Hopscotch Music
Ashleigli Phillips, Editor ;
135 bands, 72 hours. 13 stages. The Independent Weekly’s second annual
Hopscotch Music Festival announced to the world that Raleigh knows how to
party. From September 8 to 10, attendees and artists hopped around down
town from venue to venue hearing anything from indie rock to bluegrass.
They head-banged, they crowd surfed, and they even waltzed. And despite the
mingling of such musical diffcrences, in the end everyone agreed that they
couldn’t wait for Hopscotch to come again next year, Here’s a photo recap.
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Whafs Up in Raleigh: 9/21-10/5
Collected by Ashleigh Phillips
Sept. 21 - 25: Burning Coal Theater Presents “Enron” @ the Murphy
School
Sept. 30 - Oct. 2: friternational Festival of Raleigh Raleigh Conven
tion Center , ' ,
Sept. 21: Fleet Foxes with the Walkmen @ Raleigh i\mphitheater
, 23: Hurricanes vs. Predators @ the RBC Center
Widespread Panic @ Raleigh Amphitheater
24: Discovery: Raleigh’s Finest Dance Party @ King’s
27: Wilco @ Raleigh Amphitheater
30: Hurricanes vs. Blue Jackets (f RBC Center
NCMA’s Fall Film Series Presents “L’age D’or” @ NCMA '
Oct. 1: NC State vs. Georgia Tech @ Carter Finley
Cesar Millan @ Memorial Auditorium - '
Romney and Perry
Combat for Candidacy
Julia Dent, Staff Writer
image via electiontracker.com
In the Ronald Reagan Presiden
tial Library on September seventh,
eight Republican presidential can
didates battled it out at the GOP
National debate. Michele Bach-
mann, Rick Santorum, Herman
Cain, Rick Perry, John Huntsman,
Newt Gingrich, Ron Paul, and Mitt
Romney did what they could to
prove they have what it takes to
run America. But it was Romney,
former governor of Massachusetts,
and Perry, governor of Texas, who
came out on top.
The questions started addressed
to Perry, the first one comment
ing on the great number of poor
people in Texas. Perry refuted this
poverty figure by stating that he
had created one million jobs as
governor. He then continued on
to comment how Obama has not '
created the jobs that he promised
as president.
Romney was next questioned
about the jobs in Massachusetts.
The moderator said that Massa
chusetts was 47th in the country
on job creation, but Romney dis
agreed, saying that numbers were
much worse before he came into
office while the unemployment
rate was now at 4.7% percent after
his term. He followed up by saying
that he has “created more jobs in
Massachusetts than the president
has created in thq entire country.”
Romney attributes that to the fact
that he has not been a politician
his whole life; his experiences with
helping and making enterprises
helped him understand how to
create jobs and decrease the unem
ployment rate.
Within ten minutes of the de
bate, Romney and Perry began
trashing the other’s reforms and
actions in their state governments.
Perry commenced by firing at
Romney’s job creation and health
reform reforms in Massachusetts.
Romney defended his position by
stating that Perry has more natural
resources and a more cooperative
state legislature in the friendlier
environment of Texas.
“I think Romney and Perry
should debate,” said Dr. Clyde
Frazier, Meredith College profes
sor of political science. “It kind of
tends to happen. In general, they
were both pretty accurate, particu
larly the job creation disagreement.
They were both right on.”
The question qf immigration
reform came up and was asked to
all of candidates. Perry spoke about
adding more border patrols for
security, because “it is not safe on
that border.” Romney suggested
adding a fence and agents to secure
it, as well as stating that he wants
to stop helping illegal immigrants
by finding jobs and tuition breaks.
The debate started to come to a
close with Perry defending his deci
sion on the death penalty:
“When someone commits the
most heinous of crimes against our
citizens, they get a fair hearing,
they through an appeals process,
and they go to up to the Supreme
Court of the United States if that’s
necessary. But if you come into our
state and kill one of our children,
you kill a police officer, you’re
involved in a crime and you kill one
of our citizens, you will face the ul
timate justice in the state of Texas.
And that is, you will be executed.”
“I think the Republicans are going
to win against President Obama,”
Dr. Frazier said about the outcome
of the debate. “I think that Obama’s
numbers are terrible, and I think
that he gets in a place where people
stop taking him seriously. Most
importantly, the economy is going
to be the number one issue, and
I don’t know anyone who thinks
the economy is going to be good
enough in 2012 to save Obama.”