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Tuesday
September 17,1996
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Geoffrey Gartner/THE CAROLINIAN Costley voices out in
preparation for race
Chris Binkpwski
stuff man
Mark Costley is running for
congress as a democrat from the
6th district. The following is taken
from a September 10 interview
with Costley, and from informa-tion
written and distributed by
Costley himself.
Originally from Stillwaler,
Oklahoma, Costley is a 1982
graduate of Duke University. He
was granted honors (magna cum
laudc) with a degree in Public
Policy. In 1985, he graduated from
Duke University School of Law.
He took residence in Greensboro
and practiced law at the Greens-boro-
based firm Adams and
Costley, L.L.P.
Costley is married and has one
child. He is a member of Greens-boro
Civitans, as well as First
Presbyterian Church, while he re-mains
active in Duke alumni af-fairs.
Carolinian: "Why arc you run-ning?"
Costley: "I guess I am running
mostly because I have spent the
last several years listening to poli-tics
and public affairs and nol lik-ing
what I heard. I finally got to
the point where I could not sit on
the sidelines anymore. Someone
needed to stand up. get involved,
and try to create a different vision
for the future."
Carolinian: "What do you hope
to accomplish?"
Costley: "That is a big subject.
In the big picture I hope to con-tribute
to making people's lives
better. The way I would like to do
this is by working toward things
like, promoting job security- an
environment where people can get
good jobs and get job security and
decent pay for it, working for edu-cation
and educational issues.
Also I would stand up against
things I do not believe in. I would
stand up against a movement that
is trying to take government out
of the business of working for fun-damental
justice in society. I be-lieve,
from a constitutional stand-point
and a practical standpoint,
that is one of the most important
roles for government.
I would work for getting the
government out of the business
of regulating individuals' private
lives. I believe regulating indi-viduals'
private lives is not a con-stitutional
or desirable part ofgov-ernment."
Carolinian: "How do you feel
about the leadership in Washing-ton
now?"
Costley: "I feel that there is
more animosity and partisanship
there than ever before. We need
bi-partisanship. If you do not have
bi-partisanship you get gridlock.
I feel this very strongly. In Wash-ington,
people are more comfort-able
for someone to accuse some-one
else, whom they do not agree
with, of being dishonest rather
than being wrong. I think it should
be easier for someone to accuse
someone else of being wrong or
unreasonable than being dishon-est.
It has become a mudslinging
or name-calling process and I do
not think that is very productive.
On the substance side, over the
last few years the Republicans
have done a much better job pre-senting
a philosophy to people
than the Democrats have. I would
suggest this is the natural order of
things. The party that is out of
power tends to be the party of
ideas. The party that is in power
has the responsibility of govern-ing
and does not come up with
new ideas. The Democratic party
has not done a very good job of
coming up with new ideas, or of
articulating the reasons for the
policies they have pursued. I will
give you an example. It is a very,
very Christian thing to do to want
to help those in our society who
arc in need. It is a basic tenant of
the Christian faith. Government is
one of the most efficient ways to
do that. But you have not heard a
Democratic politician talk about
that in the last 5 or 10 years, be-cause
they have lost touch with the
need of explaining the importance
of helping those who need help.
Without connecting things for
people you lose political support.
That is one of the things that hap-pened
to the Democrats. Conse-quently,
the Republicans were
convincing people that they were
closer to God and more patriotic.
See Costley, Page 2
Mathis addresses
changes in speech
Natalie Watson
Senior News Writer
" A Whirlwind of pro-activity,
discovery, and awareness" is one
way that Student Government
Association President Mathis de-scribed
the UNCG community in
his annual State of the Campus
Address on Tuesday, Sept. 10.
According to Mathis. many
improvements in campus life
were made over the summer in
conjunction with latest "student-centered"
ideal.
One improvement was the ad-dition
of the Bryan School of
Business food court. The idea was
to make food and snacks more
accessible to students at more con-venient
times. "Now students will
be able to grab a quick snack be-tween
classes or it will be easier
for those with late night classes
to have dinner," said Mathis.
The renovation of laundry
rooms in residence halls all over
campus was recognized. Better
equipment was updated, and laun-dry
rooms now are equipped with
cash card machines to offer the
alternative for students to use cash
cards instead of coins only.
Another big change made this
summer was the financial aid
check distribution process. For
the first time, financial aid checks
were delivered to campus mail-boxes.
This enabled students to
avoid long lines in Mossman. This
change was possible because of
improved communication be-tween
the Financial Aid Office,
the Cashier's Office and the Uni-versity
Mail System. According
to Mathis, all of these changes
were made to make things easier
on students, so that they can con-centrate
more on academics.
Despite the changes that look
Looking On...
JEFF WHITLOW/THE CAROLINIAN
UNCG Junior Joel Judge looks on as people "Sweat lo the Oldies" in
Greensboro's Four Seasons Town Centre. Fitness Guru Richard Simmon's
routine was part of the mall's Health and Fitness Fair.
place over the summer, there are
still student improvement projects
underway. The Mclver street
parking deck is slated to open
August 1997 and will provide sev-eral
hundred parking spaces to
help alleviate the parking prob-lem.
In early spring, the computer
superlab will open in the library.
The superlab will not be reserved
by classes. To make more comput-ers
available for students it will
only be for individual student use.
Cable and computer lines are also
being considered for all residence
halls, but investigations are now
being done to bring the services
to students at a price they can ac-cept.
With regard to the sensitive is-sue
of parking, Mathis announced
the formation of a Presidential
Committee on Parking to unravel
the unaccounted aspects of park-ing,
present findings, and offer
recommendations to alleviate the
problem. Mathis explained his
frustration with the issue: "None
of us can be successful if we can-not
get out of our cars." Although
the parking issue has been re-searched
many times, this is the
first time that a committee has
been formed to formally investi-gate
the matter.
The Adopt-a-Trustee program
was also introduced. The idea of
this program is for students and
trustees to share perceptions and
ideas. Mathis stated that although
the sides may not agree, they still
need to be aware of each other's
views. Further information about
the program will be available
when its details have been worked
out.
The conclusion of the State of
the Campus Address brought com-ments
from the new Vice Chan-cellor
for Student Affairs. Carol
Disquc. She thanked the SGA and
commented that she looks forward
to working not only with the SGA,
but with students as individuals
"Tm looking forward to continued
interaction with all students. If
you see me walking around cam-pus,
please feel free to say hello
and interact."
Outlook
Tuesday:
Breezy
High in the upper 7()'s
30% chance of rain
Wednesday:
Mostly Sunny
High in the mid 70's
Source: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
UNCG addresses importance of voting
•Meeting in Chancellor's Board Room brings students and administration together .
Deanna McDonald
News Editor
A group of students and admin-istrators
met in the Chancellor's
Board Room on Wednesday as
part of a continued effort to en-courage
voting among UNCG
community members. The meet-ing
marked the second collabora-tive
discussion of the voting
project.
Opening remarks were led by
Chancellor Sullivan, who stressed
that project endeavors hold "ab-solutely
no partisan effort." She
clearly stated the motivation of
the meeting: "This is a very im-portant
issue for us as American
citizens as well as in the univer-sity.
We must held our students
recognize their rights as American
students.
Members of the meeting stayed
clearly focused as they discussed
issues such as voter registration,
voter education and voter turnout
for elections. Voter registration
cards were passed around to dem-onstrate
some valuable details that
many people who have not regis-tered
are still unaware of. For ex-ample,
the cards allow voters to
change their address, name and
district of voting with the Board
of Elections. The forms can be
mailed, and voters can also receive
an absentee ballot so that voting
away from home is possible.
Voting registration tables will
be set up in various spots on cam-pus,
although the locations have
not all been designated. Ron
Dalton. Assistant Director for Stu-dent
Activities, shared the success
of past voter areas. As of August
16. joint ventures pro- —.^^^
duced 1704 newly being involved."
registered voters. Al- "Wfe need to let The challenge, she
though the numbers people know that added, is "finding
are seen as a success,
close the voter station (14B) alto-gether.
Elizabeth Robinson of
College Democrats replied. "We
need to let people know that there
— is fun in voting and
there is fun in group members J
agreed that this school voting and being
of over 12,000 stu-dents
holds many
more who have not
registered.
The 1992 Presiden- Wmmm
tial Election pulled
1209 votes from the 29(X) campus
residents. A result of the low turn-out,
as expressed by the Chancel-lor,
was the mayor's notion to
involved."
Elizabeth Robinson,
College Democrats
creative ways to get
voter cards out."
Organizations
outside of UNCG
have expressed in-terest
in expanding
our voter base also.
■^■■■^B MTV's national
campaign, "Rock
the Vote" provided the university
with a voter package that includes
registration cards, buttons, peas,
bumper stickers, banners, and
voter instruction/ information
booklets. The radio station 94.5
contacted the school with hopes
that their morning show can be
broadcast from UNCG in conjunc-tion
with a voter registration ses-sion.
With the October 11 registration
deadline being so close, the voter
project is crunched for time. Fi-nal
suggestions to "get informed
about the issues and make opin-ions
known to legislation" apply
to all of those with the ability to
vote. Students and faculty alike
should expect the meeting's motto
of "mobilized voters CAN make
a difference" to spread throughout
campus during this crucial period
before elections.
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