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THE INDEPENDENT DAILY AT DUKE UNIVERSITY
ONE HUNDREDTH YEAR, ISSUE 19
Campaigns target college-age voters by
Seyward Darby THE CHRONICLE
From the confetti-dusted stages of the national party conventions and college auditoriums across the country, to hip Internet blogs and online chatrooms, this year’s presidential candidates are making two facts increasingly clear as Election Day approaches: the young vote could be crucial 2004—and they want it. Both President George W. IflA/i Bush and his rival Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., are using various strategies to recruit the nation’s youngest voters—18 to 24-yearolds. The candidates are shining a public spotlight on their own children, presenting them at the national conventions and other campaign events as the fresh faces of their political parties as they attempt to appeal to college-age voters. In an effort to attract young voters via technology and peer-to-peer contact, both campaigns also main-
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paign. “Everyone’s overarching goal is that youth get involved and actively participating.” Courting the 18 to 24-year-old vote, however, has not always been a top priority on candi-
dates’ campaign agendas. The voting bloc’s historically poor turnout on Election Day has discouraged Democrats and Republicans alike from investing their funds and energies in youth outreach. According to research from the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, the voting rate of young people has sunk 13 percent since 1972, when the newly adopted 26th Amendment lowered the voting age from 21 to 18. Participation has not crossed the 50 percent mark since 1992. But the highly-contested SEE VOTERS ON PAGE 8
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If all goes according to plan, Cameron Crazies won’t be celebrating New Year’s Eve in
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Head Line Monitor Steve Rawson plans to implement several major policy changes for the upcoming basketball season, including the creation of a stricter opening tenting phase called Black Tenting, the establishment of a line monitor tent and a switch to camp out for Duke’s matchup against Wake Forest instead of the University of Maryland. The shake-up of the infrastructure, which Duke Student Government will formally vote on Sept. 26, originated in an effort to return fervor and fairness to K-ville. “We are doing everything we can to make K-ville more exciting, so it regains—if it ever lost it—the feeling of a center of student activity, rather than a ritualistic tradition,” Rawson said. Black Tenting, the demanding new initial period to pre-
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Students last year pass the time in K-ville awaiting tenting games. This year, DSG hopes to change policies so that tenting will begin later than it has in years past. cede Blue Tenting, is supposed to be strict enough that it deters students from returning early from winter break to begin tenting without compromising the first-come, first-serve foundation of K-ville with a definite starting date. Students may participate in Black Tenting anytime before Jan. 10 or 11—the start ofBlue Tenting. The new set-up will require
Six in the morning may seem early for most college students to wake up, let alone work out. But for some students and employees, the front door of the Wilson Recreational Center rings a much louder bell than the alarm clock every morning as they hurry to use the treadmill or lift weights before heading to 8:30 classes and early meetings. As Lee Tucker, administrative coordinator of Health, Physical Education and Recreation, prepares to step into the role of department director, he is considering a number of changes for the Wilson Center, including an extension of the facility’s operating hours. Working closely with Dean of Students Sue Wasiolek, Tucker is familiarizing himself with the gym’s administration and is
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tents to house 10 students each
night and eight students each day and will allow no grace peri-
ods other than for home basketball games and weather catastrophes. Failure to meet these standards will result in the tent’s inability to rejoin the line until after Blue Tenting begins. The plan aims to address SEE
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James David Barber, the political scientist who revolutionized America’s perception of its presidents and challenged Duke’s attitude toward its faculty, died at his Durham home Sunday. He was 74. Barber left Yale University for Duke in 1972, the same year he published The Presidential Character: Predicting Performance in the White House, which brought him and Duke’s political science department national attention. By the timeBarber facedAlzheimer’s disease and retired in 1995, he had already championed.faculty governance, shot down the possibility for Richard Nixon’s presidential library to be established at Duke and butted plenty of heads in sticking by his principles. “He was fun, funny, humane and willing to stand up for things that he thought were right and proper,” said political science professor Tom Spragens, who worked
with Barber during his tenure In The Presidential Character, Barber said a candidate’s character, worldview and political style “resonates with the political situation the President faces.” The predictive approach and its psychological undertones had particular relevance to Nixon’s ensuing scandal and maintained its appeal as the book went through four editions and Barber became an everyday media pundit. “[The book] was important in assessing our presidents and helping journalists leant how to evaluate presidents. The w'hole range of qualities you look for in a president, David had a very unique perspective on that,” said Rep. David Price, D-N.C., who read drafts of The Presidential CharacterwhWe Barber was his dissertation advisor at Yale before Barber recruited Price to become a political science and public policy professor at Duke. SEE BARBER ON PAGE 6