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Vol. CXXXVII, No. 6
October 3, 2012
Serving The College of New Jersey community since 1885
Barack Obama vs. Mitt Romney
By Christopher Rightmire Nation & World Editor
By Christopher Rightmire Nation & World Editor
For an American President used to dealing with international crises and speaking with world leaders, having to sit down to prepare for a debate is apparently “a drag,” as President Obama said to a political volunteer, according to the Huffington Post. “The ability to find solid blocks of time to do nothing but prepare for debate is almost impossible for the president,” Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, added in a statement to the New York Times. “The world doesn’t wait for debate prep.” Despite his busy presidential schedule, Obama has gone to Las Vegas for three days to cram for Wednesday’s debate with his debate team that consists of veteran Democratic operatives and inner-circle White House advisers, like David Axelrod and David Plouffe. Read more at tcnjsignal.net
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Background Before becoming president, Obama served as a U.S. senator, representing the state of Illinois.
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Background Romney served as the governor of Massachusetts before trying his hand in the 2008 presidential campaign.
2012 Presidential Debate Wednesday, Oct.3, at 9:30 p.m.
While Barack Obama has found some time to hunker down and prepare for Wednesday in his Las Vegas debate headquarters, Mitt Romney has been devoutly preparing for this moment since June, according to the New York Times. His dedication to debate preparation was visible when he had a problem with a charter plane that kept him out until after midnight and his adviser, Beth Myers, asked if he still wanted to practice the next day. “Painfully” he emailed, “but yes.” During his extensive preparation, Romney, like Obama, has been working on fine-tuning his mechanics. According to a report by Yahoo, the goal of Romney’s aides has been to agitate him and teach him to keep his composure while not coming off as a scolder. Read more at tcnjsignal.net
Sorority ‘drives out Alzheimer’s’ in first annual car show
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The College attracts car lovers in Lot 3 on Saturday. By Hillary Siegel Correspondent
Bill Kraft loves cars. He always has and always will. So four years ago when he was presented with the opportunity to buy a 1953 Hudson Hornet, he found it incredibly difficult to turn down. And this semester, he found it equally as hard to turn down an opportunity to show off his pride and joy at the Sigma Kappa Driving Out Alzheimer’s car show on campus. More than 15 cars and their owners set up in Lot 3 behind Loser Hall to show off their rides and talk to eager car enthusiasts on Saturday, Sept. 29. Kraft, of
Cranbury, was one of many car owners who could not wait to show off for such a good cause. Tom Tortoriello, of Shrewsbury, said he bought his 1982 Corvette as a “mid-life crisis” resolution, and that he jumped at the opportunity to join the car show when his daughter, Alexa, a junior early child education and psychology major, told him about the upcoming Sigma Kappa event. The car show was Sigma Kappa’s first big philanthropy event of the year. They began visiting other car shows and calling for sponsorship last semester, knowing it would take a lot of time and effort to pull off such a big event.
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There was a $15 registration fee for each car, and all of the money raised through raffle tickets and registration will go straight to the Alzheimer’s Association, through the Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Cynthia Perez, the vice president of Philanthropic Services for Sigma Kappa, said that this event went exactly as planned. “This is a success for our first event, and we can only go up from here,” she explained. She said that it was “nerve-wracking to find the cars and to get people to pre-register,” but they were very pleased with the outcome. The sisters spent all of last semester and the summer planning the event, handing out flyers at car shows and drawing in support from the community. “This year we wanted to do something out of the ordinary, and something that would involve the community,” Perez said. She described it as wanting to give the College a good face in the community, seeing that the sorority was doing something so beneficial to it’s philanthropy. The sisters typed up a donation letter, and handed it out at car shows and throughout the community, so that people would better understand what their cause was. Many students and members of the community came out to look at the cars and enjoy the
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vendors, such as Naked Pizza, that were there on Saturday. A few brothers from the fraternity Alpha Chi Rho came to the sorority’s event. Brian Carey, senior history major, said he wasn’t that interested in cars. “We came to support Sigma Kappa,” he said. Christian Palevski, sophomore business major, was one of the judges of the car show, along with Talha Cheema, senior biology major. Both love cars, and have been interested in them since they were children. Cheema said that he “fell in love with BMWs when James Bond used to drive them,” while Palevski called himself a “car and motorcycle enthusiast” who has worked as a car salesman in the past. They were judging the
cars in three categories: “Best in Show Pre-1960,” “Best in Show Post-1960” and “Best Paint.” This is Sigma Kappa’s first year doing the car show, and they now plan on making it an annual event. In addition, they also do the Walk to End Alzheimer’s every year in another effort to take one step closer to the cure. “A lot of our girls have family members with Alzheimer’s, so it touches the hearts of a lot of us,” Perez said. Their next effort for their philanthropy will be the Walk to End Alzheimer’s on Oct. 14. Anybody can join their team “Sigma Kappa TCNJ,” and Perez encourages people to do so, because each walk is seen as “one step closer to finding a cure.”
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Sigma Kappa goes back to the future in its charity car show.
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