
Ricks. Once sizable, the stipends
were sharply cut last year in
Senate's campaign to eliminate
their S3O thousand deficit Suffi
cient funds had not been set aside
to pay the Quaker yearbook's pub
lishing fees.
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election retros
Courtesy Guilford News Service
Guilford College will host
three national political pollsters
and analysts in an "Election Ret
rospective" on November 9 in
Dana Auditorium from 7:30 p.m.
until 9 p.m. Harrison Hickman,
Montague Kern and Warren J.
Mitofsky will present their analy
ses of the election results in the
panel discussion, which is free
and open to the public.
Harrison Hickman is president
of Hickman-Maslin Research,
Inc., a public opinion research
and consulting firm located in
Washington, D.C. He has served
as a pollster and strategic con
sultant of numerous Democratic
political candidates across the
country, including Governor Jim
Hunt, Senators Terry Sanford,
Alan Cranston and Tim Worth.
The firm's expertise in under
standing public attitudes and de-
veloping strategic plans is also used
by corporate and non-profit organi
zations in diverse fields. Business
clients include Levi Strauss, Ralston-
Purina, Esquire magazine and major
league baseball.
Hickman's firm was selected
"Most Valuable Pollster" by U.S.
News and World Report in the 1986
mid-term election and was named
"Best in the Business" by CNN's
"Inside Politics." He has been a guest
on various network news programs
and serves as an election consultant
to CBS News. Hickman was awarded
the 1987 "Good Guy Award" by the
National Women's Political Caucus
and was selected as one of the 1988
Rising Stars of the Democratic Party
by Campaigns and Elections.
A native of North Carolina,
Hickman was graduated from Guil
ford College with honors. He earned
his M.A. at the University of Ne
braska. Hickman received advanced
training in statistical and survey re
search methods at the University of
November 6, 1992
Michigan.
Montague Kern, a political sci
entist, joined the faculty of the
Rutgers University School of Com
munication, Information and Li
brary Studies as an assistant pro
fessor of journalism in 1989.
In the spring of 1992, she was a
fellow at Harvard's John F.
Kennedy School of Government.
The goal of her research, supported
by the National Science Founda
tion and the John D. and Catherine
T. Mac Arthur Foundation, is to
study how Americans come to con
ceptualize presidential candidates,
political issues and the 1992 elec
tion campaign based on their per
sonal experiences and the infor
mation they garner from political
advertising and news reports.
A native of Virginia, Kern is a
graduate of Bryn Mawr College
who earned her Ph.D. from the
John Hopkins School of Advanced
International Studies. She is the
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