The Carolinian [April 29, 2008]

              Apr.29-May5,2008
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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
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