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Debate < thumbs By John Vauyhan Staff Writer The final speaker in x uui onaj ingiil S Ol'llisn Union debate compared the selection of a president to the selection of what college to attend, because "both are going to affect our lives for the next four years.'' Whether Jimmy Carter should be re-elected was the question at this year's first British Union debate, which drew a crowd of almost 500 to Capstone's Campus Room. At the debate's conclusion, tho '? - HIV mmu.lin. V UlUU uy exiting through either the "pro" door or the "con" door,- where tallies were taken. Two hundred twenty voted for Carter's reelection, and 236 voted against it. Moderator Carter Kyle compared the large crowd to the turnout for a debate last year concerning the draft. THE FIRST SPEAKER in support of Carter, Mark Swofford, said Carter should be given a second term because "Ronald Reagan is not fit to be president of the United States," Joyce Roundy, the first speaker against the president, criticized Carter's family. After the debate, a group of Carter supporters described Roundy as "woefully ineffectual," 4U?4 ~1 -1 11 -I ' lustiug uicii sue ueau almost | exclusively with sarcasm and not with facts. Roundy lost some of her supporters near the con- ! elusion of her speech when she said, "The United States has fallen in esteem - even if it has kept us out of war!" She was loudly booed by Carter supporters, and many anti-Carter people did not applaud this comment. COURTNEY fAI.MRS speaking for Carter's side in her first debate, seemed to be the most successful of the debaters. She compared Carter's caliber of leaderi New Y ...Collar Si icnnc on Ra A half hour < Will): I in 1/ in ( :l< rs< 'i 1./< >/)/) A l( I iri( Ic Kim (:i!)l(ii Up lo ihe mil News troi 1 ISPOR d (('///): | .limnnj Mink I I Mine (:h( >ni( i .////) Corlx'ii 7 l)(HH'\Vo(>icJ audienc* down tc ship with that of Harry Truman, saying that Reagan doesn't have the "cool head" needed to solve foreign affairs problems. Calmes recalled that earlier this year me repuDiican advocated a blockade of Cuba when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. She also mentioned republican vice presidential candidate George Bush's dissension with his running mate's policies, noting that "George Bush has said that Ronald Reagan's desire to unleash the major oil companies is 'unsupportable.'" Calmes also attacked the Kemp-Roth bill, saying, "According to George The GAMECOCK is the student newspaper of the University of Souti: Carolina and is published three times a week on Mondays. 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