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Who’s Who in the Democratic Presidential Debate
Katherine Soost, Staff Writer
October 13th marks the first of six
Democratic debates scheduled for the
2016 presidential race. The debate will
take place in the Wynn Las Vegas hotel
and will be aired on CNN at 9pm ET.
CNN and the Nevada Democratic Party
will sponsor the debate, and Anderson
Cooper will be the moderator. The
five candidates who will be debating
are former Secretaiy of State Hillary
Clinton, Senator Bernie Sanders,
former Maryland governor Martin
O’Malley, former Senator Jim Webb,
and former Rhode Island governor
Lincoln Chafee.
Clinton isn’t new to the presidential
campaign. She is the wife of two-time
president Bill Clinton and has also run
for the presidency herself in 2008.
Clinton served as Senator from New
York from 2001 to 2009, as well as
Secretary of State from 2009 to 2013;
Senator Sanders comes from humble
beginnings, starting out as a carpenter
and documentary filmmaker
before being elected as mayor
of Burlington, Vermont, by
merely ten votes in 1981.
After serving as mayor
from 1981 to 1989, he
continued advancing his
political career by being
elected twice to the role
of Senator of Vermont
from 2007 to the present.
O’Malley served as Mayor
of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007
and then as Governor of Maryland
from 2007 to 2015. The Washington
Post cites FBI data that, during
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O’Malley’s time as mayor, Baltimore
saw a forty-eight percent decrease in
the overall crime rate. His family is
also actively involved in the political
sphere: his father has been
an Assistant United States
Attorney since 2009, his
mother has been on staff
in Congress for Senator
Barbara Mikulski since
1987, and his wife is a
Baltimore City District
Court judge.
Webb served as a
combat marine in Vietnam
from 1968 to 1972 and as
Secretary of the Navy from 1987
to 1988. He has also won an Emmy
award for his journalistic work in
Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War,
and he is a film-maker and the author
of ten books. Through his service in
the Marines he was awarded the Navy
Cross and the Silver Star Medal, as
well as two Bronze Star Medals and
two Purple Hearts.
Chafee is a man of many parties. He
served from 1993 to 1999 as Republican
mayor for Warwick, Rhode Island, and
then from 1999 to 2007 he served as a
Republican Rhode Island Senator. He
then turned to the Independent party
in 2007, and served as governor of
Rhode Island from 2011 to 2015. And
now, he is campaigning for president
as a Democrat.
Stay tuned for more details of the
2016 presidential race.
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Millions of Migrants on the Move
Abigail Ojeda, Staff Writer
Today there are more people
displaced by .war than ever before: 59.6
million people, according to United
Nations records. In the Middle East,
the majority of migrants are fleeing
Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq, and Eritrea.
As world leaders struggle to handle
the influx of these displaced peoples,
the U.S. is determining the role it will
play in the midst of this ongoing crisis.
Since the Arab Spring protests in
2011, the Assad regime’s oppression of
Syria’s Sunni majority, and the rise of
ISIS, almost half the Syrian population
has fled into other Middle Eastern and
European countries. Throughout the
past four years 10.6 million Syrians
have fled, and three out of four
register as refugees in neighboring
countries such as Turkey, Lebanon,
and Jordan; however the number of
Syrians entering Europe has doubled
this past year.
On September 2, however, a
photograph of lifeless Syrian 3-year-
old Aylan Kurd! washed up on a
Turkish beach seemed to capture the
plight of the refugees in one image,
wresting the world’s attention. Since
this photo gained massive media
attention, it prompted a response from
world leaders: “What has drowned
in the Mediterranean is not only the
refugees,’’ Turkish President Recep
Tayyip Erdogan said, according to
the Washington Post. “Humanity has
drowned in the Mediterranean Sea.”
Some countries have been more
receptive than others. Germany
has been the most popular and
welcoming country, and three out
of five Syrian refugees have found
asylum in Germany, Sweden, and
Serbia. Additionally, the United
Arab Emirates have allowed 100,000
Syrians in the country since 2011. A
UAE government source told CNN,
“We would like to see the Syrian
refugees stay close to their homeland...
so they can eventually return to their
homeland.” However, gulf states,
including Saudi Arabia, - Kuwait,
Qatar, and Bahrain, have refused to
resettle refugees despite international
pressure, according to CNN. Recently,
the Obama administration agreed to
bring in 100,000 worldwide refugees
by 2017.
After the United States committed
to the cause, Secretary of State
John Kerry was paraphrased in the
New York Times as saying, “budget
constraints and vetting requirements
established after the September 11
terrorist attacks limited the scope
of the [United States’] response.”
According to World Magazine, Co-
chairman of the Commission on
Secnrity and Cooperation in Europe,
Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., said, “We
.want to give a humanitarian welcome
to strangers... but we must be aware
[terrorists] have a different outcome
in mind, and that’s killing people.” For
those looking for a solntion, according
to the Wall Street Journal, the refugee
crisis will continue as long as the ISIS
and Assad conflict in Syria endures.
*Information accurate as of 10/12/15
FBI Agent Candice DeLong to Speak at Meredith
FBI Agent Candice DeLong will visit Meredith College and speak about her experiences as an FBI
special agent on Wednesday, October 24, 2015 at 7:00pm in Jones Auditorium. The event is free
and open to the public. It will also count as a convocation/cultural event in General Education.
DeLong will also offer a special workshop called “What Would You Do in Dangerous Situations?”
for Meredith students at 3:20pm in Jones Auditorium.
Information courtesy of the Meredith College eNews
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Women Of MC
Brooke Mayo, Staff Writer
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“I attended Meredith not knowing anyone, so I was pretty scared! During visitation day my
junior year of high school, I met a girl with braids. We found out we were in the same major
and it was great just speaking with her. Then we both attended summer symposium for the
2013 July session. We found out that we had classes together the next semester. So, basically,
we were literally together all the time because of the same major. We have the same goals and
ideas and, through time, we’ve became really close. We are each other’s motivation to succeed
through school as well as after graduation. We are living proof of the saying, ‘you meet your
best friend in college,’ and I really think my years at Meredith wouldn’t be the same
without her!”
Writer’s Note: “Women of Meredith College” is a spin-off of the popular Facebook pages “Humans of New York” and
“Humans of North Carolina.” To stay consistent with the guidelines of these original pages, the individuals published
will not be named. These postings are meant to show the Meredith community that there is more than meets the eye
and it also portrays the power and beauty in diversity here at Meredith College. More “Women of Meredith College”
postings may be found on The Meredith Herald Facebook page every Friday morning.
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