F R I D A Y NOV. 5, 2004 Vol. 126, No. 28
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‘Most important election’ finally over n Bush victory inspires range of emotions in students
Assembly Series panel discusses election aftermath By Angela Markle Contributing Reporter
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Lynne Cheney, left, Vice President Dick Cheney, President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush wave to supporters following the President’s victory speech in Washington, D.C., after defeating Sen. John Kerry. By Liz Neukirch Senior News Editor Polls leading up to the election indicated a close race where either candidate could bring home a victory—however, many Washington University students expressed surprise that incumbent George W. Bush won this year’s presidential race, even though they recognized weaknesses in challenger John Kerry’s campaign. “I’m baffled about why Bush won,” said senior Diana Strumbos. Nonetheless, she said that she felt Kerry might have been a poor choice of candidate for the Democrats because “he’s not energized or charismatic and he has little appeal to the Midwestern voter.” This observation seemed to ring true: final results showed Bush coming out ahead in the South and key parts of the Midwest like Ohio, while Kerry picked up his portion of the electorate on the East and West coasts. “I want to move to a coast,” senior Tom Souhlas said in response to this trend. “I want to
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expatriate.” Other students, however, were not shocked by the president’s victory. “I think it came down to Bush running a more effective, more positive campaign,” said Adam Ralko, vice president of College Republicans. “The Kerry campaign reached some lows toward the end, such as Kerry’s comment about Cheney’s daughter in the third debate… I think decency and dignity still matter to people.” College Republicans President Jackie Graves added that Democrats may have underestimated the president’s support base. “I think that the Kerry campaign underestimated the support base that President Bush had and the massive grassroots effort that went on in the days leading up to the election,” Graves said. Amy Overington, vice president of College Democrats, also offered an explanation of the president’s victory.
Moderated by political science professor Jim Davis, Wednesday’s Assembly Series brought together professors from several different disciplines to discuss the election’s outcome and to answer students’ questions about the topic. In addition to Davis, the town-hall panel consisted of two other faculty members from the Department of Political Science, as well as other professors in the fields of history, social welfare, and medicine. Political science professors Bill Lowry and Andrew Sobel as well as history professor Leslie Brown also participated, along with Mark Rank, professor of social welfare, and Will Ross, associate dean for diversity and professor in the renal division of the School of Medicine. Drawing a moderately sized crowd made up of students, faculty and local residents, “The Day After: A Town Hall Meeting on the 2004 Presidential Election” covered topics ranging from the moral issues of the election to the viability of a third-party candidate’s being elected in the near future. To open the discussion, each panelist gave a brief comment about how they perceived the situation thus far. “I’m not a Bush supporter—I’m not an enthusiastic Kerry supporter, but I’m certainly not a Bush supporter,” said Professor Leslie Brown, echoing the tone of many voters in the election. Brown went on to speak about the racial breakdown of votes as well as the way voters seemed aligned with Bush’s anti–gay marriage views. She said she hopes to see Democrats return in the new few years to what she considers their base agenda: economic policy. Lowry spoke next, focusing on the “realignment galvanized by Sept. 11, 2001” that he sees in our nation today. He explained that the trauma of Sept. 11 drove voters to seek a candidate with strong moral values. In an
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Last week 15 candidates ran for the seven Arts & Sciences Student Union (SU) Senate positions, while no students chose to run for the School of Architecture’s or Olin School of Business’ fall term positions. Because of this, business junior Josh Spry and architecture sophomore Geoff Salvatore won SU positions they were not running for. Both earned seats in the SU Senate as write-in candidates with a combined total of five votes. The SU Senate appears untroubled by these numbers. According to junior Pam Bookbinder, both the small size of the schools and the other opportunities open to business and architecture students deterred students from running. Bookbinder, the outgoing speaker of the Senate, was not surprised by the low turnout. “Obviously these schools have a lot fewer students,” said Bookbinder. “I can’t even remember a time when someone from architecture had votes in the double digits.” Bookbinder does not see this low turnout as having a negative effect on the Senate. Instead, she still thinks that “they’ll do a great job.” “Although a fewer number of people voted them in, I defi nitely think they’ll be going back to the schools saying, ‘We represent you, what are your concerns?’” The newly elected senator Spry plans to take the opportunity to change the image of Senate in the Business School. “I was surprised,” said Spry, “I think I’ll take it seriously
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regardless of how I got it. I can hopefully use it to improve the school, both the University and business school.” Spry attributed the low turnout among the business school to the many opportunities open to such students. “Personally, as a Business School student, I think there are a lot of opportunities to do a lot of student things,” said Spry. “Like any college student, there are various interests.” Spry feels that other opportunities draw more interest. “I think that [it’s] easier to be more interested in the things that your friends or classmates are doing. [With] only 200 people per class, when you’re taking the same classes with these people you get to be good friends. I think it just might be more of a natural mechanism that you do things with your friends.” Spry noted that the recent restructuring of SU into the separate branches of Senate and Treasury could have also had an impact on this year’s election. Sophomore Ben Pasquier, a current business school senator, cites this as a prime reason for the low business school interest in the Senate election. “A business student who is thinking about Student Union, they think, ‘Should I join Treasury or Senate?” said Pasquier. “They have to ask themselves the question, ‘Would I rather work with numbers and budgeting or policy?’ I think a lot of business school students’ answer is treasury.” Although the Business School did not have a large turnout in the Senate election, Pasquier emphasized that stu-
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The Olin School of Business began looking for a new dean shortly after current dean Stuart Greenbaum announced his intent to relinquish the position at the end of this academic year. The search includes a wide spectrum of candidates, from current business school faculty to government employees. In addition, the new dean may specialize in any number of business-related fields. All constituencies of the business school have had an opportunity to Dean Greenbaum give input to those on the advisory committee, and the search is now in the stage of assembling a list of candidates to present to Chancellor Mark Wrighton, who asked the committee to present a list of three to five fi nalists by December 15. “We’re looking for traditional candidates—people who have come up through the university process, or who have tenure and are research types,” said Director of Non-Degree Executive Programs Kenneth Bardach. “We may be looking at people from industry or the government—and we are actively seeking women and minority candidates.” Bardach added that the committee is not limiting the search to candidates within the U.S. “We’re looking abroad,” he said. Additionally, the search will soon involve an outside headhunting fi rm, though members of the committee would only say that two fi rms—one recognized nationally, and another recognized internationally—are the fi nalists for consideration. Student Union President David Ader, the undergraduate student on the advisory
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committee, said the group asked for input on both the challenges of the position and qualities the committee should seek out in potential candidates. “There were two main questions we asked,” he said. “What do you see as the most important opportunities and challenges facing the next dean, and what are the necessary and desirable qualities the search committee should be looking for?” Students responded to the questions through meetings of the undergraduate business council as well as through surveys. “The same thing students are looking for everywhere is degree value,” Ader said. “Sort of being able to go out into the workforce and have the Olin School recognized, which is very similar to any other school.” Students also asked for “generally good leadership qualities,” and someone who could “make everyone feel valued, who has vision for the school.” Ader expressed satisfaction with the feedback from students. “We had a 14 percent response rate on the surveys, which is a pretty good turnout, although it could always be better,” Ader said. Bardach agreed that the Olin community is very interested in the progress of the committee. “People really talked openly and passionately about the way they saw the school,” he said of a town hall meeting held among Olin faculty. “There’s a sense that we’re at that stage—it’s time to move to the next level.” Joel Seligman, dean of the law school, said there was at least one similarity in the business school’s search to the search that ended in his being named dean of the School of Law. “There are top-rate outside consultants who are participating in the process,” Seligman said. “And it is a very wide and very determined search.” Professor William Peck, a former dean of the School of Medicine, is also on the business school’s search committee. Professor Anjan Thakor, the John E. Simon Professor of Finance, is the chair of the committee but could not be reached for comment.
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