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6 ''' ' '' ty/Z/'"/ WM t$?; r' M ' ftli* ? ' s:i; ?f? ' : . m?s?^ . Iilli:f. :(;:; - " - ' " v-: 4/'- " ' ! i '/ /'' # Ci i ?r^TawiyrAWmTk ED | H/ht/H f 6 j or some students, elections offer! \'( a clian^p fr> fViinlr ahniit fVw ' aspirations and possible futures ir Freshman Sally Under n Q interested in politics because sh to "try to better society as a who Sophomore Jenny Malizi help change "women activisi ?^4 local level. I have some pretty strong idej Nl "7"* how things are now," she said. ^4 "Z\ Graduate student Rhett Power is i ) for a S.C. House seat in district' Cy always had an interest in politics, \ always followed it," Power said ^ \ 'yfik \ The motivating factor that I wtfp involved in politics was a phone / /// Mill1' ^ P^ace(^ t? Hie man he is r / ill/iim m V "Tm on the State Board of tl / IIH P jjilfk Club," Power said. "I wanted I 1 ll\ l m about the nuclear waste dum / % /iy Barnwell facility, and the gi I '< | |j? UP on me- He didn't even tal ? didn't cari * tj 'y A\\\\\f J P?w( " running fc under a three-prong platform. \\\\\\y "First and foremost, we must close the ] T dump. If s just bad public polity. The dump was s . t w % to generate money for our schools, but the mon '' not ^iere ^ ^ was supposed to be. We have to st if | "flu#-* [the people] from the attack that Republicai if made on our environment. It would break lo 11MK state governments to enforce that legislation. I wi|]l 1$ "Next, we need to find new ways to fund ed ff Iffhk I'm endorsed by the teacher's association bee my commitment to education. ? ">8/ "Third, we need campaign finance reforr _T are these people accountable to? It was very im ? . V;| : aggSr *' m I HI 1 rnJ^m W IflHHlll^l^^l^ k. HH H HH ni^H B? SB IB H c. im ifOW U.D f \M( bv Mork Tirqs, 5tqff Wnivr students to us not to take PAC money. We wanted an old- s ; i r o w n fashioned, grass-roots campaign." i politics. Malizia thinks her campaign platform would center i wood is on "a commitment to a quality. We also need to help ( e wants people understand that 'equal rights' does not necessarily 1 ile." mean 'special rights'." a wants Malizia, a political science major, realizes that if 1 n at the she is going to pursue politics as about after graduation, she will "have to start with something at the t(-.. . . running local level and then work my way 'OreiO 75. "I've up, so that I can learn the ropes." ClOS6 the MICle< and I've Underwood thinks she will illSt bad Dllblic adopt a liberal platform if she . got him ever pursues a political career. uUITip W 3 S SU callthat Tm reallya moderate right generate HlOff unning now, but the liberal platform has schools but the a lot more weight in society," she . ? ' .. ie Sierra said KOt there like it W I to talk Underwood outlined her plan for tO be. We have t p at the getting involved in politics. Ithg rtOODlel f rnr ay hung "Fm a double major in political .. . .. p .. ktome. science and criminal justice. After tnat ine KepUDI i h e n I I graduate, I'll either go to law made On Olir en\l the just school or graduate school for would break lOC s about criminal justice. After that, I'll _ . . probably go to the FBI for a little gOVemnientS 10 I i when I while and pursue political office legislation." get into whenever Tm done with the FBL" Power All three were asked which ygQ _r ought I offices they felt to be realistic rrnolci . U^bV^l gUCUO. I "I really think I can go 5 r is wherever I want to with this," Power said. "The tl >r office Democratic Party has really opened its doors to us. It will take me a while to go anywhere from here because o nuclear I have things I want to accomplish at the state level ti upposed first." c e^s just Power feels that there is no limit to how high anyone jfeguard can ascend on the political ladder. a ns have "To use a cliche, the sky's really the limit." F cal and Malizia agreed. tl "I think that you can't try to reach too high too fast," ucation. she said. "But if you start small, you can work your b :ause of way up." e Underwood thinks that "all congressional offices p n. Who are realistic" for her. portant Power encouraged anyone interested in politics to iMtok ai 4 * * wm \ ?ii^l M" l^KmmfmMm ft v ^^ftM - |M I i jKk qjm Mim lwrWr\ Wwrfr mm m wmamm iflj . <f Wednesday, November 6, 1996 mim bt/... f start getting involved. "Work hard and be involved with student government md organizations. Being involved prepared me for my :ampaign. Get involved in local and state campaigns, foung kids played a vital part in this campaign." Power says that, win or lose on election day, "this las been a tremendous learning experience into the inner workings of state government. It's amazing the * net urn mnct influences and pressures thatl QSt, WB mUSI are pUt on these people." ir dump. It's Although these and other policy. The students consider a career in ". . politics possible, most Americans PPOSefl 10 do not want their children to be ley for our president, according to a KnightmOney'S JUSt Ridder newspaper poll, me cnnnncod Many Americans consider SUppOSeo the Oval Office a dreadful place o safeguard to work and believe the president n the attack ^ ^ess fluence than journalists, ( liranc haiie iawmaKers 311(1 ^DDyists, | reported the Miami Herald, which ifOnmCnt. It published the poll. al and State ^ P?U surveyed 1,002 ? . *i * registered voters between Sept. enforce that 3 and 15 _ about two months before Americans went to the Rhett Power, polls. aduate student Sixty-three percent of respondents said they would not want their child to become president, and 32 percent said hey would. Five percent had no opinion. Respondents said the president has the least influence | ver the issues Americans wanted their presidents to ackle ? drugs, crime, education and the guidance of hildren. "The presidency has been weakened. It's not quite s strong and all-powerful as it was," Larry Hugick of Vinceton Survey Research Associates, which conducted he poll, told the Herald. When asked what they would prefer their child to e, parents chose doctor, professor, minister, governor, arpenter, mayor, lawyer, professional athlete and olice officer over the presidency as professions. -College Press Exchange contributed to this article ' life ' HH A si - Y i w 111?: ... : - : ff f *, fg ?pi ' * '