The Carolinian [April 1, 2008]

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Obama, both Clintons visit Triad
Luke Mclntyre
Editor-in-Chief
Stephanie Patton
News Editor
Two Democrat presidential
hopefuls and one two-time
Democrat president visited the
area within days of each other
last week, a series of events that
readied locals for the coming
presidential campaign in North
Carolina.
Sen. Barack Obama visited
Greensboro last Wednesday
when he held a town hall in
the War Memorial Auditori-um.
Tickets to the event were
given out in just a few hours
at the Guilford County Demo-cratic
Party headquarters and
COURTESY OF CARLOS J. MORALES
Cynthia Marts
Staff Writer
Recently, a lot of questions
have been asked about safety
and security here on the UNCG
campus. Last Thursday, mem-bers
of the Student Government
Association and several campus
organizations addressed this is-sue
during their Campus Safety
Walk.
"We want to point out areas of
opportunity that students have
come to me with and be able to
get back to them with results,"
said Jesse Russo, co-chairper-son
of the Current Concerns
Committee.
The group met in the Benbow
room of the EUC about half
an hour before they planned to
leave. After introducing every-one,
giving out some details,
and a short talk about the new
lights on campus, everyone piled
out to start the walk. Starting at
the EUC and circling around the
outer areas of the entire campus,
the group pointed out every-
The Current Concerns Committee, of the SGA. along with other students
prepare for a Safety Walk across campus.
thing they noticed about the ar-eas
they passed through.
How much light there was,
how far it was to the nearest blue
Emergency Box, and how gener-ally
safe the areas were became
the main topics as the group
circled the grounds.
One student, David Stollery, a
sophomore, came along with his
girlfriend, a member of the SGA,
and spent the whole time help-ing
out by marking on his pro-vided
map where there was little
or no light, wherever there was a
broken light bulb, and wherever
there was too far of a gap be-tween
blue boxes
"I like [the safety walk) a lot.
It's a really good idea," com-mented
Stollery. "There re-ally
are areas on campus where,
when you're walking back from
the parking lot at night or some-thing,
it's just like this area is so
much brighter than another one.
And it just seems like the pro-portion
of the police emergency
lights are kind of scattered, by
the dorms there are a lot, but it
seems that further out on cam-pus
there are fewer. They prob-ably
should do [a safety walk]
more often."
The last Safety Walk occurred
SEE SAFETY OH PAGE THREE
on campus at UNCG. That event
and the opening of 13 field of-fices
across the state, one located
in Greensboro, marked the start
of Obama's campaign in North
Carolina.
North Carolina's primary takes
place on May 6 and will decide
how the state's 115 delegates will
be doled out. Obama currently
leads Clinton, with his 1,622 dele-gates
barely beating out her 1,485.
The winning candidate will need
at least 2,024 delegates.
The excitement was brimming
over as a long line of Obama
fans waited to get into the event.
Charles Howard, a UNCG The-
SEE CAMPAIGN ON PAGE 4
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