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is why Nelson’s suggestion was
embraced right away, Chilton said.
“Mike laid it out there, and I
think he really had a good sense of
where the Board of Aldermen was
with its priorities.”
Nelson said he has received
positive feedback about the park.
“It was a great idea, and they like
the (name) and in particular, peo
ple appreciate that we’re naming a
facility for Dr. King outside of an
African-American area.”
Gist also said the name was
appropriate. “I think it’s great
because a park should be a place
that’s peaceful and brings people
together and all the little children
play together, so it’s very symbolic
of Dr. King’s vision.”
A date for completion of the
park has not been set yet.
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the Student Code of Conduct to
address the definition of negative
campaigning.
Under the proposal, an accused
campaign worker would answer
to the Honor Court instead of the
Board of Elections.
The problem with the proposal, a
few members said, is that the Honor
Court would not impose punitive
actions quickly enough because of
its slow turnaround system.
Elizabeth Freeman, a represen
tative for Granville Towers, said
the Honor Court would not ensure
that the issue was resolved before
an election ended.
“It needs to go to the BOE so it’s
taken care of during the election,”
she said.
Committee members ultimately
tabled the proposal.
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DEBATE
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President Bush already has proven
himself an effective leader.
And experts say Cheney’s experi
ence shone and gave him an edge
during the foreign policy discussion.
“He won (on foreign polity) because
he is the enactment of experience,”
said Allan Louden, director of
debate at Wake Forest University.
The playing field was more
evenly matched on domestic pol
icy, Louden said.
Edwards was more in his ele
ment during the second half of the
debate, focusing on jobs and health
care and claiming that Bush will
be the first president in decades to
end his term with a net job loss.
“Family incomes are down
while the costs of everything are
going up,” Edwards said. “Mr. Vice
President, I don’t think the coun
try can take four more years of this
kind of experience.”
Edwards continued to blast the
Bush administration deficit, saying
that he and Kerry would cut back
on bureaucratic spending to elimi
nate the debt.
“John Kerry and I believe we have
a moral responsibility to not leave
trillions of dollars of debt to our chil
dren and grandchildren,” he said.
Cheney responded by attacking
the Kerry/Edwards plan to roll back
tax cuts for Americans making more
than $200,000 annually, saying that
small businesses that ffle under the
personal income tax would suffer.
“Seven out of -10 new jobs in
America are created by small busi
nesses,” he said. “It’s a bad idea to
increase the burden on those folks.”
But on same-sex marriage, the
two candidates were closer than at
any other point during the debate.
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Cheney, whose daughter is openly
lesbian, refrained from saying that
marriage is fundamentally between
a man and a woman but stood
behind Bush. “The president makes
policy for this administration, and I
support the president,” he said.
Cheney added that he would pre
fer the issue be decided by the states
—a position Edwards also took.
“The president is proposing a
constitutional amendment to ban
gay marriage that is totally unnec
essary,” Edwards said.
He added that, while he and Kerry
believe marriage to be between a
man and a woman, same-sex cou
ples should have some of the ben
efits afforded to married couples.
Pundits hesitated to immediately
award the debate to either Cheney
or Edwards and said it was unlikely
to affect poll numbers significantly.
Louden said the candidates tied
up loose ends from the presidential
debate and attacked where their
running mates couldn’t.
Louden added that both candi
dates gave more intelligent, nuanced
answers than did Bush or Kerry:
“The answers were more like an
adult’s than the presidential debate,
which sounded more like a clash of
cliches and campaign slogans.”
T.J. Walker, president of Media
Training Worldwide, also said both
candidates proved more articulate
than Bush and Kerry, but added
that Edwards’ style was more ani
mated and likeable that Cheney’s.
Democrats watching the debate
could see a future president in
Edwards, Walker added. “Any
Democratic activists watching
tonight would say, ‘Good god, this
is Bill Clinton reincarnated.”
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fies themselves as black, Native
American, Hispanic or Asian.
Freshman class enrollment
this year differed from last year in
the following ways, according to
the an annual admissions update
presented to the UNC Board of
Trustees on Sept. 23:
■ The number of white students
increased by 52 people, to 2,625 or
73.1 percent of die class.
■ The number of black students
decreased by 10 to 404 students.
■ Asians increased by 46 to 272
students.
■ Hispanics increased by 5 to
130 students.
■ Native Americans increased
by 3 to 33 students.
At this time, the small decline
in the population of black students
has not been analyzed and inter
preted on a more in-depth scale.
This year, UNC had the largest
and academically best-prepared
black applicant pool in the school’s
history, Ervin said. He expects
the University will continue to
be among national leaders in the
diversity of entering classes.
While incoming black women
outnumber black men this year at
UNC by almost two to one, Ervin
said this implies a national phe
nomenon.
The rising number of women
attending college and the outnum
bering of men is a trend happen
ing at college campuses across the
country, Newsom said.
Despite the collective goal to
create a diverse and inclusive
FALL 2004 ENROLLMENT
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Native American and Hispanic students compared to last year.
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campus, as stated by Newsom and
Ervin, the facts and figures some
times don’t add up.
“Numbers can be misleading
with self-segregation,” said senior
Lily West, co-chairwoman of
Students for the Advancement of
Race Relations, a subcommittee of
the Campus Y.
West said she notices that dif
ferent ethnic groups tend to asso
ciate and interact with their own
members and branch out to other
students infrequently.
The administration and student
body have to work together to pro
mote and foster a campus commu
nity in which diversity really means
something, West said. “The pur
pose of attracting diversity is lost,”
she said."... (Administrators) need
to help students give those num
bers some worth.”
The true test of active diversity on
campus comes when students of dif
ferent races and ethnic backgrounds
share ideas, information, cultural
traits and experiences, West said.
While the University offers special
programs such as Pre-Orientation,
which is designed to acclimate newly
admitted minority students to cam
pus, West said these orientations are
only a means to an end.
She said students need to take a
step up to introduce one another to
UNC life firsthand by integrating
everyone and not just by showing
students a one-sided view of col
lege and campus life.
“They’ve got to start making
those numbers mean something.”
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