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Rosalind Harve
Kiki McCormick
Marcus Amake
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maries? If not, are There are
you planning to vote people use
on November 3? We ^
hope you are nodding HHHhb
"yes" to one or both of
these questions. tWe
know it's
hard, especially for
those whose precincts are miles
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vote with an absentee ballot. Make
sure to plan ahead if you choose
that option, though. Richland
County's Voter Registration recommends
that you request a ballot by
October 1st in order to get your vote
in on time; call your county's office
early this fall to ensure that youll
have your ballot when you need it.
Of course, there are obstacles
other than distance that keep college
students from voting. Some
are simply apathetic. Others think
their vote doesn't really count, a
notion we reject as rather silly
fatalism. Some races are closer
than you think; your vote could
truly help your candidate to be
elected. When a candidate you
helped elect makes policies that you
believe in, you will be glad you
made yourself heard. And if that
same candidate does something
with which do not approve, you
have a legitimate reason to call in
and complain.
There is yet another reason that
people don't vote, a reason that is
difficult to address, because it
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lot to vote
While this problem
has innumerable
many excuses causes, we think
for not voting. part of the issue
starts with the fact
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pncier tisements for candi%
' dates. That isn't a
problem until you
consider the fact that many of those
ads don't include information about
the candidates, unless you call
party association and possibly a slogan
information.
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encourage us to vote for a candidate
without offering us any good reason.
The candidates hope that we,
the voters, will recognize their
names on the ballots and therefore
vote them into office. Isn't it scary
people might vote based on name
recognition alone? We fear that this
tactic might work; candidates obviously
believe it does or they wouldn't
invest in the signs.
Ideally, each citizen would come
to the voting booth armed with pertinent
information about the candidates,
so he or she can make
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take the initiative to learn about
them on our own, but our research
needs to be facilitated by the candidates
themselves. Candidates
should use the money they pour
into tacky roadside signs on more
meaningful tools. They could invest
in literature that explains their
positions in detail. Then, voting
will be based on something more
than name recognition.
uccurs iui so many ainerent reasons.
It can be characterized as a
general disgust with the system.
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beach house, I saw an old picture
of myself from the eighties. I can't
pinpoint
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to reminisce about the tackiest
decade to date, but to illustrate the
sort of travesty that occurs when I
try to be trendy.
In recent years, I've paid very little
attention to fashion trends. I don't
read women's magazines or watch
TV, so I'm pretty much out of the loop
wnere iasnion is concerned. i only
notice that which is "in" if, say, every
girl on campus seems to be wearing a
certain item. Such was the case with
the chunky high heeled black shoes
that seem to be so popular right now.
I never would have bought a pair
if I hadn't experienced a rare
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moment of insecurity, coupled with
an even rarer full checking account.
These two oddities occurred at the
same moment, when l round m my
mailbox both my tax return and an
invitation to my ex-boyfriend's wedding.
Never mind that Fve been married
for nearly two years. The idea of
an old boyfriend being officially
taken is still weird.
This, after all, is the guy who
begged me to run away with him up
until the day before my own wedding;
the guy who tried to make me
promise to marry him if my marriage
didn't work out.
I had to wonder, who is this fabulous
girl who could make him forget
about me? Is she prettier than me?
Nicer than me? Smarter? Somehow,
I came to the conclusion that she
must just have better fashion sense.
So, after depositing my tax
return, I went shopping. I bought a
few dresses, tops, a bathing suit and
a pair of the aforementioned chunky
high heeled black shoes.
Then, I planned a trip to the
beach (where my ex had moved, supposedly
to withdraw from life and
become a hermit, after I married).
I was going to meet this girl, and
I was not going to do it in cutoffs and
my favorite pair of sandals, which are
not in fact a pair, but are leftovers
"I'd like to think this would be an
introduction to the real world."
Dr. John Safko, professor of
self-pgced astronomy course
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from two similarly styled pairs that
have each lost a member.
It was on my way to the restaurant
to meet my ex and his fiance
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really hurt, but I met the fiance anyway
(she was prettier than me and
nicer too).
I was just fine until I turned my
ankle again. Yes, that's right, I put
the shoes back on after injuring
myself the first time. Oh, well, at
least my ex was amused.
My poor husband wasn't amused,
though, after four hours in a Florence
hospital with a whining wife and our
antsy baby.
We had tried to makfe it home to
Columbia, but the pain got so bad
that I was displaying mannerisms
that, according to my husband, I hadn't
shown since giving birth.
Six x-rays later, the doctors couldn't
find any broken bones, so I was
sent home with a pair of crutches and
an Ace Danaage. l leit a little guilty,
having wasted so much of my husband's
time for what was diagnosed
as a bruised foot.
I didn't go home with a cast to
show for this experience, but I sure
got a good lesson: it is, in fact, better
to feel good than to look good. I am
determined that this experience will
remain my last foray into fashion
consciousness. Unless, of course, jelly
bracelets come back in style.