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Iraq war could determine outcome of election

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In 1968 college campuses were
hotbeds of political and social ac-
tivism. with students from universities
all across America gathering to protest
the war and become the driving force
behind change.

In 2001 the situation isn't quite as
volatile. yet students are still polarized
on the issue of war and how it will af-
fect their vote cotne Nov 2.

“Naturally when a nation is at war.
the war is the most important issue.
regardless of whether it is an election
year or not." said Ricardo I~‘ebles. a
journalism and English sophomore.

It‘s an opinion Lara Johnson. a fi-
nal semester MBA student. shares.

“The war in Iraq is a tremendously
important issue in the upcoming elec»
tion because it impacts voters both di»
rectly and indirectly." she said. "It
doesn't matter whether you area mem-
ber of the armed services or a larger
part of the shifting of people. re-
sources. and credibility

Whenever there is a major foreign
policy in place. such as with the war in
Iraq. it becomes the main issue dttring
an election. said Stephen \‘oss. an asso»
ciate political science professor

"This election stands to be one of
the hardest to predict. even closer than
2000." Voss said. "It could go anywhere
with the state of the war and
the economy.

“There's no clear success
or failure with this war. we
don‘t know if the voters view
it as positive or negative.
Some view the war as a suc-
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captured Saddam. we. in
creased the level of democra-
cy in Iraq. And some view
the war as a failure no
(weapons of mass destruc-
tion) and the increasing un-
rest in the Middle East."

The war in Iraq is the sin-
gle most important issue for
.lacob Shepard. an agricul-
tural communication senior.

"It‘s because there are two definite
sides to this argument." Shepard said.
"Whether the US. should still be fight»
ing or whether we should not have
gone to Iraq in the first place.

“With other issues there is some
agreement and some disagreement.
Not with the war in Iraq it is divid»
ed?”

The war in Iraq has become the
major focus of this presidential cant-

stands

2000."

“This election .

one of the

we took over Iraq. We hardest to

' predict, even
closer than

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mom's Dolmta' does not support the war and
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paign and has preempted discussions
of domestic issues to some extent, said
Robert Olson. a Middle East and Islam-
ic history professor.
President Bush, in decid-
ing to go to war. has said Sad-
dam Hussein deceived UN.
weapons inspectors and vio-
lated several UN. resolutions.

Sen. John Kerry D-Mass..
has said going to Iraq was the
right decision. but the intelli-
gence he based his vote on
was faulty.

He also has criticized
Bush for not having a plan to
win the peace.

Independent Ralph Nader

to be

"Whether you agree or
disagree with Bush or Kerry the focus
is still on the war in Iraq." Olson said.

“Neither Kerry nor Bush wants the
war to be the central issue ~ Kerry
knows it is going to be difficult to ex-
tract the US. from the war. and Bush
didn't anticipate the strong national
resistance now facing the US. in Iraq.“

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Voter fraud does not concernelecti‘on experts

By Joe Becker and Thomas B. Edsall
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WASHINGTON President Bush's
campaign charged Wednesday that
fraudulent voting engineered by pro
Democratic groups could throw the
election to John Kerry a charge De-
mocrats immediately countered is a
Republican smokescreen to justify in~
timidating minority voters on election
day.

With less than two weeks to go tin-
til election day. reports of skulldug-
gery by both Kerry and Bush support-
ers are flying in some key battle-
ground states: A burglary that resulted
in the theft of hundreds of completed
registration forms in New Mexico. A
man paid with crack cocaine to regis-
ter fictitious voters like “Mary l‘op-
pins" in Ohio. A Coloradan who regis-
tered to vote not once. but 35 times.

In a confen'nce call with reporters
Wednesday. three top liush campaign
officials cited reports of thousands of
phony registrations from around the
country Deputy campaign manager
Mark Wallace contended that there al~
ready is evidence of “an enormous
amount of fraud" in the presidential
election.

.lack (‘orrigan. a senior advisor to
the Democratic National Committee.
called the Republicans‘ assertions
“hysterical. hijx‘ritical and false."

”They're using phony fraud claims
to keep voter turnout down and build a
smokescreen to challenges to voting
rights on Election Day." he said “We ex-
pect better from the president's cam

paign."

Despite the charges and counter
charges. however. many nonpartisan
experts said they doubt that suspect
registrations will lead to widespread il-
legal voting in the presidential elece
tion.

To a large degree. elections officials
say. the phenomena of bad registra-
tions can be attributed to the parties'
decision to outsource voter registra
tion operations to private companies
and non-profit groups who pay tempo-
rary employees for every new voter
they sign up. In essence. they said. the
problem is not fraud for partisan gain
but greed.

Steven Ansolabehere. a professor
political science at MIT and the former
director of the (‘altech-MIT Voting
Technology Project. said parties are
better off spending the money to prop
erly register supporters and then get
them to the polls.

“The ultimate check on that kind of
fraud is the difficulty of actually per»
petrating it. It takes a lot of effort to
register and vote three or four times."
he said.

It hasn‘t always been that way. Back
III the days when party organizations
were strong all the way down to the
ward levels. vote fraud was common.

l’arties aren't that organized any-
more and societal norms have
changed. said (‘ornell University polit-
ical scientist Richard Hansel.

But he said he worries that a trend
to make absentee voting easier could
once again allow parties to buy Votes

in the privacy of someone's own

home.

Bush campaign manager Ken
Mehlman Wednesday accused Democ-
ratic lawyers of a "systematic" effort
to overturn rules designed to ensure
the integrity of the election. But. in
Florida. it was the Republicans who
pushed earlier this year to eliminate a
legal mechanism that helped prosecu-
tors detect absentee ballot fraud.

Traditionally: Republicans in Flori-
da have done better with absentee bal-
lots than Democrats. The GOP-con-
trolled legislature there got rid of a re-
quirement that an absentee ballot be
witnessed that helped ferret out fraud
in a 1997 Miami-Dado mayoral race
that was eventually overturned.

“It was amazing to me that we as a
legislature would vote to make it easier
to commit that kind of fraud." said
state Rep. Dan (lelber. a Democrat and
former federal prosecutor. "They
weren't screaming about the fraud
problem then."

Democrats charge that all the talk
about fraud is really designed to pro-
vide cover for what is expected to be an
aggressive effort on the part of Repub
licans to challenge the eligibility of
Democratic voters at the polls.

In New Mexico. for instance. a
criminal task force was set up by the
Republican US. Attorney to investi-
gate widespread allegations of voter
registration fraud.

To date. said New Mexico Secretary
of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron. a Democ-
rat named to the task force. “they
haven‘t come up with anything at all."

 

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Campaign signs in Lex-
ington are being stolen.

And they‘re being
slashed. bent or vandalized.

“It’s been huge." said
Lucy Martin. volunteer coor-
dinator with the Democratic
Party of Fayette County “We
get calls every single day
from people whose signs are
being stolen. and it’s been go
ing on for a month and a
half."

The sign thefts have not
been isolated incidents, Mar-
tin said.

“I'd say it‘s extremely se-
rious just because entire
streets of signs have been
stolen." she said.

Though sign theft is a
problem during any election.
the problem is worse this
year. said Frank Schwende-
man. chairman of the Victo-
ry 2004 Republican Party of
Fayette County.

Schwendeman said about
500 signs have been stolen or
vandalized in Lexington.
which equals about seven to
eight percent of the 7,000
signs distributed. The aver-
age number of sign thefts for
other years is closer to one or
two percent, he said.

Martin said part of the
vandalism can be blamed on
this year's competitive elec-
tion.

“It‘s just such a petty
thing. and I think it shows
how nasty this election has

gotten.” she said.

Lt. Ken Stewart of the
Lexington Police said that
while they often hear about
sign thefts, they are rarely
reported.

“They don't look at it as
being a serious charge," he
said.

Stewart said that some-
one caught stealing a cam-
paign sign faces a misde-
meanor theft charge. Anyone
caught vandalizing a sign
faces a misdemeanor crimi-
nal mischief charge.

Both parties said they are
against stealing or vandaliz-
ing anyone's campaign signs.

“We strongly oppose
stealing any signs. Republi-
can or Democrat." Martin
said.

The Republicans agreed.

“I think it's such a silly
thing to think that. ‘If I wind
up with more signs than
your guy. my guy is going to
win.” Schwendeman said. “I
don't know how many people
are that shallow that they
would base their decision on
a yard sign."

Schwendeman said even
he has not been immune to
the sign troubles. His cam-
paign sign at his home on
Clays Mill Road was uproot-
ed and bent.

“It just teed me off, to be
quite frank." he said. “It’s
just a dumb thing."

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Vietnamese immigrant still
stuck in Los Angeles airport

By Amy Argetsinger

THE usamcrou Posr

LOS ANGELES The
United States had been good
to the three men. friends and
coffee farmers from rural
Vietnam who fled their coun.
try after a government crack-
down on their Christian hill-
dwelling tribe.

But after a year. they told
their sponsors. they felt a call
from God to return. And so
they started the long journey
home with more prayer than
paperwork by retracing their
steps back to the airport.

A month later. that is
where the journey for one of
them has stalled.

Since Sept. 20. the home-
sick 47-year-old refugee a
member of the Montagnard
ethnic minority has been
stranded at Los Angeles In-
ternational Airport. having
lost the travel documents
that would allow him to
board any plane departing
the United States.

He has whiled away the
hours amid the bustle of the
international terminal. sleep
ing on benches and surviving
on the meals offered by per-
plexed but sympathetic air-
port workers. He has repeat-
edly declined offers of shelter
outside the gates of LAX

“His thinking is. ‘If I
leave the airport. then no-
body will work on my prob-
lem.‘ “said Nancy Castles.
public relations director for
the city agency that runs the
nation's third busiest air-
port. “He's very smart."

Airport officials have de-
clined to provide the man’s
name or allow his face to be
photographed because of the
danger he may face at home.
where the. Montagnanls. who
fought alongside US. Special
Forces in the Vietnam War.
have long faced religious per-
secution and land grabs from
the communist government.

The three men were
among a group of 900 Montag-
nards who were flown in 2002
from Cambodian refugee
camps to North Camlina A,
already home to 3.000 to 5m0

Montagnard immigrants,
drawn there over the years by
a supportive community of
retired military and social
service groups.

But in 2003. the three an-
nounced plans to return to
Vietnam —-» something that
resettlement agency officials
had never known to happen
before.

“They only understood
that they wanted to go back.”
said Cira Ponce. director of
Charlotte's Catholic Social
Services refugee resettle-
ment program. “They didn‘t
necessarily understand the
complexity of how that oc-
curs They thought they
should just be able to get on a
plane and get back."

Somehow: they made it to
LAX. On Sept. 20. they tried
to board a flight to Ho Chi
Minh City by way of Taipei
but were denied passage be-
cause they lacked visas.

After several days, air-
port workers started to no-
tice these travelers who nev-
er seemed to leave.

Castles said the men were
sent first to a city shelter, then
to a Vietnamese community
assistance group several
miles outside Los Angeles.
where they stayed for a few
days. Then. “boom. they just
showed back up." she said.

Afier another several days.
two of the men apparently so
cured visas that would allow
them to enter Cambodia.

But the 47-yearold man re
mained at LAX. At some point
he had lost a package contain-
ing all of his money and docu-
ments. most importantly the
papers proving his refugee
status in the United States.

On Monday. Castles
learned that the man can ap-
ply for a new refugee permit
but that it will take at least so
days to process. To get the
documents. though. he will
need a mailing address. And
so he has reluctantly agreed
to move. possibly within a
few days. to a temporary
home in the Los Angeles
shelter where he can receive
those crucial papers in the
mail.

 

 

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Oct. 21, 2004
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Head chef and co-owner Muhmoud Najef Ahmed of Lexington describes the Oasis version of shawarma. The restaurant is located in Chevy Chase near
Trump's Bar and Grill and offers a relaxed atmosphere and a variety of unique Mediterranean-style dishes.

Chevy Chase a Mediterranean ‘Oasis’

Oasis Restaurant is the place my taste
buds have been searching for.

After thousands of hamburgers and
pizza slices. while my mouth has been
longing for something more. my brain
has been too afraid to explore new terri»
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Located at 868 Ii.
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The 11! tables and
booths are accented
with small hanging
lanterns and mosaic»
style. bell-shaped lights that add to the
cozy and intimate atmosphere The walls
are painted beige and UK blue. and the
floor is black-and-white checkered

Pictures of exotic places with palm
trees and religious scenes hang on the
wall. and the windows are covered With
white Sheers that have small blue flowers
embroidered on them,

The patrons were dressed casually
and included hospital employees dressed
in scrubs. a family of six. and two coir
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()nce seated. my companions and I
enjoyed the pita bread and hummus that
the server provided with our drinks. For-
tunately for me. the menu was complete
with color pictures and detailed descrip
tions of each item

We ordered the Oasis platter: ()ne
kafta skewer. one beef kabob skewer. one
chicken kabob skewer. chicken and beef
shawarma. two falafels. two kibbies. two
grape leaves. rice and a fattoush salad.

'l‘he fattoush salad consisted of ro-
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radishes. onions. parsley and pieces of
crunchy. toasted pita tossed in a lemon
Juice and olive oil diessing.

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The falafels and kibbies were the
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hushpuppies but they taste distinctly
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The menu said that the platter would
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last week: 6-1

Auburn 30, UK 7

Purdue 27, Michigan 24
Georgia 27, Arkansas 24
Oklahoma State 28. Missouri 21
Texas 28, Texas Tech 27

Miami 31, N.C. State 27

Kansas State 30. Nebraska 28

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last week: 6-1

Auburn 77, UK 0

Purdue 27, Michigan 23
Georgia 28, Arkansas 21
Missouri 17, Oklahoma State 14
Texas 23, Texas Tech 21

Miami 38, NC. State 21
Kansas State 30, Nebraska 24

Tim Wiseman (3445)

last week: 4-3

Auburn 28. UK 6

Purdue 40, Michigan 34
Georgia 20, Arkansas 14
Missouri 17, Oklahoma State 16
Texas 24, Texas Tech 22

Miami 35, N.C. State 20
Kansas State 18, Nebraska 6

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last week: 3-4

Auburn 65, UK 3

Purdue 28, Michigan 17
Georgia 35, Arkansas 14
Oklahoma State 24, Missouri 21
Texas 42, Texas Tech 35

Miami 28, N.C. State 17

Kansas State 21, Nebraska 10

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Purdue 37, Michigan 24
Georgia 27, Arkansas 14
Missouri 21, Oklahoma State 13
Texas 23, Texas Tech 21

Miami 38, N.C. State 13

Kansas State 17, Nebraska 12

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Wisconsin 27, Northwestern 13
Purdue 21, Michigan 20
Georgia 31, Arkansas 27
Oklahoma State 24, Missouri 20
Texas 41, Texas Tech 30

Miami 30, N.C. State 21

Kansas State 17, Nebraska 13

Steve Ivey (32-17)

last week: 3-4

Auburn 77, UK 3

Purdue 35. Michigan 24
Georgia 28, Arkansas 7
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Emily Hagedorn, Editor in chief Steve Ivey, Managing editor
Andrew Martin, Opinions editor Josh Sullivan, Stall columnist
Ben Roberts, Asst. Opinions editor Sara Cunningham, Projects editor
Rebecca Neal. Asst. managing editor for news lim Wiseman, Sports editor

 

 

 

Gay marriage ban destroys civil rights

In less than two weeks. voters in
Kentucky have the choice of amending the
state constitution to ban gay marriage and
civil unions.

Any such changes. whether on the state
or federal level, must be of great import to
society.

The state constitution has only been
amended twice in the past 10 years relating to
social issues. But the initiative to ban gay
marriage and civil unions this election year
doesn't hold the social necessity demanded of
such a decision.

The initiative reads: “Are you in favor ol
amending the Kentucky (‘onstitiition to pro
vide that only a marriage between one man
and one woman shall be a marriage in
Kentucky. and that a legal status identical to
or similar to marriage for unmarried individ-

% Q&A Ben Carter

uals shall not be valid or recognized?” According to a poll conducted by the ried couples, not just those in committi
In an ideal society. marriage Would be a Louisville (‘oru‘ier-Journal last month. nearly homosexual relationships. Aman and worn;
wholly religious institution. individual 70 percent of those in the Commonwealth who choose not to be married wouldalso
churches would be the sole support the amendment. denied any legal rights of a married couple
organization to determine " 7 Also in the poll. the Churches already have the right todeci-
who should be married The Kentucky legislature's Courier-Journal reported, whether to perform the religious ceremoni
and who shouldn't. . . a majority of those voting related to marriage. But when two people ct
But ill the l'nited proposed constitutional for the amendment did go to thecourthouseand signapieceof pap
States. there are various . not know any gays or les- that holds the full legal force of a religiOI
legal and economic coir amendment banning gay bians. sacrament. government and its citizei
cerlis tied to marriage star . Kentucky is a tradi- should not invalidate a segment of its popul
ins. marriage OVEFSlepS the tionally conservative tion and deny them the rights of everym
(inly legally recog- state. and voters are con— else.
nixed spouses are granted bounds Of government cerned with maintaining Gays and lesbians care for partners wit
hospital visitation and , . . . ,,,, the sanctity of marriage. health problems. They raise children toget
inheritance rights. But the second half of er. They live as free Americans.
Unmarried couples are also often not coveted the amendments language does more than Amending the state constitution woul
under health insurance benefitsof their part legislate traditional family values. It would make homosexuals secondclass citizens l
ners. sanction discrimination against any unmar- the eyes of the law.

Marriage amendment
- , ,, .. a step back for Kentucky

 

Student Government Senator On Nov. 2. Kentucky voters will be asked to sanctio

the concept of marriage as being between one man an
one woman.
Missouri has already cast its It
with cultural conservatives. and th
Bluegrass State is expected to vote th
same.
The so-called Gay Marriag
Amendment is a pre-emptive strik
designed to curtail the future rights (
millions of Americans. The measure :
discriminatory in nature, and that alon
" deserves to ensure its failure.
Edward But there is more to this story tha
Que“ simply irresponsible pandering and til
KENNEL COlUNNIST bigotry of those who possess no expect:
tions for those who subscribe to an alte:
native lifestyle.

Liberals and progressives either deride or lamei
those who continue to believe marriage should always t:
composed of one man and one woman. usually in thz
order. But I fear that even the more enlightened indivii
uals do not fully comprehend the issue.

Intellectual conservatism has dominated America
thought and political discourse for the better part of
quarter-century. and its influence has grown with tr
submission of the current administration.

Their successes since 1980 have proven quite impo
tant. specifically in the area of the chief executive an
the federal judiciary.

 

 

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sent a change from the norm ~--there is far less societ:
dissent