Debates will make little
impact, professor says
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One exception was Chris
Herron, si junior marketing major,
who said he did not watch the de
bates because he was studying few a
test.
Herron said the debate might
have affected his decision between
Clinton or Dole.
Unlike Herron, Sittig said, most
voters have either already made, or
are close to making, their choice.
With the debates coming so late in
the campaign season, voters have
had time to make up their minds.
With Dole’s lag in the polls,
Sittig said, he expected the Repub
lican challenger to be much more
aggressive and expected the debate
to be “bombastic.” The debate was,
at times, gentlemanly, with both can
didates saying they liked each other
personally.
“I didn’t anticipator expect^
that,” Sittig said. “That it wasn’t
(turbulent) doesn’t disappoint me.
“I am sure Dole was more re
strained than some of his handlers
wanted him to be.”
With the nextdebate a little more
than a week away—and Dole more
than 12 points behind in most polls
— Sittig said Dole might be more
aggressive in the next debate.
History is not on Dole’s side,
Sittig slid, because candidates be
hind in the polls have never turned
an election around by an aggressive
debate performance.
However, with the election in the
“23rd hour,” Sittig said, Dole would
have to take more chances and be
more wide open in the debate.
“I am sure the temptation will
be there.”
Campus groupiaiftis to ‘write’ wrongs
Write a letter, save a life.
These are the words members of
Amnesty International believe in.
They mean trying to assure the
rightful treatment of “world citizens”
and enabling them to have basic hu
man rights.
And it means a lot of writing.
Each Wednesday at 7:30 p.m.,
UNL’s Amnesty International chapter
convenes for its regular meeting where
it writes letters to those governments,
organizations or governmental figures
i playing a part in violating human
rigtes. *
This seme^er the group focuses on
Turkey.wherelhe Turidsh government
. is continually violating human rights,
said Lisa Sock, president of Amnesty
International’s University of Ne
braska-Lincoln chapter. _
Sock said the Turidsh government
was guilty of denying people the right
to a fair and speedy trial and creating
inhumane prison conditions.
She said the letters Amnesty Inter
national members write are aimed at a
variety of Turkish sources, including
the media, prime minister and mental
institutions.
Sock said Amnesty International
tends to focus its letter-writing cam
paigns on one main topic for a period
of time, and then switches to another
one out of necessity.- ,
“Next spring we’ll probably be fo
cusing on refugees in general, mainly
those within the United States,” Sock
said.
She said the United States had been
scrutinized for the number of refugees
it allows within its borders.
the success of past Amnesty Inter
“Several of ourmeanbers haxejgpt
ten back feplies ini
ity, but when it i
feel like writing 100 letters.
Bereuter tells students their votes count
BEREUTER from page 1
But Bereuter stressed his commit
ment to reducing the debt and there
fore stimulating the economy as his
most important obligation to students.
“Mostly we need to keep the
economy very much alive,” he said. “Or
when they move into the work force
after graduation, they won’t have as
great opportunities as they would in a
vibrant economy.”
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