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(09/24/07 4:30am)
Incumbent Mark Kruzan and Republican challenger David Sabbagh met Friday for the first of three mayoral debates at WFIU’s on-campus radio station. Each candidate was allowed a three-minute opening statement, two opponent-centered questions and a two-minute answer. \nThe debate covered various issues, each drawing characteristic responses from the candidates. Sabbagh demanded accountability from an office he said has lacked leadership, while Kruzan defended the quality of life in Bloomington under his administration.\nOpening statements\nSabbagh, winning a coin-flip by the debate’s mediators, spoke first. He called Bloomington “a small town with vast opportunities,” beautiful natural surroundings and “scholarly excellence.” He supported “open dialogue” between the city and its citizens and “(being) frugal with the people’s money.” Like Kruzan, he promised to work closely with the University and to keep sidewalks “a high priority.” He said he would “bring absolute integrity” back to the office of the mayor.\nKruzan thanked WFIU and listeners for “tuning in to an opportunity to look at not simply what is wrong, but what’s right with the community.” \nHe reiterated his agenda of “public safety, sound fiscal stewardship, community (and) neighborhood character” and economic progress.
(08/27/07 4:41am)
INDIANAPOLIS – When former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney took questions from reporters Friday at the Midwest Republican Leadership Conference, the Indiana Daily Student had several. As president, are you concerned about the cost of higher education? What role would college students play in your plan for America? Despite sharp differences in name recognition and publicity, the candidates voiced similar messages on the issues of education and Iraq. But as candidates reach a crucial campaign point of differentiation, the distinctions in Romney and Huckabee’s identities may be in the details.
(08/27/07 2:38am)
Mike Huckabee\nWhy voters should chose him
(08/26/07 5:50pm)
INDIANAPOLIS - Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee called on his party to "win back the hearts and minds of the American people" this morning at the Midwest Republican Leadership Conference at the Westin in Indianapolis. \nBeginning with handshakes around the room, Huckabee answered questions ranging from Iraq and social security to immigration and hate crime legislation. \nDistinguishing himself from fellow candidates, he cited his 10 years as governor of a state with a more than 90 percent Democratic legislature as evidence of his "underdog" roots. \n"I'm a blue collar, not a blue blood, Republican," he said.
(07/02/07 1:07am)
In 1836, bells rang in the streets of Bloomington as July 4 was celebrated at its earliest recorded date.\n“This memorable day,” as the Bloomington Post lauded it, began with a 13-gun salute at 11 a.m. that signaled the start of a procession through town to a hotel where the Declaration of Independence would be read over dinner, among other patriotic honors such as speeches and a band.\nThis early recorded date of an Independence Day celebration in Bloomington: July 4, 1836. Bloomington was founded nearly twenty years before on Jan. 4, 1818.\n“We are glad to see the spirit of Independence awaking from the deep slumber into which our citizens have suffered it to fall,” the July 1, 1836 edition read. The next available issue on July 8, 1836, credited the women involved in the celebration.\n“We must stop to pay a highly, just and merited tribute of respect to the ladies (of Bloomington) ... who marched in the most perfect order – in numbers the most unparalleled in the county.”\nThe writers also listed the “Order of Procession” once the march to the hotel where dinner was served had ended.\nEuterpean Band started off, followed by the Ladies, Orator and Reader, Chaplain, Committee of Arrangements, Rev. Clergy, Faculty of the College (it would not be called “IU” until 1838), Athenian Society, Students and Citizens, and the Cavalry.\n“It should be a day of rejoicing, not of intemperance and frolicking,” the paper read, changing its tone from stern to hopeful. “All party feelings should be laid aside and peace and harmony prevail throughout.” \nMarshals kept order throughout. “Mr. Sleeper,” commander of the artillery, gave a salute “at daybreak” to a flag hung between 50 and 60 feet in the air “on the public square.” This flag had also been prepared by “the ladies.” Chairman of the Committee John Bowlanda and W.A. Gorman arranged each event.\nThe “patriotic flame within (their) bosoms” is still flickering 171 years later, as Bloomington celebrates this July 4 in 2007.
(06/27/07 11:32pm)
Excellence may have a price, but trustee-hopeful Allen Woodhouse doesn’t need to be reminded.\nPlacing direct action ahead of recycled bureaucracy, Woodhouse emphasizes the University’s future without slighting its present and is thus the election’s most progressive and creative candidate. \nHe doesn’t have to cram himself down your throat for you to believe him, either. \nWhile agreeing that Bloomington has a special role in the University system as the flagship campus, he acknowledges it is only the “first among equals” and “there must be no contest between parts of the whole.” He also believes in the power of outside funding to solve budget crises. \n“Tuition increases are not the answer,” Woodhouse said. “This is an especially important ... opportunity for much greater work on private donations.”\nYet Woodhouse’s finest quality is his forthrightness. \nHe doesn’t play it safe with aim-to-please answers when asked about outsourcing plans.\nAlthough many in the University oppose the practice, he asserts “There has been a national bias in higher education (against outsourcing) ... (But) It often generates more university funds and improves service to students.”\nHis most telling answer, however, simplifies the “excellence-versus-affordability” debate: “Money is not always the answer. Teaching and the student should always come first.” Trustees of today, take note.