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Apr.29-May5,2008 THEaronnian THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF UNCG www FREE* carolinianonline com Spartan TV hosts U.S. Senatorial debate Stephanie Patton News Editor UNCG is on the map this week, with Spartan TV hosting a debate between four of the five Demo-cratic candidates for U.S. Senate. Sen. Kay Hagan, Jim Neal, Dr. Howard Staley and Marcus Wil-liams have all agreed to partici-pate in the station's debate, which will be the first televised debate they have all agreed to. The four are in a race for the Democratic nomination to take on Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole's position as U.S. Senator. Duskin Lassiter, who did not commit to the debate, is also running According to a recent press re-lease, Neal explained the impor-tance of media coverage of the event. "I am calling on all candidates to join me in this important exer-cise in democracy. The people of North Carolina and Democrats across the state deserve this free exchange of ideas," said Neal. "I hope television outlets from ev-ery corner of the state will take this opportunity to share our dialogue with the people. The airways belong to all of us, and should be used to inform the vot-ers on important issues." Neal's words did not go un-heard, with over 23 media outlets from across the state planning to make an appearance on UNCG's campus. Spartan TV's debate is just in time for the North Carolina May 6 primary. "We are doing this to make sure the voters of North Caro-lina make informed decisions at the ballot box," said Christopher Brown, a student at UNCG and the anchor moderating the event for Spartan TV. "It is all too of-ten people make decisions based solely on signs, advertisements making it more of a popularity contest without having to answer the hard questions that are going to make a difference in the lives of North Carolinians." "Our university has an oppor-tunity to directly inform the vot-ers and really affect the outcome of this election," Brown contin-ued. "It is an exciting opportu-nity for the university and one we are not taking lightly." Brown and Micah Beasley, a student at UNCG and SGA Sena-tor, are responsible for the event, with Beasley making initial con-tact to the campaigns and Brown writing up the proposal. The two, with the help of Alan Buck, general manager of Spartan TV, have been working around the clock to prepare for the debate. "It has really been a group ef-fort to get this show to the stage," explained Brown. "It has not been easy. Trying to put together something of this magnitude takes a lot of hard work." The debate will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29, in Spartan TV's station on UNCG's campus. In addition to Brown and Beasley, Luke Mclntyre, editor-in-chief of The Carolinian will be moderat-ing the unique debate. Students attempt to reclaim democracy Cynthia Marts Staff Writer Reclaiming Democracy! A Conference as Community Con-versation. This was the title of the culmination of student proj-ects from this semester's new course, Reclaiming Democracy: Dialogue, Decision Making and Community Action. Last Saturday, students, teach-ers, and community members gathered at the Patricia A. Sul-livan Science Building, formerly the New Science Building, to view and discuss the projects put to-gether by students and teachers from the many colleges in Greens-boro through the Reclaiming De-mocracy multi-campus course. What began last fall as a hope-ful community project was shown Saturday to be a successful, in-depth course that spanned over six schools and got their students involved in their community and government. Stephen Schulman is a philoso-phy professor at Elon University, and was one of the original group who put the class together. "It's a class that we put together that was intended to put commu-nities that might not otherwise talk in a position where they not only are they talking but they're talking about something of mu-tual interest," said Schulman. "They're talking about democ-racy and they're talking about de-mocracy in Greensboro." "What we did was we had class-es and teachers from all the area's universities and colleges," agreed Spoma Jovanovic, a professor here at UNCG as well as one of the Reclaiming Democracy cre-ators. " [We asked ] what's happen-ing? How is democracy working? What do we need to do as citizens to create the conditions where people have what they need and the government is responsive to all the peoples needs? So we brought everybody together to talk about those issues." Topics ranged out of the three main groups of the Reclaiming Democracy course—Education, Human Rights, and Economic-. SEE DEMOCRACY OH PAGE TWO PHOTOS BY CYNTHIA MARTS THE CAROLINIAN ESTABLISHED 1919 VOL LXXXVIII ISSUE 30 CONTACT US the_carolinian@hotmail.com PHONE: 336-334-5752 DIRECTORY News Classifieds Corrections Opinions A&E FAX: 336-334-3518 Sport* ti »it i «.•*<< *»».... ■,NV/S\\V.(."r* *bW 2-4,18 25 5-7 8-9,19 10-13 14-16 ON THE WEB AT: _9 Bjookmarks look _sfc> f O.ftQl ■I
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Full text | Apr.29-May5,2008 THEaronnian THE INDEPENDENT STUDENT NEWSPAPER OF UNCG www FREE* carolinianonline com Spartan TV hosts U.S. Senatorial debate Stephanie Patton News Editor UNCG is on the map this week, with Spartan TV hosting a debate between four of the five Demo-cratic candidates for U.S. Senate. Sen. Kay Hagan, Jim Neal, Dr. Howard Staley and Marcus Wil-liams have all agreed to partici-pate in the station's debate, which will be the first televised debate they have all agreed to. The four are in a race for the Democratic nomination to take on Republican Sen. Elizabeth Dole's position as U.S. Senator. Duskin Lassiter, who did not commit to the debate, is also running According to a recent press re-lease, Neal explained the impor-tance of media coverage of the event. "I am calling on all candidates to join me in this important exer-cise in democracy. The people of North Carolina and Democrats across the state deserve this free exchange of ideas," said Neal. "I hope television outlets from ev-ery corner of the state will take this opportunity to share our dialogue with the people. The airways belong to all of us, and should be used to inform the vot-ers on important issues." Neal's words did not go un-heard, with over 23 media outlets from across the state planning to make an appearance on UNCG's campus. Spartan TV's debate is just in time for the North Carolina May 6 primary. "We are doing this to make sure the voters of North Caro-lina make informed decisions at the ballot box," said Christopher Brown, a student at UNCG and the anchor moderating the event for Spartan TV. "It is all too of-ten people make decisions based solely on signs, advertisements making it more of a popularity contest without having to answer the hard questions that are going to make a difference in the lives of North Carolinians." "Our university has an oppor-tunity to directly inform the vot-ers and really affect the outcome of this election," Brown contin-ued. "It is an exciting opportu-nity for the university and one we are not taking lightly." Brown and Micah Beasley, a student at UNCG and SGA Sena-tor, are responsible for the event, with Beasley making initial con-tact to the campaigns and Brown writing up the proposal. The two, with the help of Alan Buck, general manager of Spartan TV, have been working around the clock to prepare for the debate. "It has really been a group ef-fort to get this show to the stage," explained Brown. "It has not been easy. Trying to put together something of this magnitude takes a lot of hard work." The debate will begin at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, April 29, in Spartan TV's station on UNCG's campus. In addition to Brown and Beasley, Luke Mclntyre, editor-in-chief of The Carolinian will be moderat-ing the unique debate. Students attempt to reclaim democracy Cynthia Marts Staff Writer Reclaiming Democracy! A Conference as Community Con-versation. This was the title of the culmination of student proj-ects from this semester's new course, Reclaiming Democracy: Dialogue, Decision Making and Community Action. Last Saturday, students, teach-ers, and community members gathered at the Patricia A. Sul-livan Science Building, formerly the New Science Building, to view and discuss the projects put to-gether by students and teachers from the many colleges in Greens-boro through the Reclaiming De-mocracy multi-campus course. What began last fall as a hope-ful community project was shown Saturday to be a successful, in-depth course that spanned over six schools and got their students involved in their community and government. Stephen Schulman is a philoso-phy professor at Elon University, and was one of the original group who put the class together. "It's a class that we put together that was intended to put commu-nities that might not otherwise talk in a position where they not only are they talking but they're talking about something of mu-tual interest," said Schulman. "They're talking about democ-racy and they're talking about de-mocracy in Greensboro." "What we did was we had class-es and teachers from all the area's universities and colleges," agreed Spoma Jovanovic, a professor here at UNCG as well as one of the Reclaiming Democracy cre-ators. " [We asked ] what's happen-ing? How is democracy working? What do we need to do as citizens to create the conditions where people have what they need and the government is responsive to all the peoples needs? So we brought everybody together to talk about those issues." Topics ranged out of the three main groups of the Reclaiming Democracy course—Education, Human Rights, and Economic-. SEE DEMOCRACY OH PAGE TWO PHOTOS BY CYNTHIA MARTS THE CAROLINIAN ESTABLISHED 1919 VOL LXXXVIII ISSUE 30 CONTACT US the_carolinian@hotmail.com PHONE: 336-334-5752 DIRECTORY News Classifieds Corrections Opinions A&E FAX: 336-334-3518 Sport* ti »it i «.•*<< *»».... ■,NV/S\\V.(."r* *bW 2-4,18 25 5-7 8-9,19 10-13 14-16 ON THE WEB AT: _9 Bjookmarks look _sfc> f O.ftQl ■I |