Voters Making Final Decisions on Candidates
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From Scgamcrt rrpofti The 80 faculty, students and others Bayh may help Clinton who attended also (rtjdtved a grass roots lesson in Jng&rta politics from The usual Thursday night chatter at win the White House. one statewide representative Chancellor's Sports Bar got turned up Original, plans called for state a few notches last week during the second presidential dchatc. By Ed Groves coordinators from the two major Cettnhtmg to Tkt Scgomorr parties to discuss the status of the Amid the smoky ha/e and the presidential campaign and their roles sounds of clinking glasses being in the political process. picked up by servers, bar patrons were What do you gel when you But that plan changed slightly when served some political “food for put three political analysts in a Rep. Andy Jacobs (D-Ind.) strolled thought" — via the television — room together? into the room and set the stage for the along with their pizzas and beer. In this case, bad news for the debate in his opening statement. But the “menu" that night, served by Republican P am . In that statement, Jacobs criticized the three presidential candidates, was On Wednesday, the POLIS the political mudslinging that often not always particularly filling, Research Center did just that as goes with campaigns. according to the IS or so people part of their Urban Agenda “An election is a civilized substitute' watching the eveqt. lecture series Professor Brian for war.’* the Democratic incumbent Matt Morris said that although such Vargus and Bill Blomquisi. from the I Oth District told the group. debates help inoease aw areness about assistant professor of political “And the less personal, less angry, the candidates, they don’t have an science, sat on the panel along the less warlike, the less demeaning, impact on the election. with George Gcib. a history the less smearing and the less “Debates give people a chance to see professor at Butler University (negative) campaigning, the more the candidates and they bring issues Some of the opinions brought civilized the campaign and the out in the open, but they don’t have a forth that day included the election is.** said the tall, casually major impact (on the election)." said following: the Republican Party dressed congressman. Morris, a junior in the School of is in decline, Gov. Evan Bash Representing the presidential Public and Environmental Affairs will be reelected in a potential candidates were Scott Sonrells, (SPEA) landslide and the democratic Indiana campaign coordinator for the “Clinton is giving Bush a run for his party will continue its trend of George Bush/Dan Quayle ticket; money, but he is not clear on the political and electoral growth in Jacobs, pitching for the Bill Clinton/ ideas. I hope for this country that Bush Al Gore camp; and recent IUPUI law wins," Morris added, gesturing toward Please see LOCAL on page 3 school graduate Rick Lathrop, the television set bolted to the wall of supporting the independent effort of the bar. Ross Perot/Jim StockdaJc. Bill Schcib. a senior in SPEA. Center at the University of Richmond. After Jacobs started off the event disagreed For those watching the debate in the with his remarks, the battle of words “1 think Bill Clinton has the best bar. it wasn’t always easy to get the began. ideas." said Schcib “He’s not trying gist of the candidates* comments. “Let me say. regardless of the polls, to cover up his past, and he would “This one’s been a little harder George Bush will be re-elected bring a new thought process to because we’ve had a harder lime president of the United States on America. The Republicans should try listening because of the noise in the November 3 “ said Sorrells. something new . Clinton is our age and bar." said Gary Jackvon. who was Sorrells wasted little time in a Rhodes scholar with practical staving at the hotel for a conference defending Bush's tack of success in solving skills." , for the University of Wisconsin working with Congress. The three presidential candidates answered questions from 209 ‘The president sent an economics Please see RACE on page 3 growth package to Congress more uncommitted voters at the Robins than a thousand days ago," he said. “He also sponsored a crime hill that has been sitting in Congress for the Recruitment efforts boost overall minority enrollment by 33.1% last 900 days. The president put a balanced budget proposal forward By Darin Crone ■ The number of minority students enrolled at IUPUI has increased The initiative ot the plan includes actively earlier this summer. This was a Tkt Sagamort recruiting and retaining undergraduate and proposal that 80 percent of the people from 2,430 students in 1986 to 2340 students this fall. graduate students until representation al the support." he said. “Again. Congress university reflects the number of minorities in will not relinquish their power to Increasing the number of minority students on The mission of "The Hoosier Plan" is to IU vice president and IUPUI chancellor. the Indiana population allow (the president to) spend our IU campuses is a concern that prompted generate a continuous course of events dial will This fall, there are 3.250 minority students “Our goal is not to recruit students, hut to see money." administrators to establish goals and develop lead to parity in participation and attainment of enrolled al IUPUI In 1986. there were 2.430 that they .ire successful." said Bepko Then, much like the nationally policies for each university in 1989. minorities at IU schools. minority students enrolled. According to the Education Commission of the televised presidential debates. The result of that concern is the “The Hoosier Goals are set for each of the eight campuses This represents an increase of 33.1 percent Stales National Task Force lor Minority Sorrells' verbal assaults turned to the Plan for Minority Enhancement." lUPUI’s goal is to have a minority enrollment *vf since 1986. or 4.9 percent per year. Achievement in Higher Education, one-third of A $1.1 million Lilly Endowment Grant was 10.5 percent of the total enrollment by 1995. “I think all of the activities have contributed to given to Indiana University *ecemly to increase “We have more minority students now than the succevs of increasing miruguy enrollment al Please see CANDIDATE on Page 4 enrollment and retainmem orminorities. we have ever had before.” said Gerald BepKo, this campus,” Bepko said. Please see MINORITIES on Page 4 Activist ruffles feathers over spotted owl, logging jobs controversy ■ Nationally known environmentalist Lou Gold spoke to SPEA timber jobs are more important l a T-shirt depicting the Northern Spotted Owl the vanishing habitat and Ihc spoiled owl. He While he spoke, lie gestured with a hand said he became “an overnight environ students about deforestation and the lumber industry in Oregon. The United Stales has only 5 percent of its crafted walking stick which he calls his “Bald mentalist" original forests left, while Brazil has 80 Mountain peace stick." “I had Kicked into my marriage with the By Amy May land, which is the process of cutting Bold Mountain. Ore., is the place Gold hit* mountain It is my longest standing and most 7kr5 everything down, as opposed to selective T h is is what wc arc doing in our own chosen to he the pulse point of The meaning!ul relationship ever." he said. cutting, where individual trees arc selected and country while we point fingers ai Brazil." Gold environmental movement m the west. After he He said alter a while he became lonely. so he started talking to his walking slick. cut down. Also to he Named is the federal said to Greg Lindsey’s “Introduction to became unsatisfied with his teaching career, “After a lew days ot this, the stick started to government bowing to the demands of the Environmental Sciences’’ class on CXl. 8. he hiked up Bald Mountain fur a five-day stay must people think of the Amazon rain forest; answer me. It said. ‘law. I’m jealous. All the lumber industry, he said. Federal land belongs to the citizens, and Five days turned into 56 as Gold stayed to but environmentalist Lou GokJ wants to bring other sticks get to go to Ihc big city and President Bush, for example, has said he will private timber companies arc culling wood on clean up a demolished fire-watch lower.