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Bush, Gore
Spar for
Last Time
The major-party presidential
candidates attempted to
sway undecided voters in
what has been a close race.
The Associated Press
ST. LOUIS - Vice President A1 Gore
attacked George W. Bush as an ally of the
rich and powerful Tuesday night, but the
Texas governor
rebutted in climactic
campaign debate
that his rival was a
“big spender” in the
mold of Democratic liberals who once
sought the White
House and lost
“He proposed
more than Walter
Mondale and
Michael Dukakis
combined,” Bush
said of two prior
Democratic presi
dential candidates.
The Texas gov
ernor and the vice
president, locked
in a close race for
the White House,
argued domestic
and foreign policy
issues for 90 min
utes in a town
haH-style format.
It was their
third encounter in
two weeks, and
their last before
they face the vot
ers’ verdict Nov. 7.
Both presiden
tial nominees
opened the
debate by paying
tribute to
Missouri Gov.
Mel Carnahan,
who was killed
Monday night
Republican
George W. Bush
Sed his rival as
ington insider
and supporter of big
federal government.
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Democrat
Al Gore
tried to paint Bush
as a defender of the
privileged with tax
cuts for the wealthy.
along with his son and a campaign
See DEBATE, Page 4
3 Nuclear Protesters Arrested
By Matt Mansfield
Staff Writer
RALEIGH - Police carried three
protesters away from Carolina Power &
Light Co.’s headquarters in Raleigh
after the trio attempted to block entry to
the back of the building.
Nuclear safety advocates Carrie
Bolton, Jim Warren and Lewis Pitts seat
ed themselves as obstructions to the
back entrance of the Center Plaza
Building to protest a CP&L official’s
refusal to hear their concerns about the
Shearon Harris Nuclear Power Plant.
But police immediately arrested them
for trespassing on CP&L’s property.
Warren, director of N.C. Waste
Awareness and Reduction Network,
said CP&L’s refusal to hold open debate
led his group to take stronger actions.
Warren and his organization have
criticized CP&L’s proposal to transport
nuclear waste to the Shearon Harris
Nuclear Power Plant from other sites.
“We have been left with no recourse
but to move forth with a campaign of
nonviolent civil disobedience," he said.
A crowd of almost 30 protesters
stood outside the headquarters waving
picket signs, the N.C. state flag and the
American flag. But CP&L spokesman
Mike Hughes blocked protesters’ access
to the headquarters, saying they threat
ened the safety of CP&L employees.
Nora Wilson, a member of the UNC
Student Environmental Action
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Mark Marcoplos felt it was his "patriotic duty" to carry the state flag
as he marched with other protesters to the Carolina Power & Light Cos.
Coalition, said CP&L’s actions were
unnecessary. “Jim Warren, Carrie
Shelton and Lewis Pitts did not consti
tute a threat to the safety of the CP&L
employees,” she said.
Protester Mark Marcoplos, a member
of the N.C. WARN board of directors,
said the utility could save $2 million per
year by storing the waste at other sites.
But Hughes said the nuclear facility
was built to support more storage than is
being used. Storing additional waste on
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No Excuses
UNC-system campuses gear up
to promote student voting.
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site would only mean carrying out
CP&L’s original plans, he said.
Area elected officials joined N.C.
WARN and the Coalition Against
Nuclear Imports to the Triangle as
observers in speaking out against CP&L.
“We are calling upon CP&L, a public
utility, to be honest and give us the infor
mation that we need,” said Kevin Foy,
Chapel Hill Town Council member.
See WARN PROTEST, Page 4
By Sefton Ipock
Photo Editor
How many times have you seen a picture that means
something special to the photographer, but you find it
hard to decipher?
It’s like that commercial where the old woman fulfills
her lifelong dream of going to Paris and having her picture
taken in front of the Eiffel Tower. When she gets the prints
back, she has a good picture of the monument and the top
of her head. Kind of a letdown.
Pictures act as windows to the past. We keep albums
filled with photos of good
times and habitually look
through them to remem
ber.
Unfortunately, those
not-so-good pictures make
their way into the memory
books because they are
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Photography
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the only physical remnants of that party or vacation.
We at The Daily Tar Heel’s photo desk recognize that
not everyone has dedicated their fife to photography and
could use a few pointers on how to fix basic problems.
Our hope is that we can help you keep those memories
clear - so that when you look at the photo you took of
your favorite band, you can still hear them play that song
you love.
We also understand that not everyone can spend the
thousands of dollars on photo equipment that we do. So
every photo we present for this guide to better pictures has
been taken with simple point-and-click cameras.
The result amazed even us. You really can take a good
photo with those things. It just takes a little basic under
standing of what it takes to get it done.
We’ve provided you with all the information and hope
fully enough inspiration to get those better pictures.
Photojournalism students spend hours trying to leam these
techniques. Take advantage of our pride o you. don’t get
all the way to Paris and come back disappointed.
The Photo Editor can be reached at
ipock@email.unc.edu.
Wolfe Encourages Young Authors
By Geoff Wessel
Staff Writer
Students, faculty and local residents
filled Memorial Hall on Tuesday for the
inaugural Thomas Wolfe Memorial
Lecture, given by - appropriately
enough - Tom Wolfe, journalist and
best-selling author of the novel “Bonfire
of the Vanities."
Thomas Wolfe Society President Ben
Jones presented Wolfe with the first
annual Thomas Wolfe Prize, which
accompanies the lecture. Wolfe’s
speech, “Look Homeward, Wolfe,”
focused on the legacy of Thomas Wolfe
in the canon of American literature.
“The 1920s happened to be the great
era of the American naturalistic novel,”
he said, citing Thomas Wolfe as one of
the great writers of the period, along
with William Faulkner, Ernest
Hemingway and John Steinbeck. “He
became notorious for the fact that he
could not depart from fact.”
In addition to praising his lyrical
novels, Wolfe spoke on Thomas Wolfe,
the man.
“Wolfe was 15 years old when he first
came to Carolina,” he said. “He was not
baffled by the hurly-burly of campus life
for one second. It was really quite amaz
ing. He was the sort of person that was
absolutely sure he was a genius.”
Wolfe also lamented the absence of lit
erature in contemporary mainstream
American culture, attributing its decline to
the rise of competing literary movements.
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Special Elections
Fill 7 More Seats;
5 Still Vacant
Future voting will probably be done online,
beginning with Homecoming elections, said
Chairman Jeremy Berkeley-Tuchmayer.
By Stephanie Horvath
Staff Writer
Student Congress held special elections Tuesday to fill 13
vacant seats in graduate, South Campus and off-campus
undergraduate districts.
The winners were:
District 2: Anthony Ward
District 16: Kimberly Anne Turner and Carey Richter
District 17: Bradley Keith Overcash
District 18: Timothy Michael Ligay
District 19: Gary King
District'21: David Allen Worth
District 24: Jay Thomas Briley
Seats in graduate districts 3, 5, 7 and 9 as well as off-cam-
pus District 25 are still vacant because no
one ran for office.
A total of 201 people cast their votes
at the four polling sites around campus.
Chase Hall drew 145 voters, more than
all other sites combined.
Elections Board Chairman Jeremy
Berkeley-Tuchmayer attributed the high
numbers to the hotly contested race in
District 17, which represents Craige and
Ehringhaus residence halls and Odum
Village.
Frederick Hill, an Elections Board
member, was pleased with the voter
turnout. “I mentioned to a Student
Congressman that we might have 150
(students), and she was excited that we’d
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But polling sites will soon be a thing of the past. Berkeley-
Tuchmayer said online voting is tentatively set to begin with
Homecoming elections on Nov. 9. WebslingerZ, the private
company Student Congress contracted to write the online vot
ing program, is supposed to have the Web site ready to begin
uploading onto the UNC Web server by Oct. 20.
With online voting, students will be able to vote from their
homes through the UNC Web site. One polling site will
remain open in the Student Union for students who cannot get
online. “More than likely, we’ll never do this (voting at polling
sites) again,” Berkeley-Tuchmayer said. “We’re moving toward
online voting.”
Special elections winners have until 5 p.m. today to turn
in candidate financial statements affirming that they did not
spend more than $25 on their campaign. They must then be
certified by the Elections Board and will be sworn in Oct 30
See CONGRESS, Page 4
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Renowned author Tom Wolfe, the first recipient of the Thomas Wolfe
Prize, speaks about the life of N.C. writer Thomas Wolfe.
“During the heyday of the American
novel, students were inveterate movie
goers, too,” he said. “But (they) were
also following something more exciting
- they were following Ernest
Hemingway, Thomas Wolfe and John
Steinbeck. *
“I think (the novel as an art form) is
in bad shape. It’s not dying of obsoles
cence, but it is dying of anorexia. We
need young novelists with the voracious
hunger for American life.”
Wolfe spoke personally to some
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Board Chairman
Jeremy Berkeley-
Tuchmayer
said the District 17
race attracted die
most voters.
potential young novelists earlier in his
visit. As the 2000 Morgan Writer-in-
Residence, Wolfe held a question-and
answer session for creative writing stu
dents Tuesday morning. The event took
place in the chambers of the Dialectic
Society, a UNC literary and debate soci
ety of which Thomas Wolfe was a mem
ber from 1916 to 1920.
“The biggest problem in creative
writing is content,” Wolfe told students.
See WOLFE, Page 4